RED OL'OTJD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF Wm MEN FREE FEDERAL JUDGE AT GRAND RAP IDS ABSOLVES OWNERS IN. DICTED FOR MURDER. TO EiCAPE TRIAL AT CHICAGO 'Jurist Clarence W. Sessions Rules Ac cused Men Need Not Leave Mlchl gan and Asserts Charges ol Con spiracy Were Not Proved. Grnnd Kaplds, Mich., Feb 21. Six men charRou" by tho government with reBonnlblllty for tho loss of more thtui 700 IIvcb In tho KuBtlund disaster do not havo to go to Chicago to stand 'tlnl. This decision waa handed down on tTrldny by Federal Judge Clnrenco W. HchbIoiih, sitting as a commissioner in tho district court hero. Ho denied tho governments application for a warrant of removal for tho dofcndantB. all of whom llvo. in Michigan. Tho finding of tho court means practically that nono of tho defend' antB will ever bo placed on trial by tho government. There Is a possibil ity that If nny of them Journey into other Htntos than Michigan they may bo seized and another nttempt at ex tradition made, but It Is declared to bo a remote ono. Tho men, Indicted hero, who fought extradition and defeated tho govern ment nro William II. Hull, president of tho St. Joseph-Chicago Steamship company; (Jeorgo T. Arnold, general nanagor; Harry Pcdcrson. captain; obop!j M. KrlckBon, chief engineer, Mid Robert Hold and Charles C Eck Uff, fcdornl Inspectors. Judge Sosslons, In his opinion, Bald, tho government had failed utterly In All attempts to show conspiracy and negligence. In making his decision the Judge said: "Tho dend cannot bo restored to llfo. Tho Borrows of tho living can not bo lessened by claiming other vic tims. Tho majesty of tho law cannot bo uphold nnd vindicated by taking mon from their homes to Btnnd trial among strangers upon accusations which there Is baroly a scintilla of proof to sustain. Tho ovldenco In this mntter wholly falls to establish tho probable causo for believing any of these defendants guilty of any crlmo chnrgod In tho Indictments." HANS SCHMIDT IS EXECUTED Former Priest Pays Penalty for Slay ing Girl in 8ing Sing Prison. Osslnlng. N. Y.. Fob. 21. Hans Schmidt, tho unfrocked priest who murdered his sweetheart, Anna Au muoller. was put to death In tho elec tric chair In Sing Sing prison on Fri day. His laBt words were: "I send a hearty greeting to my mother. My last thoughts aro of her. Oootl-by, all friends." With a linn step ho walked to his death, and on his wny to tho chair ho asked forgiveness from all ho had "offended or scandalized," and In turn forgavo nil who had offended him. Tlirco shocks wero necessary. It Ib believed Anna Aumuellcr wns murdered on September 8, 11)13. It wns on September 5, 1UKI, that pnrt of her body wns found lloatlng In tho river off WoodcllfT, N. J. When ho was arrested tho priest mado a full confesalon. Ho said ho had klllod tho girl nnd that ho had cut uor body Into ulna pleccB RATIFIES NICARAGUAN PACT Canal Route and Naval Base Treaty is Approved by the Senate, 65 to 18. Washington, Feb. 21. Tho sennto m Friday by a voto of G5 to 18 nul led tho long winding nnd persistently opposed Nlcnrnguan treaty, whereby tho United States would acqulro n 3D year option on tho Nicaragua!! Canal routo and a naval haso In tho Gulf o Fonsecn for KU0O.O00. Included In tho rntllkntlon rcsolu t'on was a provision declaring thnt tho United States In cbtnlnlng tho naval baso does not Intend to vlolnto any existing rights m tho Fonseca Gulf of Costa Rica. Honduras nnd Sal vdcr, which had protested ngalnst IT proposed acquirement. immediately aftoi tho sennto hnd acted, Scnor Chammorro, tho Nlca- raguan minister, ,nld ho expected ratification of tho convention by his lovernmont would soon follow. U. 8. Refuses New Sea Order. Washington, Fob. 21. All diplomatic and consular olllclals abroad havo bcon notified In n circular communi cation from tho stato department that the position of tho United States 1b that merchant ships havo a right to carry defensive armament. Eloper Sent to Prison. MadlBon, Wis., Fob. 19. Charlos Follansbco cf Waterloo, Wis., nt Su perior wns sentenced to two and n half years in Leavenworth prison for violation cf tho Mnnn net, Follnnsbeo eloped with