£)iefe 2Jbteilung ift fiir bie
5cmttlienglkber, n?eld?e am
licbftcn £)eutfcf? lefen.
Sent Sdunidluftc
bC'3 curopaifriicn
Mfcrfrtcgte.
2rofc aHer gerabeju Derjtoeifclteu
Olnftrengungen ber Sriten burd) fat
fd)c iBeridjte unb tDfelbungen su be
nxufen, baft bie grofte Seefd)Iad)t in
ber tiiorbfee einen „Sieg" ber engli
fdjen ^lotte roar, muft ber SJaljrbeit
bie Gftrc gcgeben roerben. 2ie ftol
3c brttifdje glottc bat einen nieber
fdjmettemben Seijlag erbaltcn.
@d bat bie britifebe Slbmiralitat
24 Stunbcn genonuneit, betor fie
oon ber ftatrgcbabten Sd)lad)t Slennt
nid gab. Sie roartete ab, road bie
Seutfeben 311 fagen baben teiirben.
2arrtad} erfebien and) ber Sonboner
t amtlicbe SBeriebi. 2tefer 8?cridjt gab
r bte nngebeuren 2?erluftc, roeid)e bie
britifebe glotte in ber Scblacbt erlit
ten, ju, erganjte fogar in biefer
$3infid)t tie iblitteilung ber beutfefjen
Slbmiralitdt.
2er Ginbruef, treltben biefe SUZcI
bung Don ben fdirocren 2?erluften auf
ber britifeben unb ben Derbaltnid
maftig Ieid)ten auf ber beutfdjen Sei
te auf bad britifebe Solf audiibtc,
roar ein gerabeju nieberidimcttent*
ber. 2>er beutfebe Seefieg, rocicbcn
aucb bic anfatiglicbe SJfcIbung ber
britifeben Slbmiralitdt beftatigt, rotrf
te auf bie gefamte 23elt trie eleftrifd).
2a befamen ed bic £erren in Son
bon mit ber ?lngft: ed tmtrbe ibncu
Dor ibrer £)ffenbeit bange. 2er
Ginbruef auf bad cigene SBoIf unb auf i
bie ganje SSelt muftte unter alien!
Umftdnben Dcrroifd)t roerben. 2a!
begann benn bie alte Sugenmiifjle
roicber ju arbeiten. 2ie eigenenj
SSerlufte rourben Dcrfleinert unb bie |
ber 2-eutfdtcu tergroftert.
Sfbcr nid’t mir bie SSerlufilifien |
tourben „ferrigiert", and) bie ton
ber britifdien glotie Dcrfolgte 2aftii!
unb ber gefamte SSerlauf ber See- j
iet)iad)t rourben unter cine gan3 ueue
Sfeleuebtung gcriidt. STiit ber be*
riidjtigten aHiicrten girigfeit, roclefje
fid) um bie 9tid)tigfeii roeiter nietjt
fiimmert nod) befiimmert, rourtc ein
Sieg auf ber Seite ber britifeben
glotte beraudbioibiert. 31ur bie ein
breebenbe 2unfclbeit babe bie beut
14 febe glotte gcrettet. iBije - Hbmiral
iBeattg babe mit feinen £reii3er*(5e
febroabern bie gefamte bent] die ,$cdi
fecflottc ftunbcnlang in Scbad) ge*
balien, bid Slbmiral Sir !goi)u gcl
licoe mit feinen 2reabnougbt* |
Seblnebtidjtffcn an £rt unb Stellc |
eingetrofiett. Unb bann feien bie:
2*eutfcben audgefniffen. 2ad bat bte'
iUfaniifcbaften ber britifeben glotte
idimer cuttdiifcbt unb ben britifeben
itonig, gerabe an feinent ©eburtdtag,
tief gefrdnft.
2er britifeben 2arftcHuug, baft
bie beutfebe glotie ben ftampf mit
bem britifeben Sd)Iad)tfd)iff - G3e
febroaber nieht geroagt bdtte, ftebt bie
Slngabc ber bentfeben Hbmiralitdi
gegeniiber, toelcbe, pofitiD feft*
iicdt, baft bie beutfebe £ocb*
fceflotte gegen bie gefamte eng
lifebc glotle gefampft babe. SSenn
bie britifd)cn 'JKanriicbarten burd)
ben dliitfjiig ber beutfd>en glottc fo j
febroer cnttdufd)t rootben finb, toa
rum baben fie foldie Gnttdufd)ung
niefct baburd) Derbinbcrt, baft fie ben
2eufftben nadtgefabren finb unb fie
gepaeft baben?
-s.- r xl c r.. ’i**r
2.er ,£onnengcnait oer nmt|tpen
Sdiine, bie nad) ber Scbladd ben
jUtcere^grunb gicrieu, bciriigt nacit
iiber 100,000 Xottnen, rodlireub bcr
Herluft ber beutfdien fount eiit S8icr
tel biefer 3abI betrdgt.
