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WILSON RETURNS AND BEQIN8
WORK ON CASE PROM
ISES ACTION.
TWO POINTS TO GLEAR UP
Exact Causa of British Ship's Lobs
and Nationality of Submarine Must
Do Established Before Next Movs
Can Be Made.
Western Newpp Union New Setilco.
Washington, D. C There was no
lessoning of the tension In tho now
submarine crisis with President Wil
son's return to the Whlto House to
take personal chargo of the situation,
, kvbut there were marked indications of
i i the president's intention to procoed
carefully and deliberately beforo com
mitting the United States to the next
step in its already strained relations
with the Teutonic powers.
At tho state department tho hope
was expressed that there would be
opportunity to settle tho crisis amica
bly, and it was stated that tho Amer
lean government believed that Aus
tria's assurances in the Ancona note
wero given In good faith.
Two points, it was emphasized, must
be cleared up before the next move
is made. It must bo established
whether the British liner Persia ac
tually was torpedoed, and, if so, what
was the nationality of the submarine.
President Wilson's first act on his
return was to lss,10 a statement
through Secretary Tumulty promising
the country action Just as soon as the
full facts in tho Persia disaster can
Lo learned.
"The president and the secretary
of state are taking every moans pos
. eible to obtain the full facts in this
Eravo matter, and will act Just as
soon as the information is obtained,"
said the official statement issued at
tho Whlto Houso offices.
EMPEROR HAS CANCER, REPORT.
Paris Paper Insists that Kaiser Is No
Longer Able to Speak.
Paris. -The Matin affirms, notwith
standing denials, that the Gorman em
peror is suffering from cancer of the
v"throat and is no longer ablo to spoak.
feJn' 'February, 1911," according to
WSeMatln, "doctors wero considering
"whether it was necessary to remove
IbV entire larynx in order to stay tho
prpgress of the disease. They raised
the question as to whether the em
peror would be able to speak it such
an operation were performed. The
leading specialists of every capital In
Europe were consulted. It was learn
ed that an eminent surgeon in Paris
fead,fwith the artificial larynx and a
breathing tube opening into the tra
cheal restored the power of speech to
cancerous patients who had undergone
totai ablation of tho affected organs.
"Meanwhile, as a result of a minor
Operation with a bistoury ,and a few
"weeks' absolute rest, tho emperor's
condition improved, as is often tho
case? in this disease, tho progress of
which is implacable, but slow. It is
another operation of this kind which
hasJust been performed, but it is
onlyg palliative The German em
permust either make up his mind
n to complete removal of tho larynx or
be stifled by tho growth.
' "This explains why tho emperor
-went$neither to Warsaw, Consttnti
"nopleinor Brussels."
' Struggles on Eastern Front.
'London Everywhere in tho Strips
andVolhynian districts of Russia and
in east Galicla the Russians aro on
theffonsive, the official communlca-
lonspirom Doth petrograd. and Vienna
eveal. Czernowitz, capital of Buko-
wlna, is now the position around
whiehthe most important fighting is
in progress. A Router's dlBpatch from
Petrograd gives a report of the evac
uation of Czernowitz and tho capture
by the Russians of a large number of
prisoners, including Germans. On
aoneof the other fronts has any
ekaago of importanco taken place.
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Knjfe Used on Gen. Huerta Again.
Elfpaso, Tex. Gen. Victoriuno Hu
ertais declared out of immediate dan
Kr,by his physicians, following a tap
ls operation to relievo him of fluid
fallie Intestinal tract duo to Jaundice.
TJsjjs his third operation.
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Mty. Henry Bascom Smith Dead.
Now York. MaJ. Henry Bascom
Smith, who helped to organize the
federal secret service department in
thofcivil war, died January 3 at his
borne here.
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'Assumes Duties at White House.
jNew York. Gen. Henry Laurence
Burnett, aged 77, one of the prosocu
iorsof tho assassins of Presldont Lin
coln, died here January 4.
' Question for U. S. Court.
Washington, D. C. The suprome
court has been asked to pass on the
' question whether the failuro in south
r. v ernjstates to select negroes for Jury
V miuty Ib a denial to negroes accused
m rf .crime of the equal protection of
t tfcflaw.
"" Quake Felt In Oregon.
