EPITOME OF EVENTS
PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO
MANY SUBJECTS.
ARE SHORT BUT INTERESTING
Brief Mention of What la Transpiring
In Various Sections of Our Own
and Foreign Countries
WAR NEWS.
The entire Sixth corp of the Greek
army with its 20 officers, has deserted
to the revolutionists, according to a
Central News dispatch from Athens.
• * •
The Grand Duke Nicholas, former
commander-in-chief of* the Russian
armies, has been placed in command
Of the Russo-Rumanian drive against
Bulgaria.
* * *
The BYench, English, Russian and
Belgian soldiers in the German prison
camps will In the future have to wear
wooden shoes, due to the scarcity of
leather in Germany.
* • • /
Along the 125 mile line from Viadi
mir-Volynski in Volhynia, to the Dnei.
ater near Halicz in Galicia, the Rus
aians are continuing their determined
atrugle for Lemberg.
• • •
“In their latest raid on Bucharest,”
Bays the Times, Bucharest correspond
ent, "the German aeroplanes dropped
proclamations declaring that the city
will be laid In ruins unless Roumania
hastens to make & separate peace.”
• * •
Troops of the central powers have
crushed the Rumanians between two
forces In a battle which raged for
three days in central Transylvania.
The Rumanians are reported to have
fled in disorder, leaving many dead
and prisoners behind.
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German submarines between Sep
tember 20 and 29 sank in the North
sea and the English channel thirtv
flve hostile vessels with a total ton
nage of 14,000. The vessels destroyed
are in addition to eleven fish steam
ers and four Belgian lighters previous
ly reported.
• * •
General Sir William Robertson,
British chief of the imperial staff, said
in a speech at Dalderby, Lincolnshire,
that while the allies were winning
the war slowly, but surely, he wished
to impress upon his hearers the neces
sity of procuring more men for the
army and munitions factories.
• • •
Field Mrshal von Mackensen, who
commands the forces of the central
allies operating against the Rumani
ans and Russians in the province of
Dobrudja, has ordered the evacuation
of the Danube fortresses of Silistra
and Turtukai, recently captured by the
Teuton-Bulgarian-Turkish forces, says
• dispatch from Rome.
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The relations between Sweden and
the entente powers are attracting un
usual attention and there is every indi
cation that the situation threatens to
become serious. The allied powers
charge that the neutrality of Sweden
is not so loyal and .impartial as it
should be, and Sweden has sent a hot
note to London denying the accusa
tions.
GENERAL.
Major William Warner, former
United States senator from Missouri,
died at his home in Kansas City
after a brief illness.
• • •
J. P. Morgan sailed for England on
the American liner New York, to
float a new quarter of a billion dollar
British war loan, according to reports
in New York financial circles.
• • •
According to the annual report of
the Northern Pacific railway the total
gross earnings of the road for the
fast year is $75,939,231, an Increase
of $12,767,578 over the previous year.
• • •
Rights of Christian Scientists to
treat persons afflicted with disease
without obtaining a license to prac
tice medicine were upheld by New
York court of appeals. The only quali
fication is that Christian Science prac
titioners, in the treatment of bodily
ailments, must conform to the tenets
of the Christian Science church.
• • •
United States Senator James P.
Clarke, president pro tempore of the
United States senate, died at his
home at Little Rock, Ark. Senator
Clark was 62 years old and a native
of Mississippi.
• • •
Butter and eggs are now selling in
Chicago at the highest price ever
known at this season of the year.
Creamery butter is 38 to 40 cents a
pound as against 27 cents a year ago.
Xggs retail around 37 cents a doz
«n, the same selling a year ago at
28% to 24 cents.
* • •
Fourteen person were killed and
more than twenty-five injured, several
probably fatally, when a switch en
gine pushing two freight cars crashed
Into a crowded street car at Detroit.
JBch.
The production of foodstuffs in Mex
ico for the current year has obviated
may chance of shortage, according to
government reports. The crops are
Lid to be not only sufficient to pre
sent famine, but will make Mexico
practically Independent of Importation
hffoodstuffs from other countries.
The annual report of the Union Pa
ne Railroad company for the year
aded June 30 shows earnings of 15.65
„ cent for the common stock, com
ired with 10.9$ per cent the previous
Two persons were Killed and more
than thirty Injured as the result of
two street cars colliding on a bridge,
causing it to collapse and precipitate
the cars thirty feet below at Cleve
land, O.
