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INOIS EVITIES ity-nine cases of BmriftjpiM! were reported Id the state last 'INik, according to the report of ^ Dr. Isaac D. Rawlings, director of the afN department of health. Peoria county g'f had 48 of the cases, Saline county, S; Tasewell county, 6; Whiteside county, 6, and Williamson county, 21. Diphtheria cases in the state for the week . cumbered 146, of which 100 were In f Oook county. Union county had 6 of the 87 cases of typhoid fever reports'^;- «&. Fifty-eight of the 86 pneumonia cases reported came from Cook county. Three hundred and twenty-five W': cases at whooplnr cough . were reported. Springfield. -- The department of highways announced that bids for ; • 156 miles of hard roads In 30 counties will be opened August 15. The cost of the roads will approximate $5,- y % 000,000. Governor Len Small api proved the construction plans at his . - home in Kankakee. Included In the roads to be constructed are: Route f 27, Carroll, five miles; Route 44, Kane and Will, 13.15 miles; Route 18, Jefferson, 13.06 miles; State aid, ILA Salle, .94 miles; State aid, MadljV so", 1.68 miles. Heavy grading contracts; Route .12; Mariou, 2.78 miles ; Rout® 1, Saline and Jefferson, 7.28 miles. Chicago.--New Indictments were re- ' , turned by the grand Jury against W. > H. H. Miller, head of the department of education and registration, and three others, charging them with conspiracy to Issue licenses contrary to the law, to give out questions in ad- - vance of state examinations, and to ' withhold and give out licenses "on ^ the payment of corrupt and unlawful ^ eonsldpratinn." K. A. Fries, Miller's l* i aon-ln-iaw, and a department official; , Dr. Odeon Bouque, head of a medical review course, and William Bronlar- •Elk, a druggist, are named as Miller's co-defendants. Aurora Mrs. Catherine J. Holmes, sixty-nine, of North Henderson is the first woman to enter the contest being conducted by the Central States ; Fair and Exposition company to determlne the oldest person actually engaged In the operation of a farm In the United States. Mrs. Holmes has lived on the same farm since she was •" born and declares she has done actual , farm work every day since she was ' seven years old. Bloomlngton.--The erection of the Bishop Hartzell hall of religion and missions at Illinois Wesleyan college at Bloomlngton will be one of the first • * acts of the newly appointed president of the college. Dr. William J. Davld- \ son of Chicago. Doctor Davidson was selected to head the Institution after - a consideration of fifty candidates. He succeeds Dr. Theodore Kemp and will take up his duties September 1. Aurora.--Careless hunters and city residents who go to the country and destroy farm property are due for a warm reception from Kendall county farmers. They have formed a countywide organization "to prevent trespassing or hunting on the farms of the members." The farmers have been bothered by people carrying off chickens, turkeys and even shooting live stock, it is said. 8pringfield.--Applications for state automobile licenses dropped off a little the past week, with the issuing of 1,000 licenses for passenger automobiles and 149 tracks. This brings the total of passenger car licenses for this year to 624,007 and trucks to »80,817, a total for both classes of 713,824. Springfield.--Illinois has 2,941 deaf mutes, or 40 per million population, divided into the following classification: 1,404 male and 1,113 female; 2,280 native whites, 227 foreign born whites and 227 colored, according to the report of the United States ceumo bureau issued recently. Bteosatngton.--Miss Alice F. Miller at Chicago, formerly of the Terre Haute state normal school, was appointed dean of women for Illinois Wesleyan university at Bloomlngton and takes charge of her new poet September 1. Sterling.--Clamming is proving a more lucrative occupation this year than it was in 1921, Sterling clamming crews having disposed of their first shipment of shells at $70 a ton. Last year the best price paid was $50. Catlln. -- Thomas Taylor, retired farmer, has organized a company for the purpose of opening a fur farm. Be has an option upon a tract of 800 acres of rugged farm land, and plans to raise skunks and foxes. Chicago.--In view of the impending street car Strike, Chief of Police Fitxmorris seat out a call for "Jitneys' and trucks to all cities within 50 miles of Chicago. Mount Morris.--Old settlers of Ogle county will hold their annual picnic at Mount Morris August 31. Henry R. Rathbone of Chicago win be the speaker. Beardstown --Minnows have assisted Beardstown In preventing an outbreak of malaria as the result of the recent flood. An engineer from the state department of hearth reports that many small minnows found In the ponds have Seen destroying mosquito larvae Springfield. -- Prbhlbltlon enforcement In Illinois was declared to have paid a net profit of 90 per cent on the investment^ In a report of compilations of the Anti-Saloon league made public by George Yule, district superintendent of the league. Urbana.