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REPORTSJURE FALSE AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR DENIES RECENT REVERSES. WILSON ABANDONSPEAGE MOVE He Decided to Await a Definite Ex pression of Terms From Some One of the Belligerents. New York.—Dr. Konstantin Dumba, Austrian ambassador to the United States, has issued the following state ment: "I am compelled to protest most emphatically against the false reports sent via London from Rome. Milan, Geneva. Copenhagen and St. Peters burg about the Austrian campaign in Russian Poland and Galicia. To quote some of these reports purport ing to come from official sources: "The Austrians lost since the bat tles of Lemberg 330.000 dead and wounded and 100,000 prisoners. I read this incredible lie at least twen ty times, in big headlines, repeated even in the same paper several times. But we heard that immediately after ward ‘the Austrian Generals Ankl and Auffenberg. who had to retreat from Russian Poland, succeeded In uniting and rallying for a fight.’ I do not think that anybody endowed with a little common sense can for one moment believe that an army of 1,000.000. having lost 450,000 men should be able Immediately to rally for a new fight. According to official St. Petersburg news, the Austrians, while receding and liotly pursued to Lemberg, had already lost about 200,000 men (There was hardly anybody left to tell the tale). The steel forts of the first rlass fortress of Nlchallowsk had been silenced and stormed with incredible bravery by the Russians. (In reality Nlchaiiowsk is a small village with 900 inhabitants where the Austrian troops had erected provisional field trenches). The reports spoke of 500 Austrian field guns and 1,000 heavy guns captured. (Nobody knows the whereabouts of these mythical 1,000 heavy guns, as no Austrian fortress had been taken.) Then again, the . backbone of the Austrian army In j Galicia was utterly broken after the | fall of Lemberg, It practically no ; longer existed, so that the dreaded | Cossacks had the choice between a : rush to Budapest to join hands with < the Serbs and the announced on slaught to Berlin via Breslau. Will Not Press Warring Nations. Washington.—Great Britain has re ceived no proposal for peace either direct or indirect, from Germany or Austria and therefore has nothing to > say on the subject. This was the sub • stance of a message received here by j Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British am bassador from Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign secretary. The ambassador had inquired whether any proposal of peace was before bis government, in view of the persistent rumors from Berlin that peace proposals were being ex changed. Coincident with the receipt of this information from Great Britain it was learned authoritative'y that President Wilson had not pursued either with Great Britain. Prance or Russia the informal suggestion of the Imperial German chancellor that "it was up to the United States to obtain a statement of peace terms from the allies.” At the White House the view was expressed that the president practic ally abandoned the Idea of carrying further the informal peace movement begun ten days ago in a conversa tion between former Ambassador Strauss and Count von Bernstortf, the German ambassador. He decided to await a definite ex pression of terms from some one of the belligerents, feeling that it would be inconsistent with American neu trality to press any of the belliger ents to make overtures to the others. Austria Denies Peace Move. Rome (via Paris).—An Austrian of ficial denial from Vienna that any initiative toward peace has been tak en by Austria is causing much com ment here because it contains no as surance that peace would be conclud ed together with Germany. The Austro-German treaty originally con tained a clause specifying that the two countries should cat reciprocally Wires Out of Pola Cut. Rome (via Paris).—It is reported here that the telegraph and telephone wires out of Pola, the great naval port and arsenal of Austria, situated on the hay of Porto Delle Rose on the istria peninsula have been cut and that bombs have been thrown into the barracks. Suppress Two Newspapers. New York.—The Japanese ' govern ment has prohibited the publication of the Japan Daily Herald and the Deutsche Japan Post newspapers in Yokohoma, according to a cable dis patch received here by the East and West News bureau. Birmingham Wins the Pennant. Atlanta, Go.—The Birmingham, Ala., club of the southern association won the pennant for the 1914 base ball season. Mobile second and New Orleans third. German Ships Have Haven. Honolulu.—Two German merchant captains from the China seaB have brought word that the German mer chant marine and navy are making the Marshall islands their renedz vous in the Pacific. Nineteen German ships are said to be there now. * ■■ Reservists Taken on Neutral Boat*. Fort De France, Martinique.—Fif teen German and seven Austrian re servists were taken off the Brazilian steamer Rio De Janlero by the Satinnb cralaar Honda K0ENI6SBER6, BESIEGED BY THE RUSSIANS . 