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From Illinois .ri J' •vj jg<-\ Chicago. -- Coal rationing regnla- %/ Hons as rigid as those in tlie war-time fjfl shortage in force in Chicago, tihltftgo.*--"Big Tim" Murpliy. labor t" ofcar of Chicago, was vindicated by the law of complicity in the murder of Police Lieutenant Terrence Lyons. Darand.--The Catholic church at r;j- Irish Grove, near here, will cele- •f brate the eightieth. anniversary of its ;;S establishment Sunday, August 20, with home-coming services. Naperville.--Edward W. Schlllo, former racing driver and president of the Shlllo Motor Sales company, and Leroy Keller, his assistant, an overseas aviator, both of Chicago, plunged 3,000 feet in their plane to death in oae of the main streets of Naperville. Sycamore.--The county of Dekalb has purchased the first of several gravel pits that are to be acquired, from which it is Intended to take sufficient gravel to make hard, smooth roadways on all state-aid roads in the county. •. .7*". ;; Springfield--Contractu hav*V*eu let for 750,000 pairs of : tate automoblle plates for use next year. Secretary of State Louis L. Emmerson announced. At least that many will l>e needed. It Is declared. The plates next year will be olive green vrith white figures. Springfield.--Saagamd® * eoaaftjr orchardists are now liarone of the largest fruit crops in history. Reports from New Berlin. Illiopolis, Chatham, Pawnee and Willlamsville. state the apple crop Is exceedingly large, the peaches are far above the average and the other fruits are In proportion. Weather • conditions have been ideal and the quality in many sections is superfine, it Is said. Springfield.--The fight Is (Ml for "safe milk" in Illinois. The Cow Testing association of Knox and Warren counties announces that 85 per cent of the herds of those counties have been given the tuberculin test, and that the remaining 15 per cent will be tested as rapidly as possible. Great activity along this line is also reported from Kane and other counties in northern Illinois. Chicago--Cook county's system of paved highways is to be, augmented by Important connecting lfyiks, cutoffs and auxiliary arteries to cost approximately $1,500,000, according to midson road-building plans newly apoved by the county board. A total of 58 miles of new pavements is included in the plans, all of them designed to facilitate the enormous motor and farm-to-market travel. Springfield. -- Methodist ministers tnd laymen, composing the committee of 76 to attend the needs of Methodist educational institutions in Illinois, met to consider the plans of Bishop Thomas Nicholson for raising funds. The conference approved a campaign In the coming year to raise $1,- 250,000 for the institutions, including Wesleyan, Hedding, Illinois Women's college and the Chaddock School for Boys. Springfield.--Definite campaigning has started for a reopening of the judicial article of the proposed new II lioois constitution when the constitutional convention reassembles at Springfield September 12. The proposal is to increase the size of the Supreme court from seven to nine members. Tlie six downstate districts would stand as they are now constituted, and the present "Seventh" or Chicago district would be given three Justices instead of one; * Jacksonville.--It cost Morgan county anly $200.04 to treat 15 patients at Oak Lawn sanitarium during July, according to the monthly report of the secretary. This means that $14.67 was •pent on each patient during the month, which would be less than 50 cents per day. The farm of the sanitarium produced $143 worth of vegetables in July, and $1,107 was received from the federal government for the care of a number of ex-service men. This left but $200.04 for the county to pay. A total of 22 patients are now •Sder treatment at Oak Lawn. Springfield.--The sum of $606,903.97 Ms been paid into the Illinois state teachers' pension and retirement fund for the year from July 1, 1921, to June 30, 1922, according to a preliminary report made by R. O. Clqrida, . Secretary to the fund. The total dislnursements for the year were $438,- 285.24, leaving a surplus of $168,- 738.73. The report shows that $28,- ,783.48 has been collected on loans. There are now 30,000 teachers contributing to the fund, according to Mr. Clarida. The law provided in general that a teacher who has taught 2T> years shall be retired at the age fifty and receive ah annuity of *00 a year. The fund is created by Contributions from the salaries of ..teachers, varying with the number of (f'lWttra they have taught "J Freeport.