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TLTJ. W¥:«|JlV '<pF Riches # :'" ;>i'-S.! v vages Cargoes From Vessels ; Have Qone Domi in Great Lakes. ^ .. r ' • ,j>. * ,. GAVE HBl THE IDEA Maroar«%£ampbelt Qoodmaa Haa f ll yilmwrid Fortune® From Wnih i;V1 on Floors of Inland Seaa: „ (^Cleveland.--Mrs. Margaret Campbell Hbodman, the only woman salvager In the world, has regained a fortune Which went down with the steamer Pewablc, in Lake Huron, 55 years ago. Succeeding where many men had failed, Mrs. Goodman has broadened ber •cope of work until she now baa contracts to raise aunken fortunes la almost every sea. \ Mrs. Goodman spent her early life ID Mount Pleasant, Mich., and after fcer school days she went to Toledo, P-, her present home. There she became interested In diving suits, after Witnessing an exhibition of deep-sea diving In which the diver went down 861 feet, remaining under water (or 45 minutes. . Treasure en Sea Bottom. ^ This feat of deep-sea diving <«m- Vtnced her that scouring the floor of the sea for sunken treasures would be A profitable business. Remembering the loss of the Pewablc, Mrs. Goodman, after much discouragement, formed a stock company. She went to Alpena, Mich., and found Capt John Persons, who hjui stood with his father, iper of the lighthouse In Thunder y, and watched the ship founder. 7 Later, Mrs. Goodman located George M. McKay, the captain of the Pewablc. BOaptatai McKay was living In Cleve- ^fcnd find showed Mrs. Goodman the (.manifest of the lost vessel. It showed £bat the Pewablc carried In her hold tons of copper, vtarth $200,000 or more, •nd several hundred tons of pig Iron. Xh the ship's expresa box was $50,000 «f "shin plasters." The work of searching for the Pewablc was begun in 1916. In the first Reason's work, the divers took out 100 ' tons of copper %nd 100 tons of pig Iron. Many Interesting relics were discovered which, when possible, were forwarded to the relatives of the sailors who had lost their lives a half century ago. When the treasure chest of the ship was brought to the surface, the "shin plasters" were found to be wateraoaked and valueless. Considerable work was done In 1917, •until the needs of the government, at war with the central powers, called a halt to all salvaging operations. To Salvage Cargo of Logs. Mrs. Goodman's next contract Is to salvage a schooner that sank In Lake Erie In 1864. She has a release from the owners and will begin work about July 1. This schooner carried a cargo of black walnut and white oak logs, chained to the deck, and Mrs. Goodman expects no difficulty In salvaging the cargo. Formerly a newspaperwoman. Mrs. Goodman lias made a success of a business which is as interesting as It is dangerous. She dislikes being described as a woman diver, because she has never gone under water herself, and she says she does not expect to do so unless for the purpose of Increasing her own scientific knowledge. freight have been switched tot othq* cities because of railroad emb*rgoef» it was stated. Some shipping authorities declared permanent arrangements for the use of other ports would be made unless the tieup here Is broken soon. A total of 37 cargo steamers ordinarily sailing from this port cleared from Philadelphia last week. DI^jWSSELL H. CONWELL NEW YORK LOSING AS PORT Harbor and Railroad 8trlkes Send ' flipping to Philadelphia •Hi;". -' Baltimore. • ... New York.--Eighty per cent-of New York city's.export trade has been diverted to Philadelphia, Baltimore and other eastern ports by shippers desiring to avoid the congestion caused here by harbor and railroad strikers, according to estimates made by shipping men here. Thousands of carloads of export Representative Republicans Force at the Convention in Chicago. CUT FILLED WITH VISITORS Crowds Collected to Watch Proceedings at the Nomination of Candidates for President and Vioe President of the United 8tatee. Dr. Russell H. Conwell, famous lee» turer, preacher and founder of Temple university, Philadelphia, breaking ground for an extension to the university. All of his earnings from lecturing and preartilng, about $4,OOO.OOQ have been given by him for aiding the education of young men and women. Cave Ohio Youth Fears Firing Squad Because of Visit to ^ , Family. Jl "$ATH£R OF This bust of C1«h named "Father of , ' Sculptor. Falles. a artist. uu has been Victory" by the famous French SHli UP AFTER TWO YEARS Hides fn Hills, Feeds en Hatha and Wild Berries and Such 8canty Food as His Wife Got to Him. Chftttcofhe, O.