nm omaita suxday bee-, august 20, 1915.
"RIDER" TELLS OF
WHIPPING YOMAh
Jian on Trial in Kentucky Details
Laihin; Lwy Man and Hit
TWO ALREADY IN STATE PRISON
HARTFORD, Kjr., Aug. 28, Thrc
men who pleaded guilty In Ohio
county circuit court of being mem
ber! of a band of night rldera who for
monthi spread terror throughout thlt
section of western Kentucky tonight
are serving sentence In the state
prison. One other yesterday was ac
quitted by a jury and stxty-sli de
fendants are awaiting trial.
Ephralm Relslnger, a coal miner,
today admitted ha piled the lash
when Reuben Howard, a merchant,
and his wife were whipped at Horton
the night of June 12. He sought to
secure a three-year sentence, as
Jerry Clark and Ernest Webster, who
participated In the whipping, had
done earlier In the week.
Commonwealth's Attorney Rlngo,
however, refused a compromlno and
Insisted that a five-year sentence be
imposed. Howard testified he and
Mrs. Howard were whipped until
they bled. He said the reason given
him for his beating was lack of In
dustry. Relslnger. Clark and Webster were
taken to prison after Relslnger ac
cepted the longer term.
Three More Farmers
Sue Union Pacific
Three more farmer have been added '
to the list of those suing the Union l'a
clfli railroad company for alleged dam
age to tlwlr field by reason of overflow '
of water from the Klkhorn river, near
Waterloo, said to have been caused by
the blocking of the river ty embankment
for a bridge.
Frank N. Slavln aak 2,S0. His land i
wa damaged Il.tfO worth, fifty acre of
corn destroyed, which he value at $-5 an
aore, and twenty acre of hay, valued at
tig an acre.
Richard P. Naoon and John F. Naaon
aalc H.W. claiming that thirty-five acre
of corn, twenty acre of hay, sixty bush
el of potatoes and ten acre of pasture
were destroyed by the overflowing water
and the land damaged to the extent of
fa,OMi
Protest Keport On
River Work Oct, 12
October 11 has been fixed as the date
for hearing of protest against the report
I,leutnant Colonel IVakyne mad to the
government recommending the abandon
ment of further Mlasurl river Improve
ment work between Kansa lty and
ft. Ixtui at this time. ' Such preliminary
report ' are subject t appeal, and the
board at army engineer ha set Oc
tober 12 as the date for hearing of the
case of thoa who ar dissatisfied with
hi recommendation. Omaha and Kan
sas City men will make th protest,
though th Kansa City man will largely
predominate, a th blow .1 aimed par
ticularly at their pet project.
Gives Cigarettes
to Holdup Men
Emit Illavka.TOT Caatellar street, and
Philip Ileelan, 720 Dorcas street, became
good friend with three holdup men, who
thrust gun In their faoe at th Eleventh
street viaduct.
Klavka had 45 cent and Helan had U
cents. After receiving these contribu
tion, according to the story told the
police, the holdup men. Inquired whether
their victim had children, and apon
learning that both men had families re
turned the small change,
'Have a cigarette." aald on of th
victim in a friendly manner, holding out
a package of eotfln nail.
Each of the holdup men took a
cigarette.
Three Burglaries
. Reported to Police
Th following robberies were reported
to th police a occurring Friday night
C harles Malison, 801 North Seventeenth
street, assert that burglar gained en
trance to his pi no of business by break
through a baaemont window, and after
ransacking the place, escaped with M.
The gtandard Chemical Manufacturing
company, 1311 Harney street, wa alio
paid a visit by nocturnal marauder, who
got ft In pennies. Fred Beach am, Benson,
wa th victim of horse thieve, who
mad way with two ponle from hi
premises, on of which wa hitched to a
new buggy.
Big Water Carnival
Postponed Ten Days
The big water Carnival, which wa
X'heduled to be held yesterday ot Carter
beach, baa been postponed until Labor
day. C. H. BngUah. supervisor ot rec
reation, decided shortly after noon that
th water waa too oolX
D REX EL'S WORKING STAFF
IS NO LONGER LABORING
Cemmlaeloner Preset la facing th un
usual situation of being without any
working staff in th street cleaning
branch of hi department.
He i waiting complacently for action
by the city council net Tuesday, when
ways and mean will be dlecuseed for re
plenishing the depleted fund.
Nearly 106 men quit work Friday even,
irig because told their pay had (topped.
