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Omaha unday Bee. WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska Generally fair. For Iowa Generally fulr. For weather top"'" PKp 3- NEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO 1 VOL. XXXIX NO. 9. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15, 1909-SIX SECTIONS-THIRTY-TWO PAGES. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. TAFT MAY MEET TWO PRESIDENTS Gomez of Cuba and Obaldia of Panama Will Be Inrited to Fourteen Hurt by Explosion in Submarine Accident to Boat in the Neva Causes Great Excitement in St. Petersburg;. TEN DEAD AND FIFTY INJURED ONE IS DEAD AND FOUIUNIIOSI'ITAI. Torrid Wave Holds Omaha in Ho1 Grip and Prostrations Follow as a Result. BREWERY WAGON DRIVER VICTIM Two Passenger Trains Collide On Thirteen Miles North o i Colorado Springs. ' j The New Orleans. CENSUS COMMISSIONS READY Lilt of Two Hundred Appointmenti Will Be Given Out Today. PROTEST COMES FROM TEXAS Colonel Lyon Urges that All Jobs in State Be Given Republicans. PLANS FOR TOUR OF WEST Program for Vlalt to Twli Cltlea and Omaha Kecelved at Beverly Arrinitiumli for Two Mare Mops la Arlseaa. WASHINGTON. Auk. 14. Frealdriit Taft may meet tn New Orleans on hi vlalt there about November 1 President Obaldia - of Panama and President Oomea ef Cuba, There la now talk ef Inviting the execu tive of Panama and Cuba and (hould they accept the United State may ahow them the courtesy of placing a man-of-war at their disposal to bring them to tills coun try and take them home. Wark on Census Commlastons. BEVK1U.Y. Mass., Aug. 14. Although , President Taft had a Ions; talk with Post master Genetal Hitchcock this afternoon regarding soma disputed census places, an nouncement of the names of the more than 200 supervisors yet to be commissioned was withheld until tomorrow. Only a few place arc In dispute and the delay In announcing tba successful candidates heretofore agreed j upon and approved by the president Is due i to the Inability of Mr.' Taft to complete ' today the signing of the commissions. Secretary Nagel cf the Department of j Commerce and Labor affixed his signature 1 to all of the commissions before leaving I today. I Colonel Cecil Lyon, republican national committeeman from Texas, who hurried ' back to Boston last night when the Beverly J curfew bell began to toll, returned to town t this afternoon and accompanied Postmaster ' General Hitchcock to the Taft villa. Colonel ( I.yon i&id he wanted to talk over the j president's trip through Texas next Oc , tober, but If tb president should bring tip i the question of census supervisors he would be glad to converse the subject with the , chief magistrate. Protest from Texas. As a matter of fact. Colonel Lyon la tirglng that all the sixteen census super Visors In Texas be republicans and hla pro test has held up the announcement, of the names of the right democrats and eight republicans sgretd on for the Texas offices. : Colcrlel I.yon Ahlr.ks the Mason and Dixon j line ook.it to be pushed far enough south ' to Include Texas In the list of states entitled to a full Hat of republican super visors. , At the conclusion of hie conference with the president tonight, when asked it he had succeeded in moving the line, he declared that he had pried one end loose 1 anyway. Two More Stops la Arlsoaa. The president today altered hia pre viously announced route through Arlxona to Include Phoenix and Prescott In the places to be on his western trtp. Accord ing to the revised schedule, the president will leave Los Angeles on the evening of October 12, instead of on the next morn ing. After a brief stop at Phoenix on the Hth he will proceed to Prescott. whence he will resume his Journey to the Grand canyon, where he will spend October 14. Postmaster General Hitchcock, who Is going to the far west for an outdoor va cation, will Join the president at Loo Angelea and make the trip with him through Arlxona and New Mexico. At El Paso the president will be Joined by Secretary of War Dickinson. Twls Cities and Omaha The program for the president's stops In Minneapolis, Omaha and Augusta, Gi , were announced today. Arriving at Min neapolis at 1:0a a. m.. September It. Mr. Taft will be met by a Joint committee, representing Minneapolis and St. Paul. After being entertained at breakfast he will hold a public reception from 9:30 te 10:30 a. m. and will then have an auto mobile ride to Fort Snelllng. He will be entertained at luncheon at athe Town and Country club, visit the state capitol and ' then go over to St. Paul for an automobile trip through the city. In the evening he ( will be tendered a banquet at