--A resident of Freeport - Was fined $20 and costs for selling fish that were undersized. The law requires that all fish taken for commercial use must be returned to the waif under a certain size. Beardstown.--Beardstown's tax rate Of $6.35 on the hundred-dollar valua- .Hon is less than paid in the average «ity of Illinois with populations of .. • 4from 5,000 to 10,000, according to flg- 1 -.H11*8 which have been compiled by City Maslin. Kates In other cities „ 1 >ange from $5.40 to $10.12, with the ^ ; ^majority of towns ranging from $6.50 fa £*0 $8.50. ; Winchester.--A pure bred breeders' * " * association has been organized In Sjf * Scott county to assist In promotion of :better iive stock. Peoria.--Most of the distilleries in Peoria aud Pekin, which have been producing various food products and iiS# alcohol for the United States Food ' ^ Products corporation, are to be reorganized. Some will be sold and used for other industrial purposes. New York representatives have been in Peoria to work out the liquidation plans, f : Under dry conditions the great plants * have brought only a tithe of their for- Uloomington.--Mrs. one hundred and ten. Is dead at tit* McLean county farm. Sterling.--The CatholWs are making plans for the erection of a high school at Sterling, the building to cost approximately $125,000....... Royal.--Two young farmers named Marsh and McCarthy, living near St. Joseph, were killed when their automobile waa struck by a train near here. Aurora.--Mi^s Julia Dob son, fiftynine, of Elburn, was burned to death in the kitchen of her home, while her brother slept a few feet away. She apparently fell while carrying a lamp and breathed the flames. Freeport--August Rhode recently celebrated his one hundredth birthday here. He still works from five to seven hours a day, caring for the grounds of the Old People's home, where he lives. Streator.--Mayor C. Q. Reno; Streator's first commission form mayor, has resigned, effective September 1. He has been in office 15 months. He assigned as the reason failure of other members of the city government to cooperate with him. Morris.--An ornamental lighting system for the streets of Morris Is to be installed. Bids have been received ranging from $14,000 to $17,000. The pn>|H»sitSon is now in the hands of the heat and light committee of the council. Rockford.--Fire In the. Camp Grant barracks was placed under control after eight units of barrcks In the hospital area were destroyed and several other buildings damaged. Twenty Isolated buildings were damaged by roof fires. Several soldiers were slightly injured while aiding firemen In lighting the flames. Aurora.--Gov. Warren T. McCray of Indiana has entered 20 head of his prize-winning Hereford beef cattle In the competition for the blue ribbons and cash prizes at the Central States fair and exposition at Aurora, Aggiist 18-26. More than twenty states two provinces of Canada are entered In the competition to date. Springfield.--Shoi-tage of cement due to the railroad strike Is endangering road construction over the state, according to highway department officials. Lack of cement. has already caused the cessation of work on the Beardstown road between Bradfordton and Farmlngdale. Reasons for the nonshipment of the cement were given as the delay caused by the railroad and coal strikes. Cairo.--The first coal tow to be taken from the Ohio river to St Louis in ten years left Cairo a few days ago. It was the sternwheei towboat Richardson, owned by the West Kentucky Coal company. It had six barges of coal in tow. A Pittsburgh company has a steamer and barges, and has been soliciting freight business In •Cairo. This Is the first Instance In a number of years that a privately owned barge line has solicited shipments upstream out of Cairo. Springfield.--In the last few weeks persons living near the farm of Lewis P. Fisher, who a few years ago was pastor of the Christian church at Cantrall, marveled at the output of the little family coal mine while no help was available. But a "close-up" of operations at this mine, which is ten miles north of Springfield, would have revealed Mrs. Fish and her twelve-year-old manning the top works, firing the engin«;, pulling the hoisting levers and weighing the coal, while the former preacher was below digging. Springfield.