Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 2, 1916, Page 1

E— ) Fo WHEN AWAY FROM HOME The Bee is the Paper you ask for; if you plan to be Absent more than a few days, Bave The Bee mailed to you. VOL. XLV-—NO. 196, CHILDREN HURLED UNDER WHEELS OF WILSON'S TRAIN President’'s Special Backs Into Crowd at Grinnell and Six Youngsters Knocked Down, but None Hurt. EXECUTIVE AT DES MOINES Chief Tells Iowans of the Great Need of Defenses of the Nation. PLEASED BY HIS WELCOME GRINNELL, la., Feb. 1 Presi dent Wilson's special backed slowly into a crowd of 3,000 persons here this afternoon. Six children were knocked down, but fell between the rails or were dragged out before the | wheels reached them. Arrives In Des Moines. DES MOINES, la., Feb. 1 Presi dent Wilson arrived in Des Moines at 6: 0 p The president and Mrs. Wilson were met at the station by a committee representing the Greater Des Moines committee, the Chamber of Commerce and the Bast Des Moines Commercial club. Four companies of National Guards with the entire police force of the city held back the large crowd which vacked the sidewalks all the way to m the hotel. The progress of the pres- /id!\nl was marked by cheers A # closed automoblle was used by the president, for the temperature wi near zero. Both Mr. and Mrs. Wil- son were wrapped in furs At the hotel the president and Mrs. Wilson shook hands with members of the committee, and then dined priva in their suite before leaving for the Coll- seum, where the livered, address was to be de- “ecretary Tumulty, Dr, Cary T. Crayson, the White House physician, and other members of the party were enter- talred at dinner by the committee, Speaks at Newton. Shortly before the president spoke briefly at Newton, I, urging the people to support his pre- paredness program, and telling them the difficulty of keeping the United States out STUthE Wiropean war. fe sald: “I can hardly do morethan express my very, deep gratification that you should have comie out in such numbers and with such cordlality to greet me. I want to belleve, and I do believe, thal it is be- cause of your interest in- theerrand upon which I have come; because I have very soriously felt the responsibllity of keep- ing this country at peace. I believe that it you knew the diffioulties with which I lave had to contend, you would know how sincerely and” constantly I have striven for the peace of America. But I have realized, my fellow citizens, that there were a good many elements in this situation which nobody on this side of the water could control and that, there- fore, it was my duty fo gee that the coun- iry was adequately pfepared for any crisis that might befall it.” Thanks to the president for his stand on the woman suffrage question wi ex- tended to him tonight by Iowa suf- fragists, who sent M~ and Mrs. Wilson a bouquet of flowers and a note welcom- ing them to lowa. DAVENPORT, la., Feb. 1.—President Wilson's special arrived here at 2:30 this afternoon and was welcomed by 15,000 persons, A battery of state troops fired @ presidential salute. The president made no address at Illinols towns as previously planned, merely stopping long enough to greet those gathered at the stations. He made his first rear-plat- form talk here, CCNGRESSMAN SLOAN TO TALK TO MANNHEIM CLUB WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Congressman Sloan will deliver a speech before the Mannheim club of Germantown, Pa., on February 3, the dis- trict in which his grandfather, Charles Sloan, Uved, The _Wéafhér‘ Yesterday. o v o . | Y | e Comparative Local! Record, 1918, 1915. 1914 1919, Highest yesterday 3w e lowest yesterday ~3 19 28 [ Mean temperature A 28 % 4 Precipitation . creees W00 4000 00 Temperature and precipitation depar- tures from the normal Normal temperature. . lflellrlen(‘{)‘ for the day. i y Tota) deficiency since March 1 9 Normal precipitation 8 fnch Deficlency for the day.... 03 inch Total rainfall since March 1....26.25 inches Deficiency in B " Deficlency Jor eartseh 1 Defic or car. period, 1914. 1.54 inches for cor. period, 1913, 6.67 inches Reports from Stations at 7 P, tion and State _Temp. High- of Weather. Tp.m. est Cheyenne, pt. cloudy..... Dubuque, clear...... Denver, clear Des Molnes, o % ) Valentine — ndi T ind L 1 5 f prevcipitation . Locai Forecasier reaching Des Moines | European war at any time, SDAY MORNIN( FEBRUARY 2 { \ BOYS' DORMITORY |WIRE WITH SHITH KT FREMONT BURNS N MURDER TRIAL |Fifty Students Are Driven Into|gindly-Faced, Gray-Haired Woman | Six Below Zero Temperature in Night Clothes. Arrives to Sit with Aged Hus- band Before Bar of Court. |ONE BOY IS SLIGHTLY INJURED | JyRY TO TRY ACCUSED SECURED | | | FREMONT, Neb., Feb. 1.