Newport, Ore -Two sharp earth
Ghocks wero felt he:i at 11 o'clock a.
nri January 4 Dishes rattled on their
shelves and peoplp iuahed from tholr
bDnes No damage was reported
TWO SLAIN IN HOLDUP
HENRY MUES8EL, WEALTHY
BREWER OF 80UTH BEND, IND.,
AND EMPLOYEE SLAIN.
SON PERHAPS FATALLY SHOT
Bandits Invade Office of Brewing Com
pany and After Vain Attempt to
Loot Safe Escape Eighteen-Year-Old
Boy Witnessed Battle.
South Bend, Ind., Jan. 3. Henry
Muessol, general managor of tho
Muessol Brewing company, and his
chauffeur, Frank Chrobot, wero in
stantly killed by two masked robbers
who attempted to loot tho safo in tho
brewery office hero. William Muossol,
aged tlftoen, was shot in the abdomun
by tho robbers and it is feared mortal
ly wounded. Tho two robbers flod with
out taking timo to search for money,
In quest of which they committed two
and perhaps three murders.
Owing to tho prominence of Henry
Mucssel, ioputed to bo a millionaire,
tho eutiro town was aroused. Posses
scoured tho districts and tho surround
ing country throughout tho night, but
no trace of the murderers was
found.
Prom Robert Muessol, tho elghtoon-year-old
son of Walter Muessel. presi
dent of the company, the. police gained
their most accurato description of tho
robbers. Robeit Muessol was In the
office when the bandits entered. Al
though they shot tho other three per
sons, for somo unaccountablo reason
they satisfied themselves with binding
and gagging tho youth.
Henry Muessol was one of South
Bond's wealthiest and most proml
nont citizens and was well known
throughout northern Indiana. Ho
owned a largo tract of land in tho vi
cinity of his brewery nnd a number of
years ago presented to tho city a valu
able strip of this property for school
purposes. Hero n school building,
said to bo tho finest and best equipped
In South Bend, was erected and glvon
his name. Ho was a leader In all tho
activities of tho German societies in
South Bend, a man of philanthropic
motives nnd activo In local and stato
politics. Ho bitterly opposed every
effort to make South Bend dry and Is
said to have made numerous cnomlos
among tho anti-saloon workers.
SHEVLIN DIES OF PNEUMONIA
Millionaire Football Star Victim
Malady Caused by Coaching
Yalo Team.
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Minneapolis, Doc. 31. Thomas
Shovlln, millionaire lumberman and
famous Yalo football star, died horo
on Wednesday of pneumonia after an
illness of only six days. Mr. Shovlln
caught cold when coaching Yalo foot
ball squad last fall, and was unable to
shake it off. Shovlin played football
at Yalo four years and was captain of
the team tin 1905, when Yalo had tho
greatest team In Its history. Always
ready to return when "Old Ell's"
oloven called for fast coaching, he
whipped several seemingly impossible
teams Into winning shape. Shevlln's
lumber Interests netted him a huge in
come. Ho carried $1,(500,000 life Insur
ance, recently having increased it from
$500,000.
Mr. Shovlln was Interested In many
lurabor concerns. Ho is survlvod by a
widow and two childron.
WILLARD-FULTON GO IS OFF
Fight Will Not Be Held In New Or
leans on March A Caused by Too
Much Wrangling.
Now Orleans, Doc. 31. The twenty
round fight for tho heavyweight cham
pionship, scheduled for March 4 In this
city botwoon Jess Wtllard and Prod
Fulton of Minnesota, was definitely de
clared off horo ou Wednesday by Tom
Jones, Wlllard's manager, and Tommy
Burns, local promoter, who was a part
ner of Eoinlnlck J. Tortorlch In pro
moting the fight Tho calling off of
tho Wlllard-Fulton battlo Is tho result
of much wrangling that has been going
on slnco Burns and Domlntck Torto
rlch, promoters, had tholr first clash
soon after tho match was closod.
TO ASK BRITAIN TO EXPLAIN
Washington Preparing Protest Against
Interference With American Mall
To and From Holland.
Washington, Dec, 31. On tho basis
of roports rocolved from Consul Gen
eral Skinner at London, tho stato de
partment is preparing a protest
against British intorforenco with
American mall to and from Holland.
Tho protest will bo transmitted to
tho British forelgu offico as culcltly as
It can bo draftud Officials said on
Wednesday that tho protest will be
abruptly worded, and Great Britain
will bo asked to explain her acta im
mediately. Two Girls Coasters Are Killed.