1 y» Koenigsberg, East Prussia, one of the strongest fortified cities in Germany, which thei Russians are reported to have invested. (SPORTS DEFEAT OF RUSS ARMY News From Von Hindenberg Is That He Has Checked the Ad vance of Czar’s Armies. CLAIMS IMPORTANT VICTORY With the Austrian* Constantly Fall ing Back, the Announcement of Suc cess Is Welcomed at Berlin—Allies Continue to Push Back Invading Force*—Germany Has Partial Suc cesses—Peace Rumors Are in the Air, Though They May Come to Nothing. It was officially announced in Berlin that General von Hindenberg had tele graphed Emperor William that the Russian army of Viina, composed of the Second. Third, Fourth and Twen tieth army corps, two reserve divi sions, and five divisions of cavalry, has been completely defeated by the Ger mans. The Russian casualties were heavy. The number of Russian prisoners is increasing. General von Hindenberg goes on, and the destruction of the Russian army continues. There have been spoil? of war.in enormous quan tities. The Russian army of Gcrdno has been defeated at Lyck. It comprises in addition to the Twenty-second corps the remnant of the Sixth corps and a part of the Third Siberian corps. Germans Assert Lines Are Holding. A dispatch to the Reuter Telegram company of London from Berlin, com ing by way of Amsterdam, gives the following statement of the German headquarter's staff, timed 9 p. m., Thursday evening: “The battle which has been continu ing for the last two days on the right wing of our western army extends to the eastern armies in the neighbor hood of Verdun. “Until now the Germans have been partly successful in some parts of the extended battlefield. A general battle is still continuing.” French Official Statement. The official information given out by the ministry of war, September 17, said: “On our left wing our armies are in close contact with the enemy on the whole front from the heights north of the River Aisne, west and south of Reims. "On the center our forward move ment between the Argonne district and the Meuse continues. “It Is absolutely untrue, as has been published time and again by the of ficial Wolff agency, that the army of the crown prince is besieging and bombarding Verdun. This city has never been attacked. Only tjie fort of Troyon, which is not a part of the defenses of Verdun, but protects the heights of Meuse, has been bombarded on several occasions. It is known that the violent attacks of which it has been the object have not succeeded and that since Wednesday it has been relieved. “There is nothing to report concern ing the right wing. “In the Vosges and in Alsace the situation is unchanged. “In Belgium the Belgian army is continuing to operate around Antwerp, causing serious losses to the enemy.” Britain Out $166,500,000. Calculations based on official re turns show that the cost to Britain of 43 days of war, continuing from August 1, when disbursements began, has been about $166,500,000, or at the rate of $3,870,000 per day. Announce Fall of Maubeuge. Berlin has officially announced that the fall of Maubeuge took place on September 9, with 400 guns and 40,000 prisoners. A correspondent of the London Tel egram telegraphs from Boulogne that he was in the vicinity of Maubeuge September 11 and that the forts were still bolding out. The German report of the fall of Maubeuge has never been confirmed. A French official statement says: “1. On our left wing the enemy con tinues his retreating movement. He has evacuated Amiens, falling back to the eastward between Soissons and Reims. The Germans have retired northward from the Vesle. They have i not defended the Marne to the south east of Reims. “2. At the center the enemy, though it has tost Rivignv and Brabant-le-Roi, still holds the south end of the Forest of Argonne. “On our right the hostile forces which were along the Meurthe aro beating a retreat beyond St. Die and Luneville. We have reoccupied Draon, Le Tape, Baccarat, Remireville, No mencv and Pontamousson. "In the Belgian field of operation the Belgian army has vigorously taken the offensive to the south of Lirre.” Mourn for German Regiment. There have been many pitiful scenes enacted at the headquarters of the One Hundred and Fourteenth German infantry, says a dispatch from Con stance, Italy. The regiment is report ed to have been practically destroyed. Thousands of Belgians Slain. A telegram to the London Observer from a correspondent at Antwerp dated last Thursday says: “The authorities are preparing an official casualty list of the operations at Liege and I am informed it will | show that no fewer than 27,000 Bel ! gian soldiers were killed in that he i roic defense.” German Death List 6,535. i Tliere is a high death rate among j the German officers. The ratio of i wounded to the dead is about two to ! one. The total casualties, as given 1 out in Berlin, are 6,535 killed, 8,391 se | riously and 42,242 slightly wounded. viermany nears or nexreat. News of the German retreat, despite every precaution, has passed through Switzerland to the north and caused profound depression in Germany, after so many announced victories, says a London dispatch. According to advices received at Ge neva, Switzerland, people have gather ed in the streets in various German towns, shouting: ‘ Tell us the truth! Give us the news!” The newspaper offices