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EPITOMEJF EVENTS PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO ' MANY SUBJECTS. IRE SHORT BUT INTERESTING t --- i Brief Mention of What le Transpiring In Various Sections of Our Own and Foreign Countries. WAR NEWS. Figures just published in Berlin show that the cost of living scored a reduction in the month of November. • * • Dispatches from Cairo state that, jewels of the Maharajah of Kapur thahia valued at $4,000,000 were lost aboard the steamer Persia, which was sunk recently near Alexandria. • * * A war credit of $100,000,000 was enthusiastically approved by the Bul garian parliament, says a dispatch from Saloniki. All sections of the op position voted with the government. • * * Berlin reports that the Russians have suffered very severe losses in their Galician campaign. After sev eral un successful assaults on the Aus trian front near Toporoutz over 2,500 bodies of Russians were counted. * * • Schools have been organized in the trenches on the Austro-Hungarian front., -chiefly for the purpose of giv ing the men something to do and re lieving the tediousness of the long periods of inactivity during the win ter. Between 200 and 300 of the pas sengers and crew of the British liner Persia, of the Peninsular and Orimtal company, perished when the vessel was torpedoed and sunk in the Medit erranean by a submarine whose na tionality is 6aid to have been Austrian. • • • Austria-Hungary’s reply to the sec ond American note on the sinking of the Ancona virtually disavows the act. Austria offers to pay indemnity for American lives lost and agrees to Bink no more ships without first as surance of safety for those aboard. * * * In connection with the omission of Ireland from the operation of the conscription list, it was noted in the lobby of the British House of Com mons that the latest figures of the Irish population show the total males of military age to be 717,000. of whom, it is said, about 125,000 have enlisted. GENERAL. Petition for an injunction against the enforcement of the new state prohibition law was denied in the United States district court in Seat tle, Wash, by three judges. • * * The will «f the late Thomas L. Shevlln, former Yale football star, filed for probate in Minneapolis, leaves the estate of $3,500,000 to the widow and two children. * * • A petition to place the name of Charles Warren Fairbanks, former vice president, on the primary ballot in Indiana as a candidate £c<r the re publican nomination for president, was filed with the secretary of state at Indianapolis. • • • One hundred members of the New York Bast Side branch of the Young Men’s Christian association have en rolled in a company for military training. This is the first step to have more than 500,000 Young Men’s Christian association members throughout the country formed into an army reserve. ■m m m Major General Grenville M. Dodge, U. S. A., retired, the last surviving field commander of an army on either aide In the civil war, died at his home In Council Bluffs, la., re cently. General Dodge outlined the first continental route from Omaha west and was the .chief engineer who built the Union Pacific to Salt Lake City. • « • Mathew A. Schmidt was convicted at Los Angeles of first .degree murder as the accomplice of James B. Mc Namara in the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times building five years ago. The specific charge was of hav ing murdered Charles Hagerty, one of rthe twenty victims of the explosion. Tho jury fixed punishment at im prisonment for life. » * * Between $10,000 and $1o,trt) in cur rency probably was obtained by the bandit who robbed the mail car at tached to the westbound Sunset Ex press of the Southern Pacific railroad at San Antonio, Tex. • * • Wireless telegraph apparatus Is to be installed on thlrty-slx freight barges that shortly are to be put In service on the Mississippi river. The fleet of barges, each of which will be of 1,400 tons, will pljr between Minneapolis and New Orleans, in com petition with the railroad service. • • • Kansas got out of debt January 1st State Treasurer Earl Akors took up the last outstanding bonds, totalling $159,000. Akers has suggested is suance of $25,009,000 in bonds for good roads. * • • Edward L. Diamond, his wife, Samuel Parkin and Samuel Simon were indicted on charges