--The state game and fish department Is beginning the task of reclaiming the many fish endangered by floods of last spring. The work has been delayed until the waters had receded and the broken levees were repaired, according to W. J. Stratton, chief game and fish warden. A crew of four men was sent to East St. Louis to work in the Oakaw lakes, near there, and In other neighboring places where the fish will die if they. are permitted to remain when the back water recedes. Some work has been started in the back waters near Beardstown, but the reclamation cannot be completed there until the levees are fully repaired, Mr. Stratton said. Springfield.--Of the totfcl of seventeen cases of smallpox reported to the state department of public health five were from Mason county, according to a report Issued by Dr. I. D. Rawlings. A total of 205 cases of diphtheria were reported and 414 cases of whooping cough were under quarantine. The detailed report follows: Diphtheria, 205, of which Cook county had 100, Chicago 74, Kane county 9, La Salle county 6, Macon county 7, Madison county, 6. Scarlet fever, 109, of which Cook county had 22, Chicago 15, Henry county 9, Marion county five, Will county 5, Winnebago county 12. Smallpox, 17, of which Mason county had 5. Taaewell county 4. Typhoid fever, 63, of which Jefferson county had 6, Morgan county 5. Union county i 6. Poliomylitis, Boone county 1, Clay county 1. Influenza, 12, of which Chicago had 1. Pneumonfa, 117, of which Chicago had 51. Whooping cough, 414. Springfield.--The use of cheap serum in the fight against hog cholera threatens to spread the disease in Illinois, according to Dr. F. A. Laird, chief veterinarian In the division of animal industry. Rockford.--Purchase of nontaxable; securities, a practice increasing on n large scale during the last.year, la given as the reason for a decrease of $1,500,000 in valuation of personal property In Rockford, as found by th«/' j assessor's office this year. Total assessed value of personal property this year is $31,569,250, as against $33,655,- 740 In the 1921 report. Springfield.--"The Lincoln bench," a plain, wooden affair of crude work manshlp, which Lincoln is said to havt occupied often when telling his famous stories, has been presented to the Illinois State Historical society by the estate of the late Clinton L. Conkling. 0 Bloomington.--Central Illinois live stock will be' on exhibition at the Brazilian centennial exposition at Klo'd> Janeiro, which opens September 7 and closes October 15. A carload of prize Poland-China hogs has "been shipped to South America by the Illinois Polaud- Large Trestle Over Sac River Near St. Louis Blown Up * Dynamite* - DESTROY 18 Roundhouse at Portland, Ms., and Car Shops at Wichita Falls, Tax., * 'Ittpmed-rBombs Hurled at Nfw Jersey Train--Tsn Hurt. St. Louis, Aug. 16.--The St. Louis & San Franlcsco railroad bridge over the Sac river near Ash Grove, 15 miles northwest of here, was dynamited. The bridge was 400 feet long. United States deputy marshals have gone to the scene. Wichita Falls, Tex., Aug. 16--The car shops here were destroyed by a fire of unknown origin. The loss 18^ expected to be over $125,000. Three: locomotives were destroyed as well afj a number of cars. Portland, Me., Aug. 16.--Fifteen Iosf, comotives fef the Maine Central, Boaton & Maine and Portland Terminal company, and a roundhouse were destroyed by fire here. The damage is estimated at $1,000,000. The police said they suspected incendiaries. Just before the fire was discovered by deputy sheriffs two explosions were heard. North Bergen, y. J., Aug. 10. Three bombs hurled at the Weliawken local of the West Shore railroad as It crossed a culvert near Granton Junction shattered the windows of three coaches and injured ten persons, five seriously, officials of the road reported., The train, filled with passengers returning home after the week-end holidays, was traveling slowly as the explosions came. It was rumbling across the bridge when the entire train was shaken by the three detonations. The passengers were thrown into a panlci The police learned that shortly before the local was due at Granton, an automobile, said to have carried three men, was seen standing by the side of the railroad right of way. A wrecking crew sent to the scene helped the damaged train into Weehawken, where the more seriously injured were given first af<£ Passengers alighting at Wehawken said the first bomb struck the third car of the train with a blinding glare, rocking the coach. A second bomb struck the fourth car with a lighter detonation and less damage. While the train was slowing down in obedience to an emergency signal cord a third bomb exploded a few hundred feet behind. The West Shore is a subsidiary of the NAv York Central. IRISH REBELS TAKE DUNDALK Surprise Free State Garrison ill tfie Early Morning and Capture City. BetfSst, Aug. 16.