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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-18
Approve Preachers, Increase.

The Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers at a recent meeting passed a resolution approving heartily of the in- crease in pay of the school teachers and of the schedule presented by them.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-18
secretarx Taft Coming.

Washington, May 17-secretary Taft will go to New Haven next Monday to attend a meeting of the Yale corpora ton, of which he is a member.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-18
WEATHER RECORD.

Washington, May 17.-Forecast for Saturday and Sunday;
 Eastern New York and New England, partly cloudy Saturday; warmer in the interior, showers at night or Sunday, light south winds.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-18
NEWS SUMMARY.
GENERAL.

GENERAL. Ohio Solid for Taft. Wife Buried at Sea Under Protest. Investigating Orchards Confession Mayor Schmitz Says He'll Stick. Opposition to B. & M Merger. kuroki Coming to- New Haven. Gov. Hughes Heads Baptists. Mrs. Mizner Gets Divorce.
 STATE. Circus Agent Killed at Westport. East Hartford Man Killed by Train. Death of Prof. Stoeckel. New Haven Man Killed at Middletown Telephone Prevents Confiagration.
 CITY. Two Injury Claims Approved. May Not License Shaw Play Y M. R. Club Burglary Arrests, Spring Inspection of Police Force. Aldermanic Test Case Assigned. Wooster Street Foot Bridge Fire at Rockers Factory. Bishops Want $90,000 Lowell House in New Quarters. Home Work for Local Italians.
 SPORTS. Yale-Harvard Track Meet. New Haven Loses to Waterbury. Giants Win Double Header. New York Americans Defeat Chicago The Pony Polo Tournament, Civil Engineers Win Easily, Yale Meets Williams in Golf New Haven Gun Club Shoot Rosebuds Play Here To-day.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-18
Hirh School Record RroIzen.

Iowa City, May 17-Freency, of Ida Grove, at high school meet to-day broke the worlds high school record in the pole vault, doing Il feet 4% inches.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-02
RAILROAD MEN ARE SILENT
After Conference at white House
MeIIen and ByFnes Refuse
20 Talk.

WASHINGTON, May president Charles
s. MeIIen Of the New Haven railroad and
T. E Byrnes, first vice president Of the
road. talked with President Roosevelt for
some time TO-DAY. Not a word was OBJ
tainable from them as to why they called
or what they talked about with the presi-
dent and they said there would be nothing
TO make public about the visit
Mr. Mellen was asked whether there had
been a discussion Of the railroad valuation
question, but continued to maintain his
reticence. He said he had no objection 10
anything the president might make public
about the interview.
After their call at the White House
Messrs. Mellen and Byrnes visited tho
Interstate Commerce commission. Later in
the day Mr. Mellen went to New York
and Nj Byrnes 70 Boston
Secretary Loeb said there would be no
statement given out at the White House
regarding Mr. Mellen's visit. Later in the
day Chairman Knapp n the Interstate
Commerce commission was in conference
with the president.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-02
BIG DoINGS AT NORTH PLATTE
Land Opening aud May Day CeIebra-
tiOn Attract Large Number
of People.

NORTH PLATTE Neb. May Especial
Telegram. )-The land ONCE opened this
morning at o o'clock with a cheer from the
crowd of several hundred homeseekers.
About 100 spent the entire night at the land
office doors. This morning about DO were
packed in front OF the doors After about
fifteen parties had been admitted the sheriff
Of the county took charge and numbered all
applicants according to their position In
the line and issued tickets containing the
number and name Of each applicant. This
saved considerable suffering, as the crowd
had become very compact, and IL will take
two TO four days for all the applicants TO
file. Mayor Hector Of South Omaha was
in line and received number.
Many will be disappointed, as there are
four OF i've times as many applicants as
vacant sections.
Besides the homeseekers, North Platte
has another attraction today, this being
the twenty-hfth anniversary OF the annual
Nav party OF Brotherhood OF Locomotive
Engineers The military band from Fort
Crook Is here, giving concerts on the street
Several hundred visitors are here from
other cities, principally railroad people TO
attend the May ball this evening at the
opera house which has been elabOrately
decorated for the occasion.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-02
NOTED SCIENTIST is DEAD
Charles II. Hinton Dies while Leav-
ing a Banquet Hall in
WashiREtOn.

