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ALLIES WJN, BATTLE 3c. ,>;^"4icL0-rf*ENCH ARMIES TAKC SOUCHEZ AND LOOS FROM ' • I GERMANS. , ..'iziti ' t; 20,000 TEUTONS CAPTURED Official Statement Issued at Berlin Ad- mits Repulse--French Push Enemy Back on Fifteen-Mile Front--British Take Five Miles of Trenches. , London, Sept. 28.--The greatest vic­ tory for the allied arms since the bat­ tle of the Marne, when the strategy Of General Joffre and Sir John French saved Paris, has crowned the first move of the great Franco-British drive to hurl the Germans from France. Almost a year to the day since that great battle, which marked the end of the German advance into France, Joffre and French have hurled their legions at the German line with a vio lence for which they have beeu months in preparing. AS a result, the German position which extends in the form of a right angled triangle from Ypres south to a point northeast of Compeigne, thence directly east through Reims to a point north of Verdun, is in imminent dan­ ger of envelopment and annihilation unless the allied drive is stopped short. In the two days since the great al­ lied offensive began, striking at the extremes of this great German triangle with the purpose of flanking both an­ gles, the French and British have cap­ tured 20,000 unwounded prisoners. The French, on the southern line of the German triangle, have smashed their way for two and a half miles through the German line on a front of fifteen miles, while at the northern end near Arras the British army has captured five miles of trenches and broken the German line in some places for a det>th of 4,000 yards. The German war office admits the loss of Loos and Souchez and the re­ tirement of the Germans for more than A anile over a wide section of the front. The greatest intensity of the French attack is being covered on the lower or left flank of the German line in the Champagne region, where the French on Friday drove the Germans from their first line of trenches in the most furious battle which has taken place IB France since last autumn. Paris reports that the powerful sys­ tem of entrenchments, caves, re­ doubts, protection sheds and fortifica­ tions which the Germans spent the winter in constructing and protecting hkve been taken by the French on the front between Auberive and Ville-enr- Tourbe, just east of Reims in * > Champagne district. . After driving the Germans from Hfese positions the French attacked again with a terrific vigor and forced the Germans to retreat between three and four kilometers (two and a half miles) to their second line of en­ trenchments. In this battle alone the Stench took 16,000 prisoners, 200 of whom are officers, 24 field guns and a •ast quantity of supplies stored in the works the Germans were compelled to abandon. The French report declares the al­ lied troops have captured the villages of L'Epine de Vedegrange, LaCabane and Tabaraqne, towns lying between Reims and Verdun which have been in the Germans' hands all winter. In the joint drive the British and Belgian troopB have taken a valorous part in the district between Arras and Ypres. The advance was timed so that-the British attached near La Bas- see at the same time thie French start­ ed their drive around Arras. East of Grenav and Vermelles, south of the La Bassee canal, the British broke through the German lines for a depth of 4,000 yards across a front of five miles, capturing the village of Loos, part of the village of Hulluch and the earthworks adjoining Hill No 70 Further south the French concen­ trated their artillery fire on the Ger­ mans holding the village of Souchez, where fighting has taken place at in­ tervals all winter without results. Un­ der cover of this rain of shells the French troops charged and forced the Germans to retreat. The entire vil­ lage fell Into the hands of the French. From this point the allies advanced eastward in the direction of Givenchy, .hoping to effect a juncture with the British who were moving southward. During this battle the French captured 1,4)00 prisoners. The British took 1*700, according to Sir John French's report. Only at one point were the Germans successful. This was at Bellewaarde, in Belgium, where the 1 British were driven out of the village after capturing it. The losses on both sideB are report­ ed to be fearful. Every known^ett- gine of destruction has been used by the Germans and allies in the terrific conflict. Thousands of bodies are ty­ ing un buried for more than 100 miles. M Jfr , 1"- Jr. Forty Haitians Are Killed. Cape Haitien, Sept. 28.