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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1920)
THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRTBITNE. DENY irSWINEY RECEIVING FOOD EXPRESS RATES ARE BOOSTED MANY KILLED BY TERRIFIC BLAST Nebraska Railway Commission Grants Carriers Increase of 12'2 Per Cent In the State. Suggestion Made by London Times Refuted by Sinn Fein Officials. ASKS WHO IS FEEDING MAYOR Dying Hunger Striker Sends Message to Irish Throughout World De. daring Divine Power Is Pro longing His Life. 1ondon. Considerable talk hnsboen occasioned by tin article appearing In tin,' LdimIom Times which suggests that Terra nee MurSwIney, lord mayor of Cork, who Iiiih boon on n hunger strike In Itrlxlon prison since Auk. 12, ''' lug foil. Tin- article; appeared under t lies bead: "Who is feeding Mr. Mitc .SwInoyV" It says: "Everybody lu asking who Ik feed ing him. There Is no doubt at all that the government In not giving him food or any of the prison ollleluls. It In sug gested (bat bis visitors, priests and relatives are giving IiIiii Ntilllelunt food to keep him alive." Holiitlng out that .Mr. .AlaeSvviney and the Cork builder strikers have virtually equalled Dr. Tanner's forty days' fast, the newspaper asks bow the lirst twelve men to be found .Mayor MncSwIney and the eleven In Cork when they tried to go without food, could equal Dr. Tanner's record, which excited the wonder of the world. In reply, Art O'ltrleu of the Irish relf-deterinlnutlon league said : "No nourishment or food nf any kind In being given to the lord mayor." Lord Mayor MncSwIney has sent the following messngc on behalf of himself and the hunger strikers In Cork Jail to Irishmen throughout the world : "I 'have completed my forty days without tasting food, and, though lying here helpless, my faculties are as clear us ever. I attribute this to the spiritual strength I receive from my dally communion, bringing me bodily strength, assisted by a world of masses and prayers. "I believe find has directly Inter vened to stay the Hazelly for a while for a divine purpose of his own. It is Incredible that the people of England will allow this callous, cold-blooded murder to he pushed to the end. I think that Cod Is giving them their last I'luiuce to pause mid consider. Hut If their determination Is to pi on our resolution was prepared from the be ginning and we are prepared to die." TO ARM ULSTERITES. British Have Plan Worked Out to Subdue Sinn Feiners. London. The Hrltlsb cabinet lias llxed upon a definite policy for Ireland that will be forced through. Hurllu- incut, In October, will rush the Irish home rule hill through third rending, and start Its operation by creating a separate parliament for Ulster, which will begin functioning at once. It will renew Its offer for a sepa rate parliament for the south of Ire- land. This undoubtedly will be re Jootod. With UlRter nlnniiglng her own nf- fairs, If the south rejects the home rule bill, the Hrltlsb will strengthen hdlltury rule In that section, using soldiers drawn from the north of Ire land to crush the Sinn Fein terrorists, 'Irish moderates, It Is hoped, then wilt excess willingness to accept home rule. Man Who Sent Warning Insane. Hamilton, Out. Edward I. Fischer, detained luwo In connection with Inves tigation Into the Wall street explosion, was apprchc.idcd on Information given the police tw his brother-in-law, Holt- ert Hope of New York, It Was stated, The poll iv. say Mr. Hope Informed them thai three weeks ago the pris oner prullctcd tin New York cntnstro- phe HOtl sent warnings to Wall street frfwnls. Hope says his relative has htvn In a peculiar mental condition for Mime time, and that he believes the lie formation ns to the approaching dis aster was "received by telepathy." A lunacy commission adjudged Fischer a "lit subject for the asylum." Wilson As "Private In Ranks." New York. A $.r(H) contribution to the democratic national campaign fund was received here from Hresldent Wil son who wrote that he was offering the money as a "private In the ranks." The president declared he felt that the very honor and destniy of the nation nre Involved In this campaign and that all eltlxeiiN who love Its honor should contribute to the success of the elm- , dldnte who "stands for the re-estah- lliihmcnt of our position among the na tions." The contribution was accepted. Yank Vets Found Murdered. Sallnii, Kits. The mutilated bodies of three young men, all wearing American Legion buttons and carrying cards Indicating they had been em ployed by u circus, were found along the Union Hacltlc tracks near Arcollu. Landslide Kills Five. tjrniid .junction, 1:010. invo men were killed when westbound Bio Grande passenger train No. 1 was struck ,b; U landslide near Debeque,' Cd. Early,, reports gave the deatlj Hat uh two. Lincoln, Neb. The Mate railway commission has Issued an order In creasing rates for tin; American Hall way Express Co. 12 ' per cent on In trastate shipments, meet In;: the In crease allowed by the Interstate com merce eoiiinilNsloii on Interstate ex press shipments. The schedule Is ef fectlve at once.. One feature of the recent hearings nt Washington und also In Nebraska at which the matter of Increased ex press rates was argued, was the show- In made by the company of the money It has paid out for merchandise lost In transit. This portion of the Investi gation resulted In drastic steps being taken to reduce this Item. In 11)10, the various railway express companies paid out .