--Every living thing In the Salt Fork river from Sidney east to Homer Park and for an equal distance west of Sidney has been killed by acid carried Into the river from the Boneyard branch in Champaign and Ur- '•V 11 law has been srdtorsft %Secretmi* et State Emmerson. In a letter to the 25 Inspectors of the automobile department, the secretary of state requested immediate arrest and prosecution of the following classes of vlo< lators: A person found operating a passenger car without passenger car plates. A person operating a truck without truck plates. A person operating a truck with passenger car plates. A person driving a car as a chauffeur without chauffeur's license. Dealers operating a car without plates or with only one plate, unless it can be shown to Inspector's satisfaction that the other plate has been lost or a duplicate applied for. All other violators of the law are to be given one warning before arrest, and If they do not heed the warning, immediately prosecutions Is to be sought Sterling.--Clasped in each other's arms the bodies of Ella Hill, sixteen, and Jennie Tobln, fifteen, members of the Champion Sterling Ladles' Zouaves team, were taken from Rock river after a continuous search, id which scores of citlsens Joined, which was started when the girls were reported missing. The girls, clad la homemade bathing suits, too proud to go bathing at beaches where swimmers congregated, sought a secluded place. Jennie could not swim. The positions of the bodies Indicate that Ella gave her life in an effort to save he rchum. Chicago. -- Hurried remodeling of furnaces and boilers In Chicago's huge industrial plants to meet the growing menace of the coal shortage by substituting oil as fuel Is under way, it was disclosed. A check of the heaviest users of coal In the city revealed the experience of former years of artificial coal shortages, strikes and wartime rationing has resulted In a general campaign of preparation, with indications that even the severest of fuel famines would find the producers of food, light, heat and water in a position to keep the city supplied. Springfield.--Governor Small has ordered acceptance of the lowest bids for almost 90 miles of the 101 miles of new hard roads well distributed throughout the state, for which bids were opened July 6. The cost. Including cement, fit figured by the state highways division to total $2,435,900, or about $27,150 a mile. Awards of contracts also have been ordered by the governor for thirteen miles of grading to cost $95,450. That averages nearly $7350 a mile. Dlvernon. -- Organisation of a branch of the Ku Klux Klan has led to the formation of a rival and opposition body of men who are hostile to the Klan. The Klan has been meeting regularly for weeks, with all members hooded. The opposition association met a few days ago for the first time. Included In Its members are men who are understood to have called on state authorities at Springfield to curb the Klan activities. Benton.--Officials of the state department of mines and minerals, state mine Inspectors and a large number of mine superintendents from various parts of Illinois recently Inspected the coal mines In Franklin county, the largest coal producing county In the state. The men said they were taking advantage of the strike to check up on the collieries in the county. Rockford.--The annual meeting of the Retail Merchants' association of Illinois will be held in Rockford three days, September 28, 27 and 28. Arthur J. Lawton, president of the Rockford Merchants and Business Men's association, is organizing committees to make arrangements for the convention. Springfield.--Folly 100 applications are on file with the state civil service commission for the position of secretary of the commission. No examination has bean held since the discharge of Isador Levin last September. Free port.--Following a tournament held at Free port for men golfers mors than fifty years old, members of northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin Country clubs, a permanent organization was effected, with the view of holding a tourney each year. Chicago.--Curtailment of railroad facilities through shortage of coal and shortage of shipment has brought forth a number of new motor bus lines in nilnoi8, as shown by the cases before the state commerce commission. Springfield.--The county clerk of Mercer has reported to the state department of health that the county Is producing "a baby a day," 172 birtha hating been recorded in that number of days. Rantoul.--First Lieut. R. H. Strekhouse and Second Lieut. Taylor H. Monroe were Instantly killed live miles north of Rantoul when their airplane fell 500 feet. Joliet.