Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 25, 1916, Page 2

MANY PERISH IN A | PACTORY EXPLOSION Four Known to Be Dead and Several ‘ Missing as Result of Blowing Up of Buffalo Plant, TWO0 BODIES ARE REMOVED monocle. his staff, one of whom also wears the single eye-glass. | BUFFALO, N. Y, Jan. 24 —Four persons are known to have been killed, several are missing and four | were injured in an explosion late to- day that wrecked the plant of thaj Kélker Blower company, manufac- turers of planing mill exhausts and ventilators. | Charles Kelker, head of the firm, sald | that from tweniy-two to twenty-five em- Ployes were in the plant and that twenty- one of them had been accounted for. The known dead MISS MABEL CHANDLER, 17 years of nge, stenographer i CHARLES PABST, IS years old, team- | ster TWO UNIDENTIFIED MEN The injured | Mrs. Helen Kelker. 4 years old. wite | of Charles Kelker, both legs blown off; probably will ae. ! Elmer Williame, 1¢ years old, cut and | brutsed James Kemmer, 4 yoars old, ear torn| off, scalp wounds, Stapley Konisczny, 21 years old, chest crushed: will recoyer. Roof Falls, The bullding occupled by the firm was & long, two-story frame structure, the first floor and basement of which wer« used for the machine shop and the second GREEK PRINCE WEARS MONOOLE, TOO—Prince An. drew of Greece, like the Orown Prince of Germany, wears a || In this picture he is shown in his motor car with THE B OMAHA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, WILSON DECIDES 10 VISIT ST. LOUIS| President Will ihke Formal Stop at 1916, [Water is Reéeding from the Business dent Wilson decided today to in-| SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. %.—Travel by clude Bt. Louls in the ftinerary of the | /A" and sea and communication of all sorts were out of joint today In the | middle western trip he wil] begin Fri- | western one-third of the United States day night. He will visit 8t. Louis on | because of rain, snow and wind the ‘morning of February 3, on the| Otles reaching ninety-four ‘miles an s bk 5 et b hour swept the northern Pacific coast, ay bae o ashington from |,y gpprehension for shipping was con- Topeka, Kan. The additlon of St.|siderably relieved by reperts that the Ad- | Louis means that he will make eight | miral flfmwvbfmm Seattle '"bs-"d""w | cisco with about 100 souls aboard, was “""’m" Mddresses during the tHP. |,..¢0 and probably would make port here | More invitations to mpeak in various |jate today. For many hours It was not | parts of the country on the forthcoming |heard from. The coastwise steam schooner IS [or on later trips were recelved by the|Centralla, from Gray's Harbor to San Francisco with four passengers, lost its | president today. Amoeg them was an in-| geexiong of lumber, but was reported to | vitation to visit Pueblo, Colo., extended | be getting along under its own steam by Representative Keating. To all the after having been towed some distance requests the president replied that he by the steamshlp Governor of the Pa- wished to visit an many cities as possible, 'ciffe Coast Steamship line. The tanker | but Was uncertain about his exact plans. | Frank B. Buck of the Amsociated Oll com- | Wants All Meetings Open. |pany, reported off Coos Bay, Ore., with | President Wilson wants the meetings |@labled ateering gear, was the only Part of Yuma City | g YUMA, Ariz., Jan. M.—~The water hed the Mound City on Morning completely receded today from the busi- | of February 3. ness section of Yuma and tim greate S | menace now apparently is danger of coi- | lapse of several large bulldings. The REFUSES MANY INVITATIONS|Ciiduifo motel has neen condemned s Ao | unsafe The foundations of several WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Presi- atores appear to be settling president Senator Hitche sk, while he A noy” say what the president had told him, In | would have the administration’s support A srorgnnd He sald he would have to talk with other senators lefore deciding definitely Wilson May Support a Bill Fixing s whether the change would be accepted Maximum Stay of U, 8. There | The president previeusly opposed an- at Four Years. other amendment proposed by Senator AN Clarke proposing independence for the HITCHCOCK SEES PRESIDENT | "M!!ppines within two years | | WASHINGTON, 24 —Grant- ow { ing independence to the Phlllppine‘ STREEE OF | A TOWN islands in not iess than two Years| MOUNT PLEASANT, Ia, Jan. 24—A 1and not more than four years may | Package of currency amounting to $2,200 | . . | disappeared today somewhere between the be favored