Gnglanb aber barf gur See nidjt
gcfdjlagen roerben. Xas ift ba§ bri
tifebe Xogrna. Um ben Ginbrud ber
tatfachlidjen 31icberlage gu Derfdjcu
i;cn, roerben bie ungebcucrlidjften
Hntyrudje erboben, bem ©egner bie
t jdjroerften SSerlufte angebiegtet, roirb j
£ bon alien, bom Sldnig bis gum lenten
©infelbldttdjcn, ber Sicg in i'ln- j
furud) genommen.
Gnglanb fann baS rigene SSoIf be*
triigen, citten grofjen jeil ber ©eli
binter- Xlidjt fiibren. Xie Xatfadjen
roerben, fobalb fie in ibtem gangen
ltmfang befannt geroorben, ba? tin
gengeroebe gerreifgen unb bie ©abr
beit bom beutidjen Siege roirb fiidjt
fdjaffen.
Sange genug bat bie funge aber
tjerrlidje beutfdje Sfloite auf biefe
«? elegenbeit geroartet, um fid; mit
bem iibermiitigen tPriten gur See
gu tncfjen. Sange genug bat bcr fei
ge brittfdjcSeerduber feine #loite im
iSerftcd gebalten, um nun nad) Ian
gem 3bgeni, nndbbem er bcreit» gum
^efudtt ber ©clt geroorben, nun
biefe fdimablicbe 3Iieberiage gu erlei
bcn. Gin ©unber cridjeint e§ faft,
roie e§ moglid) roar, bei fo derbali
nismafjig geringen SSerluften bem
roeitaus iiberlegcnen ©egner einc
fold) grofge 9?ieberlage gu bereiten.
Xer Grfolg roirb jebcnfaHS in bcr
$aubtfad)c auf bie borgiiglidie Sdjn*
lung bfr beuifdjen Secbelben gu fefeen
fein.
XdB 3iel ber SBcrniditung ber 3?n
tralmddbte, toeldbe§ bie SlUiiertcn fid)
% gefest batten, fommi ben 93riten
y felbft fo ungcbeuerltd) nor, bar, fie
[ nidjt mebr redjt baran glaubcn fon*
nen.
Steins .$ungcrfrctt)aEe.
on Gbarlottenburg ift eg neulidb
su ernften £raroaEcn gefommen. 33ia
Sonbon murben biefc Sfugfdjreitun
gen alg „£ungerframaEe“ gefenn
jeid)nct, um tin Sluglanbe bie Ueber
jeugung 3U fcbaffen, bafe £eutfcblanb
am Gnbe feiner Jrtrdfte fei. Sag mai
eine ber itblidjen Sonboner Stiigen.
ftatfadje ift, bag eg fidf nicbt um
SjungerfraroaEe, fonbern um lemon
ftrationen entriifteter burger banbel*
te. iatfadje ift, bag nid)t SKangel
an Stabrungginitteln I)errfd>t, fen
bern bag gcmiffenlofe 23udberer bie
Dorbattbenen 23orrate auffpeidjern
unb nerbergen, um bbbere Strife ju
erjielcn — gegen biefeg unpatrioti
fd)e ©efinbel ridjtete fid) bie SSolfg
rout. Sfie fffolijei bat fid) bci bic
fen StramaEen niel met)r nut ben
ftrafroiirbigen Cebensmittelrmidjerern
alg mit ber aufriibrerifdjen IDfenge
befdtdftigt.
Sbie '-Bolijoi bat bci aEen nerbad)
tigen ^anblern .•oauefuebungen nor
genommen unb biefe Untcrfud)un
gen haben beroiefen, baf; in jablrei
d)en [fallen ©djlddjtcrmcifler iljre
SJaren jurudbaiten. ^unbertc non
3cntnern [fleifd), ungesablte SBiirfte,
2pedfeiten unb 2d)infeit finb gefuu
ben morben, unb 3mar nicbt uur —
mie eg orbnunggmdf}ig mare — in
ben SSorratg- unb Shiblraumen, fon
bern audi tcilroeife in ben SSobnun
gcn. iEtan bat babci bie unglaub
lidiften SJerfiede eutbedt. Slug ber
Sabeftube forberte man Sped unb
2d)infen, in ber prunfnoE eingerid)
teten SBobnung eineg anberen
Sdilddjtcrtncifterg fanb man im
Htblafjimmer untcr Spittenbeden an
langen 2tangcn auigcreibte UBiirfte.
Gin attberer Sdildditer fd)affte feine
Sforrdtp SIbenb fur Slbenb in Seglci
tung feiner 2RamfeE in 2>rofcbfen
nad) einent fHeftaurant, roo cin SteE
ncr bic Soft in Empfang ttabm. ont
ganjen murben bei fcditebn 2d)Idd)
termeiftern SBaren bcfdjlagnabmt.
