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EDITORS OF NEBRASKA TO HAVE UNIQUE EXCURSION Will Tour Western Part of State During Week of August Seventh PLANS ARE IN PREPARATION Committees Named Are All Working Hard to Perfect Various Details —Nothing to Be Left Undone fq» Comfort and Pleasure of the Party. OVER 200 RESERVATIONS MADE. (By J. O. Goodwin) The forthcoming annual meeting of the Nebraska Press Association will be an unique occasion. At the last meeting of the association in Omaha »n invitation was extended by Scotts bluff and Gering, two sister towns in the irrigated valley of the North Platte river, in the extreme western part of the state, to hold the 1916 meeting at those places. A substan tial bonus was offered to help defray the expense in taking a special train of editors to that distant part of the state. In an unofficial way it was thought that the two transportation companies that pass through the Nile valley of Nebraska would be interest ed In the excursion of the scribes and would assist in the matter of trans portation. The invitation was accept ed In a tentative way and it was left for the executive committee to consid er the matter from every angle and finally to fix the time and place. Later the towns of Chadron, Crawford, Sid ney, Alliance, Bridgeport, Broken Bow, Kearney and North Platte asked for stops and offered to feed the vis itors and furnish entertainment and, in some cases, give small cash boni. The fact that Nebraska has a strict anti-pass law finally made it impossi ble for the railroad companies to do other than to charge the regular fare of 2 cents per mile. From assur ances already received it seems cer tain that about three hundred bona fide newspaper men and women of Ne braska will start from Grand Island Monday, August 7, in a special train of Pullman cars for a week’s trip into the western part of Nebraska. The train is scheduled to reach Broken Bow about G o'clock, where supper will be served by the good people of that town. The visitors will spend the most of the evening there and will leave in time to reach Crawford at an early hour the next morning, where breakfast will be served. The train will be parked for the day and a trip across country will be made by automobiles to Chadron, where lunch eon will be served on the grounds of the new state normal school. A stop will be made at Crawford again on the return trip and it is planned to reach Alliance in time for supper. The evening will be spent at Alliance and a short night run will take the train to Sidney by early morning. It Is possible that a few of the newspaper men will avail themselves of the in vitation of the Kimball Commercial club to leave the special train at Sid ney and take a side trip to Kimball and from there auto across to Gpring in time to meet the train upon its ar rival there. The party will breakfast at Sidney, take a look at the town and country and leave In time to reach Bridge port about noon. While the train is being transferred from the Burling ton to the Union Pacific tracks the jditore will be the guests of Bridge port hosts for luncheon. Gering will be reached by mid-afternoon and the train will be parked until 11 o'clock the next night. In the meantime the principal meetings will be held at Scottsbiuff and Gering and side trips will include Mitchell and Minitare. On the return trip stops will be .rtade at North Platte and Kearney Tor breakfast and luncheon and the train is scheduled to reach Grand Grand Island in time to permit a large part of the association members to get trains to their homes Friday even ing. It is estimated that the local purses that are offered by the towns visited will pay for the hire of the Pullman cars, probably five or six, aside from the parlor-observation and cafe car, the baggage-dynamo car and the car for railroad officials that will accompany the party. To work out the details to a point that assures reasonable satisfaction to all concerned is not a light task, and has kept the executive committee thinking hard. Several meetings have been held and on nearly every occa sion there has been a full attendance of the committee which is made up of such representative men as: Vice President Clark Perkins of the Au rora Republican; Will C. Israel Havelock Post; N. J. Ludi, Wahoc Democrat; Don C. Van Deusen, Blaii Pilot; B. K. Schaeffer, Curtis Enter prise; A. H. Backhaus, Pierce Leader; A. B. Wood, Gering Courier, and Sec retary C. C. Johns of Omaha. President Horace M. Davis, Ord Journal, has made the call general foi all newspaper men