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"News ^uggets From Illinois •..••"'^Clinton.--"Never again," 1b the senitteuent of the Clinton Rotary and Klwanls clubs, who brought 25 boys fixmi the Chicago stock yards district to the Y. M. C. A. summer camp near ' CHntc.n for a two weeks' stay. Difficulty in maintaining camp discipline is snid to have discouraged the clubtoen. »Mount Vernon.--T« eive persons were victims of ptomaine poison in Farrington township, 12 miles east of "Mount Vernon, after eating home-made "tec cream. Two physicians and four nurses worked diligently -to save the" Victims. They were stricken a half hour after eating the cream. v jftock Island.--A movement is under (iWly to equip every physician's automobile with a police siren horn, and it is probable in the near future an • ordinance will be introduced In the city, council asking legislation tp that ; effect. . :> CTrbana.--Three Women's League cooperative houses for coeds attending the University of Illinois will be main- - .tained at Urbana this year. The three bouses will accommodate 33 girls, who, iy doing their own housework and • icboking, ninv live on $25 per month. 31en(iota.--Injured when a section the seats in the stand gave way during the races here; a year ago, Fred Huiidt, Frank llolsinger and August Huffman have filed suit for $10,000 against the^Mendota Harness Racing and Fair association. Harrisburg.--Dr. Alonzo B. Capel of Shawneetowa, widely known physician and surgeon, died as the result of injuries received when an auftmiobile in which he was riding crashed into a •. ditch. Four others in the car were injured. """" Effingham,--Sheriff Matt Faber -sued the Illinois Central Railroad company for 20 cents. A representative of the company appeared before the justice court and paid the 20 cents and costs, amounting to S3.G0. The trouble arose over a cash fare.charged the sheriff. Quincy.--The new $5,000,000 Inland Waterways corporation, headed by Brig. Gen. G. Q. Ashburn, undersecretar. v of war, will control the Mississippi- Warrior service. Barge and tow service will be in proportion to the tonnage offered., - < Paxton.--Oscar A. Swanson, prominent farmer, died in a Champaign hospital as a result of being dragged along the ground when horses hitched to a grain wagou became frightened .and ran away. Decatur.--Rural letter carriers from almost every post" office in the state ; are expected to be in attendance at tJie annual convention of the Illinois Rural Letter Carriers' association, to be held on August 1"> and 16. rfock Island.--Stiles H. Fierce of Rock Island, 'who is seventy-two years old and who has been a telegraph operator for 55 years, is believed to' hold the record of his profession for continuous service. Danville.--Charged with seizing fish Washington, D. C.--Campaign expenditures by candidates In senatorial primaries as reported to the secretary of the senate Include: Charles & Deneen (Rep., 111.), who reported $6.' i 347.03; Medlll McCormlck (Rep., 111.), $8,000.77; Newton Jenkins (Rep., Ill.)»j $6,756; Gilbert G. Ogden (Rep., I1L)»' $12; Albert A. Sprague (Dem., 111.), $2,109.80. Chicago.--When Mrs. Edward Bylina left her home to do her shop* ping she left Baby Lotty playing inno* cently with her pet dog, Trixie. An, hour later Mrs. Bylina returned and found child and dog dead. The baby had discovered a box of pills containing poison and had shared them with her dog. Jacksonville.--Mrs. Fannie Martin of Murrayvilie won first award at a picnic for being the oldest woman on the picnic- grounds having her hair "shingle-bobbed." Mrs. Martin, who Is ninety-six years of age, expressed herself as very much pleased with the present style of halrdresslng. Galeshurg.--Lena Blair, five, is In a serious condition as a result of being "hooked" by a cow in a field on her parents* farm near here. Ten stitches were required to close the wound which' the animal's horns made in the little girl's chest. Physicians say she will recover. Aurora.--Settlement for $4,000 has been made by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad company for the deaths of Mrs. Ella Quilhot, sixty-five, Sliabbona, and Mrs. Homer Quilhot, Chicago, who were killed when their car was struck by a Burlington train here. I*rbana.