of first and second degree manslaughter growing out of deaths of 12 persons in a fire which destroyed the five-story Dia mond Candy factory in New York, No vember 6. • * • A tannery which, when completed, will cost $7,000,000, and will employ between 4 000 and 5,000 men, Is to be erected in St. Louis by the Inter national Shoe company, it was an nounced by officials of that concern. An epidemic of grippe is causing havoc among the lumber jacks in the woods cf Wisconsin, acording to med ical and hospital authorities, at Ash land. A large number of cases have been brought to that city for treat ment. * * * Commercial organizations through out the country, composing the Cham ber of Commerce of the United States, have voted overwhelmingly at a referendum Just completed in favor of international agreements to prevent war. • • * A movement has been launched by various commercial organizations of Arizona to secure the annexation, virtually by purchase, of sufficient land from Mexico to extend the boun dary of Arizona and California to the Gulf of Cr.lifornia. • * • A. A. (Scotty) Allan of Nome, Alas ka, owner of Alaska racing dogs which twice won the classic All-Alas ka sweepstake 412-mile dog team race, reached Seattle from France, where he sold to the government for army use in the Alps 440 dogs, 308 of them from Alaska. » * » A General Grenville M. Dodge me morial room is to be fitted up in the state historical building at Des Moines. Practically all of General Dodge’s war correspondence, his vari ous commissions, his photographs and his writings completed since the war are in the collection. • * * The National Security league an nounced at its headquarters at New Yoik that several thousand delegates, representing business and patriotic organizations in every section of tlie country, will attend the National Se curity congress, which meets in Washington January 20. » • * Linton Hoover of Harlan, la., is chief of a party of four men who ha\e made a contract to supply the French government with 5,000 horses and 25,000 mules within the next four months. The animals are to be de livered at a rate of not less than 5.000 a week. The value of the ani mals is listed at $14,000,000. SPORTING. Johnny Kilbane of Cleveland and Richie Mitchell of Milwaukee fought ten fast rounds in Milwaukee, the pop ular decision giving Mitchell the bet ter of the bout. • * • Frank Chance, former manager of the Chicago National baseball team, who managed the New' York Ameri can league team, will manage the Los Angeles Coast league team this year, it was announced by John F. Powers, president of the club. * * * Less Ilarcy, the middleweight cham pion of Australia, easily defeated Ed die McGoorty, an American middle weight. in the eighth round of their match in Sidney. McGoorty was pun ished so severely that his seconds threw up the sponge. The fight was witnessed hy 16,000 persons. • * • Joe Stecher, the Dodge, Neb., wrestler, who has earned the wrest ling championship of the United States, gave the grappling fans of St. Paul, Minn., a little treat when he took on tlie four best men the St. Paul promoters could dig up and dumped the entire quartet In eleven minutes. • • • The official averages -of the Inter state Trap Shooting association for the season of 1915, made public in New York, show that Woolfolk Hen derson of Lexington. Ky., Is high av erage amateur and Sam Huntley, the crack Omaha shot, ranks second, with an average of .9679, a few points be hind Henderson. WASHINGTON. A naval and aviation academy to cost $10,000,000 at San Francisco, ©r on Sar. Francisco bay, is proposed in a bill introduced in congress by Sen ator Phelan of California. * * * Secretary Garrison was directed by the senate to furnish full information as to the original cost, maintenance cost and general usefulness of every army post in the United State®. * * • Purchase of the 'Chesapeake & Del aware canal for not more than $2, 500.000 and the expenditure of $5, 000,000 In improving and fortifying it, was proposed in a bill introduced in congress by Senator Saulsburv of Delaware. • * * Tli* National Association of Cloth iers has appealed to Secretary of State Lansing for assistance in an ef fort to persuade Germany and Great Britain to allow dyes to be shipped from Germany to this country. Offic ials of the association declare that the present