Tcntfdjlanb fdjiifet fcincu Slrcbit
Ta§ ©infen ber beutfdjcn ©cdj
felfurfe, ba-iS ben Slltiicrten al» un
triiglidjer ikroeis Don bcm fdjnellcn
Diicbcrgang bcr beutfdjcn ginansen !
gait, tjat aufgefjbrt unb cine Slurs- !
fteigcrung ift cingetreten. SScrfdjie- I
bene fiibamerifanifdje Sdnber, bie j
©djulben in Teutfdjianb 311 beglei- ,
djcn Ijatten, Ijaben in fliero £)orE
beutfdje ©edjfel gcfauft unb bie
beutfdje Dtegtemng felbft bat eineu
Teil ibrcr (#olbbilau3 in fllcro SJorf
3ur Irinlofung Don ©edifcln Dcr
roanbt. Ter beutfdje ©cbatjamtS
Scfretar bat roicberbolt erflart, bag
bie Svegiernng jeberseit bcm Slitcf
gaitg bes ©edjfelfurfeS Sinbalt gc
bieten farm unb bas tun roerbc, fo
balb bie biersu geeigncte 3cit fom
me, roae cingetreten ift. Ter ©dja$
amts - ©efretdr bat geroartet, bis>
fiibamerifanifdje 93erbinblidjfeitcn
an beutfdje ftaufleute fdllig roaren,
•am ben ©olbbcftanb im etgenen fian*
be nidjt anjugreifen. Tie fionboner
ffSrcffe beftntigi ben £ergang in ber
angegefienen ©eife. Sie bat natiir*
lid) fdjon friiber geroufjt, bagTeutfdj
lanb in golge feiner geringett SSer
binblidjfeiten im 2lu§Iatibe ben
Slurs befriebigenb regulicren fdnne,
aber mil iibltdjer SSeriogcnbcit farad)
fie Don einem Sufarnmenbrudj ber
beutfdjcn ginansen. Ticfen Derfudjt
man jegt, natiirlidj ebenfo Dergeblid), ■
burdj gemeinen 3laub nerbeijufiib*
ren, inbent amerifanifdje ©cdifel, bie
nadi Berlin geben, au§ ber fjioft ge*
ftnljlen roerben, aber ben ©djaben
baaon babcu nur bie amcrifanifdjen
Slauflcute.
Slrbcits&crbfiltuiffe in grnnfrcidj.
Sic Confer 3eitung „§unianite" J
ncroffcntiid.it Sefdjroerben franjofi*
idler Slrbeiter iiber bie bcntigcn Sir*
beitgoerbaftniffe. So erbalten 5. 2J.
bie Slrbeiterinnen in ber Cleftrtji
tiiisfabrtf 9RenUmont 20 Centime!
bie Stunbe unb roerbcn fiir bie flein
fic Ufibcrtrctung in fdjrocre Strafen
genommen. Sie grauen in eincr
ipannidjaditelfabrif erbalten 35 Cen
times bie Stunbe unb miiffen in bet
Stunbe 80 Sadjteln fleben. 9idbe
rinncit erbalten jefjt 50 Centime!
fiir biefclbc Slrbeit, bie Dor bcm flrie
ge mii 1 granfen bcjablt ttorben ift,
obroobl 9tabeln, gaben unb 2id)t niel
teurer geroorbcit finb. Ign einer
©ranatenfabrif, in ber nur 25
grauen arbciten, betriigt ber Sage!*
lobn fiir Sfobren 2.25 gr. uub ber
fiir geileit 2.50 gr.
Sic „£umanite" toirft bic grage
auf, toie biefe ungliitflidien grauen
leben fbnnen, too nQe 9Jreife gegen
friibcr gefriegcn finb, unb meint,
teiibrcnb bie SSiiier, SDicinner unb
Sbbne biefer Slrbeiterinnen an ber
grcnt ftebcn, glaubtcn cinige ber
tranabtifcbcn Slrbeitgeber, bag ibncn
jest aDes erlaubt fei.
$oflnttb ocrbictct gleifdjausfnbr.
2 0 n b 0 n. Cine Sfcuicr - Sepe
fdjc cni§ bcm £>aag mclbct, bafe ba§
boDanbifcbe ithnifterium fiir 2anb
roirtfcbaft befcbiofien babe, bic Slug*
fubr non glcifd) unb Sdjlacbiutcl) JU
oerbieten.
t
ALL OVER NEBRASKA
Short news items
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
July 3-4-5—Mid-Summer Race Meet at
Kearney.
July 5 to 8—State Golf Tournament
at Omaha.
July 10-11-12—Northwestern Hotol
Men’s Association Convention at
Omaha.
July 10-11-12—Missouri Valley Veteri
nary association convention at
Omaha.
