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TTv RIEF V Bright JLREEZY BITS OF NEWS PREACHER RAPS CRITICISM OP SUNDAY BASEBALL. Stony Brook, N. Y., Aug. 3. De voting too mucn time to criticism of Sunday baseball instead of to thine! more imnortant is rfliivinir thousands of persons in large cities to lose interest in the church, the Re. Alexander McCall of Philadel phia told the New Era conference " of the Presbyterian church in the junitea states, tie urgrd that great er effort toward extending social service be made. FARMER DRINKS CARBOLIC ACID WHILE DERANGED. j Emporia, Kan., Aug. 3. William Jacobs, a farmer near here, drank carbolic acid wLile temporarily de ranged, and died. He lived 57 years' in the same house. LAD SHOT TO DEATH BY RUSTY OLD GUN. Hamilton, Aug. 3. Chester Perry, 11 -year-old son of W. H. Perry, of Winfield, was almost instantlyjcilled when he was shot by a 22 caliber rifle in the hands of a companion. rThe gun, old and rusty, was obtained 'from a trash pile. The companion was so frightened he could give but little detail of the tragedy. H. C. OF L. BLAMED FOR ORNERY CHILDREN. Washington, Aug. 3. From 3,000, 000 to 6,000,000 American children are not getting enough to eat be cause their parents are unable, on their present incomes, to buy suf ficient food, said a statement issued today by the children's bureau of the department of labor. These are the children, the statement said, who are often pronounced by parents and teachers to be "delicate," "ailing," "lazy" or just plain "ornery," al though their true affliction is mal nutrition. The number of school children in the United States who are not get ting sufficient food was placed at from 15 to 25 per cent, while this was said to be true of one-fifth of the children attending school in New York City. . SUCCESSFUL PUPIL GOOD STOCK RAISER. Ozawakir, Kan., Aug. 3. Sher man Funk, a 13-year-old lad, is the busiest youngster in Kansas. He is rai'ing chickens, ducks and pigs, apparently w.ih the same success ,tfnt lie had in his school record. He lias attended s.-Jiool for eight years without being absent jor tardy. His average grade was 95. LETS GO VIA AIRSHIP; ONLY $50,000 A TRIP. London, Aug. 3. The first pas senger airship to fly to Rio de Janeiro from England will leave next, month from -Barrow, the Daily Express learns. The fare will be $50,000 a round trip, which will be made via west Africa. HAS A GOODJOB BUT NO SALARY. Jefferson City, Mo., Aug. 3. When the legislature last winter, made their annual appropriation for the mine inspector of Missouri, they -thought they provided for everything in the way of expenses. They did almost. Their appro priations covered the deputies, six in number, traveling expenses, con tingent expenses, a secretary and a stenographer. But, no provision was made for the salary of the chief inspector. Now, George Hill ot uevter, mo., may. have to wait two years for his salary. REWARD OFFERED FOR CATCHING BANK THIEFS. Topeka, Kas., Aug. 3. A reward of $600 will be offered for the ar rest and conviction of bank rob bers, it "was announced by State Bank Commissioner JValter E. Wil son. The amount will be contrib uted by the state, the Kansas Bank ers' association, the National Surety company and the Ocean Accident & Guaranty company. SUFFERS ARREST IN DEFENSE OF THE POOR. New York, Aug. 3. In order, he said, to test the validity of a city rule which requires all persons using the municipal ferries between New York' and Staten Island, to go ashore on reaching a terminal, in stead of remaining aboard -n pay ment of another fare, Frederick D. Underwood, president of the Erie railroad, Saturday'refused to leave a ferry at Staten Island and was ar rested on a charge of "disorderly conduct." According to Mr. Underwood he deliberately subjected himself to ar rest "in the Interests of the poor people who cannot protect them selves from foolish rules." H. de clared the rule forced women and children taking the trip for the air to compete for seats with ship yard workers returning to Manhattan. PADDY THE PIG" DEAD; SON OF RICH PARENTS. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 3. Morris Connery, known to Kansas City's "north end" as "Paddy the Pig", is dead. For years "Paddy" has made hit livinor frnm hanri tn month, al- though he was a son of a wealthy Illinois family. Connery attained his nickname be cause of his remarkable ability to imitate the antics of a pig. He was , known to all the "down and outers". His ability to handle large quanti ties of amber colored fluids was only second to his ability to imitate. He was ready at any time to enter tain the crowds in the saloons with his facial contortions, and often In this way earned a living. Monday, an unidentified man was picked up in front of the "Helping .Hand" institute. The clothes were