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4 , DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD, DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA. e RULE OF RUIN EXISTS II HUNGARY H TERROR TROOPS" ARE NOW MAS TER8 IN THE HUNGARIAN CAPITAL. STORM AND DISARM TROOPS krmy of Bel Kuna Government Con tinues to Break Away Food Con ditions are Serious, with Money Decllnlno Rapidly In Value. Borlln. A now reign of terror ex its In Budapest, according to u dis patch from tho Hungarian capital to Iho Tagoblatt, and "rod lorror" in its worst form is anticipated. The dispatch says so called "terror troops" aro now masters of the cap ital, and that they have stormed the garrison, disarmed the troops of tho Dola Kun government and distribut ed nrms to "the ragged proletariat." Tho loader of tho "torror troops," who was Bela Kun'u personal guard of honor, publishes an appeal for roluntoors, nnd tho pooplo's commis larlos. Vnrga and Zsamuolyl, nnd vlca Commissary of Forogn AJTnirs Mososalpary, the now loadera In con trol, have sent nn ultimatum to tho "modorato" c?ty commander of Hilda post, Habrich, ordorlng him to give up offlco and turn over tho city tc them. Tho dispatch says tho council of lovernmont is still convinced that tho Bntento Is too weak or unwilling for armed intervention. It says nlHo Unit tho "rod army" of Bola Kun continues to disintegrate. Food conditions in Budapest are said to bo Indescribable nnd monoy Is declared to bo rapidly falling In valuo. Surrenders to Serbians. Borlln. Advlcos recolvod horo from Budapest say that during tho launch ng of tho now Hungarian monitor Marx, tho monitor samos, tho Inst unit of tho Danubo flotilla which had remained loyal to Bola Kun, (lod down the Danubo and surrendered to tho Sorblans. Tho officers and men of tho crow roquostcd permission to fight against tho Hungarian soviot govern mont, and tho Horblan govornmonl transported them up to tho Tisza rlvor, southeast of Budapest, whore thoy woro placed at tho disposal ol tho Karolyl forces. Tho dispatch adds that tho ontonto apparonly will not proceed against Bola Kun, but thnt It has given per mission to Karolyl, who has not ro signed ns hns beon reported, to opon un offensive. Borlln, Tho Budnpost correspon dent of tho Tagoblatt has boon on ablod to smugglo out of tho Hungarian capital an oxcorpt of a recent spcncli of Bola Kun, tho soviot leader, bororo the oxocutivo council of tho soviot. In tho speech Bola Kun made tho assortion that Hungary was facing n triple crisis In powor, oconomics and mornlo Tho crisis In powor, ho said, was ovldencod by tho countor rovolu tlon; that In oconomics In tho unbo llovablo prices of food, and thnt In morale in corruption, which had reached such undreamed of limits. MEXICAN8 ROB YANK 8AILORS. State Department Regards Assault as Grave Affair. Washington, D. C. The most so rious of tho rocontly growing list of attacks on Amqrlcans In Moxlco hnvo como to light. " A boatload of Amor lean sailors from tho United Btntos steamship, Choyonno woro hold up in tho Tomosl river, July G, within nlnu miIo3 of Tamplco, and the sallorB rob bod. Tho Amorlcan Hag was Hying from tho boat. Closely rosonibllng tho attacks on Amorlcan sailors which led to tho occupation of Vora Crux In 1011, tho stnto dopnrtment did not hesitate to regard It as a grave af fair nnd dispatched urgont roproson tattons to tlio Carranza government and Tamplco authorities. Although tho sailors woro llshlng, thoy woro on official duty bringing In food for tholr ship, and tho Amorlcan flag Hying from tho boat demoted it was on of ficlal business. To Check Security Smugglers. Wolmar.- Tho govornmont Is plan ning an omorgoncy law which would provfTlo for tho stamping and dating or all Bocurltlos now within the con lines of Germany nB a chock against attempts to smuggle them abroad. Holdors of tho aecurltlos which al ready have boon sent into uoutral countries under tho law would loso thorn unloss thoy bohl tlrti emergency stump. Bio Force Fighting Fires. Spokane, Wnsh. -Hapldly spreading forest fires in norUiorn Idaho, west orn Montana and oastern Washington, covorlng many thousand acres of cut over and vlrgtrt timber and new tire reported almost hourly, caused much concern to tho fudornl forest sorvlco officials. Appeals for mon to fight tho forest Area Imvo boon mndo und overy mail who cjuld