FROM MANY POINTS EVENTS OF THE DAY HELD TO A FEW LINES. UTE EVENTS BOILED OQWN Personal, Political, Foreign and Other Intelligence Interesting to the General Readers. WAR NEWS. British killed at the Dardanelles number 18,957, and wounded 77,957 thus far, according to an official state ment issued In London. * • * Paris reports Austro-German losses In the campaign against Serbia up to Thursday evening, October 14, were estimated at 25,000 officers and men killed and 60,000 wounded. * • * Major General Sir Ian Hamilton has been relieved of the command of the allied forces in the Dardanelles. He is to be succeeded by Major Gen eral Charles Carmichael Monro. • * * "Great Britain needs 3,000,000 more men by spring." This declaration was made by Brigadier General Sir Eric Swayne, director of recruiting in northern command, in a speech at Hull, England. * * * An imperial manifesto issued a Petrograd characterizes Bulgaria as "the betrayer of the Slav cause” and announces that Russia draws the sword against her. * » * Anglo-French forces in the Balkans are reported to be making progress toward the relief of Serbia; occupying Strumitza in Bulgaria and 'landing at Enos, European Turkey, near the for tified Bulgarian port of D deaghaten. * * * Italy has declared war on Bulgaria, following the example of Great Britain and France and an Italian squadron has left Brindisi for the Near East, presumably to participate in the blockade of the Bulgarian coast. * * » The German armies, wdiich. for nearly fifteen months have been con tinuously fighting on one front or the other, are now on the offensive at three widely separated points— .against Riga and Dvinsk. in Serbia and in the Champagne district ot France. ' GENERAL. A national conference on foot-and- j mouth disease will be held in Chica go November 29 and 30. * * * On Saturday, October 23, the new $1,000,000 beat sugar factory at Sheri dan, Wyo., was thrown open to vis itors and the entire process of manu facture explained. * * * Attacked in her home in San Fran cisco by a love-mad cripple, Michael Weinstein, who ha'd pursued her for years, Mrs. Mary Tamias, wife of a xnotorman, cut off his head with a hatchet, dismembering the corpse and hid the pieces in a box couch. * * * President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale strongly supports the summer mili tary camps for college students, and the undergraduate battery recently or ganized at the university, but he does not believe that compulsory military drill should be a part of the Yale cur riculum. * • • The object of a proposal to consoli date the principal coal mining com panies of Colorado, exclusive of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, is to reduce costs, according to a formal statement issued at Denver by J. C. OFgood, president of the Victor American Fuel company. • • * Claims totaling $470,000 against the St Joseph-Chicago Steamship company and the Indiana Transpor tation company for the deaths of for tyone persons and the injury of six others in the Eastland disaster were filed in the United States district court in Chicago. Exports from the port of New York during the first two weeks of October reached the record-breaking total of $76,184,169, of which virtually two thirds represented war munitions and supplies, according to figures made public Virtually all of these exports went to England, France, Russia or Italy. • • • In the heart of Chicago’s loop dis trict and on the busiest corner in the ■world, a fifteen-story building was tom down and a seventeen-story building put up, all in ninety days. • * * Captain Simon B. Brunn of ihe Steamship