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fponbent ber ..Seorlb" brabtlod met
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pier amenfamicbe efeitungcn.
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biefed Xdjiebdgericbt enlfd)icben bat j
merben mbbl itecb einige v,nbre Per
geben. Unb bid babin tann (rug
lanb ruljig feine Sofiraubereien fort
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belt merben ift, fo and; bicdmal. |
Xie Jlufftiinbifdjcn in Siibafrifa
murben beguabigt; 2ir libroarb
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bellen, iit cine ber mndjtigftcn Ser
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Soften im Stoalitiondfabiuett; fur
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e; uur Sniper unb Blei. Scibft
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1 bent Bcrrater fRebmonb Jyolge Iciftc
; ten. Xad Slut ber (frfd)offcneit
mirb bie irifd)e 'Jtaffe incur aid je
i gufammenfitten.
SBier-(J?rolMftion nintmt nit.
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fadje, bafe (prohibition? - Wejebc in
fieben Xtaaten feit bem 1. ^uli 1915
in it raft getreten finb, ift im I at if at
ben fvi?faljahr, cnbcnb 30. £nni
1916, forocit fct)en ntebr SBIiisfctj in
ben (Per. Staaten crjcugt aorben air
fc juror. (Bericbte an ba? ^nlanb- ,
fteuer - (Bureau jdniben bie (Sefanit- |
jimabme ber (Bbi?feriprobuftion fiit !
bar J\i?falfalir auf anndbernb 1U-- j
000,000 (Saflotten.
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tit bic $erftefluttg bon (Bier juriitf
gegamjen. Xie gefamte '-Pterpro
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| 30. Juni, roirb auf 60,000,000 (Sal*
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: tioraiifgegangenen J\irfaijaljre.
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| fanjlcr? jiingfte Seufjcning betreffr !
j einer „neiten i'elgiat?", ai? cine ber |
! bcutfdicn Jjriebenrbebingungen, fin
bet jetjt SBeridjten an? Berlin nad),
dfuffldrung. Xeutfdilanb, fo ireifjt
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roaltung be? uldntifdien Jcil? nor.
(Bclgien. Xie fylamliinbcr, etroc bie
£>alfte ber SBcroifcrimg Selgien?, 3.
700,000 Xeelen, fallen ilne cigcne
(Serroaltimg befommeu, miter befen
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the/it nb SSaHe. Sfeibe (Pbu’eddjaften
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gieruitg ftcljcn.
«OFTHE WEEK
CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR
LESSER IMPORTANCE.
A BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS
National, Political, Personal and Other
Matters in Brief Form for All
Classes of Readers.
WAR NEWS.
Tiie reorganized Serbian array has
landed at Saloniki. 80,000 strong, to
aid the entente allies.
* * *
David Llovd-George has been as
signed to the difficult task of settling
the trouble in Ireland.
* * *
Sir Roger Casement has been In
dicted for high treason by a grand
jury in London. He will be brought
to trial on June 26.
* * *
Major Moraht, military critic of the
Berlin Tageblatt, writing of the
Austro-Italian campaign, says the
Italian casualties thus far are not
less than 80,000 men.
* * *
The Germans have captured French
positions on a front of approximately
two miles between Dead Man hill and
the Cumieres village, nortliw'est of
Verdun, according to Berlin reports.
* * *
Since the beginning of the war D50
persons have been killed and 1,616
injured in the British Isles hy German
attacks by sea and air, according to a
statement made in parliament hy the
home secretary.
* * *
Paris financiers are perfecting a
plan to “corner" the battlefiieids of
the west at the end of the war and
making their fortune out of charges
to tourists for permission to inspect
the scenes of big fights.
* * *
The portable field kitchens, which
the soldiers call “goulash cannon," are
being introduced into the streets of
the poorer sections of Berlin, selling
warm dinners to all comers for “5
pfennigs per portion.
* * *
Out of the 80.000 Austro-Hungarian
prisoners confined in the camps at
Orenhurg. eastern Russia. 17.000 have
died owing to the absence of good san
itary measures, bad food, lack of
clothing and exposure to the cold, ac
cording to a report of the American
embassy at Petrograd. dated March ir>.
1910.
* * *
A mother who gives birth to twins,
or triplets, in Germany, is entitled
not only to the nursing money and
the weekly war assistance which the
government provides, hut may collect
the prescribed sum in duplicate or
triplicate according to the number of
children born, according to a ruling
published by the Imperial Insurance
bureau.
GENERAL.
Out of the G4U,0'iii people who have
heard Billy Sunday in Kansas City,
7.O00 have hit the trail.
* * v
James J. Hill, railroad builder and
capitalist, died at his home in St. Paul.
Minn., after Slaving undergone a crit
ical operation.
» * *
Evelyn Nesbii Thaw, who was di
vorced by Harry K. Thaw, last
month, and Jack Clifford, her dancing
partner, were married in Baltimore.
* » *
The Rockefeller foundation has an
nounced that it has appropriated
$1,000,000 for war relief in Poland.
Serbia. Montenegro and Albania.
