Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 23, 1915, Page 1

N EWS_SECTION PAGES ONE TO EIGHT VOL. XLV—NO. 56, THE OMAHA DAILY BE THE WEATHER Cloudy OMAHA, 1¢ GERMANS PRESS ON T0 GUT RUSS | ARMIES IN TWO Petrograd Believes Enemy Means to Break Czar's Forces in Middle by Capture of Brest- H Litovsk. | SLAVS FLEEING EVERYWHERE | Grand Duke’s Legions Continue | Customary Retreat Before Teuton Onslaught. . MAKE STAND AND ARE BEATEN | LONOON, Aug. 22.—The Rssianu armies are continuing their retreat under the persistent pressure of the Austro-Germans, official accounts of the fighting indicate. The report from German army headquarters records the capture of Bielsk on the Brest-Litovsk Byali- stok line by General von Gallwitz's | troops and the driving of the Rus- sians south of Bielsk over the Bilia | The Russians made a stand beAi | fore the advamce of the army of Prince Leopold of Bavaria, but broke | under the German attack and con-! tfnued their retreat, Berlin an-| nounces, while Field Marshal von Mackenzen’s troops have made fur- ther progress in closing in on the Brest-Litovsk stronghold. ¥ Near Kovno, the Russian forces | have evacuated their position to the | south on the Jesia river and re-! treated toward the east. | Petrograd observers point to the | Teutonic concentration on Mrest-Litovsk as Indicating that fortress to be the goal of | all Austro-German efforts in the central | field of war and to the apparent sttempts | of the Germans to cut off the Hussian | armies whose base s Brest-Litovsk from | those whose operations ars based Ossowetz, the Russian stconghold in the te Position. river. | ITALY HAMMBRING | AT GATES OF TRENT # outposts Artillery Batters at Outposts of Great Entrenched Camp of Austrians. PLACE IS STRONGLY DEFENDED VERONA, Italy, Aug. 22.—Italian artillery is now hammering at the of the great entrenched | Artillery Chicfs Alleged to Have 0. 5. ORFICERS JOIN T0A.T 10 KAISER Drunk to “Deutschland Ueber Alles.” COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST ONE| PORTLAND, Ore., Aug.22.— Charges were filed today by George 8. Shepperd, an attorney of Port- camp of Trent. The Austrian pcsi-|land, with Senator George . Cham- west, which is still holding out, The German fleet that yesterday was reported as having entered the Gult of Riga, has had what Berlin ailudes to as ‘“‘outpost engagements” with the Russian naval forces In the gulf, in which small r craft on both sides were sunk. The Russians, according to the German of- ficlal account, lost two gunboats und a torpedo boat, while of thres German tor- pedo boats, damaged, one was sunk, ono Was FUNEETOUNA and one was escorfed to port. Soveral Russian craft, one & large ves- | tion on Mount Panarotta lies to the northeast of Levico, which is ten miles southeast of Trent. This mountain, more than 6,000 feet high, is one of the outposts of Trent. In attempting to advance on Trent the Itallan forces found before them a long and difficult task. From the | top of Mount Panarotts down to the Tenna pass is a succession of forts and entrenchments for more than sel, ‘were severely damaged while re-|twenty miles, and connected by treating, Berlin declares. Th *m‘n underground passages bullt last loss of life was small. September, b sy Gk Ambrigan:. potie | St o) Santia” dutonisen 68 the Ale- were sunk yesterday by German sub-| marines, Paris reports—the British |trians around Trent extend from steamer Carterswell from Galveston for | Stelvio Passa, near the Swiss fron- Havre, and the Belglan oil steamer | tier, down to Lake Garda and up to the Carnic Alps. rier more than 200 miles long, in Daghestan, from Philadelphia for Rouen. | Germany to Pay Red most formidable bulwarks, They form a bar-| which nature herself has built the| Cross U, 8. Nurses BERLIN (Via London), Aug. 22=James W. Gerard, American ambassador to Ger- | many, announced today that arrange- | ments had nearly been completed whereby @ number of American Red Cross physi- | clans and nurses formerly employed in | Germany and Austria will be sent to Rus- | sia to investigate