at Munich have been closed, as disorders are feared It is also reported that news of the steady retirement of the Germans in France has trickled into Berlin and benumbed the people. Along the Swiss-German frontier the full extent of the German retreat is known. People are crying: "If the French have beaten us, what will the Russians do?” President’s Reply to Protests. President Wilson replied to protests from both the warring factions in Europe against alleged breaches of the rules of warfare. His reply in each case can be summed up in the declaration that for the United States to express judgment on the matters at ; issue would not be consistent with its neutrality. The text of the president's address ; in reply to the Belgian commissioners I who came to the White House to pro ■ test against alleged German trocities ' to non-combatants, followed closely that of the reply he seijt to Kaiser Wil : helm on the latter’s charge that the | allies are using dumdum expanding ! bullets. His reply to President Poin ; care's protest was along the same I lines. Germany Would Talk Peace. Germany has suggested informally ; that the United States undertake to ; elicit from Great Britain, France and I Russia a statement of the terms un 1 der which the allies would make j peace. i The suggestion was made by the ! imperial chancellor. Von Bethmann Hollweg, to Ambassador Gerard at s Berlin as-a result of an inquiry sent ' by the American government to learn i whether Emperor William was desir ous of discussing peace, as Count Von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, and Oscar Straus recently had re ported. No reply was made by Emperor Wil Ham himself nor did the imperial chancellor indicate whether or not he spoke on behalf of his monarch. Puts German Loss at 45,000. G. F. Stewart, correspondent of the London Daily News, telegraphs from Rotterdam: "I learn from a private hot absolutely reliable source that dur ing the last fortnight the Germans have been losing in killed, wounded, and missing an average of 3,200 men per day. This represents a loss of roughly 45,000 men, of whom it is esti mated 14,000 were killed." Slaughter in East Prussia. The London Morning Post corre spondent at Petrograd wires: "On the East Prussian front the German encircling movement, by which it was hoped to cut off a consid erable body of Russian troops still re maining in that theater of war, has been completely frustrated and the Germans have been severely punished in the attempt. "Accounts now are beginning to ap pear of the scenes on the battlefields abandoned by the Austro-German forces last week. They paint pictures of unending horror. Streams are choked with the slain, trodden down in headlong flight, until the waters are dammed and overflowing their banks. Piles of slain were awaiting burial or burning. Hundreds of acres were sown with dead and littered with weapons and articles of equipment. Wounded and riderless horses were careering madly over the abandoned country." REVIEW OF THE WAR Probable Situation, as Viewed by the Associate Editor of the Army and Navy Journal. New York.—The German line holds fast to its intrenchments, following the Aisne river from ten miles west of Soissons to the mouth of the Suippe and then curving southward to Mont faucon, northwest of Verdun. All along the lines the allies are making assaults, but it cannot be made out from the reports whether they are pushed home with the idea of break ing down the German resistance or whether they are made merely to hold the Germans in position while the turning movement to the west is taking form. Now is the time when the arrival of a new British army might turn the tide of battle for the allies. The 165, 000 of Great Britain’s first effort are in the battle line, apparently in two separate bodies, one southeast of Sois sons and one near the Oise river. With 360,000 regulars, 315,000 terri torials and 300,000 volunteers to draw on. Great Britain must by now be sending to the front forces that will soon double the present strength given in the reports. Germans Gaining Time. The German right now has occupied the line of the Aisne for six days, most valuable days for recovering its fighting strength. Whatever the plan by which the allies' moves are guided, it should bring early results.* The Belgians now control all of their country north of the Scheldt river. Their activity in raids against the German detachments is producing important results in forcing the Ger ipans to maintain a large garrison to protect the routes through the Meuse valley on which they are new abso lutely dependent for the supply of their army. By these tactics the Bel gians are able to hold back from the battle line forces of Germans much greater in number than their own army. \ Russians Retreat Far. The reports about the operations in East Prussia have been suppressed to such an extent that it is cot possible to outline events definitely. The Ber lin dispatches claim that their ad vance has reached Grodno; the Petro grad dispatches state that the Rus sians have fallen back to the line of their border forts. For once the dis patches agree, buj they indicate a retreat of 140 miles by the Russians. The success of the Russians on