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BULBARS OUST I < 'PEASANT RULE Eighty Gendarmes Are Killed in Street Fighting in' • Sofia. 4 . U GML WAR BELIEVES NEAR '•£r - --•--$:?•• • H, Hevolt Peril* All Balkan*--Europe j ^ Tremble* as Peasant Militia March «, ] . on Capital--Jugo-Siav* ' Ready to Attaeib , Paris. June 11.--French official re- , ftorts from Sofia declare the Bulgarian revolutionary government has dis- ;..V; Solved parliament and proclaimed a '•••• Mate of siege. Alexander Stamboullsky, the de- * posed premier, has organized peasants 7 ..* Hito a militia and is marching on the ^li^pjritaL The city is under martial law. *«• . imj ig patroled by tanks. r,'-- All Europe Trembles. ;- 4 :; While civil war seems about to breaTt : Bbrth in Bulgaria, all Europe trembles IB fear that the strife will plunge the Balkans once more into war. The * Cabinet of Jugo-Slavia has already taken measures to protect itself ; •.'•gainst possible treaty violations by Bulgaria. The Serbs have ah army ' jjf 100,000 men mobilised close to the § Bulgarian border. Describing the revolt at Sofia, the . Belgrade correspondent of the Havas ; agency differs from advices directly i from the Bulgarian capital with re*> Spect to the "bloodless revolt." He •ays a regiment refused to Join the fnovement and was disarmed after ^ ' Sharp fighting In the streets of Sofia, • ' " In which eighty gendarmes were * Hkllled. Vienna and Belgrade dispatches report continued street fighting In Sofia, Slivno, and Tsamokov, Bulgaria. , HERBERT L PRATT SOVIET SEEKS U.S.RECOGNITlflN • Lenine Ready to Wipe Out fa Old Czarist Debt of t $232,000,00^?* »t >3 •••".•/•' HUSHES FIRM ON DEMANDS Herbert L. Pratt, who was senior vice president of the Standard Oil Company of. New York, and known internationally as one of the biggest men In the great oil industry, son of the founder of Pratt institute, has been elected president of the company. He has been connected with the Standard Oil company for 27 years. He will probably draw a salary of $100,000 a year. JAPAN FIGHTS REDS Tokyo Police Seize Prominent Union Labor Leaders. Kansas Floods Claim Five Lives; Property Damage Heavy Kansas City, Mo., June 11.--At least live persons are believed to have lost their lives as a result of floods over the state of Kansas. Virtually every Stream in the state is out of its banks, as a result of heavy rains. The property damage cannot be estimated yet. Many cities over the state reported that the losses in their particular neighborhoods would run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Harding Gets New York Papers at Sea by Plane Washington, June 11.--Although he .pas out in the Atlantic on the May ^ flower more than four hundred miles i j south of New York, President Harding had the opportunity of reading 5 Sunday issues of the New York news- K papers Sunday. This was accom- <'* pllsbed through the naval air service, i<- • i. which sent a scouting plane to the Mayflower with copies of the news- 'Vr* • papers: Government Takes Drastic Action Against Spread of Red Propaganda-- Would Cheek Influx of Russian Communists. ' Tokyo, June 8.--The police activities against tb«* socialists are now extending to labor, two prominent union heads being under arrest. It is expected that there will be many mote arrests, including writer* on labor topics. The police deny that there was anything serit us behind the recent socialist and communist disclosures, asserting that the raids were made to nip any plotting In the bud. During the raids the police searched the Unlldlngs of Waseda university, which was the scene of disorders recently when a portion of the faculty tried to organise a militaristic association among the students. The university paper has been suppressed temporarily and some professors have resigned, while the students have called a mass meeting to protest against the police Interference with •liberty of learning." It is suggested in some quarters that the police raids are largely political, in flew of probable negotiations with the soviet government, being intended to show the danger from an influx of communists. Sfete department at Washington fttanda on Requirements Cabled to the Consul at Reval on March 25» 