* * *
Martial law will be continued
throughout Ireland until further no
tice. according to a proclamation
posted by the military authorities of
Dublin.
* * *
Directors of the Union Pacific rail
road have elected Edgar E. Calvin
president to succeed A. L. Mohler.
whose resignation, due to ill health,
takes effect July 1.
* * *
Seventeen deaths was the Memorial
day toll this year. Six persons were
drowned, four killed in automobile ac
cidents and one in a runaway in New
York Four persons were killed at
Dallas, Tex., when a wooden awning
collapsed, and two persons met death
in an auto accident at America Forks,
Utah. The injured total over forty.
* * *
Henry Ford, of Detroit. Mich., who
organized the Ford peace expedition
which sailed for Europe last winter,
may return to Europe soon to'Tenew
his efforts to bring about peace
among the warring nations, it is said.
* » •*
Submission to the voters of consti
tutional amendments providing for
woman suffrage and for four-year
terms for all state officers who shall
be subject to recall, was advocated
in resolutions adopted, by democrats
of Arkansas in state convention at
Little Rock.
* • *
Universal jitney transfers are
available now in Topeka, Kan. The
jitney owners announced that passen
gers can now go to any part of To
peka where the jitneys are in opera
tion.
* • *
More than 200 Mexican men and
women were murdered a short time
ago when rebels fired on a train be
tween Mexico City and Cuernevaca.
according to private advices. Women
and children were among the victims.
All were government employes.
* e •
Prices paid producers for meat ani
mals continue to increase.♦ From
April 15 to May 15. the increase was
1.7 per cent compared with an aver
age decrease of 1.6 per cent during
the same period in the last six years.
I Boise, Idaho recalled its mayor.
J. W. Robinson. Charges of incom
petent police administration figured
i in the recall.
* » *
The Methodist general ccnfi.-cjce
voted 434 to 360 at Saratoga. N. Y„
to retain the rule that Methodists
must not play cards, dance or attend
theaters.
* * *
Three men at MacGregor, la., were
drowned following a cloudburst which
caused the flooding of the town. The
water rose six feet in five minutes
and the men were unable to escape.
* * *
Dr. Arthur Warren Waits, New
York poisoner, was sentenced io die
in the electric chair during the week
of July 10—the penalty for the mur
der of his father-in-law. John E. Peck,
of which he was convicted.
* * *
A rough place in :i road near Tulsa,
j Okla., detnoated 200 quarts of nitro
! glycerin causing the death of two
; men, l he destruction of a school-house
i and damage to windows in Tulsa,
j four miles awaj* No trace of the
men could be found.
* * *
The town of Merrill, W1s„ is to
have a "fly week.” A committee har
offered prizes for the best fly traps
made by the boys of the city or
others who are interested. A first
prize of $.1, a second prize of ?3 and
: a third prize of *2 have been offered.
* * *
New print paper made from hither
'o unused woods, under direction of
the forest service laboratories, has
been successfully tried by two large
: newspapers, and in all eleven kinds
of wood never used before have given
promise of being suitable. A number
of tree.- have been found suitable for
maniia paper and box boards.
SPORTING.
Barney Oldfield set a new record
for the speedway track at Indianapolis
'ecently. Taking ids life in his hands.
Barney tore around a slippery track
over tlie two and one-half mile course
at a speed of 102.6 miles an hour.
* * *
Tlie Omaha high school won the
Missouri Valley Interscholastic trade
: meet at Kansas City. Omaha scored
41 points. St. Joseph being second
with 25. Lincoln. Kansas City. Kan.,
and Kansas City Manual were the
' other schools entered.
* * *
Missouri won the ninth Missouri Va’_
lev track meet at Columbia. Ames,
la., was second, and Nebraska finished
fiLh. SiRmson of Missouri broke his
own world's ceeord in tlie 120-vard j
! hurdles with a time of 14.3. In the
320-yard hurdles Simpson tied the
world's mark of 2: ::;. which lias stood
for eighteen years.
* * «
Dario Resta won the sixth annual
international sweepstake; on "the Tn
dianapolis motor speedway Memorial I
(lay. completing the 300 miles in 3 j
' hours, 30 minute and 10.82 seconds, j
He finished two minutes ahead of Wil- i
bur D’Alene, who was second, and j
j tbrea minutes ahead of Ralph Mulford :
third. Rf sta won the $12,000 first |
I prize and the usual trophies; D'Alene's j
i reward was $6,000 and Mulford’s j
$3,000.
WASHINGTON
The senate passed the rivers and I
| harbors appropriation bill carrying
: about $43.Oi'Mt.0i by a vote of 35 to •
32. after adding many amendments.
4 S *■
Half a billion dollar: will be the ■
government's internal revenue tax roll !
for the fiscal year ending June 30 next, i
according to a statement issued by I
Secretary MrAdoo.
* * *
; A naval building program of from j
sixteen to twenty-five battleships, 250
submarines and thousand < of airships I
is being advocated by Representative i
\ Farr of Pennsylvania.