Mrs. Anna Kolly, Flames Wreck Steel Plant. Bridgeport, C.nn Fob. 19. The plant or tho Farlst Steel compnny was almost destroyed by llro, with a loss estimated at ubcut $400,000. Tho com pany furnishod Bteol for tho Reming ton Arms company. ENOUGH TO SHOCK "!V, " "N CHICAGO TRIBUNE ' & RUSS TAKE ERZERUM GRAND DUKE REPORTS GREAT VICTORY OVER TURKS More Than 40,000 Mado prisoner Two German Commanders May Be Lost. London, Fob. 18. Led by Grand Duko Nicholas, tho Russian army of tho Caucasus has captured tho great Turkish fortrcsB of Erzcrum, In east ern Asia Minor. Tho following official statement was given out on Wednesday In I'ctro grad: "Grand Duko Nicholas has tele graphed to tho ompcror as follows: "'God haB granted to tho bravo troops of tho army of tho Caucasus such great holp that Erzorum haB been taken nftor llvo days of unprece dented assaults. " 'I nm Inoxprcsslbly happy to an nounce this victory to your Imperial majesty.' " Moro than 40,000 Turkish troops wero captured In Erzorum with tho Investment of tho orlress, according to Tlills dispatches. Two noted Gor man leaders, Hold IWarshals von dor Goltz and Llmon ven Sanders navo recently boon reported at Erzorum. It Is not yet known whothcr they es caped. Erzcrum Is tho chief town In Ar menian Turkoy, and as tho center of Important roads and strntcglc lines Ib of vnBt importance Its enpturo opens a now rond to Constantinople. It hna u population of about 40,000, and lies nt un nltiludo of 6,250 feet In tho Cnucasus mountains. It wns tlrst hold by tho Turks In 1517. LUSITANIA CASE HELD UP Lansing Satisfied With Revised Agree ment, Out Wants Assurances on Liners' Safety. Washington. Fob. 18. Tho Luslta nla caao Is hold up nnd tho cntlro question of submarlpo wnrfaro re opened as a result of tho Genr.au and Austrian declarations that armed merchantmen shall bo sunk without warning, It was dcclarod on Wednes day by a high ofllcial of tho stato de partment. After n conference with Count von HeniBtorff, tho German am bassador, Secretary of State Lansing announced that tho Lusitunla case de pends "upon how BUbmnrlr.o warfaro is f? bo conducted In tho future." Tho rovise of tho Lusltnnla answer, sub mitted by iho German amhnasalnr, is sntlBfnctory to tho administration, and It was admitted thnt it would bo for mally accepted, provided tho adminis tration is told that passenger ships aro not to bo sunk without wnrnlng. NINE DIE IN THEATER FIRE School Children Lose Lives During Panic in Opera House at Mexla, Tex. Moxla, Tox., Feb. 18. Nino persons wero burned to death nnd llftoen poo plo Injured when a llro hero destroyed tho opera hcuso, whoro tho public schools wero holding nn art exhibit. Sovoral other stares and resldoncoB woro dostroyed by tho llnmcs which originated In a grocery storo recently closed. Missouri Strckman Killed. St. Joseph, Mo., Fob 21. J-.hn Her ryman, leading stockmnn and prcini tier.t hero for son:o yenrs, was shot nnd klllod by William H. Richardson, an employee Tho two men quarreled over n business dual. Woman's Estate $1,074,054. Now York, Feb 21. Miss Cnthurlno A. nilss, a daughter of Cornelius N Illlss, loft an cstnto estluintoJ In a Blato tax appraiser's report filed at $1,074,054. Shu possessed a collection I of jewels worth almost $80,000 'MOST ANYBODY 21 PERISH IN MINE FIRE FLAMES SWEEP COPPER 8HAFT AT BUTTE, MONT. Workers Are Suffocated While At. tempting to Flee From Blast Two Rescuers Lose Lives. llutto, Mont, Feb. 17. Twcnty-ono dead and missing sums up the extent of tho tiro that visited tho depths of tho Pennsylvania mlno, ono cf tho properties of tho Anaconda Copper Mining company. Nino bodies havo been recovered; for tho missing, no hopo is entertained. All wero victims of u firo which started near tho air shaft of tho mlno about nine o'clock nt night. Two cf tho dead wero res cuers, who wero overcomo whilo at work underground. All others w'ero suffocated whilo try Ing to escape. Tho disaster was tho worst In Ilutte, with tho exception of tho powder explosion January 15, 1895 when nearly sixty persons lost their lives. Two hundred and twenty men wero at work In tho Pennsylvania when tho cry resounded through