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RIEF E RIGHT REEZY BITS OF NEWS "THE VELVET HAMMER" TAPS THE FADS AND FOIBLES OF OUR OWN WELL-KNOWNS. CHURCH PAYS TAX ON 300 GALLONS OF WINE. Los Angeles, Dec. 7. That the closely locked cellar with its supply of bottles bearing government reve tue Stamps is to be found in churches as well is homes since pro hibition became effective, is indi cated in a report received by Col lector of Internal Revenue Carter that a Los Angeles church has a supply of 300 gallons of wine for sacramental purposes. The church has a membership of 600. FILM DOG AND PET PIG DIE IN FIRE. . I.os Angeles, Dec. 7. Scotty, the little Airedale dog you saw drawing Ma"ry Pickford around in a cart in her recent "Pollyanna" picture, was burned to death "in a $15,000 fire-in the Robert Brunton motion picture studio. A mother pig, which appeared re cently in "The World loves the Irish" and "The Sagebrushes," also perished, after she had made four -trips back into the burning "farm" to rescue; her ljtter of pigs-. Each time she toddled out carry ing one baby pig in her mouth. Finally, before she could rescue all her little-bnes, she fell exhausted and was burned so seriously that she had to be killed. MOTHER OFFERS TO KILL CHILDREN TO RENT HOME. Los Angeles, Dec. 7. As an in ducement to a landlord who might consent to rent her a four or jive room house. Mrs. J. P. Silverwood in an advertisement offers to'drown her three children if the landlord ohjects to them. Explaining her ad Mrs. Silver wood said today: ' "I would greatly dislike to drown , my children. I am so attached to thein. But what is one to do?" The' Omaha Ba LY Bee VOL, 49 NO. 148. tHni it Momi.eliH n.ttw Mty a, ISM. it Oaaht P. 0. mow- tot Mirth a, 1179. OMAHA, MONDAY, r DECEMBER 8, 1919. By Mall (I !). Dally. 14.00: Sundsy. 12.56: Dally and Sua.. M OO; tutilda Nab. aoitiaa axtra. TWO CENTS. THE WEATHER: Snow Monday with fresh to strong northerly winds; Tuesday fair and colder. ' . . -J- f Hourly lrmerniurr; 5 . m. . m... 1 . m... H a. m . . , O . in , . , III a, in... II . m... It noon . . . I .11 .11 .It . 0 10 .IS .1 .ss 1 I', m . . , , 3 p. m , . , . 8 p. m . , , . 4 m . . . . S l. in. ,. ...IS . ,i is m .IS T p. m 1 S p. .m.,..,...,,,' NO LET UP a tO AL SAVING YET A WHILE Omaha Heartened by News of Possible Settlement at Indianapolis Conference Tuesday, Takes No Chances. WILL ANNOUNCE MORE RESTRICTIONS TODAY Two Hours, 1:30 to 3;30. Set Aside ' for Business Men Wanting Coal and Making Complaints. '. i I w Striker Mobs Free Prisoners In Jails and Cause Riots That Result in Some Deaths Mantua, Italy, Overrun By Lawless Elements Which Drink Wine in Depot Restaurant, Tear Up Rails to Prevent Trains from Entering, Wreck Station and Cause Other Disorders in Which Eight Die. HUSBAND KILLS WIFE IN STORE. Chicago'. Dec. 7. Mrs. . Bessie Costa, 1003 S. Campbell avenue, was shot and killed by her husband, riiilip Costa, in the store belonging to her parents Saturday. Costa es caped after the shooting. Mrs. Costa was waiting on a cus tomer when her husband .entered. He called her to the rear. of store and they quarreled. Mrs. C Walton, mother, of Mrs. Costa, who was in a room back of the store, heard a shot. She ran in r.nd found her daughter lying wounded on the' floor. Costa ran out the front door of the store and ' lied across a vacant lot. The Castas had been separated several months. The police learned that before the husband shot his wife he made futile plas to be taken back, threateninr; suicide. The po lice believe he may have attempted Miicide after his escape. RESTAURANT SPOONING . ANNOYS" LONDON EDITOR. London, Dec. 7. "Alarming be havior" in a fashionable grill room prompted nr -London-editor tcr writ: "The hordes of overdressed, war profiteers who at present are swarm ing in the leading West End restau rants probably cannot be expected to know the manners and customs of London society, 'but it is to be hoped that the custom of energetic wooing in public which some of them are introducing will not become uni versal. ' GOATS' APPETITES COST OWNERS $5 EACH. 1 New York, Dec. 7. When a goat's appetite suddenly shifts from -tin cans and-discarded kitchenware to the more easily digestible and ex travagant