Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 27, 1915, Page 1

WHEN AWAY FROM HOME The Bee is The Paper you ask forj if you plan 40 be Absent more than & few days, Bave The Bes malled to you. THE WEATHER. Rain TWO THE OMAHA DAILY BEE = VOL. XLV--NO. MORNING, SEPTEMBER — OMAHA, MONDAY Sunday [lustrates His 'SINGLE ©coPry CENTS, e, Se Wews _Stands, o On Tralns, st Howsl Sermon Entitled “The Devil’s Boomerang”’ "1 ) DIDN'T Live E ViRTve o8 WHAT T PREACH, ‘WomaNHeoD 15 THE You BET THE wiis kY RAMPART wall GANG WoULD LeY OF AMERRICAY You KNOW N 1§ | WILIZATION" Miurey’ CIVILIEA "MERES Twe FeLlow THAT DRIVES ‘THE PEER WAGON SveTract $55 000 FROM Some MEN AND YouVe Gor NoTHING LEFT BUT Pooxns ONE’ Two, THREE = HES out” 1 Bt LieveE GoD HELPED Mr GET, THAT BALL ‘I WOULDN'T WIPE MY FEEY O THAT SocIETY WwicH MAKES A DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE MAN WHo SINS AND THE WOMAN Wito SINS * RENNSYLYRANIA , SHE'S THE WORST WHISKY -SOAKED, WHISKY-Dom I NATED STATR IN THe. UNiow © *LPounD I CovLD CIRCLE THE BASEs (N 14 SEconDs JusT AS WELL WHEN I SERVED CHRIST AS whHEN I SERVED THE DEVIL ’\ MEN WEEP WHEN |CHURCH PEOPLE THEY GO ALONG | HIT THE TRAIL SAWDUST TRAIL Over 500 Come Forward and Sign Cards Saying They Desire Reconsecration. Two Hundred and Twenty-8ix Rush to the Mourners’ Bench at the Close of Sunday's After- noon Meeting. POINTS OUT SINS OF SINNERS SIX MEN ARE SENT (ALLIES IN SWEEP T0 PREACH GOSPEL| ALONG WEST LINE . Methodist Conference Ordains Class DEFE A'I‘ —F—Enms “ of Ministers and Elevates Twelve Pastors. French and British Troops Make Progress in Long-Expeoted Movement Upon En- tire Front. SOUCHEZ STORMED AND TAKEN SERMON FULL OF PATHOS OMAHA DEMS ASK / /! 0\ PRENCHMEN TAKE | TRENCHES SWEPT . WITH CANNON FIRE Paris Communication Announces Soldiers of Republic Occupy First Positions of the Foe. - (L \ “Billy” Sunday yesterday for the P \ first time in Omaha called for trail- hitters from a Sunday morning con- i gregation. Omaha organizers and! BIG PARTY MEET wofkers in the campaign, under the ! lash of the evangelist's recent, criti- | cisms, redoubled their personal work | with such effect that 513 men, women and children—practically all | previously church member-—grasped | Sunday’s hand. { 1t was a new record in number of trail- | hitters to come forward at a single meet- .| ing in Omaha and it was the answer hae 7a | Of the local organization to Sunday's plea. i..| Ushers' budges were prominent in the .. Tanks of the trail-hitters during the trip - BIG CUDAHY IGE PLANT IN RUINS Burns to the Ground Early Sunday, with a Loss of Over Hun- dred Thousand. Word Piotures of What Will Be the Fate of the Ungodly in the World to. Come. | Jacksonian Club Formally “Backs Movement to Bring National Convention of Democrats to Omaha Next Year. HITCHCOCK SAYS TAKE A PILE sl United States Senator Declares Large Sum Necessary for the TWO0 ORDAINED AS ELDERS Although all business of the braska Methodist conference laid aside Sunday, the day nevertheless a busy one for the seve eral hundred ministers attending. There were meetings or services at Ne- was was N0 COMPROMISE WITH DEVIL TO BE REBUILT AT ONCE Total. ......1473,885,000 §17,785.73 JOVENILE TBAIL RITTERS. | down the trall and a number of ,workers and ushers sat with the other penitents .1,868 ' after they had grasped Sunday's hand. 183 Others réemained. actively at work en-| Teor Couraging and directing those who came Aiieia 600.00 ~ Strong mén wept and the sawdust trall, while others fainted and had to be carried to the Rospital, as “Billy” Sunday, yester- day afternoon preached to men only his most powerful sermon 80 far, | and called his hearers to forsake their sins and bad habits and accept Christ as their savior. Mr. .Sunday not only “called a spade a spade,” but went further and with word pictures told the big erowd of the awful consequence of sinful living. He gave detailed descriptions of the physical result of immorality, and said that every man who did not repent and reform be- fore it was too late, would suffer un- told physical torment, as well as g0 to hell at death. Man in Andience Faints. ‘While In the midst ot one of his numer- ous descriptions of that nature, Mr, Sun- day had to stop for a moment, while a man who had fainted was carried out by ushers. “It's a wonder more of 'em don't get eick at the thought of it,” Mr. Sunday re- marked. Inspection