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JSSn The Omaha Morn ng Dee [7 l arr coition . vol u. mi. cm omaha. mumiav • •: iii'. i*'“ • two cm** wwwcwsU* L , m^.rrr—/ T T " mm. *.,«.> . ».. lf.|M4 »>•••! »• 0.«*»t CM* • •**>. «*♦»*»* ^ 4 1 • » *»■• M »** ■.«.*. >■» »> M« >■> »«**»» >t" It ,„..., „ u mmmm . ..— r,r. »iri .1! .1 .. i-huhii. ... m mm ■. 1. . - ENGiiic Fi Iipi nos Terrorized by V olcano Hail of Stour* and Ashes With Ca* Cloud* Makr Hatau Island Rrsrmhle “No Mao'* Land." Inhabitants Flee to Sea fly I’rro. Bm(an, April 20. — Inhabitants of iiatan Island aro menaced by tbc eruption of a volcano three miles northwest of San Dlonosco village, according to a wireless message from the yacht Apo, on which Governor General I.eonard Wood Is Inspecting the northern Islands of the Philip pine archlpellago. The report describes tlie eruption us violent, with stones and ashes and devastating clouds of gases rolling down the mountainside and causing ^the adjacent country to look like "no man's land" In France during the world war. The Inhabitant* have taken tem porary refuge In Hhelter* near the water'* edge. The people are ter rorized, yet loath to leave their home*. Food and medical aupplie* have been furnished by the governor general's yacht. Steps were being taken today for the removal of the people to places of safety. The message from the yacht came In confirmation of persistent rumor* of volcanic activity on Babuyan Isl and, near by. San Dlonosco, Ha tun Island, has a population of 760 na tive*. « BOY JURISTS FOR DISTRICT COURT Hoys may nerve a« Judges of the district court In Omaha a week from ti<*xt Tuesday If plans of Robert K. Kmiih, district court clerk and Joe Marrow, bailiff, in c harge of placing the youths In position In the court lit use for Hoy's day In industry are curried out. It is thefr plan to have'every dis trict Judge relieved from office by nn edict from Governor Bryan "varnt It tor u tiutt of that day all the t ,,ug|M* county benches and appoint ing youth* from the high schools In their place*. The courts will also be administered by other youthful attaches that day, a* sheriff, court clerks, reporters, mors, commissioners, register of il'-'-ds, etc, NOTORIOUS “CON” MAN DIES IN PEN Canon City, Colo., April 2f>.—Is ill monger, <74, alleged king of an Inter Ha tlonal ring of confidence men who were convicted In Denver last sum mer, died In the state penitentiary here today after a long Illness. He was serving a sentence of 17 years. We Have With Us Today Iso \. Mathew*. Beattie, Wash. Heanishlp IJne Representative. Mah Jong or rna (hong. a* the Admiral Oriental line apella It In Ita book of rule*, ha* had considerable to do with the success of Mr. Mathew*. Kor although Mr. Mathew* D only 29 year* old, he ha* already become a *ucee*a. Horn In Jndlanola, la., Mr. Mathew* (l tended school In J>e» ^>lne*. Omaha. Denver and Beattie, and at I ue University of Washington. He then obtained a Job with the Illlnol* Central railroad In Beattie, becoming ■ lilef clerk to the general agent there. During the war he apent two years in the army flying, was an Instruc tor at half a dozen fields In this coun try, and baa 500 houra of flight to I I*'credit, a considerable amount of Hying, a* any airman will affirm. If* returned to th# University of Washington after leaving the service, but a abort time later became a pur ser on the Adrnlffl Oriental line. This steamship line, with It* great ship* and the opportunity It afford* for travel In the orient In perfect com fort, ha* l>ecom# hi* hobby. He taJk* Admiral Oriental day »nd night. It was on th# B. B. President McKinley that be conceived the Idea of getting out a rule book on ma chong. There v-sre four educated Chinamen on the boat a* passenger*, and they were playing the game with euch Intent neg* that be enlisted their service*. This was before the game became a ciazo In this country. Blnce then several ton* of these brsik* have been distributed »nd each one I* »n ad vcrtl*ement