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FAST AND BOUGH BOUT
Lincoln, ' Feb. 27. (Special Tele
gram.) Creighton took the Wesleyan
Coyotei to defeat in the Wesleyan
, tymnasium last night, 22 to 18. The
game was fast and rough. '
; Wesleyan'i floor work and defense
" 'a working at a wonderful ipeed,
( but their inability to locate the bas
ket, combined with the (kill along
, i this line displayed by the Omaha men
' spelled their defeat. .
The early part of the first half
looked like Wesleyan, and the lead
waa held by the Yellow and Brown
, through most of the period. Near the
close of the period, however, Creigh-
ton worked up from behind and when
the whiatle blew, the count was even
H at 0 and 9.
The second half found Creighton
' lighting like demons with a pep that
found several holes in the Wesleyan
defense.
Although the wesleyan men put up
a terrific fight their inaccurate goat
shooting was their undoing. The
lineup:
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ereei Cllne. Nebreaka City.
Cutler Proves Easy Mark
For Jack Taylor of Canada
Lincoln, Feb. 27. Jack Taylor,
heavyweight-"wrestler of Canada, won
in straight falls here last night from
' Charley Cutler of Chicago. The first
1 fall on a neck and head hold, came
after a forty-minute struggle. Cutter
was pinned down for the aecond fait
in J minutes and 10 seconds.
A toe hold was the undoing of Cut
ler in the second fall.
A preliminary tangle between
, Claude Swindell, a Lincoln youngster,
and Young Riley, said to be from
Wray, Colo., went an hour and a half
without a fall and waa called a draw.
The boya are featherweights. Riley
was the aggressor throughout, but he
could not pin Swindell, who is a
waiter in a local restaurant and was
wrestling his second match in pub
lic. .
The semt-windup was a thirty-minute
joust between Clarence Eklund
of Lincoln and John Pesek of Shel
ton, Neb. Neither man obtained a
fall. - ; ...... -
State Printing Commissioner
' ' Gets More Authority in Bill
(Prom a, Stan Correspondent.)
Lincoln, Feb. 27. (Special.) Pas
sage of the Dafoe-Taylor bill, making
the state printing commissioner the
purchasing agent for all printing, sta
tionery and typewriter supplies used
by . state departments, institutions,
- boards and commissions (except the
state university , and the normal
schools), was accomplished in the
lower branch of the legislature today
by the vote of 79 to 5. The bill raises
the printing commissioner's salary
from $1,500 to $2,500 and requires him
' to put in his full time for the state.
Another bill passed on third read
ing waa the Swanson-Peterson meas
ure, authorizing insurance companies
to invest their funds in irrigation or
. drainage bonda.i or bonds, of federal
farm loan banks. '
The Keegan bill, raising the deputy
sheriff's salary in Douglas county,
a to went 'through.
Once more the house was called
upon to give a decision in the stand
ing controversy between Howard .and
Hall counties, as to which of them
shall tax the franchise of the Central
Power company, whose pawer "plant
is located at Boelus and distributing
and business headquarters at Grand
Island. -.'
Mr. Stuhr tried, unsuccessfully to
have the bill recommitted a aecond
time for a specific amendment to dis
' tribute the franchiser valuation among
all taxing subdivisions where portions
of the company's physical property
are located. Mr. Fries protested that
this would kill the bill. Stuhr's mo
tion was defeated, and the bill was
left at the top of the third reading
' calendar. ' " '
The finance committee reported
hack the general maintenance bill
with a few minor changes.
One of the bills sent to the general
' - file Tuesday morning was Mr. Dafoe's
measure providing for a state censor
, ship of moving pictures. It was rec
ommended by the miscellaneouejub
jects committee, of which Dafoe is
chairman, for passage.
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(chief Wllaon), right flatdar, hu been
traded by tha St. Losla Nationals t tha
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EIGHTEEN KILLED ..
IN RAILCOLLISION
Freight Crashes Into Bear End
of Passenger Train in Fog -Near
Altoona.
COAL OPERATOR A VICTIM
Altoona, Pa., Feb. 27. Eighteen
persons, seventeen passengers and a
negro porter, were killed in a rear
end collision between an express
train and a freight train on the Penn
sylvania railroad at Mount Union sta
tion, thirty-four miles east of here,
early today.
