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ALVO DEPARTMENT Items of Intarest to Journal Readers Fay I'ai-M'll isilni friends iu AIvo Sunday. Mr.-. V ioil 1'ioiity was shopping in Lincoln Sal unlay. J. A. SlianVr was in Lincoln Saturday en liuiin'ss. W. K. .Vwkirk was in Murdock Monday mi liusiiu'.-s. lIiTiiiiiii Si i Mcnii i' sp'-nt Snn iliy in Smith Hmid. Will J"mi'in;in drove to Iav'.v on liu.-iiii'.-s Monday. 1'iicli' (M'.irc Foster of Lincoln is isitinn relat i cs here. Miss (liavce Foreman returned from Lincoln Salimlav. Mr. and Mrs. James Hou.-e were Lincoln visitors Tuesday. . J. Lincli was transacting business in Lincoln Saturday. John Yaeyer and Steve Fore man were iu Omaha Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. William Yaeer were Omaha visitors Monday. Horn To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Patterson, May i, 1912, a daugh ter. Mrs. William llinneinan and daughter wore in Lincoln Tues day. Miss Flo Boyles and brother, Dale, spent Saturday and Sunday at home. Miss Mabel Stout was a pas senger for Lincoln on No. 13 Tuesday. V, (). Hoyles came down from Lincoln Wednesday to visit with relatives. Mr. anil Mrs. Henry Bennett of FOUR MINERS SHOT IN RIOT Sharp Fight Between Police and Miners at Minersville, Pa. THREE OF VICTIMS WILL DIE. Mob of More Than Two Thousand At tempts to Keep Mine Foreman From Taking Auto From Garage More Trouble Feared. Pottsvtlle, Pa., May 9 In a battle between the state police and a crowd estimated at between 2,000 and 3,000 men at Minersville, four men are known to have been shot and three were probably fatally wounded. It Is believed that a dozen or more others also were struck by bullets. A woman, Mrs. George Woll, who was standing on her porch listening, was struck on the arm by a brick and was painfully injured. The men who are thought to have been fatally hurt are David Davis, shot through the stomach, and two foreigners. Another foreigner was shot through the leg and was seriously wounded. The fight occurred on Fourth street, in the central part of town and came as a result of a crowd attempting to prevent Superintendent George W. Reiser of the Pine Hill Coal company trom taking two men in his automo bile to the colliery. Reiser had been coming to Minersville the last several days and taking Thomas Parry, a re pairman, and William Ward, a pump man, to work. When Reiser called at a garago for his machine he was warned by a crowd not to take It out and was held a prisoner at the place. Crowd Throws Bricks. Chief Burgess Richard Levan, a veteran of the Civil war, addressed the crowd and demanded that they dis perse, but no attention was paid to him. He thereupon requested the state po"". l'3rracV".aL Eottsvllle to The Blondin Show Under the Largest Tent Theatre Ever Built! I "" 1 SEATS FOR 1500 PEOPLE ! I I VAUDEVILLE! MINSTREL! DRAMA! MUSIC! Cheaper to Visit the Shew than Stay Home 1,000 Seats at 10 Cents 500 Reserved Scats at 20 Cents Concert Band and Orchestra 3-B1G DAYS 3 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, May 13, 14 and 15! Will Be Received at the Drug Stoie Waverly i-iled relatives here Tuesday. Miss Mary Skinner and Mrs. Charles lloseiiow were in A-lilaud Tuesday. Miss F.lliel Reed pent Saturday niutil and Sunday with her aunt, Mrs. Arthur Bird. . - Mr-. Vincent . entertained her niece iiiid family, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Sirain, of Bethany, Sunday. Ir. I. !. Jones and wife of Murdock spent a few hours in tow a with friends Monday after noon. : .Miss Orplia Mullen spent Satur day and Sunday with her father, returning to Fniversity Place Sunday evening-. Mr. and Mrs.W. A. Davis and Mr. and Mrs. F; J. Davis of Weep ing Water spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cook: Mrs. John Woods, who has been unite ill for several months, was able to drive up to Alvo last Fri day to visit her daughter, Mrs. Calrence Curyea. (ieorge Foreman, jr., returned home Saturday' from Lincoln, where he was operated upon for appendicitis. He is gaining strength rapidly. The Ladies' Aid society of the M. K. 