THE SEMLWEEKLY TRIBUNE NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
EPITOME OF EVENTS
PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO
MANY SUBJECTS.
JIBE SHORT GUT INTERESTING
Brief Mention of What Is Transpiring
In Varjoue Sections of Our Own
una Foreign Countries.
WASHINGTON.
The house 1ms passed the bill per
flitting the leasing by the government
of Alaskan coal lands under competi
tive bidding.
Uncle Sam patd out a total of $172,--417,510
In pensions In tho fiscal year
ended June 30 last, according to Com
missioner of Pensions Saltzgabor.
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Protests against Mexican govern
ment seizure of tho $1,000,000 Mexi
can tramway systom In Mexico City
lmvc been mado to tho state depart
ment by tho company.
Tho state department has been In
formed by Italy that American-born
Italians and others naturalized as cit
izens of the United States are being
held in Italy for military service.
More than 3,000 lives were lost In
the earthquake in the provlnco of
Konla, Turkey, October 5, according
to a cablegram from Ambassador
Morgcnthau to tho stato department.
President Wilson has signed tho
Clayton anti-trust bill, thus complet
ing the administration's trust pro
gram. There was no corcmony con
nected with tho signing of the bill.
An apparent loss of $7,500,000 in
one bond transaction was disclosed at
the hearing of the interstate com
merce commission's investigation of
the Hnancial operation of tho Chicago,
Ilock Island & Pacific railway.
German victories against Russia
near Schlrwindt and Warsaw, In
-which 11,000 prisoners, fifty-one guns
and twelve machine guns were cap
tured, has been reported to the Gor
man ambassador.
Pninnel finethals has cabled th3
War department that traffic through
the Panama canal, blocked by a land
slide Into Cnlebra cut last week,
would be reopened In about a week
unless there were further earth move
ments. The Independence ol- tho Philip
pines will be recognized by the
United States as soon as a stable
government can be established there,
according to the Jones Philippine
bill, which has passed the houso by
a vote of 211 to 59.
Ratifications of tho peace commis
sion treaty between the United States
and Guatemala have been exchanged
lit the stato department and tho first
of tho conventions designed by Secre
tary Bryan to guard this nation from
sudden war went into effect.
The Interstate Commerce commis
sion held to bo lawful proposed In
creases In the proportional freight
rates on grain and grain products
from Kansas City. Mo., to Port Arthur,
Tex., for export, applicable to traffic
originating at various points in Kan
sas and Nebraska.
Tho federal roserve board took de
cisive action to hasten the opening of
the twelve federal reserve banks by
. announcing its determination to call
the first installment of subscriptions
to the capital of those banks. Tho
call will bo Issued at once and the
payments are due November 2.
DOMESTIC.
Boston Braves won tho world's
Baseball championship by taking tho
fourth game from Philadelphia.
Michael Angelo McGlnnls, mathe
matician, whose ability gained him in
ternational fame, died at a Kansas
City hospital. McGlnnls was ad
mitted by the highest authorities to
be a genius at solving numerical and
literal equations.
Negotiations for the purchase of
revcral thousand army wagons, 1,000,
COO blankets. 200,000 saddleB and
i.ririiPR. and an immense supply of
rifle cartridges for the use of the Eng
lish and French armies has been
opened lu Chicago.
Delegates, representing seventeen
national organizations of women, at
Pittsburgh, decided on the permanent
organization of a national central
body to bo known as tho Council of
National Organization of Women.
Five nuns In the Sacred Heart con
vent at Chicago, who fled from Mexi
co, declared they suffered torrlblo
hardships at Guadalajara. Marauders
attacked their convent, they said .and
forty-eight sisters lived in a little
cottage of two rooms nearly six
weeks.
Roger Uresnahan, catcher of tho
Chicago National league baseball
team, has signed to succeed Henry
O'Day as manager of tho club for
1915.
Five persons wore burned to death
nt MUo, Mo., near Nevada, when a
gasoline can exploded.
