Nebraska Newspapers

    EVENT8 OF THE DAY HELD TO A
FEW LINES.
LATE EVENTS SOILED DOWN
Personal, Political Foreign and Other
Intelligence Interesting to the
General Readers.
WAR NEWS.
The German bombardment of the
Russian positions at Ossowetz, in
Russian Poland, has been definitely
abandoned.
A concentration of Turkish troops
et Adrianople, the nearest important
Turkish town to the Bulgarian fron
tier, is interpreted in Sofia as a Tur
kish precautionary measure in the
event of war with Burgaria.
• • •
Twenty great battle ships, eight
powerful cruisers and a land force,
estimated at from 40,000 to 50,000 are
concentrating at the entrance of the
Dardanelles for a grand assault upon j
the Ottoman defenses, according to
Athens dispatches.
• • •
All the Alpine troops of the first
category, born in 1SS3, have been
called to the colors by the Italian War
department for forty-five days. The
official military journal also calls to
the colors all artillery and engineer
reserve officers for sixty days from
April 16.
• * •
Germany has agreed to throw open
her military prison camps for an in
spection by an American commission.
United States Ambassador Gerard an
nounced. England is understood to
have accepted the same offer, and the
trips of inspection are to begin imme
diately upon the arrival of the com
mission in Europe.
» • *
So seriously has the liquor traffic
interfered with the successful prose
cution of the war that King George
of England has offered to cpase the
use of any alcoholic liquors and to
forbid drinking in the royal house
hold, if the government considers that
his example would have any effect
upon British workmen.
• • •
Fast and powerful submarines of
the German navy have torpedoed two
more British steamers in the waters
adjacent to the British coast. Both
steamers, the Falaba and Aguilla-. took
to flight at the sight of the subma
rines, but were speedily overhauled,
■with the result that both vessels were
sent to the bottom, with a loss of life
estimated at between 140 and 150.
GRNERAL
Chile and Urugay have signed a
peace treaty.
* * *
Three thousand union painters and
decorators of Chicago are on strike.
Former Governor Hodges of Kan
sas will lecture on prohibition in Aus
tralia in 1916.
• * *
An uprising in Nicarague. fomented
by Gen. Julian Irias, minister of war
under the Zelya regime, has been put
down by the government.
* * * V
More than 6,000 Polish relief badges
were sold on the streets of Omaha
by fifty-two young women. The “tag
day” netted $770 for the relief of the
war sufferers in Poland.
* * *
Officials of the New' York Central
railroad announced that the Chicago
Gary clearing yards, described as “the
largest railroad yards in the world,”
and designed to handle 35,000 cars,
will be built at Miller, Ind , just east
of Gary.
* * •
The nomination of Colonel William
Hayward of New York, formerly of
Nebraska, as a member of the Down
State Public Service commission, was
sent to the New York senate at Al
aany by Governor Whitman and re
ferred to the finance committee.
• * *
When Cornelius ValkhofT went out
to his rabbit hutch in Los Angeles, to
procure a hare for a birthday dinner
he stepped into a water puddle as he
touched the latch of the hutch gate
and fell dead. An electric cable lead
ing to a nearby crematory had broken
during the night and turned its 2,200
volt current into the wire fence sur
rounding the hutch. Later two others
were killed and three injured.
• • •
The Young nonpartisan bill, which
would eliminate party lines in state
elections, was passed by the Califor
nia asesmbly at Sacramento. The
measure is urged by Governor John
son. It now goes to the senate.
• • •
Nearly 10,000 men are now work
ing in the steel mills of Chicago
Heights for the first time this year.
Several hundred more were put to
work at Gary and South Chicago.
Eighty factories and locomotive
works have resumed work on a nor
mal scale.
• • *
United States troop reinforcements
at Brownville, Tex., will be necessary
because the Villistas and Carranzistas
fighting at Matamoras plan to use ar
tillery, which will endanger American
property and lives.
• • •
An inheritance tax of $313,615 must
be paid by Mrs. Anna L. Sears, widow
of Richard W. Sears. Mrs. Sears was
the sole legatee of the $15,000,000
estate left her by her husband, who
died last September. Mr. Sears was
one of the founders of Sears, Roe
buck & Co., of Chicago.
* • •
The City National bank of Omaha
and the German American State bank
of Omaha announce that the two In
stitutions have been combined, and
will continue under the name of the
City National. *
The state of Texas is suing Chica
go packing houses, charging violation
of anti trust laws.
* * •
Chile has accepted the invitation to
take part in the pan-American finan
cial conference in Washington.
