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r * 's \ILLIN0IS\ STATE HEWS Washington.--According to figures ^'.i ^iade public ai Washington by the ..l&epartment of Commerce, It cost 11- "Bnois $66,947,311 to conduct the state government In 1923, or an average of §9.93 per capita. This Includes total payments for interest, expenses and Other outlays. The figures show the . ' • tetpense Jumped from $25,431,117, or #1.08 per capita, in 1917, and from $52,118,200, or $7.83 per capita. In 1022. Of the total for 1923 $37,850,555 Jrent for the expenses of running the Afferent state departments, $27,539 for Operating public sen-ice enterprises, |Kfc >9,283 for Interest on public debt, »; and $28,486,934 for public improve- JBients. Total revenue receipts for amounted to $53,440,997. or $7.92 ; per capita, 50.3 per cent of which were •••', derived from property and special if taxes. This source ran as high as J - ' 74.9 per cent in 1917 and 36.2 per \;\v\';*cent in 1922. The per capita proper- .; ty and special taxes in 1923 amounted J'- V I® $3.09, as compared with $2.45 in .-JP22 and $3.49 in 1917. Taxation val- ' "teatlon of property In the state sub- • "v Ject to ad valorem taxation In 1923 was $4,000,497,373. The amount of r '. t*xes levied was $18,002,228 * a per ' ttplta levy of $2.67. Springfield.--Coal miners in Illinois who have reached the age of sixty-five years will be able to retire with a pension for life, if the old age pension (dan, to be voted at the miners' annual election December 9, is adopted. The plan provides for payment of not more than $25 a month to any retired miner who has held membership in the Illinois district for 20 years, the test ten of which have been continaous. A special assessment of 1 per cent of gross earnings, less mine expenses, <MI all members working in liid around the mines or for the organization, according to the plans, will maintain a fund large enough to take, eare of all pensions. Danville.--Charles BrandOn, super- " tisor of Vance township, was pinned Wider a tractor as he was directing a farmhand in its use. One toothed tteel wheel had crushed the bones of Ms right foot and held him powerless. But, in spite of the pain, Brandon gave Instructions for backing the tractor. Ihe farmhand shifted the levers in- _ B&rrectly, the wheel dug ulong the shin • IHd into Brandon s thigh, breaking the bones. The injured man calmly called But other Instructions. The tractor was reversed and Brandon taken to a hospital. ' Marlon.--Health authorities of Williamson county are awaiting word from the state board of health regarding its finding in 14 cases believed to be traceable to pneumonic plague and discovered at Hurst "and Bush, two mining towns. According to Dr. A. W. Springs of Dewmalne, the patients fcave showed "all symptoms" of the plague. Twelve of the cases were reported from Hurst, two ending in the death of the patients, who were sisters and were living in the same house. The other two. Doctor Springs said, had been found in Bush. Bloomlngton. -- Announcement' was fade at Bloomington of the marriage In New York on Saturday of Frank H. Funk, congressman from the Seventeenth Illinois district, to Mrs. Mary . Bedell Morris. The bride Is the widow - ' Of the late Prof. Lyman Morris, curator of natural history at the Brook- _i,r-:.3i|n museum. She is known as a lit- •rary woman. Congressman Funk was re-elected for his third terrg in the house, receiving the largest majority that he had been given iu any of his , three elections. Rock Island.--Announcement is made at the United States engineers' • - Office at Kock island of an appropriation of $600,000 for work on the Misrissippl river between La Crosse and _ St. Louis for fall and spring work. This appropriation is in addition to What has been spent in river work last summer and will enable engineers to prepare and complete work on wing dams, shore protection and the building of equipment already contracted tor. Peoria.--When their boat tipped over at Lacon, Ralph Tippet and L. R. Morris, both of Pontlac, who were 3uck hunting, drowned before Charles Newell, third member of the party could swim to shore for help. The boat is said to have overturned when one of the men lost his balance when firing at some ducks. Newell told them to cling to the boat until he swam for help, but the men drowned before rescuers arrived. Chicago.