Now York, Jan. 4. Miss Winifred
Dalloy, soventeon years old, nnd Miss
Helen C. Vandoventer, seventeen years
old, were killed when tlio bobsled on
which they wero coasting was stccrod
into a telegraph polo.
Greece Makes Protest.
Borlin, Jan. 4. Groeco has made a
second and strongest protest lo the en
tente powors ngalnst the erection of
fortifications nhout Salonlkl, according
to roports received from Atueua oil
Friday,
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1. Turkish-British front ut Kut-cl-Amara. whoro CJeneral Townsnuud'a
force Ib making desporato stand in Mesopotamia against superior forces of tho
sultan.
2. Russian advanco reaches Kaghan on tho way to Ispahan, In southern
Persia. This campaign is thought to have doublo purpose of barring Touton
Turkish advanco toward India and also relieving British expedition in Mesopotamia.
PEACE TERRIS GIVEN
SUMMARY OF GERMANY'S CONDI
TIONS CIRCULATED IN BERLIN.
No Annexation of French Territory,
Freedom for Poland and Restora
tion of All German Colonies.
Borlin, Dec. 31. Tho semiofficial
Wolff bureau circulated among tho
German newspapers an exhHustlve
summary of an article from tho Neuo
Zuercher Zeltung of Zurich, Switzer
land, purporting to glvo In consider
able detail thi terms upon which, ac
cording to tho newspaper, Germany
is roady to consider peaco.
The terms named Includ th3 res
toration of Belgian sovereignty under
certain conditions, no annexation of
French territory, tho separation of
Poland from Russia as an indopoudont
kingdom under a German prlnco, tho
restoration of all Gorman colonics, tho
payment of an Indemnity- which would
assume tho form of a transfer to Ger
many of Russia's indobtodness to
Franco, amounting to somo 18,000,000,
000" francs, and tho payment for a
term of years of an annual contribu
tion by Belgium equal to the amount
hitherto spont annually on tho Belgian
military establishment.
A similar contribution would bo ex
pected from Russia or Poland, this
point not being clear In tho ar
ticle. Whether tho Belgian territory would
be restored entirely Is not specified
In tho nowspaper, but It Is stated that
tho country would bo policed that Is,
garrisoned by Germany until tho pay
ments of tho contribution wero ended,
and that measures would bo taken
to prevent Belgium from serving as
an Anglo-French outpost, either by
treaty arrangements or perhaps
through "pledges" turned' over to Ger
many, tho latter phaso apparently re
ferring to tho retention of tho Mouse
fortresses
The Wolff buroau is careful to dis
avow authoritatively that tho artlclo
Is lnterprctablo as a Gorman peaco
feeler.
RUSS TAKE SEVERAL HEIGHTS
Slavs Gain Northeast of Czernowitz,
Says Petrograd Berlin Admits
Enemy Success.
Borlin, Jan. 4. "A Russian detach
ment gained a temporary success by
entering a Gorman position north of
Lako Drlsvlaty." an official stntomont
pays. It adds that "foehlo Russian at
tacks at sovoral plncos wero ropuhed."
Petrograd announces n successful
advanco of tho Russians and tho cup
turo of soveral Important heights and
870 prisoners northeast of Czernowitz.
which Is tho Imraedlnto Russian ob
jective. Tho capture of tho city Is bo
lloved to bo tho ono thing necessary
to bring Roumunla into tho war on tho
sldo of tho ontento allies.
Unequipped for Household,
Washington, Jan. 3. "Women are
more poorly equipped for tho profes
sion of mothcrhod than for any othor
business, Bays Ida M. Turboll, Bum
mlng up tho question of tho "Essential
oducatlon for tho avorago woman."
Slays Four With on Ax.
Danbury, Conn., Jan. 3. Arthur
Stoolo, a negro hotel omployoo, com
mitted suicide here aftor ha had
brutally murdered four persons with
an ax Ills l,tlms were his wife,
brother In law und two stip daughters.
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CONGRESSMAN BUCHANAN OF
ILLINOIS, AMONG NUMBER.
Fowler. andLfirJar Also Named In Mu
nition Plot Peace Council Ac
cused of Conspiracy.
