The Omaha Daily Bee a VOL. XX XVI -NO. 37. OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 31, 1906-TEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY THKEE CENTS. f n'l CZAII AFTER DUMA fierier! of Vibor Manifesto Are to b Prosecuted for High Treason. SEVERE PUNISHMENTS NOT EXPECTED Intent on Probably to tisipalify Popular Leaden for Ee-el?ction. PREMIER STOLYPIN WORKING ON CABINET Premier Still Hcpea to Induce Repmenta tire Men to Enter Ministry. WORKINGMEN ARE WATCHING CAPITAL l.ahor Leader of Industrial Outers Try t rrcvnt Premature Strikes Knetory and Mine Men Hard to Hold. ST. PETKR8BURG. .-Th public prosecutor has tarted ' 'ing against the members of the low, "ec of Par liament who signed the Vlb ''f 'nlfesto. The charge under whict. 0- signers of the manifesto will be bro. .i trial In violation of article 129 of tl. -.Inal code, which provides for "atti to overt nrow the existing government Is virtually high treason, the mlt. pennlty being hard labor In the mine I No arrests have yet been reported, and the constitutional democrats do not antici pate anything approaching punishment of (heir representatives. It Is understood that the arrested will be admitted to bail pending trial. The constitutional demo crats are chiefly apprehensive that the possibility of prosecution held over the heals of their leaders will render them Ineligible for re-eWtlon. In the same man ner that Frof. Mllukoff and M. Hessel and others were excluded from the last lowir house. Socialist and radical members of the late house may have to cool their heels In cells for a long time and thus be pre vented from continuing the full-fledged revolutionary agitation upon which they are now embarked. Many of these ex members are now living under rover In the houses of friends In St. Petersburg, or have gone Into hiding In the provinces. f A correspondent of the Associated Press today met two peasant ex-deputies who had cut off their luxuriant hair and beards and who could scarcely be recognized. Motive for Prosecution The motives of the government for aban doning Its attitude not to prosecute the signers of the Vlborg manifesto, aa set forth recently by- Premier Btolypln In an Interview Is not stated, but was evidently Influenced by the need of doing something to counteract the effect of the Vlborg ad difsj. This has obtained an enormous circulation In the provinces In spite of the greatest efforts on the part of the admlnl- . tratioa to prevent Ite circulation. ( The "selsure" of the Boussel printing plant Jiere by the armed revolutionists for , the purpose of getting out copies of the Vlliorg .'address , m .duplicated, today In Kknterinoalavv but It 1 In believed that this forcible occupation of printing offices .s merely a bit of amateur theatricals ar ranged between the proprietors of the es tablishments and the revolutionists to save the former from responsibility. This same method was employed to effect the printing of the illegal organ of the workmen's coun til of St. Petersburg last winter. Stolyptn Working; on Cabinet. The rumor In circulation last night that General Trepoff had been assassinated turns out to be as baseless as the report to the sume effect which was current early last Wee!;. Premier Btolypln has not abandoned hope of Inducing public men outside of bureau cratic spheres to enter a reorganized cabi net and carry out hla policy of "strong handed reform." The following nomina tions have been made for the capinet of Premier Btolypln: Count Heyden. comp troller of state; Prince LvofT. minister of agriculture; Konl. minister of Justice, and Vlnogradoff. minister of public Instruction. A mob of 1,(109 workmen completely de molished a brewery on the Schlusselburg road here laet night. Before a detachment of Cossacks sent to disperse them arrived ihe mob destroyed practically everything, The central committee of the social demo crats has been hastily summoned here from the provinces. It has been formally de cided to support the action of the revolu tionary groups last week In pushing the agitation for a general strike and uprising. The social democrats' central committee In Its resolutions announced that the aims of the revolutionists Is to secure a constituent assembly of the Russian people to decide on the future form of government. M. Allndln, who waa leader of the Group of Toll In the outlawed Parliament, has arrived here from London, where he went to attend a conference of the Interparlia mentary union, but Is carefully concealing Ms whereabouts. Premier Btolypln has Issued a special clr- cular to the governments instructing them to employ eversi means to compel the pay ment of the taxes now falling due, as well as the arrearage. The last official telegrams from Poltava, where s. seriuus outbreak occurred July 8 In the First battalion of the Sevskl regi- ment, say that order has been restored, but the affair Is ftlll shrouded In considerable mMeiy. Nevertheless enough is known to cnntillt.il the fact that the lcyal troups used machine guns against their mutinous com rades which alone Is enough to err He a ilr. p ItnpreHsion In the army generally. Workmen Watch Capital. KKATKKINUSLAV. Russia. July So. Thr-e is very aral saltation among the woikmen In this industrial district, but ths I tenant Astor's troop was engaged In swim luders thus far have successfully oreventej I m,n Prectlce. when a tropper s horse got a strll.e, urging the necessity for cuntinu l 4 nork until the signal is given from M.'Sio and St. i'cierghurg. At Ymovka and Yrkaterlnodar, however, vuhout mailing fir the geneial signal, iii:iy factory and mine workers have a imk. 