WASHINGTON. May l.-Charles H Hin
ton formerly a professor OF mathematics
IN ore OF the collegiate Institutions Of Min
noap0lis and for the last two years second
assistant examiner Of the patent ONCE.
dropped dead late last night In the lobby
Of the Young Mems Christian association
building. as he was leaving the banquet
hall, where the Society Of Phiianthropic
Inquiry had held its annual dinner. at
which Prof. Hinton had responded 10 the
toast -l'emalc Philosophers"
Death was due % cerebral hernsrrhage
He wes born N London siXty-three years
ago and was a graduate Of oxford and
several other noted European universities
Besides his wife, Prot. Hinton leaves four
children, William Hinton, living in this
city. sehastion Hinton, a student at Prince
ton. and George and Eric Hinton. engaged
IN business IN the west.
Prof. Hinton was the author OF several
books devoted 70 scientific research. CHIEF
OF which was the Fourth Dimension"
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-02
The total damage is about 5o,on
COMPLAINT BY TELEGRAPH
California Fruit Growers Exchange
in Hurry TO Have Hearing
of Railroad Case.

WASHINGTON. May I.-For the first
time in its history. a complaint was filed
by telegraph with the Interstate Com
mercs commission today and the action
OF the commission on the complaint was un-
usually prompt and direct.
The complaint, in usual form, came from
the California Fruit Growers exchange,
with headquarters at Los Angeles and
was directed against the Southern Pacific
and Santa Pc railroads The petition sets
forth that the production Of citrus fruits
in California that are shipped outside OF
the state. principally to eastern points.
amounts TO about 5000 carloads annually
and that 50 per cent OF this business a
done by the complainant Recently the
defendant lines adopted a regulation that
they would supply 20 the complainant cars
for the shipment OF its products only in
proportion 70 the amount Of fruit that
actually had been picked and was ready
for shipment. The petition says that this
regulation VIII work a serious hardship
to the fruit shippers, as in many cases they
win have 20 wait for cars. Meantime the
fruit win detsrforate rapidly, thus causing
the growers great loss The complainant
requests the commission promptly 20 hear
the case and prescribe a Just and proper
regulation for the distribution OF cars
The commission. By telegraph, set the
case for hearing at Los Angeles on May
Is The petition was 1.2l5 words In length
and the exchange paid about $50 for It's
transmission.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-02
CASUALTIES ON RAILROADS
Hundred and E3Bhty Passengers Are
killed During PHat Quarter
of 1907.

WASHINGTON, May 1.-The Accident
Bulletin. issued today by the Interstate
Commerce commission for the three months
ending December q last shows that during
the quarter the total number OF casualties
20 railroad passengers and railroad EN-
ployes was N.st4 an increase OF l,Os4 over
the preceding three months.
The number 0f passengers and employees
killed in train accidents was ga an in
crease OF 81 over the last quarter. The
number Of passengers KILLED In train ac-
cidents In this quarter. $50. Is the largest
on record except that for the quarter end
ing September 81 1904
Employees killed In coupling and uncoup-
ling cars and engines number eighty-f0ur.
as against eighty-ons the preceding quarter.
Collisions and derailmsnts number 2ss.
OF which 81 collisions and $50 derailments
affected passenger trains. The damage 20
railroad property By thhse aOcidsnts
amounted 70 tAosa
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-02
NEW MEAT ORDER IN FRANCE
American Products UnRccompanied
BY Microscopic Certificates
VIII ne Excluded.

PARIS. Mas THE customs admlnistra-
ton has finally rejected the new form Of
meat certificate under the United States
pure food law, thus again rendering Amer
lean meat unaccompanled by e. certificate
showing that It has been miscropically ex-
am.ned liable to exclusion The require
ment Of a microscopic examination was
temporarily suspended some time ago at
the request Of the United States embassy.
WASHINGTON. May IA very insiE-
nihoant quantity OF American meat is sx-
ported 20 France" said Secretary Wilson
OF the Department OF Agriculture today,
commenting on the French rejection OF the
new form Of meat certificate under the
United States pure food law.
In fact our exports Of meat products
to France for a considerable time have
amounted really to nothing.
Some time ago we abandoned the micro
scopic examination Of meats. which. pri-
marily, was undertaken 70 satisfy the Ger
man market After a while 4 appeared
that the German government was conduct
ing its own microscopic examination. thus
putting American meat exporters to the
expense OF two such examinations. We
concluded. therefore. TO discontinue the
microscopic work here.
cover the presence Of trtchinae In pork
and we might not. OF course il would be
impossible TO examine with a microscope
every square inch Of the red meat OF a
hog and the trichinae might be in just the
part that was not examined. No danger
to the consumer can arise from the tri-
chinae unless the meat should be eaten
raw. Some Europeans want their pork raw
In this country we do not eat raw pork
consequently the necessity for microscopic
examination does not exist.
ITO make such microscopic examination
Of meats as ought to be made. II any at
all be undertaken. would cost 5,O0oOOO a
year. II would serve no particular prac-
teal purpose and doubt whether congress
would authorize such an expenditure.
The hogs produced in this country are
the finest and healthiest in the world. All
hogs contain some trichinae, but the per
centage Of trchinae in our hogs is very
small
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-02
RUSSIAN WOMAN is BARRED
ACountess COnvRIeHsky" Appeals to
Washington Against Action OF
western inspectors.

