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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-03
City Trust Paws in Full

Under the date of May l. checks aggre-
eating a22,3Il.@ have been sent to the
creditors of the City Trust Safe Deposit
and Surety Company, completing the dis
charge of all the liabilities of the COM
pany with the exception of interest on
creditors and stockholders claims. The
checks were sent by Congressman j.
Hampton Moore, the receiver, and follow
the fifth account rendered by the receiver
ship to the Courts of Common Pleas since
the failure of the trust company in 1906.
More than 100000 has now been paid to
creditors.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-03
THE WEATHER
Official Forecast
WASHINGTON. Mav

WASHlNGTON, May j.
for eastern Pennsylvania and NeR
Jersey! Unsettled tonight and Tuesday
with probably showers; gentle to moder.
ate northeast winds.
showers occurred in New England, New
YORK and the bordering Canadian prov.
ihces during the last "a hours under the
lnnuence of a disturbance that is passing
OF the coast at Nova Scotia. Anothef
disturbance that is central over Iowa this
morning has caused showers over a wide
oeit extending from the Dakotas and
minnesota southeastward to the middle
Atlantlc coast. moderate temperaturs
eNGess Is reported from the Ohio basin
and from the Southern States. while Sea.
sohaole conditions prevail elsewhere.
U. S. Weather Bureau Bulletin
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-03
Thlnk Man Drowned AeeldentalI,

The police believe tht William BarKer
81 years old, OF 23is e. Letterly street,
whose body was found IN the Delaware
river. on the North Cramer Hill shore,
Yesterday. met his death BY an accidental
fail from his boat while bobbing for cells.
a brother Of the dead man told the po-
lice tAat Bafger suffered from heart
trouble He leaves widow and seven
children
The body Of William T. Fisher, a sea-
man Of The batlieshlp Missouri. who fell
overheard late saturday night from one
~ NE SHIPS launches, has not been found
searehishts from his own ship and from
ira onio ana Wisconsin were Kept play
|ns Or the scene or the accident for some
fins haf no trace q the body has as YET
been discovered.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-03

and disappeared John finally summoned
up enough courage TO leave the chim-
ney. He was somewhat grateful 10 the
rain. which had washed on much OF the
SCOT AS soon as he crawled into his
clothes, John swore out warrant for
Joe's arrest. When the men appeared
before Magistrate MaeFarland he held
them each In $500 bail 10 keep The
peace.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-03
FALL KILLS AGED WOMAN
Relatives Conducted Famous Quaker
School-Husband Italian Soldier.

Sehool-Husband Italian Soldier.
Mrs. Charles II. Addison, OF 1856 Maple
wood avenue, Germantown, died at her
home early this morning as the result OF
. fall down the stairs two weeks ago.
Mrs. Ardisson was the niece OF the
Misaes Robinson, who conducted cele-
brated Quaker school In the sos at 7th
and Race streets. which was attended by
tiio children OF the most prominent
Families In the city. She was 7e years
old
she was married TO MIR. Addison IS
years ago. He was a soldier In the
Italian army during the revolution of
leis, when Austria was forced to evaeuate
Lombardy. Mrs, Addison was a mem
Der Of the Orthodox Society OF Friends.
Her funeral will be at the Friends Meet
ing House. Greene and Coulter streets,
Germantown.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-03
Woman go Years Old Takes PoIson

Mary Aubaeh. 80 years old. l5l East Lin
Pihe0'5 pitsi q street, Is In the Episcopal HOG
tempt 10 commit suicide By taxing poison
at her home today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-03

E2.OO BALIIMORE--ss.5 VVAstt.,ta-ao,,
sunday excursion. PannaylsanIa RsiIrees
MAY Broad So station 1855 4. n. 49,
Flii-asiPAlA' tsss . m.--Adx
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-24
CARDINAL MERCER
RETURNS THANKS
Primste Of Belgium Writes Letter
of Appreciation of Work of
Americans for Belgium.
MANNER OF GIVING Is FINE

