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New Ulm review., 1919-04-09

FOR SALE: Lot on Center St. be-
tween Washington and Franklin
Streets. Opposite Court House. In
quire at 226 North State St. Tele-
phone TAO. Adv. 14tf.
New Ulm review., 1919-04-09

S Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Weissenborn
'v's were agreeably and completely surprised
Sunday evening when a group Of friends
dropped inon them to help them cele-
brate their 23rd wedding anniversary.
There l was also q surprise in store for
the surprisers, when the thunder storm
came up suddenly and caused the guests
Ito depart post haste for their own homes.
New Ulm review., 1919-04-09

Fire losses in Nicollet county amounted
to $16,535 during the year 1918, more
than in Brown county where only
81, 400 were recorded as fire losses in
1918,
New Ulm review., 1919-04-09

FOR SALE: s Room brick house,
good barn, good well. on So. MINI. St.
Also other property. For informa-
tion call on Jul. Krause, Phone 1913.
~ Adv. 47tf.
New Ulm review., 1919-04-09

FOR SALE: "Point Lookout" 8 room
residence with all modern conveniences,
spring water, good barn and garage.
Is lots. Enquire of
Albert Steinhauser or
Adv. loft. Andrew Steinmetz.
New Ulm review., 1919-04-09

FOR RENT: 24O acres good farm
land, meadow and pasture, good build
, ings, II miles from Fairfax, Town
Ridgely, Nicollet Co. Lease for 5
years. Inquire this office. Adv 1916
New Ulm review., 1919-04-09

WIFI JACK FlCkfOfd
The story is Mark Twains
Tom Sawyer" one of his most
Famous.
FOLLOWED BY "PICTORIAL"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-11
BOndSnien Suffer
From Efforts Of
Deputy Palmer

That Deputy Sheriff Palmer is tho
star capias server was proven conclu-
sively by two incidents which occurred
close together and which looks more
like luck, than sheer pluck and hard
work.
Palmer arrested a negro on a capias
and lodged him in TALL He returned to
the sheriffs office 70 find another ne-
grO trying to bail out the first He
had q capiaR for the bond mRker, ar
rested him and took HIM 10 Jail. He
retnrned tbMthe sheriffs office again
and fppnd negro trying TO mako bond
ter s1ie first bond maker, and, having
q capias 10r hitsh arrested hhn and reT
turNad to the sheriff's office again. "A
fourth negro appeared to make bond foI
second bond maker, but as Palmer did
not have a caplas for the third bond
maker, he related to him the story OF
the other two bond makers, whereupon
the third bond maker hurriedly
vamoosed.
Palmer then returned to his duties
waiting on the First criminal court, and
upon opening the swinging doors saw
another negro for whom he had p ca
pias. II am tired of serving capiases;
hope no niger comes TO make bond for
this one," said Palmer, when he re-
turned TO the courtroom again, after
placing the fourth prisoner behind the
bars,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-11
SHERIFF RACES TO
ARREST LAUGHTER
Shelby Official on Way to Hot
Springs to Defeat
Escape Attempt.

Sheriff o, H. Perry is hurrying to Hot
Springs, Ark, to get e. A. Laughter
before the former king Of the bootleg
gers can maneuver writ of habeas
corpus, get his freedom and get out Of
the state.
Laughter was convicted on a charge
Of carrying a pistol and sentenced to
serve III months and 20 days In the
county workhouse, He appealed his
case to the supreme court and the de-
He then skipped his $1,000 peace bond
and became a fugitive from justice.
Wednesday Sheriff Perry heard that
Laughter was in Hot Springs. He got
into communication with the authorities
there, asking that they arrest Laughter
as fugitive from justice and hold him
without bond until he could get there.
Laughter was arrested Thursday. In
the meantime the sheriff went to Nash
vile, procured a reQuisition on the gov
ernor Of Arkansas, returned to Menu
phis Friday at am. and left for
rive in Hot Springs Friday afternoon.
In addition to the rNauisition on the
Arkansas executive md also requisi-
tons on the governors of Louisiana and
Missouri Sheriff Perry also has a mitti-
mus and a capias.
lease on bond of $4,000 late Thursday,
but the authorities refused to re-
lease him. S. o. Bates, states attor-
ney, late Thursday got into telephone
communication with Prosecuting Attor-
ney Hopkins, Of Hot Springs, who
promised to hold Laughter until Perry's
arrival,
Charles Garibaldi, of Sheriff Perry q
office, saw Gov Brough at the Peabody
hotel Thursday night, and the Arkan-
sas executive promised to do all he
| Laughter.
| Laughter filed application for a writ
| of habeas corpus at Hot Springs.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-11
C. OF C. TO AID LOCAL
CLUBS IN RELIEF WORK