new. and there was nothing in them to indicate the owner. Not until late in the week was the body iden tified. Then it was learned that "D. A A,. ... t miecinir (mm him lie. iuuj w J" ' a . ..... nal haunts. Later it developed that a brother had visited Kansas City recently, to secure Paddys signature to a deed of trust to settle the estate. The es tate is. said to be worth consider able, well up in the 6-figure col umn. The brother, while here, gave Paddy tome, ew clothes. OMAHA, THE GATE CITY OF THE WEST, OFFERS YOU GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES. The Omaha D Bee VOL. 49 NO. 40. Eitora4 M Mcad-atui utter Maf 2S. IMS. tt DmIm P. O. aaaer tct at Muck t, 1179. OMAHA, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1919. By Mill (I yr, Daily. M.M: Sanity. 2.M; TWH fPMTQ Dally ana Sua., 15.50; aattlda Nab. aoaUfa antra. 1 W 1 VEilN IS. THE WEATHER t Generally fair and cooler Monday and Tuesday. Hourly tanponttaraai 6 a m...,. f a. in...., T a. m S . ..,.. av. m...., IS a. m H a m..,., M Boaa ..... ....7 ....II ....U ....IS ....IS .... ....ST ....1 t p. B.. ...... M p. m. ....... s p. m m 4 p. m. ...... .100 6 p. m 101 p. m 00 1 p. m tt VI IMJ MM i zj DYNAMITE GANGSTERS REVENGED Attempt Life of Former As sistant Attorney General by Totally Wrecking His Home With Gas Bomb. HUSBAND AND WIFE BARELY ESCAPE DEATH Former Carries Mate Through Flame to Open Window and Drops Her on Awning, From Which She Falls to Safety. Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 3. (By the Associated Press.) Revenge for the part he played in the prose cution of a group of dynamiters in the middlewest several years ago was assigned by the police here as the probable motive for an attempt on the life of Oscar Lawler, former assistant attorney general of the United States. Mr. Lawlers home .as practically destroyed by a bomb the subsequent fire here early to day and he and Mrs. Lawler both seriously burned and otherwise in jured. .The Lawler "Tiome was a large brick and frame structure in the fashionable Wilshire district, in the west part of the city. Mr. and Mrs. Lawler were sleep ing on a porch in the south side of the house, opening from a second floor room and screened from the street by an angle of the building. Miss Bessie Mills, a nurse, and Os car Lawler, Jr., were sleeping on a screened porch at the rear, or east end of the house. Outside Escape Cut Off. When the explosion came a sheet of flame at once rushed up the side of the house, directly below the porch occupied by the Lawlers and cut off possible escape toward the outside. Mr. Lawler and his wife went into the house and tried to make their way to the rear porch where their son was with the nurse. They were cut off by smoke and flames and when Mrs. Lawler real ized this she fainted. Mr. Lawler took her in his arms, carried her through flames to the front of the house and dropped her to an awn ing over the front veranda, whence she rolled to the ground. He then leaped after her. The young son and the nurse were rescued from the porch by neighbors. Another son and daugh ter were away from home at the time. Bomb Near Gasoline. A thorough investigation by city, county, state and federal authorities led to the belief that the bomb was placed between two five-gallon cans filled with gasoline, or some other highly inflammable liquid. Ex perts working on the case found fragments of the bomb sufficient to reconstruct it. They said it had been made of a piece of iron pipe about 10 inches high and six inches in diameter. Two discs of meal had been placed as ends, apparently held in place by two bolts passing through both ends and the pipe it self. TKey also found the two five gallon ''cans that had contained liquid. Discs Found in Wall. -The bomb and the cans had been placed on a concrete walk, almost directly below where the Lawlers lay sleeping. One of the discs, (Continued on Face Two, Column Two.) Police Barracks in County Clare Town Attacked by Irish London, Aug. 3. A party of from 20 to 30 men this morning attacked the Broadtord police barracks in East Clare, Ireland, according to a Central News dispatch Jrom Ennis, capital of County Clare. The dis patch adds that a brisk fire was maintained upon the barracks for more than an hour, with the police answering it. A constable , was slightly wounded. Gompers Pleads for Greater Labor Rights Amsterdam, Aug. 3. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor and head of the American council to the international trades union federation, in session here, pleaded for greater rights for labor today. German delegates dis puted Mr. Gompers' argument, which, they said, made it appear Eu ropean labor unions were too con servative. W. A. Appleton, the new president of the organization, told correspon dents here that "it was unfortunate that the Germans should have chosen to question the declaratio.i of Herr Sassenbach on Germany's war responsibility. ' v "Partial repudiation of this state ment," he continued, "immediately revived suspicion and fears that Ger many was insincere.. J Vessels of Pacific Fleet Shaken l?y 2 Earthquakes; None Reported Damaged t , Commander Remains Unperturbed During Seismic Disturbances Which Cause Some Qualms of Fear to Many Raw Recruits; Warships Quiver But Luckily None Are Sunk. PUNISH On Board U. S. S. New Mexico, Aug. 3. (By Wireless to the Asso ciated Press.) Six dreadnaughts of the Pacific fleet were shaken severe ly by a double earthquake shock at 4:10 o'clock Saturday afternoon, 20 miles off the coast of the state of Colima, Mex. None of the war ships reported any damage. The New Mexico trembled from bow to stern as if she had struck an uncharted reef and the navi gating officer sounded "collision quarters" on the flagship's siren. Sailors in the for,etop said the basket masts of the warships swayed like poplar trees in a gale. Officers Hurry to Posts. Officers on the quarterdeck hur ried to their posts and the crew and marines took their places. Mean while all watertight compartments on the NeyMexico were closed and inspection parties were sent into, the holds, to see if there had been any damage to the hull: Admiral Hugh Rodman, commanding the fleet, quickly recognized the cause of the disturbance. "It's an earthquake," he said. "We are right off the coast of Colima, where there are many earthquakes." Then he ordered "signal all ships in the fleet and see if they felt any ex cessive vibration." Wireless telephone messages were received soon from the five other dreadnaughts reporting they felt the shocks. The Mississippi, which was further oft shore, reported heavy vi brations. Some Recruits Show Alarm. When jtfie first tremor of the ship was felt, those below hurried on deck. The faces of some of the re cruits showed alarm, while the flag ship rolled and pitched in the heavy swells that followed the shocks. Admiral Rodman kept the crew at quarters for 15 minutes and then ordered the "secure signal" to be sounded. He took the whole inci dent as if it were a matter of routine, giving his orders quietly on the quarterdeck. One of the officers reported that he believed the earthquake came from an old crater in the Sierra mountains, which fringe the coast line near here. No Record in Georgetown. Washington, Aug. 3. The double earthquake shock, which a dispatch today from the battleship New Mex ico said severely shook the six dreadnoughts of the Pacific fleet late Saturday off the Mexican coast, was not recorded by the seismo graph at Georgetown university. The shock, it was said, undoubt edly was due to a tidal wave which may have had its origin in volcanic action of some kind on the bed of the Pacific ocean, a heavy wind or a minor earthtremor in the vicinity of the battleships. DRAG RESERVOIRS FOR WOMAN LATER LOCATED IN PARK Mrs. Baird Mysteriously Dis appears; Found Unharmed Last Evening. . Five hundred residents of Clifton Hill district, searched that vicinity all day Sunday for Mrs. Grace Baird 33 years old, 4352 Seward street, who disappeared mysteriously from her home at 5 o'clock yesterday morning and reappeared in Fon tenelle park at 9 o'clock last night. Her whereabouts in the interim have not been learned. The -Walnut Hill pumping station reservoirs at Fortieth and Hamilton streets were dragged all day for the body of the woman. One of the reservoirs near which a woman was seen loitering early in the day was drained. The two other reservoirs were dragged. According to Henry M. Baird, husband of the woman, she left the house quietly at 5 o'clock Sunday morning attired only in her night dress. The police scoured the vi cinity and little squadrons of neigh bors searched every patch of weeds and every clump of trees in that part of the city. At 9 o'clock last night Thomas Brown, caretaker of Fontenelle park, found Mrs. Baird dabbling her feet in the duck pond at Forty sixty and Ames avenue. She was attired in her night dress and a raincoat. Mrs. Baird is under the care of Dr. R. A. 