Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 12, 1916, Page 1

Call Tyler 1000 or to Anyone Conpected With The Bee. VOL. XLV-NO. "PROBE DEATH OF _ HOUSE DECIDES 0¥ MRS.JOE HOWARD; FATHER COMES Howard Goes to the Station to Meet Father of His Wife Who Killed Herself at the Fonte- nelle Hotel, STAGES ACT JUST THE SAME Headliner at the Orpheum Puts on His Turn While Wife Lies Cold in Death, QUESTION OVER BURIAL PLACE Offfcla)l Inquiry into the clireum- stances surrounding the death of Mra. Joseph E. Howard, wife of the rlage celebrity headlining at the urpheum and daughter of a Chicago malti-millionafre, will made by Coroner Crosby this morning at his mortunary Michael Kilgallon, steel magnate and father of the woman who ended her life, arrived in Omaha Tuesday afternoon and will be at the in- quest, Mrs. Clara Lambertl, wife of an cther vaudeville artist, and the only v itness of the tragedy, will tell hes which thus far she has stead fustly refused to tell, Other witnesses will end his vaudeville partner, the beau- tiful ¥thelyn Clark, Muy Have Hurlal Here, Disposition of the body has leen decided upon yet Howard wants his wite burfed in Omaba and futhep and be Howard not ter Cklcago piot The v hich buried in the family domestic troubles, the shooting here, are most unusual, but stil] are quite fn keeping with the sensational llves both Howard and his wife have lved for years. It was safid on good authority that Lioward and his wite were married while out on a big wine party in Los Howard ended In angeles, and from Howard's view / point, at least, the whole thing was | q n Joke, The woman paid, though, B8he Toved “You understand how it Is,’” the Jee reporter’s informant sald. “Joe {5 a handsome figure of man—a typl- cal butterfly, and the women fall for him,” Howard Sued for a Breach of Promise; Says It Was a Jest PORTLAND, Ore., April 11.—Word that the bride of Joseph E. Howaid had com mitted suieide in Omaha yesterday arouscd unusual Intercst here today be- cause of a breach of promise sult which was brought against him in Portland two months ago. Howard was playing at deville teater when Mra. Edith Wither. wpoon brought suft 300,00 damnages ground that he had failed to keap 1o marr her Howard left en flling an answer (o Witherspoon obtained a local vau- for on tl n promise | towu without ¢ o mult fra dgment March 22 for 36,85 According newapaper interviews at Howard admitted that he had would marry the time told Mrs. Witherspoon he asserted he Before Judgment was rendered, Ankole PRISONER TRIED AS SPY EXECUTED AT LONDON NDON A Apy was put to th 1 Apri Announcement rrence was made as [l ourt-martial M hall ¢ at ot the 2th and was od lays teath, wh WAS Cary The Weather Vodnesda Y b o Tewperntures nt Omnha i sparative Lol Mevurd A% fram Statlons at T R M If You Want to Talk to The Bee wants the body ment to| | Kausas had spoken merely | that Howard had married in | | presidential preference primary In 8loux | RIVERS MEASURE, Forty-Million-Dollar Appropriation Bill Carries Money for Survey of Missouri at Decatur. BEPUBLICANS FIRM FOR ECON | WASHINGTON, annual river and barbor appropri atfon bill carrying §40,000,000 passed the house today by a vote of 210 to 183 with every item as agreed on in commtttee unchanged, Scores of amendments to cut down urged by charged the bill war “‘a pork barrel” during the Just before the April 11~ The item, representatives who | measire two weeks' were rejected debate final vote an effort led by Repub Hean Leader Mann to reduce the total to $20,000,000 falled 200 to 149 The entire appropiiation except for a $100,000 (tem to despen the appronches t) the Brooklyn navy yard, Is for continu ng work (n improvement ralects alrendy authorized and The single new project was urged by Prosident Wil under wa¥ won and Hecretary Danlels an part of the preparedness progiam. The bill now Koes to the menate, where last year's mennure was killed by a fillbuster, and n 1ump appropriatiun of 830,000,000 wubat tuted to be apportionsd wmong ex siing projegts by the mecretary of war Arffong the larger appropiiaticns are Missiasippl river, $,0000; New Yor harbor, $2,4%,000; upper Hudson river, § 20,000; Delaware river, $2,76),000, inland waterway, Norfolk to aliaufort, $1,00,000 Ohlo river 0,000, Missourl river, #1 WO.L00; Columb a river, 51,59, 00 Tenn i ste river, WW4000; Michigan, #800,000, and Chicago harbor, §714,%0, ’ How Nebeawkn Voled, | Representative Treadway of Mansa- | chussetts to recommit the bl with in- | stiuetions to veport a bill carrying $20, b in A lump #um for rivers and har the Nebraska delegation divided an | follown: | Reavis Kinkald the Stephens nat. Reprosentative was paired for the motion with Lobeck ngainst. Shallenberger did not the motlon to recommit | On the