Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 24, 1915, Page 2

KOBNIG 18 CHARGED | WITH CONSPIRACY Hamburg-American Employe and Another Man Indicted for Alleged Plot to Blow Up Canal. EDMUND JUSTICE IS ALSO HELD NEW YORK, 23.—Indict- | ments were returned today charging Paul Koenig, chief detective of the Hamburg-American line, and Rich ard Emil Leyendecker, an antique dealer, with conspiring to dynamite the Welland canal. Edmund Jus tice, a Hamburg-American vatchman, was also indicted with Koenig on charges of conspiring to sécure military information for the German government e indictments against Koenig and Leyendecker charge them with con<piring to “set on foot in the United States & military enterprise against the Dominion of Canada.” 1 The indictmenta set forth that a part | of this alleged conspiracy was to destroy | with dynamite or other means the Wel land canal, leading from Port Colborne on Jake Erie to Port Dalhousie on Lake | Ontario. | As a part of the plot to destroy the | canal, the indictments allege Koenlg and | Leyendecker planned to secure employ- | ment for their ageuts In various factories and mills adjacent to the ca ‘ Freitung Admits Buying Potash. Max Breitung, under Indictment with Robert. Pay, Dr. Herbert Kienzle, Walter Behols and Pavl Daeche on es of | conspiring to blow up munition ships | leaving this country, today admitted | through his attorney, John B. Stanch- | fleld, that he bought 350 pounds of chlor- | ate of potash for Fay. The admission | Dec. line was made when Mr. Stanchfield moved | for a separate trial for Breitunk. | Brelgung purchased the potash, ono | of the chief components in certain forms | of explosives, at Fay's request, Mr Stanchfield sald, and In so doing, acted in good falth and waas entirely innocent of any plan to destroy ships. Decision on the motion was put over till January 3, when decisions on similar motions by two of the other defendants will be rendered. Willlam McGulley, whose name was first given as Robert McCauiey, and, who was taken to police headquaters at the request of Department of Jusf officials, investigating the plot to dyna- mite the Welland Canal, was reieased today after having been questioned by federal officials. Although McCulley admitted having known Paul Koenig, chief of the Ham- burg-American line detectives, who Is accused by the govermenht of having formulated the Welland canal plot, for fivo years and having recently been in his employ as a “traller,” federal officials sald there was nothlng to war- rant holding the man. Declares Germany , Crushed 8o Far as : Trade is Concerned LONDON, Dec. 23.—"As far as com- | merce is concerned, Germany is a beaten nation, and it 4s for us to see that it does mot revive,” Walter Runciman, president of the Board of Trade, told the House of Commons this afterncon in re- viewing the steps taken by the board for the reorganization of British induatries after the war. PEnumerating the name of subjects which the Board of Trade was specially investigating, among them being German cantrol of oll fields In Kurope, Mr. Runci- man remarked that this raw material was of such vital ' interest to Great Britain that the board was taking special stepe to see how much of the German control of this product could be tran ferred to Great Britain so that the lat- ter's interest would be safeguarded. Continuing, he sald: “Germany’s ‘rade In South America and the east has received a serious blow, and it s the duty of the board to see that our business men have every ad- vantage.” Mr. Runciman sald there was 1o basis for the reported bellef on the continent that Great Britain in thus looking ahead was to think of the return of its prosperity rather than of ives heart and soul Into attainment of the main object.” Judge A. J. Seay, Early Governor of Oklahoma, is Dead LONG BEACH, Cal, Dec. %3.-Judge A. J, Seay, formerly territorial governor of Okishoma, died at his home here late last night. He was 8 years old. Judge Seay was appointed territorial governor of Oklahoma in 1892 and served & term of two years. During the p.e ooding two years he was supreme judg of the territory of Oklahoma. Judge Seay served a term as Judge of fhe elrcuit court of appeals of the east- n district of Missouri, beginning his duties In 1888 He was born In Amberst county, Vir- sinla. He cameo to Long Beach about three years ago. He was not married. | Celds CAmse Weada d grip. Laxative Bromo Quinine removes the cause. Remember to call for full name. Look for signature of E. W. Grove. %o.