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Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16
TOPICS OF THE DAY OF REST
Bishop Nuelsen breaches at First
Methodist Church in Morning.
FIRST GERMAN IN THE EVENING
Zion Baptist Church WIN Commem-
crate the Firm A~nniversar of
the ~astora OF Rev.
y. 4. B~InEnmnn.

The fifth anniversary Of the pastorate Of
Rev. J. A. Bingsman will be commemorate
by Zion Baptist church Sunday. Special
services for the entire day have been
planned. Rev. Mr.. Pinkard Of Denver will
preach at 10:45 a. m; Sunday school, as
usual, will be held at l p. m, and at 3
o'clock the anniversary services proper will
begin. Participating in these services aside
from the pastor will be Rev. @. w. Wright,
Rev. @. E. Green and Rev. w. II. Housley.
Rev. Mr.. Wright, pastor of Mount Moriah
Baptist church, will preach the snniver-
sary sermon. Rev. Mr.. HouslSy, South
Omaha, is a cousin OF Rev. Mr.. Bingaman.
At $50 the Baptist Young Peoples union
will hold its services and at 7:45 the even
ing services will begin. The pastor will
preach on "Hallowed Be Thy Name the
second Of q series Of sermons on the Lord 8
prayer.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16

Bishop Neulsen will preach in the First
Methodist Episcopal church Sunday morn
ing and in the First German Methodist
Episcopal church at Eleventh and Center
streets In the evening. on August % he
wi. be at Walnut Hill church In the morn
ing and Broadway, Council Bluffs, in the
evening.
y The bishop will be the guest of the Meth.
odist Preachers union of Omaha at a
luncheon at the Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION Monday at 1890 sharp. There
will be a special and important item of
business, says Rev. William Gorst, district
superintendent. ...'...' ..''
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16

On Sunday evening, August %, the
churches of the city will adjourn their
evening services and unite in a temperance
meeting at the Auditorium to be addressed
by Mrs. Mary Harris Armor Of Georgia.
Full announcement will be made at the
churches Sunday.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16

The annual convention Of the Douglas
County Sunday School association will be
held Monday afternoon and evening, Sep
ember =, in the Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION assembly hall, Omaha. You are
urged to be present and to have your school
represented by regularly appointed dele
gates. There are two reasons for selecting
this particular date, says President @. a..
Wallace. who issues this statement:
First. It u Labor day, a legal holiday.
ana we believe many who cannot usually
attend day session In such a convention
can be present on this holiday. Particu-
larry urge your men to take advantage of
this rare opportunity to learn some of the
best and newest things in the development
OF Sunday school work.
Another reason for the selection Of this
date IL that we can then have at the even
ing session the presence of Mr.. Marion
Lawrence, general secretary of the Inter-
national Sunday School association, who
will pass through our city at that time
and give us an evening. This is a rare on
portuntty to hear the best known and best
loved sunday school worker in the world.
II Is seldom that he meets with a local
convention, his continent-wide and world
wide duties erowding his time. Be sure
this prince of men and loved leader in our
great work.
An interesting and practical program Il
in preparation. Delegates and visitors
. from country districts and villages are par
ticularly urged to come.
Lei uu nave EVERY SCHOOL IN the county
represented. Bring a contribution, that
the expenses OF our work be met. Election
of officers for the ensuing year will be
held.
Remember this Is an organization of Sum
day school workers., without regard to de-
nominational lines or ecclesiastical dlstinc-
tion. II recognizes the fact that all Chris
tians have one platform upon which they
can stand-the spiritual needs of the child
and that in the Sunday school we have
q common text book, the same problems
and like needs. Through organization we
an opportunity to compare experiences, ex-
change methods and receive encouragement
and strength through cooperation.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16
MILLER, STEWART & BEATON
43I5I7 Sc. 10th Street
Grand Clearance Sale
of Summer furniture
MONDAY AND TUESDAY, AUGUST 18th and 18th, we will conduct
SALE of PORCH FURNITURE, REFR1GERAToRS, PORCH RUGS, Pc
SHIRTWAIST BOXES and SUMMER RUGS.