final passage of the bill th vole stood 210 for to 133 againat, the N braska delegation voting as follows Reavis, Kinkald and Shallenberger against the bill; Stephens for bt Sloan and Lobeck were paired The Town delegation againat the motlon to recommit favor of the bill and for motlon vole on the solldly and In voted How Nebraska Is Affected, Among other new projects the bill pro vides for a survey of the Missouri river from the city of ¥lorence to the northern limits of Decatur, Tt appropriates from City to Sloux 1Cty 460,000, which amount at least 325,000 may he ex pended for such bank revetment as in the Judgment of the chief of engineers may be in the Interest of navigation The bl alko appropriates ¥76,000 for im- | provement of the Mimourl river at St Joseph, with the provision that no part of this amount shall ba expended until the city of St. Joseph or other agency shall have deposited to the eredit of the secretary of war in some duly recognized depository of the Unlted Statel to b denignated by him such sum as may be | satisfactory to him to be expepded to- | gother with an equal amount of the funds appropriates, The bill also appropriates $125,000 for | continuing improvement and for main- | tenance from Sloux City to Fort Benton, of which amount at least $0,00 may be expended for such bank revetment as in the judgment of the chlef of enginecrs may be in the interest of navigation Ten Per Cent of Vote | Cast at Sioux City | { April 11.~Leas than war cast in the | SIOUX CITY, 10 por cent of the vote In., The feature was the contest be | Dunn forces for committeeman City tween the Marsh and democratie national Marsh leading by 180 votes ln the city Webater leads Burkett for republican nomination for viee p dent Bandits Carrying Villa an Litter Encircled by COLUMBUS, N. M, April 11— Lieuten | wnta M. A, Dargue and Garrell of | the aer rpa, retuming here today in | a long-distance fight trom 84 Antonio, | t Ana nt . " foub e ot hllew N o A wan la that semiit [ chieal atvent e A searealy Wve long sera Ponne el THE OMAHA DAILY BEE OMAHA, WEDNES DAY MORNING, APRIL 1916 FOURTEEN PAGES, ,0n Trstne. at Xt SIN(; ARTILLERY MAY BE USED IN FINAL ROUNDUP OF VIILLA-The photograph shows a detachment of United States artillery in Mexico, very difficult problem. Light field artillery, however, usually can procecd anywhere that the cavalry can go. ble that some of this force is now pursuing the routed Villa army. w4 LIGHT FIELD ARTILLERY. \ Adams and Marsh Chosen National Towa Committemen DES MOINES but unofficlal returns every soction of the, stafe change the estimated Tosult ary. It appeared certain that Adnms of Dubugue committeeman and W In., April 11, practically falled of the mplete fron 1o prim John 1 had been named re- | publican nationn) W. Marsh of Waterloo demooratic tlonal committeennn SPANISH STEAMSHIP SUNK BY SUBSEA Crew and Passengers Given Only Fifteen Minutes to Abandon the Santanderino, na FOUR PERSONS ARE DROWNED | MADRID, April 11 (Via Paris,) The owners of the Santanderino have been notified the vessel was punk by a submarine and that the passengers and crew were given fif- teen minutes to leave the ship, Four were drowned, The torpedoing of the Santarde- rino has prodiuced a painful impres ¢lon on the Spanish presy and public, ‘our Pern Are wned, LONDON, April 11,-A Reuter din patch from Madrid says that four of the crew of the Spanish steamer Han tanderino, which 18 reported to have boen sunk by a torpedo, were drowned and that the remainder have been landed at Saint Jean De Luz A dispateh from Blarritz yesterday sald that a Danish steamship had Janded thirty-six survivors from the San several of them women At French promontery of Socon De laz, and added passongers, all Span tanderino, small Saint four had gantanderino was a vessel of 2, Jean the near that Iards The | groas tons and had been trading between United of been drowned Liverpool and States ports, FOUR VALLISTA BANDITS [ ARE TO BE EXECUTED El, PASO, Tex,, April 11.—General Ga vira, commander the Juarez garrison, recelved n telegram today from the mill tary governor at Madero that four Vil listas have been captured and that the |will be executed, Gavire. mald I thought the Villistas had been captured yecent battle American Cavalry tenants Da 1« K the Ant ' rd The nk . and ten | s . ted for \ Vord ad uart \ il ‘% o Onreanshiie . . and . . - . he A o | years ago tried HOWELL-EPPERSON - "SLATE" IS SPRUNG Bull Moose Chairman Corrick Also In on the Play for Republican Delegates HELD BACK TO LAST MINUTE From n Staff Corresponder LINCOLN, April 11 (8pecial,) ! Republicans coming fnto the capl tal today tell of the activities of the| old bull in efforts to name the delegation to represent Nebraska In the national tion at Chicago. This Is & Howell-K\pperkon combj nation working under the direction of the same manipulators who four | to weize the party| machine and turn it over Lo the bull | moosers used the party. The present purpose is to elect the same “leaders’’ to speak for the republicans and to keep' Howell on the national committes, | where he proved party traitor in the lant campaign | This bunch have n advertisements in a large number of moose element conven- | to be to destroy put out thelr “slate country papers, being careful not to send | out the copy until just before the last publication before the primary rlm!l«ml and having only three of thelr own kind filed, namely, Epperson, Dodge and Have lone, up for the fourth, although he announced himself a | and opposed to Howell, The | of course, carrien Howell along | have plcked Gurley regular “slate,"” and some of the district delegates, too, In the different districts and is falsely Inbeled as standing for “harmony” and against factionalism | As one good republican put it, If they were against factionallsm they would have listed all the candidates for dele od of committes gates and pn gqnd cont themselven ndfcating the wing the party each adhered to Another part of th by confidential letter il with gamo i disclose | Mt ot by 8orrle ming to be the bull moose stat chafrman, enclosing the Howell Epperson sinte and asking the hull moosers to bus themselves to Influences votes for them in the republican primary Th Corrick letter 18 full of the customary Howell- Ky n abuse of Rosewater and reponts all the fake atorica concocted and troulted fn the democratic papers about th move to write 1n the name f Hughes. Soveral who saw the Corricl wtter expressed the opinion that this of | fort at ) moose diotation over the r publfean primarios would react with the apposite result COURT ORDERS DISSOLUTION OF HOLDING COMPANY ) N et Vi . \ 1] " in I'he Dee's \ | Shakes ‘ | I'ercentenary | Puzzle | To interest our readers in | the Shakespeare celebation I we have a laseinating pus whieh s coming April familinrity | tle to test with the eharacters in his great We will also make while besides the educational value Are You plays worth I'eyving It On account of the nature of the soil and climate, army officers have found the movement of artillery a It is possi- v . 8 I e b A ARG G v Wi sV B @NTL FiLrg SERVICE, GERMANS GAINING a WEST OF THE MEUSE Three Leaders in Diaz Plot to Take Jaurez Execute | e three Berlin Announces the Capture of K1, PAKO, Tex April 11 cndorn of the Dingista plot to seize | Thirty-8ix Thousand Prisoners nre and overthrow the Carranzista in vfrdl”‘ AN warriaon there last Bunday were executed | i o I the firing squad In Juarez early to " . Tho three leadors wera Nichoins | ASSAULT ON DEADMAN'S HILL Chavazarein, Jose Inex Bornel and Flor enclo Ternandez. The condemned 1 BERLIN, April 11.—(By Wireloss confessed the plot befors they we to Bayville )~ Bince February 21 the f“"""" Other: Mexicans - wero Jmplls| Gormang have captured more than 46,000 French in the fighting about Verdun, the Overseas News agency announced today “West of the Meuse aboul twen [0WA REPUBLICANS hag heen occupled,” ient mays “German newspapers point out that the Name of New York Justice Written on Many Ballots at Pri- mary in Cummins’ State, French now say Bethinconrt wam evacu ated in accordance with plans proviously | made, Nevertholess, it has been ascer talned that an order won issued stating “This Important place must be held in all clreumatances.’ The fact that More than DEMOCRATIC VOTE IS LIGHT {700 unwounded French prisoners were BULLETIN, | taken und that the Freneh losses in killed DEB MOINES, 1Ia., April 11| or wounded wers far greater s proof that (Bpoecial Telegram,)——Roturny thus|the French plan of evacuation could not | be carried out an Intended. ‘According to tha French repntis the new line runs from the southern corner of Avincourt wood along the first slopes of 1101l No, 94, thence along the south ern bank of Porges brook, passing to the northenst of TTaucourt; turning eastward, crospos the Bethincourt-Fmes road at a far on presidential primaries are as follows Democratic national com mitteeman, 611 precincts, Marsh, €,087; Dunn, 8,060, Republican national committeeman, 493 pre- cineth, Adams, 6,141; Olson, 4,063 Republican vice-president, 422 |point south of the junction of that rosd precincts, Burkett, ,007 Webster, | ¥!th the highway to Chatancourt and g 'renches the Meuse just north of Cu 3,641, The total republican vote is esti mated at 60,000 and the democratie | vote at 40,000 Senator A B.