'Dodge. She is confined to her home. She has not been ques tioned about her whereabouts yes terday. Mrs. Baird is the mother of a 6-weeks-old baby and a 7-year-old son. In January, 1918, according to Baird, a 3-months-old boy died and it so unnerved Mrs. Baird that she has been an invalid since. Herry Baird is an employe of the Union Pacific. Mrs. Baird is a sis ter of J. B.'Owen, cashier of the Stock Yards National bank. Bright Lights Cause Car and Truck to Collide Two men narrowly escaped death at 11:30 o'clock last night when an automobile truck and a street car collided head-on at Twenty-fifth and Ames avenue. The truck was completely wrecked. Jacob Crohin, 3920 North Twenty-fifth street and JoelBarrick, 4021 North Twenty-seventh street, both of whom were riding on the truck, were thrown several feet by the impact. Crohin suffereda lacerated forehead, contusions of the back and limbs and severe bruises. Bar rick was uninjured. Crohin was at tended by Dr. L. J. Cook and taken to his home. The men were driving west on Ames avenue and the street car was going east. Barrick was driving the truck. He said bright lights on another automobile blinded him, causing the accident. Plan Ceding Colony in Payment of War Debt London, Aug. 3. The Nationals News says a suggestion that the British West Indies be ceded to the United States in part payment of Great Britain's war debt is be ins: considered seriously on both Uides of the Atlantic, BUDAPEST BROKE; LITTLE MONEY AND LESS FOOD Communists Leave Hungarian Capital Stripped of Essen tials That Maintain Life. Budapest; ug. 3. (By The As sociated Press) The city today presents a pitiful appearance after the flight of the communists. The streets are half deserted, no stores are open, there is little food in the hotels or private houses and no soap, coffee, tobacco or linen is to be had. Many windows are broken. The people move 1 about aimlessly, but smiles have replaced the looks of terror that previously were on their faces. The new cabinet is sitting day and night, working on the formid able task of reconstruction and the bringing about of order. The communists, who robbed both for political and private pur poses, left the banks empty. Fi nancial institutions which contained roundly 5,000,000,000 crowns now have barely 50,000,000 crowns in good money in their vaults. Fi nance Minister Miskios does not know which way to turn as the only money left him is communist paper. The communists, in addi tion to printing foreign bank notes, falsified Czech and Jugo-Slav stamped money to a great extent. According to Peter Agoston, min ister of foreign affairs, all eyes turn to America for food, especially for the children. It is understood, howevir, that the Hungarian harv est is reasonably good and that the lack of food has been partly due to the refusal of farmers to sell to the communists. Bela Kun's Downfall. Vienna, Aug. 3 The downfall of Bela Kun, virtual dictator f the old Hungarian soviet government is described in dispatches received and by refugees from Budapest. Final action in upsetting the cony muniv government took place Fri day at the meeting of the central council of revolutionary workmen and soldiers at Budapest. Bela Kun appeared before the council. With tear-stained face and in a choking voice he admitted the hopelessness of the situation. Speakers told how the Rumanian troops were within 40 kilometers of Budapest and that the allies threat ened to tighten the blockade. Jacob Weltner, president of the soldier's and workmen's soviet de manded Bela Kun's resignation. Then Bela Kun yielded. He pre dicted the coming of a "white ter ror", robbing the workmen of their freedom and means of production, all of which lie deplored. He add ed that the people would return to him. Bela Kun is now in Vienna. Many "Devil Dogs" Back , With Their War Brides New York, Aug. 3 Approximate ly 5.000 marines, vanguards of 16, OOff "devil dogs", whose exploits in Belleau wood, at Chateau-Thierry. Soissons and other famous battle fields, make up a part of the record of the Second (regular) division, to which they were attached, arrived today on the transport George Washington. Led by Maj. Gen. John A. Lejune, the marine officer who commanded the Second division, the troopr came into port tp a tremendous j ovation. FIX PLANS TO PROFITEERS Steps Toward Reducing, the High Cost of Living Expect ed to Be Taken by Govern ment This Week. ATTORNEY GENERAL WHETTING HIS AXE Infant Morphine Addict Being Gradually Weaned of Drug in K. C. Hospital Nourishment and Care Displacing Sedatives That 10r Months Old Boy Had Been Fed by Parents; Is Nervous and Excited During First 12 Hours of Treatment. STRIKE OF SHOPMEN SPREADING There Is a Great Deal of "Good Law" in the Statute Books, He Says, in Talk About Pun ishing Food Barons. Washington, Aug. 3. Steps 'to ward reducing the high cost of liv ing are expected this week. While all government depart ments are working toward the end of alleviating unrest by restoring a normal level of prices, interest cen ters ,in the meeting Tuesday of the conference called by Attorney Gen eral Palmer to consider the best metfiod of procedure, especially with respect to profiteering. The com mittee appointed by the conference has been engaged in an exchange of memoranda which will be put before the conference for recommendation to President Wilson. Expert Counsel Promised. The presence of Julius Barnes, di rector of the United States Grain corporation, at the meeting Tuesday, will give expert