by the Wilson adminis- | o iee CF Gepot ana the Adasas mx tration. Senator Hitchcock, chafr-| ... company office here. Police are in- !man of the Philippine committee, | vestigating discussed with President Wilson ]l'QI The money was consigned by the Na |today a provision to that effect | MONEY DISAPPEARS CON Jan. tional City bank of Chicago to the new Farmers bank at Salem, Ta. Another which Senator Clake of Arkansas| ,.xage containing §0 in siiver was un had introduced as an amendment to | asturbed. | { | THOMPSON-BELDIN & CO. | -— The Fashion Conler of the MiddleWest, —-» | | at which he will speak to be open to the | °ther boat known to be in trobuie general public s far as possible. The | committees in charge have been notiffed that the president does mot desire en- tertainments of a political eharacter. The object of the president in making PRINCE ANDREW AND PIEMIBERS OF STAFR |the trip. White House officials sald, is | |to speak to the average citizen in the | | middies west. | At St. Louls the president will speak | | &t & breakfast given In his honor by the| T A sl floor &8s a storeroom and living apart- mepis, The explosion demolished all the ; walls, letting the roof down on the ruins, which caught tire. Plecea of the founda- | tion were thrown hundreds of feet and! the concussion smashed nearly every | window glass within the radius of a black, | ‘Within 30 feet of the Kelker plant is one of the largest east side grammar #chools. About 1,500 boys and girls were thrown into a temporary panie, but the teachers quickly marched them to the street, - The cause of the explosion has not been determined. Gas was used In ceveral forms In the welding department and was kept in retainers in the basement. The financial loss is ostimated at $60,000. | Two Bodies Taken Out. ‘The flamies were extinguished in less than an hour and firemen began search- ifg the ruine. At nightfall only two bodies had been taken out, but two othérs could be seen under plles of broken N machinery. : REPUBLICAN CHIEFS ’ ARRANGE DETAILS (Continued from Page One.) ' INCOME TAX ACT DECLARED VALID BY HIGH COURT < (Continued from Page One. Whereds it was @ power recognized (0 exiat from the beginning of the govern- ment, and thus decivions defining the taxing power préviously rendered were hpplicable‘to it. . History Litigation, Five separate suits to test the consti- tutionality or the new income tax law wero brought in the federal throughout™ the country soon after the law became offective and all found their way to the suprems court of the United Btates soon after. For nearly fifty years the fight for and against a federal income tax his been somewhere in the courts. The Income tax Imposed during: th civil wae and the years immediately following were not attacked with thd serioysness of later cases. It was not unti)’ the Cleveland administration placed An incorie tax in the Wilson tariff act that the fight became serlovs. over the validity of the court was one of the most bitter ever fought out before that court. Ome of Carter, warned yp!uM;mnl 1 y popular or popullstic court decided that the tax H = i T iit that an- mind over entire tax, g 2 £% 13 = 4 i il “ £< H i i | il l List of Sults Filed, Congress availed itself of the first op- portunity to exercise the new power by incorporating into the tariff aet which became effective October 8, 1913, the pres- ent income tax. Five suits, all chal- lenging the validity of certain features of the tax, were: Frank R. Brushaher, stockholder of the Union Pacific Railroad company, seeking in the New York federal court to enjoin the company from paying the tax. Jobn F. Dodge and Horace E. Dodge, manufacturers of Detroit, Mich., in the Michigan federal courts to enjoin the in- tornal revenue collector from collecting the tax, largely on the ground that it diacrtminated wgainst copartnerships in favor of corporations. John R. Stanton, stockholder of the Baltic Mining company. in the Massachu- getts federa! court, to enjoin the com- pany and others from paying the tax, largely because of the 5 per cent annual Geduction from lucome allowed mining companies for oie.depletion. Tyee Realty company, in the New York federal courts, to enjoin the collection of internal revenue. Edwin Thorne, in the New York federal court, to enjoin the coMector, largely on the ground that the additional or surtax imposed on incomes over $20,000 was um. constitutional. In cach instance the lower court held the tax constitutional, and the case was brought to the supreme court on appeal. The cases wore advanced for carly hear- ing and were submitiéd to the court for decision on October 15, 1915, twenty yeoars after the first great income tax decisions, FIGHTS IN WEST FRANCE BERLIN, Jan. M.