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THE O’NEIL FRONTIER j
R H. OHOMtH. Pubilshac
In such sorely pressed neutrs! oxran
rles ss Sweden the war has resulted
> rich and poor alike being subjected
» many restrictions heretofore un
Mwn. An Illustration of this—not
rlthout Ms humorous aspect—Is found
i» a Swedish wedding nvltatlon re
ently received in this country by
riends of the bride and bridegroom,
'he latter were members of two
Wealthy families In Stockholm and the
handsomely engraved missive Included
bn invitation to a banquet at one of
the finest hotels In the Swedish cap
ital. It was in a notation at the bottom
page that the hand of wax manifested
Itself In these words: "Please bring
your bread cards.” This meant that
well to do hosts at a wedding could not
Provide their guests with bread except
|n restricted amounts and In the man
ner prescribed by law.
One of the wettest spots In the world
Is In the central part of the little Island
of Kannai, most northerly of the
Hawaiian group. Douglas H. Campbell,
of Stanford university, California,
writes that the average rainfall at the
town of Waialeale for five years haa
keen slightly more than 500 Inches.
Thirteen and a half miles away, at Wal
mea village, the average annual precipi
tation la only 20.9 Inches. Walmea is
only 10 feet above sea level, while
Waialeale is 5.075 feet above the sea.
James W. McEellan, of Trescott, Me,
while heating- during the open season,
«aw a fox coming In his direction and
•■at down to wait until ho came within
range of hie rifle. He shot the fox and
hardly had the report died away when
two buck deer sprang Into tho open and,
seeing the fox, stopped to look. McHel
lan shot at one. The bullet passed
through the head of one deer and en
tered the heart of the other, killing them
both Instantly.
''hemlcad analyses of the ash of
household wastes, mado at tho Connec
ticut agricultural experiment station,
■show that there Is marked fertilizing
'value in such common refuRo as banana
skins, orange skins, grapefruit skins,
llemon skins, apple peelings, cantaloupe
Yinds, potato peelings, pea pods, bean
strings and stems, tea leaves, coffee
grounds, egg shells, bones, peanut
shells, ktbaooo, fruit stones, etc. These
gre recommended for fertilizing home
gardens.
If there is anything in the pot when
a gam bileg place Is raided, It may be
applied on the costs and fines of the
owners ef the money, Attorney General
McGhee ef Ohio, rules In effect. He
holds that money taken by the authori
ties In gambling raids cannot bo turned
over to police relief funds or city treas
uries tmtatts one year elapses in which
the owner does not claim it.
Since the outbreak of tho war the di
rector of oontracts for England’s armies
has made the following purchases:
Cloth, 105,006,000 yards; flannel, 115,
000,QO# yards; knives, forks and spoons,
35,000,000; hacon, 400,000,000 pounds;
cheese. 167,000,000 pounds; Jam, 260,
000,000 tias; preserved meat, 500,000,000
rations; boots, *6,000,000 pairs; smoke
helmets, 25,000,000; horseshoes. 40.
000,000.
A slab ef sandstone, the dimensions
of a goog sized whotsone, that will
bend and can be twisted with alight
pressure from the hands, Is the prop
erty of J. I. Miller, of Portland, Ore.
Geologists are unable to explain the
flexibility of the stone. It is said to
have been out from a small ledge of
sandstone In a creek bottom.
Every household in Italy saves all tho
odd bits of paper. These are soaked in'
water and kneaded into balls, then put
in the sun to dry. They will serve to
give a little heat later on. Walk down
a fashionable street In Milan and you
will see pryamids of these paper balls
in the balconies of the houses of the
rich.
Twin brothers in Scotland enlisted In
the same company and were sent to
gether to France. In an attack both
were shot through the left ankle at the
same time, tho bullets In both cases
lodging in the right foot. The men
were brought to England together and
are in a hospital on adjoining cots.
The Japanese are short of small coin
age and are beginning to feel the ab
sence thereof quite ns much as people
In the United States. Their govern
ment has decided to Issue small paper
notes of 50, 20 and 10 sen denomina
tions. The Japanese sen is equal to
one-half cent of our currency.
