IT tenon ana ksntmn en ore ermans r Dai Ak-Sar-Bcn Festival Omaha, Sept. 30 to Oct. 10. Sleetrioal Parade. October T. fraternity rarade. Ootober . Coronation Bali, October . HE THE WEATHER. Cloudy VOL. XLIV X(. 94. OMAHA, TUESDAY MOUSING. (KTOHKK (, 1JH4--TWELVE PAOIX On Train and at otel Howl Stand. Be, SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. Retire TH) Omaha BEE LY UNCOLNBEACHEY THROWS THRILLS INTO SPECTATORS Visitors and Citizens Watch little Birdman in His Fantastic Flights Over City in Biplane. HARDER WORK THAN IT SEEKS Dangers of Many Kinds Continu ally Threaten Him While He is Cutting Curlicues in Sky. j TAKES A HIGHER ALTITUDE) i Dipping, Coasting Spiralling, Loop- j ing and Flying Upside Down is Dangerous Work. DRESSES WARMER THAN USUAL Buys Additional Clothes Because it Gets Cold Up in the Air. BELONGS TO THE ARMY FLYERS Should War Break Ont Would Jala tnflf Sam's KorcM la the Ca pacity of nroonnollrrrr and Aerial Homb Thrower. ARMVAL ATTEXULME. 114. 1913. 1913 I 3turday - j '.Thursday 8,647 4,1M 4.0CO AaiUts 18,062 lb, it l'i.iji i Children 3,7b9 8,986 1,788 i Festival Feat a res. Tall Festival. September 30 to Octo-1 bar 10. i Homecoming week, October 3 to 10. ' Electiical parade, Wednesday night, October 7. rraternal parade, Thursday afternosa, i October s. Coronation: ball, Tridey oTenlng-, 0:- ! tober . Lincoln Beaohey today at 1 :30 and 4 :30 p. m.i Wednesday at 11:30 a. m. and ' P- m. Information Bureau, 1519 lioTard ' street. ! Over JO.OiiO people shuddered Mornluy1 afternoon, us they saw Lincoln Beachey'n biplane dart earthward from H height of' over S.OuO feet, after" he had looped the I loop three times and hni flown itps'de down over the carnival ground in his first Ak-Sar-Ben fight. With the tail end of the machine pointing toward the sky and the front end directed straight, down, It looked as If the little wizard of j the air had lost control and would te Instantly killed. ! The downward iah to ap:-rre:it d th continued till the piano was oue of F'ght ol' spectators downtow n. i the hills, trees nd housetops shutting of.' the views wliilc the plucky aviator van :tl'.l 1,00) feet from the C! uskyward shrdluvb ff-t above the ground. Many auto and niotorcyllBt rushed to the west end of. ihr; city to eee if Hcichcy had been killed. Only on t.lont Dip. nut the anxious crowd found that King' Ak'H luatest and bent thriller had liiTelyi hi rn taking a giant dip and had rlght"d his plane and had ma a safe and beau tiful descent wlthouut thr slightest trou-i bin or Hccldent. When tie people on the able to analyze and will be able to forc lnndlng grou?ds rushed up to congratu-j stall the intended German Invasion of lute him and ask if he was all right, he remarked in a niutier-of-fatt way that he was having a hard time taking oft a new ia.lr of gloves. tJcachey made two successful flights .venterday over the King's Hluhway. from which an excellent view of h's perform ance may be had. He will fly again this (t'onlinued on rage Three, Col. Three.) The Weather Forecast till 7 p. m. Tuesday: For Omaha, Council liluft's and Vicinity Partly cloudy, slightly warmer. I'emneratarc nt Omaha Yesterday. Hours. Deg. f a. in il ) a. rn S 7 a. m 4S X a. ni SO a. in n'2 1A n. '.A u 1( u ' As ) ni. 1 in 1 p. in 1 p. m 1 p. ni ,. 4 n. in "a ;. m H i. m i p. in p. in L.ocal Record. 131 mt. ii. Comparative Highest yesterday Ijowest yesterday Mean temperature (Precipitation 6; ST 6 0- HO .Ul .CO .t Temperature and precipitation tures from the normal: iXormal temperature TCxcees forthe clay Total excess since March 1 depar- n tJi oil W inch . .07 inch -0.71 Inches Normal precipitation Deficiency for the dav Total rainfall since March 1 Deficiency since Marrh 1. .. 