--Deer Lodge Dairy farm, Dwned by Louis Alleman of Tonlca, has 1 entered 21 Chester Whites and four Duroc Jerseys In the breeding classes at the International Live Stock exposition in Chicago, the first week in December. During the recent fall show .season this farm had two herds on the fair circuits and captured many high honors, including junior champion boar at the Ohio State fair and at the Illinois State fair. Galesburg.--Archie Stotts, young farm hand, was sentenced to from one - to two years In Joliet and fined $100 after pleading guilty to arson at Galesburg. Stotts was indicted for his part In attempting to burn the home of e Ben Robertson, prominent faftuer of Bio. \. ^ Champaign.--Rev* frank Baldus lhas been appointed pastor of the First ; Baptist church at Champaign and will take charge immediately. Reverend Mr. Baldus comes here from Chicago. f where he has been doing post-grad- ./ ~*iate work. Chicago.--Bids for 284 miles of high way ]mving were opened by the Illinois highway department, according to dispatches from Springfield. The bids were called for some time ago, con dltional upon the passing of the $100,- 000,000 bond issue voted upon at the recent election. They promise improvement of a few of the gaps and connections in the old system financed by the $00,000,000„ Issue, about 1,300 miles of which will be financed by the new state bonds. No official action can be taken on the bids until the official canvass of the votes cast at the last election. Is completed about December 1. Bloomington.--The thump of the ears ol corn in the wagonbed as the pickers harvest the new crop is being heard upon many Illinois farms. Ideal weather conditions, which continued through October and November, resulted in perfect development of the grain and the fear of much soft corn was said by farmers to be unfounded. Even the grain planted late, due to the rain in April and May, came through . In perfect condition. The crop this season, goes into the cribs In excellent condition, and with uniformly satisfactory yield, according to growers. The yield ranges from 30 to 40 bushels per acre. Springfield.--Ma rked improvement in the corn situation over that of a month ago, a state yield nearly up to average, with the merchantable portion of the crop less than usual and light farm reserves of old corn, are reported In the November 1 survey of the federal crop reporting service. The report also shows the best white potato and the poorest cloverseed crop in years. Apples are about a half crop. Fall-sown grains and pastures show need of rain generally. Plowing was slowed up by increasingly dry soil, but with some northern exceptions, farm work is well advanced. Urbana.--Morals, scholarships and physical safety of students at the University of Illinois are endangered by those whose parents permit th^n to bring automobiles to Champaign and Urbana, according to a letter sent out by Prof. Thomas A. Clark, dean of men. Professor Clark wrote to the parents of the 400 students who use automobiles. "The auto is a waster of time and money. It encourages loafing and unnecessary trips out of town to the neglect of the students' regular work," wrote the dean. Cicero.--The United States government started out to clean up Cicero-- to convert it from the wettest to the driest community in the country and to keep it permanently dry. More than a hundred federal agents charged into the township. After three hours they departed, convoying three truck loads of whisky, beer and wine that had been seized in raids upon 32 establishments. "These raids will continue in definitely,'* was the announcement of Chief Field Agent Charles W. Vursell, who was in charge. Chicago.--Although Mrs. Mary Ward Hart of Benton lost election as a member of congress on the Democratic ticket, she may feel some compensation in the fact that she has gained a son-in-law. Her daughter, Mabel Elizabeth, sophomore af the University of Illinois, came to Chicago and was married to Elles W. Kriekhaus, son of a millionaire lumberman of Miami, Fla., prominent In campus literary affairs and a member of Beta Theta PI. Chicago.--.Chicago rodents are being captured and examined in the laboratories of the health department for any trace of the "black death" that has appeared in Los Angeles, Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, commissioner of health, announced. Doctor Bundesen is taking no chances, and a corps of inspectors has been placed In the field for research and preventive measures in Chicago. Springfield.