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Show ' f EM IfillilEIIT GERMAN RUSSIANS REPORTED ON OFFENSIVE ALONG WHOLE FRONT FROM BALTIC TO ROUMANf A. Believed That With the Completion the New Railroad to Be Built by the Government, Development plans Will Be Reviyed. Germans in - North-Pola- nd Being Pushed Back to the East Prussian Borders Austrians Claim Victory Over Russians. t REPUBLICANS WIN The Spring Bride lht -t MAKERS OF - la J LAKb C4TT SALT V thi laiiti woiki a la to -- tw. t it W hi li him ii - i m m hi yontnu; ami I ho um fwity Fmi ovortnnity for vry ln Htu ai itihiflt ri tor dewirivt, REGAL MFC.&Jt CO. sir 5a.lL Sut. 73 Si. Gey Hi Hearts Deaire. , Thos angflii- looking littlo boys, with golden cutis, are usuully just rk" oilier huStv, a fact oftt-- overlook - cleverly-arrange- d LightCharger TnfieegioiToTlwliariieThe Nzsok which The new judge had lieen elected on the strength of urthiHefulness rather than upon his fitness for the office. 'Ihe argument In the frst case to he tried before him had been cloaed. Thw Judge, knowing thut Hoinething was pass, losg has been launching attacks against the Russian position. In that district a large number of prisoners is reported to have been captured, Against these reports of Russian success the Austrians make the claim that they have repulsed all the Russian attacks in Hie Beskld range of mountains, farther east It is declared that the Turks have now been entlfely cleared out of Transcaucasia and that the Russians hold the Turkish Black sea as far as Arkhave. On the western front the battles are of a scattered nature. Beyond artillery engagements the only fighting that has taken place is in the forest of Le Pretre, west of Pol where the French are trying to' reach the roads leading from St. Austrian soldiers taking communion before going Into battle. to Metz, and to the south of martial music. . where the French are also on the offensive. wi erpoctodlirhltnrTookedBelpleHsly'at the assembled lawyers. One of th.-stepped to his side 'and whispered lou should charge the Jury niww, your honor. The Judge looked at the jury box and at tho twelve dejected Individuals who occupied IK Its been a long, hot day, gentlemen, remarked the Judge. Ill only charge you a quarter apiece, Judge. , t i CP, The regimental bands supply sacred as well as GERMAN SUBMARINE U-- 5 STORM IN -- pres-Iden- t, - v.- -- tA wJ K 11 j' K vow to-th- - FLAG GETS NO REDRESS. X Chicago. The dry forces voted 100 more saloons out of Illinois in the local option elections on Tuesday, and by wiping out certain wet spots, added three counties to already completely dry a total of fifty-fivcounties out of 102 In the"- state. The wets retained the largest cities where Iocalption was an Issue at the polls. Desecration of Colors Act of Lawless persons. Washington. Inasmuch as Ihe desecration of the American flag flying above the home of John B. McManus, an American citizen murdered in Mexico City," was the act of lawless persona acting without authority, the United States government decided on Chosen Manager of Boise. Friday to make no demand for an Boise. The campaign for a city apolcgy. manager won qpt in Boise Tuesday Secretary Bryan announced that Jeremiah W. Robinson being elected the incident was closed, with the remayor and city manager by a' clear ceipt of a dispatch from the Brazll-laminister In Mexico City. majority over his opponent, Arthur of 600. RobHodges, present mayor, Relief Ship Torpedoed. , inson received a total of 2.027 votes London. British steamer The and Hodges 1,427. flour to Belgian Southpolnt, carrying To Probe Theatrical Trust- - sufferers, the crew of which was landNew .York. Complaint that the ed by the Ho'.lington at.. Lisbon, was theatrical trust has been vio- not lost In a storm aa.at first reportlaw ed, bat was sunk by- the German sublating the Sherman ' sixty miles off Cape have been taken up by the United marine States' district attorney's office here Flnlstetve, according to a Reuter dismd representatives of the depart- patch from Lisbon. ment of justice. Bank President Arretted. No Deputies Without Pay. Pueblo, Colo. W. B. Slaughter of Boise, Idaho. State Game Warden Dallas, Texas, president of the deJones announces that In the future funct Mercantile National bank, was deputies will not be tjpj.LiLi by arraigned here Thursday, charged him to serve without pay, as he does with the embezzlem'nt of 32,000 counnot believe it is to the best Interests ty funds which we.w on deposit in of the department to have ' unpaid the bank.deputies. Bismarck Centenary Observed. Milwaukee