Alaska, who was on his bridge continuously for five days while rescuing the passengers of the wrecked steamer Mariposa recently, died of exhaustion at a hospital at Ketchikan, Alaska. He rescued sev enty-nine persons. • • • The segregated district of Spring field, 111., has been closed by orders of Sheriff J. A. Wheeler, who declared It was one of the principal causes of the spread of disease. • • * Joe Deberry, a negro, was hanged at Murphysboro, 111., for the murder of Mrs. J. H. Martin. A crowd of out siders thronged the town, and 2,000 persons were within the stockade to witness the execution. Three thou sand more were on the streets unable to gain admittance. • • • ^Fifteen persons were killed when a Union Pacific motor car, bound from Manhattan, Kas., to Lincoln, Neb., went off a bridge approach into Fancy creek, near Randolph, Kas. Nearly twenty Inches of rain fell in New Orleans in the last two weeks, breaking all local weather bu reau records. • * * Indications based on returns from nearly the entire state shows that woman suffrage was defeated in New Jersey by nearly 60,000. * * * Fourtten men were killed at the Granite Mountain mine of the North Butte Mining Co. at Butte, Mont., by an explosion of 500 pounds of giant powder. • * • Announcement was made at Detroit that in the neighborhood of $400,000 has been subscribed in the University of Michigan campaign, which opened October 1. for $1,000,000 with which to build and endow a home for the Michigan union. • • • Joseph Hillstrom, convicted of the murder of J. G. Morrison and Morri son's son in Salt Cake City, January 10, 1014, was brought before Judge Ritchie of the district court in that city, and resentenced to be shot to death Friday, November 19. * * * Kiglit hundred pounds of smoking opium, valued at $75,000, was seized at Seattle, Wash., by customs officers on board the Blue Funnel liner Cal chas. The opium was contained in 900 hermetically sealed tins, which were secreted in an airshaft. * * * Arlington. Va., talked by wireless telephony with Paris, France. An nouncement that the human voice had l>een successfully projected across the Atlantic was made by John J. Carty chief engineer of the American Tele phone and Telegraph company. * • » Announcement of the formation of (he Mutual Tobacco company. Inc., a $20,000,000 corporation, which in cludes some of the large tobacco man ufacturing' concerns in the United States, was made at New York by Benjamin Schwartz, counsd for the company. SPORTING. Karl Schulz of New York city, who claims the wrestling championship of tiie German navy, was put squarely on his hack twice by Joe Steelier, in eight and twelve minutes, before a large crowd at Hastings, Neb. • * * A new world’s interscliolastic re cord for the 440-yard dash—forty eight and one-fifth seconds—was made in San Francisco by Frank Klei nian, a San Francisco high school student. The Indiana-lllinois-lowa league, at its annual meeting in Chicago, decid ed tentatively upon a circuit for 191(1, going back to eight c'.ubs instead of seven by the addition of Rock Island, ill., which succeeds to the place given up last summer by Decatur. * * » Captain Edward Mahan of Harvard proved himself a worthy successor to Captain Charles Brickley, the former footbar star, by personally defeating Ihe University of Virginia at Cam bridge, Mass., 9 to 0, by dropping three field goals, one from the forty tv.