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The Omaha Sunday Bee lAH.T I. HEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO A Paper for th Hem THE OMAHA DEE ( Best AT. West VOL. XXXVII NO. 8. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 11, 1907 SIX SECTIONS THIRTY-SIX PAGES. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. ( DREYFUS CASE AGAIN Besijjned Hit Commlnion Became of Alleged Discrimination. OTHERS PUSHED AHEAD OF HTM Socialist! Take Up Matter and May Get Into Parliament GEN. PICQ.UAB.T REFUSES TO ACT Sayi the Major and Hit Friends Can Afford to Wait DIVORCES IN FRANCE INCREASE Hwnr, v Show Incompatibility of - Temper Exists la Majority of (' Womn Gala Pol at. PRIf. Aug. 10 -Special.) A letter writ ten by M. de Preasense, socialist deputy for Lyons, 'a few days ago and other In dications show the reason of Major Drey fua for resigning hta commission la dissat isfaction at hla not having been promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. When he waa reinstated In the army, Just twelve months ago, 'he was rained to the rank of major, and was created a knight of the Legion of Honor, because thla was regarded as the exact position that he would hold If hla name had been retained all of the time on the active list. It now transpires, however, that his principal subject for discontent lips In the fact that several officers In the artillery who were Junior to him are lieutenant colonels, and that all of the efforts which have been made to Induce General Plcquart, minister of war, to grant him !i.iiiar pro motion huve fallen through. Dreyfus addressed a letter upon the sub ject that certain officers who were Junior to him are now his superiors when but for the trouble he might have retained his seniority to them. General Plcqusrt at first paid no attention to the Dreyfus appeal, but finally declined to entertain the proposition. After this Major Dreyfus sent In his resignation. His friends, most of whom now, by the way. belong to the socialist party, put out by the refusal, Intervened to get General Plcquart to grant the request of Major Dreyfus, and one of them, not long ago, had an Inter view with the minister of war. In the course ' of which he Insisted upon the validity of the Dreyfus claim.- According to one account he even went so far ns to tell General Plcquart that he himself had got much more out of the "Dreyfus affair" than had Major Dreyfus, but the minister of war waa still not convinced. Ills attitude In this respect Is described as being rather hostile than otherwise. Socialists Greatly Offended. According to all accounts, the deputy In P.nstlon, who represents an Important so cialist duUrlct, waa not to be daunted by thla rebuff, so he returned to the charge, whereupon General Plcquart told him flatly that he would never take the In itiative In giving this satisfaction to Major ' Dreyfus. The minister of ' war . said quite frankly that ha considered thnt quit enough had been done for Major Dreyfus, who could well afford to remain quiet, and ha declared that to give him ' a promotion to which ha did not think Mm - entitled would simply add one more to the many difficulties with which the gov ernment was beset. This opposition, which was entirely unexpected,' has offended the socialist politicians, who worked so hard with General Plcquart for the quashing of the Judgments of the Rennes and Parln courts-martial, and It Is believed that the entire Incident may yet be dragged before Parliament Increase la Divorcee. Borne Interesting statistics on the sub ject of divorces In France have been made public. These statistics fully confirm the opinion previously entertained that the evil has been going up steadily In an ascending scale since Its revival In this country by a special law In 1S84. In that year the total number of divorces amounted to 187S. .' In 1904, just twenty years afterwards, the number had risen to 14, SW. Nineteen hun dred and four la the last year of which a record has been obtainable at the Minis try of Justice, but the average has been , steadily gaining aver since. It Is, however, noteworthy that by far the greater propor tion of divorces has been granted on the score of cruelty and the like. Thus, those divorces amounted In 1884 to 1,477, and in 1904 to 10.5OT. In the last named year the divorces granted on the application of husbands for breach of the seventh com mandment were 1.304, those on the petition of wives being 1,607. Jn 1884 they had been 145 and 7, respectively. Then, whereas In ISM divorces owing to the condemnation of one of the parties to "an Infamous pen alty" numbered sixty. In 1904 they had risen to 284. Incompatibility of temper seems to be the cause of most of the di vorces. But besides these cases, there are a good many separations, as, of course, the Catholic church does not sanction di vorce, so that numbers of people when matrimonial Jara occur, refrain from ap plying to the law cours for divorce, con tenting themrelves with separation. Rich at w 3arvfed Women. The wonisn auffrr.Jti advocates of France are Jubilant over a nw conquest. Th government has Just promulgated the law recently voted by tht chvnber recognising the right of a mrred witntn to