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Omaha Daily Bee Advertising is the Ufa of Tradi walk threnrk TU, bm is T9mr n( toman. ymi competitor's sastosasrs, yoar sssslkla easvoaura. THE WEATHER. Partly Cloudy VOL. XMVXO. lS'J. OMAHA, SATURDAY MOUN'INU, .1ANUAKY 1C, 1!15 SLXTEKN IWCIX Oa Trains and at tTotsl Kiwi ntsnds. Bo siXGLE cory two cents. M 0-T LL JLJLJLJ HOUSE REQUIRES CAREFUL CHECK OF ALL MONEYS PAID ! Taylor of Custer Adds a Few More Restrictions to the Expendi ture of Coin of the Realm. STATE OFFICERS ARE WARNED Notice Given in Advance that All ' Overtime Must Be Carefully Explained. POWER BILLS INTRODUCED (From a Staff Correipondent.) MNCOlaN, Jan. 1R. (Special.) Spasms of economy surge over the house at each recurring session of that body and hava pome so frequently that members of the tipper house have even suggester that perhaps the next move will be to bring the trusties from the penitentiary to per form the clerical work o fthe session. Today Taylor of Custor, well , known eoanomlst of days gone by, had the house adopt another rule to safeguard expendi tures whereby a string of "O. K's" sev eral yards long la required before any money Is paid out. Pointer to State Of fleers. The The resolution goes so far that It Instruots the state officers In their d li tis sand admonishes the secretary of state, state auditor and printing commis sioner to approve no vouchers or issue warrants until claims have been passed upon and approved by the committee on employes or tha committee on expendi tures and also provides that on January 19 and every two weeks thereafter these two committees shall report to the house in detail tha amounts paid out to each employe for regular time, overtime, sal ary and mileage drawn by each member, supplies bought and some other things. Bills go Far Introduced. The first week of the session closed with an adjournment this morning until 2 p. m, Monday. The record shows that .fifty-three bills have been Introduced , In the senate and eighty-four in tho ' house. In the senate Bygland of Boone leads the procession In the Introduction of bills, seven being credited to hliri, ' while -Beal ;of Custer comes next with six, Lahhers of Jefferson and Qulnby of Douglas with five each, Bhumway of Dixon with four and Bedford of Douglas with three. The rest of the members have fallen below that number, Brookley, Dodge, Doulhett, Henry, Kohl, Marshall, Mattes. Plller, Robertson, Spencer, Weesner and Wilson of Dodge having not yet broken (nto the column. In the house end on account of the drouth In employes the record has not yet been prepared. Court House Bill Introduced -Against; To Make It Valid (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Jan. 15. (Special.) To I remedy the defect which Invalidated the jlfuinmel act, passed 'by the legislature I of 1913 and afterward declared uncon stitutional by the supreme court, the same bill has been Introduced again this 'year in slightly changed form to meet the legal objectims that operated to BDllUl It. ' ' The Hummel act provided that a coun ty board might make a special levy of axes, not exceeding lluO.OOl), for the con struction of s courthouse or jail, upon the filing of a petition signed by St per eent of the legal voters in the county, without calling a special election to vote upon the question. COL THRASHER CUSTODIAN, NOT JANITOR, IN SENATE LdNCOLN, Jan. 16.-r5peelaI.)-Coloncl .Thrasher of Plattsmonth is considerably agitated because the list of. employes published In the newspapers makes him a Janitor of the senate chamber. "I am not a Janitor,", .said the colonel this morning. "My official cognomen Is custodian of the gallery. T have been re ceiving letters from horns Jollying me be ,causs I have accepted a Job as Janitor and I want the public to know that I am a custodian and not a Janitor.? The Weather Comparative Rscerl. 1915. 1914. 1913. 1912. 41 47 45 Highest yesterday , Slowest yesterday , Xean temperature . Jrecipttiion Temperature anri 11 M M 40 .00 .00 " 13 40 -4 .00 .ft) depar- precipitation tures from the normal jNormsa temperature Excess for the day Total excess since March (Normal precipitation .... ) 1 717 .B Inch Btmwncf lor me aay - .02 inch joiai ramrau since March 1..W0I nches ffaciency since Man h 1. ..... 