REPORTS TELL OF
6ERMAII nor
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Enormous Number of Prisoners
Said to Have Been Taken
in Poland.
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COMMANDER IN DISGRACE!
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Russian Cavalry Leader, Rennen
kampff, Reported Relieved From
Command—Germans Foiled in At
tempt to Cross Yser—Reichstag
Votes Large War Credit—London
Hears of Capture of De Wet.
London, Dec. 4.—The German forces
fn Poland have turned and are. now
taking the offensive against the Rus
sians on a new front
While both official reports indicate
that the fighting in this war area is
quieting down, there are persistent un
official reports that the great battle,
still undecisive, is progressing bit
terly.
That the Russian check is complete ]
is admitted by persons who are in j
touch with military authorities.
Germans Take 80,000 Prisoners.
The Germans assert that in the re
cent maneuvers they have captured
80,000 unwounded prisoners.
In the face of these claims by the j
Germans the Russians insist, in a
statement issued through Rome, that \
their captures greatly exceed this nuin-;
ber.
All agree that the losses on both j
sides have been heavy.
It became known here early this j
morning that the Russian failure to 1
surround and dec’sively defeat the ,
Germans at Lodz was caused by the j
tardiness of General Rennenkampff. i
the Russian cavalry leader. He was !
two days late, reports say.
As a result of not arriving on time
the general has been relieved of his
command, a Petrograd dispatch says. '
Tardiness Makes Coup Fail.
The failure of the Russian coup is
described by the Petrograd correspon
dent of the London Post as follows:
"General Rennenkampff. whose late i
arrival with his army at the appointed
place robbeu the strategic scheme of
the grand duke of its complete success
a week ago, has been superseded in
his command.
"Owing to this army coming into po
sition a couple of days after tha time
6et the ring of steel which should have
hemmed in the German armies en
tirely could not be closed, with the
result that a week of heavy lighting,
with the hurrying up of large re-en
forcements by th^ Germans, followed.
Germans Turn on Czar’s Men.
“The Germans, re-enforced, attacked
the Russian left on Sunday The at
tack was continued with great deter
mination on Monday, the tightin~ oc
cupying tae entire day. The Russians
were prepared for this outflanking
movement on their left.
"On Sunday these new German
forces crossed the Warthe river at
Sieradz, where two bridges carrying
the railway line and highway facili
tated the crossing, and advanced by
rail and road toward Lask. The Rus
sians did not oppose their advance un
til they had reached a convenient lo
cality south of Sieradz, where the
River Warthe has a sharp bead.
Good Roads Aid Russian.
From Lask, which is cut by the
railway, run also a half-dozen good
highways, three in the direction of
Fanwitz, to the northwest, west and
southwest. They served the Russians
admirably, giving them the advantage
of interior lines, while the Germans
had only the railway embankment.
“The vanguart' of the Russian forces
met and stopped the advance on Mon
day. fighting stubbornly the whole day,
while other troops were brought up
by road and rail to cope with the new
direction of the Terman attack.
Russian Hold Foe Back.
Eighteen miles south of Lask the j
Russians on Monday completed the
good work reported to have ' een be
gun on Sunday when they repulsed a
flank attack of new German forces,
which had moved up from Wielun.
“W hen the fighting was over for the
day the Germans remained in occu
pation of Szczercow. On Monday the
Russians cleared them out and then
discovered that among the forces
holding this neighborhood was a bri
gade of Prussian guards with are bat
teries. Szczercow is now- occupied by
the Russians. The German attack in
enormous strength upon the Russian
left has thus failed.
•The Russian center is still occupied
in hammering the surrounded corps
into surrender by heavy cannonading,
which has already continued for a
couple of days.”
Pctrograd Report.
Petrograd, Dec. 4.—General von Hin
denburg is still striving his utmost to
retrieve the situation in Russian Po
land by greatly strengthening his
forces across the southern end of the
German position. It is believed he
has brought six corps, aggregating
200,000 men, Into the 50-mile gap from
Sieradz downwards to Czeustochowa,
each corps extending about eight
miles.
