The O'Neill Frontisi
D. H. CRONIN, Publisher,
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Elaborate preparations are being
made, according to the Munehener
Neuesten Nachrlchten, for the produc
tion at Berlin "early next spring” of
an operetta entitled "Der Lieben
6traum," for which "the best talent In
Europe has been engaged.” The names
of the composer and librettist are not
given, but the knowing ones say that
the Crown Prince Frederick William
composed the score and that the Bbret
to was written by the emperor. The
Betting will cost a huge sum, but the
money will not come out of the im
perial purse as did the stage expenses
for ’’Sardanapalus,” but will be pri
vately" contributed.
Mrs. Alexander Wolferd Dannen
baum, a young Philadelphia matron,
who recently attended the opera, at
tracted much attention by wearing a
diadem of Jeweled spikes, rising from
a bandeau of gold. The ornament is
costly, but Is extremely effective. It;
Is worn on the back of the head, hold
ing the curls In their place, and In a
way taking the place of a comb. It Is,
one of the many charming fillets and
bandeaux of Parisian origin that In the
present season have come Into style.
Dainty decorations for the coiffure
have been in great demand recently,
ahowlng that women’s fancies In new
ornaments for the hair are rapidly
Changing.
The total population of Russia In Eu
rope and Russia In Asia was 100,096,200
on January 1, 1909, an increase of 86,
000,000 In 60 years. The distribution Is;
European Russia, 116.606,600: Poland,
11,671,W0; Caucasus. 11,896,400; Central
Aslan provinces, 9,861,800; Siberia, 7,-,
678,6J0, and Finland (the “hope” of Rus
sia) 3,016,700. In Russia proper, exclu
sive of Finland, only 21 per cent of the
total population can read and write,
leaving 79 per cent of Illiteracy. In
.Poland the literates total 31 per cent;
Caucasus, 12 per cent; Siberia, 12 per
cent, and Central Asia, only 6 per cent,
reports Consul-General Snodgrass, of
(3t, Petersburg.
Dickens once described the condi
tions under which he pursued the call-|
lng of a reporter—conditions, ho said:
of which his successors could hava(
no adequate conception. He trans-!
crlbed his shorthand notes of Import
ant election speeches, he said, on the,
palm of his hand, by the light of a dark1
lantern, In a post chalso and four gal
loping through a wild country at the
dead of night at the then surprising*
rate of 16 miles an hour. He once,]
in the’castle yard at Exeter, took an
•lection speecn of Lord Russell In thei
midst of a lively fight.—Westmlster
Gazette.
A young man captured a sea gull
and tamed It. The bird became a pet of
the family. After It had matured It
would fly to the beach and associate
with the wild gulls, returning, how
ever, to the home of Its master. When
It came time for the wild gulls to leave
the neighborhood, the tame gull would
go along, too. It would come back
with them the next season, and go at,
once to the home of the man who had
tamed It, and act the same as It would!
have done had It been away only a few
hours. Those visits continued for 40
years.
Dr. Richard James Jewett, who was
a member of the biblical literature de
partment at Brown university from
J850 to 1895, has been appointed pro-,
feasor of Arabic at Harvard university
and will assume his duties next month.
Since leaving Brown. Professor Jewett
has been professor of Semltlo lan
guages at the University of Minnesota,
professor of the Arabic languages at
the University of Chlcagow and direc
tor of the exploration In Syria and
Palestine conducted by the University
of Chicago.
Under the headline, "The name Is a
good one,” a writer In the Prague Press
says: "The latest news from Stock
holm leaves no doubt as to the award
of at least a part of the Nobel peace!
prize to Alfred Fried, the founder of
the German Peace Society, and a writer
,for oyer twenty years on the subjtet
of peace and disarmament. Fried
only 47 years old. Some years ugh
an article on peace signed •FrieA
—German for peace—appeared In a\
magazine. In the same number of which '
there was an article on war by GuBtav
Krlegar—warrior.”
Queen Alexandra ts nowadays rarely
•een abroad with her camera. For many
years past she ha* snapshotted with
avidity, the result being that she now
posses quite a valuable pictorial record
of her extensive travels. Among her
"victims" are hundreds of European;
royalties and celebrities, many of them!
