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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Harry Wells of New Orleans de
feated Sam Langford of Boston on
points in an eight-round match at St.
Louis.
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“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.
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Ever Hammer, Chicago lightweight
boxer, decisively defeated Champion
Freddie Welsh on points in a fast ten
round no-decision contest at Chicago.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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;
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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.
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WARSHIPJTS MINE
BRITISH MAN-O-WAR GOES DOWN
IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.
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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
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