LONDON, Dec. 20. 49, Cardinal
Mercier, primate Of Belgium has ad-
dressed the following letter to Her
bert c. Hoover, chairman of the
American committee for relief in
Belgium:
81 understand you have so kindly
addressed a new appeal to the gen
crosby of your countrymen to pro-
vide clothing for our so painfully
destitute people. l confess | had
much preferred to shake hands with
my American brothers in token of
thankfulness for what they already
have done than that we should again
stretch to them the open hand to beg.
Your country has already done so
much for Us; it has given US much in
food and above all in personal co-opera-
ton for our economic reha bilitation It
brings us this help with such moving
and complete spontanety that we have
long desired TO convey to your people a
full expression Of gratitude, untarnished
by renewed appeals to their gerenous i'm
pulses. But you yourself. dear friend.
invoke us to appease our scrup,es and
therefore. l knowing better than anyone
the restitution of our Belgian people
should feel myself traitor to my duty
as their pastor if. through an exaggerated
feeling of national pride, / should refrain
| from also pleading for those who are
] suffering.
only yesterday tears arose in my eyes
when, crossing the street in Malines. !
met a party of strong. honest working.
men. with STOPPING heads. their eyes
| fixed on new clogs. These were men
habituated to the support of wives and
children through their own labor, but
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-24
BORDEN TALKS TO PILGRIMS
Premier Says Relations Between
United States and Canada Were
Never Better.
FOUNDED ON SINCERE GOOD WILL

NEW YORK. Dec. 23.-Sir Robert Laird
Borden. Canadian premier. in an address
before the Pilgrims society in New York
at luncheon today, declared his belief that
relations between Canada and the United
states were never more firmly founded
on true understanding and sincere good
Will, than at present"
He referred to the relations between
Canada and the mother country as never
so closely united In ideal, inspiration and
effort as at the present time" He re-
ferred to nearly 1000 miles of unguarded
boundary between Canada and this coun-
try as evidence Of friendly relations.
During the last half century or more
these relations have on the whole been in
Innate and friendly; during the last TWEEN
ty-five years they have steadily improved,
and believe they were never more firmly
founded on true understanding and sin
cere good will, than at present." were his
sentiments of the relations between the
Dominion government and the states. And
In that connection he added. 81 beg you to
eosider what might have been spared to
humanity during the last fourteen months
and In many months to come. II such ex-
amples had been followed"
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-24

Continued from Page one.)
arranging TO forward them to their des-
tinations. on the passenger list were
fifty-one men, fifty-four women and fif-
teen children. most OF whom were Brit
ish subjects.
The agents In their report say further:
THE passengers express great admira-
ton for the skill OF the captain and
officers and for discipline of crew. Per-
feet order was maintained during the
Decentralization which was carried out
with the greatest promptitude."
Identity OF American.
LONDON. Dec. 23.-W. J. Leigh Is an
American citizen. born In China His
father was a Californian.
Mr.. Leigh has spent most Of his life
In China. but he recently has lived in
England. lie was returning TO China on
the YasakR MaTu TO take a position with
business house. His family Is In Lon
don. Mrs. Leigh has received a cable
message saying her husband is safe.
ship sinks Quickly.
TOXIC, Dec, 2S.-News OF the sinking
Of the Yasaka Maru reached Toxic to-
day and caused great excitement. The
advices received here say that the
steamship was sunk by a submarine
near Port said. Advice received by this
Nippon Yusen Ksisha, state that the
YasakA MRru was torpedoed without
warning and that II sank In 20 minutes.
This occurred the afternoon OF Tuesday
and Il was midnight when the passen-
gers and crew were rescued by this
French gunboat.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-24

had been for fifteen months without
work. The last OF their savings are ex-
hausted. Their shoes were worn out and
the relief committee had distributed
among them some clogs with the injunc-
ton TO use the leather rags from the
worn-out shoes as Innings to keep their
feet from, dampness.
Manner of Giving Appreciated.
You Americans. who prize highly the
value Of labor and go possess the natural
impulse OF earning comfort and success
by your own exertions. will well under
stand the mental suffering OF noble
souls forced to depend upon charity
Therefore. you also know how to hide
your liberallties under anonymous wells
and how to distribute them through
hands as delicate as they are discreet.
Interpreter Of the feelings of the Belgian
population, we thank you as much and
more for your way Of giving than for the
gifts themselves May l add that one of
the greatest benefits for which we shall
feel eternally indebted to the American
people will be the fixing on America Of
the admiring attention Of the Belgians.
The Belgian people have learned to know
you well. TO look at you in beautiful
light, to feel to some extent what they
would gain in following your footsteps.
VIII Initiate American virtues.
When the hour of reconstruction
comes we will invoke them TO keep their
eyes on your great land OF formulating
initiatives your land of ambition for
comfort not through covetousness OF other
peoples wealth, but through tenacious
will to individual endeavor with a pa
triotism that ignores civil discord and
draws its strength from a collective love
for national progress; yes. we will in
woke our people to initiate your high
virtues and we are. confident that our
benefactors will find in this spreading of
their own moral influence their real
reward.
PLEASE accept, dear friend, the express
sion OF my high esteem and devoted
| gratitude.
(Signed) CARDINAL MERCER,
| Archbishop of Malines -
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-24
ANTI-SEMITISM Is
REVIVED In BERLIN
Base Defamation of German Jews by
Tages zeitung Provokes Tart
Retort from Tageblatt.
MINOR NOBILITY IS BLAMED

