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I SPECIAL -lieee Net Entangle w Secretary of Stat* Hugh* Utttr Aocompanying Exeeetive'e Request. v'v Washington, Feb. 26. -- President Bardlng, In a special message, called ityon the senate to give him authority to make the United States a member of the permanent court pi international """jostlce established n^Ocr the League of Nations. He asked for the ratification with innervations of a special protocol nei| S>tlated with the principal powers Urovldinp for fall participation by the United States in the international cpnrt in lien of the unofficial part now taken by the American government "With John Bassett Moore as its repres tentative. . Accompanying the President's mesidige was a letter from Secretary of date Hughes suggesting a series of . reservations which the senate might Adopt to keep the United States from Hbtcomlng entangled In other phases of 9e League of Nations. * The senate listened to the reading of the President's message behind dosed doors in executive session and then referred it, along with Secretary Hughes' letter, to the foreign relations committee. The committee probably will consider It next week. The reception of the President's Hessage among senators was marked tttore by caution than by enthusiasm, aiid In view of the short time remain- Jeg before adjournment on March 4. Here is considerable doubt whether favorable action can be taken. Senators whose influence counts In foreign affairs declined to discuss the message for publication. Democratic •en a tors promptly Ml to chiding the administration for '•trying to enter the fieague of Nations through the back floor," while Irreconcilable Republicans SHgpested that the time remaining before the expiration of the session was short for the careful consideration *rhlch Mr. Harding's proposal merited. MINERS ASSAIL COAL PROFITS -4- s'faiM Tells U. 8. Commission Produo- £ tion Costs Do Not Warrant Prices. "J: Washington, Feb. 28.--The United •Jtlne Workers of America declared to the United States coal commission that the anthracite operators are making « profit of $1,488 on every ton of coal produced. This, they said, gives an •^parent net Income on present com- -ntterdal production of 70,000,000 tons ftnnually. The union holds that a rea- •onnble profit is between $0,202 and fO.216. & jfclNS -$20;D00 FOR K KISS „ Verdict for Nurse in Chicago Hospital p ' Leva Suit--Jury FindaAttso- Hons Fotoed. 'J •£;,';.•••• • Wifcilgo. Feb. 54.--Dr/ Austin tL fltchell, staff physician of the German saconess hospital, should pay Miss athilde Benkhardt, former Aurse at fhe hospital, $20,000 damages for stealfag a kiss from her in the maternity Ward of the hospitaL This was the decision of a jury In Superior Judge t Jtern'8 court after less than an hour's deliberation. <- ' ' ' if* li SWIM tack to Dm WINS UTILE Succeeds to Inducing Pour Republican -Senators to Withdraw Their Sup* port--President Is Mil Fight-;1 inB for tho «IL Ivi," 'fi.':' 'Mr' Capt O. S. Ferson of States army air service Is the advance officer for the flight of army airplanes which will leave San - Antonio on March 1 for a trip to Porto Rico by Cuba and Haiti. Captain Ferson left Washington few Miami, Fla., from where he will go to San Antonio by plane, picking up the Ave De Havlland planes whkft will fly to Porto Rico. CAR LOADINGS HEAVY Reports Indicate Greatest Prosperity, inflation's History. Excess Over Year Loading Amounted to 1MV> 800 Cars. • Big v WwshfiigCiin, Feb. of the greatest prosperity In the history of the nation were seen in reports of the car service division of the American Railway association, which showed that in the week ending February 10, loading of revenue freight totaled 853,288 cars. The total for the ,week was 75,496 cars in excess for the same week last year and exceeded the same week in 1821 by 165,422 cars. Due principally to severe weather conditions in various parts of the country, the total, however, was a decrease of 12388 cars as compared With the preceding week this year. Coal loading amounted to 190,888 cars, l,08t In excess of the week before. While this was a decrease of 1,929 cars as compared with the corresponding week last year, when the coal movement was stimulated somewhat by fears of a minus' strike, it exceeded the corresponding wade in 1821 by 384288 cars. Loading of grain and grain products totaled 40,939 cars, which was a decrease under the week before of 787 cars and a decrease under the same week last year of 18,070 cars. It was, however, *n Increase of 7,477 over the same week in 1821. Washington, Feb. 24.