--Charles C. Wlthrow, sixty-three, towerman for the Chicago & Alton railroad near White Hall, remained at his post three hours ftfter a stroke of paralysis rendered useless one side of his body and directed signals, upon which the lives of trainmen and passengers depended. His heroic action was learned when he was taken to a hospital at White Hall. Kankakee.--Entering the field for the third time as a building contractor, the state of Illinois is constructing a ward building at Kankakee State Hospital for the Insane. State architects and engineers are in direct charge of the work. Other buildings constructed in a similar way were the veterans' ward at the Dixon and Jacksonville State hospitals. Chicago.--Two Illinois horsemen have been selected by the directors of the International Live Stock Exposition to serve as judges of the draft classes at the twenty-fifth anniversary session In Chicago, November 29 to December 6. They are G. C. Williams of Dewey and Charles Taylor of Wllliamsville. They will act as referees In the Belgian and Percheron class. Springfield.--Rainfall was deficient over most of the state last week, according to the weekly synopsis of Clarence J. Root, federal meteorologist. Moisture was needed for wheat, especially In the 'southern COUP ties, where droughty conditions prevailed. Barrington.--Suicide ended a search for the slayer of Mrs. Margaret Allen, widow of forty, shot to death in her home at Barrington, three hours after it started. Charles H. Hambel, a carpenter, sixty-three, was found in a day coach of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, at the Barrington station, the top of his head blown off by a shotgun shell. Chicago.--Re-election of all officers and directors of the Illinois Woman's Christian Temperance union featured the first session of the golden jubilee meet at the Hotel Sherman. IM $5,00m)00 FIRE Tenements Destroyed by Blaze WJs sets Sweeps Part of Jersey City. New Tork.--Dozens of tenements *?ere destroyed, 2,000 persons were rendered homeless and damages estimated at more than $5,000,000 resulted from a fire that started In the potassium nitrate plant of the Richardson Chermlcal company In Jersey City. The blaze was finally brought under control after five hoars of desperate fighting/ The entire Jersey City waterfront was rocked by jet series of explosions In the chemical plant. Windows were blown out In an area of 20 blocks around the plants. Fifteen firemen were taken to hospitals suffering from burns and smoke, while more than forty others, Including several civilians, were treated for cuts, smoke inhalation and burns. At lepst a dozen were temporarily blinded by the saltpeter. sThirty pieces of New York's fire apparatus, flreboats,. several railroad tugboats aided the firemen In stepping the terrific blaze. When the waterfront was threatened by the spreading flapies, dynamite was exploded. (A deluge of water prevented the explosion of six tons of explosive soap materials stored in a tunnel between the abandoned American Sugar Refinery building across the street from thle chemical plant, which threatened a greater explosion. Q, T. HENKLE 5 Killed and 14 Injured in Florida Train Wreck Miami, Fla. -- Five persons were killed an$ fourteen injured on Friday night when a rear day coach on a Florida East Coast passenger train was wrecked at Wabasso, Fla. The wreck was due to a broken brake beam, according to the company's train dispatcher at Miami. The dead are: Mrs. A. Laneye, thirty, Detroit; Miss Lizzie Foxton, Alpena, Mich.; Miss Ruby Stone, thirtyfive, Northfleld, Vt.; an unidentified woman and an unidentified baby. A partial list of the Injured is: Mrs. Robert A. Davis, seriously, Northfleld,. Vt.; Miss Blanche Stone, seriously, Northfleld, Vt.; Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Hethcoat, Waycross, Ga.; Mr. and Mrs! John .T. Cavanaugh, Passaic, N. J.; Alexander Lamar, Detroit; Mrs. Alexander Lamar, Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. William C. Miller, Linwood, Mich., and Helena Davis, Northfleld, Vt. U. S. Exports for October Total $527#00,000 Washington.