supply of dyes will last only a few Months. • • • Representative Shallenberger, of Nebraska, introduced a bill creating a commission of five persons to be known as “the United States commts. sion for enduring peace, wrhose pur pose it shall be to aid in bringing about enduring peace at the earliest possible moment." • * * Senator Hitchcock Is making aa ef fort to push his Philippine self-gov ernment bill. It is anticipated that debate on the measure itself is ex pected to occupy the senate for sev eral weeks. * * • A 5 per cent dividend, the first paid by any federal reserve bank, has been declared by the Richmond bank on the net earnings for the period between November 2, 1914, and De cember 31, 1915. Other reserve banks have more than made expenses and may declare dividends later. * • • Hundreds of measures were intro duced when congress reconvened. One of the bills introduced included s resolution to extend the thanks oi congress to Henry Ford for his peace mission. Diefe 2tbteilung ift fiir bie 5amilienglieber, mdcfye am f liebften Dcutfd? lefen. Sow 6d)Mtyla£e be$ eurobiiifdieit Sijlfer. Mmi aBiiljrenb auf ben europaifdjcn Jtriegsfdjaupliitieii ibinterlidje '.Hutjc ^crrfdjt, bie nur Ijin unb tuieber burd) Seilangriffe ober lofalc iBor* poftengefedjte unb SlrtiQericbucEe unterbrodjen toirb, beginnt c5 fid) ini Crieiit madjtig an regen. ben • bcutfdjen iJcitungen merbcii aroar nur Icifc atnbcutuugen auf bie foittincu* ben (Jreigniffe am Sue3 - Waual unb in Segtjpteu gemadjt, unb amtlidje UBelbungen iiber biefen aufunftigeu JJriegSfdjaupIafc febleu bollftiinbig. £ie aWelbungen, bie bon friegeri* fdjen I'orbercitungeu in iflalciftina unb bftlid) bom Suea - Wanal betid)* ten unb in ber feiublidjen '^reffe mit Sorgen befprodjen iberben, nieljren fidb in bcu lenten logon bermaBen unb taudjcu jo beftimint auf, baB e§ nidjt angeljt, fie allc alS crfunben bon ber £>anb an toeifeu. (Jin Atcrn bon aBabrbeit ift in alien biefen 9fad)rid)ten oljne ^toeifel entljalten, unb ber .stern ift, baB in ifJalaftina, Srtrieu unb bftlid) bom Suea * W’a* nal ein groBeS beutfd) * tiirfifdje^ $ecr aufamuteiigebradjt loorben ift, baS (JnglaubS 2ld)ifle£ - ocrfe amj Wnnal treffen foil. Csu bcnticpen 3eitunoen murbe be* fount gemacpi, bafj gelbmarfdjaE* Cafdja uon ber ®olB, ber 'Sefctjlstja-; ber ber tiirfifdjcn 1. Strmee uo.n J?on-! itantinopel, feiit §auptquartier in illeppo, Sprieu, cingeridjtct Iiat unb bort bic lefetcn SSorbereitungcu fiir; ben 2t ngriff auf SI eg pp ten trifft. Dtej Slrntee be* gelbmarfdiaU* beftelit in erfter XJinic au* bent Stonftantino pilcr Slmtceforp* ber titrfifdjcu Sir tnee, ber item be* o*mantfd)en ■’Oee= re*. Die Solbaten finb mit itrupp ®emebren auSgeriiftet unb merben pon beutfdjen Offijieren gefiUjrt. 3» oerldfelicben Cadjridjteu jufolgc _er* bieli greiberr oon ber ®olp bei fei* ner Slnfunft in Slleppo Delcgramme oom beutfdjen itaifer unb Porn Sul tan ber Diirfei, in bencit if)nt 511 fei nem febmierigen Unteruebmen ®liicf gemiinftbt murbe. Con befonberem ^utereffe ift bie amtlicbe Ctelbung au* Xionbou, bafj bie britifdjcn Druppen an* ben Dar* banellen juriidgeaogen morbeti finb. Die Camming ©aEipoli* bringt ein nriUtarifcbe* Untcrnebmcu aum 2lbfd)lujj, meldbe* ein SIbentcuer gc nannt mirb. tt* ift inbeffen both al* etma* gana anbereS, febenfafl* al* etma* grofje* geplant gemefen. Dag bie ©nglanber ben 3ug lebiglid) ben Cuffen juliebe untemommen baben foEten, biefe Sluffaffung ift liingft fdjon befeitigt. ©obi follte burd) bie eroffttung ber DarbaneEen bent Serfebr ber Miicrten ber freie ©eg fiir bie SluSfubr be* ruffifcbcu ©e treibe*, bas fiir cine englifdje SInleibe uerpfanbet mar, unb fur bie Cer forgung Cut>Iaiib* mit ©affen unb Chmitioit gefebaffen merben. Ciog lid), bajj (Stiglattb fid) baau nerfiau* ben batie- Stouftantinopel, meldje* ben DarbaneEen - Siegern in ben Sdboff fallen foEte, an Cufjlanb 3U iiberlaffen. Da* bdtte aflerbing* einen Crud) mit ber gefamten bisbe rigeu Colitif (fnglanb* Cufjlanb ge* geniiber bebeutet, aber c* mdre both nur ein meitere* Opfer gemefen, mel dje* bie britifebe Colitif, fiir bie Sin freifung unb Cemidjtung Deutfdj lanb* Cunbe*genoffeu ju merben, bdtte brittgen miiffen. Die (fngldtt* ber batten fid) and) burd) bic Se feBung ber bie ©infabrt in bie Dar baneEen beberrfebenben Snfeltt uor eitter ctmaigen fpateren Ueberra* fd)ttng feiten* Cufjlanb* gefdjupt. 