the conditions under | which German prisoners of war are con- | fined there. | Because of a shortage of funds it had ! been planned to reeall to the United | States all the American Red Cross at- taches in Europe. The German govern- Carranza Minions Standing by Him WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—General Car- | ranza's purpose to ask for recognition of his government by the United States and | Latin-American republics was further in- | dicated today by replies recelved from ! General Obregon and other Carranza chiefs to the Pan-American appeal for a peace conference in Mexico. General Obregon emphatically declared 'Lew Shelly Ready berlain, chairman of the senate mil- |1t-ry affairs committse, against Cap- ,tala Leonard T. Waldron, In com- | mand of the Ninety-third coast artil- lery stationed at Fort Stevens, Ore., and Lieutenant Harold L. Gardiner of the same company, as the result of an incident alleged to have oc- curred in a restaurant were sald to have joined in several toasts to the German arms. According to the charges, several Astoria citizens were with the two officers. The toast ‘“‘Deutschland Ueber Alles,” was alleged to have been drunk several times. Shep- perd’s charges were signed also by | several other persons. | Both officers denied today that any such toast was drunk. Senator Chamberlain said he would forward the charges at once to the War department, | To Turn Office Over! FAIRBURY, eb, Aug. 2-—(Special Telegram.)—Postmaster Lew Shelly will turn over the postoffice here on Monday to his successor, W. ¥. Cramb, whose ' commission has arrived. Mr. Shelly has | served for a little over eight years, have| ing been first appointed by Theodore ! he would stand by Carranza, asserti ment immediately suggested that it Was | that the United States and the rpiveind willing to pay the salaries and expenses | American republl of a corps If, instead of returning home, | RACTUACINS e, en e | regarding the strength of the Carranza they would go to Russia and investigate | poil O conditions thero thoroughly. Ambassador | mya Bragiian 4 Gerard, after securing the sanction of the | ;s yerveq as -’::::x::n:: ::::CZI*Q:: Rod Cross suthorities, called for volun-, yiniieq gtates in Mexioo for more then o teers. Threa doctors and elghteen nurses | yoar wag officlally weloomed ot ih #lgnified their willingness to undertake White House by President Wilson. The the proposed work. It is stated they will « g president greeted Senor Cardoso warmly be paid by Germany If the Amerioan Red o1 tpanked him oh bebalf of the Usgten Cross soclety {o -unwilling to continue | gy MG 0 (0 T or in which he has Y i their salaries. | cared for the country’s Interests in Mexico 9 City during the last year. Senor Cardoso Negro Attacks GHrl; |revonied orety: ha & responded briefly, thanking the president, Lynched by a Mob|Condition of Jews COUSHAMA, la., Aug. 22.-An un- | In Russia Critical known negro was lynched by a body of | armed men near this place today, follow-| PETROGRAD (Via London), Aug. 22. ing an attempt made by the negro to Owing to the occupation by the Germans assault the 17-year-old daughter of a of & great part of the pale of Jewlsh farmer, settlements and the inclusion of the re- { mainder in the sphere of military op- Roosevelt, and reappointed by President Taft. His deputy, Mrs. Mae Shelly retires with him, and her successor will be named from among the present clerical force of the office. When Mr. Shelly took hold of the office its stamp sales were §12,000 a year,. but last yeur totaled a little more than $19,000, | An Increase of more than half. In other ways the business has doubled during his term. Six clerks and six city carriers are now employed instead of three each, as was the case elght years ago. i When Mr. Shelly took the office he #ave over the management of the Fair-| bury News, but retained his interest in | the paper. He will proba ilhe editorfal work. Mr. Cramb gives up | | the editorial charge of the Fairbury Jour- ! nal, which he has conducted for twenty | | years. i [FAILS TO GIVE RELIEF > | l TO POOR HE PROMISED | MEXICO CITY, Aug. 18—(By Courfer {to Vera Cruz, Via New Orleans.)