for th* Admiral Oriental line. Mr. Mathew* has another hobby. It Is the University of Washington football team. He believe* the team will beat California this fall, and then )i# |* eager to *ee them f>l»y one of University of Nebraska's famous teams. Mr. Mathews, wno now baa the title of traveling passenger agent. Is to make hi* headquarters in Chicago for a time. H« ha* been stopping at Hotel Paxton while In Omaha, t ForqpftinR Our Troubles. Entente Cordiale * Facing Rupture on Dawes Report Two Fundamental Differ ence* Divide British #nd French—Neither Country Willing to Baek Dowm. —* By I nlvfrMl Hfrfl*#. Paris, April 20^—Instead of cement ing the Anglo-French union, the re port of the Dawes commission looms now as the rock destined to split the entente cordiale wide open. Two fundamental difference# divide the British and French viewpoint#." while IMh Premier# Macdonald and Poincare are definitely on record n# mating that neither will back down fyr the other. The first difference Is over the matter of sanctions. Premier Poin care already ha# Indicated that France will not accept the report of the expert# at #11 unlea# Britain and Italy sign «n agreement by which all the allle# will Join In Imposing new sanction#, Including a re-lmpoal tlon of the Ruhr eystem should Ger many default. Premier Macdonald, In a speech ln»t night, categorically repudiated such a proposition on the ground that the menace of new sanctions would be an incitement to German national ism. In the second place. Premier Mac donald believe# that the total of Ger many's debt should be reduced In order to permit. It to acquit Iteelf fully within 20 years. The French will refuse to consider any reduction In the total of Ger many's debt without a corresponding reduction In Interallied debts. Th<« most profound pessimism I# now succeeding the extravagant optimism of the last few weeks, and hut few diplomats and observers think that the experts’ plan can be put Into execution before next year. If st all. PACKERS LAMENT POOR GRADE HOGS |,ar<e rune of mangy hog* at the Omaha market thla aprlng ha* canard packer* to complain. Veterinarian* attribute the prior grade hog* to Improper rare and un aanltary aurroundlnga exlallng at the different feeding place* on the farm*. On account of the market being low, farmer# allow the atock to ahlft for them*elve»and give them very little attention. County Muni Pay. Judge O. J>. Wheeler, In dlatiict court at Council Hluff* yeaterday, ordered the county to pay for the trnnacrlpt In the appeal to the *u prrine court of (leorge Kendall frnm ci nvlctlon on th* charge of drlv lug an automobile while Intoxicated Kendall la out upon an appeal bond. r-; — ~ \ Man Sits on Tree Stump to Light Pipe; Dynamite Explodes; He'll Recover Ntnrna Point, Wb., April — J. n. Wlneeke found dynamite a memory stimulant. Wlneeke, who wme clearing tim ber on hla larm, placed four sticks of dynamite under a stump and sal 'down to light his pipe, lie ab sent-mindedly IM the fuse and for got to get up. The explosion burled Wlneeke 30 feet and he whs taken to a hos pital witll two broken ribs and bad ly singed eyelids. He will recover, physicians declared. WORKERS START DAHLMAN DRIVE A. V. ShotweU. chairman of the Dahlman alate, announced a buay program, starting today, for Mayor Dahlman and the live id her commis sioner* on hi* ticket. The headquarter* of the Dahlman ticket at Sixteenth and Douglas street* will tie turn#.! over to one of the commissioners each day this week. Commissioner Jo* Koulaky and hla workers will be In charge of the head quarters on Monday, while Tuesday Deah N'oyes will rule. Joe Hummel will have Wednesday, with John Hopkins In charge Thursday, Henry Dunn on Friday and Mayor Dahlmpn on Saturday. Mr*. Grant Williams ha* been *p pointed vice' chnJrman of the wo men's club and with Mr*. W. B. Bollln la buay organizing the women tmfers. CONDITION OF ACTRESS GRAVE Fort Wayne, Jnd , April 20,—Clarn Kimball Volina, nrtreaa. who under went an operation Inat week for re moval of nlidnmlnal tumor, waa reat In* enally tonight and her ultimate recovery la looked for, according to f»r. B. T. Weaver, her phyalclan. Hei condition, however, he aald, wna atlll .eerloua and It will he a month before ■he will lie able to leave the hoapltal for her home In J.oa Anttelea. Mlaa Voting waa atrlrken auddenly on the atage of a local theater Tuna day night. The operation wna de elded on after aho aulfered a re la pee late yeaterday afternoon. PLANES TO RACE FOR NORTH POLE Hr I filter**! H*nl**. Part*, April 20.