3ubem mar bie gunge be* Ceftfce* Stonfiantinopel* fiir tfnglanb ttidjt meljr eine fo brennenbe, feitbem e* bic gefamte 3u9ang*ftra[je burd) ba* Ettittelmeer nad) Slegppten unb bem Surjfattal beberrfdjte. Cfit ber Sramiitgung ber Durd)* faljrt burd) bie DarbaneEen unb bem CefiB Stouftantinopel* felbft in ben ruffiftben §dnben foEte SHcgppteu unb ber Suea - Stanal, ber aentralc 2eben*ner& ber gefamten britifdjcn ©eltmad)tftc0ung, gefdjiiBt merben. C?it ber Ciebcrringititg ber Diirfei auf bem ©ege burd) bic DarbaneEen foEte fincm Unfturm ber europdiidjen C'liltelmddjte, Dcutfcplaitb* unb De= fterreid) - llngam*, gegett ben Orient f auf bem ©ege iiber ben Calfan eine j unitbcrminblidje Sdjranfe erridbtet merben. Sud) Centralen, ^talien (bamali noth neutral), Cnmdnien, (Sriedjenlanb unb Culgarien, meldje an ber grage ber CJeerengeu unb bem aufunftigen CefiB A^onftantino pel* ein Sntereffe baben, fofltcn aunt Slnfdjlufj an ben Dreioerbanb fleran* Iafot merben. toaren me toetxreicpenben po* Iitifdjen ©rtodflungen, toeldje bet bet Snangriffnabnte be# 2arbanetlenau* geS mitgefprodien Eja&en. SBaren bie bolitifdjen 3bJede, toelcbc mit bent Untemebmen errungen toerben foil* ten, fo toe it auSfdjauenbe, fo ift baS Unjureitbatbe ber ntilitarifdjen 2Jtit* tel, toelcbe jut Sluftoenbung gelang* ten, um fo unberftdnblidber. ®tcfe§ Unjureicbenbe ift aHerbtng# mit bet ftdberen ©ttoartung einet Sorpota* tion bet gcnonnten 9?eutralen teil tocije an erflaren. 2ie ©riedjen foil* ten ein £anbungsbeer enffenien, bie ©ulgarcn iiber bie iiinie Slbrianopel —Gnos nad) ftonftantiuopel mar fdjieren, bie Stumanen Dom 2anbe ber ben ruffifdjen Ginmarfd) in bie iiirfei (nad) ben rnffifetjen Grfolgen in ben fiarpatben) unb ben ruffifetjeu Xurcbbrurf) burd) ben S3o3poruS com Sdjroarjeu 5D2eci aus unterfriifeen. Slber nid)t einntal vdaliett bat fid) 311 ber Gntfenbung eitter Gjpebition nad) bett Xarbatiellen bereit finbcti laffen. 'JJoIitifd) unb ntilitiirifd) tjafeen bie Slfliierten, bat in erfter X*inic Gng lanb, cine ungebeure 92iebcrlage au ben Xarbatiellen crlitten. 311 ber bodbften 92ot batten bie Gngldnbcr iljrcit Slitdjener au JDri unb SteUe gefanbt. Xer follte fid) burd) eige nett Slugenfdjein non ber Situation au ben (Gallipoli - gronten iiberjeu gen. „Xcr XarbaneUen - ftelbjug roirb fortgefefct." Xas rourbe ba> mals als 92efultat ber Cfular * 3n fpeftion ilitdtjeuerS Pott bonbon aus Dcrfiinbet. Xa§ aber roar bamals fcbon als S3Iuff erfennbar. Xcnn felbft in Gnglanb gelangte bie Gr* fenntniS immer offenfunbiger 311m Slusbrud, baf) allc Opfer pcrgeblidb feiett, ein Grfolg ausgefd)loffen fei. Xiefc Grfcnntnis bat ttuumcbr 3itr SRaumung ber britifdjen Stcllungeli unb jttr Slufgabe bes gefatnteu iln ternebmens gefiibrt. 29as bie Gtigliittber auf ber .§alb* infcl ©allipoli unb an bett Xarbanel leit juriidgelaffen baben, ift ein griebbof auf bent $unberttaufenbe non SJJcnfdjeu begraben liegett; auf bent bie roeiteftgebenbeu politifdjen '^lane, ber Xurcbbrtub nad) Jfonftait* tinopel unb bie Xctfung bcS 2uej* fattalS unb SleggptenS, eingefargt fittb. „Xa§ traurigfte ftapitel ber briti* fdien laffen in biefera ftriege", fagt bonbon. Gin fd)tudbiid)rr Tvcblfdilng. ?i e ro 9) 0 r f. Xie Reiter beS 2t)nbifaieo, roeld)c§ bie 5projentige euglifeb • frauadfifdje Slnleibe im Sfe trage Don $500,000,000 garautier* ten, niad)tcn befannt, bafj $280,000,* 000 beS Sfetrages bcbufS Slttlage jum Sgubifatspreis Don 96% au* riicfgeaogeit roorben roaren unb bafe uur $40,000,000 in offcntlid)er2ub* ffription aunt fiitrfe Pon 98 oerfnuft roiirben. Xer unperfauftc 91 eft Don $180,000,000 rourbe unier bie i'2it glicber beS SpnbifateS Derteilt, roic ein friiljereb Uebereittfoinmen be ftimmte. Sin ber Sdrfc rourben bie SPottbb nur nod) jum 'Jfreife Don 94% gebanbclt. S3ou ben auriidgejogenen $280, 000,000 foHen minbeftenS $100, 000 Don 2)2unitionsfabrifanten iiber nommen roorben feiti. Xie Gnglan ber baben bamit ibre 9)anfce*S8rii» ber roieber einntal tiid)tig iibers £br gebauen. Xie 2JJnnition§fabrifanten erbalten offenbar fiir ibre fiieferun gen fein 23aargelb, fonbern bie Sin leibe-93onb§ unb miiffen fid) bi§ aum Ginlofungs • Stermiti bcrfclben in fiinf Sabren mit 5 iproaent Sinfen begniigen. Sfritifcbe fRrgierang fnaft amrrifani fcfje SSkrtyabierc. ©nblidj f)flt bic britifcfje fRegierung eingefefjen, baft bas amerifanifdje SBolf nicfjt bcreit ift, friegfiifjrenben SJtaticnen, bic in furjer bor bem StaatSbanfcrott fteben fonnen, auf ibr webrliefje3 ©eficfjt" bib ©elb ju leiben. $er britifcfje ©rfjatifanjler toil! jefct eitglifdben Untertanen bie amerifairifdjen Gifcnbabn * Sfftien mtb Obligationen unb fonftige ame cifanifcfje iBertpabiere, bie fie sur enormcn .