dispose of hef own M.fiir.ki Independently of her husband. The law 1n Cranes concerning the privileges of the nuaband as hitherto In vogue dated back to the Roman period, and' made the wife In many Instances prac tically tha slave. A drunkard or an Idler , backed by the-tav was able to compel the wife to hand ever every penny aha earned. The new law has abolished the most ob jectionable of these features. It Is said hat the passage, of the act was due In a large measure to tha untiring anerglea of Mme. Jeanne Schmahl and the Dowager Duciiesa d Uses, who, for many years, have been urging home upon the legislators the need of this teform. Tha recent bill voted before the adjournment of the chambers waa Introduced thirteen years ago. That reforms move slowly In Franca, as In other countries. Is pretty well demonstrated by the fait that It has required all of that time to " ring about the passage of th bill. Would Suppress Insubordination- M. Thomson, minister of marine, has aent a circular to tha port admirals which la of considerable significance. It is drawn up with a view to suppressing Inaubordl nut Ion In the fleet. Mention la specially made of men whose example is bad for the crews, and whose conduct may be a daiiger to tha security of their ships. Such (fUAUaaa as ruth Page- SUMMARY OF THE BEE uaday, August 11, 1SOT. 1907 AUGUST 100 sun mom. mi. wto mw mi gi T 5 f 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 10 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 20 30 31 Til WKATBEB. FORFJCAST FOR NEBRASKA Fair In wit portion; showers and cooler In east portion. temperature at Omaha Hour. Deg Hour. Dei. ... M ... 93 ... 3 ... M ... 1 ... 91 ... SO a m.... a. m... 7 a. m... I a. m... I a. m... 10 a. m... 11 a. m... 12 m 1 p. m 2 p. m 1 p. m 4 p. m i p. m 6 p. m 7 p. in DOMXSTXO. Switchmen of the Denver 4 Rio Grande railroad may strike, their demand for an Increase of 20 per cent In pay being as yet unanswered by the Colorado road. x. rags a Boulder, Colo., suffers $250,000 damage as result of an explosion of half a ton of dynamite In a fire believed to have been of Incendiary origin. X, Page 1 Nltro-glycerln exploded by a tramp for revenge causes many Injuries at Kldga way. Pa. Z, rags 1 English Episcopal divines will come to Richmond, Vs., for the celebration of the anniversary of the church foundation In America. I, Page a Navy department commends men In ser vice for their bravery, on different oeca siona. s X, Pag a Standard Oil company will be sued In Manila for $40,000 old import duties uue the government. X, Page 1 VEB&ASXA On the order of Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction J. L. McUrlen, teachers of Nebraska will make August 29 a houst cleaning day. , X, Page 3 Governor Sheldon appoints Cyrus B. White head of the Omaha Institute for Deaf and Dumb, vice R. E. Stewart. X, Paga a J. W. Searson, professor of English at the State Normal school at Peru, is be ing Investigated by the State Board of Education on his own request. A war rant charging assault of a young woman student was Issued for htm In the N -maha county district court. X, Paga 3 John Woolsey of Hubbel settles with Ed Lawrence of Lincoln for damagea sus tained In a sensational episode at Elk Creek. X, Paga 3 TOBEIGir. A car of dynamite was exploded at Es sex. Ont., causing the death of one man and the Injury of many others. X, Paga 1 Moors attack Casablanca again, but r.re repulsed. X, Page a Marquis Ito leaves Corea In charge .of General Hasegawa and returns to Japan after his coup. X, Paga X Six hundred Filipinos are homeless as a result of a fire in Manila. X, Paga 1 X.OOAX. Democrats are unable to maintain that harmony of which they boasted In primary , election campaign. Deputy County Attorney Magney will not run for Judge. X, Paga 4 Farmers of northwestern part of county ask Board of Commissioners to build a ditch seven miles long to drain four teen sections of land. TX, Paga 4 Hotel stewards protest that health commissioner's new garbage arrengemmit entails heavy extra expense on them. TX, Paga J. H. Pryor of San Francisco, who was guest at Mark Twain London dinner, says England would co-operate with United States In war If needed. X, Page 4 Big cereal companies use coupons In package as means of circumventing new food law. X, Paga 4 fOYXMEXTTB OP OCEAN STEAMSHIPS. Port. Amvva. SEW YORK Furopa .... Ql'K.KNRTOWN .ArsMc BREMEN LlVKRPOOt. .... LIVERPOOL. .... BOSTON BOSTON MONTREAL ....Luieartrian MONTREAL ....MoncolUn 6lled. turn. Orlo. Emp. of Britain. Fbllillphls. NumMUn. ..Tunlalan. BURGLAR RETIRED DEFEATED F.dlnbara- Girl with Fire Kxtlngulsher Routs a Robber In Her Home. EDINBURGH. Aug. 10. (Special.) A re markable story of a girl's pluck and re source comes from the far north of Scot land. Sackvllle House, Bowen-by-Wlnck, the residence of Mrs. Sinclair Wemyss was broken Into by a tramp, who is believed to have been a German nationality, while the family was at dinner. The first to dis cover ths intruder was the butler, who after a great struggle was knocked down and rendered unconscious. Two other servants attracted by the noise were also uttacked by the tramp, and during the scuffle the daughter of ths house, 16 years old rushed