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>*3w 1 NOIS EVITIES SpH»g«eld.--Ofck»l» h«d W*t stale's 114 oh sea of diphtheria reported lust week, according to ihe weekly ramtnary of communicable diseases tn the state made public by Dr. Isaac D. Uawllngs, director of the department meat of health. Cook county had 81 of tbe state's 54 cases of scarlet fever. I;*". 'faihspfOw--About a hundred persons : Seventeen cases of smallpox were rei " were Injured, most of them burued | ported with three cases In Franklin i, more or less severely. • • dozen fires were started, and a section of the city §§^v;'v wait thrown into a panic when a gigaapj \ tic tank of the People's Gas, Light and Coke company collapsed and exp?* ploded, sending sheets of flame shoot- ; Ing Into the surrounding neighborhood Sj* at West Twenty-fifth and Throop ' streets. Most of those burned were f 1 1 pedestrians, teamsters driving by, or ; children playing in the neighborhood, few who live nearest to the scene of the explosion were attacked by the .strange flames Id their own homes and m-i ' hurncrt. ., V . / Sprlngflekl.--Casualties in the Her- * t " ~ )rin massacre in dead, wounded and - -missing on both union and nonunion k'"^sidea numbered more than seventy, according to a compilation given out r~f-'made from estimates compiled by labor agencies and coal associations. ' •' Casualties on the nonunion side were „» placed at 64, including 19 known dead, ; £ 34 wounded and 11 missing and bejV /. ileved dead. Union casualties were es- ^^.^timated at from 7 to 15, including three dead and from four to eight wounded. 0- " Chicago.--Cook county, according to j& ia report issued by Coroner Peter M. Hoffman, had 91,882 premature deaths *from 1905 to 1922. The report indi- S4 . cates that one may sleep with comy l« parative safety in the old-fashioned folding bed, which was the cause of only two deaths. Automobile accidents killed 8,249 persons, while 5,274 died in Irallroad wrecks. Asphyxiation caused the deaths of 3,395 persons and ; 845 were suffocated. Des Plaines.--Rev. William Burgess, author, publicist and social reformer, : is dead at his home in Des Plaines. He was in his eightieth year. Rev. Mr. : Burgess was best known as the leader of the Illinois Vigilance association, of which he was executive secretary, although his book8 attracted wide atten- ; tion. These are: "The Bible in Shakespeare," "The Religion of Buskin" and the "World's Social Evil." Springfield.--Bids for approximately 144 miles of hard roads in 22 counties, 7J. miles of grading and 30 steel and concrete bridges and culverts in various parts of the state have been asked for by the state highway division. Sealed proposals for this work will be received in the office of the department of public works and buildings, division of highways, until 10 a. m. August 18. Rockford.--War has been declared upon the Canada thistle in Winnebago county. E. W. Harrison of Springfield, state commissioner for the enforcement of the thistle law, arrived in the city to launch a campaign against the pest A' commissioner has been appointed in every township, whose duties will be to see that the weed la banished from every farm and all highways. Sterling.--George Maxwell of Ster- Pi*- ' county, Ave in Porta county and four in Union county. There were 59 cases of typhoid fever reported. Twentynine cases of influenza were reported for the state. Chicago had 54 of the state's 124 cases of pneumonia. There were 283 cases of whooping cough. Duquoin.--The annual reunion of the Southern Illinois Soldiers and Sailors' Reunion association, one of the oldest and largest organisations in the state, will be Jield at Salem August 7-12. Arrangement8 are being made to entertain 15,000 people from southern and central Illinois during the week. The speakers include Senator Kesslnger of Aurora, Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck of Chicago, Commander McCauley, Vice Commander Shlck and Adjutant Setliffe of the Illinois department of the American Legion. Springfield.--"The old oaken bucket" too often proves the moss-covered bucket, the germ-laden bucket, the pestilential bucket that won't leave folk well, according to Dr. Isaac D. Rawlings of the Illinois department of health. Because of the infection originating in the open country well when it Is shallow, poorly constructed and tainted by surface drainage and in other sources of a contaminated water supply, Doctor Rawlings' department is taking up the matter of rural sanitation. St. Louis, Mo.