,ln delightfully inconsequential posesi
and attitudes. The collection fills a!
ncore of big albums, while numbers!
of the photographs have been trans
ferred by the queen herself to porce-l
lain.
The Jigsaw puzzle has Invaded so-!
clety in Berlin, and has become, ac-l
cording to a letter from that city, “a1
bridge rival In those circles where peo-!
pie must, do something In order to be
relieved of the conversation burden."'
"The game.” says the writer, "isj
known hb ‘puzzle- and the word is the
latest in the English language to be1
adopted by the Germans. They give
it a Teutonic twist, however, which
the American discovers when he Is
asked to play ‘pootsel.’ "
In order to facilitate the handling of
freight and express matter on steam-!
ship docks, the Hamburg-African lino
has recently been experimenting with,
electric trucks. The company has'
adopted a truck mounted on three
wheels, capable of carrying a load of
8.000 pounds at the rate of four mllea
an hour. It has been proved that one
of these trucks will do the work that
heretofore required six men with the
common hand trucks.
No nation loves nature so much as
the German. The Italian truvels to get
somewhere; the German to travel. The
country walk for Its own sake Is a
German discovery. The English
man’s Ideal is a [iark, the Germs* s a
wood, and the Frenchman loves his
boulevard.
Being entitled to draw a Carnegie
teacher's pension after so many yearn
of service as a college professor and
president, Dr. Woodrow Wilson will
not deny himself the pleasure of draw
ing one. _
A sentimental novelist, describing his
heroine us one who “always kept mod
estly In the background," was horri
fied to find It recorded In print thut
she ’’always kept modesty in the back
ground.”
Turin’s International exposition will
be opened April 29 by the king and
queen of Italy in the presence of oiher
members of the royal family and the
government.
Heauwear made of struw, was in use
among the ancient Greeks, but straw
bats as worn did not tome into use In
Europe '““yi half a century ago.
SLANDEROUS WORDS
AGAINST CLERK COST
A MERCHANT S2.000
Woman Young and Handsome
and Merchant Jealous of An
other Man’s Attentions.
ILnooln, Neb., March 30.—John F.
Kllng, a Bloomington merchant, Is or
dsred by the supreme court to pay h
Miss Sadie Bailey, a woman clerk ll
his employ, $2,000 because of slander
ous words that he used of her In th«
presence of herself and others.
Miss Bailey Is described In the docu
ments In the case as a handsome young
woman of 2i. and her attorneys claim
that Kllng was Impelled to make the
false charges against her chastity out
of Jealously because a traveling man
named Click, from Atchison, paid the
girl attentions while on a visit to the
town to sell goods.
Kiing dented this, and said he merely
Lad a fatherly Interest In the girl, but
the other side brought out the fact that
he had watched the girl's boarding
house all the time Ollck was there and
that even after she had flisd Iter $10,000
suit for slander he sent her postal cards
of a pictorial nature In which he
sought to set forth the fervor of his
affection.
The girl’s testimony was that the
morning after the traveling man had
called on her Kllng accused her, in vile
language, of being unchaste and of
having had Improper relations with the
debonair drummer. He did thie In the
presence of several men and women.
Kllng denied using the language Im
puted to him, and declared all he had
said was to warn the girl against the
talk that would arise from her receiv
ing visits from a marrlsd man and that
such talk and conduct would Injure her
vulue as an employe.
Miss Bailey secured a judgment for
$3,000, but the supremo court cuts this
to $2,000.
BRYAN’S YOUNQE8T DAUGHTER
WILL WED OLD SCHOOLMATE
Lincoln, Neb., March 20.—Miss Grace
Dexter Bryan, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, will be
married early In June to Richard L.
Hargreaves, a business man of Lin
coln.
Announcement of the engagement
was made last evening by Mr. and Mrs.
Bryan. The attachment of the young
couple Is of long standing and has met
the approval of their families. Doth
wtre born In Lincoln, were school
mates together and have lived here
most of their lives. Grace Bryan Is the
youngest of the three children of Mr.
and Mrs. Bryan. Mr. Hargreaves Is
the only son of Mrs. Albert E. Har
greaves. His father, a pioneer mer
chant of Lincoln, died lust October. He
Is 22 years old and his bride-to-be Is 20.