--A large force of republicans entered Dundalk at three o'clock in the morning, taking the national garrison completely by sur prise. The attack was successful and the town Is now Isolated, with republican troops patrollng the streets. The Anne street police headquarters was the first objective to .be stormed^and taken. The garrison was captured. The jail was the next to fall, and all prisoners, who were mostly republicans, were liberated. These were supplied with arms and joined their rescuers In the attack on the town, In which bombs were freely used. The railway station and general post office were taken in succession. 'T-ime ©vt> m.M*TY IrHt GR \ we; COAV. SCUTrLEO VW *0 WCLLV I 'A v ' i-W. + m k1 *m CMrrtAM eMttWMf HARDING OFFERS AID Will Help Passengers Marooned • y,".. Offer* Arizona Governor Federal Government--Three Roada Tied Up by Walkouts. SAILORS GET WAGE BOOST Employees of Lake Carriers' Assoc!ation Granted Increase of $1§ Per Month. CtereMbd, O., Aug. 16.--All •m- /)loyees of the Lake Carriers' association below the grade of licensed officers have been granted wage increases of $15 per month effective September 1, it was announced in a statement issued by George Marr. secretary of the association, here. The association, the statement declares, 'will continue to operate under the "oyett^ahop policy. . Cuts Off I00,0«fl*iiri6r^ Frankfort, Ky., Aug. 16.--The strike of 1,200 trainmen on the Cumberland division of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad company means a cutting off from the outside world of virtually 100,000 persons In southeastern Kentucky. Of these, approximately 70,- 000 are in the great coal fields of Harlan and Bell counties, which have a capacity output of 1,000 carloads of coal a day. . Washington, _Aug. 14, -- President Harding, In a telegram to Governor Campbell of Arizona, offered the assistance of the federal government to relieve hardships among passengers on Santa Fe trains marooned at junction points. The President's telegram follows : "I am Informed that'several passenger trains on the Santa Fe railway are marooned at Junction points in your state because of their abandonment by thei* crews. "It is the obligation of the government to relieve the people who are thus shamefully subjected to - hardships. If you have not facilities for the relief, which I know you will gladly bestow, then any forces at the command of the federal government will be promptly ordered to your assistance. Kindly advise whether such assistance is needed." San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 14.--The walkout of Big Four railroad brotherhood men in the Far West has brought about the following developments: The Santa Fe lines south of Bakersfleld, Cal., and as far east as Ash Fork, Ariz., were tied up completely. Trains continued to be held by the Santa Fe at Seilgman, Ash Fork and Williams, Ariz., and Albuquerque, New Mexico. There are walkouts at the first two, trains merely being held at the latter ones because of the impossibility of moving them through the others. ' * On the Union Pacific's line there are walkouts at Callente and Las Vegas, Nev., and of firemen at San Bernardln « On the Western Pacific, after a conference at Elko, Nev., brotherhood men working between that point and Gerlach agreed to return to work, company officials reported, but at Stockton, Oakland and Orovllle, Cal., they were still out. There have been three heat prostrations on Santa Fe trains reportedtwo those of aged persons and one that of an infant. Pueblo, Colo., Aug. 14.