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I L L I N O I S EVITIES -A waterway convention, [promises to be the most imported in the mid-West this season. £l «aBhi tor P>Hi /or the evening of *** Central ia--J. L. Middleten. slxtyitx. owe of the best known coal operators of nonthern Illinois is dead at Ida home In Sandoval. He rame to Sftixkmtl In 1SS2 and had been active IB the southern Illinois coal fields Mince that num. Springfield.---A total of 2.457 eggs lis been laid fa the last neve® months I9 |be 20 hens constituting the first fMur pens in the state division of poul- Wjr egg-laring contest that is being Conducted at Quinoy and Murphys- N»m. The contest began last November and ends in November of this Rock Btondi-Tlte mile* of rope will Inrfosw the line of march of the Kysterious Order of Veiled Prophets n the night of June 28. Tlie prophets will march to the music of 40 hands. Twenty patrols will add a splash of color to the parade, which will mark ttf closing of the sessions of the order to be held June 26 and 27. Springfield.--I-ake county officials must wait until the Small trial has been completed and the county clerk of that county has filed a certified account of the expenses of the trial before Sangamon county will pay the Mil, according to the action of the board of supervisors. This action Is provided by law and is the only one ttat could be taken. Springfield.--The new constitution o( Illinois will not be Submitted for ratification until after the mayoralty And other spring elections next year, probably during the last week in April. Whether It will be submitted t<f^ie voters in its entirety or in sections. Which is permissible, remains to be determined. The agreement to put ever the election until after the spring campaign was reported in committee and the feeling seems to be general that the convention will readily adopt the recommendation. Springfield.--Distribution of relief (pids to the members of the United Mine Workers of Illinois, which is now under way, will mean an expenditure of approximately $455,000 if all the 91,000 members in the state receive t&e $5 cash payment as now contemplated. Checks have been received by .all locals in the state except 20, which have not yet certified their membership for April, it is understood, although officials at District No. 1 are JM>t divulging the plan for distribution «hd the method of procedure. > Chicago.--Illinois coal operators, through Dr. C. F. Honnold, secretary, announced they would not consent 16 en ted a joint conference with other Mates to settle the miners' strike. "Illinois operators will now only negotiate with their own men in Illinois," Doctor Honnold said, and pointed out that the request of Illinois operators tor a Joint conference with union heads had been turned down several times by the national organization. The time is passed when joint conferences with any other state* Is jfcgirable," he said. Chicago.--Col. L. G. Nutt, who has "been waging an Independent "cleanup" campaign of Illinois dry law violators following his assignment here Catholic and to Hardin|sV.^v? litee Hundred Twwity sand (Mortal and Station Worker* Affected^ - ietufts «r Election Strand the Death-Knell to Wishes of ftouMoaitfc DE VILERA MEN ARE AMAZED "WHITE GOUIR" CUSS HIT Cut I* Regarded as the Final "Wit lop" by the Labor Board Before tlM Unions Perfect Thai# Strike Plana. ' - r from Washington, is to be in supreme Command of the dry enforcement ac-' this county comprises several thou- Kockford.- Clubwomen havjj tested to the board of superviaara tha action of that body is disc the oflfce of matron of the county jalL The office of jail matron was abolished by the board as an economy i measure. H«rdln»--Market baskets at wild strawberries have been flooding tha markets in Calhoun county. It is the largest crop of wild berries ever know in tha "Kingdom," and thw quality is mnch superior to the cultivated crop. Springfield.--Dr. H. H. Unnly of Peoria has been appointed a member of the medical examining committee of the state department of registration, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dr. L. C. Taylor of Springfield. Doctor Taylor resigned follow*^ ing disclosures in the department in &. recent investigation. Joliet.--Ira Walker, received from Cook county March 25, 1918, on a sentence of one year to life, on a charge of robbery, and Charles Conway, from Kankakee county, June 26, 1915, on a sentence of five to twenty years for burglary, escaped from the penitentiary here by climbing over the; wooden framework at the railroad gate. Rockford.