4.62 Inches Jjeiiciency ror cor. end, l!i3. o te Inches Deficiency for cor. eriid, l!12. S.ai Inches He ports from Stations at T P. M. station and State of Weather. Cheyenne, clear...... Dovenport Denver, clear Ies Moines, cloudy.. iodge City clear lender, cloudy North PUtle, clear.. Temp. High- Ratn 7 p. m. est. fall. M rt .00 70 7 .00 62 t .00 tfi 1 .01 i2 lis e. i all .00 to u; . 72 .01 2 .) 6s K2 . ) .IK f- ; .oo 42 fO .) ' tw .04) Pueblo, clear Rapid City, cloudy Ualt Lake City. pt. clou Santa Fe, clear Hlienilaii, clody S.oux ity, clear Valentine, clear T Indicates trace of prceipitation. I X. WELSH. Local Forecaster. FORMER MRS. GROVER CLEVELAND r' rioht: Esther mpvolarirl Mn TV. cis Cleveland and Marion CRACOW BATTLE MAY END THE WAR Russians Believe if Austrians De feated Great Struggle Virtu ally Be Over. ,,;.... -, i NOTHING THEN IN WAY OF MOVE J C ar' General Staff Thinks Ger man Invasion Rose to Draw llneni.v Out of lo la nd. PKTriDGRAL). Oct 1.-(Vla London, Oct. J.) In ItusHian military circles It Is feit thut the Uu-sisn general staff Is. now ; Kussla. . . , j In spite of the greul importance of. the 'eight-day battle between tieneral Hcnnan ikampff of the Jviissian side and General j von Ulndenbunr on the German side, which has Just conic to an end and In which the jcniiiins were not only unsuccessful i in 'crossing ihe l iver Nlentan. neeordliuf to reports h' re. but were 1 rive n back with heavy losses to the . frontier. Intlng the entile province of S;iwuiki, excepting the town of that name, it is the opinion of Riisnian ohs- rvers that the Germans intended this costly and futile demonstra tion to draw the liu.sj.ian troops from-Kast Poland ns a preliminary to their main object. Th's. as revealed by the present fighting near Warsaw, was an attempt to take Warsaw anil thence move southward to outflank the Russian armv, whl h hav ing occupied Galicln, Is now moving through HukowliiR Into llunKtrv. It is de clined here that this intent has been made liniotHible by the bad condition of the s ,? X t ' " t " ir fe sis l 1 . i, V y f ' . - s4 ii " '- ej f " t feKL ' t. V,a i t l' ' . AW'.. vV'J j ij , , .A-. jr - V- . ' M nisilaj 4kaasjsBpMWsBMsMsi!tf' Afommmmmmmmmmmmmmmf r ' ' ' s .. fci roads. The heavy German artillery sank ".lnlo the roadways and could not go on. ! ""r nas 'ne Gerinan attempt to take t'no .."2 'offensive at Cracow thus far been pro .. 71 ! duett ve. " f? i The irportfd picsmie of Kinjieior Wll- iigijllam In Kaft l'rnssla and the deoarture I of Kmperor Nicholas for the ftont Is I 1311. taken hcra to eniprasise the tremendous 1 72 i Importance of th j Impending battle, w hich I ".'jniay be the biggest conflii't of tho war I !5 ! up to thu present time In either the west- Irn or 16 '""l5"1'" arenas. Three million men, il .s estimated In Petrograd, will bo i engaged. Husslans believe that if the German- Austrian army Is defeated at Cracow, the war will be virtually over. Granted this defeated, they declare there will then be insufficient forces left to stem the Prus sian invasion of Slles.a, and thence to Rreslau and Berlin, as well as the Hus slan advances through Cracow to Vienna and through Transylvania to Iludnpest. PROPOSED LIFT IN RATE DEMURRAGE SUSPENDED WASHINGTON. Oct. 5.-A proposed ln rresse in the demurrage charge on per ishable freight from tl to 13 a car, made by railroads operating in the middle west, was suspended today by the Interstate Commerce commission until January 29. 1915. An Inquiry into the advance al ready has been begun by'the commission. Clevo1 British Aeroplane Gets Lost in Fog anid Drops Bomb Into Dutch City (Covrenpondence of the Associated Press.) LONDON, Sept. f5.-Poople of the quiet Dutch city of Maastricht, which lies on a sort of peninsula bounded on the. west by Germany and on the east h Belgium. have been striving hard to maintain the neutrality of their kingdom. They were startled Tuesday morning, September 12, by the descent of a bomb from the mist overhead followed by the crash of glass, An aeroplane' had' swooped down to- j wards the roofs of .the town and dropped a bomb.' The projectile ' fell near the I Brussels' gate of the old town, tore limbs ! from trees, ripped gashes In the walls of a house and shattered a' number of win dows. Several citizens attempted .to fol-' low the course of the aeroplane' In' motor j Higs. There is no' Information yet cars, but It soon was lost to sight.' 