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THE 8EMI.WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. 3 8510 RUSS TAB LINER ARABIC AND HER CAPTAIN, W. FINCH LOSE ELEVEN SHIPS MANY HOGS' ARE VACCINATED1 SIX GENERALS CAPTURED BY GERMANS IN FALL OF NOVO GEORGIEV3K. 1 CZAR'S MEN ARE RETREATING Number of Cannon Taken by Teutono Has Been Increased to More Than uv, an umciui aiammcni rrom ocr- lln War Office Says. Berlin, Aug. 23 (by wireless). Novogeorglovsk, mightiest fortress of the cznr, has fallen. Tho capturo by Gorman troops of tho groat stronghold tit the Junction of tho Vistula and Nnrow rivers was olllclally announcod hero on Friday. Six Russian generals and 85,000 sol diers wcro captured by General von Boseler's troops- when thoy took Novo georglovsk. Tho number of cannon lias been Increased to more than 700, an olllclal statement says. General von flallwltz's troops havo taken 2.G50 Russian prisoners, tho statement adds. Tho Russians retreat ed castof Kqvno and In tho district of Dawlnn as far as tho road from. Augustowo to Grodno. With tho enpturo of Novogeorglovsk the Germans havo taken tho last of tho Vistula fortresses and removed a danger that oxistcd as long as that stronghold was held by tho Russians. Tho pursuit of tho retreating Russian armloH can bo continued without uny possibility of a suddon sortlo. Novogeorglovsk was captured un der tho eyes of Emponv William him self, ho having arrived thcro whlln tho Gornnn troops won making their attacks. Tho fortress foil after a slcgo of 12 days, during which thr mighty Gor man guns poured a rain of shall upon its fortifications. Tho outlying forts wcro taken ono by ono whllo tho Gorman clrclo drew closer dally to tho main formications. Tho Gorman genoral staff accompa nied Emperor William to Novo georglovsk to watch tho closing act of tho military drama enacted thoro. ILLINOIS HIT BY STORM Levee at East Alton Gjvcs Way Town Flooded Ten DlJ, In St. Louis County. ' v. Alton, 111., Aug. 23. Tho lovco of Wood river at East Alton gave way on Friday night and scut Hood waters rushing through tho strectB, tearing down barns and houses and forcing many pcoplo to uppor storlos. Ap peals for motor boats and skiffs to roscuo hundreds of marooned persons woro sent to Mayor Deal of Alton. St. LouIb, Aug. 23. A galo and Hood of rain that rivals tho tropical hurrl cano that haB 'dovaBtatcd Galveston and tho surrounding country Is swoop ing up tho valloy of tho Mississippi toward Chicago and tho groat lako region. Tho heaviest twenty-four-hour rain fall In tho history of this city Inter rupts tralllc. is destroying proporty and lives. Ton persons aro dead In tho flood, 5,000 havo been driven from their homes In St. Louis county and COO woro maroonod on thoir houso tops or on tho tops of strcot cars. Tho rainfall was 5.20 inches bo twoon 7 p. m. Thursday and noon Fri day, Tho rain continued without cob satlon Friday afternoon. No estlmato of tho damago to proporty could bo obtained. Tho St. Louis business district suf fered nothing worso than flooded sow ers, but tho residonco sections and outlying territory was hard hit by tho Hood. Tho pollco used rowboatB from tho park lagoons to roscuo marooned resi dents. Springfield, 111., Aug. 23. Inostlnm bio damago to crops In procoss of har vesting has hoon cnusod by niJtorrlflc downpour of rnin which has boon gen oral In Illinois for tho last twonty-four hours. Tho northern soctlon of tho stato Ib tho wcrst ufforor bocnuso a larger porcontngo of tho grain remains unharvestod. At Plncknoyvlllo tho dolugo brought a sudden end to tho soldlors reunion, In tho vicinity of Mount Vornon thousands of acres of corn aro destroyed. BRITISH SUBMARINE IS LOST Goes Aground and Is Pounded to Pieces and Fifteen of Crew Drown. London, Aug. 23. Tho British sub marino E-13 has been lost with 1C men off tho Danish coast, whllo on her woy to tho Baltic sea. Flftoon men woro saved. Olllclal announce mout of tho Iosb of tho 12-13 was mado on Friday by tho admiralty. Sho was under ordors to co-oporato with thn Russian Ilaltlo Hoot oft Riga, against tho German fleot. 