We have marked each article so cheap that you will be tempted to buy for
and future needs.
Nothing will be reserved, each article will be tcketed with a RED TICK
the reductions from regular price.
Every article is cheap at the regular price, and a great bargain at the Gle
som of which we herewith quote;
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16

The pulpit Of Clifton Hill Presbyterian
church, Forty-flfth and Grant, will be sup.
piled Sunday morning and evening by Rev.
Thomas Greenlee of North Platte. Rev.
Mr.. Greenlee comes as a candidate for the
pastorate of this church, which has been
vacant since the resignation OF Rev. R. L.
Purdy in June,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-02
CORPORATE ABUSES CAUSE
OF BANK FAILURES IN EAST


ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. latter a thor
ough review of the general conditions re-
sponsible for the panic of 1907, Clark
Williams, state bank superintendent In
his annual report submitted to the leg
stature today, says the causes contribut-
ing largely to the failure of the ten fan
cial institutions in New York city were
"A lack of proper supervisory power; too
great inter-dependence between corpora
tons; a lack of association for mutual
assistance and corporate abuse"
The forms of corporate abuse principal
ly contributing to these failures were
he says: "A general disregard of laws
back of conservation in management; in
attention to and disregard of duties of
directors and improper use of corporate
credit for personal advantage"
Mr.. Williams recommends numerous
changes in the Lankins laws OF the state
to remedy these abuses and with a view
to giving the superintendent of banks
a much wider supervision over the ac-
tivities Of certain classes of institutions
under his jurisdiction.
Mr.. Williams, stating that the week
ly bank statement" issued by the New
York Clearing House association does not
reflect the aggregate of the composition
of the banking institutions of the city at
large, since one of the banking powers
does not report to this association. an
nounced he will require an average sum-
mary statement OF the conditions of the
banking institutions of the state at the
close of business on friday of each week
and that this statement will be prepared
at the New York office of the department
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-02
TO
TRAIL SLAYER
OF WOMAN
MURDER MYSTERY PUZZLES THE
DETECTIVES
Nude Body of Beautiful Woman Found
in Pool in New Jersey Has
Not Yet Been ldenti-
fled

By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-The mystery en-
yeloping the murder of the woman in
red" is seemingly as impenetrable today
as when the nude body was first dis
covered on Christmas day partially con-
cealed in the water and slime of pond
near Harrison, N. ]. Thus far the de-
tectives have failed to find a single re-
liable clew to the identity of the woman
or her slayer.
The identifications of the dead woman
by Mrs. Hattie Hull and Detective ORA
belle of Orange have completely collapsed
and left the case more puzzling than ever.
Word was received from Philadelphia
today that Agnes OKeefe, whom Detec-
tive Drabelle believed the murdered
woman to be. had been found in that city.
Mrs Hulls identification is not credited
by the police.
Acting Mayor DAILY of Harrison an
nounced today that the city council would
offer reward of $1,000 for the arrest and
conviction of the slayer of the woman.
With the hope of finding a new clew in
the way of clothing or effects the pond
in which the booy was found is to be
drained.
The famous Belgian police hounds.
which Police Commissioner Bingham i'm
ported recently for trailing malefactors
in the outskirts Of the city, will be used
in the attempt to track the murderer.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-02
P0E'S MANTEL MAY GO TO
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Part of Furnishings of Room in
Which Poet Wrote "The Raven"
Are to Be Pre-
served


