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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1914)
THE BEEi OMAHA, "WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1914. EDITOR OF FIGARO RILLED Movies Cami) Uses an Automobile 8 Wife of French Miniiter Takes Re venge for Attacks on Husband. SPOUSE TENDERS RESIGNATION Murdered JTetTspnper Mnn llnil Keen WnRlnir CnmpnlRit of Usiretue niKernra Agnlnt Govern ment llfflclal. PAKIS. March 17.-Gaston Calmetto, editor of the Figaro. '. wai shot by Minb. Menrletto Calllttux, wife ot Joseph Gnll laux, tho French minister ot finance, lis died tonight Mme. Calllaux went to the office of tho Figaro to carry out an act ot vengeance agajnit II. Calmette, who had been wag Ing a campaign characterised by ex treme bitterness- against the. minister of finance. She fired at least three times, Jf. Calmette being wounded In tho chest, In tho side and the abdomen. While tho editor was being transported to tho hospital he said repeatedly:' "I havo done my duty. I have dono my duty." Having committed the deed, lime Call laux submitted to arrest and while em ployes In the Figaro office were taking tho pistol mm her hands she said: Tin Justice in Country. "Since there is no justice In this coun try, I tako upon myself an act of Jus tice. Take me where you will." Mme. Calllaux was removed to & polUe station where she underwent a prelimi nary examination, tho substance ot which wns communicated to the press at her de sire. "I am sorry," sho said, "for what I wns obliged to do. I had no Intension ot kill ing M. Calmette and I would bo happy to know that he will recover. I desired only to teach him a lesson." At the moment of the attack II. Cal mette was preparing to Jcavo his office in the company of Pnul Bouraet, the author. Ho excused himself to rccelvo Mme. Calllaux, who fired almost Imme diately. In her statement to the police Mme. Calllaux explained that the ' campaign asnlnst her husband had become Intoler able and she determined to stop It Iecnl Proceedlne Vnln. She consulted an eminent lawyer, who advised her that legal proceedings would do futile that they wore often worse Id the case of an Innocent than In the case of tho guilty. Slio decided then to tako the law Into her own hands, fihe bought a revolver, drove to the Figaro offlco and sent In hor ?ard. M. Calmette was most pollto and asked what ho could do for her. " 'It Is needless for mo to pretend that I nm making a friendly call.' I answered. Then I drew my revolver from my muff and fired all tho cartridges. M. Calmetto tried to tako .shelter behind n. desk." Mme. Calllaux was formally charged with attempted homicide and removed to St. Lajgalro prison. Xater the charge was changed to homicide. , ' ' It wao officially announced tonight that M. Calllaux had tendered his resignation from tho ministry of finance but that Promter Doumerguo -withheld hla decision until tomorrow. MlnUter'a Third Wife. , Mme. Calllaux In ',tho mlnlntor'o third wife. She Is 39 years of age and. her maiden name was Hanrictte Ilalnouard. She was the wife of Ueo tilarcticj brother ot the uto Jules ClareQrffontttvbom sha. was divorced. The personal campaign ot CJnston Calmetto against Joseph Calllaux bean it January 1, nnd since then tho attacks against the' finance minister have been H dally featuro of tho paper. The fact that tho campaign was Inaugurated on tho' ive ot tho opening of the last session ot the present chamber ot deputies created Intense Interest In tho charges. AmotiK these M. Calmetto usserted that M. Calllaux offered to pay 11,300,000 to M, Schneider, tho .legal representative of Marcel I'rlou, who had entered claim against the government, on condition that SO per cent of that amount should bo turned over to the radical party's cam paign fund for tho coming elections. i Tapped Batiks, M. palmetto also charged that M. Calllaux had "tapped" the Comptolr Na tional D' Kscompto and other banks to the' amount of $$0,000. Among other accusations It was charged that the minister had oxcrtcd pressuro on the judges to postpone the trial of Henri 'Rochotte, who was arrested In Pari In 1S0S on the chargo ot swindling on an enormous scale, thus enabling him to f leo .to ,Mcxlco. M. Calllaux was also charged with authorising tho quotation on the Bourse ot questionable foreign loans whereby vast sums were lost by French Investors. M. Calllaux contented himself with Is suing categorical denials. Hut March IS the Figaro printed a facsimile ot a letter from JL. Calllaux to an intimate friend, dated ''The Senate. July 16 1801." At the time Calllaux was minister ot finance in the "VValdeck-RousJCU cabinet, In which he said he had been successful' in crush ing the -Income tax, altliough seemingly he was defending tho tax. This brought matters to a climax, and it was under stood that the finance minister Intended to take proceedings against M. Calmette for publishing a private letter without authority either from the sender or the receiver. PREMIUMS OYERSHADOW LOSS Stook Fire Companies of State Prove Great Money Makers. LIFE COMPANIES OVERTOP THEM Old I.lno Innnrnnco Show Heavy Kxcesa Over Louses of Fonr and a Half Million Dollars in State of Nebraska. (From ti Staff Correspondent) LINCOLN, March 17.