Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 13, 1916, Page 1

/ ~ Call Ty]cr 1000 If Sou Want t or to Any With e Bee nected VOL,* XLV--NO, MRS. HOWARD IS A SUICIDE, SAYS CORONER'S JURY / Verdict is That She Kills Herself By Shooting in Her Room at the Fontenelle Monday Evening, HUSBAND ON WITNESS STAND Says Reason for Deed Was Despon- dency Because Her Father Would Not Accept Him BODY I8 TAKEN T0 CHICAGO ELECTED FIRST PRESIDENT OF OMAHA HAY EXCHANGE THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. OMATIA, THURSDA - SACK AMERICA Band of Pe ousand Men, Believed tt Led by Villa, Himself, Loots Town of Sierra Mojada, STEAL EVERYTHING OF VALUE Outlaws Come from Escalon, Rail- road Point Bixty Miles South- cast of Jiminez. RAVAGE SMALL PLACE ON WAY 1, PABO, Tex., April 12,-A band Ve, the conorer's jury, impan of Villistas numbering several hun eled (o juquire Into the circum-| | dred, and possibly 1,000, have sach LUnces KUFroN r o ‘ : ) ahe came (o her death by her own Coahuila line and efghty miles east hand of Jimines, deatroying many thou I'he foregoing is the verdiet of (he wand dollar’ worth of American iry holding an Inquest into the su 'WJ J property and looting the town of cide of Mrw, Joseph E. Howard, wife F'W. Judsor. everything of value of the stage star and daughter of This news, which may prove to be Mike Kilgallon, Chicago steel mil of the highest importance, as |t Is onafre, believed possibie Villa himself was It was returned after an unusually the death of the De Beaufort whether they saw mild inquiry wife to 22k into former of Count Exeopt fore, or some other unimportant question, Crosby did but little to bring out the incidents that led up to the shooting, When witnesses verged on telling wsomething Interesting, somehow other, they Invariably became side of Flaming Coroner PARIS, Apr expanlt on the or RENEW ASSAULT T0 WEST OF MEUSE Mre, Howard after her death orba- | [nfantry Charge Preceded by Rain Says French Report GERMAN LOSSES ARE HEAVY among the rafders, wan rece'ved here today by the of the largest American mining con presentatives of one corns in Mexico and ix nceepted by him as absolutely authentic ‘ The band ¢ from » made “The Foue thelr attack on the Liquids Repulsed town an April came from Kaea lon, a Junction point on the Mexican Na tional raflroad, wixty miles southeast of 2. . Jiminez and about an oqual distance il 12.—The German Jimir and about ar il Al wouthwest of Slerva Mojada, which wan erdun front west of Verdug fron itw connection with the Mexican Northers tracked the Meuse was renewed this morp- | .= = 0 (o Slerra’ Mofads Woman on the Sand. Ing. Troops advanced on Caurettes | . . . 1he small town of Corrilo M":vwrly’ ‘n'.,u“r II.I:‘.Ir,u’:’nu;“ln.lrl, :;’:‘»"‘f"”fl”)’l“’u-:: wood, south of Cumieres, the wat The belief that Vills himaelt may be o gt B oSl M e o office announced, using flame pro-| .. ..o the operations of the bandits bs Jeetors, but we t of the knows more of the tragedy than anyone re repulsed, Meuse, In the Douau supported by a report recelved today from the elne, (did wnything of interest develop Ofinaga stating that Colonel Tojas, Newspapermen hud requested the cor- yont-Vaux sector, there was 0nly gommander there, had information that oner to ask her It It was true that Mrs g | Howard had threatened to kill Jos at | ®rtillery fighting, Villa had doubled in his tracks and was the math performance and curried a The war office says It has been ,4 .10y southwest of that town turget pistol to the theater for that | confirmed that the German losses Ojinaga s directly across the border purpose. Mre, Lamberti colored and be from Presidio, Tex,, and about 1H miles yesterday weré very heavy ame nervous, Aw though it were an ef- | ° north of Blerra Mojada fort to speak, sho mumbled unintelligibly | The Lext of the statement follows HReyes Travels North s i o On the left bank of the Meuse the eyen Tray 3 . Hvarybody in the Growdsll room Germans this morning delfvered an at Another clreumstance that gives color FYROAY. 