--Rockford high school won the northern Illinois track meet held recently here, with a total of 62 points. Oregon and Mooseheart tied for second at 28 points, and St. Al- 'bans was third with 10 points. Other teams scoring were: Mount Carroll, 9; Monroe Center, 4; Freeport, 3; National Athletic club, Rockford, 3; Sycamore, 1. Belleville.--The "measuring worm" Is doing a great deal of damage to trees in St. Clair county, and is also causing the death of large numbers of fish in lakes and streams, according to deputy state game inspectors. The worms grow in trees along the water's edge, from which they fall into the water, and fish that swallow the worms are poisoned. Springfield.--Havana furnished ten of the thirty-five new cases of smallpox reported during the past week to the state department of public health. Of 165 new cases of diphtheria, Chicago furnished 109. Of 104 new cases of scarlet fever Chicago reported 63, and Ru8hville township, Schuyler county. 5. Chicago reported 126 of the 162 new cases of pneumonia reported. , ' Springfield.--Winter wheat in Illinois on June 1 was 89 per cent of liormal compared with 91 per cent last year and the ten-year average of 75 per cent, according to a report Issued by the federal agricultural statistician for this state. This condition, the report says, promises a crop of 51,613,- 000 bushels compared with 42,638,000 bushels last year and the "five-year average of 41,201,000 bushels. Washington, D. C.--The people of Illinois paid into the United States treasury in income taxes for the year 1920 over $12,000,000 more than was paid by the people of the eleven Southern states east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio river, according to statistics of income, made public by the commissioner of internal revenue. The total amount of incomc taxes for 1920 paid into the treasury by all the states and territories of the Union was $1,075,053,086. of which Illinois contributed $S5,409,203, or 7.93 per cent, ranking third in the list of States. Carrollton.--A. L. McClay, owner of the largest individual orchard in the world, near Carrollton, estimates that his crop this year will be less than 50 per cent normal. McClay's orchard in ttvities in the state, according to Washington dispatches. Charles A. Gregory, who has heretofore been Chief state enforcement officer, will retain his office, but will take his orders from Colonel Nutt, who will hold the tit la of "associate director and personal representative of Mr. flaynes.** Springfield.--The llllonis constitutional conventfbn has reconvened «Cd indications are that the session "Will continue for ten days before the proposed new constitution Is approved sand acres of apple trees. He says the low yield this year la due to the fact that after a total failure of the 1921 apple crop he failed to spray his orchard. A pronounced blight has appeared on the trees, damaging them permanently. The normally huge Greene county crop will average about 50 per cent, government officials estimate. Waukegan.--An eleventh hour reprieve from Governor Small saved Ignatz Potz, convicted of the murder of William Peterson, Wlnthrop Harbor an the order of third reading and I motorcycle policeman, from hanging iiade ready for submission to the vot- ' ln Waukegan. The governor granted "irs of the state. The committee on |a 60-day stay of sentence on the "ftabmlsslon and address, named recent- ground that "important alleged eirljjr by President Charles Woodward, Is cumstances not hitherto brought out M expected to hold an early session and decide upon the date of the special Section at which the document will he voted upon and also plan for a campaign of publicity. had come to his attention." The Su preme court had refused a stay of execution. An attorney, representing the sentenced man, told Governor Small that his client's trial had beea Iteeulta Shaw Irish Election Favora the Treaty With Great Britain-- '. Verdict Regarded aa .ISS.,,- Educate*' Opinion. Dublin, June 2&--Result* of the election in Cork are believed to aound the death knell to the hopes of republicans. The complete defeat of Lord Mayor 0*Callaglian amazed the De Vaierultes. Returns from Cork, which la regarded as the hotbed of extreme republicanism, uie:- R. Day, labor candidate, 6.836; Alderman William Roach, pro-treaty candidate, 6,147; J. J. Walsh, pro-treaty