• • •
The Standard Oil eompany of New
York announced a further reduction
of 10 points in refined petrolium.
• • •
The centennary of the birth of
Prince von Bismarck, Prussia's fam
ous statesman, was celebrated with
the utmost enthusiasm in the Ger
man capital.
• • •
General Yictoriano Huerta, former
provisional president of Mexico, and
his family have sailed from Cadiz,
Spain, for Buenos Ayres. Argentina,
according to a dispatli from the Fabra
agency at Madrid.
« * •
Thomas II. Matters, found guilty on
nineteen counts in connection with
the wrecking of a national bank at
Sutton, Neb., was sentenced to six
years in the Leavenworth, Kas., fed
eral prison by Judge Frank A. You
mans at Omaha.
* * *
Two robbers entered the manufac
turing jewelry establishment of \V.
Bershtein in the center of Philadel
phia, covered the proprietor and his
brother with revolvers and took more
than $3,000 worth of jewelry. They
escaped in an automobile.
* * *
A plan to raise a $1,000,000 fund in
1917 in celebration of the four
hundreth anniversary of the begin
ning of the reformation by Martin
Luther was formulated at York, Pa.,
at a conference of clergymen and lay
men of the Lutheran church.
• * •
Three Chicago girls. Ruth Ilarsley,
Maude Brideson and Ethel Rockwell,
who left Chicago on March lit to
walk to the San Francisco exposi
tion. left Cedar Rapids, la., for Belle
Plain after spending the night with
the police matron at Cedar Rapids.
"Freshmen and sophomore years in
college should be given to the high
schools, thus cutting the college
courses to t\Vo years," Prof. Charles
H. Judd of the University of Chicago
told 2Ort Kansas high school teachers
at their annual meeting, at the Uni
versity of Kansas.
• •
Alexander Robertson was appoint
ed vice president of the Missouri Pa
cific Iron ^fountain system, in charge
of operations. He succeeds E. J.
Pearson, who has resigned to accept
a similar position with the Texas &
Pacific. He started his railway career
as a brakeman in 1885.
A telegram was received by Gover
nor Johnson of California from Secre
tary of State Bryan containing repre
sentations from the British ambassa
dor concerning claims that British
subjects, school teachers in Califor
nia, had been denied their salaries
because of non-citizenship
• • •
In accordance with a letter from
Governor Willis, the Ohio State Tax
commission at Columbus removed all
officials in charge of the taxation
machinery in the eighty-eight coun
ties of the state. Those removed are
all democrats who were appointed
under the administration of Governor
Cox.
. • • .
By a vote of 92 to 32 the lower
house of the legislature at Springfield.
111., defeated the Kurtis joint resolu
tion, which provided for submission
to the electors of a proposition for
the holding of a constitutional con
vention. The defeat means the post
ponement of the question for at least
two years.
WASHINGTON.
Tariff rates on most articles import
ed into Russia have been raised 10
per cent, while rates on certain cot
ton fabrics and cotton yarns have been
increased from 30 to 50 per cent.
• • •
Attorney General Gregory has de
cided that the new seamen's law af
fecting lifesaving apparatus and other
equipment on ships, will become ef
fective for American ships on Novem
her 4, 1915, and. for foreign ships on
March 4, 191G.
* * *
Kxpress rates on strawberries and
cherries in carloads from points in
Washington and Oregon to Helena
Butte. Great Falls and Billings,
mAiL, were found unreasonable and
discriminatory by the interstate com
merce commission.
* • *
Two cents, instead of 5 cents, will
be the posting rates on letters, begin
ning April 1, between the United
States and the British colonies of Bar
badoes and the Leeward islands in
the British West Indies, the postoffice
department announced.
• • •
With the hope of securing perman
ent protection for the 25,WO foreign
ers in Mexico City, the United States
government has proposed to both
factions that the Mexican capital be
declared neutral and outside the field
of operations hereafter In Mexico's
civil ^-ar.
• • •
Continued huge increases in Arfieri
can exports to France and Great
Britain and the principal European
neutrals, were shown in an analysis
of foreign trade for February, issued
by the Department of Commerce.
* • *
Loans and discourts of national
banks in New York City on March 4,
1915, amounted to $1,158,994,775, or
$123,123,361 more than on December
31 last, according to an announce
ment by the comptroller of the cur
rency. Net deposits' Increased in that
period $181,576,180. .
* • • 1
Every farmer should have his own
ice house, says the agricultural de
partment, pointing out the importance
of pure ice to the country home. It
adds to enjoyment of country life and
i increases profits.