'I n f Jtv.gu consuls at Yekalennoslav t l-.ve made representations to their govern-j iu.. ,egarding the necessity for protect- in? foreign suhjicts, three foreign n.anag- of Mia. Williams having been attacked I ciming the last week. A German manager J a shot with a revolver and killed while! l'iilng hla factory, a Belgian manager ea- j f.tred death tl rouxh the Intervention of a i P'llcenian, whom the workmen shot dead. J " I a Frenchman manager waa compelled j t nee under menace of death. The garri- j foil here has been reinforced by a detach- ! ment of dragoons. PSKOV. Russia. July SO. -A band of S peasants burned the Manor house and stock stables belonging to M NasymofT. president of the dlstrhl ssmstvo. Subsequently the iConUaued uu Second i'age.) SOME EXCITEMENT AT TOMBS Thaw's Defective Orders Evelyn ThJW to l.enve Jul! and Sot Return Today. NEW YORK, July 30.-Whlle Mrs. Wil liam K. Thaw was In conference with hr son Mrs. Harry Thaw hurried to the war den's office from Thaws celf. She was evidently disturbed and asked the warden to make an Nexreptlnn to the prison, rulrs and allow her to use the prison telephone to rail up Clifford W. Hartrtdge and his detective, Roger O'Mara. She derlared that the matter was urgent and the warden con sented. Both men responded promptly and held Interviews with Harry Thaw at his cell before Mrs. William Thsw left the prison. When the elder Mrs. Thaw came down to the warden's office there were traces of tears en her face and she seemed agitated. She did not speak to Mrs. Harry K. Thaw In going through the office. The younger Mrs. Thaw left the prison In company with Mr. Hartridge There waa an excited conversation be tween Roger O'Mara and Mrs. Harry K. Thaw before they left the Tombs today. O'Mara and Mr. Hartridge started to leave the prison together, but O'Mara returned to Mrs. Thaw and asked her to go to her hotel. "No. I'm going to stay right here," ah said, "until the visitors 'hour comes this afternoon. I don't want to leave with things as they are." "You must gO," said O'Mara positively. He took her arm while she was still pro- j testing and led her to her hansom. As he helped her In O'Mara said to the driver: 'You take her to the1 Ixirralne and don't bring her bark here again today." It Is believed that the excitement at Thaw's cell today was brought about by a letter rerelved by Mrs. Harry K. Thaw which she took to the cell with her. ABSCONDING MAYOR GIVES UP William H. Relrher of Pnterson, J., Delii-era Himself to Officers of that Town. X. PATERSON. N. J., July 3n.-Former Mayor William H. Belrher, who surren dered himself at the Jail today after hav ing been a fugiHve from Justice for about a year, said that he has been In nearly every state of the union since he went away. "What have you done with the money you got?" was asked. "That is the subject of which I am not willing to speak at this time," replied Belcher. "If llOO.ono Is gone some one must have got It and blamed it on me; but I shall Implicate no one In what I did." A doxen Indictments have been found against Belrher. In which he Is accused of embezzling about $160,000. The Manchester Building and Loan association, of which he was president, was forced to go Into bankruptcy. FATAL B0ILER EXPLOSION Two Persons Killed and Over Twenty Hurt In Accident in , Indinan. . VINCENNES. Ind.. July 30. Two work man, were, killed.; and over iwentjr. ethers, were Injured by the explosion of a boiler t the plant of the Vlncennes Paper Mill company today. The property loss Is 16,000. . ' - Of the Injured the worst hurt Is Charles Conners, who was blown through the air fifty feet. The boiler was hurled through the roof of the boiler house and falling 100 feet distant It badly damaged the Harrison mansion, home of William Henry Harri son, when he was governor of the North western Territory. All the Injured will recover. DEATH OF ENGLAND REGRETTED French Knabassy Expresses Sorrow for Accidental Killing of Amer ican Xuval Lieutenant. PARIS. July SO. The French embassy r.t Washington hss been instructed to express the deep regrets of the French government at the killing of Lieutenant Clarence Eng land, navigating officer of the United States cruiser Chattanooga, who was mnr- j tally wounded at Che Foo. China. July j 2S. by a rifle bullet fired from the French j armored cruiser Duetlt Thouars. while the crew of the latter was engaged in small arms practice. The authorities here are awaiting fuller reports before establishing the responsi bility for the accident and determining on the disciplinary measures to be taken. FATAL WRECK IN FRANCE Rail Removed In an Alleged Attempt to Kill Russian Grand Duke. CHAR1.EROT. Belgium. July 30.