--The senate libuster over the shin nfosidy Mil ended Friday night and'-flat stormtowed measure was ag£tn< set adrift on an uncharted iegisl&fftraaa.. When the senate adjourned at 8 JfclOdc. In the evening, the subsidy bill AMttUtomatically shifted to dar and its status w» jpTO<le«ty the same as last Novml^v^w^SSresldent Harding called an extra session to pass It, The success of the filibuster staged to prevent the bill from coQ0n£ to a vote in the senate after it hatipaased the house was actually due fib the defection of Republican senators whose support was counted on to provide the necessary majority if * vote could be reached. These senators were McNary and Stansfield of Oregon, Lenroot of Wisconsin, and Gobding of Idaho. These senators, under pressure of the farm bloc, which was eager to supplant the shipping measure with one or two rural relief bills, notified the subsidy managers that they had shifted their position. Thereupon the subsidy managers practically threw up their hands and entered into an agreement with the opposition to allow the senate to adjourn. This agreement demoted the shipping measure from the "unfinished business of the senate," and retired it to the general calendar. While another effort undoubtedly will be made to revive the subsidy bill, few. If any, members on either side of the senate chamber believe It will ever reach a vote. The President, however, was said by some of his senate supporters to be just as determined as ever to force a roll call on the shipping measure as be was three months ago. CRASH ON CHICAGO *L» ROAD RUHR CUT FROM GERMANY ^DEMANDS CHINA APOLOGY ' ' " ~ Killing of American by 8oldiers Brings V ytgsfous Representations Freer;-. . Washington. . : w Washington, Feb. 24.--The State d«£ ^'^artment has directed American Am aaasador Schurman at Peking to make /" Vigorous demands on the Chinese govi.* Jirnment to secure the diplomatic ad- "justment of the killing of an American grader and the firing on an American t^jonsul some time ago by Chinese _ iioldlers. Invfrfrre Seize Small Strip on fU#ht - 'Bank of Rhine With tha Border Railroad. ."; r; Dnsseldorf, Feb. 26.--Invaded Germany was completely cut off from tin* occupied Germany when French troops seized a small strip of additional territory on the right bank of the Rhine. The border railroad running from Mayence to Cologne was seized when the French took over the new area, which was the neutral zone separating the bridgehead of Coblens from the bridgehead of Mayence and separating the bridgehead of Cologne from the bridgehead of Coblenz. One Killed and Fifty Others Injured When Trains Collide In Denee Fog. Chicago* M. 28.--One ^en was killed, four were severely Injured and more than fifty persons suffered minor injuries early Sunday, when the Badger Limited of the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee railway crashed into a north-bound Northwestern elevated train «t the Twenty-second streeet station. The lives of 150 passengers were* endangered by the wreck. Blame for the wreck was laid to the dense fog that lay over the city at daylight. The dead man Is Bert E. Clark, forty years old, of 4200 Berkley avenue. .BANK PRESIDENT IS SEIZED 'Fugitive From Warren, Mass., Is Held at Chicago en Embezzlement RED ARMY READY FOR ACTION Ruee P«SHe«y*tohlef Say« mi Coun&r* Is Not Mere Qdlooker in Europe. Moscow, Feb, 24.