All tho old directors and officers of
tho Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Co. woro reelected at a meeting of
stockholders hold at Chicago.
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For tho eighth yonr in succession
Ty Cobb of Dotiolt and Georgia has
won tho batting championship of tho
Amorican league. Figures llnal al
though unofficial glvo Cobb a por
centngo for tho soason Just closed of
.368.
Tho lato Richard W. Soars, foundor
of Sears, Roebuck & Co., of Chlcngo,
left nn ostato estimated at $17,000,000,
according to the will filed at Wauko
gan, 111. His widow, Anna Sears, was
named executrix of the estate and
solo heir.
Governor Hiram W. Johnson of Cal
ifornia and his son, Archlo, woro bad
ly shaken when their nutomobilc.
striking nn obstruction at tho ap
proach to a small bridge near Dixon,
Cal., leaped tho guards of tho bridge
and plunged to-tho gulley below.
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Praiso for President Wilson for his
neutral attitude In the war was voic
ed by Former President Taft and An
drew Carnegie at a luncheon nt the
Chamber of Commerce at Providence,
R. I. "Presidont Wilson has taken
tho exact stand." Mr. Taft said, "and
has oxpressed It with admirable ac
curacy." FOREIGN.
Austria has temporarily lifted tho
customs duties on corn, flour and veg
etables. Tho Berlin official statement an
nounces that 20,000 Belgians are still
in Antwerp as prisoners.
Germany has had some, guns built
of tremendous calibre, capable of car
rying twenty-five miles.
Private citizens of tho United
States can sell whatever they please
to tho belligerents of Europe.
President Polncare has signed a de
cree, admitting fresh meat to France
free of duty until further notice.
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Germany plans to mount her newest
and greatest guns along the Belgian
seacoast to force tho British fleet to
stay off her shore.
Cardinal Pletro Gasparrl has been
selected by the popo to fill tho posi
tion of secretary of state, made va
cant by tho death of Cardinal Farrata.
The Russian armored cruiser Pal
lada has been sunk In the Baltic Sea
by a German submarine, with all of
its crew, consisting of nearly COO offi
cers and men.
Announcement from Bordeaux says
that quarters have been provided 'for
the Belgian government officials at
Havre, France, whore tho Belgian
capital will be established.
Heavy rain Is again falling over the
entire Belgian-French theater of war.
Tills will slow up operations, as tho
roads become hard to negotiate and
trenches fill In with water.
In tho sinking of tho British cruls
or Hawke by a German submarino
only one officer and sixty-two enlisted
men of her crew of about 400 are
known to have been rescued.
Open rebellion has been encoun
tered In South Africa, and a force of
nntl-Brltlsh Boera, armed with Gor
man guns and aided by German
troops, is now in that territory.
Tho enormous number of Russian
soldiers crowding military hospitals
at Petrograd and at concentration
bases nenrer tho front has necessi
tated a public appeal for supplies.
Commandants representing all tho
Congo free stato north of Bloomfon
tain have placed their services at tljo
disposal of General Botha, conimand-er-ln-chlef
of the forces of the union
of South Africa.
The death of King Charles of
Roumania, which occurred at his
country seat at Sinai In Walachla,
brings prominently to tho front tho
question of tho attitude which Rou
mania is now likely to assume with
regard to participation in the war.
An appeal to tho socialists of tho
neutral countries to join In tho war
on tho side of the allies appears In
the newspaper Franco de Slid Ouest,
credited to "one of the highest socle
ties of the socialist party In Franco.
Tho British cruiser Hawke, used
for scouting purposos off tho German
naval base in tho North sen, wns tor
pedoed and sunk by a German subma
rine, with a loss of 492 lives. Of tho
crew of 54 1 officers and men three of
ficers and forty-nine men were saved.
The king and queen of tho Belgians
are at tho headquarters of tho Bel
gian army.