--Missouri Pacific railroad loeomotlve firemen working between Pueblo and Horace, Kas., struck because tbey allege the equipment was not In safe condition. All Missouri Pacific traffic on this division is tied up. Two passenger trains which leave Pueblo at 5 p. m. and 8:15 p. m. are annulled. No, 11 and No. 13 were consolidated at Hdrace, Kas., and, by picking up a man to do the firing, were brought Into Ptt?blo late this afternoon. Los Angeles, Aug. 14.--Members of the Big Four brotherhoods employed by the Santa Fe railway at Winslow Ariz., and Albuquerque, N. M., went out on strike, according to an announcement here by I. L. Hibbard, gen' eral inanagejc,.of the company's coast lines. Albuquerque, N. M., Aug. 14.--One thousand passengers marooned here by the strike of members of Ihe Big Four sent a message to President Harding in the hope of obtaining -relief from their plight. U. S. MARKER REPORT Weekly Marketgram by Bureau of Markets and Crops. Washington, Aug. u.--Week ending Ao- Jguat 10--HAY--Quoted Aucust I: No. 1 timothy, 931.50 New York, $24.00 Philadelphia, 919.00 Pittsburgh, $21.00 Chicago, 117.00 Cincinnati, $16.00 Minneapolis, $1#.00 St. Louis, $22.00 Atlanta; No. 1 alfalfa, $17.00 Kansas City, $17.50 St. Louia, $23.00 Memphis; No. 1 prairie, $10.76 Kansas City, $17.00 St. Louis, $14.00 Minneapolis. FEED--Quoted August 9: Bran, $14.26; middlings, $16.50 Minneapolis; 36 per cent cottonseed meal, $34. W) Memphis. $34.00 Atlanta; gluten feed, $29.86 Chicago; white hominy feed, $24.00 St. Louia; No. 1 alfalfa meal, $21.00 St Louia; 33 per cent linseed meal, S44.50 Minneapolis. GRAIN--Advance in grain prices early in week was short-lived, as buying support was Insufficient to offset hedging pressure and liquidation, and prices worked lower. Government crop report, forecasting large crops of coarse grains, was bearish factor. Quiet export business .was another depressing factor. Cash grain prices were firmer than futures. For the week Chicago September wheat advanced %c; Chicago September corn declined r/tc. On August 10 new low points were established on all grains, except December wheat. A good recovery occurred near close with net advances oa wheat and corn, but oats were lower. Buying was mainly from shorts covering. Closing cash prices in Chicago market: No. 2 red winter wheat, $1.10; No. 2 hard winter wheat. $1.10; No. 2 mixed corn, 63c, No. 2 yellow corn, 63c; No. 3 white oats, 34c. Average farm prices: No. 3 mixed corn in central Iowa about 48c; No. 2 hard winter wheat in central Kansas, 90c. Closing future prices: Chicago September wheat, $1.06; Chicago September corn, 69%c; Minneapolis September wheat, $1.11%; Kansas City September wheat. 18c; Winnipeg Octaber wheat, $1.07*. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES--For the week potato markets steady to firm for good stock. New Jersey cobblers up 10® 30c In wholesale markets, down 5010c in shipping points. Prices reported August 10: New Jersey sacked cobblers, $1.35® .66 per 100 lbs. eastern cities. $1.S0®1.W Chicago and St Louis, Mc@1.05 f. o. b. north and south Jersey points; giants, 80® 80c. California salmon tint cantaloupes, standard 45's, $3.00^3.50 in city mar kets; eastern green and pink meats, 75cff ".60 in leading eastern markets. New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland peaches, various varieties, sixes and bushel baskets, $1.5002.50; Virginia and North Carolina Elbertas, $2.00@3.00; North Carolina Hales. $2.75@3.75; Missouri, Arkansas and Illinois Elbertas, $1.50@2.50 eastern cities, $1.5002.25 In Middle West LIVE STOCK--Hog prices showed net declines for the week ranging from 8Oc0 ".25 per 100 lbs., light hogs sharing liberally in the decline; beef steers were 15039c lower, with butcher cows and heifers weak to 35c lower; feeder steers averaged about steady and veal calves 50c higher; fat lambs 40®60c lower; feeding lambs 10c lower. August 10, Chicago prices: Hogs, top. $10.10; bulk of sales, $7.25fi>9.90; medium and good beef steers. $8.00010.00; butcher cows and heifers, $3.9009.00; feeder steers, 16.4007.50; light and medium weight veal calves, $9.75011.26; fat lambs, $11,400 12.60; feeding lambs. $11.50012.50; yearlings, $8.00010.90: fat ewes, $3.5007.25. Stocker and feeder shipments from 12 important markets during the weefc ending August were: Cattle and calves, hogs, 4,259: sheep. 44.224. DA1R\ PRODUCT?--Closing prices. K score butter; New York, 34c; Philadelphia, 34\4c; Boston, 35c; Chicago, 32Hc. Prices at Wisconsin primary cheese mar kets August 9^ Daisies, l«%c; double dai sies, 18c; young Americas, 19c; longhoraa, 19c; square prints, 20\4c. Another Strike Confers*^ ^ Washington, Aug. 16.