--Karl Radek, chief of publicity for the soviet government, said: "The Red army has not accomplished Its alms, and must be ready for coming events. Despite our country's peacefulness, the threatening situation in Europe cannot leave it a mere onlooker, Indifferent to whether the German workers will or will not be enslaved, or as to who will rule Turkey, the Turks themselves or Curxon." "A-'- Charge. ; §2* ; ^ Chicago, Feb. 22.--Fradfc*J^ Tayta* fe : .iwas arrested here Wednesday, charged '** •„ - with embezzling $212,000 from the C^.,.^lrst National bank of Warren, Mass., f'-»f which he was president. .. S'f Taylor was hiding in the apartment Tof Arthur Mann, an engraver, at 8455 "^JWest Madison street, after a predpi- ^ (;^ate flight from Warren last week. ^Private Arsenal 8elzed In New York. ; ^ New York, Feb. 26.--Justice depart- |ment operatives seize! 24 machine Si^ ^guns, 200 rifies, a rapid-Ore gun and ksZs '^175 caseB of ammunition in a tenement building raided on West Twenty-fourth street. £ Charlemagne Tower Dies. Philadelphia, Feb. 26.--Charlemagne Tower, former ambassador to Russia and to Germany and minister to Austria- Hungary, Is dead here. He inherited large tracts of coal property te Pennsylvania. • May Get $10,000 Return. Washington, Feb. 24.--The administration bill directing the return of as niuch as $10,000 of each estate of for- ' 4; - mer enemy aliens held by the alien property custodian was passed by the Americans Eat More Meat. Washington. Feb. 22.--More was consumed In the United Statea last year than In any previous year, the Department of Agriculture, announced. The total consumption was estimated at 16,333,000,000 pounds, which amounts to 149.7 pounds per person. The per capita consumption showed an Increase of six pounds ovejr 1821 and 6% pounds over 1920, Radio Concert Heard Overseas. London, Feb. 26.--a concert radlOphoned from Newark, N. J., was heard in Brighton and in Paris. This Is the first time a complete concert has been sent across tha Atlantic through the radio. <a Russia Warns of War Soon. Moscow, Feb. 26.--'Karl Radek, chief of the Russian press bureau, in addressing decorate# -soldiers, warned that Europe feces a prospect of war or revolution- within the aaxt fair months and that Russia is ready. Rejects Paefcor Merger Qn§|, -. Wftaijton, Feb. £4.--A demand "in r;" the form of a resolution asking a fed- £ eral trade commission Investigation of v•'< a proposed Armour and Morris mer- >•*a« tabled by tha house agrlcul- Mediation by U. 8. Welcome. Constantinople, Feb. 24.--Although mediation In the Near East by tha League of Nations is barred by Turkey, It is declared by Turkish ottlciais that such mediation by the United States would be welcomed. Tied Up by Dry Prosecution. Washington, Feb. 24.--Forty-four per cent of the time of the U. S. district attorneys is devoted to prohibition enforcement, John D. Harris, budget officer of the Department of Justice, told kgym anaronrlatlflM ftfynmliiaft ARMERS FORM NEW UI)I0N Northwest "Producers' Alliance," Modeled on Nonpartisan League, la FormML Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 28.--With A. C. Towuley, founder of the Nonpartisan league, as Its leader, a nationwide combination of farmers has been organized to control production in agriculture and to, stabilize prices. The organization is called the National Producers' alliance, and 75 farmers frort Northwest states have formed It. The Nonpartisan league's plan of organization is largely to be followed. Mrs. Elizabeth D. Barnard teas been appointed ppstmaster of Tampa, Fla., at a salary of $6,000 a year. She is the only woman among eight postmasters who receive this salary. U. S. MARKET REPORT Weekly Marketgram by Bureau • of Agricultural Economics. Weshinstoa.--For the week ending February a-UVB STOCK--Chlc*s» prtoee: Hogs, top, 98.40; bulk of salee. ufeMI; medium and coed beef steers, IKMK.N; butcher cows and belter*, ft.4O0Rjf; tead> er steers, I6.75«t.«' liabt and /medium weight v«al calves, Cat lambe, tu.ooeu.26; feeding Umb% jnlMOfitM: yearilnss. |9.