Recruiting In England Is again
being actively pushod. Tho require
ments for sorvlce In tho Infantry havo
been lowered.
An old man of 84, visiting military
hospitals in Vienna, ami speaking in
Magyar, Italian, Bohemian, Slav and
other tongues to tho wounded soldiers,
brings cheer to the men. Ho Is Em
peror Francis Joseph of Austria.
C0NDIEHSED NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL.
Lincoln bnnks will solid $50,000 in
gold to New York.
E. M. Saas has purchased tho Ideal
theater at West Point.
Com prospects lu the vicinity of
West Point aro good.
Blair nnd Holdrego havo ouch Or
ganized a troop of cavalry.
In an automobile accldont near Pil
ger Fred Barr was Instantly killed.
Rev. C. W. Heady has preached hiH
farowcll sonnon at tho TecuniHeh
BaptlBt church.
Jano Addams, In. her speech nt Lin
coin says Nebraska will bo tho noxt
Buffrago state.
Business men of Bontrlce have en
dorsed exemption of municipal bonds
from taxation.
Over 400 dologRtos attended tho
De-greo of Honor convention nt Fro
mont last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Sylvanus Lamb of
Gcndva celebrated their sixtieth wed
d(tig anniversary.
State Manufacturera' association will
hold its annual meeting at Omaha
November 18 and 11).
Ono man was killed and olght In
jured by explosion of nn asphalt mix
er boiler nt Beatrice. f
Nearly 2,000,000 bricks havo gone
into the construction of the new Fon
tanels hotel ut Omaha.
Four Italian laborors were injured
when they fell from a twenty-llvo
foot trestle near DoWltt.
The llfteen orphan children who
have arrived at Tecumsoh from Now
York, have all found homes.
Grand iBlnud schools will be closed
the entire three daya during the stato
teachers' convention t Omaha.
Stalo Degro? of Honor in it-s -s-slon
at Fremont last week, selected
Lincoln as tho next meeting plee.
Omaha is to bo hsndquarteis of thi
Underwriters Securities comp- ij, a
now $2,500,000 insurance co' r rn
Members of the Fremmt Country
club havo decided to hold a fiir at the
Mar.onic hall, starting November 1G
Bonds to the amount or .."iOO woro
votad at Talmage for the cun-truc-tlon
of an electric light and power
plant.
Tho question Of abolishing tho of
fice of county assessor will bo vo'rd
on by Gage county votors at the fall
election.'
While trying to drive a vicious
mare, Sam Koistgr of Broken Bow
was thrown fromthe buggy and bad
ly injured.
The Bell Telephone oompany is re
building its lines west of Falls City.
The lines were in bad shape and many
poles rotted.
Oscar Wramberger of Norfolk, was
Instantly killed when Ills automobilo
missed a culvert and turned turtle
north of town.
Tho first annual Howard county fair
was considered very successful. Tho
toal attendance for tho three days
was about 7,500.
J. R. Duncan of tho State Horticul
tural society roporta that apples in
the southeastern part of Nebraska
wero never better.
The citizens of Alliance have adopt
eS resolutions looking toward tho se
curing of a farm demonstrator for
Box Butto county.
Nanco county and men of Fullerton
Jpined In forming tho Fullerton Com
mercial club with farmers' and busl
ness mens divisions.
The Methodist parsonage at Inman
is being rebuilt, Rev. Mr. and Mrs.
Watson, formerly of Hartlngton, will
occupy the new parsonage.
Tho city of Orjaha cannot for tho
present havo dollar gas, according to
a decision handed down by Federal
Judgo T. C. Munger at Lincoln.
More than 2,000 people participated
in the Columbus day parado at
Omaha In commemoration of tho dis
covery of America, 422 years ago.
Preliminary plans and programs aro
boing prepared for tho annual meet-
.Ing of tho Nebraska Farmors' Con
gress in Omaha, December 8 to ,10.