do tho arduous work of lighting tho fires In tho nioi,iitnln ous regions of thrca ttjierf woo oui-ployed. DON CANDIDO AGUILAR A v & V" Pi -1 "" A H vJS6vntSJt&,4j&J4d4U6. ,SJV!nAij&t&Jl Senor Don Candldo Agullnr, son-ln-law of General Carranza, spent several days In Washington dlwusslng Mexi can affairs with various United States officials. Ho and the party with him have left for Kurope. WETS LOSE TWO POINTS NEW 2 BEER MOVE BEATEN IN HOUSE. Repeal of Ban Alao Hit Amendment to War-Tlme Prohibition Bill Defeated. Washington, July 15. An amend ment to tho wur-llinu prohibition en forcement bill which would have per mitted tho sale of 2 per cent beer was voted down In the house,- 128 to 81. Representative Dyer of Missouri In troduced the iiiiiendnient. The vojU was taken after n whirl wind dobnto of more than an hour and followed an attempt to forco a vote on repeal of tho war-time dry net. The house then defeated, 128 to 83, an niuendinent by Representative Ar goo (Dem.), Missouri, to strike out tho clause defining an Intoxicating li quor us n bovcrnge containing one half of 1 per cent alcohol. On n point of order an amendment by Representative Lea (Dem.), Cali fornia, to permit the manufacture by weight, was stricken out. Failure of tho amendment, Mr. Lea said, meant n loss of $12,000,000 to tho wine Inter ests of California. On a point of order raised by Chair man Volstead of tho Judiciary com mittee, an amendment to the pending prohibition enforcement bill proposed by Representative Argoo (Dem.) of Mlsourl was ruled out of order. Commissioner Roper of tho Inter nal bureau was in conference with President Wilson and was said to have discussed questions Involved In the enforcement of war-time und con stitutional prohibition. Mr. Roper wur understood to have told the president that bo did not think Ii1s bureau should be charged with the enforcement of the dry laws as Is proj oseil In legislation pending In congress. TRAIN HITS AUTO; 3 KILLED Three Others Injured When Missouri Pacific Passenger Crashes Into Machine Near St. Louis. St. Louis. .Mo., July 15. Thrco per sons are dead nnd three Injured us tho result of a cullietwn between a fast Missouri Pacific tnttn mid an automo bile nt Barrett's Station, near here. Tho dead: Benjamin Subionu, nged live; Richard Lengnlck, fourteen, and George Zuhlenii, twelve. Tho Injured : Mr. and Mrs. ZubUnn and their seven-year-old daughter, Beatrice. Sioux City, Ia JUly 15. Mrs. Georgo Virgil and thrco of her children nnd n minister named Kennedy, all of Onza, la., were killed when nn Illinois Cen tral railroad train struck tho automo bile In which they were riding. Three other children of Mr. nnd .Mis. Virgil were injured. SEAMEN GET WAGE INCREASE Shipping Board Makes Award of 10 Per Cent to End Strike on tho Atlantic Coast. Washington, July 15. Wage In creases of approximately 10 per Cent have been grunted to employees of ves sels operating from Atlantic and gulf ports by the (.hipping board. The ad vance, as announced after an all-day conference of shipping board olllclals, Is expected to end tho strike of murine engineers, firemen and oilers which be gun last Thursday. CAN SEND MAIL TO GERMANY Postmaster General Burleson Signs Order for Reuumptlon of Service. Washington, July 17. Resumption of mall service between tho United States und Germany, effective Immedi ately, was provided in an order signed by Postmaster General Burleson. General Hay to Command Custer. Washington, July 18. MaJ. Gen. William P. Hay will be assigned to command Camp Custer, Mich., on his arrival In the United Statos, tho war department announced. He was com mander of tho Twenty-eighth dllslon. Now Pacific Fleet Great. Washington, July is. Approximate ly 17." Khips nvlth tonnage of 500,000 will constitute the newly organized Pacllle licet, It was stated at the navy lepartniciit. The licet starts on Its .Djnge from Hampton Roads. LIMIT UQUDR TO BE KEPTIH HOME Wayne B. Wheeler Suggests Changes in Bill; Would Bar Bottle on Hip. STRIKES AT STORED BOOZE Declares Authority of Congress to Fix One-Half of 1 Per Cent as Maxl- mum Alcoholic Content In Beverages Is Clear. Washington, July 18. Authority of congress to fix one-hnlf of 1 per cent ns the maximum alcoholic content of beverages In prohibition enforcement legislation Is clenr, Wayne II. Wheeler, general counsel for the Antl-Snloon