counsel to the cabi net members and other officials on the grain situation. Consideration of a plan to sell wheat in a free mar ket, the government absorbing the difference between the market price and the guaranteed price, is believed certain. i. There are indications that the at torney general is paying especial at tention to cases of profiteering, tie has at his disposal a great volume of information collected by the fed eral trade commission, showing pro duction costs in scores of industries. "Good Law at Hand." While there is no law bv which profiteering may be punished direct ly, Mr. Palmer has said that there is a great deal of "good law" on the statute books and it is believed he will find a way to punish any cases where there are evidence of extor tion. x The average citizen is the man in whose behalf the profiteering investi gation will be pushed, despite the fact that it was the new demands of the railroad labor union which precipitated it. The cost of living situation, it was learned today, will be one of the chief topics to be discussed at Tuesday's cabinet meeting. When government otticials re sume their attempt to find a solu tion to the cost of living problems tomorrow, another factor will have entered into the situation the or dering of a strike vote, returnable August 24, among the 500,000 shop employes of American railroads. Information that the shopmen were not disposed to accept President Wilson's proposal to have congress create a special body to pass on their demands and to consider them in connection with living problems, took officials by surprise. Negro Breaks Ankles in Effort to Escape Police Frank Cunningham, a negro res himtii r-rtr broke both his ankles Saturday night when he leaped from a second story winaow at 1016 Howard street, where po lice were raiding an alleged gamb ling house. , The raid was staged at midnight. fii n ti i n crh a m was not -found till 8 o'clock Sunday morning when Po liceman Aughe Discovered him in the alley near the building where the raid took place. He was taken to the University hospital Ten alleged inmates, an negroes, were arrested in , the raid and charged with gambling. Man Robbed of $38 in Shadow of Home; Dips Work on Cars T. J. Doyle, 2618 Davenport street, was held up in the shadow last nicht bv two hieh- waymen. He was robbed of $38. He gave police a description ot the two men. Paul C. Sherr, Harley hotel, re- nnrfir1 in fh rinlir Snndav that his pocket was picked Saturday night ot $1 on a J-aice aianawa street car. ' ' Two Killed, Four Injured When Auto Skids Into Diteh Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug..3. (Spe cial Telegram.) Roy Davidson, age 23 years.and Miss Bessie Eckles, age 17 years, of Canistota, were instant ly killed, and four others injured, one perhaps fatally, when the auto mobile in which they were riding skidded into a ditch. fiveN miles west of this city Sunday afternoon. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 3. (Spe cial.) Edward Hogue, jr., the 10-month-old baby drug addict found by the police, is taking a "drug cure" at the General hospital. Sun day, he spent the first day of his life without drugs administered on his tongue or through the mother's nourishment. Hospital authorities are undertak ing to administer a cure withour further drugs, depending on nour ishment and care to overcome the nervous strain incident to a sudden breaking off of the morphine habit. The first 12 hours of the treat mentfrom noon until midnifeht showed the effects of the lack of morphine. "Eddie," as the nurses and physicians have shortened his name, was nervous and excitable. His hands trembled and his eyes roved around, seemingly looking for something he could not find. Mus cles in his baby cheeks twitched and he whimpered in an uneasy way that plainly was not a call for mother; nor was it a call for food, for his baby tummy was filled to capacity with a mixture of milk, sugar and water. No Calls for Mother. Eddie "took up" with the nurses right away, showing no desire for his mother in the way most babies do, except as the carrier of a white powder that brought color to the baby's face, joy into his veins and light into his eyes. Eddie now is living on a cot in Northeast One, an isolation ward where children are kept 48 hours be fore admission to the regular chil dren's ward. Two other children, who have had torrsils removed, are in the ward with him. They are older and talk together, leaving Eddie to his own thoughts. " His Parents Are Addicts. The Hogue baby became a patient at the General Hospital after his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hogue, 1515 Troost avenue, were arrested in a raid of Dr. B. B. Jack son's office at 1809 Harrison street. The baby was kept with his mother in the matron's room at the Nine teenth street police station. While the mother was, with the baby, she gave him two doses of morphine, once with the permission of police officials, who feared to break the nervous strain under which the baby lives; the second . time the mother administered the morphine by ruse. The parents will be tried on a vagrancy charge in the South Side court today. 