-An at tempt was made last night to wreck the j Northern express from Paris. A rail waa j removed, the engine and tender were ditched and the engineer and fireman were killed. The cars, however, remained on the tracks and the passengers were uninjured. It Is reported that Russian agitators were responsible for the attempt to wreck tho express, owing to their expectation that Gr,nrt V"k Vladimir was proceeding to St. Fetersburg on the line. The railway officials say t lie grand duke was not on the train. They have no trace of the men who committed the outrage. tutor Mates Trooper's Life. WINDSOR. Eng.. July ao.-Second IJen tenant John Jacob Astor, son of William Waldorf Astor, gallantly rescued a trooper of his regiment, the First IJfe Guards, from drowning today lit the Thames. I-ieu- Into difficulty and kicked his rider. The trooper sank In deep water and young Astor dived In and brought him up. Pope galnst Socialists. ROME, July SO. A papal encyclical ! against Christian socialists, Italian and 1 forelsn. is exriected tn K iauft tonivh ,t und,toud ,hltt wll dn , wh ,n ,itu.Uon of reliKioua affairs In France growin(t out of le ,eparatlon of church and gtate. Persia a t.rand Ylsler Dismissed. TEHERAN, Persia. July 3a The grand vlsier, whose ultra-reartlontsm made nim very unpopular, has been dismissed. Ha opposed the granting of reforms, which resulted In popular demonstrations for hla dismissal. r reach (ahlaet Meets. nAJinuii-r-i it. juiy su.-i he cabinet held Its first session here today at the chauteau occupied by President Fallleres es a summer residence. Plans 'for the early application of tne law providing pensions for workmen rs adopted. WRECOELSC CLEARED AWAY Accident on New York Central Wont on that Road in Yean. SOME REMARKABLE ESCAPES FROM DEATH renple Thrown from Cure Into River Escape with Might Injuries and hut Two Men Are Killed. NEWBL'RO. N. T.. July 30 The wreck ing crews are at work this morning clear ing the debris of the wreck of the New Yoik Centrals Pacific express which ran into a landslide one mile south of New Hamburg at 11:30 last night, reaultlng In the death of Edward Wells, the engineer, of Albany, and Edward Warren, fireman, of New York, and Injuries to about a dozen passengers, none of which will prove fatal. There are three tracks at the point where the accident occurred, but they were all torn up or badly twisted for 100 feet or more. The wreck was the worst that has occurred on the Hudson River division since the New York ' tunnel disaster. It seems miraculous that there were no cas ualties or serious Injuries among the pas sengers, especially with' regard to the twenty or more men who were In the com bination smoking and baggage car, which, when the locomotive turned over after ploughing for forty feet Into the great heap of gravel which had fallen down upon the track, shot upward and then, turning al most at right angles, came down with a crash across all three tracks. Some Remnrlmhle Escapes. Joseph Shine of Poughkeepsle, who was In the forward part of the smoker, felt tho floor knocked out from under him and as the car landed, without turning over, he was dropped Into the river and swam ashore uninjured. Dr. B. K. ' MeCambrldge of Pousrhkeepsle wss thrown through a window and, with another man, fell upon the tender, which had turned over on Its side and lay em bedded In the gravel bank. Neither was hurt to any extent. Other passengers had equally narrow escape.?, getting off with slight ruts and bruises. The most seriously Injured was E W. Kelly of Poughkeepsle, who sustained a broken shoulder, but many were stunned. Fireman Warren was dead when he and the engineer were lifted out of the locomo tive, which turned at right angles from the train, darted across the track and, turn ing on Its side, lay on the embankment, with the front of the boiler In the river. The engineer died three hours later. John Carstens, baggageman, was thrown through a window of the smoker and received a very deep cut on his wrist, notwithstand ing which he seized a lantern end ran north to prevent any southbound train from running Into the wreck. The second and third conches were slightly telescoped, but of the eight care that composed the train only the first three left the rails, although the track was so badly twisted under some of the others that the ears Inclined to one side, and the panic among the passengers was at first general throughout the train. The southbound freight had Just cleared the , saint,, when the slide came down In front of the northbound express. Base Ball Plavee Hurt. Harry W. Taylor, a member of the Poughkeepsle base ball team, had his leg badly fractured. He is In the hospital at Fishkill. NEW YORK, ' July 0. Word waa re ceived at the offices of the New York Cen tral road that both the northbound and southbound trarks near Newburgh were cleared for traffic today. DETECTIVE ROBBED TRUNK Witness In Hartje Case flays He Twice Visited Room of Madlne. FITTSBCR.CS. July 30. There waa a spirit of weariness pervading the court room, despite the recess of two days, when the trial oP Augustus Hartje's application for divorce from Mrs. Mry Scott Kartje was resumed today. This Is the beginning of the sixth week of the rase and the nine teenth day of actual trial. The plaintiff offered testimony a to where he obtained the famous love letters written to Coachman Madlne, the co respondent. v John B. Staubb, an operative for a pri vate detertlve agenry, was asked alKiut the letters. The witness testified