1921. fPuhlngton, June 9i -^That the soviet government is making an at* tempt to buy recogaltioL from the United States through payment of the $282,000,000 owed this government, is the burden of communications brought to America by Senator Wheeler of Montana, and Parley P. Christensen, Farmer-Labor candidate for president In 1920. Their representations will be brought to the attention of the State department soon. Senator Wheeler and Mr. Christensen do not put it en that basis. Having talked to officials of the soviet government, they are prepared to represent to Secretary Hughes that Russia will meet all the conditions of recognition Imposed by this government in addition to paying its debt. But the lure for negotiations which Mr. Lenin and Mr. Trotzky held out to them on their recent trip through Russia was payment of the $232,000,000 which this government had not expected to recover, at least for many years. There have been indications recently that the State department has been approached from other angles with this same proposal, although the department will not confirm this. It is said that Secretary Hughes does not take seriously the talk of negotiations that might lead to recognition of the soviet government for he realizes that for the soviets to meet the requirements of the United States would mean virtual abandonment of some of the cardinal principles of their system. The requirements as stated most tersely through Secretary Hughes' cablegram to the American consul at Reval on March 25, 1921, are: Safety of life and property. Recognition by firm guarantee* Of private property. Sanctity of contract. 'iuf Ir %"V$- r • Right of free labor.---r Furthermore, Secretary iftlghes states in the same cablegram, that "this government will be glad to have convincing evidence of the consummation of such changes, and until this evidence is supplied this government is unable to perceive that there is any proper basis for considering trade relations." Voluntary Wage Increases Made by Four, Big Railroads Chicago, June 11.---Voluntary wage Increases on four railroads, the Pennsylvania, Chicago and Northwestern, Illinois Central. - and Missouri Pacific, were announced by A. F. Stout, vice president of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees and Railway Shop Laborers. Approximately 150,000 maintenance men are L Plunging Car Kins Girl in a Second-Floor Flat New York, June 8.--Margaret McLaughlin, twelve, is dead and three or more are injured from the flight of a runaway trolley car which plunged several blocks backward down a steep hill on Amsterdam avenue, attaining terrific speed. It crashed through the front Into the second story of the flvestory building at One Hundred and Eighteenth street. The little girl who •was killed was playing a piano when the car smashed in, damaging tlie first three floors. affected. German Note Handed U. S. and Entente Representatives Berlin, June 8.--Germany's mandatory reparations note, which was handed to the entente and United States governments here, proposes a system of annuities estimated to total 1,200,- 000,000 gold marks (about $300,000,- 000) annually, if an international loan Is not available for immediate capital payments. Monster Fish Is Caught Off the Florida Coast Miami, Fla., June 11.--A sea monster thirty-five feet long and believed to weigh 20,000 pounds was harpooned and shot by a party from Miami off Marathon, about ninety miles south of Miami. The fish was'said in meager wire reports received here to be a fish and not a whale. « Mrs. Mabel Gilman Corey's $200,000 Pearls Stolen London. June 8.--Scotland Yard and continental police are rounding up all known tourist thieves to solve the theft of a $200,000 pearl necklace from Mrs. Mabei Gilman Corey, wife of W. E. Corey, steel magnate, while she was on the way from Parts to London. The string of 130 matched pearls was a Christmas present to he,r from Mr. Corey in 1913. Mr. Corey is to arrive in Paris June 16. Only One High School Girl of 309 Chooses Marriage Des Moines, la., Jnne 9.