Patrick Henry’s great grandson, Rob
ert Taylor, the oldest newsboy of Rich
mond, Va„ has presented to the state
through Governor Stuart, n bronze bust
of the great Virginia orator. Mr. Taylor
fell heir to the piece of statuary from
his mother, who was Henry's grand
daughter.
Mrs. Thos. Edyards, of Oberlin, Ohio,
age 06, has given her four sons and nu
merous grandsons enough canned stuff
from her own garden to supply them
for the winter. She did all the work
herself, except the plowing.
Of 28 samples of butter taken from
10 Auburn, Me., dealers and represent
ing the output of 26 butter makers,
only 11 complied with the state law,
which requires 82.4 per cent of butter
fat. _
A Pittsfield woman Is so conscien
tious as regards wheatless and meat
less days that two days a week she
feeds the birds only corn bread and
brown bread crumbs.
The Caproni triplane, one of the
largest type of airplanes in the world,
which hue given exhibitions recently on
the Atlantic coast, Is 110 feet from Up
to tip of its planes.
The French soldier is paid $20 a year;
the German, $38 a year; the British,
a year, and the American soldier
get3 $30 a month, or $360 a year.
Xux vomica beans, from which
eiiel'.nine is made, grow on a tree re
lated to tiie locust, native to the trop
Uk from India to Australia.
Edwin A. Singleton recently complet
ed 32 years as choir director and or
ganist at the New Jerusalem church in
Piuv|dence.
European factories each week make
iabo.it 1C,000,000 pounds of artificial
bu,ter with cocoanut oil as a base.
Rapid cooling of a liquid jiroduces
fil e irystuls; tile slower It changes
-foi in the larger the crystals.
An En-rilahrnnn has Invented a proe
•cm. fur loioung wool khaki and orange
t. .i.oo wit : dilute nitric aeld.
K. J. Plante, of Manchester, N. H.,
l.ao shot 60 foxes over his hound,
Fanny.
Alcohol, when puie Is ereeulshln col
or. while water is aiatUuciiy blue la
GOV. NEVILLE URGED j
TO GALL LEGISLATORS
"
Insistent Demand in Nebraska j
Soldiers Be Given Oppor
tunity to Vote.
Titnooln, Neb., Jan. 19.—The prob
ability of an extra session of the Ne
braska legislature being called to pass
a law that will permit the voting of
soldiers Increases. Governor Neville is
being urged from all quarters to take
such action. One of the strongest argu
ments is that by election time fully 20,
000 voters will be somewhere in the
service, and that their votes are. neces
sary to counteract those secretly op
posed to war who are expected to mass
their votes behind some candidate for
senator and governor.
Governor Neville spent Thursday in
consultation with men familiar with the
election machinery of the state. He is
of the opinion that before the legisla
ture is called in special session a suit
should be instituted in the courts in
order to secure a decision upon what
constitutes a soldier in the regular
army. The constitution bars soldiers
in that army from voting, 1he object at
that time being to prevent regulars
stationed in the state, but citizens of
other states from participating in state
elections. As soon as it can bo ascer
tained what the supreme court thinks
about this as applied to the voters who
have gone into the army since last
April ail extra session will be called.
NEBRASKA FIREMEN
ELECT OFFICERS
Fremont, Neb., Jan. 19.—Fremont
was chosen for the meeting place in
1919 of the Nebraska Volunteer Fire
men's association at the business ses
sion here. An invitation was extended
by the Fremont Commercial club and
the Fremont fire dapartment. Member
ship in the Firemen's Mutual Aid In
surance association was raised to 501.
The new officers are: President, John
W. Guthrie, Alliance; first vice presi
dent. William P. McCune, Norfolk;
second vice president, Robert Lewis,
Humphrey; secretary, R. A. Miller.
Kearney; treasurer, F. B. Tobin, Sid
ney.
I’resident Guthrie appointed J. R
Manners, of Wahoo, to the board of
control, succeeding Clyde Beckwith.