out of the dining room, and at once took a patent Are extinguisher, which was hanging on the wall from Its hook and squirted the chemical contents Into the face of the burglar. , The man, utterly unnerved by this unex pected attack and believing probably that he waa blinded for life1, gave one shriek and bolted out of the front door. Ha was, how ever, captured later on and Is now lying In the local Jail awaiting trial. The ex tinguisher was a cone-shaped apparatus with a knob at the top. When this knob la struck on the floor the extinguisher can be held horliontally and a powerful jet thrown a distance of at least thirty-five feet. It was this jet which settled this particular burglar. NO MOVE FOR ARBITRATION Three Nations Are Fatted In for International Court of Justice. Plan THE HAGUE. Aug. 10. Three nations, the United States, Oermany and Great Britain, have definitely agreed on a state ment for the scheme for the establishment of a permanent court of arbitration to be called the International court of Justice. CANNON SPEAKS IN KANSAS Addressee Reunion of Yeterana at Dodge City While Hla War West. DODGE CITY, Kan., Aug. W.-Jceeph G. Cannon, speaker of the house of repre sentative, addressed a large crowd here today at a reunion of old soldiers. He arrived In Dodge City this morning from the east and will depart tonight fw Colorado BLACK EYE FOR RAND South African District Suffering Business Depression. FINANCIAL CRASH IS AW . v Debts Are Too Common for Peopij to Worry About BOERS CLAD! JUST PUNISHMENT Assert Proridence is Flaying British for the War. SHOPS AT JOHANNESBURG EMPTY Chinese Labor Did Not Bring; Pros perity Country Overballt and Overpeopled Valaes Are Lave. JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 10. Special.) Americans, gold seekers, laborers and sol diers of 'fortune, are being warned away from the Transvaal. And In fact the Trans vaal of today Is a pretty good country to keep away from, Never during the darkest hours of the Boer government did things appear as gloomy. To be sure, tha Boer government was largely a government of farmers. There were few large cities and the reign lnsr rullni forces could ilvivi he sure of making a living. Indeed, the disposition of President Kruger and his associates was to till the land and let the British hunt the gold. With the ending of the Boer war and with the construction of large sections of the Cape to Cairo railroad it was every - where supposed that South Africa wouM enjoy a boom unprecedented In the history of that section of the world. The pro- ... ,, , . ... .T?.' 'IT . rlV.' m,n,dl.d0 not hesitate to assert that Got II. punishing mo xsnusn iur depriving me Doers oi their liberty. The British, at least that section with a materialistic turn of mind. say that the hard times which are now all but ruining Johannesburg and which have affected the other sections, might have been avoided If the liberal government of Great Britain had only kept hands off not the Boer question, but rather the Chinese situation. Three Years of Depression. For nearly three years now has depres sion reigned In Johannesburg. Only one more stage Is left a great financial crash. The people have become familiar with the words "stagnation" and "ruin." They have grown callous to Insolvencies and Immense lists of Judgments In the smaller civil courts. Debts are too common to worry about. Book debts are unsalable at any figure. Never before has the financial sky of the Rand been so dark as It is today. A cloud of the deepest pessimism has settled over all. The gloom Is unrelieved.' It Is dim cult to find a single. man who looks for ward with confidence or even hope. Every week retrenchment becomes more drastic Every day swells ' the ranks of the un employed. Only the very wealthiest can obtain credit, and then only for small amounts. ' The disappearance of so many sound, well-established firms Is significant. In the main streets doiens of shops are empty. The Jewelers' shops, once the pride of the Rand, are almost all In the hands of liquidators. It Is claimed that the re cent votes In the legislative assembly, which as Sir George Farrar admits mea.;s the end of Chinese labor, la resnonslblo for the existing condition of affairs. But that would be equivalent to admitting that 8S.OO0 Chinese alone stand between the Rand and ruin. And probably there la not a Boer or Briton on the Rand who would go so far as to admit that in the final analysis. Last Prop Waa Removed. Undoubtedly the decision of the govern ment has had a arreat deitl in An with ! making bad worse. It has removed a last hope to which so many clung with sucb pathetic confidence. People have undoubt edly been buoyed up with the ASrtton of the mining masses that Chlneve la bor spellod prosperity. London capitalists have undoubtedly continued their support with the mental reservation that the final vote for or against tha Chinese would decide their action. If favorable thev would persevere; If unfavorable they would j cheme, he said: cut their losses and get out of the whole j "Every ten years the Methodists hold an business. Reparation waa to mark tho ' International congress. Our next congress end ot perseverance. It was the signal takes place