July 11-12.—Annual convention of Ne
braska Variety Merchants at Kear
ney.
July 17 to 22—Nebraska State Tennis
Tournament at Wayne.
July 25—Nebraska Democratic con
vention at Hastings.
July 25.—Nebraska Republican Con
vention at Lincoln.
July 30-August 6.—Summer Assembly
of the Church of Brethren at Beat
rice.
Aug. 7 to 11—Tractor Week in Fre
mont.
Aug. 7 to 10—State Press Association’s
North Platte Valley excursion.
August 10.—Second annual barbecue
at Seward.
Aug. 17-27—Seventh Day Adventists'
Conference at Hastings.
Aug. 21-25—Mo. Valley Photographers'
Association Convention at Lincoln.
The Nebraska Sunday School asso
ciation at their annual convention in
Falls City last week, decided after a
spirited contest that as Omaha was
the birthplace of the Nebraska Sun
day school convention forty-nine
years ago, it was a fitting place to
hold the golden jubilee there next
year. New officers are as follows:
President, J. S. Dick of Crete; vice
president, H. Lcmax of Broken Bow;
recording secretary, E. R. Mathers,
Falls City; L. C. Oberlies of Lincoln,
treasurer, and these were unanimous
ly chosen.
As a sensational sequel to the Lull
assault trial winch rwas concluded
just recently at Aurora, a claim hat
been filed with the county commis
sioners of Hamilton county by Luft
for the sum of $15,565.25, which he al
leges is due him fer expenses and for
damages due for false arrest, false
imprisonment and malicious prosecu
tion. The sum of $3,565.25 is asked
for expenses and attorneys’ fees. Luff
was tried for assault aud was found
not guilty on the first ballot.
A fifteen-acre field of daisies, lo
cated on the Goosen farm, five and
one-half miles west of Beatrice, has
attracted hundreds of visitors the past
fewr days. The daisy seed appears to
have been mixed with grass seed or
dered by Mr. Goosen, and the flowers
had a healthy growth. The sight is
a beautiful one.
Colfax county lias spent $16,000
cutting down and grading the road
between Dodge and How-ells. Hills
have been cut down and the dirt used
to fill in the low places, making the
highway that connects the Albion
branch towns almost as level as a
prairie road.
Eleven women's organizations and
every fraternal order in Hastings have
promised to participate in the Fourth
of July parade which members of the
committee declare will be the longest
and most attractive ever held in cen
tral Nebraska. Every town in the
county will assist in the celebration.
Nearly $1,000,000 is involved in the
recent transfer of 139 quarter sections
of Kansas land, in which A. L. Clarke
and William Dutton, Hastings men,
disposed of their holdings to the Gar
den City Sugar company at $40 an
acre, or just twice the purchase price.
David E. Adams of Beaver Crossing,
who was thrown from an auto four
miles northeast of Exeter two weeks
ago, and sustained a broken back,
died from his injury.
About twenty-five young men have
organized a band at Genoa, and w-ith
the help of the merchants of the town
they expect to keep it a-going.
Press Martin, former editor of the
Odell, Wave, has purchased the Liber
ty Journal and will take possession
soon.
The Randolph school board has just
voted to install a course in domestic
science in the public schools of the
town.
July zb, z7 and 28 are the dates for
Tekamah’s annual race meeting.
Secretary Campbell of the Tecum
seh Chautauqua announces that John
L. Kennedy of Omaha and Edgar
Howard of Columbus will discuss po
litical issues one- day of the assem
bly. The dates of the Tecumseh Chau
tauqua are August 12 to 20.
Improvements that will increase the
stable room by the addition of twenty
more stalls are being made by the
Fremont Driving Park association to
accommodate the horses that will be
there for the annual race meet, July
11, 12 and 13.
Glenn Klopping, 9-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Klopping, living
near Wayne, was killed in an automo
bile accident near his home a few
days ago.
At the annual school meeting the
Westerville school district, Custer
county, voted unanimously in favor of
a two-teacher, two-room ninth and
tenth rural high school.
Arthur Skelton, a well known young
farmer living between Elmwood and
Alvo, was instantly killed when hi3
auto turned turtle and landed on top
of his body near Elmwood.
Word has been received in Tecum
Eeh that work will begin soon cn the
new Burlington depot at that point.
It is to be a brick veneered structure
and will cost between $15,000 and
$20,000.
Dodge county farm land is valued
at a trifle over $83 on the average,
according to figures prepared by
County Assessor Charles E. Schaeffer.