.The passenger train, which left
Pittsburgh last night and which was
known as the Mercantile Express, had
stopped at the station when the col
lision occurred."" The freight struck
with such force that the rear sleeper,
in which all the victims were travel
ing, was cut in two. ,
Chester A. Minds, a coal operator
at Rameny, Pa., and a former famous
foot ball player at the University of
Pennsylvania, met death in the dis
aster, together with his wife, daughter
and a nurse. They were on the way
to Utica, N. Y., to attend the funeral
of the mother of Mrs. Minds.
. Following is a list of the identified
dead:
CHESTER A. MINDS, 31 years old,
ftamay. Pa.
MRS. DORIS MINDS, II yeara old, hie
wlfa.
CHESTER A. MINDS, JR., thalr Infant
aon, 2 waeke old.
MISS MAUD MINDS. SI yaara old, Conifer,
N. Y alater of Mr. Mlnda.
M. A. CASLISCH. Conifer, N. T., a brother-in-law
of Mr. Mlnda.
MISS A. r. DELLIN, Cleveland. O., lister
of Mra. Mlnda.
RICHARD OWEN, I yeara old.
DOROTHY OWEN, I yaara old.
JEAN OWEN, 4 yaara old: nephew and
nlecaa of Mr. Mlnda. i
CHARLES LEV1NE, 91 Naaaau atraat,
New York.
P. B. POLLAND, IS Llapenard atraat, New
Tor.
MILTON HYlfla, 474 Weat tilth atreet.
New York.
N. BRIGHT, porter.
J. S. KKI.I.T. Brooklyn.
H. A. ROKFI.ER, Prattvllle, Wl.
L. W. MONTGOMERY, ealearaau. 117 East
Orovo atreet, Bloomlnaton, III.
I . K. TANNlNd, Michigan.
C. M. MBDBKI. 301 Weat Forty-alith
atreet, New York.
P. R. FANNINO, Plattevllle, Mich.
Body BUDDoaed to be that of Mra. Fannlnf
beoauae of a letter congratulating her on
her marriase. On thla body waa a Bible
bearing the name Hlaa . Ellen P. Hayt, Den
ver. Colo.
An official of the Pennsylvania
railroad here said the list of dead may
exceed twenty, aa fourteen bodies
nave been recovered and at least six
are known to be dead in the wreck.
At this time the railroad company
is Inclined to place the blame for the
wreck on the engineer of the freight
train, A. T. Cook of Harrisburg, who
had a leg crushed. It was his duty,
said an official, to- get off his engine,
walk ahead and look at a signal in
case of fog, rather than run past it.
Chester A. Minds, who, with his
family, was killed, was a coal opera
tor in the Clear Field region of Penn
sylvania. Mrs, Fanning from Denver.
' Denver, Feb. 27. Mrs. P. R. Fanning,-
killed in a wreck at Altoona,
Pa., formerly was a leader in Denver
society circles. Her father and mother
and a brother live here. Her father,
Judge Charles D. Hayt, is a member
of a prominent law firm and the fam
ily is wealthy. Mrs. Fanning was
about 35 yeara old. She waa Mar
ried in Denver two years ago. Her
husband is a mining engineer and the
Fanning home is at PrattsvUle, Wis.
British Enter Position
And Are Later Ejected
Berlin, Feb. 27. (By Wireless to
Sayville.) British troops yesterday
many times attacked the German po
sitions on the front between Ypres,
in Belgium and the river Somme,
says the official statement issued to
day by the German army headquar
ters staff. Only at one place were
the British auccessful in entering the
German lines, at a point to the east
of Arras, the statement, adds and
there the British were ejected by a
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SENATE COMMITTEE
AGREES- UPOM BILL
Measure Would Give President
Powers He Asks for in
Dealing With Germany.
WILL BE PRESSED TODAY
Washington, Feb. 27. After today's
cabinet meeting it became known that
the administration will oppose any
vital change in the proposed legisla
tion to authorize President Wilson to
protect American lives and rights.
The administration expects that,
while a number of changes may be
suggested, the bill as now framed
will be adopted by both houses with
out material alteration.
Senate Committee Drafts Bill.
The senate foreign relations com
mitee late today agreed upon a bill
to give ttie president authority to sup
ply merchant ships with arms and
gunners and use other means neces
sary to handle developments in the
submarine situation. A motion to
"direct" the president to arm the ships
was voted down.
The bill as frameu by the commit
tee follows the precedent of 1819
empowering commanders of merchant
vessels to arm for their own defense
and authorizing the president to sup
ply the means for arming vessels
fore and aft for defensive purposes.
Four Vote Against It.
The senate bill empowers the presi
dent to use "other instrumentalities"
as he asked.
This feature is expected to meet
some opposition. Two democrats and
two republicans voted against it in
committee.