-(Hpeclal Tele gram.) According to a report by Insur ance Commissioner Brian, risks written by stock flro companies Increased from 808,000,000 In 1912 to $423,3o8,GC6 In 1913. Fraternal companies wroto $29,983,775 Insurance In 1912 and dropped off to iVSMUV) in 1913, tho losses being $2,618,513 In 1913 and S2.44,C30 In 1913. Life companies wrote $31,310,000 In 1912 and $39,009,982 In 1912, while their losses In 1912 were $1,311,738 and in 1913 $1,039,82(1. Farm mutual wrote business of $12. 403,000 In 1912 nnd increased to $54,611,123 In 1913. The losses were $320,9S9 In 1912 and $135,(23 In 1913. Hall lusuranco com panies were tho only companies which sustained losses more than tho amount of premiums received as shown by the following table: GENERAL INSURANCE. Written. Pre'lums. Losses. StOCk flre......$l2G,RS5,SS3 $1,043,078 $2,871, Farm mutuals.. M.611.1Z3 t,8l2 435,522 Hall 770,130 42,121 131,520 Miscellaneous l.aa.GW C02.W6 Ass't accident 432.H8 2JMJ9 LIFE COMPANIES, Written. Ceased. Premiums. Losses. Life ..$39,009,982 $,, 143 $8,204,110 $I,639,t2 A. life. 6.140.391 4.277.278 378.0S8 187.928 Frat'n! 18,144,150 25,558,508 2,899,280 2,440,090 AUTO MANUFACTURERS ATTACK INCOME TAX ACT WASHINGTON. March 17.-Sulta ' at tacking the constitutionality of the in como tax were filed In tho district su preme court'. hero today by John P. and; Horace F. Dodge ot Detroit, Mich., au tomobile manufacturers. They contend , that the law unduly discriminates against Individuals and partnerships In favor ot corporations In the laying of surtaxes and In permitting corporations to withhold from taxation such portions of Income as may be necessary for tho needs and purposes ot their business. The latter privilege Is not allowed to Individuals, tlielr bill says. It was understood here that tho case Is a test suit In which all the Immense automobile Industry Is concerned. Children Narrowly Escape Earth Slide Sliding earth from a high embankment adjoining the Train school on South Sixth street yesterday afternoon caused the principal to phone police headquar ter for old, as soveral pupils appeared to have been walking directly beneath tons of falling dirt Six firemen from the station at Eight and Pierce streets, assisted by the police, turned over every bit of the material before they were satisfied that the little people had escaped. Tho high embank ments opposite tho sldowalks In this region have made It very dangerous for pedestrians, in the spring especially, when the ground Is softened by the thaw. An appeal will be mado to the city of ficials to have these banka graded to a degrco where the public will be frVo from' Car Men Enjoined from Going on Strike INDIANAPOLIS, March 17.-An in junction prohibiting the leaders of the street car strike and members ot the street car men's union In Tcrre Haute from Interfering with the operation of cars by the Terre Haute; Indianapolis ft Eastern Traction company was Issued by Judge Francis E. Baker, In tho federal c6urt today. The order also prohibits those members of the union who previ ously had agreed to arbitrate their dif ferences from going on a strike. MEXICAN REBELS ROUTED Column of Constitutionalist Troops Defeated at Bustamente Canyon. CORRESPONDENTS ARE HIT BLOW Limit la Placed on Unnntltr of Mat ter They Can File Fonr Kinds of Money la Now In Circulation. LAREDO, Tex., March 17. Decisive defeat of a column of constitutionalist troops, en route, It Is believed, to take part Jn the proposed attack on Monterey, Mexico, at Bustamente canyon la re torted In official advices received tonight at federal headquaiters nt Nuevo Laredo. The rebels were utterly routed, according to the dispatch, with a loss ot about MX) men killed, captured or wounded. The federal losses was not stated. Busta mente canyon Is about midway between Laredo and Monterey. In their flight the constitutionalists were said to have left behind largo quan tities of arms and ammunition and the federals claimed the capturo ot many wagons, carrying arms and supplies, and 100 loaded pack animals. The rebels, re ported to bo part of those marching against Monterey, were moving toward Morales, Nuevo Leon. Who commanded the forces engaged was not stated. Order Plane to Cblhnnhna. EL PASO, Tex.. March 16,-Qeneral VUja today telegraphed to Captain Salinas, the rebel