--Psychic research, telepathy and spiritualism are the "most glittering go'd bricks that are being offered to the public today," according to Dr. Coleman It. Griffith, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Illinois. Paris.--When Edgar county officials scanned the tax returns turned in by township assessors a startling fact was encountered." In "Young America," a district which contains two large village's and many wealthy residents, only one watch was listed. Danville.--Remnants of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Illinois volunteer infantry will hold Its fifty-first annual reunion at Lincoln park September 3, the sixty-second anniversary of the regiment's departure for the front in the Civil war. Murphysboro.--Secretary Burch of the chamber of Commerce has been assured by state highway officials that the contract for placing the slab on state road mute 13 between Murphysboro and Carboudale will, be awarded this fall. Blooinington.--With less than 3.000 new members necessary to reach their goal, Legion posts in all sections of the state are engaged In a final drive to push the membership above last year's total before the state convention in Champaign in September. Peoria.--An evangelist demonstrating how easy It is to buy liquor sent out men from a revival meeting at Peoria and they returned with a basket full of wine and alcohol, which, they claimed, they had purchased at soft-drink parlors. Chicago.--While scores of pedestrians passed by the fur shop of Paul WOMAN BROWNS HATED STEPSON Says She Wants to Die, but Dislikes Suicide; Adopt* ^ Murder Method* ,v-l " Waterloo, Iowa.--According to ft signed confession, made public, sixyear- old Nicholas ' Maharies was thrown into the Cedar river to drown by his stepmother, Mrs. Marie Maharies, because she "hated ^he boy and wished to hung for the murder/* rather than commit suicide. The authorities refused to believe Mrs. Maharies when she told them she had killed her stepson, but with the finding of Nicholas' body a charge of first-degree murder was brought against Mrs. Maharies, The county prosecutor said he would ask the death penalty. In the county Jail Mrs. Maharies maintained a stolid indifference until she was told Nicholas' body had been found. Then she consented to eat i light meal--the first in several days. She said she was "glad she had been proved truthful." The story of Nicholas* slaying as told in the confession is one of cunning. She told how her "extreme hatred* for her stepson! coupled with her wish to end her life, led her to plot the slaying of Nicholas in the hope that she would not only rid herself of him," but that she would be put to death for the crime. .She told how she had selected, after several trips to the river, a deep spot and then lured the boy there on the pretext Qhat she would allow him to go wrtding. When they reached the river Mrs. Maharies said she waded into the river twice to test the depth, and, finding a spot sufficiently deep, she lured the boy away from the bank. Then she allowed him to pass in front of her, and while she threw stones inlo the water, waited until the boy had reached a perilous position and then gave the thrust that sent hiin to liis death. MISS GILDERSLEEVK NEW ALIGNMENT Russia and China Speeding New Pact to Prevent Wars. WtiLLARD 4* MARHALE Miss Virginia Glldersleeve of New York, who was elected president of the International Federation of University Women, before the adjournment of the convention at Chrlstiania, Norway. Miss Glldersleeve Is dean of Barnard college. New York city. NEW SAYS AIR MAIL SERVICE IS SU£G€S$ Shotgun Duel Fatal to Man; 2 Women May Die Bvansviile, InJ.--One man was killed and two women may die as the result of wounds received when C. J. ."Buck" Sanders and Otto Heckler, local business men, attempted to settle a feud with double-barreled shotguns. Standing at close range. Sanders fired first, the full- charge striking Heckler in the stomach. Heckler fell, and Mrs. Heckler grabbed the shotgun and fired at Sanders, missing. Sanders then turned his own gun on Mrs. Heckler, and she fell across the body of her husband. Mrs. Myrtle Lyons, across the street, peeped out of a partly opened door and Sanders fired at her, the charge striking her in the neck. in the Vermilion river with their bare hends, Robinson and Clinton Cornelius I Kizely, shortly before ten o'clock in were fined $25. D. EL Shain of West- 7the morning, two bandits entered the ville was held for fishing with two hooks attached to a single line. Duquoin.