$4,000,000 In claims for lost or stolen goods. In 11)10, dur ing the period of federal control It was approximately SHO.OOO.OOO. This Ih termed by the commissioners as an "Inexcusable Inelllelency," or even worse, for under the present system It offers a temptation to express em ployes to pilfer and steal the goods' entrusted to their care. Fifteen mil lion dollars of the losses In 11110 were due to "causes unknown." Under the old system a receipt for an express package was given at the receiving station. From there no rec ord was kept of who handled It and no employe could he held responsible. If the package was lost or stolen the company simply had to pay for It and end the mutter. Under hencw order each employe who handles a package must receipt I for It, and If it Is lost It cay therefore be traced directly to the last man who handled It. Q. O. P. LANDSLIDE. Maine Rolls Up Greatest Plurality In Election Ever Recorded In State, l'ortlnnd, Me. Hepubllcuns swept the state In the election September 13 and elected Frederick II. Hurkliurst governor by the largest plurality .ever given a governor In Maine. Hark- hurst's plurality over Hertrand G. Mr- Intlre, democrat, was more than 04,- 000. The largest previous plurality was about 48,000, given the republican nomltfee In 180(1. Aided by the women's vote, which went largely to t lit reffubl leans, the party rolled up a vote more than fi3, 000 larger than that of 1010, while the democratic total was Increased by only about 2,300. Republicans elected con gressmen from all four districts 'and obialned a large majority In the legis lature, besides electing their candidate for state auditor. The. state senate Is solidly repub lican, and the repubrcans elected every county' attorney und county sheriff. Twelve democrats were elect ed to the state house of representa tives. , Fruit Crop Sw.-im.ps Market. Hcntnn Harbor, .Mich. Herrlen coun ty's $10,000,000 fruit crop, the largest of many famous yields, Is moving at full height Into the markets of the United .States. This community is literally swamped with peaches, ap ples, pears anil grapes. Three railroad lines, two electric Inloruihiins ami two lake steainsbln lines are workliu: (lav and ulglil to transiort the harvest, Inn so far all these agencies have been un able to cope with the demands made upon Item, Coast Air Mali Launched. Chicago, III. An extensive dally coast to coast air mail service was launched Sept. 11, when planes left live cities. One plane will leave each morning from New York with mall to San Francisco, one from San Francisco for New York, one from Cheyenne to Sun Francisco, one from Salt Lake City to San Francisco, one from Chi cago to San Francisco every day ex cept Sunday and one from Chicago to New York every day except Sunday Ousted Socialists Re-elected. .M'w orii. rue live socialist as- seinblynieii who were expelled from the state legislature last spring on charge of disloyalty, were re-elected at special elections held here. At another special election In the Nineteenth district of Kings county. Nat Kuhlu, socialist ran third hi a three cornered contest. The vote in the live districts were the ousted assemiiiynieu ran was light. Reds Warn Centralla Legionaries. Centralhi, Wash. Department of Justice operatives are Investigating the receipt by, a local newspaper of a threatening letter purporting to he from ".Milwaukee radicals," In which warning Is given that American Le gionaries and business men of this city who escuped the Armistice day min ders would be killed "about October ir.th." Infantile Paralysis In Boston. Boston, Mass. Over KM) cases of In fantile paralysis have been reported In the vicinity of this city. The number of cases Is the greatest In this stuto since the epidemic J 1010. Flyers Burned to Death, Cleveland, O. Air Mall Hllot Walter Stevens and Mechanician Bussell Thomas, both of Cleveland, were burn ed to death when their planes caught flro at nit altitude of 500 feqt at Hem herton, 0 fifteen miles south of Toledo. 1 Scene In lilsbiirn, Ireland, atttr Charles Evans. Jr. of Chicago, winner of the national amateur golf championship, being given the trophy by President Walker of the V. S. (J A at Koslyn, L, I. ;$ The famous marble works of Carrara, Italy, which were greatly damaged by the recent NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Terrible Explosion in Financial District of New York Laid to Anarchists. MAY BE PART OF HUGE PLOT Republicans Say Maine Result Pre sages Their Victory In November Attitude of Women Voters Signifi cant Cox Approves Root's Plan for World Court. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. New York's tlnanclal center was shattered and the entire country shocked on Thursday by a terrible ex plosion that took the lives of about .'10 persons and Injured some .'100 oth ers. That It was the result of a de liberate plot by annrchlsts Is the llrm belief of federal and local olllelnls.nnd theie Is reason to fear that It was but the start of a campaign of terror- Ism against the financiers of America. The explosion en me exactly at the noon hour, directly In front of the new assay building at Broad and Wall streets adjoining the siihtreasury. and across the street from the heautlftij .1. H. Morgan minding. A nno-hofse truck was standing there and the tiw tborltles believe It contained a gigan tic bomb that was exploded by a time clock. The deaths and Injuries and the damage done to bulldliigs were mostly caused by short, heavy slugs made from broken cast Iron window weights, unlike any In the Wall street district. This fact, together with many other developments, furnished a basis for the theory of tin.' officials. After the disaster It was learned that a Wall street employee and the French high commission bad both received warning that there would tie an ex plosion hi 'the district on September in. The letters both came from E. Fischer, formerly an employee of the French cYuninlsslon, and were mailed from Toronto. Fischer is said to lie dcridigod as a result of a nervous breakdown. The victims of the explosion were mostly clerks and messengers. No prominent tluaucler was killed, though many of them laid narrow escapes, and Junius Spencer Morgan, son nf J. H. Morgan, was cut by Hying glass. If It Is still true that "as noes Maine. so goes the nation, the Republicans will score a tremendous victory In No vember. They swept the HIne Tree state, electing Hnrkburst for governor, ami all the res-t of their ticket bv a majority of about (1.1,000. Hvcry, coun ty In tlie state went Republican. Na tional leaders of the party, of course. greeted this result with shouts of Joy. Nearly SO.000 women went to the polls, and some (SO.000 of them voted the Republican ticket. This Is regarded ns especially signlllcant, for It has been contended that the women of the country would support the League of Nations. The campaign in Maine was conducted largely on national Issue. the league Issue being foremost, and both parties sent national figures Into the state as campaign orators, the Democratic forces being led by Frank lin D, Roosevelt, cnndldate for vice president, and Secretary of the Navy Daniels. Calvin Coolhige. Republican candidate for vice president. Senator Lodge mid other heavy guns were there for the Republican ticket, and devoted much of their energies to at tacking the Wilson draft of the league. Governor Cox, Mr. Boosevelt, Chair man White and other leading Demo crats all refuse to consider Maine a reliable political barometer. Secre tary Tumulty, after conferring with Hresldent Wilson, said only that the Maine result "cannot be considered as Indicative of the general result In November." The Inmartlal observer will accord the greatest Importance to the atti tude of the Maine women, though It may be true that the women of the central nnd western states do not feel the same way nbotit the league as Hresldent Wilson wants It, the anti-English riots In which seventy buildings were destroyeu. 2 arthtiuake. Of the primaries of the week, the most Interesting and Importnnt were those of New York and Illinois. In the former the "regulars" of both par ties won. The Republicans renomi nated Senator Wadsworth, and the Democrats named Lieut. Gov. Harry C. Walker as bis opponent. The Illi nois primaries were interesting, espe cially because of the tierce "civil war" within the Hopiiblleau party there. The faction led by Mayor Thompson of Chicago was bitterly attacked by the metropolitan press, but It swept Chicago and Cook county. In the rest of the state th anti-Thompson forces piled Up such large majorities that at this writing the result Is In doubt. The "power of the press" is very poorly exemplified by the Chlcugo newspapers, for they nearly always lose in tights of this kind. The congressional Investigating committer dropped the inquiry Into ('ox's charges concerning the Hepubll can campaign fund, the Republican members holding that they had not been proved and the Democratic mem bers having little to say. Mr. Cox, however. Is unwilling to let the matter lest, and in a recenhspeech he doubled the amount he said his opponents wore collecting, stating that the fund was to be $2,"i.000.000 or $.'10,000,000. Ex pert political opinion is that the gov ernor has done his cause more harm than good by his1 "expose" df campaign contributions. Both presidential, candidates are perforce devoting' a great deal of at tention to the League of Nations. Senator llnrdlng. In a message to. a women's club, said: "We an; desir ous of preventing war. Let us not break the heart of the world by any more delusions. Let us unite Amer ica behind a new proposal to the other nations for the prevention of war and for amicable relationship In world ml--ministration. Let us. In doing this, preserve our own national conscience at home, and not check It at Geneva." Out West, where lie has been deliv ering "peppy" speeches. Governor Cox promised that If he were elected the league would be ratified, money would no longer be spent on battleships and the government funds would be used for such purposes