— Following the opening of the round-the world air rare between America end Kngland, a new conteat for the honor of land In* the flret airplane at the north pole haa been announced with the revelation that the French nlr mini* try haa for montha been eecreily pro paring a new machine to race ('aplain Amundeen to the pole. It la expected Hint both the plane* will lie ready within a month and lliat both will *(art on their daeh for the pole before the end of May. Diversification Plan Started on Farms in West Growers Turning to Small Grains and Leguminous Crops—Dairying Prov ing Profitable. IIJr I'altffNl *«r«l««. • Washington, April 20—Western grain farmers, taking* iea<1 from the hook of the southern cotton plantar, have begun a diversification program that promises good results, the De partment of Agriculture announced today. A slump In wheat and flour prices for three years, due to over produc tion, ha* *ent the westerner* with a v!m Into extensive production of small grains, alfalfa, corn, flax, society beans, seed clover and other legumin ous crop*. Reef cattle production Oeo has been Increased greatly, and more at tention than ever la given to dairy ing. Many farm era have turned from beef culture to dairying and have mad# more money. Tha wheat acre age ha# been sharply curtailed. Japs Vent Hatred on Americans' Ominous Humbling* Heard as Anti-tJ. S. Sentiment Over Immigration Bill Develops. Insults Hurled at Whites By r»lT#r»«l dmlrt. Toklo, April 20—Ominous rum bllng* srs echoing over Japan today aa even th# oldest and moat optimistic Japaneae-Amerlcan obaervera In Toklo ara beginning to grow alarmed at th# trend event# are taking throughout th# empire In connection with the drastic Japanese exclusion measure passed last week by th# American congress In Washington. Today'# unnatural calm In Japan la believed to be but the foreboding etill ness preceding th# etorm which will break with uncontrollable violence Juat aa aoon as the exclusion measure Is formally enacted Into law by th# elgnatur# of President Coolldge. That tha American preeldent will sign th* Immigration bill la taken as fore granted In th# highest Japans** of ficial circle*. Anti-American sentiment Is begin nlng to develop among th# Japaneee masses and observer* fear that out right violence might break any time. Americans Insulted. Already Instance# have been record ed where Americana In the street# of Toklo have been Insulted by Japaneae citizens. In the majority of case# these insults have been confined to the hurling A>f the expletive "baka" which means fool, by enraged Japan ese citizenry upon passing Americans. The Peruvian consul at Kobe was attacked with a knife by an Intoxicat ed Japan#*# laborer who believed the diplomat waa an American eltlzen. Th* consul escaiped Injury. Thqs# Inatance# of Japanese resent ment against the United States ara only the mildest forms of outward ex pression of deeprooted feeling of an tagonism Intensified by th# present immigration erlsls. according to ob aervera of Japaneae American rela tions. The Japanese people as a whole consider that through the action of the United fitates their flag ha# been Insulted and th* prese la beginning to fan th# ember* of hatred. Newspap er# generally carlcatur# American tendencies and trait*, exploiting to th# fullest th# Japaneae viewpoint of American money-worship and com mercial mntarlallsm. “Gray# Consequence*.” One of th# most Influential editorial writer* In Japan, a writer of th# high est standing In official quarters, hs# this to say on the American situation: "The present crisis Is filled with th# gravaat consequence*. Japaneae and American relation# undoubtedly will be seriously harmed, for the Intelli gent classes of ths Japaneae people will not tolerate th# principles of Americanism which consider th# Jap an#** aa an inferior people. It t^ hard for tie to believe that anti-Jap (Tern In rase Three. C'nlsitia Three.) BRITISH FLYER NEARING BAGDAD Zlxa, Palestine, April 20.