3. Inches 5"c 5vy Ior cor- Pcr o,l. 113.. 6 S inches leficiency for cor. period, isus.. 4.0 inches Reports from Mlatlons at' 7 P. M. Btation and Plate Temu. Iliirli-'n.i- - " I . III. Cheyenne, snow ......... M ilavenpurt. clear 411 Jjenver. enow lles Moines, pt. vloudy. .. 40 Lander, cloudy 24 North Platte, cloudy .... 30 Omaha, clnudy 81 l'ueblo. eloVidy J2 Kapld City, cloudy is lt Ike City, cloudy... in Hanta Ke, snuw a Sheridan, snow 2i l-igux I'ity, clnudy 30 Aalentine, snow 14 '1' iniiliutes H-acM of iirmi Terns rattles at Omasa Yesterday. Hours. Tj. a V "T" S a. nr.'. s9 JVrO 0, 6 a. m ; 3 V x&Svrv 7 m 3' tSyfJjSU' S . ffl 39 V. s , a. m at X lt-T lm 39 ?VfcOLvV 11 a. ru 40 4r Ktti r 12 ' K.' ' 1 p. m i P. n J p. m ,T7 k'i dOVVl J I p. ui s ? , i p. m Si VrrCcL. 5 p - m w-'-i 'JJ 7 p. in 31 P. ra n Loral et. fall. 30 T 44 .00 34 .fti 44 Ml M .10 .j 41 .00 ai .u 1 .14 30 .0.' 34 M U M! 31 .00 1 a x atiun. uiuicaiMi r.-iotv sero. L. A. WELSH, LoumI Forecaster. JAPANESE NURSES ON WAY TO FRENCH BATTLE FIELDS Seventeen Japanese nurses, under the leader ship of Dr. J. Suzuki, photographed in New York en route from Tokio to French battlefields. 1 i 1 v. ... I " ry -t. fa v n ; ... -.-) ji H ; m ' X ;:; ' H' ,;- ;v,l '--? - ? l v-S" v . I r , - ; - " - v " r hi ... v.... . i j - I ; ? t r- . r I . sjai ' t --. . . i itnttl'N'. , : V t f ; - - . ..-.- - :-..-...- ?.-:-:-. . -i j - . . s;.... - . -- t ' -'!Mvx---v. :vv-. ( j4w ' O : . ! ' ' ? ' - -. , v; v- y .. . ,. " . 4 .v . :. V?r?frWe 'flimsy " swsatH s ".vA . ! , 1 . &.--UJ'WWiWTaWuJjrm 'r.. ' : i " ' . MsaafMsai CwMslsMllsZi "aaTaWMMaP COUNTY FEE EYIL IS TO BE STOPPED Chairman Beit of Finance Commit tee Propoils Leffiiei6n to End - All Official Grafting-.'' ",: DELEGATION ALREADY PLEDGED The fes evil in' Douglas county will .be alrallsbed if the legislature adopts recom mendations to be mado by Frank BchI. In his annual report as chairman of the finance committee of, the county bbard and already approved In outline by .the other members. The Douglas county dele gation In the. legislature' I'.' pledged to favor legislation against "fee grafting." Mr. Best's repbrt, he' announced, will advocate legislation requiring .county of ficials to turn' into the trrositry every cent received by them in any way in their, official "capacity.'."') ' ': '.; ) Two principal leaks of county funds which would le stopped toy such a law are the naturalization tee "holdup"' by Robert Smith, clerk of the district court, and the vital ata: Unties fees "easy. meney'-'-recclved by Dr. It. J. Connell, city health physician. .... , , ' Broadwell (nr. " Clerk Smith's attempt to 'claim' insanity fees aggregating-about J7,W) has already been defeated by tho' supreme court whw it decided -the "Bfoadwell 'case." Mr. Bmlth has In" his possession-several' thousands of dollars naturalization fees. A suit started by. the county board" to recover these is pending In the courts. Dr. Connell-receives from 11,300 to fl,S00 per year for "Yecordlng vita! statistics," which are figures on. births, deaths and marriages, etc., although this . same task is a part of his duties -as city health physician, for which he Is paid a salary by the city. The. county lost a-suit against him under the present statutes and now legislation is .necessary to stop this evil. . . . County Coimnisuioncr Lynch was re sponsible for starting antitfee grabbing agitation 'when'; he - initiated the' suit against Clerk' Smith. ' , - Police Officers in- -Chicago Indictfed:on. Charges of Graf ting CHICAGO, III., Jan.- 10. Police Captain James O'Donnell Btottr, Detective Ser geant Michael Welsbaum and Kred Rothi a former policeman, ,.wre -indUted- on charges of conspiracy torts y by the'grand Jury, which for a week has been; con ducting an Inquiry into- alleged graft among police ' officials ' of the " Maxell street station. A There were fifteen counts In the Joint Indictment, by. which the .men were ac cused of having corruptly refus-d to ar rest certain persons for crimes - com mitted or about to be committed and of having aided these persons in the . ! commission of crimes and - having sup j pressed testimony and offered perjured testimony. Specifically the defendants are ac cused of having advance notices of a burglary