--Stories at haw a neighbor deserter from the Union army during the Civil war had been brought to bay in a nearby village by a United States marshal and shot, brought visions of a similar fate to Carl Amerine and Impelled him to hide in the hills almost two years rather than face a firing squad at Camp Sherman. Amerlne, drafted Into the army, left a wife and two-year old babe at home, in the quiet, picturesque hills. He could neither reed nor write and the largest village visited in his 24 years had numbered less than a thousand inhabitants. The bustling thousands at the camp, military restraint and customs weighed heavily on him and an impelling desire to see his wife and baby boy led him to quit camp to see them without obtaining permission. Fears Firing 8quad. At, home, his father, a tottering veteran of the Civil war, told him he was a deserter. Visions of the firing squad flashed through his mind. Kissing his wife and baby he took to the hills. There Amerlne foiud a cave In which he slept most of the time, venturing forth only at night and at times during the day when there was little chance of being seen. His only fare was such scanty food as his wife could get to him, herbs and wild berries gathered from the woods and fields, and such wild game as he could catch. The cave In which he lived Is said to be large enough for only one person, and could have been defended against many. So closely did he watch all approaches to his hiding place that until a few days ago he had been seen by no one except his wife and a brother-in-law. Persuaded to'Give Up. • Military authorities had abandoned the search for Amerlne. Three weeks ago an attorney friend of the family became Interested and implored the wife to have her husband return and give himself up. She steadfastly held that her husband would be shot If captured and refused to have him return. Clarence Stone of Adeiphi managed to get word to the youth last week that his was not a case of desertion, and there was no danger of a firing squad. Amerlne cautiously left his hiding place, and visited Stone's home, where they went over the situation. He agreed to give himself up. Amerlne again went to Stone's home. His wife brought his uniform, whlSt she had preserved for him and had neatly pressed for the occasion. With Stone and an attorney. Amerlne went to Camp Sherman and surrendered to the adjutant. He made no comment except to express himself as being well pleased that "it Is all over." American Aviators to Bring R-38. Across the Atlantic limr*--r the R Mk the glaat dirigible that is being built in for the American navy, is here seen studying the construction of the airship. At the right Commander Maxfleld and Lieut B. G. Pennoyer, who will K.»« it in charge for the trip across the Atlantic ocean. «, • • - ' .V:. #4) y,' "SEE AMERICA FIRST" Chicago.--While the boards of strategy pored over their plans and the fighting forces underwent a last minute inspection, the convention swirl around the hotels and on the streets gathered momentum. Equipped with cheer leaders, song leaders and almost every other contrivance, human and otherwise, likely to appeal to the emotions of an assembly of ten thousand people, they all hoped that at the psychplogical moment they would be the center of a winding wave when the Republican national convention had made up its mind as to who should be the standard bearers In the coming campaign. At a low estimate, more than 50,000 visitors were In the city a week before the meeting. Business m«$ estimated that more than $3,000,000 would be left In the city coffers when the visitors departed. "Big Men" at Gathering. Practically every state delegation Included names familiar to the entire country as public men and leaders In the party, and there were more United States senators and members of congress in Chicago than had assembled here since the memorable battle of 1912, when the Progressives bolted the party. Chauncey M. Depew, former United States senator and noted figure In American public life, was the dean of the delegates to the convention, at least in point of service to the party. Mr. Depew, who was 86 years old In April, attended as delegate from the Eleventh district in New York. Mr. Depew reminisced Rack to 1864, when he "helped to nominate ' Abe Lincoln. You know Abe Lincoln was a sure