— Advertisement. Southern Pacific - Earnings Gain Two . Millions in Month NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—An enormous in- Levease of $1L.986,846 In net earnings re- ported by the Bouthern Facific Rallway feompany for the month of November is the largest gain for any one month in | ithe company's history, Gross earnings increased $3.506,000, with an increase of 18,4832 in operating expenses. | naturally anti<Jewish, but their agitation Good Things from Municipal Xmas Tree Loading truck to take sacks of Christ ANTI-SEMITISM I8 REVIVED IN BERLIN! Base Defamation of (\erman Jews by Tages Zeitung Provokes Tart Retort from Tageblatt. MINOR NOBILITY IS BLAMED BERLIN, Dec. 23.—(Via Lon-| don.)—Anti-semitism, an {issue; which has been almost dead since | the beginning of war, has been re- vived this week by the Tages Zeltung | and other newspapers. In conse- quence a controversy which may be described as almost Dbitter has broken out between papers of the Tages Zeitung stamp on the one hand and those like the Tageblatt, which adopted a liberal attitude In regard to the Jewish question, on the other, Liberals Resent Movement. The more liberal papers resent In- tensely every anti-Jewish movement, particularly as it is asserted German- Jews have borne their share of the wal burdens liberally and are doing thefr utmost for the father- lend In both a military’ and in an economic sense. ' The present revival of the anti-semitic movement began with a savage attack in the Tages Zeitung Tun-t Eugene Dietrich of Jena, o Rad accused “a Berlin newspaper’—inferentially = the Tages Zeltung—of béing anti-Jewlsh. The latter denied it was the newspaper at- tacked and further roused Jewish feeling by putting the blame on still another Berlin journal. The Tageblatt entered the controversy, calling the Tages Zeitung utterances “buse Aefamation of German Jews, many of whom dled for the fatherland after voluntarily joining the army—in which they were notably different from certain anti-semitic nationallat typewriter heroes, who have not lived up to the war propaganda they preached for years.'' Theodore Wolff of the Tageblatt, who is perhaps the most prominent editor of Germany, declares that notwithstanding the recent revival of anti-semitism the feoling against Jews In Germany is grad- ually on the wane, existing nowhere to & great extent except possibly among the minor nobility. “1 am glad to be able to say there is absolutely no anti-Jewish movement in government circles or in the high no- by, Mr. Wolft said. “The Jew now has equal rights in the army and may become an officer along with a Christlan. In virtually all strata the Jew is found inter- mingled with all others, “It is only among the minor nobility that the Jew is stlll unwelcome on ac- count of the fact that he is able to out strip his competitors, who are jealous of him. But do not forget there are notable exceptions in this class—fine examples of | Germans, who are too broad to be anti-| Jewlsh or anti-anything. A few German newspapers which represent thia class of the minor nobllity, such as the Tages Zeltung and the Tagelicht Rundschay, are | is becoming loss effective each month, 1 look for eventual liberty for Jews in Ger- many such as exists in America today.” DEATH RECORD. . - Mrs. George Smith. KEARNEY, Neb, Dec. 23.—(Special Telegram.)—~Mrs, George Smith, aged 70, and & resident of Kearney for twenty five years, died here early this morning from heart trouble, after a short iliness She had long been prominent in social and_church affairs. She was n native | of Englanu, ‘and leaves a husband, two sons and two “‘daughters, The son, prominent business men of Willtam Heffrou, HASTINGS, Neb, Dec. =2 | Telogarm)— Wiljlam Heffron, hostic Ingleside and ome’ of the best kn . the state, for a long of & lvery stable her tollowing &n operation yesterday for bladder trouble, Mes. Lo proprietor today B. Alee Neb, Dec, 21 —(Spectal.) Alee, dled at her home in yesterday evening of Bright's She leayea & son, Raymond. Her husband having died thirty years ago. e e Heavy Loss in Farm Fire. PIERRE, 8 D, Dec. 3 —(Special Tel- egram.)~A heavy loss of property and a hard fight to save farm bulldings, oc- curred northesst of this city last night when & general telephone call for help aroused the country and took out severn) sutomoblle loads from this city. Over 100 tons of hay was burned al the Hodo- val farm, and as much more for R. Bagby with others incurring smaller losses be- fore the fire was -wsht'ud- control EDGAR, THE BEE: mns cheer to th ramilies of Omaha OMAHA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER (CARDINAL MERCIER | RETURNS THANKS | iana!e of Belgium Writes: Letter | of Appreciation of Work of | Americans for Belgium, | | MANNER OF GIVING IS FINE Dec 23 Cardinal primate of Belgium has ad- dressed the following letter to Her- I bert C. Hoover, chairman of the American committee for rellef in Belginm “I understand you have so kindly addressed a new appeal to the gen- erosity of your countrymen to pro- vide clothing for our so painfully destitute confess 1 had much preferred to shake hands with | my American brothers in of thankfulness for what than that we should again the open hand to beg. nlrendy LLONDON Mercier people. 