--Marriage and home making will have become wholly secondary in the new feminine scheme of existence if results of a questionnaire conducted among this rear's senior class in Des Moines high school is an indication of youthful opinion. Three hundred and nine girls answered the questionnaire. Some desire to become actresses, others Interpreters, farmers, lawyers, doctors, writers, teachers, missionaries, private secretaries, nurses, and dietitians, but only one said she hoped to get married and have a home. DUKE OF ORLEANS STATE CMTT FIX WAGES, DECISION S. Supreme Court Delivers Body Blow to Kansas •, %•/ Industrial Plan. IS 6IVH OT TAFT Louis Philip Robert, duke of Orleans, is the man the French royalists wish to place on the throne as Philip VHI. He lives In Belgium, $.nd the activities of his supporters weT& aired the other day in the French chamber of deputies. U. S. MARKET REPORT Weekly Marketgram by Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Washington.--For the week ending June 9--FRUITS AND VEGETABLES-- South Carolina Irish cobbler potatoes, $6.00@6.25 per bbl. in city markets, $4.75@5.25 f. o. b.; Alabama and Louisiana sacked Bllaa Triumphs, |3.00#3.S0 per 100 lbs. In midwestern markets; $2.75 f. o. b. California salmon tint cantaloupes, standard 45's, $4.00 @5.00 In midwestern markets, $2.26 @2.75 f. o. b. cash track at shipping points. Kentucky and Missouri Aroma strawberries. $3.76 @4.75 per 24-quart crate in consuming markets, $3.25@4.00 In producing sections. Florida Tom Watson watermelons, 22-30 lbs. average, $400.00 @950.00 bulk per car in leading markets, $275.00 @600.00 f. o. b. cash track in producing sections. Georgia Uneeda peaches, in 6-basket carriers, $2,609 4.50 in a few markets, $1.75 t. o. b. HAY--No. 1 timothy. $20.50 Cincinnati. $23.50 Chicago, $17.00 Minneapolis, $23.50 St. Louis; No. 1 prairie, $28.00 St. Louis, $17.00 Minneapolis. FEED -- Bran. $23.50; middlings, $26.75; flour middlings, $"9.50; rye middlings, $26.50 Minneapolis; 32 per cent linseed meal, $85.50 .Minneapolis.; gluten feed, $87.16 Chicago; white hominy feed, $31.50 St. Louis, $33.60 Chicago. GRAIN--Chicago cash market: No. 3 red winter wheat. $1.23; No. 2 hard winter wheat. $1.13; No. 2 mixed corn, 33c; No. 2 yellow corn, 84c; No. 3 white oats, 45c. Average farm prices; No. 2 mixed corn In eentr&l Iowa, 60c; No. S hard winter wheat in central Kansas, 94c. LIVE STOCK--Chicago prices: Hogs, top, $7.25; bulk of sales. $6.65@7.10; medium and good beef steers. $8.00<9 10.50; butcher cows and heifers, $4.00@ P.85i feeder steers, $6.15 @8.40; light and medium weight veal calves, $7,500 10.50; fat lambs. $12.00® 14.85; spring lambs, $13.76@16.00; yearlings, $8,250 13.00; fat ewes. $3.00@6.25. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Butter, 92 score,, 38c Chicago. Cheese at Wisconsin primary markets: Twins. 28\c; single daisies, 24^4c; double daisies. 2SI4c; young Americas, 24Vfcc; longhorns, 24c; square prints, 26c. . Two Indiana Girls and Boy,tv Caught in Whirlpool,'Die French Lick, Ind., June 11.--Miss Sltha Stapleton, fifteen; Miss L. G. Snyder, sixteen, and Harry Moore, eighteen, all of West Baden, Ind., were drowned while swimming at Hindoostan falls, twenty-two miles west of this city. They were caught in a whirlpool at the foot of the fsils. , Chicago Dry Agents Seize 25,211 Gallons Booze in May Chicago, Jupe 9.--Prohibition agents In Chicago last month seised 25.211 gallons of alcoholic beverages, made 187 arrests and confiscated property, not Including booze, valued at $16,268, according to figures submitted by Prohibition Director William D. Moss. The expense incurred by the agents, exclusive of salaries, was (SO, Mr. Moss reported. Floods Do Great Damage $ in Oklahoma; Bridges Go Out Oklahoma City, Okla., June 11.-- With railway service in northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas disrupted by high waters that have torn out bridges and rights of way In a score of places. Oklahoma is In the grip of what oldest inhabitants say is "the worst flood of the worst season" within memory. The bridge over the Salt Fork at the 101 ranch at Ponca City, Okla., went out, carrying several persons down stream with It, according to reports received here.' , --; !i ' ; Millions of Butterflies in Florida Mystify Natives West Palm Beach. Fla.. June 8.