foodstuffs, such as im maculate linens and newly laundered woollens, persons who have clothes lines in district where the ruminants habitate begin to see life in a more vserious aspect. , 4 Kings County hospital is in one ot the neighborhoods and after almost every William and Nanette there abouts had partaken of several tables d'hote a la cafeteria at the expense of the institution's clothes line, the officers complained to the police of the Snyder avenue station. Hence there was a goat day in Flatbush court, where four goat owners were arraigned. , ' - All Were fined $5. ( , TAX TO END CROW OF MR. CHANTECLER. Los Angeles, Dec. 7. Can a , rooster be kept from crowing? The Los Angeles city council has tackled the problem and promises to solve it by taxing every rooster. Here's the idea: Taxes are ex pensive. If the ordinance is passed, the expense wilPbe too -great for many people who now own auto matic alarm clocks. They will then kill or dispose of the roosters. Then all can sleep. Very simple. ' Omaha was heartened . yesterday by news received from Washington indicating that a meeting of the ex- M ine Workers, at Indianapolis Tues day afternoon, may result in a re- j sumption of coal oroduction. I Members of the terminal coal i committee did , not conceal their I optimism over the outlook, but they the i also are being moved by a grim de termination to carry Uinaha and Council Bluffs through the emer gency until relief is in sight. More Restrictions Today. The committee will meet again to day to determine what further re strictions Omaha will be asked to observe this week to meet present conditions. More restrictions will be necessary, for the coal committee must take cognizance of the situa tion as it actually exists from day to-day. (-s "The men. must dig, the coal out of, the grotind before we can think of relief.'" was the terse manner in which W. D. Hosford, member of the coal committee, expressed him self. . . ' Speculating, however, on the prob-J , ; , . r r .' TMJ!nni apolis Tuesday afternoon, members of the coal committee explained that even if coal production should , be resumed , this week, a period of 10 day to two weeks must elapse be fore Oinaha would begin to expe rience an appreciable sense of relief. Right of Way; to Coaf. Omaha receives the bulk of its coal supplv from Wyoming, Kansas, lllinois.and Missouri and it is under stood in official circles that when normal mining conditions have been restored coal will be given preferred riarht of wav on" the transportation- -lines until industries have been pro vided ' In any event, the local coal com mittee, as announced in its state ment yesterday, will ask Omahans to renew their efforts of co-operation for the general public welfare. The committee is taking reasonable measures to enforce its orders in Omaha and Councit Bluffs. , Two Interview Hours. The committee has set aside two hours every afternoon, 1:30 to 3:30, to receive citizens who have mat ters which should properly be brought by personal interviews. ' Public statements will be issued every day at 9 a. m., giving a resume of the situation. State officials and the Omaha Chamber of Commerce are support ing an effort to. have the United States fuel administration take over the control of fuel oil. . ; . The Nebraska Power company, street railway company, packing plants and other industries have in stalled oil burners and nave reduced the consumption of coal thousands of tons. The Council Blud Chamber of Commerce is taking up the wood cutting idea seriously. A contingent of volunteer Wood choppers start this morning to work in woodlands near the Bluffs. Rome, Dec. 7. Eight persons nre dead and 42 others are known to have been wennded as a result of -the wild rioting Wednesday and Thursday at Mantua, where mobs terrorized the city. The rioters attacked t the small garrison, cut telegraph' and tele phone communication, stopped rail way traffic, raided - arms shops, burned prisons, freeing all sorts oi criminals, and held the' police and soldiers at bay until fresh troops and carabineers ; arrived with riia ehine guns and occupied the city militarily; - r The troops finally esTablished or- ' der Thursday night. Lawless -Join Strikers. The Girnale d'ltalia, says the Mantua