0. o PO tack on our positions at the Caurettes to this location of the bandit chief is the thelr necks, expecting Lo get o new » wood between la Morte Homme and Cu- | fact that Canuto Reyes, at the head of a Bt ths ”u’ln“”:‘l‘l'hrlllh'ul‘:y;'l"‘l 1 RS | iopen, in which they mad use of fiam ‘1;”““ gl iy et 'Nlifllvrlwl !’m‘r;\ I'he next questiofs WY on &n Altogether [Ins 1auids. They were everywhore re-|Torreon a week ago (o be Lraveling nor o P i o i pefil In the direction of Sierra Mojada Ir Lambert! continually sought the On the right bank of the river there was the bellef at the time in Torreon eyes of her husband as she testified, as | han been great artilleryactivity between |that Villa's notorious attorney was on though seeking wpproval, When she: fin- | Douaumont and Vaux, but last night saw | bis way to joln the brigand-in-chief. If iwned Loth tushed from the place no resumption of the infantry fighting |t BProves firue, Villa has "“”‘”"}"‘.‘\': Tells Syme Story. At 2his el Her story wils identical with L} by Howard Monday night when he was rpenking Loy her, She declared that Mrs, told o'clock in this sec y s, cost the Hownrd was despondent hecause her par- VY U# t th ents would not mccept Joe ms & member The night p the remainder of of the family, Mr, Kilgallon told several ymahans that his objections were not as erious us has been given out since the tragedy, The tact is, he 18 sald to have ared that he furnished a fiat for his dnughter and Howard in Chicago and ex there when Howard de It has been confirmed that the / offénsive action yesterday afternoon at J udsofi Elected Pregident of the evaded the American troops who Violent | been driving south at an amazing speed 4 ana are today reported from the mot relinble wources 1o be well south of Parral stor, which was repulsed and very clowe to the Durango border nemy heavy losses 4 relatively quiet on | SWerra Mojada (s 140 miles sast of the thy frokt nearest point at which American troops are known to be Americans Are Killed, SAN DIEGO, Cal, April 12 Americans have been killed or wounded | in bandit ralds In the vieinity of Guay | mas, Sonora, according to a naval radio Beveral 7 ':d o 0 1 Ha Market message recelved here today. Tae mes- " When ’l.:.v-w'lnl'l took the stand, he told maha y sage was forwarded to the Navy depart When Howard took the , he told ‘ Navy of his love for his bride of month, but ment at Washington and resulted in an | Prank W. Judmo was clected presic ould admitted he was irritated that » now at San for the m Wodnesday afternoon dent of the Omaha Hay order to the cruimer Denver. Blas, statq of Tepie, to steam MEXICAN BANDITS | THE WEATHER. Fair On Train News Stand Hotel Y MORNING, APRIL 13, 1916—FOURTEEN PAGES. SINGLE TWO CENTS. STICKS TO VILLA'S TRAIL IN SPITE OF ~ DEATH REPORTS Army Will Continue Pursuit of Ban« dit Until the Rumor is Con- firmed or His Capture ' Is Effected. PERSHING STARTS NEW BASE Supplies Will Be Forwarded to Beve eral Flying Columns of Cavalry from Satevo, FIGHT RUMORS UNCONFIRMED ElL. PABO, April 12~ That the Ameriean expeditionary force has penetrated far beyond Parral and I# the Chis COPY WILL UNOLE SAM'S MACHINE GUNS GET THEM?—The latest developments in the Mexican situation indicate that the American forces in Mexico are still vainly chasing Villa. This picture shows a trooper from the Eighth United States cavalry sighting a ma- chine gun of the type with which some of the cavalry troops in Mexico are equipped. The belt running through the breach is kept filled with cartridges as soon as the gun is set for action, In the picture the belt is not loaded, Tex,, wear, It not actually at, huahua-Durango border line is indi- cated In code dispatches received here this afternoon by private con- corns with Interesty (n the Parral diss triet, These dispatchios said that the American had n temporary the two companies of the advanced columns now base near Parral and that toward end of last week trick traln had delivered supplies At this buse, This {a the first authentio information that has come from the fiys ! ing columnn of Colonels Dodd and Brown for e 1t meer maetor oral dayn eertain now that Villa, if he stiil Jives, has passed into the mountain fastnesses of Durango and that he is in s powition to get In touch with the seats tered bandit forces of that distriet There aro twenty-seven tricks In each motor company e delivery of fifty- four trucks Indicates that the advanced cavalry has sufficlent supplies 1o enable it to make long fornys south U. 8. Not Satisfied With Explanation