-—(By Wireleas to Sayville.)~The following official state- fment was given out today by German uarters “Western front: There have been Alvely artillery and aeroplane actions. 1 ons and military establish- In sev. ——————— To Cure & Cold in One Day Take Lazative Bromo Quinine Tablets Drysgiats refund money if it fails to cure, E. W. Grov ignature on each box. e, —Advertisemen Sr—————— Mzien Keller, Boyd (heater, Saturday courts | January 17 that State department officlals | at Hermansen and Clark's meat market King of Montenegro | is At Rome On His Way to France| Two More Cargoes from United States Taken_ to Kirkwall 1 LONDON, Jan. 2.—The Standard Oll | tanker Petrolite, from Philadelphia, | January 8, for Copenhagen, with a cargo of petroleum, and the Norweglan steam- ship Mons, from Baltimore, January 1, for Christiania, with a cargo of wheat, rye and barley, have been taken Into Kirkwall. It was announced from Washington on ROME, Jan. 24.~King Nicholas of Mon- tenegro, accompanied by his son, Prince | Peter, and by three officers of his sulte, arrived in Rome yesterday from Brindisl in the royal train, which had been put at his disposal to emphasize the purpose of the Italian government in wishing to do Mm honor. King Nichowa, who was! dressed in the national costume, with black cap, white jacket and red sash, looked very worn as a result of his hur- ried trip on horseback from Podgoritza to the sea and the subsequent passage and the trip from Brinatsl, King Victor Emmanel met the king of Montenegro at the teeminal station, ‘Where an immense crowd had mathered to applaud him. They proceeded in au- tomobile to the villa Savola, where Queen @elena, daughter of Rmg Nicholas, awaited him with her four children. The exiled monarch will leave Rome at 9 o'clock tonight to join his wife and two dsughters in Lyons, Mrs, Mohr's Petition for Separation is Put in Evidence PROVIDENCE, R. I, Jan. M.—)Almnlt at the point of resting its case, the prose- cution . today Introduced as evidence against Mrs, Elisabeth F. Mohr, Cecil Brown and Henry Spellman, jointly on trial for the murder of the woman's hus- bapd;, Dr. C, Franklin Mohr, the divorce petition which was filed by Mrs. Mohr on February 7, 1914, The case was to have come up for hearing on September 1, last, the day after Dr. Mohr was killed. The petition as amended on July 6, 1914, charged cruelty, referred to Dr. Mohr's assoclation with other women and con- talned the charge that he had used drugs excesslvely. Separate maintenance for the wife, instead of absolute divorce, was asked in the amended bill. The docu- ments were brought into the record of the case through identification by Robert C. Root, assistant clerk of the court. were investigating an affidavit by Cap- taln Thompson of the Petrolite that his veossel was fired on and Austrian submarine off Hiypt, on Docamber 5, last, plies we removed, The affidavit sald to declare that fourteen shots were fired at the ship, onme of which crashed into the engineroom and Injured & Danish seaman and the submarine commander took one of the Petrolite’s erew aboard the submarine and held him ne a hostage while he obtalned provisions from the tank stemship, Labor Riot at Rockford Plant; Twen_t_y_ Arrested ROCKFORD, IiL, Jan. #—~Twenty-two men were locked up here today following & battle between deputy sheriffs, police- and rioters at the Spengier-Loomis peared with others at the plant this morning and a riot followed. Two women ployes were roughly handled when attempted to enter the plant. Clubs ‘were used and several rioters clubbed, but nome seriously in- Officers dispersed the rioters. Unsigned Bank Notes Found on A]le_ged Robber 1] WASHINGTON, - Jan. %~—John Harris, o~ s T e e ot mvernt men suseced of | Stateg Have Right to holding up ud:;hbtn‘c.u: llluu;;.‘": Land s_ train Octol 8, near i, . Ve has v arrensa | CODdemn ites San Antanto, Tex., the Postoffice depart- —_— ment today announced. The robbers se- | WASHINGTON, Jan. M.—In a decision cured several packages of unsigned bank |of wide effect to water power develop- notes, two of which the department an- ment throughout the United States the nounced, were found on Harrs supreme court held today that states possess the power to enact laws author- Denies Copper is s o e e Sy B v - 2atEe Holmes in upholding the constitutionality provement of Tallapoosa river. ““The principal argument,” sald Justice ' [Holmes, “is that the purpose of the con- demnation is not a public one. In the mod it A dlspateh from Liverpool on Satup.