* • *
This country will now have matches
to burn, a shipment of 103,<180,000
boxes having been brought to New
York by the Swedish-Ameriean liner
Stockholm, in port from Gothenburg.
* * *
Wage increas of 2Vi cents an hour
for employes of the operating depart
ments all over the United Stats, was
announced by Wilson & Co., Armour
& Co., Libby, McNeil company and
Norris & (to. packers.
• * *
C. S. Noble of Nobleford, Alberta.
Canada, has a thousand-acre field, the
wheat crop of which, threshed, gave
a yield of fifty-two bushels to the
acre, the highest ever known in any
part of the world, according to esti
mates.
Two hundred men fought all day at
Phelps, Wis., in a successful attempt
to save the town from destruction by
■fire, which burned the large sawmill
and lumber mills, 1,000 cords of wood
and several railroad cars. The loss is
estimated at $300,000.
* • *
vA movement to place the next
Thanksgiving day on November 23,
instead of (November 30 was inaugur
ated at Kansas City by the mar
chants’ association. A telegram was
sent to President Wilson requesting
the earlier date.
* » •
George A. Joslyn, president and
principal stockholder of the Western
Newspaper Union, died at his home In
Omaha. He was a pioneer in the
ready-print business, in which he
amassed a fortune estimated at $8,
000,000 to $10,000,000.
I * * *
Total transactions of the New York
clearing house for the year ended
September 30, exceeded $155,000,000,
000, breaking all the previous rec
ords,, according to the Unnual report
Total transactions since the organiza
tion of the clearing, house, sixty
three years ago, aggregate nearly
three trillions of dollars
MEXICAN TROUBLE.
Francisco Villa, with 600 men, was
in the Santa Clara canyon district
September 22, according to the most
reliable information planning to cap
ture the towns of Namiquipa, Cruecs
and Baehineva.
Satisfactory solution of internal
questions having an international
bearing must be an intergral part of
the general program for the rehabili
tation of Mexico, the Mexican mem
bers of the joint commission were in
formed at Atlantic City, N. J., by their
American colleagues.
* * •
Humors are current along the bor
der that Carranza intends to withdraw
the Mexican members of the border
mediation commission from New
London within three weeks unless an
agreement has been reached before
that time to withdraw American troops
from Mexico, and will then issue an
ultimatum to the United States de
manding that Pershing's expedition be
withdrawn at once.
WASHINGTON.
Contracts for structural steel for
new naval vessels were awarded by
the Navy department at prices about
33 per cent higher than were paid for
similar materia! last December.
* * •
Constant complaint that automobile
users are receiving adulterated gaso
line from dealers has prompted the
Department of Commerce to under
take standardization of the oil.
* • •
All army departmental commanders
were ordered by the war department
to dispatch militia organizations still
in state mobilization camps to the
border as soon as they can arrange
the facilities.
• • •
No new step to end the European
war has been taken by the United
States, and none is likely to be taken
in the near future, according to an au
thoritative statement of the govern
ment’s position, obtained in high offic
ial circles.
* * *
Major Goethels, governor of the
Panama canal, and Commissioner
Clark, of the interstate commerce com
mission, have been selected by Presi
dent Wilson as two of the three mem
bers of the board created by congress
to investigate the eight-hour law.
• • •
Health reports from troops on the
Mexican border announced by the
War department for the week ended
September 30 gives the militia per
centage of sick as 2.25 with seven
deaths, and that of regulars as 3.42
with live deaths.
• • •
Strong protest has been made to
the state department by the British
and French embassies against the ac
tion of the Carranza government in
Mexico in seizing the assets of Brit
ish and French banking Institutions
in the Mexican capital.
• • *
The American commission for Ar
menian and Syrian relief has
launched a campaign to raise a fund
of $5,000,000 to relieve 1,000,000 desti
tute, exiled and starving Armenians
and Syrians scattered broadcast over
Turkey, Persia, Syria and Palestine.
• * •
Gold imported into the United
States from January 1 to September
22 amounted to $384,450,000, the Fed
eral Reserve Board announced, while
in the same period the exports were
$93,000,000. In the same period last
year the imports exceeded the exports
by $247,171,000.
* • •
Recruits for militia organizations
obtained during the recent recruiting
campaign, but who failed to pass phys
ical qualifications, will receive no pay,
under a ruling by the comptroller ot
the treasury.