chamber , of labor author ized a strike without excesses. The disorders were begun by 500 strikers who wer- speedily joineif by, the lawless clement under the direction of extremists. The crowds stormed tlie military barracks and fired on the garrison. The soldiers discouraged the, at tack by firing iuti the air. At the suggestion of some of the extremist SCHOOL HEAD CALLED "STEWED" ASKS $20,000. Los Angeles, Dec. 7. Prof. C. W. Baker, district superintendent of the Watts public schools, has sued for $J0,UUU damages arising irum alleged declaration of Mrs. Eliza beth Miller of Watts that, he was "stewed." Professor Baker charged that Mrs. Miller said to a neighbor, Mrs. Anna M. Gartley: "Are you looking for your beault 'ul professor? Well. I saw him a few minutes ago on the street and he was stewed." "I haven't taken anything stronger han soda pop for 36 years, Pro fessor Baker said. "My work de pends on my sobriety. At the date in question I was suffering from in fluenza and was in a weak condi tion." , ' DEAD SOLDIERS ASK FOR REBIRTH. Sacramento, Dec 7. Application for rebirth certificas has been made by four Jormer California sol diers who are officially dead, but ac tually very much alive. The veterans have written to Adjutant General J. J. Borree thank ing him for theUestimonials of valor which came with their golden scrolls but lamenting, the fact that they are listed as dead and have no rights of citizenship. . , . They ask that they be fully rein stated "here below.", . will the Senora Angeles Joins Executed Husband, Unknowing He Waits New York, Dec. 7. Senora Felipe Angeles, wife of the Mexican revo lutionary leader, recently executed by Carranza troops, flied Sunday without having been informed of her -husband's arrest and death. She came here from i'aso three months ago suffering from nervous exhaustion caused by fear for her husband's safety and gradually grew worse. ' At the time of General Angeles' execution, her condition was so feeble that her friends deemed it inadvisable to give her the news, ind she remained in ignorance to the end. She leaves four children. Senora Angeles was 43 years old. Colorado Legislature to Ratify Suffrage Today Denver, Colo., Dec. 7. The Colo rado legislature will convene Mon day noon in special session to ratify the woman's suffrage amendment and act on resolutions of Go'vernor Shoup foi anti-radical laws, emer gency appropriations and an anti automobile theft li -1 ". leaders the mob moved on to the railway station and seize-! the res taurant, where they feasted and drank wine. Those of the rioters, unable to enter the restaurant, were incensed when' the men inside poured wine upon the floo until it flowed into the street. Building Is Wrecked. The rat's were torn up to prevent trains from entering or leaving the station and the Jmilding itself wis badly wrecked. At the suggestion, "Let. us burn the jail's and free the prisoners,' 'the mob moved to the prisons,-overcame the guards and ordered the astonished prisoners out, telling- them a revolution had come andthey were fre'e. ' The men released were all being held for common crimes. Those un able to obtaiucivilian clothes turned their striped uniforms inside out so as to be less conspicuous. They were given .arms seized from soldiers or taken from the looted arms shops. The proprietor of one of the arms shops raided by the mob took refuge i:'a room behind the hop and was burned to deajh in the fire the mob set' after- taking all the guns in the store. POLICE RANSACK HOME AND ABUSE WOMAN IN BATH Husband Complains of Unex plained Action of Four Detectives. " - 1 Four cUy detectives ransacked the home - of Nels A. Nealeen, 3523 Patrick avenue, Saturday night while Mrs, Nealeen was in bed, and heaped abuses-iipou. Mr. - Nealeen - and Adolph Paulson, a roonief 'at the Nealeen home, : according td com plaints of the family. Detectives', Stolley, Sutton and Knudtson and a deputy sheriff sur rounded the Nea!een home with drawn guns at 8:30 Saturday night, two hours after a hold-up had been reported in that vicinity. Wife Taking Bath. " While Mrs. Nealeen was taking a bath, she noticed figures of men with drawn guns skulking about the house, she said. She screamed and called for her husband. Mr. Nealeen then ansvered at, the rear door only to peer into the muzzles of guns in the hands of the two men, who later were learned to be detectives, Mr. Nealeen said.