candidal, 6,097; Mary MacSwiuey, anti-treaty candidate, 6,066; Professor Beamish, independent candidate, 4,- 769; - ank Daly, 3,043; O'Cailaghan, 1,897. The first (our candidates have been declared elected tc the DaO TJlreann. The sister of the martyred lord mayor is the only anti-treaty mgmber returned in Ccrk. It was said here that the republicans woul ! have made no showing at all had not Michael Collins agreed to fortn a coalition government. The republicans have now lost two seats to the Free Staters. The labor party is overjoyed, asserting It will win at least four seats in Dublin. Organizer Foran of the labor party said: "The next election will result In a labor government." De Valera Is expected to launch a h&tvy broadside against the constitution. Everybody is convinced that De Vafera's pact with Collins Is now de&d and that a coalition government is unlikely. Forty-two members have been elected to the new parliament, composed of nineteen coalition treaty supporters, with eighteen anti-treatyites, one Independent treatylte and four Trinity college members, all of whom support the treaty. ' The National university is represented in the new parliament by three treaty supporters and one opponent. This means that seven of the eight university members, Including Trinity college, support what the Freeman's Jourtial called Ireland's "Magna Charta." The Irish Times regards this fact as significant proof of the virtual unanimity of the country's educated opinion. CHICAGO COURTS SWAMPED Three Thousand Dry Cases Wheels of Justice in the Windy City. Clog Chicago, June 20.--With 3.000 liquor cases awaiting prosecution in the northern district of Illinois, and with a record of 140 new cases in the last three weeks. Prohibition Agent Charles R. Gregory and his associate. Col. L. C. Nutt, voiced the need for additional Judges and United States attorneys to take care of the cases. "If the record of the last three weeks is maintained In the next three months," it was announced, "a big percentage of the violators will die of old age awaiting trial. The Department of Justice has no adequate organization to cope with the situation, and the business of mopping up Chicago has merely begun." LEPROSY ON THE INCREASE Springfield.--A wave of prosperity, i rushed to clear the way for the govancheoked by the nation-wide coal •trlke. Is sweeping over Illinois and has taken up the slack labor, accord- 5 lag to Director George B. Arnold, de- "fartment of labor. "The building industries, which are in full blast In (Chicago and many of the cities ^throughout the state," says Mr. Arernor's own trial, now in progress. Urbana.--Because the hundreds of people who visit the University of Illinois each summer ebine in such uneven numbers and at odd times, it Is felt by university officials that their visits will be more beneficial If the majority of them come during some i^pold, "have not only taken up the i one period, when special preparations rsEv- ?v 4alack in labor but have given an im- .-.^etus to all lines of business. Daily : ^ information shows that the supply of . • ; workers is below demand. Skilled . j-* farm labor long ago was fully emt> ployed. From reports considered auf>' t ^heritic, indications show that there is '"Enough coal in sight to run the coun- J fry for 30 days at least." Springfield.--A -ecominendation that £--• .j;i$ontracts between miners and opera- - ?jfors expire In the late summer or fall •^Instead of in the spring, which, it is declared, is of advantage to the op- ; <' / .^rators, is included in a resolution by gvHJ%)ai miners of local No. 12, forwarded to state headquarters here. Danville.--The contract has been ^awarded for the construction of Dantille's new 1,000,000 high school bulld- ^ The bid of a St. Louis firm was % Four other contracts, totaly $920,806 with the general contract, ^ 'jalso were let. $ Galesburg.--An evangelistic move- ,|'|pent supported by a well-defined < ^f^courKe of Bibie study to reach the 3,- >; ,% • " 000,000 residents of Illinois who were declared to be without church con- " ; i nection# was urged as part of the program of the Illinois Sunday School " 1. association at the annual convention. The enlarged program was outlined in the report given to the executive com ^)• mil tee of the association. Peoria.--Constable Arthur Smith '\ was shot and instantly killed in a ^'•••llgBt with automobile thieves on a Now 1,200 Cases at Large In Twenty- Five States of the United States. Washington, June 20.