President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
WILSON AND WIFE
HEAD BID PARADE
REVIEW HUGE SEMI-CENTENNIAL !
PAGEANT AT OMAHA.
300.000 WITNESS SPECTACLE
Territorial Life, Indian and Stage
Coach Times and Other Features
of Nebraska History Shown.
Omaha.—The mammoth historical
pageant representing the development
of Nebraska under fifty years of state
hood and the history of the territory
prior thereto, with President Wood
row Wilson and Mrs. Wilson riding
at the head of the column, passed over
the streets of this city the afternoon
of October 5th.
The pageant was witnessed by a
crowd estimated all the way from
250,000 to 300,000, the largest ever as
sembled in Nebraska at one time.
The president and Mrs. Wilson rode
in the parade to the presidential re
viewing stand in front of the court
house. All through the line of march
they were greeted by continuous ap
plause.
From their reviewing stand, the
president and Mrs. Wilson watched
the pageant pass. With them on the
stand were officers and an executive
committee of 100 of the Nebraska
Historical society, state officials, gov
ernors of neighboring states and fed
eral officers.
The route was lined with a cheer
ing mass of humanity, including a
large part of the population of Omaha
and tens of thousands from surround
ing country.
With the chief executive of the
United, States riding at the head of
the parade, this great, pageant, and.
Nebraska with her fifty years of state
hood, were before the eyes of the
nation and the world.
The greatest newspapers of the
country and two big press associa
tions of the country had their repre
sentatives here to tell the story.
Motion picture corporations sent
expert camera men to photograph the
pageant with President and Mrs. Wil
son riding at the head. Films of the
parade will be shown in practically
every motion picture house in Amer
ica.
The parade, including vivid produc
tions of territorial life, Indian times,
stage coach activities, war periods,
Mormon pilgrimages, prairie life and
all other features of history in this
state was on the streets nearly two
hours.
The president delivered two ad
dresses during his stay in Omaha,
one to the members of the Com
mercial club and one to the public at
the Auditorium.
He declared in his Commercial club
speech that the business legislation
of the last four years had done much
to pave the way for the entrance of
commercial America into the world
marts of trade, and that a new future
was opening for American business.
"It is useful to break old traditions,
to make new beginnings,” said
the president. "This is one time
when America must do this.
“During all the past years America
has had these world opportunities,
but has not used them. Now we must
use them whether we want to or not.
They have been thrust upon us.
“America must save the world. In
the next decade, at least, the fate of
the world will rest largely upon us.”
Fully 8,000 persons heard the presi
dent praise Nebraska and picture his
ideal of America at- war during his
address at the auditorium.
Welccmed As Never Before.
Woodrow Wilson, president of the
United States, was greeted in Omaha
by the largest number of his fellow
citizens ever assembled in one place
to do him honor. This statement is
made on authority of one of the se
cret service men who has accom
panied the president on all his
travels.
Says Parade Revelation.
“Omaha’s historical parade was a
revelation of achievements of the
middle west—a demonstration of
greater things to come. Mrs. Wilson,
myself and every member of our
party were particularly impressed
with the splendor of the floats,” said
President Woodrow \\*lson, through
Secretary J. P. Tumulty.
“Real Indians, who came a long
way to greet Mrs. Wilson and me,
were an interesting feature. The
pony express, sod houses, ox-drawn
prairie schooners, pioneer mail car
riers, the early troops and every
step depicting Nebraska history dis
played by the Ak-Sar-Ben floats tell a
story that will linger long in our
memories. The plendid delineation
of educational advancement was an
other admirable feature. Our Omaha
visit is one of the bright spots of our
experience.”
Troops to Remain on Border.
Atlantic Pity, N. J.—There will be
no withdrawal qjj American troops
from Mexico as a result of General
Carranza’S insistence on this point in
discussions of the American and Mexi
can commissions in session here.
General Pershing’s column will not
return to American soil until foreign
life and property is assured of safety
south of the Rio Grande.
There have been no intimations
here that Carranza would retail his
commissioners if the matter of troop
withdrawal is not immediately set
tled,* but in the face of admissions
that the first chief is insisting upon
General Pershing's early withdrawal,
this authoritative statement of the
American position was made.