Members Of the Chamber of Com
merce, at luncheon Friday with Marion
Evans, acting president. Rabbi w, II,
Fineshriber and Or. w. D. Buckner.
made plans to cooperate with the
Nineteenth Century and other women's
clubs Of the city in canvassing funds
for the American Committee for De.
vastated France.
Comte Wilbur Burt Jarvis, represent
ing the committee, was present and
made an address in which he stressed
the extreme necessity for the extern
sion Of aid by the American people
to those French who were made utterly
destitute by the German invasion These
people, he said. are without shelter;
they have neither seeds nor imple.
ments with which to plant q crop, and
therefore face starvation, disease and
death.
France. crippled by the four years OF
terrific fighting and invasion, has not
the resources to succor these people
and II falls upon the charity OF Amer
lea. he declared, The French must
have portable houses, seeds and im-
plements There Is no thought of re-
building devastated France with funds
collected In America. but merely 10
relieve the needy French until they
get on their feet and can take care Of
themselves.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-11
EMPTY BOTTLES FOUND
ON LAWN CAUSE ARREST

Many rumors, even to the point Of
complaints, according to Ed Pass, as
sistant chief of police, to the effect
that there was considerable interior ir~
rigation being INDUCED In by
dwellers of apartment houses in the
vicinity Of Monroe avenue and Well
ington street, sent him forth late
Thursday afternoon, In company with
Sergeant Webster and Patrolman Gas
kins, to investigate.
In giving testimony Saturday before
Judge Fitzhugh in police court. Mr..
Pass said that they found the lawn
at the rear OF the apartment houses
strewn with empty bottles, both whisky
and beer, mostly the latter.
In the apartment OF Mrs Ine2 Miller,
South wellington street, Mrs Pass said
he found about two dozen bottles OF
beer; nine on ice being cooled. That
occasioned the appearance of Mrs, Mil
Ter, handsome and stylishly groomed,
in court to answer to a charge OF vio-
lating the liquor law. She was held
for the state court.
Mrs. Miller said that the beer was
for personal use and had been left
there by friend, .
II placed some on ice," she tlmidly
told the court, and intended to drink
1t whenever II cared for a bottle"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-11
ALL PEACE PROBLEMS SETT'z.GO, BRITON DECLARES
ONLY DETAILS OF
MINOR NATURE TO
YET BE ARRANGED
BULLETIN.

PARIS, April II. (By the Associated
Press. 1--Whiie tho text Of the Monroe
doctrine amendment adopted by the
league OF nations connisslon last night
Is Withheld, Its main features are sub
stantially;
ARTICLE x--NothIng In this covenant
shall be construed as lnValldatlna any
agreement. such aS the Monroe doc.
trlne, TOR the maintenance Of peace"
PARIS, April II. (Iavas.)-The peace
conference has reached an agreement
on all questions concerning peace with
Germany, reparatlous, indemnltles and
the frontiers Of the Rhine and Poland,
according TO an Interview In the Petit
journal with the private secretary Of
Premier Lloyd George, Certain details
remained, and II Is added they Will be
settled In two or three days,
The German delegates viii be surn :
moned to Versailles within two or three
weeks.
The British premier, his secretary Is
quoted as saying, thinks II the allies
agree as we'll at present as during the
war, the achievements Of the peace
conference viii be lasting and numerous
dangers, Including eolshevlsm, Will be
averted.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-11
BISHOP SAPHERE SPEAKS
ON RELIGION AND WAR

Inspiring Commute sermons are be-
ing delivered this week at the MONDAY
Lenten services which are held daily
at Calvary parish house under the aus
pices of the Episcopal clergymen of
the city parishes. The preacher for
the present week has been the Rt.
Rev. e, w. Saphere, bishop suffragan
Of Arkansas.
Bishop Saphere Friday spoke Of the
eternal warfare between good and evil
and said, in his opinion, If the Chris
tian people of the world had lived up
to their professions of faith, the world
war would never have occurred.
Now that the war is ending, he said
the responsibility upon Christianity Is
even heavier, and his belief is that
the Christian nations of the United
States and England must work together
to save the world now from the fate
which will overtake 1t IL the anarchy
which has broken out in the far east Ia
permitted to spread westward. I'VE
must again try, through every Christian
agency" he said, ito prove our faith
by our works. to both pray and work
for the coming Of Gods kingdom upon
earth, so that wars will never again
be allowed to break out anyWhere
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-11
CHECK BAD AND
OFFICER JAILED
Soft Drink Dealer Says He
Gave Detective $3.50 in
Real Money.

