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FROM MANY POINTS EVENTS OF THE DAY HELD TO A FEW LINES. 1 t r * * __ LATE EVENTS BOILED DOWN Personal, Political, Foreign and Other Intelligence Interesting to tho General Readers. WAR NEWS. The losses by the Bulgarian army during the war are estimated at 87,000 killed and 50,000 wounded or missing. * * * Dr. Eugene Hurd, until recently the only American surgeon at the front with Russian soldiers, has performed more than 3,000 operations near the battle line. * * * It is announced that the French j government purposes to take meas ures to prepare French territorial troops for war. * • • Officers’ casualty lists show that during the month of march the Brit ish lost 372 killed, 690 wounded and 44 missing—a total of 1,106. * * • Forty-two Danish ships, valued at 11,000,000 kroner, the cargoes of which were valued at 20,000,000 kroner, have been destroyed by submarines and mines during the war. Eighty-seven men have been killed. i Berlin reports that in the recent raid on Lowestoft and Yarmouth, Eng land, the steamer King Stephen was sunk and its crew captured, also that a destroyer and a scout boat were sunk and a cruiser set on fire. * * * On the Verdun front, where for two months the Germans and French have been almost continuously in battle, the Germans, according to an esti mate of the French war office, up to April 22, had used thirty divisions, or about 600,000 men, in the fighting or in reinforcing units which suffered heavy losses. GENERAL. Daniel P. Toomey, publisher of the Columbian, the official paper of the Knights of Columbus, died at his home in East Orange, N. Y. 9 * * Martial law has Deen declared in the city and county of Dublin, Ireland, as a result of the revolutionary out break in Dublin city. • * * John Harrison Surratt, last sur vivor of the corps of alleged conspir ators tried for implication in the plot to assissinate Abraham Lincoln, died i at Baltimore, Md., recently. • * * In a battle between 6,060 rebels and the Constitutionalist army just north of the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, the reb els were defeated with a loss of 500 men killed and many wounded. * * * The documents seized by federal agents when they raided the office of Wolfe von Igel, gained new import ance through an announcement that among them wTas a German code book. • • • The progressive party of Iowa has but one candidate in the entire state for the June primary, according to the filings with the secretary of state. He is Edward H. Crane of Odebolt, run ning for congressman in the Eleventh district. * • * Secretary J. C. Mohler of the Kan sas state board of agriculture has es timated that Kansas this year will produce 135,000,000 bushels of wheat. He gives the crop condition at pres ent as 87.36 per cent perfect, a gain of 7 per cent in the last month. * * * Eugene E. Schmitz, former mayor of San Francisco, announces that on May 9 he could start petitions for the recall of Mayor James Rolph, Jr., on fourteen charges, alleging malfeas ance in office, illegal election and in competency. * • • The Quaker Oats company is not operating in violation of the Sherman act, according to a decision handed down by judges of the United States circuit court of appeals at Chicago. The finding came after two days of argument based upon testimony ta ken in various cities of the country since the suit was filed in June, 1913. • • • More than 1,000 soldiers and men cf the crew of the steamer Hsin-Yu were lost when the steamer sank after a collision with the cruiser Hal Yung, south of the Chusan islands. * * * A street car, crowded with men, women and children, became unman ageable in Cincinnati, O., ran wild on a downgrade for six blocks, jumped the track, crashed into a telegraph pole, and caused the death of one woman and injury to thirty-eight others. * * • John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Co. has agreed to pay Ed Shaw and F. W. Rickman of Avoca, la., $4,400 damages because a can of John D's kerosene exploded, killing Shaw’s 9 year-old daughter and Rickman’s wife. * * * Thirty persons were killed in the explosion of the powder branch of a grenade factory at Bordeaux, France. A spark from an electrical machine is believed to have set off the powder while it was in the process of being mixed. * * • The George Washington National Highway association has been offic ially organized with headquarters in Omaha The highway is to run be tween Seattle and Savannah, and Is to