--Rev. C. J. Eschmann of the Sabred Heart Catholic church of Centralia and former pastor of the local church has been transferred tp Waterloo. Quincy.--James M. Klrkpatrlck place, held up the proprietor and removed $11,000 worth of furs to a truck parked in the rear, and escaped Duquoin.--American Legion politics Is expected to bubble at a district meeting of the organization to be held at Dnquoin on August 17. A district committeeman will be nominated and seventy-six, and Mrs. Nancy Jane Mc- efforts will be made to agree on a can- Glassen, seventv-flve, both of the Illi- 1 didate for state commander. hols Soldiers and Sailors' home, were Not One Day Missed in 31, Despite Bad Weather, Washington.--Continuous air mall service from New York'to San Francisco is successful from every standpoint after a month of trial. Postmaster General New declared In a report here. In the 31 days starting July 1, when the new service was begun, not single day has been missed, despite bad weather, and no accident worthy of mention has taken place. * In that period the mail planes flew 173,910 miles. The average time was 39 hours 49 minutes from New York tt> San Francisco and 36 hours 21 minutes from San Francisco to New York. Of the first 20 nights of flying there were only 0 with clear weather through from Chicago to Cheyenne," according to the postmaster general's report. Most of the time the air mail pilots encountered cloudbursts, tornadoes and severe electrical storms, which proved a greater menace to aviation than more severe rain and snowstorms experienced in other seasons of the year. While the gross income from the service for the first month of its operaion Is substantially less than tba^cost of maintenance," said the postmaster general, "it would be unfair to lay too much stress upon the exact balance between income and outgo until we have had six months' intensive traffic solicitation." married. Stockton.--Rev. Leo Bin*, recently ordained priest in Rome, Italy, has re- j turned to Stockton and will be as- I signed by Bishop P. J. Muldoon In the diocese of Rockford. Woodstock. -- Marengo consolidated "school district is legal, according to a decision by, Judge Earl D. Reynolds, who held the plea of petitioners for its dissolution invalid. Paris.--Miss Ena Vandeventer, twenty- five. M Kansas Station, died of smallpox, the first death in* Edgar county In ten- years to result from that disease. Oregon.--Attorney General Edward J. Brundage is stocking his recently acquired farm with cows brought from the Island of Jersey. Elgin.--The brewery of the Elgin Ice and Beverage company Is being dismantled as directed by Judge Wilkerson. Rochelle.--George E. Stocking, an Ogle county farmer. Is experimenting In growing cotton. The crop is sturdy and It Is believed It will fully mature. Springfield.--Street cars in Stiiator will be replaced Hy, busses, under orders approved by the Illinois commerce commission. Streator.--Mrs. John Matsko, thirtyseven, mother of ten children, and her. two-year-old son were killed by lightning in the basement <»f their hou*>. Jollet.--In Will county since January 1 fines imposed for violation of the state prohibition act totaled $7,450. Taylorville.--Judson Cliilders. fortyseven, was fatally Injured when he was thrown through the windshield of an automobile. Mr. Chllders' head was shoved through the windshield'by the impact of another car, cuts fjom flying glass causing his death In 15 minutes Metropolis.--Work has begun on government dam No. 82, to be built across the Ohio river a mile and onehalf below Brookport. Galeshurg.--A small cyclone swept through McDnnough county and left a path of destruction a mile wide and > about five mll&s long. Rockford.--Rockford'* Springfield.--A rrned with sawed-off shotguns, six bandits robbed the Blue Three Killed on Way Home From Grandmother's Burial Covington, Ky.--Leaving the little cemetery at Mason, Ky., where a grandmother was burled, three of a family were killed when their automobile stalled on a railway crossing and a fast freight crashed into the machine. Mrs. Eva Johnson and- Telma, nine, her daughter, were killed Instantly. George W. Johnson, fifty-four, th<? husband, died three hours after the accident. Robert, ten, a son, suffered severe injuries; Kenneth, eleven, til's other member of the family saved his life by Jumping. employment situation is the best in the state, ac cording to Director P. T. Anderson of the Illinois free employment bureau reporting on the month of July. For every 100 Jobs listed at the city em ployment bureau only 87 made appil cation. . Chicago.