three years hence at Washlng for giving up. It was regarded meroly i ton. By that time It Is my fond belief that as Implying a continuation of depression. Alone It would have worked mischief, fvr In a shaky community the withdrawal of any prop is dangerous. Combined with the great strike, It has undoubtedly been fatal. Nevertheless, the 'output rms been and still is $10,000,000 a month. There are j 17.000 natives ready to take the places of the 17,000 served with ejectment no tices. On the face of it. It would appear j a& though the decision to sond back the Chinese ought not to have deepened the depression so terribly. But reparation la only one of the causes of. the Rand's decline. Many there are who blame the strike, and undoubtedly the strike has had a great deal to do with that , have ,ugBei,te(, We been rece,vd It. just as the Chinese question has had j wlth ,rav. ,.nd weU-eon.Mared approba . great deal to do with It But now that t!on by of our churph thing, are seUUng down. It I. recognlted , brethr, , Amerlc(l are .nlhll.,Blc. Bo. tr.ai jonsnnesourg nas Deen overnuiu ana . , . , , ' j .... . . re next year it Is my Intention to per- , overpeopled. Capitalists and speculators .. ... . . . ... V ... , , sonally consult the views and the wishes1 have bullded a city for SRO.OOO people, where , ,,, . . . " wisnea , they should have planned only a mining ' M't"'t. throughout the entire world. , camp and a good old-fashioned county J L?"W V" '.Jtf,,",!.C .! 1 bUt the i p and a good oia-iasnioned county borough seat. Fate of the Plaeo Justified. ' Johannesburg la not and never can be much more than a mining camp and a center for the rural dlstrlcta of the Tians ivaal to ehop in. And, of course, mere ' mining without manufacturing and ship-. ping can hardly build a great city, it j was the madness of the boom whk-h gave ' employment to thousands. Today the boom ' has ceased and thousands are out of work. , while other thousands have left the town. Just aa an Indication for the fall of values, It Is worth mentioning that In a year the municipal valuation of Johannesburg 1 has been reduced by $o0,00n,000. And tt Is still sinking. Johannesburg Is undoubtedly suffering the fate which baa overtaken all of the boom towns of the new countries of North and South America. Whether tt will ul timately recover its relative position In the world 1. for the future to decide. Tramp Seta On! N Itm-Ulyoerln. WILLI AM6PORT. Pa., Aug. 10.-A tramp who was put off a Pennsylvania railroad train at Rldgeway. Pa., exploded nitro glycerin under the car and Ave men were killed. REBEL AT VATICAN'S WAYS Chnrchme- 'eelare thnt Pope la One Te'v"Sreat Ones Wnat , Aug. 10. (Special.) The Cnr- NpV en.a Romano, the Vatican setnl- ' wide-spread movement among the higher , i-iaMri or .Tisiipn ana uprmnn tiinunv. ! against the so-called mediaeval lm of the Vatican. It Is described as a secret al liance, having as Its theories those set forth by Fogsxsarn in his novel, "The Saint." a project for a petition to the pone 'or the abrogation of the Index and the iniroaucuon or a series oi moaern ro- forms. This plan, which Is connected with the movement of the Liberal French Catholics, Is considered at the Vatican to be a rebellion, and Is declared to be the more bitterly resented because men like the chief of the German Centre party. Baron von Hertllng. and other German clerical deputies, are participating In It. As Is the custom, the pope has largely suspended audiences during the summer season, and this In a large measure has for American visitors been a serious dis appointment. But, of course. It la not alone American visitors who are disappointed when they cannot see the pope. Nothing Is more significant,, said Count Melcholr de Vogue, a few years ago, then the ab sorbing pre-occupation of visitors of mark, rulers of states, diplomatists, writers or disinterested thinkers, as soon as they reach Rome. Whatever may be the motive 1 which brings them here that motive be- comes secondary; all have but one desire to see and hear the pope. All knock first of all ' at the "portone" at those bronxe doors shut on the voluntary prisoner. Men of action or men of thought, those who I make history and those who write it, are j warned by a aure Instinct that the Vatican I lin one of the rat workshops of history. In ascending the interminable : Bter"' wh,cn there lead up to theM r,al l"io whence the eye embrsces all the 1 PecUcle of the world' the mo"t P0'"1 monarch runs against silent shadow, which ,n 'p of hlmae ' haV" bee" Capab'8 ? " ? T o .! reigns over an empire, where Goethe la If miliar to all mind, these ahadow. recall h(m the words f Wore me, silent and pensive, the spirits of those who weigh In black balance the destiny of prince and of peoples." WHERE BURNS TOOK DEGREE Party of American Masons Discover Records Shovrlng Details of Procedure. GLASGOW, Aug. 10.