§otje non fiinf Siflionen 5)oflarS befiften folfen, abfaufen, urn fie in ben '-Ber. ©taaten al§ cicfjer fjcit fiir Slnleiben ju berbfanben. ©e gen cine foldje 2ran§aftion ift fofem ber ©idjerbcit ber ©rfpatniffe beS amerifanifcben 9?oIfe§ nicfjtS einju tsenben. Slber bom ©tdnbpunft ber 9?eutralitat bleibt ber biSberige @in manb gegen bie ©emabrung finan ?ieller $iilfc an Mtricgfiibrenbc be fteben. DeutfrfjlanbS Hcbcrlcgenfjeit oner* fnnitt. Die englifdje Breffe erflart, baft bet gricben jeftt unntoglidj fci, toeil DeutfdjIanbS militarifdje Jtiagc gun ftig ift. Die§ ift enblidj eine Hnet feitnung bon DeutfdjIanbS militari fdjer llcberlegertljeit! ©Ieidjaeitig madjt e$ bie englifdje fPreffe flar, baft DeutfdjlanbS geinbe ben fhrieg (nnaieften toerben, in ber ^offnung, baft ein giinftiger SSenbepunft in ber Suhxnft eintritt. Der beutfdje DieitftSfanjIer Ijai fei* erlidj erflart, baft Deutfdjlanb bie SeranitoortILdjfeit fiir bie gortbauer beS ftriegeS ableftnen nxiiffe, unb baft biefe ©eranttoortlidjfeii attf bie ©djultem (SnglattbS fallen toerben. Die Scufterungen ber englifdjen Bref fe betoeifen, fo urteilt man jeftt in Berlin, baft Gnglanb bereit ift, biefe SBerantmortlidjfeit 3U iibemefjmen. Die SBeiSfjeii ber beutfdjen BoIfS toirtfdjaft fulminiert in bem ©aft: SBit ftaben, toaS toit braudjen unb toir braucjen nidjtS, toa» toir nidjt ftaben. A barn, together with ten horses, much valuable harness and a large quantity of hay, was destroyed by Are on the John Beirman farm, near Lind say. The loss amounted to over $3,500. John Bragg, mayor of Holdrege, died from the effects of a wound in the face which he received while hunting. The accident occurred as he was crossing a fence, pulling a gun after him. Robbers broke into the Guy Butler drug store at Holbrook recently and stole fifty-two rings, eleven watch chains, three watches and some cuff buttons. The loss is estimated at over $200. At a meeting of the members of the Midstate Poultry association at Kearney, it was decided to erect a building at the Buffalo county fair grounds for the display of the annual fair exhibits. # Steadily increasing activity was displayed at Lincoln by Dan Cupid during 1915, when 995 marriage licenses were issued as against 925 in 1914. The birth record was about the same as in 1914. The Nebraska association of Title Men will hold their annual convention in Fremont, Tuesday and Wednesday, January 26 and 26. W. W. Barney is head of the association A very large delegation is anticipated. Joseph Cline is in a hospital in Lincoln, with two feet badly frozen, facing amputation of both. Cline said the marshal of Ravenna drove him out of town and he had to walk twenty miles in the snow William Osterman, owner of the Dexter hotel at Fremont, recently gutted by fire, announced to the Commercial club a plan of remodeling the building on a large scale intended to give Fremont a 100-room hotel. A plan is being worked out at Te cumseh whereby there will be a summer race meet at Auburn. The proposition is to have a circuit of six towns and hold a meet in June and the early part of July of the coming year. Twenty-three cases of smallpox were reported to the Wymore board of health last week. A rigid quaran tine is being enforced and the mov ing picture shows, billiard and pool halls, churches and schools have been closed. Commercial interests at Beatrice are hoping that the Missouri Pacific can be induced to build to that town from Virginia, during the coming sea son, and a director of the road is Quoted as saying that the construction should be started during the new year. For the first time in its history the state of Nebraska has become heir of an Omaha man. It wTill inherit the $2,000 estate of the late Karl Mauch, as the result of a decision by County Judge Crawford that the dead man left no legal heirs. Mauch died with out leaving a will. The County Board of Supervisors of Dodge county have refused to accept the offer of the nineteen insurance companies holding policies of the county court house, which