thing. There was no *«rk horse' in that convention. It was In T6 that the dark horse candidate had its genesis In American politics. That was the year they nominated Hayes." Noted New Yorkers In City. Other noted men on the floor as delegates Included United States Senators Wadsworth and Calder; Robert L. Bacon, former secretary of state; Henry W. Taft, Henry L. Stlmson, former secretary of war; Herbert Parsons, Charles S. Whitman, former governor; Ogden L. Mills, Nicholas Murray Butler, Charles D. HUles, former national chairman; William Barnes of Albany; Lafayette Q. Gleason, John W. Dwlght, all of New York. In the delegation also is Charles F. Murphy of Brooklyn, no relation to the Democratic "boss." In the Ohio delegation were former Governor Myron T. Herrlck, former Governor Frank B. Willis, Rudolph K. Hynicka of Cincinnati, the national committeeman; Robert Patterson of Dayton and Paul Howland of Cleveland. The number of women with every delegation was" a noticeable feature of the arrivals. Visitors Entertained. • An elaborate program was worked out by the committee for the entertainment of visiting delegates to the convention during their stay In the city. Two thousand automobiles were placed at the disposal of the committee by the Chicago Boosters' club for the use of the delegates at any time. Gavel From Independence Hall. The convention was rapped to order With a gavel hewn from a rafter of Independence hall. Mayor J. Hampton Moore of Philadelphia brought the gavel in his handbag and upon his arrival in Chicago turned It over to Will H. Hays, chairman of the Republican national committee. It was presented to Mayor Moore by Wllford Jordan, curator of Independence hall. A well-known president who was among the visitors was Eamonn De Valera of the "Irish republic." He announced he would attempt to obtain a plank In favor of the recognition by the United States of the Irish republic. "I hope to see this plank Introduced into the platform of both parties," Mr. De Valera said. "After this convention. Is over I shall go to San Francisco to try to get the Democrats to adopt It." Convention Secretary a "Veteran.* Lafayette B. Gleason, secretary of the Republican national convention. in Europe Not Attractive to Tourists. Hotel Accommodations a Scarcity of Food Keep Ameri- . cans at Horn^ Whslilug^on.--Sponsors at America First" Ideas will find consolation In the stories reaching the United States of conditions in - Europe which tend to discourage "going abroad" this year. One of the big obstacles to tourists of foreign lands Is the lack of transportation facilities, i Throughout the continent rolling stock Is at a premium and passenger service Is badly crippled. While conditions in France and England are not pleasant for the tourist, eastern and southern Poland and parts of Germany are even less attractive. Typhoid fever and spotted fever have come over the borders of Soviet Russia Into Poland, and the food situation adds to the distress there. Tourists to Europe this summer will find that they did not leave high prices at home, for the Europeans have boosted the prices of nearly everything which is to be sold to American tourists. This Is most noticeable In Germany, where the practice of discriminating against Am^ridfds is rampant Much of the same discrimination exists in- England and France, although the governments are doing everything to check It For many months Europe has suf fer#d from the effects of the unfavorable rate of foreign exchange In endeavoring to buy commodities In the United States, and the American tourist Is now paying some of that deficit The use of springs is done away with in a new cord operated device far opening and closing transoms, win ddwa of ahuttera. Well, He or the Hen • Deserves a Medal Loi Angeles.