ELBERT HUBBARD. DR. HARRY PLOTZ RAFAEL ZALDiVARC $ PAY FOR SON'S LOSS DONT ORDER YOUR AUTO Until youbave seen the "METZ" 25 MOTHER OF WIRELESS OPERATOR OF GULFLIGHT TO ASK REPARATION. FULLY EQUIPPED WITH GRAY & DAVIS ELECTRIC Charles C. Short, Minnesota Boy, Who Lost Life When American Tank LIGHT AND STARTER-^ Vessel Was Torpedoed, Had Served in U. S. Army. FULL STREAMLINE BODY Stillwater, May 6.—Mrs. R. L. Short, 32 BY 3^ TIRES, FOR ONLY a of Chicago, mother of Charles C. Sfkort, the wireless operator who lost Elbert Hubbard, the celebrated American his life when the American tank journalist, was one of the passengers steamer Gulflight was torpedoed and on board the illfated Liner sunk by a German submarine, will -write to President Wilson and Secretary Lusitania. Bryan asking reparation from International Machine Co. Germany. EIGHT TURKISH SHIPS SUNK This intention was contained in a letter from Mrs. Short to her father, O. G. Fox, of Stillwater, a retired conductor Senor Don Rafael Zaldivar is the recently of the Omaha road. TRANSPORTS ARE SENT TO BOT- arrived representative of the "As an American mother, I will demand republic of Salvador in Washington. that Germany l#e compelled to TOM BY RUSSIANS. He is of a prominent family, his father make up for the loss of my son," she Northern Minnesota Hospital having been president of hit wrote to her father. Mr. Fox will country and minister to America. leave for Chicago in a few days to aid Teutonic Allies Claim Czar's Troops Mrs. Short in her fight. Are Being Pressed Back in WiLSON WORKS GOT SOLUTION Death is Severe Blow. Galicia. Mrs. Short is the mother of six children, Dr. Harry Plotz, the young bacterl* of whom the wireless operator in ologlst (tf Mt. Sinai hospital New was the oldest. It is said she is in Paris, May 10.—According to news York, who last year discovered the poor circumstances and the death of from a reliable source in Constantinople, bacillus of typhus fever, has lately FEELS THAT COUNTRY WANTS her son is a severe blow. Her husband says a dispatch from Athens tb discovered an antityphus vaccine or HIM TO ACT FIRMLY. died four years ago. the Havas agency, six Turkish transports protective agent against the disease Young Short served in the United have been sunk by the Russians which Is epidemic in Serbia and States army and while in the Philippines off the Bosphorus and two others have parts of Austria-Hungary. Keeps His Own' Counsel and Makes learned wireless telegraphy. been sunk in the Sea of Marmora. He sailed on the Gulflight in March, His Own Decisions—Horrors The Turkish army, the dispatch adds, SHIP 188 AMERICANS AeOARO has left Adrianople in the direction of it is said, unknown to his mother. He of Sinking Increase. was 24 years old. Midieh, a seaport on the Black Sea. »London, May 10.—In the fighting Short was drowned when he leaped Washington, May 10.—President that is in progress along the battle overboard after the steamer was rammed, Wilson, standing firmly by his decision lines in Belgium and France, and in PASSENGERS WARNED WHEN telegraphic advices said. not to take precipitate action, is pondering Russia and the Carpathians, both the LUSITANIA SAILED. every phase of the situation in Triple Entente and the Teutonic allies School Boys to Work Garden. the present crisis in the United States' claim successes at various spots. Ada.—The agricultural' department relations with Germany. None of them however, except possibly of the high school owns and operates More Than Two Thousand Took The responsibility that rests upon Austria and Germany, record successes plot of land in connection with classroom him is a great one and thA-e is no disposition Passage on lll-Fated LinerWall on a great scale. Even the work. The plot consists of 3% on the part of the executive statements of the Teutonic allies are Street Excited. R. H. Monohan, M. D. Elizabeth Monohan, M. D, acres and is divided into four sections. to shirk or to share it.- reiterations of the reports for several This year the plots have been planted So far as is known, the president Mary Ghostley, M. D. days past that the Russians continue New York, May 8.—The first news to popcorn, potatoes, onions and seed has consulted with no one, not even to be pressed back in Galicia and the of the torpedoing and sinking of the corn. All work is done by the boys Office over International State Bank. International Fallf, Mm the secretary of state, and is working free Carpathians and that Hungary is Cunard liner Lusitania came through of the class in field crops and is out the situation within his own mind. of enemy forces. an announcement from the local offices counted as laboratory Work. The boys The statement issued from the Petrograd does not deny the gains of the Cunard line, which stated furnish their own seed, but must have White House that the president felt claimed bfcr the Teutons, but declares that an unconfirmed rumor to that effect seed of the same variety. The plot the country wanted him to act firmly, that the Russians are fighting back had been received from abroad. will be kept up by the boys all summer but deliberately, is the only word that hard at certain points and that the Less than an hdur later the company under the supervision of the agricultural has come from official sources as to attacks of the Teutons while undiminished had made public additional messages instructor. All expenses are his probable attitude. frequent. in vigor, are becoming less tionfirming the report which, in the paid by the members of the class and DOWN DEEP IN YOUR POCKET ineantime, however, had been verified President Keeps Own Counsel. everything received from the plots by newspaper dispatches from London. While it is assumed that the administration will belong to the boys. Arrangements will do everything possible BERLIN CLAIMS CAPTURE have been made with a wholesale Conflicting reports came in during to avert an open rupture with OF CITY OF LIBAU IN RUSSIA grocer of Minneapolis to handle am The coins ache for freedom. .They exert the afternoon to the line and to news Germany, no matter how great the provocation, the vegetables. agencies in regard to the safety of there is an equation whieh Berlin, May 10.