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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<h inclusive, promises to be the great
est affair of its kind held this year
anywhere outside of New York city
and Chicago.
The Midland township fair, held at
Archer Thursday and Friday, October
14-15, represented the greatest puh'ic
movement ever undertaken by the
people of that community. The event
iias been classified as one of the most
successful ever identified with Mer
rick county.
William Wiehcle. mail clerk on the
Union Pacific between Beatrice and
Manhattan. Kan., who was injured in
the wreck at Randolph, Kan., is in a
hospital at Manhattan and has lost
his mind over worry caused by the
wreck. He is unable to recall any
incident relative to the arcident.
Harry Jensen of Stamford was acci
dentally shot and killed at Oxford.
With three friends he had been hunt
ing and stopped in Oxford on the way
home. As the men were leaving town
the jolt of the wagon in going over a
crossing caused the gun to explode,
the load striking Mr. Jensen in the
abdomen, causing almost instant
death.
Mrs. W. E. Barkley of Lincoln was
elected r resident of the Nebraska
State Woman Suffrage association at
its recent convention at Columbus.
Mrs. J. E. Rcgeri, aged "0. and her
daughter, aged 4, was killed two miles
cast of Arlington when the car In
which they were riding was struck by
a Northwestern freight train.
Business men of Burweil have un
dertaken a new enterprise, a butter
fact cry. A company has been organ
ized and when they have secured a
few more shareholders, a factory will
be built.
The Congregational church at Wa
hon has burned the mortgages and
is now free of debt.
L'pwards to In,000 fish, of the finny
tr.be, were deposited in lakes at Val
entine and other northwestern points,
by Deputy Fish and Game Commis
sioner O’Brien recently.
Warden Osborne of Sing Sing pris
oi, New York, will lie in Omaha Octo
ber 30 to address the synod of the
province of the Northwest Episcopal
i hurch. Many other social service
experts will be In Omaha during the
synod meeting, which will be October
Aurora will hold a Farmers’ insti
tute November 3.
C. D. Richey is erecting a $25,000
garage at Hastings.
There were seven perfect babies at
the York county show.
The town of Raskin is agitating the
question of electric lights.
The new Methodist church at Verdi
gree was dedicated recently.
Work on the new Bessey hall at
Lincoln will start in a few days.
The Baptist state convention will be
held in Grand Island Nov. t> 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.<e being 2 ppr cent.
All three companies made their re
port to the board under protest
Too Much Green Corn.
A change of feed is all that is
needed for the cattle on the Jack
Shelton ranch at Wauneta, according
t-o the report ffled by the inspector of
the state veterinary department, sent
to the ranch to investigate a possible
contagions disease among the ani
mals. Shelton lost ten head of cattle
In the past two months and feared
that the cattle were suffering from
some unknown malady. The inspec
tor declares that a diet of too much
gresn corn was the cause of the
deaths among the cattle.
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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)
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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<dtcn bic 'JJtilitdrbef)Si>
■ 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?
Sabres betrugen um $2,0U0,00o roe
niger ati? bie im September be? 5?.or
iabref. Da§ Scbofcarnt bat nod) cine
9?otto • Sl'iban.3 Don faft $41,000,000,
miner Pielen 29?ittionen, bie aut,2«*
balb non SBaibington 311 feincm ,vtre*
bit ftcljeit.
3IntcriFonifdjc ©rofcfdiliidjtcr npucV
lictrn an ba$ Str.alcibcpnrtr*
mrnt.
SSaffjington. £te G’f’B*
fdf»Iacf)tcr Con ©Ijicago crfudjien ba»
$taat§bebartement, bcr britifdicn
Slegierung SBorffeHuttgen f]in)ici;tlict
bcr jUefdjlagnabtne non Sleijcblabun
gen im SBcrfe bon $12,500,00(!
auBerbalb ber ^urisbiftion bcS fciitit
fdjen 't>rifengerid)te§ ju moc^en. iet
aintiercnbe ©taatsfcfretar ^olf £)orte
bie SBefdjtterbe an, gab iebod) Feme
Wnttoort. Gr bebeutctc btc %og.
fdjladbtcr, bag er ibr Gtiudjen in
afiflung sicken lucrbe.