—(Spe- cial Telegram,)—-Fire which broke out in the boys dormitory of Fre- mont college shortly after midnignt lust night, destroyed the west wing of the building, causing a damage of §15,000. There is partial insurance. Several students who jumped from the second story windows in their night clothes were bruised and cut, and a number suffered frosted ears and doed. The temperature was 6 de- grees below zero.. Fifty students were in the building when the fire broke out. Firemen prevented a spread of the flames to the girls’ dormitory, where seventy-five giris room. They es- caped to residences without any serfous results, The origin of the fire is a mystery. It is thought to have started from defective electric wires, Ten years ago the college building was destroyed by fire, The fire cut off the stairway oxit and nearly half the boys were com- pelled to jump from the second story windows. None was Injured, except Eddie Echtencamp, whose feet were burned in an attempt to descend by the flaming stairway, None of the students lost their clothing and other belongings. They were cared for by near-by residents. A son of Henry Simpson, station master at the Union depot, was one of the Omaha boys attending the college. ‘He called his tather up shortly after 1 o'lcock . this morning, telling him that ‘the bullding was almost totally destroyed, adding that all of the students haa escaped from the bullding and that mone of them was in- Jured. A number of the boya in the dormitory lost their clothing and their books, sev-| eral barely having time to escape after having been awakensd. Young Simpson at the time of telephoning his father was | unable to give the origin of the fire. | Kansas City Key Men Driven from Building by Fire| KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb, 1. broke out on the second floor of the Westérn Union Telegraph Company's bullding here today endangered the lives of 30 employes at work in the operating | room, fifty of whom were carried down fire escapes to safety. At 2:10 o'clock the blaze was under control and all em- ployes had been safely accounted for Fire that Bodies of Thirteen | Victims of Otay | Flood Identified SAN DIBEGO, Cal, Feb. 1—Thirteen identified dead, twenty-four unidentified bodies, and two known dead whose bod- les have not been recovered, constitute an established death roil of thirty-nine today from the Otay valley flood last Thursday. Reports from Yuma, Ariz, were that the Imperial valley, threatened by the Colorado river, is safe of win- | Mongol Insurgents Cross Great Wall LONDON, Feb. 1 surgents have crossed the h dvanc he Mongolian In great wall of d of 2,000 is m Fa, accord den ded correspondent at Fetrograd. 8INg Lhe dispaicl Ly Reuter's A jury was secured during the | first day’s session of the trial of | Relly M. Smith, accused of the mur- der of Mrs. Frances Campbell; Mrs, | Smith, who has been his wife for thirty-nine years, arrived in the aft- »ernoon from East St. Louis, Ill, to jeit at his side before the bar of | District Judge Sears’ court and a start was made in the introduction of the state’s evidence, “I have come to stand by my hus- band to the last,” sald Mrs. Smith. “I have lived with him for thirty- nine years and I have never known him to be guilty of any wrongdoing. i I know he is not gullty of murder.” | Mrs. Smith is a Kkindly-faced Ilittle woman, gray-haired and simply dressed. As she spoke she was sitting In her seat in the court room, close to her husband's chalr, which he had just vacated during a revess. Smith, the defendant, is 69 years old. In appearance he !s a typical prosperous, well-dressed business man of his age. Occasiopally he takes out a pair of eye- glasses Which he adjusts to his nose and studies some paper. | At these times some person in the audi- ence always is moved to remark: “He | doesn’t look like a murderer.” Death Penalty Not Asked. Securing of a jury was hastened by the |fact that state’s attorneys made no in- quiries concerning willingness to inflict the death penalty. The twelve men who compose the jury are the following: Clande A, ePterson, 517 North Fortieth. Frank J. Boland, 2824 Ruggles. Jeremiah Hurley. 