The discussions in the conference
for the past few days have been more
along the line of Mexico’s position as
a nation. Not only American, but all
foreign rights, have been presented
by the American commissioners as
subjects which must be given con
sideration in Mexico.
No Move to End War.
Washington.—No new step to end
the European war has been taken by
the United States, and so far as of
ficials here can forecast none is like
ly to be taken in the near future, ac
cording to an authoritative statement
of the government's position, obtain
ed in high official circles. While no
official professed to know what is in
President Wilson’s mind, it was de
clared that no preparations had been
made for discussion of peace through
the usual diplomatic channels, and
that all the- information gathered
here seemed to indicate that such a
move would be both useless and in
advisable. It was pointed out, how
ever, that in a matter of this nature
the president usually keeps his own
counsel and might be influenced by
indications of which the officials here
are in ignorance.
Wheat Crop Record Breaker.
Edmonton, Alberta.—C. S. Noble of
Nobleford, Alberta, has a thousand
acre field, the wheat crop of which,
threshed, gave a yield of fifty-two
bushels to the acre, the highest ever
known in any part of the world, ac
cording to estimates.
Lynching of a Negro Woman.
Albany, Ga.—A negro woman named
Connolly, whose son is charged with
killing a white farmer after a quarrel
in which she took part, was taken
from jail at Leary, Ga., and lynched.
Biggest Single Sugar Order.
New York.—Negotiations for what
is said to be a record-breaking single
transaction in refined sugar with*any
one nation were completed by the
Federal Sugar refining company,
which announced the sale of 30,000
tons to a foreign government, the
identity of which was not disclosed.
The purchase involved about $3,500,
000 and shipments are to be made in
January, February and March. Im
mediate shipments of 18,500 tons to
the Dritish commission, Greece and
France were announced.
War’s End Not Near.
Baltimore, Md.—Dr. William H.
Welch, the pathologist, arrived here
after a visit to Europe on behalf of
the Rockefeller foundation and also to
make observations in his capacity as
head of the National Academy of
Sciences. These will be used in or
ganizing the scientific resources of
the country for defense. This com
mission was given him with the ap
proval of President Wilson. Dr.
Welsh said he is convinced that the
war is not near at end.
Wireless Across Pacific.
San Francisco. — Wireless waves
spanned the Pacific ocean when the
San Francisco Marconi wireless tele
graph station was in direct communi
cation with a Japanese government
wireless plant at Ochiishi, Japan,
5,800 miles away. The “conversa
tion” was one of a series of svicess
ful tests carried on preliminary to in
auguration of a wireless commercial
service. Previously, Honolulu relay
ed wireless messages between Japan
and the United States.
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CONDENSED NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL.
OATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
October 11-12—State Meeting Qrand
Lodge Degree of Honor at Lincoln.
October 11-22—Coursing Meet at
Grand Island.
October 17-20—1. O. O. F. State Con
vention at Lincoln.
October 20—Annual Meeting Luther
Synod of Nebraska at Omaha.
Oct. 31—Northwestern Nebraska Med
ical Society meeting, Long Pine.
Nov. 2-5—Nebraska Christian En
deavor Union state convention at
Omaha.
Nov. 8-9-10—Nebraska State Teach
ers’ association meeting at Omaha.
November 1-4, Second Annual Cours
ing Meet at Omaha.
November 7—General Election Day
in Nebraska.
Nov. 27 to Dec. 2—Annual Poultry
Show at Omaha.
Indications are that the annual con
vention of the Nebraska Teachers’ as
sociation, which is to be held in
Omaha on November 8, 9 and 10 will
be the largest in the history of the
organization. A part of the program
outlined for the entertainment of the
teachers is a concert to be given on
November 10 by Helen Stanley, one of
America’s foremost singers and Fran
cis Macmillen, noted violinist.
A few moments after his baby son
was found dead, Paul Wurm, a farmer,
27 years of age, living near Sprague,
killed himself with a rifle. Wurm
brought the baby, who had been ill,
downstairs, laid it on the table and
said: “If this baby dies I am going
to kill myself.” The child died short
ly afterward and Wurm carried out his
threat.
In the Better Babies’ contest at the
Gage county fair, at Beatrice, Carl,
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Shaffer
of Beatrice, won first prize, scoring
99.2 per cent. There were fifty-eight
babies from all parts of the country in
the contest.