--Leprosy la on the increase In the United States. There are now 1,200 lepers at large in 25 states, with the constant danger of communicating 'he dread disease to others. This was given out by the United States public health service, following a careful survey of the country and an appeal to congress to provide greater isolation facilitlee farthe unfortunate victims. rV ntful o£ fry re, can be made to show them about the campus. Accordingly, the college of agriculture has arranged what will be known hereafter as "Open House Week," and It will be held this year from June 19 to 24. It is announced that every plot, every live stock herd, every experimental project will be at its best for the visitors that week. Freeport.--Couples seeking mar* rlage by minister? in Freeport hereafter will not be accommodated with a courthouse wedding. Ministers have agreed they will perform no wedding ceremonies except at the parsonagesor at the home of the bride or groom or some friends. Bloomington.--Four thousand six hundred and eighty-«even feet of paving was laid in this city in the fiscal year ended April 30, according to the report of the city engineer. There are now 256,508 lineal feet of paving in the city. Bement.--Three tramps hopped off a passing freight train here, battered down a door to the-depot restaurant and awakened Jeff Outhouse, proprietor, his wife and small child, and saved them from burning to death. The hoboes caught the nest freight and left. Elgin.--Well water from wells near the city will be flowing in the city water pipes within a short time to replace river water now being used, according to statements by city officials. The city has dug several wells ill tllA lut fav .mmithA. t TWO AIRMEN BURN TO DEATH Lieutenant O'Hanley and 8ergeant Heyme of Camp Henry Knox, Ky, Are Killed Louisville, Ky., June 20.--Lieut. Robert E. O'Hanley of the Seventh photographic section, Eighty-eighth air ^quadron, and S^rgt. Arthur Heynje, both stationed at Camp Henry Kno^, Ky., were burned to death when their airplane fell at a benefit circus exhibition here. Discharged from Emergency lkw> pital, Washington, as one of the most remarkable cases of recovery in the annals of the institution. Dr. Clyde M. Gearhart, victim of the Knickerbocker theater disaster, is now at his home in Washington. The skill of Dr. Jaines W. Mitchell saved Dr. Gearhart's life with only the amputation of the right foot, though those who rescued him from the wreckage with his dead wife In his arms after eight hours, gave little hope for his recovery. Doctor Gearhart is president of the American Academy of Periodontology, member of the legislative committee of the National Dental association, and during the war served on the board of examiners of dental Burgeons with rank of lieutenant. »,.J CONSTITUTION FOR ERIN toe? Force to Treaty--yoip# Jn ? !•« War Provided* ^ Ptacee Relation Between Ireland and Britain on 8ame Basis aa D9.. . minlona--Vote for Women. London, June 17.--The draft of fife new Irish constitution made public on the eve of the Irish elections gives, as the document Itself states, force ol law to the Anglo-Irish treaty and expressly declares that any provision ol the constitution or any amendment thereto, or any law enacted under th€ constitution, which is in any respect repugnant to the treaty, shall be void and inoperative. The constitution thus embodies con. nectlon with the British crown, as already established in the treaty, and generally places the relation between Ireland and the empire on the same basis as Canada and the other dominions. The constitution requires even member of the Free State parliament to subscribe faith and allegiance to the constitution and swear to be faithful to the king in virtue of the comihon citizenship of Ireland and Great Britain and Ireland's membership in the British commonwealth of nations. The document contains 79 article? and is considered an up-to-date instrument, not only granting female suffrage, proportional representation, ano a referendum to the people, but alsc empowering the people themselves tc Initiate legislation. It gives to th< chamber great power with respect tc money bills without control from th€ senate, thus duplicating the position as between the British house of com mons and the house of lords. It exempts the Free State from ac tlve participation in war without the consent of parliament, except In the case of actual invasion, and gives tht Irish Supreme court the fullest pow. ers, only stipulating for the right ol citizens to apiieal to the king in council against the Supreme court's de dslon. It provides for free (ichooU freedom of religion and conscience, give; Free State citizens full protection against the arbitrary power of court martial, and extends to parliament exclusive control over the armed forces, as stipulated In the treaty. PRONOUNCED DEAD, SITS UP "Corps** Packed in Ice Now -on Road to Recovery. New York, June 19.