314 O | Arthur Leroy Blair, 3324 Harney. Joseph T. Marshall, 2419 North Twen- ty-fourth, Max . Rosenstein, 1611- North Twenty fourth, Joseph Franz, 2612 Seward. rul"::n el P. Keedy, 1817 South Twenty- Glifford W. Hubbard, 1101 South Twen- ty-ninth. James Willlame, 2702 Pinkney William Wheslk: 20 South Twenty. | first Walter Sorensen. Florence. Two Stories of Shooting. Storles of the shooting of Mrs. Camp- bell told in their opening statements by State’s Attorneys Magney and Platti and Attorney Ritchie for the defense, differed | principatly regarding. the part Riley | Campbell, husband of the dead woman, played. The state contends that Smith shot the woman the aftern®n of October 31 in the corridor of a rooming house at 2% North Nineteenth street while her husband was standing sllent. The defense maintains that Campbell was attempting to choke Smith and that during the strug- gle Bmith’s revolver discharged the fatal shot. Ritchie declared Mrs, Campbell had borrowed more than $30 from Smith and had decelved him Mrs. Ella Widener, proprietor of the rooming house, testified that Smith shot Mrs. |after he had started to go and had returned to speak with Mrs. Widener concerning Campbell, whom the defense malntains Mrs, Campbell had told him was dead. ‘The shooting occurred during the second of two visits made by Smith to meet Mrs, Campbell on the Sunday she was shot, Mrs, Widener testified. Galveston Board of Trade Officer Slain GALVESTON, Tex.,, Feb. 1.—George A. McLarty, secretary of the Maritime com- mittee of the Galveston cottom exchange and board of trade was killed and Robert | €. Shaw, an inspector in the employ of the committee, was dangerously injured during a revelver fight in the secretary’s office shortly after noon today. Shaw | and MeLarty had had a serious quarrel some days ago, when the latter dis | charged the inspector. The question as to whether 1} tion of the secretary the wnari comnitLee 9 | Campbell in the hall or vestibule | WOMAN A HOSTAGE Californian Kills One and Wounds Two More, Perhaps Fatally, and Battle Law. AT BAY IN VICTIM'S HOME LANCASTER, Cal., Feb. 1.—One man was killed and two others prob- ably were fatally wounded today at Elizabeth Lake, near here, by an unidentified man who early tonight was holding a posse at bay while barricaded within the home of Henry H. Kent, jr., one of his victims, keep- in€ Mrs. Kent a prisoner in the house. Gegrge Curtis, 30 years old, was shot ‘and ‘killed as he attempted to reach the house after the man had taken refuge there. IHis body fell Just in front of the door and has not yet been recovered. Kent was shot through the lung, it was sald, when he ordered the man away from his ranch earller in the day. Gratten G. Bennett, justice of the peace, suffered a gunshot woung of the head when he tempted to arrest the man, Both were reported to be in a serious oondition. After wounding Bennett the man took refuge in Kent's home. He held Mrs Kent @ prisoner with him, apparently to prevent the posse which quickly gathered | from rushing the house. Local officers and residents, who sur- rounded the place, were awalting the ar- rival of officers from Los Angeles to take charge of the situation. England Denies It Has Forsaken Allies And Sued for Peace LONDON, Feb. 1.~Official denial . was made here today of reports, attributed to German sources, that England intends to abandon. its allles and- has made peace overtures to Germany. The statement follows: “The German chancellor has stated that | England s compeiling its allies to re- frain from entering upon any peace | movements. This statement, which our | allies know to be untrue, was made for | the purpose of injuring England in the | eyes of neutrals | “To our allies, on the other hand, wo | | hear that Insidious gnd untrue reports | | are being circulated - from German | sourcesthat England intends to abandon | them and has even- made peace over- | tures to Germang, which have been re- | tused. ““The two statements good illustration of Germap mthods are.” together how are a unserupulous | 0il Men Already On | | Land Not Affected | by Withdrawal| CHEYENNE, Wyo.,, Feb, 1.-The fed-| eral government is without right to oust from ol lands corcerns operating prior | to President Taft's withdrawal order of | | September 1900, although such com- panies at that time had not discovered oll, according to a decision by Judge J A. Riner in the federsl district court for Wyoming today. Preparedness For the merchant means not only carrying the goods the customer wants, but also letting every pos~ sible customer know that the goods are awaiting him at attractive prices. This means use of news- paper advertising space. Advertise in The Bee. 916—TEN X oemmre ] JEPPELINS BEAR APPAM BROUGHT Sweden on exports to Germany are interpred as meaning that the Scandinavian cgum,ries have entered upon ‘‘a policy of preparation’’ out of fear that they may be plunged into the TORCH THROUGH BRITAIN; KILL 54 London Official Report Shows Air Raiders Penetrate to the Very Heart of Industrial England | RAVAGES MOST TERRIBLE YET Boat Carries Pro;m Berlin Says Bombs Caused Great Rires in Liverpool, Manchester and Other Paces. VISITORS HAVI;: A SAFE RETURN NULLETIN, Feb. 1.