There will, however, be no minority
report. The bill will be reported by
Senator Stone tonight and will be
pressed tomorrow. , The bill declares
"that commanders of all merchant
vessels of the United States and ves
sels under registry of the United
States are hereby authorized to arm
and defend themselves against unlaw
ful attacks, and that the president be,
and is hereby, authorized and em
powered to supply vessels with de
fensive armament tore and aft."
Matter Goes Over.
The bond issue was left at $100,
000,000, as in the house measure, and
the president is empowered to use
"other instrumentalities" in the emer
gency in accordance with his judg
ment." When Senator Stone brought the
bill into the senate with a request that
it be referred formally to the commit
tee, Senator La Follette objected, and
as unanimous consent was necessary,
the matter went over until tomorrow.
Pettyjohn Throws Strickland.
Oxford, Neb., Feb. 37. (Special.) Reuben
Pettyjohn of Oxford threw Oeorga Strick
land of Stamford. Strickland won the ftret
fall In twenty mlnutea and Pettyjohn took
tha two next In thlrty-flva and twelva mln
utea with trtn strangle.
Figure YOUR Profit
With the cost ot clothes going up
every day and the unheard of
prices most ahops are asking, we
have our new spring models
AT THE SAME PRICE
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Models
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Bills Acted Upon
By Senate Committee
Of the Whole House
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, Feb. 27. (Special.) The
senate PQnt all of the afternoon in
committee of the whole discussing
the following bins:
8. F. HI, Morlarty. Douglas Correct!
law anil makes more specific law requiring
governor to all United States senatorial
vacant y.
H, F. 166, Lahnera. Thayer National
Guard voting bill; amended to Include pen
alty for fraud.
8. F. 100, Spirit, Saline Amendg tax
ale law.
S. F. 180, Banc! all, York BUI to Increase
salaries; of clerks and stenographers: of
supreme court judgea from $1,000 te 11,200;
postponed with H. R. 176, Identical and
passed, to take lta place,
8. F. 60, Matt' i, Otoe Fox bill reorgan
Ixlng state board of health; amended to
make tnrm of appolntes from Indefinitely to
four years.
8. F. 1 rf . Albert, Platte Alter salary
basis for district clerks In smaller counties,
according to fees as at the present time.
Adds these new classifications: $1,800 In
counties of 10,00 to 15,000 population; $2,000
In counties of 18,000 to 20,000 population,
and $2, BOO In counties of 20,000 to 25,000.
Present basis jumps from $1,600 to $3,000.
S. F. 183, Chappell, Minden -Ta make It
mandatory with district court to call grand
Juries once a year; made optional, as law
now stands by Henry's amendment.
S. F. Sit, Chappell, Hammond and Wil
son Repeal law making Judges Ineligible
to any office other than Judiciary.
8. F. 16V, Chappell, Minden Allows coun
ty attorney to question witnesses under
oath, for Information on law violations.
Introduced at request of County Attorney's
association of the state.
8. P. 315, Chappell, Minden Hakes con
tractor guilty of misdemeanor who does not
pay his labor and material.
Grand Island Bowler
Rolls a Perfect Score
Grand Island, Neb., Feb. 27. (Spe
cial.) Dr. LeBlanc, a local dentist,
has broken alt local bowling records
by going three games of 280, 298 and
300. While these records were made
on one alley and not in a contest,
it is the first time any 300 score has
been made, under any circumstances,
in this city.
Cuba Start Tralnlna.
Faaadena, Cat.. Feb. 36. Sprint tralnlnir
of tha Chicago National leasue team began
with a forenoon workout at Tournament
park field here, which atlll waa aoft from
the ralna of 'the laat ten daya. Practice waa
called off featerday because tha field waa
too wet.
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TIE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
SpiFk
Unanimous Choice of 69
Leading Makers ol Cars
At the Shows and Always,
Cadillac Buick x
Pierce-Arrow Oakland
Packard U Oldsmobile
Marmon I Jeffery
Hudson KisselKar
Chalmers Premier
Hupmobile Knox
Haynes Jordan
Dort Liberty
Cole Crane-Simplex
Reo Dodge Brothers
Paige 7 Steams-Knight
Peerless Saxon
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OWN TRANSFER MAN
Iowa Attorney General Says
Consignee Must Haul Liquor
from Depot.
NO OHOICE IN MATTER
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Des Moines. Ia., Feb. 27. (Special
Telegram.) Chief of Police Jackson
announced today that the consignee
personally must convey liquor ship
ments from freight and express depots
to their homes.