--Export trade is booming in notable fashion, judging from figures for October made public by the Department of Commerce. The value of exports reached $527,- 000,000, nearly double the total for July and the largest amount In any month since January, 1921. The total -was considerably more than double the average In 1913, the last prewar year. Imports in October Increased to a total of $310,000,000. The excess of exports over imports for the month was $217,000,000. This situation has been due in large measure to the extraordinary large volume of cotton and wheat shipments from this country and to the high prices paid by the foreign importer for these American commodities. Los Angeles Murder Bares Big Jewel Plot Washington.--Two dramatic developments came in the mysterious murder of Harry Katz; diamond broker, In Los Angeles. The first was .the arrest of Hal Hall, a realty dealer, in Santa Monica, on suspicion of murder. The second development was the announcement from Treasury department operatives that the Katz murder and the killing of Mrs. Theresa Mors in Los Angeles has led to the seizure of smuggled jewels worth $250,000. Smuggled Jewels of enormous value were said to have been seized among the possessions of Mrs. Mors and Katz, and further seizures are expected/ Worship Fight Goes to Circuit Court of Appeals Washington.--The fight to save, the new $35,000,000 battleship Washington frpm destruction as a naval target was renewed, following an adverse decision in the .District of Columbia Supreme court in the suit to restrain Secretary Wilbur from carrying out his plan for the warship's demolition. Lawyers representing William B. Shearer, plaintiff in the suit, declared they will carry the court's ruling to the Circuit Court of Appeals and employ such other means as the taw provides to save the battleship. Forty Missing After Ship Blast London.--Forty of the 65 passengers aboard an unnamed steamer in the harbor of Kotka, Finland, are missing following an explosion that nearly destroyed the' vessel, according to I dispatch. Urbana.^--Intensive war has been carried op against animal diseases in Illinois qurlng the last year, Judging ;from the number of specimens received ftr diagnosis at the animal .^pathology and hygiene laboratory of ry.?%he college of agriculture, University "" ' ^ot Illinois at Urbana. A new high . ; mark of 46,809 specimens bandied was during the year. Danville.--Arthur E. Ermentrout, a 'prominent farmer of Potonmc, filed a petition in bankruptcy, alleging Indebtedness «C 181,790, Willi fftly |74 as- % \ i-lKj'. L' it,' Quincy.--At the hearing at Qulncy of the trial against William P. ("Dlnty") Colbeck and eight other defendants charged with the $50,000 mail robbery at Staunton, Federal Judge «Louis Fltzhenry ordered ali witnesses, the defendants, their wives and other relatives and the few who gained admission, to be searched. Cherry.--Commemorating the Cherry mine disaster 15 years ago which caused the loss of 300 lives, an assembly of Illinois coal miners gathered here to hear an address by their stmt* president, Frank Farrington. Named for Farm Board Washington.--William M. Jardlne, president of the Kansas Agricultural college, was appointed by President Coolldge as an additional member of the agricultural commission. ( 1 Gen. Poore at Ft. Sheridan Chicago--Brig. Gen. Benjamin Andrew Poore arrived in -Chicago and rook over command of Fort Sheridan, l prize assignment of the army. Geniral Poore succeeded Brig. Gen. George Van Horn Mpsely. He Is sixty-three. Davis Joins Law Firm New York.--Jphn W. Davis, recent Deniocrnilc nominee for President, anlounced he had resumed the practice Jf law in New York city wUb his for- *>er associates. When President Onolidge visits the International Live Stock exposition in Chicago, where its twenty-fifth meeting will be held November 29 to December 6, the local arrangements will be In the hands of O. T. Henkle, gen eral manager of the Union Stock Yards and Transit company and chairman of the horse show committee. POST OFFICE BLAST KILLS 2, INJURES 12 Explosion Causes Panic at Grand Rapids, Mich, Grand Rapids, Mich.