—(By The German admir alty’s reports in the Zeppelin raid on England, says that incendiary bombs were dropped on and near Liverpool, Birkenhead, Manchester, Notting- ham, Sheffield and Great Yarmouth Violent fires occurred All the air ships returned BERLIN, Sayville.) Wireless to in safety LLONDON, Feb. 1. —Fifty-four per- sons were killed and sixty-seven in- jured in last night's Zeppelin raid. The figures were contained in an HOLDS OFF POSSE- | official statement issued here this at- | 'V0 men, commanded by Lieutgnant ' | ternoon | Berg, It was captured at soa The official statement says bombs were dropped at several towns and in rural districts in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Staf- fordshire, Some damage to property was caused | An additionsl official statement was is- | #ued this evening, as follows “Further repor of last night's rajd show that the evening's attacks covered | a larger area t on any previous oc- | casion. Bombs were dropped in Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Lelcestershire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire, the num- ber belng estimated at 220, “Except in a part of Staffordshire the material damage was not considerable, and in no case was any military damage caused, “No further casualties have been ro- ported” With one exception, last night's raid caused the greatest number of casualties of any since the beginning of the On the occasion of the. last . London, made on the night of October 13, fitty-tive parsons were killed and 114 wounded, according to an official state- ment, Unofficlal. reports sald the total wag much greater, it being estimated by re- turning travelers that between 150 and | 300 persons were killed, Hits Weart of England, The officlal British statement shows that the Zeppelins penetrated to the heart of industrial England. Lincolnshire is on the cast coast. Its southern boundary is seventy-five miles north - of London, Lelcestershire adjoins it to the southwest, Derbyshire northwest of Lelcestershire and Staffordshire is to the west of Dere byshire, These counties comprise a stri» of teritory in mid-England, extending more than 100 miles from the North Sea. Stafordshire and Derbyshire have Ime portant manuacturing interests. The other countles are given over largely to agriculture, Last night's raid is the nineteenth re. ported olclally rom London. The irst oc- curred on January 19, last year. The tatal of casualties reported previously was 178 killed and 469 wounded, with which the figures thus far received from Iast night's attack, brings up the number to 223 killed and fifty-six wounded. French Lose More Ground in Hand Grena,d_e Fighting BERLIN, Feb. 1. official statement of headquarters states that in (Via London.)—The today from army the region ound in hand-grenate encounters The statement follows: “Western front: During the night of the 3ist small British detachments at- tempted & movement against our posi- tlons west of Messines, Flanders, They were completely repulsed after they had succeeded in penetrating our trenches at point Near Fricourt, vented the enemy cupylng a crater east of Albert by our fire from oc- produced by explosion of one of its mines. North of this Ger- man patrols penetrated into an English position and peturned with some pris- oners without having suffered auny ioss. Houth _of the Somme the French lost more ground in a hand-grenade fight Eastern theater: There is nothing to report “Balkan theater: One of our alrships attacked ships and depots belonging to the entente In the port of Salonlkl with 88 reat suc Testimony for Mrs, Mohr is Finishe 3 With t of for #0 far as it relates to Mis PROVIDENCE the the Feb, 1 testimony completion defe ay Elizabeth Mohr, on trial for Instigating the murder of her husband, Dr. C. Frank- lin Mohr, evidence was presented in behalf of two negroes, Cecll Brown and Henry Spellman, who according to the state's contention, were hired to commit the orime. Much of