CHARGE DISMISSED
HE FACES ANOTHER
John M. Harris Qives Up for
Trial at Duluth, Having Prov
en That Bank Made Error.
Harrington. Neb., March 20.—Case of
the state of Nebraska vs. John M. Harris,
charged with obtaining money under false
pretense, was dismissed by Judge Graves
this afternoon upon motion of his attor
ney, R. J. Millard, who proved by affi
davits It was through an error made by
the cashier of the bank In making out a
sight draft that the draft was dishonored.
Harris was buying horses for a Minne
apolis firm and drew on them through the
First National bank here for $50, and was
arrested after the protested draft cams
back.
WIFE KILLS CHICAGO
, MAN FOR A BURGLAR
Heard Noise In House, She De
clare*, and Shot Before She
Thought.
Chicago. March 20.—John Schenk,
sup •rintendent of the 1‘urkridgo brunch
of the Northwestern Gaslight & Coke
company, was found shot to death early
today In his home in I’arkrldge, a sub
urb, and the police announced several
hours later, after Mrs. Schenk had re
covered from her shock, that the wife
admitted she shot her husbund, mistak
ing him for a burglar.
When police arrived at the house
Mrs. Schenk was hysterical and re
quired medical attention before she
could make n coherent statement. At
first she said she did not know who
tired the two shots which entered her
husband's body, hut after becoming
calmer, is reported by the police to
have said:
“I had retired, after being up lqte
to u.i entertainment, and was aw akened
by the sound of some one In the house.
1 was too frightened to call out, hut
went to see what it was, carrying a re
volver. I saw a man move, and I
don't know how the gun became dis
charged. Then, when I called to Mr.
Schenk, and lie did not answer, a sus
picion came over my .mind and I found
i had killed him. It was a horrible mis
take, as we always have been very
nappy." _
♦ INNOCENT MAN SERVES 4
4 MANY YEARS IN PRISON 4
4 - 4
4 Pittsburg, Pa., March 20.—An- 4
4 drew Toth was released from the 4
4 penitentiary hero after serving 4
4 20 years for a crime he did not 4
4 commit. Toth was accused of 4
4 murdering a fellow workman at 4
4 the Brnddock furnaces and sen- 4
4 tenced to prison for life. Re- 4
4 -ently it was discovered he was 4
4 half a mile away when the crime 4
4 was committed.4
v4*44*4e
SPIES ARRESTED.
Hamburg, March 20.—A local paper
announces that four Germans and an
Englishman, h-.ve been arrested,
charged with having transmitted to
England plans and specifications for
Gei man warships under construction.
SENATOR STONE BETTER.
Kansas City. Mo., March 20.—Physi
-•lur.s attending United States senator
V\ illiem J. Stone, who la ill with
■clip at the home cf his son, Klin
,rough Stone. In this city, said today
lie »«actors cc nditlon wns greatly iin
„r«.v«d. l.e- Is still confined to tils bed.
MRS. DAVIS GUILTY OF
FIRSTDEGREE MURDER;
GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE
Accused Hears Her Fate With
Face Unmoved, but Intimates
She Will End Her Own
Life.
ilartington, Neb., March 18.—
“The verdict of the jury is that
the defendant is guilty of murder
in the first degree, and that she
shall be confined in the state pen
itentiary for life.”
That was the verdict read to
Mrs. Maggie Davis by Judge
Graves in the early hours of this
morning, just as the sun was peep
ing over the eastern sandhills. It
condemned her to a life sentence
for the killing of Ira Churchill,
who, she claimed, deserted her to
marry another woman.
The jury went out shortly after
supper last night, and reached a
verdict about 1 o’clock this morn
ing. On the first ballot, it is
said, the jurors stood six for con
viction and six for acquittal.
Judge Graves arrived at the court
room at about 6 o’clock to receive
the verdict.
The court room was empty save
for the jurors and court officials.
Mrs. Davis, brought into court by
the jailor, was hollow-eyed and
weak. She had had little or no
sleep. She received the verdict
calmly, and, after sentence had
been pronounced, was taken hack
to the jail.
