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    THE OEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA.
TALKS 10 STUDENTS
CHANCELLOR' AVERY MAKE8 AD
DRESS AT OPENING:
CONVOCATION.
Items of General Interest Gathered
From Reliable 8ources Around
the State House.
Westsrn NvrBpaper Union News Servlci.
Chancellor S. Avery of tho Univer
sity of Nobraska, at tho opening con
vocation dellvorcd his chief address for
the year. How the students holp tho
university hold tho rospect of mankind
In general, "as well as tho lovo and
gratitude of Its own people, was told
In his spcoch on "Rospoct for tho Opin
ion of Mankind."
Preparedness by tho United Statoa,
he said, web Intended to hold tho re
spec of other nations.'
"In my own relations with faculty
nnd students who have asked my opin
ion as to whothcr it was ethical to do
certain things, particularly things In
volving money; I liavo often said,
'Stop aBldo from yourself and see If
tho transaction Is of such a character
WINFlELD W. EDEN
Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Eden of
College View, who scored 09.5 at
the Better Babies Contest at tho
State Fair.
that you would'be porfoctly willing
that everyone should know ull tho de
tails,' "If tho public still bollovod tho
world to be flat and was fanatical in
thiB vlow, tho university would, in
splta of this fact, bo obliged to teach
tho Copernlcon systom, though it
might possibly rofrain from constantly
agitating tho subject in the news
papers, especially during a legislative
Bosolon." '
Whllo loyalty is not constantly up.
held In tho university, aB in prlvato
foundations, tho chnncollor said, ho
pointed out how tho attitude of tho unl
veralty'peoplo would act upon tho opin
ions of othors, Ho said tho person
who is successful in his university
work has ninety-live chahcoa out of a
hundred of being successful In lifo,
whllo tho person who Is unsuccessful
has about five chances in one hundrod.
Will Examine Railroad Record
Chief Accountant Powoll, with 0. D,
Boyer and thrco other assistants em
ployed by tho state railway commis
sion, have gone to St. Louis anil will
spend several wooks thbro examining
the records of tho Missouri Pad fie
railroad, at Its general headquarters,
for the purpose of flncurtng ovldenco to
bo prcsontcd later In tho trial of tho
2-ccnt faro case now In foderal court
Is Serving Twentieth Term
For tho twentieth tlmo in his lifo
prison doors at the stato ponltontlary
havo opened for Thomas Collins,
slxty-olght years of ago. So decrepit
nnd worn does ho look that slxty-olght
years seems young for htm, Ho enmo
from Omaha to servo a sontenco of
from ono to two years for grand lar
ceny,
Attack UpnAttorney General Reed
Difficulties In connection with lltl
gatlon over tho defunct Farmers Stato
bank of Docntur extended beyond tho
court room whop Attornol Qenoial
WHIls Reed claims Albort F, Wlnto, an
attorney, stopped up to him at the en
tranco of tho Douglas county court
house and urged that a claim ueld by
M. R, Hoover against tho Insolvent
bank, bo settled immediately and out
of court Rood refused, and ho
says, a mltiuto later Whlta planted a
full-arm awing in hla face, knocking
him to mo uncoa.
Declined the Commission's Request
Deputy Stato Auditor Fred Ayros
has turnod down tho request of tho
state sanitary live stock commission
for a stato warrant for ?C with which
to rolmbursd tho Northorn Serum com
pany or Sioux city, la. Tho monoy
was paid by tho company to tho live
stock commission as a fco for a per
Kit to sell hog cholera scrum. Lator
the supremo court declared tho law
under which tho permit was lusuod to
b vod, The Hconso fco has been
turned Into tho stato general fund and
cannot bo drawn from tho treasury
LARGE8T IN IT8 HISTORY
Registration at University May Exceed
Five Thousand.
Tho largest attendance In the history
of Nebraska, with a total registration
In all departments well oxeccding 5,000
Is tho prediction made for tho stnto
university this year by Registrar
Greer, based on tho great increaso In
registration in all classes. Whllo offi
cial registration has closed and classes
liavo already started students on their
long grind, a great many special and
post-graduato students and late under
class students will bo registering dur
ing' tho coming month.