--At a conference with President Harding the railway unions decided to call another conference with railroad executives In an effort to reach an Independent settlement of the shop strike. Two Flyers Burn to Death. Dayton, O., Aug. 16.--Lieutenatat Morlarity and a Mr. Stonehreaker were burned to death when the airplane which they were flying caught lire to a flight over Wilbur Wright field, near this city. Slayer of 8herlff Escapes. Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 16.--Four prisoners, including Luther Borin, who killed SherifT J. L. Smith of Bradley county, a few months ago, escaped from the Hamilton county and are still at large. Reds Selxe British 8hip. Constantinople, Aug. 14.--The British steamship Georjje was captured by the Bolshevik! at Saturn. The passengers were held for three days, after ward being transferred* to the French steamer Tadla. J. W. Davis Heads Bar Association. 8an Francisco, A.;g. i4.--John W Davis of West Virginia, former Ameri can ambassador to Oreat Britain, was elected president of the American Bar association at Its annual here. Mrs. Knute Nelson Buried. Alexandria. Minn., Aug. 10--Funeral services of Mrs. Knute Nelson, wife of United States Senator Knute Nelson, were conducted at the Norwegian Lutheran church here, Rev. A. T. TJornfcolm offlciatin||f " . • Adopts Kaiser's War Cry. Berlin, Aug. 14.--The German republic has now adopted an official na tional hymn, which, mueh to the gen eral surprise. Is pre-war Germany' old anthem. "Deutsehland, Deutschland, Ueber Alles." ^ ^ @r • • > i President Outlines to Senatorf Desir*W8ty of fittfolty..>3 Oorlnfl CrM LETTS READ TO SEMITE Urges Flexibility In Adjusts Duties --As It Mssns Power Is President, He Asks Share Ss Qtven t* a . Board. : WesWnjrt**!, Aug. 14.--#0M<pwtnr conferences with senators in behalf of a flexible tariff which would give powers of rate adjustment to the President jnd the tariff board. President Harding sent a letter to Chairman McCumber of the finance committee, and it was read to the senate, not only urging that a flexible tariff be provided fdr, but that the tariff commission be made the agency for investigation and recommendation for changes in tariff rates. ~ The President's lefter is as follows: "I need not repest to yon what- I have said personally and what I have conveyed officially in a message to congress, how deeply I anf interested in the provision for flexibility, in, the tariff bill, which is now under consideration in the senate. It has seemed to me that the varying conditions in the world and the unusual conditions following the World war make it extremely essential that we have this means of adapting our tariff to meet the new conditions. "Moreover, I believe It is a highly constructive and progressive step in retaining the good and eliminating the abuses which grow up under onr tariff system. I think we ought to make the tariff commission all that It Is designed to be--the agency for scientific investigation and the source of dependable information on all tariff problems. "In view of the fact that congress, in providing for flexibility, must bestow some exceptional powers upon the President, I should "very much prefer that In the same act the congress definitely name the tariff board as the source of information and recommendation upon which the President may proclaim changes in rates of duty. "Taithe power to modify rates were given to the President I should lmme» diately proclaim the tariff board as the "agency of investigation and recommendation, because the President could not deal with the situation in any other practical manner. I think It more seemly, therefore, to have the congress definitely designate the tariff board as the agency t<v be employed by the President in tho exercise of executive power which It 4s proposed to bestow/* Hope of Immediately Ending Tie--; CftMt tU ^ _ Hf TUP tS WW l r'Svl Both Railroad Executives and Labo^ Union Chiefs Turn Down Presl- ^ Wisftington, Aug. 15.--Hope of im*| mediately ending the rail strike waa* bltsted here when the railroads ami. the unions rejected President Hardi|J tog's third proposal for settlement sCp*1 the trouble. .-u After 44 days of mediation and nego- ' V-JT;' tiatlon both sides declared there isr ^ ' no possibility of arbitrating the ques?