--Edward Schaffer of Broadway, Venice, has one hen In his flock of eight that has distinguished herself. She Is a Plymouth Rock, 2 years old. During the past two weeks she has laid fourteen eggs, not one of which weighed less than six ounces nor measured less than eight and three-quarters Inches around. Schaffer says there Is no doubt that It has been the same hen in each Instance. for each egg bears a trademark which consists of two pronounced elevated rings around one end of the egg. For a long time the Boers refuse* to sanction the construction of railways In the Transvaal, on the grounC that nowhere were such coutrivarcei [ mentioned in^ the Bihfo seTvee for the third time In this capacity. He was secretary in the memorable convention of 1912 when the Republican party was split by the bolt of the bull moose, led by Colonel Roosevelt Mr. Gleason Is a lawyer. He lives in Delphi, N. Y., but practices in New York city. He began his political ca-*< reer shortly after being graduated from Vale university in 1885. His good nature under trying circumstances is a matter of comment among his friends. Mrs. Gleason is one of New York's handsomest women and always accompanies her husband to national conventions. Her gowns were the subject of considerable complimentary comment In 1912 and were the envy of other women visitors. Youngster Directs (fand. To John Hand III, aged nine years, was given the honor of directing the band at the opening of the convention. The number he selected was "The Republican," a march composed by his father, Armin Hand, and dedicated to the convention. In directing he used the baton presented to his father by Theodore Roosevelt at the Progressive convention. The baton Is made of wood from trees which grew along the "River of Doubt" and Is known as "the River of Doubt baton." Samuel A. Perkins of Tacoma, Republican national committeeman from Washington, who retired from the committee on June 5, has been identified with national politics through six presidential campaigns. Mr. Perkins Joined the committee in 1896 as assistant secretary under Mark Hanna, and Is the only surviving committeeman who was associated with the Ohio leader. Penrose Unable to Attend. One of the disappointments of the convention is the inability of Senator Boles Penrose of Pennsylvania to be present his physician having absolutely forbidden the senator to make the exertion. He is "in touch" with the procedlngs by wire. Senator Penrose declared he felt "fit," and that It was only in deference to the wishes of his physicians that he decided not to attend the convention. George W. Perkins Mi Med. George W. Perkins, capitalist and former political power, has been In a private sanitarium for the past two weeks suffering from a nervous collapse, It Is announced. Although Mr. Perkins had been in 111 health for a year, It was not until May 26 that his nervous condition became serious, associates said. At that time he was resting In the CatsklUs and It was feared that he would not be able to go as a delegate from the Bronx to the Chicago convention. It Is now announced that Thomas W. Whittle, alternate, will bfe seated In Mr. Perkins' place. Women of Promlnenoe. According to -the men from Iowa, Mrs. Frank W. Dodson of Des Moines, one of the two women delegate-at large from the Hawkeye state, knows how to make 75 cents do the work of a dollar and a half. Mrs. Dodson has been Polk county recorder fot ten years. Mrs. Manley L. Fosseen of Minneapolis is know among the women visitors as the suffragist who captured the enemy, along with his seat to the convention. Mrs, Fosseen, who heads tlw Republican women's executive commit tee of Minnesota, was so persuasive In her politics that Senator George H Sullivan of Stillwater, for years th< dragon who fought the Minnesota suffragists, withdrew his name in her fa vor so that she could be the first worn an in the United States to be elected by acclamation as a delegate-at-larg* to the convention. Of Early American Ancestry. John and Priscllla Alden are rep resented at the convention In the per son of Mrs. Teresn Ranney, who, th< genealogists assert, halls from then direct. She comes as an alternate from Greenville, MJch. Conventlonlng is nothing new tc Mrs. Anna Scott of Denver. Colorado'! one district delegate. She has beet a delegate to every Republican con ventlon, state or county, since suf frage was passed, years ago, in Col orado. Women on National Committee. Republican women sat for the first time on the Republican National committee and had the pleasure of voting if only by proxy, on some of th« southern contests. Twelve member* of the committee gave up their seats temporarily to women leaders frou their respective states. Mrs. Florence Collins Porter of California tdok the place of William H Crocker, Miss Mary' Garret Hay oi New York that of Herbert Parsons Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston oi Washington that of Samuel A. Perkins, Mrs. Vennona T. Swan of Missouri that of Jacob Babler, and Mrs. James S. Beallng of Tennessee that of Jesse