8nys He Killed Father. Wausau, Wis.. Aug. 23. Alfred Wohrloy, son of 1'otor Wehrloy, n real ostato dealer, has solved tho mystery of tho shooting to death of his fatlior by confessing to tho deed. Ho said ho had been estranged from his father, French to Discuss War. PnrlH. Auir. 23. Public Interest has boon aroused in an oxtraordlnary do grco In tho session of tho chamber of dcnutlcs. which reassembles after n rccosB, Tho government's conduct of tho war will bo discussed. I 1 Sri &ufyZT rnK--a-i- t w -ti m t't r rrrnn "T tt'i v r rr r - wn -n M.wtrfAni.iinxjtr ' iwivt ' .j-.mxzj map- TAKE TWO BIG FORTS GERMANS CAPTURE KOVNO AND NOVOGEORGIEVSK. Kaiser's Armies Smash On Toward Petrograd, Taking Many Pris oners and Guns. London, Aug. 20. Kovno, tho great Russian fortress protecting tho north ern end of tho Russian socond lino of dofonso through Brcst-Litovsk,' on which tho Slavs promised to mako their final stand nfter tho fall of War saw, has boon captured by tho Gor- niniiH. This announcement, mado olllclally n Uorlln on Wednesday, together with a simultaneous announcement that tho Russian armies In Poland havo retired to Brcst-Lltovsk, and bombardment of thnt tho greatest of all tho Russian fortifications Is about to begin, Indi cates that tho "masterly retreat" of tho Russians in Poland has resulted moroly in their rotirement to a posi tion equally lnsocuro. Russia's posi tion today is by far Uio most serious Blnco tho Btart of tho war. Olllclal announcdmont was mado hero of tho capturo of tho Important Russian fortress of Novogeorglovsk. CONSULS ACCUSED BY U. S. British and Cerman Agents In San Francisco Aid Neutrality Vio lations 's Charge. San Francisco, Aug. 21. Allega tions that tho imperlTil German eon- sulato and A. Carnegie Ross, British consul at San Francisco, furnished a quarter of n million dollars, directly and Indirectly, to men under Indict ment for violations of tho noutrnllty of tho United States aro made In In dictments mado public by John W. ProBton, United States district attor noy. Washington, Aug. 21. Attomoy Gon- oral Gregory roportod to President Wilson that Investigation' into chnrgos of activities of German ngontB In this country had so far disclosed noth ing to load to action by tho depart ment of Justice. Tho attorney gonoral discussed tho alleged activities of Gorman agents In this country gonorally with tho prosldont. Later, ho said no gonoral Investigation had been ordered by tho prosldunt, but that any chnrgoB of violation of tho neutrality of tho Uni ted Statos would 'oc cnrofully looked Into by tho dopartmont of Justice IMPORTANT NEWS I I ITEMS Rome, Aug. 20. Tho Turkish govern mout has revoked permission to Ital lans to leave tho country and among tho Italian subjects hold up on Turk IbIi sdll aro 0,000 reservists, accord lng to a Bucharest dispatch. Loudon, Aug. 20.Two moro noutrul ships havo boon sunk by Gorman sub marines, it was announced horo. Thoy woro tho Norwegian steamers Min ora! and Romulus. Tho crowB df both vossols woro saved. Unrls, Aug. 20. Albert Thomas, un dor-socrotary of wnr, has Issued a warning to manufacturers that a scare lty of railroad rolling stock will mako dllllcult tho dollvory of coal unless It Is ordored In advance. TWO BRITISH WARSHIPS SUNK Small Cruiser and Destroyer Torpe doed by Submarine Craft Fight Off Jutland. Berlin, Aug. 21. by wireless. Gor man torpedo-boat destroyers havo sunk a small British crulsor and a British destroyer by torpedoing thorn In an engagement of small craft off tho west coaBt of Jutland, tho Gorman admiralty announco. Louis B. Clark Wins Shoot. Chicago, Aug. 23. Louis B, Clark, vlco-prosldont of tho Hibernian Na tional bank, won tho Grand American handicap. Ho shot 9G In regular com petition, and was tied. In tho shoot-off. Clark made 20 straight. Mountain Climber Killed. Tucoma, Aug. 23. Whllo climbing Gibraltar rock on Mount Rainier with a party of eastern