MRS ALL MESSA6ES
ENGLAND’S LATEST MOVE IS TO
STOP TRADE CABLEGRAMS.
IN LINE WITH BLOCKADE PLAN
Messages Cannot Be Sent by U. S.
Over British Owened Wires if
Teutons Interested.
Washington, D. C.—Great Britain’s
intention of stopping all messages
sent over cables under British con
trol relating to trade in contraband
or non-contraband “to which a resi
dent in an enemy country is one of
the parties,” has been communicated
to the United States government
through Ambassador Page at London.
All cable communication between
America and Europe has had to pass
through Great Britain since the cut
ting of the German cable at the be
ginning of the war. It is said that
few messages known to relate to busi
ness transactions in Germany or
Austria had been passed at any time,
but there has been much doubt as to
just what policy was being followed
and the state department has re
ceived many inquiries on the subject.
Under the latest notice, officials
here understand, in line with the al
lies' blockade program, messages can
not be sent from the United States to
Italy or any other neutral country if
they refer, in any way, to a transac
tion in which a resident of Germany,
Austria or Turkey is interested. The
memorandum after quoting the origi
nal notice of Great Britain’s rights
over her cables givCh through the in
ternational bureau at Berne, said:
"The necessity for control of cables
in its relation to matters which may
be described generally as being of a
purely naval or military nature is
obvious and needs no demonstration.
In addition to this, it is clear that in
view of the great importance of re
stricting the enemy’s supplies and
withholding facilities from them for
carrying on their trade his majesty’s
government cannot be expected to af
ford the use of British cables to en
able neutral and enemy countries to
make arrangements with each other
for the conduct of that trade, and the
principle upon which the censorship
of commercial telegrams is conducted
is to withhold, as far as British
cables are concerned, all facilities for
carrying on trade directly or indirect
ly with an enemy country.
Turkey Comes Back at U. S.
Washington, D. C.—Following close
on the hells of the American govern
ment's request to Turkey to protect
the Americans at the mission school
at Urumiah, Persia, Hussein Bey,
charge of the Turkish embassy here
presented to the state department :i
note of protest against the killing in
Mexico of two Turkish subjects.
2 Americans and 2 Germans Killed.
El Paso, Tex.—Two Americans and
two Germans were killed in early
February by Carranza troops on a
ranch twenty miles northwest of Mex
ico City, according to details sent in
a letter to President Wilson by R. P.
Aitkin, who said he was at the ranch
at the time.
Aitkin said that Carranza troops,
while attempting to make away with
a large herd of cattle killed his uncle,
V. M. Smith, formerly a farmer near
Houston, Tex., who owned the ranch;
Ross E. Billings, an American cow
man; Hans Heinrich, a German citi
zen, another German whose name he
did not know and two Mexican cow
boys.
The refugee said that he was
asleep with the remainder of the
hands in the ranch house. They were
awakened by the soldiers, who said
that Smith and his employes had
been killed. The ranch house was
burned, after all valuables had been
removed, Aitkin said.
Jumps Into River With Babies.
North Bend, Neb.—Mrs. Archie Fer
guson committed suicide here by
jumping from the steel bridge into
the middle of the Platte river, taking
her two children, aged 2 and 3 years,
with her. She came here recentlv
from Grand Island with her five chil
dren. She was despondent over their
poor circumstances. Mrs. Ferguson
was about 31 years of age.
German {Submarines Busy.
London.—News has been received
in London of the sinking of the Brit
ish steamer Eston (formerly the
South Point); the Norwegian bark
Nor and three British trawlers by
German submarines, and of the Dutch
steamer Schieland, presumably by a
mine. Seven sailors of the Schieland
are missing.
Refuse to Wear Simple Dresses.
Dallas. Tex.—Senior High schoo.
girls here, resisting mothers’ clubs'
attempt to force them to wear simple
dresses at commencement exercises,
have declared that they will .dress at
they please, and that it will not be
simply
Canada on Temperance Side.
Montreal.—The stand taken by
King George in regard to the liquor
question in Great Britain has been
warmly approved in the Dominion of
Canada.
Had Narrow Escape*.
New York.—Five minutes after Are
alarm bells sent nearly 200 men and
women employes of a big box factory
in East Seventeenth street down the
fire escapes Jo safety the entire build
Ing, a four-story structure, was in
flames. Several women fainted.
Trolley Strike Off.
Springfield.—The strike of the em
ployes of the Springfield Street Rail
way company, which has paralyzed
city interurban trolley transportation
has heeti called off.