--Ruth Selgl, five, and her brother Edward, seven, were found locked In each other's arms and drowned in a bathtub at their home by their mother. The children had been playing in the tub and turned on tto water. Valley Inn, near Springfield, and escaped with more than $T>,000 in cash and a quantity of diamonds and Jewelry. Rock Island.--In an effort better to enforce the traffic laws In Rock Island, 15 special traffic officers, members of the Mississippi Motor club, were sworn In by Mayor A. Rosenfield and provided with special badges. Galeshurg.--John W. Adams of Fargo, N. I>., has been selected as the new general secretary of the Y. M- C. A., It has been announced. H6 wa? formerly connected with the Wilson avenue "Y" in Chicago. Decatur.--A system of combined bus lines ana street cars will be tried as the result of an authorization recently granted by the Illinois-commerce commission. Bus lines will be run as feeders to the car lines. Rockford.--Alleging her husband, Joseph Joranson, died at Wilgus sanitarium as a result of ill treatment, Mrs. Sophie Joranson has brought suit against Dr. Sidney Wilgus for $10,000. Danville.--Perrysville mill, near Danville, built during the Civil war, as destroyed by fire, the loss approximating $18,000. Papa.--After passing an ordinance legalizing Sunday movies one week ago, the city council repealed the ordinance. Tuscola.--Five rohbers entered the First National bank and escaped with $8,000. Chicago.--Revenue from vehicles In hlcago during the first seven months of 1924 exceeds the revenue for the same period a year ago by $450,000, according to Thonjas P. Keane, city tax collector. Vehicle taxes collected up to August 1 amounted to $3,471,- 210. % Mount Carroll.--Charging conspiracy to Injure Its business by boycott of the Carroll County Telephone com? pany, suit has been brought against Willis Stage, Joseph Melendy. Franl* Brown and Hiram Green, demanding $10,000. Peoria.--Assistant Chief of Police Dave O'Brien of Canton was killed and \ Chief of Police VV. H. Roy was probably fatally wounded at Canton by an unidentified bandit who was killed In the battle by Assistant Chief O'Brien. DeKalb.--Prof. Jewell Darrell Gilbert, teacher of physiology of the Northern Illinois State Teachers' college. died suddenly at his summer home at Bass Lake, Mich. Marion.--The First Christian church of Marion haB extended a unanimous \ call to Rev. Wallace Bacon of Dee I Moinea. Iowa! ' Berlin Has SO Per Cent Crime Increctse in Year Berlin.--A 50 per cent increase in crime in Berlin is shown in official statlst'cs for last year. The German police department dealt with 100(100 cases during this period, about onehalf of which were theft cases. About 26,000 persons were arrested, of whom more than 10,000 persons were held for trial. 41 Killed, 3,100 Houses Fall in Turkestan Quake Moscow. -- Forty-one persons are dead and 3,100 houses destroyed in consequence of an earthquake in the province of Ferghana, Turkestan, ac cording to the Rosta agency, official Bolshevik news disseminating organ ization. Twelve hundred houses also were damaged by. landslides In the Ferghana mountains. Taxes Take Farm Owners' Revenue, U. S. Report Washington.--Taxes have absorbed a large part of income from the rent of farms in many parts of the United States, and in some less-favored districts have taken the entire income, the Department of Agriculture declares. I^ocal rather than federal and state taxes a^e held responsible for tlie situation. In most counties taxes are levied chiefly far the support of schools and public highways. Taxes In recent years have greatly Increased, while rents have shown a downward tendency. Rich Cincinnati Klansman Kidnaped, Stripped Naked Cincinnati, Ohio.--Theodore Heck, Jr., thirty-six, son of the millionaire owner of the Heck company, furniture dealers of this city, and a reputed member of the Kn Klux Klan, was kidnaped by several men and a woman driving a large car with curtains closed. Heck was later found, stripped of his clothes, on a downtown business corner and was taken Into a family hotel by strangers. - Peking.