The other members are: Jacob Goeli
rin, chairman, Seward; C. H. Masters,
Auburn; C. R. Frasier. Goethenburg;
11. H. Bartling, Nebraska City.
APPLE GROWERS MUST
BE MORE CAREFUL
Lincoln. Neb., Jan. 19.—Apple grow
ers of Nebraska were told at their an
nual convention here by A, B. Emery,
big Lincoln grocer, that if they wanted
to market their apples at home in com
petition with the foreign grower they
must use the same excellent methods
of packing. At present the apples are
unwrapped, they are not graded, the
barrels and boxes are not marked and
Utile care laken to cater to the fancy
of the apple buying public. He advo
cated a law that would require apple
growers to follow a standard of pack
ing in order to compel the reluctant
ones to do the jol> right. The Nebraska
apple has the tang, but the foreign
grown apples lobks the better, said Mr.
Emery.
FUEL CONDITIONS IN
NEBRASKA NOT BAD
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 19.—State Fuel
Administrator Kennedy does not be
lieve that Nebraska or the west gener
ally will become involved in any suc.i
crisis as has been brought about
through the ordor of the national ad
ministration In ordering factories to
suspend for five days and 10 Monday
holidays In succession. Nebraska has
a fair supply of coal on hand and the
facilities for securing what she needs.
The lack of factories In the west Is
what Is saving her.
Mr. Kennedy says that the people of
the west owe a patriotic duty to the
east to help as much as they can by
restricting the use of fuel for keeping
industries and stores open beyond Un
real demands of trade. He said that
the next step that would be taken with
respect to western control of the situa
tion would probably he an order re
quiring the closing of these establish
ments at the end of daylight and be
ginning them with the coming of the
sun.
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ALIENS MAY LOSE
THE RIGHT TO VOTE
Lincoln, Nob., Jan. 19.—The state
council of defense has initiated peti
tions and will circulate them through
the county councils to repeal at the
next election that part of the constitu
tion which permits aliens to vote on
their first papers, after six months'
residence In the state. The war and
the investigations made have brought
to light the fact that there are thous
ands of Germans and other foreigners
in tile state who cannot be compelled
to bear arms yet who have the right
to vote.
The effect of this vote at the coming
election is considered a menace. The
petitions propose the following provts
ions: "Every male person of the age
of 21 years or upward, born In the
United States or who has become a
naturaliz d citizen of the United States
conformably to the naturalization laws
thereof, and who shall have resided In
the stnto six months, and In the county,
precinct or ward for the term provided
by law shall be an elector."
THREE DEAD iWVlRE
THAT DESTROYED HOME
Sargent. Neb.. Jan. 19.—Mrs. B. Zu
loszki, wife of a Polish farmer living
five miles west of here, and two of her
children, aged 1 and 3 years, were
burned to death yesterday when tire de
stroyed their home. Five other mem
bers of the family were severely
burned and all badly frost bitten while
making their way to a neighbor’s home
in their nightclothes. A daughter aged
11 will probably die.
BIG PROFITS BEING
MADE IN POTASH
Lincoln, Neb., .Tan. 19.—Owners of
some of the big potash beds in western
Nebraska are being paid as high as
$1,000 a day in royalties by the com
panies working the beds, it is reported
here. One company is said to be mak
ing $150,000 a month from the. mineral.
Which was deposited in past ages by
nature in the alkali lakes of that part
of the state.
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LINCOLN—’The State Florists' socie'y
held its annual meeting at the Lincoln
hotel. The session was featured by a
banquet. C. II. Frey, of Lincoln, was re
elected president. C\ TT. Green, of Gre
ment. elected vice president ami 1,. Tira
il- r son. of Omaha, re-elected seen tare ai d
treasurer. A committee was appointed t->
Interest Nebraska florists in making a
greater disntay at tin I'd!) meeting of or
ganized agriculture.
LINCOLN — ice crearalcss -lays may b
o:i the program with wheal ,ess and niear
less -lays in the near future. The Nebras
ka ice cream manufacturers' association
met and discussed the pioblema brought
to the ice cream men by the war.
BOOTLEGGERS HAVE
GREAT AUTO FLEETS
Authorities of Nebraska Find
Well Organized Gangs at
Omaha.
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 18. Eighteen
"fleets” of automobiles, of from two to
nine cars each, have been transporting
liquor from Kansas City and St. Jo
seph, Mo., agents of tlovernor Neville
said, as they prepared to take Omaha
bootlegging eases before a federal
grand jury.
Important arrests, including men of
some prominence, are to be made with
in a day or two. Special Prosecutor Mc
Guire said.