'church met last Wednesday with Mrs. Frank Davis. Fourteen ladies were present and a good meeting is reported. They, will meet on May 15 with Mrs. Fred Prouty. send a detail to Minersville. Under their guard the automobile was taken from the garage and was being cranked when someone In the crowd threw a brick. It struck a policeman on the head. This seemed to be a signal for an attack and immediately there came a shower of stones, followed by several pistol shots. The officers fired a vol ley Into the ground. The crowd paid no attention. The officers then turned their weapons into the crowd and com menced firing. The shots were re turned and a battle followed. In which It Is estimated a hundred shots were fired. The firing resulted in the crowd dispersing, leaving four persons lying on the ground. WILL CONTINUE ALL MISSIONS Methodists Will Not Withdraw From Catholic Countries. Minneapolis, May 9 Without de bate, but in a slightly modified form, the resolution presented by W. ' F. Rice of Chile, protesting against the action of the ecumenical missionary conference in Edinburgh recently, which sot aside all Protestant mis sion work in Greek md Roman Cath olic countries, was adopted by the gen eral conference, in part, sj follows: "Resolved, That the Mithodiet E;iis copal church reog:iIz3s :t3 p!a!n d ity to prosecute Its missionary entTpr's In Greek and Roman Catho'.lc o ::i tries with increasing zeal, and b? It "Resolved, That It Is our dutv to oppose the marh'r.atlcns of Romanism and ru counteract its attempt to ga'n an ever increasing control of cir pV.) lie schools to use public fund.1 for sec tarian schools." Turks Recapturs Rhod:. Lcndon, May 9. The governor of the Turkish Island of Rhodes, where Italian troops landed a few days ago, telegraphs: "We have won a victory and have captured 1,00ft Italians," ac cording to a special news dispatch dated from Pora, Turkey. One way of escaping notice Is to nt tend to your own affairs. Being n mascot for the neighbors I" sometimes trying to the constitution. COLONEL BLOCKS PEACEJREATIES Tafl BIam2s RsossveH for Emas culation ot Pacts. ARE KOW OF D0U3TFUL UTILITY Would Hav? M?ant Wide Step Toward i... !.. i r- a.: universal i-cacc nccunvo oays Predecessor Deliberately Misrepre sents K-'m More About Perkins. Coir.:ibus, O., May 9. President Talt charged here in a speech iu Me mo: ii hull that Colonel Theodore Ho:. ;"ve'.t, his campaign manager, Sen ator i.Mxon uf Montana, and Demo crats mi the senate were responsible lor tlu "eir.asLiiiation" of the arbitra- t.on treaties with Grout Britain and if'raiire pnd that iu consequence o: their actlcu the pacts so changed as to be of doubtful utility. Tlie.-ie treaties, the president declared, would have made "wide steps toward universal peace; would have signalized a move ment for a universal arbitral court and wero as progressive measures as ever were suggested to the American people. For some reason unknown to my puzzlo-witted brain," said the presi dent, "Mr. Roosevelt opposed these treaties, and ny these men who sup ported that opposition, his manager, Mr. Dixon, and the Democratic votes iu the senate those treaties were so emasculated that it Is difficult to see whether they contain anything of value which ought to be ratified Into a treaty. My Idea of having the highest progress possible was In those arbitra tion treaties, because I saw In them a step toward a universal arbitral court to which any nation In the world might resort In order to solve a contro versy that It might have with any oth er nation and until we get such a court, war will not disappear, and this was a decided step toward that end, as progressive a measure as has ever been "uggested to the America) poo pie." Says Roosevelt Misrepresents Him.. Mr. Tift's Memorial hall address was the last scheduled for his present tour through his home state. He con tlnuert his attack on Colonel Roose velt, taking up more than a dozen sub jects that Mr. Roosevelt has referred to In his speeches against the presi dent. Mr. Taft openly accused Mr. Roosevelt of m'sreuresentatlon and misstatement; said that In many c tlous for which his predecessor now criticised hlra he had been Influenced bv Mr. Roosevelt's advice and asked the people of Ohio to give him square deal. The president dwelt at length on the RooB'svelt cnarges that he was the friend of the bost and the tool of the trusts and peclal Interests. He point