--In an attack by rebels on an American force about two miles from Cape Haitien, 40 Hai­ tians were killed. The rebels have re­ fused t» disarm and Americans are marching on Haut du Gap. THE CRISIS IN THE BALKANS CARKANZA SOLDIERS LOOT ANt> BURN STORE AT PROGRESS, TEXAS. ESCAPE BACK INTO MEXICO Retreat of Raiders Covered oy Sev­ eral Hundred of "First Chief's" '• Troops--General Funston May Go After Bandits- Erownsville, Tex., Sept. 27.--One American soldier was killed, the cap­ tain commanding the Americans was wounded and the post office and gen­ eral store at Progreso, Tex., were looted and burned on Friday wbee about eighty armed Mexicans crossed ID to Texas and attacked a small de­ tachment of Troops B and C, Twelfth e#valry. .Re-enforcements have been rushed from several army posts and Genera Funston reports the situation well li» hand. However, all the Mexicans, with the exception of 17 kill "1 and 18 prisoners, have recrossed into Mexico under the protection of sev­ eral hundred troops on the other side of the border. So serious is the situation felt to be here that it is believed Genera1 Funston will order his men to pursue the raiders into Mexican territory in case of a repetition of the raids. Offi­ cers who took part in the fighting have reported to General Funston that the soldiers belonged to Carranza's army. Major Anderson, in command at Mercedes, made the following report to General Funston: "Party of about eighty Mexicans at­ tacked store house at Progreso post office at about daybreak in the morn­ ing. broke into store, looted the place and set fire to it. A detachment of Troops B and C, Twelfth cavalry, numbering about twelve men, were fired upon as they approached the store. The fire was returned. "Private Henry Stubblefield, Troop B, Twelfth cavalry, was shot twice in the body and was killed. Four of­ ficers and about sixty of our men par­ ticipated in the fight. The firing kept up about two hours. "Capt. A. V P. Anderson, who was in command, received flesh wound in arm, but is not considered dangerous Two horses were killed and one wounded. "The Mexicans were pursued in brush to the river. Several hundred Mexicans on other side of the river kept up a heavy fire to cover crossing of Mexicans." San Antonio. Tex., Sept. 27.--Gen. Raoul Madera- brother of the slain president, and eight other prominent Villistas have been arrested at Glenny Springs. Tex., where they crossed the border. Those taken with Madero and sent to Alpine. Tex., are: Gen. San­ tiago Sanches, Jose Pulido. Emilio Vasquez. Tiyanim Rangil, Jose Maria Rodriguez. Raul, Davila, Ramond Par- tildo and Abraham Martinez. BULGARIA DENIES WAR MOVE Premier Says Army Was Mobilized for Protection--Greece Calls Out Army. Washington, Sept. 27.--A statement cabled to the Bulgarian legation bejrp on Friday by Premier Radosiovoff an­ nounces that Bulgaria does not Intend aggressive action against any of her neighbors and that her mobilization is not to be construed as indicating that she is about to enter the war London, Sept. 27.--Before many hours have passed the flame of war may have seared the Balkan nations again. With the Bulgarian army massed on cne border of Serbia and 800.000 Austro-Germans ready to strike on another, Greece and Roumania. the last of the Balkan states to become infected with the war fever, have be­ gun preparations to enter the conflict. The menace of Bulgaria s mobilt- zation was met by Greece with a royal decree calling twenty classes of troops to the colors Minister of War Dang lis issued an order calling out all the Greek reservists. Simultaneously the Roumanian cab­ inet was called into hasty conference with King Ferdinand 'n circumstances that leave no doubt that the meeting will be followed by a mobilization or­ der. % is pifM; 'President Wants No Extra Session. Washington, Sept. 28 - Officials in Wilsons confidence said fli [ that the president has practically • .^'decided against calling art extra ses- - PI / •; Sion of the senate to meet in Octo- £•$ i her to revise its rules. '4C•- ^i Sea Gives Up Arabic Dead $ :r Queenstown. Sept. 21.--a body that came ashore on Kriday at Cloaakilty. ' *Tv" H on the 'outb coast or Ireland, jia8 been identified as that of Mrs! Josepnine Brugulare of New York, one Qf the victims of the Artfblc disaster. BRITISH LINER IS TORPEDOED American Wireless Operator Missing After Steamer Chancellor 8unk by Submarine. London. Sept. 2'i.