Accused of having passed worth
less check for $3.50 on Fritz sodlni,
soft drink booth operator, Third street
and Gayoso avenue. Roy Waters, 81
years old, 37A Union avenue, until April
Q q detective Of the Memphis police
department, was arrested at noon Fri
day by Policemen Sheriff. and Head
and confined In the city prison on or
derH from Joe Burney, chief OF police.
Waters came 10 Memphis from Camp
Pike, Ark, several weeks ago, wearing
his army uniform, He was appointed
n member Of the spottlnE squad Of the
detective bureau Feb. rs by C. w. MIL
ler, police commissioner, and dismissed
April 9 from the force.
According to Hulet Smith, chief OF
detectives, complaints OF Waters al
legged delinquency began being received
several days before he was dropped.
According to the detectives, Waters,
old, DeSoto street, who was appointed
a special detective Feb, 2l, went TO
Fritz Sodini after being supplied with
detective badges and borrowed" 800
to purchase an automobile, 30 Sodini
said they explained TO him.
office SodnI said that few days later
Detective Smith came to his place and
told him he had turned over his half
OF the car to Waters who would be re-
sponsible for the debt, A day or 30
afterward Waters went to his place and
said he was ready to pay the 800. He
gave Sodini a check for $50 on the
City National bank Of Panora, Iowa,
receiving the $50 difference in real
money Sodini turned the check In to
the Liberty Savings Bank and Trust
company, and In due time information
came back that there was no such bank.
The check was then referred TO tho
Guthrie County National bank, Of Pa
noTa,-said 10 be tho only institution
Of the kind In that town--wlth the
answer that Roy Waters had no funds
there
Then Sodini started the police and de-
tective departments to buzzing on an
investigation and according to the heads
OF those departments, other alleged dis
crepancies are under investigation by
them that are laid to the work OF
Waters and possibly one or more other
special detectives, who have been add
Cd to the force by Mr.. Miller,
". H. Smith was dismissed from the
force April T. 7
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-11
TEN SECTIONS OF WORLD
LEAGUE DRAFT PASSED

PARIS, April tI.--At the meeting of
the commission on league Of nations
ten sections OF the covenant were con.
sIdered and passed, The Japanese
amendment was not reached and the
actual text Of the section exsmptlna
the Monroe doctrine from the provl-
slons Of the covenant OF the league OF
nations Is not yet available,
American commissioners stated, how
ever, that the doctrine was definitely
named In the provision guaranteeing
that 1t will not be affected by the terms
In the covenant. Another meeting will
be held tonight, when IL is hoped that
the work win he completed.
The adoption Of the section exempting
the Monroe doctrine was the only real
exemption made during the meeting last
night. President Wilson offered the
amendment and made plea for II,
saying that he believed the doctrine
was protected under the terms OF the
covenant as they stood, but because OF
the demands for specific exemption he
felt II imperative that the amendment
should be added, There was some ad-
verse argument, but tho amendment
was adopted without prolonged opposl-
ton.
Between the session Of tho council Of
four this forenoon at the Paris white
House and the plenary session Of the
peace conference this afternoon, Presis
| dent Wilson and Mrs, Wilson planned
to entertain Queen Marie Of Rumania
| at luncheon
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-11
MAGDEBURG AGAIN IN
CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT

BERLIN, April H.. (via Copenhagen
.-Magdeburg, capital of Prussian sax
ony, where serious disorders occurred
early in the week again is in control
OF the German government forces, Gus,
tav Noske, minister OF defense, declared
in an interview in the Tageblatt. After
asserting that the authorities were pre-
pared for all possibilities, Herr Noske
reviewed the situation as follows:
''Magdeburg is completely In our
hands. Motor boats armed with ma
chine guns are patrolling the Elbe to
protect vessels carrying relief food
stuffs. Conditions in Bavaria are such
that il Premier Hoffman holds out a
short time we will be able to soiidliy
eminent. If no. other way is possible,
Munich will be compelled by arms to
return to order as in the case OF Brem-
en- and Dusseldorf
1--WE must hit with all our energy
rather than to allow the country t9
be precipitated into an abyss. II blood
is spilled 1t will be on the heads OF the
Communist menaces. The situation in
the Ruhr district is much better than
the sensational press 'pretends.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-11
SAYS HUNS WILL STICK
OUT FOR WILSON PLAN