--George Williams, Brooklyn, 111., Samuel Ronankovlak, Rockford, Functioning at Report* to Reveal Resumption ^©f Minino.1^^,;' , ' Him TiUfce r?' wt'i Voy. ifew sec HBRT B. SPENCER HI 0UR6E Numbw jtf Governors Announce Ap* poiotm&ht of State Purchasing....Me tributing Agencies to Superviae Coal Allotments. Washington, Aug. 2.--Working plans under which government coal distribution will operate were completed at a conference of the President's coal committee with Henry B. Spencer, federal coal distributor, the advisorj committee of producing operators and other government agencleB. Preliminary to this conference the operators' advisory committee" was la conference earlier allotting territory and forming district committees to function in the producing fields. On these local committees' will rest responsibility in seeing that coal is loaded and shipped from the mines In accordance with distribution orders clearing through the bureau at Washington. Coal Distributor Spencer received telegrams from a number of governors announcing appointment of state pur-, chasing, and distributing committees or agencies, to see that coal, allotted to each state Is properly distributed and profiteering prevented. It actually marks the setting up and beginning of operations by the coal distribution. Offices were opened a block from the Department of Commerce and Just around the corner from the Interstate commerce commission and in the same building with the American Railway association's car service organization. This location centralizes .all the agencies concerned with the physical operation of the distribution program. Car service reports for the past week failed to reveal any resumption of mining operations in the union fields of Pennsylvania or other unionized territory. While there was Improvement in car loadings shown, it was In nonunion territory where operations had been hampered by inability of the railroads to move empty and loaded cars. The Chesapeake & Ohio showed the greatest improvement in this respect. However, the tleup on that road has been only partially relieved. Louisville and Nashville and Norfolk and Western loadings and car movements were about as they had been the preceding week. The embargoes declared last week, however, were expected to result in Increased coal loadings this "0 vi§ . KWHtrt* WARNS COLONISTS OF FAKES Commerce Department at Washington Exposes South American Land Swindlers. Washington, Aug. 2. -- Warning against unofficial promoters of colonization schemes in South America was issued by the Commerce department, which added that such promoters have been particularly active in the Western states. Many Americans going to 8outh America as colonists have found that they have Invested their savings in land in the remote wilderness, the department said. "While South America has millions of acres of good public land" the statement said, "those who are acquainted with the country are of the opinion that Americans contemplating going there as settlers should make careful Investigation of such factors as transportation facilities, climatic conditions, etc., before investing in any colonization scheme. The Department of Commerce is in a position to render material assistance In any such investigation." AT WORK ON WET MEASURE Oanata' to Consider Amendment to Bonus Bill Permitting 3 Per Cent Beer. . Washington, Aug. %--Aft amendment to the soldier bonus bill authorizing the manufacture of 3 per cent beer and subjecting it to a tax sufficiently to raise the amount of the bonus is being seriously considered In the senate. Senator Calder of New York announced that he has beeii studying the question and may offer such an amendment whea the bonus bill comes beand Ludwig Wolnlak of Evanston fore the senate for consideration after walked away from the honor farm at j the tariff bill is J°!iet - _ „ The senator pointed to the results Springfield.--Resources of the 1,406 tNOIANAFOUS NEWS. i Federal ttovernment to Act Only in Interstate Problems, c $ayt Hoover. 1 ' ' •"IS. •• REGBVE PUI They Will Be Expected to Cheek Prefiteering and Regulate Fuel Ola- - tribtftien--Washington to Ejcert Only Moral Pressure^ ASSUME RAIL CONTROL Fuel fc Given First I. C. C. Priority Order. Order Directs All Rallroada to Move , . Tcsfllo Over the Moq$ , • • - Direct' Route*. • W^Hfigton, July 27.