--The Harrison liner Chancellor, a British ship, baa been sunk by a German submarine. Part of the crew Is reported missing among them G. W. King of New Or leans, an American, who was assistant Marconi operator on the liner. U. S. Battleship Damaged. Washington. Sept. 28.--An accident to the battleship Arkansas whl<b Das placed her circulating pumps out of commission while engaged In tareet practice off the Virginia capes was reported to the navy department. Two Men Burned. Montreal. Que.. Sept. 28 --Two men burned to death in a fire which de stroved the sash and door factorv of Benoit Sons. Seventy other workmen escaped with difficulty. Several fire­ men were overcome by the heat. v5?,' "Xv'•>' Americans Defeat Japs. Tokyo, Sept. 52..--TK~ r>a.^eball team if- ' the University of Chicago defeated f'r J*' .. Waseda -univerplty ~ team :>i<«ay / %fternooo bv a scr*-e of b to 3 In the £ opening game of the series. Thirty * ^thousand persons wttfcbed the game. Swedish Steamer Torpedoed. Christiansand. Norway. Sept. 25. The Swedish steamer Forsvik, 1,107 ton«. has been sunk by a German sub­ marine. The crew was baved. The ship was earryinr a cargc o» thro'igh the war<*one. f * * * > " ' « A kwt&ri - UK . ' »<•*»» is iip,!!!i.i=i;rp !:II! 'LIIIHIIFC*.*#* !1ld 6 TWO HUNDRED INJURE!)' WtfCN CAR FILLED WITH GA80LINE _ -EXPLODES^. :••• , *• •£? ARDM0RE, 0KLA., & WRECKED I Austro-(>erraans extend bombaruiiuMU ui Serbian positions along en­ tire northern frontier 2. Bulgarian government takes over all railways for troop movements.. Army taking positions along Serbian border 3.- Terri­ tory ceded to Bulgaria by Turkey to give former control of Dedeagatcb rallr road. 4. Allies on Gallipot! peninsula attempting to force Dardanelles. &. Greek army ordered mobilized on Bulgarian frontier. SUBWAY BLAST KILLS 8 BLOCK AND HALF OF NEW YORK STREET COLLAPSES. Fifty Persons Injured When Explosion Carries Away the Supporting Pil­ lars of Tunnel. New York, Sept. 24.--Police are hunting for Frank Midnight. %hose real name is Mezzoncee. on a charge of homicide. He is the man who had charge of blasting operations in the new subway being constructed in Sev­ enth avenue, which collapsed on Wednesday, resulting in eight deaths and injuring 50 persons, several per­ haps fatally. The generally accepted theory of the cause of the accident was that an explosion of dynamite had blown away pillars supporting the street surface. Coroner Fein berg said he be­ lieved faulty construction work, rath er than an explosion, caused the col­ lapse. but firemen found several sticks of dynamite and are keeping them as evidence. Six persons were crushed to deatb when a street car plunged 50 feet Into the chasm as a block and a half of the street surface. collapsed. Two others died •> of their injuries after being removed from the ruins of the car. which was torn to pieces. U. S. GAINS APPOINT GERMANY ASSUMES SAFETY TO AMERICAN 8HIPS. coal Tax Hit* Americans. London, Sept 25 --The wealthy An­ glo-American contingent in London will be hit severely by the'lncn ase in the^new war Income They al ..ready have contrlhuusd Ixrgeiy ir ihanj terms of relief SPARKS FROM THE WIRE Washington, Sept. 24.--American marines under command of Col. L. W T. Waller and armed with machine guns are forcibly opening the way Irom the coast to the interior of Haiti. In a series of engagements between Cape Haitien and Rivieres and be­ tween Gonaives and Ennery live na­ tives have been killed and their chief wounded. Cape Haitien. 8ept. 24.--The com­ manders of the American battleships in Haitian waters have sent an ultima­ tum to the rebel chiefs in the interior of the island giving them eight days in which to disarm their forces. * Terre Haute. Ind.. Sept. 24.--Mrs. Sanford Shepler, a grandniece of Ben­ jamin Franklin and mother of the wife of Judge Eli Redman, is dead here at seventy. Mayfleld, Ky., Sept. 24.--A plague of bedbugs has caused the high school building to be closed that the insects may be exterminated. Whence tbev came is not known, but tb^ school building was filled with them. Budapest. Sept. 24.--The Official Ga zette of the Hungarian government printed a decree calling to the colors all males born in 1897 before Octo ber 15. Panama, Sept. 27.