at Hcha arts Urol hers on July JO, 191 when woolens worth M,0u were 'stolen; a burglary of a clothing store on Heptember 10, 1913, when S6.0J0 worth of clothing was taken, and sn attempted robbery of another store on September 4. mis. fi b AVI . - .' WARNING SENT TO CARRANZA BY 0. S. America Tells Mexican Threatened Confiscation of -Joreigi Prop-; -' - eTty l&ij Cause Trouble. OIL IS NEEDED FOR ENGLAND WASHINGTON.' Jan. 15-Tlie United J-Xates government ha sent a warnin to General Carranxa, pointing out thii "serious consequcnci-s may follow" hi threatened confiscation of foreign-ownr oil plants In Tamplco. This announce nient was made by Becrctary Hryan, after the .latter ' hud 'rnnfrri-.i uiii. ui. ICecll Hprlng-Klcc. the Hrltlsh anil.sjtsa- uor, and representatives of American oil concerns. Already the Carranza officials have practically enforced an embargo on the exportation of oil by a big Knglish com: patiy.' Tho" British 'nmbussH.lnr i il suggestion of Mr." Bryan, sent an urgent' leiegram to tne British consul at Vera Crux, which he. was instructed to show to Carranza. - - - . -: ;. "sag e rf . t'osniesl Isss. As the British fleet obtains much of Its fuel from rthe Tampico oil. fields, the posisi'bllily t aei-ious complications over the Carranza government's a'ttltude . Is fully realized by tho Airerlcan govern ment. ... Mr. Bryan said today that the'f'oreign ! owned oil companies, "feared confisca tion ; of tht ir Veils," by Carranza, and I that' the urgent repnseptatlons had been! " A decree Issued by the Carranza govern, ment makes It Impossible " for some of the .' foreign oil companies to operate without the consent of the Mexican au thorities, and' some of 'tho American concerns. It Is said, have " been forced to' pay.-so. heavy a tax that they have been practically compelled to, shut down their plants. Althougn there are Dutch Interests at Tamplco, no representations have as yet bees made by the Nether lands'' government. , .... Mrilrsi Thanks Bras. . . fcdiiardo Kturblde, former governor of tha federut district of M'xko. . personally expressed hi thanks to Secretary Bryan today for the efforts of I he United States government In assisting him to leave Mexico. j , Mr. Bryan lnsued a statement explain ing -some-of the' clrcgniMancn of Itur bldes departures. It referred to the statement issued by General Palafox, ex plaining what had been construed as a charge by him that John II, Hlliman and Leon Canova hud accepted billies to aid Iturblde.to escape the churges, were base less, the statement said. - - . Uatlvrrrs t'llrs " K peer la.' ' WASinNOTON. Jn. IS.-Gencral Eu lallo . Gutierres. heal of the provis ional government In Mexico ' City, has publicly .expressed his approval ot that portion of. President Wilson's speech at Indianapolis, referring to Mexican affairs the text of an autographed letter by I Gullerre, whl. h appeared In the Mexico. City press, was today given out by the' Private Yacht Burns," Five Persons Dead BKAl-KORT. N. C. Jan. 15.-Klve per sons srs dead as the result of the de struction of the private yacht Julia by firs in Pamlico sound early tod.ay. GERMANS FORCE FRENCH TROOPS ACROSS AISNE Kaiser's Army Has Been Advancing Near Soissons for Several Days, but Has Not Recovered All Iost Ground. BRITISH TROOPS ARE ADVANCING Report from La Bassee Says They Pushed tJerman Line There Back for One Mile. MORE SNOWFALL AND FLOODS The Day's War News .In Condensed Form RRlTfVll force a stormed the lierrasa entrenched onalttoas near La nMee, la I'rssre, shoot ten miles Vth of the Helalan hiirHfr, srlv. Ia ssrlt ittf (iermasa with heavy losses knd advsnelna one mile. The positions Involved are of con siderable strsteale valoe, bat ron flrmatlnn of their reported ran f h m I- U.LI.. (iKHM S have, won Important ad- vantaaes over the antes ornr Hnlnsons. Nriir Perthes, In the Ar- nhrrr alonsr the western front ; where 'recently there have been heavy enaaaemeats activity has aohalded. PKTHOfsn.tD Is confident that the (irnsaaa sffenslve movement in Po-lartd- hns spent Its force, and the war office announce, that Ras slnn forces have made aalna alona the Vlstala. Tl HKHII forces which penetrated Prrala, nenpjlng Tabrls, are aow advanrlnsr lato the Interior. -The port la said to hove offered to