--Two men are dead, another is expected to die, and twelve persons are seriously injured as the result of a mysterious explosion which wrecked the lower part of the federal building and post ofllce here. Two theories are entertained by the police and federal officials. One is the bomb1 theory, although little has been found thus far to substantiate it. The other Is that an accidental explosion of gas occurred. In support of this theory several federal officials and post office employees say an odor of gas had been noticed for several days. v It is believed that an underground pipe may have leaked until the accumulation of gas exploded. Ernest Roth, a driver, and Herman Pettersch are dead. Postmaster Robert G. Hill estimated that the property loss was at least $50,000, In addition to whatever valuables in the mails may have been destroyed. . The blast caused a panic in the heart of the business section «£. the city. : ' Hill Acquitted by Jury; Wants Beer Bill Passed Baltimore, Md.--Representative John Philip Hill of Baltimore, who was acquitted of charges of violations of the prohibition law, by a jury in the United States court, declared after the verdict that the finding gave him an opportunity to go before congress and demand modification of the Volstead act, and the passage of his 2.75 per cent beer bill on the grounds that the Volstead act, In its present form, discriminates and is unfair. The indictment against Colonel Hill accused him of the illegal manufacture and possession of wine and cider and maintaining a nuisance in his home. The latter charge was dismissed on the ground of Insufficient evidence. Diamond, Wife Slayer, Dies in Electric Chedr Michigan City, Ind.--Harry Diamond, twenty-six,- convicted of the murder of his wife, went to his death In the electric chair in the Michigan City penitentiary at 12:01 o'clock Friday morning. He was dead six minutes after the current was turned on. He protested his innocence .to the end. his last words just before being strapped to the chair being: "You men are more guilty of murder than I." Crowds thronged the streets until after the electrocution, the first In Indiana, took place. A flash from the prison told them of Diamond's death. BOO Perish in Quake on the Island of Java Batavia, Java.--The Island of Java has been# severely shaken by earthquakes. Already 800 persons are reported killed and countless are missing. Many native towns In the Kedu district, a central residency of Java, haVe been destroyed by landslides. One village completely disappeared into the river. The shock centered In the health resort of Wonosobo, where all the buildings collapsed. Java, In the Malay archipelago, is the seat of government fcr the Dutch East Indies. Torpedo Record Claimed Manila.--The American destroyer Borle claimed to have established a new world record for scoring four hits with four torpedoes fired In succession at a target 12,000 yards away. Mrs. J. P. Morgan, Sr., Ill Highland Falls, N. Y.--Mrs. Frances F. Morgan, widow of J. P. Morgan, Is critically ill at her country home here. With little hope held for her recovery, her daughters are at her bedside. ? Oppose Child Labor Law Atlantic City.--The National grange, In session here, will go on record against the child labor amendment, It was stated by delegates who declared the subject is now before the resolutions committee. - Blast Damages Destroyer ' Washington.--The destroyer Paul Hamilton has been forced to return to San IMego as the result of damages sustained during torpedo practice off that base, it is learned here. COOUBGE WARNS DF FOOD SHORTAGE Says Fortunes of All of Us Will Gc Up cr Down With Farmers. Washington. -- Maintenance of the Ajnerican "superior level of human comfort*1 and well-being will require that our agriculture be made and kept the most efficient in the world," President Coolldge said in an address before a meeting of the Association of Land Grant Colleges. The President emphasized (he point that "the fortunes of all of us will In-the end go up or down," with the farmer's, and warned against permitting "our farming population to fall to the level of a mere agricultural peasantry." 'The real problem of our long future," Mr. Coolldge said, is "the problem of maintaining a prosperous self-« reliant, confident agriculture ip a country preponderantly .commercial and Industrial." In ftis connection the President continued: 'It has been attested by all experience that agriculture tends to discouragement and decadence, wherever the predominant Interests of a country turn to manufacture and trade. We must prevent that In America. 