"Attorney General Havener has
notified this department that it is il
legal for an express driver or transfer
man or anyone but bona fide con
signee of a liquor shipment to transfer
that shipment from the freight house
to another party of the city," said the
chief.
"That is the law the attorney gen
eral says, "and we are going to see
that it is enforced to the letter.
"Every person who orders beer or
whisky from now on must convey it
from the freight deport to his home."
Standard Oil Will
Ask Indemnity for
Loss in Eoumania
New York, Fek. 27. The Standard
Oil company sill seek indemnity for
the destruction of its oil properties
in Roumania at the time of the Ger
man invasion of that country.
Standard Oil officials declined to
indicate what government or govern
ments they believed responsible f'
the destruction of the properties,
worth many millions of dollars. It
is understood that they have taken
up the question with the State depart
ment at Washington.
According to cable reports from
London, a commission of the entente
allies, headed by military officers, had
destroyed all the oil properties in
Roumania tin days in advance of the
capture ot the fields by the Germans.
The value of the wells, equipment and
oil in storage, it was stated, amounted .
to fully $150,000,000.
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McLaughlin y Apperson
(Canada) Davis
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Wilcox Trux McFarlan
National ScripprBooth
Velie , Bour-Davis
Jackson Lexington-
Westcott 7 Howard
Pathfinder Murray
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Champion Ignition Company
Flint, Michigan.
WOMEN MAY VOTE IN
CITY AFFAIRS ONLY
Senate Committee Thus
Amends Limited Suf
frage Bill.
CUTS OUT NATIONAL VOTE
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, Feb. 27. (Special Tele
gram.) The senate committee on
cities and towns, having consideration
before it tonight of the bill giving
partial suffrage to women, recom
mended it out for passage with an
amendment allowing the vote only in
municipal affairs.
The bill as originally drawn and as
it passed the house gave women the
right to vote for president and vice
president and also in municipal af
fairs. Special Program
To Commemorate
Birthday of State
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, Feb. 27. (Special.) Gov
ernor Neville, S. C. Bassett of Gibbon,
T. J. Majors of Peru and John L.
Webster of Omaha will be the speak
ers on the special program to be
held in the house cham-jer Thursday
forenoon commemorating the semi
centennial anniversary of Nebraska's
admission to the union. The observ
ance has been set as a special order
at 10:30 a. m. on that day.
I he two branches of the legislature
"will convene in joint session ! with
Lieutenant Governor Howard presid
ing. The governor will talk first, fol
lowed by Mr. Bassett with an address
on "Our First Emblem of Authority."
Messrs. Majors and Webster will be
heard afterward. Singing by a male
quartet composed of senators and rep
resentatives will be one of the features
of the program. State officers and
judges of the supreme court will be in
attendance.
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The Tests Were Exhaustive
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Chase Truck
Moreland Truck
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SENATORS DIFFER
OYERTOOL HALLS
Place McMullen's Measure on
General File After Long
Debate.
BURDEN ON THE CITIES
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, Feb. 27. (Special.) Boys
under the age of 21 years will not be
allowed to frequent pool halls, if
Senator McMullen's senate file No.
202 receives the same consideration
in t . house it did in the senate today.
After a lively debate of about an hour,
after the committee on miscellaneous
subjects had recommended tiie bill for
indefinite postponement, the senate
took it up and placed it on the general
file, 18 to 15.
.Senator Albert said boys could not
He brought up under a glass cage.
It pool halls are not properly run,
regulate them," said he. Answering
a charge by Senator Sandall that the
senate was too cynical and shies at
progress, Senator Albert declared
hipiself to be for everything good and
progressive.
"There is no use of being like a
child with a rocking horse," said Sen
ator Albert, "galloping furiously and
getting nowhere." .
"If the cities cannot cope with the
pool hall situation, how can the
state?" asked Senator Mattes. He
voted for postponement
"If you have to raise boys in a cage
to save them, they are not worth sav
ing," said Senator Moriarty.
Senator Sandall told how York had
abolished pool halls.
"Yes, York is second only to the
new Jerusalem," retorted Senator Al
bert. It is pure all right, he agreed,
but my how people avoid it.
Those who urged the bill for gen
eral file included Howell, Beal, Chap
pell, Sandall and McAllister.
FrederikVIII, With Count
Von Bernstorff, Sails
Halifax. Feb.' 27. The steamer
Frederik VIII with Count von Bern
storff, former German ambassador to
the United States and his party on
board, sailed at 7:30 o'clock tonight
for Copenhagen.
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BrockwayTruck
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