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    NEWS OF THE WEEK
CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR
LESSER IMPORTANCE.
A BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS
National, Political. Personal and Other
Matters in Brief Form for All
Classes of Readers.
WAR NEWS.
The Australian contingent has ar
rived in England for service in France
and Belgium.
* • •
The British house of commons has
given the government the power to
commandeer all factories in which
munitions of war can be manufac
tured.
* * *
A report reaching Berlin from Rot
terdam says that the British collier
Beethoven has been sunk at some
place not stated, either by a torpedo
or a mine.
* * *
The Roumanian senate has adopted
a bill empowering the government to
proclaim martial law throughout the
country whenever it deems such a
measure necessary.
• • *
A Berlin dispatch asserted that
since the opening of direct negotia
tions between Italy and Austria a de
cided relation in tire tension of Aus
tria-Italian relations is noticeable.
• * •
Great Britain has decided not to
treat captured crews of German sub
marines as ordinary prisoners of war,
but will intern them with a view to
their "possible conviction at the end
of the war.”
* * *
In the Prussian Diet the minister
of agriculture declared that on the
present basis of allotment of flour
and bread Germany would not only
be sufficiently provided, but probably
would be able to accumulate a re
serve for all eventualities.
German submarines apparently
have again become active in their
quest for ships of enemy powers
Three steamers have been sunk by
them at widely separated spots in the
■waters off the western, southern and
eastern coasts of England.
The German government intends to
instcitute an investigation into the re
institute an investigation into the re
port that the British admiralty means
to withhold from captured crews of
German submarines the customary
honorable imprisonment conditions
and threatens retaliatory measures, if
such restrictions are imposed.
* * •
A ministerial crisis similar to that
in Greece has occurred in Bulgaria,
according to information reaching
Paris. Premier Radoslavoff is report
ed to have been overthrown by the in
fluence of King Frederick and the fol
lowers of Dr. Ghenadieff. former for
eign minister because he desired to
take immediate action against Turkey
by occupying Adrianople.
The German auxiliary cruiser Prinz
Eitel Friedrich, the raider of the seas
that sunk seven allied ships in the
Pacific and Atlantic oceans and on
January 28 sent to the bottom an
American sailing vessel, the William
P. Frye, bound from Seattle for
Queenstown with a cargo of wheat,
has put into Newport News, Va., for
repairs.
GENERAL.
Tom Shiyan, president of the.
Chinese Merchants’ asociation anc
known as the mayor of New York':
China town, was sentenced to five
years’ imprisonment in the peniten
tiary at Atlanta for manufacturing
opium.
• • •
Fifty-seven coal miners were found
alive after being entombed for more
than four dayS and nights in No. 3
mine on Quinnimont mountain of the
New River & Pocahontas Consolidat
ed Coal and Coke company at Lay
land, W. Va., where an explosion
buried 182 men.
• • •
The woman suffrage and constitu
tional prohibition amendments reso
lutions recently passed by the Iowa
legislature, were signed by Governor
Clarke at Des Moines. The latter
amendment must have the sanction
of the next general assembly before
its submission to the voters.
« * *
Owing to the tremendous rise i"
Chile of the price of flour and wheat
the government has made an an
nouncement to the effect that both
these products could be imported free
of duty.
* * *
An investigation of the expenditure
of the Panama-Pacific exposition com
mission from New York state was be
gun at Albany by the state comptrol
ler. A total of $700,000 originally was
appointed for the state’s participation
in the exposition. Of this $350,000
has been spent
* * •
Four boys are in jail at Chicago af
ter a daring dayligt auto trip in
which they snatched women’s purses,
6pread terror through a large section
of the city and escaped in a rain of
bullets.
• • •
Twenty-one uncharted dangerous
pinnacle rocks have been discovered
by the coast survey in forty-two miles
of the inside passage used by all
steamers going up and down the Alas
ka coast. One is 600 feet high and
comes within seventeen feet of the
surface.
• • •
As preliminary to a general cam
paign for a national prohibition in
1916, the national committee of the
prohibiton party has decided to con
centrate its activities upon Massa
chusetts tLts year.
The Chinese, building, one of the
most beautifui and most elaborate at
the Panama-Pacific exposition, has
been dedicated.
• • *
Rev. Johnson Myers, pastor of a
Chicago church, shipped 500 bushels
of potatoes that were going to waste
on farms to Chicago to feed its poor.
• • •
An appeal to. President Wilson for
government aid in fighting the foot*
and mouth disease in Kansas, was
made at Topeka by Governor Capper
* * *
Destruction of the American ship
William P. Frye by the German com
j merce destroyer Prinz Eitel Friedrich
struck from marine lists next to the
largest of the American sailing fleet
and one of the largest square-rigged
craft in the world.
