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WftflV y.p 'J THE OMAHA DAILY NEWS HOME EDITION THE WEATHER Omaha and Vicinity Part ly cloudy tonight and Thursday; froat tonight VOL. XVI xo. 6. OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1914. PRICE ONE TEMPERATURES Hector Acclaimed the Most Wonderful Dog in the What We Want to Find Is the Smartest 'OUR DOG DO? Heres a great chance for World! Dog in Nebraska ALLIES ITTICK CENTER TO SHE TREIR LEFT WING ii Does he understand you? Hpw many words? rtip has he learned to do of his own accord? What u-t Sit down today and write about it to The Omaha Daily News, We want to print the stories of Nebraskas smartest family dogs.

And when we have printed your stories we are going to find 'out which is the smartest family dog in Nebraska and print nil name and the name his owner. For the most clever single trick demonstrated best by any one family dog in Nebraska a silver dog collar will be given. This collar will be engraved with the words, Nebraskas Smartest Dog. )og Trick Editor, Omaha Daily Address your letter to Dog of whose abilities you are Hector, the dog marvel of the age, is going to help you try Maybe your dog is as smart as Hector. Maybe he can win the prise offered by The Omaha Daily News.

Of course, your dog may be smarter than Hector, but he probably would never show it unless you give him the chance. Witch this paper tomorrow for the first lesson of a series of ten clever, tricks you can teach any dog? Written by C. J. Tryon, the man who trained Hector. Follow these ten lessons carefully, studying the photographs posed by Hector for this series.

However, bear mind Hie lessons to be printed are not likely- to be prize winners. They are boys and girls who own pets News. merely printed to help you NOW READ ABOUT HECTOR, Contest doses November 8. THIS IS "HECTOR, A TINY LITTLE DOG, THAT ADDS, MULTIPLIES AND DIVIDES velop your dogs cleverness. CHRISTEN U.S.SUB-GRAFT Louise White and Bila DeWolfe Are Being Considered by Secretary' Daniels.

DESCENDANTS OF BUSHNELL David Bushnell Built the American Turtle Was Propelled by Paddle. SHIP IS NAMED BUSHNELL Mins Louise Huahnell White. 2106 I California street, daughter of Victor White, and Mias Hlla Bushnell De-Wolfe, Now 1 Normandie apartments, are being considered by Secretary of the Navy Daniels, wbo is considering a sponsor for the latest United States submarine war vessel, to be christened the Bushnell" In honor of David Bushnell, who built the flrst submarine. Both are direct descendants of the flrst submarine Inventor through Mrs. Kllxa Bushnell Moore, No.

1 Normandie apartments, whose father was a nopbew of Ilavld Bushnell. Mrs. Moore Is grandmother of Miss White and aunt of Miss DeWolfe. Recently the navy department announced a descendant of the late David Bushnell was being sought to christen the new submarine, which Is now nearly completed. Mrs.

Moore wrote to Becru'ary Daniels and to Senator Hitchcock saying the Omaha girls were eligible, as direct descents of Bushnell, to art as sponsor. Built American Turtle. Bushnell In 1776 built the Amer- lean Turtle," a submarine propelled by paddles. In this little craft American army officer crept up to tho keel of British I-ord Howe's sisty-gun war vessel, the Eagle. in New York harbor and tried to attach a gunpowder bomb.

A piece of steel on the bottom- of the worship prevented the screw on the bopib from catching and the effort failed. The government then refused to aid Bushnell and submarine war1 I a Dag. 43 45 45 At Noon Today Relative humldl-85 per cent; wind velocity, fourti mile per hour. A Yaar Ago Today. Highest temperature was 77; eat 57; rainfall, 0.

low- JUNE MIMS GETS OH III STIITE Broken Bow. Ravenna, Ansley and York All Turn Out Good Crowds for Speaker. OVERFLOW AT BROKEN BOW Broken Bow, Oet. 14.Mlss Jane Addams' progress across western Nebraska yesterday was a continuous ovation and culminated In one of tho largest public meetings ever held In Broken Bow. All along the line crowds turned out for a chance to see Miss Aduama, although the train made few 'long stops.