--The federal government has assumed control of all coal distribution and the railroad facilities engaged in the transportation of this class of fuel, foodstuffs and fuel oU. The priority order on foods and fuels applies to the railroads east of the Mississippi river. A separate order directs all the railroads in the United States to move traffic over the most direct routes. The plan for the coal distribution as outlined by Secretary Hoover was unanimously adopted here at a conference of mine operators, railway officials and government representatives. The interstate commerce commission at once issued an order establishing priority for the movement of coal and procedure at the various' rail centers. President Harding will appoint Judicial tribunals to adjust the coal situation within a w;eek, irrespective of emergency efforts now being made to avert a fuel crisis. The purpose of these quasi-Judicial bodies will be to stabilize the coal industry. Miners and operators will be excluded except to the extent of pleading their cause before these tribunals. The White House made this public following the extensive cabinet meeting at which only the two major industrial problems, coal and railroads, were discussed. LIVING COST UP 66.6 PER CENT Rise Since 1914, According to Figures Made Public by Federal Deport ment of Labor. Washington, July 28.--The cost of living in the United States has risen 06.6 per cent since 1014, according to figures made public by the Department of Labor. In spite of this rise, however, prices now are not at the peak, the ftgures showed, as the cost of living In June, iPM, waa 28 per cent lower than It was In June, 1920. Food prices were higher In June than in March, while clothing, fuel and light and other staples were slightly lower. RUSSIA TOPS THE WORLD Moscow Officiate Reeort to Astronomical Arithmetic In Calculating the State Budget. BeHfca, July 81.---Soviet Russia ^an claim the distinction of being the top of the world In the matter of large figures in the state budget The budget commission at Moscow ha* just worked out the Russian budget for the last quarter of 1922. In making the budget the commit slon had to resort to astronomical arithmetic. The receipts for the year are estimated at 860 trillion rubles and the expenditures at 760 trillion rubles, leaving a deficit of 400 trillion, * - 1 Illinois state banks were $2,043^26,018 on June 90, according to a statement by Auditor Andrew Russell. Elgin.--Have policemen wear civilian clothing while on duty, at least part 6f the time, and better results will be obtained in the apprehending of recent polls on the beer and wine question as evidence that such a change In the Volstead law might be popular throughout the country. Two Airmen Die In Flamee. Middletown, N. Y„ Aug. 2.--Lieut Traeey Lyons, aviation section U. 8. of criminals, Mayor Arwln E. Price of an(* Augustus Altemeler, Jr., of Elgin believes. Policemen in uniforms are too conspicuous, Price declares. Paris.--Automobile thieves entered the Lawnton automobile repair shop Port Jervls, were burned to death at Port Jervls when an airplane In which they were riding crashed to earth. Drink Record Broken. within a stone's throw of police headquarters, robbed the cash drawer of reC0rfl8 haV* ***" broken by passen* $20, knocked the combination from the safe which contained $100 and escaped. » Bel vldere.--With the completion ot die transferring of 843 square Inches vt skin from slxty-four persons to the body of Helen Hoage, sixteen-year-old explosion victim, Belvldere physicians . declare that the most extensive skin . ^ to a 8tatement made grafting operation ever attempted In i ^L' if" J Btate ,n8pector of the northern Illinois is a success, {department of agriculture, of which gers on the liner Homeric, arriving from New York. Numbering 560 they drank $10,000 worth of champagne A the seven days between ports. Ithe game and fish division is a part Springfield.--Public utilities over the state are not In danger of a shutdown doe to the coal strike, according to a survey made by the Dllnols Oomperce commission. Urbana.--Philip A. Lehenbauer, professor of plant pathology at the University of Illinois, has resigned and will go to the University of Nevada, where he has accepted a position as head of the department of horticulture. Allies Halt Greek Army. London, Aug. 2.--The Greek foreign minister has given the allies positive assurance that the Greek army will not attempt to occupy Constantinople without their consent. This meat was made in commons. Woman Kills Wlfebeaterr^ Chicago, Aug. 2.--Pretty Mrs. Gladys T. Kirkland, 4806 South Michigan avenue, shot and killed her husband, Percy, the police charge, after he Is said to have beaten her for try- New Ruling on Special Mall. Washington, July 27.--Special delivery letters will not be sent out from any post office In the country after eleven o'clock at night, under new postal regulations Issued here. Lightning Strikes Oil Tank. Beatynont, Tex., Aug. 1.--Damage estimated at 1125,000 wafc caused near Sablre when lightning struck a tank belonging to the Magno Petroleum company. Fifty-five thousand barrels of crude oil were destroyed. More Coal Mined. Washington, Aug. 1.--Returns on coal output In the seventeenth week of the strike, July 24-29, give the first test of the response to the invitation to reopen mines. There ahn§ hyp a slight' recovery. ' $\ U. S. MARKCT REPQRX • i.it i iiiiiii) ,v..j£ •••.