* » *
General Villa, in a statement receiv
ed at El Paso. Tex., from Torreon by
the Associated Press, declared that in
event of intervention of foreign troops
to subdue the Carranza forces he and
all other Mexicans would unite
against the invaders.
* o *
President Wilson assured Senator
elect Phelan of California that he was
very hopeful that he would be able to
visit the Panama-Pacific exposition at
San Francisco. He indicated he would
go as soon as the international situa
tion appeared more favorable.
* * *
The largest gold mining deal in re
cent years in Colorado was closed
when A. E. Carlton of Cripple Creek
and fifty associates purchased 95 per
cent of the capital stock of the Gold
en Cycle Mining company for a cash
consideratoin of $4,500,000.
• * *
Rate raises on transportation of
cattle, sheep and hogs to Chicago and
St. Louis markets from Nebraska
points were announced by the Nebras
ka state railway commission. Unless
the interstate commerce commission
holds them up they will go into effect
on April 1.
* 6 *
The American legion, to be com
posed of between 250,000 and 300,000
former army and navy militiamen, to
act as first reserves in event of war,
will soon be organized. Captain Gor
don Johnston, aid-de-camp to Major
General Leonard Wood, has an
nounced. '
That while prices of grain have
gone steadily np, freight rates on it
have gone steadily down until there
is no money in carrying it was the tes
timony of Frank P. Eyman. assistant
freight traffic manager of the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad gave at the
Chicago hearing.
* * »
The United States receiving ship
Maine, a vessel of 12,000 tons station
ed at the Brooklyn Navy yards, was
ordered into the dry dock at the yard
after an accident which flooded its en
gine room. An eighteen-inch pump
valve tilew out. Before the water
could be gotten under control, the
ship had a pronounced list.
* * *
C. T. Sagara. secretary of the Jap
anese Association of America, appeal
ed to the San Francisco police for pro
tection for Japanese merchants
against wdiat he alleges amounts to
picketing of Japanese stores by Chi
nese as the result of a boycott declar
ed recently because of Japan's de
mands upon the Chinese republic.
* * *
Thousands cf Chicago dope fiends
will be robbing drug stores and com
mitting worse crimes because they
can obtain no more narcotics as the
result of the Harrison law, predicted
Superintendent H. I. Davis of the
Cook county “pyscho” hospital.
“There are tens of thousand drug suf
ferers in the city,” he said. “The con
dition exists everywhere, and the
country must face it.”
WASHINGTON.
In the rush of legislation through
congress in the closing hours of the
session a bill which had parsed both
houses providing for reorganization of
the patent office mysteriously disap
peared. It is believed by government
officials to have been lost by a page.
* * *
General Carranza has been inform
ed in a note from the United States
government that unless there is an
improvement in conditions with re
spect to foreigners and their inter
ests in Mexican territory under his
control, such steps as may be neces
sary will be taken by the American
government to obtain the desired pro
tection.
It is up to President Wilson to de
cide whether the Alaskan railway
shall run to the east or west of Prince
William Sound. This depends on
which part of the coal fields it is
thought best to develop. Secretary
Lane submitted to him the report of
the Alaskan Enginering commission
on surveys of various routes.
* * *
The first time in the history of the
United States the flow of immigra
tion has been turned back toward Eu
rope by the war and more aliens are
leaving the United States than are
coming here to make their homes, re
ports Immigration Commissioner Cam
inette.
* * *
Marked increase in exports of man
ufacturers of nearly every description
during the month of January were an.
nounced by the department of com
merce. January exports were $(T2,
000,000 more than a year ago.
• * *
Excess of exports over imports
passing through the thirteen principal
customs districts of the United States
rolled up a favorable trade balance
cf ¥25,811,521 for the week, ending
March 6. according to figures just
given out by the Department of Com
merce.
• * *
Miss Helen Neel of New York
christened the United States torpedo
boat dstroyer tender Melville, which
was launched at the yard of the New
York Ship Building company at Cam
den, N. J.
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CRUISER TORPEDOED
BRITISH MEN-O’-WAR DESTROYED
BY GERMAN SUBMARINE.
NEARLY 200 OF GREW PERISH
Auxiliary Cruiser Bayano Was Com
paratively New.—Recently Taken
Over by Government.
London.—Great Britain has lost an
other of its war vessels as a result
of Germany's submarine blockade
The auxiliary cruiser Bayano, with a
crew said to aggregate about 216 men,
has been sunk somewhere in waters
surrounding the British Isles by a
hostile torpedo.