--A new and powerful alignment of nations--Japan, China and Russla-r-iB arising in the Orient. The prime mover in the new line-up is Kenkichi Yoshlzawa, Japanese minister to Peking, who has just returned from a visit to the island of Sakhalin and also to Mukden. At Mukden he conferred with Chang Tso-Lln, the Mancburian war lord. Mr. Yoshlzawa is negotiating with M. Kadaklian, the Soviet representative in the Far East, regarding the resumption of diplomatic relations between Russia and Japan. Japan is making the greatest concessions In order to make the new line-up a success. It asks a comparatively small share In th£ stakes beyond an equul division of the trade advantages in northern Manchuria coupled with access to the oil deposits In Sakhalin island. What Japan desires most Is an assurance that It will have friendly or neutral nations on the continent, thus enabling it to faeo its fancied enemy to the east. Premier Kato and other leaders have not hesitated to express their deen resentment over the An erlcan Immigration legislation, and they see in the continued American .possession of the Philippines a menace to the oil routes from Borneo and other districts. Without these oil sources Japan's fleet would be closely bound to .Its coasts unless huge oil stores were amassed. Russia realizes that !f has little In common with Japan, but the -uppermost desire of the Soviet la peace on all frontiers. Hence It Is willing to abandon Its former Idea of buffer states and also to «o-opehite with Japan for the development of Manchuria. China desires peace with Its neighbors, hence It Is encouarging both parties to reach, an ngreement which includes, among other things, Japanese rights to river navigation and through1 trains from Darien to Harbin, where the political difficulties over the Chinese Eastern railway are removed by Its becoming a Sino-Russlan enterprise. © yiie-nocJ t . LUdt: isod Wlllard A. Marhale, who has jaat been elected the supreme director of the Loyaf Order of Moose, " MARKET QUOTATIONS BY V. S. GOVERNMENT Washington;--For the week ended August 8. -- LIVE STOCK--Chicago prices: Hogs. $10.35 for the top and $9.00 @10.20 for the bulk. Medium and good beef steers, *7.00@10.40; batcher cows and heifers. J3.75«j> 10.00; feeder steers, $4.50@8.25; light and medium weight veal calves, $8.25 @ 11.25. Fat lambs, $11.50 ® 13.91K feeding lambs, $11.00® 13.00; yearlings, $8.76©11.75; fat ewes, $4.00 @8.00. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES--Kan* sat* and Missouri potatoes. $ 1.35 Q1-50 carlot sales In Chicago. Qeorgia El- Derta peaches, $1.75 @2.25 per bushel basket and six-basket carrier In consuming centers. I'urlock section California salmon tint cantaloupes, standard 45's. J4.00@4.25 in mldwestern cities. Georgia and South Carolina Tom Watson watermelons, 22@26-lb. average, $175.00@300.00 bulk per car In city markets; 24@30-lb. stock, $125.00@276.00 t. o. b. Macon., Ga. HAY--No. 1 timothy (new), $16.50 Cincinnati, $21.00 St. Louts; No. 1 prairie, $15.00 Minneapolis, $18.00 Chicago, 916.00 St. Louis. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Butter, 92 score. 96 ^4c Chicago. Cheese at Wisconsin primary markets: Flats, 19Mic; twins, 19c; Cheddars. 19c; single daisies, l9^4c; double daisies, 19 %c; square prints, young Americas and longhorns, 19 Vie. GRAIN--No. 1 dark northern spring wheat, $1.34@1.55 Minneapolis; No. 2 'hard winter wheat. $1.28% @1.29% Chicago, $1.26® 1.27 St. Louis; N. 2 red winter wheat, $1.30 Chicago, $1.39@1.40 St.Louis; No. 2 mixed corn, $1.14@1.15 Chicago; No. 2 yellow corn. $1.15% Chicago, $1.10% Minneapolis; No. 3 yellow corn, $1.14 St. Louis, $1.08% Minneapolis; No. 3 white corn, $1.14 St. Louis; No. 3 white oats, 54<§>54%c Chicago, 48% f|>49c Minneapolis. 53®53%« 4K* Louis. 45 Million Pounds Powder Burn; $28,000,000 Loss Nashville, Tenn.--Forty-five million pounds of powder, manufactured for the federal government during the war tjt a cost of approximately $22,500,000, was destroyed by tire at the Old Hickory powder plant near here. Machinery and Imihlihgs which cost more than $5,Q00,000 were destroyed by the flames, which swept over an area of the pro|>erty destroyed was estimated at more than $28,000,000. Fifty factory buildings were consumed. There was no explosion, and no one ivas severely Injured." * 2 M. A. C. Students Found Drowned on Michigan Beach Benton Harbor, Mich.