Tho lines In tho Armory at times
during tho past few days extended to
tho outside of tho building, in splto of
ovcry possible arrangement to sond
the students through In a hurry. Deans
of tho colleges, head professors nnd
faculty members acted aB advisors In
lining up tho students for their re
quired courses, and guarding against
mistakes in registration.
Editors to Lecture.
Prof. M. M. Fogg, teacher of Journal
Ism, has announced that his Instruc
tion In nowswritlng and editing will bo
supplemented during tho coming yoar
by lectures by promlnont editors of
Nebraska . newspapers. The lncom'
ploto list already announced by tho
professor Includes the following: A.
L. Blxby, tho Stato Journal; John Cut
right, editorial writer of tho Lincoln
Dally Star; Harry T. Dobbins, editor
of tho Lincoln Nows; Hobs Hammond,
editor of tho Fremont Trlbuno; Edgar
Howard, editor of tho Columbus Tolo-
graph; Norrls A. Huso, editor of tho
Norfolk Dally Nows; Will Owen Jones,
managing editor of tho State Journal;
James E. Lawrence, city editor of tho
Lincoln Dally Star; T. C. McCulIoush,
managing editor of tho Omaha Deo; R.
Motcalfo, editor of tho Omaha No-
braskan; E. P.Purcoll, editor of tho.
Custer County Chief, Broken Bow; Vic
tor Rosawator of tho Omaha Beo, and
W. R. Watson, of tho Omaha World
Herald. May Affect 8-Hour Law
Should the supromo court uphold tho
contention of Kearney, Beatrice, No
braska City and Fremont, that tho pav
ing law passed by tho legislature of
1013 Is unconstitutional, tho stato may
loso several hundred thousand dollars
along with prlvato Individuals, who
havo purchased largo amounts of pav
ing bonds from theso cities. Attor
neys from theso cities appeared be
fore tho court in a case brought by a
proporty owner of Kearney, Chitten
den vs. Klblcr. Tho law Is attacked
on tho technical ground of Illegal
amendment. It Is said that should tho
law bo found unconstitutional on con
tentions presented relatlvo to Illegal
amendment, tho way will bo open to an
attack on tho 8 o'clock saloon closing
law, which, It Is said, was amended in
a llko manner.
They Are Plumb Lines.
When members of tho house of rep
resentatives assemble in roprosonta-
tlvo hall noxt January to bogln tho
biennial session they will find wires
hanging from holes In tho celling in
two cornors of tho hall near tho south
wall. Thoso aro wires Installed by
Stato Englneor Johnson, and oxtond
from tho roof to tho basement of tho
cast wing of tho state house, which is
lt..l 1 1 I . 1 I It. . i
cuuuu uiu cnpyieu wing, uu uiu unu
of each wlro Is a weight. Holos bored
through colling and floors allow tho
wires to hang In a straight lino with
out touching wood. Thoy aro Intended
as plumb linos to show whether or not
tho walls of tho building aro straight
or on tho Bquaro.
Cream, Hogs and Poultry Mixed.
Stato Food Commissioner Harman
has put a question up to tho railway
commission. Ho has rocelvod com
plaints that cream, llvo hogs and llvo'
poultry, tho llvo stock bolng crated,
aro shipped together In ono expross
car. Tho commission has replied that
it tho quostlon Is ono of sanitation or
heitlth tho commission has no Juris
diction, but if It Is a quostlon of monoy
damages to tho cream on account of
Its Bhlpmont in closo proximity to llvo
stock, tho railway commission has. Jur
isdiction.
Fire Losses In the 8tate
Tho September bulletin lssuoU by
Stato Fire Commissioner W. S. Rid
gell says fre losses in Nobraska In
August amounted to ?87,hz-i, a uo-
crcaso of $28,000. In August his In
spectors mado 2,431 Inspections and
Issued 341 ordors for cleaning up.
