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THE 8EMIAVEPKLV TniniiNF NntiTU m avtc mcroaqwa WILSON TELLS PLANS CABINET TOLD OF DEFENSE, 8HIP PURCHASE AND SPECIAL TAX PROPOSALS. CABINET MEMBER MAY QUIT Reported at Washington That Secre tary of Commerce Redfleld May Re sign $1000,000,000 Additional Reve nue Needed for U. S. Next Year. Washington, Nov. 15. President WIIboh discussed with his cabinet on Friday tho legislative program for tho coming session of congrusB inul mat tors of party policy. It la understood that unanimous approval was given tho president's suggestions which are to bo carried In his annual message. Theso Include: National dofonso program for army and navy. Ship purchnso legislation for up building of tho merchant marine, Giving United Status Industries In one lino authority to havo co-opera-tlvo selling agencies In foreign coun tries. Conservation legislation to develop natural resources. Amendments to federal rcsorvo act to permit member banks to Join In establishing n foreign bank. Revcnuo legislation to meet needs of the government. It was tho gossip during tho day that Mr. Rcdfleld might Icavo tho cabinet, and that his successor would bo Secretary Houston of tho depart ment of agriculture. Carl Vrooman of Illinois, now assistant, was slated for secretary of agriculture. In connection with fiscal legislation planned it Is understood tho presi dent has agreed with his advisers that It will bo unwlso to uso any of tho Panama canal bonds remaining unsold to meet tho omorgency needs of tho treasury or to provide- funds for the defense program. Exports on treasury matters have pointed out to the president that it will bo necessary noxt yenr to get $100,000,000 additional rovenucn for tho ordinary noeds of tho government. Fiscal exports In congross are work ing now on plans for now legislation to raise theso funds through special taxca without being forced to reopen tho Underwood tariff for a general In crease of dutlos. CHURCHILL QUITS CABINET Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to Join the Army In France. London, Nov. 15. It Is olllcially an nounced that Winston Sponcor Churchill, chancollor of tho duchy of Lancastor, has resigned from tho cab inet and will Join tho army in Franco. Ho Is n. major In tho Oxronl Yeo manry. When tho war broko out Churchill was llrst lord of tho ,ndmlralty. Though ho was domoted In tho cab inet on a tide of public disapproval, it is gonorally concodod now that It was Churchill that saved England from defeat at sea and perhaps from Invasion wlion. with Princo Louis of Battonburg. ho mobilized tho scat tored nrltish (loot two months bororo war broko out and kopt it mobilized. It is said that it was this mobilization that saved Britain from nn Invnslon. FLEES WITH COLLEGE FUNDS F. K, Jackson, Cashier of Northwest ern University, Alleged to Have Taken $21,000. Chicago, Nov. 1(5. Frank K. Jack son, cashier of tho Northwestern uni versity, "model husband" of Evanston, and a Duporlntcndont In tho First Mothodlst Episcopal Sunday Bchool, has disappeared. Ho loft n wlfo, two small daughters am' n beautiful homo, built within tho last year. A shortago of $21,000, vhlch may bo Increased ns tho examination of his books prog resses, has been disclosed by tho audit, which was begun quietly on Wednesday. Tho ilofaultlng caBhlor was n largo Investor in war stocks, which a fow days ago suffered a tem porary setback. PEACE MOVE TOLD TO WILSON David Starr Jordan, Head of Lelnnd Stanford University, Tells Presi dent of Plan. Washington, Nov. IB. David Stnrr Jordan, president of Loland Stanford unlvorslty and head of tho Interna tional poaco congress, recently hold In San Francisco, told Prosldont Wll Bon on Friday that a qunslofflclal meet ing of neutral nations probably will bo held somo tlmo boforo ChrlBtmas. olthor at Tho Haguo, Borno or Copen hagen, to nttompt to bring about peace In Europe German Fort Blows Up, Amsterdam, Nov. 13. Eighteen Ger man olllcers and soldiers woro klllod and fifty wounded, says tho Echo Bolgo, when a portion of Fort Mncho volotto was blown to pieces by an ac cidental explosion. Insurance Man Ends Life, Chicago, Nov. 13. William H. Wilt, forty-eight years old. secretary-treasurer of tho