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.