tho dopths, "Gns has broken loose." Tho dead: Zeblna Uardwoll, Dort DuLong, Gcorgo TIppctt, John Sodor man, Juck Drennan, William Kelly, Neil Uronnan, William Mitchell. Tho missing: Fred Curnow, Frank F. Ferguson, John Inch, Frank Mc Enny, William F. Reynolds, Walter Stcego, Leo Whltraoro, Uranco L. White, Ed Pfcffcrlo, Charles R. Self. David Carlson. All night rescuers went down tho shaft at great risk to themselves. Moro than ono hundred trips were made by parties of rescuers after the llru was discovered. AMBASSADOR MARYE TO QUIT Wnshlngt n Report Says U. S. Diplo mat at Petrograd Has Broken Down Under War Strain. Washington, Feb. 17. United States Ambassador Goorgo T. Maryo, at Po trograd, Russia, has broken down un der tho war strain. Ho has decided that ho must retire from tho diplomatic service. Confidential advices rocolvod hero on Tucsdny say that tho ambas sador either already has resigned, or will do so In tho Immediate future Ambassudor Maryo's confidential secretary, Ray Raker, reached tho United Statos Monday, and hurried to Washington. Ho declined positively to discuss tho report that ho had been commissioned by tho ambassador to present his resignation to President Wilson. Ambassador Maryo was born In Maryland, but has lived for many yenrs in California. FLASHES OFF THE WIRE oooooooooooooooocooo Copenhagen, Feb. 17. Tho Swodlsh government has decided to ask parlla ment for $G,200,000 to defray thu. cost of maintaining neutrality defenses, Bays a dispatch from Stockholm. Amsterdam, Fob, 17. According to tho Echo llolgo, threo persons woro killed nnd ten wounded at Assonedo, Holgiuni, when German soldlors fired Into a crowd assembled to protest against further Gerniun requisitions. Alleged Train Bandit Taken. Kmumerrer, Wyo., Fob. 21. James Cutler, ngod twenty-three, a aheap herder, was arrested chnrgod with holding up and robbing a Union Pnclllc passenger train at Rock Springs ten days ago. Solms Throw Inkwells. Oklahoma City. Okla., Fob. 21. Tho greatest disorder prevailed Ir. tho house of representatives when tho llo wns passed between Nesbltt nnd Snma during a debato. Sovoral lukwollB wero thrown. 10 INCREASE RATES MODEST INCOMES MAY ESCAPE THE TAX. URGES IRISHMEN TO FRONT Raymond Makes Appeal to Availablo Young Men Many Fatalities as Result of Mexican Troubles. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Washington. The proposal to amend the Income tax law so as to Include smaller incomes is virtually certain to be abandoned in favor ol nn Increased rate on those already taxed, it is dcelurcd by democratic house leaders. Sentiment ngalnst lowering tho exemption limit in ordor to provide additional revenue for tho preparedness program crystallized, It was said, In the democratic causus Thursday night, when Democratic Lender Kltchln declared against (hanging tho present minimum of $3. 000. Since then protestnnts against all reduction plans havo become more out spoken dally, Leaders declare that virtually tho entire preparedness rev enue burden would be met with In come tuxes. Tentative bills looking to raising $100,000,000 solely by an in creased lncomo tax rato aro being discussed nnd will bo offered soon In committee. Data on Mexican Situation Washington. All of tho stato 6c pnrtment's data on the Mexican situa tion asked for by Senntor Fall has been transmitted to tho senate by President Wilson, nnd was, under motion of Chairman Stono of the foreign relations committee, ordered printed as n public document. In a letter from Secretary Lansing, accom panying tho report, it is said that seventy-six American citizens were killed in Mexico In tho years 1913, 1914, 1915, ns against forty-seven in tho tlirco years preceding it and that twenty-six civilian Americans and six teen soldiers wero killed on American soil In tho samo three years, as a result of Mexican troubles. URGES IRISHMEN TO FRONT John Redmond Makes an Appeal to Available Young Men. London. "Wo must not and will not tolcrnto tho Idea of our Drltish regi ments being reinforced by any but Irish soldiers," Bald John Redmond, tho Irish leader, In a manifesto to tho peoplo of Ireland, in which he nppenls to tho