--After being pronounced dead and placed li^a cof. fin surrounded by Ice designed to keep the body over the Jewish Sabbath. Mrs. Rebecca Senst. severity, suddenly sat up and Is rapidly recovering from what physicians declare was a Stroke of apoplexy. Soldiers' Bonus Delayed. Washington, June 19.--Another delay for the soldiers' bonus bill was decided upon by Republican leaders when Chairman McCumber agreed not to press his demand for displacing the tariff with the bdhus. Wisconsin 8torm Kills 81 x. prairie Farm, Wis., June 19.--Six persons are known to have lost their lives and ten or twelve others were seriously Injured In the storm that swept four countiea ' ill Wlaconaln Thursday night. * Seize Five Booze Ships. New York, June 17.--Five alleged Tum-runnlng vessels plying between a steamer anchored In Narragansett l>ay and the American coast, have been seixed • by federal agent*. United States Attorney Hayward announced. Chicago, June 19.--More than 320,* 000 railroad employees are affected by a 926.000,000 wage slash announced by the railroad labor board. The classes of employees affected are the clerical and station forces, which are heaviest hit by the decision, the signal department employees and stationary engine and boiler rootn employees. The new wage scales will take efTect July 1, This cut Is t&e third in a recent series made by the board and makes & grand total of wage cuts on railroad pay rolls of $134,988,921.33. It is regarded as practically the final cut in the present review of wages by the board, as the only class of employees not acted on is that of the railway telegraphers. The telegraphers, it Is learned, do not expect a decision In their wage question for some months. This is because the principal mutters of contention they have before the board regard the alleged inequality at their pay on different railroads. The board's latest decision Is not complete, as a rejoinder .to the dissent filed by minority members is being prepared for record by the majority. The main portion of the decision is released for publication. In filing the decision the board has departed from the lines adopted In its two previous decisions by submitting figures tending to show that under the new scale, as compared with the "before government control" period, the employees, although cut in wages, are actually receiving a higher scale of pay and receive wages having a higher per cent of purchase power than in 1917. More than a million railroad workers have now been reduced In pay by the three decisions, this final cut coming fast on the heels of the announcement by labor leaders, meeting !n convention at Cincinnati, that answers to ballots recently mailed out are unanimously in favor of a nation-wide railway strike. The "white collar" class of rail employees contributed the largest part of the wage slash. More than 180,000 clerks are cut 3 and 4 cents an hour, the smaller rate applying to clerks with experience of two or more years In their line of work. These same employees were cut 6 cents an hour In the wage reduction of last July. Certain employees In the classes considered in the latest decision are not affected, Those whose rate of pay Is unchanged are: Trh'.n dispatchers, dining car stewards, employees represented by the Marine Culinary Workers' Association of California and floating equipment employees, whose wage disputes are remanded. 0. K.'S RUM ON U. S. SHIPS Chairman Lasker of 8hipping Board Declares Prohibition Laws Don't Apply to American Veaaela. Washington, June 16.--The shipping baaird holds that "neither the Volstead act nor the eighteenth amendment ap- PlJf to American ships outside the three-mile limit," Chairman Lasker declared In a letter to Adolphus Busch III, vice president of the Anheuser- Busch, Inc., of St. Louis. Confirming reports that alcoholic drinks were being served on American ships at sea, Mr. Lasker asserted that the shipping board had approved this custom "both from the standpoint of legal right and from the standpoint of the life and security of our national merchant marine." "The' shipping board has permited and will continue to permit the serving of liquor on its ships," he continued, "so long as foreign-flag ships are allowed to enter and depart from our shores exercising that privilege." St. Louis, June 16.