—Prom- | {1sed relief to the poor has not yet mat [to 350,000,000 was the toll taken by the erations, the condition of the Jews fs The Weather , critical. Five hundred thousand Jewish | in the interior provinces where they have | declared he would begin immedlately the | | status before the council 6f the empire! None of these has been distributed nor 6/ the empire with the exception of those | coffee are being sold at alleged exorbi- residents have been deported and a prov- | Malized. When Generaj Gonzales, Car- ably greater number have taken refuge | "&nZa commander, entered the capital he no legal rights. | distribution of 100 carloads of corn, 7,500 | Prince Cherbatoff, the minister of the ;5acks of flour and large quantities of | their ‘sukar, lard, coffee and other staples. and that body has decided temporarily ! & diligent search located tne supplids. to permit Juws to settle In the citles of | Instead three carloads of corn, sugar and i (Nef'clency for cor. period, 1914. 5.4 inches Hour. Deg. 5a m. ; Gam interior, brought the question of 9a m. 724 10 a m. MNam Bm..... %g; & ban residences of Emperor Nicholas. P m, 8 | ipm s NEBRASKA WOMAN 1S $o.m: ELECTED AT SEATTLE Record Comparative lfi:‘l 1914, 1913 1912.! SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 22.—The Amer- Highest yesterday . 8 109 79 & lean Home Economics association con- lowest ysterday.. € T 8 6|cluded its annual convention today after Tann tomperevire © % 8 electing these officers: President, M y *"|Martha Van Renshler, Ithaca, N. Y.: vice uree phoratire and prectpitation depart-|president, Abby L. Mariati, Madison, Wis.; Treasurer, Willlam Morse Cole, 1| Cambridge, Mass; secretary, Mrs. Alice 296| H. Norton, Chicago; councillor, Miss A |Henrletta W. Calvin, Washington, D. Edna A. White, University of Ohfo; Mary E. Sweeney, University of Kentucky; Mise Fanny Twiss, Saskatchewan, Ind., jand Miss Alice Loomis, University of Nebraska. Normal temperature. Deficiency for the day. G Total deficiency since March 1 Normul precipitation Fxcess for the day......... ine 19 inch Total rainfall since March 71 inches xcess since March in ... &3 inch 12 *riency for cor. period, 1911. 5.21 inches | T indicates trece of precipitation L. A. WELSH, Local Forecaster. of Moscow and Petrograd and the subur- | tant prices by officers of the forces of | General Gonzales In the rallway yards m Buena Vista. |BRITISH LAW DESCENDS ON | | MISCHIEVOUS JOURNALIST | 2 | | LONDON, Aug. 28.—Theodore Bingion, | | deacribed as a journalist, was remanded | today by a Manchester magistrate on the | | charge o having violated the Defense of | |Realm act by sending to an American | putiication, “Information ealculated to | | prejudice his majesty's relations with | foreign governments.” The prosecutor | stated thet If the articles in question had {been published they might have caused material injery to this couvntry in the {minds of Ameriean readers. My Sington deried that kis articled were intended for | vubiication. l THE CONQUEROR—Photo shows a German officer on horseback, leading a batch of Russian prisoners, who are being taken to the rear for transportation to the base prisons, ST. LOUIS FLOOD KILLS BIGHT MOR Scores of Persons Are Missing as Result of Rising Stream Near City. Mo TWELVE w05, Tivne et Mot SINGLE COPY TWO CEN WHO WOULD BE HIT BRITISH SUBSEA IS BY ABOLITION OF'| SUNK IN DANE SEAS TRAINING SCHOOL o Eligible List Already Made Up| from Young Women Success- ful as Examination Candidates. GERMANS LOSE ‘ 1 WAR CRAFT, TR LEAVE THE GULF of Germans on Stranded { Vessel. ‘ R EDENMARK MAKES A PROTEST Duma President Says Battleship, | Three Cruisers and Seven Tor- pedo Boats of Teuton Foe Destroyed. TAKES DEPARTURE LONDON, Aug. 22.