young men who arc still avail ablo to Join reserve battalions and bo- gin training that tljey may bo ready, If needed, to fill every gap in the Irish army In tho field. "Our gallant fellow countrymen at tho front," said Mr. Redmond, "hnvo commanded mo to mako this appeal. In your namo I promised them In Franco and Flanders that Iroland would Btnnd by them. Will you fulfill thnt promlso? Lou aro under no com pulsion, save thnt of duty." Wants Messenger Sent. London. Tho Observer, In an edi torial, says that only the events of tho noxt few weeks can show how tho now Germnn program will affect tho relations of Washington, London and Ilorlin. "The possibilities nro Incalculable." says tho Observer, "and wo shall do very well Indeed to restrain our tongues with premnturo Judgment and any sort of evil npoaklng nt PrcBldont Wilson's expense. Wo earnestly hopo that Sir Edward Grey will adopt tho suggestion to send some sufficiently distinguished and authoritative states man upon n mission to tho Amorlcan government nnd tho Amorlcan people. No one could compare with Viscount Bryco for such a mission." Butto, Mont. Twcnty-ono men probably havo perished, according to tho rescuo workers nt tho Pennsyl vania mlno of tho Anaconda Copper Mining Co., in a firo which broke out In ono of tho levels whoro 220 mlncn woro at work. London. New votes of credit amounting to approximately 400,000, 000 pounds, will bo asked by Premier Asqulth of tho houso of commons. Tho now votes will bring up tho totnl of war appropriations to 2,002,000,000 pounds. Big Decline In Birth Rnte Berlin. Tho declining birth rato In Germany, which was nttractlng atten tion boforo tho war Is receiving moro serious consideration at tho present time, In viow of the losses sustained In the field. This subject was brought up today In tho budget commltteo of tho Prussian diet. A representnttvo of tho ministry predicted that unless n radical chango had been mado Ger many would soon bo in tho position of Franco, with deaths exceeding births. Tho speaker also referred to tho hlgt rato of infant mortality. Washington. Out of tho chnos seemingly provnillng In tho houso of representatives over tho preparedness program may como nn unnnlmous re port on tho military bill. No mili tary bill In recont yenrs has boon brought Into tho houso without a mi nority report. It Is ngrood thnt It unnnlmlty In thn commltteo can bo exhibited in tho special mensuro now bolng frnmod, thn most Important that has been prepnred In nenrly twenty years, tho ndvocatos of proparcdncss, Irrespective of party will havo achlov ed a smashing victory, THE STATE PRIMARIES Tuesday, April 18, Is Day Get By Law. Governor Morohend has Issued bin proclamation for a prlmnry election to ho held Tucsdny, April 18, for tho fol lowing purposes: To express n preference for candi dates by each of tho political parties for president and vico president of tho United Stntcs. For nominatlon-at-largo of two can didates at large and ono from each congressional district In the stnto for presidential electors by each of tho political parties. For thoelectlon of four delegates-nt-largo and two from each congres sional district In tho stnto to tho na tional convention of the respective po litical parties and for u like mini bor of alternates. For tho election of ono national committeeman for each of tho said political parties. For tho nonpartisan nomination of two candidates for chief Justice of tho supremo court to fill vacancy nnd six candidates for Judges of the supremo court. Ily each political party, tho nomina tion of ono cnndldato for United States senator. Ono candidate for congress from each of the six congressional dis tricts. Also candidates for tho following of fices : Ono governor, ono lieutenant governor, ono railway commissioner, two regents of the stato university, one stato auditor, ono stato treasurer, ono secretary of state, ono attorney general, ono commissioner of public lauds nnd buildings, ono superintend ent of public instruction, thlrty-threo Btato senators In twenty-eight sena torial districts. 