tourists, G. F. Ord way of Boston slipped and plunged to death down a canyon. Mrs. Ordway saw her husband fall. . S... 700 II1S CARRANZA FORCES REPULSE AT TACK BY VILLISTAS NEAR MONTEREY. TWO RAIDERS ARE EXECUTED General Villa Accepts Plan for Peace Suggested by Pan-American Note Answer to Appeal Received at El Paso Addressed to Lansing. Laredo, Tox., Aug. 21. Seven hun dred dead and a largo number wound ed was tho result of a battlo Tuesday botweon Carranza and Villa forces noar Monterey, according to advices rocolvod on Thursday at tho Nuovo Laredo Carranza headquarters. Tho Villlstas were attempting to capturo Monterey, hut woro ropulsed and re treated westward. Villa lost GOO and Carranza 200, according to tho ro port. Two Mexicans hold In Jail at San Benito In connection with tho Austin killing In tho Sebastian raid last week woro taken out in tho absence of a guard and killed. Tho killing at Mercedes of four Mex icans, alleged members of tho band which killed Prlvuto Wlndhouso, Is confirmed. Tho olllclal toxt of General Villa's reply to tho Pan-American appeal for poaco which -reached El Paso from Chihuahua follows In part: "In replying, I havo tho honor to In form you that tho convention gov ernment Is strong enough through Its own forco and power to contlnuo tho light dofondlng tho institutions be longing to tho Mexican people, but taking Into consideration tho friendly and brotherly attltudo of tho United States of America and our sisters, tho Latin-American republics, wo cordial ly accept tho good olllces of your ex colloncicB toward calling a reunion of delegates of tho contending parties rocognlzcd In Mexico. It will bo pos slblo for them to reach a satisfactory agrcomont, thus saving tho national honor." Tho Villa roply is directed to Secre tary Robert Lansing and to each of tho Latin-American diplomats who had signed tho message 400 DIE IN TEXAS STORM Galveston and Other Cities Along the Gulf Coast Are Greatly Damaged Loss Enormous. San Antonla, Tox., Aug. 19. Pro tected by tho sea wall, which with stood tho battering of tho waves hurled ngalnBt It by tho force of a wind ranging from 90 to 121 miles an hour, Galveston escaped tho hurricane which broke over that city Monday night and Tuesday morning with a minimum loss of lifo and a relatively small loss of proporty. Tho heaviest loss of llfo will bo found to havo been sustained by the shipping nnd dredges anchored out In tho bay. Tho total, including thoso lost In tho city, from ships nnd in tho lowlands of Galveston, may reach 250 to 300. The exact number, however, probably never will bo known. With tho deaths roportod In Virginia Point, Texas City. La Porte, Houston and other noar-by coa'st cities, tho grand tolal will approximate 400 lives. it Is estimated that tho proporty loss at Galveston may roach $10,000, 000, but In tho faco of thin tho citi zons aro jubilant, for tho sea wall, built at a tremendous cost following tho great storm of 1900, hus done Its duty and stands lntncL Groat IioIph havo boon torn in tho pavomont of tho boulevard just InBldo tho sea wall for practically tho ontlro dlstnnco from Seventh to Nineteenth streets, and in places tho wall Itsolf haB been undermined. Outside of Galveston tho property loss is estimated at from 130,000,000 to $52,000,000. Lions Kill Trainer In Cnne. Northilold, Minn., Aug. 23. Pleasure was turned quickly Into tragedy horo whon four lions nttackod and killml Maj. John Duraont. an animal tralnor of a carnival company which nppeared horo on Thursday. Frank's Body Laid to Rest. Now York, Aug. 23. Leo M. Frank's body was laid to rest In tho fnmlly lot In Cypress Mills comotory on Friday. Ills widow, his parents, and a few other relatives and friends stood bo- aldo tho grave. U. S. FACES CRISIS ARABIC TRAGEDY INVOLVES DIG NITY OF U. S. Washington Official Says Sinking of Liner Puts Honor of Nation at Stake. Washington, Aug. 21. "This is no timo for hasty nctlon. Tho situation created by tho torpedoing of tho Ara bic Is too serious to