withdraw the forces front Persia If Rossis, also wonld do so. FRK1SCH official statement anys that tier ma a positions near Arras were esnlurrd by soaavrs In a bayonet rharsre. lU'SMAN are n era I utaff expects a roneerted attack by the tier ma 11 forces west nnd sonthwrst of Wsr saw. LONDON. Jan. 16.,-Ths violent German attack to the north of Soissons under the direction of General von Kluck, which, coupled with a flood stago of the river, has forced tho Krench back across the Alsne, Is the most striking news of the last' twenty-tour hours from the heat of wsr. The Germans lve been gaining In this locality for several days, but they had not recovered all of. the ground lust by tficuiT "Yd Is engagement north of Hots sons is' the first notable flgnttng In the vicinity since last (September, when the British army which ubsequontly was transferred to Belgium was succsssful In crossing the Aluno. Snow In the Vosges mountains and floods in Flanders still prevent any ex tensive operations on the eastern or west ern wings,' and to British observers it ap pears as though the Hoissons district had been selected for tho point where, with reinforcements and first-line troops, the Germans are planning to display ones more the hammering tactics so familiar during the autumn. On tho other hand, some war experts argue that the opera tions at Soissons may have been under taken to compel the allies to lessen tha pressure In Alsace. The British claim to have won a marked successful (victory several days ago near Iabassee, when they drove the Germans from strongly entrenched posi tions, gaining one mile In distsnce and inflicting severe losses on their antag onists. . . Thre has been no change of Import ance in the eastern arena of the wsr. Italy has been momentarily distracted from thoughts of war by the devastating earthquake of January IS. The assertion still Is being made In London that the allies confidently expect Italy to Join them In due course. Nothing Important to Report, Says France PARIS. Jan. 15. The following official communication was Issued tonight: "There Is nothing of Importance to re port " ,' The National Capital Frtdsy, Jsassry 16. 11B. The Senate. Met at noon. Henator Lodge spoke on the national de fences. henstors Root. Hitchcock and Rwaasvm were appointed to confer with Bccrotsry Bryan on amending the Colombian treaty. Confirmed nomination of Frederick 1.. Hiddons as assistant justice of the Dis trict of Columbia supreme court. Recessed at : p. ni. to 11 a. m. Hat urday. The lloass. Met at noon. Representative Beakes of Michigan pro posed a constitutional amendment to make the presidential term six years. Irrigation appropriation bill - carrying tl3.K7H.imO reported by Chairman Hmlth of the Irrigation committee. Agreed to continue consideration of river and harbor appropriation In night session without recess. j Tw'nty-.sevt'ii Quarter Sec tions AVlieat Land This la located in the Niobrara val ley, In northern Box Butte county, Nebraska. This location sxcels in potato raising and the still and clim ate is especially adapted to spring and durum wheat. This la all in on body and Is so excellent proposition to colonize. Will sell all ur halt. Might consider some exchange if clear. Tor farther lafonuatlos about this opportunity sss tbs Want Ad section of today's . Estimates of Number of Dead at Avczzano and Sora Increasing PARIS, Jan. IS.-A dispatch to the Mavaa Agency from Rome quotes the number of dead at Avettann la larger than has been believed According to his paper 11.000 persons lie buried be neath t!io rulna of Hie city. The Messegaro says that at Cappa rioclo all the houses are uninhabitable and the people are camping on the snow. Tmenty bodies have ben recovered from the ruins there and It Is estimated that thirty mors are still beneath the debris. . The town of Sourrotanla Is now noth ing but a pile of ruins, beneath which are burled hundreds of bodies. Of the I population of "TO only .thirty escaped death. At Magllano dl Marl l.M) were killed. Capello was destroyed, with the lc.es of more than 1.300 lives. Nearly the entire population of 8an Benedetto, numbering J.oon, met death. The towns of Orliichlo, with 2.100 Inhabitants, and Glnsamarsl, with 3.JH0, are In ruins. At Pesclna tho number of deaths Is nhmit 4.000, which Is approximately one-half of the popu lation. Many Die la Other titles. I I5NDON. Jan. U.