'whether the Hutch government will con- The Dutch , government Immediately i slder Ot ' regrets . and explsnstton sde took slera to Inquire' uf the German-Hel- i quut. In diplomatic phrase, to "close t b gian . government ..whether, any flying I inoldent." ' RUSSIANS REPORT GERMANS DEFEATED Information Via- London Conveys News CzarV Men Are Winners at Nieman River Fight. HAVE THE PRZEMYSL HEIGHTS Member of Damn Heternlna Front Declares Positions Advantage ' Taken from the Aaatrlans. from of LONDON. Oct. 5. Russian reports indi cate that the German offensive toward the N'iemen river from the East Prussian frontier has ended in a German rout after the battle of A llUfttr,u-n whlr-h hmm tioen ' under way sIikc. September 26. If these' reports are true It means that not only , ban General Renncnkampf f been given an ' opportunity to resume the offensive, but j LONDON, Oct. .". The Antwerp cor the Important fortress of Ossowetx has respondent of the Dally Telegraph, tele been relieved from Investment. 1 graphing regarding the fighting around An official message from the command-; Antwerp, under date of Saturday, says: ant of the German fortres at Koenlgs-; "The Germans continue their efforts to berg, however,' directly contradicts the; capture Antwerp. They sre In a des- Russian report and the Berlin version of the fighting, though it does not localise it as particularly as the Russian report, maintains that the Germans along the East Prussian frontier have generally been victorious. As was expected, subsequent reports have discredited the rumor that the Rus sians were Investing Cracrow. It was hardly possible for the Muscovite force to have reached there In such a shVirt time, but a report that t'ossaeks have reached the neighborhood of Cracow is distinctly credible, as the famous Russian cavalry Is showing an ability to cover the sa,ma wide field of operations as the Uhlans In the western war area. Captare Prsemyal Heights. A despatch from Petrograd to the Cen tred News states that a member or th Russian Duma, who ha Just returned (Continued on Pag Two. Column Five.) TURNING FROM EUROPE Left to Jr., (former Mrs. Cleveland), Fran- men of, their hi mies were responsible for the iiiipleaHant surprise. The sequel de veloped the next d'iy when the press bureau announced a raid by Brltlah avlalois aimed at the Zeppelin establish ments In fUHscldorf and Cologne. The. Hritlbhj aerial expedition started from Antwerp, and while the section hound for Pusseldorf reached Us destination hthe Cologne contingent confessed that It lost Its way In the fog. Tho Jirltish minister at The Hague lo. day exj-reKsed the reyret of the lirltlsh government at flic lnc(dent, saya a dls PBtch from that capital. He, explained that the bomlm were dioppo.1 accidentally by an acropUne which hud lost Its bear- GERMANS POUNDING FORTS AT ANTWERP Kaiser's Forces Keeping Up an In cessant Attack Upon Fortifica tions of Famous Seaport. GUN MAKERS ARE FIGHTING Men llnndllnsr Heavy Artillery ald to He from Krnpn Factory and tin Hastily hnnioione.d They Have No I nlforms. RII.I,F.,TI. ANTWF.HP, Belgium, Oct. 6. (Via Lon don.) According to official announcement made here today the situation of the fortified potltions around Antwerp re main! without change. perate hurry to accomplish It, pounding away unceasingly with their artllUry at forts Waelhem and Wavre, 8t- Cath erine's and flinging their Infantry forward in frantic efforts to. break through. "Their losses have bc.er. enormous and tho numbers ktlled are ertimated as high as t.Wi) during the present movement. "The Belgians adopted a clever ruse at Waelhem. After the bombardment had larted several hours the fort cease to reply, whereupon the German staff. thinking the fort out of action, ont red the Infantry to advance In close forma tion. The Iielglan gunners waited until they could see tha whites of their eyes and then opened a murderous fire. 