pass through OmabA • Another rich gold strike has been made in Alaska, according to reports received at Fairbanks from the in terior. * * * Massachusetts will be represented in the republican national convention by an unpledged delegation, according to the recent primary results. * * * A bill providing for the erection without compliance with the city’s building laws of a tabernacle for the Rev. W. A. Sunday’s revival meetings in Boston. Mass., was vetoed by Gov ernor McCall. * * * Henry Ford has purchased an eigh ty-acre tract of reclaimed meadow land located in New Jersey, between New York and Newark, on which he plans to build an automobile factory, costing 35,000,000, according to an an nouncement. * * * Nearly 1,500,000 people attended the eight weeks’ revival meetings just con cluded by Rev. Billy Sunday in Balti more, Md. Twenty-three thousand persons hit the trail during the cam paign. Mr. Sunday received as a free will offering nearly $50,000. * * * Development of a system of military transportation as one step toward na tional preparedness has been under taken by representatives of railroads and automobile industries, with the co-operation of the national govern ment, it was announced at New York. * * * The lone bandit who, within the last three months, held up three Union Pacific track limited trains, has been captured, according to a report re ceived at Union Pacific headquarters in Omaha. At the Rawlins, Wyo., jail, the report says, the bandit con fessed to all of the three train rob beries. SPORTING. Chicago Athletic association defeat ed Yale university in a dual swim ming meet at the Detroit Athletic club. * * * Harry Wells of New Orleans de feated Sam Langford of Boston on points in an eight-round match at St. Louis. » * * “Home Run” Baker and six other New York American league club ball players hit the trail during the recent Billy Sunday revival at Baltimore, Md. » * * Ever Hammer, Chicago lightweight boxer, decisively defeated Champion Freddie Welsh on points in a fast ten round no-decision contest at Chicago. * « » Grover Cleveland Alexander, the great pitcher of the Philadelphia Na tional league baseball team, has shut out the Boston Braves six times since June 26, 1911. * • » Walter Miller of St. Paul, Minn., was given a referee’s decision over “Pete” Brown, who styles himself the champion middleweight wrestler of the world, after one hour and thirty minutes of wrestling at Bill ings, Mont. • * * Cleveland, O., is a bidder for the 1916 Olympian games, Mayor Harry L. Davis has announced. In securing the next world events, Cleveland is competing with Lyons, Amsterdam, Havan and Antwerp, these cities hav ing previously made offers. * * * Jack Britton of Chicago claimed the world's welterweight championship when he was awarded a referee’s de cision over Ted Lewis of England at the end of a twenty-round bout at New Orleans, La. Lewis claimed the title when he defeated Harry Stone of New York last February. • * • The University of Wisconsin cap tured the sixth annual Drake relay games at Des Moines by winning the first place in three out of four events, thus shattering the world’s record for the half-mile relay. The Badger team clipped off the 880 yards in 1:28 4-5. The former record, held by Chicago, was 1:29 3-5, made at St. Louis. WASHINGTON. War department reports indicate that attendance at the army instruc tion camps for civilians this summer will approximate 28,500. * * • The house rejected a proposal by the Agriculture department to include in the annual agricultural appropria tion bill an item of $175,000 to inves tigate the best method of obtaining potash in the United States on a commercial basis. * * • Sharp rises in food prices in Den mark have alarmed the people, who fear further increases if the war con tinues, say consular advices from Co penhagen. Foods and every day ne cessities are said to be up 30 per cent, with the rate of increase grow ing. • • * After three days' debate on the Bankhead good roads bill the senate adjourned without reaching a vote, and under the recently adopted leg islative program the measure now will be displaced by the rural credit bill. This is generally regarded as meaning that there will be no good roads legislation at this session. • • * Secretary Baker wrote a letter to Speaker Clark urging that pending legislation to abolish so-called speed ing up methods at government arse nals be defeated. * » • The State department has inquired of the Turkish government whether Abram