-- Residents of south Florida are Inquiring from what point In the North came what appear to be millions of white ' butterflies that' are flying through this section bound south. The migration has been under way for three days and local naturalists are not able to explain the phenomenon. RUS8 Peasants Resist Levy on Their Grain Berlin, June 9.--Faced with crop failures that are far more serious than those that preceded the Samara famine. Russian peasants are resisting the collection of grain levies for exportation purposes. The phortage is reflected in food riots and strikes. Moscow Greets Members of American Congress Moscow. June 8.--The presence here of Trvfng T. Buslj of New York, Representative Carroll L. Beedy of Maine and Representative Ross A. Collins of Mississippi, together with the expected arrival of Senator Brookhart of Iowa on Monday and other members of the American congress, Is greeted by the Russian press as an indication that American interest In Russian affairs Is growing. Alaska Given Taste of Summer; 120 in the Sun Dawson City, Y. T., June 9.--A heat wave struck Yukon territory Friday. The temperature was 91 In the shade and 120 in the sun. This was the hottest, with one exception, registered in tlte iast twenty-three years since the Dominion weather bureau was established here. The hottest day ever recorded was on July 10, 1920, when It was one degree warmer. Declares Aet Conflicts Wtthtfcfc^oarteenth Amendment of the Constitution by Taking Away Property Rights. Washington, June 11.--The-l&msSs Industrial Relations court was dealt a heavy blow when the Supreme Court of the United States, lu an opinion delivered by Chief Justice Taft, declared the tribunal was without power to fix wages in the plant of the Charles Wolff Packing company. Chief Justice Taft declared that the act creating the Industrial Relations court conflicted with the Fourteenth amendment of the Constitution by depriving the company of its property and liberty of contract without due process of law. While the opinion of the court dealt with a specific case, it is the view of lawyers here who studied the decision that the words of Chief Justice Taft draw the teeth of the Kansas court. "It has never been supposed, since the adoption of the Constitution, that the business of the butcher, or the baker, the tailor, the wood chopper, the mining operator or the miner was clothed with such a public interest that the price of his product or his wages could be fixed by state regulation," said Mr. Chief Justice Taft. "It is true that in the days of the early common law an omnipotent parliament did regulate prices and wages as It chose, and occasionally a colonial legislature sought to exercise the same power; but, since the adoption of our Constitution, one does not devote one's property or business to the public use or clothe it with a public Interest merely because one makes commodities for and sells to the public In the common callings of which those mentioned above are instances. "If, as. In effect, contended by counsel for the state [of Kansas], the common callings are clothed with a public interest by & mere legislative declaration, which necessarily authorises full and comprehensive regulation within legislative discretion, there must be a revolution in the relation of government to general business. This will be running the public interest Into the ground, to use a phrase of Mr. Justice Bradley when characterising a similarly extreme contention. It will be Impossible to reconcile such result with the freedom of contract and of labor secured by the Fourteenth amendment." . , SENATE COTS rsf, OMNIBUS Bill Slashes Emergency Appropria , t Jon of $200,000 f* National Guard. ^ ROAD Bfll ADVANCED ILLINOIS BREVITIES Two Thousand Flee Chicago 4 Blaze Twenty Stories Up Chicago, June 12.--Spectacular rescues followed in swift succession Monday night as some two thousand members of various lodge organisations struggled to escape a fire which swept up the freight elevator shaft of the Capitol building (formerly the Masonic temple) and attacked the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth floors of the famous skyscraper. Thousands of dollars' worth of lodge paraphernalia was destroyed. Daugherty Left $25,000 by Man Who Killed Self Washington, June 11.