-(Special.) It ap pears to have been reserved to a patTf of American Masons to discover the place where Burns was Initiated Into the mys- ; terlea of Masonry. All this occurred In the Ayrshire village of Tarbolton where for generations the cheery click of the hand weaver's loom could be heard on every side. The house still stands. Burns, who at that time resided at Lochlea, was a reg ular attendant at Masonic meetings in the village, and having passed through the various degrees qualifying for the fully Masonic brotherhood ultimately became deputy master At that time the two Tar bolton lodges, St. David and St, James, were amalgamated, but shortly thereafter th union was dissolved and Burns csst In his lot with Logo 8t. James, to which on the eve of his projected departure for the West Indies he addressed his beauti ful "farewell." This lodge Is the proud possessor of many valuable relics of the poet and the only question about which there has been any mystery has been the exact location of the meeting place of the united lodges at the time that the poet joined the order. Among the rellra are the apron which he wore when prealdlng as deputy master, the chair and foot stool, the mallet, thd silver badge referred to in the farewell" and the Bible presented by him to the lodge, but the most precious of all 1s the minute book. In this book there are three minutes entirely In the handwriting of the bard, and no less than thirty others bearing his signature. WOULD BIND ALL METHODISTS R. W. Perks of London Has Plan for fjnlversal Brotherhood of Beet. LONDON. Aug. 10. (Special.) Methodists all over Uie world will be Interested In the latest plan of Mr. R. W. Perks, M. P., to bind them In on universal brotherhood. l Interviewed concerning his churchly my scheme will already be accomplished. ! It wltl be a great day for Methodism, I j predict, for in the same year our great ' hall at Westminster built upon the site of the old Aquarium will be opened as the world's headquarters of the Methodist church. "My proposition calls for the establish ment of what might be called a vast Free masonry of Methodism, at least so far ss the universal brotherhood features are con cerned. And practically I propose that the church should deal with emigration prob lems, the crisis of un-employment and the encouragement of thrift by a world-wide Methodlst organlxatlon. Many of the things ITO GOES HOME TO REWARD Work of Heora-anlsation of Corea u Government Kow In Hands of Hasegawa. SEOUL. Aug. 10 In the reorganization of the Corean government three members of Marquis Ito's staff will become vice min isters of three Corean departments of state. Marquis Ito, accompanied, by eight na n ben of the Japanese-Corean administration, left today for Toklo, via Chemulpo, wherj a large demonstration wl)l be held In cele bration of Ito's late coup d'etat. General H. Hasegawa has been apiiolnted a-tlnj resident general, and the practical restora tion ot order In Corea will devolve uion him. General Hasegawa has declared that In a national sense there will be no elimi nation of the throne in the government of Corea. and believes that under the order f things the people may possibly become more cohesive, but will rely jpon the Jai anese for the maintenance of crdf-r. Marqjls I o and hla party will sail from Chemulpu on a warship. The Chemulpo squadron ti- dispersed FIRE AiND EXPLOSION Thousand Pounds of Dynamite Works Great Havoo at Boulder, Colo. TWO FIREMEN FATALLY INJURED Hundred Persons Are More or Less Seriously Hurt J BLAZE STARTS IN FREIGHT DEPOT It Soon Spreads to Storehouse Con taining Explosives. LOSS QUARTER OF MILLION Thirty Cars of Valuable Merchandise Destroyed Beside Buildings Car of Dynamite Removed front ' Dangerous Posltioa. BOULDER, Colo., Aug. lO.-FIre that started at 1 o'clock this morning in the Colorado Sk Southern freight depot hem, destroyed the depot with a vast quantity of freight and spreading a distance of 100 feet enveloped a powder house containing l.OXI pounds of dynamite which exploded with a tremendous shock, injuring perhaps 100 per sons and breaking the plate glass In every business house In the city as well as In hundreds of residences. It Is believed thst two vt the Injured will die. The prorwr.y loss Is estimated at $mot. The fire origi nated from some unknown cause and It be lieved to be incendiary. It waa placed under control at S:30. Twenty-five of the Injured were taken to local hospitals. The othera were either re moved to their homes or were able to go there themselves. The fatally Injured: Koy Lafavre. volunteer fireman, Biulder. Ike O. Wilson, volunteer fireman. Boulder. Among the others Injured are: Jack Livingstone, Denver; a machinist; blown fifty feet against the side of a build ing three ribs broken, cloihes burned off. Edwsrd Cook, side and arms badly burned, bruised. Alexander Snartell, blacksmith, clothes burned off; badly burned about body. Erhle Miller, carpenter, badly hurt by falling timbers. Family named Ramsey, living In a small house near the station; house wrecked over tl-.elr heads, four members of the family badly Injured. Firemen Ignorant of Explosives. When the alarm was first turned In only a small blaze was visible at the west end of the depot. The firemen, handicapped by low pressure of water, fought bravely, In utter Ignorance that half a ton of explosives was stored nearby. No warning was given and when the sheet Iron- shack containing the dynamite split open with a dull roar the men manning the hose and every person within a radius of 100 pards were