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'mm * \ * \ » *Vi V?" 5 ^ % * 1 ^ ij1 •£% •*****n-lmimm ilNt, i;>N'\»|t» »»^;^tii,#i ii "MIILLINOIS I BREVITIES ^^^MB=============^^= Uftana.--The department of farm ntifrchanics, college of agriculture. University of Illinois, will conduct two one-week tractor schools during the weeks of January 9 to IS and January 29 to February S, 1923, for the benefit of the fanners of the state. The second week tractor course conies the week after the Farmers' Short- Coarse week. The total registration for each course will be limited to 85 students. Twenty-two hours will be devoted to lectures and 22 hours to practical laboratory work during the week. The lecture work in the course will cover the construction, theory, operation, adjustment and repair of engines and tractors. The laboratory work will consist of practical work in engine and tractor operation, magnetoes, carburetors, engine timing, ignition wiring, trouble work and adjustments. In the laboratory there are 85 different makes of gas engines, and 16 tractors of the most representative types. The laboratory is well equipped with magnetoes, carburetors and engine parts. Springfield.--A change in the manner of distributing the millions of dollar* of state school funds is planned by the Illinois educational commission of which A. M. Shelton, director of the state department of registration and education Is sponsor. The plan is proposed in two bills framed by the commission which are to be presented to the general assembly in its next session opening in January. Tbe first bill embodies an entirely new method of distributing state school funds. The other bill has not been entirely completed but it deals With community high school districts. Springfield. -- The average weekly wage in Illinois for all industries last month was $24.21, according to reports from the Illinois department of labor. Coal miners led the list of industrial workers reported with a weekly average of $36.37. Textile workers, including men and women garment makers, millinery manufacturers and laundering, cleaning and dyeing workers, were lowest, with a weekly average of $20.06 tor textile workers and $22.28 for clothing, millinery and laundry workv Chicago.--William Bross Lloyd ate \ his Thanksgiving turkey surrounded V:A.*' by his family at his home in Wlnnetka. The millionaire Red, pardoned ' Wednesday with his fellow Commun- J " lsts by Governor Small, received sev- ^ _ era! callers during the day, all con- : gvatnlating him on his quick release . from Joliet penitentiary, whither he •)fl ' had been sent under sentence of one to five yean. .)- Urbana.--A discussion of college ' Standards for the various institutions ,A.'- of Illinois, excepting the universities and the state normal schools, will be tho chief business of the conference at the presidents of 27 colleges of tbe ( , state to be held at the University of Illinois December 9. Letters of ln- ! « vitation sent to 29 institutions by President Klnley of the university ware accepted by all bnt two. ^ Hoopeston. -- France has awarded 'Ty\ Franklin R. Johnson the Medaille i^'l t Commemorative de la Grande Guerre. He has also been cited by the French government for bravery on the fields of ,f * France. Johnson was an ambulance driver attached to the Seventieth % French division, the "Blue Devils." I, Peoria.--James E. Smith filed suit < for divorce, alleging that his wife faorled pokers, dishes and other house- |P hold utensils at him. When he ob- ' Jeeted to this barrage, he averred, she §« dashed him with a butcher knife. He ],r asys they ware married in Morris, 111., November 10, 1916. -V; i' Monmouth.--Sterling Morelock, Uvto* near here, has been awarded the concessional medal of honor for conapicnous bravery under shell fire, v Morelock. in an engagement at Exer- \ mont, France, led a squad which cleared out five enemy machine gun K- nests. RockfonL--Rev. Charles A. Gel- & ;' wicks, pastor In the English Lutheran •W-. church for 46 years and a resident of Rockford for 20 years, died suddenly at his home. He was nearly eightytight years old. V» Mollne.--An award of $10 for the . hast ear of corn In Hock Island and Henry counties was offered in a con- ' teat by the Mollne Chamber of Com- ..jperce. Another $10 prize wos offered ,--r ' f»r the best ten ears, h Chicago.