of the cards turned in by the trail-hitters rovealed that a score ot TeSardless of political canons | them were not previously members of Py qroas on. tes th they were already church members. “It you've been living rist I don't want you up here; if you haven't, come for- ward,” “Billy” Sunday told the audience. The call for trail-hitters followed a ser~ mon in which there was much pathos and human interest appeal and a prayer in which Sunday pleaded that the spirit of God might begin to work in Omaha. One trall-hitter told Sundey as he gras_ed the evangel st's hand, that e had come forty-five miles to hear him preach. A victim of aleohol hit the trail in com- | pany with his aged mother, and the sob- bing and rejoicing of both lasted for more than half an hour. Sunday gave the audience a recipe for the prevention of back-siiding—to talk with God fifteen minutes cach day in prayer, to read the Bible fifteen minutes and to talk for God the same period cacn dey. He announced that it is his habit to read a passage from the Bible as soon as he arises each morning. Chinese Start Riot | 1 | to Enforce Boycott On Japanese Wares At another pomt in his gripping talk.| SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. %.—The another man was overcome by the vigor with which the Chinese have been thoughts of physical and moral suffering enforcing a boycott against the Japanese Sunday pictured, and gave vent to groans and their merchandise was revealed to- and terror-sticken sho staggering from the tabernacle. On the Sawdust Trail. | he was led day by the arrest of three Chinese who were alleged to have taken part in a | small riot in a Chinatown store here, one of several operated here and in Los An- The afternoon call for trall-hitters was' geles by the Sing Fat company. most successful, 226, men going up to The refusal of Tong Bong, representa- shake Mr. Sunday's hand and élgn the tive of the company, to pay an allegel pledge of allegance to Christ. fine of $2,600 imposed upon the firm by Among them were youths still in their the Chinese Six companies for the im- ‘teens, bent, white-haired old men, la- Portation of Japanese goods valued at borers, comfortable business men, white 3,000 was §aid by the police to have been and back, all moved by the strength of | the ca the revivalist's preaching to resolve to live better lives. One trafl-hitter drew a half-emptied . bottle of whisky from his pocket as he shook handg with Sunday, and tossed the {Gontinued on Page Five, Column One.) The Weather For Nebraska—Rain Temperature at Omaba Yesterday. 5rE EEE 2222 oo B E v mms sgEgess Foropgprre ean te) ure 'l_fllll‘ and prec t the 1 ures normal ure. _xcess for the day . Totul geficlency since March 1 s No pitation : 0 inc 2 ino Deficiency since March 1. .3 Defjciency for cor. period, 1914. § es trace of preciviiation. - Inches| of the Austro-German offensive aga 81 inches | Serbla to proclaim armed neutrality while of the fight. | An attack was made upon Tong Bons in the store in which there are many shoppers. Women ran into the street calling for help. A travellng salesman, who had been showing Tong Bong sam- ples, settled the matter by repulsing the |attacking party with a chair, * Officers of the Chinese Six companies, called in by the police, denled responsi- biifty for the attack, but admitted Tong Bong previously had been fined $200 for |o stmilar offense. The boycott, it was learned, has re- sulted in the imposition of many fines ot $20 on Chinese stores. BULGARIA JUST WANTS TO DEFEND ITS RIGHTS LONDON, Sept. %.—A dispatch from Sofia, dated September 3, to Reuter's Telegram company quotes the following semi-officlal statement, issued on that da; ‘The entry of Bulgaria into a state of armed neutrality Is, according to the view in government circles, explained Dby changes which occurred recently in the | political and military situation. “Bulgaria has not the slightest ag- gressive intention, but is resolved to be | armed to defend its rights. Following the | example of Holland and Switserland, Bul- garia is obliged, in view of the movement of troops effected by its neighbors and the danger threatening it from the fact inst W#‘Ifl»cfi' cor. period, 1913. 