—Indignation | has been aroused in Denmark and the whole of Scandinavia as the re-| sult of the attack by German de-! stroyers on the British nuhmnrlua:m‘l‘ | E-13 after it stranded on a Danish | |TEN HAVE BEEN CERTIFIED | Sixty-Four Graduates of Course Are | Right Now Numbered Among | i {island. According to the British Petrograd Announces Destroyers in ! o Ttlchl{\g Yoty offic’al account and reports from Black Sea Sink Over 100 | COMMITTEE SECRECY NOT LIKED ' Copenhagen, the E-13 went aground Turk Ships. - Thursday morning The officers Much interest has been aroused |over the secret action of the teach- ers’ committee of the Board of Edu- ! eation to abolish the normal training | school, which has been maintained [ by the board for ten years, news of "hloh in some way ‘‘®ot out” and !was given publicity through The Bee, | Those who follow school affaire |are looking forward to the next d & i |nieeting of the board, when the Runs even after the crew ?‘I“l ‘l'”\::;li | recommendation will be fought out/doned the submarine, which {on the floor. The teachers' commit- |tee In its star chamber session dl-‘ vided on the question, with Dr. Jen-| kins, president of the University of | Omaha, leading the majority in the| | committee. was assurance that the school was to be !kept up, the following young women | and crew were busy trying to refloat it under orders from the Danish na- val authorities, who had given them/! | twenty-four hours to accomplish the 'task, when German destroyers ap- peared on the scene Uses Ita Guns, One of them, after firing a tor- pedo, which missed its mark, is re- ported to have opened fire with its afire, |" The British officfal account says the German destroyer fired at the men {n the water with machine guns and shrapnel. Not until after Dan- {ish destroyers got between the Ger-| geq have sunk over It develops that on what thay thought | Mans and their prey did they cune:bmu." firing, the report says. Half the thirty members of the crew | { @raduates of the high school took the | of the submarine were killed and their COUNTY NEARLY BULLETIN, i ~Bight per- | 8T. LOUIS, Aug 2 which, normally a brooklet, now is/ a raging torrent and in places miles | out of its banks. | | 8T. LOUIS, Aug. 22-—Eleven bodies of vietims of the flood that) swept a narrow section of St. Louls; and suburbs Friday were recovered today, and the death roll from Lhej gulf storm that struck this section| was increased by two. i A farmer perished near BKdwards-| Asto ville, Ill., when his home ept ‘last nfght, whén thé‘lmmm another man perished when a boat in which he was rowing with three oth- ers in East St, Louis, capsized. Of the eleven dead in St. Louis and suburbs, ten were negroes, and one was a white woman. The farmer | who was drowned near Edwardsvllls} was Frank Huffmann. Falls Rapidly. | The Des-Peres river, the rise in which | was responsibic for most of the destruc- | tion of property and all of the destruction | of life on the Missouri side of the Mis~ sisaippl, fell rapidly today, and normal street car service to suburban towns was almost restored. The Missouri Pacific rallroad resumed suburban passenger service this after- noon. The St. Louis & San Francisco railroad, | however, was handicapped by a rise in the Merameo river, the Frisco main line for 100 miles, and several bridges over the Gasconade river were threatened by @ rise in that moun- tain stream. Several large factories along the Des Peres river were badly damaged by the flood, and most of these establishments will be closed for a week to ten days. Though suburban service on the Mis- sourl Pacifio was ggstored, through serv- lce will be fnterrupted until Sunday night | s a bridge has gone out west of Kirk- | wood, Mo, | Total of Texas Dend. H GALVESTON, Tex., Aug. 21.