--Responsibility for failure to prevent a demonstration which resulted in the killing of 19 employees of the Southern Illinois Coal company by union miners and sympathizers near Herrin, June 22, is placed on Sheriff Melvin Thaxton of Williamson county by Col. Samuel N. Hunter of the Illinois National Guard, In his official report to Adjutant General Charles E. Black, Colonel Hunter announced at St. Louis, Mo. Mount Vernon.--Twenty grade crossings on as many public highways are included in the planned right of way of the Jefferson Southwestern railroad from Mount Vernon to the proposed site of the Nason coal mine near Mount Vernon. The road plans to cross highways in Mount Vernon, Dodds, Mc- Clellan and Elk Prairie townships. A petition for permission to construct the line across the public roads is before the Illinois commerce commission. Litchfield. -- Montgomrey county farmers from every township have offered parts of their fields to be used for experimental work under the direction of the county farm bureau. F. C. Bowen from the college of agriculture, University of Illinois, will select the sites to be used. Each of the plots selected is to contain three acres. They will show the growth of various crops on the same soil under separate kinds of soil treatment Danville.--"The establishment of a deep waterway from the Middle West to the ocean^s a vital necessity to the growth of the United States," says the Hundred Other Persons Are Injured in Terrific Crash Neajru. St. Louis. ? Senate Leaders Agree to Cut tile MM THE XeHKK&T fUlHOEUIR, m * Treasury Department Unofficially Informs England of Amer ica's Stand. Schedules to Passage. STATEMENT MADE BY MELLON Senator Borah issues Warning Thai the 8enate Will Turn Deaf Ear Any Proposals for War Debt Cancellation* r * a <? 5 t ling claims to be the champion wood-1 rt just compUed by Senator Mar. chuck destroyer of the state. A few days ago he added 150 skins to his fcfe record, which for the past year is 2,- 000. Farmers find the woodchucks as destructive as the prairie dogs of the far West and are anxious to have them destroyed. Bounties offered are sufficient to reward nimrods tor their efforts. Urbana.--A joint campaign against the chinch bug is to be waged In the states of Illinois and Indiana, according to plans laid at a conference held in Danville. Chinch bugs have been Increasing in abundance and the area of infestafion enlarging in Illinois and Indiana, and the present indications are that the bugs will continue to be abundant. Freeport.--Efforts are being made to bring to Freeport all residents of this part of Illinois who attended the Lincoin- Douglas debate, August 27, 1858. The sixty-fourth annual celebration commemorating the debate will be held August 26. Several Rockford residents who heard the debate have sent word they will attend. Rockford.--"What matters it if the teacher's hair is bobbed or not, so long as she is competent? If bobbed hair means 'pep,' I'm for it" said Principal I. O. Marberry of Rockford high school, when asked whether the faculty would bar bobbed-haired teachers. Springfield.--Illinois' battle flags, that were under fire in the war between the states, will be bound in invisible silken nets when they are removed from Memorial hall in the capital building to the museum in the new Octennial building. i Urbana.--Prof. Walter Frederick Handschin, vice director of the agricultural department of the University »f Illinois and head of the farm management department. Is dead at his borne in Urbana. Springfield.--State Treasurer Edward E. Miller appointed his brother, paries A. Miller, as assistant state treasurer, and named C. R. Beck, former secretary-clerk, as chief clerk. Galesburg.--An observation post was established -at a grade crossing three nlles east of Galesburg by officials of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincv railroad to make a check on the amount of care exercised by persons crossing the tracks. In one day they ;ot)nted 1,500 automobiles crossing the track, and only two of these, they said, stopped to look before driving on the right-of-way. Only two others slack- Hied their speed before crossing. Bloomington.--Fire destroyed the Piper City ice plant with a loss of f 10,- m W eldon.--Two new grocery stores frith heavy stocks, belonging to Horace Swan and Elmer Long, were destroyed by fire, the loss of stock and buildings being estimated at $60,000. It is bettered robbers started the fires, SS the 3oors of the buildings were found apen. Mollne.