'It Is true there are some countries In which the balance of these elements has been so well maintained that agriculture has continued to flourish alongside prosperous Industries and successful commerce. But these are found where the population is approximately static and the community comparatively self-contained. "It is not our destiny to be a community of that kind. We must' look forward to a long-continued increase of- population." The President pointed oat that the present-day farmer Is not only a producer, he is likewise a merchant," and then added: It does him no good to get. quantity production; in fact, it may do him harm, unless he can likewise have a scientific marketing. I feel that too little thought has been given to this most important phase of agriculture. I want to see courses in co-operatiye marketing and farm economics alongside of soil chemistry and animal husbandry. The agricultural problem of today Is not on the side of production, but on the side of distribution. I want to see a good farmer on a good farm raise a good crop and secure a good price." Mr. Coolldge • laid emphasis on the assertion that "we are not nearly a generation ahead of the time when our country -will witness a reversal in its relation to world agriculture." Within "a very few years," he said, the United States will be "among the nations producing a deficit rather than a surplus of agriculture staples." The artificial stimulation of the World war, he asserted, came, when the country was "fairly on the verge of that coi* ditlon." The President continued: " "Even today, if in making Mr balance sheet we include our requirements of coffee, tea, sugar and wool, we already have a considerable agricultural deficit. It may not be general-, ly known, but even now we consume more calories of food than we produce. The main reason is that we do not raise near enough sugar. "Our only agricultural exports of consequence are cotton, meat products and wheat; and as to the two latter It must be plain that the scales will shortly turn against us. We shall be not only an agricultural importing na-. tion, hut in the lives of many who are now among us we are likely to be one of the greatest of agricultural Inking nations." ARTHUR c. S0RL1E Arthur G. Sorlle Is the governorsleet of North Dakota. He was nominated by the Republicans and had the support of the Non-Partisan league. To Exhibit Corn Raised on South African Farm Chicago.--An interesting feature of the International Grain and Hay show, which will be held at Chicago, November 29 to December 6, In connection with the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of the International Live Stock exposition, will be a display of corn raised in the Transvaal of South Africa. This exhibit will be eligible to receive special recognition which Is offered for superior foreign exhibits. v. • • 7 - Mrs. Harding Worse; Has "Air Hunger" Spells Marion, Ohio.--The condition of Mrs. Florence Kling Harding was reported as worse In a bulletin issued by Dr. Cary W. Sawyer. Doctor Sawyer said Mrs. Harding suffered two slight "air hunger spells" similar to a previous one when she breathed only with extreme difficulty. The bulletin said: "Mrs. Harding had a very miserable day and night." . Rail Ticket Resale Charged Boston.--A statement from the office of the Boston & Maine railroad charges that several conductors of long standing are Involved In the resale of tickets, the loss In which has bees estimated at $100,000. Sugar Data Ready Washington.--Data showing the comparative costs of sugar beet growing in connection with the President's study of tariff duties will be submitted £n n.few days. Drought Ruins Crept New Orleans.--Crops are ruined south of New Orleans and street sprinklers, tank cars and tank trucks are being pressed Into service to transport water to towns in the district, after the Red Cross appealed for aid. Berger Retains Seat Milwaukee.--Completion of the official count by the canvassing board of the ballots cast in the Fifth Wisconsin district shows Victor Berger, Socialist, re-elected by a mi(jorlty of 489. MARKET QUOTATIONS BY U. S. GOVERNMENT Washington.--For the week ending; November 13.--FRUITS AND VEGETABLES-- Northern sacked round white potatoes, 80c@$1.00 carlot sales In Chicago, 60fiJ7Bc f. o. b. 'Midwestern yellow onions, $1.50 @2.00 in lefedlng markets; medium sizes, $1.35 f. o. b. western Michigan points. Midwestern Jonathan apples stronger, at $7.50@9.00 In Chicago. , LIVE STOCK--Chicago hog prices closed at $9.80 for top and $8.70@9.60 for bulk. Medium and good beef steers, $6.75® 11.65; butcher cows and heifers, $3.35@ 11.25; feeder steers, $4.