These corps must contain a large ad
mixture of -Austrians, as .he narrow
gauge German railway line to Kalish
can throw only about eight thousand
men daily upon the frontier. It has
been working at full capacity for a
fortnight, but the great bulk of Ger
ma'n troops fr m the west was brought
on the broad gauge railway line to
Pleschen. Thence they marched 20
miles to the frontier, with six days of
heavy marching across a trackless
country before reaching the Warthe
river. These are the only two sources
comparative.?’ open for the movement
i substantial re-enforcements.
AGAIN FAIL TO CROSS YSER
German Attempt Reported Repulsed
by the Allies After Most
Severe Fighting.
London, Dec. 4.—Another desperate
attempt of the Germans to break
through the allies' lines from Dixmude
to Yprcs has failed.
With the weather .moderated, the
Germans, heavily re-enforced, yester
day attempted to cross the flooded wa
ters of the Yser on rafts.
They selected a time just before
dawn to make the venture. The rafts
were punted through the shallow wa
ters in dead silence and utter dark
ness. Each raft carried from fifty to
sixty men and mitrailleuses. A fur
ther fleet of rafts drawn by motor
boats was waiting on the German side
of the muddy waters, but before dawn
they were discovered, and at daybreak
the artillery of the allies met the ad
vancing Germans with devastating
effect.
Germans Give Up Attempt.
Despite their losses the Germa-is
bravely essayed the crossing, partially
covered by a cannonade of their field
artillery, and until midday persisted in
their plans.
Several of the rafts were upset in
midstream by the French guns and
great numbers of Germans were
drowned as well as shot. The attempt
to cross eventually was given up, but
the artillery kept up a determined bom
bardment of the allied positions and
met with a vigorous reply.
The Germans have withdrawn their
heavy artillery on account of the mud
dy country and brought up a new
weapon, which is exceedingly well
adapted to the changed nature of the
warfare.
Numbers of light guns with a n-nge
of seven kilometers have been moun.
ed on motor lorries, which have been
fitted with large springs, which are ar
ranged in a manner to keep the gun
steady while it is being fired and to
break the recoil.
The guns may be moved speedily on
roads which would be impassable to
heavier ones.
German Statement Brief.
Berlin, via Wireless to London, Dec
3.—Today’s official statement was
limited to the following brief announce
ment:
"In neither theater of the war has
anything of importance happened.”
VOTE IMMENSE WAR CREDIT
Members of the Reichstag Almost
Unanimously Agree to Provide
Funds for Conflict.
Berlin, Dec. 2.—With only one dis- !
senting vote, that of Herr Liebknecht, !
socialist, the reichstag today voted a
new war credit of $1,250,000,000.
The president of the chamber at the
opening of the sitting dwelt in a
speech on the unity and patriotism of
the German people and commented
appreciatively on the large number of
members of the reichstag who are now
serving at the front.
Says Japan Sought Booty.
In his exposition of the progress of
the war the president said:
"Japan joined our enemies from a
desire to seize as booty the monument
to Germau culture in the far East.
On the other hand, we have found an
ally in Turkey, as all the Moslem peo
ple wish to throw off the English yoke
and shatter the foundations of Eng
land’s colonial power. Under the ban
ner of our army and our fleet we will
continue.”
REPORT CAPTURE OF DE WET
News Received at London, i* Authen
tic, Means the End of the
Boer Rebellion.
London, Dec. 2.—Gen. Christian de
Wet, leader of the rebellion in the
Union of South Africa, has been cap
tured, according to a Pretoria official
dispatch to the Reuter Telegraph
company.
General de Wet rose to fame as
commander-in-chief of the Orange
Free State forces in the South Af
rican war. Starting as a burgher in
the Heilbron command, he later was
appointed commandant at Ladysmith
and was sent to relieve General
Cronje as second in command. When
General Cronje surrendered, De Wet
was made commander-in-chief.
He was one of the signatories of the
peace conference after the war and
later was minister of agriculture in
the Orange River Colony.