--By the will of the late Jessie W. Smith, intimate friend and close political associate of Attorney General Daugherty, who committed suicide in Washington, D. C., May 30, the attorney general Is given $25,000. The will, probated here, makes bequests aggregating $190,000. 5 Forty Drown in Russia. Moscow, June 11.--Forty persons. Including some women and children, were drowned In a ferry accident on the River Tom, in the Kuzbns concession area. It is not known whether any Americans are among the dead. Hailstorm Kills Animals. r--*• Tegucigalpa, Honduras, .Tun® 11.--- Thousands of animals perished in a hall storm in the region of Esquias. fn the valleys and mountains hail fell to a depth of eighteen inches, It is reported. **•v ; Refused to Print Ad, Fined. Boston, Mnss.. June 8.--George 8. Himdell, publisher of the Boston Transcript, was fined $100 in Judge Creed's •esslon of Municipal court on the charge of refusing to print a report 9t the minimum wage commission. Army Captain Kills Self. Asbury Park, N. J., June 11.--Capt. James F. Morford. U. S. A., stationed at Caiv> Vail, near Red Bank, committed suicide in a hotel here by shooting himself through the heart. I army pistol was found near. Italy to Abolish Duties on Food. Rome, June 11.--The Italian cabinet, at a meeting to consider means for alleglatlng the high cost of living, decided to nbolish or substantially reduce the customs duties on the most Important foodstuffs. President Harding to Review Fleet at Seattle Washington. June 9.--With orders for the concentration of the various units of the United States battle fleet off Seattle on 27, it became known here that part of the program of President Harding's trip to Alaska will be the review of the fleet. Plasterers Get $12 Day; Ask Raise. St. Louis, Mo., June 11.--The local contracting plasters' association, at a meeting Sunday, voted to refuse an Increase in wages of from $12 to $14 a day as demanded by the plasterers' union. Diamond Sentenced to Die October 12. Valparaiso. Ind.. .Tune 8.--Harry Diamond, found guilty here of murdering his wife. Nettle Diamond, Was sentenced to die In the electric chair at Michigan City on October 12. Jydgy ItfjrtBg pronouneed the sestet)**. Sex Equality Qaina. London. Jjjne ». -- Sex equality gained an overwhelming victory In commons when a bill giving n wife the right to divorce her husband on the sole grounds of misconduct passed its third reading by 257 to 20. Autoist Qets Five Years. Milwaukee, Wis., June 11.--Conrad Stelloh, driver of the car that killed John Friedl and his wife, Angeline, on November 26, was sentenced ,to five years In the house of correction by Judge Backus. Cabinet Resignation Denied. Peking. June 9.--The resignation of Premier Shao-Tseng's cabinet, which was tendered some time ago, has been refused by President Li Yuan Bung. Overtures are being made to Jbe premier, who la now in Tientsin. Dry Ruling to 8tand. Washington, June 9.--Treasury department regulations barring liquor from all ships within the three-mile limit will stand as long as the Volstead act remains unchanged, it. w«s officially stated here. \ ' Soviets Crush Mutiny at Kazan After Fighting Stockholm, June 9.--A mutiny of the Second cavalry brigade of the soviet army at Kazan has been pat down after heavy fighting with forces sent from Moscow, and thirty of the mutineers' leaders have^>een executed, according to a dispatch from the Moscow correspondent of the Stockholm Tldinden. Harding Insists Lasker Take His Leviathan Jaunt Washington, June 12. -- President Harding, It was learned here, looks with favor on the trial trip of the Leviathan, arranged by Chairman A. D. Lasker of the shipping board. The liner leaves Boston on June 19 for a six-day cruise with 400 officials and other Invited guests. In view of much criticism that has developed regarding tHe cruise as a "Joy ride" at the expense of the government, Chairman Lasker conferred with the President. 100,000 Rail Men Seek Raise of Approximately $36,000,006 Chicago. June 12. -- Approxiately 100,000 railway maintenance of way men and shop laborers, employed on thirty-five roads and seeking pay boosts that would add about $36,000, 000 annually to the pay rolls of these carriers, are Involved in wage hearings which have been started before the United States railroad labor board. Foreign > Trade Shews Increase. ' . Washington, June 9.