-T.ie Exchanse Tel egraph company, has received a message t from Its Rome correspondent, wiio says that the magnitude of the Italian tilsas. ' ter Increases as further news from the I A.mtmtmA mfmm la Mralvftd. PAkIS WAR OFFICE REPORTSADYAHCES Positions in Belgium and France Taken hy Storm and Others De molished by Artillery. VILLAGE OF ST. PAUL RETAKEN PARIS, Jan. 15.-:t5 p. m.)-The Krench war office thla afternoon gave out an official communication which says: From the sea to the I as there were yesterday artillery engagements, some of them quite spirited. We made progress near l.or.ibaertr.yde and near Becelaere. To Hie north. ot Arras a" brilliant attack by Xouavea resulted In the capture at the point of. the. bayonet of the positions o the enemy near the road between Arras end Ullo. - 1 ' - - "In this tame region, at Targette and at St. faurcnt, as well at at a point to the north of Amlechy In the region ot hoye, our artillery secured the advan tage over that of the enemy. German batteries were reduced to silence, two pieces ' of artillery were demolished, a depot of ammunition was exploded and field works . In course ot construction were destroyed. 1 "At a point two kilometres ( mile and a quarter) northeast of SulaKons the Ger mans' yesterday attacked the village of St. Paul.. They enteted the. village, but we. Jpst : i.o 1 1 1 roe I ft mpwl ng it. fc Violent Artillery KBsvaaemeal, - "In tho region of Croanne and near Rhelms there .were .yesterday violent ar tillery engagements during the course of which the ' batteries of the enemy were frequently reduced to silence. "In the region of Perthes, In the Ar- ffonne. sml on the 1ilvhfa' nf tH Unii.. j there has been nothing Important to re port. We have destroyed the font bridges set up by the Germans over the river Meuse et t. Mlhlel, and In tho forest of A Illy -we ' repulsed an attack upon the trenches taken by us January S, -"lit the Vosges to the aojith of Kenon nrs we repulsed the Germane after a spirited Infantry engagement. We broke h rough their barbed wire entanglements and occupied their trenches. "Along the rest of .the front there Is nothing to report." City Where Beautiful Women Live Struck . By the Earthquake AVKZZANO, Jan. 15 The physicians en gaged In the work of rescue formed an organisation and established two field hospitals. They made arrangements for medical and surgical work day and night. In digging among the ruins, rescuers discovered a woman's hand. A physician was summoned and said the woman was still alive. The rescuers . worked with feverish hssto, but It a as almost Im possible to dislodge the mass of shattered masonry In which the woman waa Im prisoned. After several hours only one arm was freed. ' Then the attempt waa abandoned for the physician ssld that death had made futile the efforts of the rescuers. Many houses are In ruins In Saraclneico, a village perched on tha summit of a crag, which has been well known to sev eral generations of American artists on account . of the ' unusual beauty of the young women who have coma from that town t servo as artists" models. The ruins of the medieval eastls there rolled down the face of the mountain. Hitchcock Named . on Committee to Confer with Bryan WASHINGTON. Jan.. 16. - Senators Root, Awaneon and ' Hitchcock were named today members of a foreign rela tions sub-committee to confer with Sec retary Bryan on amending the pending treaty to pay Colombia 125,000,000 for the partition of I'anama. There . Is some sentiment for reducing the sum and to strike out the clause In which the United ritatrs would express "sincere regret" to Colornnla. CHAPERONE AT CAPITOL, KNOCK STIRS S0LONS HKI.ENA, Mont., Jan' 18 -Rejecting today a petition from the Woman's Htuily league of Helena that a ehaperone bs appointed-for women employes at the state capitol during the session of the legislature, a joint rommittee of the sen ate and house addressed a rebuke to the petitioners. The committee declared the petition was n reflection uion the law making body or the state. The casualties at Mngliano dl Marsl are estimated at 1,30 out of a population of 1,500. At Pesolnl t.Ktt persons are re