Minneapolis. He will spend Sunday, the ltth. In and j About Minneapolis and St. Paul and will attend the Unitarian church In the former city. At Omaha. September 10, the president will be rntirtalned during hla evening stop by the Ak-Sar-Ben. an organisation of busi ness men who chose Nebraska spelled back wards for the name of their unique society. I'li tiolf with Brother. President Tan tjok his brother, Charles P. Taft of I'lnrtiiitatt. out on the Ehui County Cm n try cluV links today and "beat iiiihs loaay ana peat him to a fruaaU." The president declared he had too much love for his brother ti ay what the fitiui nor of the match was, but he announced proudly that he mad th course In 93. The president ha learned the Essex link and now U sulking his lru golf form. As these links are rated five or six stroke harder than the Chevy Chaae course at Washington, the prenident felt that his showing today wan the best he ha ever made. Mr. Taft ft as found ths Mopi link almost too difficult and he will play at Essex again on Monday. PRINTERS END CONVENTION Adept Iteaolalloa KrqolrlaaT Locals t Affiliate with Ceatral Bodies. bT. JOSEPH, Mo.. Aug. 14The fifty fifth annual convention of the Interna- ttunal Typographical union adjourned at 12.20 today. The session this forenoon wa devoted tlniost eutlrely to action on committee reports. practically all cf the delegate and visitor left for their homes thl after noon and tonight. President J. M. Lynch left thl afternoon for Kanaa City and thence to Indianapolis. Vic President George A. Trace y left tonight for Chicago. Before adjourning the convention adopted a reeolutloa requiring local union to af filiate with Use central bodies of the .ry rican Federation ef Laber in all cities. ST. PETER38UP.G, Aug. 14. An ex plosion on board the submarine Dragon, which was lying In the Neva, Injured four teen persons today, twelve Russian labor ers. Engineer Joseph Meads of Baltimore and a Russian naval fireman. One of the laborers died In a hospital from his In juries. The others are not thought to be seriously hurt. Engineer Meads, who was in chnrge of the motors and who was giving them a trial when the explosion occurred, was not erlouly hurt. In his effort to stop the motors he was burned about thu aims and face slightly. The exact cauf-e of the explosion Is still a matter of conjecture, but It would appear that It resulted from the Ignition of the benxlne supply which was being taken on while the motors were working. The accident caused a lively stir In the city and there were all sorts of rumor, all tending to exaggerate the extent of the casualties. One report, which gained wide circulation, was to the effect that a number of workmen were Imprisoned In the submarine and were perishing by asphyxiation. This, with other conflicting reports, was denied this evening by Simeon Lake of Bridgeport. Conn., who is supervis ing the construction of four submarines for the Russian government. Mr. Lake mada a. thorough inspection of the Dragon after the accident and declares that no one was killed outright, though one Tf tho laborers died from his Injuries after being removed to a hospital. Several of the workmen were hurled Into the water by the explosion, but were quickly picked up by boats which came to their rescue. The fire following the explosion burned for five hour. Great Northern Earnings Drop It is Only Western Line that Shows Decrease in Gross Re ceipts. , ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 14. The Great Northern railway Is the only northwestern line that shows a falling off In earnings for the last fiscal year, ending June 30. 1909. The decrease in gross earnings from freight and passenger traffic amounts to more than $1,000,000. There was a decrease tn operating expenses of over 13,000.000. The hard times of last year caused the falling off In business during the fore part of the fiscal year, and while the last six months were among the best the road ever experienced, they were not enough to bring the earnings up to the standard of 1908. The total operating revenue for 1MB amounted to M.868.M3, a decrease of $73.- 009 from 1908. The revenue la divided aa follows: Freight. $39,473, 0H7; passenger, $10.9T.9j7; other transportation revenues, $2,979,153, and nontransportatlon revenue, $226,679. The operating expenses were: Mainte nance of way and structures, $S,7Si,64 maintenance of equipment, $6,169,278; triffic expenses. 