-o yard line. • • * in a wrestling match at Evansville, Ind., Joseph Stecker, heavyweight champion wrestler of the world, de feated “Strangler” Ed Lewis of Lex ington. The end came with the first fall incomplete, when Stecker, an gered at Lewis’ tactics, rushed him into the ropes and his seconds car ried Lewis to his dressing room. The referee awarded the bout to Stecker, when Lewis sent word he was too badly Injured to reappear. WASHINGTON. President Wilson lias issued a proc lamation designating Thursday, No vember 2E, as Thanksgiving day. in which he calls the attention of the people to the fact that the United States lias been at peace, while most of Europe is at war. * * • David Starr Jordan, president of Leland Stanford university, will see President Wilson November 12 to pre sent to him resolution adopted re cently at the International Peace con gress in San Francisco urging that a conference of neutrals be called to attempt *;o end the European war. * * * Contracts for building twenty-two warships, sixteen submarines and six torpedo boat destroyers have been awarded by the navy department. Four will be built in government navy yards. Plans for coast defense, announced by the war department, will cost $81,000,000 in the next four years, and Secretary Garrison will recommend the spending of $100,000, 000 for arms and munitions. • • • President Wilson received a delega tion of women and girls from state of California who gave him a piece of goid from a California mine and also a bar of gold to make a wedding ring for Mrs. Norman Galt, his fiancee. * * * Confidence that the country will ap prove of the administration's plans for strengthening the national de fenses was expressed by President W’lson in addressing a committee from the conference of national de fense. which called at. the White house. • * * Cotton at $100 a bale was the pre diction of Congressman Heflin of Ala bama. The policy of holding cotton now being pursued in the south will bring the staple up to a price never heard of, he said. • • • The Interstate Commerce ooqjmis sion further suspended from October 28 until April 28 the operation of certain scheduled increases on rates on coal in carloads from certain mines in Wyoming and Colorado to interstate points on the Union Pacific railroad, t CONDENSED NEWS OF INTEREST TO ALL. The United States government lias leased a postoffiee site at Ansley. The Carnegie library, recently erect ed in Hartington, has been opened to the public. Miss Lillian M. Gifford has been ap pointed postmaster at Belden, Cedar county. On the farm of W. L. Wheeler near Murry 555 Gophers have been killed in the last month. Civil service examinations will be held on November 27 for postmasters at Stockville and Brule. A stone quarry at Weeping Water will furnish 18,000 tor.s of crushed stone for the Ford plant at Omaha. The work on the new forty-five thousand dollar high school at Schuy ler is being rapidly pushed forward. Fremont is to have a municipal gymnasium feature in connection with the physical department of the high school President Wilson has appointed Samuel G. Hudson postmaster of Lin coln. His selection was urged by W. J. Bryan. About forty editors of northeast Ne braska fame to Norfolk October 15. and organized the Northeast Nebraska Editors’ association. "BETTER BABIES” AT NEBRASKA STATE FAIR. Virginia Louise t-auixner, the High est scoring rural baby, registering 99.5. Her home is near Lincoln. Citizens of Clarks are agitating the question of organizing a town band. The Nebraska State Volunteer Fire men’s assoeiation will hold its annual convention in Crawford next January. Roderick Dint Sutherland, former representative from the Fifth district of Nebraska, died at St. Margaret’s hospital. Kansas City, Kan. Mr. Sutherland's home was in Nelson, this state. C. J. Brand, chief of the office of farm marketing