--Citizens of Moline are dl- *ided and much bitterness, it is said, %as arisen since the Moline Chamber Commerce adopted a resolution defaring that "the labor board has made ft plain that the strike order is anwarjpu> ted." • . ; * tin B. Bailey of Danville and a member of the Blinols deep waterway commission. The report has been forwarded to Governor Small after a study of the proposed St. Lawrence river, waterway. Springfield.--Warning that the shipment of perishable fruit in this state demands Immediate action "else the products of our labor will be wasted, and both producer and consumer suffer unnecessary losses," the Illinois State Horticultural society has petitioned Governor Small to use every legitimate means to secure transportation of food during the twin rail and coal strikes. West Frankfort--A request asking Acting Governor Sterling to bring about a Joint conference between the coal operators and the union miners of Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana was forwarded to the acting governor, embodied in a resolution adopted at a meeting of the miners of Williamson, Franklin and Perry counties. Moline.--Farmers of Rock Island and Henry counties will be supplied tfith coal for threshing. At a meeting of union officials and farmers the union men agreed to grant permits to one or two mines to take out enough coal to enable the farmers to finish their threshings Edwardsville.--A trap set by Mrs. Earl Foute of Glen Carbon to catch thieves who have visited her henhouse recently, proved to be her own death trap when she was electrocuted by Inadvertently touching the wire which carried a voltage of 110. ' Clinton.--Suits for damages aggregating $15,000 have been Instituted against the Illinois Central railroad and George Pullem, Charles E. Dill James R. Crum and Wesley Davis, due to the riot at Clinton a few weeks ago Freeport.--Orphanages knd hospitals feasted on fish, the gift of the state of Illinois, when wardens confiscated big shipment of undersized fish brought to Freeport for sale. El Paso.--Contracts have been let for the paving of 54 blocks of El Paso business and residential streets, the most extensive improvement of the kind undertaken by a city of similar sine in this state. The new pavements will connect with the concrete hard roads to be constructed between Rockford and Cairo, via El Paso and between Peoria and Watseka. Forreston.--Forreston will h<fid its annual Sauerkraut day festival on September 28. Sauerkraut, frankforts, coffee and rye bread will be served free to the thousands attending. Springfield.--Illinois is to be restricted immediately to Its own supply of coat Public utilities, individual consumers and railroads will be compelled to rely ufron whatever bituminous coal can be produced from Illinois mines. The only protection that is to be aasur, ed to the state Is to the *6 state Institutions-- penal, reformatory and charitable, and possibly to the University of Illinois and to the state normal schools. This situation, as definitely stated by Robert M. Medill, is the most critical that BUaoH bpui beeb compelled to face. HEAVY SUM HITS LOCAL Steel Cars Plow Through Wooden Coaches of the Lighter Train--» > Believed Engineer, Who Wa* Killed, Overlooked Signal. Sulphur Springs, Mo., Aug. 8.--An engineer was reading his orders and failed to see a<di.nger signal ahead. His crack passenger train crashed into a local train, snuffing out 87 lives and injuring more than a hundred. This is the story of a rail tragedy. AU of the bodies have been recovered and more than a hundred Injured have been sent to St. Louis hospitals. Four rear coaches of the local train, known as No. 32, were telescoped. The accident occurred at the railroad station, where the local passenger had stopped to take water. Engineer Glenn on the fast train was instantly killed, while his fireman, J. E. Tinsley, was badly injured. The entire population of Sulphur Springs aided in caring for the injured. Most of the injured, It was said, were boy scouts, who were returning from their summer camp at Ironton, Mo., about 100 ailefe south of the scene of the disaster. Relief trains from here, Poplar Bluff and D^poto were sent to the scene of the wreck, carrying all physicians available from the towns and cities along the route. The relief train from Poplar Bluff was manned by union men now on strike, who offered their services when the report of the disaster reached that town. The engineer of the fast train, it was said, had