permit snap judgmont. Neither tho president nor tho stato dopartmont will mako a sin' glo move in tho caso until all of tho facts havo boon gathered by American diplomatic and consular agents and aro beforo them. "Tho honor and dignity of tho na tion aro Involved, but tho peoplo can rest assured that their interests aro safo." That was tho only word forthcom ing from administration sources re garding tho situation precipitated by tho sinking of tho White Star Linor Arabic. Tho statement camo from tho one man In tho government sorv ico who knows the. president's mind. By direct order of tho executive, all ofllcials wcro prohibited from talking for publication. Tho slogan of "suspend Judgment until we havg an or uio racts," enunciated uy tue president to Sccretnry of Stato Lan sing within half an hour after tho word of tho sinking of tho liner reached this country, will be rigidly adhered to. CARDINAL VANNUTELLI DIES Dean of Sacred College Was One of Most Influential of Those Eligible to Papacy. Rome, Aug. 21. Cardinal Serallno Vannutelli, dean of tho Sacred col lege, Is dead at tho ago of olghty-ono. Cardinal Vannutolll was ono of tho most Influential of thoso members of tho Sacrod collego eligiblo to tho papacy. Ho was one of tho six cardi nal bishops who take their title from tho suburban sees of Rome. Ho was bishop of Porto, Santa Ruflna and Ostla. Ho was proclaimed cardinal by Pope Leo XIII, March 14, 1887. Tho cardinal was born November 26, 1834, at Gcnazzano. Ho was successively secretary to tho papal nuncio In Bavaria, apos tolic dolcgato to Ecuador and Peru, and nuncio nt Drussols and Vienna. HIGHER RAIL RATE APPROVED Tariff on Iron and Steel From Chi cago Points Is Indorsed by Commerce Body. Washington, Aug. 20. Increased rates on Iron nnd Btool from tho Mis sissippi and Missouri rlvors, Chicago and intermediate territory to Utah, Colorado and Kansas points wcro ap proved by tho lntorstato commcrco commission. Tho decision makes an oxcoptlon as to iron bars, steel bars, steel sheets nnd structural steel In carloads from St. Louis to Denver orig inating east of tho Mississippi. DR. JOHNSON EDUCATOR HEAD President of South Carolina Collego Gets 479 Votes as Against 184 for His Woman Opponent. Oakland, Cal., Aug. 20. Dr. David B. Johnson, president of tho WInthrop Normul and Industrial collego of Rock Hill, S. C, was elected president of tho National Education association by a voto of 479 ns against 184 received by Miss Graco C. Strachan, district su perintendent of schools. Ilrooklyn, N. Y. Root Heads Bar Association. Salt Lako City. Aug. 20. Elihu Root of Now York was unanimously elected president of tho American Bar asso ciation. Martial Law for St. Marc. Washington, Aug. 21. Martial law has boon declared in St. Marc, Haiti, Admiral Capcrton notified tho navy department. This makes tho third Haitian city controlled by Unltod States marines. War Veterans Elect Chief. Dotroit, Mich., Aug. 21. Tho Asso ciation of Veterans of Foreign Wars has olocted Qus H. Hartung of Denver commander In chief and Chicago haB been Bolected for tho 191C encamp-moiiL GERMAN WAR CRAFTS SUNK BY RUSSIANS IN RIGA BATTLE. WARSHIP MQLTKE AMONG TMEM Big Supcr-Drcadnought, Costing $12,. 000,000 Sent to Bottom Italy Declares War On Turkey. London. A dispatch to tho Central News from Petrograd says that tho Germans lost the battlo cruiser Moltke, threo crulsors and seven tor pedo boats In the Riga battlo last weok. week. The report says tho Ger mans tried to mako a descent near Pompvin (Pemnigol, on the cast shore of tho Gulf of Riga, some thlrty-llvo miles north of Riga). Four barges crammed with soldlors took part In the descent. Thoy were repulsed by tho Russian troops with out tho co-operation of artillery, tho Germans being exterminated nnd tho barges captured. Tho German battle cruiser Moltko was a vessel of 23,000 tons and car ried in ordinary times, to complement of 1,107 men. It was a sister ship of tho famous Coeben, which became a part of tho Turkish navy after