of the United States Department of Agriculture, is to speak to the Nebraska Farm Congress at Omaha, November JO, on the subject of marketing farm products. experiments in cooking alfalfa hay for hogs, at the North Platte Sub-sta tion. indicate that the feeding value of the alfalfa may have been increas ed slightly by the cooking, hut not enough to offset the extra cost. Omaha’s annual million dollar auto mobile exposition, to be presented in the Auditorium from February 21 to 2 to 9. The Beatrice camp of the Spanish American war veterans has been re organized. The Midget company is contemplat ing putting up a flouring mill at Bridgeport. Madison county is said to have around 3,000 bridges and culverts, all in fair condition. The cornerstone of the new .Con gregational church at Beatrice was laid last week. The church will cost aboul $15,000. Interest in the postmaster fight at Aurora has subsided because it seems certain that J. H. Grosvenor will get the place. A tabernacle designed to seat 3.0o0 persons has been erected in Hastings for a series of revhal meetings to be conducted by Rev. John Hamilton. Revival services have begun in the Congregational church at Weeping Water, under the leadership of Evan gelist Rev. George Williams of Al bion, 111. The county officials of Jefferson county have asked the state for an appropriation of $40.0'-o for a steel bridge across tbe Blue, southwest of Wymore. The Berlin Times is the name of a new newspaper that is to be estab lished at Berlin, in Otoe county. Wil liam P. Sitzman will be editor and business manager. This is the first year that a com plete record of the rainfall has been kept at Chadron. The record for the first nine months of the year show twenty-eight inches. Grand Island was selected as the next place of meeting by the North western Nebraska Dental association, which concluded its convention at Kearney last week. The annual convention of the Ne braska Christian Endeavor Union will be held in Norfolk, November 11 to 14. They expect that there will be at lest 500 delegates present. The Fremont hitching post problem will get into the courts. After d's cussing the matter for three years, th-' city council finally ordered the posts taken off the streets. The Southwest Teachers' associa tion meets in McCook next spring. The date has been definitely announ ced by the Executive Committee for March 29. 30 and 31, 1916. Lively plans are under way for the big tabernacle meetings in Fremont next January, when Evangelist Janms Rayburn of Marshalltown, la., will conduct a scries of meetings. It is estimated that, the annual loss from hog cholera in Nebraska for the last two years has been at least $5,000,000, according to a recent bul letin of the College of Agriculture. The new North Bend light system, which is to be supplied with juice from the municipal plant of Fremont, was tried out for the first time last week, and is considered a success in every way. Having donated a cup for the win ner of the Kearney golf club tourna ment just closed, Frank W. Brown jr.. turned about and won it for him self. He made (he eighteen liol^s in eighty-four. George Adkns of Edgar lias pur chased the old Burlington hotel, which was burned Dast usefulness some time ago, and will use what lumber is ; available to build a warehouse back of liis store. Arthur J. Koenigstein, formerly county attornej of Madison county, recently convicted of accepting bribes from “dive" keepers in Norfolk ap pealed to the supreme court and lias been released on bail. Beatrice women are making nlans for the organization of a Y. W. C. A in that city. An advisory committee, comprising