5.78 inches | continuing conversations with the repre A, WELSH, Local Forecaster. sentatives of the two belligerent groups.” Party Coffers. ALL SAY WEST ENTITLED TO IT “Bury the party lines. We're all ! for Omaha and we'll all pull together, g This {s the spirit that will elther ud-for Omaha the democratic nee| tional convention next year or else let the several other citles now try- ing for the honor, know that this city made a tremendous effort. The first real steps toward getting the big meeting which pulls about 8,000 visitors, were taken Saturday by the Jacksonian club in thelr quarters at the City National Bank building. Senator Gilbert M. Hitcheock, Ed P. Smith, W. F. Baxter, Frank Weaver and others prominent in the demo- cratic ranks were on hand to en- gender enthusiasm. Entitled to It. “The west Is entitled to consideration from the democratic party,” declared Mr. Smith. “The west, and the south is the natural home of democracy. It Wik |%on goes back, it will be due to the west. We want this convention, and If stremu- ous efforts count for anything, we'll get it. Baltimere presented the national com- mittee with a check for $100,000 to t the meeting, and we will do the sam When Senator Hitcheock arose to speak, however, he boosted the ante by fifty thousand dollars. ““The question Is," asserted the senator, |*“what can you do for the natfonal com- mittee? We should raise $150,000 instead of only $100,000. Mahy avenues of revenue that were formerly open to the national committee are now closed, and the money can be handily used Get Clubs in Lime. “We must get the Commercial club, the Ad club, the Rotary club and every other organization that has the interests of Omaha and Nebraska at heart, to exert every effort to land this meeting. “Half of the $180,00 could be readily obtained from various sources, such as hotels, raflroads, and other business in- stitutions that will profit, but the other half will have to be raised by democratic enthusiasm,” Mr, Hitcheock sdid that heretofore, na- tional conventions have been held in halls that were too large. He belleves the Auditorfum will' accommodate the kitua- tion nicely, and in ease the crowds are larger than anticipated, the Ak-Sar-Ben Den could be used. “The campaign,” he sald, “should be (Continued on Page Two, Column Three.) Bell Case Witness Is Indicted for Perjury INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept.%.-—Harry | Farber, a saloonkeeper, who testified | yesterday for the state in the trial of | Mayor Joseph E. Bell, charged with elec- tion conspiracy, was indicted by the |8rand jury for perjury as a result of his | testimony. | Farber testifiea he had made & contri- bution to the democratic campalgn fund, | but denied that William Kissell, also fn- {dicted for alleged election conspiracy, | threatened him with persecution by the ! police if he aid not contribute. He also denled making a statement to that ef- fect before the grand jury. | ‘The indictment returned today charges {that Farber made a statement to the grand jury March 2, that he had been threatened by Kissell with police perse- cution If he did not contribute to the democratic campaign fund. He provided | o bond Fire of unknown origin starting about 2:45 o'clock Sunday morning, completely destroyed the new Cudahy ice house in Ralston, sus- taining a loss of $100,000 to the Cudahy Packing company, The loss whe partily covered by {nsurance. A desperate fight was 'made by members o the South Side batalliop of. the Omaha fire department un- der Batallion Chief Coyle to check the flames, but poor water pressure coupled with the fact that the l‘lrsl had gained such headwiy .when the department men arrived shortly after 8 o'clock, that it was impossible to| approach within 100 feet of the blaz- | ing building, the heat being so in- tense, made rescue impossible. The bullding was burned to the ground and all that was saved was a small tower | house in which the machinery for the | fce plant was mounted, and the work- men's bunkhouse, 200 feet to the west. The bullding elght stores high was a vertible furnace from 3 o'clock yester-| day morning untll 7 o'clock. Eight box cars sidetracked near the bullding were burned to ashes. The fce stored In the houses, amounting to 20,000 tons wes ren- dered totally useléss. The heat was so intense that paint on residences within & radius of thre blocks around the buifld- Ing peeled off. In many cases widow pains wer also broken, N First discovery of the fire was made by Sheritf Hutter of Sarpy county, who was passing by and noticed the blaze in the north