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-ii .. , tHB MeHKNBT PLADrDSALjBK, KeHBVBT G^ews Nuggets From Illinois The old Star brewery, a landmark In Belleville, has been converted into a profitable, modern tomato cannery. Burglars broke Into the Owen-Truitt Btore at Mahomet, loaded the GOOpound safe on a truck, drove out five miles, opened It with sledge hammers and got $21. . • Failure to earn enough money to equal operating expenses has forced the city of Lincoln to raise fares on Its municipal street cap line from live to ten cents. State Traffic Officer John O'Keefe of Duquoin, patrolling the highway from Nashville to Carbondale, reports he has collected $1,300 in tines from tourists and speeder* mer months.:• v'^-v"; S'S'- Burglars had to drill though twd , walls to get the fur stock of D. Kaplan & Co-. Chicago wholesalers, but jpfSearried away 20,000 furs, valued at v.Vmore than $100,000. The furs were . ^.partly insured. , - Veterans of the Ninety-fifth Illinois Volunteef infantry, a Civil war regiment, will hold their fifty-ninth annual reunion at Belvidere on September 4. The regiment was made up of Boone and McHenry county men. Indications that the apple crop in Illinois would fall far below the product ion amount for 1923 were shown in the monthly report of apple production, compiled by A. J. Surratt, agricultural statistician of Springtieid. Preparations are under way for the celebration on September 2 of the eighty-eighth anniversary of Centennial niethodist church of Rockford, the fijrst of that denomination established there. • Mrs. Norman Countryman, ninetytwo, is dead at RoChelle. She was the sole survivor of a quadruple romance which united her and her three younger sisters to four brothers, many years ago, in New York. * Mayor E. (J. Johnson Of PaM vetoed un ordinance for which he voted a few weeks ago that legalized Sunday movies in Pana. Recently the council repealed the ordinance. The veto gives Pana Sunday movies after a fifteen-year battle. ----$ A moderate corn yield Is the best Illinois farmers can expect "with the out-turn largely dependent upon favorable fall conditions," A. J. Surratt, federal agricultural statistician for Illinois, declared at Springfield, in making his semimonthly crop report. ' Harley Baitty; Washington^ II},, •was fined $100 and costs in East Peoria on a charge of driving an automobile while Intoxicated, handicapped as he is by two cork legs. Two pints of whisky were found in the car, officers say. Three hundred and fifty orphan girls at the Mooseheart home at Aurora visited the Moose home barber shop for a complete hairbob, follow- Secretary of Labor Davis, on a visit to the home, suggested that the girls be permitted to boh their hair. Ray Ilendrickson, a fanner of St. Augustine, near Galesburg, was killed when a horse he was riding reared and fell bn him. Ueuikickaai»> was broken. •< Richard Seacord, eight yeatV trtd, of Galesburg 1b recovering from injuries inflicted when he was scratched and bruised by a bear at Lincoln park In that city. . # More automobile tourist parties made ulse of the Moline tourist camp this year than in the last three years, according to members of the camp supervisory board. «--- Harry J. Wander, sixty-live years old, founder of the Hammond Malleable Iron works and one of the lead* ing manufacturers of the Calumet district of Indiana, died in the Evanston hospital. <---<$ jr-.-vJAfter a trial lasting Are days, a jury in the Massac County court a^ Metropolis returned a verdict of $500 damages in the suit brought by the state to condemn a" right of way through the property of the l'aducan Pottery company for a state hard rdad in the western part of the county. A total of 47.51 miles of pavement, bringing the year's total to 059.37 miles, was laid in the state during the week ending August 14, says an official report issued at Springfield. The year's, total is 110 miles more than the mileage completed at the same time in 1923. The engineer and a mail clerk on Big Four passenger train No. 43, westbound, were injured when the engine and three coaches left the rails and rolled into a ditch at Mahomet, the result of a 500-foot washout. No pas* sengers were injured except for minor cuts and bruises. George H. Pritchard, for a numbei of years athletic director at Eureka village, Decatur, where he played a leading part in Little Nineteen activities, has resigned as director at Drury college, Springfield, Mo., to accept a similar post at Hiram college at Hiram, Ohio. Frank Venn, accused by a Dubuque woman, and Theodore Wiederholt, wanted on a charge of robbing