M. Littleton. Other committeemen who gave their places were Hubert Work ol Colorado, Rudolph K. Hynicka of Ohio, V. L. Highland of West Virginia, John T. Adams of Iowa, R. B Howell of Nebraska, Ralph E. Williams of Oregon and Coleman du Pont of Delaware. HHMIMMMtnmMIMM | ILLINOIS p ii State News |ii WOMEN WILL HELP NOMINATE . Members of the Fair Sex Among the Delegates to Name Party standard Bearer. Mrs. Prle*t, daughter of Judge John E. McCaft of the United States Supreme court. Is a delegate-at-large from Tennessee to the Republican convention. Mrs. Anna Studebaker Carlisle of South Bend, Ind., an alternate-at-large and the wife of Charles A. Carlisle. Is the mother of six. Mrs. Manley L. Fossen of Minneapolis, another delegate-at-large, is bringing up two sons, while Mrs. Alice Curtice Moyer1 Wing of Wayne county, Mo., sent by her state as a delegate-at-large, divides her time between the care of her invalid husband and two children and the writing of fiction. Mary Brown, Barclay H. and Edgerton Warburton are the three children of Mrs. Barclay Warburtoq of Philadelphia. MEN IN TEMPORARY OFFICE Practically Every Section of the Country Represented in the Selections for Temporary Positions. Temporary officers of the Republican national convention were as follows : Chairman--Henry Cabot Lodge, Massachusetts. " • * Secretary--Lafayette 8U fHaaaon, New York. Parliamentarian--Lehr Fees, Ohio. ;\v Sergeant-at-Arms--Edward P. Thay er, Indiana. Chief Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms-- Guy ""V. Howard. Minnesota. Ofliclal Reporters--Herman A. Phillips, New York, and George L. Hart Virginia. Chief of Doorkeepers--Brig. Gen. James A. Ryan. Assistant Secretaries--Richard J. Beamish, Pensylvanla; Harry Giovanolll, Kentucky; Jeanette A. Hyde, Utah; Fred Wilson, Missouri^ and Mrs. Colfe A, Morgan, KaosalC • •Ha:) Urbana.--Tl^e largest sum spent by one student It. the University of Illinois this year would pay the way for five years of the student who has spent the least, according to computations Just Issued by H. B. Garman, assistant dean of men. The report shows a woman sophomore has the record for largest expenses, the sura totaling $2,264, and the lowest, a male senlof, with $421. The woman Is in a sorority, while the man is not In a fraternity and Is partly self-supporting. The report showed the average annual expenditure of 687 men amounted to $764. The total yearly expenses of 268 women averaged $873. The average of 164 fraternity men was $871 for the "year, while for 116 nonfraternlty men It amounted to $689. Chicago.--Cherlff Charles*Peters will ask the legislature in January, 1921, to legalise public hangings. He Is convinced prisoners In the county Jail should witness executions. Several months ago the sheriff started the practice, but Immediately came a storm of protest from reformers and threats of prosecution for malfeasance In office from State's Attorney Hoyne and Attorney General Brundage. Mr. Peters expressed his Intention of seeking legislation when asked whether the hanging of the 12 men now awaiting execution would be witnessed by prisoners now In Jail. Washington, D. C.--Census returns for several Illinois counties were given out as follows: Brown, 9,336, decrease 1,061, or 10.2 per cent; Carrol, 19,345, increase 1,910, or 7.3 per cent; Calhoun, 8,245, decrease 365, or 4.2 per cent; Cumberland, 12,858, decrease 1,423, or 10.0 per cent; Effingham, 19,- 572, decrease 483, or 2.4 per cent; Henderson, 9,770 Increase 46, or 0.5 per cent; Jasper, 16,064. decrease 2,- 593, or 11.5 per cent; Richland, 14,- 044, decrease 1.296, or 12.1 per cent; Woodford, 19,154, decrease 1,358, or 6.0 per cent. Peoria.--George Horton, sixty-eight, Mapleton, Is dead, and Peter de Young, fifty, Pendleton, Ore., Is seriously hurt as the result of injuries received when the car In which they were driving stalled on a railroad crossing and was struck by a train. De Young's sixteen- year-old daughter escaped injury when she was aided from the car by the two men, who could not save themselves In time. The accident occurred a quarter of a mile east of Mapleton on the T., P. & W. railroad. Edwardsvllle.--The estate of Ernest Hatscher, former merchant at Madison, has $4,150 on deposit In two banks In Germany, according to an Inventory filed in the Madison county probate court at Edwardsvllle. Hatscher has another investment of $700 In Russian money of an unknown value at the present time, according to the papers. His estate Is valued at about $75,000. Other Investments include $12,000 In Liberty bonds and United States Savings certificates. Chicago.