Arthur Prince, the 17-year-old son of
John Prince, near Winside, caught his
foot in the harness of a horse from
which he was thrown while riding to a
field and was dragged to death
Nebraska fanners this year will
raise about as much winter wheat and
oats as they did in 1915, but the crops
will not be worth within a good many
million dollars of what they were
last year, according to the re
port of the Department of Agriculture,
bureau of crop estimates. This year
Nebraska will raise 62,732,000 bushels
of winter wheat worth $56,45S,S00, ac
cording to the report, which puts the
value per bushel at 90 cents. The
oats crop this year is estimated lit
66,063,000 bushels, worth $23,582,610
at 36 cents a bushel. Nebraska is tile
only state in this section in which the
condition of winter wheat is belt (S'
than that of the ten-year average.
Matt Savidge, Nebraska aviator,
was instantly killed at Ewing wheA
at a height of about 350 feet. As h#
was attempting a spiral glide he lost
control of his machine, which dashed
to the ground. The Savidge boys,
traveling under the name Savidge
Bros. Aviation company, were the
first Nebraskans to fly and have built
all their own machines.
Railroad men say that at the pres“
ent rate of construction the Yutan'
Chaleo cut-off on the Burlington, now
in course of building, will be ready
for use by January 1. Large forces of
bridgemen are now at work on the
bridges that span the Elkhorn and
Platte rivers. On the twelve miles of
line there will be ten bridges.
Ten acres belonging to the Union
Pacific Railroad company were an
nexed by the village of Pickrell as the
result of proceedings heard in Gage
county district court The action ot
the village permits policing of the
yards of the new territory, on which
The depot, stock yards and two eleva
tors are located.
Fires will have difficult' in making
any headway in Chadron in the fu
ture, for a sixty horsepower White
motor truck has just been purchased
by the city council. The machine was
originally an ordinary motor truck,
but negotiations have been completed
for the full equipment of the machine
with fire apparatus.
Kearney will entertain the Variety
Merchants of Nebraska to the numbei
of seventy-five or more, on July 11-12
when they hold their annual conven
tion in that city. Delegates to this
j meeting will be from the larger towns
i in the state, where five and ten-ceni
stores are in operation.
The annual summer assembly of the
Church of Brethren, will be held al
Beatrice July 30 to August C. The
districts comprise Nebraska. Nor there
Kansas and Eastern Colarado. Three
hundred delegates are expected.
Organized efforts of Hastings clerks
to place the lid on all business houses
during the Fourth of July celebration
there was given impetus when
the Ministerial association endorsed
the movement.
ttev. j. j. Kamsey, rormeriy of Lea
venworth, Kans., was found guilty ot
white slavery by a federal grand jury
' at Hastings and sentenced to ilfteer
! months at hard labor in Leavenworth
i penitentiary by Judge Munger.
Dodge county citizens voted $100,00<
court house bonds at a special elec
lion recently, the issue carrying by t
majority of almost 4 to 1. Work or
the $150,000 court house at Fremont
I will start soon.
Crawford voted $15,000 bonds sev
eral days ago, to build an addition tc
its school building, which has beer
clearly outgrown by the steady in
crease in the number of school chil
j dren.
The Rural Mail Carriers association
j of Nebraska will hold their annual
j convention in Hastings July 4th. Ar
i attendance of several hundred from
all parts of the state is expected.
A five days Chautauqua will be
held at Dodge this year, starting July
19th. This is the first season Dodge
has ever undertaken the task ol
holding a Chautauqua.
The high cost of motoring resulted
in breaking a record for low prices
when W. E. Coke, a Hastings business
man, sold his car for $5.
August 1 to 10 are the dates of the
twentieth year program of the Ne
braska Epworth assembly at Lincoln
July 25 is the date set for the re
publican state convention and the
meeting place is Lincoln.
Charles S. Anderson was nominated
for postamster at a primary election
held at Fullerton.
Work has started on the new con
crete bridge, which is to span the
Platte south of Kearney.
On Monday, June 20 the corner
stone of the new postoffice building at
Aurora was laid. The ceremony was
presided over by Grand Master Viele
of the Nebraska Masons. All Ma
| sonic lodges in the western part of the
state were represented.
The village board of Laurel has let
j the contract for a new single action
triple pump for the waterworks de
partment It will be capable of
' pumping 400 gallons a minute and will
be operated from the electric light
engine.
Fifty-two new members, most of
whom were from western Nebraska,
were enrolled in membership with
the Nebraska State Pharmacial asso
ciation during their annual conven
tion at Hastings.
Osmond is the only town in Pierce
county that will celebrate the Fourth
of July this year. Merchants of the
town have subscribed a goodly sum
for the occasion.
York county on June 1st had 1,389
automobiles according to figures com
piled by County Assessor J. W. Bar
nett.
Public playgrounds for Columbus
children have been opened. These
playgrounds are in the hands of ca
pable instructors, who will be on hand
at all times to see that children aro
well taken care of.
David Donald Elliott, eldest son of
Colonel and Mrs. J. C. Elliott of West
Point, has received notice that he has
been appointed to the United States
military academy at West Point,
N. Y. /
The Methodists of Tekamah are
calling for bids for the erection of a
new church building.