recently was destroyed by fire at Fremont. The adjusters offer to settle for $35,000. The county asks $47,000. The first filings for the primaries to be held next April were made in Gage county when a petition was filed ask ing that the names of G. W. Stein meyer and D. S. Dalby be placed on the ballot as candidates for the re publican nominations for members of the lower branch of the legislature from the Thirty-first representative district. The Nemaha County Republican and the Auburn Granger have been consolidated. R. E. Cunningham pur chased the interests of his partner, Mr. De Wolf, in the Republican, and later made a deal with J. H. Ilundas, whereby he became the owner of the Granger. Mr. Dundas retires from the Auburn newspaper field after thirty years of active service. The sale of the Lincoln Western league baseball club by Hugh L. Jones to the Lincoln Baseball and Amusement Co., a stock company, was completed last week. The sale price of the club was announced at $12,500. George R. Stone, formerly a big league player, now a banker at Coleridge, is the new president of the club. William (Ducky) Holmes, man ager of the Lincoln club in 1906 and 1907, will manage the team. A small, carefully made black cof fin was left on the porch of the home of Mrs. F. E. Brown of Fremont re cently. The coffin contained Mrs. Brown's name in red ink. It had b-^en constructed in a skilful manner and covered with black enamel. It was turned over to the county sheriff who claims to have found evidence indicat ing who the sender is. Mrs. Brown has been very ill for some time and the incident is looked upon with ex treme gravity by relatives. Eleven thousand dollars in old se curities were unearthed at the home of Peter Bradenberger, an aged re cluse, who died on his farm near Lincoln a few days ago. No heirs are known, but efforts are being made to locate relatives of the dead man. The Nebraska City council has re fused to pay the bills of the water and light company until the latter pays its occupation tax. which has been delinquent for the past sev eral months and amounts to nearly $700. It is thought a lawsuit may be the result of the controversy. Arthur J. Weaver of Falls City, known as one of the most successful fruit growers in Nebraska, is being urged by his republican friends to en ter the lists as a candidate for Unit ed States senator. The town of Chadron started the new year with two new buildings under construction. A $10,000 opera house, with a seating capacity of 300, and a bank building that will cost $40,000 are under way. A new bank is to be opened in Chadron in the near future, financed by eastern cap italists. More* than 50 000 sheep are being wintered this season in the vicinity of Shelton. According to reports of health au thorities there are over 100 cases of scarlet fever in Omaha. Herb Stillwell, Otoe county farmer, reports the loss of eighteen head of cattle by some unknown disease. Over four hundred young farmers are taking a short course in agricul ture at the Wayne State Normal. Herbert Howe, son of the late Church Howe, has been elected head of the First National bank of Auburn. The town of Ravenna has a new auto regulation which requires cars to be parked in the center of the street. W. A. Overhage and W. W. Moore have purchased the Schuyler Sun. F. Ralston Moore will continue as local editor. The record for moisture precipita tion at Beatrice last year was 35.9 inches, or 12 inches more than in 1914. A. L. Caviness, secretary of the State Normal board, has been elected superintendent of the public schools of Kearney. The Blair National bank has sur rendered its federal charter and rein corporated as a state institution. There is no change in officers. York county’s treasurer has issued more than 600 automobile licenses during the year 1915, giving York county third place in the state. W. B. Rogers of Giltner has pur chased the Gibbon Reporter from R. A. St. John. Mr. St. John expects to engage in the banking business. A penny lunch, consisting of soup, vegetables and bread, is being pro vided for Omaha school children by a woman’s organization of the city. S. C. Webber sold 40 acres of pas ture land two miles northwest of Schuyler recently to Jim Paviicek, for $150 an acre. The land is not fenced. r ive thousand bushels of grain were consumed when fire completely