--The merce department reported that American foreign trnde in April was $147,- 000.000 more than in April, 1922. Imports were $364,250,006, as against $217,023,142 in April last ytar. Denmark Recognises Russia. Obpenhagen, June 9.--Both houses of parliament, by a big majority, adopted a government motion ratifying the commercial agreement with Russia--granting de facto recognition to the sovtet government. Two Illinois Aviators Kilted. Peoria. 111., June 9. -- Clarence Brown, twenty-two, of Lnxa, 111., pilot, ind Errory Gibson, twenty-three, of Atlanta. 111., a student flyer, were tilled when their plane fell 2,000 feet tear Kellar fie!4., while doing "stunts." Grants Ford Power Rights. Washington. June 8.--Henry Fiord secured from the federal government a license to construct a power plant at what is known as the High dam In the Mississippi river between- JR. Past and Minneapolis. • " Cuno's Salary; $67 a Month. Berlin. June 8.--Chancellor Cono, on whom the German people depend for a solution of their political as well as economic troubles, was granted a salary Increase bringing his uionfiljr Income up to S8T4S, • « ' Chinese Bandits Let Captives Go, Says Tsao Chuang Report Tsao Chuang, June 12.--The last of the foreign captives who were taken after the wreck of the train on May 6 and who have been held captive In the mountain stronghold since that time have been released. Bursting Boiler Kills T\w, Wortham, Tex., June 12.--A boiler exploding on a Gulf Production company lease killed Robert Davis and Ernest Leverett and Injured a third man. The blast threw the bodies several hundred feet. Deny Miracle; Lioeneed to Prsach. New York,* June 12.--Two students of the Union Theological seminary, who refused to affirm their belief In the virgin birth of Christ, were licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New York. Prison for Woman Autoist* New Tort. Jun® 12.--Mrs. Loretto Thompson, recently convicted of manslaughter in the death of Domlnlck Leo, eleven, was sentenced to from one to three years m Auburn State prison. Divorced Wife Sues Qould. Paris, June 12.--A suit to obtain half of a fortune of millions of francs from /Yank J. Gould was re- Instituted in the French courts by Mrs. Edith Maude Kelly, the millionaire's &»eoiid jrlfa. * MeasuM Carrying 8eventy-Foui Amendments Goes to Third Reading In House--Bill to Repeat Dry Law la In. Springfield.--The senate made a net reduction of $898,877 in the $18,000,- D00 department omnibus appropriation bill. The emergency appropriation of $200,000 for the National Guard and naval reserve was halved, as was a similar item for emergency repairs and replacement of stateowned buildings* Three of the eight assistant commissioners whose peaces were abolished by the house two weeks ago were put back In the bill at $5,000 each. The appropriation of the department of registration and education was cut $124,675. Of this the Immigrants commission lost $58,000, travel expense $81,67E5 and research $35,- 300. Six secretaryships of the commerce commission were abolished. Reductions were made in the health department and the insurance bureau allotments. Adjourned at midnight, feavlng bill on second reading. The administration $100,000,000 road bond issue bill, carrying 74 amendments and providing for 6,100 miles of hard road, was advanced to third reading. Gateway Bill Passes. The Mills gateway amendment was amended by the house and adopted, 109 to 28. It proposes that amendments to two articles of the constitution may be proposed' by tlie legislature instead of one only. Representative G. J. Johnson of Winnebago proposed and had adopted an amendment that no change in th constitution may be proposed while the nation Is at war or within a year after hostilities are concluded. The vote was 133 to 7. Green, a wet, avows the eighteenth amendment was "slipped overt' by an organized minority during the war. Representative G. J. Johnson's severance bill, proposing a tax of 8 cents a ton on Illinois coal, $1 a ton on fluorspar and 5 cents a barrel on petroleum #as amended and advanced to third reading after