Merchants' National Flro Insuranco company, ended his Ufa by cutting his throat with o. penknlfo. I' had bocn 111. BRITISH MAY REACH GERMAN FLEET Arrow No, 1 points to tho passago between Fehmarn Island and tho mainland, from which locality tho DanoJ heard heavy cannonading, bollovcd to have been tho result of an attack by British submarines on n German squadron. Arrow No. 2 points to Kiel and tho Kiel cunnl. headquarters of tho German licet. GERMANS IN RETREAT BERLIN ANNOUNCES PLAN TO REACH RIGA HAS FAILED. Troops Successfully Withdrawn From Forest West of Shlok on Ac count of Floods. Berlin, Nov. 11. Tho German war oflloo Issued tho following official state ment: "Army group of Field Marshal von Ilindunburg. Near Komniorn, west of Riga, throo attacks made by tho Rus sians, supported by llro from ships' gunu, woro ropulsed. During tho night our troops, undisturbed by tho enemy, havo withdrawn from tho wooded land of thu west and southwest of Shlok, which, on account of tho rains of the lnst fow days, has become a swamp. Wo took more than 100 Itusslan pris oners. Army group of General von Llnulngon: Supported by German nr tlllory, Austro-IIungarian troops drove tho HuBslans out of Koscouschnevka." Potrogrnd, Nov. 11. Tho following oillclal communication from general headquarters wan Issued hero: "On tho left bank of tho Dvlna, near Ikskul, our troops captured tho farm of BorBomuondo and took somo Ger man prisoners. Two counter-attacks by tho enomy woro repulBod with heavy Gorman losses. According to supplementary Information, 1.500 men, 21 ofllcora and 11 machlno guns woro captured by us In tho lighting at Kolk. In addition to tho 2,000 men and CO olllcers provlously reported." COY PURNELL FOUND GUILTY Son of Head of House of David Must Pay Six Cents to Former Member of Cult. St. Josoph, Mich., Nov. 13. Tho Jury returned a verdict of guilty on Thurs day as charged in tho $25,000 Augusta Holllday slandor suit ngainst "Princo" Coy Purnoll, son of tho reigning mon arch of tho Israol Houso of David, as sessing damages at six cents, Under the verdict tho dofendant must pay tho costs. Boforo a crowd that Jammed tho courtroom to suffocation Mrs. Hol llday told her story. It wns a recital of tho Ufa of tho "Inner court" of Shlloh, "King" BonJamln'B hendqunr tors. Benjamin was pictured by Mrs. Holllday as a "dobauchcr of young girls, operating under tho cloak of re ligion," Sho told of her own Intimate rolntlonH with tho "sovonth nngol," ns Benjamin was styled, nnd assorted that sho was only ana of moro than a Bcoro who wero forced to submit to tho advances of "tho king." FIRE LOSS IS $4,000,000 Great Munition Shop at Bethlehem, Pa., Destroyed by Flames Huge War Supplies Lost. South Bethlehem, Pa., Nov. 12. With only tho charred skoloton of No 4 machine shop of tho Bothlchoin Stool company standing ns tho rosult of a flro, oillclals of tho company bo gan planning lmmodlntoly for tho ex tension of tholr capacity to Its for mor flguro, Estimates of tho loss placed It In tho neighborhood of $4, 000,000. Tho blazo wbb discovered In a quantity of oil In tho boring mill section of tho plant. Its origin is un known. Tho valuo of tho guns alono in tho shop is said to bp sovornl million dol lars. Thero woro about 1,000 ma chines of dlfforont kinds In tho build ing, running from lothos, simpers, drills on down to boring machines. Corregldor Fort Complete. Washington, Nov. IB. The greatest formications in tho possession of the United States, located on Corregldor Island, commanding tho ontrnnco to Manila harbor In tho Philippines, havo boon completed. Hydroplane to Carry Malls. Now York, Nov. 15. Tho Yolanda II, a hydroplano driven forty miles nn hour by two air propellers, is ho;e nwalting shipment to Bogota, Colom bla, whoro sho will bo used to carry tho malls. 