received an order as his train passed through Riverside, a, flag station several miles south of Sulphur Springs. It was said he was reading the order when his train passed the block signal and inadvertently overlooked the signal to stop. Because of the confusion and the debris, the relief work was greatly hindered und only slowly could the Injured be taken from the wreckage. The following bulletin has been Issued by the Missouri Pacific officials here: About 7:20 p. m. train No. 4, engine No. 5312, in charge of Conductor Greeg. Engineer Glenn, struck rear end of No. 32 In charge of Conductor J. A. Long and Engineer Cross while No. 32 was taking water at Sulphur Springs, telescoping four rear coaches on No. 32 train and derailing No. 4's engine. "Engineer Glenn on No. 4 killed and Fireman E. Tinsley badly injured. No other casualties on No. 4. Last reports Indicate probably 35 or 40 killed on No. 32 train and about 60 Injured." Steel coaches of the express splintered the wooden coaches of the accommodation as it plowed its way through the wooden coaches of the accommodation from the rear, dumping passengers and debris over a quarter of a mile area, and tearing up the roadbed, twisting rails into a tangled mass resembling a knotted bunch of huge ropes. The local was composed of seven coaches, while the fast train consisted of twelve. Passengers in the coach which rolled down the embankment into the creek were reported drowned, as they were pinned beneath wreckage. A few boy scouts, who miraculously escaped, rushed to the aid of the Injured, and worked frantically Jo assist their less fortunate companions. ' Scalding steam from the engine of the flyer, which was ditched, escaped Into the wooden coaches it had splintered, cooking victims in the wrecked cars. Axes and picks from the emergency kits aboard the flyer and from equipment of the boy scouts were put to heroic use by passengers who were not too greatly excited or shocked to aid in the rescue work. OPPOSmORGfTQI New photograph of Thomas, eminent playwright, who has been made executive chairman of thq Producing Managers! association with extensive powers. CHICAGO STRIKE ENDS Car Service Resumed Following *,P m Vote of 9A$0: , *v-\ ^ Worksrs Are to Reee!ve 70 Cents an Hour, p Cut of 12)4 Per Cent- Ghtcago, Aug. 5.--Chicago's street car strike is settled. An agreement was reached between the board of control of the Chicago Surface lines and the committee representing Division 241 of the street can men's union. The men are to receive 70 cents an hour, a cut of 12Mi per cent, the eighthour day, and the same working rules which now exist covering fallback time, layover time, meal time and reporting time. Acceptance of the proposed contract depends upon a referendum vote of the tyiion, which, according to President; William Quinlan, cannot be completed In time to have the cars in operation again before Monday morning. The settlement was reached In the offices of the surface lines after the union committee and the board of control had been in conference all day and the aldermanic-citizens' and association of commerce committees the greater part of the afternoon. RAIL UNIONS APPROVE PUN Leaders of Shopmen Meet in Chicago and Vote to Accept President Harding's Plan. Chicago, Aug. 5.--Leaders of the striking shopcrafts unions held the second session of their peace conference at headquarters here and voted unanimously for the acceptance of the plan proposed by President Harding for ending the rail walkout. The statement of acceptance as sent to the President contains 2,000 words. It reviews the case of the shopmen and discusses the remedial measures the President proposes. The plan contemplates the restoration of the full seniority rights to the strikers. This provision was rejected by the rail executives at their New York meeting by a vote of 265 to 2. Rail circles here believe that a' further attempt to break the deadlock would come from Washington. It was also intimated that the refusal by the rail presidents might be subject to revision a little later. BED CROSS TO AID INDIANS Test to Be Made of the Feasibility ,41 Public Health i;\' Nursing. "WaghtnRfoh, Aug. 7.--*To test the feasibility of public health nursing and general welfare work on Indian reservations, the American Red Cross is inaugurating a year's survey among the Navajo, Pima and Popago and other smaller reservations iiv Arizona, New Mexico and South Dals6ta,^at the request of Charles H. Burke, United States commissioner of Indiah affairs. Mr. Burke, desirous of improvement of health conditions among the Indians and of learning whether it is possible to instruct Indian mothers, requested that the Ked Cross assign trained personnel to the task. 100 Legion Members Sail. New York, Aug. 8.