this evidence was contradictory of that given by the prose- cution. Rev. Willlam McNary, the last witness for Mrs. Wohr, declared George W. Healis, Dr. Mohr's negro chauffeur, who turned state's evidence told him he had plot with the ever discussed & murder we n. Tt -attady. on| we pre- | On Trains, at Hotel Wews Stands, eto., Bo. 10 British Liner Given Up for Lost is Captured by German Subma- rine Off the Canary Islands PASSENGERS STILL ABOARD ent Colonial Of- | ficers and Two Hundred Ger- man Prisoners. QUESTION FOR sTATE DEPT. | * WASHIN Feh, 1 \'uFlnIHl\‘y Collector at Norfolk re- ported to the Treasury nlvp«rlnwnl‘; that the German prize steamer Ap pam, which came in Hampton Roads this morning, has prisoners of war aboard. . His report was referred at| | once to the State department, which will determine the status of the ves- sel ON, Hamilton NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Feb. 1. The British South African liner Ap- | pam, given up for lost, was brought |in to Hampton Roads this morning | fiying the German man of war flag | with a German prize crew of twenty- | on | Jenuary 15, four days after it left | Dakar, Britlsh West Africa. | While Lieutenant Berg came ashore to pay his respects to Colonel Hayne, commandant 6f Fortress Mon- roe, quarantine officers boarded the ship. Meanwhile no one was per- mitted to come ashore. The Appam brought sengers and 13§ its origina! pas- persons, sald to have | been taken from other vessels hy the 'HEARS SUBMARINE FORT MONROE | GONVOYS CAPTIVE BY PRIZE CREW| eypy 0 AMERICA Seven British Vessels Destroyed by | ENGLISH Germans, Four injured passengers on board are sald to have been taken from an English ship from Australia, About 425 peraons, Including passengers crew are aboard the ship. The Appam was captured off Canary islands on January 15 by a Ger- man submarine, which a few hours be- fore had sunk a British steamer. as follows: i bound for detention camps, ; |erew, 23, Total, 461 | Surprise to England, LONDON, Feb. 1.—The arrival of the steamship Appam at Hampton Roads was a complete surprise to shipping men here, a# the steamship was given up for lost soveral days ago. A list of the passen- gers to the number of 166 was given out by the steamship company today. The last word from the Appam was a wireless messago on January 1. Several other merchant ships were 3h the same route as the Appam and the capture of that steamer created anxlety concerning the other vessels. The Hider-Dempster line recelved a dispatch this afternoon from ita New York agent giving the ar- rival of the Appam at Norfolk. The com- puny also recelved word from the ad- prize cially of the steamer's arrival. The admiralty had cabled to Dakar and all intermediate ports for any information concerning the capture of the Appam. Man Arrested at | Wilson Meeting ; at Chicago Held | CHICAGO, I, Feb, 1. —Slgmund Wis- | nlewskl, who was arrested on the stage | where President Wilson was speaking last night in the auditorium here, ex- plained to the police today that the army | uniform he was wearing was donned to ¢ the Somme the French have lost more | enable him to get into the hall simply | to hear the president speak. Thousands | were unable to get tickets to hear the president, but Wisnleweki passed the doorkeepers by posing as part of the {escort. He had some letters in a for- elgn language In his pocket and the police were still holding him today pend- | ing their translation. He claimed that | he had served several years in the United States army |Trial of Mrs. Meyer Begins at Winterset WINTERSET, Ia., Feb. 1.—~The case of Mrs. Ida Meyer, 6 years of age, a ploneer In this section and reputed The persons on the Appam are divided | tured, brought in the prise, acroas _crew, 116; phisengars originally. hntu.mnflh-m | | wealthy, who 1s charged with complieity | in the murder of her son's wife, Mps. | Bthel Meyer, July 2, 1915, was the first {on the dockett of the district court, which | convened here today. An effort was to be made to begin the selection of a jury this afterncon. Fred Moyer, son of the present de- | fendant, and husband of the dead woman, was convicted of second degree in December and sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary. His trial, which occupled nearly two weeks, de- veloped a number of sensational fea- tures. Meyer appealed to the supreme court and s at liberty on bond of $2,- | oo | Attorneys for both the state and de- fense today were agreed that mewhere around 100 witnesses are likely to be called during Mrs. Meyers trial. Much of the testimony will be the same as that adduced in the case of the son The wite of Fred Meyer, a bride of only & few months, was found dying in a room in her home, northwest of here, {on the morning of July . A bullet wound was in her head, and revolver by her side. Meyer and his mother claimed the young womean commitied suicide, | murder Raider Making Prize of Brit- ish Liner Appam. CONSUL WARNS British Official Says Advices Re- ceived U-Boats Are in Yankee Waters, CANNOT TAKE ANY CHANCES NEW YORK, Feb, 1.