General de Wet at the outbreak of
the present war offered a corps of
South African scouts to Lord Kitch
ener. Later he protested against the
action of the Union of South Africa
in fighting the Germans and took the
field against the .British forces.
Austrians Occupy Belgrade.
London, Dec. 2.—Belgrade, which
until the outbreak of the war was the
capital of Servia, today was occupied
by Austrian troops, the Servians hav
ing evacuated the city.
Thus, on the sixty-sixth anniversary
of the reign of Emperor Francis Jo
seph, who again is reported seriously
ill, four months after the outbreak of
the war, his generals report one of
the most important successes they
have obtained.
LAUDS PLUCK OF OFFICER
German Aviator Describes Attack
With Bombs on English Troops in
Vicinity of Dunkirk.
A German aviator, writing from the
front, says: "Yesterday an observa
tion flight took me to Dunkirk, where
we threw bombs on English troops
that were landing. On • the return
flight through the southern part of
Belgium to Lille we made important
discoveries, which, for obvious rea
sons, I am not able to tell you. Un
fortunately my military observer.
Lieutenant Sch-, was wounded. At
Poperinghe we got into infantry fire,
and he was shot in the right leg. i
was untouched. Sch- turned un
concernedly to me and said: Tm hit'
"'Hearty congratulations, I an
swered, 'but if you can, keep on tak
ing observations.’ He did so, and now
the brave fellow is lying in the hos
pital.”
Many similar stories of splendid
bravery are told.
EPITOMEJF EVENTS
PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO
MANY SUBJECTS.
ABE SHORT BUT INTERESTING
Brie* Mention of What Is Transpiring
Ip Various Sections of Our Own
ana Foreign Countries.
WASHINGTON.
The income tax law caused the de
duction of a total of $16,000 from the
salaries of representatives in con
gress for the current year.
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The last important step preliminary
to the actual operation of the $135,
000,000 cotton loan fund was taken by
the cotton loan committee when it
completed the list of state commit
tees in eleven of the southern states.
• * *
John H. Fahey, president of the
chamber of commerce of the United
States, asked President Wilson to
support an amendment to the Sher
man law to permit American export
ers to hand together to meet foreign
competition.
• • •
Experts from the twelve ports
which handle 80 per cent of that bus
iness of the United States totaled
$43,098,852 for the week ended No
vember 28. as compared with imports
aggregating $26,685,557, leaving a fa
vorable trade balance of $16,413,295.
A * *
Upwards of $40,000,000 for river and
harbor improvement is asked for in
the estimates which the War depart
ment has prepared for consideration
by congress at the coming session
Approximately half of this total is for
the Mississippi river and its tribu
taries.
* * *
Warning Americans to stay away
front Vera Cruz has been issued by
the State department. A cablegram
from Consul Canada tells of danger
to Americans “stranded” there. He
said that communication and trans
portation were in an unstable and un
satisfactory condition.
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The world's need for cotton at the
present time and the estimated de
mand for next year is to be the sub
ject of an investigation by State de
partment officials. The Treasury de
partment announced that Secretary
McAdoo had requested -Secretary
Bryan to secure all possible informa
tion.
• • •
Abolition of all but two of the na
val prisons in continental United
States, those at Portsmouth, N. H.,
and Mare Island, California, and the
maintenance of disciplinary quarters
aboard ships instead of ashore were
recommended in the annual report of
Capt. Kidley .McLean, judge advocate
general of the navy.
* * •
Orders were issued by Secretary
Lane opening to homestead entry
more than 500,000 acres of public
lands in Oregon. Montana and New
Mexico, which have been determined
to be non-irrigable. After January 11,
1015, the lands may be taken up in
tracts of :120 acres each under the
enlarged homestead act.
DOMESTIC.
Heavy withdrawals of deposits from
East Side hanking institutions in New
York followed the closing of the
three private banks of Abraham Kass.
• • •
After virtually four months of en
forced idleness, necessitated by the
European war, the New York Stock
exchange has reopened for business.