| Cumming recelved the majority vote for the republican nomination for| "ANIS. April 1 | the Meuse the Ciermans made president and more yotes than Wil-| ;i ‘night on Deadman's hill, advancing The Hughes vote written In They obtained a appears unusually heavy and in one| footing In a wmall element of trenches, war office announced this mieren, The fortifications of the village of Avencourt worn destroyed by the Gorman advance of April 9, as re- ported.”’ Vreneh Off wood Report, On the west bank of an attack won from Cordeaux wood the afternoo or two countles will run as high an ‘7 but otherwlse were repulsed 26 per cent of the total, Fast of the Meuse the Germans at-| tacked trenches south of Dounumont DES MOINES, Ta, April 11.--On/ " (Continued on Page Two, Column One.) returns available today on yester ol day's primary, W w Marsh of M_ R ] A k Jp ’) d Waterlool led B, G. Dunn of Mason I' ()ob(‘Vt’ t S S City by a wide margin for democratic Marsh's adherents claimed that his support Sticker Campaign Be Discontinued national committeeman «re had also been elected delegates at-large to the natlonal convention MIBBOU LA, Mont April 11~ Former enm Albert B, Cuminine, republls [ United States Senator Joseph W. Dixon an candidate for the president of the | Announced today the recelpt of a tels nited States, wan far ahoad In the num- | ¥ from Theo Rabeareit “whieh of votea cast for President Wilson, | ™" Misalty Faquent sband enmmant e he democratie candidate In some pre- | e on the ballot In the Montana preal Hughes and Sherman had been inserted The telegram was In response to a le n the ballot tn place of Comming. Hughes e M Rosen ssldng .fov an oo Kimer J Purke t Lincoln, Nek For the reasons given in my Trinidad i Woolen C R < & oolen vompany ‘ s Increases Wages HOUSE PASSES RIVERS AND HARBORS MEASURE Gompers Says Wages and Hours of Employment Much Improved THE WEATHER. Cloudy CENT LIE COPY TWO FRANCISCO VILLA DEAD IS REPORT FROM QUERETARD | Unconfirmed Rumor from Carranza Capital Says the Bandit Chieftain is Dead of Injuries, REPORT GIVEN SOME CREDENCT Washington Officials Believe Hur- ried Flight Following Wound May Have Killed Him, ARMY NEARLY ALL ON BORDEER HELLETIN COLUMBUS, N. M., A Dirgie n6ro COrpS o long-distance flight 11 ) returning April IAeutenants 1 and a8 Gorrell of the Lere today in from San Antonio, 430 miles south the border, sald that reports were carrent among the natives in the vielnity of Santa Ana, seventy miles routhwest of Chihuahua City, tha Villa was dead of blood polroning caused by his wounds. Other re forts Indicated that Villa was In flight closely followed by American roops south of Parral and near the Lnirango border BELLETIN, GENERAL: PERSBHING'S HEAD QUARTERS AT FRONT, April 10 10 p.om (Via Mexican Telegraph to Juarez, April 11.)~ Renewed re ports have been received here by General Pershing that Francisco Villa Is dead and buried, These re ports are under Investigation, Mean while the hunt for the Villistas I J eeding with renewed vigor with the arrival at the front of General Pershing WABHINGTON, D, €., Aprfl 11 I nofficial and unconfirmed reports | that Villa fs dead reached the Car ranza embassy today and were given wome degree of credence by officlals there The reports were represented an (Continued or Page Two, Column Three ) Fisher Statement ' Called Harvester Trick by Mayer WABHINGTON, April 1. ~Walter 1 Tiuher, counnal for the International Hu vester company, today told the senate committee Investigating an alleged com bination of Amorican bankers and Yu catan sisal planters that his company had been forced to refuse orders for | finder twine and faces a shutdown bo caune of the planters’ refusal to sell it wisal since April | Lovy Mayer and W, B. Bpeneer, coun | mel for the planters and bankers backing them, protested | “Wa will he able to show that this is | Just one of the Harvester company s | tricks,” said Mr. Spencer, “and fhat this In not the first time the Harvester com pany has threatend to close down its plants just to embarrass the sisal grow- ern’ “The question Is brought up now, not to fnatruct the committes, but to influ ence newspaper publicity and injure this declared A letter wan produ ternation npany's anlemen not to sell another pound of twine until 1t was amsured of more raw product, Mayer d advising the In Harvester Warrant Issued & for Arrest of Dr, B. Clarke Hyde KANBAR CITY, Mo, APril 11.—A som plaint charging Dr. B. Clarke Hyde of Kansas City with the murder of Colonel Thomas 11, Swope, an aged milllonaire was filed in a Justice court here today and o Warrant for Dr, Hydo's arrest was tanued The nction ed the filing yesterda the prosecuting attorney for a new nformation against Dr. Hyds, In which ng Colon strychnine and oy anide of potassiim. Colonel Bwope died 100 under mysterious oleeumstan e, Hyde s been tried three (i Dupont Powder Mill at Scranton Blown Up The press today, Wi wragraphs, pudding s good " U, too, 'at your Nev and