ported killed and the number of dead St an Benedetoe Is gien as .1.000. All the people of the village of Capelle are believed to be burled In the ruins of their homes. The entire population of A I lis f licenses also Is believed to have perished, and out of too Inhabitants In the village ot Less 4M are said to be dead. Every town In the I .hi valley Is re ported today to have been either totally destroyed or very seriously damaged. The work of rescue at Pora Is being pushed with all possible expedition. Thero Is, however, little hope of saving any of the people alive. King Victor Emmanuel Is going to Mora today. Thoasands Head at ora. ROMB, Jan. 15. There Is reason to be lieve that only a few hundred persons out of the 17,000 who Inhabited 801a have been saved. It Is Impossible as yet to ascertain the exact number of dead and wounded. Relief expeditions have been hurrfed to Sora, and every hour Is bring ing more harrowing particulars of the destruction of the ton. The shocks were so severe at Hora that some buildings were apparently removed from their foundations and overturned some distance from their original posi tions. The I.lrl river Is In flood. Asserts Dry Kansas More Wicked State Than Wet Nebraska WASHINGTON. Jan 15,-Prohlbltlon was debated In the senate nearly nil day without a voto being reached on Sen ator Hheppard's motion to auapend tho rules to consider an amendment to tha District of Columbia appropriation bill which would prohibit the sale of liquor in the capital. Senator Martins attacked the proposed legislation as In violation- of the personal liberty of the residents of ths district and declared the creator must have planned that man should use alcohol when he made all ths most nutritious fruits and grains rich In that stimulant, lie read statistics which he said showed that crime, lunacy and other evlla wars mors prevalent In Kansas, a state-wide prohibi tion commonwealth, than In Nebraska, where local option prevailed. Senator Williams said he had changed his opinion since hs opposed prohibition In Mississippi, and challenged, senators to show that whisky had ever bettered any? one. "I love a toddy as well as did Daniel Webster or George Washington," he said, "but It never did me or anybody else any good, except to make them feel better for a little while.".' Two Killed, and Twelve Injured in Wreck at Runnels DRS MOINRH. Ia Jan. IS Two per sona were killed and twelve Injured when two rear cars on the northbound Wabash train. No. 1, from 8t. Louis, wets de tailed near Hunnels. Ia., today. A broken rail Is said to have been the cause. Charge Wdman Beat Little Child to Death TAOOMA. Wash.. Jan. IS. Mrs. Bertha Dlfley, housekeeper In ths home of Amos It. Hall of this city, was arrested today on complaint 'of neighbors that she had beaten to death Hall's 8-year-old son, Clarence. Tho body of the child, who died January 11, was exhumed by the coroner and found covered with brnlses. An Inquest has been ordered. Hall, whose business called hltn from the city, frequently employed Mrs. Dlfley to care for his homo and motherless children. He was shsent at the tlms of the child's destb and burial. A doctor's certificate gave the cause of death as convulsion and cercbal hamorrhages. Neighbors appealed to the city officials, asserting that they had warned Mrs. Dlfley to cease her cruel beatings of the boy. House Accepts Report On Alien Measure WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-The confer ence report on the Immigration bill, which Includes the literacy test waa ac cepted by the house today by a vote of V.1 to 6. It already lias been adopted by the senate and now goes to the, president, who will hold publlo hearings. River Seine Rises, Overflowing Banks PARIS, Jan. lo.-Tho river Heine la rising rapidly. At Troyes It is already out of Its banks and passenger boat serv ice has been temporarily suspanded. At vsrlous places the tributaries are out of their banks. HARRY P0LSKY SHOOTS HIMSELF THROUGH HEAD During a fit of despondency, Harry Polsky, sliaa Iks Polsky, of Uncoln, an ex-convlct, shot himself through the head with a 3&-cslibre revolver In a room at the Hotel London. 