THK HKF.: OMAHA. FimAY; MAY 28, iyi. RAIH C0HTH1DES OYER GRAIN BELT Kailrotdi Are Having- Coniidergble Difficulty Bcauie of Urge Knmbcr of Washouts. LOWLANDS AJLE OVERFLOWED . Rsin continues to fall over all Ne braska, Kansas, , Iowa and South Pakota. awl .without any Indication of cassation; though. there la a rtft In the clouds In eastern Wyoming and Colorado, where It Is asserted tha sun tii shining yesterday. Th continued and heavy I spinning ta have an effect upon th (Deration of trains. On account of soft tracks and nuraeroua small wash outs, many trains are badly off schedule, while others are feeling their way over miles of bad roadbeds and weakened bridges orer stream and low places. reports are turning In to railroad head, quarters that all over this and adjoining latre that atreame are out of their bed and ravlnea filled with water. The gr n-nd I thoroughly snaked and, farmers ar unable to get Into the fields to take ere of their corn. v Alone the fcurllnsten Wedneaday and "rt'elneenay night rain waa continuous ttwi the MleNimlppI rlvr. Serosa Iowa nhit Nebiaettu and well out Into Lolo--rada and up on the Hillings line nearly 1m OherMen. Wye. The, precipitation rahged'frtim one to three Inehea. On the west end of the McCook division -trains weiedtiayed by hleh water, and a hnrt distance east of Benkleman. In the nTiblicaii ValU'T, the track fr a 'dls linrf of SOA fett.wae auhmereed under Tne t tmo feet of water. . ,. ; Trala Servlee A lied. On the l!jf( braneh of the North .wfsteni. trim service was annulled. Nt-rth of Verdlgre three mUe of track had been washed out and nearly half of It carried off the dump. The main lino I I etlll In tart, but the entire country up the Elkhorn ralley la reported flooded wetween rremont and' Wanton. In aome plates the water has apread out for miles n either e'Je of the road, covertnn farms and mining the fields on the rk-lt botlon lands. ' The TIsrtlngton, Crofton and Plalnvlew hrencbes of the Northwestern are still nut of commission. The storm damage was partially repaired yeaterdar, bit the rain of last night washed out all tne new work, besides taking out several stretehee .of eld grade. ' rtowej at tfertlagtaa. .' ITAITTTXOTON. Neb.. May1 27. fSperlal Telegram.) -This locality was visited Tuesday nlrht by a rain which was of floodlike propor 1 Hn "and did aa 'Immense amount "of da'mege throughout the 'county. Base tnents were flooded, houses swept away, sewes of hoga and chickens drowned and si number of pnojA barely escaped with Thatr lives. ' tt is estimated that many o the bekt rldge In Cedar county have been de stroyed, ad tnr.es of railroad track both "nerth and south1 of town have teen .washed out.' so that there will be no 'train' arrng for ' many ' hours. Three and forty -one hundredths Jiichee at water iTull In the space of 'two or three hours," and the rain was acoom -.rented by a violent wind. ' Cleadawrat at ' Waau. WAT.SA, Net.. May fl. (ApeeUU-Tfte worst storm of raoent years swept this Juertlon Tuesday nlrht A heavy rain that amounted almost to a cloudburst (fell, and was snipanied by a great amount of electrtogt disturbance. . Im ; mediately after tha rale the wind, wblch had been blowing a, gale, worked Into a - hurricane, and,, small eutbullJlnre, trees and tenet were .blown down. It was the heaviest storm for years and the damage to growing crope le hard to es timate, JUany com fields will have to he replanted. Quite a lot of stock was . killed by lightning. In town all base ' tnents were flooded and store fronts 'filled with water, resulting In great dam 'ne to tlie stock a. V Daataae la Mlaeearl Ksteaelve. . KA.NSAg CITY.- Me.. May XT-Many of the flooded atreamS In thla vicinity are lecedtng today, but reports from a num- t-er of points In Kansas and. Missouri Continued to tell ef high wster and heavy .... -.: I i springrieia. -mo., workmen ' were ' over tooay clearing tne streets of up j rooted treee and other debris which 'ac j mmulattd laat night when a heavy storm mrucB ine csiy. - .A s-)-ear-old child of Charlca Jones. firmer living near Km. Mo., waa allied A' hen the storm demolished his home. irntKri. n.n.. ... i ...... end Osark, Mo. l ' Reports of dtstreas wete received. here f today from Muacotah. a email tovn In f Atchison eounty, Kansaa, which is said lo be ent4rely surrounded by flood waters ' ff the Delaware sad UtOe Oraeet.oppef rivers. , . . . ... i I vtaaaaarat la bags Caaatr. - tEATRKB. Neb.. May J7.-4 Special A cloudburst visited this aecft6n-o the tit Wednesday and at Rock ford and Wymore nearly flv inches ef water felt l:i a leer hours. The Bock Island and Burlington tracks at Hoc k ford were sub i.urged and the roadbed damaged to such sn extent that trains wert unable to get through for several hours after the sttrnv A piece of the Burlington track et of Rockferd was washed out At t store eenatderabie hail fell, breaking out windows ajad deatroylng the electrte light globes en the iujsni. During the ttoj-m the eieeple on the Methodist cl.urch st Wue gprtngs was struck by lightning and damaged to the extent or UOO. Crope era damaged oonsiderably la th low Imds by the water. PEACE OFFICERS ARE' FORMING FEDERATION CINCINNATI. May Jf.