Now Vork, Dec. 30. Tho federal
grand Jury on Tuesday indlctod for
conspiracy to foment strikes in Am op
lean munition factories tho following
men:
Congressman Frank Buchanan of
Illinois.
H. Robert Fowlor, formor congress
man from Illinois.
Frank S. Monnott, formor attorney
general of Ohio.
David Lamar.
Jacob C. Taylor, presldont of Labor's
National Peaco council.
Franz von Rlntelon, a Gorman agent.
H. B. Martin.
Herman Schultols.
All of the indicted mon, except La
mar and Von RIntelen, aro officers or
former officers of tho poaco council,
an organization which, tho govern
ment charges, was formed and
financed by Rlntelon to brlbo lnbor
leadors to call strikos in munition
plants, in furtherance of Gorman prop
aganda in this country.
All of tho indictments wero roturned
under tho Sherman antitrust law and
chargo conspiracy to restraint of tho
foreign trado of tho United States.
Tho maximum penalty Is ono year im
prisonment and a flno of $10,000.
CONSCRIPTION FOR ENGLAND
Ministers Said to Have Accepted. Bill
Providing a Modified Form of
Compulsory Service.
London, Doc. 30. It was stated on
excellent authority Tuesday that th
British cablnot has virtually decided
upon a modified form of conscription
bill, to bo Introducod in tho houso of
commons next week, giving tho gov
ernment tho necessary power, should
it be found needful, to bring in slnglo
mon nnd presorvo Premier Asquith's
pledge to married mon. It is roportod
Reginald McKenna, chancellor of tho
exchequer, and Waltor Runclman,
mlnlstor of commerco, hnvo reslgnod.
Their resignations havo not yot been
accepted.
SOCIALISTS INDORSE THE WAR
French Body Adopts Resolutions De
manding That the Conflict Be
Carried to Its End.
Paris, Doc. 31 The national con
cress of tho French Socialist party bo
foro adjourning odoptod a resolution
demanding that tho war bo carried on
until AlBaco and Lorralno aro won
back by France and the Indopondonco
of Dolglum and Serbia restored.
Kaiser Honors Bulgarian Prince,
Berlin, Jan. 4. Emperor William
has conferred tho Ited Cross medal of
tho first class on Prlnco Ferdinand of
Davarla for special merit In attending
wounded and sick soldlors, It was an
nounced hero.
British December Casualties,
London, Jan. 4. -British casualties
on all fronts fluritiK Decembor worn
18,549, of which 1.001 were ofllcars
These figures were compiled from tho
official lists published from timo to
timo.
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BRITI8H LINER PERSIA TORPE-
DOED BY SUBMARINE NEAR
I8LAND OF CRETE.
295 PERSONS ARE DROWNED
Steamer Ib Sunk Without Warning
One of Rescued Passengers Says
That U-Boat Filled to Qlve Assist
ance No Panic on Vessel.
Washington, Jan. 4. Tho following
dispatch has been rocoived by tho
stato department from United States
CoiibuI Garrols at Alexandria:
"Llnor Persia, carrying four sovon
inch guns, sunk about 300 milos north
west of Alexandria at 1:05 o'clock on
tho afternoon of Docombor 30. Pro
sumably torpedoed. Stcamor sank in
fivo minutes. No submarine was soon,
but Socond Ofllcor Bromley saw tor
pedo track. Ono hundred and fltty-fivo
out of 400 passengers and crow wero
landed at Aloxnndrla January 1. Of
two American citizens aboard, Charles
II. Grant of Boston, managor of oil
company, was saved. McNooly, consul
at Aden, probably lost, ns ho was last
Boon struggling In tho wator."
London, Jan. 4. Lord Inchcapo,
chairman of tho board of directors of
tho Peninsular & Orlontal Steam Navi
gation company, has rocolved tho fol
lowing telegram from Col, Clivo Big
ham, ono of tho rescued passongors of
tho Persia. Colonol Blgham Is a son-in-law
of Lord Morsoy, and with 157
other survivors of tho torpodood linor
is now at Alexandria. Tho tologram
says:
Tho sinking of tho Porsla was
caused by a torpodo which struck tha
ship on tho port bow on Docombor 30
at 1:05 p. m. Tho Porsla at tho timo
was 40 mllos south of tho oastorn end
of tho Island of Croto.
No previous warning -was given.