--Strawberries from Flor- Ida werts offered Chicago buyers ; ' Thursday at $2.Ii0 to $3 a quart, a *, price said not to be unusual for the *?£.• ftrst of the season, j*;' Chicago.--The annual meeting of the !' National Association of County Agrl- 7 cultural Agents will be held here De- Evt3 cember 6, in the Producers' Live Stock 1 Record building. r, J,< Aurora.--Plans have been drawn for > • proposed home for Juveniles, to be ?;< ;; »" erected soon at a cost of about $50,- f! 1 Chicago.--An experimental dental Sv dlnlc has been established here. It ,ti v Will have facilities for taking care of •'*"' least twenty children daily, and services will be given for a nominal ,« . r <h«rge of 15 to 25 cents for those able A,. f to pay, and for those who are not tbe *•> 5 „> services will be given free. m-• ' ^ t . - Mount Carroll.--The Gillespie tavtrn, nearly one hundred years old and f / Wwd for many years as a stopping ; |Bace by stage-coach passengers traveling between Galena and Dixon, was destroyed by Are. It was one of the ^/•^^v-j|ndmarks of northwestern Illinois. 'J .' Belvidere.--Mrs. Marie Swart* filed Lii ! f «nlt against tlie Chicago & Northwestern railroad for $30,000 damages. ).• i i*®largln8 the r°ad was responsible for |' r * the death of her husband. Who was emit ^ #loyed as a conductor. He was jerked V m the top of a freight train by a low- tanglng electric light wire, It was said, •he coroner's Jury placed the blame *pon the Packard Electric company. Morrison. -- The Whiteside county Jjoultry show will be held here Decern ;|>er 20-22. Entries will be received in •very claas of common broads of poot* try and aater fowl. W' • .v j SprlhgflaM, Tracing the tree, even 200 "fffcrs hence, Mr simple comparatlvaly. for Illlnoia rarf (dents. This cotnes as a result of tin jfedeml goveniment recognizing 1111 Inois as a part of the United Statei "birth registration area, according t« announcement of Dr. Isaac D. Raw lings, state director of public health Qualification of the state for this aret means, Doctor Rawlings said, thai birth registration In Illinois vlrtuallj is complete and that Illinois birth re turns for 1922 will appear in the government census reports for hirtl: rates and infant mortality. Wheaton.--By a vote of 2,885 foi 1,533 against, residents of Du Pag< county authorized the construction oi nearly 145 miles of paved roads b> approving a good road bond Issue ol $1,350,000. The program includes Immediate improvement of the St Charles road and the York road, both linking Chicago with Du Page county. The county will be reimbursed by th<| state for one-half the cost, of the road; The new roads will connect Du Pag< county with Cook, Lake and Will i counties, and Wheaton with outlyinf J towns, suhc as Downers Grove and Naperville. Springfield.--Another bond issue o4 at least $50,000,000 Is necessary t4'1 complete the state's program of 4,800 miles of hard road, according to Governor Small, who says It Is necessary to pass the bond issue bill at the next general election, In November, 1924. Governor Small also will recommend that the bond issue bill provide for additional mileage. The $60,000,000 provided for the original program has not proved sufficient, he said, because of increased costs. Seventeen hundred miles of tha system have been built. Mollne.--Construction of the n?w passenger station has been delayed because property owners and the Rock Island railroad have been unable to reach an agreement, officials of the road state. The railroad wrehes to lay additional sets of tracks south of the present tracks, and to do this It will be necessary to close part of Fourth avenue, It is said. The property owners are reported to have opposed dosing the street. ^ Springfield. -- Quadruple funeral services for Percy Cordell Wilcox, his wife and two children, who were killed by a Chicago & Alton train when their automobile was struck, were conducted from the Westminster Presbyterian church. According to the stories of eyewitnesses of the accident, the crossing watchman did not lower the gates of the crossing in time to keep the car of the Wilcox family from running on the crossing. Springfield. -- Preparation of tha blanks to be used in application for the Illinois state bonus of $55,000,000 for ex-service men has progressed to the point that the outline is complete but for the legal Interpretations that are to be made of the law after tha service recognition board baa officially organized. Springfield.