TWO GIVEN THIRTY DAYS
FOR THEFT OF SILK GOODS
Special Officer O. A. Taal of th Bur-gfe-N'aah
store arrested Jamca Cleary
and Hnu-y Dunham yesterday fur th
theft ot tM worth of silk, which. Waa
fout.il In their posanasion. Both are l
li' character wrom the authorise a-
rt are dangerous nven. They were each
liteiu-ed tu Uilrty days in the county
General Grand Council, Royal Arch
Masons, Meets at Frisco This Week
WABltl.VaTOf-Easlljr Mi moot Im
portant Maaonlo sathenn of 1AI6 will
bo In San Francisco, HrptMnbtr 1. wlwn
the thirty-sixth triennial convocation of
tho U"ncral Grand chapter. Royal Arch
Masons, of the United Slate will meet.
Thin body la oompoetd of past grand
hlRh prima and grand hlrh priests, dep
uty arand high priest. Brand kings and
grand scrlb. In eah of the forty-eight
tatee and the W.mct of Columbia. Ar- " " " govern mem.
rang-menu arc being made for a large A" "fec"v general grand lodge would,
attendance. 1 of cour- have meant the giving up of
The general grand chapter In 1U prea- ' murh authority by the several grand
ent form cait. Into exlatence In 1. Juat as the formation of the fed-
when It assumed the name It now bears, ; r' union meant the giving up of much
and took Jurisdiction over the entire : authority by tho several statrs. In the
country. Previously there had been an j latter esse, however, there were corn
organisation somewhat similar In char- ; Polling political reasons In favor of a
acter w hl.-h had assumed control over t alrong central government, and the
the Royal Arch Mason of New England states, some of them with confessed un-
and New York. In 1X2 the septennial .
meetlng were abandoned, since which
time It has met trlennlally,
Originally this body possessed Consld-
erable authority, but by Ita present con
stitution It has "no power of discipline.
admonition, censure or Instruction over
tho grand chapters, nor any legislative
by It. conatltutlon. It I. thu. apparen
that It 1. emrcely more than a great
Masonlo convention, noting trlennlally
for conciliation; but even with the
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restricted powers It ha been able to
oompllsh a great deal of good, and it 1
sttll accomplishing much In that direc
tion. Officer of the Oramnlsatlnn.
x-v.uw.mb m ui m v.iiv.ii i ir to mat to be exercised over the p
the general grand chapter: Bernard O. ; plo generally by the new fe.Vs! govern
Witt. Henderaon, Ky., general grand mont, thero were no compelling reaaon.
hlKh prteat; George B. Coraon, Washing- ,u:h as had caused the constitution to
priert; Frederick W. Craig. Ie. Moines, i thelr capacity a. Mason, were at ful"
general grand king; "William F liberty to Insist upon the doctrine
Kuhn, Kanaaa City, Mo., general grand (atft,. sbl and demand that It be an
Tlbe; Thuma. J Bhryock. BaJtlmore, pnj without llmltivtloto thV American
Md.. general grand treaaurer (acting); Mnsonlo system Araenoan
Charles A. Conover, Coldwater, Mich.,
general grand secretary; Beetor CJ. Mewly t AdvLe.
Brown, Topeka. Kan., general grand cap-' " l"n ,he 'mention of organising the
tain of the host; Charles N. Rlx. Hot norftI ri'"l chapter of Royal Arch
Springs, Ark., general grand principal i M,0,on" "P. this old thouicht of the
sojourner; J. Albert Blake. Boston. Mass., ("""""'"acy of the several grand chapter
general grand royal arch caialn; nrovolI,"l. ""d the new national body,
Jlcnry Banka, La Orange. Oa., genenj ,0,,n to nol(' alxty-slxth triennial con
grand master third veil; Henry De Witt vcatlon. cfln"- 'nto existence merely for
Hamilton. New York City, general grand advisory purpose. Later th general
maater second veil; Charle C. Davl. council of royal and select maa-
Centralla, III., general grand maater first
veil.
A Is th custom in many Masonic
bodies, th line of officer (excepting
treasurer and secretary, which ar sta
tionary) Is advanced one position trl
ennlally. the general grand high priest
topping down and out, th deputy tak
ing his place, and the other officer mov
ing up on place behind him. A new
officer is elected at the foot of the line,
to be general grand maater of th first
veil, and It take him twenty-seven year
to reach th top, Ueorg O. Corson ot
thl city, who la to become general grand
high priest at th Han Francisco triennial
convocation, waa eleoted to th first veil
at the Minneapolis triennial in 1891. If
la making th Journey from th bottom
to th top ot th tin in
.'Tl0!!;
years. Instead of twenty-seven, because of
an extra vacancy In th line year ago.
Sketch of th New Head.
Mr. Corson is a New Bnglander, having
been born in Utf at Lebanon, Me. After
brilliant servlo in the union army, he
came to this city where he has since re
sided. In 1871 he waa department com
mander of th Grand Army of th He
public of the District ot Columbia.