attempt to kill It had been made. The tax on coal was reduced to 2 cents a ton and the fluorspar' an<f oil tax stricken out. Johnson said passage of the Mil would net the state $3,000,000 In revenue annually. Would Repeal Dry Law. Repeal of the Illinois search and seizure law and enforcement act supplementing the Volstead law is sought In a bill introduced In the house by Representative Thomas J. O'Grady of Chicago. The bill also provides that the question of Its adoption be submitted to the voters at the next general election after the act's passage, and that It should not become effective unless a majority of the vote** approve* The license tax bill, sponsored by Mayor Dever of Chicago, passed the house and opponents of the measure are now girding for a desperate fight when the bill come^np- In the senate. The house vote was 88 to 54. The bill extends powers to the councils of all Illinois cities/ so that they may license merchants, manufacturers and owners of stores, shops, hotels and factories. Nine-Hour' Day for Women. The senate substituted fqr the O'Neill women's eight-hour bill an amendment limiting hours of lahot for Illinois women to nine dally, with a maximum of 56 hours a week. The amendment was offered by Senatoi P. S. Hicks of Winnebago county and was adopted, 27 to 22. It defines "employed." "work," and "place of employment," and limits their application to mechanical or mercantile establishments, factories, laundries, hotels, restaurants, telephone or tele graph establishments or offices there ot • Votea to Lease Canal£ ; THe senate authorized by a. vottf ol 4.T to 0 the lease for 99 years of th« eld Illinois and Michigan canal between Chicago and Joliet. The uselessness of the canal is apparent. Part of it has been filled in. The pro posal was Introduced by Senator Barr. The rental is not to be less than 6 per cent of the value of the property. Passes Chicago State-House Bill. With one vote to spare tlie SchulM bill to appropriate $2,000,000 for a Chicago "state house" squeezed through the senate at a night session. The vote was 27 to 13. Two year* ago the senate passed the same kind of bill introduced by Senator Robert W. Schulze. All Ovei the State, : Sprlngfleld.--Miss Hazel 9pb* ol Springfield has won the W. W. Kimball gold medal which Is awarded annually by the American Conservatory of Music In Chicago to the besi qualifying membw of the Teachsrrf Certificate class. Springfield.--More than 14.000 ftj swatters were distributed during th« month of May among the Springfielc school children, by the city health department. Dr. A. E. Camp-belt, super intendent of the health department, announced In his report Jerseyvtlle.--Calhoun county, knows as the "Apple Kingdom" of Illinois shipped from Its docks during tin year 1022. nearly a half million bar rels of apples. There were shipped also 7.278 barrels of cider. Chris Rlnghnusen, who owns more orchard acreage in the county than any oth« person, sold his 1922 peach and appW crop on the trees for $52,000. Pawnee.--Rev. Father John Luptoi of St. Mary's church at Pawnee, cele brated the twenty-Wh anniversary o( his priesthood. Father Luptca Is i native «C Mewry. IraUut* 1 - » r'-iT Sprlngfleld.--The house of representatives already la preparing toe Its biennial night of play, when Republicans and Democrats alike meet about the festal board, enjoying a fine spread, pass verbal bouquets to each and every one, pledge eternal friendships and present the speaker, the minority leader and employees of til* house with gifts. Rockford.--Breaking Into an apparently abandoned house In the outskirts, police discovered a moonshine' plant, consisting of a still with a capacity of 150 gallons, and two cement vats, underground, from which the officers pumped about 2,500 gallons of mash. Fifty gallons of distilled ll<jsar also was seized. Urbana.--Of the state's total area of 56,043 square miles, 43,542 have been completely surveyed and the data available for general use, with the exception of the last few counties finished, it is announced by Dr. R. S. Smith, director of the iAlnols soil survey. The area surveyed in 1922 was 2,626 square miles. Sheffield. -- Mash land, reclaimed for onions, has placed Bureau county In the forefront for the production of this vegetable. More than 200 acres have been planted in the Kedron valley section, near here, alone, and the totr* acreage in onions for the county Is said to be twice as large as that of last year. Mollne.