Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 19, 1915, Page 1

OMAILA, * FRANK STABBED IN THROAT BY A FELLOW CONVICT Another Prisoner Attacks Alleged Slayer of Mary Phagan at Pen Farm, Severing the Jug- ular Vein. RECOVERY IS HELD DOUBTFUL William Green Says He Thought He Was Doing Right in Making Assault, but Sorry Now. FLOW OF nmoflEor STOPPED BULLETIN. MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., July 18. wLeo M. Frank lay in the Georgia state prison hospital tomight with what attendants said was a fighting chance for recovery, Physicians had _succeeded in stopping the flow of Blood from a jagged wonud in his throat, made with a butcher knife in the hands of Willlam Green, a fellow convict serving a life term for murder. The blow was struck as Frank slept in his bunk in a dor- mitory late last night. MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., July 18. —DLeo M. Frank, whose death sen- tence for the murder of Mary Phagan recently was commuted to life im- prisonment, was attacked by another prisoner at the state prison farm here last night and seriously injured | by being cut in the throat. Prison officials said that the at- tack on Frank was made by Willlam Green, who also is serving a life term for murder. Frank’'s recovery ig said to be doubtful. The attack on Frank, which was made shortly after 11 o’clock,, was made from | behind. The assailant used a butcher | knife. Frank's jugular vein was cut, but nelther the spinal cord nor the windpipe were injured. Knife Hid in Clothing. The attack was made in the dormitory. | LEO M. FRANK, serving life term after commuta- tion of sentence of death, who was nearly killed by fellow convict. AMERICANS HAVE GLEANED SERBIA Typhus Hospitals Actually Closed for Lack of Patients Owing to Yankee Care. I EFFICIENCY BRINGS RESULTS All lights were out at the time, Green is alleged to have had the knife kmwxg in his prison clothing. | So sudden was the attack that mo| guard had time to interfers. Frank fell | to the floor, his cries calling tne I'mn—i tion of guards, who switched on the | lihts. Blood was spurting from Frank's | wounds and another prisoner was trying | to make his way back to bed. A knife made from a flle and which the convicts had used in killing hogs ‘during the day was found on the dormitory floor. Dr. George B. Compton, the prison sur- geon, was immediately called, but before he could reach the prison dormitory two furgeons, who are serving terms In ' prison, were at Frank's side administer- ing first aid. | Chance to Recover, “I guess they’ve got me,” Frank ls quoted as having sald to the doctors when they reached him. He did not lose consclousness. Frank was removed to the operating room in the hospital whero | the wound was dressed. The physicians had not succeeded in stopping the flow of blood at last reports. Prison officials | #ald Frank had a chance to recqyer, but that his condition was very serious. j Frank was brought to the state’prison farm June 22 after midnight from the Fulton county jail in Atlanta. A few | hours after his arrival here it was of- ficclally announcéd that the then Go ernor Slaton had commuted his sentence ; to life imprisonment. Less than a week ago the state militia | companies here and at Macon were ordered held in their armorles, a report | having reached the state officials that an attempt would be made to lynch| Frank. While Frank was on the operat- ing table Warden Smith took Green's statement. Sorry for Act. “I'm awfully sorry that I did this, he is reported to have sald. ‘At the moment I thought that 1 was doing what | was right. I thought that I was doing | something that ought to be done. { “I am sorry because of the criticism that it may bring on the officlals of the | state farm, especially of- Warden Smith. | 1 would not do a thing in the world to | injure him in his position. He had| contidence in me and I have violated | that confidence. I am ready to suffer the consequences.” Green said that Frank was asleep when | he was attacked. There was only one | knife wound. After Green made his statement he was put in irons and placed in solitary con- | finement. | A more complate examiration showed | Frank's throat was slashecd for several | fnches and ihe jugular veln partially sev- ered. Somie ward shown to-| ce | anfiosity has been ank by hig fellow prisoners 3 his arrival st the fann, but clals sald nothing had indi of an atte'k on him. Green was placed In solitary confine- | ment. He le geving a afe term for murder prison offi- | wted danger The Weather For Nebraska—Cloudy. Temperature at Owmaba Yesterday. Hour. @s3pBEE: BEEEEEE anrewe—EESer o PESIPRPEPE 23388828 133 Comparative Local Rec Highest yesterday . est yesterday & m‘t—l E dz2I3 g2 zazaff ana | Erin. LONDON, July 18.