$5@7.-€5; light and medium weight veal calves, $8.00® 10.25. GRAIN--Quoted November IS: No. 1 dark northern wheat: Minneapolis. $1.52(91.74. No. 2 red winter wheat: St. Louis, $1.67 @1.69; Kansas City, $1.62. No. 3 red winter wheat: Chicago, $1.58%. No. 2 hard winter wheat: Chicago, $1.53@1.54tt; St. Louis, $1.55@ 1.56; Kansas City, $1.46@1.57. No. 2 mixed corn: Chicago, *1.15tt; Minneapolis, $1.09% @1.11%. No. 2 yellow corn: Chicago, $1.15%@1.17; Minneapolis, $1.13% 1.14%; St. Louis, $1.18; Kansas City, $1.09. No. 3 yellow corn: Chicago, $1.15 1.16 Minneapolis, $1.08% @ 1.12%. No. 2 white corn: Chicago, $1.15@1.15%; Kansas City, $1.08. No. 3 white oats: Chicago, 51%@53%c; Minneapolis, 48%@48%c; St. Louis, 56 @55%c. No. 2 white oats: Kansas City, 52 @52 % c. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Closing wholesale price of 92-score butter: Chicago, 89c. Wholesale prices on Wisconsin primary cheese markets November 12: Twins, 18%c; aingle daisies, 19c; double daisies, 19c; young Americas, 19 %o; longhorns, 19 %c; square print*, 21c. HAY--Quoted November 13: No. 1 timothy: Chicago, $23.00. No. 1 alfalfa: Omaha, $17.00. No. 1 pralrler Chicago, $17.00. Four Held in Alleged Plot to Kill Looney Rock Island, 111.--Four'leading citizens of Rock Island were arrested on warrants charging them with conspiracy to murder John C. Looney, son of John looney, former owner of the Rock Island News. They were later released en bonds of $10,000 each. The men accused are: Jacob Ramser, leading jeweler; John M. Colligan, managing editor, Rock Island Argus; John W. Potter, publisher of the same paper; Thomas Haege, owner of a large department store. The warrants were issued by Judge Church upon affidavits sworn to by Anthony Billburg and George Holsapple. Billburg' and Holsapple were convicted of the murder of John Looney and sentenced to 14 and 20, years, respectively, in Jollet penitentiary. Looney was killed October 6, 1922, In Market square. Ten Die at Elksf Hornet Poisoned Cider Blamed Lynchburg, Va.--Ten veteran Elks, residents of the Elks' National home, located at Bedford, 25 miles from here, died at the home, according to advices received here, from what Is thought to have been fresh cider poisoned by arsenate of lead used for tree spraying. The cider, It was said, was bought from a farmer. The barrel Is believed to have been used last spring In connection with the spraying. Several other residents of the home are 111 from the poisoning, ; ^ To Exhibit 10,500 Animal at Chicago Live Stock Show Chicago.--Preparations for the twenty- fifth annual International ; Live Stock exhibition, to be held November 29 to December 6 at the International amphitheater and twenty associate buildings, was officially launched by officers of the exposition. , Already the assurance of a recordbreaking field of 10,500 animals promises to make the show one of great magnitude. Kills Wife and Three Guests Memphis, Tenn.--Four persons were shot and killed by Henry Weber, barber, who then committed suicide. The victims were his wife, Mrs. Weber; Mr. and Mrs. Schader and Mrs. Alexander. , ' . Navy Buys Powerful Flyer Washington.--A contract for a flying boat, capable of making a sustained flight from the west coast to Honolulu, has been signed by the bureau of aaval aeronautics. Rum Ship Seized m FtgkM Erovldenee, R. I-- In a running fight In Narragansett bay early Wednesday, a coast guard rum chaser captured the 70-foot yacht Herreshoff, containing more than 250 cases of whisky and champagne. Los Angeles Plague Kills $ LOB Angeles.--Two deaths from bubonic pla'gue and one from pneumonic plague were reported by health officials here, raising the total of plague deaths since October 19 to 38. fc-x...;C:.. MG.fi. MNES UNDER THE KNIFE - ; Vice President-Elect Opw*f ; *ted On--Seized With; Hernia at Exercise* ' -i, Evanston, 111.