Of Great Britain PALEMBANG STRUCK BY TWO TORPEDOES SEVENTY BANDITS SLAIN AT PASAJE May Passed Line, Two Bards Attack Carranza Gar- | WASHINGTON, April 1% Bacretary’ | Dutch Shipping Council Reports | 1t ts not belleved here, however, that the forces of Colonel Dodd or Colonel Sinking of Steamship Deliberate and Without Warning, rison Sunday at Town in the State Durango. |1 ansing announced late today that Great | . BE SRYnes 18 Ay i Brown have passed the Durango line, To do wo would lengthen the line of com« munication too dangerously, It is more TURBANTIA HIT BY TORPEDO iikely they have remained in touch with Britain's note on the selzure of (hirty | elght Austrians, Germans and Turks GEN, REYES MAY BE INVOLVED | trom tho American steamer China near Shanghal does not close the eass to (he thelr wipplies at Parral. This would ac- TORREON, Mexico, April 11 | sntinfaction of the United Btates AMSTERDAM, April 12 (Via count for the lack of information at the (Via El Paso Junction, April 12 | Great Britain's reply to the Amerncan |y - it ¢ o i coun. | [Tont the last week " - o £ | protests against the seisure of thirty- | /0ndon.)—The Dutch shipping coun- | "y g oo " Vith the news thi Détalls of a five-hour battle between | wivhi Austrians, Germans and Turks | ¢!, which was entrusted by the BO¥-|,iiviies had been ment as far south as the nelghborhood of Parral came the ins formation today that lo concerna had presented a trainlond of supplies to tha| Mexican Central rallroad for shipmens ernment with the official investiga tion Into the sinking of the Dutch wteamships Palembang and Tubantia, China near toduy by the Amerfean stoamer public the Carranzista garrison at Psaje, | from the Durango, and an attacking force, | Shanghal was made 4 State department composed of Contreras and Ceniceros | "y 0" e weinure In Justified bundits, were® brought here today.|on the ground that the prisoners had | hog issued the report of its findings. 1o Chihuahua City, there to be sold tal The outlaws fled in disorder into ;..,,. engaged 1o plots against Great | With regard to the Palembang the | ral Perfshing's lv'rm " it o witaln In the far enst and were at Thin train, consisting of nine car the ‘hills of the Nasas“district after | o o, 7 " iurn home fo take up | T4POSL 88Ys Sonded mmostly” VIR h:y and onts, Kot losing seventy killed, it ig reported. | 4. nq Three explostons took place, The [ oy (hin afternoon. News of the sate The de facto troops had four dead,| Great Britaln alleges that the prison- |first was caused by the explosion At | areival of the train at Chihuahua City| The battle took place on Sundsy, First | @8 were “engaged for some tme 'n | womé distance of & drifUng ming, which |18 anxiously awnited here by both busi- | the eollection and tranamifsion of armis Hritish torpeds Ness men and the army. 1t s feit th reports were that’ the atiacking force & 4 by seorelimatgyos s (pments can be made sately to Ohls for and ammunition clandestine tranw way commanded by General Canuto boat destroyer. After the explosion the Reyea An negoblations have been under |Mision to India and, if possible, for | pojampang remained undamaged. The |Duahus City railway transportation may way for the sursendor of General Reyeo Arming & ship to play the parl of & far- |00 explosion wus caused by a tor- be extended evem further south, under an- amnesty grant; bitter disap- (astérn Moewe,” and were bound for | pado” fired at short range, which hit A Favorite Triok, pointment wos expressed by Carranza | Manlla to continue their work, having | the palembang. This i established be- | Mexican followers of Villa in othed officials. The wurrender of Reyes was|been cxposed to the British authorities | yong doubt by the unanimous statements | campaigns sald it was a favorite trick expected to serfously cripple the Villista [t Shanghal, The neutrality of the oo the witne who saw the track of | of Villa when the chase became hot forl cause in the nelghborhood of Torreon | 'nited States would have been comprom- |the torpedo. It could not have been | the bandit to have the story spread thag and Durango. Ised, the note contends, had the prisoners fired by the British torpedo boat de-| he was dead, that the ardor of his purs The fight was reported to have been|performed