523 North Fifteenth street. Polsky for over a year had threatened at various times to end his life and for mors thsn a month had carried a revol ver wrapped In a piece of newspaper, wherever hs went. The ollce were summoned at ones by ths clerk ot Uis establishment, who said Polsky had not been In ths room mora than five minutes alien he heard the hot. An acquaintance stated that Polsky had declared ha waa being haunted by the spirit of h's dead wife, but as far. as the police know he is a single mnn. The bodv was taken In charge -by tho coroner, who Is tring to locate relatives. SIXTY TOWUS 111 ITALY STRICKEN BY EARTHQUAKE Latest Estimates Place Number ot Dead at Twenty-Five Thous- ; sand and Injured at Thirty Fire Thousand. BIGGEST DAMAGE AT AVEZZAN0 Shock Felt ag Far North as Swiss FrorftieT and Numerous Ava lanches Occur in Alps. KING DIRECTS RELIEF WORK BILI.ETgX. PARIS, Jan. 15. A dispatch to the Havaa Agency from Rome quotes tbn Messaggero aa saying ttiat the number of dead at Avxsano is larger than has been believed. According, to thla paper 11,000 persons lie burled beneath the rulna of the city. ROME, Jan. 15. Constantly aiftlng estimates, based on reports that continue to trickle in. now plac the death toll from Wednesday's earthquake at 20,000 and the in jured at a number in the exoeas of 35.000. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of victims still ara burled alive In the wreckage of their homes, while res cuers from every walk of life strug gle desperately to dig them out. King Victor Emmanuel, who re turned to Rome from Avezzano last night, personally superintended tha release of a number of auch unfor tunates. Ths king reached the capital In his private ear. to which were attached three coachea bearing forty wounded. These. I like the other hundreds who are slowly reaching Home, wrere distributed about the hospitals, regular and extroardlnary, in the- city. Pope Benedict this morning offered to the mayor of Rome the uas of the hos pital of Santa Marta. The offer was accepted. Two t itle Are Destroyed. The principal loss of life and probably ths chief property damage appears to have been in Avessano and Sera, fifteen miles away. Both of these municipali ties were destroyed and their population virtually wiped out. Latest reports place ths number ot dead In Avessano at 10,000 and In Sora at 4,010. In at least sixty other to as more than S.000 hava been killed.'. Prom these towns corns the majority 'of the Injured. In Avessano and Sora almost everyone was killed. . The sltustion In Avessano Is Increas ingly grave because of the destruction of tha aoqueduct system and the con sequent shutting off of the water supply. Communication slowly Is being re-established and two hastily Improvised hos pitals and one refuge camp hava been set up. Americana A 1st Hescae Work. Ths rescue forces have been augmented by ths staff of ths United States em bassy at Rome, dispatched to Avessano In automobiles by Ambassador Thomas , Nelson Page. The secretaries urtd at taches carried supplies of clothing and provisions for the sufferers. i : Reports from Swltierland - show that the quake was felt among th Alps and caused destructive avalanches there. As In the Messina catastrophe it is be lieved that It will be weeks before the loss of life csn bs ' known or the prop erty loss accurately compiled. The work o, recovering bodies Is proceeding slowly. Reports today from ths north say the shock was felt as far aa the Swiss fron tier, and that in ths Alps 'In thst region there were numerous avalanches, the re sult of the earthquake. This would make It appear that the disturbance extended throughout ths entire length of Italy, with ths sxoeption of tha extreme south ern end. The Italian government and people have quickly responded to ths call for help from ths stricken people. Thousands of troops have been sent to the scene and the work of rescue and relief Is going on night and day. Supplies ot food, clothing, blankets and medlolnes have been dis patched by train, where posatbls and hy (Contnued Ion Pags Five, Column Two.) Want Ads for Tomorrow Should Be in The Bee Office By - ' 7:30 Tonight to Be Sure of Proper Insertion Prompt and careful telephone service, or a solicitor will call if you want the cash rates. lc Per Word Each Day if the Ad Runs a Week Telephone Tyler 1000 THE OMAHA BEE "Evrybody Rtadt Want AJt" MayS.am