To Proceed Against Oil Company
Having troublo several times with
tho S. L. Collins Oil Co. and Its agent,
R. L. Nix of Nobraska City, 'the food
commission has instituted proceedings
against Nix on twenty Boparato counts,
for failing to notify tho commission
when shipments of oil arrived and re
fusing to permit tho inspection of oil
hold In tho storago tanks.. It is al
leged that uninspected oil has been
sold nnd delivered from tho company's
station at Nebraska City.
8tate Will Resist Payment.
Out of claims totaling $109,000,
which have boon filed against tho de
funct Farmers' Stato bank of Docatur,
Attornoy Oonerul Rood Is proparlng to
roslst tho allowanco of a dozon or so
aggregating $05,000. Tho bank's af
fairs at tha tlmo It was closed wore in
such a tangled shape us to cast doubta
upon tho validity of a number of largo
transactions mado by Us management
with persons wIiobo uuiucb appear on
tho Hat of depositors.
T IN U. S.
COUNT APPONYI, AUSTRIAN DIP
LOMAT, EXPRESSES HI8 FAITH
IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.
STATEMENT IN PARLIAMENT
Regrets Failure of Foreign Minister to
Appoint Successor to Discharged
Ambassador to Washington Looks
to Services of Great Republic.
Loudon, Sept. 25. Budapest papers
received In London coutuin the fol
lowing report of a statement inntlc by
Count Albert Apponyl In the Hunga
rian parliament In the course of n
speech on tho foreign policy of the
government regarding the absence of
tho Aiistro-Hungnrluu ambassador In
Washington :
"It Is oiu of the failures of tho for
eign minister that hu did not appoint
an ambassador In place of the dis
charged Austro-Uungnrlnn ambassa
dor at Washington. We are all liv
ing In hope Hint when at last peace
comes and when tho tlmo arrives for
n neutral power to offer her services
It will bo the great republic across the
Atlantic as most lit for a work of
such magnitude.
"Wo nil hope the United States ad
ministration will take the affair In
hnnd sooner or Inter when thoy deem
it proper to do so, and wc find our
selves not even represented diplomat
ically In a proper "manner.
"I know that certain steps or hlntn
were offered on the part of the
United; States to the effect that the
position of ambassador should be
filled by tho monarchy. In spite of
this we havo not moved, ul though the
Interests of tho monurchy demand
that wo should havo n reliable and
nblo representative there."
In Hungarian political circles It Is
rumored that should Count Apponyl
himself be asked to accept tho mis
sion as ambassador to Washington
ho would not refuse to do so. nnd
that his appointment would bo re
ceived most favorably In .America.
ALLIES ROUTED, SAYS BERLIN
Field Marshal Von Mackensen's En
circling Movement Shattered
Line In Dobrudja.
London, Sept. 25. By ono of tho
most brilliant coups In tho present
war, Field Marshal von Mnckenscn
has turned what looked llko over
whelming defent In tho Dobrudja dis
trict of Itou'manla Into a victory.
Earlier dispatches declared Mncken-
sen's forces wero retreating before tho
onslaughts of tho combined Russian
and Roumanian forces, which had
made a stand nlong tho lino from the
port of Constnnza, on the Black sea,
to the Danube.
Tho text of tho Berlin statement ls-
Bued on Friday, follows:
"In Dobrudjn strong Roumanian
forces attacked southwest of Toprnl
Sari (14 miles southwest of Constan
zu). By an encircling counter-attack
by Gcrmnn-Bulgnrlnn-Turklsh troops
ngnlnst tho flnnk nnd rear of theiene-
my tho Roumanians arc being driven
back In disorder.
Bucharest officially stated that tho
invaders havo been driven back more
thuu llvo miles and "aro still In re
treat."
SENDS APOLOGY TO U., S.
England Regrets Cebu Affair Off Phil
ippines Commander Did Not Know,
Vessel Was So Near Shore.