--A letter charging the United States Is "Incomparably the biggest bootlegger in the world," written by August A. Busch, president of Anheuser Busch, Inc., while on the way to Europe aboard the steamship George Washington, and which has been forwarded, to President Harding, was made public here. Germany Makes Payment. • Paris, June 20.--Germany paMW regular monthly installment of 50,000,- 000 gold marks for reparations. Deposits aggregating that amount were made In the designated banks in Paris, London and Brussels. Allied Troops to Withdraw. Paris, June 19.--All the allied troops In Upper Silesia will give way by the end of this week to the two control commissions set up by the German- Polish treaty signed at Geneva. Denby at Honolulu. . Honolulu, T. H., June 20.--Tha United States navy transport Henderson, carrying Edwin Denby, secretary of the navy, and members of the Annapolis class of *1881 to' a class reunion >at Tokyo, reached here. Radium Worth $15,000 Gone. Des Moines, la., June 17.--Loss of $13,000 worth of radium has been discovered at Mercy hospital here, and a scrutiny of every waste receptacle, nook and corner of t*h% hospital has " 4?/ 1 " Air Mail Chief Attacked. Cheyenne, Wyo„ June 17.--A number of pilots employed by the Chicago- Rock Springs (W.vo.) division of the air mall service have signed a petition for the removal of A. R. Dumphy ,«j[ Lenin in Tired Condition. Berlin, June 20.--Premier "Lenin la In a tired"condition. Induced by autointoxication, and must rest until adtnmn, after which he probably will resume his interest in politics, according to a Moscow dispatch. Alabama Judge Loses Job. Montgomery, Ala., June 20.--Probate Judge John S. Curtis of Winston county has been found guilty of corruption In office and removed from the office of probate judge by tilt; Supreme court of Alabama. „ - Omaha, division superintendent. > t mm V . •••• .\ ".a i, **i'iiw}-' Would Delay Bonus. Washington, June 17.--Reaffirmation of President Harding's unalterable opposition to the tariff bill being displaced tor the soldiers' bonuc was conveyed Officially to the Repub* aide of the senate, - ' , . V s / • - • • ?%, 5 Grain Plant Burns; $400,000 Lose. St. Joseph, Mo., June 19.--Fire almost completely destroyed the Grain Belt mills here, causing a loss estimated between $350,000 and $400,000. All the machinery, with the exception of the oat machinery, was destroyed. Three 8layers Die In Chair. , Columbia, S. C., June 19.--S. J. Kerby, J. C. Gappleo and C. O. Fox were electrocuted at the penitentiary for the murder of William Brazell, Columbia taxi driver, near Lensvllle on the algfet af August % am. Charles V. Vlckrey, general secretary of the Near East Relief, accompanied by Mrs. Vlckrey and their two sons, has gone abroad to confer with officials of European agencies which are engaged in relief work among the Armenians. He plans to visit Paris, London and Geneva for conferences in each one of these cities. Following these conferences Mr. Vlckrey will make an Inspection tour of relief stations In Transcaucasia, Syria, Anatolia and other regions of the Near East where his organization Is operating. U. S. MARKET REPORT Weekly Marketgram by Bureau . --M Markets and Crops, i .'rV'iflhi! Washington, June 17.--For the week ending June 16--^VEGETABLES-- Potato markets weaker. Carolina Irish cobblers. No. 1, down $.G0@1.00 per bbl. for the week; Virginia stock 25c weaker In eastern markets and Chicago. South central sacked Bliss Triumphs down 66@75c in Chicago. Tomatoes generally weaker. Mississippi fours down liXHi&c in leading cities, up l£c in Cincinnati. Texas sixes down 1.7501.00, in Chicago, up 10c in producing sections. Watermelon nearly •teady, eastern markets slightly weaker. LIVE STOCK--Chicago hog prices declined 6c to 10c net tor the week; medium and good beef steers generally, 6c to l£c higher, with butcher cows and heifers 28c to 60c lower; feeder steers were 16c to 40c lower; light and medium weight veal calves, $1.75@2.26 lower; lambs ranged from $t.75®2.00 lower, while fat ewes were generally 60c lower; hogs eloped firm on the 16th on good grades and mostly 5c to 10c higher than Thursday's average; pigs, 26c to 50c lower; beef steers and better grades of butcher cows and heifers were steady; veal calves 2Gc lower; better grades of sheep and lambs about steady, others weak to lower. June 16--Chicago prices: Hogs, top, 10.80; bulks of sales, $10.05®10.76; medium and good beef steers, $8.00©9.20; butcher cows and heifers, 14.00 08.60; feeder steers, )5.7&@8.76; light and medium weight veal calves, J7.75®9.26; fat lambs, $11.60i@il2.75; yearlings, I8.25@lt.26; fat ewes, $2.50@6.50. Stocker and feeder shipments from 12 Important markets during the week ending June 9 were: Cattle and calves, 30.827; Uogs, 11,909; sheep, 22.