«)©U.I0; fat ewSe, GRAIN--Chicago cash market: No. I red winter wheat, tl.»7; No. I hard winter wheat, $1.21; No. t mixed corn, 74c; No. I yellow corn, 76c; No. t white oats, 46c. Average farm prices: No. 2 mixed corn In central Iowa, Clc; No. S hard winter wheat in central Ksnsss, ILOC; No. 1 dark northern wheat ta central North Dakota, 11.01 HAT--No. t tffeotfcr. HS.00 Cincinnati, m Chicago* Minneapolis; No. 1 prairie, 9M Minneapolis. FK15I>-S«i*r. 4«J»; -tttddliRSfc $27.00; flour mlddllnga, |0.6O; rye^IBHMUncs, 126.60; gluten feed, ftt.68 CVfaso; white hominy feed, tMMtt fit. Louis. $tl.OO ChW 'caso; M per cent linseed meal, t^l.00 Ifinlisftpolif. FRUITS AND VBOKTABLBS-fladttSd white potatoes, $1.86@1.60 par 1M In city markets, 96c®*105 f. o. b.; northern sacked round whites mostly $1.00 jOl.lS in midwestern markets, 60@70c f. o. b.; Middle-western yellow onions, $2.60 £00 per 100-lb. sa6k in leadfoa markets, ldwln apples mostly $4.7696.16 per bbl., SA««U0 In Chleaco, $4.IKH.60 f. o. b.; northweetern extra fancy boxed winssaps, tt.J6Ct.IO In leading cities. Florida panted tjrpe cabbage, $2.75©8.00 per 1% bu. haihper: Danish, $40.00000.00; northern stock, '$60.00600.00 In Chicago and St. Louis. Texas Savoy spinach mostly $L00Ol-2& P«r bu. basket DAIRY PRODUCTS-Butter, 92 score, tic Chicago. Cheese prices at WiS6ol*sh> primary markets: Twins, 24^4c; daisies, 24^4«; double daisies, 24c; young Amsricas^ S6o; longhorna. M%e; squsre prints, 16a FIRE INTO GERMAN CitOWD .MRS. MARY LOGAN IS DEAD Widow of Fsmous Illinois General \ Passes Away at Her Wdsh- ^ Ington Home. Washington,' Feb. 28.--Mrs. Jolm A. Logan, widow of General Logan, and one of the rapidly passing little group of women who distinguished themselves by their work for the Union cause during the Civil war, died at her home here following an attack of intluensa which developed iato pneum o n i a . , '^ • U '.li,.', „ ! ' Franch 8oldlers Kill One . 'iWaund Two Others Whdf-". Hoot Them. . Bochnm, Feb. 28.--Two French, soldiers fired point blank Into a crowd pf Germans in front of the law courts, killing one man and severely wounding two others. The trouble occurred while French troops, with tanks, were occupying the law courts building and the neighboring prison on suspicion that certain Frenchmen had been incarcerated as spies. Bystanders hooted the soldiers, who fired. NAB IRISH REBEL TREASURER Free State Forces Capture John O'Connell and $200,000 Ptm4 Near Tralee. 9. Dublin, Feb. 38.--Free State forces captured John D. O'Connell, treasurer of the Irregulars, near Tralee with $200,000 and several Important* documents. Poland Appsals |o Lesgus. Warsaw, Feb. 26.--In a note to th* League of Nationtr Poland asks that Lithuania receive all possible punishment, Including exclusion from the league, for her alleged aggression in the neutral district of Vllna. England Miserable, Says Schwah. London, Feb. 20. -- Charles M. Schwah, before leaving for tlje Klvlera. said England Is miserable. "The thousands of unemployed who shuttle along the streets seem almost hopeless," said the steel magnate. British Prince Operated On. * London. Feb., 23.--Prince Qeorge, youngest son of King George, was operated on for removal of tbe small foe from each foot. Hammer toes have Inconvenienced him In performiipce of naval duties and In dancing. Philippine Ssnats for Suffrage. Manila, Feb. 23.--A woman's suffrage bill was passed unanimously by the senate and now goes to the house. The measure will take effect If the Fliiplnlo women by referendum decide Mwt tbe* Mat ttt franrhlsaL 30 MINE RIOTERS CONFESS Participants In -West Virginia Riots Get Three Yilre on Guilty ,-Ptea. ' v* .-», - W^lsburg. W. Va., FeK &*-->Thirty men pleaded guilty to participation In the West Virginia mine riots In July, thus bringing the total of men who have been found guilty to 47, all now In the bands of the West Virginia authorities. Each of the thirty was sentenced to serve three years In dm state penitentiary. B0CHUM UNDER MARTIAL LAW but tion of; ptvlHan Outbreaks in Ruhr City Bring Military Rule, Berlin Reporta. Berlin, Feb. 24.