league, declared before the senate Ju diciary subcommittee In answering re cent statements of Samuel Unter meyer, counsel for brewers. "To allow tho sale of 2 per cent beer," said Mr. Wheeler, "would keep alive th6 liquor trade and defeat the purposes of national prohibition. Prlcnds of prohibition do not want a code unless It defines Intoxicating liquor." Tlilrty-tlireo prohibition states nnd 1.1 local-option states, Mr. Wheeler said, have laws limiting nlcohol In beverages. He challenged Mr. Untcr myer to produce any court decision de nying congress or stnto legislatures the right to make definitions. "Congress cannot consistently adopt a weaker standard in defining tho term than they already enacted in tlio states," said Mr. Wheeler. "This means nothing can bo sold for bovcr nge purposes that contains more than one-half of 1 per cent alcohol." Mr. Wheeler told the committee pro hibition advocates were not asking that possession of liquors bought be fore July 1 for personal use be pro hibited. He added, however, that they were suggesting amendments to the pending legislation to limit the amount of liquors which mny bo stored In private residences, so as to "pre vent homes from becoming spenk eitslcs." Another amendment advocated by prohibition leaders. Mr. Wheeler said, Is a provision for seizure of liquors In homes where It Is sold Illicitly. "Ilootleggers will maintain their homes as headquarters without such legislation," said he. Two other amendments were urged by the witness. To prevent bootleg ging he asked that tlio committee add a clause making mere personnl and physical possession of Intoxicants such as tho presence of a bottlo In an Individual's pocket unlawful. "This Is tho most effective weapon , of prohibition enforcement," said Mr. Wheeler, and Senator Sterling sug-1 gested that tho bill be extended so ns to pcnnllzc purchase as well ns sale of Intoxicating beverages. Mr. Wheeler also asked for sweep ing senrch warrant powers, suggesting that seizures bo authorized without a warrant, or at lenst that warrants bo Issued without requiring testimony In support of requests. Senntor Walsh of Montann and other committee members opposed extension of the bill's search warrant provisions and also Insisted thnt tho provisions penalizing searchers with malice nnd without probnblo cause should remain. Tho house Judiciary committee, Mr. Wheeler snld, hns agreed upon an amendment governing tho snle of fla voring extracts which Is satisfactory to all Interests. It permits wholesale distribution of these extracts, some of which contain -10 to 00 per cent nlco hol, but requires retailers to dilute beverages to less than ,ono-hnlf of 1 per cent, ho ndded. Levi Cooke, general counsel for the National Distillers' association, ap pearing In behalf of tho amendments to regulate manufacture of Industrial alcohol and to "protect" 00,000,000 gallons of distilled spirits now held In bond, said this amount was "all that Is left In tho country." BRITISH DENY IRISH PLEA Refuse to Put Fate Up to League of Nations, Says Bonar Law. London, July 18. The British gov eminent does not regard the uctlon of tho United States sennto with re-j spect to Ireland, or tho nets In tho ' samo connection of othor persons or' bodies representing tho American peo-1 pie, as In violation of artlclo 10 of the League of Nations covenant, said ' Andrew llonar Law, tho government leader, In tho house of commons. Tho government, Mr. Donnr Law added, would not put tho question of tho future government of Ireland on tho program for consideration at tho next meeting of the council of the League of Nations, Chicago Invites Wilson. Chicago. July 18. Chicago sent an Invitation to President Wilson to visit thla city during his coming Western tour for the purpose of nn educative cnmpultfn In favor of thu League of Nations. New German Republic. Coblenz. July IS. A republic has been proclaimed In lilrkenfeld, In tho tillles' area of occupation. A provi sional government wau formed Mon day and complete separation from Ohi. I cuburg proclaimed. NICHOLAS MISU Nicholas Mlsu is tho most distin guished living Roumnnlun diplomatist, lie has served his country for many years in Balkan capitals and In Lon don. Ho negotiated with tho British government the part Roumunla was to play In tho world wnr. SAVES DAYLIGHT ACT WILSON VETOES AMENDED AGRI CULTURAL