end where it had originated. Immediately notifying Art Moran, keeper of the buildings for the Cudahy company, the alarm was spread to Omaha and the South Bide . fire department apparatus ordered out, The blaze had gained too much headway and could not be checked. All efforts of the firemen was directed ‘to saving nearby bulldings, Superintendent Patrick Sheehy of the Omaha Cudahy packing plant was on the scene at 8 o'clock a few minutes after the first report had been circulated. Ac- companied by his son he drove by auto- moblle through the misty rain at the flrst call, B Three Times. The destruction of the ice house was, the third of its kind that has occurred within the last fifteen years. In 1901, fourteen years ago, the old ice house was struck by lightening and completely burned. Two years ago 'when the Omaha tornado swept Ralston and Omaha, a new ice house, then only recently erected, was totally demolished, the company sustain- ing & heavy loss. Immediately after- the destruction of 913 in the tornado the Cudahy firm erected the most modern ice house in the west. equipped chinery and equipment, The building had eight partitions and was valued at’ §75,000 The ice that was rendered useless was valued at §35,000, a total loss. The total loss will approximats more than $100,000 according to the estimate given out by Buperintendent Sheehy yestorday. But last week the lease now held by th Cudahy Packing company to the ice of Seymour lake was renewed. The new lease will not expire untll 192 Besides this the firm holds an option on the ground which will not expire before three years. It is expected that bullding operations will commence at once. Haitien Rebels Attack Amer_ioans CAPE HATIEN, Sept, 2-—In an at- tack by Hatian rebels on an American force about two miles from Cape Hatlen forty Hatlans were kil'ed. Ten Americans were wounded. with the latest of ma- | TROOPS M;B_’EI«IL ADVANCING Charge Follows Furious Artillery Storm by Guns of the Allies. BELGIAN COAST PARIS, Sept, 26.—The following official statement was issued by the war office tonight: ‘“On _the Belglan coast our bat- terfes have co-operated in the bom- bardment by the British fleet of the German positions at Westende and Middelkerke. ““The British troops have attacked with success enemy positions to the west of Loos and Hulluch, Our troops, operating in conjunction with the British army, delivered to the north of Arras an energetic attack which permitted them to gain a foot- hold at several points in the enemy's lines, Bombardment Terrifie, ‘“Between the Somme and the Alsne, fighting by means of torpedoes and bombs has been golng on in the sector of Canny-8Sur-Mats, Our artillery exploded & munition depot in a fortiffed house at Beauvraignes. “In Champagne, gfter a new and very violent bombardment of the trenches, shelters, blockhouses and batteries of the enefy, our troops began an asssult of the German lines between the Bulppes and the Alsne. The first enemy positions have been occupled on almost the entire front attacked. Our progress continues. “Artillery actions have occurred in the ‘Woevre in Lorraine, and 'in the Vosges in the environs of Chapelotte and of Schratzmannelle. SENATOR NORRIS LOOKS OVER IRRIGATION PROJECTS BRILGEPORT, Neb, Sept. .—(Spe- cial)~United States Senator Norrls met a committee of land owners and busi- ness men here yesterday on matters of interest to the several that buy water from the government. ¥rom here he will 80 over the entire Fort Laramie pro- fect now being bullt, as well a #the north slde government project, the Tristate and the proposed Bridgeport extension. The Fort Laramie project extends from Fort wsouth side of the river, will be seventy- | tive miles long, will cost several miilion | dollai and will irrigate 10000 acres, | KINKAID HOMESTEADER IS KILLED BY LIGHTNING BRIDGEPORT, Neb., Sept. 26.--(Spe- clal Telegram.)