—‘Miraculous is the only proper adjective to apply to the work being done by American doctors and nurses in Serbia,” sald 8ir Thomas Lipton today, following his return from his second trip to the near east with the hospital yacht “As usual,” continued Sir Thomas, “the Ameriéans excel in organization and pre- ventive measures. The French and Eng- lish units are doing good work in the hospitals, but oredit for the work of sani- tation, which is rapidly making typhus a thing of the past, must go to the Amer- fcans, whose magnificent efforts have made them loved by every Serblan from the king to the lowest peasant, all of whom seem fully to appreciate the ef- forts of the Red Cross in their behalf. “When I was in Serbit on my first trip,” continued Sir Thomas, “it was un- safe to travel In the country, which was then so badly infected from vermin as to make necessary the use of antiseptics night and morning. But on this trip no such precautions were necessary, thanks to the sanitation reforms enforced by Americans. The hospitals are now as clean as any to be found In Europe, while hotels and dwellings are beginning to observe sanitary regulations. Hospitals Closed. “At the height of the epidemic there were probably 300,00 cases of typhus. but many typhus hospitals have been closed for lack of patients. At Ghev- ghell, where Dr. James F. Donnelly, now Serbla’s national hero, dled, there were once 1,400 patients in the American hos- pital. Now there are only three suffering from typhus. “At Uskub I saw In operation the ma- chinery with which American doctors and sanitary experts are washing the whole nation. Near the town three long raflroad trains were standing in the midst of a city of tents. From these tents there poured an army of naked men car- rying their clothing in their hands. Stop- ping at the first train they deposited their clothes in acar where they were thoroughly sterilized. Then the owner proceeded to the bath car, where an at- tendant placed him under high pressure water pipes. When he was completely scrubbed, the next step was an inspec- tion by an American, after which the bather recelved sterilized clothing. “Members of the Turkish population, which is large in this part of Serbia, prog tested vigorously against disrobing for the bath, on the ground that such a pro- cedure violated their religious principles, but without avall, for the American sani- tary commission has complete power to | enforce its regulations. After the army of men had been treated during the day, Whe women and children were given baths during the night. Reglment Inoculated, “The next day I saw a whole regiment inoculated against cholera with a speed and efficiency almost incredible to any- one who does not understand American methods. Cholera may come again, but it is no longer feared. “In brief, it can be said that American methods of prevention and ocure heye saved Serbla from what threatened at one time to be the worst series of epi- mics ever suffered by a modern nation. “Dr. Edward W. Ryan has 8,000 pa- tlents, mostly wounded, at Belgrade in a hospital pronounced by experts to be of the best. Dr. Ryan has not fully re- covered from his fliness with typhus, but manages to direct the big hospital. ““The whole task is in charge of Dr. Richard P. Strong of Harvard, to whom the lion's share of credit for the direction of the great work must be given. This is due as much to his magnetic person- ality as to his skill. While Dr. Strong was in Selontka, the Greclan queen sent for him to see the king." BAD HAIL STORM HITS OMAHA WITH A TERRIFIC FORCE, Windows Broken and Shrubbery Battered All Over the City at Noon Sunday. storm which in many city shattered Indow lights and literally hattered the leaves off the trees, fell about noon Sunday. Immense | hail stones, some of which were as | much as five inches in circumfer- ence, fell in parts of the city and | in practically every part more or less hail fell. The hail storm was followed by a heavy rain. The disturbance seemod to be a kind of a stray atorm. according to [to the rallronde, and the heaviest part {of 1t struck Omaha. The storm area | consisted of but a narrow strip about two miles wide from Omaha to Schuyler. South of Schuyler the storm extended to | Wahoo and around Yutan and Mead. From Omaha the course ran to the north toward Sioux City, but in this |latter section no hail fell, merely heavy { ran. A bad hail arts of the gnnca, broke No Hail at Florence. Florence on the north and Ralston on the south of Omaha reported no hail. At Ralston hardly any rain fell, the storm