'Thus far the forts In the outer ring of th Antwerp defenses have suffered little harm from the German bombardment. The German .big guns are not being worked by regular soldiers, but by men In citl- (Continued on Page Two, Column Three ) MULTITUDES Itl TURKISH CITIES QUAKE VICTIMS Official Message from Constanti nople Says it is Estimated 2,500 Persons Perished. DISASTER IN KONIA PROVINCE Towns of Isbarta and Burdur Places Devastated by Subterranean Disturbance. CENTERS OF CARPET INDUSTRY Population of One of Them is Twenty-Fine Thousand an dof Other Twelve Thousand. SHOCK FELT AT FORT DE FRANCE Direction of it is from North to South. MARTINIQUE PORT DISPATCH Name Movement Is lo Recorded Threagk the W indward and l.ee ward Inlands, It Ik He. ported. LONDON. Oct. 5. An olfliiiil message from i'onstanlino1n trans mitted from AniHterdam to tliei Cen tral News says, that tlio victims of the earthquake in the province of Konla, Asia Minor, are est wauled at 2,600. SMYRNA, Asiatic Turkey, Oct. 4-(Vla lindon. Oct. 5.) The towns of Ishnrta (population about 2u.omn and Burdur (poulatlou alHiut 12,0001. in the province of Konla, were severely damaged by an earthquake last night, nt midnight. The loss of life was very heavy. These two towns are centers of the carpet Industry. A dispatch from Fort De France, Island of Martinique, received In New York last Haturday said that shortly after 1 o'clock that day a severe earthquake shock was felt at Fort De 'France. The direction was from north to south. No dainage was done locally. The same shock was recorded also through the Windward and Ueward Islands. Ten Thousand Horses on Way to New York on Special Trains PITTSBURGH. Oct. 5.-J. 8. McFoyden, general manager of the II err Island stock yards here, today was notified by the Pennsylvania railroad to prepare to handle 1,000 homes tomorrow, feeding and watering and unloading tlieni for a rest of flva hours. They are being brought from Fast St. l.ouls and are on their way to New York, where they will be shipped to Europe by the Rrltlsh govern ment. Nlnet housand more are to follow as rapidly as they csn be handled. The horses are traveling In special trains, fifty cars to the train. German Infantry is Hepulsed in Surprise Attack on Tsing Tau TOKIO, Oct. 5. It Is officially an nounced that Ooiraan Infantry at Tsing Tau delivered a surprise night attack against the Japanese, but were repulsed. The Germans had forty-eight killed and the Japanese five killed and eight wounded. The cannonading on land and sea in the vicinity of Tsing Tun contin ues. .Four Japanese shells hit the Ger- i man gunboat litis, which retired to thj inner harbor after tho exchange of shots. Emperor Nicholas Reaches the Front PKTROGRAD. Ovt. 5. Emperor Nich olas, commander-in-chief of the Russian armies, hat arrived at the headquarters of the active army. This information was given out today from general headquart er The National Capital Monday, October S, 1014. The Senate. Met at 11 a. m Resumed consideration of conference report on Clayton anti-trust bill nensior w hikii or Montana replied criticisms of report by Senator flced Representative Palmer of Pennsylvania made statement I fore elections com- Inlttee concerning Norrls re.snluton for :ivestlgatkn of expenditures in pri maries. Agreed to conference report on ('lav pool antl-lrust bill by a vpt of Si to 24. Senator Kern, inalority leader, issued a call tor a can run tomorrow to consider war revenue bill and other matters to bo taken ud at this session. Adjourned at tir'Jt p. m. until noon on Wednesday. The. Ilonae. Met at noon, f Filibuster