--Leaving on the President Roosevelt of the United States line are more than 100 members of the American Legion from all parts of the cour.try who will revisit the battlegrounds in France. 4.^ BELL, PHONE INVENTOR. DIES ftuocumbs From Anaemia at His Home In Nova Scotia at the Age of 75 Years. Sidney, N. S., Aug. 4.--Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, is dead at his home at Baddec*. He died at the age of seventyfive of progressive anaemia. Doctor Bell's laboratories have been located since 1886 near Baddeck, Cape Breton. Mr. Bell lived to see experiments which he began with a dead man's ear less than fifty years ago result in a means of communication for millions of long distance telephone conversations daily in all parts of the world. The Bell basic patent known In the records at Washington as No. 17,446, has been called the most valuable single patent ever Issued in the history of invention. There are today over 13,000,000 telephone instruments through which billions of telephone conversations are carried on each year. STORM CAUSES MILLION LOSS 1 Cloudburst Hits Hot Springs, 8. D, and Large Amount of Property Is Damaged. Hot Springs, S. D.. Aug. 7.--Property damage, estimated at nearly $1,. 000.000. was caused by a cloudburst, which struck this city, Isolating it for several hours from the rem « the state. ' 'WaiSffegton, Aug. 5.--The Tretfsurj department served informal notice upon Great Britain that her war debt to the United States annot be canceled. At the same time 8enator Borah issued a warning that the sen ate will turn a deaf ear to afljr proposals for cancellation. The Treasury department statement was that Great Britain's note to hei debtor nations suggesting cancellation of the whole interallied Indebtedness will have^no effect upon this government's policy with reference to Its war credits. The fact that the note was Hot addressed to the United States makes it a diplomatic impossibility for this government to address Great Britain directly upon the subject. The statement was therefore regarded as an indirect reply to the British proposition. Secretary Mellon takes the position that Great Britain has formally acknowledged her war debt to this government and has Indicated her willingness to pay. Therefore he holds the Americah funding commission must continue its negotiations without regard to Great Britain's suggestion for a general cancellation. Senator Borah, in his statement, declared : "There is nothing to be gained by our canceling this debt, or atay part if it, if th? gigantic military and armament programs in Europe are to continue. It would amount it> practical effect to our aiding and abetting the building up of these great military and armament establishments and thereby abetting war If cancellation Is to be considered at all, It should be considered In the Interest of humanity, of economic san'ty and not to enable these countries to build up and maintain these military establishments, these great a-r fes which are now burdening and torturing and threatening Europe, and which will lead inevitably to greater suffering, more misery and more war. Within the last week the premier of .England has declared: "'Keep your eyt on what Is happening. They (the nations of Europe) are constructing more terrible machines than even the late war ever saw. What fort Not for peace. What are they fcr? They are not even to disperse armies, they are to attack cities unarmed where you have defenseless population, to kill, to maim, to poison, to mutilate, to burn helpless women and children.' "Now, If this is the situation and this"i8 the program and this caonot be changed, it is more or less an Impertinence to talk about canceling debts in the name of economic rehabilitation. If thes* plans and schemes are to continue, to go forward, we cannot help Europe by canceling our debt to France, or any part of It. I feel, therefore, that in order to interest anybody who Is interested in humanity, or the cause of peace, or the restoration of econ9mic sanity, all schemes for canceling debts should be accompanied by a practical plan for disarmament. 