ladis from the various churches of the city, has been se lected to take charge of the matter. Work of excavating for the new First National hank building at Chadron has started. The nutting in th“ concrete foundation will be push ed as rapidly as possible, so that it nay be done before cold weather sets,in. Reports from Coleridge and vicinity are that seventy per cent of tho oats in the community are threshed, 90 per cent of which have gme into the bins. Corn, it is said, is far from ma tured and it now appears that a larre percentage was caught by the frost. John Proeunier, 35, shot himself at the Ed McDowell ranch, east of C-aw ford. with suicidal intent. He used a 38-caliber revol”or. end the hni'et went clear through his body below the heart. He was taken to the hospital at Fort Robinson, and it is thought be will recover. Civil service examination for rural ’ptter carrier will be held at Arapa hoe, November 3. 652 people were converted at an evangelistic meeting which just closed at Beatrice. Daniel Johnson, an Omaha attorney, was' in Fremont recently making an investigation of the record of John O’Connor, the Hastings recluse whe died leaving a fortune said to be worth $100,000. O’Connor was en. eaged for many years as a shoemakei at Fremont before he went to Hast ings. N. N. Nelson, wire chief of the Grand Island city electric department, was shot and instantly killed at the home of Mrs. P. G-. Lewis in that city. A traveling salesmap is said to have confessed shooting Nelson. The program for the annual meet ing of the Nebraska State Teachers’ association, which will be held in Omaha on November 3, 4 and 5, has Just been issued, and shows a splen | did line of attractions. The list of speakers contains the names of elev en nationally-known instructors and orators. HUGE SUM !S SPENT MILLION DOLLARS REQUIRED TO RUN STATE THREE MONTHS. ONE FOURTH IS FOR SALARIES $68,386 Was Spent for State Aid Bridges.—The National Guard , Rec^ved $15,190. Lincoln.—It cost the state of Ne braska about $1,000,000 to do business during July, August and September, according to the quarterly summary af expenditures compiled by State Auditor Smith. A part of this was balance by fees, licenses and special taxes. The auditor’s table shows gross dis bursemerus cT $981,700, more than one-fourth of which went for salaries. Salaries at the University of Nebras ka and its allied branches aggregated $143,000. The following are some of the salary budgets: Supreme court, $13, 710: railroad commission, $6,485, with $1,388 for services and expenses additional: state superintendent, $5,047, with $1,240 for extra services; . hanking board, $6,680; commission, $12,518. The board of control .managed fif teen state institutions - during the quarter for $224,481. The University of Nebraska spent $12,403 for depart mental expenses and $154,472 for per manent improvements. Expenses of the four normal schools were $68,621. The sum of $68, 386 was spent for state aid bridges. For normal training in high schools $11,900 was paid. The National Guard received $15,190. New Land Reverse. Sixteen counties containing 450 90i- acres of school lands will be revalued this fall to increase tin state's rental revenue, in accordance with action taken by the Eea^d of EJ iraticnal Lands and Funds. Some of the land now rents for a cent, an acre, at a price fixed years ago and never changed. The money raised by tiie proposed increase, th exact ratio not being announced, will go into the temporary school fund to be distributed semi-annually to a;l Nebraska school districts according to school attendance. The counties to be