--Discovery of the bodies of D. Hrockway, twentytwo, and Jay Slaughter, nineteen, on the Luke Miehigun beach at Bridgeman, Mich., brought the total drownings this season in Berrien county to sev?n. Brockway lost his life in an attempt to save Slaughter. Both are from Michigan Agricultural college. Tommy Gibbons Ruins a British Ring Hope London.--It took Tommy Gibbons, the American pugilist, just six minutes and forty-five seconds to knock out Jack Bloomfield, the British ring hope, in their scheduled 20-round bout In London. The Englishman, outweighing and outreaching Gibbons, is the handsomest champion Europe has produced in late years, barring, perhaps, Georgia Carpentier. He lacked nothing except ability to hit Gibbons and prevent Gibbons from hitting him. Gov. Smith Calls Out N. Y. Guard on Defense Day Albany, N. Y.--Governor Smith ha# Instructed the National Guard of New York to participate in the tests prescribed by the War department on September 12 and called upon citizens to gather at their usual places of worship to give thanks for the nation's peace and security. £/. S.^Forecasts Estimate , of Grain Crop Productions Washington.--Most of the country's crops improved substantially during July, and production prospects at the beginning of this month were considerably better than a month ago. The crop-reporting board of the Department of Agriculture issued forecasts for the principal crops, basing its calculations on the condition on August 1. The farm valuation of the live principal crops, wheat, corn, oats, rye and barley, as of August 1, Is estimated at $1,276,443,000, compared with $1,109,- 256,000 received by the farmers in 1928, an increase of $167492^000 the month. " "\ • N. Y. Bankers Tell Plan of Huge Rail Merger New York.--Semi-official announcement was made by bankers of the proposed consolidation of the Nickel Plate, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Hocking Valley, the Pere Marquette, and the Erie into a single railroad system, with total ^assets of $1,500,- 000,000, and a total trackage of 14,- 357 miles. This undertaking, the largest merger under the transportation act of 1920, is being engineered |>y the Van Sweringen interests ot Cleveland, supported by the First National bank and J. P. Morgan & Co. Henry Ford Made a Candidate in Senate Race Lansing, Mich.--llcnry Ford, six years ago a Democratic candidate for United States senator and now an involuntary candidate for the Republican nomination for the same ofllce, has ten days In which to eliminate himself from the lists in the state-wide primary of September 9. Illinois Continue• Bonus Springfield, III.--Illinois continues to pay soldier bonus claims at a lively rate, and $48,380,000 has been forwarded by check to those who served in the World war. The high claim number approved Is 269,971. President Coolidge to Rest 10 Days in Vermont Washington. -- Satisfied with die progress ot° the Republican campaign. President Coolidge bus decided to take a vacation of ten or twelve days shortly after the formal notification exercises, August 14. Mr. Coolidge pirns to go to his father's home at Plymouth, Vt., following a custom of many years, with Mrs. Coolidge and their son, JopL Want a Buffalo for Pet? Ask Interior Department Washington.--An ofTer of a buffalo free of cost to anyone who will pay the freight was made by the Interior department. The herd In Yellowstone National park has growa so fast that now It numbers 730. The range has become inadequate and feed has become a problem. City Made Co-Retpondmk - Cleveland, Ohio.--Jhia city is named co-respondent In a ^ divorce suit filed by Mrs. Elise Burnell against John It. Burnell. She declares city employment has unfitted mm as a fiusband. Six Negroes Die in Crash Buckeye Lake, Ohio.--While 500 negroes were dancing at the pavilion here at ni&ht the southwest end crashed Into the water below, killing six negroes and seriously injuring six others. . Illinois Man 102 Freeport, 111.--August Rhode, born In Prussia August 10, 1822, celebrated his^ one hundred and second birthday anniversary at St. Joseph's Home for the Aged, where he has lived for many years. He has been married thrice. U. S. Missionaries in Japan Cable Defense Day Protest Honolulu.