I. Elkus of New York would be acceptable as ambassador to suc ceed Henry Morgenthau, whose res ignation has been accepted by Presi dent Wilson. * • * Secretary Lansing has made an un qualified denial of published reports that the United States had given any information whatever to the British government which aided in the appre hension of Sir Roger Casement on his unsuccessful expedition to Ireland. TO PROTESTUCENSE FILES CHARGES AGAINST FOR EIGN BONDING COMPANY. FORTY YEAR OLDSTATE CLAIM Item* of General Interest Gathered from Reliable Sources Around the State House. Western Newspaper Union News Service. A protest against licensing the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Bonding company has been filed l?y D. L. Manning of Lincoln with the state insurance board. Mr. Manning is the son of Chaplin S. Manning, an em ploye of a Lincoln firm. The elder Manning was employed on plumbing work on the Lincoln high school building. It was alleged he was hit by a beam and suffered hemorrhage of the stomach and that his injuries will prevent him from performing any labor the remainder of his life. The bonding company had insured the Lincoln firm’s employes. The company paid Mr. Manning weekly payments under the workmen’s com pensation law from February to Au gust of last year, when he moved to Elmira, N. Y., his old home, where he has a brother. The bonding com pany alleges his present condition is due not to injuries, but to his removal to New York and refuses to continue paying benefits. Labor Commissioner F. M. Coffey advises the filing of a protest against licensing the company for the year beginning May 1. — Action Was Sustained. Attorney General Keed has given an opinion sustaining Secretary of State Pool in his action in notifying the county clerks of Dodge and Washing ton counties that a democratic candi date for state senator was illegally on the ballot in the Fifth senatorial dis trict. The county clerks allowed the name to remain on the primary ballot ! but the candidate in question received few votes. Senator Wilson of Fremont was nominated as the democratic nominee. Secretary of State Pool’s ruling was questioned by County Cierk John O’Connor of Dodge county, who is a candidate for county assessor. Mr. Pool has forwarded a copy of the attorney general’s opinion to Mr. O’Connor. It was evident from the start of the controversy that the filing in dispute was accepted by county clerks of the two counties on the theory that a section of the law which requires certain nominating petitions j to be filed in each county of a dis- ! trict applied to the primary law. The ' attorney general is of the opinion that the section relied upon by the ; county clerks applies to general elec tions or when a new party is organ ized. as it requires a petition of 1.000 names. The ordinary nominating pe tition requires only twenty-five names and the law is plain that such peti tions must be filed only with the sec retary of state. A Forty Year Old Claim. Division of the fund gathered in by the state in the sale of Pawnee In dian lands by the government upward of forty years ago came to the front again when T. P. Kennard, secretary of state in 1S67, asked that the ac counts be run over again to be cer tain that the amount of his claim is as high as he fixed it. When the lands were sold in the late '60s and early ’70s, the state in sisted upon having a share. The fed eral government finally yielded to the request and Mr. Kennard made a trip to Washington to prevail upon con gress to sharp some of the Indian land sale receipts with the state. He finally got $32,000 for the state. It took him a year’s time and cost him about $4,000 in expenses. When he applied for a commission, the state refused. Later on, however, the legislature passed a bill granting him $16,000 for his work. A senate secretary pigeon-holed it in the shuffle at the closing of the session and it never got to the governor to sign. Several times since Mr. Kennard has tried without success to get a similar bill through the law making mill, but without success. Boone county has paid State* Audi tor W. H. Smith $2,672. being the bal ance due on $5,000 owing to the state for the care of insane patients. Greeley county has paid $462. County Clerk Earl of Dundy was the first to send in the official pri mary returns to Secretary of State Pool. Te vote of Dundy county is not large and it was speedily can vassed and forwarded to the state house. Some clerks really canvass the county vote as soon