Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 31, 1915, Page 1

ADVERTISING 18 THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE SPOKEN EVERYWHERE BY BUYERS AND SELLERS, e - VOL. XLV--NO. THE 6MAHA DAILY BEE [ & | SNIPERS KILL TW0 AMERICAN MARINES AT PORT AU PRINGE Admiral Caperton Reports Casual- ties Coused by Irregulars Among U. 8. Landing Force. YANKEES RETURN THE FIRE| [Naval Official Announces No Further | Disorders During the Night. OUTSIDE ATTACK REPULSED WASHINGTON, July 30.—¥wo WAmericans of the landing force from the cruiser Washington were killed | at Port Au Prince, according to a message from Admiral Caperton, re- celved today. The men, members of a patrol, were phot from ambush by snipers last night, Admiral Caperton reported. The marines returned the fise and no further dis- turbances occurred during the night. The ames of the killed were withheld at the rv-vy department. ,The names of the two men killed as announced later, are Willlam Gompers Seaman, 107 Stockton street, Brooklyn, . Y., and Cason 8. Whitehurst, ordinary meaman, 608 Clay avenue, Norfolk, Va. Admiral Caperton reported the town was attacked from the south at 8 o'clock fast night. He had been warned, dis- Posed his forces for defense and repulsed it. He sald there was no alarm. The two men. were killed In the sniping l'rnm‘ ithe brush in the, outskirts. A statement issued by the Navy de- fpartment. said: “Admiral Caperton reports from Port vAu Prince .that owing to a report that the town would likely be attacked during the night that he made disposition of his forges for defense at 5 p. m. Attack from the south about 8 p. m. Sniping from brush in outskirts of town. Two killed in the seamen battalion, nono ‘wounded, Successfully repulsed attack. Maintalned quiet and order in interior of eity throughout night.”” Young Man Ground To Death as Body is Dragged Over Street HASTINGS, Neb., July 80,—(Special eTl- gt )—Jessle oDty, a young tarmer met_degth here tonight in a runaway. He'wus loading lumber at the. Oljver v, ose e th foh 4 ‘heipless; whén his Bbody was pinched between the double- tress. Young Doty was dragged thtough the crowded strééts over the pavements for ‘several blocks. When picked up the man’s head was practically ground RWAY. Ira Doty, & brother of the victim, was standing the corner of Second street fend Hastings avenue when the runaway ‘Wwere sighted dashing down First street. “Let's seé Who'If '~ Mr." Doty ex- élaimed, and with the companfon dashed aftér the runaway. The men were the first on the scene and when the young man's lifeless body ‘Was picked up on South Denver avenue,, it was then that Mr. Doty recognized his brother, An ambulance was called and he was taken to a hospital. Austrians Defeated . In Battle of Gorizia GENBEVA, July 0.—(Via Parla)—A tele- graphic dispatch to the Tribune from Lafbach in Camlola says: “The Austrians attacked the Itallans in Gorfata with 170,000, men inciuding 30,000 Bavarians, on the night of July 28, with disastrous results. The Austrian losses numbered 12,000, 3 “On the following day a flerce Aus- trisn attack on the Carso plateau also ‘was repulsed. “The Italians hold all the positions they have captured in the last fifteen davs except the advanced trenches before Gori- wla, which’ have been evacuated.” The YVeather Forecast till 7 p. m. Baturday: For Nebraska—Cloudy; not change in temperature. Temperature at Omaha Yesterday. Deg. much 2EBEEBIIAIT2IAN Regord. 1, 288! ERILRIBBITARND ] fi | Losses of Allies in - Turkey Enormous & | BERLIN, July #.—(By Wireless to Say- C =3222} =228 'WESTERFIELD PAYS - IN MOST OF MONEY {@ives Ure All He Demands Except | About Four Thousand, Which He Says is Not Due. AGREES TO PAY DIFFERENCE Ellery H. Westerfield and his a itorney, A. C. Pancoast, presented to | Treasurer Ure certified checks in | total' amount of $132,937.02, being 1$4,051.61 less than they total of | $136,988.63 claimed by the city de- partment of accounts and. finances to be due. The city reported a shortage of $21,048.81, but Mr. Westerfield claims it is $16,997.20,, which he has 'turned in with the other balance. | *“There are credits in.the fiscal agen- |cies which the city did not take Into con- |slderation, and there are other items which I should be credited with,” stated Mr. Westerfield. The former treasurer of Dundee does not maintain he {s positively atire whether the - tota) he: paid in ‘is -correct, und he conceded it » be more or less, Ibut says he is “‘reasonably sure,” he paid in the correct total. K .. Ure’ Adcepts ‘Checks. - ‘Treadurer Ure acoepted the certifled |ehuclu on the Omaha National and the State banks. The tréasurer made a de- mand for “all funde due the village of |Dundee.” Corporation Counsel Lambert jasked the treasurcr. to make a specific demand for $21,048.81 shortage,” but Mr. !Ure declared he does not see that it is inecessary for him to make such a de- {mand. He believes the demnd he made {will prove sutficient. Mr, Westerfield declared g further check of the accounts wil] be seary to es- tablish the exact balanes dwe the city. [ To Pay the Differesee. After Treasurer Ure receipted for the | certified checks presented by Wester- OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, BERLIN, July 3.—(Via London.)-The German army headquarters staff today | issued the following officlal statement: | Western theater: Near Perthes, in the Champagne region, both sides exploded mines. Ours destroyed a French flanking trench northwest of Perthes. “In the firest of Le Pretre, a french attack collapsed before our infantry and | artillery fire, when in front of our trenches, “In the Vosges, yesterday afternoon the enemy again attacked our line at Linge- kopf. Hand to hand fighting for posses- sion of this position had not yet come to a conclusion. “Two English airmen were obliged to descend no the water, near the coast, and were, captured. Eastern theater: The situation is un- changed. “Southeastern theater: Troops of the army of General Woyrsch ealy in the morning of July 28 forced a crossing of the Vistula at several points betwen the confluence of the Pllica and Kozlenice CHARGE OF THE CRIPPLED BRIGADY-—Wounded French soldiers hobbling to their luncheon at the military hospital at Amberdieu, France. Germans Force Crossing of Vistula; Capture Several Thousand Russians (sixty-five miles northwest of Sando- mierse). Fighting on the east bank is Proceeding. Up to the present 800 pris- oners and five machine guns have been captured in these operations. “Yesterday the Austro-Germans, under Fleld Marghal von Mackensen, again re- sumed the offensive, West of the Vieprs, German troops broke through the Rus- slan positions. I the evening we reached the line of Plaski Biskupice and the rail- road running éast from those points. We took many thousand prisoners and cap- tured three cannom “This success in the advance of the Austro-Gernfan troops to the east of the Vistula and the advance of the Prussian Guard to Kurupe, northeast of Krasnio- stav, and of other German troops in the district of Wojes Wojslawice, has shaken and the Bug. “Thig'morning the Russians evecuated are now only resisting to the north of Grubechow:." © OKUMA GABINET - RESEGNS N BODY Parlismentary - Election Bribery Scandal Brings About Downfall . of Ministry in Japan. TOKIO, JHly 80.—The J‘ptnnc! cabinet, headed by Count Okuma as premier, has tendered its resignation to Emperor Yoshito. - This action fol- lowed the resignation yesterday of Viscount Oura, minister of the in- terior, fuflovlng an investigation by | the ministry of justice into bribery | fleld, the latter gave the treasurer & | signed agreement which reads: "I agres {to pay in cash any further amount that !is shown due from me as treasurer of 'the village of Dundee, requesting the privilege of checking the accounts.” | The written demand served by Treas- { urer Ure upon Mr. Westerfield read: As treasurer of the city of Omaha, I hereby make demand on you as treasurer of the { village of Dundee, that you turn over to me all funds belonging to the village of Dundee.” In addition to the certified checks, Mr. Westerfleld turned over securities in the sam of $14,788.96, Magney Holds Back. At the present status of the case the county attorney told the mayor and corporation counsel he does not feel Jpstitied ir. starting a criminal pro- | ceeding & To the cty officels Mr. Magney made | ths statement: “I think the public be- lieves Westerfield is guilty of at least diverting public funds, but in view of the fact that Westerfield returned of hs own accord and is here ready to.turn over whatever funds are due, I do mot | believe you could get a conviction in | any court.” During the conference in the county st- torney’s office Corporation Counsel Lam- bert said he belleved Westerfield is guilty | of embezzlement, but he coincided with the view of the county attorney, namely, | that on the t evidence a convietion could not reasamably be expected. “Suppose we show that the money LB s il s b B 2Bk, oo v ] ‘Continud oen Page Three, Column Four.) | American Says { ville.)