cd out the failure of the Roosevelt ad ministration to prosecute the steel trust and the harvester trust and con trasted that with the attitude or his own rulrnlnUtratlon which has filed ults agnlnst both. Although he care fully explained that he did not wish to charge Roosevelt with anything Im proper, the president reviewed In some detail the circumstances under which the Roosevelt administration decided not to Institute proceedings against these trusts or against any of the "Morgan Interests." The president aid that George W. Perkins, "a di rector of the harvester trust and the steel trust," was Instrumental In pre venting the prosecutions In the Roose velt days, and then went on to say: "Mr. Perkins Is one of the chief con tributors to Mr. Roosevelt's present financial fund. Now I want to ask you what do you think Mr. Roosevelt would say of me If I had not prose cuted the steel trust and the harvester trust and It appeared subsequently that Mr. Perkins was a large contrib utor to a special fund expended for my use. Well, what does he do on the face of that? He charges me with be ing In control of the special interests, with these facts staring htm In the face. I don't Infer from these facts anything improper, but I do say to him who Is so prolific in his sugges tion of suspicion and so easy In his charges of Improper motives that for him now, with the evidence before the public, to charge me with being an agent of the special Interests, takes the audacious courage I still believe him to have." Replying to the statement that the decrees of the supreme court in the Standard Oil and American Tobacco cases were really of benefit to those trusts and that the Taft administra tion's prosecution of them had been Ineffectual because oil had gone up and the stock of both companies hnd gone up, President Taft told why he believed these resulted from natural economic causes. TEN DAYS INjJIS HOME STATE Prstldent Taft Decides to Extend His 8peaklng Trip. Columbus, O., May 9. After consult lag with Republican leaders In Ohio, President Taft has decided to spend ten days more in the state before the primaries. May 21. He will leave Washington next Sunday afternoon for Marietta. He will give most of Bis time to northern Ohio. The last tpeech of the trip will be made at Dayton, Monday night, May 20, and on Tuesday the president will vote In Cincinnati and will leave at night for Washtnitok. BAKING POWDER 1 SEE hnv' i"ich beUcr it 1 makes the bilking I n 1 . l 1 kk now inn c a more urn I i form iu quality I 1 SEE how pure how good I I 1 SEE how economical and 1 SEE that you grt Calumet At your Grocer's K aMADEBYTHETRLi 111? kjT BAKING PVHJ) DOCTORS DISCUSS FEVER Dr Bannister Tells of Serum Treat ment for Typhoid. Lincoln, May 9. The session of the Nebraska State Medical association was largely taken up with the discus sion of typhoid fever, the principal ad dress being delivered by Dr. Bannister of the regular army medical corps, who took up the subject f strum treatment, which he Bald had teen ab solutely demonstrated In the army to be a preventive of the dread disease, lie recited many Instances of its use, anion i them at the maneuver camp In Texas, where the soldiers were prac tically Immune In spite of the fact the people In that section of the state were afnlctcd. Other papers and dis cissions related to methods of preven tion of the disease through sanitation and rmorM of the causes which pro duce the disease. DEFENSE RESTS INjLEGE TRIAL Expert Testimony Introduced In Murder Case at Pender. render, Neb., May 9. The defense In the William Flege case put on ei pert testimony. Dr. Walter D. Haines ot Chicago testified that Dr. Melss of Sioux City had sent him a part of the stomach of Louise Flege and Its con tents and It Indicated the stomach of a healthy person and that from the condition of the food and the quantity of It the person must have been dead anywhere from two and one-half to three hours after taking the food Into the stomach. Dr. Ludwlg Heckton of Rush Med ical college of Chicago was next put on the stand and testified that Dr. Haines had given him a part of the stomach and asked him to make a sep arate and Independent examination. He testified that he had done so and also bald the person from