freight cars, were arrested during a raid on a farm near East Dubuque. Two hundred gallons of hootch and two stills were found in the house in which the two prisoners were living. Illinois produced 22,819,000 tons of soft coal from January 1 to March 31, 1924, according to reports of the national geological survey announced at Springfield. Jahuary production is listed at 9,600,000 net tons; February production at 7,569,000, and March production at 5,560,000 net tons. Alleging breach of promise, Miss Olive Welch of ^onticello has filed suit against Frank McDonald of Arthur, asking $25,000 damages. She alleges that the defendant proposed marriage and was accepted. Alter she had prepared her trousseau ho changed his mind; she charges. $> Fifteen cases of smallpox -are recorded in the weekly report of contagious diseases in Illinois Issued at Springfield, covering the week of August 16. Seven cases are reported from Cook county. The report also records 60 cases of diphtheria, 35 of scarlet fever and 191 cases of pneumonia. MRS.FERGUSON WINS IN TEXAS Democrats Name Wife of Former Governor fojf--:--- Chief Executive. Dallas, Texas.--Mrs. Miriam Ferguson, the first woman candidate for governor of Texas and wife of James E. Ferguson, former governor, was nominated at the Democratic primary, over Felix Robertson of Dallas. Judge Robertson, Ku Klux klan candidate, telegraphed Mrs. Ferguson at her home at Temple, "I sincerely congratulate you on your victory." The Texas election bureau tabulation of the vote showed Mrs. Ferguson leading by about 77,000 and more than 725,000 ballots counted. The bureau estimated the total vote would be dose to 850,000. Late reports showed it was heavier than at any previous election In Texas. When told of her victory at her home in Temple, where she is familiarly known as "Ma," Mrs. Ferguson, whose nomination is practically equivalent to election, said: "There never was any doubt in my mind that but I would win. The people of Texas are tired of klan politics and misrepresentation. It was that issue that gave me the election. "There are many things to do. but I nru going to take the bull by tn® horns and show the world that a woman can fill the governor's clia'r with credit to herself and the stat».M John W. Davis Bringt K. K. K. Issue to Fore Seagirt, N. J.--The Ku Klux klan wns denounced by John W. Davis, the Democratic Presidential (candidate. In a fighting address to the Democracy of New Jersey Mr. Davis condemned that and any other organization raising the standard of racial and religious prejudice. Then he called upon President Cool- Idge as the standard bearer of the' Republican party to join him by "some explicit declaration" in "entirely re-, moving this topic from the* field of political debate." Planning to Hold Big Parade on Defense Day Washington.--Plans for a mammoth parade in the national capital on Defense test day, September 12, are announced. The parade will he reviewed by President Coolidge, members of his cabinet, General Pershing and other high officials from a stand at the zero milestone on the Ellipse, directly south of the White House. Passenger Train Strikes Auto; Six Are Killed Lancaster, N. H.--An entire family --mother, stepfather and four children-- were killed at a railroad crossing in Northumherg, near here, when the auto in which they were riding was struck by a Boston & Maine passenger train. The victims were ihe family of William Donahue of Lancaster, N. H. The September term of the United States District court for eastern Illinois, convenes at Danville September 2. The calendar promises to be almost as heavy as the March term and will require at least tvo months vt continuous court. Judge Walter C. LinJley ot this city will pres'de. Three bandits robbed the Union Trust company at Madison of $3,747 In the afternoon, just as A. V. Andreoff, cashier of the institution, was reading a letter from the Illinois Bankers' association in which the recent epidemic of bunk jobberies In «he Tri-Citiss was dlscussel, pdvising precautionar. measures. Christopher Is the only town in Illinois, except Chicago, which has won a standing among the towns whose residents have deposited more than $100,000 in postal savings accounts. For July Christopher was ninety-third among the municipalities of the country, Its residents"5 having deposited $124,525. Alleging criminal negligence, the widow of Louis Matezjell, has filed suit against John Suder of, Standard City, demanding $10,000 damages. While the two men were hunting squirrels, Matezjell stepped into range just as Suder pulled the trigger of his gun, and was