1 token have done | stretch to them Your country has done much for us; it has given food and.above all in personal co-opera- tion for our economiec rehabilitation; brings us this help with such a moving and complete spontanety that we have long desired to to your people a full expression of gratitude, untarnished by renewed appeals to their gerenous im- | pulses. But yourseif, dear friend, invoke us to appease our scrup'es and | therefore, I knowing better than anyone the destitution of our Belgian people should feel m traltor to my duty convey GREECE FEARS MORE BULGARS MAY CROSS LINE (Continued from Page One.) amounted to only one-tiird as many, ac- | cording to the statement. In & magazine on the Golden Horn a quantity of dynamite exploded. Five soldiers and ten civilians were killed and a number of civilfans were wounded. One house was burned. The Golden Horn is a northern inlet of | the Bosphorus, separating the main part of Constantinople from Galata and Pera German Official Repor BERLIN (Via London), Dec ~The war office announced today that the sum- mit of Harmans-Wellerkopf, captured earlier In the week by the French, had been gained by the Germans. The text of the statement follows: “Western theater of war: During hot fighting yesterday a brave regiment of the 52d Landwehr brigade recaptured the summit of Hartmans-Wellerkopf. The cnemy suffered extraordinarily severe losses and left twenty-three officers and 1,63 men in our hands. We are now busy clearing some pnortions of a trench on the northern slope which 1s #till occupled by the French. ‘“The figures given in the French report of yesterday evening regarding the fight- Ing around Hartmans-Wellerkopf on the 21at inst. are exaggerated by at least one- half. Our total losses, including all the killed, wounded and missing, so far as at present ascertalned. amount to 1,100 men. “There is nothing to report from the eastern and Balkan theaters.” French Official Report. PARIS, Dec. 2.—The following com- munication was given out at the war office this afternoon “The night was relatively calm over the whole front. To the south of Arras in the vicinlty of Beaurains our artil- lery kept up ita destructive fire againat the positions of the enemy. In Cham- pagne there was fighting at close quarters with hand grenades to the east of Na- varin Farm and in the section of Hill No. 184, “In the Vosges at erkopf, the situation our left. Our right progress yesterday." JAPANESE LINER SUNK BY TORPEDO (Continued from Page Ome.) arranging to forward them to their des- tinations. - On the passenger list were fifty-one men, fifty-four women and fif- teen children, most of whom were Brit. ish subjects The agents in their report say further: “The passengers cxpress great admira- tion for the skill of the captain and officers and for discipline of crew. Per- fect order was maintained during the disembarkation which was carried out with the greatest promptitude.” ntity rican. LONDON, Dec. & J. Leigh is an American citizen, | China. His father was & California Mr. Lelgh has spent most of his life in China, but he recently has lived in England. He was returning to China on the Yasaka Maru to take a position with & buainess house. Iils family is in Lon- don. Mre, Lelgh has celved a ocable message a4 1s safe. ckly. s of the sinking hed Tokio to- excitement. The that the & submarine ccelved by the state that the Hartmanns-Well- is unchanged on continued to make TOKIO, of the Yasaka Mar day and caused gre advices received he steamship - was sunk by near Port Sald, Adv Nippon Yusen Kaisha Yasaka Maru was sed without warning and that it sank in 4 minutes. This ocourred the afi n of Tuesday and it was midnight when the passen gers and orew wer ied by the French gunboat. HYMENEAL. Lewrey-Johusou. AVOCA, Neb, De Special.)