Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-01

/ tiers. Some good and some bad American
ways have gone abroad with the goods.
The latter is usually most conspicuous and
invariably gets into print as an American
! Characteristic. striking instance of the
aptness Of Europeans in inviting American
methods is reported from Austria, where
the train running from Vienna was held
up in a style rivallng the best efforts of
Missouri artists One OF the passengers
stopped the train with the automatic
brake. Three men armed with revoivers
promptly jumped upon the locomotive and
commanded the engineer to uncouple the
mail car and take 1t a short distance from
the train. There It was surrounded by
thirty other armed men. and the cash was
demanded-16.ooO rubles from Alexanrewo,
1900 from Lowicz, and so on The bandits
knew exactly what there was and secured
10000 rubles. In the meantime armed men
were parading up and down the other
cars exhorting the passengers to keep their
seats and telling them no one would be
harmed. To prevent an accident, the
! courteous highwaymen had in the mean
! time sent telegram to Warsaw saying
that train No. IL was stalled and must be
guarded from collision. A second robbery
was more serious AFFAIR. A custom house
| official was travelling, In third-class car,
escorted by two attendants and four border
policemen. He had with him nearly $1,000
rubles. Suddenly a passenger got up, drew
| revolver, and shot one of the policemen
dead. Six other men at that moment en-.
| tered the car, A melee followed, in which
about $50 shots were fired. Among those
killed were two generals, who happened to
be In the adjoining car and who promptly
took part in the fight The thieves also
lost a few men, but got away with the
money.
At its recent session the German Reichs--
tag voted additional duties on beer. and
now a beer war, or, as the Germans say,
a "bierkrieg." threatens the entire country
For the present the fight is largely con-
| fined to the brewers and small dealers
The brewers have formed a ring into
which they are striving to squeeze the
entire trade. In a number OF important
towns like Leipsic. Halle Erfurt Cassel,
Hanover, and Frankfurt the war RACES
merrily. The conlagration will undoubtedly
spread to Berlin. and people by the thou
sand are making rash promises to abstain
wholly from beer rather than pay the -ad-
ditional prices.
Roughly. this extra duty amounted to
about marks per hectoliter. What was
! foreseen has come TO pass. The brewers
have raised their prices on an average
about marks. thus making extra a clear
| profit Of 2 marks per 1000 liters and the
retailers now want to charge pfennigs
per glass extra. which makes an addition
OF about 100 marks. or s25 on 1000 liters,
or twenty times as much as they pay the
breweries.
Russian losses during the late struggle
In Manchuria are reckoned by the Invalid
! tSt Petersburg), without including Port
| Arthur, as $4,000 killed, wounded and dis
! appeared. According to the Speaker U,on-
dom. the returns of Japanese war losses
made by the Japanese war Office have at
length been published, and are instructive
| as indicating the numbers which a sue
| cessful modern army may expect to lose
| by sickness and death In battle in a hard
| fought campaign. This journal says: "At
| the end Of the war we were given to I'M
derstand that the excellence of the Japa-
nese hospital and ambulance system had
been so great that the losses by sickness
'1ad been comparatively small. We are
now officially informed that disease, as
usual claimed more victims that battle,
| though the excess is very small, very
| much smaller than usual. Here are the
statistics of killed, wounded and missing:
| Killed on the field 1929: Wounded on the
| field, 1868; missing, 5,0S1 injured by ac-
sident. 1886; total, HS.429 During the war
/ the Japanese war Office did not publish
lists with names of killed and wounded.
and such statistics as it did issue COM
manded little confidence. Even now the
tale Of casualties is considered to be
suspiciously small. Probably most OF the
missing should be added to the dead.
Among injured by accidents are included
those who were bitten by horses, run over
by carts. MANNED by badly fitting boots
and hurt by falling over cliffs. To the
total killed, wounded, injured and nissinE
must be added 211S6. who died of or were
invaded by disease and sickness, thus
giving grand total of 1856 casualties.
1t appears from a careful analysis Of the
returns that Si,6S7 invaded men were
brought back to Japan The total number
OF the men who persisted at the front is
put at about 10000. or the invaded men
who were sent into hospitals In Japan 1877, 61O
recovered and were discharged by the end
OF August while 1901 had by then died in
hospital or wounded and sick men ss1, as6
either returned to service or turned into
bone to quote the Homerc language
of the Japanese war ONCE"
|
According to the British registrar gem
erals quarterly return of marriages. births,
and deaths, the birth rete for England
and Wales during the second quarter Of the
present year was the Lowest birth rate
recorded In any second quarter since civil
registration was established" Against go
per 1000 In the ten preceding quarters. the
rate Of births between April and June
1906, was no higher than H.5 per 1000
There is still. however, considerable
difference between birth and death rates
In England and Wales, the death rates
being only LAG per 1000 during the quarter
This figure, moreover, Is 1.s per 1000 lower
than the rate In the ten preceding second
quarters. The number OF births in Eng
land and Wales during the quarter was
1857, and the deaths 15.SS7, an excess
Of births over deaths of III, 800, against
1850. 114.SSO. and 1875 in the second
quarters Of 1903. 1904 and 1905.
The old and the new mingle in China.
The newspapers from the east tell of a
jail mutiny in Canton in which thirteen
prisoners escaped. The authorities failed
TO capture them. but issued orders that all
their relatives should be arrested and i'm
| | prisoned until they could give Informa tion