-r-:What purports to be the draft of a new treaty which the Panama government desires to enter into with the United States gov­ ernment was made public here. The most important of the 12 articles in the treaty cover the transfer to the Panama government of all Panama railroad-owned lands in the cities of Panama and Colon, except those on which buildings already have been erected or which are used by the rail­ road and the establishment of compul­ sory military service in Panama for defense of the canal. Cardinal Injured in Fall. Rome. Sept. 28.--Cardinal Jerome Gotti, aged eighty-one, prefect of the propaganda, fainted and fell in bis of­ fice, striking his head violently on the floor, says the Idea Nazionale. He suf­ fered a slight concussion of the brain Italians Take Stronghold. Rome, Sept. 28.--An Alpine column which let*. Santa Caterina with a can jon reached the summit of Koenig- <tpitze. An Austrian position was at tacked on Suldenspitze. The enemy was routed and stronghold captured. Germans Shoot Doerflinger.' Geneva, Sept. 27.--Friends of uie Swiss cycling champion. Doertiiuger who N^as arrested by tbe Germans and convicted of espionage, claim to have received inf rmaOon that he wu executed. American Subscribes co German Loan. fc-erlin, Sept. Uor.ert J. Thotnp b:n. for many years American cousul at Hanover and now living at T:e Hagu«. has subscribed 560.000 marks »*l2b,0tnj to the new German war loan. ' > v?\ • £'i/;. kJ-.ijr'il kM® '.P 'Ah Submarine Commanders Given Orders Not to Torpedo Vessels Without Giving Ample Notice. Washington. Sept. 25.--Germany's latest note on the sinking of the Amer lean sailing ship William P. Frye, pub­ lished by the state department on Thursday, discloses an important dip­ lomatic' victory for the United States., Germany accepts the proposal to fix damages by commission and to let The Hague pass upori'disputed treaty rights Involved. She also gives assur­ ances that no more American ships carrying conditional contraband will be destroyed under any circum­ stances One thing seemed to officials certain German naval commanders now are ordered to exercise the rights of visit and search with respect to all Ameri­ can ships to determine what cargo the vessels carry, thus making it prac­ tically sure that none will be attacked without warning or ample time for passengers and crew to be transferred Irrespective of the cargo. Scores of Persons Pinioned Under Ruins- -Explosion Shatters Bust* ness Section of Town--Fiancee ; Destroy Many Buildings v AIR RAID ON STUTTGART Allied Flyers Drop One Hundred dombs on German Royal Palate- London. Sept. 24.--One of the most daring aerial exploits of the war was accomplished by French aviators, who flew 110 miles into Germanv and bom­ barded Stuttgart, capital of the Ger­ man duchy of Wuerttemberg. The aviators, according to the offi­ cial communique issued at Paris on Wednesday, dropped 100 bombs on the royal palace and the railway station while under heavy Are from tbe tier- man anti-aircraft guns, but escaped unharmed and all returned safely. The aeroplanes probably made In all a flight of 300 miles. The statement gives no details of the damage at Stuttgart. Ardmore, Okla.. Sept. 29.--Fifty per­ sons are believed to have been killed and at least 200 injured, moat of them dangerously, when a 25D-barrel tank car ot gasoline, standing near the Santa Fe freight ofhee in the ttuBine&fl district, exploded on Afonday. The tremendous force of the explo­ sion razed many buildings and threw burning gasoline in everj direction, A few minutes later the whole town was at the mercy of a score of fires. Ten blocks of business buildings were imperiled by the flames. The f res are all under control and the city is under martial law^ A spark from a hammer ignited gas fumes through a small leak in the tank and caused the explosion, it was stated. Two workmen were busy on the tank at the time. Both were killed. Immediately after the explosion ex­ cited persons were running in every direction. Glass fronts were blown from stores and scores of people were severely cat.), _ Private homes were immediately thrown open to the injured and a score of men began working in the smoldering ruins in the business dis­ trict for victims. Charles R. Smith, former member of the police force, who was stand­ ing on Main street, near the explo­ sion, was killed by falling stones. M. K. Atkins, who was standing almost three blocks from the explosion, was killed. A. G. Gould was driving across the Santa Fe_ tracks near the scene when , the blast occurred. He waa hurled to death, his horse was killed and his wagon blown to pieces. A