SAN FRANCISCO. May IA landing IN
the country has been denied Countess
ConvalensSy," the woman who dressed in
male attire. arrived recently with her
husband on the Ventura The countess and
her husband came here under the names
OF George and John Pepper. After their
arrival she said that she was a daughter
of ths duke OF Buckingham and a cousin
OF the car and that she had been exiled
from Russia because OF her marriage 20 the
pseudo Pepper. who was much beneath
her in social station. She also told Of hav-
ing been suspected Of a murder Of which
she was innocent and OF being e1iled on
that account.
The stories LED 10 her examination as 70
her sanity Th, pnysIcians who examined
her pronounced her sane
The women who is still on board ths
Ventura. with her husband will present
her case % the Department OF Commercs
ana Labor at washington
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-02
EXPLOSION IN COAL MINE
Three Men KILLED, Four Injured and
-Four EntOmbed sn COniery in
West virginia


CHARLESTON. W. Va, May 1.-Three
men we're killed. four were severely burned
ard four others entombed and are probably
dead as q result Of a mine Disaster at the
Whipple mines, in the Leap Creek district
this afternoon. The three dead men whose
bodies have been recovered are:
HUDSON BERG ESs. motoTman.
ERASTCS WILEY, sprinkler.
IRA KELLEY, driver.
The men missing and supposed to be dead
are:
Robert Armstrong.
Raleigh Tucker.
Charles Bergess-
William Wilton, negro.
The mine where the explosion occurred 10
a shaft 40 feet deep. II belongs 10 the
Dixon interests, who also own the stuart
mine, where an explosion occurred last
January that killed eighty-six men. The
explosion occurred al 8.50 this afternoon
in the main return heading, about l,2O
feet from the foot Of the shaft
Ninety-four men are employed In the
mine but thirty left just before the ac-
cident OF the sixty-fOur men left inside
hfty-three ESCAPED through the second
shaft.
The other eleven men are accounted for
as either dead. wounded Or missing The
mine officials think the casualties cannot
amount TO more than eleven at the most.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-02
RACE RIOT IN INDIANA
white Men AnEeFed over Assault on
women Drives Negroes
from TOWa.

GREENsBURG, Ind. May The bitter
feeling against negroes as a result OF an
assault on Mrs Seton, an aged white
woman. last night, caused a race riot here
last night SIX negroes were badly beaten,
one OF whom may de
The mob was formed by three white men
and rapidly increased 70 500 men All sa-
looms and other places freQuented by ne
groes were visited and the furniture and
fixtures destroyed Negroes found in the
places were beaten and warned 70 leave
town. The authorities finally induced the
crowd to disperse after promising that all
negroes OF bad character viii be compelled
70 leave. Many negroes have already de-
parted and others viii be notified By the
police 20 leave. No arrests were made.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-02
RESCUED MINERS ARE ASLEEP
Nc one Permitted 20 Disturb men
Taken from water in
PennsyIvaniA.