George A. Joslyn, president of the
Western Newspaper Union, philantro
pist, and reputed to be the wealthiest
man in Nebraska, died at his home
in Omaha. He was 68 years old and
a native of Massachusetts.
Fremont bank clearings for the
month of September show an increase
of more than $800,000 over the same
period last year. The total for the
current month was $2,380,060 against
$1,547,578 last year.
Near the end of the macadam road
east of Elkhorn Charles Brogan of
Yutan was almost instantly killed
when an automobile, in which he rode
with Julius Nitz, turned turtle.
A record in numbers was estab
lished when a crowd, estimated at
nearly 200,000 persons, turned out to
witness the electrical parade of King
Ak-Sar-Ben at Omaha.
Bonds to the sum of at least one
half million dollars, to build 125 miles
of paved road in Lancaster county,
will be submitted to a vote of the
people at the November election.
The Blair team of horseshoe pitch
ers carried off the honors at the tour
nament held at Fremont a few days
ago. Twenty teams took part in the
tournament.
F. J. Cott, a farmer of Hemingford,
has raised sweet clover seed on dry
land this year which will yield him
$108 per acre.
With elaborate dedicatory exercises
citizens of Franklin formally opened
their new Carnegie library. The new
structure cost about $5,000.
Nemaha county commissioners are
busy putting in cement bridges and
culverts and the roads are being
graded.
The woman’s conservative league
of Central City has placed seven or
gans in the grade.
Judge H. C. Palmer of Clay Center
is circulating a petition in Sutton ask
ing the county board to levy a special
tax of 5 mills for the purpose of rais
ing funds for the erection of a new
court house at Clay Center. The levy
will produce about $10,000 a year,
which would pay for the building in
three years.
Charles E. Hughes, republican can
didate for president, will visit Ne
braska speaking at Falls City, Fair
bury, York and Lincoln ou October
14; Hastings, Grand Island, Columbus,
Fremont and Omaha on October 16.
Judge Day of the district court at
Omaha decided that the twelve thou
sand dollars sent by Frank lams of
West Point to the Decatur Farmers
State bank was a loan and not a de
posit, and therefore could not be re
covered through the guaranty fund.
A Home Makers’ club, composed of
town and country women, has been
organized at Seward. One hundred
and fifty women are organized in pre
cinct groups and will have a domestic
science woman county agent sent by
the United States government.
The Norfolk Presbyterian church
baa decided to build a new building.
A short time ago the present one was
damaged by fire. This makes the third
church which will build a new build
ing in Norfolk in the near future, the
Baptists having decided to build a
$15,000 structure and the St. Johannes
also deciding to put up a new one.
Farmers in Gage county state that
the month just closed has been per
fect for corn, which has matured rap
idly during the last few weeks. The
average in the county will be about
forty bushels to the acre.
One fireman was killed and ten oth
ers more or less seriously injured, and
property to the value of a quarter
million dollars was lost when fire al
most completely destroyed the pork
house of the Morris Packing com
pany plant at Omaha. It was one of
the most spectacular fires, in Omaha
in several years.
Of the fifteen babies entered in the
Madison county fair baby show Irene
Elvira Morton was adjudged champion,
she having registered 95.5 per cent.
Arthur Supderman was proclaimed
champion boy baby, registering 97.5.
X xaSSiSi &$# ? i
Veteran Free Masons from lAe Ma
sonic home at Plattsmouth, nine blue
lodges of Omaha and vicinity, the
Knights Templar, the grand lodge of
Nebraska, and a battalion of Masons
from all Nebraska and all the country
attended the laying of the cornerstone
of the new $500,000 Masonic temple
at Omaha on October 4. Four thousand
Masons witnessed the ceremony,
among them being John Bamford, R.
E. French, E. K. Long and G. H.
Thummel, who attended the corner
stone laying of Omaha's temple in
1876.
Discussion and agitation that may
lead up to the creating of the position
of field secretary to the Nebraska
Press association, to devote his whole
time to work among country papers,
is planned by the committee, which
met at Lincoln recently. This com
mittee is arranging for the adjourned
meeting of the Nebraska State Press
association in Lincoln, November 18,
to finish the business of the year
which was not completed at the sched
uled meeting in Scottsbluff last sum
mer.