as it comes in and then wait for the Friday fol lowing election to make it official. Other county clerks who are sticklers contend that they have no right to open the returns and commence the work of convassing until Friday fol lowing election day. Foreign Trees for State Farm. The department of horticulture of the state farm has just received sev enty-five ornamental shrubs and fruit trees from the office of the foreign seed plant introduction of Washing ton, D. C. These plants will be given & trial in the arboretum of the experi ment station orchard. The govern ment has sent abroad to collect plants that appear to have some eco nomic value. State Boys' Potato Club. Members of the state boys’ potato club will be eligible to attend the boys’ potato school which will be held annually in the northwestern part of the state beginning next spring. The school will last four days. Instruc tion will be furnished by the college of agriculture, and will include lec tures, laboratory work and inspection trips to potato fields and storage cel lars. Only members who have suc cessfully completed the season’s work and made proper final report may at tend CAMPS FOR NATIONAL GUARD. Medical Corps and Field Hospital to Go to Fort Riley. Adjutant General P. L. Hall of the Nebraska national guard has an nounced dates for two encampments of officers of the Nebraska national guard. The big summer camp for the infantry is not settled, but it will probably be held at Fort Robinson about the middle of August. The officers of the Nebraska na tional guard medical corps will attend a school of instruction at Fort Riley from June 5 to June 15, inclusive. Thirteen officers from Nebraska will attend this school. Officers from the medical corps of the national guard of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colo rado, Wyoming, Arkansas, Arizona. New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana will attend. The Nebraska national guard field hospital of Lincoln will attend a joint encampment at Fort Riley from June 26 to July 6. Officers of the Colorado field hospital will also attend at the same time. Five officers and thir;y three men from Nebraska will attend. Summary of Expenditures The state auditor’s report for the three months ending April 1 shows a total of $1,421,840.85 expended for the maintenance of the state govern ment. Of that amount, $417,258 was expended for salaries and wages. For the support of fifteen state institu tions under the board of control, $350, 481 was spent. The state has a lot of wards, on which it spent $70,024 for articles of food, $6,065 for clothing, and its bill for light, fuel and power was $51, S68. For permanent improvements, new buildings and land the state ex pended $148,931 in three months. The state wrote letters and mailed print ed matter in sufficient number to amount to $7,244 in postage. Its of ficers and employes spent $9,877 in traveling, or about $1,000 less than in the previous three months. For the support of the Nebraska national guard, armories and rifle ranges, $10, 160 of the state's m»jney was spent. Nearly $35,000 v.as spent for printing, and $6,518 for telegraph and tele phones. Following is a summary of the ex penditures of the different institu tions: Salaries ami wages.$ 96.647.14 Transportation, telegraph and telephone. 3.789.60 Articles of food. 70.024.S9 Clothing. 6,065.39 Stationery, books and paper- 3,337.27 Fuel, light and power. 51.S6S.06 Machinery, tools and repairs- 10,932.45 General repairs. 11,808.28 Miscellaneous . 27.531.53 Furniture and equipment. 7.7S0.S7 Permanent improvements. 33,122.07 New buildings and land. 27.574.07 Total.$350,481.32 Many Schools Make Entry. With the Nebraska high school in terscho’astic track and field meet again under the direction of the Uni versity of Nebraska authorities, the first entries reaching Athletic Man ager Guy E. Reed indicate that double the number of Nebraska high schools will take part than for the last two years. Although Mr. Reed sent out entry blanks for the meet only a week ago, he has received entries from twenty-seven schools. Entries will not close until May 5, and Mr. Reed has still to hear from a number of the larger schools in the state, includ ing Omaha, which are sure to be rep resented. New Use for Automobile. Secretary W. R. Mellor. of the state board of agriculture, advocates the use of automobiles to kill gophers. He does not mean to run the gophers down with an automobile, but to run ihe exhaust from an automobile