"We cannot give out any definite in
formation at this time,” he said, “but
we know the leaders of the bootlegging
gangs that have been working In Oma
ha and their arrest is but a matter of a
day or two.
“These men form a part of a gang of
liquor runners who operate from Okla
homa to Oregon.
"We are furnishing the government
with information on his liquor traffic
almost every hour.”
RULES AS TO GERMAN
TEACHING BEING OBEYED
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 18.—Reports re
ceived by the state council of defense
are to the effect that its recent request
to all parochial school authorities to
stop giving religious and secular in
struction in German and to use English
instead is being generally obeyed. In
a few communities, however, strenuous
objections are being made by some of
the Germans to any outside interfer
ence by the state with the conduct ot
schools which are entirely supported by
private money. Drastic steps may be
necessary, but the council is depending
on public opinion to force the elimina -
tlon of German from all schools.
The Lutheran preacher is usually tbe
leader in these little German communi
ties, and where he is loyal or has been
made to understand his obligation now
that Germany and America are at war
no trouble is being experienced. Where
the preachers oppose the request, they
are likely to be cited to appear before
the state council and make a pledge
that they will abide by their obliga
tions.
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AMERICA TO SOLVE
THREE GREAT PROBLEMS
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 18.—Prof. II. G.
Filley of the state college of agricul
ture, told the Corn Improvers' associa
tion that in the opinion of farm experts
that America is rapidly approaching
the point where it faces three distinct
lcynd problems. These are enough land
upon which to grow crops for feeding
the nation, the maintenance of soil fer
tility and preventing land monoply. In
Nebraska today there is much land
held for speculation upon which rich
profits have been made in the last 10
years. One man owns 23,000 acres in
one county and a similar acreage in
another in the state. Names were not
given.
Mr. Filley said that the objection to
intensive cultivation is that while the
yield per acre is large the returns per
man are pitifully small. He argued
against placing too much labor upon
crops, and said that the era of low pric
es for foodstuffs was ended in this
country.
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THE STATE IS WITHOUT
A NATIONAL GUARD
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 18.—Artemas
Ward’s celebrated regiment, consisting
of 999 officers and one private is being
duplicated in the national guard of this
state at present. With the death of the
Seventh regiment, nothing is left of the
Nebraska guard but the adjutant gen
eral and his staff, which consists of
one general, five majors, one captain,
one sergeant and two stenographers.
There is no authority to organize
companies of the national guard be
cause the war department by its action
in the case of the Seventh regiment,
will not recognize any such organiza
tion.
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NEBRASKA PIONEERS
ELECT THEIR OFFICERS
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 18—The Nebraska
territorial pioneers, is session here,
elected the following officers: Presi
dent, J. C. F. McKesson. Lincoln; vice
president, Casper E. Yost, Omaha; sec
ond vice president, Clarence Keyes, of
Springfield; secretary and treasurer,
Mrs. Minnie P. Knotts, Lincoln. A big
summer picnic will be held in Lincoln
on June 13. Lieutenant Governor How
ard was one of the speakers at the pro
gram of oratory that followed the re
union and luncheon.
SERIES OF TRAGEDIES
CAUSE OF MOURNING
Bayard. Neb., Jan. 18.—Four trage
dies in and near here brought death to
four people. The list includes a mur
der, a suicide, a killing in self de
fense and an accidental death.
William Lynn, while temporarily de
ranged following a severe illness, shot
and killed Asa Caldwell, a neighbor,
after the latter had brought Lynn
home from the hospital. Lynn then
hung himself in his barn.
In a fight In a restaurant, in which
Bob Morgan, the proprietor, was at
tacked by Otto Hansen, a customer,
over the service given Hansen, Morgan
plunged a butcher knife into Hansen’s
back to the depth of four inches, and
Hansen subsequently died at a hos
pital.
The fourth death was that of An
drew Lord, who came to Bayard from
Kansas City and drank wood alcohol
under the impression it was grain
alcohol. He died In o few hours.
TELEPHONE COMPANIES
CONTINUE TO JANGLE
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 18.—Holding that
when the Lincoln Telephone & Tele
graph company cut the trunk that con
nected Us toll lines with the exchange
of its rival at Red Cloud, the Farmers'
Independent company, it violated the
law that requires any change in ser
vice to be first approved by the railway
commission, the lutler body ordered the
connection restored Tuesday. This ac
tion was taken on a mere presentation
of the fact that the cut had been made.