'The Washington conference adjourned last February. The senate of the United States ratified the treaties, think, in April. The treaties are yet, however, to be considered by foreign countries. I observe by the press dispatches that the assembly in France has adjourned and that these treaties will not even be considered before October. They were not so much as considered by the committee, according to the same dispatch. And even if they are ratified ultimately, the spirit of the movement has been crushed and the great cause of disarmament halted and scotched by the delay and utter loss of Interest in the proposition. "If we cancel these debts It would appear therefore that it would simply fit into this scheme o^ armaments, of huge land forces, of mdre wars, and thereby more debts. So the vicious circle continues." £ y- iwk" ' ' " • It. •' j^"- T'lB.'T. Grable Is prtwUifmt of tin Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, and has maintained a conservative and restraining attitude. U. S. MARKET REPORT Three Per Cent Law O. !lt - Washington, Aug. 8.--A survey of the immigration figures for the fiscal year Just completed Indicates that the 3 per cent limitations law has proved an effectual bar to any overwhelming movement of immigrants. Pays $150,000 for Whiskaw^jf. Saratoga, N. Y., Aug. 5.--Whtsk away, a three-year-old son of Whiskbroom Il-lnaugural, conqueror of Morvich, was sold here for the record price of $150,000 by Harry Payne Whitney to former Senator Clark. Mcintosh Heads Shipping' Boafd. Washington, Aug. 8.--Col. J. W. Mcintosh of Illinois has been appointed director of finance of the United States shipping board, it was announce^. He takes the plaqg of ,H S, Kimball, resigned. ( ^ j Weekly Marketgram by Bureau of Markets and Cropfr , •'4ifcg$tarton, _ufg. 8.--Week endtl|^*jft^. 8.--HAY--Quoted August 2: No. 1 timothy. New York *30.00, Philadelphia *26.00, Cincinnati *17.00, Minneapolis *17.00, Chicago *21.00 St. Louis >17.60, Atlanta *24.00. Memphis *20.60. No. 1 alfalfa, Kansaa City $15.50, Memphis *23.00, St. Louis *20.00. No. 1 prairie, Kansas Ctty *10.75, Minneapolis *15.00, Chicago *19.00. FEED--Quoted August S: Bran. *13.60; middlings, *15.50, Minneapolis*. M per cent cottonseed meal, *34.00 Memphis; white hominy feed, *25.60, gluten feed, *29.86 Chicago; No. 1 alfalfa meal, *18.76 Kansas City; 34 per cent linseed meal, *46.00 Minneapolis. ( GRAIN--Wheat prices advanced early la week on heavy export buying. Weakness in foreign exchange and drop in foreign grain markets caused slump on July 29 and advanced afterwards met with heavy selling toward th« close of the week, causing prices to trend downward. Cora future prices acted largely in sympathy with wheat, though cash corn was in good demand and cash prices were fairly strong. On August third wheat market had heavy undertone early in day making new lows In September and December futures. Seaboard buying came out on all breaks, but hedging pressure on each advance kept price range within fairly narrow limits. Corn markets were fairly steady. Cloclng pricas in Chicago cash market: No. 2 red winter wheat, *1.08;* No. 2 hard winter wheat. *1.10; No. 2 mixed corn, 63c; No. 2 yellow corn, 54c; No. 3 white oats, 84c. Average farm prices: No. 2 mixed corn in central Iowa about 60c; No. 2 hard winter wheat In central Kansas, 90c; No. 1 dark northern wheat in central North Dakota. *1.06. Closing future prices: Chicago September wheat, *1.05%: Chicago September corn, 61c; Minneapolis September wheat, *1.1194; Kansas City September wheat. 97%c; Winnipeg October wheat, *1.0914. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES--Peach markets weaker. Qeorgia and North Carolina stocks mostly 26c lower. Arkansas Elbertas slow and dull. New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland fruit followed the general trend. Watermelons slightly weaker. Carolina Tom Watsons down *26 per car. Georgia melons *'£.00 lower. New York firm, Pittsburgh and Chicago. Missouri stock slow and weak. Cantaloupes steady to Arm, eastern markets weaker in middlewest for California stock. Eastern green meats generally lower. Prices reported August t: New Jersey sacked cobblers. *1.15471.50 per 100 lbs. city markets. *1.00® 1.15 f. o. b. North and South Jersey points. Kansas early Ohlos partly graded. 60ffS0c Chicago. Minnesota etock, *1.10@1.20 Chicago. *1.00 f. o. b. sandlot district points. Georgia peaches, Elbertas, sixes and bushel baskets, *2.26@2.75 leading wholesale markets. North Carolina Belles and Elbertas mostly *2.2fcg2.50 in eastern cities. 