tho commencement of the war and was rechriBtencd Sultan Sellm. Tho Moltke was 500 feet long and was armed wIUi ten eleven-Inch guns and twelve six-inch guns and twelve twenty-four pounders. In addition, Its armament Included four twenty Inch torpedo tubes. It was built In 1911 and had a speed of about twenty eight knots. Tho Moltke was In tho battlo with the British fleet in tho North sea last January when the German armored crulsor Uluecher was sunk. In 1912, tho Moltko was In tho German squad ron which visited tho United States to return the visit of the- United States battleship squadron at Kiel during Its trip around the world. Tho cost ofthe Moltke was about $12, 000,000. Italy at War With Turkey. Rome. Italy declared war on Tur key August 21. The Italian ambas sador at Constantinople asked for his passports and departed. Ostensibly, Italy's reason for declaring war was that Turkey refused to permit Ital ian reservists to return to their na tive country to take up arms against Austria, Turkey's nlly. Rome news papers also charged that tho Turks were plotting to regain Tripoli, an nexed by Italy following tho Turko Italian war of 1912, and that Italian subjects In Turkey have been mis treated. Reports two weeks ago were that Italy had concentrated 150,000 troops and a fleet of transports near Taran to to aid in the Dardanelles campaign. Germany is expected to be at war with Italy before long. Berlin news papers several weeks ago declared Italian newspapers woro paving tho way for war with Turkey by printing stories of alleged Turkish outrages against Italians. Twenty Drown in St. Louis Flood. St. Louis. The Mcramec creek, lined on either side with numerous pleasuro resorts, club houses nnd summer cottages, wont several miles out of Its banks Sunday, swept away most of thoso buildings, and increas ing to twenty, it is reported, tho num ber of lives lost in St. Louis county as tho result of tho flood which fol lowed tho recent rainstorm hero. The Mcramec rose at tho rate of a foot an hour nil day Sunday and until lato at night. Hundreds of persons woro marooned in club houses and cot tages along tho rlvor, following a forty-hour rainfall. Six persons woro said to have been drowned at Valloy Park and two at Mcramec Highlands. Many other per sons wero missing and tho fear Is ox piessed by county officials that tho death list may aggregrato several ecoro persons. 265 Killed in Texas. Galveston, Texns. A total of 256 known dead residents of southeast Texas coast points and crows of wrecked craft of all kinds, sixty-five persons missing, many of whom aro belloved to have jerished, and prop orty damngo closo to $50,000,000 was the toll taken by the hurricane which swept this section recently. These figures wero reached from n careful compilation mado of what aro considered tho most authentic reports of llfo and property received slnco tho cessation of tho gulf storm. Hold Up Bank Near Police Station. Los Angelea, Cnl. Threo men held up tho manager, bookeoper and a de positor of tho Boyle Heights suburb an branch of the Homes Savings bank and escaped, bank ofllcials said, with $3,000. Tho bank Is across tho Btreet from tho pollco station. Germans Protest War Loan, Denver, Colo. Tho German-American Alliance of Colorado, through Its oxecutlvo committee, dispatched a letter to President Wilson protesting against British war loan In U. S. From July 1 to August 10 Over 12,000" Have Been Treated 700,000 Died Since January 1. From July 1 to August 10 of this year 12,301 hogs havo been vaccinat ed, according to reports in the olflco 3f tho stato veterinarian. To do this 373,774 cubic centimetres of scrum havo bifn used and 8,202 centimetres of virus. Thirty-seven permits havo been Issued to manufacturers of se rum, thirty-two of them to those of other states who desire to sell serunv In tills state. Thoro havo boon 1, 500,000 hogs treated up to April 1. Seven hundred thousund hogs havo died slnco tho first of tho year, 05 per sent of them from hog cholera. Tho