-DeegaUa te the eoaventtons of the International As sociations of Chief of Police.. Sheriffs sod Railway Special Aaonta, which are meeting here, were Interested today In the eutoome ef a meeting of committees from the three organisations whe were t" discuss tha forroaUogj ef the yVdere t'on of America a peace officers. as explained In the conventions, the federation was to form a more perfect organisation for the prevention and de tection ef ertnM. One ef the plana, eut- llwed was the location of a Beetinion d'-partment at some central point. la charge of a eupertnteadent whe would divot, his entire, time to the oc! lection aod ' Unification of picttiree and tecords tr n rninala throughout tbe worid. ANTI OERMAN RIOTS IN LONDON Immediately after the Lusitania disaster there was a huge mas meeting at Tower Hill to protest against alien enemies being allowed at large in the British isles. After the meeting mobs all over England demolished German property and attacked German nationals, and for a time the police were powerless. N l.ssjr.wvtKBis V , . 1 ,4 . NOON . I ; ! j TjTrwwtNt 1,L... f vjl( 1 -:f ' v-w ; i't.. v;- -j 1 V- ' ! -. -R-Vt- ! ! SILYER LINING OF GREAT WAR CLODD Pan-American Solidarity is One Ben- ' efit that it Crowing- Out of the European Conflict J ' i . . J SPI&IT OF AMERICAS FOR PEACE WASHINGTON, My 27.Th test of the good that the present Pan- American financial conference has don will not come for a year,: ac cording to John Barrett, director general of th Pan-American union of the apeakers, today -at a general session of the conference. ' "If," said Mr. Barrett,'"ther Is a silver lining to the war cloud, it, It the development of the Pan-American oliaarity, No great metoncai even', since the declaration of the Monroe doctrine la 1828 baa done more, to awaken the ' governments and tha peoples of North and South America to .a true appreciation of their com mon interesta." .. . i , Marakala Pereee ef Peaee. Joseph B. Davlee. chairman of the federal trade commlsflon, in a speech for the conference said: "The genius of Europe Is addressed to war; . the spirit . of the Americana is turned toward peace. This council of the Amedicas Is held to marshal the great forces of peace into conditions that make for mutual helpfulness. 'V' "It Is suggestive of great promise that the. expressions from the nations here represented ell contain, the recognition of the tact that the permanency of our future relationships and the profitable ness of them to. us all must depend upon the degree not alone of mutual profit. but of mutual confidence which we have In the Integrity of the motive of the ethers- Trade like confidence between men must be founded upon good faith between the partlea. . 'The statement of the grealest propon ent of peaoe In tha world, the preetdent, made at Mobile, Ala., a year ago. be spoke, tee spirit of America in denying the desire of the United Ptates to attain by conquest a. fraction of land In this continent other than what It now pos sessed, . , , '"The PMendtd service, the generous spirit and .uaaiilrulty of aotlon of Argen tina, Braall and Chile In the Mexican mcdisUnn conference end the enactment of peace treaties, give pledge of the sin cerity and good faith la the common pur poees and ends of the repuhllca of this homlephere In their dealings with each Ureat Develeanteate Isaealaent. "Great Industrial developments are tin mlncnt la the nation a of .this hemisphere. They will and should be foetered. But It is fortunate that In the republics re pre aented In this conference there Is Identity of attitude as to ths relations of govern ment tJ Industry and to Ita cltlsens- Every republic on' this ' continent holds private monopoly to be Indefenaible and Intolerable and antagonistic to the splnt of republican conceptions of government. "In the financial developments arising from International relations there le promise of permanent relatione through the establishment of dollar 'exchange. Dollar exchaaee differs from dollar dip lomacy. Commercial advantage for the benefit of all now aervlce to the advan tage of the few is the end nH uunnu of govertuneut panfi ipatloa in dollar ex change. Three Are Drowned In Bad River Flood PIERRE, 0. D., May 7.- Special Tele gram-) H. W. Klrkpatrick and Mrs. Harry Bmitn and an adopted daughter were drearnod near Ortadatone In the flood Thursday night from the cloud buret en the north fork of the Bad liver. Departajieat Ureters. WASHINGTON. May t7.