that he had visited Madlne's room twice, and, with John Anderson, 'another detective, had broken open Madine's trunk and removed the let ters. He Identified the court exhibits as the missives taken. ' During fitaubb's testimony Mrs. Hartje appeared uneasy and then angry, while her husband's manner was apparently one of cool indifference. Madlne came into court while the wit ness was still on the stand, and after listening to the testimony for a time hur riedly left. Staubb on cross-examination became badly tangled several times under the Ire of questions. Detective Anderson then cor roborated Staubb'e story of the taking of the letters. When court adjourned a large crowd as sembled In front of the court house and for a time Grant atreet waa almost Impas sable. Threats were made of an attack on De tectives Staubb and Anderson, who testi fied today, and a detail of police waa sent to preserve order. WESTERN MATTERS AT CAPITAL K umber of Appointments Made Yarloas Branches of Federal Service. in (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, July 30.-(8peclal Tele gram.) W. J. Noble of Wausaw, Neb., has been appointed a saddlemaker at Fort Kiley. Kan. H. N. Blckel of Cody. Wyo.. has been appointed a stenographer In the reclama tion service. Jease M. 8tewart has been appointed reg. ular and Fred A. Beck substitute rural car rier for route at Davenport, la. Wyoming postmasters appointed: Pen rose. Big Horn county, Annie P. Shumway, vice C. A. Johnson, resigned; Shoshoni! Fremont county, Arnold O. Heyer, vice R. H. Knlttle, resigned. Alleged Assailant Guarded. MAYFIELD. Ky.. July -Judge R y Burnt empanelled a special lur to inHi.i i Allen Mathias, the alleged assailant of Mia Mcl lain, ins couri directed Jailer Mc Cracken to turn Mathias over to Graves county authorities. Acting undrr the orders of Governor Beckham Judge Budd ordered Captain Boswell to have Company I at the srnuiry here this afternoon armed and equipped. There are large crowds tn town and business is at a standstill A mob en-t-ri the jail bare today, but failed to find the negro. ELSASSER GETS SAT UPON Falls to Convince tlemseritle Breth ren of Initiative and Referen dum's eed. Decided opposition OP the psrt of most of the other democratic counrlltnen met Councllmen Elsasser'e ordinance to accept the Initiative and referendum law at the general committee meeting yesterday aft ernoon. Elsasser declared that democracy meant government by tho peop' and hat the Initiative and referendum was the way to get It. Councilman Bruckrr said he did not think he needed any of the law In his democracy. Councilman Davis moved to place the ordinance "under the table." but Sheldon added an amendment to post pone action a week, and this was done. Brucker attempted to revive the defeated limited street car transfer ordinance, but the discussion became Involved in the proposition of getting Councilman Jackson from Twenty-fourth and Cuming atreets to his home in the Seventh ward via the west side park line when he had company who used the east side line end yet have no sorrowful separations this side of Pacltlo street. In spMte. of decumentary evidence Jackson refused to be convinced that It could be done on one nickel under the proposed ordinance. A curbstone medicine man attacked the Zlniman ordinance barring street fakirs and asked that lunch wagons receive the same kind of treatment. A councilman a.sked him what his line of business was and he replied that he "handled mineral water." His talk was entertaining, but when lie declared he Mid not believe In "poisoning people to nj ake the.m well" In an attack on the medlckl profession. Conn cllman Davis, a practt to the defense. "I ll be d If yo ing physician, rose can make those statements to me," he exclaimed. "I don't poison people ami I won't stand for thut kind of talk." The mineral water man offered to debate the question at length at any time or place, but desisted for the time being. The committee agreed to allow the Northwestern to put in another switching track on Eighth street between Farnam and Dodge. The street Is now used chiefly for trackage. A settlement was made with William Hlggins for S100. Mr. Kiggins had an eye knocked out by a base, ball, which struck him as Tie had finished a noonday lunch building and while he waa one of the In the rear of the army headquarters city's street gangs. President McCague of the Board of Ed ucation objected to the location of the new Fifth ward fire eiwine house at the northeast corner of Nineteenth and Lake streets because of proximity to the large Lake school. The committee was disposed to favor his protest. Several sites for the house are under consideration, but the fire chief was Instructed to look Into the mat ter further and see It qnher-lote were not available. .' - NEGRO MURDERER CONFESSES YonnaT Man Who Killed Woman and Children I'ndee Arrest in Pennsylvania WASHINGTON'. Pa.,, night no attempt btti. IfcTjl&tOjnlil- ben made to take from Jail Elmer Dempter,"the negro, who Is charged with the murder of Mre. Samuel Pearce and her children at Cannonsburg last night. The" excitement which pre vailed upon the arrival of the officers with the prisoner subsided during the night and all danger of a demonstration Is apparently over. Dempster made