At Ansley 200 eltlxens gathered at the depot and ailed for Miss Addams. who was aroused from a nap and rushed to' the platform. The train stopped twenty minutes at Ravenna. The conductor waa a genuine suffragist and went throngs the entire train, announcing the meeting. Practically every passenger got off and Joined a lilg crowd of cltlsena.

The automobile t-1 from IJnroln to York was made through muddy roads and In a rain, and a 'Ur audience at York waited nearly, two hours for the speaker. In the meanwhile several York men who had not before declared for suffrage addressed the gathering land pledged their support, Broken Bow, with a imputation of only 2.IHMI, turned out fully a third of lta Inhabitants to hear Mlsa Addams. opera house was jammed full and overflow meeting had to be held In ithe city hall. Long Trip for Young Woman. I came forty miles to see you." said young "My husband offered to stay at home and take cars of our four rhlldn n.

Wasn't It nlrs of him?" Miss Addams told all of her crowds that the country was watching. ibraska and that It would he a Utter disappointment If the voters turned 'down suffrage. After tvery talk large numbers of men cams forward and promised to support suffrage. FAMILY OF SEVEN IN IN OPEN SHED Two Children Barefooted All Were Scantily ClotbadZ-TIcks on -Ground for Bada Charles Barret, bis wife and flva ranging from 2 to 15 years, were this morning found destitute In an open shed at Twenty-second and Paul streets by Humane Officer Neil-sen. Two of the children were barefooted.

They were all acantlly clad. Old ticks thrown on the ground were used as beds. Barret and hla family rame to Omaha from St. Joseph, a week ago. He is a teamster, but Is unable to earn enough to provide for bis family, CLUBWOMEN TO VOTE CITIZENS TICKET Mra.

Mary I. Crelgh. new leader of the current topiea department of the Woman! club, yesterday urged the women to vote for the cltlsena ticket We ahould see to It that the morals Jim Ford, democratic candidate -for county commissioner, told before an audience of nine persona at tho Southeastern Improvement club last night thab be le a member of the, If he will elt In hla 011100 and personally take rare of the complaints of aged people and direct them how to get their troubles remedied, be said rapine and Inhuman cruelty almost beyond belief. Around Nsldnnburg the Russian hordes violated scores of defenseless peasant women, aome of them 60 and 70 years of age. The countryside around this place near the Russian frontier, where the ctar's forces for a time re-formed to fight against tho overwhelming pressure of the Qerman lines was ravaged terribly.

Catholic later and young girls bore cruelties worse than torture of the battlefield, and were left dying as the hordes passed on. The Russians killed every male they encountered who was between 14 and THE WONDERFUL DOG Staff Special. New York. Oct. 12.

Scientific men of various nationalities are putting their gray beads together over Hector, 1 itie "dog marvel of the age, who knows arithmetic and understands In an amasing manner many words In the English The editor of the Scientific American compares him to the- wonderful Elherfleld horses of Germany! Hector is a silky little 2-year-old dug weighing seven and one-half pounds. Hector is a dog that obeys mental commands. He reads the mind of his master, C. J. Tryon of New York.

Had yon believed It possible to transmit thought from the human mind to the brain of a dumb animal? Hector disarms skeptics. Does the pet dog In your household display any power to think and reason? Does It appear to have a memory? Can It carry more than one idea or command at a time? Proves That Dogs Think. For the dog family, Hector." answers all ilbrae questions and proves that dogs really think and reason. Hla performances show that dogs are not entirely governed by Instinct. In addition to mind-reading, Hector" can add, subtract, multiply and divide.