- Mrs. Nealeen was forced to stay in (Continued on Fags Two, Column Five.) Arrest 13 Policemen On Charge of Murder; $40,000Bail for Each Franklinton," La., Dec. 7. Thir teen policemen who were members of the posse who killed four labor leaders in Bogalusa, November 22, in a battle over the attempted arrest of a negro labor leader, have been arrested oiuthe charge of murder, brought here and placed in jail and later released on a bail of $40,000 each. ' Affidavits, charging the men with murder were sworn out by Jim Wjll iams, brother of Lum Williams, one of the labor leaders killed. , Among those charged was Jules Le Blanc, former United, States army captain, who, while serving with. the others as special deputy, was wounded in the arm during the battle. Each man was charged with kill ing the four labor leaders. One hun dred and thirty men signed bail, which totaled $520,000. ' Regular army troops still are in Bogalusa. "Bolshevists, Beware!" Yanks From Siberia Issue Their Warning San Francisco, . Dec. 7. Eleven hundred American soldiers' arrived from Siberia on the transport Sheri dan, A sign on the snip's side read: "Bolshevists, beware! We are coming home to join the American Legion." Cold Wave Approaching Rocky Mountain Region Denver, Colo., Dec. 7. A cold wave is, sweeping down upon the Rocky mountain region tonight. A heavy snow was predicted for Utah and snow has been falling a greater part of the day in Wyoming and parts of Colorado. The snow belt, according to the local weather bu reau, will extend as far south as Ari zona. The storm is bringing temper atures of 5 to 35 degrees.below zero to the northern plains states. A; From 7Jast night till 10. the mei cury in Omaha dropped 1 degrees an hour. After "10 it continued to drop, but did so slowly. COAL SITUATION IN BUTTE, MONT. IS DESPERATE Poor Families Supplied With Fuel by Destruction o) Old Buildings. Butte, Mont, Dec. 7. In the rrndst of the coldest weather in 30 years, Butte is virtually without coal. In addition, thousands are out of work as a-result -ofHfidustriaf shut downs, due to the coal shortage, and many families are in want. For several days the- poorer dis tricts of fhe city have been supplied with fuel by destruction of old wooden buildings dating back to Butte's early days, but this source is exhausted. Boy Scouts in a canvass of the city obtained 800 pounds of coal, which were distributed in small lots where most needed. Other available coal supplies were distrib uted in like manner. The city fuel administration and a general citizens' committee is con templating establishment of. soup kitchens to stipply the needy with food. The city council has author ized Mayor W. T. Stoddcn to set aside an emergency fund to provide for hundreds of metal miners!, fam ilies in dire straits. Unless Butte at oncq receives coal shipments expected from Utah the situation will be desperate. Vestry Refuses to x Accept Resignation Of Rev. Dr. Mackay Word was given out yesterday that at a meeting of the bishop and vestry of All Saints the resignation of Rev. T. J. Mackay, the rector, was not accepted, the resignation having been proffeTed on account of ailing health. The day before Thanksgiving, Dr. Mackay was made' a present of a purse of $8,500, contributed by friends and church members, later contributions having been expected to raise the amount to $10,000. WON'T SIGN PR0T0C0LT0 PEACE PACT German Minister of Defense Says Limit Has Been Reach- ed and Allies May Do As They Like. "PEACE NOW PRESENTED PROLONGATION OF WAR" Charges Britain and France Working Up V Opinion in Their Countries to Cripple Germany Still Further. London. Dec. 7. (By The Asso ciated Press.) Gustave Noske, min ister of defense, is determined not to sign the peace protocol handed Ger many by the entente, and is resolved to recommend that the government adopt His attitude, come what may. according to an interview with Noske, . . "I cannot speak for the whole gov ernment because it has not yet come to a decision,'' said Noske. "But I snail recummcna a retusal to sign the neace treaty protocol." "The limit has long