4f V . M It-pa 12 PERISH IN CYCLONE GREAT BEND, KAN., HARD HIT BY TORNADO. Waterworks, Electric Light Plant and Other Buildings Demolished by Terrific Storm. Gront Bond, Kan., Nov. 12. Twelve persons wero killed and moro than ono hundred Injured, many of them seriously, In a cyclono which swept through tho resldonco section of Great Bend shortly after seven o'clock Wednesday night. Tho Santa Fo railway station was carried away. Half tho houses In tho town woro wrecked. Thrco largo Hour mills and sovcral grain olovntors woro demolished. It Is reported at Kansas City that tho waterworks, electric light plant and many other largo buildings wero swept Into tho rlvur by tho tornado which swept Great Bend, Kan. A telophono messago from Great Bend received at Wichita, Kun., over a lono wire out of that town, report ed that Blx bodies of persons killed In tho tornado there havo been recov ered, Fires broko out in many homes, but tho heavy dolugo of rain which fol lowed tho wind checked tho ilames boforo they could spread over tho town. A schoolhouso lying in tho path of tho storm was completely demolished. Tho towns of Pratt and Larnod aro reported to havo suffored heavily. A wrecking train carrying all tho nvallablo doctors and nurses In Hutch inson wns sent in response to a plea for aid from Great Bond. BRITISH SEARCH U. S. SHIP Act Committed In Port of Progreoo, Mex. Washington to Order Investigation. Washington, Nov. 12, Tho Ameri can steamship Zoolandla was forcibly searched by n party from a British cruiser last week when lying in the port of Progrcso, Mcx. Tho Amerlcnn consul thero reports tho cruiser' now lying outsldo, presumably waiting to solzo the ship. On tho face of such a report as tho consul sent, oven though tt Is Incom plete, tho oillclal conclusion hero la that tho British naval authorities not only violated Moxlcan noutrnllty. but far oxcooded tholr rights In forcibly soarchlug an Amoilcnn ship in a neu tral port. Forcible searching of an Amorlcan ship In n neutral port probably would constitute ono of tho most serious Is sues to arlso between tho United Stntcs and Gront Britain in tho con troversy now In tho chnnnols of di plomacy over tho British navy's con duct toward Amorlcan shipping. While awaiting further details oillclals woro allont. A thorough investigation will bo made. ARMED MEN GUARD OIL TRAIN 750,000 Gallons a Day Shipped From California Fields Across Country for War Orders. Richmond, Cal Nov 12, An ex press train with an armed guard and carrying 750,000 gallons of petrol to 1111 war orders wllll leavo hero for New York ovory 24 hours until tho Panama canal Is reopened for trnillc. according to an annouueomont mndo by oillclals of tho Standard Oil com pany. Concedes Stanley's Election. Loulsvlllo, Ky., Nov. 15. In a for mal statement E. II. Morrow, Repub lican candldato for governor of Ken tucky, on Friday conceded tho elec tion of ox-Congressman A. O. Stnnloy, his Democratic opponent. President Will See Game. Washington, Nov. 15. President Wilson has decided to attend tho Army-Navy football gamo at Now York Novembor 27. Ho attended tho gomo two years ngo, but was unablo to bo present last year. ARMS PLUS BURN AGENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE INVESTIGATE FIRES AT BIG FACTORIES. ITALIAN STEAMER IS BURNED $500,000 Blaze Destroys Wire Rope Plant Dynamite Found In House and Three Men Were Ready to Elow Up Powder Plants. Washington, Nov. 13. Mysterious ilrcs raged on Thursday In American factories making war supplies for tho entente allies whllo agents of tho de partment of Juatico woro Investigating pYovIous disasters with a view of dis covering whothor thoy wero oscrlba able to a p(lot. At tho same timo it was reported that a bomb caused a lire on an Italian steamship In tho Gulf of Mexico nnd thrco men wero ar rested after tho ilndlng of a trunkful of dynamlto near Scranton, Pa. Horo aro tho day's Arcs, fhlch fol lowed tho $1,000,000 blazo in a gun making shop at tho Bethlehem Stool plant nnd n smaller ono at tho Bald win Locomotive works, and Thurs day's othor developments: Steamship Llvlctta Italian craft which took fire Gu miles off Sablno bar and later was beached 05 miles cast of Sabine, Tex. Captain Lico reported to Italian consul at Port Arthur, Tex., his belief that the flro was caused by tho explosion of a bomb. Dynamite Trunkful, 150 pounds, found at homo of Eugcn-3 English, at Packvlllo, near Scranton. Pa. Federal authorities bellcvo discovery thwarted a plot to blow up tho DuPont Powder works at Jormyn, which aro furnish ing explosives to tho allies. Threo men wero nrrested. John A. Roobllng's Sons company Wlro lopo shop at Trenton, N. J., burned