BERLIN. Dec. 23.-(Via Lon
don. -Anti-semitism, an issue
which has been almost dead since
the beginning of war, has been re-
vlved this week by the Tages Zeitung
and other newspapers. In conse-
ouence a controversy which may be
described as almost bitter has
broken out between papers of the
Tages zeitung stamp on the one
hand and those like the Tageblatt.
which adopted a liberal attitude in
regard to the Jewish question. on
the other.
Liberals Resent Movement.
The more liberal papers resent In
tensely every anti-Jewish movement,
particularly as II is asserted German
Jews have borne their share of the
wars burdens literally and are
doing their utmost for the father
land in both military and in an
economic sense.
Tho present revival OF the anti-semitlc
movement began with savage attack
in the TaEes zeitung against Eugene
Dietrich OF Jena. who had accused "a
Berlin newspaper -inferentially tho
TaEes Zeitung-of being anti-Jewlsh. The
latter denied II was the newspaper at
tackled and further reused Jewish feeling
by putting the blame on still another
Berlin Journal
The Tageblatt entered the controversy.
calling the Tages zeitung utterances
base defamation OF German Jews,
many OF whom died for the fatherland
after voluntarily joining the army--in
which they were notably different from
certain anti-semltio nationalist typewriter
heroes, who have not lived up TO the wal
propaganda they preached for years"
Theodore Wolff OF the Tageblatt. who
Is perhaps the most prominent editor OF
Germany declares that Notwithstanding
the recent revival OF anti-semitism this
feeling against Jews In Germany is grad
ually on the wane. existing nowhere L
a great extent except possibly among thu
minor nobility.
II am glad TO be able 10 say there 4
absolutely no anti-Jewish movement II
government circles or In the high no
bility." Mr.. Wolff said. THE Jew now hAi
equal rights in the army and may beoom,
an officer along with Christian II
virtually all strata the Jew Is found inter
mingled with all others
III Is only among the minor nobilit,
that the Jew Is still unwelcome on &C
count OF the fact that he is able TO out
strip his competitors. who are Jealous o
him. But do not forget there are notable
exceptions in this class-fine examples o
Germans. who are too broad 70 be anti
Jewish or anti-enything. A few German
newspapers which represent this class O
the minor nobility. such as the Tage
zeitung ana tho Tagelichf Rlmdschau. ar
naturally anti-Jewiah, but their Rgitatio
Ia becoming less effective each month,
look for eventual liberty for Jews In Ger
many such as exists In America today.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-24
Declares Germany
Crushed So Far as
Trade is Concerned

LONDON. Dec. 2S-"As far as com
merce IL concerned. Germany IL a beaten
nation. and II is for us 20 see that II
does not revive" Walter Runclman.
president OF the Board OF Trade. told the
House OF Commons this afternoon In re-
viewing the steps taken by the board for
the reorganization Of British industries
after the war.
Enumerating the name OF subjects
which the Board OF Trade was specially
investigating. among them being German
control OF oil fields In Europe. Mr.. Runci-
man remarked that this raw material
was OF such vital interest to Great
Britain that the board was taking special
steps to see how much OF tho German
control OF this product could be trans
ferred 60 Great Britain so that the lat
ter's interest would be safeguarded,
Continuing. he said
'Germany's trade In South America
and the east has received a serious blow
and Il Is the duty OF the board to sec
that our business men have every ad'
vantage"
MT. Runciman said there was TO bash
for the reported belief on the continent
that Great Britain In thus looking aheaa
was inclined to think OF the return OF III
commercial prosperity rather than o
''thsowinG ourselves heart and soul int
the attainment OF the main object"
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-24
THEY DIE OF GRIP
IN PENNSYLVANIA
Death Rate So High that Health
Commissioner Issues a Public
Warning.
MUST KEEP OUT OF CROWDS