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MERGER SILL WINS
GOVERNOR MOREHEAD SIGNS
GREATER OMAHA MEASURE
UNIT VOTE ON THE QUESTION
Special Election to Be Called By Gov
snnor Within Sixty Days After
Bill Is Signed.
Lincoln.—At 3:31 o’clock In the
afternoon of March 31, the Omaha
consolidation bill became a law. The
measure was signed at that hour by
Governor Morehead, and as it car
ried an emergency clause, became
effective at once. The governor will
issue a proclamation calling for the
consolidation election, as provided in
the Parriott-Broome amendment, 1
which the house tacked onto the bill
and which the senate agreed to. The
pen which the executive used uras
given to the Omaha Commercial club.
Senate Favors Annexation \
Lincoln.—By unanimous vote, the
senate concurred in the house election
amendment to the Omaha annexation
bill.
The action was unattended by a
roll ca.ll or other evidences of excite
ment. It came so suddenly and pass
ed so quickly that few' senators and 1
visitors behind the lobby rail knew |
what was happening. When they |
found out that the last strictly legisla- :
tive step in this important measure j
had been takeu they were nearly pros
trated.
Lack of fight on the bill at the last
moment was due, according to severai
senators, to the gentleman’s agree
ment that the Omaha charter bill,
House Roll No. 137, now pending in
the senate, will be amended so as to
provide for a postponement of the
Omaha city election until after the
consolidation election can be held.
This will aliow Soutli Omaha, Dun
dee and Florence men to file for the
commission of Greater Omaha and
will also give residents of those cities
and villages a chance to vote on the
men w'ho will run their government
for the coming three years. Were the
Omaha city election held as now pro
vided they could neither participate in i
the nomination nor election of such j
officials.
The plan, according to an amend- j
ment reposing in Senator Quinby’s i
pocket, is to defer the city election I
until September or October. He wants |
to put that date “at a safe distance |
past the date for holding the consoli
dation election.” ,
Not less than thirty days from the
day when the bill becomes a law and
not more than sixty days therefrom
the governor^Shall call a special elec
tion to be participated in by Omaha.
South Omaha, Dundee and Florence
for the purpose of allowing the people
to decide by vote whether the three
latter cities shall become a part of
Omaha.
Should the strip of land about four
blocks wide lying between Omaha and
Benson be made a part of the city of
Omaha by ordinance before the elec
tion. Benson shall be included in the
election and in the territory to be at
tached. The total vote of all the cit
ies combined is to settle the matter
for or against consolidation.
One Million Less
State appropriations for the coming
biennium as approved by the house
will be more than $1,000,000 less than
those made tw oyears ago. The total
will be about $6,850,000. compared to
more than $8,000,000 in 1913.
The disposition of the senate finance
committee, however, is to increase
the apr^opriation considerably and
when they are reported to the sen
ate the total number will be at least
$7,500,000.
The house finance committee and
members, however, are determined to
keep the appropriations as low as pos.
sible and will resist any attempt at
decided increases.
The governor has signed appropria
tion bills carrying $328,454, while the
appropriations that have passed the
house aggregate $4,115,543. Those
awaiting final passage by the house
carry a total of $2,405,750.
In addition to the appropriation
bills considered favorably bills aggre
gating nearly $6,000,000 have been
killed in the house, where all appro
priation measures must originate. Ap
propriation bills still pending prob
ably will all be killed.
The Senate finance committee de
cided in about five minutes to reject
the provisions of the house state nor
mal school appropriation bill and set
aside the full amount of the levy,
some $760,000. in a lump sum for the
board to spend. The house reduced
the amount to $565,000 and designated
how much each school should have.
Jackson Allows Warrants.
Speaker Jackson has lifted the em
bargo on members’ salary warrants.
Kittle slips of green paper, which in
dicated that $200 awaited the bearer
down in the state treasurer’s office,
were distributed. The embargo was |
lifted because enough of the members j
signed a paper agreeing to stay until
the last round was over to insure
passage of hills by a majority. The
speaker has served in the legislature
before and was well aware of the hard
work necessary to keep a quorum
when the time comes to adjourn.
Chiropractic Bill Signed.
The governor has signed the chiro
practic bill. The measure recognizes
this class of healers. The law will be
come effective July 8.
Buy Champion Stallion.
A five-year-old black Percheron
stallion, the champion of the Kansas
City live stock exposition, the Inter
state fair and live stock show at !
St Joseph, Mo., and the Kansas and
Missouri state fairs, has been pur
chased by the Coiloge of Agriculture
for breeding class judging.
NO NEW LIBRARY STRUCTURE
| • _
House Finance Committee Also Pos*
pones Measure for Historical
Society Building.