2.55 f. o. b. shipping points. Es Elbertas *1.00@1.75. LIVE STOCK--Compared with week Chicago hog prices showed advances of 10 to 46c per 100 lbs., light weights advancing most. Beef steers. 85#50c higher and butcher cows and heifers 10®20c higher. Fat lambs, yearlings and fat ewes, 10@25c higher; feeding lambs 10c higher, per 100 lbs. August 3 prices: Hogs, top, *10.85; bulk of sales, *7.90<fi10.f>0: medium and good beef steers. t6.50S7.66; light and medium weight veal calves, *9.26@10.75: fat lambs. *12@13; feeding Iambs, *11.890 12.00; yearlings. *8.50®11.00; fat ewes. *3.26 ©7.60. Stocker and 'eeder shipments from 12 important markets during the week ending July 28 were: Cattle and calvea, (6,983; hogs, 4.652; sheep, 46,100. DAIRT PRODUCTS--Butter markets steady to firm at close Heavy accumulations caused declines early in week but war prices attracted speculative demand and brought about a reaction. Upper Chamber Will Accept HotMO Plan to Speed Up Legislation an# .. •• ^-flWbjSleasure "Over the T#f -"-"'-"Before November. Washington, Aug. 9.--In a concerted effort to insure the enactment of "protective" tariff legislation before November congressional elections. Bepublican leaders planned to' abandon the hlgh rates in the . pending senate bill when it reaches conference and revert to the lower ones in the house measure. Senator Smoot of Utah was among those convinced that the pending bill cannot become a law. x The increasing opposition the senate bill has encountered within tbe Republican party alone has convinced some of the most influential Republican leaders of the upper chamber ft probably would be better not- to have a bill at all before November than to force the senate measure through to final passage. '> * While the pending bill will b« passed by the senate under the present unanimous consent agreement restricting debate, probably within three weeks, It Is expected to emerge from conference subsequently in a shape far more resembling the house bill than the one written by the Republican majority in control of the senate finance committee. By going back to the house bill, Republican senators are of the oplnloa that an agreement can be reached between the tariff Republicans of the senate and house which will appease the wrath of Republican critics of the pending measure and at the same time satisfy those elements who want the party's tariff pledge fulfilled. Two attempts made by Senator Harrison (Dem.) of Mississippi to get striate action on his resolution proposing an investigation of an alleged sugar syndicate were defeated on objections raised by Senator Smoot. The syndicate, it was charged, wa# formed to raise a tax of $14,000,000 on the Cuban sugar crop for payment to American sugar growers in lieu of a high tariff rate. The seven refining groups, whom Smoot charged with being responsible for war among sugar producers, Were; listed as follows: The American Sugar Refining company, W. J. MacNahan Refining and Molasses company, the National Sugar Refining company, the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining company, the Revere Sugar Refining company, the Warner Sugar Refining company and the Independent Producers of tbe United States Refining company. cj RUSSIAN CHURCHMEN TO DIE Moscow Central Committee Denies Appeal* of Leaders--Some Serve, Long Sentences. ••• •». Reed's Lead Is •^•7, ; St Louis, Aug. 5.--With United States Senator James A. Reed leading by 6,887 votes. Breckinridge Long, his opponent for the Democratic senatorial nomination, based bis hope on the official count being made to overcome the senator's plurality. R. R. Brewster, Republican nominee for United States senator, will poll *a rality of approximately 20,000. KILLED BY OWN THIEF TRAP Illinois Woman Electrocuted When •he Inadvertently Touchft « ^ Heavily Charged Wire, Edwardsville, 111., Aug. 7.--A trap set by Mrs. Barl "^oute. Glen Carbon, near here, to catch thieves who have visited her henhouse, proved to be her own death trap. She was electrocuted by inadvertently touching a live wire. Wisconsin Solon lnsi#£ Kenosha. Wis., Aug. 8.--Malcolm D. Farr, assemblyman from Kenosha county, was adjudged insane in the Kenosha county court and committed to the Northern Hospital for the Insane at Winnebago. Erie Loses (1,000,000 Monthly. Kewark, N. Y„ Aug. 5.--Slfl-e the coal strike began the Erie railroad has been losing money at the rate of $1,000,000 a month, its regional man- Qorman's Daughter Asks Divorie. Baltimore, Md., Aug. 7.--Mrs. Ada Gorman Mngness, daughter of the late United States Senator Arthur Pue Ort+man, applied in the Baltimorecounty Circuit court for a divorce from Charles J. Magness. Rail President Dies. . St. Louis, Aug. 8.