--Another landmark of antiprohlbltlon days passed here with the posting of a notice on "Hogan's Flop House," refuge for the homeless and Jobless, reading "claged for good." Every morning an attendant there in days past untied a rOpe, which let down the indigent sleepers' headrests with a bump, which served notice of auction for the day. Pane.--Ten thousand people attended the burial of Private Roy Vanderpool, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vanderpol of Pana, who was killed In battle In France in October, 1918. The body was brought to Shelbyville from overseas. Burial was with full military honors. The Roy Vanderpool post, American Legion, was in charge. Marengo. -- Following a plea of guilty and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary at Jollet, J. E. Barber, a lawyer of Marengo, was taken to the penal Institution. Appointed administrator of the late Leonard Johnson, It was claimed by the heirs, that he appropriated much of the Income to his own use. Peoria.--Increased expenditures, Including additional money paid to motormen and conductors, to settle the recent strlk^, Is the basis for which the Peoria Railway company seeks the right to Increase car fares from six to ten centa. Springfield.--This stuff about lower food prices Is all bunk. Instead the public can get ready for "bread tickets" next year. So Charles Atkins, slate director of agriculture, characterizes the hope of decreases In food commodities within the near future. Benton.--George B. Sweet, thirtyfive, was found dead in the city Jail at Logan, having committed suicide by hanging himself with his belt He had been arrested charged with bootlegging. Pana.--Miss Edith Bailey, twentyfive years old, committed suicide at Pana by throwing herself beneath a switch engine in the Illinois Central yards, where her fiance. Adam Stalets, was killed a few days ago when struck by a train. Springfield.--United States' Marsha** Dallntan continues to have his hand* full of "booze" violators. Deputies recently brought In 26 from the district in one day. Twenty-three came from Alton. \N ood River, Madison and Granite City; the others haled from Marysrille and Collinsvllle. Rockford.--Athletics In Rockford high school has netted $2,821/57 for the 1919-20 season to date. Football led With $1,522, while basketball yielled £1.289/17. The sum of $1,000 was set aside for the school's athletic field. Kankakee.--Joseph C. Dick, a "Kankakee undertaker, was instantly killed when an automobile in which he was driving to a cemetery was struck by a New York Central passenger train. The gas tank exploded aiid It was necessary to call the Are department to extinguish the resulting fire tx»f<vfe the rami's body could l>e recovered. Urbaaa.--The events In connectta*!- ,- with the reunion of the University of ; Illinois Alumni association, beginning Monday, June 14, include the fOHdw* . . Ing: Monday, June 14, 10 a. m, meet* ' ' ing of executive committee of th* Alumni association, alumni room; 1:30 p. m„ band concert and lawn fe»» „ tlval; special reunions of classes of * 75. '80. '85, W, TO. '05, 15, 19; spa* clal reunion for all graduates and fotmer students of the period- 1868-80; general reunion of other classes; 4 ju m., meeting of alumni council and executive committee, alumni room; 6:3fc p. m., class dinners and receptions, ap» ranged by class committees; 8 p. uv meeting for this year's graduates ad# their parents. Alumni in general alaf invited. Acting President David Kinley will speak on "The University and Its New Graduates." Tuesday, Juna 15, 9 a. m., alumni reunion; 10 a. m* procession by classes to auditorium, led by band; 10:30 a. m., annual meeting of the Alumni association; 1 p. nt, annual alumni dinner; announcement of class having highest per cent of attendance; 4:30 p. m., meeting of th* executive committee of the Alumni association ; music, "Grand Chorus hi D," "Evening Bells and Cradle Song? Director J. Lawrence Erb, universityorganist ; song, "Illinois Loyalty," the audience; roll call of classes; annual report of the president of the Alumni association; address, Walter C. Lind> ley, *01; song, "By Thy Rivers," the audience; recessional, "Festive Mach te A." Champaign.