—A dispatch from Athens to the Overseas News agency says: { “The American cruiser North Carolina ' | recently returned to Greece from an ex- | tended trip in the war sone. The officers of the ship told an tance that | the real losses of the entente allies in | the Dardanélles wsurpassed av-ryuhlnc' heretofore reported. The Australian and | Irishi detachments were almost anunihi- lated. ““The attempts to storm the rocky steep heights on the Aslatic side of the straits weré termed by these officers as simple insanity. Turkish machine guns, led by the Germans, fought with great fury. “Wounded m,‘um at Alexan- charges resulting from the . parlia- meantary elections last March. Vis- count Oura’s resignation' was sanc- tioned by the emperor after a report on the situation had been made to him by Count Okuma. Premier Okuma. belleved he should hold himself responsible for the acts of the members of his cabinet, was the first to tender his resignation. The other| ministers immediately decided to follow the example of their chief, After recelving Count Okuma, the em- peror sumffioned the elder statemen for a conference. A cabinet change at this time iy unpopular with the public because of the war. Two Cases of Bribery. Two cases have oeen mentioned as re- sponsible for the crisis. - The -first was the charge that 10,000 yen (35,000 had been offered Viscount Oura by & candl | date for the'house s the price for keep- ing a rival candidate out of the field. The minister of the interior denled hav- ing accepted this brihe, but K. Hayashida, | {chief secrotary of the lower house, in | statement on Wednesday, ‘admitted hav- ing received the money and distributing |it for campaign purposes, The second case involves two repre- sentatives charged with accepting bribes to desert tke Selyukal, or conservative party, and support the government in its campaign for an Increase in the army. The elder statesmen will meet tomorrow | and it is considersd probable they will ad- vise that Count Okuma be Invited to 1etain the office of premier and recon- struct the cabinet. The name of Count Terauchi, governor general of Kores, also has been suggested, however, for the post of premier. Madero Family Reauion. EL PASO, Tex July 30.—General Raoul and Emilio s of v ul: o 2 here fgun e Madero said that they came out the cousent of General that thei h poltical ‘waniticance T heve.bad 20 [HE GATE-CITY-OF THEWEST | The ** Stop Off "' campaign gives plenty of room for each individual resident to help it along. Everyone bas or relative regiment of 1000 men returned from a charge sixty-seven strong. These were wounded. Thelr comrades were dead. | traveling agross the country these days.: Write them to stop ionv_uthOmh. | Inspectot Asserts , Doomed AY Ay } Boat Could Carry that Many if Handled Right. REDFIELD I§ TO CHICAGO, July 30.—N, B, Nel- son, supervising steamboat inspector; GHARLES BRCKER DIES IN BLECTRIC CHAIR AT SUNRISE Former Police Lieutenant, Con- vioted of Murder of Herman Rosenthal, is Executed in Sing Sing Prison. WRITES DYING DECLARATION He Reiterates His Statement that Had No Part in Slaying New York Gambler, KEEPS COMPOSURE TO THE END SING SING PRISON, Ossining, N. Y., July 30.-Charles Becker was put to death in the electric chair this morning for the killing of Herman Rosenthal, the New York gambler. The former New York police lleuten- ant retained his composure and pro- jtested his innocence to the last. He went to his death wrth a photograph of his wite pinned on his shirt over his heart. Three shocks were given before the prison physicians pro- nounced Becker dead at 5:55 o'clock. Becker led the way to his own ex- ecution. The condemned man sat up all night on the edge of his cot, calmly talking to Deputy Warden Charles H. Johnson. “I have got to face 1t," said Becker, “and I am golng to meet it quietly and without trouble to anyone." The deputy warden left Becker about an hour before the time set for the execution, and when the priests, Father