—Btuart Macl/orcn, British aviator who Is making an attempt to fly around the world and who arrived her# yaaterday from Cairo, resumed hi* flight to ward Bagdad at t:2t this morning. f “Ain't Nature Wonderful'' By UNCLE PETE. -____ - O'Neill. Neb., April I#—Hoc WII klr.aon la considering offers from sev arst lycaum bureaus for ths appear anca of hla quartet of muaical wood peckers on th# eastern rheutsuqua cl-cults this summer. The quartet, which consists of two redheaded woodpeckers and two three toad woodpeckers. Is |ierhape th# only quartet of birds In tha coun try playing popular alra on musical instruments and It has taken the doctor several years of patient appll ration to perfect hla feathered muel clene In their art. Hut now the hlrdt wern to anjoy It and rsadlly learn new sirs and tunes. Tha Instruments ara four sonorous wooden tubes of varying dlame'er and length and the notes of the scales are I rodtu-ed by the tapping of tha birds as they run up and down the*.* per pcndlettlar perches, the grnap of their tors around the tubes tengthen^ig and reducing the vibrations Just na the slide on a trombone does. Doc.'s attention was first attracted to the possibility of teaching the woodpeckers music by noticing aev etal young birds tapping on the hoi low branches of trees tn tha orchard on hta ranch Jurt west of Heaver Plata. II# #oon discovered that the little fellows enjoyed the sounds produceci almost aa much as they did the grubs and borers for which they sought After securing a number of fledge i ling* from the n<-#t* which were quite I numerous Iti the orchard the doctor mad* a set of wooden tubes and drilled mlnut* hole* In them- As aoon a* the , bird* had frown gufflclant to begin fho work for which nature had In landed them h# would fill tha flmlet holea In the tube* with hit* of earth worm* Aa th* holea war* placed at Inter val* corresponding to th* arate* the hlrda aoon learned I heir notaa, and then were taught to play enaemtla. For a long time It waa necessary to prepare a special act of tube* for each l.ine desired and te puncture them .somewhat after tha manner of the playing roll of a player piano, but gradually the hlrda learned harmony end aoon would perform without the tubes being halted for them. Koch bird la tauph! Ita part In each selection apart from thr other Wide and then they are brought together and taught to play In unison. After each selection they are fed. getting one worm each for slow music, two for wall*** and three for Jura, and when Poe holds up one. two or three finger*, th# bird* know Just what etna* of music I* desired. Their misreading of tha algnal* at thrlr flr»t public appearance, at th* !>sver Flats church anelnl last win ter, proved rather embarrassing for their trainer «nd put th* bird* In rathy er had repute Th* dm lor held up one finger for "Onward Christian .soldiers,” hut In th# artificial light lue bird* thought they saw 'hr** and played "The Hlirlk." Since then they have ho more proficient In counting and have len'ned to control their appetites so that they now- go through I hair pro gram Just as thalr ,owner desire*. Rustic Swain Kept Waiting at Station for Forger-Fiancee Vi ho ^cd His Rival bl t*>» Re# ■tells, Neb, AptH I# —Kverylhing waa set last Thursday morning for the wedding «f Arthur Nedrow, poof but honest farmer, living near Mteila, and Dorothy Miller, gay and attrw Uve nurae, one of tbs social lumi naries of Auburn, Nob Bverythlng, that la, but Dorothy. Dorothy