Preferred Death Penalty.
Mrs. Ed Joslyn, of Coleridge, sister
of the convicted woman, wus broken
hearted over the verdict. She visited
her sister in jail this forenoon, and fell
on her neck und wept. To her Mrs.
Davis Raid:
"I don’t thank that jury one bit.
Why couldn’t they have hung me?
That’s what I wanted, but I never did
get anything I wanted in this world,
and I am tired, tired of it all. They
may keep mo in the penitentiary and
priuon the rest of my life, but they
cannot dictate to me how long my life
shall last.”
Her 10-year-old daughter, Mary, has
not been told of the verdict nor will
she bo. She did not accompany her
aunt to the Jail this morning and it is
likely that she has gazed into her
mother's face and clasped her hand for
the last time in her life. She will be
taken away today by her aunt, Mrs.
Joslyn, and later sent away to some
school for girls, where it is hoped she
will never learn of her mother's fate.
Widow Glad of It.
“Good, good! I’m glad of it," was
the exclamation made by Mrs. Church
til, widow of the murdered man, when
Informed of the verdict this morning.
According to Mrs. Davis' attorney,
R. J. Millard, a new trial will be asked
for, and if it is denied the ease will be
appealed to the supreme court. How
ever, those who have attended the trial
feel that there is very little hope of
securing a reversal of the verdict.
After an hour's recess for supper.
Judge Graves read his Instructions (o
the jury. The instructions were vol
uminous and the reading of them re
quired an hour.
During the afternoon while the at
torneys were making their pleas, the
court room was Jammed and pucked
with humanity. Every available foot
of standing room was taken and the
Rtairs and hall were crowded. The GOO
seats in the court room were filled an
hour before the time set for court to
reconvene after dinner.
Through the entire afternoon women
Stood on benches in the back of the
room so absorbed In the proceedings
which were to determine tin- fate of the
prisoner that they did not think of be
ing futigued. The audience was such a
one as would gather in Hartington to a
lecture or entertainment. Farmers and
their wives came in their automobiles
and curriages; merchants, bankers und
"butcher and baker and candlestick
maker,” young and old, of both sexes,
composed the audience. And they were
not there out of mere idle, morbid
curiosity.
Each seemed to feel a personal inter
est In the fate of the woman at the bar.
She alone was the apparently disin
terested one in the court room.
Throughout the entire afternoon she
sat with her right hand holding her
handkerchief over her eyes, and her
left hand holding her 10-year-old
daughter Mary’s hand, who sat beside
her. During County Attorney’s
O’Gara’s scathing denunciation of her
as a married woman who had entered
•he home of a married man, under the
ruise of a servant, and had ruined the
home, murdered the husband, and
wrecked the happiness of the wife, all
eyes were fixed upon her, but she ap
peared as oblivious lo the tirade as she
later did to the pathetically extenuating
plea of her own attorney.
The Two Women.
On one side of the lawyers’ table,
with,her seal skin coat tlung over the
back of her chair, sat Mrs. Ira Church
ill, widow of the murdered man.
Handsomely gowned, well groomed,
pretty of fuce and figure, her shapely
white finger displaying a diamond ring,
it seemed as though by some mistake
of destiny she had been wrongly east
as the wife of a rustic.
On the other side of the lawyers' ta
ble sat Mrs. Davis, that sad shell or a
woman whose life was being weighed
in the balance by 12 men.
The two women presented a study
in contrasts. Each had loved the same
man, but in a different wav, and were
mourners over Ills death, vet they de
spised each other. Each wus dressed
in hlRck, one In expensive silk, the
other in plain cheap fabric. One was a
woman who had seen life, and was ac
customed to some of its elegancies, the
other a woman of the people who had
made for herself a life without charm,
a life of toil in a cap and cloth skirt.
EMIL KLANK FALLS
HEIR TO FORTUNE
Omaha, March 18.—Emil Klunk, the
South Omaha man, who is manager for
Frank Qotch, world's champion wrest
ler, received word of his inheriting a
fortune, while he was In Omaha Tues
day. The estate comes Jointly to Emil
and his brother by the death of his
aunt, Miss Mathilda Klunk. who lived
at Eauenburg, Germany, and la valued
at more than 1460.000.