seeming to keep to the north. That little damage was done (o the corn in the storm area are rcports to the railroads. Truck gardens and some of the smaller grains suffered, but very little of the corn. Train service was not in any way hampered and telephone and telograph wires did not euffer greatly. The tele- phone company reported that in the south part of Omaha some of the lines were out of order as a result, but that all would be repaired and In full work- ing order this morning. Toll wires were not affected, except at a few points be- tween Omaha and Fremont. At Water- 100, Where an extremely heavy rain fell, the Unfon Pacific track was consider- ably softened, but trdins were not at all delayed. Fremont Depot Hit. At Fremont the Unfon Pacific depot was struck by lightning, but no damage resulted, a few bricke being torn loose from the steeple being all. Two tele- phone wires were struck by lightning in Council Bluffs near the School for the Deat. The Burlington reported hard hafl storms at Chalco and Yutan, but that at Ashland only heavy rain fell. West of Ashland the force of the storm dimin- ished and west of Greenwood no storm at all was reported. Irvington was not included in the hafl and storm area, although a mile south and west hail damaged corn to consid- erable extent in a quarter-mile strip, In Benson fruit was damaged severely, apples, peaches and other fruits in the orchards there being beaten from the trees. Green honscs in Benson and the west- ermn part of Omaha were damaged severely, but those in the north part {of the city did not suffer at all. Big Loss at Bennington. i Telegram.)—Farmers will in this vicinity from. the storm of to- day as the hall and wind beat down small grain fields, blew over the corn of farmETACIN ..N .... +NN.N..N and also blew down some buildings and trees of farmers living in the wake of the storm. On the big Wayland Ma- |gee farm about 5 per cent of the oats | lose heavily from 6 to % per cent of the corn is down, but this has a chance to straighten up. | The width of the storm area was ahout two and a halt miles and the damage will Le considerable. Loss nt Greenhouses Hallstones as big as hens' eggs and Imbued with sufficient energy to batter shingles on houses, fell over a large area in the Lake Manawa district yesterday afternoon. The huge greehouses of the Wilcox company sustained damages thet the owners place at $36,000. All but about (Continued on Page Two, Column Three.) Lansing Gives Out Paraphrase of Note Presented at London WASHINGTON, July 18.—Secretary Lansing niade public a paraphrase of the note presented by Ambassador Page on July 24 to the British government to conserve the rights of American cit- izens in cases belng tried by prise courts. It has not relation, he #uid, to the general note on contraband still in course of preparation. The praphrase issued by the state depart- ment follows: “In view of differences whicht are understood to ‘exist between the two governments as to the principles of law applicable in prze courts pro- ceedings in cases Involving American interests and in order to avold uny mis- understanding as to the attitude of the United States in regard to any such proceedings the government of the United States informs the British gov- ernment that insofar as the intcrests of |American citizens are concermed it still insists upon their rights under the prin- ciples and rules of internationsl law as hitherto established governing mneutral trade in time of war without Mmitation of impairment by orders—n council or other mundcipal legislation by the Brit- ish government and will ‘not recognize the validity of price court proceedings taken under restraints imposed by Brit- tsh municipal law in derogution of the rights of American citizens under inter- national law. BENNINGTON, Neb., July 18.—(Spectal | were pounded down to the ground and | holes in the roofs of street cars and split | British | | tice march of recruits. reports [ | | THE WEATHER, Cloudy MEET CARRANZA Masses His Forces for Battle with Troops of Former “Supreme Chief.” IS WITHDRAWING NORTHWARD WASHINGTON, July 18.