had sworn undying devo tion to her rustic swain and promised to strive In Stella Thursday morning on the train from Omaha, to pel married. All Dressed I'p, Arthur waa on the platform, all dressed up like a sore thumb jnl smelling of cologne water, when ihc train arrived. Dorothy didn't. That waa tough. It got tougher along about noon, when one of Arthur’s friends showed him a parser setting forth the details of the b&utlful Dorothy's marriage to a man In Omaha, her desertion a day later, and the fact that ahe had raised soma of Arthur's checks In order to provide a nifty honeymoon for hla rival. | Considering hi* future plan* Arthur [la ellenl. liei It |« lire fine. Ill* Sunday aull haa l>e*n pul away, j He ha* gone lack U the old fine, where he receive* rlatta from "rn* to lima from hla parent*, >lt and Mr*. Joaeph Ned row of Well* The townapeople are all atenmed up over the tough break fat* handed Arthur. "He'a a hardworking boy, and never get* into any trouble," the tale goea. "It aU atarted when a nighbor boy went to Auburn to are a girl friend who waa a nurse He Invited Arthur to go along. Arthur went, and he met Dorothy. That wa* about a year and a half ago. Met Parenta. "Sometlmea he brought Dorothy to hla home, and aha met hi* parent*. Why, It waa only a month ago *h* wa« here, and ahe wild right before everybody that when ahe came again, It would be a* Arthur'* wife. And now look what happened. It’e downright acandalou*. that’* what It ts. Arthur'* »uch a nice boy." Democrats Go on Record for Cash Bonus Measure Minority Group to Vote for Committee Bill, However, if Report Fails to Com . mand Support. Washington, April fO.—Senate democrats went on record today for a cash and Insurance bonus bill In a minority report of the finance com mittee made public by Senator Walsh, Massachusetts, although It was In dicated on the floor yesterday the party would support ths pending straight Insurahce bill "to aaeure en actment Into taw of a bonus meas ure," , , The rsport declared such a plan would cost the government about 11.000,000,000 less than the pending bill, but If It failed to command sup port, the minority members would vote for committee measure. Hli of th# seven democrats of the commit tee signed It, Senator King. I'tah. re fusing, because he Is opposed to any bonus bill. Passage Fx period. Republloan leader* today con aid ered th# way clear for paean** early In th* week of th# atra!«ht Inauranc* MIL Their a/wuranc# waa baaed on statements of Senator Robinson, Arkansan, demooratle leader, that th# democrat# feared republican* would vole to sustain a Veto by President Coolldg# of a cash and Insurance measure. Senator Watson, republican. Indiana, and other republican lead ers, said they would vote to over ride a presidential veto of the straight Insurance plan. The democratic plan would allow a choice of full cash payment or a 20 year endowment Insurance policy, »hcreaa th# committee measure would provide for th* Insurnnca poll clea with caah payment* only to those veterans not entitled ' to more than 2t« In adjusted service compensation. BoBi measures would allow com penaatlon on th* same basis, |1 a day for home aervlo# and 11.25 a day for oversea* service, exclusive of the first (0 days. Would lean* Bonds. Funds for payments under th# democratlo proposal would b# ob tained. the report explained, through Issuance of 11,500.000,000 additional bonds under th* second Liberty loan act. Support of th* American Legion was given yesterday to th* straight Inauranc# proposition. Commander Quinn declaring In a message to aen store that the democratic eubetltut* would endanger enactment of any Mil, since It could not be paeeed over a presidential veto. SMALLPOX CASE AT REFORMATORY Lincoln. April 20.—A ease diagnosed as smallpox has hern discovered at the Mate reformatory for men near Lincoln, according to a report mads by I>r. II, A. K Inkle, house phy sician at the Institution, to Huper Intendent Miller. James M. Phillips. 