- 961. GRAIN--Grain prices unsettled «od closed lower for week; Chicago July wheat down 4c net; Chicago July corn unchanged. Sentiment mixed and largely bearish. Highest prices made first of week on short covering and there was firm undertone on 14th on bullish crop news. Declines mainly 'on liquidation. Weakness In stock market was factor on Ifith. Minneapolis July wheat down for week; Kansas City July wheat down S^c; Winnipeg July wheat down 2^4c. Market unsettled on the 16th with prices fluctuating within three-cent range. Price advanced later on more favorable local sentiment. Removal hedges against export sales main factor In July. Northwest crop reports very favorable but further claims of heat damage In southwest. Closing prices in Chicago cash market: No. 2 red winter wheat. $1.14; No. 2 hard Winter wheat, $1.15; No. 2 mixed corn. 62c; No. 2 yellow corn, (Be; No. S white oats, 36c. Average farm prices: No. 2 mixed corn in central Iowa, about 48c; No. 1 dark northern wheat tn central North Dakota. $1.19%; No. 2 hard winter wheat In central Kansas, $1.00. Chicago July wheat closed at $1.11; Chicago July corn, (2c; Minneapolis July wheat, $1.S1H; Kansas City July wheat, $1.04%; Winnipeg July wheat, 91.24^. HAT--Quoted June 16: No. 1 timothy. New York, $31.60; Philadelphia. $24.00; Pittsburgh, $24.00; Pt. Louis, $>$.00. No. 1 alfalfa, Memphis, $21.00. FEED--Quoted June M: Spring bran, Chicago, blank; Philadelphia. $21.75; standard middlings, Philadelphia, $23.00; winter wheat bran, St. Ix>uls, $17.00; linseed meal, New York, $53.00. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Butter markets steady to firm. Demand active. Bulk of buying is from consumptive demand, although considerable buying for storage has occurred, over a million pounds daily having moved into storage In the four markets the past week. Closing prices, K score: New York, 96c; Philadelphia. WAc: Boston, 37c; Chicago, 36\c. Cheese markets steady.with trading quite active on all except small styles. Sales included numerous lots for storage, although the into-storage movement is relatively slow. Prices at Wisconsin primary markets June 16: Twins, 18^4c; Daisies, 18Vlc; Double Daisies. 18c; Young Americas, 18V4c; Longhoms, 18c; Square Prints, San Shelling Canton. ^tlntfehai, June 20.--Gttnboatfc of Dr. Sun Yat Sen are shelling Canton, according to press advices received here, which report that casualties have been heavy. Refugees from Canton are fleeing to Hongkong for safety. Pinch Army Down to 125,00ft Washington, June 20.--House aa<| senate conferees on the army appropriation bill reached a compromise on an army of 125,000 enlisted men for the next 12 months. This represents a reduction of 8,000. Mrs. Mai lory Is Defeated. London, June 19.--Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, the American lawn tennis woman champion, was defeated in the semi-finals of the Kent tennis championship in women's singles ^ Beckenham oy Miss McKane. " ----, -- '* Accused Man Ends Life. Morgan town, Ky., June 10.--Charged with attacking a woman and released under $1,000 bond shortly before bis little child died, Clark Galloway ended his life beside his baby's open Hgrara and hie body waa buried there. AH A MTHUL GOFEROGE -•HX: €all Upon Qevernment ta/Tafce • In*;"3 mediate Steps to Bring - the Ola-,7 $ putants Together for a Settlo- t ^ tnent of Strike. Washington, June 21.