man sitting in his wagon east of the Love hotel was crushed when the east side of the building fell, burying his team. Several bodies have been dragged from the ruins. Ladd & Davidson's wholesale house, east of the railroad, was badly wrecked. The Santa Fe freight station was wrecked and was burned to the ground. The Union passenger sta­ tion is almost a total wreck. The express office was partially wrecked. From the Santa Fe freight station to the Whittington hotel every build­ ing, including the Pennington whole­ sale grocery house, is wrecked. The east side of the Whittington hotel was wrecked. Swift's house waa wrecked and burned. Dewitt's cigar store was wrecked. Forty girls were employed here, but none was killed. The Hardyman hotel ^as demol­ ished and it was reported that several -persons were in the building. J. L. Wilson saw th6 explosion. The car of gasoline belonged to the Ard­ more rehnery, and , some men from the refinery were trying to stop a leak that had been reported from the Santa Fe ofiice. Ardmore is the county seat of Car­ ter county and one of the largest cities in southern Oklahoma. It has a population of more than 16,000. » It often has been referred to as the Model City of Southern Oklahoma." News Brevities '. of Illinois NO SAFE CONDUCT TO DUMBA State Department ' Deliver* Pointed Acknowledgment to Teuton's Re­ quest--Austria Must Answer. Washington. Sept. 25.--The «iepart- ment of state acknowledged the "re­ quest of Doctor Dumba, the Austro- Hungarian ambassador, for a safe con duct to Europe. In doing so it informed the ambassador that the subject of his return bad been taken up with the Austro-Hungarian foreign office The inference was plain that until the Aus­ trian answer to the American request for the ambassador s recall had been received no safe conduct would be given Doctor Dumba has made reservations on tbe Rotterdam, sailing on September 28. Cup Goes to Family of Six. Springfield, 111.. Sept. 27.--The six children of Mrs. Emma Anderson of Springfield, all of whpm are under fourteen years of age. won the final contest of the better babies contest at the state fair here. All the children were graded above 90 per cent per­ fect. The family was presented with a silver cup. . 8choone- Minnie 8lauson Sinks. Hyannis. Mass.. Sept. 27.--Tbe three-masted schoQo xr Minnie Klau- son. out of New York St. John wttb coal, sank off Hyav after a col­ lision with tbe HandKei :hter hghtsnip. captain Dixon and tbe crew landed. Prince Killed in Battle. Amsterdam. Sept. 27.-- A dispatch from Vienna reports the deAtb or the prince of Tburn and Taxis. He was killed during a battle with tbe Rus­ sians on tbe Seretb river front, the dispatch says. No Bar on Union Labor. Rouse. Colo., Sept. 25.--John D. Rockefeller. Jr.. said flatly that <be Colorado Fuel apd Iron company does not care whether Its miners belong to a union or not. The statement waa made in a conference Thursday. New York Tailors Strike. New York. Sept. 25.--Three thou­ sand men and several hundred wtirrnen, tailors employed in Fifth avenue shops, went on strike on Thursday After rejection of their demands foi ah increase in nage*';. FRENCH HALT CROWN PRINCE Allies Repulse German Offensive Movement in Argonne and Con­ tinue Drive in Champagne. London, Sept. 29.--Crown Prince Frederick William's army was thrust against the French line on Monday In a new German offensive movement in the Argonne, but it reeled back­ ward with heavy losses under the French -are. The French continued their drive in the Champagne, gaining considerable ground. The British and French north of Arras maintained all their previous gains in spite of heavy per- man courfter-attacks. Roused by the big advance made in the first assaults of the allies after they launched their genaral offensive, the Germans rushed re-enforcements through Belgium to Lens and from various points into the Champagne. The arrival of these troops is believed to account Cor the stubbornness of the battle now in progress in the Cham­ pagne region. The German losses already are placed \)y allied authorities at more than 100,000. The allies also reported heavy losses. It is estimated the prisoners cap­ tured by the allies during t|»e rush total more than 23,000, but this is off­ set to some extent by the German claims that nearly 7,000 French and British fell into their, hands. Take German Treasure Ship. Genoa, Sept. 29.