been reached. Let the allies occupy the country if they like. The peace now presented to us is not a peace', but a prolonga tion of the war. "If we received such a treaty the German nation would rise up and avenge itselt upon the men who signed it, and it would be right.. Great Britain and France are delib erately planning the destruction of Germany. Ail the confidence I ever had in the pledges of the allies is gone forever. ChargvDeceit and Trickery. "By deceit and trickery the Brit ish and French governments are working up opinion in their coun tries to cripple Germany still fur ther beyontT the. crushing effect of the first treaty. We have yielded too often and now must resist. Let the allies do what they please." Asked whether he would resign if the remainder of the government de cided to accept the allied terms. Noske replied that he could not say what he would do a week hence, but that his present position had been deliberately adopted and was un alterable. The correspondent says that, al though Noske carefully emphasized that he was only defining his own position, his words agreed with the mentions ascribed to the other ! members of the cabinet. The two straws which Noske rep resents as having broken the back of German endurance, says the cor lespOndent, are the demand for dock and harbor material and the pro tocol empowering the allies to en force the execution of the peace treaty. The correspondent says that during his talk with Noske he sug gested that if the Germans had not sunk the warships in the Scapa Flow the demand of the allies for tugs (Conttwnpd on Page Two, Column Six) Gary Refuses to Deal . ' With Church Arbiters In Steel Men's Strike Chicago, '.Dec. 7. John Fitz patrick, chairman of the national cimmittee for organizing steel work ers, in an address at a labor meet ing, said the fnterchurch World Movement had been appealed to and oi behalf of the strikers had sent a committee to E. H., Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corpora tion. Fitzpatrick said the committee had been told to disregard the orig inal demands and try to obtain "a just settlement," but that Mr. Gary Had refused to deal with it. Report Mexican Doctor . Discovers Typhus Cure Laredo, Tex., Dec. 7. El Uni versal of Mexico City, a copy of which reached here, announces that Dr. Benito Sanches of Mexico City has discovered a serum .that cures typhus within 48 hours. The dis covery, the newspaper adds, "has caused a great sensatiqn." Town of Nitro Sold. "Washington. Dec. 7. Sale-of the texplosive plant at Nitno, West Vir ginia, to the Uiarlesjon twest vir dinia) Industrial corporation for $8,551,000, is annouriced by the War department. The plant and Jown (Ost the government approximately ?75,Otlp,000 4 , McCook Hotel Burns; -Guests . Escape, But Loseome Belongings McCook, Neb.. Dec. 7. (Special.) The Commercial hotel of this city, with its contents, was entirely de stroyed by fire at 3 o'clock this morning. The hotel was filled with guests. All escaped without injury, although some loss of belongings :s reported. The loss will reach $10,000, with a fair amount of insurance. The Commercial hotel is McCooks pio neer hostelry and is the property of Mrs. Rex Scott. ' , Toca Cabinet in Spain To Resign in Body i Madrid, Dec. 7. King Alfonso will be handed the resignation of the whole Toca cabinet when he returns from his curtailed hunting trip, prob ably on Monday. The cabinet held .t meeting following the- action- of General Covaro, minister of war, who resigned after the cabinet pub lished the decision of the court of honor calling upon 23 officers to leave the army. The talk in Madrid fs of a new conservative cabinet under the pre miership of some neutral. The socialist deputies have an nounced' their determination, if a military 'government Tcplaces the Toca cabinet, to call a general strike iry Spain'.