• • •
Eight men instead of eleven will
die at Arizona's "hanging'' in the
Florence penitentiary, December 19
as the result of a stay of execution
granted by Governor Hunt.
* * *
John Foley, a Butte mine worker,
was found guilty at Boseman. Mont.,
of burglary in that he assisted at the
dynamiting and looting of a safe in
the rioting at Butte, June 13.
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More than 15,000 employes in the
shops on practically all the Harri
man lines have voted that their strike
was a failur^. and that they would re
turn to work without recognition of
their system federation is the belief
of operative officials of the Union
Pacific at Omaha.
* * *
An effort by industrial railroads to
regain joint through rates with the
trans-continental lines, canceled, was
begun before James W. Carmalt, spe
cial examiner of the Interstate Com
merce commission at Chicago.
* * *
The tenth annual convention of the
National Commercial Gas association
opened at Minneapolis. Percy F.
Young of Newark N. J.. president of
the association, said the gas com
panies were less affected by the Eu
ropean war than any other public
utility. „
* * *
The battle in northerh Poland, con
cerning the progress of which there
has been so much mystery, is now
being faught out under the eyes of
the German emperor on the one side
and the Russian emperor on the other.
* * *
An international banking house in
New York, with Influential British
connections, received a cable from
London touching upon the statement
of Lloyd George In the house of
commons, that this country’s debts
to Great Britain aggregate five billion
dollars. ,
* * •
Captain Le Goodierer, Jr., United
States aviation corps, was fatally in
jured and Glenn Martin, another
aviator, was seriously hurt in a fall
of about forty feet at San Diego,
California.
In Chicago the first municipal dance
was attended by more than 5,000 per
sons.
* * *
Walter Johnson, premier pitcher of
the American league, has signed a
contract with the Chicago Federal
League club.
* * *
A permanent welfare work exhibi
tion was opened in New York city by
the welfare department of The Na
tional Civic Federation.
* * * *
Philip Herzberg, reputed to be the
oldest Odd Fellow in the United
States, died at Baltimore at the age
of 93. Death was due to old age.
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The grain shipping season from the
American head of the lakes was a
j most satisfactory one in spite of the
j smaller wheat harvest over the north
■ west this year, according to figures
| given out at Duluth.
« * *
Hope of making peace with organ
ized baseball until at least another
season of warfare has passed, appears
to have been abandoned by Federal
league owners, who held their annual
! meeting in Chicago last week.
• * *
Thomas C. Hunter, chief of police
of Springfield, Mass., was found not
guilty by a jury on two counts charg
ing him with having solicited and ac
cepting bribes. Eight counts charg
ing bribery still stand against him.
* • *
A Paris newspaper says that the
bombardment of ltheims which has
been in progress intermittently for
several weeks has resulted in the de
struction of Archaeological museum
with its Roman. Gallic and French
collections.
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Extraordinary precautions have
been taken against a possible raid by
German sympathizers across the
Niagara river. A permanent guard
of thirty militiamen lias been sta
tioned at Fort Erie, directly opposite
Buffalo.
Further criticism of what was term
ed “disjointed methods in public
health work” was made at Jackson
ville by Dr. Frederick R. Green of
Chicago, in an address before the an
nual convention of the American Pub
lie Health association.
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Mrs. Mathilda Francolini, 29 years
old. whose connection with large real
estate companies has made her a con
spieuous figure in the real estate
world for several years, was arrested
in New York on an indictment charg
ing her with forgery in the second de
gree.
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The Chicago Federal Reserve bank
notified the member banks of district
number Seven that the present dis
count rate is 31 per cent for maturi
ties up to thirty days and 6 per cent
for longer maturities. Bankers de
clared the reduction was a sign of
easier money condition.
The banking house of Kuhn, Loeb
& Co., and the National City bank
at New York announced the joint
purchase of $3,000,000 worth of two
year G per cent Swedish treasury
notes, which wBl be publicly offered
at par and accrued interest. The pro
ceeds of the loan will be used to pur
chase “various commodities" in this
country.