into the runway used by gophers. Two or three minutes is time enough for the exhaust. Then cover the runway. This method i3 said to be sure death to prairie dogs also. Another method of killing gophers is recommended. With an end gate wagon rod or some other sharp pointed instrument find the run way near a fresh mound and open up. put in a piece of cotton, a corn cob or something which will easily absorb, pour on a couple of tablespoonfuls of carbon bisulphide and cover. The car bon evaporates quickly and seeks the lower levels of the runway, which effectually puts the gopher out of the running. A hearing before the state railway commission will take place on May 2, on the application of the Trans-Mis souri freight bureau for approval of a new regulation providing that $2 shall be charged for switching a car of grain back to an elevator, after it has once been loaded, in order to correct an error made by the shipper. State Will File Briefs. The supreme court has given the counties of Gage and Stanton until July 1 to serve briefs on exceptions to a report of Referee J. H. Broady. The state is to file briefs by Septem ber 1. The referee recommended that judgment be given in favor of the state for money due from the coun ties for the care of insane patients in state hospitals. On application of the state thirty days additional time was given in which to take testimony in an injunction suit against the Standard Oil company. Uphold Fort Crook Law. The supreme court has sustained the law of 1907, prohibiting the licensing of a saloon within two and one-half miles of a military post. The opinion of the court was written by Judge Rose and concurred in by the entire court. A test case was instituted, entitled Gear Rushhart vs. Homer Crippen et al. The case was tried in Sarpy county where Fort Crook is stiuated. The dis trict court sustained the provisions of the law and the supreme court has af firmed that judgment. Will Call for New Bids. At the last regular meeting of the board of regents of the state univer sity, it was decided to reject all bids for the proposed agricultural engi neering building and to call for new ones. This action was taken because of amended specifications, wherein reinforced concrete is called for in stead of structural steel as originally planned. Prof. Grummann made a report regarding the Introduction of music into the currriculum of the uni versity, but action was deferred un til the next meeting. \STATE NEWS; t — : DATES FOR COMING EVENTS. May 13—East Central Nebraska High School track meet at Fremont. May 14—Proclaimed “Mothers' Day" In Nebraska. May 1C to IS—State G. A. U. Encamp ment at Lexington. May 15-1S—State Dental Society an nual convention at Lincoln. May 17—Nebraska Bankers’ conven tion, Group One, at Beatrice. May 23-24-25—State Harness and Sad dle Makers’ association meeting at Columbus. May 24-25—State Association of Com mercial Clubs’ Convention at Omaha. June 5 and t>—Pageant of Lincoln, presenting “The Gate City.” June 5-6—Spanish War Veterans’ State Convention at North Platte. June 12 to 15—Trans-Mississippi Bak ers’ Ass’n convention at Omaha. June 13-14-15—Annual convention of Nebraska Elks at Omaha. June 13 to 16—State P. E. O. Conven tion at Alliance. June 13-14-15—Great Western Handi cap Tournament at Omaha. June 19-20-21-22—American Union of Swedish Singers, West. Div., con certs and convention at Omaha. June 20 to 24—State Stockmen’s con vention at Alliance. June 21 to 23—Fraternal Order of Eagles, state meeting at Lincoln. July 25—Nebraska Democratic con vention at Hastings. “It pays to advertise. Printers’ ink is the best investment that can be made.” Adopting this as a motto, Rev. Robert White of the North Platte Presbyterian church has near ly doubled his church attendance and has largely increased the contribu tions to his church since he took up the pastorate four months ago. Shortly after his arrival in North Platte Rev. White began to do things that never before had been heard of in North Platte church circles, and seldom in the state. On the billboards around the city began appearing strik ing posters, seven by nine feet, in viting residents to go to church. While playing with a 18-calibre re volver, Clarence Hall and Leonard Harris, ages 10 and 12, of Falls City, were both injured by a single acci dental discharge of the weapon. The bullet penetrated Hall’s left wrist, then wont through the fleshy part of the Harris boy’s hand and through both his legs without striking a bone. Medical