--One of the most popular Duroc-Jersey boars in Illinois has just been sold by Its owner, W. H. Van Meter of Williamsville, to Louis Cltro of Carlinville. The sale price was $3,500. Imperial Orion, the prise boar, has headed the Duroc-Jersey herd of Van Meter for the past three years. Chicago.--All members of the police department will be given one day off each week, beginning January 1, Chief of Police Fitzmorris announced. Alderman Joseph O. Kostner's ordinance granting the concession became a law when Mayor Thompson permitted it enactment without his signature. Princeton.--In debt to the amount ol $14,000 and its borrowing capacity reached/according to reports, the Bureau County Fair association at Princeton has voted to make drastic cuts In premiums, purses and salaries, and to discontinue the night show feature next year. x Urbana.--The Hyde Park Weekly, newspaper of the Hyde Park High of Chicago, took first honors In the "better high school publication contest" at the first annual conference of the Illinois State High School Press association. Chicago.--The New York Central railroad's engineers have worked out plans for a new union depot here which would cost $100,000,000. There was no Indication when construction might bogin. Freeport--The newly built concrete road between Freeport and Rockford, a stretch of 28 miles, has been formally opened to traffic. The road Is part of state bond Issue route No. 5. Danville.--Joseph G. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon Is among the contributors to the Lake View hospital fund being collected here. He has given $10,000. Tha hospital Is collecting $300,000 to pay debts and make improvements. Elgin--This city Is to have a ski club which will be affiliated with similar organizations at Harrington, Dundee, Algonquin and Crystal Lake. * Springfield.--It has been announced from Washington, D. C., that Illinois has, at last, been admitted to the United States registration area for births. Springfield.--Illinois veterans will be paid for the time passed in officers' training camps, it is announced here. The clause in the adjusted compensation act which states that no payment shall be made for time passed in any students' army or navy training corps, refers only to colleges, academies and such Institutions of learning which include military training as a part of their curriculum. Peoria.--An apartment hotel with 250 apartments and a garage in the basement for every apartment is being planned here. ^ --, Streator.--Dr. Thomas G. Hall, chief of the division of laboratories, state department of public health, recently addressed a meeting of citizens called by Mayor Myer at Streator, the question under discussion being "Better Milk." As a result of the meeting Streator Is to have a revised and greatly improved milk ordinance. Hanover. -- Herbert Beals, fifteen years old, while hunting rabbets near here, accidentally discharged a shotgun and tore his right toot to shreda. Surgeons wave obliged to amputate tha , number. ;Vi Reduction Mainly Involves R* v tlfement of War Stamps " and Coupons. TREASURY REGISTB) REPORTS Shows a Net Reduction of Mora Than $1,000,000,000 in the Intwast-Bearing „ ? .jfifbt of .tha Uni^4 . ( ; 7.- Stataa. " • • ___ ' •>(.«,-V> ' 'Wadktrigton, Dec. 4.--Thi^"afcwial. report of the register of the treasury shows a net reduction of more than $1,000,000,000 in the interest-bearing public debt of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30." Bearer securities to the amount of $10,761,404,931, numbering 232,126,681 pieces and registered securities total* Ing $3,409,426,057, and embracing 7,804.875 pieces, were received, examined and retired in the office during the year. Of these securities the amounts retired in the various classes were as follows: Pre-war loans, $2,906,340; Liberty loans, $4,457,630,100; treasury notes, $72,180,900; certificates of Indebtedness, $4,780,695,500; Interim certificates (Liberty loans) $105,640; treasury (war) savings securities, $92,300,461.92; interest coupons, $1,- 023,539,932.44; District of Columbia loans, $22,050; District of Columbia interest coupoire, $8,106.64; Insular possession loan $32,016,000. In the registered securities the following amounts in various classes were retired: Pre-war loans, $170,476^- 620; Liberty loans, $1,171,350,000; ceftiflcates of Indebtedness, $1,966,829,- 450; treasury (war) savings securities, $60,599,207.35; Interest checks (Liberty loans) $153,549.76; Insular possession loans, $29,867,000; District of Columbia interest checks, $171,130.25. CAR LOADS BIGGEST KNOWN Revenue Freight Is Heaviest In tory 'for This Time of tha Year. Hie- New York, Dec. 1.