-In a heavy electrical storm last night, Frank Meyers, a Kin- kaider, was instantly killed by a bolt which struck his house. Mr. Meyers was sitting In the room with his wife and his mother, who had flist come to pay him a vielt, and the children were in bed in another part of the house, Every room in the bullding was more or less damaged, but no one else was hurt, TWO MEN IN CAGE DIE IN FALL OF 300 FEET CRIFPLN CREEK, Colo, Thomas J. Ward and his brother, Jumes, leasers of & mine here, were instantly killed today, when & cage, in which they were being holsted, caught on the tim- bers and precipitated them 300 feet to the hottom. Thelr bodies, oadly mangled, ! were not recovered from a pool, into l’whun they fell, for two hours the First Methodist church at 9:30 and 10:30 a. m, and 3, 4 and 7:30 o'clock p. m. Rev. W. H. Underwood, pastor of the McCabe Methodlst church, pre- slded at the annual “love feast,” or experience meeting, in It was' follg cons, conducted by Bishop Frank M; Bristol, who also made hig annual address in that connection. Six Preachers Ordained, Bix preachers were ordained to be dea- cons In the thurch, having completed two years' theological study and experience | & pastors. They were: aa'v. Francis J. | Aucoek, Dakota City; Rev. Willlam H. Gardner, University Place; Rev. Willlam | Gornall, Monroe; Rev, George A. Morey, { Archer; Rev, Eddy T. Underwood, Cralg, and Rev. Frank Sedy. Rev. Rex O, Smith of Ponca was to have been ordained to be & deacon, but he was not present. Miss Jennie F. Brubaker of the Metho- | dist hospital was consecrated to be & deaconess. Twelve pastors were ordained to be elders. They were: Rev. Henry C. Bar- rett, Brady; Rev. Harry C. Burrows, Bpencer; Rev. Pearl D. Cox, Dixon; Rev. John W. Crist, North Loup; Rev. Rich- ard Gibb, Riverton; Rev. Willlam Kil- burn, . Doniphan; Rev. Jobn W. Puxton, | Bmithfield: Rev. W. 8. Sanders, Clarks; Rev. Frank Willlams, Royal; Rev. Wilber W. Gettys, Arnold; Rev, Lyman L. Han- thorne, Lincoln, and Rev. John W, Will- lams, Kennard. Rev. Lemuel R. Hansberry, Lowell, and Rev. Bradford T. Fisk were to have been in Utah, Former Bishop W. F. Oldham of India, now a leader In the foreign mission work of the Methodist church, led a big evan- church. He also delivered an address in the afternoon &t an anniversary foreisn mission meeting. Eighty Passengers 0f Southern Pacific ! ordained as elders, but the former was sick In & hospital and the latter was gelistic meeting last evening at the First | British Capture Five Miles of Ger- man Trenches, French Take Many Prisoners. GERMANS ADMIT THE REVERSE PARIS, Sept. 26.—On the ront the British and have . “days " 20,000 unwounded prisoners, accord- ing to the French official communls cation issued tonight, i New progress by the French troops to the north of Arras also is reported, Souches being stormed and captured. In Champagne the allled forces still continue to gain ground, ¥ Germans Taken. 4 More than 12,000 Germans were taken prisoners by the French in & terrific battle yesterday in the Cham- pagne district of France, aecording to an officlal statement issued today - by the French war department, French troops penetrated the Ger- man lines along a front of fifteen miles and for a Cepth at some places of two and two and a balf miles, the announcement says. Stubborn fighte ing is still going on today im the Champagne sectors. Berlin Admit Reverse. BERLIN (Vis London), Sept. 26, ~—A repulse of a German division mear Loos, northwest of Lens, with (Continued on Page Two, ) I THE WANT-AD-WAY l Train Are Burned, Laramie, Wyo., 0 Bayard, Neb, on the | SAN DIEGO, Cal., Sept, %.—Eighty pas- | {sengers of a Southern Pacific Mexican | {train were thrown into & car containing |hay and the car set on fire by a band of Yaqui Indians, Friday, pear Torres, according to radio advices re- | cotved here foday from Hermosillo via Cuaymas. | Only twenty passengers have been ac- | counted for thus far, the others hl\‘llllY been burned to death. Bulgaria Has Not Intent to Fight LONDON, Sept. 2.—The Bulgarian | government this morning officlally com- municated to the powers a note, stating I\Il the most categorical manner, that the mobilization of the Bulgarian army was | ordered in the national interest and that it had not the slightest war movement intentions. Austria Reiterates Its 8tand Upon Arms AMSTERDAM, Sept. 2.—The Austro- | Hungarian government, according to an officiel telegram received here today from Vienna, has in reply to the American note of August 13, relative to the manufacture of ammunition in the United States, reiterated the position taken in its pro- 1“‘( of June w - Al (S275 | | You can wish and wish ¥l dodmeday, & Bt e work 70 what e wke | S0 ‘iz really up > you. Wow, if for & home 're Fhie fLive thin for you ...:g_- ‘ T Veh rulve Tou. M fumilie coming Omahe this year » T reach ple wit! "w ":-l = to M\'lrlllrol&.ln 'hi STERREe |