the San river bids fair to force the Aus trians to fall back from this position. This does not mean that the way lies open for the Russians to advance against Silesia in Germany. TELL OF HOSPITAL WORK French Surgeons Who Have Been at the Front Relate Some of Their Experiences. The eight French medical officers who were captured by the Germans in Namur, but who later were released and are on their way back to France by way of England, gave some inter esting side lights on the situation in the field from their standpoint as sur ceons. | ‘‘We were obliged to work with the ! Germans,'' one of them said. “Most of the wounded were anxious to return to the fight as soon as possible. "We saw no evidence of men wound ed by dumdum bullets on either side. We found the medical services of both the Germans and allies excellent, but we regret that the German wounded often were discharged from the hospi tals too early. In Borne cases their wounds had not sufficiently healed and after their discharge the wounds would open again and complications set in. # “Many of the wounded on both sides were obliged to be in the field for days after they were injured because it was difficult to find thepi owing to the bushes, tree and other obstacles." Asked what impression the war had made on them, the surgeons said it was difficult to answer this question. They were inclined, they said, to say they had received almost no impres sion. “We only work for the wounded and* this leaves us no time to busy our selves with anything else." FOR THEJUSY IN NEW8 EPITOME THAT CAN SOON BE COMPASSED. MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED Home and Foreign intelligence Con densed Into Two and Four Line Paragraphs. WASHINGTON. Ambassador Alorganthau at Con stantinople has been instructed to pretest to the Turkish government against its abrogation of the capit ulations. • • • President Wilson has no intention at present of sending American bat tleships to Turkey to relieve the fears of missionaries, according to state ments by officials. • • • President Wilson says he ordered American troops withdrawn from Vera Cruz because he believed the Mexicans now in control were able to manage the affairs of their own coun try. • • « After long consideration officials are convinced that the federal gov ernment can take no further steps to aid cotton producers to meet the un usual conditions caused by the Euro pean war. \ • • • John R. Mott, a missionary and re ligious worker, told President Wilson that American battleships were need ed in Turkish waters to relieve the fears of American missionaries and teachers in that country. • • • Peace treaties between the United States and Great Britain. France, Spain and China—four countries whose combined population is more titan two-thirds of the total of the earth, have been signed. • • • The Interstate Commerce commis sion has ordered a hearing at Omaha on October 12 before Examiner Brown in the case of the National Council of Farmers’ Co-operative association against the Burlington railroad. • » • The interstate commerce commis sion has scheduled a hearing in Chi cago cm Jan. 20 at which the question of discrimination by railroads against shippers by placing embargoes against coal shipments will be considered. Both the shippers and the carriers have been asked to appear. DOMESTIC. An Associated Press correspondent who was in Brussels at the time of German occupation, denies atrocities in a statement issued at New York. • • • Consular representatives of twenty Latin-American republics of New York have formed an association for the purpose of encouraging trade re lations with this country. • • • Sam Langford of Boston and Bat tling Jim Johnson of New York, both negro heavyweights, fought twelve rounds to a draw here. The bout was close throughout with much in-hght itg . • • Twenty-five thousand bales of cot ton will be taken by St. Louis inter ests in the “buy a bale of cotton" movement being promoted for holding the crop until the European emergen cy passes over. * * * Johnny Kilbane and Abe Attell will fight twenty rounds at Vernon on the night of October 16 for the feather weight championship of the world, according to an announcement made at Los Angeles. » * • The New Jersey Audubon society, of which George Batten of Montclair is president, has issued a statement denying that the society is opposed to ail cats and desired to legislate against them. • • • Future demand for American goods in France will be enormous, accord ing to an opinion expressed in a ca blegram received in New York from Franklin Johnston, publisher of the American F.mperor. ■ • • Ninety-one women golfers, the larg- 1 est field tba ever competed in a na tional championship tournament, turn ed in cards for the qualifying round of eighteen holes medal play over the links of the Nassau Country club at Clencove. L. I. ... ( Application for an increase in pas senger rates to 3 cents a mile on main lines and 4 cents on branch lines was filed with the Missouri public service commission of Jefferson City by the trunk railroads. ... The public service commission of New York has prohibited the use of wooden cars for transportation of pas sengers on electrically-driven trains. ! The Long