to attend the meet ings of the executive committee and the meetings have been called at such places that it has been convenient foi many local editors to attend and con fer with the committee. The plan has worked out successfully and has re suited in a wider spread interest in the good of the association than was contemplated by its author. A committee consisting of Ross L Hammond, Fremont Tribune; Don C Van Deusen, Blair Pilot; Henry C Richmond, Omaha World-Herald; J. D Scott, Edgar Printer; and Secretary Johns have been appointed to arrange for the program and this feature will not be overlooked in the festivities that will bo enjoyed on the trip. Will M. Maupin, York Democrat; John M Tanner, Omaha Democrat; and Geo. S. Fox worthy have been named as e “stunts” committee and it is under stood that it will be the business ol these gentlemen to arrange for origi nal songs and cabaret performances that will insure the party against a dull moment. Governor Howard, Co lumbus Telegram, has promised to serve as interlocutor for the minstrel show that will be worked out. Frank Harrison of Lincoln and Adam Breede of Hastings will have charge of the band that they are organizing for the occasion. It will be uniquely costum ed and the instrumentation is said tc be unique. President Davis, Vice-Presidenl Perkins and Editor Buechler of the Grand Island Independent, have direct charge of the train and trip and are undertaking the details with the rail reads, the towns to be visited and the general ccmfort of all concerned. Members of supply firms doing bus iness in Nebraska may accompany the train, but may not enjoy any rebate from the local guarantees. Any active newspaper man or woman or anyone who has been active in the business and has printers’ ink still sticking to his finger nails may go. But it is only fair to serve notice to ail com ers that an edict has gone out against eny liquor on the editors’ train. There is no prohibition against cob pipes. One of the features of the associa tion meeting this year will be the consideration of the report of the leg islative committee. President Davis has been in close touch with several legislative sessions and knows how sadly neglected are the interests of the country newspapers. He has ap pointed a strong legislative commit tee that will serve through his admin istration and the one following: J. W Outright, Lincoln Star; M. A. Brown. Kearney Hub; Frank E. Heivey, Lin coin News Bureau; F. O. Edgecombe Geneva Signal; and G. S. Foxworthy. Lincoln W. N. U. To save each edi tor having to work up individual copy for his newspaper while on the trip an official reporter will be named and his copy will be furnished in plate form, properly illustrated, for every paper represented on the excursion. When a week’s camping party was held near Lincoln for the annual meet ing of the Nebraska Press association two years ago, it was not only novel hut a tremendous success. That inno vation suggested this one, perhaps, and rf present plans do not miscarry the Nebraska printers will hold th« record for originality in the way of annual meetings. Some time the association is going to accept the invitation o' the regents of the State University to spend a week in session at the State Agricul tural College near Lincoln, ar.d while the husbands are talking shop and spinning yarns, the wives will be tak ing lessons in domestic science, mu sic and fine arts under the Instruction «f the college faculty. His Verdict. At the meeting of the Afro-American Debating club the question of capital punishment for murder occupied the attention of the orators for the even ing. One speaker had a great deal tc say about the sanity of persons who thus took the law into their own hands. The last speaker, however, after a stirring harangue, concluded with great feeling; “Ah disagrees wlf cap’tal punishment an’ all dis heah talk ’bout sanity. Any pusson ’al c’mits murdeh ain’t In a sanitary c’n dition.” Door Bumpers. An efficient bumper to prevent doors rrom marring woodwork can be made from a large spooi. First get a screw with a head about the size of the bore of the spool. This should be screwed into the baseboard to within half an Inch of the head. The spool can then be pushed over the screwhead, and if necessary wedged to hold it securely. Into the open end of the spool can be screwed one of the rubber tips used on crutches and chair legs. A con venient door stop may be made by us ing seven empty tin milk cans of small size, filling them with crushed rock, then covering them with blue serge. Fasten them together and put a cover of fancy design on top. This is serviceable and a welcome change 'rom the ordinary covered brick. What Mist Is. Mist is just one of the ways that we see the water in the air. It is some thing like a cloud only near the ground.