--Disturbances, which resulted In tbe firing upon citizens by French soldiers, have resulted In martial law being declared In Bochum, says a dispatch to the Central News. Any further outbreak by the populace will be followed by even more severe measures. Undsrwood f nds Work aa Leader. Washington, Feb. 24.--Senator Underwood of Alabama, accompanied by Mrs. Dnderwood, has left here for a four-months' tour, and thus practically ends bis service as Democraac floor leader. British Exports to U. S. Steady. London, Feb. 24.--Despite th® Fordney tariff bill, British exports to tbe United States on the whole are remaining steady. In textiles the American purchases hefa have greatly Increased recently. <**r:th Six Die In Gratfon (III.) Blast. Alton, Hi., Feb. 23.--A tremendous explosion at tbe Illinois Powder company's plant near Grafton, ill., 16 miles from here, killed six or eight man, it is reported. The company's main product Is dynamite. ^ ' •- A. ^ ^A J.-9. Edge Oppoeee Economic Pariey. Washington, Feb. 23.--Senator Edge (Rep., N. J.), who has Just returned from a trip to Esrepe, expressed opposition to any step by the United States toward calling as international economic common*^ •*. • rt Thirty Years of Forgetful Atoned For by Real Paid to Her M I read -in a newspaper the other day a brief notice of the death, in the New England city where I spent my boyhood, of a wenuM* whom I shall call Miss Roblijgea^ Since that waa not her name, wwfa* A. Dyer writes In Collier's Weekly."' .1.. her--I suppose I hac^J thought of her--for thirty Yet there was a time an and I came In dai^- each other, and I saw m ntiadl tt think, as any member family. And as I read the modest it came over me that In her I had sinned against thCafirifeilest standards of kindness and frtttftude. For I (*an realize now that in those long-vanished days I was the cause of bringing some shad<ma~ into her IJfe. If I brought also aome little sunshine. It was not beqituja I intended to do so, but because she had the grace to find It. There were times, I fear, when I made life about as hard for her as I could without suffering serious consequences. And 1 have let these wiser years slip by without an attempt at reparation. She was not an angel; (the waa human. And we--I think we were little barbarians. Sometimes when she tried to brighten things up a bit we said she was silly. There were mornings when we said she was cross; very likely she was. Who is never cross? On the whole, I believe we liked her, but not for woflds would we have let her know it t like her now, hut It la too late for' her to kpow. • / I have allowed myself to forget many things that I should have remembered, but I can recall vividly enough just how Miss Hoblnson looked as she sat at her desk and opened the morning session with the simple religious exercises that were then in vogue. Her sincerity showed itself there. And I can still see ber as she arose and came down to stand In front of her desk, her brow puckered with earnestness in her effort to make us understand. She was a good teacher, 1 think. That is, she was conscientious and Intelligent and eager to have us learn, and I don't know, that any teacher can be much more than that I wonder what she got out of It all. wonder what were her compensations for the nerve-racking strain of keeping order among thirty boys and girls bent on mischief. Tbe salaries paid to public-school teachers are not large today; they were much less thirty years ago. And I think I knew that she was supporting her mother with her slender income. I wonder If there were some few pupils--among the girls, perhaps--who repaid her in some measure for her labors by some conscious or unconscious response of mind or affections, r hope that others hav^ proved themselves less forgetful and less ungrateful than I. • I do not so tnuch blame that young pagan who whispered and snickered and threw Bpithalls and rattled the windows and brought toads and snuff into school. His was but a halfawakened conscience. He wrought after the manner of his kind. He had not looked into human hearts to know them. The person I blame Is the so-called Christian gentleman, twenty, twenty-five, thirty years later, who had walked