--Loading Of revenue freight continues to be the heaviest In the history of American railroads for this time of the year, reports Just received from the car service division of the American Railway association show. For the week ended November 18 loading of all commodities totaled 969,094 cars an increase of 178,731 over the corresponding week of 1920. There wns also an Increase of 15,181 cars over the week ended November 11, when loadings were affected by observance of Armistice^ day and election day. SURVEY FAVORS 8-HOUR DAY Harding, Reviewing Report, Says Longer Period Has Outlived Usefulness. New York, Dec. 2.--The twelve-hour day and the type of worker It produces have outlived their nsefulness in American life, president Harding declares, commenting on the report of the committee on work periods in continuous Industry of the Federated American Engineering Societies. The committee, after two years of investigation of iuore than forty continuous Industries, including steel and iron, found that the twelve-hour day was not an economic necessity. Thee? findings, President Harding saya, represent his "social viewpoint." POSTAL DEFICIT $60,815*400 Fiscal Year Income $484,853,541-- Early Profits Not 8een by Post- -master General. Washington, Dec. 4.--Postal service In the fiscal year ended June 30 last waB maintained at a reduction of $20,- 571,986 in the deficit reported in the previous year, according to the an>> nual report of Postmaster General Hubert Work. Revenues amounted to $484,853,541, an Increase of $21,362,- 266 over the previous year, while thfc expenditures totaled $545,644,209, leaving a defidt for the year-of $60,815,400i NEW "DISORDERS .IN SMYRNA Crowd, Demonstrating Against 4>aok of Water, It ^ ; • Upon. . Prince Gelaslo Oaetanl, recently named by premier Mussolini as the new ambassador at Washington, to succeed Senator RlccL Prince Caetani is a brother of the duke of Sermoneta. He is internationally famous as an engineer, and Is well known in the Western states of America and in Alaska, having worked with John Hays Hammond In several large engineering enterprises. IRISH SHOOT REBELS Three Tried by Court-Martial and ^eouted at flublfc* ^ •l-': Action Is Free State Government's A* swer to Opposition Protests In the Dal!. Dublin, Dec. 1.--The government's answer to the opposition protests in the Daii Elreann was the execution of three more rebels here. The men were captured October 30 after participating in an attack on Oriel house, headquarters of the criminal investigation department. They were tried by a courtmartial on November 14. The rebels executed were Joseph Spooner, caught with a revolver; Patrick Farrell, caught with. a bomb, and John Murphy, caught with three bombs. Minister of Defense Mulcahy announced to the Dall that tbe Frea State forces had captured documents showing the irregulars* Intention of destroying communications throughout Ireland within six weeks. Roads were to be blocked, canals rendered useless, railroads cut, railroad bridges and statlona destroyed and trains wrecked. BRITAIN HALTS SCRAPPING England to Wait Until tha United States Begins, Financiat Secretary Tells Commons. London, Dec. 1.--Great Britain has decided not to scrap any more warships until the United States and tbe other nations, which signed the treaty for the limitation of armaments made at the Washington conference, have scrapped their share, Commander Eyre Monseli. financial secretary to the admiralty, announced in tha house of commons. F.lya Hundred Persons Killed or Hurt ; . When Tulle Troops Brffl ^ - Up Meeting. Athena, pec. 2.