And yet, strangely enough, they had
loved and been loved by the same
man.
Attorney Is Bitter.
"A more horrible and disgusting case
was never tried In this or any other
county,” began County Attorney P. F.
O'Gara. who opened the argument for
the state. "You hare heard the aw
ful calumnies against Churchill—they
can lie, and can despoil his name, for,
thanks to this woman, this adventuress,
the poor man's bones lie rotting in the
earth, and his iips are forever sealed,
so he can make no defense.
"This 32-year-old married woman
who claims she was betrayed, says
her home and her life were wrecked. I
tell you. gentlemen, there is another
home wrecked. There's another home
I want to call your attention to. A
newly married wife sits there, a wid
ow In tears, and all on account of this
serpent, this defendant, who now
feigns Insanity. You saw this defend
ant sit here Tuesday and Wednesday,
and saw how she acted. Ah, gentle
men, with the stage set and the cur
tain drawn every act has its trick. She
formed an illicit com,«ct with a mar
ried man, while she herself was 8.
married woman, and after killing him
for revenge, sets up that her mind was
deranged. Gentlemen, If you are going
to let crime go unpunished and go back
to savagery, let us tear down the court
house and do away with the law.”
Defense Makes Tender Plea.
With Intensely dramatic and power
ful effeet Attorney R. J. Millard plead
ed the woman’s cause.
'“The eyes df the people of all the
adjoining states are on this jury to
day,” he began In modulated tones that
brought a hush throughout the court
room. "The wires are in readiness to
flash your verdict to the remote parts
of the universe. 1 wouldn’t thank you
for bringing in a verdict of assault. I
have tried this case on the theory that
if she Is guilty, she is guilty of murder
and must be hung like a dog on the
scaffold. She is either guilty of a cold
blooded murder or she is not guilty of
anything and should go free.
"I can understand how in a civil case
a Jury can bring in a compromise ver
dict, but 1 cannot understand the mon
strosity of a man who entertains a
doubt In a case like this, and can vote
for a verdict of guilty. I ask you
gentlemen, that if you find for a ver
dict of guilty, and are tempted to show
this woman some mercy, do not show
her the mistaken mercy of a life in
Nebraska's hell at Lincoln. Show h
the only real mercy there will be io.
her In case of such a verdict—the mer
cy that only the scaffold can give her.
If you find her guilty, then there will
be mercy in death for her.
"Suppose she were sent to the peni
tentiary. How long would she stay?
Perhaps till she developed into a rav
ing maniac and have to be removed.
She is on the verge of It at this mo
ment, I believe if you make up your
mind to hang her you are legally mur
dering an insane woman. Where the
question of insanity is brought up by
the defense in cases of this kind the
burden of proof is on the state co show
that she was of sound mind when she
committed the crime. i
"Men ought to have reverence for the
dead. But I am no coward, and the
fact that Churchill is dead is not go
ing to close my mouth as to the kind
of man he was during his life on earth.
I am convinced that when this wom
an shot Ira Churchill, Almighty God
was making use of her diseased mind
to carry out His divine plan of jus
tice. God works in mysterious ways
His wonders to perform, and having
destroyed this honest and confiding
woman's life, her hope, her future hap
piness, and caused her to destroy the
life of her unborn babe, Churchill's
time had come, and then she became
an instrument in the hands of God to
do divine Justice.
"Why did they put Ira Churchill's
widow on the witness stand? This
woman whom he married in Sioux City,
after having met her only a few
weeks before in Omaha? Will the
county attorney answer me that?
What did she testify to? Simply that
she was the widow of Ira Churchill.
She knew absolutely nothing about the
case, and testified to nothing except
that slip w as Churchill's widow. Why,
then, did they put her on the stand?
I'll tell you: Simply to furnish an
odious comparison between her, with
her fine clothes, pretty face and pol
ished nails, as against this poor, mis
erable shell of a woman whose life her
husband wrecked.”
Instructions of Court,
Judge Graves instructed the jury that
where the question of insanity was
raised by the defense, the burden of
proof was on the state to show that
the defendant was in her right mind
when she committed the crime.