killed. Suder was exonerated. " At Fox River1 academy, Ottawa, teachers with bobbed hair are banned, gipl students must have written permission from their parents l'» order to have their hair trimmed, shprt dresses are taboo, as are French heels, Jewelry, jazz music, card playing, novel reading and student automobiles. . , Tom Reese shot and killed Louis Gomer, alias "Mexican Louie," at Dowell, five miles south of Duquoin. Reese Is the son of Ed Reese, who .shot and killed "Fatty" Knight at Duquoin early in the summer. The Reese men claim Gomer accused them of belonging to the Ku Klux klan and had on a previous occasion threatened to shoot both of them. The thirty-sixth annual reunion by * the descendants of John Hall, a pioneer In this community., was held at Danville at the home of Harvey O. West with 126 Halls present. The Illinois oats crop this year will W the best since 1918, A. J. Surratt, agricultural statistician for the state at Springfield, predicts in his August crop report. Indications are for a crop of 163,7f>2,000 bushels compared with 135,100,000 bushels, and tlie average of 145,933,000 bushels, the report Mites. r Oats grown on the farm of Matthew Parker, near Harrisburg, averaged 61 bushels to the acre, a check-up after thrashing showed. A 31-acre field fielded 1,893 bushels. >*. <g, - • R. E. Trenaln of St. Louis, Mo., thirty-eight, also known as Henry Mc- Farland, a carpenter for the North- . western rallroud in the construction work now in progress, is dead as a result of injuries received when he fell beneath a train of oil cars when he tried to board the train in front of the depot at Sterling. ' Work has started on a ne# cotton gin at Cairo. The gin will have a ca paclty of five bales a day. The build ing and machinery ^-ill cost approximately $15,000. It is expected that all of the cotton grown In Alexander and #ulaskl counties, as well as some from Missouri and Kentucky, will be brought to the new gin. » Attorneys for the estate of Delavan Smith, capitalist and owner of the In dlanapolis News, in Circuit court at Waukegan, opposed filing of an amend ment to the suit started some time ago to break, the will disposing of the publisher's $3,000,000 estate. Granting of such an amendment, it was claimed, would require taking of affidavits of 150 foreign witnesses. Max Heidendelch, fifty-one, a farmer, hanged himself from a rafter of the barn on his farm near Antioch. Rela tlves attributed his act to despondency Herman J. Bangert talked himself into a year's sentence in the city work house when he abused the prosecutor at Quincy. Enraged over the action Of Judge Nauert, he started to abuse him and the jurist added a fine of $600 and costs. Friends of the defendant had interceded for him when he was arrested upon the charge of abandoning his Infant child. Honor to Slain Italian Deputy Causes Rioting Rome.--Rioting--broke out between pro-Fasfcistl and anti-Fascisti Workmen. Carabineers were summoned to quell the disturbance. The trouble started when the antl-Fasclstl attempted to get the pro-Kascisti workers to join them in a half holiday In honor of the late Socialist deputy, Glacoroo Matteotti. MRS. BURTON WHEElfR New and hitherto unpublished portrait of Mrs. Burton K. Wheeler, wife of the senator from Montana, who is a candidate for vice president on the ticket with Senator Robert M. LaFollette. Mrs. Wheeler is the mother of five children. y v . . ----- --rfl ,flVi. i"i""in n i... t; RADICALS BREAK UP REICHSTAG MEETING Prevent Discussion of Dawes Pact or Reparcttiort*» Berlin.--The London pact and ?he Dawes reparations plan were plllored In the reichstag as a "pact of slavery" and as "the delivery of the German working masses to international capitalists and exploiters" by the Communist members. The so-called "Reds" so successfully outmaneuvered the government tbat they twice broke up the meeting of the reichstag and defeated the government's plan to place the London pact before the house for consideration. They finally forced the relchstug to adjourn for the day. Three Hundred Stain in Trans-Jordania Fighting Jedda, Arabia.--Bitter fighting took place between the Wahabls and government forces In trans-Jordanla, according to news which reached here. The Wahabls attacked and occupied several town, including Tarash. Then the government forces, under command of Khalac Eltal and Arif. made a counter-attack and drove the Invaders out of Tarash. The government forces, assisted by local tribesmen, killed 300 Wahabls, took many prisoners, ..nd captured a number of catnels and rlues. Lucy Page Gaston, Foe of Cigarette, Is Dead Chicago.