Nonpartisan. Berlin. The centenary of the birth , Milwaukee. Nonpartisan candi- of Prince von Bismarck, Prussias dates for Judicial offices In Milwaustatesman, was celebrated with kee county were elected to all the the utmost enthusiasm on ApriJ 1, in vacancies with one exception. Civil the German capital. Most of the Judge Joseph E. Cordes, Social Demo-cr- bouses were lavishly' draped with the national colors. being o e He Was She. In a college for women, where the faculty consuls chiefly of ihe gentler sex, a meeting of the academic council was In progress. Here and there a loue man sat surrounded by learned ladles. An amendment had Just been proposed. Where U the person who offers this amendment? inquired the . .'Who la she? Whereupon Mr. Skeets, the popular young professor of a favorite subject, rose and replied, deprecatlngly, "l am ahe. Evening Post. - x: The German submarine veasels. U-- 6 Is one of the vessels that has been aetive In the destruction of llrltlsh merchant Preaenca of Mind. "What did you learn at the school ?" the boss asked the fair young applicant for the stenographer's Job. 1 learned, she replied, that spelling U essential to a stenographer." The boss cfiuckled. Good. Now let me hear you spell essential. .The fair girl hesitated for the fraction of a second. There are three ways, she reWhich do you prefer? plied. And she got the Job. Cleveland Plain Dealer. No Returns. An Interested visitor who was making a call in the tenement district, rising, said: Well, my good woman, I now., is there anything GERMANS PUBLISH PAPERS IN POLAND I CATAPULT USED BY FRENCH i mo-sel- Such Language.. exclaimed the little Boa. horrified tones, pleasa apeak to brother Emerson. He's been playing with those common little boys around the corner again, and hea u leg dreadful language. "Whata he saying? asks mamma. Hes splitting one Infinitive after another! Mamma, ton girl In d - st must go I. can do for you? "No., thank ye," mem," replied tha submerged one. Ye mustnt mind It if I don't return the call, will ye? 1 f. havent any lime to go alummln n t Tlaho mu al in i jw ou IU e, anti-tru- JEW EERY Good active sales agents MI-hi- - Jhn e e fifty-tw- for-- more BOYD PARK Thompson Elected Mayor and Nearly Half of Council Republican. Chicago. William Hale Thompson was elected mayor of Chicago' on Tuesday by a plurality of 139,389, the highest ever given a mayoralty candidate. The nearest approach before was in 1897, when Carter H. Harrison received 79,150 more votes than John Maynard Tarlan, the Republican. The indications are that the next council will consist of thirty-thre- e Democrats, thirty-onRepublicans, two Progressives. three Independents and one Socialist A negro, Oscar De Priest wras elected from the Second ward. It is the first time a negro' ever has served In the city council. Women voted for the first time at a mayoralty election in Chicago and ' incomplete returns showed that the MORGAN MUST PAY TAX. relative percentage of men and women .votes received by Thompson and Art Collection Will Cost Owner Two Robert Sweitzer, the defeated Demoor Three Million Dollars. cratic candidate, were approximately New York Although the legal limit " the same. of two years within which J. P. Morgan might have escaped the necessity Norway to Demand Redress. London. A Christiania dispatch to of paying an Inheritance tax upon hi Reuters Telegram company says that art collection by giving it to a public the report of a committee of experts institution expired April 1, the Morgan submitted to the government con- estate has not signified to the state firms the fact that tho Norwegian comptroller Us intention to make such , disposition of the collection. tank steamer Belridge, the first Nor- a The now on exMorgan collection, wegian ship to be damaged In the war hibition la the Metropolitan Museum zone around the British Isles, was of Art, hasb'en estimated to be e The torpedoed. damage ship is estimated at approximately 316,000 worth between 345,900,000 and The inheritance tax on It and the dispatch adds the governbeen haa estimated at from 32,000,000 ment will now present to Germany a to 33,000,000. demand for Indemnification. Dry Forces Victorious. Dont ed by Tom'.tle and other adorwith success. The Russian official re ing ladies uiio of this cherubic brand port. Issued Friday night makes the of small bov came back from school claim that the Germans in North Pothe other day rather depressed beland are being pushed back to the cause he had no nickname. East Prussian border, and that in the I spoko to the teacher about