[OFS8nic rolations of modern soclety day lIast said, that British newspaper published a report that palls on board the Stockholm, supposed to contain 500 tons of lard really contained copper ingots and that heavy parcel post packages contained a large quantity of rubber. O’CONNOR ADMITS BLOWING SAFE AT MASON CITY MASON CITY, la, Jan M.—(Special Telegram.)—James O'Connor today con- fesged to Sheriff Marsh that he and Shorty Hogan, ex-convict, blew the safe that is supposed to limit the authority of the legislature to exercise or delegate the power of eminent domain. “But to gather the streams from waste and to draw from them energy, labor without brains, and so to save mankind from toll is to supply what next to in- telligeice s the very foumdation of all our achievements. If that purpose is not public we should be at & loss to say what 1a." BULLOCK'S FINE OF $2,000 IS R EMITTED WASHINGTON, Jan. ¥ —President Wil early Sunday and stole §3%. Bloodhounds ported more or less obstructed, | transportation generally showed more |promise than for a week. Six hundred imen were at work at Corea, Wash., clegring the track there, following an avalanche BSaturday, which swept two ears from the Great Northern track, kill- ing elght persons. Rescue parties at Yumg, Ariz., began extending rellef to ranchers made home- less by floods in the Colorado river. ‘The correspondent also reports that the Italian expeditionary force in Albania is soon to be attacked. Bulgarians who, in co-operation with Austria the Albanian town of Berat, to be advancing toward Aviona, which is held by the Itallans. Austrian troops are sald to be mov in the direction of Durazzol, where Esesad Pasha, at the head of his Albanian troops, is preparing resistance. @irl Falls from Sixteenth Floor; She May Recover CHICAGO, Jan. 24—Miss Minnie B. Werner, 24 yoars old, a stenographer em. ployed by the Rallway Age Gasette, plunged from the sixteenth floor of the Transportation bullding, In Dearborn street, today. FHer fall was broken by an automobile truck Jloaded with paper boxes. Physiclans declared that her skull was fractured and she had sustained probably fatal internal myuries. The po- lice said they belleved the young woman Jjumped from the ledge. President Favors Tariff Board WASHINGTON, Jan. #4.—President Wil son soon will recommend the enactment of legislation providing for a permanent taritf commission. An administration bill for the creation of such a commission virtually is ready now and may be laid before congress in & special message by the president, The objects of the commission would be to gather data on the tariff and to co-or- dinate similar powers not believed to be held by existing governmental agencies. The legislation is designed particularly to meet conditions which are expected to arise when the war ends. 'Pa.ssenger Train Hits Automobile SUGDEN, Okl, Jen. ¥.—Mrs. R. G, Dixon was killed and her husband, Dr. Dixon, perhaps fatally fujured when their automobile was struck by & south- bound Ohlcago, Rock Island & Pacific passenger train last night. The accident occurred at a crossing here. Phone your Want-Ads to The Bee. EAST ST. LOUIS STOCK YARDS QUARANTINED EAST S8T. LOUIS, Jan. ¥—The Na- tional stock yards here was partly quar- antined today as the result of the dis- covery of several cases of foot and mouth disease in Christian county, Illinois. ONABLE 10 WORK--- KIDNEY TROUBLE OVEFCONE While traffic across Montana was re- | railroad Established 1886.) | Children’s} W inter Coats at Clearing Prices Tuesday { Gray chinchillas, black plushes and fancy mixtures, { D TR R We mention only a few prices—but these give a good Forty-Plve French {| idea of the reductions on the entire stock. Aeroplanes Drop Sizes 3 to 14 years: $6.75 | Ope White Fur Carriage Bombs on Monastir gf;go*‘*-%; $6.50 Coats | Robe, regularly $10.50, now PARIS, Jan. .