destroyed the Babbs grain elevator at Beatrice. The loss will aggregate $7,000. Nearly one hundred guests were driven into the frigid night air thinly clad when fire destroyed The Grand hotel at Arlington. The loss is esti mated at $20,000. Nebraska City movies have been notified that there will be no more vaudeville there because of the fail ure of that particular feature to make good on the circuit. The dates for the annual tourna ment of the State Bowling association have been set for the week beginning April 3, at Lincoln. Lincoln had the meeting last year. A new mi'k inspection ordinance has just gone into effect at Beatrice. The ordinance provides for testing dairy cows, as well as their milk. Dairymen have offered no objections. The annual report of the Beatrice Y. M. C. A. for the year 1915 shows that the attendance at the various department meetings for the year was 32,736, a flattering increase over the previous year. Union evangelistic services are be ing held in the huge tabernacle just completed for that purpose at Paw nee City. The services commenced New Year’s evening and will continue through the month of January. The tabernacle has a seating capacity of over 1,200. The Rev. Fletcher L. Wharton, pioneer Methodist minister of Lin coln, received a substantial New Year’s gift from business men of that city. He was given a canceled mort gage on his home for $3,500 and $220 in gold, or $3,720 in all. Charles Olson, 32, a young farmer residing two and one-half miles north west of Cedar Bluffs slipped under a tractor engine which he was taking to his homo and was fatally injured. He lived but a few hours. His skull was fractured and lower limbs crushed. Edgar Howard, editor of the Colum bus Telegram, is confined to his homo with scalp wounds, a wrenched back and possibly internal injuries re ceived New Year’s night when an au tomobile, traveling at high speed, struck him as he was walking on the street in Columbus. F. H. Barclay of Pawnee and C. C. Westcott of Plattsmouth, president and secretary of the Nebraska Retail Clothiers’ association, were in Omaha last week arranging for the first con vention of the organization to be held in the metropolis February 15 and 16. The association was organ ized last March and a delegation of several hundred is expected. Hog breeders of Johnson eounty and the northern half of Gage county are pleased with the work the gov ernment is doing at the Teeumseh station in its efforts at eradicating hog cholera. Since April 1, 1914, the work has been carried on under the direction of Dr. S. E. Cosford and four assistants, government veterinarians. The result has been the reducing of the loss in 1915 to approximately 1,000 head of hogs, or but one-sixth the loss of the year before the work was begun. A number of cases of smallpox having developed at Wymore, a meet ing of the mayor and city council and the physicians of the city was held last w'eek for the purpose of consider ing plans to prevent the spreading of the disease. Bob Foster, a barber of Kearney, died at his home suddenly, the death having about it an air of mystery. It is believed he consumed a quantity of hair tonic or otherwise swallowed the poison by mistake. When found by the physician he was in a delirium from which he never recovered. The village of Lewiston suffered a destructive fire recently. Three build ings, a hardware store, a general merchandise store and a shoe store were destroyed. The estimated loss is $30,000. J. Swartz, a fanner residing in En dicott precinct, holds the record for raising the most corn per acre on a small field in Jefferson county. From three and one-half acres he husked out 355 bushels of corn, an average of 102 1-7 bushels per acre. The corn was weighed and seventy-five pounds were given per bushel. Not a Myth but an Actuality* Shown in the Returns of Ag ricultural Statistics and Every Department of Trade and Com merce. The trade revival in Manitoba, Saa katchewan and Alberta is an actuality and not a myth. There is today a spirit of optimism in the air, just as two years ago there prevailed the op posite spirit of pessimism. A general trade revival has been felt in every department of business in the Prairie Provinces. The agricul turists are in better shape than they have ever been before in their lives. No farmers of any country are in bet ter financial