—From Boys and Girls’ Ask-at Home Questions. ____ Human Victims of Crocodile. Villagers living near a crocodile-in fested river in India protect them selves from man-eaters by fencing their bathing places with bamboo poles • but yet they are sometimes billed within these inclosures, if not devoured. The brutes are not alto gether devoid of intelligence. They tiU enter the inclosures at night by the overland route and lie still. Som^ times they manage, by their claws, ££ch are very powerful to make an Ip^ing in the fence, and secure an entrance. After this they will remain quiet, and catch the first bather as soon as he enters the water. The crocodile, however, cajmot carry away the body of Its victim on account of the fence, and it has to risk its own life, as the villagers will try to kill it within the inclosure. Dire Japanese Prophecy. An old Japanese prophecy says: "When men fly like birds ten great kings will go to war against one an other.” LIST OF THE STATE PRIMARYNOMINEES CLASSIFIED ROSTER OF PROS PECTIVE CANDIDATES. SOME ARE ONJjOTH TICKETS Secretary of State Gathers Names of Political Aspirants for Leg islative Honors at Fall Election. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Secretary of State Pool has just completed a list of all the democratic and republican candidates for the two branches of the state legislature. In order to get some of the names it was necessary to write to county clerks and ask them who the candi dates were in their respective dis tricts. One republican nominee for state senator, H. H. Meyer of Fontanelle, died, and it will devolve upon the party committees of Dodge and Washington counties to select some one else for this place on the ticket. Two candidates for the state senate —Phil Kohl of Wayne and D. M. Douthett of Overton—have been nom inated on both the democratic and republican tickets. The same is true of three candidates for the lower house—R. C. Regan of Platte Center, H. J. White of Ainsworth and W. L. Bates of Lodgepole. In a few districts there are va cancies on one ticket or the other, but these may be filled before the ballots are printed. The following are the democratic legislative candidates, with the dis trict, the name and the home ad dress: uemocrais tot ocnais 1— L. C. Edwards. Falls City. 2— John Mattes, Nebraska City. 3— J. M. Gates. Fort Crook. 4— John M. Tanner, Omaha; John F. Moriarity, Omaha; R. C. Strehlow, Om aha: Edward E. Howell. Omaha; J. H. Bennett. Omaha. 5— Wallace H. Wilson. Fremont. 6— Thos Conlev, Winnebago. 7— Philip H. Kohl, Wayne. 9— A. F. Dare, Clearwater. 10— John R. Henry, Howells. 11— I. L. Albert, Columbus. 12— C. W. Doty, Beaver Crossing. IS—A. J. Sawyer, Lincoln; L. C. Ober lles, Lincoln. 14— Julius Neumann. Wvmore. 15— William Grueber. Byron. 16— F. Skipton. Shickley. 17— J. R. Davidson, Aurora. 18— J. H. Buhrman. St. Libory. 19— Walter E. Hager, Hastings. 20— C. E. Samuelson, Hildreth. 21— J. M. Grace, Mascot. 22— Charles A. Chappell, Minden. 23— Charles W. Beal. Broken Bow. 24— J. A. Robertson, Joy. 25— D. M. Douthett, Overton. 26— Willis Wilson. Curtis. 27— Charles J. Collins. Collins. 28— George M. Adams. Crawford. Republicans for Senate 1— Richard F. Neal, Auburn. 2— Andrew F. Sturm. Nehawka. 3— Frank J. Polak, Wahoo. 4— Charles L. Saunders, Omaha; John M. MacFarland, Omaha; Franklin A. Shotwell, Omaha; Bert C. Miner, Omaha; H. J. Hackett. Omaha. 5— H. H. Meyer, Fontanelle. 6— Frank F. Haase. Emerson. 7— Philip H. Kohl, Wayne. 8— Chas. Ruden, Crofton. 9— W. L. McAllister, Neligh. 10— Virgil L. Horton, Stanton. 11— Albert Hedbloom. Stromsburg. 12— John P. Stolz, Milford. 13— Edwin Jeary, Lincoln; Chas. War ner, Lincoln. 14— Adam McMullen. Wymore. 15— Thomas Lehners, Beividere. 16— E. J. Spirk, Wilber. 17— C. E. Sandall, York. 18— W. F. Krembe, Grand Island. 19— Isaiah D. Evans. Hastings. 20— J. S. Butler, Superior. 21— James W. Hammond, Cambridge. 22— O. G. Smith, Kearney. 23— H. S. Waterburk, Berwyn. 24— Joseph Mathousek, Atkinson. 25— D. M. Douthett, Overton. 26— Charles W. Meeker, Imperial. 27— B. K. Bushee. Kimball. 28— D. H. Griswold, Gordon. Democratic Representatives 1— W. F. Reischick, Falls City. 2— John T. Swan, Auburn. 3— Ben T. Skeen, Brownvllle. 4— Charles K. Anderson, Table Rock. 5— A1 N. Dafoe, Tecumseh. 