J. F. Connell, former postmaster of
Insmount, Colo., was found guilty of
first degree murder at Sidney and
sentenced to life imprisonment for
the murder of Ira C. Paup near Sunol,
July 28, last. Connell and Granger
Luenks of Denver were charged with
killing Paup and Paul Vasik. follow
ing the robbery of the State Bank of
Sunol.
The executive council of the Ne
braska Equal Suffrage association de
cided in favor of making a campaign
for votes for women in Nebraska in
1918, at the Hastings convention.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, national
suffrage leader, was present and will
report favorably to the national coun
cil, which assures ratification of the
actioD.
LAJll, lilt* sun ui raui
Kuhurt, of Alma, was instantly killed
by being buried in a sandbank about
a mile northeast of town. The lad, in
company with a younger brother and
another schoolmate, went to the sand
banks to dig a <t'ave, when it caved
in, burying the oldest boy under two
feet of sand. The boy was 13 years
old on the day of his death.
Douglas county commissioners will
be asked to put $600,000 Omaha-Coun
cil Bluffs free bridge bonds to vote on
or before June 1, 1917. That was the
sense of the bridge meeting of two
score men from the two cities at
Omaha. Council Bluffs is to vote on
its share, $200,000, November 7. Esti
mates are that a bridge sufficient for
immediate needs can be built for
$800,000.
Newman Grove is enjoying an un
precedented building boom this season
Two big garages are being completed,
making four big ones for the town.
The Farmers’ union store, a two-story
building, is now ready for the roof.
In addition to these buildings, about
thirty residences will be completed
before the season is over. Farmers in
the surrounding country are also
doing lots of building.
Seventeen architects have submit
ted plans for York’s new $100,000 ho
tel. Fred Cralke of Omaha was
awarded the contract for the plans;
Fisk & Meginnis, Lincoln, Floyd
Wells, Omaha, and J. A. Doods,
Omaha, were other preferred archi
tects.
Isaac lthoads of Falls City, cele
brated his eighty-first birthday Sun
day. -October 1. Mr. Rhoads is in
splendid health for one of his years.
He is a civil war veteran and has
lived in Richardson county for forty
five years..
Mrs. W. E. Barkley, of Lincoln, was
the unanimous choice of the Nebraska
Equal Suffrage association for presi
dent the coming year, during the con
vention at Hastings.
A committee of the Kearney Com
mercial club is preparing plans for a
good roads fair to be held in the next
few weeks.
The total building operations in
Omaha for nine months ending Sep
tember 30 amounted to $5,266,062,
which almost equals the total of
1915, which was $5,385,000. With
three months of this year yet to
draw on, the city building depart
ment is confident that the total for
I the year will exceed $6,000,000.
Two carloads of horses were pur
chased at Beatrice by Frank Howard
of Pawnee City, who will ship them
east to be used in the European war.
The prices ranged all the way from
$100 to $200 per head.
Charles Moon, Hastings stockholder
in the Lincoln Western league base
ball team, has acquired control of that
team for the coming year. He expects
to serve as secretary to that organ
ization. Mr. Moon has been active in
Hastings baseball circles for many
years.
Nebraska stands third in th6 states
of the union in crop production this
year, according to statistics prepared
by the department of agriculture and
printed in the department’s monthly
crop report which is Just out.
Contract has been let by the city
council of Geneva for an electrolier
lighting system for the business sec
tion of the town. Geneva business
men subscribed $800 to assist in pay
ing for the installation. The lights are
single and there will be four to the
block.
The most successful fair in the his
tory of Lincoln county closed at North
Platte, leaving the fair association but
$800 short of paying all expenses and
meeting the cost of two permanent
buildings, a large grandstand and
bleachers and a new race track. ^
Rudolph Vanak, a farmer residing
near Fremont, was killed when his au
tomobile went into the ditch near that
place. Mr. Vanak’s neck was broken
and he was dead when found by pass
ersby. He was alone in the car. The
machine went into the ditch and turn
ed turtle.
Prices on nearly all common arti
cles of food have jumped from 4 to
108 per cent in Omaha in the last
year. A compilation of advances on
thirty-one articles, covering a wide
range of commodities, shows an aver
age of 30.03 per cent.
i INVADERS OF TRANSYLVANIA
DEFEATED BY TEUTONS.
BUCHAREST ADMITS REVERSES
Berlin Estimates Russian Casualties
During First Two Years of War
at More Than 6,000,000.