Mr. Corson took his blue lodg degree
here In U70, and his chapter degrees In
1871. He haa gon through th chair
In lodg, chapter, counoll and comman
der. In 1886 he wa grand high priest,
and la 1901 grand commander of District
of Columbia Knights Templar. II served
ln th official Una of th grand lodge
her for a number of years, rising to the
station of Junior grand warden, when he
dropped out. II received the thirty-third
degree, honorary, Scottish Rite, In I'M.
Mr. Coraon ha been connected with
th War department for more than a
generation.
Authority of General Bodies.
It is interesting to not. In connection
with the thought that the general grand
chapter has so tittle real authority, that
American Masonry, although frequently
solicited, ha been very chary of organ
ising nation'; bodies with legislative and
other power. The grand encampment,
Knights Templar, also, meeting trlen
nlally. is clothed with a considerable de
gree of authority, and to all Intent and
purposes It is th supreme governing body
of Knight Templar in thl country; but
it Is th only Maaonlo body so organised.
Th general grand council. Royal and
Selected Master of th United Btatos,
meeting at the same time Mid place a
the general grand chapter. Ilk it, exer
cises no funotiona other than those of a
purely advisory charaotw. Th two !
bodle call together many of the most
. . i -w- I
the country, and th result of this meet
ing of prominent Maaon I always good;
in thl direction I found a considerable
part of that which mka those two trien
nial gathering worth while.
Bo far aa blue lodg Maaonry la con
cerned. It nvr ha been posslbl to or
ganise a national body, although there
have been perhaps a score of attempt,
beginning during th revolutionary war.
and continuing at intervale down to the
civil war. It 1. now generally admitted
that, in all probability, such a body wilt j
never be formed lit this country.
Wsstrl Waahlagtoat tm !.
Th aKitatlon in favor of . a general
grand lodge sheds a good deal ot inter-
sting light on th subsequent organlia-1
tlon of the general grand chapter, gen-1
era! grand council and grand encamp
ment. Th American grand lodge, at I
the outbreak of the revolutionary war,
besan to abandon their dependence upon
the grand lodge ot England and of Scot
land, and quite naturally they at once j
ceai aooui i una sura- new aumoruy
" " : " re. mignt imve earned. Th mistake
lodge ln each of the new states, and each if lt may be called auch. wa In demand
was th full equal. In authority and dig-; ing originally that th proposed national
nlty, of all the other. There was a body have authority over the craft im!l
atrong feeling that it would be wise to ; la to that exercised over th country by
form a general grand lodge, to exercU'e j the federal government at Washington.
Jurisdiction over the entire country, leav-ITo this proposition there never ha been
Ing th several grand lodges to exercise ' a tint w hen the craft would agree,
that Jurisdiction over local question ln ! The grand encampment of Knight
th several atate. Templar haa something of that author-
In 1779 th first of these efforts to 'nrm 1 lty- but It la i-olnUU out that It doe
a general grand lodge was made. It or- not represent ancient craft Maaonry, but
UsiuaUd with a number of the army I ' r-""'r a1 sddHon to lu The blue
lodgpa, and had George Washington In 1 lod. ,h chapter and th council, how-
view for general grand master. The ! aa uta symbolic, capitular and
grand lodge of Pennsylvania etidors-d ticrP"c '-riw a,v m- rei-rewnt thes
nthiulastlcally. and pasaed a series of ' ",-lent entt degree, and all three have
resolution in which it named Washing
ton for general grand master.
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that the organization could not I
brought about In succeeding years, a. J ,Ulrt Th, eoum. w, n,, A , r
errort atter errort failed. It wa proposed j anJ st , rh.
pter (September 1.
not to give the general granj lodge.;, ,nd a-Co. respondent of the Chrlatlun
whru formed, full loLMulh e and penal j Udem-e Monitor.
Jurisdiction, but to make It mrrely ad
vlsorjr. without the rlirht to enforce Ita
derreea. Hut even with this concrealon
the Hasona of the country declined to
endorse the Idea.
Ciraad Loiter Controlled.
The oipnaitlrn wes led by the grand
lodges, wh'ch were unwilling to surren-
er lh,elr ' "Premary In order to fonn
willingness, and after deferring the mat-
ter from time to time, finally acceDted
the constitution drawn up by the con
vention which met at I'hlladelphla In 1787.
John Flake well call thla the critical
period of American hlntory, for the doo-
trine of state rlichta waa so poi.ular that
u,t a considerable time, there wa danger
mat an errective union of the thirteen
stale, coul(1 ()t b, BuTI
maU,r, tron- were the argument.
,dv.ancM lne preJlldrt, of th.
, ovJrpom. ,T ,T People
wf re overcome, aaid the federal union
ac-,W(u ,n remlit union
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ii, tun up me
question of forming a general grand
lodge of Maaon, to exercise over the
fraternity a a whole
irs, nnnuing at the head of the cryptlo
chooI of Freemasonry, wa organised
on a footing precisely similar to that of
the general grand chapter.