Washington, Sqpt 22.Orcnt Brit
nln formally apologized to the United
States on Wednesday for the British
violation of American neutrality Ihj the
Philippines, when a British destroyer
Insldo the three-mile limit stopped
and searched tho steamer Cebu, Hying
tho Stars and Stripes.
Tho British claimed tho vessel wus
searched In n dense fog of tho early
morning, and tha commander wus un
able to tell how far ho was from shore,
The Cebu wus Hearing Manila, .and
was stopped one nnd a half mlles-from
Curabao Island, then searched, 'the
British commander forcing the Cebu's
commander to surrender tho vessel's
passenger list and freight manifest
The Incident is now closed.
BIG DAM BURStS; 250 DIE
Wave of Roaring Water Twelve Feet
High Sweeps Through Bo- '
hemlan Villages.
Berlin, Sept. 21. The glnnt dam sit
uuted above Huunwuid burst. Many
lives wero lost and enormous property
damage was caused ut Gublonz, Bo
hemia, and In Wclssendcsso valley
Two hundred nnd fifty bodies, many
of them children, havo been recovered,
U. 8. Aids War Orphans.
New York. Sept. 25. Seventy thou
Band dollars has been raised In tho
United States for the Holtuiid-Amcrl
can Home for Homeless Belgian Or
phans, It wiih announced by Miss lieu
Urlka Van Der Filer.
Civil War Veteran Dies.
Richmond. Va., Sept. 25. Capt,
John Maxwell, eighty-four, Is dead
here. During tho Civil war he placed
tin infernal tuacliluo in n fleet of gun
bouts, destroying thrco and killing 400
men.
PUTS
TRUS
AMONG THE PEAKS
MANY HURT IN RIOTS
PASSENGERS AND STRIKERS
HURT IN NEW YORK STRIKE.
Several Street Cars Completely
Wrecked and a Score or More
Are Arrested.
New York, Sept 22. Wild rioting
by strikers' nlong routes where pur
face cars- were being oporutcd on
Wednesday kept the police in constant
battles with strikers nnd their sympa
thizers. Several cars wero completely
wrecked. A score or moro of rioters
were arrested. Others were sent to hos
pltals or sought refuge In their homes,
where broken heads caused by pqllco
sucks wero mcnueu.
Flying squadrons of policemen In au
tomobiles, detailed to circulate In plain
clothes through Fifty-ninth, Forty-second
nnd One Hundred nnd Twenty-
fifth streets, where enrs were run,
routed mnny attacking mobs of strik
ers. The ferocity of the strikers eclipsed
any previous attempts on their part to
check traffic. Scores of passengers
wero moro or less Injured by flying
glass.
Bricks nnd bottles were hurled
through car windows. Wherever pos
sible motormen put on all speed when
they espied wultlng crowds of strikers
nnd In this way csenped hand-to-hand
encounters.
GERMANS SINK A TRANSPORT
Berlin Says Submarine Torpedoed
Ship Loaded With Troops
French Diver Sunk.
Berlin, Sept. 2.i. An enemy trans
port, loaded with troops, was Bunk In
tho Mediterranean on Sunday by a
Germun submarine tho admiralty an
nounced. An Austro-uungnnnn naval aero
plane In the southern Adriatic sank
by means of bombs tho French sub
marine Foucaul. The entire crow of
the submarine, comprising two officers
and twenty-seven men, wero resetted
nnd mndo prisoner by the naval nero-
plnno mentioned and another.
BRITISH FREE 38 TEUTONS
Civilians Seized From U. S. Steamer
China In Far East Are
Released.
Washington, faept 2a. Tho stnto
department was officially notified on
Friday in a dispatch from Consul Gen
oral Brlttuln at Sydney, of tho releaso
there of the 38 civilians of tho Teu
tonic powers who wero seized Illegally
whllo on board tho American steamer
China In tho far Enst mouths ago,
Tho releaso resulted from a strong
protest by tho stato department to
Great Britain.
New Tax Put on Belgium.