FOREIGN.
The French cabinet is to return to
Paris from Bordeaux and the French
parliament will meet in extraordinary
session in Paris on December 22.
* • •
Japan is gaining in population by
over 1,125.000 yearly, according to a
report just issued by the government
bureau of statistics.
• * *
Belgrade has been occupied by the
Austrians after its evacuation by the
Servian troops, and indications are
that the Servian army is being hard
pressed.
Russian advices say there has been
an outbreak of fanatical rioting in
Erzerum following the proclamation
of the Mohammedans calling for a
holy war.
• * •
According to Berlin the rebels In
South Africa have seized the police
station at Hammanskraal, Transvaal,
and forced the British to retire with
heavy casualties.
* * *
Italy awaits with some anxiety the
reopening of the Italian parliament,
at which Premier Salandra will out
line the government's attitude In the
war, and the reasons which have ac
tuated the policy of maintaining
“armed and watchful neutrality.”
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The French government has pro
tested to Berlin through the Spanish
ambassador that Germans are detain
ing as prisoners of war members of
the French ambulance instead of
sending them back to their army. In
accordance with the rules of the Ge- i
neva convention.
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Germany has officially denied al
leged statements that the Germans
would have fed the population of Bel
gium if the American people had not
sent supplies to the starving people
of the conquered country, says Brand
Whitlock, American minister to Bel
gium.
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A monthly payment of $7,000,000
for the maintenance of German troops
has been demanded of Belgium finan
ciers in Brussels by the military gov
ernor, according to dispatches from
the Belgian capital.
• • *
General Christian De Wet, the fa
mous Boer leader in the South Afri
can war, who turned rebel shortly
after the commencement of the pres
ent conflict, has been captured by the
Union of South African forces, ac
cording to an official dispatch from
Pretoria.
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Except for a few isolated cases of
robbery and violences, which result
ed In severe punishment to the of
fenders as soon as detected, the Za
pata forces have maintained good or
der In Mexico City.
EIM60T0 BEANIE
GERMANS SAY BLOCKADE OF
SEA STARVES BELGIANS.
FAMINE THREATENS COUNTRY
Hoover of American Relief Committee
Says Military Authorities Not In
terfering With Work.
London.—Herbert Clark Hoover,
chairman of the American commis
sion for relief in Belgium, has re
turned to London after a week’s trip
of inspection in Belgium. Mr. Hoover1
reported that the distribution of food
stuffs sent in care of the American
commission is well under way. but
stated that the condition of the fam
ine which threatened the population
is still desperate and that on account
of the attitude of the belligerents
the Belgians must still appeal to the
people of the United States for re
lief.
“It is difficult to state the position
of the civil population of Belgium
without appearing hysterical," Mr.
Hoover said in his statement. “I do
not know that history presents any
parallel of a population of 7,000,000
surrounded by a ring of steel and
utterly unable by any conceivable
effort of their own to save them
selves. From the nature of things
it is impossible for the commission
even to possess an opinion on the
rights and wrongs which have creat
ed this situation. The Germans
state flatly that the people of Bel
gium are nominally dependent on
the importation of foodstuffs for.
five-sixths of their subsistence; that
the Germans have not the slightest
objection to the Belgians or anyone |
else importing foodstuffs into Bel j
gium; that it is not the Germans who
have blocked the sea and there is no
obligation in them to feed the pop
ulation who could, through the nor
mal course of trade, obtain susten
ance. The allies, on the other hand,
insist that a free port for the im
portation of foodstuffs into Belgium
would practically amount to an in
trepot for food supplies for the Ger
mans. It is enough for us that there j
are 7.000,000 people ground between j
gigantic millstones. We are meeting
with no obstruction from the military
authorities of Belgium in the prose
cution of our work. Not one loaf of j
bread, or one spodnful of salt that |
we have introduced has been taken |
by the military. The most stringent !
orders have been given that we shall j
have no interference and our mem
bers meet with respect and assist- ;
anoe in all quarters.
Will Fight Dry Law.