Island railroad had to dis pose of many wooden passenger loaches. ... All but three of the twenty-seven persons who perished in the wreck of the “Texas Limited” on the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad when two passenger cars fell into a ravine swollen with flood water near Leban on, Mo., have been Identified. ... According to announcement from Washington Germany has suggested informally that the United States should undertake to elicit from Great Britain, France and Russia, a state ment of the terms under which the allies would make peace. ... Nine persons are known to have b<ten killed and more than fifteen in jured when an Illinois Central freight train crashed into a street car con taining about thirty-five passengers near Binghampton, a suburb of Mem nhls. I The federal board of mediation ha ! been asked to help avert a strike o i the Cotton Belt road. * * • Charles N. Felton, former Unite States senator from California, die at bis borne in Menio park, Cal. H was 83 years old. • • • Colorado union coal miners in cot vention at Trinidad, Colo., voted t accept the peace plan recommende i by President Wilson. • • • Captain Joseph S. Byfbee. who 1 said to have been the oldest pilot i this country, died at his home i. South Norwalk, Ccnn. • • • Reports to the Swiss legation a Washington are that the safety of < commercial route for Swiss export through Germany and Rotterdam ha been guaranteed. » • • Information received from Alask. says that Lord William Percy, natu ralist and sportsman, has bagged “spectacled” eider duck, a specie which has been supposed to be extinct FOREIGN. A Tokio report says the Genual cruiser Emden has sunk five Britisl steamers off the coast of India. • % • Japanese aviators have droppe< bombs on the German headquarter at Kiao Chau, doing much damage They also put the wireless station ou of business. • • • A dispatch from The Hague says that 500 British subjects, composed of women, boys under 16 and men over 50 years of age will be allowed to leave Germany soon. • • • The London Stock exchange com mittee has announced that It shortlj will fix a date after which American stocks in the name of alien enemies will cease to be good for delivery. • • • The Japanese troops, who are marching against the German protec torate of Kiao Chow, in China, have captured the town of Chimo, a short distance outside of the Kiao Chow zone. • • • An Austrian official communication received at Rome denies the reports of Russian victories over the Austri ans and asserts that 100,000 Russian prisoners and nearly 500 guns have been captured. • • • A report from Vienna says an army order just issued forbids Austrian troops to fire on aeroplanes for the reason that it is impossible to dis tinguish between their own and the enemy's aviators. - * • * Fifty of the best known English authors have signed a declaration in wffiich they say they are all agreed “that Great Britain could not without dishonor, have refused to take par in the present war.” • • • It is understood in Paris that Ger man prisoners of war will be sent to concentration camps in Africa. They are getting too many to keep in the original camps. In Algeria they can be guarded by reserve troops and na tives. • • • Among tnose »no tell on the Brit ish side in the recent fighting was Brigadier General Neil Douglas Find lay. commander of the First division. Royal artillery, who gained a reputa tion for bravery in the South African war. • • • Methodist congregations in Ger many are facing the necessity of clos ing the doors of their churches and in a great many instances selling their property for whatever it will bring, owing to their inability to meet financial obligations. ' » • • It is reported at Willesstadt, Cura cao, that Alxejandro Ducharne, a Venezuelan revolutionist, has effect ed a landing ip the eastern part of the republic to start a revolutionary movement against the present admin istration under Provisional President Bostinos. • • • Earl Kitchener, the British secre tary of state for war, has again urged the necessity of developing armed forces “to carry on and bring the mighty conflict to a conclusion." It will be necessary, he says, to keep the army at its full strength. • • • Official statements from Berlin by way of London report tiiaf the Ger man dirigible airships have fulfilled all expectations; that none of them have been destroyed or captured, al though some of them have been dam aged; and that war subscriptions have exceeded all expectations. * * • Ex-King Manuel of Portugal has ap pealed to the Portuguese republic to join with tiie allies against Germany. Manuel declares he has offered his personal services to the king of Eng land. • » W The British official press bureau de nies the reports that Russian troops have landed in Belgium and declares also that there is no truth whatever in the rumors that Russian soldiers have landed in or passed through Great Britain on their way to France and Belgium. * * * Vice Admiral Koichi Fujll. of the Jananese navy, who was accused of bribery in connection with the naval abuse of last year, has been sentenced for a term of four years and six months in prison. • • • A dispatch from Berne says the Swiss government has established a bureau for tlie exchange of civilian prisoners. Representatives of the bureau will go to places where such prisoners will be brought together for exchange and conduct them to their own countries. * *. • Peking reports that 25,000 Japanese have landed on the Shan-Tunk penin sula, and that Japanese troops are passing toward Ping-Tu, about forty miles north of Kia-Chow, the German protectorate In China. ■ RATES ARE TOO LOW | EXPRESS COMPANIES SAY THE> CANT LIVE UNLESS CHANGED. ; PARCEL POST COTS BUSINESS — 3 i Nebraska Railway Commission $■? 