—Mr, Reuben C. Johnston and Miss Lydia M. Lowrey, both well known young people ing near Dunbar, wer d in mar- {age at the home of the bride's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Lowrey, near Dun- 1. on Wednesday Had Ha rhose who breakfast at s o'clock or ater, Junch at 12 and have dinner at 6 wre almost certain to be troubled with indigestion. They do not allow time for one meal to digest before taking another Not leas than five hours should elapse between meals. If you are troubled with indigestion correct your habits and take Chamberiain’s Tablets, and you may reasonably hope for & quick recovery These tablets strengthen the stomach and enable it to perform its functions natu- rally, Obtalnable everywhere.—Adver- Usament. as their pastor if, through an exaggerated feeling of national pride, I should refrain from also pleading for those who are suffering. 'BORDEN TALKS T0 PILGRIMS | | Premier Says Relations Between | United States and Canada Were § | | “Only yesterday tears arose in my eyes when, crossing the street in Malines, 1 met a party of strong, honest working- men, with stooping heads, their eyes fixed on new clogs. These were men habituated to the support of wives and children through their wwn labor, but Never Better. FOUNDED ON SINCERE GOOD WILL | | NEW YORK, Deec -8ir Robert Laird Borden, Canadian premler, in an address they already | 80| us much in| it had been for fifteen montha without | work. The last of their savings are ex- | 'IHEY DIE OF GRIP hausted. Their shoes were worn out and | the relief committee had Aistributed among them some clogs with the injunc ton to ise the leather rags from the worn-out ,shoes as linings to keep their feet from, dampness. | Death Rate So High that Health Commissioner Issues a Public Warning. | Manmer ‘of Giving Appreciated. | “You who prize highly the value of labor and so possess the natural | fmpulse of earning comfort and success by your own exertions, will well under-| MUST KEEP stand the mental- suffering of noble | e souls forced to depend upon charity PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23.—The Therefore, you also know how to hide| 4oy rate from the epidimic of la your liberalities under anonymous veils and how to distribute them through | BTiD noW seweping the state has been hands as delicate as they are discreet. | 80 high that Samuel G. Dixon, state Interpreter of the feelings of the Belglan | health commissioner, {ssued a state- | population, we thank you as much and | ment gt Harrisburg tonight calling | more for your way of glving than for the §ifta themselves. May I add that one of | Sttention to the seriousness of the the greatest benefits for which we shall | Situation and cautioning the public feel eternally Indebted to the American|that if the disease is to be avolded, people will be the fixing on America nl'; “sacrifices must be made.” ,‘;;\'; "';:"]‘"‘”"" ‘“';‘“““" "" “",l':"‘“k“‘“"‘ “Keep out of crowded places,” Dr. glan people have learned to know |y, o0 gaye ag one person having you well, to look at you in a beautiful IIght, to feel to some extent what they | the grip may give it to a carload of would gain in following your footsteps. passengers.’’ Wil Tnitacs’ Amertean In this city the bureau of vital statis “When the hour of reconstruction | ticS iesied &0 burial permits during the comes we will invoke them to keep their | fITSt three days of this week, the ma eyes on your great land of fecundating|JOTity of the deaths being due directly inftiatives; your land of ambition for|°F Indirectly to la grip. This is more | comfort not through covetousness of other | &N double the ordinary death rate. it people’s wealth, but through tenacious will to individual endeavor with a pa triotism that ignores clvil discord and draws its strength from a col love for national progress; yes, in- Americans. VOU'T OF CROWDS we Virtues. | | Philadelphia alone are suffering with the ! disease, which has been particularly fatal |to the very ola and very voung | Attendance at all the public : | has been greatly reduced and in several voke our people to Imitate your high|gections of the state schools and colleges virtues and we are confident that our|pave been forced to close, Factories benefactors will find in this spreading of | gepartment atores and other business their own moral their 1eal |houses have also been affected by the g3 | epldemic and in many instances the num Please accept, dear friend, the expres- | per of employes obliged to remaln at slon of my high esteem and devoted home has been so great as to seriously gratitude | curtail operations. Hundreds of fire (8igned) men and policemen are confined to their homes with the disease while Philadel- | phia Rapid Transit company reports 4% of its emploves on the aick list. Reports from Camden, N. J., tonight were to the effect that there are at least 1,000 cases in that cit sctive we will schools h infiuence “CARDINAL MERCIER, Archbishop of Malines.” Department Orders. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Special Tele- gram.)—Postoffice at Dome, Sjoux coun- ty, Neb, discontinued; mall to Morrill instead of Cape May. Mrs. Stella 8. MaGlil appointed post- | master Mandel, Albany county, Wyo,, | vice John O. Steffey, resigned Bee Want Ads Produce Results. befors the Pilgrims soclety in New York | at luncheon today, declared his belief that | relations between Canada and the United States “‘were nmever more firmly founded on true understanding and sincere good | will, than at present.” He referred to the relations between | Canada and the mother country as “never #0 closely united In ideal, inspiration and effort as at the present time.” He re ferred to nearly 4,000 miles of unguarded boundary between Canada and this coun try as evidence of friendly relations. 1 “During the last half century or more these relations have on the whole been in- | timate and friendly; during the last twen- ty-tive years they have steadily improved, and T belleve they were never more firmly founded on true understanding and sin cere good will, than at present,” were his sentiments of the relations between the Dominfon government and the states. And In that connection he added, “I beg you to cosider what might have been spared to THOM veme The Will find this s PSON-BELDIN & CO. Fashion Gorter of the MiddleWest —-» f Established 1886. The Last Day Before Christmas tore still the store of enjoyable Christmas shepping just as it has been during these many busy weeks. Stocks are varied and interesting and offer exceptional oppor- tunities to select last minute gifts with care. humariity during the last fourteen months and In many months to come, if such ex- amples had been followed." Barney Bertsche and James Ryan Given' Liberty by Governor " The Fur Shop Elegant Furs-- ' Moderate Pricings i Candy Special SPRINGFTELD, TIL, Dec. 2.—Governor Dunne today freed by commutation of sentence “Barney’ Hertsche and James Ryan, whose testimony recently con- victed former Chief of Detectfves Halpin nd other Chicago police grafters Bertsche and Ryan recelved indeter- | minate sentences on the indictments for | alleged swindles, which were sald to have profited the police as well as themselves. | Today's action was in nccoidance with a | recommendation of the State Board of Pardons and fultills a promise of im- munity given the pair In exchange for thelr testimony Ryan s a clairvoyant swindler by his own testimony. Bertscho testified he was a go-between in tue payment of money to the police by the ‘clairvoyant trust.” Dinning’s 60c Chocolates, 39¢ In Thompson-Belden Christmas Boxes. The Hankerchief Store Ready for the Last Day Few stores have such a complete variety of dainty handkerchiefs. Assortments are still exceptional. Your gift list can be filled here in a few minutes with the greatest of pleasure and satisfaction. Handkerchiefs, with dainty de- signs embroidered in the corners, for 15¢, 25¢, 36¢ and 50c. Revolt in India is | Reported Spreading Boxes of three for 60c and $1.00, | Initial handkerchiefs for 90c, BERLIN (Via Wireless to Tuckerton, | $1,00, $1.50 and $2.00 a box. N. J)-The Hamburger Fremdenblatt | today printed a Constantinople dispatch, | Children's handkerchiefs, boves, 25c. which says: ‘“The revolutionary movement in India lately has umed large dimensions. The British authorities have been unable | to suppress it despite most energetic meagsures, Great bitterness prevails among the native troops, battalion after bat- tallon deserting and jolning the insur- gents. Native troops which were orderd | to mttack the insurgents mutinied and at- tacked the British Indiana Starting Boom for Fairbanks INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 2.—Sixty out of the ninety-two counties of Indiana have sent in petitions asking that the name of Charles W. Fairbanks be placed | on the ballots for the primary nest Mareh for the proferentlal vote for the republican nomination for preaident, ae- | cording to & statement made today by L W. Henly, secretary of the republican Women's Italian Silk Vests-- are delightfully dainty and state committee. The primary law re- quires that the petition be filed not later than January 7, 1916, acceptable as gifts. These Italian silk vests come in white and pink, priced to suit every purse. Third Floor, Volland's Cards and Calendars Are ideal gifts—A choice showing., Third Fioor. Ribbon Novelties Hand-made Ribbon Flowers, in fancy boxes, We have roses, vio- lots, sweet peas, orchids and morn- ing glories. 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