22, who broke out of Jail In Furnas county, was recaptured and sent to the reformatory, le the afflicted man. Htepe were taken by the superintend cnt to prevent spread of Ihe ailment. Phillips was placed In quarantine No outsiders am permitted to pass within the gates of the reformatory. llcuty Jap Immigration Into Mexico Predicted By I'nltfml Bertie*. Mellon City. April 10. A heavy Japnnee* Immigration Into Mellon la foreoaat tiy Salvador nomern, labor lender, trim ban Jnat relum#<1 from a trip along the went coaet. Il« re I*ortn Hint .lupaneee former* and In* iluntrlnllale are beaded for Ihe atnlre of Sinaloa and X'dMrlt. 1 lent rlrt Iona on I he aell lenient of Japan*** In III* United Htnlea now make Meulm the mOltml rhnlv* of the Inpnnew fin their realdeiu-e III thn v.riiem world. a / Victory Claimed for Coolidge by Manager Butler 563 Delegate* Instructed or Favorable to President Already Selected, He Declares. Washington. April 10.—Accom plished victory for President Coolidge in the campaign of th* republican presidential nomination waa claimed today by William M. Butler, Coolidge manager, In a formal statement, in which he said 5S* delegates Instructed or favorable to the president already had been selected, eight more than neceasary for a choice. In th* list furnished by Mr. Butler as favorable to Coolidge, "either by Instruction, by endorsement or by personal prefer*#***." were th* New Vbrk delegation Of SI and krther* not bound down by mandatory orders, but which, he wild, preferred the nomination of th* president. According to Mr. Butler, th* "Cool idge delegate* thus far chosen" are: Colorado. 15; Connecticut, 17; Fieri da. 10; Idaho, 11; Illinois, 50; Iowa, 29: Kansas. II (two to be elected); Kentucky. 2<; I-oulstnna, IS; Maine, 15; Michigan, SI; Minnesota, 17; Mis sissippi, 11; Mlssonri, IS (IS to be elected); Nebraska. 10; New Hamp shire. 11; Netv Mexico. S; New York, 91; North Carolina, 19 (three to be elected); North Dakota, II; Oklahoma, 11 (11 to be elected); Rhode Island. II; Bouth Carolina. 11; Ter*>ea*ee, 11 (15 to be elected); Virginia:, 17; Washington, 17; Wisconsin, 1; Ha waii, I; Philippines, I. The ettaerneot said there would be two contesting delegations from iGeorgla and that Georgia delegate* ware omitted from th# laid*. CHURCH BURGLAR GETS PROBATION Milwaukee. Wla . April JO —Becaue* Fid ward Wallla, 1* year-old "church burglar," told Judge A. C. Rarkue that he entered church ctoak rooma and rifled clothing there to ear# hla wife and * year-old eon from atarvatlon. and pay th* undertaker'* bill following th# death of two of hie children, he wnW placed on probation Inatead of being eent to prleon Not only Wallla, but hi* wife Ruby, and th* baby aa well, wept through out the hearing. The mother clutched th* little boy rloe* to her and eobbed audibly, while Wallla placed hla head In hla arm on tip defene* couneel table, while hi* ahouldera ahook with emotion. According to hla admiaalon*. Wal lla etole a total of $l?d from church cloakroom*. OMAHA BOY GIVEN 10-DAY SENTENCE John Nelson. I*. «0S* Reward street, Omaha, was sentenced to 10 days In Jail In lien of a $15 fine when arraigned on a speeding char** Sat urday morning In municipal court at Council muffs The Judge, however. Instructed Chief of Police eQcrge rtlllnspy to release the youth when ever he eecmed sufficiently punished Robert lelnson. 1*. 1100 Canning gtreet, was dismissed when he told the Judge be was hurrying to a rail road station along a side street with hi* parents a* paseengsrs. Pine* of 115 each were given Mika Rherman of Omaha and lion llurton, 1* !«• High School avenue, on speeding charge*. ' The Weather Fur 14 hour* *r»din# t »» m A|*r|l }• I'rpriiillNllnh Idrlln •»*«* I1«tulrnl«ht Tefal. • Tefal si nr* .tannery i I •• i tdcKfi. dftlMmrf, If Inch tliwrli Trmp*r*(i«r** I i in ♦ a m .... 1* 1mm .... .§§ ♦ a m .