The commission said that the su
preme court had said that no public
utility may make a change in service
without first applying to and securing
the consent of the commission.
REDFIELD MAN ON
EXEMPTION BOARD
Sioux Falls. S. D., Jan. 17.—It was
staled hero today that Jehu T. Belk,
of Henry, had resigned frots district ex
emption board which has jurisdiction
over the entir1' state, and that B. F.
Ruhleman. of Re afield, had accepted
appointment as his successor.
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PIERRE—It est mated i :nt fit least f,'»
of the* war registrants of Haakon county
have married since the time of registra
tion last summer, and that most of tnem
are now claiming the exemptions of mar
ried men.
LANGUAGE SITUATION
IN NEBRASKA BAD
German Parochical School?
Supplanted Public Schools
in Many Places,
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 1S. In n report
filed with the state council of defense
by a special committee to investigate
the parochial school situation in Ne
braska, the statement is made that in
over 100 of the German language
schools of the state the American na
tional hymn lias never been taught and
is utterly unknown. In some of these
schools, says the report, the German
national hymn is sung. In over 100
schools of tiiis character the American
flag is never flown.
Foreign language schools are located
in 50 of the 93 counties of the state.
The total number is nearly 400, and of
that number 357 are German schools.
Over 5,500 children attend schools con
ducted by the German Lutheran church,
anil In a number of cases the teachers
hold no certificates. The reports of
county superintendents are that the
eight years’ attendance at these schools
fits pupils only for the sixth grade of
the public schools.
In certain schools in Wayne, Pass,
Franklin, Fillmore, Jefferson and Paw
nee counties the instruction is entirely
in German, and in most of the others
half the time is devoted to studies in
German. In several cases funds of the
public: are used to support these schools,
where they entirely supplant the public
schools. Rev. F. Aron, of Wayne coun
ty, reported that his school had no flag,
but would put one up if required. In
Madison county the Lutheran minister
said that none was displayed because
the state law does not require one.
In Clay county districts scholars at
tend the German schools three days a
week, and then the public schools for
the remainder. Public, schools have
been closed and forced out by German
parochial schools in Cedar, Cheyenne,
Clay, Colfax, Gage, Johnson, Platte, Sa
line, Stanton and Valley counties. In
Cedar county the public schools at Bow
Valley, Constance and Fordyce are
taught by sisters. In these counties
the competition of the parochial schools
has reduced attendance at a number
of public schools to four or five: Clay,
Cedar, Cuming, Dixon, Howard, Nuck
olls, Platte, Polk, Seward, Wayne and
Webster.
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BROKEN BOW MAN IS
OUT FOR CONGRESS
Broken Bow, Neb., Jan. 18.—State
Senator Charles W. Beal, democrat, of
this city has announced his candidacy
for congress in the Sixth district. Mr.
Beal's platform includes national pro
hibition, the government ownership of
terminal elevators, telephones, water
power sites and plants, coal mines and
railroads and for taking a larger part
of the income of wealth for payment of
war expenses. Secretary of State C.
W. Pool has been considering entering
the race as a democrat also. He lives
at Hyannis, Grant county.
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WANTS PIERCE COUNTY
TO PAY BACK TAXES
Bincoln, Neb., Jan. IS.—The attorney
general has been requested by State
Auditor Smith to file suit against
Pierce county to recover a debt of $1,
622.75 due under the old law requiring
counties to pay the state for the care
of patients resident in their county in
state hospitals for the insane. Mr.
Smith says that the county board ig
nores all of his letters asking pay
ment, and he now instructs the attor
ney general to include the more than
$2,000 interest on the original debt in
the suit. Pierce county paid $1,300 on
the account in 1914, but has paid no
attention to later demands for pay
ment. Dawes county is the only other
delinquent, but it has promised to in
clude the $1,500 due in the levy for this
year.