6— G. W. Leidlgh, Nebraska City. 7— John Murty, Alvo. 8— L. G. Todd. Union. 9— Jacob Sass, Chaleo. 10— James H. Craddock. Omaha; Jens Nielsen. Omaha; Jerry Howard, Omaha; J. H. Bulla, Omaha; John H. Hopkins. Omaha; Francis Goodall, Omaha; Jerry Jelen, Omaha; Henry C. Richmond. Om aha; John J. Shannon. Omaha: Frank R. Keegan, Omaha; Joseph M. Lovely, Om aha; R. A. Schneider, Omaha. 11— J. P. Jensen, Biair. 12— Charles W. Orr, Craig. Will Change Railroad System. Tokio.—Japan will probably decide to change her main railroad system from a narrow to a broad gauge. The present gauge of three feet and six inches waB adopted when the first line was built in Japan, but experience has demonstrated the wisdom of wid ening it to the standard broad gauge such as obtains in the United States. For one thing it will permit of greater speed, and for another it will be more useful as a means of communication In connection with national defense in time of war. France Awards Many War Crosses. Paris.—The French government has awarded 120,000 war crosses since the creation of the decoration. Of these, 16,000 have been given in the course of the present war. Now the chamber of deputies has decided to create a dis tinctive sign to be worn by those who have won the cross while facing death. The fact that thousands of non-com bantants have received the coveted bit of metal and ribbon is considered un fair to the others. Horses Shown to Avoid Battle. France.—Shamming by war horses to avoid the battle front, discredited at first, seems now well established. French army veterinarles have found from close observation that cer tain horses fall most unaccountably til when in bombarded regions. They 11a down and seem too weak and nerv ous to move, or go lame. When they are sent back to the vet erinary camp in th* rear in a day or two they are all right again. 13— James J. McAllister, Dakota City. 14— Leonard Titus Fleetwood, Wake« field. 15— Frank C. Radke, Wynot. Neff, Bloomfield. 17— John H. Reifenrath, Crofton* ■ v 18— Crinklow, Neligh. •' £ 19— Flo Fuchs, Pierce. 20— C. J. Rundell, Wavni. 21— Ferdinand Koch. West Point. 22— Lincoln Riley, Wisner. 22—James Anten, Albion. 24— John J. Hughes, Battle Creek. 25— Chas., F. Segelke. Columbus. 26— R. C. Regan, Platte Center. 27— J. B. Sindelar, HoWells. 28— Wm. G. J. Dau. Hooper; Norman E. Shaffer, Hooper. 29— Geo. W. Meredith, Ashland; C. M. Lemar, Wahoo. 30— Geo. G. Waite, Lincoln; Frank Mills, Lincoln; E. c. Kemble, Lincoln; Paul Goss, Lincoln; William Foster, Lin coln; Roy A. Bickford, Lincoln. 31— Chas. W. Burrows, Adams; J. W. McKissick, Beatrice. 32— C. L. E. Blauser, Diller. 33— C. F. Knutzen, Bruning. 34— James A. McGuire, Wymore. 35— Geo. A. Hunt, Crete. 36— Paul Mauser, Beaver Crossing. 37— Nicholas Meysenburg, David City 38— Geo. W. Fuller, Seward. 39— J. N. Norton, Polk. 40— Herman Diers, Gresham. 41— Walter Howarth, Friend. 42— H. A. Swanson, Clay Center. 43— Oliver C. Bedford, Geneva. 44— J. T. Voorhees, Aurora. 45— Geo. Jackson, Nelson. 46— George W. Lindsey, Red Cloud. 47— J. C. Snyder, Hastings; A. J. Van Every, Hastings. 48— H. H. O'Malley. Alda; C. E. Ellis, Alda. 49— Thos. M. Osterman. Central City. - 50— Albert Thompson, Fullerton. 51— Soren M. Fries, Dannebrog. 52— John C. Harris, Greeley. 53— 54— Christ Andersen, Bristow. 55— H. J. White, Ainsworth. 56— J. A. Ollis, Ord. 57— C. W. Trumbie, Hazard. 58— W. J. Taylor. Merna; Geo. W. Green wait. Broken Bow. 59— Wm. H. Arnold, Kearney; Gene Loomis, Kearney. 60— Wm. Gormly, Lowell. 61— David McCracken, Macon. 63— P. C. Funk, Funk. 64— J. W. Kelly, Beaver City. 65— D. F. Schwab, Lebanon. 66— Albert LaBounty, Moorefield. 67— John E. Jacobsen, Lexington. 68— Butler Buchanan, North Platte. 69— 2>. M. Ewing, Benkleman. 70— Fred Hoffmeister, Imperial. 71— Jay Oliver, Seneca. 72— Thomas C. Hornby, Valentine. J3—Lloyd C. Thomas. Alliance. "4—Charles Naylor, Chadron. 75— Charles D. Green. Bayard. 76— William L. Bates, Lodgepols. 77— Eugene Beal, Ogallala. Republican Representatives 1— Harry Ford, Falls City. 2— Ellis E. Good, Peru. 3— Geo. W. Reneker, Falls City. 4— W. T. Parkinson, Pawnee City. 5— J. H. Melville, Sterling. 6— Patrick Roddy, Nebraska City. 7— L. A. Tyson, Elmwood. 8— Edwin Zimrnerer, Nebraska City. 9— Fred Lftie. La Platte. 10— Harry A. Foster, Omaha; John Lar sen, Omaha; J. Frank Burgess. Omaha; Robt. C. Druesdow. Omaha; Nels A. Lundgren, Omaha; James Walsh, Omaha; O. R. Young, Omaha; Joseph* Shermar., Omaha; P. J. Trainor. Omaha; John W. Cooper, Omaha; James Allen, Omaha: 8am G. Hoff, Omaha 11— Albert H. Miller, Kennard. 