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2S.-The
death rate from the epidimic of la
grip now seweping the state has been
so high that Samuel G. Dixon, state
health commissioners, issued state
ment at Harrisburg tonight calling
attention to the seriousness of the
situation and cautioning the public
that If the disease is to be avoided,
sacrifices must be made"
Keep out of crowded places" Dr.
Dixon says, las one person having
the grip may give it to carload of
passengers"
In this city the bureau of vital statis-
tics issued $50 burial permits during the
first three days of this week, the ma
jority OF the deaths being due directly
or indirectly to la grip. This is more
than double the ordinary death rate. 1t
is estimated that nearly 1900 persons in
Philadelphia alone are suffering with the
disease, which has been particularly fatal
to the very old and very young.
Attendance at all the public schools
has been greatly reduced and In several
sections of the state schools and colleges
have been forced to close. Factories,
department stores and other business
houses have also been affected by the
epidemic and in many instances the mum
Der of employees obliged to remain at
home has been so great as to seriously
curtail operations. Hundreds of fire
men and policemen are confined to their
homes with the disease while Philadel-
phia Rapid Transit company reports 400
of its employees on the sick list.
Reports from Camden, N. J., tonight
were to the effect that there are at least
1000 cases in that city.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-24

CONTINUED from Page One)
amounted TO only one-third as many. ac-
cording to the statement.
In a magazine on the Golden Horn n
quantity OF dynamite exploded Five
soldiers and ten civilians were killed and
a number Of civilians we're wounded. one
house was burned.
Tho Golden Horn IL a northern inlet OF
the Bosphorus, separating the main part
OF Constantinople from Gaiata and Pera.
German official Report.
BERLIN Cvia I,ondon). Dec 23-The
war office announced today that the sum
init OF Harmans- w ellerkopf, captured
earlier In the week by the French. had
been gained by the Germans.
The text Of the statement follows:
Western theater of war: During hot
fighting yesterday a brave regiment Of
the SD Bandwehr brigade recaptured the
summit OF Hartmans- w eilerkopf. The
enemy suffered extraordinarily severe
losses and left twenty-three officers and
1 $50 men In our hands. We are now busy
clearing some portions of a trench on
the northern slope which Is still occupied
by the French.
THE figures given in the French report
OF yesterday evening regarding the fight
ing around Hartmans-w eilerkopf on the
2ist inst. are Exaggerated by at least one
half Our total losses. including all the
killed. wounded and missing, so far as
at present ascertalned. amount TO LOO
men.
There Is nothing TO report from the
eastern and Balkan theaters."
French Official Report.
PARIS, Dec. 2S.-The following COM
munication was given out at the war
office this afternoon:
THE night was relatively calm over
the whole front. To the south of Arras
In the vicinity OF Beaurains our artil-
lery kept up its destructive fire against
the positions OF the enemy. In Cham
payne there was fighting at close quarters
with hand grenades to the east OF Ma
varin Farm and In the section Of Hill
No. 1893.
In the Vosges at Hartmanns-Well-
erkopf, the situation Is unchanged on
our left our right continued TO make
progress yesterday"
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-24
EOENIG Is CHARGED
WITH CONSPIRACY
Hamburg-Amerioan Employe and
Another Man Indicted for Alleged
Plot TO Blow Up Canal.
EDMUND JUSTICE Is ALSO HELD

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Indict-
n,ents were returned today charging
Paul Koenig. chief detective of the
neutrality-suspicious. line, and Rich
ard Emil Leyendecker, an antique
dealer, with oonspiring to dynamite
The welland canal. Edmund JUS
tice, Hamburg-American line
Tatchman, was also indicted with
Koenig on charges OF conspiring to
secure military information for the
German government.
The indictments against Roenig and
Leyendecker charge them with conspiring
TO set on foot In the United states
military enterprise against the Dominion
OF Canada"
The indictments set forth that a part
Of this alleged conspiracy was to destroy
with dynamite or other means the Wei
land canal. leading from Port Colborne
on Lake Erie TO Port Dalhousie on Lake
Ontario
As a part OF the plot to destroy the
canal. the indictments allege Koenig and
Leyendecker planned 20 secure employ
ment for their agents in various factories
and mills adjacent 70 the canal
BreitunE Admits Buying Potash.
Max Bfetung, under indictment with
Robert Pay, DR.. Herbert Kienzie, Walter
scholz and Paul Daeche on charges Of
conspiring TO blow up munition ships
leaving this country. today admitted
through his attorney. John b. stanch-
field. that he bought $50 pounds OF chlor-
ate OF potash for Fay. The admission
was made when Mr.. stanchfield moved
for a separate trial for Breltung.
Breiplng purchased the potash. one
of the chief components In certain forms
OF explosives. at Fays request hr.
ssanchfield said, and in so doing. acted
in good faith and was entirely innocent
of any plan 10 destroy ships. Decision
on the motion was put over TIL January
Z. when decisions on similar motions by
two OF the other defendants will bo
rendered.
william McCulley. whose name was
first given as Robert McCauiey. and
who was taken 10 police headquarters AT
the request OF Department OF Justice
officials. investigating the plot TO dyna-
mite the Welland Canal. was released
today after having been questioned by
federal officials.
Although McCulley admitted having
known Paul Koenig. chief OF the Ham
burg-American line detectives. who Is
accused by the government Of having
formulated the welland canal plot. for
five years and having recently been
in His employ as trailer" federal
officials said there was nothing to war
rant holding the man.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-24
Barney Bertsche and
James Ryan Given
Liberty by Governor