reappraised are Cherry, Arthur, Cheyenne, Deuel, Dundy, Franklin. Grant. Hooker. Kear ney, Kimball, Lincoln. Logan. .Mc Pherson, Morrill, Perkins and Thomas. Normal School Fund Overdrawn. Including- $40,000 of claims allowed by the state normal board at its re cent meeting at Kearney, the fund for normal schools is now overdrawn $10,000 and new buildings are belnrr planned by different schools. The board Is spending the money much faster than it comes in from the .84 mill levy. Peru, Kearney and Chad ron each have a resident member on the board. Each is pulling for hi. home institution. Employment Agents Registering. Twenty applications for registration umier the employment agency act, lately more or less smiled upon by the state supreme court, have b~rn filed with Labor Commissioner Cof fey. Tite handful of applications, Mr. Colfey says, result from a strenuous week spent at Omaha, Not all of the agencies there are for the measure, but those that are are not slow in coming in with their fee and in as suming liability under the provisions of the new law. Court O. K.’s Arthur County. Arthur county is held to be a legal entity in an opinion rendered by the state supreme court. The action cor rects the oversight of the legislature in not allotting to it any of the ju dicial districts of the state. Ju’g H. M. Grimes of North Platte is di rected by the court to convene district court thpre as in all other counties under his jurisdiction. 1,000 County Agricultural Agents. There are 1,000 county agricultural agents in the 48 states of the Union. Of this number there are 8 in Nebras ka, these being employed in Gage, Seward, Madison, Thurston. Dawes, Dakota. Kimball, and Pox Butle counties. Four additional counties in Nebraska have asked for agricultural agents to begin work in January. Food Commissioner Reports. Although Treasurer Hall’s ruling put nearly all of his inspetors out of business, the food department under Food Commissioner Harman war, able to make a pretty good showing fot September, according to his monthly report. The department collected a total of $10,871.60 in fees, and made I, 280 inspections. Must Pay Ockupation Tax. Express companies will be assessed $20,746 for state occupation taxes in Nebraska tfcis year. Secretary Her netker of the State Board of Equali zation, officially certified to State Treasurer Ilall the amounts due from the three companies operating in this state, as follows: American, $18,780: Adams, $8,747; Wells-Fargo, $1,21S. The tax is computed on the gross earnings of each company on its state business, the ra.i errnngciten (Srfolgen be* giiicfiDunfcIii unb ber babei an ben £ag gelegteu iaufrrfiit ber £ftijicrc unb iitfanufdjaftcn jeine Hnerfcn* mmg ausgefprodjen. £a£ ift, feme it bit* Sapferfeit ber Xruppen in iJ3e* trad)t fontmt, com Atbnig (George nur tedjt gelfanbelt; bog bie britifdje Of* fenfioe *nerft jufammengeflappt ift, ijnt mit ber .'Qaltung ber -tnippen nicf;t§ 311 tun. Oie ,23rabour, mit tueidjer |ic Dorgegangcn pub, ift fdjon atm ben ungeijeuren USerluftcu, tccldjc fie erlitten Ijaben, bcurfintbet. lint bie t£>oI)e ber bargebrarijten Opfer 311 berfdjleiern, greift jncin in (fnglanb toieber 3a ber cilteu Slusfunft, bie 3a!)i ber ©efollciten tropfenweife 311 Derabrcidfcn. 2000, 3000, jo gebt c» con Sag 311 2ag. ?ll§ ob bie Slmt* lidjen in Cottbtm glaubten, bafe bie Gngfcinber fdoft unb bie ganse 2Mt ba-s 3ofatn:neuabbicrcu ocrlerrtt Lji.it ten. 2ie 2eutfd)cn babcn ihnen bie I'iiibe bed Mnfammeitabbierend abgc nommen. Tic amrlidje 'JKclbung ber beutfdjen Cberftnt .sbeercsleitnug ftellt bie .