attention was summoned. William E. Morris, an Omaha brick layer, died a few minutes after being hit by a motorcycle driven by police officer Steven Thrasher on one of Omaha's busiest corners. Scores of pedestrians, who saw the accident, declared Thrasher was running at a high rate of speed, some placing the speed as high as fifty miles an hour. Because paving assessments will soon be made against the property, the Burlington railroad has offered for sale the State league baseball park at Hastings and given notice to the local association to remove its equip ment in thirty days. A movement is under way to buy the park and keep it as a public playground. Hugh Atkinson, of Lincoln, is the best judge of horse flesh among the sophomore animal husbandry students of Iowa State college. He proved it by coming out high man in the con test at Ames for the Wayne Dinsmore horse judging medal. Dinsmore is an Ames graduate, now secretary of the Percheron Society of America. President Wilson has selected J. R. Cooper to be postmaster at Hol drege. The Iteshler Commercial club mem bers attended a session of the He bron cl'tb recently and conferred re garding an east and west auto road. It was decided to start a movement for a road to extend through the southern tier of Nebraska counties and to be known as “The County Seat Highway.” The North Platte Chamber of Com merce is making things hum. In a two days’ membership campaign 20(5 business and professional men joined the association, giving $4,101, and it is hoped to run the membership up to 500 and have the budget of $7,000. Final arrangements for the meet ing of the Trans-Mississippi Master Bakers’ association, which will be held in Omaha, June 12 to 15, 1916, have been completed. This organi zation is made lip of bakers of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. A lively wrestling match was held at Ord recently in which Keown of Scotia threw Kinney of Spalding in twenty-one minutes. Kinney got the second fall in one hour and twenty one minutes. It was the best match ever seen in Ord. Work has been resumed on Fourth street paving at Fremont. This marks the resumption of extensive paving operations which were abandoned when cool weather set in last winter. A shipment of hogs sent to the South Omaha market by August Per son of Bertrand, just recently, sold for $9.65 per hundredweight. Another advance on farm, imple ments, due to scarcity of steel, has been ordered, according to informa tion coming to several implement dealers In this territory. The semi-annual conference of Western Union telegraph* managers which will be held next fall, has been secured for the city of Lincoln through the efforts of Secretary Whit ten of the Commercial club. From forty to fifty managers from the states of Kansas and Nebraska will be in at tendance at the meetings. Twenty-two blocks of the residence portion of Kearney, comprising one paving district, will be paved this spring. This makes approximately forty blocks of paving to be contract ed for this spring. Figures maue out In the Oniahs Clearing House association's offices indicat*' that Omaha bank clearings this year will pass the billion-dollar mark, the first time in the history of the city. With the clearings for the week ending April 29 at $2(1,797,711.47, a gain of $3,085,012.67 over the corre sponding week a year ago, it devel oped that the April clearing: probably will total $92,000,000, and bring the total for the first four months of the year to $390,000,000. Attendance at the democratic na tional convention in St. Louis will mean something to W. J. Bryan, it was stated at Lincoln recently by some of liis friends that he had sign ed a contract to “cover” the gathering for a newspaper syndicate.' “If tile convention lasts a week it will mean $10,000 to Mr. Bryan. If only a mat ter of a few days, it will mean about $2,000 a day, as 1 understand it,” one of Mr. Bryan's close friends said. Exalted Ruler Harwood, Secretary Miner, Charles Reese for Omaha lodge, and C. U. Beaton, chairman, Could Dietz, E. Buckingham, G. F. West, C. E. Black, F. W. Judson an/1 E. F\ Brailey for the state association, have secured financing and have out lined an extensive program for the Nebraska Elks’ fourth annual meeting and first annual reunion at Omaha June 12-14. The 15-year-old son of A. L. Hodge, living northwest of Crawford, was badly injured at the Hodge ranch, near Glen, when a piece of cheese which he had picked up at the dinner table, exploded, lacerating three