several confessions during the day and late tonight made a clan breast of the Cannonsburg tragedy, admitting that he killed Mrs. Pearce and the children. In a supplementary con fession he cleared up another murder mys tery which led to the arrest of two other negroes. The names of the men are Pat terson and Bucher, and they are charged with the murder of John Koboda, a wealthy foreigner who was found dead In a clump of bushes along the Wabash railroad tracks In independence township on May 1. The men will be brought to the county Jnll hre tomorrow. CANONSBIRO. Pa.. July 30-Coroner W. IT. Slpe and Constable John J. Miller of Canonsburg drove Into town today with Elmer Dempster, a Ift-year-old negro, who had been arrested for the murder of Mrs. Samuel Pearce and two children and the shooting of a third child last evening, Dempster was taken to the Washington county Jail at Washington, Pa., leaving here on a trolley car at 8 o'clock. Whilo no blood stains were found on the prisoner, suspicion first rested on him last night, when It wra learned that he was the last person seen about the house before the tragedy. Dempster was a helper on the Pearce farm and after the departure of Samuel Pearce with his sister, Miss Fannie Pearce, for the Canonsburg railroad sta tlnn, Dempster la said to have been at the scene of the tragedy looking after the stock. He was taken from his bed at ? o'clock this morning and put throutrh a course of sweating, which lasted until day llirht. when. It Is alleged, ho made a com plete confession. The only things missing from the Pearra home are 12 and a few cents and ths re volver with which Mrs. Pearce and her two children were murdered. Robert Pearce, 3 years old, the only sur vivor of the awful tragedy, who waa shot through the body, will be brought to the Canonsburg general hospital In an effort to save his life. According to the story told In his con fession, young Dempster attempted an as sault on .the 4-year-old daughter after the departure of Mr. Pearse. but was frus trated by the mother, who went to a bu reau to get a revolver to shoot him. The negro says he secured the gun first, and after killing the mother and shooting the children, set fire to the house to hide the crime. Feeling against Dempster is running high. PLENTY OF MEAT INSPECTORS Civil Service Promptly Furnishes Large Corps to Kierute Mew l.sw. WASHINGTON. July 30-The facility with which the Civil Service commission fur nished Inspectors to the Department of Ag riculture in the execution of the meat in spection law is shown in the statement Issued today by the commission. Although the law was not enacted till June 30. the commission in exactly three weeks from that date conducted examinations through out the country. Arrangements were made to examine 3.386 applicants. During the week ending July 28. 2.140 sets of papers were received at the offices of the commis sion, of which 6h0 were rated, and out of which number forty were certified for appointment, by the end of the present week It is expected that the remaining papers will be examined and rated and some (00 eligible certified for appointment as Inspectors. FORT CROOK TROOPS ARRIVE Two Fattalioni of Thirtieth Infantry Beach ' Tort Riley. MEN ARE ALL IN GOOD CONDITION Thousands Witness Mnncnvers of Texas Mllltla and Regular Troops t Camp Mabry, Sear Austin. JUNCTION CITY, Kan., July 30-The headquarters band and the first and third battalions of the Thirtieth regiment of In fantry of Fort Crook, Neb., arrived at the camp of Instruction at Fort Riley. The two battalions came here under the com mand of Colonel Edward B. Pratt, march ing the entire distance, more than 200 mllea. The troops arrived In camp In good condition and are already under tents on Pawnee flats. This Is the only addition to the camp's force today. Maneuvers at Camp Mabry. AUSTIN. Tex.. July SO.-Thousands visited Camp Mabry this afternoon to witness the maneuvers of the National Guard of the states of Texas. Louisiana, Arkansas and Indian Territory on their first day In camp. The first reconnais sance of alarms was held this afternoon, when the assembled troors were divided into two opposing armies and brought to gether in combat for the display of their military and field actions. The two op posing forces were supposed to be ap proaching each other from San Antonio and Marble Falls, Tex., those from the first named place being geographically lo cated on the plains for the purpose of re pulsing the attacking force from Marble Falls. The maneuvers were excellently executed, the umpires, however, withhold ing their decision as to which side won. The 8tate Volunteer Guard Is expected here on August 4, to spend two weeks with the National Guard. Troops at Fort Benjamin Harrison. INDIANAPOLIS, lnd.. July 30.-Thls week will mark the beginning of the sum mer maneuvers of the Department of the Lakes, at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Briga dier General William II. Carter command Ing. By Wednesday all of the regular forces assigned to Fort Benjamin Harrison will have arrived. Next Saturday the Michigan National Guard, commanded by Brigadier General Charles W. Harrah, consisting of three regiments of Infantry, one battery of artil lery, one troop of cavalry, one company of algnal corps, one company of hospital corps and one company of engineers corps will arrive. Immediately after the arrival of the Mich igan troops Brigadier General Carter will begin the work of Instruction. Drill Bearlns at f hlckumuua-a. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.. July 30,-The en campment of regulars and National Guard at Chickamauga National park opened formally today. The troops now there are the Twelfth cavalry. Seventeenth Infantry, Third and Four Held batteries of the regu lar army and the Seventy-first Virginia In fantry, Second Alabama Infantry and Third South "CsroUnainfwitT.ofthft Xittlonel Guard. The first period of Instruction ends on Friday, and on Saturday the mllltla regiments will leave for home, their places to be taken by commands from other states The work for today, as outlined In an or der by Brigadier General Bubb, In com msnd. will consist of company Instruction by all organizations. There will be nlso technical engineer and signal service work exemplified by men from detachments of regulars. MRS. COREY GRANTED DIVORCE Nevada Jury Gives Decree of Sepnru tlon to Wife of Steel Trust Magnate. RENO. Nev.. July 80. Mrs. William Ellis Corey, wife of the president of the t'nlted States Steel corporation, was awarded a divorce on the grounds of ue- sertion In the Second district court of Nevada, sitting at Reno, at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The rase was submitted with out argument and the Jury took but one ballot. It was out but a few minutes. Mrs. Corey was In tears when told she had been given a uerree and the custody of her 18-year-old son, Allan Corey, hhe drove at once to her home on Riverside avenue, where she says she will continue to reside. No evidence was submitted by the defense and there was no argument The question of alimony was not intro duced. Mrs. Corey made an interesting admission, however, touching upon this phase of the case, stating that In May 1906, several weeks before her petition for divorce was filed, he negotiated through her attorneys a financial settle ment with her husband. She was not asked what the nature of this settlement was. At the conclusion of the trial Attorney Sardls Summerfteld stated that his client William E. Corey, was as anxious for the decree of divorce as his wife. "If the de cree is granted," he said, "Mr. Corey will be entirely satisfied. He has consented to the divorce. This understanding be tween Mr. Corey and the attorneys of Mrs. Corey was reached some time ago. T. R. Chadhourne of Pittsburg also ap peered as counsel for Mr. Corey, who was not present. ALLEN . STUDIES SIGNALS Chief of Army Signal Corps Will In- veatlgate Wireless Systems in Europe. WASHINGTON. July 80.-Brigadier Gen eral James Allen, chief of the signal corps of the army, will sail for Europe on Augusi 4, where he will investigate the signal serv Ice In various foreign armies -preparatory to attending the International conference on wireless telegraph which will convene a Berlin October 3. Charlemange Tower, American ambassador to Germany, will represent the State department at that con ference; Rear Admiral It. N. Manney. U 8. N.. retired, will represent the navy; Gen eral Allen will be the army representative and John I. Waterbury of New York, who Is now in Europe, will represent the De partment of Commerce and Labor. Practically every great power will be rep- resented at the Berlin conference, wbl will take up the work of International reg ulatlon of wireless telegraphy where It was left by the preliminary International con ference held tn Berlin In 1Su3. Germany Austria, Spain, the United States, France Hungary and Russia were- signatory to preliminary agreements then framed as the basis for an International convention regu latlng wireless telegraphy. Since the most of the other nations of importance have signified their intention to partlcipat In suca a convention. NEBRASKA WEATHER FORECAST Showers Tneadnv and f ooler In Snnfh Portion. Probably Short era Wednes day. Temperature at Omaha Wsterdavi Hour. Ilea. Hour. Pea. A a. m H.1 t p. m t a. m a 2 p. m SKi T a, n 'J n p. m n. m w 4pm 'f On. m 7" A p. m tl ill a, m 7tt Hp. m Nil 1 1 a. an TA 7 p. m t I J m Hit si p. m Tl O p. tn TT BLUFFS MAN WRECK VICTIM Harry Westlake Thought to Have Been One Who Went Into laske- With Train. PrOKANE. Wash., July 30-(Special Tel egramsWord comes from Seattle Indi cating that another victim of the recent Great Northern wrefk at Camden was Tarry Westlake of Council Bluffs. Is. It s reported he was to have arrived at Se ttle Monday, on the train which was wrerkrd. He left Council Bluffs the Sat- rday brfore. Wrstlake's wife has writ- ten to Seattle friends for word of her hus band, but no trace of him Is obtainable at last report. Seven persons are knnwn to have been drowned when the Great Northern limited plunged over the ninety-foot embankment Into Diamond lake. As the engine and cats disappeared under 2f0 feet of water It was Impossible to recover the bodies of II the victims. It has been suspected sev eral were drowned who had no acqualn- ances on the doomed train and were con- qtiently not reported as among the mlss- ng. It Is more than possible that est- uke was one of the occupants of the submerged smoker. LLINOIS SHIPPER