--Miss Lucy Page Gaston of anti-cigarette fame died in the Hinsdale sanitarium. Cancer of the throat was given as the direct cause of death. For 25 years Miss Gaston has been conducting a campaign against the smoking of cigarettes as well as being an ardent advocate of prohibition and woman suffrage. On her deathbe she Is said to have requested that the ork be carried or^ and that the fight against cigarettes he unrelenting until they are prohibited by a national law. Will Meet Next Year in American Capital Berne, Switzerland.--The interparliamentary union, composed of leading members of national parliaments, accepted by acclamation an invitation from President Coolidge, extended through American Minister Gibson, to hold next year's meeting in Washington. A number 4)f the delegates made public expressions of their thanks. rrench Tfoops Evacuate German Towns in Baden Strasburg. -- French troops have evacuated Offenbourg and Appenweler. An official announcement said the evacuation of the two Baden towns was due to the recent resumption of International train service between Paris and Warsaw and Paris and Prague, tin suppression of which on the German section of the line caused the occupation as a penalty in February, 1923. California Freed of Hoof and Mouth Plague Washington.--California has been practically freed from hoof and mouth disease among its live stock. Dr. John R. Mohler, chief of the bureau of ani mal Industry, has reported to Secretary Wallace after a personal inspection of the regions visited by the live stock plague. Record Lowered tor Dirt Track Auto Race Chicago.--Leslie Allen, driving 300-Inch Kronter.ac, von the 50-mile Midwest dirt track auto racing championship at Itoby speedway. His time, 42:26, took more than two and a half minutes from the old record, which was held by Cliff Woodbury. Suit for $5,000 damages has been filed by Mrs. Mary J. Lincke against the Moline high school board. She is asking compensation for Injuries Incurred, she alleges, several months agi» when she tripped over a wire on the school grounds. Three Killed in Feud Fight Tulsa, Okla.---Three men were killed and one was wounded on a public highway 21 miles east of Tulsa in a battle which climaxed a family feyd starting over an argument between children. Active for "Defense Test" Washington.--One hundred national societies are represented in a com inittee which has been formed to cooperate with the plans for a "defense test* on September 12. , Three and twenty one-hundredths inches of rain fell in four days, completely ruining all hopes of Lee county farmers to thresh their grain, which had been standing In shock for over a week, and which had been 60aked by previous downpours. Hendricks to Manage Redi Cincinnati.--Jack Hendricks formal ly signed his contract to manage the Cincinnati Reds of 1925, terms and conditions having been agreed upon more than a week ago. Wilton Heads Orangemen Boston.--Hugh Wilson of Pennsylvania elected Supreme Grand Master of Orangemen at the convention con eluding here. Portland, . Ore., was chosen as the scene of the next convention. REDS REAL FOE, SAYS C. G. DAWES Declares LaFollette and Radical Bac&ers Present the Real Issue. Evanston, 111.--Charles Q. Dawes told the American people that the "predominant issue" of this campalgh is the Issue of what he termed the "progressive conservatism" of the Republican party versus the radicalism of the LaFollette movement, dominated by the Socialist party, which Is marching behind LaFollette with the red flag flying. He declared that the LaFollette movement was the real opponent of the Republican party, "although the result of the effort may be to deadlock the contest for the Presidency and make Bryanism succeed the Coolidge policy. He asserted the Democratic ticket was composed of one conservative and one radical, "hoping to get votes by avoiding the Issue," and he told his hearers that John W. Duvls and Governor Bryan "will suffer only the fate which befalls those who try to straddle in a real tight." These things he told to the nation in a speech which marks the course which the Republican national campaign will take. The enemy is LaFollette. A vote for Davis Is a vote for Bryan. Such will be the slogans of the Republican party." And the first official intimation of these slogans was made by General Dawes In his speech accepting the Republican nomination for vice president--a speech which In reality, through radio and the press, was addressed to the entire nation, although nominally it was addressed to the immense crowd which packed General Dawes' "back yard" In Evaflston. On the, spacious lawn, sloping down to Sheridan. road, stood a throng which was estimated to number 50.000 persons. Adjhcent to the Dawes home there had been erected n platform for the use of the speakers and several guests. Premier Herriot is ^ Upheld by Chamber Paris.