FOB TBEjnST IB
NEWS EPITOME THAT CAN SOON
BE COMPASSED.
_
MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED
—
Home and Fcreign Intelligence Con
densed into Two and Four
Line Paragraphs,
WAR NEWS.
Disturbances at Rotterdam by dem
onstrators against the high price of
food have occurred repeatedly in the
last few weeks.
* * •
The Honorable John William For
fesctie, librarian at Windsor castle,
London, has been appointed by the
British government to write the offic
ial history of the war.
• • *
The capture by the Russians of
Czernowitz, capital of the Austro
Hungarian crown land of Bukowina,
has been announced by the Russian
war office.
* * *
The Havas correspondent at Salon
iki telegraphs that news has just been
received there that Bulgarian troops
in the region of Firima and Monaster
have begun an advance.
* » *
German newspapers, according to a
Berne dispatch, state that the British
cruiser Hampshire, the vessel which
Lord Kitchener and his staff went to
their doom with, was sunk by a Ger
man submarine.
* • •
London military men declare there
will be some 680,000 men on the
ground at Salonika ready for the con
templated Macedonian offensive. Ex
pert estimates hoid 600,000 to be
more than sufficient for every purpose
of attack. %
* * *
As a sequel to rioting in Holland
resulting from a shortage of food, the
Dutch frontiers have been closed, and
the export of foodstuffs prohibited un
less the supply reaches normal, ac- J
cording to a Copenhagen dispatch.
, * * »
The allied offensive in Macedonia,
originally scheduled for mid May and
postponed on account of the condi
tion of the Serbian army on its arri
val in Corfu, is now confidently antici
pated toward the end of June, or at
the latest, early in July.
* * *
Sir Maurice de Bunson, under sec
retary of the British foreign office,
said the allied governments were do
ing everything possible to facilitate
the movement of American mails,
holding up of which has been the
subject of protest by the United
States government.
GENERAL.
i
At a local option election in Du
luth, Minn., the city was voted dry by
805 majority.
* • •
The Chicago express drivers’ strike
has been called off and more than
1,000 strikers have returned to work.
* • *
Philadelphia was selected for the
meeting of the thirty-fourth triennial
conclave of the Knights Templar in
1919.
* • •
The city council of Fort Dodge. Ia..
let contracts aggregating $100,000 for
a new municipal dam. Three special
elections were necessary before the
people voted the bonds.
» • *
The John Porter prize in American
h'Storv, one of the most highly prized
et Yale, was awarded to Mark M. Me
Chesney of Seattle, Wash. The prize
is the income of $2,000.
• • •
The Aero Club of America, with
headquarters in New York, announced
that it would do all in its power
to aid the United States government
in the Mexican crisis by providing
aeroplanes and aviators for patrol
work.
• • •
Eighteen hundred convicts in the
Illinois state prison at Joliet, were
given a half holiday recently to at
tend a circus performance in the pris
on yard. It was the first time, it was
said, that a circus had ever been
given in prison.
• * •
Sunday music In hotels and restau
rants and Sunday shoe shining were
held unlawful by Police Tmtw Crutch
field in convicting persons arrested for
violating “blue laws” revived in Vir
ginia by (he new ouster act.
• * *
Mobilization of Chicago’s great
food industries for the supply of the
regular army guardsmen, who are to
be engaged in border ■ service, has
begun. Several corporations have
declared private contracts are to be
sidetracked to give government or
ders preference.
* • *
A campaign fund of 51,700,000 will
be raised by the democratic party by
popular subscription, according to an
announcement made in Chicago by
W. W. Marsh of Iowa, treasurer of the
democratic national committee.
• • •
Madison Square Garden went into
the hands of a receiver. Proceedings
to foreclose a mortgage of $2,300,000,
together with back taxes and interest
to about $58,500, were begun last week
by the New York Life Insurance com
pany.
* • *
Billy Sunday closed his sevon
weekss revival ia Kansas City June
18. He was given $32,000 as a thank \
offering. During his revival in Kan
sas City he preached to 1,350,000 per
aons. 20,646 of whom hit the trail. j
E. Stenger, general manager of the
St Joseph & Grand Island railroad,
has bean appointed genera! superin
I lenden'. of the Union Pacific, with
; headquarters in Omaha.
* fie *
After deliberating .is days a Chi
cago jury found the American Med
ical association guilty of libeling the
Chattanooga Medicine company, man
ufacturers of Wine of Cardui and
fixed the damage at 1 cent.
* * *
Van Bitner, president of District No.
5, United Mine Workers of America,
at Indianapolis, received an order from
’Mm P. White, international president,
to instruct 32,000 striking miners in
the Pittsburgh district to return to
work.