COMPLAINS Hay Healer of East St. I.ouls gays He and Others Are Injured. WASHINGTON. July 30. A complaint has been filed with the Interstate Com merce commission by J. R. Lucas of East St. Louis, III., against the Louisville A Nashville Railroad company. In which an allegation Is made that the railroad com pany Is vloisting the interstate commerce law. J. R. Lurss Is engaged In the hay busi ness at East St. I-outs. He declares In his petition that the Louisville A Nash ville railroad discriminates against him and other hay dealers In East St. Louis by exacting a rate of 2 cents per hundred pounds for hsy reconslgned at East St. Louis for southeastern points. This charge. he Insists, Is In violation of the inter state commerce law and he asks the com mission to Investigate the matter, and by an ordr put a stop to the discrimination against East St. Louis charged In the complaint. AGED WOMAN PASSES AWAY Mrs. Ferdinand Reoa, Who Saw Napoleon Bonaparte, Dies tn Indiana. LA PORTE, Ind., July SO. Mrs. Ferdinand Rees, the oleV woman In Indiana- and perhaps In the t'nlted States, died here today, aged 113 years. According to docu ments In her possession she was born In Volgravltx, Poland, In 1794 and, after mar rying and burying two husbands In Po land, cams to America In 1870, settling at Buffalo, N. T., where she married Ferdi nand Rees. Later Mr. and Mrs. Rees removed to Laporte. Her husband died two years sgo. Tn 1S0J, when Napoleon and an army of "OO.onO Invaded Russia, she saw the French emperor. On her deathbed she recalled vlvid'.y the circumstances of his visit to Volgravlti. which he devastated. She, among others, escaped by fleeing Into the woods. She attributed her long life to her simple method of living. She had two meals, of cornbread and black coffee, dally. MEETING FIXED PRICE OF ICE St. Louis filves Damaging Rvldence Against Associates In an Alleged Trust." ST. LOUIS, July 30. Testimony obtained by Circuit Attorney Sager today In his suit to dissolve the Merchants' Ire and Coal company and the Polar Wave Ice and Fuel company on the allegations thst they have violated the anti-trust laws of Mis souri, developed the fact that a meeting was held In May at the offices of the Polar Wave company for the purpose of raising the wholesale price of Ice from 13 to S4 u ton. Theodore W. Mertens. a so-called Inde pendent Ice dealer, testified that after con ferring with representatives of the two Ice companies and suggesting thst the price of Ire be raised from 13 to 14 a ton and meet ing with no objertlon, he raised the price arcordingly. "After that meeting," said Mertens, "I was Informed that the larger dealers had derided to charge 40 cents a hundredweight for Ire to small customers." CONFERENCE 0N RATE BILL E. H. Wood and E. 1 l.omax of I nlon PaclCela Attendance at Meeting. fProm a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, July So. (Special Tele gram.) A considerable number of railroad officials (rom all parts of the country arrived In Washington during the day to confer with the Interstate Commerce com mission as to the administration of the railroad rate bill. E. H. Wood and E. L. Ixunax of the Union Pacific at Omaha are among those who arrived tonight. Receiver Appeals for fash, Zin PITY. Ill . Julv 30 John C M.l.u, receiver for the Zion City Industries, tooav issued an ap-x-al to the Moneied believers !", ir1a7'.,:?..,e?"",,!'.'hJf.,r. V ''' Hr ... r-. ...- ,..1,..T. .'Ul llt I I..-. . . . t . . 1 I A a m ' j t-wki t n i i uu i.riti. uripctl on greatly. A large ixrcentase of the ponula tion Is underfed and Insufficiently clothed and the land Into which ihey put their sav ings has little value under existing condi tions. Prompt relief is needed. Movements of Ocean Vessels Jaly H. At New York Arrived: Mlnnetonka, from London. At Hamburg Arrived : Kaiser Auguste Victoria, from New York. Sailed: Bul garian for New York. At Bremen Arrived: Rarharoesa, from New York. At Boston Arrived: Parisian, f rem Glas gow. At Montreal Arrived: Lake Michigan, from Antwerp. Sailed: Mount Temple, for Antwerp. At Cbrlstlansand-8ailed: Helllg fHav, for New York. At Glasgow Arrived: Iurentian, from Boston: Furnesela. from New York At Boulogne hailed : Nleuut Amsterdam, for New York. At Cherbourg-Sailed: Grosser Kurfurst. for New York. IOWA FIGHT IS ON Rumor of PalliTer at Compromise. Candi date Promptly Denied by Senator, PERKINS WINS POINT IN OPENING BOUT State Committee Decidet to Hear Content and Make Temporary Boll. ACTION IS CHALLENGED BY CUMMINS Letter from the Governor Sayi Committee Has No Authority in Matter. EVIDENCE HEARD IN SEVERAL CASES Report that Committee Will Kot Sent Knnnah Perkins .Men to Control Convention Tilth Intention of Avoiding Bolt. (From a Staff Correspondent.) DES MOINES, July . (Special Tele gram.) There was a rumor here late to night that an effort will be made to give the nomination for governor to SenatW Dolliver, with tho Intention of preventing a division In the party. When questioned regarding the matter, the sonator said there was nothing In it. He said that It Is entirely without his authority and Is utterly ridiculous. The republican state central committee met today and decided by a vote of tn 3 to sustain the action of the chairman of the committee In notifying