W. F. Cashin, the prison priest, and Flthq‘ Curry of New York, came to administer the Iast rites they found the man who instigated Herman Rosenthal's mur- der with his face resting on his hand gazing at the prison floor. The priests remained with him to the end, First Witnesses Arzive. It was shortly after § o'clock when the the Russian front Between the Vistula |first of the witneases of the execution began to assembie outside the prison walls. Quietly their names were checked thelr positions along the entire line and [off by Deputy Warden Johnson, who directed them to take their thelr places &t a gateway that led directly to the execution chamber. Then the witnesses ‘were led to the place of execution in a new death house which had been built | OVal m. year.! Lor, S T R e Wi Johnson nodded to the principal ketper, Fred Dorner, and they left the rodm through %a small wooden door that led to the death cells beyond, Where Becker was praying with his apiritusl advisers. Becker rosé to his fest whéen he saw TESTIFY | Johnson and teok a crucifix trom the hand of the prison priest. To Father Curry, Beckér ga his last massage as he took his place at the head of the file of men that marched to the room of when questioned by Congressman |qeatn. Sabath, during the Redfield Inquiry here this afternoon, said the Bast~ land was ‘‘absolutely safe for 2,600 persons if the ballast tanks were properly handled.” fecretary Redfield and Mr. Thurman asked permission to go before the state grang jury and their request was granted by State's Attorney Hoyme. Dissatisfaction with the progress of the Redfield inquiry was expressed by Max M. Korshak, assistant corporation counsel. Rear Admiral David ‘Watson Taylor, chief of the Navy department's bureau of construction, probably will' be asked by the city to supervise the examination of all vessels piying out of Chicago har- bor, which was ordered by the council. plan to span the Chicago river at Clark street with an Hastland Memorial bridge was aproved by the city officlals todav, Clash Comes. The first clush of the investigntion the questioning of Inspector Reid. “You ‘don't ask. falr questions,” sald | A. L. Thurman, solicitor of the Depart- ment of Commerce. ‘“What you ask about the right of ap- peal from a local inspector to the super- vising inspector is in the statutes. This man is not & lawyer."” “If this man, . who bad thousands ef with the common practices of the spection ‘bureau, we want to know Mr. Sullivan replied, and repeated his question. ““The supervising inspector power to overrule the local map,” re- plied the ‘witness. “How many times has that been done?" asked Mr. Sullivan. “Now. give .him a cbance,” interrupted Mr, Thurman. “Oh, he s well protected,” said Mr.| Sullivan. “In how many insiances have there besn appeals from your decision as an inspector?’ he asked the witness. “About four,” was the reply, The Erickson Arrangement. Reld then seld that Mrs. Erickson wanted her husband on the Eastland so that he could live in Bt. Joseph, Mich., which was her home, Lieutenant Colonel Willam A. Jud- son of the local government engineering corps, testified concerning the depth of the river and sald he did not believe the boat could have grounded. Illinois Regiment is Visiting Denver | DENVER, Colo, July 3.~The First | resiment of the lilinols National Guard arrived in Denver today enroute home from the Panama-Pacific exposition. An officlal call was made on Governor Carl- #on and the regiment gave an exhibition arl. hes the | Final Denfal of Crime. Becker's message, which he uttered to the priest, wae: “I am not guilty by deed, or conspiracy, or In any other way of the death of Rosenthal. I am sacrificed to my friends, Bear this meseage to the world and my friends. Amen." The only time the police officer hesi- tated was as he entered the execudton room. It seemed to the witnesses as if he was startled that the death chalr was #0 near at hand. He looked quickly at the double row of witnesses, glanced at the floor, swept with his eyes the whit- ened walls of the room and then suddenly, as If coming to himself, walked briskly over the rubber mat and seated himaself in the electric shair. Behind Becker fol- lowed the prison priests, chanting a prayer which was repeated by the con- demned man. “Jesus, Mary, Joseph, have mercy on my soul,” nervously spoke Becker, as