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MEMBERS OF SEVENTH
MAY NOW ENLIST
Washington, D. C., Jan. 18.—General
Carter, of the militia affairs bureau of
the war department, stated that per
mission would be given men of the re
cently disbanded Seventh Nebraska
regiment to enlist in Nebraska units in
the Thirty-fourth division. The general
state, however, that proper releases
would have to be obtained from the
fjtate before the order to enlist could be
come effective., After .steps have been
taken to do this it is understood such
an order would be issued by the war
department. »
SOUTH OMAHA TROUBLE
IS QUICKLY ADJUSTED
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 16.—Settlement
was effected late yesterday afternoon in
a strike of 75 alley boys at the South
Omaha stock yards, and the men went
back to work this morning. They struck
last September and agreed to take $60
and overtime, but claiming now they
received no overtime, they asked pay
of $75 as a minimum.
The terms of settlement were not
agreed upon, but the men voted to re
sume work and settle their differences
later.
A
ABANDON HOPE OF
FINDING BANKER
Broken Bow. Neb.. Jan. 1G.—Search
for the body of Frank H. Young, Brok
en Bow banker, who was lost off his
yacht on the coast of Florida, has been
given up, according to a letter received
by H. Lomax from Alpha Morgan, from
Pensacola, Fla.
Mr. Morgan and James Lomax,
Young's soninlaw, have started home
with their wives.
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WEST POINT—The marriage of Ed
ward Ehlers to Miss Hulda Sehellenburg.
of Scribner, took place in that city on
Monday, Rev. John Ollendorff performing
the ceremony. The groom is a business
man of Scribner.
WEST POINT—Marriage licenses have'
been Issued to Ferdinand Risser and Miss
Verna Schowalter and to Theodore Schllm
pert and Miss Elsie Reuter, all parties
living at Wisner.
CONCORD—R. C. Thompson passed
away after a lingering illness of several
months due to paralysis. lie was for
many years in the mercantile business at
Allen.
WATERBl'RY—C. E. Armstrong has
traded his store and residence property
here to Gus Kull, of Hartlngton, for a
half section of land six miles from Han
ington.
PONCA—Herman Ehlke bought the E.
T. McKinley GO-acre tract, near this place,
and Harry Hart sold his residence prop
erty and 44 acres adjoining town to Wm.
Biecker for $15,000.
NEWCASTLE—Miss Maymc Smith and
Floyd Adams, both of this place, were
married at Camp Cody, New Mexico,
where the groom is in the army.
Jacob Jones, age 85, said to have
been the oldest station agent in the
United States, died recently at Suroar
nochee, Miss., where he has been since
the tow n was established by the Mobile
Xc Ohio road beforethe civil war.
MENAGE TO VENETIAN
LINE CLEARED AWAY
Austrians Driven From Hard
Won Position by Desperate
Italian Blow.
Italian Headquarters in Northern
Italy, (Thursday). Jan, 17.—Italian
troops have succeeded in breaking the
pressure which the enemy has been ex
erting on the lower Plave in the sec
tor nearest Venice. This is a triangular
sector originally cleared of the enemy
when the whole region was inundated
by opening the canals. But recently
low water has permitted the enemy to
renew his incursions almost to Capo
Silo and the Venetian lagoons.
Enemy patrols had established dug
outs and posts in the lagoons at
Agenzia Zuliana, just across the river
from Capo Silo, which commands the
canal running to Porto Grande and
the region back of Venice. During the
early days of the week the Italian army
had bombarded the dugouts and de
stroyed the bridge on which the enemy
was attempting to cross at Agenzia
Trezza. The enemy made repeated at
tempts to enlarge his position, but was
uniformly repulsed.
Stung by the repeated attacks, the
enemy brought his full force to bear
yesterday morning. They were met by
chosen Italian troops from the grena
diers and Bersaglieri brigades. The
Italian defense was led by the Bersag
lieri. who had asked that privilege in
order to answer scurrilous pamphlets
which had been thrown into the Ital
ian lines. The Bersaglieri hewed their
way to the enemy’s support line. The
fight was stubborn for the first two
hours, but the enemy gradually gave
ground as fresh ranks of Bersaglieri,
cheering and singing patriotic songs,
threw themselves into the struggle.
The enemy was finally pushed back
from the positions he had gained.
One of the favorite ruses used by
the enemy was for a party of his troops
to advance with their hands up, call
ing “kamerade.” When they would get
close to Italian lines they would rush
forward suddenly with hand grenades,
but to be mowed down as they ad
vanced by the Italian machine gun fire.
Tlie fighting throughout was at close
quarters.