—General Villa is massing his forces to meet the Car- ranea army under Generals Obregon and HIli at Torreon, acoording to Information received here tonight at the Villa agency here. State department advices today confirmed previous reports that Villa had abandoned Aguas Callentes and Zacatecas, the latter a strong natural strutegio point, and was withdrawing his forves northward. The movement has been in progress some time. Villa troops are said to have tofn up the railroad as they retreated. Carransa forves have garrisoned Aguas fCallentes and Zacatecas and are prepar- {ing to presa on to Torreon, where Villa 18 now in conference with General Raoul Madero, Jose Mariajurado and Manuel Saasvedra, planming to meet the attack, and also for a campalgn in Coa~ huila and Nuevo Leon. Angeles' Plan. General Felipe Angeles, Villa's chief Neutenant, who has been in Washington studying the attitude of this government toward Mexico, left today for Somors on |a mission for Villa to General Maytorena. | Angeles plans to rejoln Villa in about two weeks. Concerning reports of a battle at Agua Prieta in which Maytorena's troops were |sald to have been defeated, the Villa agency issued this statement: “General Trujilla, with 400 men was attacked by 1,000 Carranza troops. After defending his position for four hours, he succeeded In breaking through the en- {emy’s lines, carrying with him all his {equipment and losing only slightly. He {olned with General Acosta's column at | Anivacachi, where another battle will be fought.” Villa Troops Surrender. LAREDO, Tex., July ! Villa troops under Cardenas have sur- rendered to Carranza's forces, it was clalmed in a dispatch from Carranza sources In Monterey, received in Nugvo Laredo tonight. Tt was said a large Carranza command had arrived safely at Tampico from Vera Cruz and would proceed to Monterey to participate in the campalgn westward akainst Villa at Torreon. The purpose of this campalgy, military authorities in Nuevo Laredo pointed out, was to strike at Villa from the north and west simul- taneously with Obregon’s expected attack from the south, Datly skirmishing was reported around { Paredon, a junction point between Mon~ i terey, Saltillo and Torreon, i Calles’ Warn | NOGALES, Ariz., July ernor | Jose Maytorena, Villa commander ot Sonora, issued a statement today in an- swer to a decree against operation Southern Pacific trains by General Cal- les, Carranza chleftian at Agura Prietra, stating that Calles was virtually under | American protection-and unable to die- i tate terms to the rallroad company. | Calles, in the decree, warned travelers {against using the railroad between No- | gales and Guaymas becavise trains would | be attacked. 1“1 might fust lare r or |the United States for the same reason | Calles does on the Bouthern Pacific rall- | road,” declared Maytorena. { .. 18, =G {Farmer Is Killed by Bolt of Lightning CRAIG, Neb.,, July 18.—(Special Tele- |gram.)—Alfred Swanson, a farmer lv- Ing three miles west of here, was struck {and instantly killed by a bolt of light ning during the storm today. He was standing in the barn with his two sons when the lightning struck Both boys were quite y but the barn was not damaged at all. Swan- |son was about 5 years of age GoloraflBrewery to Turn Out Malted Milk DENVER, Colo.. July r's brew. ery at Golden, one of the largest in the state, will on August 15 discontinue the munufacture of beer, it was announced today, and employe the same force of men in the manufacture of malted milk. The plant is said to represent an invest- ment of $1,000,000, Ve burned, 18.=Cc VILLA PREPARES T0 18.—Four hundred | of | sses Given Show Germans' Bravery BERLIN, July 18, (Vin Wircless to Say- ville).~"“As tllustrating the bravery of the German troops in the present war, the announcement made today by Overseas ) A agency for transmission, “the fact 18 noticed that since the war began 35,000 fron crosses of the first olass have beon distributed ““The regulations require that a soldier must have earned the cross of the second class before the cross of the first can be conferred on him. 'NEBRASKA LAD ON TORPEDOED BOAT Jesse Osborne Tells of Submarine Sinking the Mule Boat Armenian. |Cro | clase I8 TRIMMED OF HIS MONEY BALTIMORE, Md, July 18- (Special elegTram.)—Their advent- urous souls satisfied for the rest of their days, Jesse Osborne, 20 years old, of Sidney , Neb, and Louis | Bekert, also 20, of Greenfield, O, | who were aboard the British mlue ship Armenian when she was tor- pedoes by a German submarime on June 28, reached Baltimore today. The youths have applied to the | police for help, mnot against the | kaiser, but against a waiter, who used Osborne’'s name to get some {money fraudulently. Both advent- | urers are well educated and the sons ! of well-to-do parents. Ralph Willlams, a walter on the steamship Winifredian, on which the two Americans were brought back to the United States from KEngland, is the man the police are seeking. When they arrived in Baltimore Willlams piloted the westerners to a boarding house here, {and while Osborne was out be stole |letters from his pocket, telegraphed the senfor Osborne at Sldney for $60, signed the real son's name and having the |letters to identify him was