It,'-hCarpathians' between the Lupkow and vouchsafed, his big. eea opened Uzsok passes the Russians have capwide, a mournful look about his an tured still another strongly fortified I told her some nickgelle mouth ridge, overcoming in doing so almost names that Id like. insurmountable difficulties, such as German uhlans in Poland shooting from the saddle, their long lances stuck In the ground beside And what were the names? the scaling of steep hills their horses. a rapturous maiden aunt. and penetrating Bunco Bill or The Slugger, rebarbed-wirand timber obstructions. plied the angelic one. The Russians also have taken the AUSTRIANS TAKE COMMUNION BEFORE BATTLE offensive against the German forces CHICAGO. IN POLAND The Russians now are on the offensive along the whole of their front, from the Baltic sea to the Roumanian border and in the Caucasus and, according to a Stockholm dispatch, they have concentrated an enormous number of soldiers on the coast of Finland to preent any attempt by the Germans to land there. All the Russian Advances, according Washington. Construction of the railroad In Alaska will be carried on y the Alaskan engineering commission which surveyed possible routes rather than under the engineer corps of the army, secretary Lane sp announced after Tuesday's cabinet meeting Secretary Lane Bald that announcement of the route selected by the Tjreeideatxf the' railroad will be made within the next few days. The announcement will Include whether the government will buy either the Alaska Northern or the copper River and Northwestern lines, now privately owned. New impetus in the development of Alaska with the completion of the government railroad was predicted by George R. Walker, former United States attorney for Alaska, in an ad dreas before the Ohio society of Chicago, With the completion of ths Unlted.States'.new. rallroa.d,.'aald,.the speaker, the development of Alaska, which has slumbered since 1906, will he revived. S IN ft diamoml will rtellv-h- t h-- r atiTtlittift, and will Iw th mortlant-I- n re many other silt ol hor Un. 1l-rIn autlful thnii (nrtior to.) Tal.lt- - aih.-- r and Coma h'nvo us hel Jewelry, ou ailurt q OF PROJECTED CONSTRUCTION 'RAILROAD TO DEVELOP VAST REGION TO THE NORTH. of UHLANS. U-2- Vertically. The latest Boston story is about a small child who fell out of a window. A kind hearted lady came hurrying' up with the anxious question: Dear, dear! How did you fall? ,v.t The child looked up at the questioner and replied, Vertically, maam, Tit-Bit- Its Being Heard Every - asked the curiously Inclined new arrival, is the remark made by human beings that moves yon v oftenest to hearty laughter? , Satan answered promptly: It's the stereotyped remark of ths debtor, Oh, If I ever get out of debt this time, I'll never get In again!" - L d. Trawler Sent to Bottom. Blyth, England. The trawler. Agan-th-a was attacked by a German o'ff Longstone and sent to the bottom. The crew of thirteen men were .rescued by the Swedish steamer Tord. Germans Beaten in Congo. Havre. Fresh attacks by German forces against the Belgian Congo have beenrepnlsed, according to a report mad by the deputy governor general of Katanga to the Belgian minister for the colonies , ' Faces Second Murder Trial. Mineola, N. Y. Mrs. Florence Conklin Carmen, wife of Dr. Edward Carman of Freeport, will go on trial again charged with the morder of Mrs. Louise Bailey. The jury at the first trial disagreed. Cashier Indicted. Denver, Colo. Coney Slaughter, cashier of the Mercantile National bank of Pueblo, Colo., now In - the hand of a. receiver, was indicted by Tit tLa essttzizacm of tla Inhabitants of Poland the German army pubthe federal grand jury on a charge U lishes newspapers and displays them on the trees. These papers contain w news of all the world, sent on from Berlin. falsifying the books of the bank. Dayl "And what, L ! Tenacious or Watchful. Yokes .Is a man of great tenacity of purpose." Caring for Insaes. "Why do you say so? How enormous in the talk of caring I have known him to keep ths for the Insane is shown by the fact same umbrella through a whole rainy that there are in all our public season. d00,000Tngane Somewhat Slow. persons, a number exceeding the number of students enrolled In all the "Cobsworth never- - dees anything colleges and Institutions In the coun- without first thinking k over. That's true. I've known him try. In New York the expenditure for the insane Is of the quire a three days' growtotal annual approprlsf'ont of ths ers while meditating a aha state. IJn Citizen. Institution- s-approximately one-fourt- h 5 |