-(rpcla! Telo grmm Ovll service examination will be hold on June M for rural letter carriers at Maywood and KpauMing. Nab. Poetofrtoe at Kaude, b kasha oounty Iowa, has been tiisronlinuvd. malt tu lawier. Jacob O. Thonipeun of Cox, g. D., lias ten appointed assistant foreet rangrr st Camp Crook. eJ. !.. and W. O. Kultorlon of Park county. V otning, t Cody. Wyo. I Pope Prays for Those Who Have Fate of Nations in Their Hands HOME (Via raria), May IT. "The hour which we are traversing is painful, but our piayers will go eut more frequently and more fervently than ever to those who have In their hands the fate ef na tions," Is a declaration made by Pope Benedict In a letter to Cardinal Vannu telll. published in. the Onaervatore Ro mano, the Vatican organ. The pontiff recalls his first encyclical, In which he urged the ' belligerent nations to make peace, but points out that his voice was unheeded and the war continued until "the terrible conflagration has extended to our beloved Italy." 'The pope says tie wanted to hold a con sistory early In June to discuss with the sacred college matters of Importance concerning the government of the church, but, unfortunately; the distressing events made this Impossible. ' J , v , "While our heart bleeds at the sight of so much misery,", the pope writes, "we FRENCH AIRCRAFT- i RAID RHINE TOWN Squadron of Eighteen Aeroplanes Drops Many Bombs on Big Chem . ical Plant at Ludwisshaven. ZEPPELINS ATTACK SOUTHEND PARIS, May 27. A French aerial squadron,' composed of eighteen aeroplanes, each carrying, fifty kilos (119 pounds) of projectiles, this morning bombarded a chemical fac tory at Ludwlgshafen on the Rhine, opposite Mannheim. . ' Fire broke out In several of tbo factory bulldlogg. as a result of this bombardment.. . . . . This factory lg one of the most Important manufacturers of explos ives In all Germany. The French aviators were in the air for six hours and covered more than 400 kilo meters (140 miles). Thla expedition against an Important German military establishment was the French reply to the attempts of German aviators en the city of Paris. The Information was contained In the French official statement given out by the war office this afternoon. Keppella Raid In Raalaad. BOUTHKND, England, May .-An- other Zeppelin airship raid was made upon thla town. li)st night and one person was killed and several Injured by bombs hlch were dropped. Tne victim was Mrs, May. Fsbin, who was here'' on a visit. The entire town waa illuminated by the bursting of shells dropped by ths aircraft. . Some reports say that two and ' others that three Zeppelins took part In thia raid. It Is, however, Impossible to give this number accurately, because of the heavy, clouds. .The. noise of the pro peljere of the airships waa first heard shortly before 11 o'clock. . Then came at once the shock of the explosion as the bombs ratped down from above. rVmte of the missiles were Incendiary and threw eut bright flares of .light. Crowds .assembled In the streets of Route Epd to view tbe raiders. The only fatality, the .killing , of Mrs. Fabln, oc curred wlilie the woman was leaving a st.-eet car. . It Is recalled that on the previous raid the only ' victim ' was woman, n , Miitlsh aeroplanee went up In pursuit of the raiders, but ware not successful In overtaking them torn tint later two Zeppelins were seen ever Burnham-On-Crouch, aevrn mites to- the northeast of fteuthend. but no more ' bombs' were dropped. ' '' Admiralty Says Twe Killed. IjONDox, May n.-m a. ra-Tha secretary of the admiralty has Issued a statement on the Southend raid, which, contrary to the dispatches, says tare wom-ui were killed.. It reads: "Lets last nUht a Zcppelia visited the east coiat aud.boniba were dropped on Southend, The laai.ajtlce reported today are two wemea killed and one clil'd badly injured. Very little mateii.il llam as waa clone. Aeroplane and seaplanes have not neglected to continue our work for relief and the dlmunltion of the de plorable consequences of war." The holy father then recalls hia efforts for the exchange of wounded prisoners unable to fight again. The needs of tne soul, he writea. especially attracted his fatherly attention and exceptional fac.ll ltlea were consequently afforded all chap lains called under the colors or attached to the Italian army In any capacity. The pope then exoru all Catholic to practice with him for three days a strict ecclesiastical fast and he accords a plenary Indulgence applicable also to soula in purgatory .- Continuing,, the pope writes : "I wish that the echo of voice might reach to alt our children affected by the great scourge of war and persuade all of them of our participation In heir troubles and sorrows. Th-K ta tt-ot the grief of the child that V not reflected in the soul ef the father." ' ' ' pursued the enemy, but the Zeppelin es caped In an easternly direction. twata-aBBaa Southend, which le a municipal bor ough and popular eeaslde resort at the mouth of the Themes, forty miles east oi London, has been the target of Bep. peUn raiders several- tlmee In the last six montha. On no nravioua mmbii however, have the results been serious. CROPS IN THE BLACK HILLS IN THE FINEST CONDITION PEADWOOD, g. D JUy i7.