Semi-weekly herald., 1916-01-13


gagement to address the Progressives
at Chicago.
An ice gorge five miles below
Davenport caused rise of two feet
in the Mississippi in "a hours, send
ing the stage to 10 feet Many low
lands in Illinois and Iowa were mum
dated and people are moving out.
The river is still rising.
An announcement made by the
Peninsular G. Oriental Steamship com
pany says that the number of per-
sons on board the steamer Persia
who have not been accounted for ag-
gregates 1856. OF these 1I9 were pas
sengers and 2lT members of the
crew.
All kinds of rot in congress. SEN
ator Williams says this country must
hasten along preparedness or the ma
tion will have to submit to bullying
by the kaiser Immediately after the
war. We are of the opinion that
when the war is over the kaiser and
his people will seek peace and rest
instead of hunting more trouble.
The war in Europe seems to be
starting back to the United States
many of the Middle West farmers and
their families who went into Canada
in search Of cheap lands and enlarg-
ed opportunities for agricultural bet
terment. Competent observers, re-
Gently returned from Canada say
that hundreds of young men who
went from the United States to home
stead there are now leaving the Do
minion by the trainload in order to
avoid military duty They fear con-
scription by Great Britain, and do not
want to take any chances. Some of
these homesteaders. it is pointed out
are leaving so hurriedly that they
have not disposed of their Canadian
land or attempted to straighten out
their business affairs.
Four special trains OF dogs have
just been sent from Paris to the diff
ferent parts Of the French battle
front. One train of % cars had 25
dogs in each car-fox terriers, rat
terriers, police dogs and other
breeds-to be divided between differ
ent sectors of the front and most Of
them employed in chasing rats out
Of the trenches. Attracted by the re-
mains Of the soldiers rations rats in
vaded the advance works, shelters
and trenches even ON the first line,
and multiplied in such numbers that
the soldiers are incapable of exter-
minating them. Dogs are now to be
tried.
Chinese newspapers are bitter in
their criticism Of the constant stream
o. japanese that are pouring into
Hsrb'r The Russians deny the Jap
arose residents in the Russian con.
cession; consequently. they live in the
Chinese section of the city. The Hsui
Chuang Kuo Pao, Chinese paper
published in Peking, gives the follow
ing list Of occupations of Japanese
now residents in Harbin: Bank /
general importers II, factories o, hos
pital /, drug stores 21, hotels 3, tailor
shops Z. laundries, 8, barber shops IL,
bath parlors 6, restaurants 10, build
ers 4, disorderly houses %. This pa
per charges that nearly all the Jap
morphine and opium and openly vio-
morphine and opium and openly vio-
late the Chinese laws prohibiting the
sale of these drugs.
Fewer miles of railroad were built
in the United States during 1915 than
in any other year since 1864, and
more miles of railroads were in re-
ceivership during the year than ever
before, according to statistics COM
piled from official sources by the
Railway Age Gazette. There have
Only been three years since 1S4S in
which the increase in railway mile
age was less than 1000 miles and
those were the Civil war years. There
were 933 miles constructed during
1915. And this in the face of Red
fields prosperity wave.
Five hundred deaths have occurred
from diphtheria in three years in Rio
Grande valley, according to state
ment from Dir. G. L. Rice, president
Of the New Mexico state board Of
health. The population endangered
by the epidemic is estimated at 50,-
900. The doctor asserted that the
board was powerless to act against
the disease because of lack of juris-
diction and the fact that no appro-
priation had been made for it by the
legislature. He declared that the
state paid more attention to cradle
ating diseases among sheep and cat
tie than among children.