fin gers . and destroying his left eye. It is thought a nitroglycerin bomb had been concealed in the cheese, by whom and for what purpose, no one knows. Nebraska railroads In conjunction with those elsewhere, have inaugu rated a “safety first” movement that has been designated as an “anti-track walking crusade,” the idea being to educate people to keep on the public streets and the wagon roads instead of walking the railroad tracks. While lighting a fire with kerosene a few days ago at his home near Hy annis, Kay Yaunev was seriously burned when the kerosene exploded. He ran 100 feet and jumped into a tank of water. He then saddled a horse and rode five miles to town. He was badly burned about the face and legs, most of his clothes being burned off. Contracts have been awarded at Hastings for the building of a new home for the Sunnvside home for old folks at $120,000 and an addition to the Clark hotel at $70,000. Work on both projects is to begin at once. Kearney landed the State Letter Carriers’ convention for 1917 at the recent meeting of the association at Grand Island. While raking corn stalks Henry Ernstmeyer, a young Hamilton county farmer, was the victim of a runaway team. The team pulling the rake teeth became unmanageable, drag ging teeth and driver through a barbed wire fence. WThen found, Ernstmeyer was unconscious, with many cuts about the head and two fractures of his legs. Convict labor probably will be used upon the Savannah-Sftattle highway, which was established last week by the George Washington National Highway association, organized in Omaha recently by delegates from cities all the way from Seattle, Wash., to Savannah, Ga. The “Win One" campaign, started by fifty-two of the fifty-seven churches in Omaha last November, resulted in 2,716 additions to the churches, ac cording to reports now in. The cam paign ended Easter. The goal set was 3,000 new members. A hog which weighed one thousand pounds and was six feet in length, brought $78.20 on the South Omaha stock market just recently. The porker was shipped in by M. Bene dict of Hoskins. Citizens of Kearney engaged in a special election a few days ago and turned down the proposed contract of the local power company to pump the city water by a vote of 3 to 1, and also adopted a commission form of govern ment. Four school districts of Kiverdale plan to unite and establish a rural high school. This will be the first township in Buffalo county to take up the project. The new $8,000 Methodist church at Ponca has been dedicated. The build ing is of brick, 40x60, with a full base ment. A street preacher from Sioux Falls, S. I)., was “egged" in the main street at Morse Bluff a few nights ago. The preacher was delivering a tirade which is supposed to have reflected seriously on certain local conditions, when he was attacked. Fourteen men have been signed by the North Platte Baseball association for this year and will report for duty May 10. North Platte will have one of the fastest teams in the state again this year and again expects to be a contender for the semi-professional championship of Nebraska. For the second time in eighteen years Columbus was selected for the meeting place of Group 2, Nebraska Bankers’ association at the recent business session in Fremont. The meeting will be held some time in May. Material for the reconstruction of the million dollar Union Pacific bridge over the Missouri river between Omaha and Council Bluffs is arriving daily. The steel will start coming early in June. Men are now at work putting in the false work. Citizens of Fairbury, by a majority vote of 217, ruled out the saloons and the city council has refused to grant pool hall licenses. Thus six saloons, and as many pool halls quit business May 1st. The union evangelistic meetings, under Erwin brothers of Texas, just concluded at Eoup City, resulted in 357 conversions, thirty of wrhom came forward at the last meeting. The new Fremont city council start ed upon its career by adopting the new milk regulations and employing a city milk and .dairy inspector. • WARSHIPJTS MINE BRITISH MAN-O-WAR GOES DOWN IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. - 4 124 MEN REPORTED MISSING The Russell, a $5,000,000 Vessel, Is the Eleventh British Battleship Sunk During the War. Lc;a!gti.