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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-29
FEEBLE MINDED MEN
CAUSE TRAlN WRECK

OsWEGO. n. Y. Oct. 28-Because one
OF the trio wanted revenge for having
been thrown off a train some time ago.
three inmates Of the State Home for
Feeble Minded at Syracuse tampered with
a switch. causing the wreck OF the Man
haitian fier on the Delaware. Lacka-
wanna & Western railroad near Fulton
or October II. IN which two persons were
killed and fifteen injured. the police sn-
nounced today
The police said they had obtained a
confession TO this effect from Joseph
Backer, who implicated James Baker ana
Charles Campbell
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-29
RATTLE SWAPS BACK AND FORTH
German Rush to Reach Channel
Coast Apparently Checked.
MINES IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN
Destruction OF Manchester Com
mercc North OF Ireland Near
Lanes of American steamers a
shocks Great DrItaIn. m
UULLETIN,

LONDON, oct 2s.-The cores
pondent of the Daily Mali, in north
ern France. under date of Tuesday,
says.
THE Germans, despairing OF
crossing the line from Nieuport to
Dixmude. are trying TO make de-
tour to cross the line from Dixmude
to Ypres. Military opiRion is that
this line will offer the Germans no
better scope than that along the
User canal, rather worse, In fact"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-29
War Summary

The great battle for possession
Of the strip OF coast running
along the North Sea, from Ostend
TO Calais, is said by the French
to be swinging slowly in favor OF
the allied forces. The assaults of
countless German troops, which
apparently attained the height of
human effort, we're matched with
equal courage and ferocity and to-
day the offensive efforts OF the
Germans were said to be relaxing
For the third successive day the
French official statement asserted
the advantage lay with the allies.
II is noticeable. however, that the
French claims in each instance
have been vague and bare of de-
tail as 20 the capture OF towns or
localities which may be set down
on the map as marking definite
advance NJ any point. Progress, ="
advances" or gains" are re-
ported at various sections OF the
line not closely indicated. From
unofficial reports from the front
il is inferred that In the main the
conflict is raging along practically
the same line as heretofore and
that the deadlock has not been
broken.
London reports unofficially
that the fiorcest German attack
had diverted from the seacoast
slightly to the south in the line
between Dixmude and Ypres. This
may possibly be explained by as
sertions that the British fleet off
the coast, said TO have been driven
off or a time by German artillery,
has resumed its bombardment
with telling effect, it Is said, upon
the Germans.
Eastward along the main course
of Battle, where comparative calm
prevailed for several weeks, there
are further indications that henvy
action has been resumed. Tues
days official French statement
referred to successful attacks on
the Germans center and eastern
end. In yesterdays statement 1t
n said the Germans attempted a
violent offensive movement Mt
Crayonne. This assault, 1t is
said, was replsed.
The conflict in Galicia still Ia
undecided. Both French and Rus
slams assert that the offensive &C.
ton against the Germans is being
pursued successfully In the fight
ing near Wasaw. II Is re
ported unofflcially from Petro.
| grad, however, that the Russians
have not succeeded in pushing the
advantage along their left and
center as far as they bad hoped
An unusually early winter threat.
ems untold hardships for the in.
vading Germans and the disas
trous experiences of Napoleon in
his march on Moscow are recalled
by dispatches stating that heavy
billiards are raging In western
Russia.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-29
Berlin Reports Fighting Along User
is Going FaUorobly to the Germans

LONDON, Oct 2S.-An Amsterdam dis
patch to, the Chronicle, dated Tuesday.
says:
from Berlin is to the effect THAI the fight
for the User canal is going favorably for
the Germans.
During the last few days the Ger
mans >kdve been sending great quantities
of food, blankets and other stores from
Antwerp to an unknown destination and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-29
DR.. ALEXANDER CORKEY DIES
Preacher, Lecturer and Author, Dies
in Sioux City.
WAYNE PRESBYTERIAN PASTOR
Minister, Well known in Omaha,
suecumbs in Hospital FoIIOwinE
An Operation for Ap
dtcitis. ~