1746.133; transportation expenses, $14,803,402. and general expenses, $1,014,(62, making a total of $32,524,647, a decrease of S3.U9.449 from 1908. Steward for Chief of Chicago Police Mayor Busse Announces Appointment of Man Now Employed in Postoffice. CHICAGO. Aug. 14. Mayor Busse an nounced tonight the appointment of Leroy T. Steward, superintendent ot city deliv ery of mails In the Chicago postoffice, as chief of police to succeed George M, Shlppy. resigned. Mr. Steward's name will be sent to the council for confirmation at a special meeting of that body Monday morning. He will assume the dutlea of his new offloe at once. TRUST IS SUED FOR MILLION Lobbying la Cob cress and w Tariff Bill Urged by Iadepeadeat Coaeera, NORFOLK, Va., Aug. lt.-Allegmg illegal practices by the tobacco trust, designed. It is charged, tn destroy the plaintiff's In dependent business, the Ware-Kramer To bacco company has brought suit In the United State circuit court at' Kalelgh, N. C., against the American 'Tobacco com pany, claiming tl.MO.000 darnxgea. It Is charged that the trust has brought undue Influence to bear In congress for the i , , . , . . , I - - - . . n 1. & . hurtful Irt In.ldnAMAn, 1 F""" " ' . " ' baeco manufacturer and that the new na tlonal tariff bill favor the trust as against the Independent. Indian Takes Notion to Run Uncle Sam's Business David Bearheart, an Omaha Indian In i Thurvton county, conceived the Idea the! other day that the rural mail boxes In his Immediate locality were not equally distributed and undertook to straighten out fb matter by removing a number of I them to another locality on the same route. As a consequence he got Into a contro versy with the postoffice department, but escaped with aa admonition that he a at not the, whole thing, and that the removal of postoffice boxes a strictly the pro vince of the department, and that tbe de partment was very Jealous of Its prero gatives. David Bearheart meant well. He had noticed that in on particular locality on a wheel placed borlsontaily oil a poet at road crossing the rural boxes were un duly crowded, while dowa tbe road a mile or two, there waa but on mall box on the wheel, so he propoeed to equalise things by taking three or tour of the boxes toui BOTH RUNNING AT HIGH SPEED Baggaje Car and Smoker Telescoped and Engines Ditched. SEVERAL INJURED WILL DIE Passengers Thrown Into Screaming Masses on Floors of Cars. NORTHBOUND CREW IS BLAMED It Ha Orders to Walt for Other Train at Hasted, bat Mistook Switch Engine for Pas senger Train. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.. Aug. 14. Nine persons are dead and others are ex pected to die between; between forty and fifty are Injured; three engines are in the ditch; two baggage cars, Including the contents, are smashed to kindling wood and several passenger coachea are badly damaged aa the result of a head-on collision between eaatbound passenger train No. S and westbound passenger No. 1 on the Denver Rio Grande near Husted. thirteen mile north of this city, at 19:25 a. m. today. The wreck wa due to a misunderstanding of order, it la aid: A revised list of dead follows: JAMES ROSEPORKA. Chicago. C. M. LARK IN, Colorado Springs. C. 8. BROWN, Jericho Springs. Mo. J. A. OOSSAGE. fireman on engine No. 8, Colorado Springs. T. E. MURPHY, traveling car agent, Denver. A. A. DAVISON, McPherson, Kan. ATTORNEY OFF G. FREDERICK, St. I.ouls. F. W. BELESH. Colorado Spring. JAMES J. PARKER, Chicago. List of Injured. The injured: Andrew Jaobson, Oldham, P. D.; Inter nal injuries. Elmer Jokisch. Virginia Falls, III.; leg broken. J. I. Frank, McPherson, Kan.; leg and head cut. F. J. Sedlaclk, St. Louis, Mo.; head cut, legs broken. ' Mrs. T. M. Randolph, Okmulgee, Okl.; In ternal injuries. Fay Steck, Kansas City, Mo.; slightly Injured. John W. Roberta, Cambria, Mo.; bead cut, legs broken. E. C. Whltsldd, Jerrtco Springs, Mo.; back Injured. Henry C. Shlpman, 1572 Kimball avenue, Chicago, 111.: ribs and leg broken. J. v. Leafgren, Axtell, Neb.; legs cut O. C. Skinner, Topeka, Kan.: ribs broken. E. C. Tannehlll, Des Moines, la.; arm broken. John Relnhart, Carson, la.: leg broken. Peter Nelson of Monroe, Neb.; taken to St. Francis' hospital with hi chest crushed; In a dying condition. Mrs. D. K. Beaton, Harrlsburg. 