Amsterdam, Sept. 25. Tho Germans
have Introduced In Belgium now tnxa-
tton on bank notes. All bank notes
must bo stumped with a special seal
by tho German authorities In return
for a suiiill feo on each noto.
Kaiser at the East Front
Copenhagen, Sept 25. Kaiser Wil
helm hns arrived at tho Kovel front,
according to advices received here,
nnd It Is believed that Von Hlnden
burg Is about to Inaugurate a drlvo
against the Russians.
D3IVE BULGARS BACK
ENTENTE
ACROSS
ALLIES PUSH ENEMY
SERBIAN FRONTIER.
8erbs on Native Soil Eager for
venge Are Attacking With
Great Vigor.
Re-
Salonlkl, Sept. 21. Serblnn, Rus
sian and French troops have driven
tho entire right wing of the Bulga
rian nrmy out of Greece across the
Serbian frontier nnd are pressing on
townn Monnstlr, nccordlng to official
advices received here. " 1
Recognizing their Inability toehold
Monastlr against the strong forces
pursuing their beaten troops, tho Bul
gar leaders aro suld to be evacuating
that city, part of tho Bulgarians hav
ing been withdrawn toward Uskub.
The capture of Fiorina by the eu-
tento allies has seriously menaced tho
Bulgar center and French officers pre
dict that tho entire enemy front would
bo drawn buck several miles to pre
vent Its being flanked from tho west
Serbian soldiers uro fighting on their
native soil for the first tithe since their
retreat through Albania last winter.
They havo captured a series of heights
from the Bulgurs at Kamnkchplnn and
havo crossed tho Serbo-Greek border
north of Lake Ostrovo.
French nnd Russian troops nre en
gaged with tho Bulgars near Kenale,
In Serbian territory. Practically nil
tho territory conquered by the Bulga
rian right Wing In tho recent Invasion
of Greece has already been recaptured
by the Serbs,. French nnd Russlnns.
London, Sept 21. Turning upon tho
Russians, tho German and Austrian
armies struck a smashing blow at Uio
uussiau lino before Kovel. The Berlin
war office announces that the Russlau
bridgehead Zarecz has been taken by
storm, 31 officers and 2,511 men be
ing taken prisoners
FRENCH FIGHT AT COMBLES
Joffre's Men Capture Houses In Out
skirts of Town 55,800 Ger
mans Taken Captives.
London, Sept 25. North of tho
Sommo In tho outskirts of Combles
the French forces captured strong
ly defeuded houses from tho Germans
und took 100 men prisoner, threo of
them being officers, according to tho
French official communication.
"Tho totnl numtier of prisoners tnk
en by tho Franco-British troops since
July 1, when the Sommo offensive be
gan, up t6 September 18, is more than
55,800, of whom 31,000 were taken by
tho French troops."
Berlin, via London, Sept 23. Re
porting' military operations in Franco,
tne ucrman omcini statement says:
"Western front Apart froni lively
artillery and hnnd grenado engage
ments on tho Sommo and In the Meuso
region, there Is nothing to report"
New Son for U.'s. Minister.
Peking, Sept. 23. A son was born
to Uie wife of Dr. Paul Samuel
llclnsch, United states minister to
China. Mrs. Relnsch before her mar
riage was Miss Anna Moscr of Ash
land, Wis.
Shoots Father and Mother.
1.1 i .... ...
vjiiluk", oeiiu in n ut or an
ger because his supper did not please
lilm, William Schuetz shot both his
father and mother, Mr. nnd Mrs. Kns
per Schuetz. Surgeons say Mrs.
Schuetz probably will die.
VILLA IN BIG HI
GEN. BELL REPORTS TO WASH
INGTON BANDIT CAPTURED
CHIHUAHUA CITY.
WAS UNOPPOSED IN ACT
Outlaw and His Band Entered Town,
and Held It for Several Hours
Many Carranza Troops Left With
Him.
Washington, Sept. 23. Washington,
was amazed on Thursday when it re
ceived an account of Villa's raid on
Chihuahua City last Saturday from.