BILL. Believes Repeal of Law Would Incon venience Nation and Cause , Economic Loss. Washington, July 15. President Wilson vetoed the agricultural bill be cause of its provision repealing the daylight saving law. In regard to tho agricultural bill the president sent tho following com munication to tho bouso of representa tives : "I tnko tho liberty of returning H. R. 3157, 'An act ranking appropria tions for the department of ngrlcu turo for tho fiscal year ending June 30, 1020, without my signature. "I realize, of, course, tho grave In convenience which mny arise from the postponement of the legislation at this time, but feel obliged to with hold my slgnnture becnuso of tho clause which provided that 'at and after 2 o'clock n. m. on Sundny.Octo ber 20, 1919, next the act entitled "An act to save daylight nnd to provide standard tlmo for the United States," approved March 19, 1918, be and tho samo hereby Is repenlcd.' "I believe that the repeal of tho act referred to would be of very great Inconvcnlcnco to tho country, and 1 think thnt I am Justified in saying that It would constitute something more than an Inconvenience. It would Involve n serious economic loss. Tho act was Intended to place tlio chief business activities of tho coun try as nenrly as might be within tho limits of daylight throughout tho yenr." NEWS FROM FAR AND NEAR iMUMmiiiiiiniinnti Springfield, Mo July 17. Tho ?225, 000 rond bond issue for Webster coun ty was defeated by 89 votes, uccordlng to unofficial returns. Vienna, Austria, July 17. Count Ulrjch von Brockdorf-Rantznu hns been nccepted by tho government ns German minister to Austria. London, July 17. Tho Spanish cab inet, bended by Antonio Maurn, which was formed April 15 last, has resigned, according to a Router's dispatch from Madrid. London, July 17. Eknterlnburg, 1C0 miles southeast of Perm, has been captured by tho bolshevlkl, nccordlng to n Russian wireless dispatch re ceived here. Tho town was occupied Mondny. qiilcngo, July 17. Over -1,000 Chi cago post olllco clerks are affected by an Increase In wnges of $100 annually, which was authorized by the post ofllco department In Washington, nccordlng to a telegram received by Postmaster William B. Cnrllle from Postmaster General Burleson. Missoula, Mont.. July 15. A fall of 37.8 per cent In tho average condition of 13 lending crops in Montana be tween Juno 1 nnd July 1 Is Indlcnted In a report on crop conditions by Guy Fltzpntrlck of tho United States bu reau of crop estimates, which was re leased here. The average condition of tho 13 crops July 1 Is given as 30.1, said to bo the poorest crop prospect ever recorded In tho state. Engine Blows Up; Three Killed. Kingston, N. Y July 1.7. Tho holl er of a locomotive- pulling a heavy West Shore freight train blew up hero while the train was traveling 30 tulles nn hour, killing the engineer, fireman nnd n brnkeuum. Troops Quell Strike Riot. Rome, N. Y., July 17. With 200 stnto troopers patrolling the Industrial section this city Is quiet following fac tory strike riots which Injured several persons. The troopers are keeping the streets, cleared. ALL OVERTHE STATE Nebraska News Gathered from All Sections and Balled Down to the Facts for Busy Reader. Miss Susannah Thomon, pioneer of Bluo Springs, is dead. Grand Island has lot a contract for one and one-half miles of paving. Tho business men of Hastings havo formed a retail merchants association. Beatrice Camp No. 27, M. W. A., will hold a log rolling on Labor day. Superior has awarded the contract for sixty blocks of concrete-asphalt paving. Monday night, August 11, is set aside as Lincoln night at tho Ak-Sar-Ben in Omaha. Ono fifty-acre field of wheat In Gago county yielded bettor than twenty-flvo hushoU an acre. Hastln&s will hold a homo-coming celebration July 30 for Adams county veterans of the world war. Carl Bcrgstrom of Newman Grovo died at his home from tho effects of being twice gassed in service over seas. Tho Masonic lodgo of Beatrice will erect a $60,000 temple. The site has been purchased and work will begin soon. Webster county throshermon have agreed on a price of 12 cents for wheat, G conts for oats and 7 cents for barley. Nebraska jobbers, who will be af fected by the new refrigerator law, are organizing to fight the increase In rates. Carl Johnson of Wahoo, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, is