--Farm land valuations' have shown an astonishing Increase *a Illinois during the last 50 years, according to a pamphlet Just Issued by the University of Illinois. The paAnilnolsphlet cites figures anl place* and shows that land that sold for $12.50 an acre a half century ago la today worth about $450 an acre. That, of course. Is for land in the corn belt In other places the increase given fta about 200 per cent The pamphlet also warns dairy farmers of the danger of permitting cows to eat wild onions. Chicago.--Reports /at a threatened Jail delivery In th»^Cook comity Jail caused Sheriff Charles Peters to surround the Institution with policeman. The report was to the effect that tlto delivery was to be accomplished on the eve of the day set for the hanging of four murderers--Friday, June 11. Guards have been warned, and In the event of trouble will be armed not only with rifles, but also with bombs. Every precaution, however, is being taken to offset the alleged plot Chicago.--A special train bearing the bodies of 67 American soldiers who died overseas arrived here a few daya ago before a somber throng of relatives and friends. Aboard was a military escort of 100 soldiers, assigned to the train at New York. Nine of the bodies found their final resting plaeaa In Chicago. The remainder were delivered to relatives throughout the middle West. Delegations from American Legion posts were present Springfield.--Illinois soldiers, Bailors and marines have dropped threefourths ef the government insurance they carried during the war. Of the 82,560,000,000 in United States government life Insurance formerly held by Illinois service men, $1,920,000,000 has been dropped. This information Is lasued by the American Legion here on receipt of records from the war department outlining the fact Pana.--The boldest cattle theft Ii central Ulnols In half a century was engineered by a young farmer near here. Ordering a cattle car sent to- Rnmsey he drove 29 head from the JB-oeger farm, ten miles southeast of Pana to Ramsey, loaded and shipped them to East St. Louis. He received a draft for $1,871 for the stock, cashed it and disappeared. Informing his wlffe he was going to Chicago. Moline. -- According to statistics gathered by E. P. Nutting, superintendent of Moline high school, Evanston has the largest enrollment of high school pupils, its population considered, of any city in Illinois. For every 1.000 of population there are 38 high school students. Danville and East St. Louis have the lowest, 12 studentft for each 1,000. , Elgin.--School teachers of Elgin have been granted a general Increase of 25 per cent, with an efficiency bonus ranging from $50 to $200, According to the salary and length 9f service of the teacher. Under the new scale the minimum pay of grade school teachers is $1,000. Warren.--Control of the Farmers* National bank has been obtained by the Peoples bank of Warren and merging of the two institutions In the near future Is contemplated. The capltnl stock of the Peoples bank will be doubled. Galesburg.--In a fit of anger growing out of domestic troubles, Fred Mead shot and killed his wife in a neighbor's home and then returning to his home killed .himself. a Washington, D. Cl--Population figures Issued by the bureau of censu* Included: Bridgeport, 2,002; Jerseyville, 3,839; Olney. 4.491; Roodhoua*. 2,928; Whitehall. 2,954. Bloomington.--Edward F. Barry of Bloomlngton will be the next Judge of the circuit court in the Third Judicial district, taking the place of the late Judge Sain Welty. recently deceaaed. Chicago.--At a meeting of 250 Chicago ministers a resolution was passed . argln? the constitutional convention to Incorporate an article requiring the muling of the Bible In public schools. The resolutions, opposed by two ministers, suggested that the change would not violate the principle of separation of church and state and would tend to curtail crime by youth. J Chicago.--Dr. David Klnley, who f* the last 12 months has been actlnf president of the University of Illinois was elected to the presidency of that institution by unanimous action of the board of trustees. Peoria.--Bones found by wwtawi in a gravel pit near Chlllicothe ate thought to be those of a mastodon, says Professor Packar j of Iintdley Institute here. The bones unearthed at a depth of 75 feet at a pla«N» near which several years age t*« tusk* believed to be itfeMM of a Kl* todon were found. •m §1 v-y :k' '•> * '-