out of that schoolroom with never a regretful backward glance, and then forgot his teacher. He should have known better. I wish it might be that her sacrifice could be turned to some other's gain, that this confession of mine, these words of belated appreciation, might quicken the memory of some other' teacher's pupils, mighjt stir In their hearts the thing that has stirred in mine too late. Teacher, with the earnest frown and the nervous little smile, I am sorry. I am sorry for the mischief did #5 long ago, when you were thirty and I was ten. I am sorry for those innumerable acts of mine that added tp- your full measure of burdens and worries. I am sorrier still for my thirty-odd years of silence. But If I know you as I think I do, I brieve you #ill not withhold forglvetvould not lay a flower now on your grave If I could, since I lost my chance to send a rose to tbe living; shame would forbid. I can only hope that you found others kinder than I, and that before you lay down for your final rest, some of those things for which you hungered--whatever tbey were--came Into your Ufa to raerard yqp. * •' •' Washing Railroad Cars. Specially adapted for washing railway cars while they are in motion, a machine, described in Popular Mechanics Magazine, Is constructed with a long vertical rotating brush, and on each side of it radially swinging squeegees, all arranged so that they move automatically out of the way of protruding parts on the £ar sides. One of these washers stands on each side of the i&ilWtjr track, and, when the train approaches, the operator depresses a le*tc, handle and the brush and immediately come into contafetr With the car side and windows. 49*4 brush Is rotated by an electric motor, and a cleansing rfiuld is discharged Into the brush, followed by jets of fresh water. Tbla lss then wiped off By the squeegees. Franklin's Pinee in History. In sheer Intellectual power, Benjamin Franklin IprimKbly ranked foremost among the men of the Revolution, and was one of the most manysided men of all history. He was a companion of sal^ats and a favorite of courtiers, bot ftiaugb H all he remained an Amarlcftn of the good haste type, and his life, like his works, is a lesson in Americanism.--Hx dy#B6»~'. ,, V:* •••?*£%< ^ i. itruGtfOfu ndltt ment Cloverhonor Appropriations Body V«tej| jt* Repommend ftrtJatably ^|Mrni^;' ||ii«sraKa,-' RMpiaat for Aftliaawaa . flaii Prebfeme Bcfoft teglilatui*. - Springfiel d.--Reapproprlation of tha fgSyflft&OOO balance in the $00,000,000 BWkl bond fund for highway constructite, 4pring the next two years was 1 qpHiijfrajiHiq by the house appropriations coxnmlttee. The bill has passed Frank T. Sheets,'Ifrfe TrtEirfpifr»fl i. ent of highways, afpaaiMtSNftH); thjr committee. In response. !© qtf&stiont he said that 1,650 mile# of the 4,800 trunk line system authorized by the $60,000,000 bond issue act have been completed the last two years.; that there are outstanding contracts a®ountlng to miMpt W.' 000j0<» in addition to the *00^0^60 hotuM and appr«nt|BM|i|r fSfyWOfiQO In eurfmat automobile license fees will* be required to complete the 4,800-mile system. In otter words, it will require an is-? "vgjfi8* sue of 190^00,000 • in bonds instead of? $60,000,000 to complete the trunk system. _ The committee's favorable recommendation was the last act ofthe general assembly before taking a .yaaap pntll March 6 over the munlcl|Mll primaries next week. Bill Gives Brundage Miilloiw Over protest by Representatiya Arthur Roe, Democrat, of Van&illa. the house appropriations committee voted to recommend favorably Attorney General Brundage's request for ati allowance of $1,037,240 for the operation of his office for the next biennlum. Representative Roe asked that ac tion be deferred until the house con vanes, March 6, to affoctj tlme in whict to study the detailed afyeiitlsai of ex penditures by (he fittortw^f g»«eral in the last four years. Steam and electrically operated short haul transportation, lines ace rapidly giving way to motorbus lines, and will be nonexistent within ten years, Senator