WAYNE. Neb.. Oct. s-(special Tele-
gram )-Rev. Alexander Corkey. D. D.,
pastor of the Wayne Presbyterian
church, author and lecturer. died in st.
Josephs hospital at Sioux City this
morning, following an operation last
Thursday for appendicitis.
Last week as Dr. Corfvsy was about
to leave for Madison TO preside. over the
Nebraska Synod as moderator. he was
stricken with appendicitis and. FASTENED
by all possible speed In an automobile
to Sioux City for the operation The
case proved TO be exceedingly critical.
He had but a fighting chance and lost.
The funeral services will be conducted
at the First Presbyterian church In Sioux
city tomorrow.
DR.. Corkey was well known in Omaha.
as well as throughout this section OF
country. He burst from the obscurity
of a small-towN preacher into consider
able fame as the author of the little
novel ALLEN Rutledge." which was sup
posed to be written In answer to Harold
Bell Wrights book. THE Calling OF Dan
Mathews" ALLEN Rutledge" dealt with
conditions once existing In and around
the Presbyterian church at Fairfield. Ia.
end Parsons college. with DR. Corkey as
pastor OF that church, az the central
figure In the novel; Then he wrote sew
eral other books, some OF which have
had good sale. He became very popu-
lar as a chautauqua lecturer.
This fall Dr. Corkey came 10 Bellevue
college 10 fiji the chair OF sociology, hut
resigned in little while and returned
70 his charge as pastor al Wayne. He is
"a native Irishman, one Of seven brothers,
all Of whom are Presbyterian preachers.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-29
How Others Made Money
No. 4

Young Rogers barely finished
grammar school when he started
out to get work to support himself.
He was delicate and met discourage
ing obstacles, but finally landed a
job as errand boy in a grocery and
meat store
lie was anxious to show that he
could work and was always at the
store by $3.50 to clean up, sweep out
and make the store look as neat and
attractive as far as he was able.
When the boys i'm the neighborhood
came TO work and found him finish
ing UT the cleaning, they called him
slave. servant and other uncompli-
mentary names, but he hungered for
work.
He spent every moment possible
learning the stock and listened at
tentively 10 trade talks between his
employer and the salesman who
visited the store. In short. Rogers
kept his eyes and ears open. grew
TO be an efficient store salesman.
made his way up to responsible po-
sition in a wholesale grocery estab-
lishment.
AS all i've, WldeaWake young men
do. he kept his eye on the Business
Chances" columns and one day
found offered general store for
sale In a prosperous rural district.
Rogers made a substantial payment
out of his savings and took charge.
His store invoices only about $1,000.
normally, but he does business of
$4,000 a year aud is independent.
NoTE--An earnest man can get
into profitable business II he
takes advantage OF the oppor-
tgnities Offered In The Bee's
Telephone Tyler 1000
THE OMAHA BEE
Everybody Rsads Bee Went Ads
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-29

the townspeople OF Antwerp fear there
will be a shortage OF these articles The
Germans are taking 80 per cent of the
tramway receipts.
Despite the German assertions that
their artillery had driven the British ships
away from Ostend. the bombardmsnt by
the ships was renewed so vigorously to-
day that the atmosphere was in a state
of constant vibration over large area
all day"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-29
FIGHT AT ANTWERP
A BITTER CONFLICT
Belgian Soldier Describes Awful
Struggle as Germans Advance
Upon the Town.
BATTLE IS A DIFFICULT ONE
Opposing Forces Have SIeepless
Nights, Never Knowing when 4
Their Lives Would he Wiped
Out by Shells.