---After a lengthy declaration before both houses of parliament explaining his policies nt the London conference, Premier Herriot obtained a 320 to 209 vote in the chamber on the technical point of a continuation of debate on the protocol. This is believed to assure a favorable majority for the agreement In that body, and the senate is also expected to uphold the premier. The minister's victory was won when a motion to refer the London accord to a commission with the provision -that It should be signed first and debated later, was defeated. Premier Herriot admitted what had been reported during the London conference, but denied that Belgium was ready to quit France, withdraw its troops from the Ruhr, and leave France entirely Isolated. Denmark Planning to Scrap Army and Navy Copenhagen.--The Danish cabinet has sanctioned a bill which will be Introduced In parliament abolishing the army and navy.--A-police force will be substituted for the military. Most of the defense ships and cruisers will be discarded, only u few small, fast ships being retained. The air forces will be retained and probably enlarged. Worth Carolina Kills Child'Labor South Africa Takes Step to Segregate Asiatics Capetown, South Africa.--A resolution was introduced in the house of assembly advocating the segregation of Asiatics In the urban areas of Natal and the Transvnal. Dr. Danled F. Falan, minister of the interior, accepted the motion In principle and forecast legislation at the next m«- slon of parliament. ----- Raletgn. N. C.--The North t'arollna house of representatives refused to ratify the proposed child-labor constitutional amendment by a viva voce vote. The sennte previously had rejected the proposal 34 to 4. Cyclone Demolishes a Church; 10 Killed New Orleans.--Ten persons were killed and nine injured when a iwlfter demolished tlie St I'hillips church at Patricks, La^/about jq fj.om here. Honolulu Church Body Opposes "Defense Day** Honolulu.--The International Church Federation of Honolulu has passed n resolution opposing the observance of national Defense day on September 12 as needless. To Evacuate German Cities Brussels.--Dortmund will be evacuated by Belgian troops In the first days of September, says Libre Belglque. The newspaper learns that the customs post of Lippewesel will be abandoned. Vote Confidence in Herriot • Paris.--The chamber of deputies voted confidence in the Herriot gov ernment, 33G to 204, in support of Its action on the Dawes reparations plan at the London conference. American Sets New Retard Belfast, Ireland.--James Burgress, American Olympic runner from Georgetown university, at Celtic park set up a new Irish quarter-mile record. He ran the distance in 50 seconds fiat. Hylan States Position New York.--Mayor John F. Hylan announced that he would not be a can didate for governor of New York, but would support a "progressive Dwiuor crat," Law Officers Search for Daring Bandits St. Louis.--Police of two states are searching for robbers who raided the Venice State hank at Venice, 111., and escaped with $5,851 In currency, and three highwaymen who at the same time robbed two employees of the industrial Savings Trust company of $2,389 in currency at the entrance to an alley here. DR. EUGIO AY ALA in ,tt Dr. Eligio Aynia, former provisional president, who has been elected PtMident of Paraguay. MARKET QUOTATIONS BY U. S. GOVERNMENT Washington.--For the week ended August 21.--GRAIN---No. 1 dark northern wheat, $1.30® 1.42 Minneapolis; No. 2 red winter wheat, <1.33% Chicago, $1.39@1.42 St. Louis; No. 2 hard winter wheat, $1.27% @129% Chicago. $1.24 8C Louis; No. 2 yellow corn, $1.21 1-22% Chicago, $1.18% Minneapolis; No. 3 yellow corn, $1.17% St. Louia; No. S white corn, $1.14 @1.15 St. Louis; No. S white oats. 51%@>53%c Chicago, 49VfcO Minneapolis, 61 %e St. Louis. HAY--No. 1 timothy, $19.00 Cincinnati. 25.00 Chicago, $24.50 St. Louis; No. 1 prairie, $19.00 Chicago. $16.50 St. Louis, $16.50 Minneapolis. LIVE STOCK--Chicago prices: Hogs, $10.25 for the top and |9.00® 10.00 for the bulk. Medium and good beef steers, $6.75@10.S0; butcher cowa and heifers, $3.35@ 10.35; feeder steers, $f.50<8>8.25; light and medium weight veal calves, $9.50@13.50. Fat lambs. $12.25<014.3ft; feeding lambs, $11.25@ 13.25; yearlings, $8.50(^)11.50; fat ewes, $3.50@7.25. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES--Kansas cobbler potatoes, $1.20@1.35 carlot sales in Chicago. Georgia Elberta peaches, $3.50 per 6-basket carrier and bushel basket; Arkansas and Missouri Elbertas, $2.00®2.50 per bushel basket In Chicago. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Butter, 92 score, S7c Chicago. No cheese market reports available. Bureau Reports Fewer Workers Are Employed Washington.--Employment Itt manufacturing Industries in July decreased 4 per cept, while pay roll totals decreased 7.8 per cent, and per capita earnings decreased 4 per cent. These figures, presented by the Department of Labor through the bureau of labor statistics, are based on reports from 8,789 establishments in 52 industries, covering 2,489,347 employees, whose total earnings in one week In July were $60,520,288. The sume establishments In June reported 2,592,712 employees and total pay rolls of $65,641,- 420. , Federal Troops Victories in Brazil Buenos Aires.--Hundreds of rebels were drowned when federul troops sank a steamship carrying the retreating insurrectionists from the port of Tibirica on the River Parma, according to an official report from Rio de Janeiro. The advices also declare that several troops engaged rebel patrols at Campos Novos, 200 miles west of Sao Paulo and were moderately successful. General Costa is heading a brigade that has been trapped, the report adds, and their surrender Is expected momentarily. Rebuilding of Europe Put in Yankee Hands Paris.--The solution ot the reparations problem and the rebuilding of Europe has been placed almost entirely in the hands of Americans through the signing ov the Dawos pact in Lon' don. This statement was made here by one of the French delegates to the London conference during an interview with representatives of th*» press. Chitago Captures'Next Convention of Pylhians Toronto.--Chicago will have the 1025 convention of the Knights of Pythias, winning over Los Angeles. 85 to 83, in a vote taken at the close of the sessions here. A resolution to establish a magazine to serve the entire membership of 900,000 was adopted. Dies in "Hunger Strike** Missoula, Mont.--Aati Tyrkaihen died at Fort Missoula ufter a selfimposed starvation of 42 days. Tyr^ kalnen was arrested at Butte as a draft evader. He went on a hunger strike soon after his arrival here. Storm Causes Nine Deaths New Orleans, La.--Nine persons were killed and nine Injured when a storm demolished the St. Phillips church at St. Patricks, La., about 40 miles from here. Veterinarian•* President Des Moines, Iowa.--Dr. L. A. Merillat of Chicago was elected president of the American Veterinary Medical association. Portland, Ore., was selected as the meeting place of next year's convention. Gold Coinage Restored Berlin. -- The government contemplates the reissue of gold coins, unknown in Germany since the outbreak of the war. , The denominations will be ten and twenty marks. Thousands Lose Lives in Floods in Far East Honolulu.--The tanker Taurural of the Japanese navy, now lying In port here, received a radio message from Tien Tsln, China, saying that 20,000 persons had been killed or Injured there by flood waters. The message Indicated that the bainks of the Southern canal had given way. Other messages received here tell of heavy floods throughout Japan. Sign Treaty Designed to Stop Rum~Running Washington.--A liquor treaty between the United States and the Netherlands was signed at the State department. Aimed at rum-suiuggling, It is similar to the one which a short time ago was arranged with Great Britain. * Chinese Banks Close Shanghai.--Four banks In KlangM province have been forced to close because of warfare between military governnors and consequent fear of looting of financial Institutions bf soldiers and bunditry. JAPAN ALARMED ' OVER EPIDEMIC Mysterious Disease, Rese§n-r Sblinf Sleeping Sicknes^ In Spreading. Tokyo.--Japan is becoming alarmed at the outbreak of a mysterious epidemic in the middle west districts, of which there have been cases in the last tortnight and 900 deaths. It is." a torw ox • sleeping sicKness, in which the victims; mostiy elderly, fall into a uoze and cannot be awttkeBed, uuuily dying. The percentage of deaths in some localities is 70. Several leading pnysicians and bacteriologists iu I'oKyo are touring tne arfecieu reruns, but are unaoie to truce uie source of lite epidemic, but believe it in a lorm of fcpiuai meningitis. " £entsuji una Kotoiilra, ^ towns ShiKOKu islauu, Hie uie Liaun center* Here tile epiueuiic appeared uiaU 'xiiere Wtie boo ueutUs uici e, and <0t> otiiers in un unwaKettoie sieep. At OfeLuytuiiu, uu tue iuu.ui isianu, there ere mo cuses, wiui xJU ueutos. At loKosluiiia mere Were ZoO cases, witi* loo ueuuis ana 11 recoveries; llie omciais oi tne iveio hospital, la Tokyo, ueiieve it is simitar to ail epidemic of brain fever witicii was world wide a quarter of a century ago cidsely connected with inilueuza. Sfc^-p- Republicans Choose Advisory Committee - Chicago.