- ticn of seniority and are prepared tc fight it out to a finish. • y . Bat Instead of having only the rail-P^.^, way shopmen to deai Tiith the rail-*".'; roads now have ail of the railway* brotherhoods arrayed against tbem|: They will' support the shopmen on »"•' question that they declare to be th«:. . "life blood of unionism" and are willing to accept the defl of the railway executives for "a fight to a fln^ lab." There was hope hat the two partie^ might find a common ground for ar-!> -V bltrating their differences. But whe the President had been told that hlF proposal was untenable to the union^,* and railroads alike, he telephoned ofli-^S1 5 ^ cials that the ban of secrecy had bee4L. lifted and they were at liberty to talki^4"5 They revealed for the first time: That neither party had at any ,;! remotely considered submitting thelS. ^ - differences to the railroad labors' board. . BLANTON RAPS RAIL CONTROL Tsxas Congressman Says President Harding Intend* to Take Over the Railroads. Abilene, Tex., Aug. 14.--Congress man Thomas L. Blarfton of Abilene sent ont telegrams to numerous leaders throughout the country asserting that President Harding has summoned congress to take over the railroads. "This means national bankruptcy and weak truckling to autocratic unions far worse than when they forced the passage of the Adamson law," the message says. "This is exactly what the brotherhoods have planned. Remember how they held the government no doting the war." HARDING FELICITATES EBERT WINS BIG BALLOON RACE M. Demuyter, Belgian Pilot, DeclaHNf Victor in James Gordon Bennett ^ Cup Race---1,300 Kilometers. Brussels, Aug. 14.--M. Demuyter. pilot of the Belgian balloon Belgtca, In the James Gordon Bennett cop race, has been declared winner, says a dispatch trom Geneva, the starting point. He was credited with having covered a distance of 1.300 kilometers. Miss Fontaine Asks Million. >';>< Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Aug. 15. - One million dollars' damages is sought by Evan Burrows Fontaine, dancer, in a suit for breach of prouii.se against Cornelius Vanderbilt (Sonny) Whitney, son of Harry Paine Whitney. President Sends Message to PreaMsnt Of German Republic on Its Anniversafy. Washington, Aug. J4.--President Harding sent the following telegram to. President Ebert of Germany: "On this anniversary of the day when Germany adopted the republican form of government, I am happy to express to you my sincere good wishes and my hope that the great German republic may steadily go for ward along the paths of peacc which lead to good understanding and prosperity and happness.--Warren O. Harding." 'BIG TIM" MURPHY IS FREED Case Against Chicago Labor Leader WOl-Prossed at Suggestion of the Judge. Chicago, Aitg. 12.--"Big Tim" Mfcrphy, on trial for two months as a conspirator in the murder of Police Lieutenant Terrence Lyons, was freed of the charge when the state's attorneys nol-prossed the case, acting on the opinion of the Judge that there was not sufficient evidence to -convict him. Third Rail Men May Quit. Chicago, Aug. 15.--Trainmen of the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin line voted, 304 to 34, to go on strike as a resrlt of the refusal of the company to grant a wage Increase of 90 per eent and make certain working changes. That the railroads ere still chafing ^ nnder provisions of the Adamson ac£| and welcome an opportunity to tesf?i?. M their strength with labor unions. ^ ^ That the rail unions are confident^ " y the time is ripe for the government tclC'fr, ^" assume control of the railroads an<JL;: " believe that this strike will demonQ^ strate the necessity for It. : It also was revealed that the Presl* dent knew that neither party woul(iv> ;.f let the railroad labor board decide ^ ' ,j seniority in full and last night offered ' ^ ^ an emergency proposal that the wholfr ,1' q u e s t i o n b e l e f t t o a n i m p a r t i a l t r i b u t e * - . ' 4 nal. This tribunal was to be namedi* ; * - ^ The railroads objected to this and reftfe ' » fused to budge from the position outlined In their reply to. the President oj^' the United States. ^ The committee of executives clared that they had no authority t#-: consider counter-proposals and thai unless the unions accepted what they had to offer the men could not gejr their positions back. . v There is only one real Issue volved In