BY Al ISOLATED Press.
NEW YORK. Jan. lit is now almost
certain that the Raven maatel, before
which Edgar Allan Poe sat when he
wrote his masterpiece, will go to Column
bia university and find a place of honor
in Hamilton hall. The keen contest for
this notable memento of the great poet,
in which many American literary and ed
ucational institutions have Wed, has now
narrowed down to William Hemstreet of
1882 Bergen street, Brooklyn, the owner
of the mantel, to Columbia university
and the Hamilton club of Brooklyn.
Among the applicants for the mantel
were the University of Virginia, Poe's
alma mater; the Franklin Inn club, the
literary organization of Philadelphia,
headed by DIR. S. Weir Mitchell; the
Museum of Norwich Free academy, Nor
wich, Conn, and the Bronx Society of
Arts and Sciences, the American Science
and Historic Preservation society and the
Poe society, all of New York.
Mr.. Hemstreet offered the mantel to
some public institution which would prop
erly preserve it. Columbia university is
in the neighborhood of Poe's old home on
Eighty-fourth street, where the Raven
was written. Mr.. Hemstreet bought the
relic in 1888, when the house of the late
William Brennan, father-in-law of Gen.
James r. O'Beirne, was being torn down.
This temporary home of Poe stood on
Eighty fourLn street between Amsterdam
avenue and Broadway.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-02
FAMILY BATTLES FOR
LIFE IN BLAZING FLAT
One Dead, Four Severely Injured, Re-
suit of Fire In Ferari Apart
ments in San Franz
cisco
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. lone death,
four badly injured and scores of hair
breadth escapes were the features OF a
midnight fire in the Ferari flats at Fill
bert and Stockton streets The struc-
lures were newly built and the fright
ened inmates were for the most part be-
wildered. The dead:
Louis Figone, aged IA; burned to death.
The injured: Mrs. Antoine Ffgone, Sc
verely burned about the body; Antoine
Figone, asphyxiated 1y smoke; Giuseppe
Figone, leg fractured by leaping from a
window; Anita Vinconzia, leg fractured
by leaping from a window.
The blaze started in the coal yard OF
Antoine Figone, whose family, living
above the yard, was almost cut off from
escape before the alarm was given.
Five of the children rushed down the
sairs through the smoke in their night
clothes and managed to escape, while
Figone and his wife CROPPED aroui the
house In search of their eldest son, 'ouis.
He was suffocated by the smoke while
trying to escape and fell in the hal way
unconscious. His charred body was ound
after the fire had been extinguished
Alarmed by the fact that he did not
see his parents in the street, Giuseppe
Figone, another of the children, aged II,
re-entered the house in search of them.
He found his parents cropping around
through the smoke and tried to induce
them to leave the place. They refused
and were removed by forcey Giuseppe
then leaped from a window and broke his
leg.
A similar accident befell Anita vincenzi,
occupant of another flat The other
tenants escaped, but had narrow es-
capes. The property loss is about $4,000.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-02
OUTLOOK FOR PEACE
IN 1908 IS BRIGHT
German Newspaper Interviews Am-
bassadors of Leading Nations.
All Speak in an Optimistic
Spirit
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
BERLIN, Jan. 1.-The Lokal Anzeiger
today published a series of interviews
with the ambassadors in Berlin of the
United States, Great Britain, Russia,
France, Spain, Austria Hungary and
Turkey and the ministers representing
most of the other nations of the world,
relative to the condition of interna-
tional relations at the beginning of the
year 1908. Charlemagne Tower, the
American ambassador, said:
TT gives me great satisfaction to be
able to declare that the long standing
good relations between the United
States and Germany have become clos
err, If possible, during the past year, as
a result of the efforts of both govern
ments. The understanding reached be-
tween the American tariff commission
and the German government has re-
suited in an agreement which will tacil-
itate commerce. and 1t is hoped that the
relations of the two nations will ex-
pand and strengthen on the basis OF
this agreement.
1.-THE exchange of German and Amer
lean professors, an outcome of the gem
eral idea conceived by Emperor Will
liam, has had a stimulating and fruit
full effect on the spheres of culture and
science and has brought the learned
men and the students of Germany and
the United States into closer touch. As
result there has grown up a better
mutual understanding of the peculiar
tiles of each people, and the idea of the
emperor when he inaugurated this
movement thus has been fulfilled"
The other diplomats whose views are
quoted entertain the most satisfactory
opinion concerning the, outlook for the
year.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-02
DuEL IN KENTUCKY
COSTS LIVES OF TWO
Shotgun Fight Results in Fatalities.
Slayer Has Had Bad
Record for Shooting
Troubles

BY Associated Press.
EWINGSVILLp, Ky, Jan. IA. j. Bal
lard last night engaged in shotgun duel
with Allie and Boone Henry, brothers, at
Yale, mining town. Ballard and Boone
Henry were fatally injured. Ballard par
ticipated twenty years ago in a fight re-
sulting in the death of two of his brothers
and the wounding of other men under un-
usual circumstances. He had killed Peter
Spencer and on trial was sentenced to life
Imprisonment.
The court room was crowded, and
guards had to be placed at every exit,
as 1t had been reported an attempt would
be made to release Ballard. When Bal
lard was brought to trial after sentence,
his brothers, Moses and James, started
riot and attempted to release their
brother. Guards however in running
battle, killed both. Jack Ballard escaped,
but was recaptured and sent to the PEN
itentiary. He was pardoned about six
years ago 1t has since been reported that
a man, who died in the west, confessed
that he, and not Ballard. killed Spencer,
ard that Ballard was serving his sem
tence,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-02
ANTl-SUICIDE BUREAU
SAVES LIVES OF MANY
Movement Started by General Booth
of Salvation Army Accomplishes
Great Work in Preventing
Self Destruction