deputy wardens stepped forward and ad- | Justed the electrodes. Hardly & minute | occurred when Michael Sulltvan, assist- elapssd before the electrode was applied | | ant to State's Attorney Hoyue, took up to the right leg. After the electrode had been firmly adjusted against a shaven | spot on the back of the condemned man's | head, the state executioner looked at | Deputy Warden Johnson, who surveyed !the figure that was still mumbling the | death prayer in the chair. Johnson halt turned his head, and the executioner {Jammed the switch. | Three Shocks Given. | lives under his care, s not familar| The firet shock lasted a full mimute nd the executioner sald that it was 1,650 |volts and ten amperes in strength. It |eame while Becker was still commending | hig poul to his Maker. The two prison physicians stepped for- i ward to examine the collapsed figure that sat supported in the death chair by the thick black leather straps. The stethoscops was applied to the heart and Dr. Charles Farr, the prison | physician, presssd his finger against the artery in the neck. Thers was ‘still a | feeble fluttering of the heart. | The physician stepped back from the |rubber mat and again the electrie our- rent pulsed throukh the body, The shock {lasten seven secunds. The curreny’ was | nation Dr. Farr asked that & third shook {Gontinued on Page Two, Column One.) Tomorrow the Best Colored .. Comics —i The Sunday Be then turned off. After a hasty exami. | Wovel e, 5S¢ ISTATE WILL INDICT PEDERAL OFFICERS Alleged Attempt to Whitewash the Steamboat Service Causes Sen- sation in Chioago. MAYOR THOMPSON INDIGNANT CHICAGO, July 30.—Indictments against persons directly or Indirectly connected with the causes of the BEastland disaster, even federal offi- clals, despite questions' of Jurisdie- tion, may be returned before night by the Cook county grand jury, State's Attorney Hoyne intimated to- day. Gossip about possible government “whitewash” of federal Inspection service officials in the investigation by Becretary of Commerce Redfield ceused Coroner Hoffman to request divers and experts to keep check on the government divers reported com- ing from Washington to investigate for the secretary. The federal grand jury empanelled by Judge Landis today began the ex- amination of witnesses and under or- ders from the judge a United States warshal officlally seized the vessel. | The reason for the seizrure of the Eastland under a federal writ of at- tachment, it was explained by gov- ernment officials, was to prevent any person tampering with the ballast tanks, their valves or other mechan- {em on the submerged steamer until authorized government agents have examined them. Adam J. Weckler, oity harbor master, the first witness called by the federal grand jury, is sald to have repeated the story he told at the coroner's inquest, When he sald that the boat was over- | loaded. Weckler saw the Wastland over- turn and & fow minutes before had re- rused to lot the boat leave the dook until It was evenly balanced. He shouted to the captain that the vessel was listing badly. The inquiry being made by SBecretary of Commerce Redfleld’ was resumed with the examination of several witnesses dur- ing the morning sesalon. Mayor Thonipson Aroused, Mayor Thompson, who is clossly watch. Ing the Inquiry into the Hastland dts- aster, being conducted by Secretary Red- field, sald today: , “1 don't want to oriticlss now, but if the results at the finish show that the investigation has been a farce, I will start something. They will have a good deal of trouble proving to me that every- :-t on that ship was O, K. and turned over on Its own "ou oudt tell me that |m kfiown to be a dangerous vessel & great many seagoing men and govern- ment officlals are learning for the first time now that ia wam't a stable safe boat, ‘“There lbn't a yachtsman on the But knows that the Eastland was a dan- gérous, cranky boat, bullt for speed at the sacrifice of stability, "I would like to ask one question and ihat 1s “Why did this accident ocour? It all these investigations don't answer that, I'll find out myself.” Coruner Advises Check. Coronor Hoffman today requested Mayor Thompson to employ two city div- ore and a naval expert to oheck the work of two divers sald to be coming here from Washington to explore the wreck of the BEastland. Reports have reached the coronar that Secretary Red- TContinued on Page Two, Column Two.) ‘Missouri Pacific Attacks Nebraska Two-Cent Fare Law (From a Staft Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Neb., July 80.