—A total | of 256 known dead, residents of southeast | Texas coast points and crews of wrecked | feraft of all kinds, sixty-five persons | |missing, many of whom are belleved (o have perished, and property damage close | hurricane which swept this section last ! Monday and Tuesday. H These figures were reached from a | careful compilation made tonight of what aro considered the most authentic reports of logs of life and property received | Calles and General Acosts, & Villa ad-,Would prepare a speclal charge to the since the cessation of the storm | herent, 18 reported to have told Muy-[Jury which will meet September 1. Her- Of the known dead 194 were residents |torena that he would not fight whilo |bert Clay, Cobb county solicitor, assured of the kulf coast section and slxty-two | Franclsco Urbalejo, the Yaqul general, |the Kovernor that he would do all in his were drowned when the vessels they were | was permitted to hold the rank of fleld |POWer to find and bring to trial the men aboard sank. Forty-three of the missing | marshal conferred on him by Maytorena |responsible for the lynching, were members of boat crews. Those | who perished on Galveston island, includ- ng elght in the city 'proper, number fifty-tiree; ten were still reported missing from the island. Galveston's share of the property loss was placed at approximately $6,000,000, Appeanls for Ald, AUSTIN, Tex., ‘Aug. 22.-An auppesl to the people of Texas, for food, clothing or money to assist sufferers from the storm and floods of last week outside of Galveston was issued today by Goy- ernor Ferguson. He contributions be sent to the executive | committee at Austin for distribution. The larger cities, Galveston, Houston and Beaumont, disclalm need of assistance. | The appeal is for the benefit of the | smaller towns and communities ATTEMPT TO POISON GAS i RESPIRATORS MADE HERE NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-F. V. Springer | of New York, Buropean representative of an American Rubber Manufacturing som- pany, told of the alleged Alscovery by British auvthorities of a plot to poison respirators purchased for use of the | troops in the trenches againgt chlorine | ¥8s. The scovery of the %lot, he said, | resulted in n immediate eancellation of | all orders fur respirators ously been placed. hat bad previ- | INUNDATED | ¢X*Minations successtully in June for | this training school, and are on the elig- | ible list to enter In September: Murgaret Holan, 208 North Twentleth, la M. Meskimen, 2438 South Seven- | v C { teenth, sons are reported drowned, scores | M )l B, Holmgren, 338 Casd. I are missing, hundreds of pleasure| Martha Goodall, 2768 California, 2 I} het sorings| Ruth M. Eimberg, Sixtieth and Center. | craft were torn from their moorings| j.qiiice V. Swanson, 217 Decatur. | |and the greater part of St. Louls | Mnrnu‘ R:lu,l{\lm lll’wn;v;., el Fan | G rude X nolds, 5003 N e | county was flooded today thrnuxhi - COUPEES iy o | v M cell; P, oulton, urt. i the rising of the Meramec river arcella U8 T Twin- Mildred M Ixth These young women imade spucial prep aration for the normal training work and the actlon of the committee, If sus Clausen | terned In Denmark. | “at bodies will be sent home in a Danish | warship. Those who escaped will be In- The Danish govern- ment has protested to Germany, while the press of all the Scandinavian countries expresses {ts concern at the violation of neutral territory. 1 Spain Protests, Also. | The activity of German submarines also has brought a protest from the Spani government, which has lodged a claim for the sinking of the steamer Isidoro. The German ambassador expressed his regrot the accident. Since then another Spanish steamer, the Ipra Castello, has been sunk by a German submarine and | It is expected another claim will be filed, :TBIS IS OFFICIAL STATEMENT | {to the Central News from Petrograd says: “The president of the Duma has announced that the Germans lost i the battleship Moitke, three cruisers and seven torpedo boats in the Riga Iha(llo = Leaves Gulf of Riga. PETROGRAD (via Lo ndon), Aug. 22.—-An officlal communication |issued today says: “The German fleet has | Gult of Riga. “Our destroyers in the Black 100 Turkish left the Miss Bixby Would Release Chauffeur Who Ran Into Her Miss Helene Bixby of 5435 Florence boulevard yesterday afternoon tried to locate Mayor Dahlman, from whom she wanted a pardon for a chauffeur, who knocked her down at the Union station Wednesday evening and who was fined $25 and costs for the offense. The young woman's father filed the complaint. Miss Hixby sald she understood the man was rerving out his sentence in the county Jail and she wanted to see him have talned by the board, will mean that much loss to them. TFive more were | sheo coritioa us nent raskise s Qouthern Nebraska .