12— John F. Nesbit, Tekamah. 13— A. M. Chambers, Walthill. 14— H. J. Neurnberger, Wakefliekl. 15— S. O. Reese, Randolph. 16— T. A. Anthony, Wausa. 1 < — 18— J- T. Lindberg, Elgin. 19— C. E. Manzer, Pierce. 20— Grant S. Mears, Wayne. 21— H. H. Pease, Beemer. 22— Henry Behrens, Beemer. 23— Jud C. Wilson, St. Edwards. 24— T. T. McDonald. Tilden. 2o—Henry Clayburn, Platte Center. 26— R. C. Regan, Platte Center. 27— 28— Frank Myers, Snyder; Wm. Eidam, Ames. 29— Chas. A. Cook, Wahoo; J. M. Lam bert, Wahoo. 30— C. M. Parker. Lincoln: Leonard A. Flansburg. Lincoln; A. H. Hutton. Lin coln; Ralph 8. Moseley, Lincoln; C. Petrus Peterson, Lincoln. 31— Dwight S. Dal bey. Beatrice; G. W, Steinmeyer. Holmesville. 32— J. A. Axtell, Fairburv. 33— B. F. Willis, Hebron. 34— Thomas E. Conley, Fairbury. 35— Frank Ptak, Friend. 36— Geo. Liggett. Jr., Utica. 37— L. E. Ludden, Surprise. 38— A. Campbell. Seward. 39— Robert G. Douglas. Osceola. 40— --Mahlon B. Stream. York. 41— James S. Foulon, Fairmont. 42— H. E. McDowell. Clay Center. 43— John M. Ward. Geneva. 44— Perry Reed. Henderson. 4:»—William K. Moore, Nelson. 46— M. F. Rickard. Guide Rock. 47— Erick Johnson. Hastings; Fred G. Johnson. Hastings. 48— Leo Stuhr. Grand Island: A. L* Scudder, Grand Island. 49— F. E. Morrow, Central City. 50— R. J. Ainley, Belgrade. 51— E. H. Sorenson, St. Paul. o2— 53— Dennis H. Cronin. O’Neill. 54— John R. Reattv. Butte. 55— H. J. White, Ainsworth. 56— John G. Bremer, Ord. 57— Alonzo Daddow, Austin. r,S—Tra P. Mills. Arnold; E. N. Bishop, Gates. 59— M. A. Hostetler, Shelton; J. a Harris. Amherst. 60— John BJorklund. Mlnden. 61— W. C. Dorsey. Bloomington. 62— H. T. Moore. Alma. 63— O. T. Anderson, Holdrege. 64— J. F. Fults. Beaver Cltv. 65— S. W. Clark Bartley. 66— Geo. C. Junkin, Smithfleld. 67— W. M. Stebblns. Gothenburg. 68— Scott Reynolds. North Platte. 69— H. E. Tweedy, Trenton. 70— Joseph Osier, Elsie. 71— F. A. Reisner. Thedford. 72— Oeoree E. Tracewell, Valenttne. ■ 3—W. H. Harper. Alliance. 74— James W. Good, Chadron. 75— F E. Stearns. Scottsbluff. 76— William L. Bates. Lodge pole. 77— 'Wm. H. C. Woodhurst. North Platte. Government Land Drawing Spokane, Wash.—Land offices have been thrown open for those who want to participate in one of Uncle Sam’s last great land raffles. Approximately 360,000 acres, comprising the south half of the Colville Indian reservation, will bo divided into 160 acre ranches and turned over to settlers who hold the lucky numbers after the drawing, July 27. Registration books have been spened in Spokane, Wenatchee, Wilbur, Republic, Omak and Colville, Wash. The estimated total value of all the property of the University of Ne braska, not including endowment funds and lands, is $2,700,000, of which $1,850,000 is lands and buildings and $850,000 is general movable equipment. The board of regents at their last meet ing, directed that a system of control be devised so that the central office would know at all times what the uni versity owns, where every item is and the present value of every item is. A. O. Johnson, the university efficiency exjert, has Just installed such a sys tem. This has happened in so many cases that it has become a matter beyond dispute that the animals sham sick ness to get away from a spot whers they have to do strange work under strange conditions and where con stantly horrible things make terrify' ing noises. One veterinary who has trained raca horses says that malingering among blooded animals is fairly common and that horses have b*en known to sham lameness to be left in the stable or to start a cough to avoid going out t» practice. NEWS OFTHE WEEK CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR LESSER IMPORTANCE. II BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS ____ National, Political, Personal and Other Matters In Brief Form for All Classes of Readers. MEXICAN TROUBLE. The embargo on shipments to Mex ico has been lifted on everything ex cept munitions of war. • • * In the collision between a train filled with Nebraska National Guards men and a switch engine at Houston, Texas, three guardsmen were most painfully injured. * • • General Calles has demobilized 4,000 Mexican cavalrymen, who had been encamped in Fronteras, Cuchuta and Nacozari, to the south of Douglas, for several weeks. • * * From 200 to 300 Carranza soldiers and camp followers were massacred by broncho Yaquis early last week in lower Sonora, according to stories told In Nogales, Ariz., by arrivals from that part of Mexico. • • * The Cedile brothers, heading a band of 2,000 rebels in the state of San Luis