--William M. Butler, Republican national chairman, has picked the advisory committee which will be his board of strategy in conducting the G. O. P. campaign. Jt is headed by John T. Adams of Iowa, Mr. Butler's immediate predecessor as national chairman. Second in line is C. Bascom Slemp, White House secretary and committeeman from Virginia. Three Illinoisans were named--Julius Itosenwald, Bernard A. Eckhart and Raymond Robins, former Roosevelt lender and Bull Moose candidate for United States senator in 1914. ' John L. Lewis, president of, the United Mine Workers Of America, ^ on the committee. , Among the members "are: Congressman Will It. Wood (Inri.), former Congressman James W. Good (Iowa), C. L. Knight, Akron Ohio; Mrs. Henrietta W. Livermore, Yonkers, N. Y.; Nathan Elsberg, New York; Claudius H. Huston, Tennessee; Charles H. March, Litchfield, Minn.; Hanford McNlder, Iowa, former American Legion commander; Einmett J. Scott, Washington, D. C.; Carmi A. Thompson, Ohio; Robert L. Vann, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Douglas Robinson, New York; Mrs. Harriet Taylor, Ohio; Joseph R. Grundy, Pennsylvania, aatf Rud K. Hynicka, Ohio. ./ National Committee of Democratic Party Washington.--Completion of the organization of the Democratic national committee wa* announced with the selection of the personnel of the speakers' bureau. Officers of the national committee; besides Clem Shaver of West Virginia, are Mrs. Emily Newell Blair of Missouri, first vico chairman; Samuel B. Amldon. Kansas, second Ice chairman; Frank Hague, New Jersey, third vice chairman ; Charles A. Greathouse, Indiana, secretary; Burt New. Indiana, executive secretary; Jesse . H. Jones. Texas, chairman of the finance committee: James W. Gerard, New York, treasurer; Robert N^JHnrper, District of Columbia, assistant^treasurer. At national committee headquarters, In Washington, Senator Key Plttman of Nevada will be director of the organization bureau. He will be assisted by Mrs. Blair, in charge of the women's co-operative activities; former Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson of Pennsylvania, in charge of labor co-operative activities, with Mrs. Rose Yates Forrester as assistant, and Richard S. Jones, in charge of veteran and club activities and first voters. Italy Thanks America for Saving LocatelH Washington.--Thanks for the rescue by the American navy of Lieutenant Locateili, missing Italian aviator, off the coast of Greenland, was conveyed to the Italian embassy front Premier Mussolini. Locateili was brought to safety on the United States cruiser Richmond. . ' Imbrie Killing Causm Persian Cabinet's Fall Teheran.--The Persian cabinet resigned, due, it is understood, to the recent killing of Robert Imbrie. United States vice consul, by religious fanatics. It was reported that the resignation of the premier was accepted. Ravages of Tuberculosis New York.--An International survey of tuberculosis has shown that mere than 18,000,000 persons have died of tuberculosis in 43 years, the New York State Tuberculosis amociatiaft has announced. ' "M Quad" Dead -~ New York.--Charles B. Lewis, noted humorist using the pseudonym, M Quad, is dead at his home in Brook, lyn. He started (hls literary life in De$w>l»- Son Born to Princess Mary London.--P'inccss Mary, daughter of King Ceorge and Queen Mary and wife of Viscount Lascelles, gave birth to her second child, a son. at Goldsborough hall, one of the seats of the Lascelles family. Liquor Treaty With 'Holland Washington.--A liquor treaty, similar to the one signed with other European nations,'~has .been signed v lth Holland, the State department has announced. . ' Cholera Takes Heaby Toll London.--A devastating wave of cholera, causing- thousands of deaths, is sweeping over the Behar district of Bengal, India, according to a dispatch to the Times. Divers Recover Gold London.--Wfiat Is described as the greatest salvage feat on record has been completed by divers who recovered £250.000 in gold bars from the hold of the liner Laurentlc, sunk by a German submarine in 1917. Mauretania Breaks Record ^ New York.--The Mauretania of the Cunard line has again broken the Atlantic speed record by crossing fnim New York to Cherbourg (in 5 days, \ hoUr and 49 minutes*'