LONDON, Oct. 2S.-The Daily News to-
day describes the terrible experiences OF
one Belgian regiment during the battle
ON the coast when this regiment with.
drew from Antwerp. Fhrodgh some error
IT ~as given two days drill and inspec-
ton OF rest .and--thsn- went into -aetion
again in the network of trenches ON the
banks of the User. The newspapers cor
respondent in his dispatch quotes one Of
the soldiers in this body as follows.
There was a farm house on our right
and some OF our men were firing at II
when the door opened and three Of
ficers in Belgian uniform stepped out,
shouting to cease firing. WeNsent a de-
tachment OF men to the farm and they
were swept away by machine gun fire.
Later We entered the trenches. They
were fun Of water and l was firing for
six hours, thigh deep in water. The
German machine guns shot us out Of
crevices in a raised bank only a few
yards across the Viver The Germans
then got into our cross trenches and
fired down our lines. We had to run
back. I~gas toD sleepy to run. I must
have fallen asleep and then ~@7e must
have been ordered to advance. l was
too tired to get up, but some one kicked
me and / got up as did the man in front
of me. He impediately was shot through
the head and fell back on me. l got up
again. she'll burst near me and three
men who were running past Just disap-
peared.
Charge the Germans.
'I found myself running forward again
with others with fixed bayonets onto
the Germans who were firing from our
trenches. We were 300 left from 900.
They did not wait. but scrambled over
the bank across the river. We crouched
in big trench in muddy water. II was
dark and we heard, We thought, Ger
mans whispering on the river side of
our bank only few feet away from us.
The speakers were 800 GerDans who had
stayed on our side fearing to cross the
river under our fire.
$50 We stayed all night. Neither they
nor we, slept. Some of our men who
crept up the bank to look over were shot.
Some of the Germans climbed over and
We fired al their heads handN and arms
! as they became visible few made
holes through the looser earth through
which we fired on each other. Then the
French got around the end and there was
heavy firing. We heard a few Of the
enemy slipping down to the river edge
and the splashing OF water. Then we
scrambled over the bank and won. Only
100 or our regiment now remain"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-29
BRITISH CLAIM A
VICTORY AT YPRES
London Correspondent Sends Mes
sage Germans Are Driven Back
Fifteen Miles.
MANY HAND.ro-HAND FIGHTS
Defenders and Attacking Forces
Battle In Close Quarters with
a Terrible Toll of Human
Lives.

LONDON: oct 2S.--The correspondent
OF the Times in northern France sends
the following regarding the fighting In
Belgium. under Tuesdays date:
"Thc, British fire at Ypres, after a
glorious stand for i've days against
overwhelming odds. drove the enemy
back fifteen miles. The German forces
were commanded by the Bavarlan crown
prince, who. II Is reported. has been
wounded
"The British forces captured Tango.
marck, five miles northeast OF Ypres, on
Friday. after inflioting enormous losses
on the enemy, and established entrenched
positions beyond the village.
AT night, after the roar of the cannon
had ceased. there was suddenly a shrill
whistle, and bushes soaked In petroleum
broke into flames, throwing a glare over
the scene Masses of men sprang up
from the beet crops within "A hundred
yards OF our trenches and with bugle
sound yell and song they came ds shing
forward 10 our position
Though taken by surprise. our brave
men were not unprepared. They took
their places in the trenches and held
them, pouring terrific fire into the
advancing hosts.
Fall by Hundreds.
| Answering with rifle and machine
gun the enemy advanced stlll with the
bugle playing and amid shouts OF 1Ioch
hoch. They were In dense masses ant
they fell by the hundreds. They got
within thirty yards OF the trenches when
they recoiled.
Then came three blasts OF whistle
sounding the retreat. Our men spraup
out OF the trenches and went In among
them with the bayonet. The slaughter
was terrible and there were many hand
| to hand encounters.
In the dim glare OF the burning
! bushes some OF the enemy threw dowr
their arms and pleaded for mercy. No
! quarter. however. was given on ethel
side. The work was too desperate foI
that. Bayonet and bullet did their work
and the enemy was driven back on
| Roulers.
"A battery and several machine guns
were captured and thousands OF prison
ers were taken. including a general and
! several other officers"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-29
BULLETIN.

LONDON, Oct 2s.--A dispatch to
the Times from Berne, Switzerland,
says that the Germans are receiving
large, achievements In Alsace. and
that the French are making great
preparations to repulse an attack on
Belfort. which is powerfully en-
trenched.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-29
GERMANS MAINTAIN
FOOTING ON USER
Belgians' Valiant Attack Not Strong
Enough to 'Dislodge Enemy at
the River Bend
GAPS ARE ALWAYS FILLED UP
More TeutOns Keep Coming Up as
Their Men Are shot Down
kaiser's Forces RepuIsed
Again at Dixmunde.