111.; taken to the Acacia -hotel, - la suffering from a broken back. Her death 1 ex pected. An engineer waa dead heading hi way to Denver riding tn the lead engine of the double-header. A portion of a body la reported to have been found late to night at the scene of the wreck, but this 1 not confirmed. Crew Makes Mistake. As No. 8 drew' Into Husted at about forty miles an hour the crew of the engine saw a light engine standing on the switch north o the station. Mistaking the engine for the second sec tion of No. 1, the crew did not stop, and went through the station as fast as the two engines could draw the thirteen heav ily laden coaches. As soon as the train got out of the station the engineer of the first engine of No. S saw another train coming slowly down the Incline. He slammed on the air brakes and the emergency brakes and then shouted to the other member of the two erew to Jump. Before they had time to Jump No. S had rammed No. 1 so hard that all three en gines lay in the ditch. Fireman J. A. Goxsage of train Na S was killed aa he was firing his engine and never knew what struck him. The member of the other crew escaped serious Injuries by Jumping. The engineer on the first engine of No. S is reported to have been working extra, and since the wreck ha been acting like a madman. He had to be held by friend. Dead AH In Smoker. Smoker No. 672, attached to train No. 8, was the car In which the people were killed. All those badly injured were In the am car. There I not enough left of the car, beyond the frame to tell that it was formerly a smoking car. The baggage cars on both train and the smoker and the next cars were all wrecked. The thre engines in the witch are total wreck. A relief train bearing physicians, surgeons and nurse wa hurried to the rescue from this city; a wrecking crew was sent up fromyeblo. The dead and injured were broufc rcjo this city on the special and No. L Ui two arriving shortly afternoon. Hero- "Vork In helping the Injured was done iS)U,a party of women tourists, under the direction of H. A. Cameron of Boston, Ma., and C. R. Dow of Boston. The members of the party turned over to the Injured two Pullmans they were occupy ing. Within a few minutes of the collision the two cars had been turned into a hos pital snd bandage were put on the In jured. the crowded wheel and putting them wheie they were needed more. David did not take Into consideration the convenience of the owners of the boxes. In fact David was regarded in that locality as a sort of daft eccentric of the harm less. Happy Hooligan variety. When the postoffice inspectors went up to investigate the matter David freely ad mitted that he had made the change and why he had done so, thinking be wa doing a good turn. It wa conclusively shown that Colonel Bearheart was honest tn his endeavor, and as there wa no wrong or maJlclous In tent, the cue against hint was not pushed and he insisted on being permitted to re turn the mall boxes to their original loca tions, promising to let them alone In the future and that he would absolutely ab stain from butting Into poatofflc matter la any manner her-' From the Cleveland louder. WAR GAME IN BAY STATE Play Delayed Until Today by Non Arrival of Transport. BLUE ARMY IS ON GUARD da Near Baaaarda' Bay Expected to March Enemy Li and li Toward Boston at Eight O'clock. BOSTON, Maw, Aug. 14. The beginning of the bloodless war which is to be waged tn southeastern Massachusetts during the coming week was postponed unexpectedly tonight from the hour of midnight to 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. All preparations had been made by the defending, or Blue, army to resist an attack, and even to take the Initiative in action. There waa much disappointment when Brigadier General William A. Pew, Jr., In command of the de fenders, got word late tonight that, on ac count of the failure of one of the "en emy's" transports to arrive, the entire maneuvers had been postponed for eight hours. The announcement came to Briga dier General Pew's headquarters from Ma jor General Leonard Wood, commander of the Department of the East' and the chief umpire in the war game. General Wod had learned from Major General Taeh-r H. Bllan Af the regular army, who commands the Invading force, that one of hi "transports" wa unexpect edly missing, and after consulting with the other umpire Wood decided to call all the proceedings off until o'clock Sunday Biorning. At that hour the game will of ficially begin. Bine Army at Robins' Pond. Tonight th headquarters cf the Blue army were near Robins' Pond, about six miles east of Bridgewater, with the right of the line of troops a little west of Bridgewater, and the extreme left a little east of Halifax. The whole line Is about twelve mile long. Governor Draper re ceived word, "theoretically," this morning of the approach of the enemy. By 9 o'clock a. m. the necessary orders had been trans mitted and the troops were on their way to the rendesvous. This afternoon before 4 o'clock the com mand of Brigadier General Pew wa In line and word for a forward movement at midnight was awaited. Governor Draper, Lieutenant Governor Frothlngham. Adjutant General Brlgham, Inspector General Parker, Judge Wlveral, General Roger and Major Sear arrived at