Tucson. Ariz.—Bishop Henry Cran
jon.of the Roman Catholic diocese of
Arizona and New Mexico has engaged
attorneys to contest the validity of
the state prohibition law adopted at
the election. November 3. The con
test. it was stated, will be instituted
in the name of Rev. Thomas Connelly,
pastor of All Saints’ church of Tuc
son. It will be based on the conten
tion that the prohibition measure is
unconstitutional, because its pro
visions would prevent the use of wine
in the secramental ceremony of the
mass, and thereby, it is alleged, con
travene the fundamental rights of re
ligious organizations.
Millionaire Arrested.
Chicagp.—Colonel Charles Alexan
der, Providence, R. I.. millionaire, in
dicted here charged with violation of
the Mann act, has been arrested in
Providence, according to an announce
ment received here by Charles F.
Clyne, district attorney. He is charged
with transporting Miss Jessie Cope of
Los Angeles from Los Angeles to Chi
cago. Miss Cope is under the surveil
lance of federal officers in Chicago.
Bnd it is reported the grand jury will
consider charges of extortion said to
have been made against her. Colonel
Alexander is a member of the firm of
Alexander Bros, of Providence, R. I.
Rural Credit Abandoned.
Washington.—United States credits
commission has abandoned plans for
an independent rural credit system
and appointed a sub-committee to
draft an amendment to its bill, mak
ing the system subordinate to the fed
eral reserve system. This action re
moves the principal difference be
tween various advocates of rural
credits legislation.
Heavy Shirts for Fighters.
Kansas City, Mo.—A consignment
of 2,000 heavy flannel shirts and
7,000 bandages, all made by Kansas
City society women, has been shipped
trom here for war sufferers.
Marriage Certificates Taxed.
Washington.—No war revenue tax
is to be imposed on marriage licen
ses, but a 10-cent stamp will be at
tached to certificates of marriage
that may be issued by the officiating
clergymen or magistrate, the new
war tax law provides.
Big War Order at Chicago.
Chicago.—Purchasing agents of
England and Russia have closed con
tracts here for automobile trucks and
tools amounting to $2,500,000 it has
been announced.
600 Auto Trucks Ordered for War.
Chicago.—Two orders for automo
bile trucks, amounting to $2,500,000
have been placed here by Russia and
England, each government ordering
300 trucks. England will also order
several thousand shovels, buckets
and other trench-digging tools.
Kaiser Not on British Naval List.
London.—On the navy list for No
vember the names of the kaiser and
Prince Henry of Prussia have been
omitted, leaving the czar as the only
honorary admiral in the navy.
, >
Sam Rosenow was found dead on a
creek near Elmwood.
The new postoffice building at Sew
ard is nearing completion.
Fire caused a $20,000 loss in the
Killian Clothing store at Kearney.
North Bend citizens will donate ^
carload of flour for Belgium relief.
A farmers' institute will be held at
Wood River December 10, 11 and 12.
Wisner is planning on sending a car
load of corn to the sufferers of Bel
gium.
Wheat fields in the vicinity of Fair
field are suffering for lack of mois
ture.
Fire destroyed a barn and automo
bile belonging to Irving O'Connor of
Fremont.
Extensive improvements are to be
made on the new Clark hotel at
Hastings.
Nebraska City has raised a fund
of $175 for Belgian relief and the Red
Cross society.
Hunters shot and killed a cow and
a steer on the farm of W. J. G’asson
in Johnson county.
Joseph Wegener, aged 19, of Lind
say accidentally shot and killed him
self while hunting.
No bids were submitted at the re
quired time for the building of a new
postoffice at West Point.
The work of completely rebuilding
the line of the electric company at
Beatrice is in progress.
The proposition of making a skat
ing pond on the city park at Mason
City, is being considered.
West Point people are collecting a
fund to purchase one hundred sacks
of flour for Belgian relief.
What is said to be the largest
poultry show in the middlewest was
held recently at Florence.
Members of the Hastings automobile
club will demand an investigation into
the selling price of gasoline.