BERLIN, April II, CBy the Associated
Press, l-~Coun von Brookdorff- Rant
eau, foreign minister, speaking before
the national assembly at Weimar yes
terday, said Germany would not sign
o. peace traty which deviated In any
essential from President Wilson'S IA
points"
"The financial demands to be made
In the peace treaty are obviously caus-
Ing as much difficulty to our opponents
as those regarding territory" the for
eign minister said ut IL impossible
to solve the question Of financial claims
without negotiating with our experts
at the conference table. We will gtva
o clear account to our opponents rela-
tive to their demands and our ability
to pay"
A"Our opponents" continued the min
Mer, 'can not dlsmember and paraly8a
Germany and at the same time extract
from the resources OF tho country tho
enormous sums they expect from them
For that purpose we require the re-
lease, industrlally and agrtculturally.
of the important west, which, contrary
to the aT1nistice terms, is cut off from
the rest OF Germany.
I'VE need to have the blockadeS
speerly raised and we require the i'm
portation of foodstuffs on conditions
which will make their purchase pos
sible
IAN the states which participated In
this war find themselves In the same
distress, and hardly a nation Ia not
disappointed by q peace that Is ter
rible danger because Of the encoura ge-
ment given by II to disruptive forces"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-11
MEMPHIS TROOPS
LANDED At PORT
More Than 200 Local Soldiers
Debark From Transport
Powhatan.

CHARLESTON, s. c.. April IL
Troops to the number Of 2,42O largely
OF the S0th division, who arrived here
late yesterday from France aboard the
transport PowhRtan, debarked this
morning and left Immediately for
Camp jackson to undergo sanitary in
speotion and treatment before de-
mobilization.
Soldiers described tho trip across the
Atlantic as pleasant after the first two
days, the vessel having encountered
heavy weather on leaving st, Nazaire
There were no deaths aboard during
the voyage and only 80 mon were lll
none seriously, Tho troops brought
with them mascot In the person OF
JOY was unrestralned when the shore
OF America was sighted, but officers
said the boy showed no moro enthus-
iaSm than did the men themselves,
Among the units landing was the
famous f2Oth regiment, formerly the
clared by Col. y, u. Scott, now com
mandlng. TO be the finest men in the
world :" There were 400 mon Of this
command who gave their lives for their
country and the total casualties
amounted to 1900, Of which full 900
we're sustained on tho first day OF the
great drive against the Hindonhurg
line at Bellocourt. Col, S. W. Minor,
for is years commanding tho regiment
and who returned on the Powhatan
was about three weeks ago placed In
command Of the Sixtieth Infantry bri-
gade a. recognition OF his splendid
services, Col Scott succeeded him al
commander Of the i20th infantry.
or the 414 Tenneaseans aboard the
powhatan, more than 200 are Mem
nhians, formerly of tho old Second Ten
neSsee national guard II Is expected
that after being sent to Camp jackson
and doloused they will begin arriving
home after ten days They win be mus,
tered out probably nj Fort Oglethorpc
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-11
FLOCK OF GAMESTERS
C0RRALED BY POLICE

So crowded was the room in which
a flock Of negroes was alleged to have
been shooting craps at 1880 o'clock Fri
day morning in the home Of Upsy
Davis, 342 South Second street, ac-
cording to the police, that some of their
feet protruded from the doors.
One of the negroes was ardently
pleading Eur dat lii old Joe, to due
his duty" when Sergeant Webster and
Patrolmen Redders and Vannucci silent
ly eased their way up to the exists
They corraled the entire flock, num-
bering 23 and delivered all to the police
station on charges of gaming.
Davis was charged with operating a
y gaming house. The youngest negro
&iceman was James Bell, 10 years old,
was Jinks Walker, 81 years old 422
South Second street.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-11
SAYS HE WAS OFFERED
G0VERN0RSHIF FOR HELP

ALBANY, N, Y, April 1l.--Testifying II
before the judiciary committee OF the
senate today, Senator George Il.
Thompson, Of Niagara said Richard II.
Burke, of New York, told him If he
would assist in the passage Of the Car
SON Martin increased trolley fare bill he
could become governor OF the state and
that the traction interests would raise
in his behalf campaign fund amount
Ing TO 100000.
Senator Thompson also told Of dining
later with former Gov. Charles s Whit
man, In New York, at Mr. Whitman $
invitation. He said Whitman told him
by Theodore p Shonts, OF the Inter-
borough company. Mr.. Whitman, he
testified. told him he thought ne was
making mistake in not supporting
the Carson Martin bin, as II might give
him chance to be governor,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-11
BaVarian Revolt Spreads TO Many Biz Towns
HUN TROOPS USE
MACHINE GUNS ON
RADICAL. RIOTERS