the acts they contemplated, |ytroyor, because the forpedo passed | suers might be dampensd, Army officer precipitated by the garrison, which wax|Thelr acts, it s contended, deprived | gome meters in front of the latter vessel. | at Fort Bliss declara that if the Villg anid to have fired on (he troops of Gen- [them of protection from the American | "It |s possible the torpedo was meant | death story is a hoax it will in no wise eral Reyes an they mpproached under an | f1ag under which they were walling for the destroyer, but, missing It, hit| affect the purmuit of tne “fox of thel wgreement for pemce negotfations, Tho| The Hritikh government argues 1int | the Palembang | Blerran. Isteat ‘details npwevar: Mem 1 shew ::"" ey aln wera justified and truia Second Torpedo Wite Ship. | Brigadier General Pershing has estabel that nlltr-l\n-n " rlmV |Imp Inn-q mn thers | tha tha mln-u tates will not feel fur The third explosion was also a tor-| ished a new bass at Satevo, according n st opes that he. has ceas ar-| ther disposed to contend the action pedo. The first mate of the steamship to information here today, but no wor: fare against Gieneral Carranza The note beging by that follow him here. He. expected her, he pointing out b 4 f ™ 1 ot “and | 0xchange Sonora seaport and investigate g A . intie | clearly saw its track about six lengtha has come from the flylng columns 844, ‘and that Is why he registarnd lm.‘ At the first meeting of the newly elected | The message gave no detalls of the re Bandits Fiee in Disarder. !:"‘" '::' :‘_‘ "_":'“"‘" 'J” ':”"’ A by ‘”".‘ awny on the starboard. This torpedo| American cavalry under command of| wite" at the Rome. e regiatered firet| BT PO L elected 1Tt [ ported raid and made no mention of the | A doctor ment from here to treat ome | mon nkreement, ho Iimita within Which | wuy” wiinad at the Palembang, becauss | Colonels Dodd and Brown, whose pursulll under An_ sasumed -ase, he s 10| 0 ltr T e Tanvon, weoond ¥ioe | time they were oatamitted of ihe men wounded in the battle brought |n belligerent naval power may remove | 41" Ui (o hoat destroyer wa | of the Vilitas 1 aaid to extend beyond svold annoyance from sherifls who BHEM | udent; 1, 8. Clarke, treasurer, and W. | : back the detalls of the engagement, He|snomy | om neutral whIos On | e o great distance away Parral. There are reports that the ads| woek to attach his belougings in order V' b - said that the Contreras and Cenlceros at- [the high seas is represented hy artic g ' vance columns have been forced to halgl k . 4 A. Tlis, secretary | . 7 of the Declaration of tondon 1w | ~The definite statements of the crew | vance columns have been forced to hald to sstisfy a recenP judgment againet him. | T, o Tl ted Monday are to serve Three ThOusa,nd tackers were subjected to a withering 'H . the Declaratidn of Inees 199, | re confirmed by the fact that me other | Until the line of communications has been Ho was not questioned too closelysand | ot . firs from the garrison. They fled In|Which permitted the arrest of such per- {4l CORATIAT BY £8 TRt TURE 06 OUNR Cl byt a™sl o op Wateve he did not volunteser anyth o suppl ms follows | 1 disorder o arrivec ne to count Bons It “embodied In the armed forces | I7'fUN on were observed id the | 66N 11:‘“”' »1‘., eor ar v‘l :u:“ \u"xv’\I ot A AR TSR BI‘ltODS Sla:ln by m»:)l ; ||.'yr.‘| 1 in 'w ' : ”mn e enem - without reeet taTer® | Palembang, at the time of tho second | Thers Is nothing official here or af e ably berans dooondent bacause Drake and A. A. Nixon; two years, C. H| §11 6 DReNa ot cheveniy o ""‘ ouAws | tination of the shipa on which thes | @0d third explosions, was motionless and | Army headquarters at Columbus, N, M.y whe probably beca n desponde hecause o od ove e b 0 ‘ound A J n ol e Ships on wh N J = - '"'" 5 “”"l % ’“" N Pickens, ¥. A. Knapp and 1. 8, Clarke; | Turks at Felahle """ fap " gt ‘” ‘”f':“ wars. f0tnd Arevelbin thero was, therefore, no possibility of a | 10 confirm a report that troops K and of her father's objection to him : i Satatetioh. Pt e dead were colonel and a captain b colliaion. with an anchored mine. Even | Mi Seventh cavalry, kifled & number of Court Room Packed. W. Judson and J. M, Welsh ! ; : After the battle word was brought in S wipposing that the Palembang was ear. | VIUStaR and captured thirty-five others The little room was packed to capacity| A committes to select and hive an in- | BERLIN, April 12.