-(8Declal. Over two Inches of rain has fallen in tnis section thia week and the total fall during thla spring has fsr exceeded that of any spring for years. From all reports the late froet did little damage in the northwestern part of the state, some vegetation In the hlsheat point being killed, but alfalfa and ether crops suffered bus slightly. The amount or rata and snow this fall has virtually assured at least two good crops of alfalfa and native hay and grease, and with a fair amount of molatura lata In June and through July, this part of tha stats will show better croDa than to many years. I!017 TO HEAL SKin-DISEASES A Baltimore doctor suggests this stra p's, but reliable and luespenatve, borne treatment for people suffering with ecsetma, ringworm, rashes and similar Itching, bunting skin troubles. At any reliable druggist's get a Jar of iwalnol ointment and a cake of reslnol soap. These will not . cost a bit mora than, seventy-five cents.. With the-rea- lno soap and warm water bathe the affected parts thoroughly, until they are free from crusts and the skin la soft ened. Dry very gently, apread on a thin layer ef the reslnol ointment, and cover with a light bandage-lf . neceasary to protect the .clothing. Thla should be done twice a day. Usually the distress ing Itching and burning stop with the first treatment. ' and 'the sktn soon be comes clear and healthy asala. Adver. UsemenL ... Washing Won't Rid Head Of Dandruff The only sure way to get rid cf dan druff la to dissolve It, then you destroy It entirely. To do this, get about four ounces of ordinary Hij'ilJ arvon; apply it at night when retiring; use enough te moisten the scalp and rub it in gently with the finger tips. Do this tonight, and. by morning, moat If not all. of your dandruff will be gone, end, three or four mors applicative wiU completely dlaaolve and entirely destroy every single sign and trace of It, no mat ter how much dandruff you may have. Tou win find. too. that all Itching and Jigging af tha scalp will atop at once, and your hair will be fluff y. lustrous, glossy silky and soft, and look a ad fsei a hundred times better. ' Yeu ran get ' liquid arvon at any drug tore. It le lorjprn.lv and never falls do the work. Advertisement. German Mines that j Drift Away from Moorings Harmless i " '.VASMIXOTON. Mar r.-Count 1ern- j atorff. the Oermen ambaeaador, preonted ; a memorandum to the Stale dpnrt.nent i lodajr eajlng Clernian mine were of n j type uhlt h become harmlcsa If they I dirt froni tlielr anf-horace. ' Count Hernetorff'a memorandum pie- , rented to Counsellor laneing, eald In ref t errro-e to the icporta puhllehed In con- : ner-tlon with tlie Nehrsrkan Incident thnt ; only the ttrltiah government lied elvn i the t'nltfd Htntee eifh asatirancea. that he had bwn ndvliied afficlallv of the n- luie of f Jer man mlnej. hut had not been Instructed to retxu-t tiila lo tho Waehln ton government. 'With reference to th" report that I ' read In the paper thla morning." the , memorandum said. 'I have to aay that, according to official Information from the German admiralty. Oerinan mln.-a laid In the aea become Innocuous when detached." I Consul General Wgahington at I Iver- j pool tttble.1 late today that the Nul-ras-kan would enter the Meraey at 6 o'clock I thia evening and probably dock before I midnight. K. H.' Duff, counael for the company owning the Nebraskan. who rlalted th Mate department today, said the cir cumstance of the affair, particularly the damage to the how of the Nebraskan, Indicated to hint that the rceeel struck a mine. The atenmahlp officials, he said, held the eame view. Later the Rate department announced that the consul general's nu image aaid he would board the Nebraskan by tug rnd cable details of its damage. Hardware Men Go to Pittsburgh Next HAN FRAN'CISCO. Cal., May 2T. Pitts burgh was rho'en today as the 11 con vention city of the American Iron, Steel and Heavy Hardware association and officers were elected at the final session of the rlxth rnnual convention. A trip almut San Franclsro bay and the annual banquet tonight were the remaining fea tures on the program. The officers elected were: President, PesHe A. Gregg, Kt. Paul; vice president, Henrry Bodevln. Brooklyn; secretary treasurer. John Q. Purdlo. New York; members of the executive committee, Richard K. Knglchart, Iavenport, la.; Herbert Field, Providence, R, I.; Kugene J. McCarthy, Buffalo, N. T., and George 9. Bcovel, tan Franclecc. Keeps Lit in a Stiff Wind The flame flicker," of course, but it does not go out. . . . . . . :.. r .. The stick is absolutely dry that is one reason for the superiority of Safe Home Matches. . Safe Home Matches are absolutely non-poisonous. For that reason alone they should be in every home in America. .... Sc. All grocers. Ask for them by nam. 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