--Preside*^ Harding was asked to take steps to end the coal strike in a joint appeal presented to him by the commission on the church and social service and the Federal Council of Churches, with which are affiliated SO great Protestant communions, the department of social action of the National Catholic Welfare council and the social lustlce commission of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. This is the first time, as far as Is known* that these representative organize tions of Protestants, Roman Catholic® and Jews have taken joint action fa. an industrial matter. The churches in their appeal for action asked tha President: To call a national conference. To get the facts of the coal Industry through a government 'investigation. Not to wait until the suffering WOI|K en and children of the raining have become a national calamity. To end the strike now. The appeal says In part: r'f^v "To the President of the tfndteS Stflfes: We desire to express to yod,' on behalf of the three great religions that we represent, pur conviction that the time has arrived when our go^w eminent should act to bring about * conference In the bituminous coal l|h dustr.v to end the present strike. X.. "Whenever either disputant in %'* controversy declines to employ tl|K methods pf conference and arbitrfe* tion It becomes proper for the gofet ernment to Intervene. It is inconceivable that public action Should wait until the sufferings of women and children in the raining towns haftreached the proportions of a national calamity. "On March 31, 1922, representatives of the commission on the church and social service of the Federal Coundt of the^Churches of Christ in America and the department of social action of the National Catholic Welfare council put before you a resolution adopted by their respective bodied urging government < action looking; toward the settlement of the coal co|l* troversy. "At tftat- time it was "pointed ont that the operators in the central competitive field, comprising Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania, had pledged themselves two years previously to confer with thn union in order to negotiate a new contract. We wish to express our approval the action of the administration in publicly fixing responsibility for tbe failure of such a conference upon certain coal operators who weip unwilling to be governed by the term* of their agreement. -.>v "It Is a matter of profound satisfaction that the strike has been remarkably orderly. We have also been gratified to note that the press han made an unusually successful effort to record the facts of this conflict,- Nevertheless, nothing effectual been done to bring it to an end. "We therefore, are impelled tn urge once more that the government take steps to end the coal strike by bringing the operators and miners into conference. "We would respectfully call yonp attention again to the necessity of sn» curing adequate information concern* ing the essential facts of the coal industry. In particular, the absence bf authoritative information concerning cost of production and profits, served to increase discontent amodHT the mine workers. "In the anthracite fields "where conferences are still In progress the laok of full Information regarding the financial facts of the industry m4jr cause the failure of all attempts tn negotiate a new agreement. The consumers resent high prices for coal, but are unable to form an intelligent judgment as to the cause, on account of the lack of authoritative inform* tion, "We call upon our government, o«t of concern for the well-being of {be nation as a whole, the health and comfort of the miners, and the preset^" vation of the mining industry, to takn immediate steps to bring the disputants together In order to secure n just settlement of the present string and an organization of the coal ind try on the basis of the service to the nation." Minister to Egypt Named. ^ - Washington, June 21.--J. MortciLj Howell of Dayton, 0„ was nominated by President Harding to be the first . American minister to Egypt. Mr. Hovfell has been for many years ft close personal friend of the Presided* Falls on Chisel and Diee. Waukegan, 111., June 21.--John De- Young, thirty-eight, working with a chisel while standing on a chair, at his home In Waukegan, slipped an® fell to the floor, the chisel penetra|» lttg- his right lung r.nd killing •*s •H To Help Textile 8trike*e. ' Cincinnati, June 21.--"Full moral and financial support1^ was pledged tn the New England textile workers, nopr on strike, by a resolution adopted^ unanimously by the American Federn> tion of Labor convention. / wW#- av Pair Seised With Cramps Drowm. Sioux Falls, S. D., June 21.--Frdtf Stone, seventeen, and Miss Wilma Fritz, seventeen, were drowned to Scott's creek, seven miles from herfe It is believed both were seixed wm v cramps while swimming. • "* 0 •" , -*- ;•'* ' • '• -A '• >',• t"'; V- . "e * vV. ,v . L -.v &<i l