JCHNSTOwN. Pa. May Taken from
the dark recessss OF a coal mine where they
had been imprisoned for over one hundred
hours. the seven men taken from the Ber-
wind-whits mine at Foustwar are lying
IN the hospital. physically exhausted and
oblivioua TO all around them.
The men were reached at about 10 o'clock
last night. but were not brought out until
early this morning. the physicians fearing
effects Of a reaction FROM the strain and
sudden exposure 20 the outer air.
Upon being brought out all the men
wanted q 20 to their homes and were
taken TO the hospital under protest No
food was given them az hrst, but only a
stimulant IN the form OF brandy and
water.
Soon after arriving at the hospital the
men were sound asleep and no communica-
ton Is allowed them. Correspondents and
newspaper photographers who swarm
about the vicinity OF the hospital are
turned aside and the men are not dis
turbed except AZ regular intervals when
the nurses administer hot broths ana other
nOurishunent Immediately after these
treatments the men again drop TO sleep.
we knew the men On the outside were
pumping out water IN an endeavor 70 release
ua We kept a careful watch and could
note the water going down inch BY inch
II re was nothing We could do 70 help
G.d We AL ehafed under this We could
hear the tapping on the pipe and knew IL
meant for us 20 keep Up our courage. %
said F0zeman BOlya- We always signaIed
back whenever We heard the tapping. All
the men had full dinner buckets when they
came into the mine Friday morning but
the food In these was soon exhausted and
We felt the pangs Of hunger keenly. I
DON'T think the men. after the third day.
ever sEpectsd 70 see their families again.
but ths way thsy kept IN thar sDirits Has
adm1Eaa1A~
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-02
JOHN CUDAHY SERIOUSLY ILL
Brothers At Omaha ana Milwaukee
Have Bees Called 10 His
Bedside.

CHICAGO, May John Clldahy, the
weIl-knoVu packer of this city. h critically
m as the result OF an accident which oc-
CURED in his home April %
Mr. Cudahy slipped and fell while de-
scending a sight Of stairs. fracturing his
right arm above the elbow. Complications
have arisen and Mr.. Cudahy's condition
Is now 30 serious that his brothers. z A.
Cudahy OF Omaha and Patrick Cudahy OF
Milwaukee. have been summoned 70 his
bedside
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-02
GENERAL BARON KUR0N LANDS
Fives AZ Victoria, I'm Route
To Jame~foyTn

VICTORIA, B. C. May General Baron
KurOki, wearing a khaki Uniform and the
star Of the order Pawl0nia, accompanied
BY a representative party OF japanese
military men, arrived here al 5 p. m on
board the steamer Aki Maru. on their way
20 the jamestown exposition. They VII
leave for Seattle in the m0rnink. arrivinE
there a. 2sE
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-02
ARREST CAUSES A SENSATION
Manager of Policy HOIders' Commit
tee Held on Carses in Connection
with Life Insurance Elections.

NEW YORK. May 1-CSeorge E 5crug-
ham. manager Of the International Policy
holders committee, who was arrested last
night In Albany on conspiracy charges
growing out Of the recent life insurance
elections, arrived in the city early today
in the custody OF a detective Of the dts
trict attorneys once.
The arrests have caused a decided senSz-
ton. especially in view of the fact that II
was at the instance OF Mr.. Scrugham that
the district attorney began an investigation
Of the methods OF procedure in the life in
surance elections.
The charge against the three men n that
they unlawfully conspired together for the
perversion and obstruction OF the due
administration OF the state laws with
relation 20 the election Of directors OF the
New York Life Insurance company
. George B. scrughara is the manager Of
the International Policy Holders committee
which was organized . protect the inter
ssts OF the policy holders after the insur-
snce scandals and its memberships in
cludes a number Of representative men Of
the country-former members OF the
cabinet and governors Of several states
Nicholas Longworth, son-in-law Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Is secretary Of the COM
mittee.
Mr. scrugham. who has railroad interests
IN Cincinnati, organized a policy holders
committee IN Ohio before he came here
and took charge OF the work. Richard
Oiney, who was secretary Of state IN Presl-
dent Cleveland's cabinet is chairman Of the
committee.
Men Out on Bond
When George 3. SCTugham. manager Of
the International PoliCyholders' COMMITTEES,
and Charles F. Darlington and Charles
stirrup, assistant managers OF the same
organization. arrested late last night on
charges Of forgery in connection with the
recent election OF directors OF the New
York Life Insurance company. were ar
raigned before police magistrate today their
cases were continued until Monday next
serugham and stirrup were released on
1850 bail and Darlington on 1900.
Before he was arraigned Scrugham issued
q statement in which he declared that acts
Of an entirely legal nature have been mis-
construed so as 70 make II appear that an
attempt was made 20 cirCUmvent the laws
governing the insurance election and 10
procure the counting by fraud OF ballots
not properly executed
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-02
LIQUOR BILL IN MISSOURI
House Passes Measure PFohibitinE
Business.