Frank Doering of Pawnee county
sold a quarter section of land near
Burchard for $170 per acre.
Three thousand head of horses left
the South Omaha market last week
for Germanv to be used in the war.
Fifty carloads of specially picked
horses were shipped to the French
army from South Omaha last week.
The ladies' auxiliary will take an
active part on the farmers’ institute
at West Point December 11 and 12.
An organization is being perfected
in Omaha with a view to putting ev
ery loan shark in Douglas county out
of business.
Wilbur Howart of Johnson county
suffered a fractured leg when thrown
from a wagon when his horses be
trune frightened.
The Peoples State bank of Wol
bach has just been incorporated with
the state banking board with a cap
ital of $20,000.
A firm! of $500 has been raised at
Falls City to aid in the work of Bel
gian relief. The money will be ex
tended for flour.
Three hundred women from Oma
ha's society set. took part in a theat
rical production for the benefit of the
Belgian sufferers.
Eleven persons are under arrest at
Fremont charged with participating in
wholesale robberies on railroad cars
loaded with chickens.
A quarter section of farm land in
Cuming county was sold for $24,000.
or $150 per acre. C. C. Doescher
sold the land to B. Hunke
The Elmwood Mill & Elevator com
pany is installing an electric light
plant and will furnish current to res
idences and business houses.
A body supposed to be that of Ver
non Connett who was murdered at
North Platte on August 2, was found
near the scene of the murder.
Members of the Omaha Rotary club
have subscribed $2,500 worth of tick
for the Pavlowa charity ball to
given December 16 in that city.
Paul Liverinphcuse. 16-year old Jun
iata boy. was drowned in Florida on
Thanksgiving day, according to word
reaching Hastings from his parents.
Lured from his home by the sup
posed whistling of a friend, Harold
Chambers, a Fremont young man,
was slugged and robbed of 35 cents.
The British Eninire association of
Omaha has sent $500 to the British
ambassador to be used for the relief
of suffering among the needy British
people.
While the apple crop in southeast
Nebraska is not usually rated as a
normal crop for this year. Agent
Lewis of the Burlington Railroad com
pany reports that over fifty-one cars
of apples were shipped from the vi
cinity of Peru during the picking sea
son.
Perry Cleimnens. a boilermaker,
was hurled forty feet into the air and
escaped without a scratch when
caught in a lathe shaft at Platts
mouth.
George Brown, a member of the sol
diers' home at. Grand Island, admitted
from Omaha, committed suicide by
hanging himself with a wire attached
to one of the cages.
A plan for financing a big national
market for farmers Is proposed by
the American Farmers' Federation,
which meets in Omaha December
10-12.
The University of Nebraska ath
letic field may be changed to the lo
cation now occupied by the Lincoln
fire and poiice station and market
square.
William T-Talcsworth. a Winnebago
farmer, was killed and his wife and
baby and Tra Johnson, of Winnebago,
were injured when Johnson's car turn
ed over a mile south of South Sioux
City, Neb.
Superintendent E. L. Meyer of the
Randolph schools has been elected
superintendent of the Geneva schools
£o succeed Earl Cline, who goes to
Nebraska City.
The head of Anton Druek, a young
farmer living near West Point,’ was
severed from his body in a runaway
when he was caught in the overhead
arch of a bridge.
J. G. Evans’ thirty-acre apple orch
ard near Stella, has produced eight
carloads of first-class apples, and
cleared $2,100. Most of the apples
were sold independent of the fruit
growers' association.
F. W. BUTTON NAMED
DODGE COUNTY MAN APPOi"
JUDGE IN SIXTH.
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Governor Also Names Dr. Carr G -
the State Board of Hea t
Secretaries.
Lincoln.—Governor More!
appointed County Attorney K W
ton of Dodge county to suce< -
preme Judge-elect Conrad Hoi
on the bench of the Sixth judi
trict. Judge Hollenbeck resign
take effect January 1. 1915. T
Judge will accordingly take i
on that date. Simultaneously th
emor announced the appoint!