hurled to the ground. Roy Lafavre and Ike O. Wilson, who were nearest the stcre house, were frightfully mangled. Lafavre'a left leg was blown off above the knee. . Wilson, a cripple with an artificial leg, suffered his right Jeg blown away. The wooden limb was shattered and fragments of It were driven Into his body. , Across the street from the freight depot a big two-story brick warehouse had great cracks riven' In Its walls and Its roof blown off. Several shacks along the tracks, occupied by squatters, ware reduced to splinters. In the business section great sheet, of heavy glass fell 1n splinters on the side walk, following the explosion. Not a whole pane of glass remains In the center of tjie city. Guards of armed men were thrown about the bank, and mercantile establish ments to prevent looting. Elaht Tons of Dynamite Removed. On a side track at the platform of the burning depot stood a car containing eight tons of dynamite. Despite the fact that cinders were falling on its roof and that little flickers of flames were apparent on Its walls, a switching crew backed down and coupled to the smouldering cor, and while the brakemen j beat o it the srarks, the engine pulled the car two miles Into the country, where It was left on a side track. The Boulder club'a weekly reception had Just ended and many men and women were standing on the sidewalk a few blocks away watting for their carriages. A half hundred of them were blown off their feet by the force of the explosion. All of the windows In the university building were blown out and the plaster fell from the walls and ceiling of the main building. Windows In several houses on university hill, a mile and a half from the scene of the explosion, were shattered. A brick house occupied by J. J. McCs.be, half a block from the freight house, was totally wrecked. Thirty freight cars were completely destroyed- with their contents, consisting of valuable merchandise. The fact that dangerous explosives were stored so near the depot and that few person, were aware of the fact, will be made the subject of a rlKtd Inquiry by the city authorities. Rail way officials explain that the storage was only temporary, the explosive, being under shipment to the mines. DYNAMITE EXPLODES AT ESSEX Cav of the Explosive Ignited and even Are Killed. DETROIT, Aug. 10. Two trainmen were killed, three more probably fatally Injured and scores of persons were Injured by the explosion of half a car of nitroglycerine at the Michigan Central railroad station today at Essex, Ontario, seventeen miles in land from the Detroit river. Pia tlrally every building in the town of 1.500 persons was damaged, many of them being blown to pieces. The shock of the explosion was plainly felt for twenty mile.. It wa. so heavy In this city that windows w. re broken In a Jefferson avenue automobile garage. The car containing the explosive was side, tracked Friday night necr a freight s ed to be taken todsy to a quarry at Amherst burg, Ont. The train was being made up today, when. It Is said, lirakeman McNary discovered that the nitroglycerine waa leak ing In the car. He stsrted to open It and stop the leak when the explosion occurred. Everything for a radius of ST0 yards from the depot Is In ruins and M'Nsry s b dy waa discovered 100 feet away and Brake man Conlon was dug from undr a c al car dead The loss will be about $2 O.OtX Fire of laeendiary Origin. DENVER, Aug. 10. "We have proof that the fire in tha depot of tha Colorado at Southern at Boulder laat night waa of In- ! cendiary Origin," aald A. D. Parker, vtoi ' president of the Colorado A Southern rail- road today. "The miscreants may not hsvj ( looked for the awful results that fo'lowel through the explosion of the dynamite, but j upon their heads the blame of tlie ritaa jtmphs must rest. X will not say whom vi 1 COMMENDATION FOR BRAVERY, 'jfavy Department MnUes special Men tion of Men Mho Performed JSoteworihy Arts. WASHINGTON, Aug 10. Acting Secre tary NeWberry has formally placed on rec ord the Navy department's heartiest com mendation of the self-sacrifice and bravery exhibited by Edward Wade Whitehead, first-class gunner's mate. In fearlessly risk ing his own life to save that of a com rade. The details of the act for which Whitehead Is commended are Set forth In the letter of Acting Secretary Newberry to the commandant of the station at Tutulla. Samoa, from which It appears that a land slide had destroyed the barracks at that station and Whitehead, at great risk and with his own body had protected Sergeant John F. Cox, V. 8. M. C, flrom being crushed beneath a slowly advancing ava lanche of concrete and earth, until a re lief party from the United States steamship Adams was able to extricate the men. Mr. Newberry has also directed the command ing officers of the United States steamship Wabash to express to the following named enlisted men the department's approval of the promptness with which they manned the boats of that vessel and Went to the rescue of a party of three persons, who, on the evening of July 29. had been thrown overboard from a power launch which had collided with a Chelsea ferry boat: M. W. Holland, M. C. Sweesey, M. Bomner, P. J. Brown. O. Hawkins. P. Quinn. J. E. 