whom It had been taken must have lived from two and one-half to three hours after eat ing the food. Dr. Williams of Wayne and Dr. Gra ham of Pdxon were again put on the stand and asked as to the condition Of Louise Flege at the Inquest. They testified that there was a little scratch at one plnce under her clothes, but that there were no signs that she had been assaulted. The defense rested Its case and the state will now take up the rebMtal. Irrigated Land Ready for Settlers. Washington, May 9 The secretary of the Interior announced that 10,677 acres of land In the Hollo Fourche reclamation project In South Dwkota would be opened for entry by home steaders on May 25. Water will be ready for the land on that date, and about 100 farms of from forty to eighty acres will be ready for cultiva tion. For any ilchitiK skin troublo, piles, eczema, salt rheum, hives, ilch, scahl head, herpes, scubies. Iioan's Ointment is highly rccom. mended. 50c a box at all nlons. BUSINESS MEN'S CLUBS ADJOURN Stale Association Concludss Its Session at Hastings. V. E. WILSON NEXT PRESIDENT Fremont Chosen Place for Next Meeting Favor One.Cent Postage, Law Enlarging Earnings of Public Utilities and "Blue Sky" Measure. Hastings, Neb., May 9. The eighth annual Bession of the State Associa tion of Commercial Clubs closed with a banquet given by the llastiugs chamber of commerce. At the business session Fremont was chosen for the next annual meet ing and the following officers were elected: President, V. E. Wilson of Stromsburg; secretary treasurer, R. D. McFadden of Hastings; vice presi dents, E. H. WeBtcott of Plattsmouth, Penn P. Fodrea of Omaha, James Henderson of Central City, Ed Ijem kuhl of Wahoo, Max Uhllg of Hold- rege and Wlllard F. Dailey of Kearney. The resolutions Indorse the 1-cent letter postage bill; favor a bill permit ting corporations owning public util ities to earn a maximum of 10 per cent until fully established; urge the adoption of a bill similar to the Kan sas "blue sky" law; petition trie legis lature to create a department of pub licity for the state with an appropria tion of $,000 for a blennlum; request the state railway commission to pro test against the adoption of rule 10 In western classification No. 51, per mitting wide range of mixtures In car load lots, and request the Nebraska delegation In congress to urge the publication by the government of a na tional directory of commercial organ izations. Mayor Miles presided at the ban quet. Among the speakers were Gov ernor Aldrlch, Financial Secretary C. A Alden of the University of Omaha. ex-Congressman Robert Boynge, mem ber of the national monetary commis sion, and Rev. J. Henry Tlhen, bishop of the Catholic diocese of Lincoln. MOOTED NOTE CASE UP AGAIN Supreme Court Listens to Argument in Shallenberger Suit. Lincoln, May 9. The supreme court case of the Home Sayings bank of Womnnt nnlnst A C. Shallnnhereer. I appeal from the district court of Har lan county. In both trials Shallen berger won In the lower court, the bank getting a reversal In the first appearance In the supreme court. The litigation grows out of a note and mortgage on sixty head of cattle, giv en by a man named Summers to the Shelley-Rodgers Cattle company and sold by them to the Fremont bank. The collection was sent to Shallen berger, who got the cash, and the bank then sent the mortgage and note to Alma, receiving In return a draft on a St. Joseph bank. When the draft ar rived at St. Joseph payment had been stopped and suit was brought against Shallenberger, the lower court In both Instances holding with Shallenberger. IMPORTED BIRDS THRIVE Many Young Pheasants Will Be Dis tributed This Fall. Lincoln. May 9. Game Warden Miller reports that Mongolian and Hungarian pheasants which the de- i.irtmonl has In nens In Antelnna nark in this city are laving well this spring out-of-way spots In the flooded ter on from thre. to four dozen eee are Mtory was done entirely on the re- collected dally. These are hatched out under tame chickens and there Is ev ery reason to believe there will bo a considerable number of these birds to distribute In the fall. They will be given to communities which will give assurances the birds will be protected and it Is hoped In time to have ex cellent