with a loss of nearly $500,000. Company is making supplies for Euro pean countries in other buildings. Thomns P. Skelly Bolt company, Inc. Plant at Philadelphia damaged $20,000 by Are. "There's been funny things going on around hero latoly," said an official of tho concern, which indirectly has been filling orders des tined for European belligerents. TELEGRAPHIC NOTES Altoona, Pa., Nov. 11. Traffic Is so heavy on tho Pennsylvania lines that 25 yard firemen havo been promoted to englnemen and all firemen on fur loughs have been put to work. Chippewa Falls, Wis., Nov. 12. Op orations for sterilization, tho first un der tho now Wisconsin law, havo been performed at tho State Homo for Fee-bio-Minded hero on ten male Inmates whoso ages ranged from fifteen to thirty years. Dr. J. V. Lyman, assist ed by Dr. John Zlegler, both of Eau Claire, operated. London, Nov. 13. Conscription prop ably will be resorted to by Great Bri tain December 1, unless tho "young men medically fit and not Indispensa ble In any business of national impor tance" enlist boforo November 30. Lord Derby, director of recruiting, mad6 this declaration with tho author ity of Premier Asqulth. Lord Derby adds: "Whether a man is indispensable or not to his business will bo decided Inter." WANTS OPINION OF EXPERTS American Defense Society Demands That the Naval Board's Recommen dations Be Made Public. Washington, Nov. 12. A demand that ho make public tho recommenda tions on national prepnrfidness mndo by experts of tho naval general board and tho army general staff was made on President Wilson by tho American Defense socloty, In letters from Its Now York headquarters. Tho society also wroto Secretary of tho Navy Dan iels and Secretary of War Garrison, urging them to aid in having tho ex perts' reports published. "Without tho opinion of oxports In telligent discussion of tho question of national defenso is impossible-," tho society stated. JURY GIVEN HURLEY CASE Fate of Illinois Boy Accused of Mur dering His Sweetheart to Be Decided. . Lincoln, III.. Nov. 12. Tho trial of Daniel Hurloy, Jr., nineteen years old, charged with tho murdor of his sov-qntecn-yenr-old Bwoothcart, Kathorlno Rollor, ended yesterday. Tho caso was given to tho Jury. Analysis of tho girl's stomach after her death, April 25, rovealed tho presonco of poison. Mob Hangs n Negro Critic. Aberdeen, Miss., Nov. 15, Criticiz ing tho styles In dresses worn by whlto women cost tho llfoof John Tay lor, a negro. Taylor voiced his views on whlto women's clothes. A baud of masked men lynched him. Food Riots in Belgium. Amsterdam, Nov. 15. Many per sons woro hurt In fighting between Gorman pollco and Belgians following food riots at Louvlero. During a dem onstration against high prices tho po lice fired Into tho crowd. CONDENSED NEWS OF INTERE6T TO ALL. Autos will bo parked in the centor of Norfolk streets hereafter. Citizens of Ponca celebrated the opening of tho electric lighting plants in that city. Plans aro being made to surfaco tho Lincoln highway with gravel across Dodge county. The fifth annual exhibit of tho Norfolk Corn association will bo held in that city December 1G-17-18. The Manley Brothers of Lyons won $030 in premiums on their Hamp shires at the Panama exposition. The nnnual show of the Beatrice Poultry association will bo held in that city December C to 10. O. W. Morgan, Atchison, Kan., aged 50 years, was struck by a passenger train at Stella nnd instantly killed. Omaha members of the American Institute of Banking have formulated plans for taking military training. Superintendent R. L. Cavlness of tho Kenrnoy schools has ordered lire drills bo held weekly In all city schools. A hospital building having a ca pacity for about a dozen patients, is being erected by Dr. S. A. Lutgen at Wayne. G-uy McKay, bachelor fnrmer living near Kenesaw, is slowly recovering from the effects of lying, bound, in his home for thirty-flvo hours, with out food or water. Falrbury city council has instructed the mayor and city clerk to file on a power site on the Little Blue river. In the near future the city intends to erect a power nnd light plnnt. Tho capture of it red deer In tho Wood river valley has been reported. Rollo Crosby caught tho animal on his farm near