—(Wireless to Say- that Juan Lamaddrid, a noted bandit, | e e s . last Baturday south of Satevo, Militar ) i [ ried along by the current, it must he ob b with morbld curloaity seekers Most of spector was choen as follows: Knapp, | ville)—A Britsh Mesopotamian force, | wax killed in a dispute over the division verved that the current was mearls due | Officors at Columbus do not credit the ’ - € s sl Dol BRsP e =5 ferred from the| of loot by the Contreras band, Lamadrid n n L i those present were women, and many Nixon and Welgh. They are (o ort | composed of troops transi Pl D 1' south, so that a niine would have hit the | **POr's of these, when Howard finlshed testify- ws soon as possible in order that the ac- | Dardanelles, was repulsed by Turkish fled into the Nazas district after his a,Ilt ()Stroye( ' il g i o Aty e Supplies In Inoreasing quantities are bee & and loft the place, immediately lost | tual inspection of hay and the grading of | troops in a sanguinary battle lasting six | rald on Dinamfta” some weeks ago. ‘At Th A e K'H d plosion took place on the starboard.” | M6 Steadily forwarded by the quarterd interest and quit also, ft may begin, Nixon, Knapp and Ellis | hours near Felahie on April 9, according | that time he was soundly heaten b ree Are Allle ‘ ; & master's department to Ca Grandesg Anton Ekellinger, & taxi driver, brought | were chosen as another committee to ’m a Turkish headquarters report dated (roops under General Ignaclo Ramos Tubantin Torpedeed, | Namiquipa and other point i1t some {nteresting information. He told | draft bylaws, April 11. The statement adds that more Cieneral Trevino, Carranza commander| y; mwipLn, w. Ve, April 12<Thres | WIth Tesard to the Tubantia the feport r : g e in Torreon, has arranged for corn ship. e the jury that when he picked Mrs, Hov The annual meet he Hay ex- | than 3,000 dead British we ounted after " persons were killed, a workman and two ore he wa with a small dark n of Aprdl each ye the food shortage here Powde COmpar ot Nemours Morcer | ™ 3:20 Au m when It was hit and & severs Paxton, where the man & AT OO tl 'l ecord Tor v wer i o the machine walted orgenthau Houses In the little viliage were wrackad, caused a hole extending from the bottom ent_inside whil A l C N b N . Then they went to the Merchants, Again ' ctual Contraban . The dead ohildren were buried in { X s LOB ANGELES, Cal, Apeil 18.-Jacol o man went into the ohtel for a I RUSI{.’{US Post Today‘ H(gat 18 B]‘Uk(fll prip o ape i Bibdinioh gl 3 (Contnued on Pags Two, Colimn One,) | Margolis, & Pittsburgh attorney, who ape . . — e eared unannounced ten days ago in the i« ed on Page Two, Column LONDON, A AT roclama § H . . X , The . S Wk & : N y superior court to defend David Capl . nplet od ting 1 vh g | Ster other counsel falled to appear, has T . Tur : : , Millions on Matches &, omer counset geatod ' ' ' Nt thi ) bod® Anril 38 1910 | ™ L ar orders e : 1 today, beca ntinued dife 3 2 el S N, Aj ’ n wo In polley with Nathan Coghlas Temperntures ot Omaha Y eosterdny na ) L “ he ) axi sire was M - . Khlan 9 -3 But Shat wea Vo ik & Wale el SIOUX FALLS PLEA FOR tor the fmpasition of the mat ¢ San Francisco, chief counsel in the H ! A 1 . ol ot " trial of Mathew e hmidt onvicted FALR | {0 . I M Dictati wanson than e presont ot LOWER RATES IS DENIED | banormre e vareotte st the man | i iz . : * Resents Bull Moose Dictation e o g g S i3 ja % ¢ . and & ’ / 4 BOONE CROWD REFUSES * ' f Republ, Del C " , . ‘ of Kepublican Delegate Lhoice g A troe TO HEAR SUFFRAGIST (e 3 : . : RO o : - ' " o | 10O \ Spesial Tele Al ; . ) il | i fie M Jones, noted 1% FA : \ e e rer and worker, aftor . \ -4 M . les e . L 2 [ Mg In the aft Campnrative Lovnl Hecard . . . V.ll N . h w 1 i N D d . K t permitted te 2z . only 4 deg tila Netther Wounded Nor Dead, . ants expas ) . Abril & \ . A : ; . . Says Cattleman Visited by Bandits ann v and rofusd b0 » hg - Vaudes e ' anyw -\ . ' i onp ' ™ . " 3 ' . - y o 10 OO A ! LSuannonading Ong , , 1\ ' 4 t " or even les vould the Greek Frontier ' X X b I I “tl I buy that old de un A hair of youms Miut » s . tle 200 investment Ree Want-Ads will - v g ot vral . Juat wry !