--As a result of an encounter when Turkish troops in Smyrna tried to break up a meeting which was attended by many different nationalities, 500 were kllie<f or Injured, according to reports in Athens newspapers. The meeting was held to protest against driving out Greek merchanta, who are said to be essential to commercial life In the city. Brazil Takes Italians Barred Hera. Rome, Dec. 4.--Premier Mussolini has completed arrangements with the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, to accept thousands of Italians who were denied passports to enter the United States because of immigration laws. 8panlsh Cabinet Resigns. Madrid, Dec. 4.--Premier Guerre submitted to the king the resignation of the cabinet. The king asked him to continue in office, so the premier will appear before the cortes with a new list of ministers. * v Charge of Ineflfeiency and ^Graft Part of City Government Caui , Twoj^iCalled to M^Iss .... ,j '.jsVV.V.:.;'0' ^ ' Dec. 2,-- 1^811 persons were killed and 200 were wounded when mounted police fired on a crowd of working people wh» iwere demonstrating in front of tha city hall against the lack of drinking water. Infuriated by the first fusillade from the police, tha workers rushed at tha city hall and aacceeded in gutting It by fire. More than 20,000 persons had gathered to demonstrate vigorously but peacefully against the mayor and the city council, which were charged with dishonesty and the general inefficiency that had culminated In the lack of water. The crowd marched to the Zocalo, which is the central plaza. Without warning the mounted police, who were lined up in front of the city hail, ficed on the crowd, which scattered, but soon reassembles in a furious mood. The mob seized great beams from the city liaii scaffolding, where repairs were being made, and smashed the great doors and the iron grating which protected the windows. Many then scrambled into the court* yard. Meantime the mob in the plaza, In front of the cathedral, was fired on by machine guns stationed on the palace roof and in the open galleries. Once more the nob gave way, an* once more returned. Now many of them carried ga&oline and blaziog. gasoline- soaked cotton and cloths, which they hurled through the open windows of the building, and also dashed against the scaffolding. Immediately the fire flared up. Firemen came, preceded by federal troops, who cleared the way for them. But only the walls of fhj municipal building remained standing. The official documents were dcrtroyed. SAYS INTOXICANTS MYSTERY Leader of the Drys Holds 8elence Can- ' Determine What la InltfKlt^ eating Llquora. > ^ i ' - ' ___ Washington, Dec. 2.--One man can get drunk on a glass of 2.75 beer while another man may carry a quart of white llghtnlng-with comparative comfort, Wayne B. Wheeler decided in announcing the Anti-Saloon leaeue would oppose any move for th# establishment of a "scientific commission" to determine what is intoxicating liquor. "No scientific commission can determine accurately what *s Intoxicating liquor for 100,000,000 people," Wheeler said. REDS LOSE IN SWITZERLAND OPEN WAR ON OLD PARTIES Progressiva Republicans and Democrats Organize--Plan Radical Stepa In Government. Washington, Dec. 2.--A "progressive bloc" to fight for an extensive program of government reform and Innovdtion was organized here by the 34 Republican and Democratic senators, senators-elect, representatives and representatives-elect who met at tha call of Senator LaFoliette (Rep„ Wis.). HEALY IS IRISH GOVERNOR One of the 8tormy Petrels of tha British House of Commons Named. London* Dee. 4.--Timothy Healy haa accepted the governor generalship of the Irish Free State and his appointment will be announced when royal assent is fclven to the Free State hllf, according to special dispatches from Dublin, Congressman Is DeM. " v t^ftfiitrttigton, Dec. 1.--Repr^senfatlVi James R. Mann of Illinois died at his home here at '11:15 Thursday night. Mr. Mann, a'member of congress for a quarter of a century and fioor leader of his party, was stricken with a chill a week ago. Pneumonia developed In both lunga. U. 8. Missionaries In China Flea. Shanghai, Dec. 4.--American missionaries in central China are fleeing to Shanghai to avoid the bandits. Gen eral Wu Pel Fu advised the flight, saying he could not protect them. - Ue Is preparing for a ^reat battle. . Radio Links Honduraa and I). 0, Washington, Dec. 2.