Kearney after It had been roaming up and down the valley for days. Miss Mabel Lutz and Mrs. Bennett of Arcadia were killed in an automo bile accident near that place. The steering rod was out of order and they lost control of the machine. Death was instantaneous. A co-operative membership to the Lincoln Commercial club for farmer. has been prepared. The membership is good only for men living on farms of not less than forty acres and who devote their entire timo to farming. Ideal lodge of Odd Fellows of Overton has purchased the Pior3on brick block. Tho second floor, which is now used as a dwelling and furni ture wareroom in tho rear, will be re modeled for a spacious lodge room. It has been estimated that the boot sugar crop in Scottsbluff county wl'l pay to the people 12,500,000 during the next ninety days. The sugar fac tory ennnot care for tho beets and' they have been shipping out train londs to other factories. Not loss than thirty delegates from Beatrice Sunday schools, young peo ples' societies, the high school nnd tho Y. M. C. A., will attend tho state older boys' conference to be held at Lincoln November 2G to 28. Several delegates already have been named. Suit for $75,000 was brought against tho Rock Island railroad in Lincoln by Harlan F. Snyder, who was seri ously injured in an automobllo acci dent some weeks ago. Snyder claimed his back wns broken and he was com pletely paralyzed. He charges that he will bo a permanent invalid. Tho Nebraska Stato Teachers' asso elation nt their recent session in Omaha indorsed medical Inspection of schools and 'recommended that tho next legislature pass a law, "provid ing for and establishing a system of Inspection of tho health condition of children In tho public schools." Omaha took a real start on tho way to systematic planning for the great er city when Mayor Dahlman named members of tho city planning and the welfare boards, two commissions sup posed to have much to do In an ad visory capacity with tho betterment of tho city, morally and physically. Joo Steelier will again display his ability as a wrestler in Lincoln. 'Geno Molady, of Omaha, after a con ference with several Lincoln men and with W. It. Mollor in particular, an nounced that tho Stecher-Hussano match will bo held in the coliseum on the fair grounds Thanksgiving n,f 'ernoon. Reports from Ericson say tho sand hill corn crop, which In past yenrs has ranked above that of the clay counties, will bo a failure this year. Tho early frost now nppears to havo rotten most of It, and grain men de clare It la doubtful If a single car of marketable corn could bo found in Wheeler county. Tho sum of $50,000 has been pledged for a now hotel or tho re modollng of the Eno hotel at Sixth and Broad streets, Fremont. Tho pro nosltlon will be submitted to the hotel committee of tho Commercial club and It Is believed that this fund will 'urnlsh tho nucleus for tho $100,000 that it is proposod to omploy in an Improvement of Fremont hotel facili ties. Many fnrmors havo commonced husking corn around Falrbury. The prico for huBklng opened at 3V6 to 4 rents a bushel, Somo cold weather will bo required to put the corn in condition to crib. Two hundred and fifty head of tho best, largest and most prolific puro bred chickens, bred nnd raised by tho poultry breedors of Nebraska, left Lincoln recently for San Francisco, Cal., where they will be on exhibition at the poultry show to be held In con nection with the Panama-Pacific ex position November 17 to 25. A new $3,000 Methodist church wlli be built nt Lako View soon. The new Christian Science church nt Grand Island was dedicated lasf Sunday. Citizens of Hastings have launched a movement for tho establishing of public market in that city Tho public library, given to Wake field by Phllo Graves as a memorial to his son, has been opened to thv public. A committee of business men of Murray havo completed an organlzn Hon to provide electric light for the town. Ross and Ross brothers havo launched a now paper at Falls City. Tho name of the publication is The Courier. Half the business part of tho town of Miller, sixteen miles north of Koar ney, was burned. Tho loss is estl' mated nt ?GO,000. The Nemaha. Beacon Is tho name of,, tho new paper at Nomaha, a town, thirteen miles northwest of Stella oo the Missouri river. The Cuming county Sunday school convention will meet in annual ses sion at Wisner Monday and Tuesday, November 22 and 23. At tho postofllce primary election held at Wausa, C. P. Lundgren was elected by a plurality of twenty vote3. Tho total vote was CIS. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac B. Leake of Fremont recently celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary. Thoy are both enjoying good health. A movement Is on foot in Kearney for the organization of a Y. M. C. A It is planned to erect a permenant headquarters for the association. Officers of the Nebraska Stato Poultry association definitely decided to hold their next convention in Falla City, the third week in January. Douglas county has Just harvostetf an enormous grapo crop. One fruit grower sold 10,810 baskets at an av erage price of 18c, totaling $1,744 net. Thousands of dollars' worth of hay and many farm Implements were de stroyed by a prairie fire that swept a path twenty-five miles long near North Platte. The entire crop of alfalfa and mll let was destroyed by fire on the farm of Oscar James near Butto when thq millet stack burst into flames from spontaneous combustion. A site has been purchased for tho new Masonic temple at Central City. Nortli Platte will hold a special election December 7 to vote on a $G0, 000 school bond proposition. Senator J. M. Grace of Mascot an nounced in Lincoln recently that ho would enter the democratic primary as n candidate for the nomination for state railway commissioner. A horse buyer of Beatrice estimat ed that at least 1,000 head of horses and mules havo been shipped from Gage county to the war zono. in Europe the last few months. Charles Fitzpatrlck, junior member of the firm of Kirkpatrick Grocery company of Fremont, died from hem orrhage of the brain induced by nr overdose of headache medicine. Hastings wants a wholesale hard ware house, an alfalfa mill and con densed milk factory and members ot Mie chamber of commerce havo deter mined to land ono or all of these in dustries. Work is progressing rapidly on tho large power dam in Ceder river near Ericson. The project when completed will provide power for lighting Eric son, Greeley, Ord and possibly Cen tral City. The Nebraska Woman's Education' al association is a new organization formed in Omaha by tho Nebraska, 'eachors' association. The associa tion will meet Novembor 20 at Lin coln to perfect plans. Tho Ericson Journal, heretofore published by A. C. Bell, -has been sold by Mr. Boll'to J. Bcrney of Bart lett, editor of the Wheeler County In dependent. Mr. Berney will now havo charge of the only two papers In Wheeler county. Tho second "payday" for tho Scott's Bluffs Sugar company, for beets, meaning tho delivery during tho last half of October, occurred. Nov. 10. The company distributed among tho farmers of tho Scott'H Bluff country a total of over $750,000. W. H. Bookwalter of tho town ot Bookwalter In Pawneo county has in herited $1,000,000. He is one of threo heirs to tho $4,000,000 estato of tho lato John W. Bookwalter of Spring field, O., who died in Genoa, Italy, last September. Nothing definite has been dono by tho business men of Miller as regards the upbuilding of plants destroyed by tho recent fire. It Is thought In every case a new building will be erected. Tho actual cause of tho $40,000 fire Is still a mystery. Lincoln will colebrnto tho fiftieth anniversary of tho state of Nebraska during the commencement week of tho Unlvorslty of Nebraska, June, 1917. This date was decided upon nt a conferonco of tho Historical socloty committee with tho Pageant commit tee of tho Lincoln Commercial club a few dnys ago. In nn election nt Table Rock for tho selection of a candidate for post mnter, Charles II. Carmlchael re reived tho most votes. Tho next meeting place of the Ne braska stato press association is to be decided upon by n referendum vota of tho members of tho association. This was decided at Grand Island at a meeting of tho executlvo committee At tho Elmer Elso public sale, near Shubert last week an ordinary grade cow sold for $108. Another Buch cow sold for $100 and an ordinary gradfr heifer, 3 yews old, for $82.