London.—Turning against Ruman
ians, who had been advancing steady
in eastern Transylvania, Austro-Hun
garian and German troops have de
feated the invaders decisively along
a fifty-mile front.
The successful repulse of the in
vaders on the southern end of the
lino was at the hands of General von
I'alkenhayn, former chief of the Ger
man general staff, and who only a few
days ago routed the Rumanians
around Hermannsta,dt and drove them
back to their own frontier. North of
Reps the Austro-Hungarians reeap
! tured positions and took several hun
dred prisoners. Bucharest admits that
the Rumanian troops in eastern Tran
sylvania have been withdrawn before
In Dobrudja heavy fighting con
tinues, with Bucharest recording prog
ress for the Russians and Rumanians
in the center and on their left wing.
While General Brussiloff apparently
has ceased at least for the moment
his attacks against the Austro-Ger
man lines in Volhynia, west of Lutsk
in Galicia, he continues southward his
assaults with great intensity against
the positions of the Teutonic allies
guarding the approaches to Lemberg.
A deleayed report from Constanti
nople tells of the rout of troops north
west of Hamadan, Persia. Tribesmen
in Ispahan, says Constantinople, have
I risen in revolt and driven the Rus
sians from the city.
attacks by superior forces
region of Fogaras.
Russian l_css.es Enormous.
Berlin.—Casualties among the Rus
sian armies during this year’s offen
sive on the eastern front, according
to cautious calculations, says the
Overseas News Agency, have been at
least 1.250,000 officers and men. Ac
cording to conservative Danish cal
culations, the news agency adds,
Russia during the first two years of
the war lost considerably more than
6,000,000 men. Wounded men who re
turned to the front are not included
in this estimate.
Continuing, the Overseas News
Agency says:
“The prophesy of David Lloyd
George, the British secretary of war.
that Russia ‘will fight until death’ is .
now about to be realized literally. The ^
Russian losses in Galicia recently v
again reached gigantic figures which
-even this populous country cannot
bear. Russian artillery fires indis
criminately among the troops in order
to push them forward and shoots
down troops which are retreating. In
the battle of Korytniza, which was
victorious for the Germans, Russian
columns were driven forward by a
curtain of tire and whips. Entire Rus
sian waves of men fell under the Ger
man artillery and machine gun fire.
Dead bodies formed in mountains. Af
ter the losses sustained by the Rus
sian emperor guards on the Stokhod
river and in the sanguinary engage
ments at Pustomyty and Korytnitza
nothing remained of the emperor
guards.”
Ships Collide at Hampton Roads
Norfolk, Va.—The British steamer
Hawkhead. at anchor in Hampton
Roads of Sewall’s Point, was run
down and sunk by the Chesapeake
Steamship Co.’s day line steamer,
City of Norfolk, outward bound from
this port for Baltmiore with a number
of passengers. The City of Norfolk
was badly damaged about the bow.
but there was no loss of life, so far as
is known. The collision occurred dur
ing a heavy fog.
Two Men Killed In Race Riot.
Billings. Mont.—In a race war be
tween negroes and whites near Nihil!
on the Great Northern railroad in
Meagher county, seven negroes are
said to hjrve shot three white men
killing two. Five negroes and tw(
whites have been arrested at Cush
man on suspicion of being implicated.
Death Penalty for Robbing.
Mexico City.—The government has
prepared a decree providing for the
death penalty for robbers, bandits and
those convicted of holdups. The de
cree is similar to the one issued by
Benito Juarez, and is for the purpose
of putting an end to banditry.
Oldest Minister Dead.
Philadelphia, Pa.—Rev. David Tully
said to be the oldest Presbyterian
minister in active service In this coun
try, died at his home at Media, near
here. He was 98 years old, but al
ways refused to be placed on the re
tired list.
Cut Papers In Half.
Amsterdam.—The Frankfurter Zei
tung says that an order has been is
sued reducing by one-half the quantity
of paper supplied to the German news
papers.
Blast Kills Three.
Grafton, I1L—Three men were killed
and several injured seriously wher
three cars of dynamite exploded al
the mill of the Illinois Powder com
pany here. The powder mill was
wrecked. The shock was ' felt foi
thirtyflve niiles.
Greatest Proving Grounds In World
Trenton, N. J.—The Bethlehem
Steel company announces that its nev
proving grounds for ordnance to R
established near Mays Landing V r
will be the greatest of Its kind.