- Canada Makes Additional Curtailment of Trains Montreal, Dec. 7. Thirty-five ad ditional passenger trains, including the crack transcontinental limited pi the Canadian Pacific railway, hairi been discontinud because of the cyal shortage in Canada, due to the American coal strike. Th? late'st cut in tfain service will Effect, a. saving of 5.000, tons 'of coal per month, ac cording td the Railway Association of Canada. . . The total reduction of passenger service in the Dominion to date, as a result of the coal strike, amounts to 324,000 passenger train miles ier month, it is declared. Dressed Up, No Place To Go, Omaha Sunday Js Just Like Philadelphia, Says Visitor However, People Who Go to Church Only on Sunday, or "Just Visiting," or Stay at Home, Failed to Notice Difference Skating at Parks, but Down town Streets Like Deserted Canons. Well, sir, it was rather a "funny" Sunday, wasn't it- yesterday ? No theaters, no moving pictures, no dance halls open, cigar and candy stores and soda fountains open only a short time, and street ca' service curtailed. ''All ' dressed up and n.j place to go," was "pulled ' by the girls and boys of the "younger set" about a million times yesterday. This, of course, was chiefly among the Sunday devotees of the screen, the stage and jazz. The folks who just go visiting or o church on Sun day didn't notice any particular emptiness in their day. But even among those who are accustomed- to the public amuse ments there was a quick readjust ment to conditions. Skating Vogue. There .was skating, for instance. The weather man had kindly low ered the temperature just to the right point to keep the ;ce hard in the parks and on Carter lnke. Every sheet of ice had its crowd of merry gliding, tumbling figures. The snowwas cleared otf of spaces large enough to furnish good skat ing spaces. And there was . coasting. Say, boy, did you. see -the big girls screaming as x the "traveler" went gliding down that long hill on Twenty-third street? VA11 over town the youngsters from 3 years old to 73 were gliding down theliills on sleds of suntfry kinds and then trudging tip again. It takes a lot of cold and snow to freeze out the well known gasoline chariots. And though the snow upon the streets and boulevards wa deep in many places, the wheels of the chugg-chugg buggies were whirl ing merrily, taking folks to the skat ing rinks and the choice coasting hills and out to see Sister Sue and Brother ;Bill and and to churdi. Oh, it was far from a dull clay, even though Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin and Norma Tal madgc and Bill Hart slumbered si lently in their tin -boxes and the screens, where they are accustomed to dove,, and hate, and laugh, and cry Vere-dark. . Omahans a Happy People. You can't keep happy people from having a fairly good time under all circumstances. There was a longer lingering over the Sunday papers, a later dinner, perhaps, and a longer nap in the afternoon than usual. And then there were the talking machines, thousands of them, grind ing out entertainment. ' ' fn the eve ning, with the shades drawn (and, the temperature carefully regulated bt not more than .68 degrees), the dance records were put on in many homes and the rus were rolled back tid there was plenty cf terpsi chorean festivity. Downtown the appearance of things was totally different from the usual Sunday appearance. With the theaters dark; these streets were t.early deserted'. The occasional passing of a street car or taxicab or automobile only awoke echoes in the stillness of the great canons be tween the tall buildings. A A traveling man at the Fontenellr hotel remarked that he hadn't felt so much at home since he had started on his trip. "Where is your home""' he Was asked. "Philadelphia," he replied with a trace of a smile. "Yes, dear old Philly, where every Sunday is just like this Sunday in Omaha. No the aters or movies are ever open on Sunday. ' There ace no base ball games there on Sunday. .You can't even play tennis an Sunday," NAME H. GrTAYLOR ADMINISTRATOR OF FUEL IN NEBRASKA Continued Curtailment of Coal in State Determined Vpon , By Committee. Lincoln, ' Dec. 7. H. G. Taylor, chairman of the state railway com mission, was Sunday appointed fuel administrator for Nebraska. The ap pointment, it is understood, came from Hale Holden, regional director. Mr. Taylor left for Chicago to con sult with Mr. Holden. Mr. TayMor's duties.