Charles Balduff. sr., of Fronfont, a
pioneer business man nnd head of the
Balduff Marke and Ico company for
many years, Is critically 111 at his
homo.
Two hundred cars of baled hay has
been shipped from Inman during tho
first half of October. Much of this
shipment goes to the western mnrket
and is mado up of No. 1 hay.
Dr. Day of tho stato veterinarian's
field force Inspected more than 100
hoses at Ilecla and found some show
ing symptoms of dourlno, an infec
tious disease of breeding animals.
If Omaha can guarantee the neces
sary tonnago to make a steam barge
line pay, the Mississippi River Trans
portation company will send a barge
to Omaha on the Missouri river.
Prof. F. W. Jesse of Thorndulo,
Tex., has been elected director of tho
Soward Lutheran seminary. Tho
trustees havo lot a contract for tho
erection of a now dwelling to bo used
by Prof. Jesso.
Tho Rod Willow county teachers'
association will meot in Lebanon,
Saturday, October 24.
Beginning November 1, 1914, tho
pulpit of tho First Presbyterian
church of Winnebago will bo filled by
Dr. W. W. Talt, now of Randolph, and
formerly of Mlndon. Ho recelvod an
unanimous cull.
Flftyslx Webator county farmors
appeared in United States district
court at Hastings, demanding pay for
a total or more than 40,000 biiBhols of
wheat which they had stored In the
Bladen elevator of William Rundberg,
now a bankrupt.
TURKS MAN
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Former Gorman cruiser Goobou, which tho Turks purchased and renamed tho Yavauz, photographed on tho
Black sea flying tho Turkish tlag. Above, phologruphod on board tho Yavauz, aro tho Turkish naval mlnlstor, Djo
mal Pasha, and Admiral Sachen, together with other Turkish officers and several German naval officers.
BELGIAN FIRING SQUAD SHOOTING GERMAN SPY
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Execution of a Gormun 8py, who
folded and shot.
MOBILIZATION OF
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Scene In Constantinople showing Turkish recruits hurrying to tho mobili
zation center to bo ready to tako part in the war.
NEW CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL IN ST. LOUIS
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This new Catholic cathedral In St. Louis, just opened, compares favorably
lu slzo with tho largest church edifices In tho world and ranks among tho
most Impressive in America. It is 305 feet long, 212 feot wldo, and the main
domo Is 227 feot high. Tho seating capacity Is 3,500. Tho cuthedral has boon
under construction six years and so far about $1,500,000 haa been spoilt on It.
According to George D. Barnett, the architect, as much more will bo devoted
to tho completion of the intorior.
FORMER GERMAN CRUISER J30EBEN
wbb caught by tho Belgians near Tormondo.
TURKISH TROOPS
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Ho was led out at dawn, blind-
GENERAL VON ENIMICH
This photograph of General von Em
mlcli was mado during field opera
tions In Belgium after his forces had
achloved the capturo of Liego, foi
which ho was personally thanked by
tho kaiser.
TOBACCO PRECIOUS AT FRONT
English Soldiers In France Say That
the Weed Is Like Gold
Dust.
London. Messages from tho front
saying that tobacco is liko gold dust
to tho soldier have so touched the
sympathy of smokers that mall to the
continent Is now filled with cigarettes
pipes and plug cut. Societies are
formed for tho collection of tobaccc
in Its various forms uud boxes foi
suoh contributions aro now prominent
on hotel desks nnd club tables nnd
other places frequented by smokers.
Whllo all claBsoB aro helping Tom
my Atkins to get ills smoko tamper
nnco societies are frequently urging
him not to drink.. These soclotloB want
tho men to voluntoor to do what wag
mado compulsory In tho Russian army
by tho czar's antlvodka decroo.
Ono well-known Anglican bishop haa
asked tho men to plodgo themselves
to refrain from drinking ovon beer oi
light wines, although thoy may know
tho water to bo polluted. The bishop
himself Is not joining tho expedition
ary forco.