--Direct wireless communication between the United States and Honduras began with the receipt of a message by President Harding from President Gutierrez at Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Mexico Bars "Bad Man" Films. Mexico City, Dec. 2. -- President Obregon has ordered that moving pictures showing Mexicans as villains are to be barred from this country. M'ft Counterfeiters of $420,750 Caught. New York, Dec. 4.--The United States secret service has captured three men, constituting the majority of a band counterfeiting Bank of England notes. Spurious currency for 103,500 (about $420,750) was seined. Swiss, in Biggest Poll, Reject Tax on 'f*fi fortunes by a 7«S'1 ^ v-V Vote> . Lausanne, Dec. 4.--Switzerland rejected the Bolshevik-inspired capital levy project on all fortunes above 80,000 Swiss francs (about $15,000), 7 to 1. In the biggest poll ever made In Switzerland, 725,000 voted against and 109,000 voted In favor of the project. The Socialist and communist sponsors of the project did not carry a single one of the 121 Swiss cantons. GREAT AMOUNT IN FINES U, jk Government Collects $5*718,118 *l)urlng 1922 in Prolecutiin 5 of Criminal Cases. Washington, Nov. 29.--Fines collected by the 'government during the last year, with other moneys deposited in suits, totaled $5,718,118, according to an announcement by the Department of Justice. There was a marked advance in collection of fines last year over the preceding year, which showed that 28,870 criminal cases and 3.064 civil suits were disposed ft In the twelve-month period. Mrs. Corn R. Franz of Jacksonville, Fla„, has Just been elected grand worthy matron at the annual convention of the General Grand Qhapter, Order of the Eastern Star. The office of grand worthy matron--of which one ia elected for each grand chapter--is the highest in the order. The General grand chapter includes a large number of states, and also Cubiu Porto Rico and Hawatt. " U. S. MARKET REPORT Welkly Marketgram by Bureau of Agricultural Economics,* "Washington.--For the week ending November 29--FRUITS AND VEGETABLES --Prices reported November 29: Northern sacked round white potatoes mostly $1.00 @1.15 per 100-lb; carlot sales, 76c to 90c in Chicago, 60c to TOc t. o. b.. Red river Ohlos, 90c to $1.26 In leading cities, 60c to 60c t. o. b. Danish type cabbase mostly I20.00tp26.00 per ton in consuming centers, 9U.00O16.00 in Cincinnati, *11.00918.00 t. o. b. Northern Danish stock, $15.00^18.00 In mldwestern markets. Middlewestern yellow onions, |1.75@2.&0. New York Baldwin apples, $4.00®M.76 per barrel In Cincinnati and Chicago, selling in other markets at t3.OO0S.7ft. Steady at $3.76@*.0Q f. o. b. Northwestern extra fancy boxed Jonathans, fl.65@2.2S. LIVE STOCK--Chlcaao prices November 29: Hogs, top, 18.60; bulk of sales, 98.10^8.36; medium and good beef steers, 97.16@12; butcher cows and heifers, $9,760 10.75; feeder steers, $C.25#7.75: light and medium weight veal calves, $8.60@9.60 GRAIN--Closing prices in Chicago cash markets: No. 2 red winter wheat, $1.21; No. 2 hard winter wheat, 91-21; No. 2 mixed com, 74c; No. 2 yellow corn, 76c; No. 9 white oats, 46c. Average farm .prices: No. 2 mixed corn in central Iowa, 61c; No. 1 dark northern wheat in central North Dakota, $1.00; No. 2 hard winter wheat in central Kansas, 91-00. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Closing price, M score butter, &4Hc Chicago. Cheese prices at Wisconsin primary markets November 27: Flats, 26c; Twins, 26c Daisies, 27^4e; Double Daisies, 27c; Longhorns, 26\c; Square Prints, 27Hc. HAY--Quoted November 29: No. 1 timothy, $17.50 Minneapolis; No. 1 prairie, 917.00 Minneapolis. FEED--Quoted November 29: Bran, 922.75; middlings, 922.76; flour' middlings. 926.00; rye middlings, 921.60 Minneapolis, white hominy feed. $29.00 St. Louis, $30.00 Chicago; 34 per cent linseed meal, $49.75 Minneapolis; gluten feed, 938.36 Chicago. .J*.- 4 . - . v*".