Indicating hla answers to all problems by ringing a specially arranged electric bell. Scientists and educators say Hector's Intellectual development surpasses that ever before accomplished in a dog. He has given hla telepathic demonstrations before psychologists and students of animal nature. They have eearched In vain for tricks or secret signs. Their Investigations have left them convinced that Hector" acta as the result of Joint powerful concentration by both dog and man.

Here's what I saw Hector do: Mr. Tryon brought Hector from hie suite to the parlor of a New York hotel. He also brought In a small (Continued Pass Three.) WARSAW RATTLE Entire Russian Line South Dneister River in Galicia Is Under Attack. to 15 FORTS DEFEND WARSAW Washington, D. C.

Oct 14. A bah tie waa begun on a Hue extending from the country around Warsaw and along the Rivera Vistula and Ban to Prse-myal, says a dispatch received by the Russian embassy from Petrograd today. Fighting also continues south of Praemysl to tho River DneUter. In East Prussia the situation remains unchanged." Petrograd, Oct 14. Fierce fighting west of Warsaw waa officially reported today.

The German center, heavily reinforced, le trying to break through tho Russian lino. -The Russian army has the advantage of a strong base at Warsaw. The city la defended by a citadel and a ring of fifteen forts. Berlin, Oct. 14.

Rumor current here are that Lemberg, capital of Galicia, has been retaken by the Austrians. It baa ut been confirmed. Vienna, Oct. 14. According to official announcement, Austrian troops bava reached the 8an river, Prxemyal has been relieved, Jaroslav and Le-sapk have -been retaken and the Austrian armiea have been generally successful.

It la officially- reported that 40,000 Russians were killed 6r wounded dur Ing the fighting near Praemysl. response to "Hector" Upped the telegraph key ten ACCEPTS A PROPOSAL BY LONG-DISTANCE PHONE Hope to German Fprce That Is Threatening to Cut Off Army in North. BRITISH ABANDON OSTEND Hurrying Southward German Advance in West Belgium Said to Be Stopped. GERMANS ALMOST TO COAST BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS. Correspondent of Tho Dally News.

Paris, Oct 14. Resumption of the allies' attack In force on the German center. In order to force the Germane to tush reinforcements there from the northwest and thus weaken the menacing attack upon tho French left, under General von Boehm, le unofficially reported here. There Is a distinct menace In Von Boehm's campaign, It Is admitted here. Germany could not have selected a better field In Europe on which to at-tempt to bottle up the allied forces.

The Belgian army narrowly escaped being cut off In ite reterat from Antwerp. German forces, released from tho assault of Antwerp, are advancing west and south toward the coast. The northwestern German column detached from General von Boehm's army is marching likewise to the channel, swinging In an arc In norths westerly direction. Allies Take Ypree, Cheeking Germane. Success of the French wing opposed to the German encircling movement In Belgium was Indicated In this afternoon's 3 o'clock official statement which follows: In the operations around Ghent there have been several engagements, particularly mi October 11 and IS at night, when' British end French troops occupied Ypres.

As fur as the Oise, on our. left, the situation Is without change. In the center we are progressing in the region i Berry -au-Bac. There la nothing to report on tho right wing. Allies Retreat South From Ostentf.

Tho aountry Along the channel is -flat and unsulted to defonse against assault To tho north Ilea Holland, A neutral country. To the weat la the channel. The logical retreat for the allied British, French and Belgians la to slip southward along tho coast until they reach a battlefield better suited than the flat Belgian-French coast The French have been reported aa successfully opposing part of thla movement by Canard von Boehn at Haxebrouck. Unconfirmed reports today Indicate that the battlegrounr la shifted southward from Os tend, indicating that tho allies' concentrated forces there are pressing forward to battle in a southerly direction, abandoning Oo-tend. Gormans Only 20 Milos From Coast.

Dunkirk, Oct 14. German bicycle and cavalry skirmishers have been encountered leu than twenty mile from English channel seaports. Hurried massing of tho allies indicates the approach of a tltanlo conflict. The lines have alrealy tentatively felt out each other. Casualties will be terrible In this pending battle.