as reclaiming arid lands. Mr. Cox also gave his full ap proval to the plan for a world court as put forth by Ellhn Boot and the rest of the advisory commission of Jurists. This court, said Mr. Cox. can nut In any way be regarded as a sub stitute for. the league, being rather a part of the covenant which Is quite true. Mr. Boot sailed for home with the Intention of talcing part In tiie national campaign and to urge America to ad here to the International court plan, which he Is said to regard as the high point of his career. The proposition was taken up for discussion by tin league councll-when It met In Paris on Thursday. It was expected that Italy and .liipau, and perhaps America, would make objection to the article In the constitution of the court which provides for compulsory adjudication. In making public the text of tlx proj ect i he council. In a letter to all league members, -aid : "Tin' council would regard an Ir reconcilable difference of opinion on the merits of ihe'wchoino as an inter national misfortune of the gravest kind. It would mean that the league was publicly compelled to admit its lnoupnclt to carry out one of the'inost Important of die tasks which It was Invited to perforin. The failure would be great and probably Irreparable; for. If agreement proves impossible under circumstances apparently so favorable. It Is hard to see how mid when the task of securing It will be successfully resuiriVd." Russian bolslievlsts, not giving up tholr attempt to conquer Holniul, con centrated a large force for an attack in the direction of Lemberg: hut the Holes report that they have adminis tered a crushing defeat to these troops, and that their own operations along the upper reaches of the Bug river have been very successful. Hostilities- between the Holes ami the Lithuanians seemed to have quieted down, but the latter were gathered along the border In great force, ne- cording to recent dispatches, and a battle was fought in the Suwalkl sec tor. ' Baron Wrangel carried out a com plete chnnge of front In southern Bus sla. Abandoning his plan of concen tration on the Kuban and formation of a liaison wltji the revolting Cos sacks, lie collected 'all his forces In Taurlda and started out to capture Kherson and N'ikolnlev with the In tention nf forming a union with the Ukrainians1 further west and of push ing northward toward Alexnndrovsk and Kharkov. Already' be has won several victories over tin; soviet troops. In the Baku region In the Caucasus the antlbolsbevlst revolt Is reported to he spreading and the Beds, who already had abandoned Baku, arc continuing their retreat. Not withstanding these reverses in and about their home country tin; Bus slan Beds are unremitting In their ef forts to "bolshevlzo" the rest of the world. Tokyo hears that they have perfected plans for this propaganda and are soon to send emissaries to America, Japan, China and other coun tries in Asia. The band of the bolshevik Is appar ent, too. In northern Italy. Radicals, most of them foreigners, are trying to get control of the communist move ment that sprang up there and to foil the efforts of the labor confederation to bring nliout a compromise between the workers and the employers. In some instances they drove contented employees from factories and seized the plants. Though the movement was spreading considerably, there was no reason to change the prcdic tion that It would- ultimately fall, but the probability that the employers would offer to the men equal control and profit sharing Increased. Hremler Glollttl finally took a hand in the dls onto. Inviting representatives of the employers and workers In the metal plants to meet him in Turin. Genoa became a storm center when the com munists there, led by some Russians' and Hungarians, seized merchant ship ping and mounted cannon, unnounc ing they would tight If naval vessels were sent. In answer to this the tiov eminent sent a squadron of battle' ships nnd destroyers. The foreign leaders who were arrested were uli In possession of large amounts of money. Seizure of the lnnd began In Italy when communist peasants took pos session of several large (arms. As some of these belong to high church olllclals It was expected the Vatican would protest to the government nnd demand protection of the property. The congressional Junket party Is on Its way home from the Orient, nnd when It arrives maybe some of the members will be able to give the gov ernment valuable advice on the Jap anese problem. Hosslbly they will not be able to do so. The problem Is becoming acute, both here nnd In Japan. Ambassador Slildehara has been authorized to conduct negotia tions direct with Secretary Colby for a new treaty or some understanding that will safeguard Japanese property holding and more dearly restrict Japanese Immigration. Tokyo doubt less prefers to have the trouble set tled by the present administration, hoping for better terms than might be agreed to by the Repuhllran If they win In November. Senator Harding has declared lilmclf In favor of the exclusion of the Japanese on the ground of racial difference. The Wil son administration still Insists on the restriction of Immigration from .Tn pan. and also