By Associated Press
LONDON, Jan. Twelve months ago
General Booth of the Salvation army
started anti-suicide bureaus in various
cities of the world, and he has now Is
sued a result of his years work.
Altogether 1125 men and ninety women
sought the assistance of the London
bureau to save them from self destruc-
ton. while at least an equal number ap-
piled at the bureaus in other cities. 1t
appears from the review that the seekers
for help belonged mainly TO the middle
classes. More than half of them at
tributed the desire to end their lives to
financial embarrassment.
From the small number of women APP
piicants General Booth deduces that they
are better able to bear up under sorrows
and trials than men. He thinks 1t safe
to say that seventy-five per cent of the
applicants have been diverted from con-
templated suicide and helped to surmount
their difficulties.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-02

is demand upon the part of majority
of the citizens of Maryland for such
an amendment. "A demand for the
elimination of the ignorant, unrehect-
ing, thriftless negro vote" Whatever
is proposed, he held. should
protect the citizen who voted in 1851
or prior thereto, and his descendants
and the foreign born citizens who have
become naturalized, and 1t should also
contain as an alternative right an edu-
cational qualification.
This was Governor WaTfield's last an
nual message. He retires from tue
governorship on January s, when he
will be succeeded by Judge Crothers.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-02
OFFICER KILLS HIMSELF
IN FORMER WIFE'S HOME
Major Who Distinguished Himself in
South African War Fires at
Women, Then Ends
His Own Life
By Associated Press.

LONDON, Jan. 1.-Major Coates
Phillips, an officer who distinguished him
self in the South --lrican war, committed
suicide here last night under sensational
circumstances. The major had been d.
vorced. Some time ago he made an at
tempt to kill himself in the residence of
his former wife, but was restrained.
Last night he ret -rned to the home of
Mrs. Coates Phillips and forced an en-
trance His former wife, her mother
and a daughter were present, and saw the
man break in the door, and fed. The
major opened fire with his revolver, aim
ing at every one he could see, and then
blew out his brains. The mother of Mrs.
Phillips was wounded, but not seriously.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-02
COOKIES WIFE MAY FILE
CHARGES AGAINST HIM
Woman Whom Minister Deserted to
Elope with Pretty Young Helress
VIII Confer with Prosecut-
ing Attorney
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
HARTFORD, Conn, jan Mrs. Cooke,
wife of Rev. Jere Knode Cooke, who
abandoned his family and fled with girl
to San Francisco, where he has been To-
Gated, was asked today If she contem-
plated making charges against her hus-
band.
1T is a very serious matter" she said,
land 1 could hardly determine what
course to take without counsel with the
members of my family. 1t would seem
that the Nassau county officials should
take the Initiative. My husbands crime
is not against me, it is against the girl,
against the church and against God If
District Attorney Coles wants me to pre-
fer charges perhaps he will communicate
with me. and then I shall have to con-
slider what is best to do"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-02
LUCY CASTOR FINDS NO
WOMEN SMOKING IN CAFES
Chicago Law and Order League OBJ
tains Evidence Against VloIators
of Closing Law-Cigarette
Foe at Work
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Jan. 1.-The Chicago Law
and Order league obtained a mass of
evidence against vioators of the /
o'clock closing law in the merry hours or
this morning when the New Years rev.
elry was at its height in the restaurants.
Investigators furnished to President
Arthur Burrage Farwell by a detective
agency, visited all the principal hotels,
cafes and saloons in the downtown dis
trict, where wine was flowing freely af-
ter 1 o'clock.
Lucy Page CASTOR, arch foe of the Gig
arctic, made the rounds of the cafes also,
but was unable to find women smoking
cigarettes. She expressed herself as much
relieved.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-02
EMPEROR WILLIAM SENDS
NEW YEAR GREETING TO U. S,