Governor Cummins that the seats of a number of delegates to the republican convention were contested. By the same vote the action of Chairman Fpence In calling the present meeting of the state central com mittee was ratified. In both cases. It ap pears, the chairman acted upon his own responsibility. He received a petition from adherents of George V. Perkins, a candi date for goverror, giving notice that the seats of a large number of Cummins' dele gates were contested. The chairman there upon sent notice of this fact to Governor Cummins, who seeks a renomlnatlon. Authority of Committee Denied. The governor replied In a letter denying the authority of the state central committee to take up the matter of contests, asserting that It had no Jurisdiction. The chairman, however, sent notices to several news papers calling the state central committee to meet In Des Moines today to consider the contests. Hla explanation to the com mittee was that two or three of the mem bers were In Dee Moines at the time and after consulting them and receiving their approval he felt Justified In tsklng the ac tion he did, tn order that the delegates whose seats were contested might have two or three more days' notice than Ihey would have had If he had called the com mittee together and submitted to It the petition and the question of a call for to day's meeting. The vote of i to S wtl regarded as an Indication that the com mittee intended to assume Jurisdiction ' of the contests and to hear the contestant -and the Cummins' delegatee, l(t the latter . (tered, u eppeararMin., - I., 'mere are delegates entitled to scat In the state convention from the ninety nine counties In the state. When the com mittee met today there were ten of the eleven members present. Chairman H pence, of course, did not vote on the motion to sustain his own action. Contest br Perkins. Thomaa F. Bevlngtqn, an attorney repre senting the friends of George D. Perkins, gave notice of contests In ten counties, making 287 delegates objected to. In Boone county, with twenty delegates. It wan rlalmed that the call for the county convention stated that delegates to the Judirlal and congressional conventions were to be eleven, no mention being made of the etite convention, although the Cum mins people assert that this allegation is not founded on the facts. As to Polk county, with seventy-two delegates, It was rlalmed that It, as well as Boone, had no legally elected delegation. In the Polk county convention a motion waa made that Governor Cummins be authorised to name the seventy-tm-o delegates. An amendment was offered looking to a division of the delegation between Cummins snd Perkins, based on the votes cast when the delegates to th-3 county convention were elected. This amendment was laid on the table, but the original motion was carried. It wss urged that the tabling of the amendment carried with It the original motion and. therefore, the delegatee selected by Gov ernor Cummins to represent Polk county In the state convention were not entitled to seats. Cummins Delegates Appeal. The committee took up and heard a num ber of the cases but reached no con clusion. Cummins' representatives from Scott, Dallas and Boone appeared before the committee and stated the Cummins side of the contest question In those coun ties, but were careful In each Instance to Inform the committee that while perfectly willing to lay the facta before the commit tee they would not bind themselves to abide by the results of the committee's derision. Numerous affidavits In Dallas rounty of demorrats voting for Cummins were filed and the Cummins men filed affi davits by the saqie men saying that they were not democrats but life-long republi cans and had ntgned the first affidavits be cause paid to do so. Committee Heroines Cnntlons, The talk late tonight indicated thaf ths committee would decide not to let tn all of the Perkins contesting delegates. It Is quite possible, It is said, that some may be put on the temporary roll, but not enough to give the "stsnd-patters" control of the temporary organisation. While a majority of the committee are understood to be "stand-patters" It was asserted that they are not Inclined to take any action which may result In two republican state ! "ckets and posHibly endanger r-.ot only boUi ' tickets, but probably two or three close ic-ongreaslonal districts. The friends Of Per- kins, however, are still seemingly confldnl that they will be able to control the situa tion. They count on ninety delegates. In structed for Captain Rathhurn fwr govsr nnr, after the first ballot." Such a situt...n as that now existing In Iowa is new to the republicans of this state. The party is apparently divided Into two factions one known as the "pro gressives'' represented by the friends Of Governor Cummins, and the other called the "stand-patters" who are adherents of George D. I'erklna. The feeling on both sides is very bitter and It Is not unlikely that there may Im two repuhllrsn tickets in ths field In Iowa after next Wednesday. Although the state central committee hag a yet taken no action looking to the mak ing up of a temporary roll, ths Cummins followers say If the contesting Perkins delegates are authorised t- participate la the temporary organization f the cog