LONDON, Oct 2s.-The correspondent
OF the Times In West Flanders. under
date OF Tuesday. in describing the ebb
and flow OF the battle and the stubborn
heroism OF the Belgian soldiers, says:
The Belgians never entirely disodged
the Germans from the footing thev ob-
tsined across the User near Pervyse. al
though the Germans suffered terrible
Losses in keeping the strip OF ground
thus won In the bend of the river. Again
and again they have been practically
swept away by Belgian shrspnel. but
they have continued 10 pour men into
the deathtrap which served them as a
bridge head.
At Dixmude and Nleuport the strug-
gle has ben equally severe. At Dismude
the French marines were Obliged 70 with
stand a forty hours continuous sttack
before they were able to expel the Ger
mans at the point OF the bayonet
Last Saturday the Germans made an
other crossing farther south near Saint
Georges Capelle and a frightful struggle
ensued between the rive -hannels. The
Germans occupied the village Of Stay-
vekenskerkt and were driven out. but
not for long. They concentrated their
mitrailleuscs on the canal bank and raked
the Belgians, compelling them TO retire
seain. The fighting continued till sun
day morning, when the arrival 81 the
L ench forces resulted in driving the
Germans back over the river, except the
little forces holding the bridgehesd at
Tervsste.
Germans Are RepuIsed.
THE German attack on DiXmude was
repulsed last night with heavy loss.
The main point at which the Germans
crossed the river and where the situation
has been most critical is north OF the
village OF Pervyse on the railway line
on PaFe TWO column TRo1
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-29
The Weather

Forecast of weather for Thursday:
For Nebraska-Fair. slightly cooler.
For Iowa-Fair and cooler.
Temperature mt omaha Yesterda
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-29
Weather Promises to Play Important
Part in the Campaign in the
Eastern Area.
SNOW COVERS GROUND AT MINsK
Correspondent Who Made Trip from
Moscow to Warsaw Says the
Weather is Bitterly Cold.
RUSSIAN TROOPS TAKE LODI
Swift Movement by Cavalry Menaces
German Communication South
west of Warsaw,
RADON IS ALSO OCCUPIED
General Belief Germans Have Lost
Their Opportunity in Poland.
LINE sIXTY.Two MILES LONG

BULLETIN.

BERLIN. Oct. Wireless to
sayville, l.. I.)-Austro-German Of
ficial reports from the eastern theat T
of the war indicate that severe battles
are raging along the Vistula and San
rivers. The Germans apparently are
engaging numerically superior Rus
sian forces, and the battle is attract
ing equal attention with the struggle
in France and Belgium.
The bulletin issued last night by
the Austrian War department states
that the Austrians southwest of Ivan
gorod are combating numerically
superior forces of Russians.
LONDON, Oct. 2S.--The weather
promises soon to- play an important
part in the campaign in the eastern
arena of the war. The rigorous
Russian winter is said already to
have set in between Moscow and
Warsaw. and snow covers the ground
near Minsk.
The Russians claim they are fol-
lowing up relentlessly and success
fully the repulse of the Germans
from Warsaw. Their cavalry is
pushing rapidly westward from Lodz,
which has been occupied by them,
and threatening the German lines of
communication. The Germans, it is
further contended, are having diff
Guilty in maintaining their prepared
defensive lines around Radon, to
the south of Warsaw.
Radon and LOdE Captured.
The correspondent of the. Times at War
saw, telegraphing under date OF Tues
day. has this to say OF the campaign in
Russian Poland:
Radon, fifty-seven miles south Of
Warsaw, was taken after hard struggle
and large bodies OF Russian cavalry oc--
cupied Lodz, seventy-five miles south
west of Warsaw, TO day. after consider
ablo resistance.
The opinion is held here that Ger
many has definitely lost its opportunity
in Poland. largely because it misjudged
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ComparatIve LocaI Reeora

tOm mpnrutINe L"cuI HtcOFu'
official record OF temperature and pre-
cipitation compared with the correspond
ing period OF the last three years:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-29

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A business that Is clearing from
$500 10 81 900 per month right now
$1,000 cash viii bury; half cash. tho
rest good paper; no competition:
within a block OF the Owl Drug co.
owner Is leaving, city; must sell.
For further information about
this opportunity. see the Want Ad
Section OF t0day's Zee.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-29