That an insane delusion must be
such as to create an uncontrollable and
irresistable impulse to commit the
crime, such as to preclude the possibil
ity of choice, but such Impulse must
be such as to obliterate all sense of
right or wrong.
‘ In the event you are unable to de
cide as to the defendant being of sound
mind at the time she committed the
crime, it will be your duty to acquit
her.
"There is no such thing as an 'un
written law’.”
HARRIS TO TRIAL;
CASHEDSIGHT DRAFT
Man With Local Record Finds
Himself In Nebraska Court
With Charge of Fraud.
Hartington, Neb., March IS.—J. M.
Harris, a man with a record in Sioux
City, was placed on trial here this
afternoon on the charge of having
cashed a sight draft for $50 at a local
bank. He is defended by D. Sullivan,
of Sioux City, whose client he was last
fall before the Nebraska crime is al
leged to have been committed.
Harris was wanted by the Minnesota
authorities while under charges in
Sioux City, but while that state
sought action through a habeas corpus
lie was out on bond on $2,000 and went
over into Nebraska, where he got in
limbo again through cashing the sight
draft, which he represented was foi
the purpose of buying cattle.
SHERMAN DOWN SOUTH.
Charleston. S. C„ March 18.—Vice
President Sherman is here today as the
guest of the city. He will be the chief
speaker at the Hibernian banquet to
1 night.
STEAMER COMING IN
WITH FIRE IN HOLD
New York, March 18.—The steamer
'Nueces, of the Mallory line, is on her
way from Galveston with a Are smoul
dering in her hold. A wiveless message
received here today brought word of
the Are, coupled with the assurance
that the Aames were under control.
There were no further particulars.
The Nueces left Galveston on March
11, and is assumed to be somewhere ofl
the southern New Jersey coast. She
is due here today..
OLLIS STOCK YARDS
BILL IS EMASCULATED
Doctored In Nebraska Senate
Which Hastens to Correct a
Bad Lapse.
Lincoln, Neb., March 18.—A remark
ible bit of manipulation was discovered
this morning when the house took up
the Oil is stock yard bill for special
consideration. It was discovered that
the bill has been tampered with be
tween the time it had passed the sen
ate and the time it reached 1 he house
and that the enacting clause had been
lost out. This rendered the bill dead
and the house refused to consider it.
Senators who had supported the bill
were dazed at the discovery. The house
deferred action in order to give the
senate time to fix up the bill. Sena
tor Talcott, who has charge of en
grossed bills, rushed the bill back to
the senate, demanded a suspension of
the rules, and the correction (of th^
mistake of the clerks or the tampering
with the bill, whichever it was. The
senate, placed on its honor, acted
promptly, the bill was reconsidered,
acted upon in committee of the whole,
re-engrossed and presented for third
reading all within an hour. On its
passage the measure received 24 votes,
with five votes against it. When it
passed before there were but three
votes against it.
Those voting against the measure
after it had been corrected so that it
had any binding effect were:
I Bartos, of Saline; Horton, of Doug
las; Janison, of Gage; Regan, of
: Dougla", and Tanner, of Douglas.
Burham, of Howard; Morehead, of
Richardson, and Albert, of Platte,
voted against the bill, but changed
their votes.
The house has the bill under con
sideration this afternoon, with the out
come very uncertain.
Charges and counter charges are
made as to why the bill was shorn of
Its vitality by some hook or crook. The
chief clerk of the engrossing room and
the clerk who did the waiting are both
from South Omaha, which is interested
in the defeat of the bill.
NEBRASKA WOMAN
WEIGHED 550 LBS.
fen Sturdy Men Are Required
to Garry Her Coffin From
Hearse to Grave.
______
Lincoln, Neb., March 18.—Mr#. Mary
A.nn Lohr, wife of a farmer near Cort-i
land, was buried today. It required
10 sturdy men to carry her body from
the hearse to the grave. The patent
device for lowering coffins into the
grave had to abandoned in her case,
and six heavy straps substituted.
The reason lay in the fact that Mrs,
Lohr weighed 550 pounds at the time
of her death. In fact she weighed
about that amount for many years.