Nolthor was an attempt mado at as
sistance. Within five minutes nftor
sho was torpedood tho vossol Bank.
It was imposslblo to lowor tho star
board lifeboats owing to tho heavy
list to port. Fivo or six boats from tho
port sldo wero ablo to bo lowered. I
did not soo this myself, as I was
washed ovorboard when tho steamer
capsized.
Tho conduct of tho passongors nnd
crow was splendid. Thoro was no
struggling nor panic.
Four boats, aftor being thirty hours
at sea, wero picked up by H. M. S.
(name deleted by consorT, and ro
coived ovory kindness and attention
from tho captain and officers. Search
is bolng mado for tho romalnlng boats
in tho neighborhood of tho disaster.
Ono hundred nnd fifty-eight porsonn
havo bocn landed at Aloxandrla out ol
a total of 560 aboard.
TELEGRAPHIC
NOTES
Clinton, La., Jan. 3. Gov. Wlnflold
Scott Hammond of Minnesota diod
suddenly on Thursday In a hotol horo
from a str.oko of npoploxy which phy
sicians said apparently had been su
perinduced by a recent attack of pto
tnaino poisoning. Ho died beforo phy
sicians could arrlvo. Governor Ham
mond, accompanied by J. A. Novoll,
arrived hero throo days ago to Inspect
his oxtonslvo land and lumber inter
est's in East Feliciana parlBh.
St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 3. J. A. A.
Durnqulst was sworn In on Thursday
as Minnesota's nineteenth governor,
to succeed Wlnflold S. Hammond, who
died at Clinton, La.
San Francisco, Jan. 1. William H.
Ovorrodor, who flod from Pom, 111.,
somo timo ago with Anna Crlnncgan,
leaving a wlfo and two children, was
arrcBted hero whon ho arrlvod alone
from Panama on tho chargo of emboz
zllng $4,500 of Rock Island railroad
funds. Ovorrodor declared ho had
been botrayod by tho woman with
whom ho loft his homo town. "I'm
not dishonest," ho aBsortod. "I took
only $3,500 to ralso tho mortgago on ,
mother's homo."
Now York, Jan. 3. Tho Whlto Star
llnor Baltic arrlvod from Liverpool
bringing $35,000,000 In speclo con
Blgnod to Now York banks from Eng
land. This Is said to bo tho largest
amount of gold brought to this port by
any steamer slnco tho war began. 1
Travorso City, Mich., Jan. 1. Throe
mon wore burnod to death when tha
Farmer's Inn, a boarding house, was
guttod by flrQ. Tho dead aro: Jacob
H. Ktutor, proprietor of tho hotol; Wil
liam Wurzburg of Kinsley, Mich., C. A.
Bowon of Lako City, Mich. Klntor mot
his doath while trying to rascuo oth
ore, Tha cause of tho flro is un
known Atlanta, Oa., Jan. 8. Freddie WeUh,
lightweight champion, easily out
pointed Frank Whitney In a ten-round
no-declslon bout horo.
9260,000 Jersey Flro.
Itlvorsldo, N, J., Jan, 4. Flro partly
destroyed tho plant of tho William F.
Taubel hosiery mills horo, causing a
Iobb estimated at $250,000. Members
of tho firm bollovo tho blazo was o
Incendiary origin.
Three Killed by Escaping Gas.
Kano, Pa., Jan. 4. Three mon bolng
held In tho borough lockup at Em
porium woro killed and two othor per
sons living In an adjoining building
woro mado unconscious by escaping
gas.
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21b Can Golden Glow Coffee 65c
3 Cans of Corn 25c
7 pkgs Hippo Wash Powder 25c
35c Can Plum Pudding 20c
2 15c bottles Pickles 25c
15c pkg Uncle Sam Breakfast Food 10c
2 pkgs Grape Nuts 25c
A reduction of 20 on all of our Duck coats,
Mackinaws, Sweaters and 2-piece Underwear.
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Dakota City,
January Travel Specialties.
Some of the biggest and most important conventions of the
year will be held in Lincoln in January. These conventions will
interest thousands of Nebraskans.
IN LINCOLN, JANUARY 17-23
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Liv Stock Improvers
Horse Breeders
Cattle Breeders
Dairymen's Association
Swine Breeders
General Conventions:
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Brick and Tile Manufacturers
State Lumbermen's Association
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