Only twenty-six men are known to
have survived the disaster and the
British admiralty believes the others
on board the Bayano perished.
Sunk in North Channel.
A report says the German underwa
ter boat did its deadly work off the
coast of Scotland, in the North Chan
nel, the gateway from the Atlantic
ocean into the Irish Sea.
Nearly 200 Lives Lost.
The British correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph says the Bayano was
torpedoed Thursday morning, March
11, at 9 o'clock off Corsewall Point,
Wigtownshire, Scotland, and that
nearly 200 lives were lost as the
cruiser sank almost immediately. The
vessel had a crew of about 216 men
on obard.
The Bayano was a comparatively
new steamer. It was built at Glasgow
in 1913 and was owned by Elder &
Fyffes before it was taken over by
British government and fitted out as
an auxiliary cruiser.
The Bayano was of 3.500 tons dis
placement and 416 feet long.
Afloat on Raft.
The survivors of the Bayano were
rescued by the Belfast steamer Balme
rino and the armed merchantman
Tara. They were afloat on a raft. An
other steamer picked up one of the
Bayano’s lifeboats which .was adrift
and also two of the rafts. The sur
vivors were landed at Ayr.
Turks Dismount Guns.
London.—The Turks are dismount
ing the gunds defending Constan
tinople, the intention being that in
case of a defeat, the allies should re
gard Constantinople as an undefend
ed town, says the Times’ Bucharest
correspondent.
Mexicans Kill an American.
Washington, D. C.—Encouraging ad
vices telling of the relief of the food
famine in Mexico City through the
evacuation of the capital by the forces
of General Obregon, the Carranza
commander, were beclouded by the
news that on the entry of the Zapata
troops. John B. McManus, an Ameri
can citizen, was murdered—shot down
in his home, the door of which had
t>een sealed with the coat of arms of
the United States and over which flew
the stars and stripes.
Instant demand was made by the
Brazilian minister on behalf of the
United States government for the
punishment of those guilty of the
crime. After a conference between
President Wilson and his cabinet.
Secretary Bryan telegraphed the Bra
zilian minister, approving of the ac
tion he had taken and adding a de
mand for reparation to the family of
the victim. The minister was instruct
ed to Insist on early punishment of
offenders and to impress upon the post
commander at Mexico City—General
Salazar—the seriousness with which
the American government viewed the
occurrence.
Define Treason Against State.
Denver, Colo.—The Colorado house
of representatives has passed a bill
defining treason against the state and
providing penalties of life imprison
ment or death. The vote was 34 to 25.
The house thereby disposed of the last
of the four bills designed to increase
the power of the governor to deal with
disorders within the state. One prohib
its making or publishing in a newspa
per a speech or an article "tending to
incite riot” and provides for prosecu
tion in such cases. The second makes
it a felony to attack a member of the
National guard and the third makes
it a misdemeanor to refuse to obey an
order issued by a military officer.
Thirty Thousand Use Dope.
Chicago.—Thirty thousand persons
in Chicago are addicted to habit form
ing drugs, which under a new federal
statute they probably cannot get, a
gathering of physicians was told heyc
by Dr. W. A. Evans, former city com
missioner of health.
Try to Free Priests.
Los Angeles, Cal.—Two thousand
Mexicans stormed the national palace
at Mexico City in an effort to release
250 Catholic priests imprisoned there
according to advices received here. A
riot followed. Octavo Bertrand, chiet
of police of the capital, was stabbed
two Mexican assassins who attacked
him were killed and a large number of
persons injured. A battle lasting
twenty minutes ensued and the mot
scattered. Whether the mob was beat
en back by police or Zapata soldiers
was not disclosed in messages.
Scores Eugenic Law.
Madison, Wis.—'The Wisconsin eu
genic law said Dr. Brown of Milwau
kee, before the senate committee,
which had the bill for its repeal up
for discussion, “is absurd and vicious,
makes criminals and drives people out
of the state to get married.”
Typhoid in Serbia.
Berlin.—Americans arriving here
from Serbia report that the entire
country is suffering from an epidemic
of diseases like typhus typhoid and
recurrent fever.
CONDENSED NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL.
Mrs. Harrel Beyars, 79, pioneer of
Douglas county, died at Valley.
An epidemic of measles prevails at
Beatrice.
Henry Perry, 70 years old, dropped
dead at Litchfield.
Building material has arrived at
Gandy for a new depot.
C. E. Dedrick has been nominated
postmaster of Superior.
J. A. Dobson, editor and banker, of
Ulysses, died at his home there.