home on fur lough after seven months' service overseas. O. M. Backus, for many years a resident and publisher of DuBols, died in tho Pawnoe City hospital after an Illness of some weeks. A $25,000 breach of promise suit has beon filed at Kearney by Katheriue Gustschalk of Monroe, Ohio, against Walter Peck of Ravenna. The city of Storling has leased the distribution lino owned by the Nebras ka Gas company and will connect with the power line from Tecumseh. Contracts for approximately 60,000 tons of coal for state institutions at a cost of nearly $360,000, hare been let by the stato board of control. Tho Bluo river has been at such low tide, because of tho continued dry weather, that at many places fish are takon from the stream by hand. The thirteenth annual exerciso of the summer school sosslon commence ment will be held Friday evening, July 25, in the Memorial hall, Lincoln. Following tlio arrest of John Bos tcder, an express company employe at Fremont, a search of his room yielded $1,600 worth of stolen goods. Governor Henry J. Allen of Kansas will bo the speaker at tho first ban quet of the Roosevelt Republican club of Nebraska In Lincoln on the evening of July 31. Contracts for paving districts Nob. 4 and G in Columbus havo been lot; ap proximately sixty blocks are in tho two districts. Work will commence Immediately. Governor McKelvie has announced that he has no intention of forcing the code bill pending litigation in the courts to determine tho logallty of the referendum petition. The Surprise Telophouo company asks authorization to establish rates of $1.50 on farm lines and $1.25 on town residence two-party lines at both Surprise and Rising City. Jim Busby was instantly killed and C. F. Moyers was seriously injured when tho car in which they were driv ing turned turtle north of Minatare. Both mon live in Scottsbluff. A petition asking that tho action of tho recent legislature in ratifying na tional prohlbtion be referred to tho people of the stato, has bean filed with Secretary of Stato Amsberry J. W. Grislnger of Bellwood waH in stantly killed by having his head crushed between the floor of an eleva tor and the celling of tho second floor of the Brandeis building, Omaha. The state railway commission has granted tho Callaway Telephone com pany permission to Increase Its rates $2 per month for local service after the metallic battery system is In stalled. Two hundred farraors from the neighborhood of Great Falls, Mont., whose crops were destroyed by tho dry weather, came by special train to Sidney, Nebraska, whore practically all found work. After many vexatious- delays the newly completed plant of the Ashland Ice & Cold Storage company has bo gun the manufacturo of ice. A load of the first product was immediately dispatched to Greenwood where an ico famine was ou Arrangements aro being mado at North Platte to put in a lake for bath ing at the city park and Indications nre tht It will be ready next summer. Work will begin in a couple of months. The contraat haa beeu lot and n club houso will be erected at tho country club grounds. Tho employes of tho Farmers & Merchants Telephone company of Alma struck for higher pay which forced Manager Kooster to mako a hurry-up call on tho state railway commission for an emergency order permitting him to raise tho rates on All Ave of his exckruiges Increase of rates aokul for by the Moorofleld Farm and Branch Tele phone company have beon granted. Nearly $1,000,000 Increase In the as sessed valuation of Lancaster is shown by tho report of the assessor. An aeroplane, piloted by Lieut. Lloyd Thompson of the Grand Island Aero company, was wrecked while making a landing at Kearney. Twilight racing, oh trial in Fremont for the first time, proved a big suc cors. Nearly 2,000 fans turned out for the program, which began at 6 o'clock, and was finished shortly before dark. Peter Stevens of Cheyenne county got into troublo with the espionage law by flying a German flag on Inde pendence day. About twenty-flvo of his neighbors assisted in hauling down tho colors. Tho manager of the Frontier hotel at Nebraska City was takon into custo dy by tho authorities Bhortly after the hotel had been badly damaged by fir which broke out in several places si multaneously. A special train load of harvest hands from tho drouth-stricken districts of Montana wero Imported into Cheyenne