LONDON. oct 2s.-The battle which all
the world Is watching still sways back
and forth In the little district Of West
Flanders, where the allied forces are
struggling to check the German advance
to Calais, but ripples Of war news are
noted in widely separated points.
First comes the new rebellion in South
Africa. whore tho Boer leaders, Christian
De Wet and General Beyers. former
oommandant OF the military forces of the
union OF South Africa, have taken the
field against the union government on the
heels of checking OF the rebellious move
ment under Colonel Maritz. General De
Wet vas the famous antagonist of Lord
Kitchener during the Boer war. and the
uprising he il now leading is treated by
the British press as far more serious than
the Maritz outbreak.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-29
GERMANS MAKING
DETOUR TOCROSS
LINE NEAR YpRES
London Report Says They Have
Abandoned Attempt to Force
Crossing Of User Cenal. 3
ATTACK IS FURTHER SOUTH
Effort Now Being Made to Penetrate
kine of Allies Between Dix
munde and Ypres y
TO ATTACK BELFoRT

Germans Before City Are Receiving
Large Reinforcements French {
Strengthen Defenses. J.
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1914 1913. Is.

Deficiency for the day........-. .OI tQch
Total rainfall since March /. .A.4O inches
Deficiency for cor period, 1913. 67I inches
Deficiency for cor. period. 1912. 2.s2 inches
Reports from Stations at r. VI.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-29
Germans Invade Angola.

An event perhaps second in potential
importance is the reported German in
vasion OF Angola, the Portuguese colony
in West Africa. Whether this report is
true or not, the dispatch comes almost
coincident with the announcement that
Manuel, former king OF Portugal, has Of
fered his services to King George and is
willing TO take the field against Ger
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preparing
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tcontinued on Page 1wo-Column one.)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-29
Everybody Reads

the day's happenings evezy dny.
II folks don't read your store
news every day, It's your fault.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-10-29
FOR SALE.

CONTINUED on PAGE Two. Column Three
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-27

L;ohtnins won the Saratoga Special.
the Sanford Memorial and the Hopeful,
hi. three starts. and then retired Tor
the season, with sl7,sso in purses to
his credit.
Iron Duke, from the Madden stables,
and Last Coin, owned by James Butler,
showed we'll in the fall meetings. One
of the most promising Of the two
year-olds. vanitie, was sold by John T..
Madden to Walter Winans for racing
These and. Msddsns Paris, Polish
and Charter Maid, along. with kas,.
kaskia. from the 0neck Stables, and
Schuyler Parsons's Phosphor and
Sharpshooter seemed TO be the like
Hest of the juvenile crop.
An American horse on the distaf
side carried the silks of an American
flrst past the winning post in the
Derby. Therefore all honor to II. b..
Duryea and his Durbar III.
Perhaps the greatest thoroughbred
of the year abroad was Sardanaple,
owned BY Baron Maurice de Rothsehild.
In ten races he won 100000 francs,
about 100000, in purses. These in
cluded the Grand Prix de Paris, the
Prix du Jockey Club and the Prix du
President de la R6publique, all French
turf classics.
As we'll as the regular meetings, there
were the usual amateur gatherings az
Piping Rock and Belmont Park Ter
minal in the spring and fall that added
the more colorful touch to racing here
abouts. These, too, are growing in
popularity.
While the purses were not so large
as in years gone by, although the
Owners Fund contributed royalty, the
fields were large in the main and the
racing was of the keenest.
The prospects of racing in 1915 loom
up brightly. While the Jockey Club
has not announced the dates for the
coming season, it is safe to say that
there will be quite as much if not more
racing than last year, although more or
che old tracks around New York may
not be opened.
II will be better racing. too. Last
year there was not an over-supply OF
good older horses. but there will be
no lack of good two-year-olds in 1915.
Then, too, the earlier nominations for
the juvenile stakes at the Saratoga
Springs meeting presage another ban
ner season for that class if breeding
and numbers count for anything.
It's an i'll wind, says the sdage, and
the war in Europe will boom racing on
this side Of the water. For q number
of American owners have already
brought or are making ready to bring
back their strings from England and
France.
H. P. Whitney is among those who
has already brought back one consign-
ment, which included Harmonicon, the
youngster which showed so we'll on the
English turf last season.
No jockey stood out from his fell
lows last season. OF the lot Butwell
rode the most winners, with McCahey
q close second. Joe Notter was a con-
sistently good rider, but his weight
precluded his frequent appearance.
Neylon did we'll in the West.