-which he will take up Tuesday, will be the organiz ing fuel committees throughout the state, and to 'see that conserva tion rules are obeyed. Plans in Nebraska arc to continue the rigid policy of economizing in coal, regardless of the- outcome of the meeting at Indianapolis Tues day. The Lincoln fuel administra tion decided to hold in abeyance a plan to further curtail coal consump tion until the outcome of the strike settlement negotiations are known. The State university is. to remain open on a short hour schedule. Woman and Child Killed by Airplane; Aviator Arrested Chattanooga, Tcnn., Dec. 7. Two persons. Mrs. M." Myers and Lena Shell, a 7-year-old child, were killed and a nuinoer of persons were in jured, three probably fatally, at Marr flying field Joy an airplane crashing into a crowd of spectators. V. Price Hollingsworth of Chicago, the aviator, and his mechanician were taken into custody and an in vestigation into the cause of the ac cident was begun by the coroner. Most of the injured were children.- Clergyman Killed When s Auto Struck by Train Baltimore, Md., Dec. 7. The New York and Washington expre'ss on the Pennsylvania railroad struck an automobile at Bengies, Md., about 15 miles from this city. Rev. Will iam H. Dell, who was in the ma chine,was killed. The engine of the express turned over and four coaches left the track. A relief train brought 'the passengers to Balti more.. Several passengers-Were cut by broken glass and the fireman was injured. Commander of V.iHa!s m Own 'Bodyguard Gives Up Juarez, Mex., Dec. 7. --Cap. . R. DiazxCartines. commander of the avjation squadron at Chihuahua, re norts the surrender pf Geh., Nicolas Hernandez, until recently in com mand of Villa's personal bodyguard. lie said Hernandez and 30 of his men, rode into Parral four days ago and gave themselves up. Hernandez raid Villa s personal following had dwindled to 20 men and that the rebel leader was skulking in mountains in the Guerrero district AUSTRIAN HEAD : ASKS ALLIES TO NAME DICTATOR Dr. Renner Also Wants Neu tral Administrative Staff to i Govern the Country. Vienna,' .Dec. 7. Dr. Carl Ren tier, the chancellor, has been notified by the supreme council that it is willing to receive him personally at Paris to plead his country's danger ous plight. Dr. Rennet' will beg for immediate help, proposing as an al ternative, the retirement of the pres ent government and the election by the allies of a neutral dictator and administrative .staff "fb govern the country. . y " Serious bread riots ill the city and suburbs of Innsbruck art?' reported. Men, women and children have forc ibly entered the warehouses of the Farmers' association, restaurants, shops and hotels and also the Jesuits - Collegium and institute' in Sagan, plundering and destroying. Alarming Rumor. . . Paris, Dec. 7. The Journal Des Debats says that an alarming rumor was in circulatibn Saturday on the Vienna stock exchange that the gov ernment would refuse to continue to assume responsibility for affairs of state and would hand over the gov ernmental power to the entente. Man From Grinnell, Iowa, Drops Pead In W. 0. W. Bldg, A man believed from papers in the pockets of his clothes to be Glenn Slater, 1219 Spring street. Grinnell. la., dropped dead in the W O. W building at 2:30 Sunday afternoon. v He had just come from the Buck eye cafe. Harney and Fifteenth streets, iip company with Thomas Deely and H. C. Muugell of the Knights of Columbus home, and complained of feeling dizzy. He took a bottle from his pocket whicji contained a prescription given hifil the. day before by a Dr. Hostetter. he said, the physician having refused o give him morphine. He .took 'Ofn? of the medicine and a few, mo ments later fell in a faint. ' ", . Three doctors in the building, Drs. J. S". Stech, J. S. Broz and Barnard Gilshannon, examined the body ancf said the man had died of heart fail ure". He had a small sum of money. The tody, was taken to Hoffman's funeral home. . - " Arrested -Just After Gun and Watches Are Stolen Jay Cart, D.avenport hotel, was r ested early this jnoruin? bv Police .Officer Haney when M. Tu'chman, Umaha grocer, pointed Card out as the .man who kicked in the glass door of the Commercial Clothing and Jewelry company, 1207 Douglas street, and started away with several v.'atrhfc nnrl a mm i,,ct a fu mintc the! before. Card was booked at Central station for investigation. AGREEMENT IS EXPECTED ON TUESDAY President Wilson's Proposal R eported. Acceptable to