- '*9 President Harding Submits Hi 1 Impropriations tftgonortsi for 1924. A \v EARLY. TAX GOT IS Two-Thirds of 192* attornment Payjfc^"' mente Are War Charges General ,4. v...r-,^ffdaral Expenditures RpUtm to Prewar Day*. -Washington, Dec. 5. --Ai Hons aggregating $3,078,940,331 for ; fiscal year beginning next July 1 proposed to congress by Harding In the second annual federal budget. This is exclusive of tha fKM^j tal service and compared with actoajl, appropriations for this fiscal year to>fi: tallng $3,274^238,680. t • Government expenditures tor tha coming fiscal year, also exriaslve of the postal service, were estimated £3,180,843,234, as compared with estimate of $3,703,801,671 for this ; cal year and an actual oatlay of $3,795,302,409 for the flqcal year endo%j£s , last June 30. , « * The total federal revenue for 1924 was reckoned at $3,361,8 2,359, or aj|: ' excess of $180,969,125 over projected expenditures. Tbe estimated rtvanuft- ^ for this fiscal year was $8,429,§82£G0, c or $273,938,712 less than tbe «xpeet«$t/'. outlay. , Following ace tbe budget bureau'* ' figures on estimated government ra* ceipts and appropriations for the ' •; cal year 1924 as compared with est#- ; mated receipts and actual approprfa^V tions for the present fiscal year of '1923: Receipts-- 1924 1923 Internal revenue^.$2,425,000,089 9t,40u,0iX),0aa ,< Customs 425,0u0^e» 460,000,0®H Miscellaneous -.1 511,812,3M •S.H . Totals ^....93,381,812,858 93.429,862,9# Appropriations. . . Legislative establishment 9 14,478,912 9 Executive office 382,850 Special repairs executive mansion 25,000 Dept. of Agriculture 81,251,6V Dept. of Commerce ..19,710,535 ||t Dept. of Interior .... 31t>,2tt.,«52 Dept. of Justice .... 18,751,056 Dept. of Labor 6,203.560 Navy Dept. 296,934,025 State Dept 12,u68^38 Treasury Dept. ...... 188,888,863 War Dept. including Panama Canal...... 326,517,900 Dist. of Columbia .. 25,063,973 Veterans' bureau ... 440,313,000 Shipping Board 50,411,600 Other independent offices 23,720^199 <3.419,0$ 20,«18.4d + 327,514,181 t 18,68Uai 7,490,UK ^ 298,324,2® I 11,096,2* M0.627.29f; . 946,894,3**' 25,900,08#:,; 4^,W77,3A" w '"i 100,459,009 '^. 4 • 'S.'j 27,116,539 'm Wat ordinary ....9i.7B9.8MW Public Debt. ; '"k'^ Reduction' Of prla- : ' cipal 9 Wjmjq* t 999,089,9(|r ;l^ Interest on public - *v>$- debt 960,000,009 *1,100,000,9<® Grand total ;....4*078.9M.39i 93.274,238^# NO EXPLOSIVES ON LUSITANIA DAUGHERTY ANSWERS CRITICS Attorney General 8ays Impeachment ^™ His. Evident*. ' v - ^shfiiRtt»n, Dec. 4.--Attorn# General Harry M. Daugherty said In answer to Impeachment charges against him In the house, that the purpose is not to remove him from office, but to compel disclosure of evidence In cases the government Is Investigating or^ prosecuting. Barred Women Form Union. New York, Dec. 4.--Barred by the United Hat Makers of America, women hat makers have formed their own nnlon, the United Felt. Panama and Straw Hat Trimmers and Operatora' union, No. 1450, excluding all men. Must Pay for Mixing Humbert, Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 2.--George S. Griggs, attorney, was awarded $1,000- by a Jury In District court bere for delays to his business due to wrong numbers given him by operators of a telephone company. Five Die of Typhoid; 95 IB, . Franklin Furnace, N. J., Dee. In s typhoid epidemic here five persons are dead and 95 are seriously 111. The epidemic is attributed to seepage 8tate Highway Officials Meet. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 4.--The eighth annnal convention of the American Association of State Highway Engineers. lasting four days, began here today. State highway officials from every state are present , *• :'r Russian Arms Parlay 0|#ipi 2 Moscow. Dec. 1.--A conference to discuss methods of arms limitation for Russia and the Baltic states opened bere Friday. Invitations were sent to Poland, Finland. Lithuania, Estbonla and Latvia. • s J. " * * rjL.* of such pictures are "western" stotiaa, I of unfiitered water, used for fire fljgkfe* wroduced In tha United State* I into drinking water •««'*» • f Large Japanese Bank Suspends. Tokyo, Dec. 1.--The Osaka Nippon Seklden Glnko suspended payment after large losses by speculation. The bank has eleven branches In Kyote and Osaka, and Its deposits' tra 10, 000,000. yen (abont $8,000,000). f Ofneial Report of the VeasaPs Cargo Made Public by Collector of the Port. KMr York, Dec. 4.