«• jJ i wccKiy urarKetgram uy BurtiMi of Markets and Crops. Washington, July 29.--For th« week endias July 28,1MB--GRAIN--Closing prices in Chicago cash market: No. 2 red winter wheat, $1.12; No. 2 hard winter wheat, $L15: No. 2 mixed corn, Mo; No, 2 yellow corn, G6e; No. 3 white oats, 36c. Average farm prices: No. 2 mixed corn in central Iowa; 62ttc; No. 2 hard winter wheat in central Kansas, Mc; No. 1 dark northern wheat in central North Dakota, $1.10%. Closing future prices: Chicago September wheat, $1.08%; Chicago September corn, <S%c'; Minneapolis September wheat, fl.14%; Winnipeg October wheat, tl.14%; Kansas City September wheat. 11.00%. HAT--Quoted July 28: No. 1 timothy, $30.00 New York, $26.00 Philadelphia, $24.00 Pittsburgh, $24.00 Atlanta, $21.00 Memphis; No. 1 alfalfa, $25.00 Atlanta, $22.60 Memphis. FEED--Prices generally a shade easier. Quoted July 27: Bran, $16.00; middlings, $18.00; flour mixed, $31.00; rye feed. $17.00; 33 per cent linseed meal, $45.50 Minneapolis; gluten feed, $29.85 Chicago; July shipment white hominy feed, $26.26 Chicago; 36 per cent cotton seed meal, $38.00 Minneapolis; No. 1 alfalfa meal, $18.60 Kansas City. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES--On the 28th Georgia and South Carolina Tom Watson's melons, medium sices, $100.00<g 175.00 f. o. b. shipping points; Irish greys, $100.00@200.00 f. o. b.; Missouri Tom Watson's, $275 00^300.00 Chicago, $100.00@250.0C f. o. b. Kennett. California and Arizona cantaloupes, salmont tints, standard 45's, $2.5063.25. North Carolina, Maryland and Delaware green meats, 75c@$1.60.; Indiana and Arkansas stock steady In Chicago, at $1.5002.00 Virginia and Maryland eastern shore cobblers mostly $2.00@3.00, reaching $8.25 Boston, $3.60 Cincinnati, $2.00@2.10 f. b.; New Jersey sacked cobblers, $1.00(3 1.85 per 100 lbs., $1.00@1.15 f. o. b.; Kansas early Ohios, poorly graded, 75c@$1.06 in Chicago. Peaches, 6's and bu. baskets, Georgia Elbertas and belles, $2.25@2.75 in most city markets. LIVE STOCK-July 28, Chicago prices: Hogs, top, $10.60; bulk of sales, $8.25@H0.fi0. Medium and good beef steers, $7.9009.86; butcher cows and heifers, $4.00@8.85; feeder steers, $6.65@7 75; light and medium weight veal calves, J8.50@10.25. Fat lambs, $12.00® 13.00; feeding lambs, H1.50@12.50; yearlings, $8.60#10.85; fat ewes, $3.00#7.50. Stocker and feeder shipments from 12 Important markets during the week ending July Si were: Cattle and calves, 47,627; hogs, 6,140; sheep, *4,919. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Closing prices, 92 score butter: Boston, 3&Vfcc; New York, 94%c; Philadelphia, 35c; Chicago, 33%c. Prices at Wisconsin primary cheese markets July 27: Flats, 18^c; twins, 18<4c; daisies, l$Kc; double daisies, 17%c; young Americas, 18%c; longhoms, Uty4c; square prints. Utfce. , • TWO AIRMEN FALL TO DEATH Lleutenante Staekhouas and Monroe Killed In Crash Near Rantoul-- Fall 800 Feet. Rantoul, 111, July 29.--First Lieutenant R. H. Stackhouse and Becond Lieutenant Taylor H. Monroe were instantly killed five miles north of here when the airplane In which they were flying crashed, to the ground from a height of 500 feet. Lieutenant Stackhouse, a regular army officer, was stationed at Chanute field. Lieutenant Monroe lived in Detroit and had been at Chanute field 15 days doing special work. Lieutenant Stackhouse was married. His widow lives in Paxton, IlL Liatttaaaat Monroe resided in Detroit , MARILYNN AND JACK MARRY Ceremony Is Performed at the Home of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks. Los Angeles, July 81. -- Marilynn Reynolds Carter and John G. Pickford were married In the hooie of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks. Lenin 8uffere 8econd 8troke. Riga, Aug. 1.--Premier Lenin has suffered a second paralytic stroke, and a third will be fatal, according to latest reports from Moscow, The Russian leader, it Is said. Is now unable to walk. German Wives Are Barred. Paris, July 29.--The United States War department ha^ Issued an order forbidding members of the American army of occupation on the Rhine from marrying German women, according to p dispatch from Cobleqi. Doctor Wynn Fa I la to Death. Glacier Park, Mont.. July 29. Dr. Frank H. Wynn of Indianapolis, nationally noted as leader In mountain climbing activities In the United States, was killed In a fall from a cliff here. Teeth" to Be Put In Law. Washington, Aug. 1.--President Harding Is in complete accord with the senate that legislation must be enacted as speedily as possible to prevent a recurrence of the coal mil strikes. Harding Assures Washington, July 81.--Peace In the railroad strike within a few days bocame virtually assured with the announcement- from the. White House that President Harding will submit a Duals of compromise to both factlOWk •are Plot Against Polnoare. Paris. July 81.