Harold C. Kessinger at gued In support of his resolution ask lng investigation into the state's trans porta tion conditions. State Police Bill Doomed. . Chances of a state police bill Mhl passed by the Fifty-third general assembly appeared to be gloomy, following the hearing on Senator Dunlap's bill staged by the seiate committee on military affairs. From the fi&ture of the questions asked and the attitude of both senators and house members, who participated in the hearing. It seemed that there Is much powerful opposition to the measure in tbe general assembly. Charges were made that such a force would be used as a political machine ; that it would be a strike-breaking agency, and arguments of this nature heard in two previous sessions were hurled at tbe measure. There appeared to be no real strong, vigorous advocacy of the bill to cope with the well-organized opposition. Fall to Show Need for Organization. One of the strong claims for the bill was that farmers want it -One man, claiming to live on a farm, did talk for It Representatives of the Illinois Manufacturers' association and the Illinois Bankers' association spoke In favor of the bill, but after all was said* and done, the sentiment prevailed that the senators and representatives had not been Impressed that such an organization really 4s needed 4n Illinois at this time. Governor SH&aiTS proposal for an additional (100^)00,000 hard road bond Issue received some severe jolts from leaders of the legislature. Including Speaker Shanahan. Republicans and Democrats joined J&nds in denouncing the governor fair "political propaganda." In the lobbies the sentiment is for completion of the original 4,800-mile trunk Une system laid out under the $60,000,000 bond issue act before any further play in the game of road politics. The Schnackenberg resolution, creating a committee of ten to present a plan for reapportionment of the state Into new senatorial districts, was reported back to the house w'thout recommendation by the judiciary committee. The attempt to pass the tax commission bill to substitute a state board for county boards of review, and thus centralize the taxation control of the state, has bean abandoned by Governor Small, It Is authoritatively stated. anc wn, countfv nor refused to requj^Rkjgf from the governor of KeKn* y«ilifof mi.. t.ols fliti 11^^ a fijgitive to Hur«|dft» . laiaq4- Ji$|g in tlie Ohio &&&&£?*££ st&tes. Stockton.--Worry over his Indictment by the grand £ugr on the chargi of looting UjMiiiiae cars of thy Chicago Great:Railroad com* pany, by W :*#bs employed, la believed to have been the cause of tha suicide of Frank Milter, fifty, who shot JxiiBWtt.tHFough the head in his hom# ,f||* Wife was preparing brea^ffhat )DD«r and five others were being for alleged pillaging merqfrimdtee cars. - An average of one oat w every eighty persons Ivlng here baa attained the age of eighty years or more, a census just completed. Tfp^are 26 persons 11 v top here that afai^lghty years of age or mare. Sl^ jaB^ons are more thatt years oW. William P. Brooks :^IIF:Sanety-fo*: J?aars of age and Is the- Mist resUUlfe and Mrs. Mary fiL 'njifce is t|Ml tolaest woman with nlB»> tfijfferee yaasr ttt her credit Rockford.--A resolution adopted b)r the Winnebago county board of an* pervlsors, urging the state law amended so that counties having a population of 50,000 or more, have permanent, full-time assessors, baa been forwarded to the stat# legislature. It is claimed by its advocate* that nadir the present law ti« aaaeasot daa^not devote 1Uc entire time, to the dfflce, that be la poorly paid, ant* that faulty ass rya ants are a result. Plana.--Fatal skt^Slg of Homer At* by Cleawr Hogan is puzzling les. It is alleged that = ha4*fbeen warned to keep '"V? Ml Around the Hate irt&rtn.^-At a meeting here nf 'fhi state council of admlnstratlon, the annual encampment.of the Grand Army of the Republic, department of Illinois, was set for June 18:22, In Peoria. The Sons of Veterans, Woman's Relief cerpa and other allied organize ttona wfll Hold their annual gathering here at the same time. Rockford.