--The <Q|aard liner Lusitania, sunk by a German submarine in 1915 off the Irish coast, carried neither guns, troops nor high explosives, but did carry 5,400 cases of ammunition, tha official report of the vessel's cargo, made public by Dudley Field Malone, collector of the port at the time, shows. The cases of ammunition, the report stated, were carried by specific permission under rulings of the Department of Commerce In force since 1911. • More than a thousand lives were lost, including over a hundred Americans, when the Lusitania went down off Old Kinsale head, Ireland, six days after it had ldft New York. GREEK PRINCE IS EXILED Andrew, Brother of Deposed King, WUl Be Degraded Before ' '%e Army. -.>V AttiefiS, !)«*. 4.--Prince nf Greece, brother of the deposed King Constantine, was sentenced to lifelong exile and military degradation for having disobeyed orders during the recent war with Turkey when he had a military command. Lake Boat 8inka; Eleven Drown. Calumet, Mich., Dec. 2.--Capt. Nason Bernard and ten members of the crew of the Canadian steamer Mapleburst were drowned when the ship broke up a mile west of Lake Portage. Bavarian Towns Fined. Paris, Dec. 2.--The allied ments have imposed fines of $125,000 each on the two E^varian towns Passau and lngolstadt for recent attacks on French and British military con* troi officers. Capt. George Augur Dies. New York, Dec. 2.--Capt. Geo. Augnr, said to be the largest man In the world, died suddenly here. For several years he had toured the country with a circus. He was eight feet four laches tali and weighed 360 pounds. To Repair U. S. Shlpa. Washington, Dec. 1.--Chairman Lasher of the shipping board announced here that bids will be asked for the reconditioning of the steamships A merles and President Grant, now In the transatlantic trade. • Oreek King a Priaonor. j Paris, Dec. 1.--King George, harftif asked pennisalon of the revolutionary committee to leave Greece, Is now held antler the strictest* surveillance in ona oC the royal castles situated noc far from Athens. •Including fB6,W»,000 discount accruali^ igs of war savings stamps, series of 1918, due = -'C Jan.fl, 1923. & STEAL 60 BARRELS WHISKt Thirty Man Raid Warehouse at lil^ and Escape in Motor 'Trucks. Peoria, in., Dec. 5.--Thirty men early In the evening raided tha plant of the Liberty Yeast corporation afew, Pektn, III., held up tbe employees anft' * guards and escaped with sixty baf^.; rels of bonded whisky. Tbe yeq*| corporation formerly was the Globi? distillery and the liquor had bee|| stored there since before the Volstead act went Into effect. '* The bandits loaded the liquor oH..* motor trucks and drove away swiftly ' ' south on the hard road toward Spring ^ -2. field. Each truck «a£ iMdtil witb*^ twelve barrels; * • V/": v % MADELYNN OBENCHAIN FREEf Arthur Burch, Indicted With H«r ^ Kennedy Murder, Also Re- > leased, but Rearrested. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 5.--Mri- Madelynn Connor Obenchaln and Af» ^ ^ thur Courtney Burch of Evanston, Ut* indicted more than a year ago for tl*9 murder of J. Belton Kennedy, wer%- ^ released. Burch, however, was immediately ^ placed . ufcder arrest on ^ aa insanity . warrant. ^ - ; , CAMP CONTRACTORS SUEjfe i Six Additional Suits Are Fijed, *' ^^astios Department Cba«f?\ ' \ 1 <nfl Fraud- " Washington, Dec. 5.--United Statagf |: attorneys, acting under direction <# > 1 Attorney General Daugherty, filed si* additional suits against contractoi|k ^ ^ vho built army cantonments for thl.' •overnment. These suits seelt. t# ^ cover nearly $90,000,000, * Heavy Quakes on Mexican Coasts. Mexico City, Dec. 5.--Heavy earths, quakes occurred at Caxaca, state df-1" Caxaca, and Orizaba and Jalapa, stat)k of Vera Crux, and other points on tip, Pacific and Gulf coasts. All tel#> graph and telephone wires are dow% Ford Asks Detroit Fare Cut. , Detroit, Dec. 5.--Henry Ford, dl#** cussing the appointment of Mayolr: Couzens ^ United States senator, sail,; Mr. Couzens' successor should expaaH' the municipal railway system an*, ghonU1 cut fares in half. -•vVv1 •'.v.- Rail Workers Loos Wtwhington, Dec. 5.--The StipT^ltit " court reversed a Judgment of $ia,otl9 against th j director general of rail* roads, In a case of wlllfni assault hy " one employee upon another <Hnployc«s . of a federal railroad. J ' Four 8tudent« Perish in Blaze. Watervllle, Me.. Dec. 5.--Four dents of Colby college were burned wdeath early in the morning when flint destroyed one section of the original college building which ,«raa erectai In 1880. •i Y'~M r'm*.