--The French govern ment has received what it considers absolutely trustworthy Information that an attempt against the life of Premier Poincare 1° being plotted ta) Washington, Aug. 1.--Each of the states will be expected to check profiteering and regulate coal distribution within its own confines without the assistance of the federal government. Secretary of Commerce Hoover announced in a statement of the plant of the national coal distribution committee. "Bach state," Mr. Hoover said, "ha* been asked to make such rules and regulations as it may see fit to control speculation and distribution within tht boundaries of the state. It has been suggested that the co-openUion of their state wholesale and retail coal dealers' associations should be secured. Th« federal government has no authority and can exert none in this matter beyond moral pressure." Mr. Hoover's coal distribution plan has been communicated to the governors. Under the provisions of thU plan the federal government will ilmll Its activities in coal distribution entirely to interstate questions. Henry R Spencer, according to Mr. Hoover, hat been appointed fuel distributor, nol fuel administrator, because the federaJ distribution is concerned with coal die trlbutlon between the different states, not with coal administration in the Bense of the war organization. The control of coal distribution tc Individual consumers within the stat« boundaries is entirely in the bands ol state authorities except for rallwaj coal. The methods of handling coal foi railways responsible to the Interstate commerce commission will be deter mined directly from Washington iz maintaining interstate commerce. Distribution problems vary In different groups of states; that is in New England, middle Atlantic, southern Middle West, Northern lake states, intermountain and Pacific states. Th« last two groups are able to look aftei themselves and are not now embracec in active administration. Bach state outside the latter group* has been requested to canvass its situ ation as to stocks and requirement* in order of the priority in different classes--public utiltles, public institu tions, households and industrial coal. Bach state that must import coal from other states has been asked tc create a central state agency or committee for the purchase or guarantee of purchases of coal that may be Imported into the state from other statef or from abroad, all coal to be consigned to an agency designated by the state. By this arrangement a grtat deal more mobility Is given the state authorities in shifting coal to meet itt local emergencies. ' Furthermore thlf arrangement will remedy the financial Impossibility of asking coal producers to ship to strange consumers whose reliability must be established. The repudiation of coal during the last strike caused great losses and litigation. The federal fuel distributor mil place these state central purchasing agencies or committees in contact with the coal producers in states of coal surplus and will undertake to see that coal Is sold' to the central purchasing agencies at a fair price. The state purchasing agencies will Indicate the destinations within the states to which coal la to be shipped. t • \ INFORMATION FOB VETERANS They Are Told Hew to Get "Certifloates of Injury" at bigton. > .v * ' V*' > Washington, Aug. 1.--A certificate of injury must be obtained by all veterans of the World war who sustained an injury or contracted a disease in the service which is likely to result In disability or death. The certificates are being Issued by the veterans' bureau under section 306 of the war risk insurance act as amended to August 9. 1021. Application for this certificate must be made prior to August 9. All that Is necessary to obtain the certificate Is to write to the director of the United States veterans' bureau, Washington, giving name, rank, organization, date of enlistment and discharge, and stating the circumstances under which the disease or Injury in question was incurred. Chicago Broker Drops Dead. Chicago, Aug. 1.--Frank S. Cowgtlt, for six years president of JBartlett, Frailer and company, grain brokers, dropped dead from heart disease while chatting with friends on a veranda of the Skokle Country club at Ulencoe. m, « mm ^ s e t ^ r ~ , * ' * v ' *•. ^ -«*" -«,n f." . 4* ' » * Bulgaria Asks Moratorium. Sofia, Aug. 1.--The Bulgarian government replying to the demand of «he reparations commission for the payment of 110,000,000 gold francs (*22,- 000,000), has asked for a three year moratorium, It was announced. Held for $20,000 Ransom. Sagauala Grande, Cuba, July 81.-- John Jova. twenty-year-old son of the American consular agent here, was kidnaped, being held for $20,000 ransom, according to a note received by his father. : Action Vp to States. > Washington, July 81.