--Brig. Gen. Chart** Qates Dawes, vice president-elect, underwent an operation at the Evanston - hospital. : The operation was to correct a hernia which developed while General Dawes was taking his "dally docen" exercises in his room. It \vas of; a minor nature. Only local anesthetic was administered. Dr. William. R. Parkes, who with Dr. W. C. Danforth Is in charge of th© case, fesued a statement explaining that the general's condition was "splendid" and that no serious conseqoence3 can be expected. But, Doctor Parkes said. General Dawes will be required to remain <1b~ bed probably two weeks. * "General Dawes stood the operation nicely," the surgeon stated. "It Wat a simple operation, Involving no vital organ. ' The general will be In bed about two weeks. His vitality la very good. "Six yeara-ago, when the general was being exSmlned for promotion tw brigadier general, « slight suggestion of the trouble was discovered. > "The condition which developed probably Is an exaggeration of the trouble noted then." General Dawes was going through the regulation army setting-up exercises, and was flexing the waist muscles by touching his fingers to the floor with knees unbent, when he became aware of the Injury. Doctor Parkes was summoned by Mrs. Dawes and the operation decided upon at once. As he was being prepared for the operating table at the hospital the general jested with the surgeons sad* nurses. His physicians hope that the period In the hospital may serve as something of a rest cure, especially to relieve the strain and tension which he underwent during the ejection campaign. General Dawes' first act following the operation was to dictate a telegram to President Coolidge .assuring the Chief Executive that the trouble was not serious. The message was taken by the general;# s««s»^ry. B. A. Mattingly. ; ; ; . ' 'WYVrfv Jersey City Has Another Big Fire; $2,000,000 Lais New York.--The Jersey City water front was swept on Sunday by fire for the second time in three days, the flames destroying two Erie railroad piers, fourteen barges, a loaded freight car, and a steam lighter. The estimated loss is $2,000,000. Three fire fighters, one a tugboat capta4s» were seriously injured. On Friday two square water froSt blocks were burned over and property valued at over $5,000,000 was lost. The distance between the fires was approximately 20 blocks, and the cause <#£ each Is unknown. The wharves burned on Sundty were piled high with westbound merchandise, the character and value Of which may never be known, due to the destruction of the freight records. CP Racing through the piers and the river craft with remarkable rapidity, the flames threatened for a time the passenger station of the Erie railroad. Throughout the fire the warehouse pier of the American Railway Express company, with only four railroad tracks between It and the biasing mass that had been Pier 5, was to peril. Stored in the warehouse were express packages valued by officials at between $800,000 and $1,000,000. Los Angeles' Water ' Supply Cut by Raider* Los Angeles, Cal.--Sixty men from the Owens River valley swept down upon the Los Angeles aqueduct, overpowered the guards and opened the Alabama waste gates, four miles norlii of Lone Pine, practically cutting off a large part of Los Angeles' water supply. The entire flow, 2,102 gallons In% .' second, Is spilling Into the Owens rf(*» er. The raiders said they will continue to waste the water until a committee comes from Los Angeles aid "settles" with them. Sheriff Collins, after vainly seeking to have the waste gates closed, returned to Independence to telegraph the facts to Gov. F. W. Richardson and asked for troops. * Ever since the 285-mlIe aqueduct hf» been built there has been opposltida - on the part of the ranchers of the valley. They maintain that the city has robbed their farms of water ne*> essary for Irrigation -purposes. Sev- * eral times there have b?en clashes. Senate Plans Dry Quiz > * Washington.--The special senator ' - committee investigating the Internal:-- revenue bureau is expected to begil* an inquiry into the prohibition unit aftwell as administration of the tax IaH%r > November 29. Two Sentenced to Death Phebla, Mex.--After hearing testimony for eight boars, two were sen»; - tenced to death here In connection with the murder of Mrs. RosalJ* Evans, the English widow. Legion to Raise $5,000,000 h Indianapolis.--A nation-wide campaign to raise an endowment fund of $5,000,000 to care for orphanel rhildren or World war veterans an# helpless ex-service men will b# launched soon by the American legion. Newspapers Merge Duluth.--The Wisconsin Sunday Times of Superior and the Duluth News-Tribune have been merged under the name of the News-Tribune, It was Announced on Tuesday.