8mlth, M. J. Meyers, A. K. Braney and M. Shannon. EPISCOPAL DIVINES COMING Prominent Kna-IUh Clerarmrn Will Attend Church Anniversary at nirhmand. NEW YORK, Aug. 10,-The Right Rev. Dr. Henry Montgomery, secretary of the society for the propagation of the gospel, has accepted the Invitation sent him by the presiding bishop of the American church to attend tho Episcopal church convention, which will be held In Rich mond, Va., Iln October. As waa announced some time ago Rev. Dr. A. F. W. In graham, the bishop of London, will come to Americo for the Richmond convention, as also will the Right Rev. Dr. Edgar Jacobs, the olshop of St. Albans. The general convention In the autumn will commemorate the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Episcopal church In America. Most of early religious work In the colonies was done under the Juris diction of the diocese of London and St. Albans, so that It Is especially appropriate that the present occupants of those sees should attend the convention. It also Is equally appropriate that the secretary of the oldest missionary society In England should be at this meeting of the general convention, not only because the conven tion would be a missionary convention, predominately,, but also because of the great help which the society for the propa gation of the gospel gave to the early Church In America. PRISON WILL BE HER LOT Youna- Woman In New York Con victed of Attempting- to Com- .; mlt Suicide. . NEW YORK. Aug. 10. For the first time in many yeaie a young woman who went tt trial en charge of having attempted suicide has been convicted -In court here. An attempt at suicide is a felony, punish able by imprisonment in state's prison for not more than two years, n fine of not more than $1,009, or both, 4ut as a rule the unfortunates, after arrest and meditation, are given their freedom. Roslna Goldner Is the young woman, and her conviction is the culmination of a long aeries of misfortunes. Some year, ago .he was hurt by a celling frilling on her, then she lost all her savings In an unsuccessful business venture, again she was found overcome by gas, and It was believed that she tried to kill herself. She fell from a street car and a pin, which was forced Into her arm caused blood poisoning. Three times she waa a patient in Bellevue hospital, having attempted sui cide, the last occasion being In Central park, where she drank laudanum R. E. STEWART TO STEP DOWN Governor Names C. E. White of Fari bault Head of Deaf and Dumb Institute. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Aug. 10.-(8peclal Telegram.) Cyrus E. White of Faribault, Minn., has been appointed superintendent of the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Omaha, to succeed R. E. Stewart The change will take place September L Mr. White reached Omaha at noon Sat urday and Is now at the institute, where he Is being shown through the details of his new work by Mr. Stewart. Mr. Stewart has several propositions before him, one of which offers a gnod position In the In stitution for deaf at Council Bluffs. He may accept this, though he has not yet determined. Ha has been at the Omaha Institute a. long time, coming to It first a. a teacher In 1S90. In this capacity he re mained for seven years and then after three and a halt year, returned In 1901 as superintendent. SUES FOR OLD IMPORT DUTY j Attorney General at Manila In j atracted to Bring Action Against Standard Oil.' MANILA, Aug. 10. The attorney general has been Instructed by the Department of ; Justice st Washington to file suit against ; the Standard Oil company to recover IW.O1) Import duty on an old claim dating bark to the time when the military turned over the government to the civil authorities. The amount represents the difference be tween the Dlngley rate and the present tariff. MEETS DEATHAJ SIOUX CITY Charles Coyle Falls Under the Care While Working on Mil waukee Koad. 6IQUX CITY. Ia., Aug. 10-(Hpee!al Telerram.) Charles Coyle. a switchman for the Chicago, Milwaukee end St. Paul rail way, stumbled and fell while at work this morning and was Instsntly killed by the csrs. He waa the father of two children, who were drowned In the Cedar river at Cedar Rapids a year ago. He haa a aon who la a awttchman In Omaha. Six hundred are homeless One Hundred Twenty Native Houses Destroyed by Fire la Manila. MANILA, Aug. 10-Flre In Manila this i afternoon destroyed 130 native houses and made 409 people homeless. The damage Is estimated at 68,000 pesos. The lire orig inated from an electric wire and swept over a space of 1 yards square. A heavy rain prevented the flames from spreading. No one was Injured. The boinelea. are being cared foe. OMAHA MEN CO OUT Some Operators at Western Union ana Postal Quit. ALL ARE OF THE NIGHT F0RCEI Enough Stay at eys to Handle th Business. GOULD OFFICE TAKES LEAH Men Who Stick See No Cause foi Going: Out. MEETING TO BE HELD TODAY Operators Who Remnln at Work Ques tion Legality of Strike on Basis of President Small's Declaration. With Omaha tlie last connecting link be tween New York and the Pacific coaot. Western Union and Postal telegraph op erators walked out at 7 p. m. Saturday. Practically the whole night force at both offices and In Council Bluffs