given that amount of money by the Western Union | Telegruph company, Tell of Torpedo. This morning Osborne and Eckert ap- peared at headquarters and told their stories. In speaking of his trip young |Osborne said: “It was an awful experience. The German submarine was about two miles trom us when we firsf observed her. She sent two shells across our bows as a command to heave to, but our cwptain thought he could outspeed her. “Then the undersea boat began shell- ing us, killing a number of the crew, and finally planting a shell in the smokestack, which cut off the draft of the furnaces, “Our captain would surr o the ifebonts, the side." Italian King Target For Austrian Gunners i then signalled that but, even after kept shelling swung out he the the over wder, ul Germans which were UDINE, Italy, July 18 (via Eugano and Paris).—-King Victor Bmmanuel recently stood his ground while he and a group of officers were the targets of Austrian gunners, refusing to retire to a place of safety was Interested in watching a young Itallan soldier who was trying to cut the wire entanglements in front of the Austrian trenches. The king marked the progress of the wire cutter attentively from the time the latter left the Italian The ruler and the officers about him attracted the attention of the Austrians, who time shelled them Young Tecumseh Boy Killel at Falls City TECUMAEH, N July 18.~(8pecial Telegram.)—Harvey Ward, the S-year-old son of John M. Ward of Tecumseh, run over by an auto in Falls Oity this afternoon and killed. John M. Ward is a member of the firm of H. T. Ward & Co. of Tecumseh, well known bridge contractor . because he lines for a HOW THE GIRLS LOVE A SOLDIER—Scene ‘‘Somewhere in England’’ during prac- MACHINISTS PLAN 10 STRIKE HONDAY Union Chiefs Consider Inducing General Walkout in Other Manufacturing Industries. THOUSANDS OF MEN III'V()I.VED1 BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,, July 17.— Unless there are some unexpected developments in the industrial situ-; ation in Bridgeport within the next| thirty-six hours, the machinists in; the employ of the Remington Arms| and Ammunition company, will go on: strike Monday noon er soon there-| after. An announcement that the atrike will | be called for that time was made today | by J. J. Keppler, internutional vice presi- dent of the Machinists' union, after he had made an unsudcessful attempt to place before Major W. W, Penfleld, worka manager of the company, the demands formulated last night at a strike meet- Ing of the machinists. Plan Sympathetio Strfke, Simultaneously with this announce- ment came another from Mr. Keppler that representatives of the union were considering ‘'ways and means of having | meochanics In other manufacturing com- munities of New England strike in sym- pary, Frank Jennings, one of the machinists unlon's vice presidents, having the hand- Ung of the New England affairs, said that the proposed strike would throw out of employment between 2000 and 80,000 workers in Hridgeport. According to the present plans of the union, it was sald, the machinists In the Remington plant would be called out first, and if the demands of the union were not granted them the muchinists in twenty plants being operated by sub-contractors for the Remington company, should be called out. Already Taken a Ballot. riers' union, stated that his orgunization had already taken a strike ballot and | committee. If the machinests walk out, the hod carriers will follow them, the ! organizer sald. Such a move would in ! turn involve the brickluyers engaged In | the new bulldings. The drop forger: engaged in the manufacture of bayonet were also considering what action they | would take, it was said. ! Exceptional measures were taken today | at the Remington plant to keep strangers | from the enclosure. Additional Kuzrd were sald to have been placed on duty tonight and work on the new lighting system was being rushed o that the | tulldings could be kept brilliantly lighted night. Thaw Is Followed by Crowds at Atlantic | - City ther Whole Day ATLANTIC CITY, 3. July B.— Harry K. Thaw, who arrived here late last night after having been set free un- der ball by the New York supreme court, two dips in the an today and shook hands with hundreds of persons. Karly in the day he shunned the crowds that lingered about the corridors of the beach front hotel where he is staying, but Jatec he disregarded the gazo of the curious and did as he pleased. He told | newspaper men wha are constantly with him, that he would go to Philadelphia late Sunday afternoon, remain there over |night and leave for his home |burgh some time Monday. | Thaw spent the forencon in his room und about noon he tried to take & stroll |along the board walk. A crowd soon followed him and be sought relief in a public bath house, where he hired a bathing suit and took a plunge in the oesan under the eyes of his private de- |tectives. Hundreds of p on | | the wooden way or in the sand watehing | Inim disport himselt in the water, | at a ms stood Boy Injured by Binder. | AVOCA, Neb., July 18.