Potcsi, unconditionally surrendered to the Carranza government with their followers. No more rebels are now operating in San Luis Potosi. • * » General Pershing has made the dec laration that he believes the trouble between the United States and Mexico is settled. He asserts that Mexicans in the vicinity of his column along the Mexican railroad, are very friendly. * • • The Mexico Northwestern railroad again has been opened for the ship ment of supplies to American troops in Mexico. This action follows the lifting of the embargo on food and other exportations to Mexicans. * • * Large Carranza forces, better organ ized and more completely equipped than any other units of the de facto government troops, are closing in on the bandits of southern Chihuahua and northern Durango, intent on wip ing them out. GENERAL. More than 14,000,000 damage was done in Mississippi and Alabama by a terrific storm which swept that sec tion of the country recently. * * • Iowa democrats for the first time in the memory of any of the leaders went on record in the state platform as favoring prohibition at the state convention at Des Moines. * • * The largest single wool sale made lr. America this year was completed at Cheyenne. Wyo., when the Swan Land and Cattle Co. sold its 191b' clip ol 600,000 pounds to W. R. Adams of Fre mont, Neb. The price was 25 cents a pound. * • • An attempt to assassinate President L LaPlaza of Brazil was made at Buenos Aires. The president was re viewing troops when a man in the crowd of spectators suddenly drew a revolver and fired at him. The shot went wild. That more people in the city of Chi cago go to moving picture theaters than attend churches was the state ment made by Mrs. Harriett Stokes Thompson, in a report to delegates of the convention of the Motion Picture Exhibitors’ League of America. • • • John Redmond, leader of the Irish nationalists, issued a statement char acterizing the speech of the Marquis of Lansdowne in the British house of lords as a declaration of war on the Irish people. Among other sugges tions made by Lord Lansdowne was the maintenance of a garrison in Ire land strong enough to preserve order. * * * A conference of representative pro gressives from all parts of tlie coun try soon will be held in Chicago, ac cording to an announcement by Bain brldge Colby, to consider “the wide spread and bitter revolt within the party’’ against the action of the na tional committee in endorsing Charles E. Hughes. • • • Two children have died of infantile paralysis in 5'' 'hell. So. Dak.,, ac cording to a sulenient by the city health officer. Children have been prohibited from attending public gath erings. • • • District Judge Frey of Boone, la., held that beef cannot be shipped any where within the state of Iowa and that other-intoxicating liquors can be shipped only to druggists having per mits to sell them for medicinal pur poses. • • • August Heckscher, New York cap italist, presented a check for $10,900 to Captain Paul Koenig for the mem bers of the crew of the Deutschland In recognition of the submarine’s feat. * * * The development of 2,000,000 horse power of electric energy below the Niagara Falls, without disturbing the Horse Shoe Falls and American Falls, and the expenditure of $100,000,000 in the work, are proposed in a scheme tjjat has been submitted to the Cana dian government • * * The unfilled orders of the United Btates Steel corporation on June 30 stood at 9,640,468 tons, a decrease of 297,340 tons as compared with those of May 31, according to the monthly statement issued at New York. Chicago’s population, based upon of ficial school population is 2,550,000. • * • The city and the province of Mad rid, Spain, have been declared by the Spanish government in a state of siege on account of the strike of rail way employes. • * * The bodies of six negro troopers killed at Carrizal in the battle with Carranza troops, were buried with full military honors in Arlington cemetery, Arlington, Va. » * * Dan Patch, pacing king, owned by M. W. Savage, Minneapolis, died of athletic heart at Savage farm. Savage, Minn. In 1906 the champion pacer went a mile over the St. Paul track in 1:55 flat, the premier sulky record of the world. • * • Terror has seized the multitudes who have bathed at beaches along the New York and .New Jersey coasts by the appearance of man-eating sharks, which have caused the death of four swimmers in the past two weeks and comparatively few persons are now venturing into the water. At several resorts wire nets have been strung around the bathing