40 HURT WHEN TWO SUBURBANS CRASH HEAD-ON Car Crowded With Picnickers Hits Another Near San Jose. San Jose, Cal., Aug. 3. More than two score persons were injured, many seriously", when two interur ban cars on the Peninsula railway collided head-on nine miles from here at noon today. One of the cars was crowded with picnickers boilnd for Congress Springs, a resort. The injured included E. G. Shoup, superintendent of the railway, whose left leg was so badly crushed it was found ncessary to amputate it. A the etitbound car, c?rying 5J passengers, mostly vvjnen and chil dren, .rounded a curve an inbound car carry-'r.g but 15 passctigfrs (but double the size of the nhcr coach, bore down upon it. Wrnasses said the lighter car reared until it stood nearly on end, throwing the passen gers in a screaming struggling mass to the lower end. Man Dies From Heart -Trouble While Bathing at Sandy Point Beach Sam Finsod, 27 years old, a me chanic employed by the Packard Motor company, died of heart trou ble, early Sundav morning, while bathing at Sandy Point, at the east side of Carter Lake. He was found by H. E. Bell, a companion, with a death grip on a safety rope. The body was floating on the water. Bell called Dr. J. C. Bishop and D. J. Ryan, a Knights of Columbus war worker at Fort Omaha. They removed the body from the water. Dr. Bishop pronounced death due to heart trouble. He said no water was in the lungs or stomach. The body was taken to the Brai- ley and Dorrance undertaking par lor. - An inquest will probably be held today. So far as is known Finsod has no relatives in Omaha. He came here a short time ago from Sioux City, la., and had been rooming with Bell, the man who found the body, at the Leonard hotel, Twenty-fifth and Fa'rnam streets. Police, Sunday, wired Sioux City in an ef fort to locate relatives of the dead man. Hamilton, to Arrive too Late This Morning for Meeting With Men A rmrAiner in word clven out at the Frank T. Hamilton residence, Mr. Hamilton, president ot tt,e street railway company, will not arrive in this city from Los Angeles, uai., un til lat this morninc. This will necessitate the postponement of the mnftrinre hrtween Mr. Hamilton and representatives of the carmen until late this morning or eany in the afternoon. The conference is for the purpose of discussing de- minili tnr inrreaseH nav. restoration of seniority rights and improved n,rlinr rntiHi tinns These demands were submitted to the company some two weeks ago. tmpoiyes oi xne r.mnanv threaten to walk out un less their demands are granted. Mr. Hamilton nad Deen expeciea home last night. A nfrnr hetureen him and the men was scheduled for this morning. 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL IS KILLED WHEN AIRPLANE 'BUCKS' Throat Cut by Barbed Wire and Her Cousin is Thought Fatally Hurt Ames, la., Aug. 3. A little girl was ,Jsillei and another may die from injuries received when an air plane, piloted by Lieut. Walter Harriman of this city failed to rise on the take-off and crashed into a crowd of spectators here at 5:30 this afternoon. The throat of the 7-year-old daughter of H. G. Amlund of Story City was cut by barbed wire when the plane plunged through the fence and she died almost instant ly. Her 6-year-old cousin, the daughter of L. J. Mathre of Story City, was so badly cut by the wire she is not expected to live. The fathers of both girls, who were standing beside them, escaped uninjured. One Prostration As Mercury Equals Its High Mark of the Year Joseph O'Neil, a laborer, -505 North Seventeenth 1 street, was prostrated by the heat yesterday afternoon. O'Neil was walking north on Seventeenth- street near Cass at 3 o'clock when he was overcome. I Dr. Charles A. Shook had him removed to Central po lice station for treatment and he was later taken to his home. His con dition is said to be not serious. The hot spell of last week came back with a vengeance yesterday when the temperature went up to the 101 mark, equalling the high point of the year. The high mark waaj reached at 5 o'clock but for four hours, from 3 to 6 o'clock, the mer cury remained at the 100 point. At 2 o'clock it registered 99 and again at 7 had dropped to 99 degrees. All heat records for the year were broken yesterday afternoon at Fre mont when' the thermometer regis tered 106 late in the afternoon. The previous high mark for the summer at that point was 104. Charges Against Des Moines Policemen Have Been Dropped ,Des Moines, Aug. 3. The invest tigation of the