1 j No Reason for an Advance at Present. t Llpcoln.—Severe reductions In e i press company revenues raise a qu» tion that may demand answers fr* people of this and other »t*t» through their railway commissi<ir 1 The matter is receiving the attent ' of several big men of the country ! some of whom have endeavored to terest the Nebraska railway comn:: sioc. The chief problem according to communications to the state comm;*? 1 sion here is whether the com panic - shall live. The parcel post does net offer all the various special services I that the express companies do bu? unless the rates are increased there will be nothing but ruin in sight for the carriers. That is the burden of the plea sent here. The end sought for is either an advance in express ratesrenabling the companies to live or a modification of the parcel post law limiting the transportation cf goods to some extenL In the Nebraska commission's ex perience express companies of this state are not suffering much at the present time, although their revs nut s i have unquestionably been decreased i However they can live if no further inroads are made on their business. The chief source of Nebraska revenue is from "general special" business something which the parcel post does not touch. That, accordng to Rate Expert Powell, precludes the failure argument and prevents the com patiy from asking for increases on its intrastate business. Nebraska Apples for Nebraskans. For the first time for many years Nebraska people are going to have the opportunity of buying Nebraska grown apples, according to a state ment made by E. M. Pollard, presi dent of the Eastern Nebraska Fruit Growers' association at the fair last week. In years gone by eastern buyers have come to this state and have pur chased all the fruit grown in the best | orchards of the state and shipped to I Chicago, New York and other points j In the east, where, on account of its ' flavor, it has brought the top prices. ! According to Mr. Pollard, the asso I ciation this year will refuse to sell 1 its stock to the eastern buyers and : will give Nebraska dealers the chance j to lay in a supply of the Nebraska ! grown apples. — Election Proclamation Issued. Governor Morehead has issued a I proclamation to the voters informing j them that there will be an election • this year and that on November 3. i 1914, the people may select a govern i or, lieutenant govenor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, superintend ent, laud commissioner, railway com missioner. two regents of the univer sity, . one member of congress from each of the six congressional districts Thirty-three members of the state senate, 100 representatives, one judge from the Fourth judicial district, a chief Justice of the state supreme court and three constitutional amend ments must be voted for. Shippers Satisfied. The state railway commission Is still receiving praise from shippers and traffic managers of wholesale houses on account of the class rates which the commission has embodied in order No. 19. The railroads are preparing to appeal from these rates to the supreme court of Nebraska. Shippers appear to be well satisfied with the rates. Asked to Remove Commissioner. The Nebraska State Federation of Labor has passed resolutions asking Governor Morehead to remove Labor Commissioner Charles W. Pool, and favoring the passage of the woman suffrage amendment to the Nebraska constitution. State Fair Totals $65,K0. The total receipts for the state fair this year, about $65,000, was not quite enough to pay out. But the associa tion finds it will have $2,613 left in the treasury after paying this year's debts. Convict Vanishes After Paroled. George A. St. Clair, the convict at the state penitentiary, who received notoriety last winter by refusal to 1 obey the rules of the prison, providing that prisoners should attend church ; and whose case was taken before the State Board of Control by Chariot. Wooster, the Silver Creek statesman, has. decamped. St. Clair became suddenly good after the board decided he had to obey the rules and for his conversion he was gtyen a parole. After being placed on train he has not been seen. J. T. Lane Resigns. J. T Lane of Lincoln has resijmed the office of adjutant at the state home for soldiers at Grand Island. In a letter to the board of control he frankly states that he is unable to get along with Commandant ZImmerer. and for that reason he desires tc> re sign. About one year ago the Com mandant and the farmer at the homo had trouble and the farmer resigned. The commandant served in the Ger man army and it is said his military discipline is too strict to suit somt under his control.