areas. WASHINGTON. The McGillicuddy and Kern bill pro viding a system of . workmen's com pensation for federal employes passed passed house by a vote of 286 to 3. * * * Democrats unanimously agreed in caucus to support the general princi ples of a ship purchase bill and to begin the fight for its passage as soon as the general naval appropriations bill is disposed of. * • • Formal appeal has been made to all the warring powers by the United States through American ambassa dors, the state department announced to make mutual concessions for ship ment of relief supplies into Poland. • • * President Wilson signed the good roads bill recently passed by con gress, authorizing the expenditure of $85,000,000 in five years by the fed eral government on condition that states expend amounts similar to those apportioned by the bill. Rear Admiral W. B. Caperton, now commanding the cruiser squadron in Haiti and Santo Dominican waters, has been selected to succeed Admiral Winslow as commander of the Pacific fleet when the latter retires July 29 on account of age. * • * The administration omnibus rev enue bill, creating a tariff commission, imposing a protective tariff on dye stuffs, repealing present stamp taxes and providing for new taxes on in comes, inheritances and war muni tions profits passed the house b7 a vote of 240 to 140. » • • The German super-submersible Deutcshland, which made a 4,000 rcile trip across the Atlantic is not a warship. She is not even an armed merchantman. She has no guns or armament of any kind aboard her. This was the report made to the treasury department by custom offi cials. * * » War's increase of food prices in Eu rope. as shown by the bureau of labor statistics, has touched neutrals almost as heavily as belligerents. The big gest food price advance is in Austria, where meats are 500 per cent higher than before the war. Meat prices in Germany have risen from 45 to 500 per cent. The British public is paying 55 per cent more for food than it did two years ago. In France prices are 23 per cent above ®he pre-war aver age; in Italy 30 per cent. Prices in Norway for necessities are 63 per cent more than in 1914. Denmark workmen pay 34 per cent more for food than two years ago; in Sweden prices are 21 per cent higher; in Switzerland 3 to 175 per cent. WAR NEWS. The British steamship Pendennis, 2,183 tons gross, with a cargo of tim ber from Gothenburg for Hull, has been captured by a German warship off the Norwegian coast and brought to a German port. ■% * * * The entente allied offensive on the western front is only in its beginning declared Premier Asquith in announc ing in the House of Commons that the government had decided to ask work ers to forego their August holidays be cause of the demand for munitions. • * • The Germans, since the beginning of the war, have destroyed in France, 2,554 villages, 428 cities, 16,669 houses, .331 churches, 379 schools, 201 city halls, 300 important buildings. 330 fac tories, fdxty important bridges, and fifty-sex structures of historical im portance. This is a statement made in a French newspaper. * * • The next German commerce sub marine to go to America will bring back foodstuffs, particularly con densed milk, according to reports re ceived in Amsterdam from Bremen. Condensed milk also will form the bulk of the return cargo of other sub marines to cross the Atlantic. • * • German newspapers received in Am sterdam assert that eighty submarines of the Deutschland class are now be ing built and that twenty will be com pleted in August. * * * The British gains in the battle of the Somme, after ten days’ continu ous fighting, cover a front of nearly eight miles and include the entire German first system of defense, ac cording to the official report forward ed bv General Haig, the British corn mander-in-chief on the French front. • * * The list of casualties among British officers issued in the past four day3, apparently composed almost altogether of losses suffered in the past week’s advance, give a total of ninety-four killed, 504 wounded, thirty missing. MAY SETTLE ISSUES NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN U. S. AND MEXICO PROMISING. OUTLOOK PLEASES CARRANZA Head of De Facto Government of Mexico Certain Danger of War i* Averted. Talks of Election. Washington.