The country la flat and without cover. The censorship prohibits transmission of even the approximate Iocs-' tlon of the battle ground chosen by the allies at which they will attempt to force back the Invaders. Entrenchments have been made ready for- this conflict, and strong cavalry reinforcements have been received by the allies. GERMAN AVIATORS DROP BOMBS UPON BOULOGNE Paris, Oct. 14.

German aviators are dropping bombs upon English channel cities. Nancy and Boulogne report aerial raids without effect. 54 GERMAN SHIPS SUNK IN HARBOR AT ANTWERP New York, Oct. 14. A delayed wireless dispatch from Berlin attacks British participants in Antwerp's defense for destroying fifty-four German mer-chanl 'vessels In ttie'clfv'r hnrlw.

Scores of villages in my path were laid waste, the homes partially or wholly destroyed. Many of those that remained were unprintably befouled from garret to cellar. Pictures in many home had been cut from their frames, the furniture smashed, and belongings scattered about. -Family after family mourned for some missing male relative. They said the Russians carried men off with them In their retreat I waa told that the Russian campaign apiwared to ho one of extermination of all fighting men.

The material devastation alone tho homes destroyed and property ruined has been estimated at between $250,000,000 and 6500,000,000, Hectors simplest tricks ami an order FIRST FROST OF YEIR PREDICTED TONIEHT Temperature of 20 Above Registered at Sidney Warmer Weather Thuraday. The first frost of the season Is predicted for Omaha tonight, although rising temperatures are -promised for. Thursday. The lowest temperature here during the past twenty-four hours waa 40, compared with 41 for the" preceding twenty-four hours. Sidney, with a temperature of 20 above at 8 a.

broke all Nebraska cold records so far thla fall. Bridgeport and Alliance reported temperatures of 2-i above each, according to the Burlington. Other cool spots thla morning were Madrid. .32: Belmont, 28: Crawford, 32; Seward, 33, Bcattered ralna, but no snow fell over the state Tuesday night. DEWEY PROTESTS $6,000 PAYMENT TO LEARNED An appeal from the county1 boards allowance of $6,080.65 to Myron Learned, special attorney, was filed In district court this morning.

Frank Dewey, county clerk, prepared and filed the transcript, upon the request of attorneys who claim that the county board had no. right to pay such a large fee for little work. Foetal dills. Postmaster John C. Wharton will cry for sale more than 150 packagea which are unclaimed In the nixie" department of the poetofflce Thuraday afternoon at 3 o'clock.

These packagea Include Jewelry, articles of clothing, household effects. The sale will he held In the north corridor on tho flrst floor. MASSACRE and Burning of Homes by the body with hla lance and gouged the eyes out. At Ortelsburg I waa told that Cossacks locked four defenseless persons, including a deaf and dumb man and a child of 13, In a house and then net fire to the building. 1 saw the blackened ruins.

are 1 ik Elsie Vandergrift Suffragist, to Marry Ralph Benedict, Newspaper Man of Denver. IS A NEWSPAPER WOMAN Suffrage romance. The announcement la made todmy that Miss Elsie Vandergrift. a newspaper woman of. Denver, who is here In the Interest of suffrage, and Ralph Benedict a newapajier man of Denver, will he married there the day after the election.

Miss Vandergrift accepted the persistent suitor over the long-distance telephone one evening last week. Judge Ben Lindsey, an Intimate of the two- young people, will perform the ceremony. I shall celebrate my wedding day has sponsored another vV. nd the Nebraska victory on Noffera her 4," 31 las Vandergrift said. Mlsa Vandergrift waa formerly a political writer on the Denver Express, on which Mr.

Bonedlrt Is tlie editorial writer. Mr. Benedict la Harvard graduate and Mias graduate of the University of Colorado. Both are ardent suffragists and bond of common Interests drew them together from their first introduction four yesrs ago. Miss Vsndergrlft will not disclose the nature of thle first moetlng.