by Representative Henry of Texas prevented resumption of debate on Philippines bill. Rejected the Iever bill for facilitating bank credits on warehouse receipt, by a vote of Pit to 10l, lacking necessary two thirds ovte. Adjourned at i.'o'i p. m. until noon Tue oay. War Summary The allies have liepn obliged to give ground at eertnln points on the wpBtern fide of the battlo line. This was announced In a state ment Issued by th French war office. The announcement contained only tho additional inforntation that tho battle continues with great violence to the north of the Otsne without detihive result; and that there Is no change on tho re mainder of the front. A wtreless dispatch front Ber lin to Salvllle, Long Island, today brings a long German official statement, in which there Is no reference whatever to tho great engagement in which the allies are attempting to turn tho Ger man right, wing- In northern France and reach the Oermnn lino of eomninnlcatlon to Helgium. The German war office de clares that In the siege of Ant werp, Porta Merre, Waelhem and Konlgshoyckt. have been taken, opening the way for an attack. on the Inner clrclo of fortification and the city proper. Official Helglan denials that nny of their forts have fallen came from Antwerp today. They de clare the situation around Ant werp remains unchanged. The German war office says that the Russian left wing was defeated after a furlong battle of two days on the Nieman river. There has been nothing official from PetroRrad, but the most re cent reports, 'official and unoffi cial, from the Russian capital set forth that the German and Aus trian forces all along the fighting area from the lialtlc to Hungary were being checked, driven back route. The returns from the German Imperial bank last week are de scribed In a Iterlln dispatch as (showing an increase In specie of $10,250,000 over the last previ ous report. The German Infantry have ap peared In the fighting In the ter ritory of Klao Chow. China. Toklo announces a night surprise attack from Tsing Tau, but gayB that the attack wan repulsed. Fighting between the land and naval forces at Klao Chow con tinues. The Servians still claim to be about to capture Sarajevo, the capital of the Austrian province of Bosnia. War headquarters at Nlsh announce that Servian troops have approached the forti fications of the city. An official report from Vienna Bays that the Austrians are driv ing the Servian and Montenegrin Invaders from east. Bosnia and that two Montenegrin brigades were repulsed after a severe en gagement, lasting twoj days. AUSTRIANS DEFEAT ENEMIES IN BOSNIA Field Marshal Potiorek Sends Mes sage His Forces Have Routed Servians and Montenegrins. PANICKY IN THEIR RETREAT Invaders, Who Had Previously Looted the Mate, Leave Their Transports Behind, To. ether with applies. LONDON, Oct. 5. t. correspondent of Reuters Telegram company at Amster dam transmits the official report from Vienna, Mgncd Field Marshal Potiorek: "The Servian and Montenegrin foris Invading ICaat llornla have compelled us to detach mobile forces to this realon, which is far from the arena of the prlncl pal scene of action. The first action started In Fast H.isnls. already has como to a successful termination. Two Monte negrin brigades, after two days of severe fighting, were completely d,-feate-d and repulsed. They now are In a panicky retreat across the border, and they most leave behind them their trans ports, together with a considerable, quan-. tity of supplies. These forces had previ ously looted Hiinila. "In the action undertaken In the north ern part of the country half a battalion of Austrian troops captured a full bat talion of Servians." Servians Menace Sarajevo. PARl.S, Oct. S. A I lavas Agency dls pstch from Nlsh brings the following official statement from the Servian war office: "Servian troops in Bosnia have ap proached the fortifications protecting Saralevo (the