COPENHAGEN, April 1.-THE revo-
Iutlonary movement In Bavaria has
spread to Baden and agtators are
working In Karlsruhe, Mannheim and
other large towns, according to a
Karlsruhe dispatch to the Acht Uhr
- be attempting to start a revolution
and to proclaim soviet republic in
Baden. They would also unite Baden
with the 5aVaran soviet government.
N new Spartacan outbreak at Dus-
seldorf Thursday, rs persons were killed
and rs wounded when government
troops used machine guns on Sparta.
can demonstrators, the Lokal Anzelger,
Of Berlin, says.
A crowd of several thousand assem-
bled before Spartacan headquarters in
Dusseldorf Thursday afternoon. The
police ordered the crowd to dlsperse
whereupon there was some shooting,
While soldiers were being brought up
the crowd erected barrcades In the
streets. After the fighting, In which
casualties were sustained, the Sparta
cans fled.
Dusseldorf, the newspaper adds, was
In complete darkness last night, the
Gas and electric works having ceased
operations. Trains and street cars
stopped running.
The strike In Brunswick Is reported
to be general and the railway station
there Is closed. Leaders Of the Bruns-
wick strikers have sent an ultlmatum
to the diet demanding that all powers
be handed over to the workers. coun-
Gil.
Workmen In 81 other German towns
have gone on strike In favor OF intro
.duolnq the soviet system.\
W The council of peoples Fnandatoeies,
which has been In control at Munich,
has been dispersed by the communists
who have formed communist oovern@
ment there, according to the Franken-
j. Ische Tagespost, OF Nuremburg.
The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger Is in re-
ceipt of Bavarian advices stating that
communist council In Munich was in
session until o'clock this morning and
that it elected q new central council,
the councilmen comprising five work
men and five soldiers with Herr klatz,
a brieklayer, as president. The com
munist leader, Lewien, refused to JOIN
the council
took IL hostages from the ranks OF the
trade union leaders, the Lokal An
1eiger's report adds, They forced tnelf
way to the main police station. dis-
armed the police and took the police
commissioners and sergeants as nos
tagea.
tablished in Munich and 2S Judges SIT
in relays of seven throughout the day
and night, says dispatch to the Mon
iteur.I The sentences OF the Judges are
carried out immediately,
The central soldiers and workrnen !
committee for Bavaria has appointed
a provisional mandatory Tor mllitaTy
affairs. The dispatch says that all the
newspapers have been placed under
municipal control, the owners receiving
no connpensation.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-11

-
Thrills in daredevil flying not only in
American planes, but in British, French
and German machines. as well, are
promised by the members of the flying
circus, composed of crack aviators fresh
from European battlefields, who will
spend the day in Memphis Saturday.
An invitation has been extended to
any Memphian who likes to go up in
any of the machines.
Several young ladies' have expressed
their desire to take flights, but that
feature must await the arrival of the
party before any definite arrangement
can be made.
Surfeited as Memphians may be with
flying, Park field being at their doors
almost, some unusual stunts are prom
ised by the veteran flyers coming Sat
urday. 1t will be the first opportunity
civilians have had to go UP In an air
plane II anyone wants to, and 1t will
also be the first opportunity to see the
Guiding those used by the Huns during
the early period Of the war--Fokkers,
| Meanwhile workers for the loan cam
paign are busily engaged classifying the
lines Of business, professions and other
activities preparatory to naming conl,-
mittee to head each to direct the work
OF actual solicitation when 1t begins.
John A. Oisinach, secretary Of the
Shelby county organization, will leave
for ST. Louis Friday night. and will re-
turn bright and early Monday with new
IDEAS fresh from headquarters Of the
Eighth district to put into immediate
action. 1t is possible that some vi the
features which have not been made
public hitherto will be announced al
that time. Shelbys quota probably will
forecast or about what it was for the
fourth Liberty loan.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-11
SETTLEMENT OF PAINT
STRIKE NOW AFFECTED

Settlement OF the strike OF union
painters against the 10 master painters
OF the Builders exchange was an
nounced Friday morning by both A. @.
Field. secretary OF the exchange, and
M. Fl, Miller, business agent Of local
No. 40, Painters and Decorators OF
America. The 10 master painters OF
the exchange have signed the new
agreement proposed by the workers,
and the latter are now free to return
to their old jobA Two minor differ
ences yet remaining will be arbltrated.
F,ea 1ns dseIarss. thst ns Ms hsSs
In GettiRg full recognition OF the right
Of our organization 10 pass upon all
new labor agreements In tho building
trade lines which was the principal
question involved"