county by tho Sidney Commercial club and put to work gathorlng the 4,000,000 bushel wheat crop. A moot constitutional convention, in which will be debated the principal questions likely to arise in tho con stitutional conventions of Nebraska nnd Illinois during the coming year, will probably be the principal foature of the annual meeting of the National Municipal league to be held at Cleve land, during the holiday season noxt December. Business is picking up. That state ment is made around Burlington hoad quarters while yard crews aro look ing for tho first carload of new wheaL Business is a little hotter than at this time last year right now, with pros pects of a bigger business for every dny following for a long time. Traffic for the first half of tho month was p. few thousand tons heavier on the Lin coln division than it was for the same period last year. A campaign for a tilock of oil leases running from the vicinity of DeWitt through portions of Hoag, Riverside township, in Gage county, has been in progress for some time with good pros pects for an early consummation of the deal. The deal is being backed by the same company that is conducting the tests at Red Cloud and many are en thusiastically financing the projoct. The vicinity of Putnam is likely to see the sinking ot the first well. The Hyo stocx sanitary board "has passed a new set of rules which pro vide that cattle exhibited or offered for sale at the stato fair must be ao companlod by a tuberculin test chart from a licensed veterinarian showing that they havo successfully passed the test not more than sixty days prior. Cattle and sheep coming into tho state for mother than slaughter purposes must pass through quarantine. The now rules are effective August 1. The latest overseas casualties re port includes the names of six Ne braskans: Severely wounded, Lieut. Paul H. Jnrret, Milford; Private C. O. Curtis, Stella. Wounded, degree un determined, Private Carl L. Fisher, Lincoln. Died of wounds, Private Al bert Galbraith, Red Cloud; Private Charlos Keiter, Hartington; both pre viously reported missing in action. Died of disease, Private Emil Vitek. previously reported missing in action. Tho Czecho-Slovakla commission from tho new republic of Czecho slovakia visiting the United States in order to study industrial and agri cultural conditions will make an ox tonsivo study of agricultural condi tions and Nebraska has been chosen as the state in which to study agricul ture to tho best advantage, according to Charles Polant, publishor of tki Dally Venkoy, Prague, Bohemia, a member of the commission. Tho state veterinarian's offlce has a report showing that seventeen 2-year-old heifers in a bunch of twenty-three shipped from a farm near Bladen to the Kansas City market, were found to be badly infected with tuberculosis, aftor they had boon slaughtered. The fact that so many young animals were diseased Indicated that the premises must be full of tho tubercular germs, and that other live stock, as well aa human beings, are in danger of con tracting it. Another case is reported from Merna, whero ntaety-nlne steers woro shipped to Omaha nnd sixty three of them proved to bo tubercular. Public schools throughout Nebraska will rocelve during July the largest allotment of funds ovor distributed by the state in one of its semiannual ap portionments. The total amount ia $571,355. One-fourth of this Is to be divided equally among the 6,904 dis tricts of the state giving each ono $60.70 from that source The remain dor will be distributed in proportion to tho number of school children, at tho rate of about $1 12 per child, there being 382,975 children of school age In Nebraska. Increased rontnls from school land nnd hlghor interest rates on the stato's bond investments are rospouslblo for the big school appor tlonmcnt being made. Oren D. Kratzer has sold the Ulys ses Dispatch to H. J. Whitacro of Ce dar Falls. Iowa. Mr. Kratzor will de vote his entire time to his mercantile Interests in Oarrlson and Lincoln. Mr. Whitacro took possession of the plant Immediately. Directors of the Ashland Farmers' Union Co-operativo association aie planning to build au elevator soon. The site selected is that several ye-trs ago occupied by tho P. S. Decker elevator, near tho stock jaidh. No attempt will bo made at this time by the Farmers' union to put in a gen eral store