To encoffin her remains a special bo?j
had to be made. This was two inches
deeper than any ever made by a local
factory, being 28 inches. The maximum
depth carried in stock is 24 inches,
j Mrs. Lohr has been active as a
I farmer's wife for 25 years. She wad
58 years old at her death, and had been
able to get about with ease despite hef
weight. To insure her comfort at
home, extra large size furniture, mads
to order, was used. Her chair was
made of solid oak, with legs rour inches
In thickness. To make certain that
this would sustain her the legs were
reinforced with steel rods. Her bed
was even more massive, made of oak,
with strong pedestal legs, and steel
bars to insure her safety. It measured
seven feet across.
Mrs. Lohr's death was caused by
heart trouble. She leaves three chil
dren, three brothers and three sisters.
None of them is of any unusual size
or weight.
‘BLACK HANDER” DEMANDS
$2,000 FROM ITALIAN
Omaha. Neb., March 18.—Tony
Powell, a wealthy Italian who keeps
a grocery store at 708 North Sixteenth
at., this city, yesterday turned over to
the police CL letter received by him pur
porting to come from the “Black
Hand” society. The letter contains a
demand tor $2,000, accompanied by a
threat of death to himself and family
and the destruction of his property by
fire. A determined effort will be madr
i to apprehend the writer.
EXPRESS DRIVERS GO
ON GENERAL STRIKE
All the Big Companies In New
York Involved In Latest
Row.
—
New York, March 18.—Drivers and
i lpers of the Adams, United States
and Wells-Fargo Express companies
1 in New York city and Jersey City are
( on strike today in obedience to a gen
eral strike order issued In Jersey City
I shortly after midnight this morning.
Employes of the American and Na
! tional Express companies reported for
work as usual, but leaders declared
they expected the men of those com
panies to Join the walkout during the
dav.
Drivers and helpers of the New' York
& Boston Express company also failed
i to report for work.
The strike leaders announced that
| at a meeting of the men to be held this
afternoon it was expected that the
employes of the Wescott Express and
New York Transportation companies
would be called out.
In Manhattan all police reserves are
being held in readiness for duty.
CITRUS FRUITS MOVE.
San Bernardino, March 13. Twenty
live million oranges and lemons were
moved out of southern California yes
terday, 173 carloads starting eastward
from this city and Colton. This is a
record shipment for a single day.
DOMESTIC TROUBLE HAS
FINAL END IN MURDER
Springfield, 111., March 18.—James
Tockett, a carpenter, killed his brother
inlaw, James Elem, early today. Elem
was divorced. His former wife lived at
the Tockett home, and he had gone
there, it is alleged, threatening to at
tack her. The woman was absent, and
he is declared to have attacked other
members of the family with a razor.
Tockett struck Elem on the head with
a poker.
TWO MEN SHOT AS
SPIES BY REBELS
ilN WEST MEXIGIT
They, Not the Insurgents, Show
Marked Disposition to Vio
late the Laws of
Neutrality. v/
Chihuahua, Mexico, March 20.—
The 700 Americans here held a
meeting today to consider plans
for appealing to President Diaz to
end the war as soon as posri’ole.
Dr. Manuel Balbus, a prominent
phyaician, already had prepared a
petition, suggesting that if Diaz
would guarantee certain reforms to
the people the war would quickly
■top.
The city has been under siege
for practically 18 days, and the peo
ple's patience ia becoming exhaust
ed. Little news has come in frorrv
the outside.
The Americans, most of whom
are business paople or employes of
the mines, are extremely anxious
beoaute of tha continual rumors
that the insurrectcrs would attack,
the town.
Mexicalla, Mex., March 20.—Felipe
Rios, a Mexicali saloonkeeper, and an
other man. unidentified, were shot as
spies by the insurrectos in the bull pen
here laat night. Papers from the Mex
ican government were found on Rio»
by the rebel*, who charged the men
.with aiding a plap to retake Mexicali
from the American side.
The two condemned men were lined
up against an adobe wall. A firing
squad from the provost guard fired a
volley and the bodies were rolled into
holea in the ground. The executions
ware ordered by Francisco Quijada.
rebel Jofe politico (mayor) of Mexi
calL recently appointed by General
Leyva. Frank Henera, who was also
arrested, was found not guilty by the
apbels and released.
Attack Was Expected.