—Tile British admiralty an nounces that the battleship Russell lias been sunk by a mine in the Med iterranean sea. Admiral Freemantle, the captain of the Russell, twenty four officers and 070 men were saved. About 124 men from the Russell are missing and are thought to have been drowned. The sinking of the Russell and of a German submarine was announced in the following official statement: “H. M. S. Russell. Captain William Bowden Smith, R. N., flying the flag of Rear Admiral Freemantle struck a mine in the Mediterranean on April 28 and was sunk. The admiral, cap tain, twenty-four officers and 070 men were saved. There are aboui 124 of ficers and men missing. “A German submarine was sunk iff} the east coast on the same date. Our officer and seventeen men surrendered and were made prisoners.” Under ordinary conditions the Itus sell carried between 750 and 800 men i It was 405 feet long, 75 feet beant* twenty-six feet deep and displaced 14,000 tons. The vessel cost about 15,000,000. The Russell is the eleventh British battleship which lias been lost dui ing the war. The others were the Audacious, Bulwark, Formidable. Irre sistible, Ocean, Goliath, Triumph, Ma jestic, Xatal and King Edward VII. In addition about thirty-five other Brit ish warships of various classes have been destroyed. Four Squadrons Annihilated. London.—Reports received here de clare that the British have met with recent reverses both in Egypt and Mesopotamia. In a battle near Qua tia, according to advices from Con stantinople, a British force of four cavalry squadrons has been annihi lated ay the Turks, who captured 300 prisoners, besides inflicting heavy losses. London announces that an at tempt to relieve the beleagured force of General Townsend in Kut-El-Amara failed when a vessel loaded with sup plies grounded in the Tigris river four miles east of Kut. Killed Child for Revenge. Lansing, Kan.—Fred Bissell, a To peka baker, as confessed that he mur- . ( dered Edna Dinsmore, a 10-year-old \ girl, in Topeka, April 25th. Revenge, caused by the refusal of the child’s mother to marry him, prompted the crime, many of the details of which were of a revolting character. Bissell is said to have admitted that he lured the child to an empty house by telling her he would buy her some books. After tying her and placing her in the cellar, he went out and purchased some tobacco and a newspaper. Then returning to the house he found his victim still alive but going to an upper room of the building he set the structure afire. From a nearby corner he waited until the fire companies arrived and then went back to his father’s bakery. 736 Merchant Ship Lost. Washington, D. C.—British esti mates of the European war's toil of merchant ships, given out by the de partment of commerce, put the num ber at 736 with a tonnage of more titan 2,000,000. Allied vessels lost num ber 538 and neutral 198. The estimates, made by a British admiral, give British losses as 410 ships, French, fifty-three; Russian, thirty-five; Italian, twenty-seven; Bel gian. ten, and Japanese, three. This does not include the loss of 237 trawl ers by the British, seven by the French and two by the Belgians. Norway, with eighty-one vessels de stroyed, leads the neutral nations in losses. Sweden, with forty, is second, and Denmark with twenty-eight is third. Holland has lost twenty-four and the United States seven. Supplies May Reach Poland. ^ Stockholm—According to dispatches J received here, an agreement has been ^ reached , for the supplying of food stuffs to Poland through American and Scandinavian committees. Great Britain, the dispatches say, finally has consented to raise the blockade on Poland, provided guarantees are given, that the shipments will not be di verted to others than Pole civilians. Violates Gentlemens’ Agreement. San Francisco, Cal.—Numerous Jap anese laborers are violating the inter national “gentlemen’s agreement” be tween the United States and Japan by posing falsely as “investigators of agricultural conditions,’’ in order to gain entrance to this country, Strike Lasted Two Hours. Muskogee, Okla.—Two hours after engineers, firemen and trainmen of the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf rail way were called out on strike the company conceded their demands. Sues for Death on Lusitania. New York.—A suit for $750,000 for the loss of her husband on the Lusi tania, which was torpedoed by a Ger man submarine, was filed in the fed eral court against the Cunard Steam ship .Co. by Mrs. May Davies Hopkirs of Louisville, Ky. Report British Sank Ship. Berlin.—The Overseas News Agt i ^ cy ssys a report has been published * in the Dutch newspaper, De Tribune, hat the British sank a Dutch warship several weeks 4