BY Associated Press
BERLIN, Jan, 1.-Emperor William and
the empress received today the new
year congratulations of the, ambassador,
accredited to Berlin. In RESPONSE to the
Fluctuations offered by Ambassador Tow
er. his majesty sent his good wishes for
the new year to President Roosevelt and
the American people. In the course of his
conversation the emperor reproached Mr..
Tower pleasantly or having announced
his intention of resigning. He said he
would detain Mrs. Tower in Germany at
least until after yachting week at Kiel.
the end of June, and he invited the am
bassador and his wife to come to Kiel.
Mr.. and Mrs Tower gave a reception
to the American colony in Berlin this
afternoon. Several hundred persons were
present.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-02
CONVICTED
RUSSIANS TO
APPEAL CASE
MEMBERS OF DUMA ASK AID
OF SENATE
HIGHEST TRIBUNAL WILL REM
DER DECISION
Sentence of Three Months Imprison-
ment Not Considered Extreme.
Loss of Political Rights
is Hard Blow
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 1.-The case
of the members of the first duma who
were convicted yesterday for signing
the Viborg manifesto and sentenced to
three months imprisonment will be
carried before the senate, the highest
tribunal in Russia.
The defendants held a meeting today
and passed vote of warm apprecia-
ton for the brilliant services of coun-
sci for the defense.
The main argument before the sem
ate Will be made by M. Toslenkea, lead
er of the Moscow bar, who has borne
the brunt of the present trial.
The verdict and the light sentences
of three months imprisonment came as
a pleasant surprise to the defendants
and the public, as 1t had been feared
that the admission of joint RESPONSE
bility by all the deputies in the dis
semination of the manifesto pledged II
sentence to Incarceration for one or two
years
The verdict did not contain any ref
erence to the loss of political rights,
but such loss inevitably follows, ac-
cording to the senate's Interpretation
of the electoral law. Even the emperor
is powerless to re-endow the franchise.
and the only salvation of the convicted
men lies in a complete revision of the
electoral law by the third duma.
The former deputies are taking the ver-
dict philosophically. They point out that
its practical results are of no Importance,
as they tasted punishment in advance,
having been excluded from the elections
to the second and third dumas and sys-
tematically expelled from the state zem-
stovo and municipal employment.
The probability Is that the third duma
will be long lived and that the next
legislative elections will not be held until
1912, and 1t is generally supposed that by
then times will have changed and the
electoral law have been revised.
Satisfied with Trial
Though the ex-deputies declare that
their being deprived OF political rights is
the maximum of misfortune for public
spirited citizens, the general feeling
among them is of satisfaction with the
progress of the trial.
The Liberal press halls the verdict as
the fall of the curtain on the last act
of the drama of the first duma, which,
they say passes ntoi history without dis
honor.
The Slave calls the Viborg trial a po-
litical mistake of the Russian bureau
cracy. This mistake. it declares, consists
first in bringing the case to trial and
thereby assisting in the resurrection of
the first duma, which left the court room
a moral victor, and second. in banishing
1877 former deputies from political life, a
measure of unparalleled severity which
is sure to be disapproved by public
opinion abroad.
The Russ enumerates the judicial irreg-
ularities of the case and the embarrass-
ment of the courts to frame a legal for
mula on which to base condemnation. 1t
argues that the .wisest course for the
government would have been to assign
the Viborg manifesto to history without
prosecuting its authors.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-02
Three Tots Burn TO Death

BY IHsOCIdItu
COLLINSyILLE, ILL.,. jan 1.-The ex-
plosion of a lamp in the home of Helmer
Duwinskl last night set fire to the house
and three children persisted in the flames.
The children were in bed when the ex-
plosion occurred, scattering coal oil all
over the room and saturated the bed
clothing. which at once burst into roar
ing blaze
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-02
Aged Man Drops Dead

BY AssOCIdleu 7 Ieu7s
SAN DIEGO, Jan. John P. Evarts.
aged 76 years, dropped dead of heart dis
ease last evening in the back yard of
his house. His wife saw him lying on the
ground and going up to him found he was
dead. The deceased was a native of Ger
many and had lived in San Diego for the
last twenty years.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-02
Money for College

BY Associate Press.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, Jan. L.
In spite of the recent financial furry
Colorado Springs has within the last
twenty days raised total of $137.081.75 to
complete a s500.000 endowment fund for
Colorado college. Included in the S375, 600
previously subscribed toward the fund
were subscriptions of $4,000 each from
Andrew Carnegie and the general educa-
tional fund.