Brigadier General Bell nt El Paso. '
According to General Bell, tho light
was anything but n "glorious victory"
for the Carrnnzlstns, as reports ,from
Mexico City and Juarez Indicated.
General Bell snys Villa captured a.
large supply of ammunition and made
a speech from tho balcony of the gov
ernor's pnlaco after tills nnd other
buildings had been captured.
Wushlngton is wondering whnt ef
fect, If any, General Bell's report wllh
havo on tho negotiations of the Joint
United States-Mexico commission at
New London, Conn.
General Bell's report follows:
"Evldcuco Increases to show that
Villa wus completely successful In his
attack Saturday upon Chihuahua and.
accomplished nil and inoru thnn ho
sald ho would do.
"There Is a dlverstty of opinion and
statements as to the number of mea
with whloh ho entered Chihuahua. ,
"Ho liberated over J200 prisoners
and secured and carried awaj moro
tbun 10 automobile loads of arms and
ammunition under an escort of de
serting Currauzlstas troops.
"After Villa columns had secured
possession of tho penitentiary, the-
governor's pnlaco nnd federal build
ings, Villa himself went to tho gover
nor's palace, Into the main balcony, dis
played his face and made a short
speech which In substance was as fol
lows :
'"Viva Mexico. You do not havo-
your liberty, I will give you your lib
erty, for I am your brother. 1 am go
ing to return in n few days.'
"It appears that there had been a
banquet, attended by most of Trevl
no's officers, and that about two o'clock
this banquet was finished und most of
the officers of the Carranza garrison'
were asleep. As soon as Trevlno heard.
of tho troublo he started toward tho
governor's palace, but his personal es
cort deserted hltn and went over to-
Villa.
SIX-CENT BREAD, IN CHICAGO-
One Company First to Announce Price-
increase Effective Thursday
Other Firms to Follow.
Chicago. Sent. 23. A new scale of
bread prices for Chicago, predicted
ever since the conference of the master
bakers in tills city moro than a week
ngo, was announced on Thursday by
one of the city's lamest wholesalers.
as effective next Thursday, September
28. A new size louf, resembling tho
present live-cent loaf, will be put on-
tne market, but will cost six cents.
Wlien the master bakers were In ses
sion hero they were advised by a law
yer that they must not airreo to raise
tho price of bread or they could bo
prosecuted under the anti-trust law,
but that ono firm mlcht raise tho nrleo-
Independently nnd others follow of
tneir own volition, other companies
havo indicated their intention to fol
low.
FRENCH WIN AT VERDUN', i
Joffre's Men Take Several Hundred.
Yards of Positions Near
Thiaumont Work.
London, Sept 23. Tho furious Ger
man assault on tho French lines north,
of tho Sommo had Its echo on the
grcnt battlefield of Verdun on Thurs
day, where on the two hundred and
thirteenth day of the battle the
French renewed tho combat with a
drivo which gained them several hun
dred yards of German trenches.
There wero two French attacks, ono
directed nt Thiaumont nnd tho other
at tho German positions In tho east-"
em part of Vuux-Chapltre woods.
Tho Germans admitted officially that
they lost ground.
WILLIAM J. CALHOUN IS DEAD
Former U. 8. Minister to China Suc
cumbs Suddenly at His Home
In Chicago.
Chicago, Sept. 21. William J. Cal
houn, former minister to China, died
on Tuesday at his home, 1310 Astor
street Death camo as tho result of o
relapse from a stroke of paralyslv
which Mr. Calhoun suffered a month
ngo.
Tire Blows; Driver Is Hurt
Keokuk, In., Sept. 25. A bursted tiro f
caused tho accident In which Louis
Corbellle, a driver, wus Injured In thu
100-mlle nutomobllo race at Macomb.
Thomus Colemeyer, his mechanician,
also was hurt
German Leaders to Confer.
Berlin. Sept 25. The relchstng,
which Is to be reopened Thursday, will
bo preceded In the course of the next
few duys by confidential conferences
between Gottlieb von Jagow and party
leaders.