$oI)C ber 2?crlnftc auf bcibejt gotten fcft. 2ic bor 'Miicrten be* triigt fcieljer sufatnmen 100,000 Si aim, 130,000 auf f raii^ofifcficr, 60.000 cut euglifdjer £ cite. Xiofeu! ftebt eiu beuifdjer 2>erluft non nod) nicfjt einem giiitftel, nlfo iiod) nidjij 39.000 ilfann, gegeniiber. 2arum ift e» audi auf cinmat auf ber ©cite] ber Sllliiertcu fo ftifl gehrorben. Sas ift au§ bcu ungcfjeureu 3ablcn ge toorben, in roeldjen ber beutfdjc iter* j luft bargefteEt roorben roar? 2a*; mm bat man audi in Guglcnb began nen, bad SerbSItnis aroifdjen ben! bargcbracliten Cl'feni unb bem cr-j rungeneu Sortcil abjnroagen. 2a* j rum rourbeu aus befi certtimbeten tjransofou, roeldjc in iiiaffcngiigen i cuf ben Saiinbofcit ber ff.'artfer SBor* habte eintrafen, beutfdbe ©efangene. 2a§ Sort bat fid) beroabrbeitet, ba*j bie ©djladjtfelber non i’lrtoid unb ber Champagne ju griebbofen gcroorben ftnb. 2ie grope Cffcnfine ber 211 iierten ift in Sflut erftieft. 2ie Sin-; tcrfdjlacbt in ber Champagne bat fid), tmr r.od) fdjredtlidjer, roiebcrljolt. 2a§ ©•jnuffal non ilcune CbapeEe bat bie Gngldnbcr non neuem hcimgcfndjt. I 2cr militdrifcbe ilfitarbeiter bed! Serliner „&oFal • Jlnjeiger" erfliirt, bag old eigentiidie 2urd)brudi)sflefle bie Cbambignc au§erfei)eit geroejen roar. 2a,3.J forberten benn ja aud); ttidjt nur bi.‘ ARoglidifeit auf, roieber; in ben ffiefijj bed bort roeit oergroeig* j ten Gifer.babnncfeed, roelaie bie 9fiid*; rodrt-5, uitb 3eiteiroerbinbungcn ber: beutfdjen Slnneen uermittelt, ju ge* i langen. fonbern aud) bie topograpbi* j febeu SSerbiiltiiifft, roefdje bei ber! ©iattbeii bes bortigen ©eliinbed beu! SBiberftanb, nadibem bie iReibcit eiu*! mat ins? Seidjen geraten, erfdjrocrteu. Slbgefcbcn non ben fogenauuten 3?or* fteflungeu, roeldje burd) ba§ norange*! gangeue mbrbcrifdie JfrtiEeriefeuer j be§ geiitbcd bereitd unbaltbar gcroor* j ben roaren, haben bie beutfdjen X*i»! uien aber gebaften. 2ie Sefjauptung, gremfjS, ban bie granjofen aud) bie j britte beutfdbe i'crfrijanjungdliitie burdjbrodjcn batten, ift cine llitrcabr*! beit unb beu 2atfadjen gegeniiber cine Stlbembcit. 2Rit ber Champagne aid in i!(udfid)t genommener 2urdj* brudjdftefle, ergiebt fid) bie Offcnfioc ber englifdjtn grant gegen £oo» le* biglid) aid 2emonftration. 2ie $er* ren Gitgltinber baben trob bed „gIor*j reidjen ©eifted" ber 2ruppen, bie $auptarbcii roieber einmal ben gran-; aofen iiberlaffen. 2(iraud erfliirt fiai;! and) bad rafdje 3ofanunenfIappen • bed britifdjcn SSorfiofjeS. £ic lefjic fombiniertc $rartan> ftrengung fanitlidjcr ocrfiigbarer tno* rclifdjer unb moterieEcr Srcifte ber SSerbiiiibrku onf beiu roeftlidjcn Sriegsfdimiolob! — £ie ffiliufmiin* fd)e. rocldjc -Me WQiierien miter ftd) Que-tauidjen. bie Siege, tteldje fie fid) gegeufcitig in bie £ctfdic liigen — e§; ifi roie ber iiiid)tlid)e 9teiter burd) ben I bunflen Sa!b, tccldfcr ffd) ein£- pfeift, nm fidi fclbft iiber ba# ©cfiif)! ber SSeflcmmmtg bintoegaubelfeu. Xer $iegc§rmtfd}, tnclcber bie ©emitter in ^ranfrrid) imb Gnglanb nodi ben er ften Jfugen&lideerfolgen nmncbelt hnttc, ifi bcrcit’S berffogen, unb ber fiafecnfammer fbridjt and] on# ben omtUdjen Seridjtcn, meidje immer blaffer rnerben. 3tin ©cbtinfe an eincn Jyriebcu. Berlin, iiber Sonbon. $ie fiorbbentfdie SfUgciueine Beitung fagt ftpfgcnbes: „53on biefen Seiten boren trir. bof; ba§ SKnrdien mieber im Umlaut ift, fRctdjIfonjIer bon iBetfjrncmn £odtben nabre feit einiger Seit bie J^bee eine5 bolbigen ^ricbenSfdlijf. feS mit ben Gniglanbcrn. 