division headquarters about 1:30 p. m., hav ing left the state house In this city at 12:30 In two large automobiles, accompanied by an automobile truck carrying baggago. They will remain In camp during the enure week, living under canvas like the real of the volunteer army. Dynamite and fuses are to be carried and are to be actually placed in position in bridges in readiness to be set off. But when all Is In readiness to blow up a bridge, instead of Igniting the fuses a would be done in actual warfare, placard are to be tied on the bridge to notify the "enemy" that "theoretically" the bridge I no mora and that he will either have te build pontoon bridge or ford the shallower streams. Dispatches received in the city during the (Continued on Second Page.) A piece of Omaha real estate, well bought, is like money invested at compound interest it is always accu mulating and gain ing in value. Today realty values in Omaha are going up never ugain will they be aa low as they are now. The future success of Omaha, aa a large commercial city, is assured beyond a doubt and those investing In real estate now, can, in five year, look back and congratulate themselves on their wise invest ment. In todays real estate columns of The liee will be found ad vertised about two pages of real home bargains and investments. WHILE THE FAMILY IS AWAY'. Sharp Seismic Shocks Felt in Central Japan Railroad Communication with Three Districts Interrupted and Great Loss of Life is Feared. TOKIO, Aug. J6. Sunday Morning A se vere earthquake occurred In central Japan yesterday, Saturday afternoon, at 8:30 o'clock. The shock waa practically hard around Kyoto, Osaka, Lake Blwa and Nagoya. All railroad communication with those districts has been Interrupted. Many houses collapsed and It Is feared that many people wera killed or Injured. Nagoya, with a population of more than 260,000, and one of the principal cities in Japan, located 170 miles west of Toklo, waa badly damaged. Detail are meager be cause of the Interruption of telegraphic communication with the cities most af fected. . Twenty-one death and aeventy people Injured ha thu far been reported. One-fourth of the Shiga prefecture sua tained considerable damage. Mount Isukl, at the north end ot Lake Blwa. an extinct volcano, 1 reported to have collapsed near the top. . The shock waa alight In Toklo. . The American board and the Congrega tional church suport nine churches and several schools In Osaka and a dozen churches, Doehlsha college and a numbei of academies and school In Kyoto. Kyoto Is the headquarter of the Ameri can Episcopal diocese of that name, ihe head of which 1 Right Rev. 8. C. Part ridge, D. D., formerly of New York. hTe Episcopal denomination in this country maintains three euchares, St. Peter' hos pital and two achool In Kyoto and In Osaka three churches, St. Barnaba s hos pital and two orphanages. Rule for Land Claim Winners Each Holder of Lucky Number Will Be Sent Map Showing Lands Subject to Entry. SPOKANE, Aug. 14. Superintendent James W. Wltten announced today rules far the guidance of winner In reservation land drawings. Each holder of a number will receive a government map showing claaa and valua tion of land subject to entry. When se lection begin next April a copy of thl map will be posted In the land office, the tract being checked off as faat aa chosen. All persons holding notice that numbers have been aMtgned them may go on the reserve to Inspect the land at any time. The drawings ot names for the Spokane reserve will begin next Monday morolng Only ZM name win be drawn. IRRIGATION CONGRESS OVER Xonarrival f John Barrett geaaloa Ret for gator day. Nnlla SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 14. When It wa learned late last night that John Barrett director of the Bureau of American Re rmhiir would not be able to attend a ses Ion scheduled for today the seventeenth National Irrigation congress concluded Its business and adjourned. French Press Contains Hints at Tariff War PARIS. Aug. 14. France' position on the American tariff i absorbing the at tention of th government official. Am bassador Jusnerand, who recently ar rived here from his pot at Washington, has postponed for a time hi departure for hla country place In order to confer with Premier Brland and Minister of Commerce Dupuy. For the present, how ever, no decision as to France'a program la expected. Meantime the French aentl ment 1 oi.e of daep astonishment that the United States should arbitrarily terminate the existing Franco-American tariff agreement on three months' no tice without previously Informing France and thus give it the opportunity to ex press Its views. A th