Dr. E. A. Carr as a member
board of secretaries of the statf
of health. The latter has been
ber for four years past and -a..
of four recommended for rem
ment by the state homeopath-'
cal association.
initiative and Referendum Res..
Governor Morehead has iss
proclamations on the initiat
erendum propositions as vot*
the late election. He proclaims i
versity extension proposition • ar:
for extension on the downtown
by a vote of 147,647 for the dowi/
lots to 65,177 for the state fan;,
tion. The employers’ liability
workmen's compensation pro;
carried by a vote of 92,513 to
against. The Nebraska City ar
appropriation was recalled by
of 133,457 for the recall to
against. Woman suffrage lost
vote of 90,738 for the prop* -
100.S42 against.
Asks for Less Morey.
Attorney General Martin ha« f!
an estimate of expenses of la
ment for the next two years ii -
for $14,000 less than was allow
years ago. $27,650. This ar:
eludes the salaries of the a"
general and two assistants. , .
the three receiving $2,000 a y, .. r
stenographer at $1,200 a year,
for extra stenographic wor
for office expenses, print nr
traveling expenses, furniture
supplies, and $10,000 for t ie us,
the attorney general in comlur- _
prosecutions and enforcement nf
and expenses of procedure inci :•:
the state railway commission.
Students Making Telescope.
Supreme patience—a desirable ar
necessary quality for collegia .'
cultivate—has been develop I by
students of the University of Ne
braska in the most unique c:vi>'r
five feature ever attempted a- ’
institution. This was done ir
making of a telescope, a tele
which is eighteen feet long and "
tiie eyie-piece and th^ objec; ve ;
will be slightly under ninete, ■:.
in length. The objective is t«-!
inches in diameter. The work w
undertaken under the direction
Prof. Swezey, who teaches astr
omy at the university.
Money on Insane Accounts.
Paymept on the delinquent in-,
accounts are being made by mos
the counties in small sums. Pi,: •
county has paid $1,300 with rin"
that a levy would be made to re
the rest of the amouir due
$2,852.75. Hayes county also s> nt :
the second $200, according to ur
agreement that $200 would be pat
each year until the full $1,007.99
been paid.
Appropriations for 1913.
Estimates from thirty departr. >
and sources to which money was .;
plied in appropriations of the •
session of the legislature show t '
if the figures are met by the so! 1
greater appropriations will be ’
quired than two years ago. The
tal sum appropriated for the thirt
departments then was $1,748,957.
total of the 1915 estimates as <vc.
puted at the auditor’s office is ?
871.79Q—an increase of $122.62°.
Clamoring for Agriculture Report
Requests from all parts of
country are now being received
the 1914 report of the secretary of '
State Board of Agriculture. T
volume will contain the Nehrask
crop statistics by counties. Last yea
the publicity department distrilnr
a special edition of 3,000 to supp -
ment the regular edition of 5."""
Tom Ryan Pardoned.
Thomas Ryan, better known as Tor
McIntyre, who Is said to have sung
his way out of the penitentiary. I:. '
been granted an unconditional pardo
by Governor Morehead.
Angus Cattle Breeders to Meet.
President C. S. Reese and Seen
tary D. N. Syford have announce :
the meeting of the Aberdeen-Ang's
association of Nebraska to be he!
In Lincoln January 18 to 23.
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Corporation Tax Due.
Two hundred and ninety-one corpo
rations doing business in this state
most of them state concerns—wen
certified to the attorney general ac
delinquent in their corporation tax
payments. Ninety-seven corporation
have headquarters in Omaha.
War Relic Received.
A relic of war days has been do
nated to the relic room of ti e state
department of the Grand Army or the
Republic by Captain A. M. Trimble
It consists of a pen drawing made
from a tintype taken before the war
of an old negro ex-slave named C.
Rainbow Johnson, who waq. brought
to thic country from Africa iOO years
ago and was sold into slavery in Mis
sissippi. Later he escaped to Illinois
and was for five years in the service
of Owen Love joy of Princeton, the
greatest abolitionist of his time.