As soon as she reached Nebraska letters rame thick and fast to Miss Vandergrift, urging her to cross tbs border and become Mrs. Benedict. One day last week while she waa campaigning In harpy rojmty, a long riiefanr telephone rail sought her -Ufa re was delayed 100 yean. Bushnell the following year devised gunpowder tl bombs that would explode by contact Thera were floated down the Delaware hr of I) Bnancea of the schools, river where they destroyed a British MrB- Crelgh succeeded Mra. C.

Via-i who resigned Tuesday after four Mra. Moore has pieces of the service. JIM fORD, CANDIDATE. SZIS speech to nine persons of our school children are safeguarded and aa taxpayers We ehould see that efficient business men are placed In SUFFRAGE TALK TONIGHT AT FIFTEENTH AND DOUGLAS Unless it rains a suffrage street meeting will he held this evening at Fifteenth and Douglas Mira Elsie Vandergrift, Mira Jane Thompson and Mra. M.

B. Munson will speak. A street meeting la also scheduled for the Fifth ward. MALE POPULATION Czars Troops in East Prussia. NUNS AND GIRLS AND Hears Survivors Stories of Wholesale Slaughter of Noncomliatants COSSACKS ATTACK Correspondent Von Wiegand mysf all day.

When she returned at 6 o'clock, dead tired, the call waa atlll waiting. Without more ado ihc accepted the proposal that came rushing over the wires. Mias Vandergrift wlU leave here the night of election after the polls close for Denver. outstretched to ua In unavailing appeal. They bound my wife and myself together and forced us to see our own liaby fall before their bullets, as he cried to ua to aid him.

Bride Forced to Bee Family Alain. Here at Abacbwangen 1 went to the 'sick bed of a young widow who raved In delirium of the horror she had witnessed. The Cosaacka forced her to Island at a window to witness Mho -hooting of her husband of a month, her 73-year-old father and her 62-yrar-old father-in-law. 45. Older men, who feebly protested, were ruthlessly slaughtered.

to Their Child and 60 Others Murdered. Russian Investment of Konlgaburg waa accompanied by the aarne riot of lusL At Abarhwangen, tan miles from Konlgsnurg, fifty-seven people were sboL Including eight hoys between 14 and 15. Tba father of 14-yearoId boy, hla eyes bloodshot with, daya of weeping, aid The Russians shot them one by one, My wire and myself got on our knee and prayed to God that our boy might be- spared. Wa aaw hla hands several priests and' old men. In the desolated region at Darkeh-jnen I counted eighty-one farms laid wiiate by Russian vandals.

I verified the shooting of thirty-five civilians rlthout provocation. Llttla Glrla and Mother Attacked. At Gerdauan. an important railway Junction, at leaau 100 were shot and more than a score are missing. I waa told by reputable men that not even mere glrla of 14 and 15 were spared from.

attack. Mothers and daughters met the same fate. At 'Chrlstiankehmen thirteen men were shot and their bodies so- fearfully mutilated that their wives could not Identify the remains. BY KARL H. VON WIEGAND.

Correspondent of The Daily News. Konlgsburg, Oct. 13. (By Telegraph to Berlin and Via Nauen by Wlrelara I to Bayvlllo, L. Tho exar's Cossack hordes left a trail of desolation and woo across fertile East Prussia aa they swept backward Into their own land, 1 have made a 600-mlle automobile trip through thla area of desolation ('blasted lives, tortnn-d men, women fend children, end of devastated homra almost unbelievable.

The battlefield of Tanuonberg and Naldenburg were bad enough, hut the is Countryside told stories of murder, Thirteen Killed for Tolling Boll. An 82-year-old Inmate of the poor-' houan at Santoppen raid: "Thirteen of our villagers were lined up beside the road and shut all because the church hell tolled for the death of a villager honorably killed In action the day before. In that were our village school teacher, Jr Pastor Rockel, at Grlekdenen, told me how his brother waa gored to death a Cossack, who prodded tba dead I 7 t..