—The British consul general here today notified British shipping to watch out for Gorman submarines in American waters, Information received at the consulate from private sources leads them to belleve that a submarine had accompanied the captured steamer Appam on its voyage across the Atlantie. Consular officlals would not say a submarine had been sighted. “In times like these we do not dare to take any chances,” it was sald at the consulate. While the report may be without foundation in fact we have deemed it best to take the ac- tion that we did.” Three British ships left port today and tomorrow three passenger and several freight ships of allled reg- istry are due to leave for Transatlan- tic or West Indian ports. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Feb. 1L-With the German naval ensign fluttering boldly from its stern and in charge of a Ger- man prige crew the British South African liner Appam, given up for lost, took ref- uge in Hampton Faads this morning with the story of seven vessels destroyed by German sea ralders off the African coast, The Appam was captured off the C and | nary tslands on January 15 by a German raider four days after it had salled from the | Dakar, British West Africa, for Plym- outh, BEngland. Lieutenant Berg of the German navy, placed on the Appam when it was cap- oluding the ‘the At chaprer oordon of British t survivors of the seven | of German exploits at ses, a chapter to #hips destroyed In German sea raids off | rank with the adventures of th the African coast, 135; Germun prisoners | Karlsruhe, Prins Bitel Friedeich, U-20 and Kronprinz Wilhelm, Whether the captor was a German U boat or a hitherto unreported Germ: auxillary crulser is undetermined. From what was learned by some of the offi- clals who boarded .he Appam it is be- lleved: that some steamer, armed as n German auxiliary, raiding shipping off the African coast tool the British liner and put the prize crew aboard. This view s supported by the fact that a sub- marine could hardly have spared a tenant and such a large crew to a prize, M red Fifty Aboard. There were a total of 4l persons aboard the ahip, including the surviving members of the crews of seven other ships sunk by the ralder which captured the Appam, and twenty German civilians who were Fow miralty which had been informed offi. | 'o'n§ transported from Africa to England to be placed in detention camps, The persons on board the vessel were listed as follows: Original members of crew, 15; original passengers, 116; German prison- ers bound for British detention camps, 20; survivors of ships destroyed, 138; prize crew, 22, A large percentage of the number on board are women and children and, it is sald several high colonial officlals who where returning to England from Africa. There are also on board the ecaptured steamer four wounded sailors, who were taken from one of the sunken ships which resisted capture and was shelled The passengers and captured crews lined the rails of the craft as it lay about @ quarter of a mile off the Old Point dock and appeared to evince great in- (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) The Day’s War News ONE OF THE MOST STIRRING ma- rine happenings of the war de- velopeq today with the arrival of the missing British o er Ap- pam at Newport News with a Ger- man prize erew on board. It had captured off the fslands by a German on its way from Dakar, Plymouth, England, on Jan. uary 15, four days after t pam left Dakar. The passengers ahoard the Apgem, which for days wiven up Manchester intended to seek or destroy munit WHAT IS BELIEVED to have heen attempt at & third alr rald on within three days was folled by the lookouws om the Fremch front, according to Parls advices. SITUATION AT ERZERUM fs e ported more serious for the Turks than previous advices ve leated. There are sald to be 50,000 men under Field Marshe] Von Der te locked up in the city, with quly tweo weeks' provisions on hand,