--The federal government has no objections to seizure of mines by the governors of individual states in the name of the states. It was stated officially at the White Namai Ftdaral Fuel Admlflfetra- ,, v: tar by the PresMent; Sarwd * During War. wu. cannot rt^ AStlon InitanftM That Return of Miners snd thefMnen to Jobs WiH Nat Country's AMts Fuel Crisis. Washington, July 81.--Henry Speocer was appointed federal coal administrator by President Harding. This action plainly Indicates that settlement of either or both of the coal and rail strikes will not halt the government Id Its plan to control the distribution of food and fuel. Colonel Spencer was general purchasing agent for the railway administration during the war and had •barge of national coal distribution after dissolution of the Garfield Coal administration. He is a former vice president of the Southern Railway company. " The return of miners to the mines or shopmen to the shops will not re- Wove the country's acute fuel crisis in its entirety. It can only relieve It, the degree of relief depending .On bow soon either group of strikers may return to work. The necessity for government Supervision over coal distribution and price control will continue for many weeks after the end of t|ie strikes, and If the strikes are prolonged, may be required throughout the coming winter. Depletion of reserve coal stocks with the summer only half gone already has brought them down to tlie danger point, with consumption exceeding production. Fuel conservation, therefore, is necessary from this time on, if suffering is to be prevented or minimised next winter. Secretary Hoover has declared that if the miners were to return to work at once it would not be possible to produce enough coal to meet the normal winter demands of the country. Faced with this Situation, the President's coal committee has set about to establish an organization prepared to function for months to come. The committee has been In almost continuous session since Its appointment by the President Wednesday, whlpptng this organization into shape and securing the co-operation of governora and public utilities commissions in the states to set up local machinery to cooperate with the government organisation. Secretary Hoover has received triegrams from several additional governors pledging their co-operation. Commissioner Altchison of the Interstate commerce commission also received messages from several additional state and railroad and public utilities commissions assuring their cooperation In making the commission's priority regulations for fuel and food •Movements effective in their states. Impetus was given to fuel and food transportation when embargoes were announced against all freight except these necessities by four coal-carrying railroads of the Southeast- Chicago, July 29.--Shortage of coal, due to the strike, la seriously affecting the harvest of crops, It was asserted by officials of the American Farm Bureau federation, who predicted exhaustion of coal for farm purposes within ten days. "A week or ten days without relief will create a serious sltuattea," said a formal statement by the federation «flcials. The federation also Issued an open appeal to the government to take over the mines and operate them until the merits of the controversy can be determined. The use of troops to protect private operators was severely condemned.' % C-'.V t- - ^ l-.i. ^ ' Wt ;..i TAR AID FEATHER FARMER Michigan Judge Imposes Mere Than 9800 In Fines on Participant* » / the Mob. . ^ '• Kalamazoo, Mich., July 29.--More than $000 - in fines were Imposed by Justice Herman Simmon son of East Saugatuck on the participants in the party which tarred and feathered Bert. Lenters, a farmer, because of alleged circulation of atorles concerning alleged relationships between a pretty young woman in a congregation of a church near Saugatuck and the minis-, ter. Pretest Graft on Tourists. Berlin, July 29.--A meeting of sentatives of hotels, railways, steamship lines and others interested la tourist traffic has unanimously adopted a resolution against the practice of charging special prices for tourists. Countess Diss In Bath Tub. « London, July 8L--A dele, dywagor countess of Essex, daughter of the late Beach Grant of New York, was found dead of heart failure in her bath. A maid found the body af|«r a»iWn| the bed unoccupied. :i¥ & Death Beats Indiana Mob. Lafayette, In<L, July 31.--a hunt for Henry Poole, negro gunman, who had stabbed Floyd Howard, n white laborer, to death, ended when Poole was shot and killed by William Condra. Widow Sees Four Men Hanged. Albuquerque, N. Jaly 29.--Mf, Anton Coury witnessed the hanging at Estancla, N. M., of the four men who killed her husband in his store at Duran, N. M. Mra. Coury waa badly wounded by the four men. , -. , Mine Hundred Strike in Bliss Haverhill, Mass., July 29.--Nine hundred employees of J. H. Winchell 8c Co., makers of men and wome&'a welt shoes, struck to protest »|pii>ft a decision of the state board of con- AlllouHnA n ajlft M l