--I<esa than an hour after he had met ber, Henry Bride, farmer, was united, in marriage here to Miss Hazel WeatCott of New York city. Springfield. -- Illinois raised five times as much for war purposes last year as It raised for education by both state and local taxation, according to figures on educational conditions In the state compiled by Gertrude C. Lleber of tha Illinois educational commission. Pekin.--Altar veasela and other ar> tides to the value of $800 were taken by thieves who broke ftkto St. PaaTs Bpiscopnl church heva a*td tnad« mmsoCcfeaBful attempts to BfllUge other ies tn this vicinity. Many of the away-; had meet sisted In her, Hogan bed, Atwi reason of Bloomin; have take^ ment for ijga sion fund home, where h» In the effort to When he par* bis attentions upoai him. On his death that this was tlMr af * thfa cKjf!' fn a mon- (n the state penhave petitioned legisftatora from the district to briny the matter to the attention of the general aHMibly. The police are now «t-~ lowed thrafriii&ths of a mill on Otadollar for fund, but U la declared twice that amount Is needed to ade$£ately care for pensioners. - Rodtf^Cd.--A martyr to public service, tfr. $larcoutt :WUlls, for"^ years a phifrjjnobn at Wltftag, is dead. During the worst "fin" <pE»MDSic, that ilk 1918, he gave so much of his services, time and strength that lie had never recovered. He was born In Chicago,. May 22, 1872, and spent his early life there and In Denver. He graduated from Rush Medical college in 1900. ^ Galesbtirg.--Creating of a sanitary district in Gaiesburg as« means of ending the Cedar Ford open sewer nuisance Is probable ns a result of a mass meeting of associated organizations. Committees were appointed to secure date on how other Illinois cities have solved similar problems. Quincy.--Mr. and Mrs. John R. Little celebrated the seventieth annlvar>» eary of th«4f wedding. They were married In 1" 1 iji i| TijlfrpiN ri February 22, 1853, and cadw|^i^^||ois Immediately after the ceremony, ' traveling ovp» land. • . Dixon.--Jacob B.: Wagner, abctf»- wealthy rettiert «M«pia» of Ashton, waa killed at Mfte Northwestern Ovarland he stepped from behind a freight train directly tak front of the swiftly moving passenger train. Galena.--Fire of origin undetw^ mined destroyed a small hospital at the Jo Daviess cotmty home here, entailing a loss of about $15,000. Fta* patients who were In tbe hospital at the time were taken out safely. Pana.--Miners In the Peabody mine at Tovey reported that for three months they have had as a pet 100 feet down in the earth an English sparrow* whose presence there has never been explained. Belleville.--Leroy Holllns, twentyeight, and Ernest Williams, twentythree, negroes, of East St. Louis w» hanged here for the murder of Aiphonse de Hon. Rockford.--A man found dead at Freeport, supposedly fLUBGU, was taken to the morgue. He was-identified ae Thomas Kane, flfty-njne. He leaven two sisters. * Granite City.--The discovery of ft, high grade oil well four miles northeaat of here was annouaeed. Danville.--The greatest number of lndlctmehts ever returned by a V«f mlllon county gmnA^lory were voted by the body, whi(jb fcM just adjourne«|. after five weeks, of ^vestigation. It was also a record breaker for length of time. Four hfn4»ed and nlnelndlctments were returned. Springfl law, provi ?loyees' voting .employees shall hare time Wt ^t(|^$ny' for voting, was declared unconstlBipMal by the State Supreme court, fc; case of People against the Chicagos Milwaukee & JR. Paul railroad. • tr Springfleld.--The executive board the Illinois State Federutoon of Lfbor, In a report subm^$|&btre, 111 wiiiiljaflB that convicts In the state penfteftSaiy should be taught some useful trade while In prison^ and should be paid for their labor so they, could assist in sepporting their depmAents. Joiiet.--At a msntfag of the recenHy organized Will oodllty chapter of tho Izaak Walton lUklib officers were elected as follows: President, G. D. Webb; vice preeldiatf, Thomas Gullford ; secretary, Wn» J. Stephen"