Des Moines police force by federal officers in which four members of the force lecently were arrested charged with the il licit sa!e of liquor, apparently came to an end Saturday with the official announcement that the. charges against Policemen Guy Kelso and L. W. Newell would be dismissed for lack of evidence. Their cases came up at Perry, Iowa, last week. Wit!" dismissal of charges against them, charges still will remain against only one' man. jPike's Peak is Scaled by Daring Trio in Airplane Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug. 3. Lieut. Alex Lendrum of Colorado Springs, in a Curtiss Oriole biplane, circled the summit of Pike's Peak this morning,' reaching an altitude of 14,200 feet. He was accompanied by Ira J. Humphreys of Denver and L. L. Law Sipple, a motion picture photographer, who filmed scenes of the summit and of the Pike's Peak region. The flight was the first ever made to the crest of the moun-taiiw Unrest Amon Railroad Work ers So General That Move ment Has Overwhelmed Of ficers of Union. CLEVELAND MEN TO -; GO ON STRIKE TODAY; Executives. Say Road Sched ules and Industry. Will Be Seriously Crippled Within a Verv Shnrt Time. . . .. ' Chicago, Aug. 3. (By the Asso ciated Press.) A complete tieup of the railroads of the country . was very probable, in the opinion of M. L. Hawver, president of the Chicago district council of the Federated Railway Shopmen's union, which called a strike of shop crafts Friday. He returned from Washington to day and declared the; strike is spreading rapidly, and that the un rest among railway workers is so general that the movement has overwhelmed the international offi cers of the various unions involved. Strike All Planned. ' ' Advices today from Cleveland were that the executive board of the American Federation of Railway Workers, with a membership of 26,000, had decided to strike tomor row, according to Mr. Hawver. With more than 250,000 shopmen on strike .and the number increas ing, both President Hawver and Secretary John D. , Saunders de clared railroad schedule and indus try would . be seriously crippled within a day or two. Already steel mills and other, industries at Gary and other northern Indiana points and in Chicago have begun to feel the effects of the strike, according to the union leaders. , Additions Reported. Additions to, tire strike of shop men reported today by Secretary Saunders were the Illinois Central shops at Memphis and Kankakee, -Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis, at Jacksonville, 111., B. & O. Chicago terminal; East Chicagb, Ind., B. & O:, South Chicago; Lake Erie and Western, whole system; Wabash, whole system; Indiana Harbor Belt T.in nil mit . Advices stated, according to the . . . 1 , . r secretary mat au men on ine v,ni cago and Western Indiana and the Iron Range lines will go out at 10 a. m. tomorrow, and those of .all roads entering Indianapolis would strike Tuesday. B. & Q. Men Won't Strike. ' Lincoln, ' Neb., Aug. 3. Chicago', Burlington & Quincy railroad shop men at Havelock, near Lincoln, 're-, iterated today their determination not to strike until officially ordered (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) Omaha Labor Unions . Will Hold Series of Mooney Meetings The labor unions of Omaha will combtne in a series of meetings to be he!d in Jefferson Square, August 4 to 8, in the interests of a new triat for Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings. The meetings will be unaer tne direction ot the Interna tional Workers' Defense league of San Francisco, which has been pro moting meetings of this kind in a number of the larger cities of the country. P. H. Tippett of Peoria, 111, representing the league will be the principal speaker. . . v Resolutions were passed at sim ilar meetings in Sioux Citv. Ia.. re cently, asking for a new trial for Mooney. and citing the case as contributing to the general unrest of the country. Germany Plans 300,000 ; . Soldier "Police Force" Coblenz, Aug. 3. The Prussian government, according to American reports, is planning to organize a new and separate "police force" to consist of from 100,000 .to 300,000 trained soldiers, solely as, a force to suppress disorder. It is planned to arm this force with the latest type of military weapons and to put the men in. garrisons; throughout Germany. , - ' This force is proposed as an or ganization distinct from the army of 200,000 men authorized by the peace treaty, the existing civil police and the great force of home guards planned by Gustav Noske, minister of defense. , . . v . The Germans plan to recruit th force entirely from noncommis-r sioned officers who have sen serv-' ice and to require them to live in barracks. , r The Prussian government, it is said, hopes to induce other states of the former German empire M adopt the plan,'