Any action by the present legisla
ture to provide for a new building in
which the supreme court, state
library, and state historical society
may be adequately housed was ren
dered improbable by the filing of a
report by the finance committee of
the house, indefinitely postponing
house roll 680, the bill providing for a
levy of >4 mill for two years to create
a fund for that purpose. An attempt
will probably be made to reverse this
action and bring the "bill out upon the
floor, but it appears to be foredoomed
to failure. The finance committee
also recommended for indefinite po-t
ponemeirt the Lanigan bill, house roll
546. appropriating the sum of $135
to erect a state library building on
ground west of the capitol square
Direction of the wind in tin state
senate as to appropriations was shown
by its action in almost unanimou >
advancing to third reading the non il
school appropriation bill as arm-in.
The amendment strikes out ts:« »-t
tire bill as it left the house, appr
priating an estimated total of ?
piecemeal specifically among <!.-■ i
normal schools, and in its pla- t1
senate provides for the obi b!ai ;*.-t a
propriation of 93 per cent of th
rum levy. This blanket appru-ri
thus gives to the normals the .rpiu
of the levy above $535,00". w -
amounts to about $185,000 more "
house committee had gone on tin- a
sumption that this surplus, unapt ~
priated, would lapse back into the g
eral fund. Kolil of Wayne, chairma
of the fianance committee, with many
others, went on record in the course
of the debate on the bill as unequivo
cally in favor of liberal appr- ,-’i
tions for state institutions.
Pigs from immune sows are n- t
ways free from the liability of !.;
cholera, according to the depa: mi- :tt
of animal pathology at the Uniters t>
Farm. Some litter may be farrow- *I i:.
infected pens and go past weauitv
time without becoming infected, win
others get cholera within two ei
three weeks after farrowing The
pigs should be closely watched an-i if
any shown signs of cholera they
should be given serum alone. Th
will usually carry them well past
weaning time when they can be given
the simultaneous treatment. If th
herd seems to be extraordinarily
susciptible to cholera, however, it
will be necessary to give the serum
alone more than once in order to car
ry them several weeks past weaning
In Merrick county a cow testing
association was formed under the d
rection of the county agricultura
agent and the dairy department of th ■
University of Nebraska. Of the 34 -
cows tested for profit in milk preduc
tion, 40 were sold before a year's test
could be completed, because th* y
showed a loss in milk production At
the end of the year there were sti'
cows showing a loss, and these were
practically all disposed of.
The proper distances each way b*
tween the different orchard tre s. a
cording to the agricultura-! expt ri
ment station, is as follows: Cherr ■ -
and peaches, twenty feet: pears
twenty to twenty-five feet: and apples
thirty to forty feet except Whitney
crab, Duchess ani other upright grow
ing varieties, which may be planted
but twenty-five feet apart.
The eight special appropriation bills
backed by the state board of control
were advanced to third reading in
the house without serious opposition
One bill sets aside $118,000 for <?'ab
lishing industries in the state prison
and will mean the end of all oontrac:
labor tjiere.
Even Speaker Jackson was unable
to save the $80,000 appropriation for
the state fair hog bam in th>- house
last week. The bill was killed. The
death of the hog bam appropriation
apparently means the death of the
$150,000 appropriation for a hospital
in Omaha.
The prize fight bill is nkely to pas*
into the discard along with ten or
more other bills now in the hands of
' the sifting committee. According to
i Representative William Chambers of
Douglas, who sponsored the bill, the
committee is not in favor of report
ing it.
With two democrats voting against
the bill and one republican voting for
it. the senate passed the public wart*
house bill. The measure was drafted
by the joint agricultural commute s
of the house and the senate and su
persedes all pending bills along that
line.
The house killed, by 51 to 32. the
bill exempting manufacturing concerns
from the present occupation tax. It
was backed by manufacturers.
Secretary of State Pool received
$2,289.18 in fees and penalties during
the month of March. The largest item
wa® $1,470.55 for filing articles of in
corporation, the next largest. $441.10
for corporation permits issued. Lic
enses were issued for 421 new motor
cars and renewals for 1.385 cars. This
money under the present law stays
with the county treasurers.
The way was paved for a more ef
ficient and economical system of state
government by the house, when the
Norton bill, calling for a financial
and accounting system similar to that
in use by the big corporations, was in
troduced.
Both houses of the Nebraska legis
lature have agreed on Thursday. April
8. as the date for final adjournment.
The conference committee on adjourn
ment filed its report specifying that
time. The house and senate both
adopted the report.