--Spanish packet Luis Vives, whose port of registry is Valenzia, has been seized by the po­ lice, who discovered aboard her 100.- 000 lire ($20,000) in gold, which, it. is charged, was destined for Germany. Garment Makers on Strfke. Chicago, Sept. 29i--Three thousand garment workers have walked out, 300 have been locked out and five arrests have been made in the first day's struggle between the tailors and em­ ployers for increased wages. American Meat Spoils. Naples, Sept. 29.--The entire cargo of the American steamer Sarnia, from New York with frozen meat for ttye Italian army, is unfit for use. 9 A re­ frigerator broke down during, tfeei vfijr- age and the meat spoiled. British Transport Is Sunk. Marseilles. Sept. 29.--The British steamer Natal Transport, was shelled and sunk by a German submarine Sep­ tember 17, south of Crete- Its crew of 84 was picked up a»d leaded Flraeus, Greece. \ ; . Springfield---The state live stock .Commission placed all of Warren coun­ ty in the restricted area in the foot- and-mouth disease quarantine. Part of it has been in restricted area here­ tofore. Springfield.--Another outbreak ot the foot-and-mouth 'disease was report­ ed to the state board of live stock commissioners from La Salle county, near La Salle. This is the first case of foot-and-mouth In that vicinity. Danville.--Alva C. Horr was found guilty of the murder of his wife by a Jury and was sentenced to 25 years in the penitentiary. Horr was cap­ tured a month ago In Virginia after he had eluded arrest for nearly a year. , Dallas City.--Meade & Son, fisher­ men of this place, made a haul with their nets which resulted in a catch of between 5,000 and 6,000 pounds of fish, which ,were principally buffalo. It is claimed to be the biggest single catch that has ever been made out of the river anywhere near here. Springfield.--Vaccination of the 4,000 employees and patients of the Kankakee Hospital for the Insane, at Kankakee, was ordered by Dr. P. M. Kelly, superintendent > of tbe institu­ tion. A request that the state furnish the vaccine was made to Dr St. Clair Drake, secretary of the state board ot health. 4 Danville.--Dorothy Rainsberger, five years old, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Q. E. Rainsberger of the Methodist church of Christman, became ill after being bitten by a dog a week ago. Examination revealed that tbe dog had the rabies.^ ^The girl was sent at once to Chicago for treatment and It Is said her condition IS' serious. Pontiac.--The seventy-eighth anni­ versary sessions of the Bloomlngton Baptist association closed here by electing the following officers: Mod­ erator. Dr. J. L. Jackson. Blooming- ton; clerk, Rev. N. J. Hilton. Lincoln; treasurer. S. C. Nixon, Deer Creek; trustees for three years, Homer Bates. Normal; W, H Marshall. Deer Creek. Chicago.--Chicago's fire insurance rates are reduced, in some cases 33 1-3 per cent, in a ruling announced by the Chicago board 6t underwriters. The reductions apply to buildings and con­ tents. The ruling will affect every property owner in the city. The re­ ductions are based on improvements on fire protection and the better con­ struction of buildings obtained through the new building ordinances. Danville.--Attired in overalls, over bloomers, and covered with dust and grime, Vesta Hemmer and Duva Fish­ er were taken from the engine of a Wabash freight train here aind de­ tained at police headquarters. They explained that they had run away from the Indiana Girls' reformatiry at Cler­ mont. had ridden in a box car to Springfield, 111., where they attended the state fair, and then tale on the engine from Decatur. Springfield.--Advices received by the board of health from its i gents on tbe ground show that the epidemic of typhoid fever in Menard county is one of the worst experienced in the state in several years. Eighty cases have been located in and around Petersburg, 16 have been found near Athens and nine cases In and near Greenview. There are several cases in adjoining counties also, it is re­ ported. and the cause of infection .Is believed to La the same as in tbe Menard county cas«s. Dr. E. F. Baker of Jacksonville, medical inspector of the state board of health, took charge of th ^ Menard county situation. Peoria.