New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-07-22
WINTERS IN DISTRESS.

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WINTERS IN DISTRESS.
The German wine growing indus
try is In bad way. Every year since
1906 there has been shrinkage in
the acreage of the vineyards so that
the total has fallen from 297, 900 to
266,OOO acres. As evidence of the
growing distress of the winters the
fact Is cited that the debts of tho
fifty cooperative societies of growers
on the Moselle have increased from
$345,0oo to $2.000,00O within ten years.
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PROBE DEATH OF FIVE.
A judicial inquiry has been ordered
into the deaths of a guide named
Melounig and four others whose froz-
en- bodies were found on the Gross
Venediger glacier near Gratz, Aus
tria. An examination of the bodies
disclosed that the guide had been
killed by blow from an ice axe,
dealt from behind. It is thought pos
because he led them astray.
LIFTS BAN ON RAILROAD.
The Austrian government has with
drawn the prohibition imposed upon
the Canadian Pacific railway with re-
gard to carrying on emigration BUSH
ness and its agencies are now free to
resume the traffic. The prohibition
against the railway last year was in
consequence of allegations that the
companys agents were assisting Aus
tro-Hungarian subjects to evade mill
tary service by emigrating.
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SOLDIERS DIE OF HEAT.
Two German soldiers died and more
than 100 others were ill from sun
stroke, by which they were affected
in the course of military maneuvers
at Frankfort-on-Oder. The men be-
longed to the Second Prince Charles
of Prussias Brandenburg infantry
regiment. The weather was the hot
test in Germany this year.
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WAR ON TOBACCO TRUST.
The Bavarian war ministry has or
dered all branches of the Bavarian
army, including the officers messes
and the mems canteens, to purchase
their cigarettes only from firms indie
pendent of the tobacco trust. The
trust cigarettes already had been
banned from Bavarian railway sta
tions.
AIR COLLISION FATAL.
Karl Geigant, German aviator, f.
dead from injuries received during q
collision between his aeroplane and
that of Lieutenant Won Der Luehe Of
the Mecklenburg grenadiers on July
IA as both aviators were starting on
. fight. The lieutenant also was 60
verely hurt.
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UP ALMOST FIVE MILES.
An omccial test Of the Paragraph
carried by Heinrich Oelerich In his
biplane showed that the altitude 1T
tanned BY him on his record ascent &c
Leipzig on July II was 1886 feet,
1b4 feet less than I'VE miles.
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HOPE TO EvApE TAXES.
Notwithstanding the sharp punish
ments threatened against tax dodgers
by the war tax laws passed by the
reichstag last year It 10 evident that
much German capital has fed the
country to escape taxation.
LONG IN AIR.
Reinhold Boehm, German aviator.
using the same biplane employed by
Landman In making his nonstop flight
Of 81 hours 40 minutes on June %,
made q new duration record of "a
hours IL minutes
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DUELIsT DIES.
A student of the university at Mar
burg bled to death after duel with
q fellow student during which his
jugular vein was severed. Fatal re-
suits are almost unknown in these
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GERMAN SHIP ABANDONED.
The German steamship Mendoza has
been abandoned as total wreck It
went ashore July II in fog on the
Argentine coast. The passengers and
crew, numbering 257, were saved.
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FOR EXHIBIT AT FRISCO.
An appropriation Of $4,000 was
approved by the city council Of Wen
a for the maintenance Of q vienns
exhibit ct the San Francisco Panama
IMPOSITION.