JEFFERSON CITY, No. May 1.-The
house today passed a bin prohibiting brew
era. disuuers and wholesale liquor dealers
from engaging In the retail liquor business
A biu giving the right 70 search for liquors
In tS0al 0Ra1R 001ntiss ma Al2 Pa8sd.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-02
state Fixes TeIeEraph ToII.

JEFFERSON CITY, No. Nay The
house today passed the hi h1ing telegTaph
rates within the state a. s cents foF ten
words and / cent additional for each add
ttonAl word The vote va III 70 n
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-02

NEW YORK. Nay l--WIllam Jennings
Bryan VII Be the Euest y honor az a
dollar dinner gwen By the Peoples Lobby
Of Newark. n j.. tonight M Bryan
seat word that he cannot reach the ban
quef hail until midnight but that he win
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-02
SUMMARY OF THE BEE
rHE WEArHER.

FORECAST FOR NEBRASKA-Partly
cloudy ard colder Thursday probably rain
In north portion. Friday fair and warmer.
FORECAST FOR IOWA-Partly cloudy
Thursday. possibly showers in northwest
portion colder in west. Friday fair and
Temperatures at Omaha yesterday:
Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-02
nOnIEETIC.


A congressman may be involved in
Pennsylvania graft" scandals. Page /
A race riot in Indiana results in OBJ
noxious negroes being driven from
Greensburg. Page !
Labor trouble is not extensive on May
day. but Atlantic coastwise steamers may
be affected. Page
Arrest Of George B. Scrugham causes
sensation in New York Page i
Fifty women injured in panic in up
stairs restaurant in Chicago Page
FOREIGN.
Details OF fight at Santiago de Cuba are
lacking, but ten sailors Of the Tacoma are
said to be injured by Cuban police. Page
Secretary Wilson says order Of France
refusing to admit American meats not
accompanied by certificates of micro
scopic inspection viii have little effect on
export trade. Page 1
Herman Boche, a Madison county
farmer, kills Frank farmer. a saloon
keeper al Norfolk Page
Scott Miner Of Tekamah is killed by
caving ditch. Page
State Railway commission asks the na-
tiOnal commission to say whether rail-
roads have the right to charge more for
through rate than the sum Of the locals.
Milwaukee road protests on assessment.
Don c. Despair is appointed labor commits
sioner TO hold once until January l, 1908.
Page
Nebraska City people threaten reprisals
unless the Burlington railroad provides
the city with a better depot Page }
The opening Of land TO settlement and
engineers annual May day celebration at
tract an immense crowd to North Platte.
Page
Plattsmouth man arrested for riding on
a railroad pass and case is expected to be
made a test of the validity Of she law.
Page ,
LOCAL.
Convent of the Good Shepherd will
cover whole block when the several new
buildings planned are completed at cost
OF $4,000. Fngs a
Omaha the market town is materially
advanced by the report just made Of Sec
retary Mcvann of the Grain exchange,
showing enormous gains in receipts and
shipments. Page 2
Woman's world-Sorrows Of chaperones
are related by some married women who
have essayed the role. Notes on Omaha
society. rage
County will start out the new fiscal
year without having to make a draft on
the general fund before the 1907 taxes
become available. Page
SPORTS.
WOODLAND wins the Greenfield stakes at
Jamaica. Page 4
Results Of ball games:
Omaha vs. PueblO-2
Lincoln VS.. Denver-L
3-Des Moines vs.. Sioux CITY,
New York vs. Boston,
S-Pittsburg vs.. St Louisa
2-Cleveland vs. 81. Louise.
4-Boston vs.. New York-a
3-Chicago vs.. Detroit-S
columbus VS.. Minneapolis
S-Kansas City VS.. Toledo
3-Louisville vs. Milwaukee-2
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Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-02
Navy OmeiaIs In Doubt.

The officials az the Navy department are
at a l1ss 10 conceive what may have been
the reason for this change OF attitude on
the part Of the Santiago police. They can
scarcely believe that the men we're much
70 blame and they are certain they would
not be aggressors because Commander
Tappan reports tuat they we're attacked"
by the police and the character 1f tile in
iuries sustain Cd by the men o. an indica-
ton that they we're assaulted with clubs
ard swords or bayorets. No mention Is
made Of any injury inflicted upon the police
which is not surprising In view OF the fact
thai tha Er1cte1G watch \ kspE uBoa ths