Heavy losses were sustained by the.
enemy and the Italians captured 150
prisoners. Tin; battle ground was cov
ered with Austrian dead and burial
parties were busy throughout the night
burying the bodies.
ASKS RECEIVER FOR
RIO GRANDE RAILWAY
Denver. Colo.. Jan. 18.—Stay of exe
cution of judgements for $36,515,000
granted against the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad by the federal courts
of the southern district of New York
and of Colorado, and appointment of
a receiver for that road is asked ip a
petition on file in federal district court
here. The petitioner is the Elliott Frog
& Switcli Co., of East St. Douis, III.,
which asserts about $18,000 is due it.
The petition sets forth that the re
ceivership and restraining order are
asked to prevent priority being given
the judgments both of which are in fa
vor of the Equitable Trust company ot
New Y'ork. and are outgrowths of ac
tions begun to secure fulfillment of the
guarantee of interests of the bonds of
the Western Pacific railroad made by
%he Denver & Rio Grande.
The petition asks that the road “and
nil other persons,” be restrained fiom
disposing of any of its properties pend
ing appointment of the receiver.
RAIN, SNOW AMD MUD
CANT STOP SAMMIES
With the American Armies in France,
Jan. 18.—ilud and water knee deep
over the entire American zone i« not
stopping the American war training
today. Steady torrential rains have
eradicated the snow and engulfed the
valleys with rushing torrents of flood
water. Even hill top trenches arc
ankle deep in water, while others are
knee deep in water and slush. How
ever, Sammy is keeping at his work,
trudging through the seas of mud and
water, or stands watch with watei
pouring over his leggine. Battalions
marching from their billets to the
training grounds are frequently com
pelled to wade almost knee deep where
water has flooded the roads.
BIGAMY IN GERMANY
SHOWS BIG INCREASE
Geneva, Jan. 18.—Several south Ger
man newspapers which have been re
ceived here raise a cry of alarm during
increase of bigamy in Germany during
1917. They say the many acquittals
and the lenient sentences imposed indi
cate that tlie authorities are condoning
the offense.
Among the excuses pleaded by the
men are loss of memory because of
shell shock: departure of the wife with
out leaving an address, and infidelity
on the part of the wife. Some have
gone so far as to declare boldly that
plural marriages are good for the na
tion's future. A corporal told a Mu
nich court that lie got married every
time he obtained leave from the trench
es and he believed he had five wives.
Eleven cases were tried In Berlin,
seven in Cologne and five In Munich
last December. The deceived women
usually are not willing to prosecute.
TOO COLD FOR DRILLING
AT CAMP DODGE
Camp Dodge, la., Jan. 18.—With the
mercury hovering about the zero mark
all drills have been called off in the
aviation division and practice marches
for exercise subsituted. Target prac
tice has been suspended by both the
infantry and artillery, it being the op
inion of the officers that but little good
can be accomplished when the men are
too cold to hold their rifles steady.
Conservation of rifle shell cases has
been ordered. After firin'- on the range
the men in the future will pick up all
shells. They will be Bhipped to factor
ies and there reloaded.
BARONESS ZOLLNER IS
TO BE GIVEN LIBERTY
Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 18.—Baroness
Iona Zollner, wife of a German army
officer, accused of violation of the es
piemage act, was released on $2,500 ball
today by Federal Judge Sanford on con
dition that she refrain during the war
from communicating with persons in
the military and naval service of tho
United States, as well as with persons
in Germany and Austria.
The buroness departed tonight for
Chattanooga Tenn., en route to her
borne in New York,
TROOPS ORDERED
IB SIDP REVOLT
I
i ■ ' ■—
i Petorgrad Put Under Martial
.aw as Constituent Assem
bly Meets to Frame New
Government.
AN UPRISING IS IMMINENT
Extremists, in Minority in Pop
ular Assembly, Ready to
Use Power to Save
Themselves.
By United Press.
Petrograd, Jan. 19.—Petrograd was
declared under martial law today by
the bolshevist safety committee.
"All attempts at revolt are to be vig
orously suppressed.’' the decree de
clared.
The martial law declared is evidently
designed to suppress any possible dis
orders incident to the meeting of the
constituent assembly. The constitu
ent assembly was elected last fall.