Workers, But Nature of Compromise a Mystery. FUEL HEAlTrEFUSES TO BUDGE AN (INCH; , r Garfield Reiterates That Not One Cent Could Be Added to Price of Coal to Finance Miners' Wage Increases. , i ' Washington, Dec. 7. Govern ment proposals for settling the coal strike. tonight cloaked in a veil of mystery which promised to lift only ' at Indianapolis Tuesday, when the federal court and the leaders of the -United Mine Workers alike will be called upon to consider them. Attorney General Palmer and his " special assistant. Judge Ames, were traveling to Indianapolis tonight on ', t the same train with John L. Lewis, -acting presideiit, and William Green, secretary of the mine workers' t union, whose secret visit and equally 5 secrets conference yesterday with. Mr. Palmer and Joseph P. Tumulty, ' secretary to President Wilson," re- ' suited in a provisional agreement to settle. Not one of the participant! -would discuss its meaning or, intent in any detail. Before boarding the train for Indianapolis. Mr. Palmer, however, said he was quite sure that ) the end of the strike was in sight. It was learned that he would confer with Judge Anderson of the federal district court on reaching Indian- . apolis. . In official quarters. Fuel Adniinis. trato Garfield, speaking with brev ity and emphasis, added only doubt to the situation. , r : ' Garfieid Won't Budge, -"My position has not been bulged one inch and will not be," he said. , It was recalled that yesterday Dr. Garfield had reiterated that not one cent could be added to the price of coal to finance wage increases to the miners greater than the 14. per cent he suggested which operators could pay out of profits, and that the government was behind him in the stand. It also was pointed out that on November 26 he suggested, this , basis of ogreement to the millers with a proviso that an arbitration commission' be appointed by 'the . president to review his decision, with power to change it if the commis- , sion should find economical justi fication. This proposal the miners representatives then instantly re-.' jected. From other authoritative sources there was only the attorney gen eral's statement issued last midnight -that a "definite concrete proposition ; from the president looking to the '.- speedy settlement of the strike bad been taken beforeLewis and X Green, and that they had agreed to recommend it to the national board and policy committee of the mine -workers union. . Miners' Heads Silent. . The miners' representatives, it de- . veloped today, arrived in Washing ton at noon Saturday and were closeted until midnight with the at- . torney general. They went from , the Department of Justice to the home of a friend and did not appear until train time tonight, and would not then talk, or add anything to the .attorney general's published ver sion of the situation.' Who sent for tlie miners' leaders, or whether thty . came .to Washington of their own ' accord, was a question left un answered by all concerned. That the step taken guaranteed the cessation of the coal strike on the part of the organized miners still out was not claimed anywhere.1, .". A definite silence was maintained -officially on this point. Likewise .the executive committee pf .bituminous.1' ? coal operators "watching the govern- ;j mental activities had no Informaj tion which it would ' divulge .'to- '-i night. f v. , ; -. v .' '? . Merely Conjecture. V- Gossip was active over,' the situ?- '' tion, which has involved almost ex- ; (Continued, on Pag-o' Twn, Column One. V , Mother and Father K'. " Blackliand r Victims; h Daughter ;Wounded - ' 1 t Pueblo, C6fo., Dec, 7. Mr. and ' Mrs! Dominick Pusateri were shot arrd .kilted and i" their 12-year-old dJughter, Angelina was" seriously . wounded near 'their. home here. Three other, children" escaped in jury. . . The shooting took place when the family was returning from -a wed- .. : ding. Two men, Supposed, by .the ' police to be members of a blackhand , gang, followed the family home on "'. street car, according to the children. When the family got off the Mr and ' started for their. home, a fcw'block distant, the twolnen got off also and . followed the party on foot. When within but a short distance from . their home the two men opened fire.