--A cable from Tokyo to the newspaper Jiji suys American missionaries at Kobe. Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan, aro cabling President Coolidge, protesting aguinst the defense test, which, they say, would cause a misunderstanding In Japan. Senator Shields Beaten Nashville, Tenn.--Gen. L. D. Tyson of Knoxville defeated Senator John K. Shields for the Democratic senatorial nomination In the primary by 14,000 votes. Gov. Austin Peay's plurality for renomlnatlon was 52,181. Lightning Kills Woman Kewanee, 111.--Mrs. Marvin Morey, twenty-three, wife of a farmer here, was killed when a bolt of lightning struck a tree as she passed under it on horseback. Her mount was killed. Chinese Villages Suffer Peking.--Hundreds of villages in northern China have been inundated by floods which have swept on to the lowlands, under the urge of weeks of cxcesUve raUp, r Flbods in Formosa Tokyo.--Seventy-three persons ate known to be dead and fifty-seven missing as a result of the overflowing of the Tamsul river In northern Formosa, according to advices received here. Approximately 40,000 homes were ruined. Col. H. O. S. Hiestand Dead Washington.--Col. Henry O. S. Hiestand, sixty-four, U. S. A., retired, formerly stationed at Chicago as adjutant general of the Central department, **» tow** iMf*. Three Women Die in Fire Mansfield, Ohio.--Three women are dead and several are believed to be missing, following the destruction by fire of sleeping quarters at the Richland county Infirmary near Mansfield. Bans Disabled Soldiers* League Washington.--The National Disabled Soldiers' league has come under the ban of the Veterans' bureau because It has failed to prove to the bureau that It has to do with the ngief of disabled soldiers. " Sixteen Forty-G allon Stills Seized Near Gary Gary, Ind.--Sixteen complete stills averaging 40 gallons capacity, believed to have furnished the liquor supply for Giry and other nearby cities, were consscated by police on the outskirts of Gary. The stills were found in five locations In a dense thicket and are said to be owned by an organized liquor ring. Sam Hovelcik, captured after a two-mile chajse, was the only one arrested. Several hundred 50-gallon barrels of mash were destroyed when police set fire to the distilleries. Two Wisconsin Tornadoes Kill Five Persons; 12 Hurt Eau Claire, Wis.--Three persons are known to be dead, at least a score Injured, and scores of homes and farm buildings were wrecked in two tornadoes which swept portions of threo counties in central eastern Wfsconsla early Thursday night. The dead are Julius Baglien, sixteen, near Osseo; Percy Walter of Bloomer, Richard Secora, nineteen, near New Auburn, and Alice Garwin, three, and George Nash of Black River Falls. Hts Klan, Republican Part$^! , and Denies Wall Street;; r' in Speech. Clarksburg, W. Va.--John W."DavSw Democratic nominee for President of the United States, accepted the designation of his party here in a speectk which1 indicted the Republican party for corruption in office. • Mr. Davis revived the League of Nat tions Issue, dragging in by the he<4s the Madison Square garden platform declaration for a referendum on tfM» subject, waxed eloquent in denuncHfc* tion of the Ku Klux Klan without men- > tionlng the organization by name, and pledged himself to administer a jugt government if elected. The Democratic nominee was "40? plicit in making alleged corruption public office his chief issue, but wj» reluctantly forced by Senator Thomns J. Walsh of Montana, who made th* notification address, to dignify a charge made by William Jenning^ Bryan, that he was the attorney tap "big business" interests. "The argument," said Senator Wal<h * In his notification speech to Mr. Davis» "that you are a Wall Street man, la an opprobrious sense, is without merits as Is the assertion that your nomlifig|> * tion Is a Wall Street nomination." Mr. Walsh, In defending Mr. Davtl on this charge, paid eloquent tribute to him on his law rtc^rd. particularly as solicitor - general of the Unlte^ States. Mr. Davis, acknowledging tfiili defense, said: --'t "I take note, Mr. Chairman, in passing, of what you were good enough to> say concerning my past career and conduct as a lawyer. I hare no kpqIogy to offer fot either. The answer to any criticism on that score must come not only from those who. likeyurself, have won the highest distlne-^ tion at the bar, hut also from the troro than one hundred thousand other honest and patriotic men and women whomake up the legal profession in thl* country. They know and they will gladly join you in testifying that the upright lawyer sells his services bttt never his soul. "I have no clients today but the Democratic party and, if they will it the people of the United States." 