—The informal nego tiations for the settlement of issues between the United, States and Gen eral Carranza being carried on by Acting Secretary Polk and Eliseo Ar redondon, Mexican ambassador-desig aate, are understood to be proceeding very favorably and the outlook for a complete adjustment of all differences between the two countries are prom ising. It has become known that specific questions were being for mulated for probable submission to a joint international commission. The commission plan of settling dif ferences between the two countries is provided for in the treaty of 1848. Unofficial advices from Mexico City have indicated that General Carranza favored resort to it in the present case, and Mr. Polk is believed to have acceded to the suggestion de spite the belief of the state depart ment officials that more could be ac complished through continuance of i he informal conference with Mr. Ar redondo. President Wilson is said to be sat isfied with the trend of the negotia tions. Both Mr. Polk and the ambassador are confident that an agreement wili be reached in the near future. ' It is not known whether the powers of the negotiators finally decided upon will include authority to fix the time and condition under which the American troops will be withdrawn. Carranza Well Pleased. Mexico City.—General Carranza is quoted as saying that the status of the negotiations with the Washington government are very satisfactory. "Thanks to this feeling of good will,” the first chief continued, “we will be able to avoid, war. War is something I do not desire, but if there were no other remedy for the situation I would enter upon it.” Within a short time, the first chief said, there would be incorporated in the constitution of Mexico all the re forms which now find a place in the program of the constitutionalists. As to the holding of a presidential election. General Carranza said it would take place as soon as the work of reconstructing the constitution had been completed and when the country was completely at peace. The de facto government, the first chief said, contemplates a law of amnesty, so that all Mexicans who have left the country for one reason or another can return if they desire. Place Ban On N. Y. Children. New York.—Medical experts bat tling against the epidemic of infan tile paralysis, which has cost 342 lives in this city, express divergent views upon the efficacy of injections of adre linine in the spine as a remedy for the disedse recommended by Dr. S. J. Meltzer of the Rockefeller institute. Dr. Louis C. Ager, referring to the work being done in hospitals, declared the percentage of total recoveries from infantile paralysis will be larger than was expected at first. Parents eager to take their children out of the city are finding it increasingly diffi cult. Many tried to do so and failed because the quarantine against the city is growing more strict. Health officials in towns adjacent to New York are using the utmosi vigilance. Wilson Names Hughes’ Successor. Washington.—J. H. Clarke. United States district Judge at Cleveland. O.. lias been nominated by President Wil son as an associate judge of the su preme court to succeed former Justice Hughes, the republican nominee for the presidency. Judge Clarke was ap pointed federal district judge about two years ago by President Wilson. He is a bachelor and has devoted most of his leisure hours of his life to read ing. He was bom at Lisbon. O.. and will be 59 years old in September. In politics he has been 3 life-long demo crat and ran against Mark Ilanna for the United States senate in 1903. Morster Meteor Falls. Hot Springs, Ark.—A meteor, the unburied part of which is as large as a five-room house, fell on the farm of J. W. Skipes, twenty miles west of Hot Springs. Farmers of the vicinity were afraid to approach the meteor because of gases and smoke which were arising from it. Boy of 12 Kills Mother. New Orleans, La.—William Zimmer, aged 12, was arrested here charged with killing his mother, Mrs. Harry Zimmer. The boy. according to the police, said he shot his mother be cause she threatened to beat hiui when he returned home from hunting work. Stubble Wound Results in Lockjaw. Sioux City. Ia.—Arthur Kurrer, 10 years old. cut his foot on stubble in a cornfield last week. The wound was not thought serious. He developed lockjaw and died at his home here. Off to Rescue Companions. Punta Arenas, Chile.—Sir Ernest Shackelton, the British Antarctic ex plorer, who on returning from the south polar zone last April left twenty one of his companions on Elephant island, has sailed from this port on a small schooner to rescue them. Ammonia Tank Burts, Killing 5. New York.—Five persons were kill ed, and at least thirty others were injured when an ammonia tank in a. Brooklyn butcher shop exploded, com pletely wrecking the building.