The social democrats and socialists
of the right wing weie reported to have
obtained a majority against tlie ex
tremists and bolshevists. The latter im -
mediately began efforts to block the
meeting of the assembly, holding it) was
not representative of the real will of
the people.
In its stead the bolshevists' pro
pose a lawmaking body formed oft the
membership of all Russian cbngresses
of workmen, soldiers and peasants.
These bodies arc to meet within the
next few days and it has been reported
that Renine and Trotzlcy would seek
their amalgamation.
London, Jan. 19.—A Russian wireless
message picked up here today instruct
ed all peoples’ councils in the land to
take most drastic measures to suppress
anarchy. The mesage recounted dis
orders and excesses at ailroad stations
and declared the railroads are in the
hands of mobs and that cars have
been plundered. This sort of anarchy
has entirely disorganized transporta
tion and has created confusion, the
wireless stated.
Petrograd, Jan. 19.—The bolshevists
express the belief that the recent at
tack on Leninc was a part of a counter
revolutionary plot.
Lenine, it is stated, will probably
personally open the constituent assem
bly meeting and demand approval of
the present government.
London, Jan. 19.—News from Russia
in the morning newspapers adds noth
ing to yesterday’s report of the Russo
Rumanian relations and the former em
perors’ escape nor does it make cleat
whether the constituent assembly will
meet today as reported previously.
Dispatches from Petrograd indicate
that ferment in the city is likeiy if
the assembly meets. Large demon
strations are being prepared by the
alliance for the defense of the con
stituent assembly which is issuing ap
peals to the peopie in the streets and
is carrying on agitation in the military
barracks and among the crews of the
warships in the Neva.
Thinks Trouble Certain.
The correspondent of the Daily News
says trouble of some kind is almost
certain. The feeling among the soldiers
of the Petrograd garrison, a Petrograd
dispatch to the Daily Mail says, is be
coming more divided and the govern
ment can not place full reliance on
them as it could a month ago.
Conditions of life in Petrograd as de
scribed by various correspondents sug
gest that the people are likely to seize
any opportunity to express their dis
content. Food is sometimes impossible
and always difficult to procure, says
the Daily News correspondent, who
adds that Petrograd has forgotten the
taste of milk though it is possible now
and then to obtain an inferior grade of
butter at 10 rubles a pound.
In telling of the feeling of unrest,
the correspondent of the Daily Mail
says that the tramways have not been
operated since Saturday. This has
caused great annoyance and incon
venience to the public as the tramways
are the only means of transportation.
The workers have to go to their tasks
afoot and with empty stomachs, and
return on foot in the evening. Electric
light is uncertain and sometimes whole
districts are in * arkness, the central
power station ha i.ig stopped from lack
of fuel. The sui y of paraffin which
is used for cm ig and lighting has
stopped tempor: ly because the chief
depots are snow and. The daily bread
ration Is five ; 1 a quarter ounces,
which is said be insufficient and
potatoes are s. ng at one ruble a
pound.
Arrest • ' ih Officials.
The manager f the Persian Dis
count Loan bai ind several high of
ficials of • ii . a ministry and the
treasury depart!., nt, according to a
Reuter dispatch have been arrested,
charged with ailing the strikers in
government departments.
General Korniloff, leader of one of
the opposition factions is reported to
have been wounded in a fight between
his forces and bolshevists at Cher
nigov.
M. Bronsky, commissary for foreign
trade, says that a decree regulating
foreign trade will be issued shortly. It
will provide that trade will be al
lowed with countries only, where com
mittees are appointed to insure that
imports from Russia will not pass
through the hands of middlemen and
which will guarantee (hat goods thus
imported will not be subject to specu
lation or re-exportation.
TO BE REORGANIZED
Attempt Will Be Made to Use
Best Crews and Keep Out
Alien Foes,
Washington, Jan. 10.—To increase
.he efficiency of American transports
tinder the navy department, the naval
overseas transport service was organ
ized today. All the fast cat"-to , nil
troop ships controlled by the navy will
l>e directed by the organization and
manned by reserve crews. This will
eliminate the difficulty the . has been
experienced of hvu'np'i i:t c. rows, al
so the very serious difficulty ,,f har
ing alien enemies in the crew ,, a tiling
that has caused much trouble up to
date.