still objects to .Tapnn's occupation of the Russian half of Sakhalin l-1and. The Veterans of Foreign Wars, n large and Intluentlal society. In con- 'vontlon In Washington, has adopted n resolution advocating the exclusion of Japanese and il constitutional amend ment withholding Anierlcnn citizen ship from Anierlciin-born Japanese ami other "unasslnillable races." Hresldent Descbanel of France, who has been seriously ill for some months, has decided that he ought to retire, since he cannot attend to the public business. So be has plncetl his resig nation in the hands of Brcntlcr Mil lerand, and on September 25 the na tional assembly will convent to se lect his successor. Death and Destruction Wrought in Heart of New York's Financial District. POLICE SUSPECT BOMB PLOT Hundreds Injured By Flying Debris Morgan Building Badly Damaged Street Thronged With Crowd When Disaster Came. New York. A mysterious explosion. In Wall street, near Broad, believed by trained department of Justice nnd' police Investigators to have been caus ed by an Infernal machine, killed 35 or more people, Injured probably 200, partly wrecked the J. H. Morgan & Co. banking house, the subtrensury and the assay olllce, and caused property dutu uge estimated at yJ.OOO.OOO. Bollco Investigators are of the opin ion that the Infernnl muchlne was In, ii closed truck drawn by one horse, which was abandoned at the curb in. front of the assay olllce, nnd thnt a timing uppnratus set off a quantity of high explosives. The horse was blown, to pieces, but no trace has been found, of the body of the driver. The noon hour hnd struck, und nn endless stream of olllce workers bad', just started pouring Into the streets, from buildings In the neighborhood. Suddenly a cloud of yellowish, black, smoke and a piercing jet of Hume limped from the street outside thcr Morgan ofllce. Then cunie u deafening Must. A mo ment later scores of men, women aniu children were lying prostrate on t he ground, nnd the streets were covered with debris from thousands of broken, windows und the torn facades of ad jacent buildings. Thousands of clerks nnd stenogra phers fled In terror from adjolning struvtures, und many of these ofllco workers nre among the Injured. Scores fainted, fell and were tram pled on In the rush. Meanwhile the noise o the explosion, which, was heard throughout lower Man hattan nnd across the river ltii Brooklyn, brought thousands of the curious to the scene. Hieces of bodies were found on win dow sills and in creyiccs of buildings--hundreds of feet from the scone or the explosion. Many of the victims Buffered the loss of limbs. The explosion created more con fusion In New York thnn even the great Black Tom explosion. Business, or the llnaiicial district was paralyzed for the rest of the day. The sessions: of the Stock Exchange and the curb market were suspended. Hundreds of brokerage ollices closed. Witnesses have been found who claim to have seen n truck marked: "explosives" near the scene just be fore the explosion. There are also witnesses who claim to have seen a Hash In an automobile standing at the curb near the Morgan bank, which Hash was Immediately followed by the explosion. Some adhere to the theory that tit truck loaded with explosives blew up as t wns passing through Wnll street,, and was midway between the Morguiii banking house and the assay ofllce. Warnings that radicals planned iu renewal of bombing outrages were sent, less than a month ago to nil eastern! clients of the William J. Burns detec tive agency, according to a statement' by Mr. Burns, who said he was con vinced thnt the explosion wns a pre meditated attack, and was not acci dental. It Is also known thnt n letter giving: warning of the explosion was dropped' through the mail slot of a door In onn of the ollices of the Fiench high com mission at 0."j Broadway the day be fore the disaster. FEEDING UNPROFITABLE. Decided Loss Suffered By Cattle Mern 5 in State of Nebraska. Washington. D. C.Cnttle feeding In. Nebraska during the pnst 2 years wns a precarious venture, mure likely to be unprnlltuhlf than not, the depart ment of agriculture announced in re porting the results of Its first cost of production Investigation In the busi ness of cattle feeding. Similar Inves tigations are being made In Iowffj Min nesota, Illinois and Indiana, and re ports soon will be made. The average cost of corn fed cattlo In Nebraska laid down at the market was $14.01 per hundred weight for 2.203 head fed In the winter of 1018 10, $13.83 for cattle fed during tliw wlnter of 1010-2O. There was an aver age loss per bead of .$3.17 for the 1018 10 fed rattle and of $10.09 for thw- group fed last winter. Communists In Power. Turin, Italy. Workers are tighten ing their grip on the economic situa tion here. The communists took con trol of the electric power plant when its directors attempted shutting off power from conununlzcd factories. Hundreds of workers, currying red Hags, followed the funeral of two red guards killed near t lie factory of Fran cisco Benegettl. who Is on trial for murder. The coumiunlstR at present Work for food cards only, receiving no. money. These curds provide meat,, bread, potatoes und other vegetables.