—(Via London.)— influence over you to be put into circulation. .Nil passengers, but up to the early hours has not been fully considered in estimating Offical announcement was made at Women Place Bounty on Flies. of the evening no definite information the probable course of the government. the German war office that the city of Plainview.—One cent a dozen is paid temptation to spend needlessly* when the money is That equation is the unique &ii to their fate had been received Libau, in the province of Courland, for flies by women's club in the First here. personality which inhabits the execu Russia, has been captured by the Germans. district of the Minnesota Federation in the bank on interest. Start an account now with tive mansion at the present time. No of Women's clubs. The district openerf Wall Street Excited. one has fully sounded it. He keeps The text of the communication follows: its annual meeting and all the clubs The publication of the news created whatever surplus you have—even a dollar will open his own counsel and makes his own "An infantry battle took place reported a fly swatting campaign. tremendous excitement in Wall decisions. But his past career indicates in the Vosges. Only in this section The district is establishing a precedent Street and there followed a violent that if once goaded into action, an account. Don't allow your money to work you$ did the French attack our positions. by having, its meetings in the city decline in both stock and cotton markets. that action will be vigorous and positive. All attacks resulted in failure with hall. This is the first time a district Under an avalanche of selling make it work for you, this is theway others get afeeaij, heavy losses to the French. of the federation has been Invited to orders, which reached their greatest As the details of the Lusitania horror "In the eastern theater of the war meet in the town hall. The members volume during the last hour of trading, continue to filter over the wires, the troops we sent against the city of the city council are attending the stocks fell from 8 to 29 points, the realization continues to grow that of Libau took possession of this town. meeting. and cotton $2.50 a bale. The so-called here is a situation that cannot be met Sixteen hundred, prisoners, 18 cannon FIRST NATIONAL BANK The district has fifty-one clubs, an war stocks, like Bethlehem Steel, with delay and the issuance of protests. and four machine guns fell into our I increase of twelve in the past year, including were especially affected. Hands." four clubs among rural women. The Lusitania, with a total of 1,251 International Falls, Minn. In the capture of Libau the Germans Immensity of Horror Increases. Much civic work is being done passengers aboard, of whom 188 were have gained one of the main objects From those close to the governing by the clubs in this district at Wabasha. Americans, and with a crew of 816, of their invasion of the Baltic officials of the administration it is g&iled from here in the face of a warning provinces of Russia. The movement, gathered that what it fears most is the published on the day of her departure undertaken within the last fortnight temper of the American people after by the German embassy, was designed to occupy Libau and all the facts are learned, It is realized Which fitated that travelers intending Riga, two of the principal Russian that the immensity of the horror to embark on British ships did so ports on the Baltic, which would enable will increase and not lessen as it at the risk of the ships being destroyed Farmers to Picnic Bemidjl Merchants. the Germans to harass Russian comes to be completely told. THE LITTLE NEAT MARKET Bemidji.—Bemidji merchants will be in accordance with the German communications with Petrograd. Already the news dispatches contain entertained at a picnic by farmers in 2one decree. I Libau is about 75 miles along the PHONE 120. gruesome and pathetic details of women this vicinity June 16. It is proposed This warning, published in the sea coast from the German border. drowned, of little children thrown to make it an annual affair. This was form of an advertisement, did not result On Third Street, Opposite Rex Hotel. into -the merciless waters, of mothers decided at a recent gathering of farmers in the cancellation of a single found with their arms still clasped Pan-Amecian Financial Congress. and business men at the high passage, nor did anonymous notes of Good Suppy of Meats, Fish, Groceries, Butter and Eggs. Washington, May 10.—Finance ministers about the bodies of their infants. This school, who met to discuss the dairy warning, said to have been received and leading bankers of Central does not make comforting reading and breeders' association. The picnic by some passengers just before the and South Amercian counrties met FISH AND POULTRY CLEANED BEFORE DELIVERY the cumulative wrath of the American proposition was suggested by A. P. big liner left her pier, deter any one here as guests of the United States public is the thing that is dreaded. Ritchie, who said that the farmers had from sailing. government in order to confer with I E E A A been the guests of the business men American officials and financiers on Shoots BrotheMn-Law. many times and that it is the turn of the means to be taken for breaking M. LARSEN, Prop. TWO MINNEAPOLIS MEN Minneapolis, May 10.:—Julius Webber, the farmers to entertain the business down the barriers v/hich hamper the 1 ABOARD THE LUSITANIA 27 years old, a farmer in Champlin men. Minneapolis, May 8.