aviator, whose' mono plane has been undergoing repairs at Juarez, to have his machine at Chihuahua within the next twenty-four hours. In cidentally It was loarncd that the regular trl-weokly passenger sorvlco between Juarez and Chihuahua had been tem porarily abandoned. Tho trains are said to be needed for transporting troops south from Chihuahua. These two facts wore taken by rebel officials at Juarez to Indicate that Gen eral Villa la anxious to begin his attack on the federal entrenchments at Torreon. Anscelea to Front. General Angeles, the artillery expert, who left here yesterday for Chihuahua, was reported to have halted only ' long onough for a conference with Villa and to have proceeded to the front without further delay. In tho telegraph office at Juarez It was stated that the censorship Inaugurated yesterday applies moro to tho quantity of matter that can be filed by corre spondents than to the quality. The single line, It was explained, was crowded with official business and It was found neces sary to decrease the amount of press dis patches being wired. Mnrtlnl I.nw PrevnII. SAN DIEGO, Ca!., March 16. Martial law, though not proclaimed, Is In force today along tho border for miles each sldo of Tecato, Cal., following the destruction by fire of the general Btore contalnlng-the United States postofflce and customs office and tho murder of Frank Johnston Saturday night by three men declared to be Mexi cans. Till last night the border was patrolled by American troops from Fort Rose crsns. Across the line, not many hundred feet Mexican rurales performed guard duty. Four Kinds of Money. DOUGLAS, Ariz., March U. Four kinds' ot money are circulating now In the Mexican territory controlled by the con stitutionalists. These ars United States currency, the flat Issues of the consti tutionalist government, Sonora state and "Villa money," or that Issued by Chihuahua at the Instance of the rebel military commander. United States money takes precedence In value. Merchants In Sonora, to protect them selves and at the same time observe the laws requiring acceptance of the rebel currency Issues, have established a slid ing scale of prlcese. Lawyers Will Not Be Able to Force Premature Trials Indicted attorneys who ore demanding Immediate hearings will not be allowed to force tho state to go to trial before the county attorney Is able to secure the attendance of important witnesses accord ing to a ruling of District Judge English In tho cose of Clinton Brome charged with subornation of perjury. Brome attempted to force a trial ot his case yesterday, but the Judge held that the county attorney should be allowed time In which to locate Ruth Geddes, the girl who confessed that she committed perjury" In a deposition taken by Brome. Miss Geddes In regarded as on important witness In tho case. The county attorney is making an attempt to locate her to learn whether she will bo willing to come to Omaha to testify. Practically all tho lawjers Indicted by tho grand jury are demanding immediate trials and much talk of "the law's de lay" now Is heard among them and their friends. AT NINETY LEAVES PEN HE WAS IN TWENTY-ONE YEARS SAN QUENTIN, Cal.. March 17. "Grandpa Billy," ihe oldest Inmate of a prison In California and believed to be ono of tho oldest in the country, was set at liberty today, after spending twenty one years In San Quentln penitentiary. At the ago of 63 ho was sentenced for life for killing his son. Now, at 90, he Is both deaf and blind. One of his three living daughters dbtalned his pardon and FIREMEN AND ENGINEERS WEST OF "CHI" ASK RAISE CHICAGO, March 17. An Increase In wages Is being sought by tho firemen and engineers on fifty-eight railroads west of Chicago, according to a statement mado today at a conference of repre sentatives of the men and tho railroads. The hearing, Is expected, will continue for a month. WILSON GETS SLAM FROM DEMOCRATS OF TENNESSEE NASHVILLE, Tenn,, , March lT.-De-cllnlng to listen to tho suggestion of President Wilson for harmony in the cemocraxiQ party In Tennessee and en dorsing the administration ot Governor Ben W. Hooper, the independent demo cratic state executive, adjourned today after calling two state conyentiona, both to meet April 22. In touching on the harmony suggestions of President Wilson, the mainritv f the speakers characterized the action of me president as ii-aavlsed," and de clarnl that bo did not know tho condl Uorva existing In Tennessee- II S BEHIND RUSSIA IN ENFORCING CHILD TOIL LAWS NEW ORLEANS. March 17. Th.t th United Slates was behind cvc. ltussla In enforcement ot child labor laws was as rerted In a report read by Herschel II Jones today before the National Child labor conference. Dr- W. It. Oates, chief factory inspector of Alabama, declared that comtmijirv education