sport with these magnificent game birds. Valuatlon of Real Estate. Lincoln. May 9. Henry Seymour, secretary of the board of equalization, has sent out letters to each of the county assessors for Information as to how they are valuing real estate, as compared with the present taxable valuation. Their final report will not be In the hands of the board until after thn railroad valuntlon must bo fixed and thlo Information Is desired to enable the board to act Intelligently on railroad property. Dtrpenitnt Tarmfr Strajles Himself Seward, Neb., May 9. Despondent ver the lo!s of $1,000, Invested In n Limine deal that Tailed to '.urn out favorab r. Wllllnm Nclderschmldt, a farmer, three miles east of here, com ailtted suicide by hnnglntf himself. He was about fifty-three yei.rs old and leaves a rl(Hw and several children Love for Chairman. Lincoln, May 9. Friends of Don I Love, former mayor of Lincoln, have started a boom for htm as chairman of the Republican state committee. Strikers Say They Will Win. ' Chlcngo, May 9. "We feel that we have the railroads securely tied up and will win without the assistance of other unions," said President P. J. Flannery of the Freight Handlers' union, 6,000 of whose members are on a strike here. "But If It becomes nec essary the strike will spread to In clude the entire country." THE SUM BKKOT. Head of Auto Bandits, Who Was Killed While Fighting Paris Police. 1- $M Photos by Anmrlran Pram AMOclatlo. $50,000,000 LOSSES FROM RIVER FLOODS And Certain That Damage Ac count Is Not YeUII In. Washington, May 9. Fifty million of loss already done; millions more 1 prospect Thls la the view government et- perts take of the flood danger In the Mississippi river valley, to say nothing of the loss of life. Department of agriculture experts estimate that the loss of farm Crop and agricultural property has probably reached the $50,000,000 mark and mar Anally double that num. The damage to the cotton crop alone Is stupendous. To furnish food for the thousands of homeless people who have been ren dered temporarily destitute, the war department has already expended $600,000. This represents the actual amount spent since the river and Its tributaries first went on a rampage, less than a month ago. The present prospect Is that It will be at least month before conditions are normal, and If this proves the case, depart ment officials believe they will need about $700,000 more to care for flood sufferers. The sending of the battleship Ne braska, the gunboat Petrel and the militia ship IhIo de Cuba up the river to save the lives of persons strirnded sponslblllty of Secretary Meyer. TWELVE NEGROES DROWNED Strain Not So Great on Levees and Work of Rescue Pushed. New Orleans, May 9. Owing to the favorable weather of the past forty eight hours apprehension of further breaks in the Mississippi levees somewhat leis and reports from vari ous points menaced by the rising waters are more encouraging. Atten- tlon of the officials has now been cen- terea In the worn or rescue Doing car- rled on In the Inundated regions by motor boats, barges and skiffs, manned by government employees. Fourteen more lives have been sac rificed to the flood. Twelve negroes drowned when a raft capsized In the "Rattle Axe" district of Point Coupee parish. Two women drowned when their skiff, which was being towed by a government boat, capsized. Twenty thousand persons have been rescued In Louisiana to date and as many more are anxiously awaiting aid. Some are floating on tops of houses, Pthers perched In tree tops, while 3Cores' are huddled on the levee tops or on, little patches of high ground which the waters have not covered. For days they have been without food, and, as the women and children are brought I, medical attention Is need ed Immediately. Two hundred men and women are marooned on a little patch of elevated ground near Ope lousaa and will be rescued at once. One of the party swam five miles to summon aid for the rest. Painter Sets Fire to Newspapers. Chicago, May 9. Jame F. Enrlght, a union r'nter, was arrested after he Is said to h:ive set fire to bundle of newspapers at a west side stand. En right attempted to escape, but was caDtured by the police. The burning I newspapers attracted a large crowd. t 4 m V x i