—Two Minneapolis development of trade between North township, Hennepin county, was men were passengers on the and South American countries met perhaps fatally shot by his brother-inlaw, Lusitania when it was blown up and Pan-Amercian financial congress ever To Graduate Largest Class. William Karstedt, 42 years old. Bemidji.—About 22 students will be ttink. According to B. G. Benson, held and Secretary of the Treasury John Webber, a brother of Julius, was graduated from the Bemidji high manager of the Northwestern department McAdoo, President Wilson and other shot through the right hand, and 'Jacob school this year. This will be the of the Cunard Steamship company. sponsors hope that great good will Webber, their father, was internally International Falls Abstract Co, largest class known herfc. Dr. John result from it. The delegates are being Sidrel Braddick and George injured when he was trampled by the H. Gray of the department of economics Arthur, both second class passengers, entertained at the expense of the horse Karlstedt drove. Karlstedt is of the University of Minnesota, said they lived in Minneapolis when United States, congress having appropriated BURDICK, KREMER & KING, Proprietors under arrest in the Hennepin county will deliver the commencement address $50,000 for the purpose. they engaged passage on the last trip jail, pending the result of Julius Webber's on June 3. "The Kingdom of of the Lusitania. Abstracts, Real Estate and Insurance injuries. Hearts Content" has been chosen as Says Germany Was Justified. the class play to be presented May 28. New York, May 10. Dr. Bernard Collections, Conveying and Loans Ouluth Girl on Ill-fated Ship. Prelate's Body Identified. Duluth, Minn., May 8.—Miss Millie Dernburg, former colonial secretary Winnipeg, May 10. The body of Baker, daughter of Mrs. A. Baker of Says Not Much Belgium Left. of the German: empire, in a talk with J. E. BURDICK, Manager Canon Thair of St. John's cathedral, this city was a passenger on the Lusitania. representatives of the press here, reiterated who lost his life on the ill-fated Lusitania, a Fergus Falls.—Phillip de Lagoon, International Falls Minnesota She had been studying music and emphasized statements he has been identified at Queenstown. Belgian, who lives here, has received a tinder Madame Guilia Valda in New in Cleveland holding that the made cable to this effect was received A letter from his nephew, Franz de Lagoon, York and started to Paris tj resume German government was, justified in its here. Canon Thair, second son who spent some time here, and her studies under her former instructor, action of sinking the Cunard liner of the late Arch-Deacon Thair was on who is with King Albert's army in Belgium. Trabadello. Lusitania. his way to England to bring back his "I am still in Belgium, but wife and two children. there is not much Belgium left," the Red Cross Nurses on Liner. Special Congress Session Likely. nephew writes. "If you were on a Lima, Ohio, May 8.—"I have-12 doctors Honolulu, H. I., May 10. Senator Ship U. S. Tor~?^ned Rumw jehurch steeple you could look all over and more than 100 nurses on Nay York, May 10.—American line Albert B. Cummins of Iowa and Lee Belgium now. It is warmer now and board the Lusitania," said Dr. Joseph officials scouted a rumor which they S. Overman of North Dakota said after I am out of the trenches. You tell me Farm a! Draft Horses for Sale Hall of Cincinnati, official of the Red admitted was in circulation locally receipt of cablegrams from Washington, the war will soon end, but I do not Cross society and member of the Lima that the steamer New York of their they had no hesitancy in saying know about it." State Hospital commission when he line, due in Liverpool Sunday, had they believed President Wilson would From 5G0 to 1000 head cf horses constantly oa hfwd, been torpedoed. The line officials declared call an extraordinary session of congress heard of the torpedoing of ,the big including large Draft Horses, Driving Horses, Delivery they had absolutely no word ocean liner here. to take action on the Lusitania To Continue Meat Trust Probe. Horses, Farm Chunks, Farm Mares, Saddlers and Mules. Every horse Virginia.—City Attorney R. J. Mon from their London office and were not disaster. They said they did not be* "We were sending them to Europe hitched and tried before sale. If you want one horse, a or a carload* tague announced that the alleged meat worried by the rumor, which they attributed lieve it would be for the purpose of as relief workers for the Red Cross come to BARRETT & ZIMMERMAN trust investigation would be continu to nervousness incidental to declaring war, but for providing ships association," he continued, "and they ed. The investigation was delayed the Lusitania disaster. The Philadelphia .were for the safe conveyance to Europe of to take the places of others who At.W. iwprtnft Dolatb Stables: Cor. 23d & Superior St. Great Midway Korsc St. Pad, when R. A. Peers, a well known of the American line passed out Private Sales Daily AuctiMiEwrvWeiiiiMifav. Auction Every Wednesday. MmtA Private Saks sites DaS? Baft? .'f£re out with the the American passengers and American worn work in noon. of the Narrows shortly after gQOdS. butcher,. was arrested. .v ,-v„