4I indict the Republican party in It** organized capacity," said Mr. Davis, "for having shaken public confidenceto Its very foundations. I charge it with having exhibited deeper and more widespread corruption than any that this generation of Americans ha« been called upon to witness. 'I charge it with complacency ilk the face of that corruption and witl» ill-will toward the effort of honest men to expose it. I charge it with gross , favoritism to the privileged and wltlv utter disregard of the unprivileged. I charge it with Indifference to worlds peace and with timidity in the cpa^- duct of our foreign affairs" Mr. Davis did not spare President Coolidge, his opponent in this campaign, declaring that Mr. Coolidgecould not escape responsibility for thfr conditions he condemned. The Democratic nominee "was emphatic In his declaration of conviction that the United States should not only alter the World court, but tb# LrfMkgueof Nations. „ », Illinois Ex-Dry Agent Is Held as Grafter Waukegan, 111.--Ira Blackwell, for several years a member of tlve Lake county prohibition enforcement squad, but lately an investigator for thestate's attorney of McHenry county, was held to the grand jury at Woodstock charged with "shaking down'*1 beer runners and obtaining money under false pretenses. He Is accused of assisting beer runners through the county, charging two dollar* a barrel for "safe conduct." •V* ;A;" Candidate for Governor Is Gored to Death by Bull Vermillion, S. D.--A. S. Anderson, Democratic candidate for governor of South Dakota, was gored to death by a bull on his stock farm 15 miles northeast of Vermillion. He had gone to the pasture to drive in the milch cows when he was attacked. Ills badly mutilated body was found half bb hour later by a farm hand. Anderson had served three terms in the state senate. - Expel American Teachef Constantinople.--Dr. Edgar J. Fisher, professor of history in Robert college, an American institution, has been expelled from Turkey fof1 uttering anti-Turkish propaganda. Seventeen Mexicans Slain City of Mexico.--Seventeen defense* less persons were killed and ten othera wounded when a band of fifty armed outlaws attacked a hacienda near Opiclien, state of Yucatan, according to a dispatch. Henry M. Pindell Dies Northport. Mich.--Henry M. Pindell, sixty-two, Illnols journalist who wni twice offered the United States ambassadorship to Russia, died at bJa summer home here of heart disease. To Meet in U. S. New York.--The International Unloa Against Tuberculosis, now in convention in Lausanne, Switzerland, will hold Its 1926 convention in the United States, according to a report received here. ? . Many Fatherless Children Harrisburg. Pa,--Fatal accidents In Pennsylvania coal mines between 1916 and 1922 have made fatherless 4,065 children, according to a report of theinspection board. S Bandits Raid IllinotM Bank and Seize $7£00 Madison, III.--Five bandits held up the Trl-City State bank here at noon and escaped in a motor car with approximately $7,500. They were fired upon by bank officials. Police said the burglar alarm frightened the men away before they had finished looting. - " Plane Falls in Seaf 2 Z)if San Luis Obispo, Cal.--Two mefl were killed when the airplane InT" which they were flying fell 1,000 feet Into the ocean off San Simeon point. The victims were Roy Stiles, thlttyr pilot, and Murr.v Lannini, passenger. ? r : - Paris Bread Prices Boosted Paris.--The price of bread rose l® Paris for the third time in less than three months, despite the government's* effort to combat the rising market. - Mary S. Cutting Dies Orange, N. J.--Mary Stewart Cutting, seventy-three, author, died at-her home here. Among her better known books were "The Wayfarers." "Lovers of Sanna" and "HearT of Lynn." She la survived by three <*hihlren. Prohibtion Ftnes $7,500,COO Washington.---Fines totaling $7,500,- 000 have been paid for the first ten months of the fiscal year just euded, Prohibition Commissioner .Haynecr m r. i