—Bombardment of Si'xes iow 14 years: $10.256 ”'%&%‘;flmn 7 Sec-‘ e o o e pomages | 80 $9.75 Coats for $5.00; |tion. e ‘ is reported by the Havas correspondent (| $10,50 00&&!38.95; $12.50 Infants’ and children’s| at S_llonlkl. Considerable damage is sald OG." 7-9 E to hive been done to amsaunition depots, 0 5 te Fur Coat headwear at greatly re-[ ::'e"::;n:;r:"::lme general staff and the | ne Whi ur Coat, duced priees. size 3 years, for $12.50. ] Basement A pparel 1 | Section, Tuesday | | | A Olearing Sale of s 'f‘hé Sto-re for Shirtwaists Women's Bath Robés. | New Spring Blouses, Values $3.95 to $4.75 | | d"g‘é"g;n&d:l”ggo Tuesday$1.95 | —Second floor. Have You Tried Excello Coal? _The blue flamed, smokeless coal. It is THE furnace coal of Omaha, It is economical—it is clean—it is lasting. Holds steady fire over night. ¢ ‘ ; Hundreds have changed from hard coal to Excello— after a trial order. Ask some of your neighbors about Excello, It is used in almo:t every residence block in Omaha. We Are Sole Agents, / Coal Hill Coal Co. 211 South 19th St. Douglas 978—3 Phones. L AMUSEMENTS, BOYD Zim i OCOMMENCING TODAY AND ENDING SUNDAY PATHE OFFRERS Iorothyhflollolly “Madame X” A Gold Rooster Play in 6 Parts BELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it. 25c at all druggists. OLAIM NO. 69. The last claim pald by THE MID- WEST LIFE in the year 1915 was on the life of Miss Frances L. Wisner of Bayard, Nebraska, who died on Decem- ber 15, 1815. She held & Twenty Pay- ment Life Policy issued on the 6th day of September, 1911, and on which she had pald five premiums amounting to $I47.8L Her sister, Otta M. Wisner, was the Dbeneficlary and recelved $1,000. At the time of her death, Miss Wisner istress Ba. d Paramount & ox Photo. “ » “lPP plays, 15th & Har. D.8068 the best kn« R R F o Concert Crehestra TODAY AND WEDNESDA' Daniel Prohman, id Frosents HAZEL DAWN The Famous Mugioal Oomedy Btar “MY LADY INCOG" A Deteoctive Comedy Drama Th wmmh P Jai 'was loved and respected aa few are and will be greatly missed by all in that community. 1 1 ] THEMIDWESTLIFE| | N.Z. SNELL, PRESIDENT | & NEBRASKA STOCK COMPANY | SELLING NON- PARTICIPATING LIFE INSURANCE ONLY | FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, LINCOLN. OMAMA AGENCY CITY NATIONAL BA GENERAL 's':r. ploneers in the North Platte CLAN GORDON No. 68, Will Celebrate ROBERT BURNS' DING had run out back tralls to the brickyard, where dynamite to make the soup was stolen, and to the house where the man had gone after the robbery, Cet Mid of n Wacking La Grippe Conghe—It Woakens, For the severe racking cough that comes with la grippe, Foley's Honey and Tar Compound is wonderfully healing and soothing, It cases the tightness over the chest, raises the phlegm easily and helps the racking, tearing cough that is so ex- hausting and weakening. R. G. Coliins ex-postmaster, Barnegat, N. J, says: “Foley's Honey and Tar Compound socon Stopped the severe la grippe cough that completely exhausted me. It can't be beat.” Sold everywhere.~Advertisemeni Postal Department Orders. WAEINQTON. Jan. “.—(g:u_clll Tele- sram. s t Nebraska—Amelta, olt county, Mrs. le Anderson, vice . Anderson. lowa—~Titon, Poweshick county, Mre. H. Cruse, vice Lewis Capehart, de- Unionville? Apm county, red A, “'fll.:. lo W. Hicks, vice ‘The .following Nebraska postoffices anul?m Dewey ?b. county: mall to Fart xord son today remitted a $2,000 fine imposed on J. H. Bullock, convicted In a federn! court several years ago of defrauding the government in bids for coal for Forts Davis, 8t. Michael and Iiscum in Alaska. Bullock has served a jall term which ex- Pires today. Delle Fourche Trims Rapld City. BELLE FOURCHE, 8. D, Jan. 24 (Special.)~The local high school quintet upset the dope as to the basket ball su- premacy in the Hills when they won from Rapid Oty last Friday evening by & score of 3 to & This came as a complste surprise to the WRapid City temm and fts supporters, as they had expected an easy victory. The National Capital | Monday, Januwary 34, 1916, The Semate. Brigadier Generals Crosier and b discussed reorganisation bef Tallitary affairs committes. g The House, mo-o- Shackeiford $26,- offEEss S and naval affairs commil con! hearings on n-"-u-.x ‘5: Ma- the This 18 to certify that I, Jerome Ji Me Cormack, of 817 Ivy Street, Johngon Cit. Tenn., suffered from Congestion of the Kidneys, so that at times I was obliged to move about the house with the aid of & chair and unable to work until I used three bottle of your Swamp-Root. I keep ‘| Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root In my house at all times, as I know from experience that it is the best Kidney medicine I can use. Very truly yours, J. H. McCORMACK, Johnson City, Tenn. Sworn and subscribed to before me & Notary Publie, this March 3ist, 1814 SAM T. MILLARD, Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do for Yol Send 10 cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. for a sample size bottle, It will convicee anyone. You will also receive a hooklet of valuable imfor- mation telling about the kidneys and bladder. 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