was the only solution ot (ho jiroWera as in many cases parents were -willing their children should work while tney uemselvea remained Idle. Swap for Drofit or nltaxur. Vntt rnitt oitentjnHw make good bargains If you new ( .ptner wuuns, swappers. Watch mi mumne oi ane te jor announce tcct of market place. They Can't Answer the Claims of This Car in When the announcement was made by me some two years ago that the Cartercar was so constructed that its power was sufficient to climb 40 per cent inclines, dealers who sold gear cars laughed at tho idea. When the Cartercar actually proved its claim by climbing 50 per cent grades, their smiles broke into jeers. They no longer attempted to dispute the question but ridiculed the car's mechanism. They said that it would'nt stand up that it was built on tho wrong principle. This was two years ago. Since then Cartercar sales have grown. The people's eyes have boen opened. In two years I have become one of the largest Auto distributors in the west. The sales of but few cars equal the sales of the Cartercar. I am receiving a solid trainload of these cars this month and another June 1st. jssHbsbVHBiv 'Issssssm jjjjjjjjjjjj))K& li .t,.i ti.., H asBslssHHsVlpMsVW' MHbsA sssssssssbLss1bVV7- it v jss&KHMLLa Krty kstflHsB!iLH sasasssssssMBMfagpsjF7y iHHBHlHH m JHiKiMsflHsliiiiiiiiiissssHsHHHs IHhHHBHHk ' J ; sraBsHsv BBBBBBBBBtBBBSBlBsa7 isHslBBMlBBBr LSVsflsLIDBB'iBHisS W. E. FO SHIER, President Cartercar Nebraska Co. I occupy in Omaha one of the largest quarters of any concern in the West which sell cars and which does nothing except sell cars. Now this was possible only with a good car the best car. The Cartercar is the car which I chose to make this possibility a certainty. I did it with a car which dealers characterised at first as a thing of a few days' life. The truth is, no principle is so correct as the principle of tho Oflrtercar. All are finding it out. People own them now, who at one time were envious of the claims that we made. And when a man drives a Cartercar after driving a gear car, he never goes back to the gear car. We have demonstrated conclusively that the most practi cal car in the world is the friction drive car. It is the most practical because it is the simplest. Being the simplest, it is the strongest, the safest and most econpmical. These are the chief qualities of an automobile. They are the necessities of the business man who uses a machine for relaxation, and who cannot afford to be bothered with its mechanism. They are the necessities of the lady who drives a car for pleasure and who cannot become a mechanic. They are the safeguards of every one and every class whose business as well as inclination, are apart from engineering. The only car that I know that fully measures up to the standard is the Cartercar, and I have studied its construction. I have studied the people's requirements. I offer it to you, confident that it is the best product of our country today. Cartercar Nebraska Company 1573 Electrically Started Electrically Lighted Seven Passenger T HE best way to reach a final and clinching conclusion concerning the value of this Studcbaker SIX is to compare it with those automobiles which are offered at a trice several hundred dollars higher, Studebaker Detroit E. R. Wilson Auto Co. Local Dealers, 2429 Farnam Street Omaha Branch 25th Ave. and Farnam St. Omaha, Neb. "FOUH" Teorlei Cu SI0S ..SIX" Tirtat Cm - - 1175 'SIX" Mn4u-IWittr Hit "SIX" fed. 2319 Mil ":s" R.tiittr - 175 Uo4l ":S" ToBiUt Cm IIS Mol.I 'JS" Touring Cm 1390 Mll 3J" Cost 1154 tix.rutitt"sir iss V 1 Buy it Because it's SiItI:? They buy it for what it does. That's why the Ford is ser vant of thousands. It holds the world's record for all 'round dependability. And it's the lightest the strong est the most economical car on the. market. Fire hundred dollars is the price ot the Ford runabout; the touring car is five fifty; the town car seven fifty f. o. b. Detroit, complete with equipment. Get catalog and particulars from Ford Motor Company, 1916 Harney Street. DIRECTORY AUTOMOBILES,, TRUCKS, TIRES and ACCESSORIES GASOLirME CARS ' B M TJIOK ' ' Nebraska Buick Auto Company, Lee Huff Mgr. 1912.14-16 Farnam Street, ARMON Marion Auto Company, C. W. McDonald. 2101 Farnam fr , " AXWELL- " " Maxwell' Motor Sales Corporation, 205-207 State Bank Building. VERLAND ! ' Van Brunt Automobile Company, . 2010 Farnam St., Omaha. 18-20.22 4th St., Council Bluffy I OPE-HAHTFOED ' ' Van Brunt Automobile Company, 2010 Farnam St., Omaha. 18 20.22 4th St., Council Bluffs, s TUDEBAKER- E. B. Wilson Auto Company, 2429 Farnam StreK, ELECTRIC CARS HIO I 1 Van Bruntr Automobile Comnanv. 2010 Farnam St., Omaha. 18-20.22 4th St Council Bluffi,' s T AND ARB . Marion Auto Co., M-f u. w. Jacconaitj. 2101 Farnam Streii