| Graduntes Bave Made Good. H&S Best Prospects | In History of State ! i, s e, s T divas When the scnools are reopened in two weeks there will be sixty-four teachers in the teaching corps who have gradunated | {not intend to hit me/" sald Miss Bixby. | The young woman sald she importuned { Commissioner Butler without resulta. from this training school. According to the record il these training class grad- “I have lived in Nebraska practically Last One of Brigham Young Wives Dies his freedom before Sunday. “I think the poor fellow hae learned his lesson. If he had a rich father his fine would have been pald. He ruined my new taflored suit,, but I don't mind that. I wish I could find the mayor, so uates have thus made good, not includ-{ a4y my iife and I never saw the south. ing athess who hate for various reAsons | eastern part of the state as Prosperous quit teaching or gone to othor cities, | s now,” asserted D, H. Mercer aftor re- contribute some of the bekt talent In the | turdlng from dn extended trip through inktructional corps, and more than GM}RIchlr\ilm. Nemaha and Otoe countles. of them has earned a principalship. i(:nn nuing, Mr Mercer sald: The names of the senfors of last year's | “All through the dounties mentioned the training . class are: | vield of small grain has been enormous. P. G. Baumgardner Mary A, Owens |Some has been damased by the frequent; EAL CITY, Utah, vs 22— Freeda n;nm.n fifllufl ’;I'I g-"g'l::r jand heavy rains, but the abnormally|¥iiza Burgess Young, last survivor of Bella Cathroe (7 b g large quantities that the farmers will Brigh Y ‘s wi died at her da J. ulsen | | Brigham oung’ wi Ginave A Line. fil;rrgls Krabiicotk | have to sell will more than make up for home here last night. She was & native Elsie Meskimen M. Bloom White | the loas on account of damage by rain, Nettle'M. Mufr “C ki : q These graduates became eligible to reg- | "Corn 18 growing raplaty and my jude: he teaching staft by } ment Is that it 1s as far along as nsoal at) sl sl il p v from the | this season of the year. Only an early TINANR! 66 Ihate . STAINS DN {and killing frost could prevent the gather- training school this year. |ing of a bumper crop. of Lancashire, England, and had lived in Utah since 1848, She was 87 years of age. Her death | closés the estate of the noted Mormon leadér, who died In 1877. His will pro- The proposition of Chairman Jenkins ot vided a life annuity for each of the nine- which flows along | i the teaohers’ committee 18 to ‘discon- | tinue the training school after another year, only giving last year's juniors an | opportunity to complete the course be-| fore abandoning this feature of the school system. | “I observe there are a number of Uni- | versity of Omaha graduates who have been placed on the assigned list without the special examinations previously re-! quired,” remarked a man who has been investigating this matter, and who in-| tends to have a few words at the next meeting of the Board of Education. "“To, friends of the training school it looks as “Fruit ralsing haa beecome an Important {industry with the farmers of the south- eastern part of the state and this year | they are going to make money off their | orchards and vineyarde. There has never | been such m crop of grapes and every- | ahere the apples troes are loaded with fruit and I was told that there would be a good market for all ratscd. Fastern and southern buyers are coming in and are contrdcting for the output of entire or- chards \ “Near Brownville John J"urnas h large orchard and while no estimate nas been made on the yleld, he has contractad | to sell 60,00 bushels to eastern buyers. teen wives who survived him. The estate, amounting _to about 2,000,000 after the satisfgetion Of claims, was #acor- porated into a trust company, which dis- charged the provisions of the will. DELEGATES TO SIGMA