The rebel provost guard in Mexicali,,
consisting of only 18 men, spent last
night in the bushes along the bound
ary line, awaiting an expected attack
from die rear by Mexican federal offi
cials and their sympathizers in Calex
ico, Cal. The insurgents discovered
four former Mexican custom officers
armed and hidden in a house near the
line.
Captain McDonald, of the United
States infantry, posted a guard to
watch the house with orders to fire if
they started to cross the line. The
discovery of the men in the house, it
is believed, averted a surprise attack
by the Mexican federal sympathizers
from the American side.
Cudahy Men Injured.
While coming full speed a mile east
of here today upon a bridge which had
been blown up by the rebels a month,
ago. a heavy gasoline motor car car
rying County Supervisor C. N. Perry
.and Thomas P. Daley, superintendent,
and B. Curtis, engineer of the Cudahy
ranch, fell 36 feet Into the New river.
Curtis was the only one Injured, and
he but slightly.
The accident followed the failure of
the Cudahy chauffeur to flag the mo
tor at the point where It had been!
agreed that John Cudahy and sons:
were to meet the party. It was ex
plained later that the Insurgents had'
fired at the chauffeur, and driven him
from the place where he was to flag
the car.
FEDERAL DEAD BLEACH
ON CHIHUAHUA’S GROUND
El Paso, Tex., March 20.—A newspa
per correspondent writing from Casas
Grandes, where federate and insurrec
tos recently fought a blood” battle, says
the insurrectos have disappeared to the
south, evidently in the direction of Chi
huahua. He says 60 soldiers recently
sent out from there failed to return, and'
later, when others went out, the latter
saw a great flock of buzzards and on
investigation found 30 dead federate.
A Mormon coming into Casas
Grandes from Colonia Guadeloupe, re
ported having counted 17 dead federate;
near that place. Insurrectos wrecked^
the town of Sabinal, north of Casas
Grandes, this week.
Troops Guard Bridges.
All approacnes to the bridges leading
from the American side to Juarez.
Mexico, today were guarded by three
times the usual force of United States
troops. Heretofore only a small detail
lias been assigned to this duty, but at
daybreak today tents had been set up
along the edge of the river and an en
tire company of infantry was sent to
patrol the bank between the two
bridges which form the main arteries
of traffic to Juarez.
Scores ot Mexican soldiers came to
the opposite river bank to look across,
at the United States troops. It was a.
typical frontier scene where the army
of one nation might exchange salutes
with that of another while each re
mained on its own soil.
Creighton’s Band Suffers.
An American who returned from the
insurrecto territory today said that
Capt. Oscar G. Creighton, the American
Insurrecto leader, who, with a small
force, has been destroying bridges
along the Mexican National railroad, is
still encamped in the hills a few miles
south of Juarez. Creighton's hand,
which is composed in large part of
Americans, is suffering severe hardship,
according to this man. The men, he
declared, have often gone several days
without food, and only the chance,
coming upon a steer has saved them
from actual starvation.
REGULARS ARE BOTTLED
BY REBELS IN OPINAGA
Presidio, Tex., March 17 (via Marfa,
Tex., March 18.)—A number of casual
ties are reported in the resumption of
insurrecto operations about the city of
OJinaga, where a federal command is
supposed to be bottled up. While
Colonel Dorantes, second In command
of Ojlnaga garrison, was on a tour of
Inspection, he was cut off by a rush
of insurrectos and now he and 80 of
his soldiers are surrounded in a group
of houses more than a mile from the
garrison. Likewise the insurrectos
are said to have surrounded the gar
rison.
The fighting is at close range. Fa
talities have been limited, however.
Seven federal soldiers were killed and
one insurrecto was mortally wounded.
Ojlnaga has been cut off from supplies
and water.
INSURGENT LEADER IS
KILLED BY PEDERALS
San Diego, Cal., March 20.—With the
leader, Luis Rodriguez, and seven of
his followers dead on the field of battle
at Tecate. Met., and the remnant of
his band scattered to the four winds
in the mountains, with the Mexican
federal Infantry holding the passes and
hamlets, the revolution on the west
side of the mountains of northern
Lower California received a severe
blow yesterday.