—(Special Tel- egram.)~The Missourl Pacifio raliroad today filed a bill in equity in the federal !\court here to have the Nebraska 2-cent fare declared vold. The rallroad company names the State Raflway commission defendants asks that it be enjoined by federal au- thority from enforcing the penalties for violations of the 2-cent fare order. The company has exhausted all its resources in apPeals to the Nebraska Rallway commisslon and the Nebraska supreme court, being unsuccessful In every instance. Unfair discrimination between freight and passenger traffic is one of the spe- | cific oharges of the Missouri Pacife. \Quintuple Tragedy at Temple, Texas Remains a Mystery TEMPLE, Tex., July 30.—Although of- |ficers have made severa! arrests, the | thurderer of three cnficren in the W. R. | Grimes home, near here, Wednesday | night, was no nearer a solution than be- |tore. - Burgical examination of Mrs, Grimes 1s sald to have established the motive of the crime. The only evidence, & combination spike maul and nafl out- ter, with which the children and thelr father and mother were beaten, came ap- parently from a Santa Fe ratiroad sta- tion house, 30 yards from the Grimes | home. Neither Grimes, nor his wife, have recovered sufficiently to give an account of the affair. Grimes, 'n & semi-consclous state, sald he has a dim recollection of a negro being in the room. . Eleven Killed by - Breaking of Cable at Patterson Mine | PITTSBURGH, Pa, July %—Eleven |men were killed and six eeriously in- jured at the Patterson mine of the United Coal company at Elizabeth, Pa., this afternocon, when a cable carrying a traiff broke on the incline; The ocars crashed into & party of men at the ‘umumpu SINGL! COPY TWO CENTS. yssuu HOSTS ARE AT GATES OF POLISH CAPITAL Russians Begin Evacuation of War- saw and Are Endeavoring to Save the Great Army Intact. COMMUNICATIONS ARE MENACED \Large Teutonio Army is Threatening to Cut Railroad Running to Petrograd. TRIUMPHAL ENTRY BY KAISER LONDON, July 30.—Warsaw, the third city of Rugsia and the goal for which the German armles in the east have been striving at since October, is at last in the throes of abandon- ment. Germans In overwhelming num- bers are at the gates of the Polish capital and dispatches, both from the city iteelt and from Petrograd, say that further resistance would be 4n- wise, i Dllo@nlod not only tbmi France and Great Britain, but in Russia itselt, the fall of the city s expected hourly, and the problem now is to move the Russian armies intact, threatened as they are from the south by the Austro-Germans, and more seriously from the north, where the German forces are aiming at the railway from Warsaw to Pe- trograd. The hope in the allied countries now, is' not for the safety of Warsaw, but for the continued oo~ heston of the Russian army. The Warraw postoffice alread: has been shifted to some point to lhu’lon- ward, the populace has been warned to remain calm and presumably for days Russian troops have been stripping the city of averything of military value, German aviators are hovering over the city and, according to German akvices, plans have been completed for the tri- umphant entrance of the German em- Peror, accompanied by his consort. Drive in West Will Follow. With Warsaw o it proves a con The British with the events in a apeech yesterday, apparently thought it necessary to drive home the gravity of the situation in the minds of those in- increased He summed up his opinion wita a monition that “the outiook is serious, if ' not perilous.” French Ofticial Report. PARIS, July 80.~The French war of- fice this afternoon gave out a state- ment on-the progress of hostilities, which reads: In the Artols distriot near at The Labyrinth there was all last fighting from trench to trench with grenades and bombs. Between the end Alsne, on the plateau of nevieres there was continued activity yosterday = with artillery and bomb throwers, Between Boueaulles and Vauquols and fn the forest of Malan- court, the explosion of mines by the enemy did no damage. “In the forest of Le Pretre, a Ger (Continued on Page Two, Column wrne BUFF0E N robiose Mans worth ! over. PUT IT IN THE OM £