Superintendent L. E. (’hadderdon
has been re-elected at Oxford.
Work on the new $115,000 federal
building at McCook will begin soon.
The new Lincoln high school has a
couple of rooms dedicated to house
keeping.
Bellevue college’s new $20,000 gym
nasium will be finished as soon as
possible.
During the recent snow storm stu
dents in Upland schools studied “Snow
Round.”
Cherry county commissioners have
purchased ten road scrapers and a
road plow.
Northwestern station at Hooper
was entered by thieves and $11 was
taken.
The Lincoln county fair will opun
at North Platte August 30, and will
last four days.
Edgar has voted bonds to amount
of $13,500 for erection of new city
electric light plant.
Roy M. Briggs of Fairfield lyas been
appointed cashier of Deweese state
bank at Deweese.
tne ..Northwestern Nebraska Medi
cal association held its annual meet
ing at Valentine this week.
The business of the Valentine post
office has reached such a capacity
that the office has been made one of
the second class.
Mrs. Louisa Hollenbeck, oldest resi
dent of Stove Creek precinct, near
Elmwood, has just celebrated her
eighty-third birthday.
The Madison Telephone company
now has a modern switchboard, the
lamp signal system replacing the old
magneto battery or ringing system.
Western newspapers, including the
Norfolk Press, are endeavoring to
persuade the farmers to name their
farms and get a trade mark for their
products.
The County superintendent in Hall
county recommends playground ap
paratus for rural schools.
John M. Devine of Lincoln has sold
land in Colfax county for $140 an
acre that he paid $12 an acre for.
Work has begun on Fairbury's new
$3,000 tabernacle. Revivals will be
held March 25 to April 25.
A grand jury has been in session at
Wahoo about two weeks. Thus far
nine men have been indicted for gamb
ling.
The fourth carload of supplies for
the Belgian war sufferers has been
sent from Omaha by the Franco-Bel
gian Relief society.
Irving Hook, of Dodge, was shot in
the shoulder with a shot gun by his
brother, Lloyd, who was endeavoring
to kill some sparrows.
The methods of treatment for the
smuts of various Nebraska cereals
may be obtained in detail from Bulle
tin 131, which may be had of the bul
letin clerk, University Farm. Lincoln.
The roof of the garage of H. F..
Earfkneeht at Nelson collapsed under
the weight of snow and damaged sev
eral cars to the amount of $1,000.
Kearney Commercial club has ap
proved the proposed merger of Kear
ney and Union Valley Telephone com
panies.
Henry Wohlers, a farmer living two
miles southwest of Avoca, suffered
serious internal injuries, when his
team ran away, dragging him for
Delivery by merchants at Auburn
has been abandoned until snow melts
and the condition of the roads is im
proved.
Miss Louise Williamson was given
first place in the annual declamatory
contest conducted by the Albion
schools.
Miss Clara Howard of Lincoln has
been appointed librarian of the new
$13,000 Carnegie public library at Co
lumbus. „
The United Commercial Travelers’
council No. 152 of Fremont, has pass
ed resolutions protesting against the
bill in the legislature to raise passen
ger rates to 2% cents.
T. F. Ryan, living near Stella, lost
eight bead of fattening cattle last
week with the mad itch.
The Plattsmouth Commercial club
has taken up the matter of establish
ing a pontoon bridge across the Mis
souri river as soon as that waterway
becomes navigable.
Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Rail
way company must pay Alva Jackson,
laborer, $12,000 for the loss of his
right leg, according to a verdict re
turned by a jury in District Judge
English’s court.
When Commander J. P. Walsh left
Humboldt for Grand Island to take up
his duties at the Old Soldiers’ home,
he was accompanied to the train by
members of the local Grand Army post
of which he is a member.
Hugh Baer, living near Eustis and
three of Everett Deboor’s boys, who
had been out shoveling snow to en
able Mr. Baer to move to a farm
further south of Eustis, started home
along the Burlington railroad track
when they were overtaken by the
snow plow. Hugh Baer was killed and
one of the Deboor boys fatally in
jured.
Representative Broome of Box
Butte county is being boomed for may
or of Alliance.
Miss Marie Stevens, daughter of the
Rev. and Mrs. C. F. Stevens of Bea
trice, will represent the Beatrice high
school at the southeastern Nebraska
declamatory contest to be held in Lin
coln on Wednesday, March 24.
The Platte river in Buffalo county
is running high and huge ice gorges
are forming at many points. A sud
den thaw of any extent will mean the
destruction of several bridges, includ
ing the mile-long wooden structure
south of Kearney.
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