Department of Agriculture of Nebraska has been carrying on an extenslvo Investigation during tho past year on the chemistry of,tho processes which take place during tho ensiling of various green crops. Special attention has been given ta silnge mndo from mixtures of alfalfa and sweet, sorghum. Six small slloe holding about ono ton each wero fill ed In September, 191'4, with various mixtures. Two of these silos wera opened this month, and tho silage In each was found In perfect condition. The first silo contained a mixture of one part sweet sorghum nnd ono part alfalfa, whllo tho second contained" ono part sweet sorghum and twci parts alfalfa. Alfalfa alono will not mnko a silage because the plant docs not contain enough sugar to Insure sufllclent acid to preserve tho silage The extermination ,Qf prairie dogs In Dundy county has raised a question concerning payment to tho road over seers for their services In dealing: death to the little animals. County At torney General C. A. Ratcllffe has asked the attorney genral whether or not tho road overseers must wait for x tax to bo collected from the owners of tho land where the dogs were killed or shall the county board pay the claims immediately. Doputy At torney General Barrett in reply holds that tho claim should bo paid upon presentation and not delayed until the tnx is collected. An old cannon, said to have been ased against Indians In Nebraska in territorial days, has been donated by the G. A. R. post at Wllber to the museum of the state G. A. R. In tho state house. The nnclent-'gun is only thtrty-sl.x inches long. It in called n 'Black Tom" gun, a kind that carried' a three pound solid shot. It Is mounted on small cart wheels. As 6istant Adjutnnt General A. M. Trim ble Is cuRtotlian of the G. A. R. mu seum. No history of tho gun has been received. Ex-Governor Holcomb of tho Board of Control is in favor of establishing a brickyard at some suitable point in tho stato and manufacture brick to bo used in paving the roads of tho state. Tho legislature voted an appropriation two years ago for tho establishment of a reformatory which would havo in connection with It a brick-making plant, but tho Board of Control was unablo to find nnythlng that appealed to them and tho appropriation was al lowed to lapse back to the state. R. L. Holland, a federal game in snector. brought glad news to Stato Gamo Wnrden Rutenbcck recently. Holland reported there wero moro ducks In northwestern Nebraska and pspecinlly around Cherry county than ho had ever seen before. He said ola settlers told him tho fowl wero moro plentiful than ever beforo In the his tory of tho state. This is duo to tho federal law which abolishes cpring shooting, he says. Tho fall huntipe season will open September 1. Two hundred nnd fifty elevators aro now operated over Nebraska by far mers. There aro seventy-five assess ment lnsuranco companies which aro farmer owned, twelve co-operatlvo stores and three creameries. The in formation was .collected by tho stato agricultural school. Tho stato railway commission has authorized tho Lincoln telephone com pany to extend Uio Gormantown serv ice to Seward upon tho payment by Gcrmantown subscribers of tho Sew ard rate. Thoso who deslro the Sow fird Bcrvlco added to tho service thoy now get may have it by paying ?2.50 a month for Individual business phones. Tho 'rates at Gcrmantown aro $1.50 for business nnd $1 for residence phones. Tho Stato Railway commission has Issued tho first public warohouso per mits under tho now public warehouse law. Tho Drovers and Traders Stato bank is a now Institution given a charter by tho Stato Banking board, with a capital of $10,500. Tho officers aro Andrew N. VenUs, president; Christian Schllt, vlco president and Fred Jll. Crone, cashier. Tho bank Is located at Haigler. Tho attorney general's office has mndo an official ruling that a county board is not warranted In spending any public funds for tho Improvement cr maintenance of a road not estab lished rr a nubile highway.