this whole controversy," saidk; a spokesman for the railroads. "Th4 ^ striking shopmen must recognize thf ^ jurisdiction of the railroad labof ,• board. The board already has ruled^s that if its decisions are ignored by<-, the calling of a strike, the efforts oa' the part of the strikers to disregard: the board's decisions and intimidate the government and the public will no| -* if be successful." Railroad executives left iminedinte^, ly for New York after making publifr; their refusal to accept the President'i^ proposal. They saw the President fo(f ' • an hour during the morning. ^ Following this they went to the off ^ flee of the executives here where Ifc* was finally decided to make their cislon public. As the men filed frot# ; the offices observers knew that ^h#; ; ^ truce plan had failed. T. DeWitt Cuj^fe ler, chairman of the executives, whfc has favored the President's pla% showed plainly his disappointment Gen. W. W. Atterbury of the Pennsyf vanla, who has been Irreconcilably danced a Jig while holding to the ari*~ of A. H. Smith of the New York Cedfe J tral, and then did a fox trot up anjT % down the lobby. » "It's all over as far as I am concerned," he said. "We are going back * now and run our railroads." K: -jJ^ The rail officials declared that th» " , rolling stock of the country is not the bad shape which the brotherhoods declare It to be. It w«« officially ^ stated by the railway executives thufc; ,. v they can operate the railroad# for onift,. *. year with the equipment they havl^f and without any assisttwu-e,. from ^p shopmen. ARTHUR GRIFFITH IS of Irish Free State ls^ of Influenza* Belfast- Reports. Belfast, Aug. 15.--Arthur GriffitSft^- ^ president of the Dail Eireann, .died ijf^,. Dublin, of influenza, it has ' learned here. * ^ # - > Oldest Odd Fellow Dies. Reading Pa.. Aug. 14.--Peter Madara, ninety-seven, the. only surviving Pennsylvania veteran of the Mexican war, died here after a short illness. He was also the oldest Odd Fellow In uw ciuiea sav " ," . v if' Refuses Clemency to Thirty-Seven, Indianapolis, Aug. 14.--Thirty-seven prisoners In penal Institutions In Indiana were refused olemency by the state board of pardons and ten received parole, following a report of th« -board to the governor. J Alsace-Lorraine Ousts Strasburg, Aug. li---Tlie commissary general *ff Alsace Lorraine has announced that 500 German undesirables In Alsace-Lorraine have been served with expnl3ion notices and most «Htss thKJlroaticr at <pce. £ Acting Governor la Broke. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 15.--Pellham A. Barrows, lieutenant governor of Nebraska, and for the past week acting chief executive during the absence of Governor McKelvie, also is working as a $5-a-day strike guard. British Ship Is Seized. York, Aug. 15.--The British sctiooner Marina, 200 tons, bound from St. Pierre-Mlquelon to Havana, with a cargo of 2,000 cases of whisky, was captured off Block iSlsud bj the Sf^ marine chaser Hahn. Bird Day Founder' Dead. ' Oil City. Pa.. Aug. 12.--Prof. Charles A. Bahcock, founder of "Bird day," observed i'f schools of many states, Is dead at his home herfe. He waa ao- "thor of many books on birds "educational methods, ^ • Infection of Toes Fatal. *" Pana, III., Aiig. 15,--Mrs. Elisabeths Schafer, seventy-two, prominent Pan* resident for 60 years, died here of septicemia caused by the infection of tw»; toes. Her husband and eight chUdreft sorvivs. . ' " To Ratify Arms Pfcots. London, Aug. 12.--The foreign office announces that the governments of India, Canada and South Africa have agreed to ratify the treaties entered Into at the recent Washington ' '5' <&&' * Russians Turn en British. Constantinople, Aug. 15.--In retail#* tkm for British solidarity with oth^ v ~ nations at The Hague conference against the Bolsheviki, the latter iiav* seized three British steamers and al^/ " rested three Britishers at Batoum. ^ : $ .. Swatow Death Tell 50,008. £•' Peking, China, Aug. 12.--Deaths fp the typhoon of August 2 at Swatow, || seaport 250 miles northeast of lion#*- kong, are estimated at 50,000, tfifk American consul at Swatow has r#*- ported to the American legation. M,, Grecian Army Moves Bask. Constantinople, Aug. ^.--Retirement of the Greek troops from soni*. of the positions they occupied In their recent threatening advance toward Const antinople has been reported lj|P the Turkish gendarmerie. ",*•