condition and in a more general state of prosperity than are the farmers of Manitoba, Saskatche wan and Alberta. The farmers have harvested a record crop—a crop which enriches them to the extent of some thing over $400,000,000. In the cities the prosperity of th« country has been reflected. Every where business Is on the hustle. The wholesalers and the retailers and the implement dealers find business goofi / The banks and other collection houses t find collections satisfactory, and finan cial men declare that westerners are paying up their debts. In Winnipeg the bank clearings have been the larr^ est in history, exceeding some weekt^ the figures of Montreal and Toronto The grain shipments have been the biggest in the history of Winnipeg and in the history of the twin ports, Fort W'illiam and Port Arthur. The mail order houses have had a big year, the rush of fall orders exceeding all previ ous years and taxing the capacity of these establishments, whose most san guine expectations have been exceeded by the actual business done. The tide has turned in western Can ada. The people of the West are forging ahead, forging ahead in actual production and in creation of wealth, giving generously to charitable and other funds, paying up their back debts, while going along carefully as regards any creation of new debts. They are economizing but not scrimp ing, acting cautiously but not miserly. The financial heads of eastern Canada, of the United States and of Europe are no longer criticizing western Canada: rather they are unstintedly offering their praise and their compliments. The financial press recognizes that the tide has turned in western Canada, and it has been published to the world. The condition of western Canada at the close of 1915 is one of optimistic prosperity, backed by the same deter mination of western people to go on increasing their productiveness and maintaining the records which they have already established. The trade revival of western Canada Is the happiest feature in the business survey of the whole Dominion for 1915 and in the outlook for 1916.—Adver tisement. Extremes Meeting. She—My dear, the coal's all out. He—And I'm all in! Dr. Pierce’s Pellets are best for liver, bowels and stomach. One little Pellet for a laxative—three for a cathartic.—Adv. Some men spend so much time boosting the other fellow’s game that they forget their own. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for Infants and children, and see that it I_I In Use For Over 30 Tears. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Caatori* A woman is always perfectly sure she is in the right until it comes to backing her apinion with real money Only One “BROMO QUININE” To set the Benuine, call for full name. LAXA TIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for siBnatnre of E. W. GROVE. Cures a Cold in One Dar. *sc Painless Method. DeAuber—I wonder why the art committee failed to hang my picture? Criticus—Perhaps they thought it would be less painful to electrocute It. TAKE SALTS TO FLUSH KIDNEYS IF BACK HURTS Says Too Much Meat Forms Uric Acid >. Which Clogs the Kidneys and i Irritates the Bladder. f Most folks forget that the kidneys, like the bowels, get sluggish and clog ged and need a flushing occasionally, else we have backache and dull misery in the kidney region, severe head aches, rheumatic twinges, torpid liver, acid stomach, sleeplessness and all sorts of bladder»disorders. You simply must keep your kidneys active and clean, and the moment you feel an ache or pain in the kidney region, get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any good drug store here, take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, com bined with lithia, and is harmless to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal activity. It also neu tralizes the acid's in the urine so it no longer irritates, thus ending blad der disorders. Jad Salts is harmless; Inexpensive; makes a delightful effervescent lithia water drink which everybody should take now and then to keep their kid neys clean, thus avoiding serious com plications. A well-known local druggist says he sells lots of Jad Salts to folks who be lieve in overcoming kidney trouble v while it is only trouble.—Adv. Saying the right thing at the right t’me is equivalent to keeping your moutn shut when you have nothing to say.