--James M. Herbert, president of the St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) railroad, died here In his automobile, returning from the baseball game. Death was dUftJto Apoplexy. ^ Railroad to Use Gasoline. " Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 8.--The management of the Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia railroad announced here that gasoline propelled cars would oe placed In service on the system. Rush to Buy German Clothes. Berlin, Aug. 7,--Avalanches of tour, ists are arriving In the wake of the latest plunge of the mark, and are swamping the clotlMng stores, appeariS5 li; ' • •. ', v. £ ' >' 5i. vti: Xl t ^ ager, A. J. Mantell, told the pablle J tgg overnight in brand mw outfits of utility commission here, ) German clothing. Strike Riots In l*aly. * ftorhe, Aug. 7.--Two perron# 'ilwto killed and several hundred wounded in the fighting between fascist.) and communists at l>ari in connection with the general strike, according to the latest reports received here. Ignores Death Threat; Die*. Auburn, III-. Aug. 4.--Ignoring threats of death given him by three men, who woke him from sleep by ilring over his bed, John Mack est. forry- elght, an Italian miner, was found tead outside his home. A blow in the .>ack of the head had killed him. Typhoon Levelr City of 40,000. London. Aug. 7.--The Chinese city of Swatow has been devastated by a typhoon with heavy loss of life. The property damage •/as enormous. Swatow has a population of 40,000 and is a treaty port. - ^ . 1 ' " i Wilson Slayers Hang August 10* London, Aug. 7.--Joseph O'SuTllvan •nd Reginald Dunn, under sentence of death for the assassination of Field Marshal Wllsos, will be hanged on August 10, It is announced by the ellcials. Find New Silver Land*. Fltsgerald, Alta., Apg. S.--A find of silver in tne barren lands northeast of here hss been made, which. It I* claimed, will be at least on ,a pur with- tbe silver mine* of tbe northern Ontario country. Moscow, Aug. 9--The central^##'1 ecutlve committee has denied tbe appeals of the Petrogad metropolitan, Benjamin, Archbishop Shane, Professor Novltsky and Layman Klsherov, who were sentenced to death for Interfering with the seizure of church treasures. These men of tbe higher clergy who have carried on crimes against the state under cover of the church, and encouraged their followers to disregard the soviet decrees, must pay the penalty," reported the executive committee. Death sentences brought against seven other clergymen who were tried simultaneously with the metropolitan were commuted to long terms of Imprisonment. WARNS POSTAL EMPLOYEES Assistant Postmaster General Refers to "Propaganda or Misinformation" Now in Circulation, v fev Washington, Aug. 0.--Postal ?*»• ; ployees have been cautioned by As- : slstant Postmaster General Bartlett not to be misled by "propaganda or misinformation" designed, it was. said, to create unrest among the nearly 500,000 workers of the service. The caution contained in a statement made public was occasioned, it was said, by a declaration of the National Federation of PoBt Office Clerks that the postal service was not properly obsei vlng the eight-hour law a* It was "cheaper financially to work regular clerks overtime than to eipjfloy substitute*." e V -- -- Four in Family Drowned. Cedar Rapids, la., Aug. ».--Flower Andrews, a life-saver at the Troy Mills beach, and three of his children, girls, aged three months and seven and ten years, respectively* drowned while on a picnic. * Hermans Quit Berlin, Aug. 5. Tag says it learni collapse of the ma has been obliged to of foreign currency of reparation*. s V s l & f & Iowa Bank Closed. Sioux City, la., Aug. y.--The Sibley First Trust and Savings bank, S4b-^ ley, la., closed its doors on orderri of the state banking department. It iSy capitalized at $25,000 and the last re-., pert showed a surplus of $5,090^* Negroes Wreck Train. • », Chicago, Aug. 9.--With the Bfffeffr of six negro boys it became known! ; that New York Central train No. 44fJ^ narrowly escaped destruction when ic%/ was derailed at Archer avenue *nd.,;. Twentieth street. rrency. per Der g to the ernment urchase yrneot •' Troop* Moved to Joliet. Chicago, Aug. 9.--One officer striker were killed and the sheriff olf-^,.-. Will county was seriously injured state troops were rushed to the scenes'f of the latest nOmd strike rioting at Joliet, m. .a,.,,