NU MEET WILL GATHER HERE Delemates from Nebraska, Towa and Minnesota, going to the Sigma Nu con- ventfon held in Denver this week, will gather in Omaha today and will be leaving for the west Tuesday morning, | many of the garrison slain, going in a special car. There will prob- ably be twenty or more. Omaha members of the Sigma Nu are laying plans for entertaining the visitors while her Monday there will be luncheons and automobile rides and in the evening they will attend the Ak-Sar- Ben initlation. Headquarters in Omaha will be In the olive room of the Rome if the move to abolish it is designed to|! did not learn the exact price, but wa transfer the positions previously given to | given to understand that !t was close to its graduates to graduates of om.r’ll per bushel, on the tree: achools. , . 'Harris to Learn the Here's Man Field ' Identity of Lynchers Marshal in Mexico hotel. oA ATLANTA, Ga, Auvg. 22.-It was Int} NOGALE, Ariz., Aug. 2.—Hermosillo, /Mated In officlal circles here tonight capital of Sonora, was taken today by |that the identity of a number of the ie Carranza forces, so-called vigilance = committee that | The report of the taking of Hermosillo |1¥nched Leo M. Frank was known to THE WANT-AD. WAY some and that the information probably would be placed before Governor Harrls said that the church was demolished and | Angered by the execution yesterday of |Next week Major Murillo, for the killing of & Yaqui, | Judge J. H. Patterson, of the superior | ! fifty Maytorena soldiers deserted today to |€OUrt, let It be known today that he two weeks ago. iCARRANZA GETS BACK AT requests that all | }rNine Auto Parties ! Robbe(_l in Butte! BUTTE, Mont, ug 2-City and| | county officials are searching today for { five highwaymen who held up and robbed | | nine successive automobile parties in ! Butte last night. Estimate of the losses { of the motorists in cash and Jewelry ap- | REPORTER FOR HIS STORY ERA CRUZ (Via New Orleans), Aug. Forelgners In Vern Crnz have pro- tested to American Consul Canada here against the continued Imprisonment of Vi N |Henry W. Francis, an American news- paper correspondent, arrested August 6 by order of General Carranza Francls, a British subject who s under the protection of the American cc 1 be- proximates $5,000. The victims, several cquse of Carranza’s refusal to recognize of them women, were arranged In & roW the British consul here, has been held in and forced to hand over their valuables. |y cell since his arrcat, charged with “re- | bellion and unconstitutional acts against the government.” An officlal explana-| | tion sald the charge was based on infor- mation that Francis had published a | United States news report unfavorable mi There was once an old may Had money galore; He had houses And a general store. SUCCUMBS TO SECOND BITE OF RATTLESNAKE His houses were rented, He svas leasing his land, The money was coming in Hand over hand. PIERRE, 8 D. Aus (Svecial.)— | Carranza. Mrs. Frances Menech of Capa this week | S —— i i 4 - Now this man's advice | suceumbed to her second experience with ' MELADY IS OFFICIAL OF rattlesnake bite, and her body was taken | _ For routing the blues UNITFD ROXNG CLUBS CLEVELAND, O, boxing clubs were united in an organ‘za- tion to be known as the American Box- Rr oo L.h For ing association at a meeting here tonight | ¥! y you to ort it in 0 ] ; Matt J. Hinkel, Cleveland, was named | Felophone Tyior ioeg e De president; Gene Melady of Omaha, secre- tary treasurer, and Harry Bdward, Phila- [AND PUT IT IN THS OMANA BNS, ' delphia, vice president. Is the classified section You should constantly use, Aug.® 22 —Fourteen . 5N best bargains in are always advertised If your propert to Yankton for burl Mrs. Menech, who was over 70 years old, was bitten on the hand by a rattler & year ago, but prompt inedical attention saved her from any serfous consequences. This time she was bitten on the ankle while walking through some high grass, and while she was hurried to a physiclan for attention, she was not able to survive the second polsoning from the reptile \ {