23ir finb ermdditigt. bicfe ©erudite oI3 unbe* griinbet, aT-3 iibel mtb -al§ obtrciglid) benTsntereffen be# fi'niferreid)§ 3u be* jtidmcn " Siilc Jimj; Strirgsftcnfr jafjlcn. ?f m ft e r b a m, iiber fioitbon. Xit bcittfdfjen i>iilitdrbef)orben in siiluv gransofifd) • gla.tbern, ftefjen bet 28eigerui;g tier gabrifcit in ber Stabt gegeitiiber, Sanbfacfe fitc bie ©erteibigungeia'crfe 311 liefeni. Ste fjobcii beebalb bcm '-Miirgennciftet j angejcigt, bay bic Sanbfdbfe, bie ! mail an» ben gabrifen in xMe er* 1 martet ijatte, lmmnefjr in Beutfd) j iaitb angefcrtigt merben unb bay bie Stabt fiir bit' ftoften aufjufontnien ! bat. Xa fid) bic Stabtbcbdrben bem mibcrfcijten, b ■ ben aik ber fldbtifdjen Scbubfamnict j 375,000 francs ($75,000) fjcrau?, ! bie ooin ^iuilronbs abgejogen mur* j ben. Sluyerbem ttmrbcn 31,000,000 a rant 5 ale- Slriegdficuer geforbert, mib bamit bio jur 23ejal)lung ber* felben fein (Selb au§ ber Stdbt ge* fdjleppt toerbe, legten bic Xeutidjen i Siegel an bic ‘Sanfcn, fottic an bie ; Stafjlfammcm con Ign&ibtbnen. Xu | IBebbrbeit bon xiille erflarteu barauf > cs fei umndglidi, bie* Steuern ju be * I fdfaffen, tnorcuf bie Steuer auf 16,* j 000,000 prance l)erabgefe|t lonrbf i mit ber 33eftimmuug, bay fiir icben | Xag Ser^ogenrr.g ber i'cjaldung : 100,000 graned Strafe ju bc;a!}lci» j finb. , ttomitre jar Scaufjirfjtigitiig ber SHricgSfiUjrung. Xic Sinfefjung cincS britifdfen .fta* ' binetteau-SftfcuffcS gur fBeauffidfti gang ber Airicgfiibrung ficfjt nidjt ge rabe barnad) au§, al§ ob man in Sonbon bon ben geibberrntalenien bc§ Sir go bn grench fefjr erbaui mare. • Xie dbbentfung be§ briti fdien Cberbefebk-baberS in glanbern ifi micbcrlmlt in Slue-fid) t gcfiellt mor ben, aber mold megen be§ fdjledden ©inbrucfeS, ben cin foldjer Sd)riti befonbers ini neutralen Sluelanbt geniadjt babett roiirbe, untecbiit'Dcn. :gctd feijt man grend) unb feinem Stollegen gau Hamilton, ber fid) an bon XarbatieUeit fo rubmto§ mit ber Xiirfen berumfd)Idgt, einen ilabi nett-SanSfdmy auf bie 'JJafe; eitie ©in' riddling iibrigetiS, bic and) in grant rctd> feit Idngerer 3eit fdjon brim getib befiirmortet tcirb. SBer inbc3 batiori cine SBerbeffcrung ber .ftrieg fiibruitg ermartet, ntufo einen ftarfci: ©lauben babcu. Xie oieleti Mbdje baben einen oerborbenen 3)rei nod) liicmaB befier gcniad)t. ?lntcrifauifd)e '.Hcrjtc unb ©iirtcrin ueu iu 'JJttftlanb. c t r o fl r n b, iibcr Sonbon. 9Icun Sfterjte uub aditiinbbreifeig ©arterinnen be* atnerifanifdjen „9to ten SrettoCi" finb untcr giiijrung be* Sr. Cam; 21. 3nobbt) Don Siuocille, Xenn., flier emgetrotfen. ®ic bilben ben groneren Xeil ber uier amcrifa nifdjeit 9lbtei.'uugen, bie in ben len ten jef;n SKonntcn in Seutfdjlanb unb Ccfterreid) . llngarn tdtig getnefen ttmren unb merben jefct fiir biterreid; ifd)-uugarifd)e unb beutfdje URilitar unb 3'bilgefangene in fRufelanb for gen. Tie amerifanifdjen 2ferjte unb ©arterinnen mirfen unter ben 2Iufpi Sicn ber amcrifnnifdien ©cfcHfdjaff com „9ioten JSreu$", ibre ftofiert trier ben aber con ber teutfdjen ffiegierung beftriiten. $n iSWoSFau loirb ba? $aubtguariier eingcriditet, unb bie 2fer3te unb ©arterinnen con ba an? unter bie cerfdjicbeten ©efangenen lager int Siuft'ifdjen JKcidb certeilt mcr ben. ?lit£gabcn nrUfjer aid GinnnijiacB. SB a f bj n g t o n. Xic Ginnab' men bes SdjaljatnteS im 'Konut ®tp tember baben nacb bem joebeu pitbli gierten giuan,jau5roei§ eivoas nebr al§ 50 SJiiflionctt Dollars butragen, teal urn $10,000,000 tteniger ift, ol§ bie gettrobnlitbcn 3fu§gobc» roab rettb be§ 9ftonat§. SBiibreub brr icfel abgelaufencn brei 5D?onate be.-; lair fenbett gisfaljabrcS bliebeit bie Gin nafmtcn Ijinter ben 3Iu§gaoen mn $38,758,000 juriicf. $a§ Defiaii in beni entfpreebenben geitraum be$ 2>orjabre§ roar $23,000,000. Die Ginnabnun im September b;ric? 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