American agree ments with other eountrlaa stipulated six months or on year's notice, French ex portation sr placed, for th time be ing, at a ceaslderable disadvantage. The French preas, reflecting the oora merclai sentiment of the country, is greatly exercised orer the future. The mere conservative organs counsel, calm HASKELL COMES INTO COURT Governor of Oklahoma Seeks to Have Indictments Quashed. WILL FILE MOTION MONDAY Charge la Conspiracy with Five Otaera to Swindle Creek Indiana Out of Lota In Jin koiree. MUSKOGEE. Okl.. Aug. 14 A motion to quash the Indictment against Governor Charle N. Haskell of Oklahoma and five other defendants, charged with conspiracy to defraud the government and the Creek Indians In the Muskogee town lot cases. will be filed In the federal court here next Monday, according to a statement made tonight by Pliny L. Soper, attorney for Governor Haskell. Mr. Soper Intimated that the petition to quash the indictments would contHln sensa tional charges against the government at torneys who secured the Indictment and the grand Jurors who returned them. Monday will be the last day of grace for filing the motion to quash the indict ments. Intense Interest In the prosecution ot the cases, which, it Is said, has now reached a crisis, ha been aroused here, where -all the defendants reside, and are wealthy and well known citizens. The petition of the defendants was to have been filed today, but It Is said the action waa postponed to await advices from attorneys of the defendants, who ate no in Washington. H. L. Welnland. a Boynton, Okl.. banker, and W. C. Franklin, his attorney, filed charges today against County Commis sioner T. B. Sutton. William Harris and Charles Vann. alleging misconduct In office and asking that they he ousted from office. Nepotism Is one of the charges set forth. Halts Will Not Be Dropped. WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 ."The govern ment will not drop Its suits agalnnt Gov ernor Haskell and others involved In the Muskogee town lot caeea, and any idea that such action was ever contemplated la absolutely absurd and unreasonable." This emphatic statement was made to night by MT L. Mott of Muskogee, Okl.. attorney for the Creek Indian nation, and an Important factor in the prosecution of the Haskell cases. Mr. Mott has been co operating with District Attorney Gregg and Special Counsel Rush, who is prose cuting the cases against Mr. Haskell. "An Immense amount of money has been expended by the government In working up the cases and they win be pushed to the limit. In my opinion. The report that the Department of Justice would take favorable action on the motion to quash the Indictments, If charges against the conduct of aome of the department's sub ordinates are withdrawn, la about as pre posterous a proposition as I ever heard. Such action would be disgraceful, to say the least of It. and you can make this point as emphatic as you please. I know the department Is determined to prosecute the cases vigorously, and this Is evidenced by the fact that Attorney General Wlck ereham has personally Interested' himself In the prosecution of the case. Body of Miller Kunnd. TANKTON. 8. D., Aug. 14 (Special Tel egram.) A floater found In the Missouri at the mouth of the Jim river Saturday has been Identified aa the body of John Miller, who committed suicide July 29. Miller had been mentally unbalanced since his son, Peter, was drowned In the Mis souri four years sgo. ness and ths avoidance of a destructive tariff war, but some of them fear that the ultra-protectionists will force the hand of the government and tariff re prisals will result. It Is pointed out that If this should eventuate France would run the risk of encounverlng America's prohibitive maximum rates. Chairman Klots of the parliamentary comlsslon for the revjyfcn of the tariff Ik quoted as saylnf that the Incressea In the American schedules which hit France are bound to be followed by equivalent In creases by France as a measure of econ omic necessity. It is quite well under stood that France has not been aimed at and that it is hit only because it ext-orir luxuries to America. . .everthelesa it is felt that Franc must protect herself. Minister of Commerce Dupuy thus sum marises th situation: "Without recourse ts the tartff France will defend her commercial, Industrial and agricultural Interests." Heavy consignments of wine go forward for America dally In order te take advan tage of the lower rat Isaac Young Dies at Hospital Aftei Succumbing on Street. OTHER CASES MAY NOT BE FATAL Four Taken to Hospitals for Treat ment Likely to Recover. RECORD OF DAY OF INTENSE HEAT Omaha Hwelfera