• • ♦ am 41 1« a m ... if it a m 4? it 4991 »•«*»«..14 l i n m ...... .m I * w. M I » m v ... M 4 |j tn I t* m M 4 # m t v in Automobile Demolished at Crossing I’ilotlfM IxH'oinotivc. Duelling Down Tra«;k I-ikc Giant Sprctir, Str**w» I)«*alh in Wake. Boy Huded 200 Feet By l almHl Sir > lei. Chicago. April *0— Death rode at the thottle of an abandoned locomo tive today aa It ruahed wildly through the night and atruok an automobOa. killing four persons and Injuring two more. Without llghta. eave the sparks from lta ataok. the engine screamed like a giant black epectre for three mllee from the Baltimore * Ohio roundhouae until It crashed Into a bumping poet at the atub end of a track and turned over. At a street crossing, nearly three mllee from the roundhouae, the en gine. running heck wards struck the automobile of Otto Bowmark, grind ing It Into an unrecognizable mass. Bowmark, hla wife and 10-yearold boy were killed outright. William Lindberg. an occupant of the auto mobile. died of Injuries this afternoon. Mm. I.lndberg and Bowmark’a slater. Hilda, were seriously Injured. Hm Man Leap. Authorities today were seeking to learn the Identity of a man. clad In overalls, who waa reported having been seen leaping from the engine as It left th# roundhouse. The cabin waa deserted and th* throttle wide open as It emerged from th# network of awltch track*. alowTy at first, then steadily galnlnr momentum and speed until It was rushing wildly at a speed estimated at BO miles an hour. A negro who saw the man leap from the cabin reported the matter to signal men. Wires flashed th* newt along th* rout# and efforts were made to throw derail switches ahead of the speeding engine. They mleeed connections by fraction* rf seconds. Fear gripped towermen that th# engine would And an open awltch to th# main track and colMd# with several scheduled Inbound passenger trains It stopped short of th# cross ing of th* Illinois Central tracks and turned over. Boy Hurled M Feel Efforts to overtake th* runaway engine with a swift pursuit locomo tive proved futile. Th* Injured were In too aertoua a condition to give detail* of the eoill sloa. Th* boy waa th# A net to be found, hurled a distance of "00 feet from the track. A passing taalcab driver found the moaning boy and without wafting to look for other Injured took him to th# Pouth Shore hospital. II* died before reaching th* hospital. Wreckage strewn along tbs track for mors than a Mock gave mute evi dence of th* speed wtlh which the engine rushed blindly through th* darkness. Railroad officials Joined the police authorities in making a thorough in vestigation. hoping to learn tbs Identity of the man who started the engine on Its race of destruction. 4 KNOCKED DOWN BY WILD AUTOIST Three unidentified men In a tour ing car Saturday night drore Into » crowd of to peraona waiting to beard a etreet car In front of the Union atatlon and then aped on after Injur ing three and knocking down othera William K. Albright. Falla City. Neb ; Mta. Kthel Pauleen. HtO Burt atreet, and her daughter. Clorar. IT. were allghtljr injured. Poctal In spector William Coble wea knocked down. . Albright waa carried f* feet on the radiator of the ear while Clorer Paul •en waa knocked the length of the atreet ear. EX-OMAHAN WILL WED AT HONOLULU Word haa been received of tha •n*a*ement of Mlaa Jeeale t'arey former euparvlaor of mttele In th# Parnam arhool. lo Walter Hatcher, artenre taarhar In tha high eehool at Idhtte on tha tatand of Km*1. Philippine# where aha ta now taarh In* The marriage will take place In July at Honolulu, after which they will make a tour of the telande. They will live at lJhue. Or. Ining ('utter Elfftfd to Head Revolution Son* Hr train* Cutter, dean of the col lege of medicine at T’nleeralty of Ne hraeka. eaa elected preetdent of the Omaha chapter of the hone of the American Revolution, ortantred *t a meeting Mount*y nl*ht In Ho’el rontenelle, .1 I. i'isldin*i n waa cloven vice < pnmldent and tleorge Hcj»ri eerie lary and treaeurer C*l. J M Itanletrr acted aa tempor ary chairman. A K Sheldon elate Wretary and Tir ileorge Snipe# p teal dent of the L.mwin chapter. were p.eaeat.