struck In sym pathy with the other unions all over tha country. The trouble, which has been brewing for several days, was brought to a head when the two men at the Western Union office who were operating the wire with Chicago refused to work on a line with an "unfair" office and asked to be transferred. The chief operator canvassed the office to find a man to run the Chi cago wire and everyone refused. They were told they could take their pay If they would not take the wire and thirty five took their time checks and walked out. Postal Men Go Out. At the Postal office, where ten men vers working, the unionists were awaiting the action of the Western Union men, nnd when they 'came marching up the street, two by two, the Postal men took their hats and fell In wlth thorn. There was a little cheering, but the crowd was en tirely orderly and no attempt was made to coerce the men who remained. There were only three at the Western Union be side the chiefs and one branch operator at the Postal office". All of the union men Joined the strike and at the ladge office seven nonunion men also went out. As soon as the Western Union office at Council Bluffs was notified the four nlttht men there took the same action. The Postal does' not have "a Council Bluffa night service. One newspaper operator In Omaha went out, bu the Associated Preos was not disturbed. The men here v. Ill tal.c no action unless tho Chicago othre strikes. It is expected at least 75 per 'coat of the day force .will Join the movommt Sunday morning, 'and If that number is added there will be at least 125 men out autogether. '1 he night wlro chief jf lltt) Western Union, H. ' R. Eastom, Is v.'itli the strikers and no 111 feeling liai ex isted between the men and any of -the officials.' So Local Grievance. Y' There' is no local grievance, accorimg to the statement uuthorlxed by Ha.-ry; Oraul,' president of the local union. It is true the men have been forced Jo ' work fourteen and fifteen hours a i'ay because i f the congestion resulting from strikes elsewhere, but the leal cause is sympathy, with unions in other t itl'J. The men stute they will not, under at y circumstances, go back until the com panies officially recognlxe the union, cease to discriminate against union men and do not force men to work with un fair outside offices. Until the matter Is settled the union Intends to keep close watch on the ofhVei to dissuade any nonunion men wtlo may appear for work. Two pickets were Im mediately placed at the door of ea -it office and they were relieved at mldnlti'it by others.- At the Postal offica W. HI W-' night manager, although a urn pathlxer and member, remalnl In i e, with he understanding that he v Mild take his leave Sunday If the affairs were not stratghwncd up. He la acting under the Instructions of the leaders. Sunday afternoon a meeting will be held In Barljiht's hall and fur ther action will be decided upon. Companies Determined to, Win. At the local offici-s of the two coniani- the atmosphere was docl-Jeilly hopefut. "The company has determined to w'n this fight and it is going to do It," sa d Manager E. F. Williams of she Postal. "Our men were not dissatisfied. I talked to several of them and they said they had no grievance at all. But a lot of the Western Union men came Into the offli-e here and began shouting and making fun of our men, who were ajt their key.. They couldn't stand that and so went out. We have half a doxen at work now and by Monday I expect a number back. They Imply cannot hold out. What pressing; business cannot get on the wires In the somewhat cong sted condition bound to result If any considerable number of men stay out can be done by telephone." And Manager Williams walked back to the key whl'-h he was Industriously op erating. Up in the Western Union offica about twenty-flve men were . keeping the) room full of tiie clicking keys. "It Is only aome of the young bloods who have walked out," auld J. H. Owens, chief operator. "A few duya ago an opera tor In Lob Angelea got fired for 'aoldler lng.' He happened to be a union man and the other men walked out. Then the Chi cago men wouldn't work with Los Angelea and they walked out. Now the movement haa aproud over thu country and haa reached Omaha. The strikers have no leg on which to stand. We will have a lot of men at those keys within a very short time." Superintendent Nelson appeared smil ingly before his chief operator's desk ami asked for an assignment. And he took his place at the key. No Cause to Strike. The operators who stayed at work took the position that the strike was not lexal, that President Small sent out official state ments saying the strikers were not au thorized, and that therefore the walkout In Omaha was unwarranted as well as unprovoked. The Western I'nljQ haa a very large force at preaent and anticipated no difficulty In keeping enough men on hand to -handle tha work. CHICAGO, Aug. 10. The breach between the Commercial Telegrapliera out on strike and the telegraph companies widened and a finish fight waa promised today, when the Western Union Telegraph company Im porter! Its first load of strike breakers to man the silent keys. There were thirty of them, picked up la tfsw York, They er-