—~(Special)—Clar- ence Btreeter, the 10-year-old son of Petcr Streeter, a farmer living near Nebraska City, was badly Injured while in the field with his father, who was fixing a binder. A wheel was taken off, when the ma- that it had been approved by the general | COPY TWO CENTS. WASHINGTON SEES SAME VON TIRPITZ IN LATEST U MOVE | Attack on Liner Induces U. 8, Offi- cials to Think There is Nothing to Report of Change in Subsea Policy. SITUATION GROWS MORE GRAVE Administration Circles Consider German Action Adds to Strain Already Existing. AWAITING FULL INFORMATION WASHINGTON, July 17.-—Into the grave situation that has devel- oped between the United States and Germany over the sinking of the Lus- ftania was injected another {ssue yes« terday, when it was revealed that the British steamer Orduna, carrying a score of Americans, had been at- tacked by a German submarine, Should first reports of an attempt to torpedo without warning be borne out, it was indicated in official quar- ters that the United States probably would regard the incident adding a grave element to the already strained relations between the two countries, Lacking information as to the circume stances of the attack. officlals were un- #ble to predict tonight to what extent the Orduna case would aggravate the situa- tion; but they thought the question would certainly compel serious considera~ tlon by President Wilson and his cabinet in formulating the next step in the policy of the United States toward the activities of German submarines and the safety of Americans on the high seas. No Change in Polley. Although the Orduna escaped unhurt, this. tn the view of officlals, does not relieve the case of grave possibilities. The fact that a belligerent merchant ship bound for the United States with Amer- icans on board and without arms and ammunitions or contraband cargo, which has been the reason assigned for the provocation for previous attacks, was as- sailed while its passengers slept, con- vinced many that the theory they had entertained of an actual change in the practice of German submarine commnad- ers apparently had been dissipated. One point on which the entire case so far as the United States Is concerned may hinge is whether any attempt was made to halt the Orduna by the customary warning signals, either by flag, m phone or phots across the bow of the Veshel, As yot the case s not officially be- fore the State department; but as soon As some of the passengers file thelr statements of what took place, the ques- tion will undoubtedly be brought to the attention of the German government for & report from its submarine commander on the attack. The case is belleved to be different from that of the Anglo- Call- {fornfan and the Armenian, which were ordered to halt but repeatedly attempted to escape capture. According to the rules of international law, even though neutrals are on hoard, the use of force is held to be justified to compel sub- mission, Amsert No Warning Given. The captain and officers of the Orduna ihave stated that no warning or signal |had been given when the torpedo was |seen streaking through the water. Of- | ficlals here thought therefore thet any attémpt made by the Orduna to escape was probably justified. Its subsequent actions, they belleved, could be upheld Joe Falco, organizer of the Hod Car-|!n the Interest of self-defense. | Irrespective of whether or not a signal was given to the Orduna to halt or whether the shots fired by the Germans came without warning, the view which impressed officials sonight was that Ger- man submarines had not abandoned ®heir attempts to destroy enemy passenger ves- sels whether carrying contraband oemot, and that American citizens seemed still be subjects from bagards which seemed (Continved on Page THE WANT.AD WAY. | Two, Column, e.) in Pitts- | (ANl Rights Reserved.) wies 25 % Ac e e Bald, -;"flun i lm out, For Tm tired pitohing hay. “F'm tired of the farm - lAn |§| -n;l-. an'-,y life; ong for tho vx& its bustle and strife™ Ha wrote up & Wi Scld out the next week, And went to the city, . Now ventures to sesk. deay (Continued Tomorrow.) Advertise your “Fanms For o™ in"The Omahs Bee. the oldest and most iefluential newsnaper of the great central west. 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