» • *
The parcel post system as operated
is building up corporations that in a
few years will overshadow the largest
trusts of the present time, in the
opinion of a committee of the Na
tional Wholesale Grocers’ association,
which reported at Boston.
• * *
Troops i and M, Fourteenth cavalry,
were attacked at San Ignacio, near
Lorado, Tex., by 100 Mexicans. Three
Americans were killed and six wound
ed in the fight, which lasted half an
hour. The bandits’ casualties amount
ed to seven killed and a number
wounded.
* • *
The Wyoming prohibition party con
vention at Rawlins, nominated A. B.
Campbell of Thermopolis for United
States senator. Dr. H. Sawyer of
Laramie for congress, and Mrs. Ella
S. Watson, J. I. Reha and Luth J.
Wood of Garland for presidential eloc
i tors.
• • •
Lieutenant Governor W. L. Harding,
of Iowa, has filed with the secretary
of state a statement of his receipts
and expenditures in his winning fight
for the republican nomination for
governor. His total expenditures were
$10,356.62 and his friends and rela
tives contributed $5,783 of this
amount.
• • •
Members of ithe Tenth cavalry de
tachment that was in the fight at
Carrival in which twelve Americans
were killed and seventeen taken pris
oners, reported to General Pershing
that the fighting began with an un
provoked attack on the Americans at
the conclusion of a parley with the
Mexican commander.
* * *
The Lincoln Highway association
figures that at least 10,000 cars will
mage extensive trips along the Lin
coln highway this year and that, they
will put in circulation along the high
way a total of $9,230 000. The total
car mileage is figured at 46 00(1,000
miles, and it is estimated that these
10,000 cars will buy 4.600.000 gallons
of gascline at an average price of 25
cents, or a total of $1,150,000.
SPORTING.
Dario Resta defeated Ralph De
Palma three times at the Speedway
in Chicago at distances of fifty, twen- j
ty-four and ten miles. By winning the
fifty and twenty-four-mile events
Resta was declared the winner of the
scheduled three-heat match and was
awaroed a silver challenge cup. Res
ta’s best time was in the twenty-four-,
mile event, when he averaged 105
miles 1.11 hour.
WASHINGTON.
Immediate steps were decided upon
just recently to expedite passaage of
the government ship purchase bill by
the senate.
* * *
As fast as the different state militia
units can be equipped they will be
sent to the border. Secretary of War
Daker stated, following a conference
with President Wilson.
* * *
Increase in watermelon acreage
and a slight decrease in that of can
taloupes this year is reported by the
Department of Agriculture. In fifteen
principal producing States water
melon acreage is 100,965, compared
with 96,508 acres last year and can
taloupe acreage is 41,273 compared
with 41,981 acres in 1915.
* *
Congressman Shallenberger re
cently appeared before the house
committee on flood control to explain
the purposes of his bill providing an
appropriation of $2,000,000 for the
development of the “tri-county” flood
water project. He said this bill would
open the way to the use of the flood
waters of the Platte river on farm
lands in Kearney, Gosper and Phelps
counties. Nebraska.
* * •
The last big preparedness meas
ure. the fortifications bill, carrying
appropriations and authorizations of
$35,875,123 for coast defenses and
field artillery, passed the house by a
vote of 165 to 9.
* * *
It was announced at the White
House in Washington that the nomi
nation of Attorney General Thomas
Watt Gregory of Austin, Tex., to be
a ji ice of the supreme cr.urt to suc
eeec Charles Evans Hughrs, resign
ed. ill be sent to the senate in the
near future.
* * *
Secretary McAdoo has announced
that after July 1 there will be an issue
of climes, quarters and half-dollars of
new design. There has been no !
change in these pieces since 1891.
* * *
A naval building program providing I
for at least six capital ships, includ- !
in^ tv'o dreadnoughts, was agreed up« j
on at a conference between President 1
Wilson, Secretary Daniels and Chair,
man Tillman and Senator Swanson ot
the senate naval committee.
* *■ •
The senate has passed the annua'
diplomatic appropriation bill, carry
I ing approximately $1,500,000 and con
taining provision for extra allowances
to enable diplomats in Europe tc
j met the increased cost of living.
IDEAS FOR DESSERT
CONFECTIONS TO FOLLOW SUB
STANTIAL MEAL.
—
! Steamed Custard Is One of the Best
—Tangerine Souffle May Be New—
Excellent Recipe fr • Lemon
Pudding.
Steamed Custard.—Put three-quar
i ters of a pint of milk into a stewpan
l with two ounces of loaf sugar and a
j email piece or pinch of cinnamon.
Beat the yolks of two eggs thoroughly
| and whisk the wrhites to a stiff froth.
| finally adding them to the yolks. As
i soon as the milk reaches the boiling
j point pour it by degrees onto the
eggs, stirring it gently all the time
| and leave the custard to cool. Butter
I a plain mold and strain the custard
! into it. Cover it securely by tying a
! piece of buttered paper on the top
and steam very gently for 35 minutes.