* * *
Prices of foods in the United States
! have increased on an average of 1 per
cent from February 15 to March 15,
! according to figures made public by
' the Department of Labor.
• * *
A committee of Syrians from New
| York appealed to President Wilson
j and Commissioner Polk of the State
I Department to seek permission from
I Turkey and the entente allies to get
j food to Mount. Lebanon, an autono
mous Turkish state, where they said
80,000 persons already had died of
starvation and many are suffering.
* * *
Cornell with total of 45 points won
the forty-first intercollegiate associa
i tion meet at Cambridge. Mass. Two
records, one in the 440 yard run and
the other in the 12'l-yard hurdles, were
broken Points scored were: Cornell.
45: Yale. 29: Stanford. 22: California.
22; Pennsylvania. IS; Dartmouth, 14;
Michigan, 13; Harvard. 11; Princeton.
J 10; Bqwdoin. 5; Syracuse. 3: Penn. I
State. 2; Massachusetts Institute of j
Technology, 1.
* * *
| President Wilson has issued a proc
lamation calling upon the people of
| the United States to celebrate Flag
! day. June 14. with patriotic exercises,
j giving expression to “our thoughtful
| love of America.”
» r *
Congressman Reavis has introduced
a bill providing that small fruits, ber
ries and vegetables shall not be j
i shipped in interstate commerce in |
! containers other than those contain- j
■ ing a full quart, pint, half-pint, or
multiple thereof.
* * *
The end of a protracted struggle
came Just recently in the grant of
transportation and a camping conces
! sion to the “Old Faithful" camping
company of Livingston. Mont, by the
Interior department.
I
• * *
A new note from General Carranza,
asking for a definite explanation of
the continued presence of American
1 troops in Mexico and renewing his
| previous request for their withdrawal.,
j has been received by the State de
partment.
FIRST PH0T06RAPH OF VERDUN IN RUINS
This photograph of Verdun was taken recently during a lull in the terrihe bombardment. The city is a mass
cf wreckage and ruins, hardly a house remaining untouched, and has been utterly abandoned hr the civil popu
lation.
DECORATED FOR HER RED CROSS WORK
For her devotion to duly in the Red Cross work in France. Serbia and Macedonia. Mrs. Harley (t.nten, sister ol
General French of the 3ritish army, was recently decorated at Saloniki by General Sarrail (man with folded urm$ at
right) with the French military cross. The decoration took place in the presence of British. French and Greek officors
am- a number of Mrs. Harley's coworkers in the Red Cross.
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS VISIT LONDON
A trio cf the czar's husky fighters, wearing many decorations attesting
their bravery, aiding the British Red Cross by the purchase of St. George's
flags in the Strand, London.
MACHINE-GUN PLATOON AT EL PASO
t if* •-TTrtMATttXA^
The feeling of unrest existing in El Paso is expressed vividly In this
photograph showing the machine-gun platoon of the Twentieth infantry en
camped in front of the courthouse at El Paso.
POSTSCRIPTS
The strength of tungsten filaments
haS been Increased more than 300 per
'cent since they began to be used for
electric lighting in 1908.
Chinese railroad embankments are
protected from floods by planting them
with a native grass with tenacious
roots that resist erosion.
An English inventor's soft collar
for men or women has loops under
the ends through which to pass a
aecktie to draw the ends together.
A baby coach built to resemble an
automobile has number plate, wind
shield. lamps, fenders and mud guards.
French cotton spinners have estab
lished a laboratory for determining the
percentage of moisture or any abnor
mal dryness in cotton, that which is
too dry being regarded as defective.
German textile experts have suc
ceeded in treating wool yarns by a
process similar to that of the mer
cerization of cotton, the wool being
given a bath of bisulphate of soda at
| high temperature.
j UNVEILED AT WEST POINT
Statue of George Washington un
veiled recently at West Point by Miss
Charlotte Delafield, a descendant of
the late Maj. Richard Delafield of the
institution. It was presented by Rev.
Dr. Slattery of Grace church, New
York, and was accepted for the gov
ernment by CpI. Clarence P. Towns
ley. superintendent of West Point.
The donor was described only as a
■ patriotic citizen, a veteran of the
Civil war.” The gift of the statue was
the vesult of a conversation between
the unknown donor and Colonel
Townsley in which the former learned
that West Point possessed no statue
of the first president.
A Canceled Debt.
Hemmandhaw—I notice Bennie
Iieanbrough is wearing his nose in a
sling.
Shimmerpate—Yes. It's a little
debt he collected from Utah Umson.
“Little debt?"
^ es. Umson owed him a grudge
for several months and last week, you
remember, was Pay Up Week.”
It's a Motor Age.
Truly we live in a motor age. When
a Fayette parson drove down the
street there in a spick and span a>a
chine a mule colt gave its mother o.‘W
farewell look, then followed the cgi
down the thoroughfare.—Kansas City
Time*.
Larger Bills.
"Is Dr. Goofer your family physi
cian V'
“Not any more."
“Wasn't he satisfactory?”
“Yes, but he taught an automobile."