--With thirty of the forty- eight delegates present, representing sixteen German societies of central Illinois which form the Peoria branch of the German-American alliance, reso lutiona were adopted protesting against local hanks participating in the proposed billion-dollar loan to tbe allies; to petition for an extra sesalon of congress to establish an embargo against the shipment of munition!) of war and to instruct delegates to tbe state convention of the German-Ameri- can alliance, which opened at Peru. In the meeting President Wilson was as­ sailed as an autocrat by several speak­ ers. who condemned his foreign poli­ cies. Springfield.--Little Charlotte Un­ derwood of Bloomlngton, the forty-two- mgnth-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Underwood, is the best baby in Illinois, according to the decision of ten baby rpecialists who have acfed as Judges of the better baby contest at the stato fair. Charlotte's average was 98 per cent perfect. She was pre­ sented with a "sweepstakes" cup by Governor Dunne. Stacy G. Van I'et- ten, Jr., of Chicago, thirty-five months old. was given a cup for t eing the best boy of any class entire; I in the con­ test. His average was 97.6. Ernest "A Hunsley. EJdinburg. won first prize for rural boys from three to four years old. and Jane Nathan Hamilton. Paw­ nee. won the first rural girl prize. Bloomlngton.--At the closing ses­ sion of the Illinois Christian Woman's Board of Missions Mrs. Lura Thomp­ son Porter ot Carthage was elected president. ChlcagO.-r'Meyor S. May. Grand Rap­ ids. Mich., was elected president of the National Retail Clothiers' afsocla- tion at the closing session of the con­ vention here. Other officers chosen were: First vice-president. Herman 'Ritter, Youngstown. O.; second vice- president, J. L. Lynch, Minneapolis, treasurer, William A. Bodenhausen. St. Louis; secretary. Charles E. Wry. Des Moines, la. «> Springfield.--There will be no more work over hot ranges in the domestic science department of the Springfield public schools The b >ard of educa tion has ordered that electric stoves be introduced into the department Cartervllie.--Joseph Stock, fifty- eight years old. alderman in Ward No. t, was killed in Hafer No 3 mtne, ueai here, by falling slate. Bloomington -- Judge and Mrs. II. M. Benjamin of this city observed their fifty-ninth wedding anniversary. Th« couple has resided in jna house dil* [ in& Uie ea^ire ^>eir married | Sad Omission. Dorothy was so homesick at her first party that the hostess' mother suggest* ed that it would be better for her to go home. Dorothy gladly accepted the idea, but a few minutes later, answer­ ing a timid knock at the door, the hostess' mother found Dorothy bathed In tears. "Well, Dorothy, I'm glad to see you again. Did you decide to come back?" "No, m'itt, 1 f-f-forgot t-to say I ha- had such a nice time!"--Christian Register. 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I've got four quarts of moth balls piled on the din­ ing room table, and if a moth shows above the trenches 111 start a bom­ bardment and keep it up all the eve­ ning, but I'll force the moth to surren­ der." NO MORE GRAY HAIRS ' Restore Youthful Color. No One Know You're Using Anything. Phyatclann advise against harmful hair •UklM and dyes. But why use them when yon can bring' back the natural, youthful color with Hay's Hair Health? This is accomplished by the action of air, due to an element con­ tained In this famous preparation. Absolutely harmless; so positive in results that druggists will refund money if it falls. Keeps new gray hairs from showing. Routs dandruff; tone* scalp; makes the hair stronK, vigorous and beau­ tiful. 25c, 50c and $1.00 at drug stores or direct on receipt of priceand dealer's name. PblloHai ipeciallies Co., Newark, N. J. Adv. Unmerited Slight. "A foreigner, visiting in this coun­ try, says American men merely make money for women to spend." 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(confi­ dential) Lynn, Mass. lour letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence* Ufa Warner's Safe Diabetes Remedy In diabetes the nutrition is impaired --this results in an excess of sugar in the blood, and the failure of the food to nourish, hence a gradual wasting away while eating welL Symptoms of this disease are In­ creased thirst, excess of urine, emac­ iation and dry akin often with sweet­ ish odor. "I had diabetes and was given up by ail doctors of my town. I took Warner's Safe Diabetes Remedy and am now perfectly well."-- Rev. Alvin H. Morton, Sand Point, Idaho. Sold by all druggists, or sent post­ paid on receipt of price, $1.25 Write for sample and information. WARNER'S SAFE REMEDIES CO. Rochester, N. Y. [.'•SK- . --rlv: -•• *r.gv«i -A-r • -5 1 & V