100 representatives from tho seventy-seven districts. DIs trict Judge Objects to Commissioner's Figures. Tho figures cited by, tho Nebraska railway commission to prove that tho Chlcngo, Rock Island nnd Pacific Rail road company can maintain a 2 cent passenger rato over Us Nebraska lines nnd still realize a fair profit nre not at all satisfactory to tho Rock Island. Tho company has a lot of llgurcs of its own showing that tho rate is un reasonable and unfair. In a thlrty-pago statement filed with tho clerk of tho fodcral court Thurs day afternoon B. II. Smith, nn ac countant and rate export employed by tho Rock Island, mnkes an exhaustive review of tho "volumo of exhibits" prepared by U. G. Powell, rato expert for the stato railway commission, nnd details wherein ho believes Mr. Pow oil and tho commission have erred In preparing their side of tho case In tho suit brought by tho Rock Islnnd to bring about a higher passenger rato. Somo of the commission's figures, Mr. Smith maintains, should not be given serious, consideration. Others, ho nr gues, wero reached without apparent basis of fact. Form of Primary Ballot Uncertain. Secretary of Stato Pool declines Just at present to mako nny ofllcial rul ing on tho form of tho bnllot to bo used in the stato primaries, April 18. Tho last legislature changed tho bnl lot law for general elections so as to havo tho names of tho candidates and propositions printed in threo columns, Instead of ono, thereby cutting down tho length nnd Increasing tho width of the sheet. Mr. Pool Is personally of tho opinion, however, that tho BlaiiBer act rolatlng to tho ballot for general elections doos not apply nt tho primaries, and that tho party tick ets should bo mado up according to the old style. Others nt tho capltol tnko a different view, pointing out that tho legislature novor Intended to hnvo two different ballot forms in uso, that tho primaries aro governed by tho gen eral election law, except whoro thero is specific provision to tho contrary. An opinion from tho stato legal de partment will probably ho secured by tho socrotary of stato for his guid ance. Secretary Allen Resigns. Socrotary A. B. Allen of tho stnto railway commission has nnnounced his resignation fiom that position. Simultaneously he nnnouncod tho ap pointment of Thorno A. Browno of Lin coln as his successor. Mr. Allen will retire to a farm which ho has pur chased In Johnson county, near Tecum seh. Ho will leave about April 1, and Mr. Browno will assume tho full duties of secretary of tho commission at that time. Tho retiring secretary was state oil inspector under Governor Sheldon, nnd was private secretary to Governor MIckoy. For Rural School Improvement. With tho object of making rural schools moro efficient, n stato confor onco of county superintendents and rural school board members will bo called In tho near futuro by Stato Superintendent Thomas. Ho has boon asked to do this In a resolution adopt ed by tho Farmers' Grango organiza tion at Mcrnn, and has replied that ho will bo glad to act on tho sug gestion when thoso who mado It Bhall indicato what would bo tho most con venient tlmo for peoplo directly Inter ested in tho rural schools to attend. Doputy Attorney General Barrett has written County Attornoy Don C. Founts, county attorney of Adams county, that n consolidated school dis trict becomes llnblo for tho debts of tho Torlous districts forming tho con solidated district. School district 48 of Clay county had a bonded dobt of $3,000 when It consolidated with dis trict 84 of Hamilton county, and ills trlct 52 of Hall county. Districts h'5 nnd 69 also figure In tho matter, but Just how is not explalnod In tho at tornoy general's opinion. Ho holds that tho now absorbing district ns eumes tho liability of the old district. WATCH YOUR STEP Especially if you have any symptoms of Stomach, Liver or Bowel weakness, such as POOR APPETITE SICK HEADACHE INDIGESTION CONSTIPATION BILIOUSNESS Always be on the safe side by resorting to the famous HOSTETTER'S Stomach Bitters promptly. It helps Nature. Tho world's richest tin mlno Ib ono in Tasmanlu. DON'T LOSE ANOTHER HAIR Treat Your Scalp With Cutlcura and Prevent Hair Falling. Trial Free. 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