SPRINGFIELD. Ill. Dec. Ex-Governor
Dunno today freed by Communication of
sentence Barney Bertsche and James
Ryan. whose testimony recently con-
victed former Chief of Detectives Halpln
and other Chicago police grafters
Bertsche and Ryan received indeter-
inmate sentences on the indictments for
alleged swindles, which were said to have
profited the police as we'll as themselves.
Todays action was in accoI dance with a
recommendation OF the State Board of
Pardons and fulfills a promise of i'm
munity given the pair in exchange for
their testimony.
Ryan Is clairvoyant swindler by his
own testimony. Bertsche testified he
was a go-between in tine payment of
money to the police by the 'clairvoyant
trust"
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-24
Revolt in India is
Reported Spreading

BERLIN via Wireless to Tuckerton,
N. J.)-The Hamburger Fremdenblatt
today printed a Constantinople dispatch.
which says:
THE revolutionary movement in India
lately has assumed large dimensions
The British authorities have been unable
TO suppress Il despite most energetic
measures. Great bitterness prevails among
the native troops. battalion after bat
TALON deserving and Joining the insur-
gents. Native troops which were orderd
to attack the insurgents mutinied and at
tackled the British"
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-24
rad HabIt..

Those who breakfast az 5 o'cIock OF
later, lunch al y and have dinner at /
are almost certain 20 be troubled with
indigestion. They do not allow time for
one meal 20 digest before taking another
Not less than five hours should elapse
between meals. II you are troubled
with Indigestion correct your habits ano
take chamberisin's Tablets. and you may
reasonably hope for quick recovery
These tablets strengthen the stomach and
enable Il TO perform it's functions natu-
rally. Obtainable eyerywhere.-Adyer-
tisoment
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-24
Indiana Starting
Boom for Fairbanks

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. 2s.-sixty
out Of the ninety-two counties OF Indiana
have sent in petitions asking that the
name OF Charles w. Fairbanks be placed
on the ballots for the primary next
March for the preferential vote for the
republican nomination for president. ac-
cOrding 10 a statement made today by
l.. w. Henly, secretary OF the republican
state committee. The primary law re-
quires that the petition be filed not later
than January 7, 1918
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-24
DEATH RECORD.
Mrs. George smith.

KEARNEY, Neb.. Dec. 22-(sneolal
Telegram Mrs. George smith. aged 20
ana a resident OF Kearney for twenty
five years. died here early this morning
from heart trouble. after short illness.
She had long been prominent in social
and church affairs. she was a native
Of England, and leaves husband two
sons and two daughters. The sons are
prominent business men OF this city.
William HeffrOH.
HASTINGS. Neb,. Dec. 23.-(Speoial
Telegram y William Heffron. hostlor at
Ingleside and ono OF the best known
horsemen in the state. for long time
proprietor OF a livery stable here, died
today following an operation yesterday
Tor bladder trouble.
Mrs. l.. ~. Alec
EDGAR. Neb.. Dec. 23.-(Speeial)-
Mrs. l.. r. Alec. died at her home in
Edgar yesterday evening OF Bright s
disease. She leaves a son Raymond. Her
husband having died thirty years ago,
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-24

PIERRE. = d.. Dec. 23-(speoial Tel
egramD "A heavy loss OF property and a
hard fight 70 save farm buildings. oe-
CURED northeast OF this city last night
when n general telephone call for help
aroused the country and took out several
automobile loads from this city. over
100 tons OF hay was burned al the Hodo-
val farm. and as much more for r. Bsgby
with Others mourning smaller losses BE-
fore The fire was brought under control