In Temperataro Hanging from TT at ft A. M. to os at a r. m., with y Relief In Slaht. RECORD OF THE HOT WAVE IN OMAHA. Temperature; 5 a. m 77 9 p. to. (maximum) 99 6 p. m 90 7 P m B8 Xffactt On man overcome by heat) die at hospital. Tour other In hospitals, prostrated. Many person compelled to glv up work and seek relief. Thousands sleep out of doors. Tor the mtnrei Ho sign of cessation of hot wave. One death from the heat and four pro tratlons wa the record up to 11 o'clock last night for a day di'rlng which the citj of Omaha literally sweltered and slxile with a temperature, according to the gov ernment thermometer, of 95, with a high humidity, and, worst of all, with th weather mnn holding out no promise ol relief for today or tomorrow. ISAAC TOU1TO, a driver for the An heuser-Buseh Brewing company, died al 9:30 o'clock lnat nlKht at the Omaha Gen eral hospital, where he was taken earlj in the evening. Young lived at Twenty seventh and Cuming streets. He had been at work all rtuy on his wagon, but efter he turned in his team he was over come Rnd was taken to the hospital, where he was treated by Dr. Porter. He was a large man, weighing 300 pounds, and It was seen from the first that he was In a srrlous condition. Four Xot Herlona. HIS. J. O. WALLACE, 114 North Twenty eighth street, wns overcome about 3:50 o'clock Saturday afternoon while at her husband's pise" of business, 914 Farnam stteet. She was treated by Dr. Shramek and afterward taken to her home. It is expected that xhe will recover. MISS VEBITIE BOBIIfSON, 4TJ North Fortieth street, an employe of the City Steam laundry, was overcome about 6:30 o'clock. She was treated by Dr. Fltx glbhons and wns afterward taken to her home. Her condition is not considered serious. WILLII JOHNSON, employed as ftremsn at the same latind'-y, was bIfo overcomr late In the nflernonn. His home ts 417 South Eleventh street. He was treated by Dr. Harris and was afterward taken to St. Joephs hospital. RASC PAINT, 1037 South Twentieth street, a carpenter for the Union Pacific railroad, was overcome at Seventeenth street and the Union Pacific tracks about 6:15 o'clock. Sergeants Samuelson and Madsen took htm home in the patrol wagon and he was treated by his family physician. His condition ie not considered serious. Many Silently Affected. In addition to the cases cf which report was made to the police there were many other persons who were compelled to give up their work although not entirely over come and the day will long he remembered as one of the most disagreeable In many seasons. Even the night brought little relief, and both Friday and Saturday nights there were probably as many person sleeping cut of doors with nothing but the canopy of the sky over them aa there were Inside. Jefferson square was filled both nights and many other open spaces were filled with men and children, and. In some cases, women as well, who found the grass and the open air more agre able than any In side room. In addition ta those who slept In the parks there were hundreds who slept on the flat housetops and on porches snd. In some cases, even on sidewalks in front of residences which were too hot Inside to be endured. The police were lenient and In many cases tramps with no home slept undis turbed on the sidewalks when on more comfortable nights they would have been locked up as vagrants. Looked I.Ike Kaln. Early Saturday night a cloud along the western horizon seemed to hold out faint promise of rain with the grateful coolness which would follow, and there were even some faint flaxhea of lightning, but up to an early hour this morning the wished for rain had not aj.peartd. In addition to the suffering of the human population of the city there was also much suffering among animal a, especially horses. In several cases teams went down under their loads and many driven tied large tpongi-H ovtr the head of their teams and kept them wet during the day. Saturday opened with a temperature of 77 at 6 oVIiKk, At tl.v same hour In the afternoon the rei-oid whk ;i ai.d at f o'clock last nlKlit the mercury stood within two degrees of ti.at point. due Death al Lincoln. LINCOLN, Aug H.-Tiie Intense heat wave of the laxi tuo weeks reached lis climax here nxlay when one death from h at prostration wax recorded. The govern ment bureau repoiitil a temperature of Vi li -n it closed for the day at noon. For two days the maximum has been M. Stewart Slakes Faat Han. Pick Stewart, wl.j left Omaha at 1 o'llo k Tliurxlaj a'Uriiouii in a ilan.LIer uutunio tiit irached Cliuago shortly after nouu Saturday sfter a drive of i i'rty-aveu hewra. A telegiam from hlin said Uie uurn) without a u. Ideal t