! Stand aside to get cold. Serve the
j custard turned out of the mold and
! surrounded bv stewed fruit.
Tangerine Souffle.—Separate the
white from the yolks of six perfectly
fresh eggs Put the yolks into a ba
sin with four tablespoonfuls of pow
dered sugar, the grated rind of two
tangerine oranges and a half portion
of grated lemon rind. Beat the ingre
dients with a wooden spoon for ten
minutes. Stir in one tablespoonful of
pastry flour, and when this Is thor
i oughly blended with the egg mixture
j add oue teaspoonful of orange flavor
j ing. Add a pinch of salt to the whites
j of the eggs and whisk them to a very
| stiff froth. Mix them lightly and
i thoroughly with the prepared yolks
| and pour the mixture at once into a
j buttered scuffle mold. Smooth the top
j over with a knife into the shape of a
! dome and bake the souffle at once in a
| quick oven for from ten to twelve
j minutes. Just before serving sprinkle
| some sifted powdered sugar over the
j top.
Lemon Pudding.—Put two ounces of
butter into a saucepan and when it is
' melted stir in by degrees two table
| spoonfuls of flour and one and a half
! tablespoonfuls of corn flour. As soon as
: the ingredients form a perfectly
smooth paste, add gradually, stirring
quickly all the time, one pint of milk
and continue to stir until the mixture
has boiled and thickened. Remove the
pan from the stove and add three ta
blespoonfuls of sugar, the grated rind
of a large lemon and one tablespoonful
of brandy or vanilla. Beat in the yolks
of two eggs which have been thorough
ly whisked with a fork. Add a pinch
of salt to the whites of the eggs and
beat them to a stiff froth. Allow the
pudding to cool and stir in the
strained juice of a lemon, a little at a
time, and the whites of the eggs. Line
a pudding dish with puff paste, pour
in the liquid mixture and bake at
once in a fairly quick oven until the
top is lightly or evenly browned. The
heat must not be fierce nor must the
pudding be allowed to remain in the
oven more than from 20 to 30 minutes,
or it will curdle and be spoiled. A jug
of thick cream should be passed witft
It.
Plain Omelet.
Separate the yolks from the whites
of four eggs. Beat the yolks until
thick and lomon-colored; add one-half
teaspoonful of salt, a few grains of pep
per and four tablespoonfuls of hot ra
ter. Beat the whites until stiff and
dry. cutting and folding them into the
first mixture until they have taken uj
mixture. Heat omelet pan and buttei
sides and bottom. Turn in the mix
ture. spread evenly, place on the range
where it will cook slowly, occasionally
turning the pan that omelet may brown
evenly. When wall-puffed and deli
cately browned underneath, place the
pan on center grate of oven to finish
cooking the top. The omelet is cooked
if it is firm to the touch when pressed
by the finger. If it clings to the finger
like the beaten white of egg it needs
longer cooking. Fold and turn on hot
platter, and pour around one and a half
cupfuls of thin white sauce. Milk is
sometimes used in place of water, but
hot water makes a more tender omelet.
To Make Baking Powder.
Take one-half pound cream of tar
tar, one-fourth pound cooking soda,
one-eighth pound cornstarch; sift to
gether 12 times, the last time into
cans.
To remove iodine stains on clothing
j sponge freely with ammonia.
To make flaky piecrust fry out three
pounds of pure lard and two pounds
of cold suet; strain and mix together.
This makes a very nice, rich piecrust
and is very must healthier and cheap
I er than clean lard.
—
Beefsteak With Vegetables.
Put a piece of steak in a baking tin.
; dredge it with flour and season with
i pepper and salt. Almost cover with
water and cook in the oven for 20 min
utes. Then cover it with onions, thin
ly sliced, and cook for another 26
I minutes. Next add a layer of toma
j toeB, sliced, and cook for ten minutes
| more. Take it from the oven, baste
| well, sprinkle grated cheese thickly
j over and return it to the oven to
j brown.
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Beef Stew.
Cut away the skin and fat from
i three pounds of the rump of beef.
Put it into a stewpan with one quart
| of broth or water and let it boil up.
Season with salt and pepper. When
this has been simmering for two hours
shred half, the peel of a lemon finely
and add to the gravy. Take up the
gravy and place it where it will keep
warm. Thicken and color the gravy,
flavor with hot sauce and lemon juice
and pour over the meat.
-——
Princess Charlotte.
Line a plain mold with lightly
oiled paper, arrange sponge or vanilla
cakes all around it, then fill up with
a good vanilla bavaroise. as below,
mixed with one-half cup of any nice
dried fruit cut in shreds. When set,
turn out and ornament with icing, us
ing a forcing bag with fancy pipe.
Serve on a fancy dish naper.