Ther is no national Soottlah Rite
body that is generally recognised a reg
ular. Th two controlling bndte of this
rile have divided tho United States be
tween them. The northern Jurisdiction,
with headquarters at Boston, exercise
authority over it adherent ln the state
abov the old Mason and Dixon line out
to the middle west; thp southern Juris
diction control the south and wet and
ha its headquarter In thl city.
Chronoloity I laterest B.
The following statement of historical
fact, will serve to show the insistency ot
tho Masons who from time nw. i
tortn" aeral grand
1779. Th subject of a general grand
lodg waa first mentioned, army lodge
supporting It. The grand lodge of Penn
sylvania approved It and named Wash
Inrton for the first general grand maater
1780. The Idea wa formally renewed
by the grand lodge of Georgia, which
favored It. Th other grand lodges paid
no attention to It.
17!W. The movement wa revived, but
to no purpose, by resolution passed by
the grand lodge of South Carolina.
1W. The grand lodge of North Carolina
made an unsuccessful effort to Interest
the craft ln th question.
IWe-T. Allusions to a general grand lodg
were made In the proceedings of a num
ber of grand lodges, but nothing came
of the agitation.
Mil. There waa an unsuccessful effort
to bring about a meeting in this city in
the Interest of a general grand lodge.
mt. The grand lodge of Bouth Carolina
made a second unsuccessful effort to In
terest the fraternity In this question.
182. A meeting composed of "members
of congress and tranger." according to
th grand lodge of Maryland, wa held
In this city In the Interest of a general
grand lodg. Henry Clay presided over
It, and In addition to delivering a wonder
ful oration ln support of th Idea, he
wrote a report In which he advanoed all
the argument supporting it His report
waa sent to all th grand lodge of the
country, but nothing further waa ver
heard from It.
18IR. The grand lodge of Maryland In
vlted Its alster "grand lodge to attend a
meeting In Baltimore to discuss th ques
tion. Heven grand lodge were rep
resented at the meeting by two dulo
gates each. They adopted favorably r.....
"u "pnl l0'm 10 Tnd lodge,
?y, nlcn th,y wer Promptly plgeon-
holed.
IMS. The grand lodg of New Tork urged
that a meeting be held in Boston In 18S0
to consider th queation and each grand
lodge wa Invited to aubmlt at th moet.
Ing the draft or a general grand lodg
constitution It would agree to support.
The grand lodges of KhoUe Island and
th District of Columbia Indorsed the
New York plan; but the meeting waa
not held. .
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7 " effort In
a r. ?
leuau. with no authority to enforce Its
decision., no penal Jurisdiction, and only
such special powers as might from time
to time be given it by the grand lodges
entering the confederation. This effort
alno failed to produce result.
18C7. The grand lodge of Maine issued a
circular asking that a meeting be held
in Chicago In 1K to consider the forma
tion of a general grand lodg. The meet
ing was held, but nothing was accom
plished. What Mlarht Have Bt.
It seem probable that If. at the begin
ning, the move had been simply to form
general grand lodg with advlorv cow.
snouiiy opyoaea me organisation of a
l national body with legislative authority.
The general Brand chapter and the
v. rsl "r.io.l j.uri''!l will be In aeaaio"
, ...,.,,
In nan Franctsco for the wwk of Au-
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is to be a campaign of
price-cutting such as wilt
arouse the people of Omaha
as no sale has dene zvithin
the present year.
We've prepared some of
the greatest sale values that
it has ever been possible
for us to offer. You sa?e
money now ts never before.
We've started out to make
this a stirring, sensational
event. Don't let anything
interfere with your coming
here this week. The often
er you come the greater
the chance for you to reap
rewards.
The articles here shown will be given away absolutely
free. You will not be asked to buy anything nor to
spend a penny in any way, to share in these awards.
All you need to do is to be our guests any day or any
number of days during the present week.
How the Gifts Will Be Awarded
Every adult visitor to our store during the week will bo given, absolutely
free, a numbered ticket Duplicates of all these numbers will be dropped
into sealed boxes, which will not be opened until the drawing takes
place at 8 o'clock Saturday evening. The judges who will conduct tho
drawing and the awarding of prizes will eon&ist of one representative of
the "YVorld-Horald," one from The "Omaha Boo," and one from the
"Daily News."
Each Day a Different Gift
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of each day will be kept separate. No one person is to receive more than
one gift. No tickets are to be issued to children, nor to any of our em
ployes or their families. Begin by calling at the ttere tomorrow and
secure a ticket en the combination range. Call again during the week
and secure a ticket on the other gifts. If you de not win the combina
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