capital). Tho Austrians, who' occupy the heights on the right bank of the Drlna, aro suffering from lack of provisions. "October 2, near Klenak on the Save, the Austrians attacked their own troops." BODY OF STEVENS TO BE BURIED AT ARLINGTON WASHINGTON, Oct. B -Rear Admiral Thomas 11. Stevens. I'. S. N., retired, who died hern Saturday night of Height's disease, will be burled In Arlington Na tional cemetery tomorrow with military honors. FRENCH REPORT GERMAN GAINING NORTH OF OISE Is Indecisive, but Allies Have Been Obliged to Yield Ground at Some Points. NO CHANGE ALONG THE CENTER Official Statement from Paris is Not as Optimistic as Reports that Come from London. BATTLE AROUND TOWN OF DOUAI Forces of Coalition Are Enveloping Army of General Von Kluck in Net of Steel. GERMANS HUNT WEAK POINT Repeated Attacks Last Week Fail to Break Line. ALLIES CONCENTRATE FORCES levies of lllahland Alans; I .eft Arm Master Keys of Rattle and At tempts Are Maklnsr to t'sptare Them. IH'-ULKTIM. PARIS, Oct. 6. (11:11 p. ii.) i The following official communica tion was Issued by the French war office tonight: "The general situation Is station ary On our left wing the action still continues. "In the region of the Argonne and on the heights of the Meuae, we have repulsed night and day attack "Grand Duke Nicholas had ad dressed to the ministry of war, to be transmuted to General Joffre, a telegram announcing the victory of Augustowo. General Joffre hag Rent, In his name and in the name of the French army, his warmest congratu lations to the commander-in-chief of the friendly and allied army on the battle won, which Is'a gunarantee of future successes." " Ul'LLHTlN. PARIS, Oct. 5. (3:02 p. m.) The official communication waa given out In Tarls this afternoon: "On our left wing, to the north of Oisne, the battle continues with great violence. The result remains Indecisive. We have been obliged at certain points to yield ground. "Along the remainder of the front there has been no change. "In nussia, after a battl which lasted ten days, the German army, which was operating between the eastern Prussian front and the Nie man river, has been driven back along the entire line and made its retreat, abandoning a considerable quantity of war material. This army has evacuated completely the terri tory of the Russian provinces of Su walkl and Lonja." Rattle Mrar Doaal. LONDON, Oct. 6-The fact that fight ing Is In progress in and around tho town of Douai, midway between Arras and Valenciennes, on the railroad to Moiis. is taken in lxndnn to show how surely the allies in northern France have pushed the forward movement they hope will en velop General Von Kluck, the German right wing, in a net of ste.nl. For the Inst week tho Germans, so far as ran be ascertained from the few facts known In Ixmdon. have been vainly hurl ing themselves against different points In the allied line In an effort to discover a weak mesh In the net. At the present time, in the lew of General Joffre, com- (Continued on Page Two Column Four. Bright and Homelike Furnished Rooms with board if yon desire may b found In The Bee'a Waat Ad section. Experience teachea families with such rooms to rent that the most welcome tenants are readers of The Hee, so do not fail to say that you are one when you call to look at rooms. You ran be accommodated in any part of the city where you care to live and at reasonable prices. You ran have big south ern windows, a bath, plenty of closet room, indrpendenae, pri vacy, fastidious housekeeping, hot water heat. Nearly every furnished room ad vertisement in The Bee contains th price bo that you do not have to I waste time and money investigating iunattractive places. Now is a good time to make arrangements for tha Fall and Winter. Ak-Sar-Ben vis itors can find the best accommoda tions In the city by looking up thesi advertisements. TtUphont TyUr 1000 The Omaha Bee Everybody Rtadt Bt Want AcU.