--Three thousand Elks gathered in Mollne to attend the twentieth annual convention of the Illinois Elks* association. Chicago was chosen aa the 1924 convention city at the final business session. Dr. W. R. Fletcher of Joliet was elected president. Rock Island.--Announcement that the archbishop of Sweden, Lars Olof Jonathan Soderblom, will dedicate the $300,000 Augustana college seminary buildings when he visits America next fall has been made by Dr. Gustav Andreen, president of that college. :y Chlcago.--Judge Thomas G. Whides, one of the judges of longest years on the Cook county bench, died at his home of heart failure. He was seventy- five years old and had served In a judicial capacity In Cook county tor thirty-flve years. West Frankfort.--Three hundred miners employed by' the Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin mine No. 2 went on strike. The strikers contend that the* shaft, which Is a new one, has developed sufficiently to permit payment of wages on a tonnage basis. Urbana.--Twenty-nine war veteftna, known as federal board students, who have been attending the University of Illinois, will be among those to be graduated from the Institution this year, according to announcement of the registrar. ; Urbana.--The third short course foe metermen will be given at the University of Illinois, under the direction of the department Of hectical engineer* lfcg, for one week, June 11 to 16, It was announced here. The course 1> open to all metermen. Benton.--A woman, who gave the name of Louisa Kabaskl, and who Is believed to be from Herrin, was discovered in the act of drowning her sixyear- old daughter, whom she had stripped of clothing, police officers here say. Sprlngfleld.--Mary Josephine Gannett, two years old, was crushed tc death beneath an automobile driven by her grandfather, Joseph Mellne .ol Springfield, as the grandfather wai backing out of a garage. Urbana.--A total of 1,623 degrees were conferred by the University of Illinois at Its fifty-second annual commencement. This Is the largest number to be granted In June over any previous year by about 300. Chicago.--Joseph Woods, former employee of the Chicago, Burlington & Qulncy railroad, was awarded $30,000 by a Jury for Injuries suffered In an accident in the railroad yards. Kewanee.--Delivery - of a wedding cake by airplane from Peoria proved to be the feature in the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Bol> ton of this city. Dixon.--Out of forty-six Lee count? applicants for teachers' licenses whe recently took the required examination here, but two passed the test success fully. Rock Island.--Eagles numbering S,- 000 are expected to be in Rock Island on June 19, 20 and 21 to attend tlw Illinois State Eagles' convention tr tlHs city. Kankakee.--<X B. Hendricks, night policeman, was shot and killed b> three robbers whom he surprised attempting to force an entrance to tb« rear door of a hardware store. Urbana.--A. Kadoch of Chicago ha» been named art editor for next yeat on the Daily IllinI, the official student paper at the University of Illinois. Murphysboro.--The fourteen-year old son of Dick Gurley of Carbondale was drowned while swimming 1* Henry lake. Springfield.--The application of tht Public Service company of Northers Illinois to construct and operate a» electric transmission lftie from the village of Bradford to the village of Wyoming, Stark county, wag filled with the state commerce commission at Sprlngfleld. - Rockford.--More than 700 men were initiated into the Ku Klux Klan at llockford. The initiation was held at Rock Cut, west of the Harlem Consolidated school, dut-ing a torrential downpour of rain which threatened to extinguish the fiery crosses. Chicago.--Sidney Anderson, United States congressman from Minnesota has been secured as the principal speaker at the Fourth Annual Ullnoia- Agricultural association picnic at Crystal Lake. Urbaua, June 29. A crowd of 15,000 people la expected to attend the picnic. Paris.--Methodists; of eastern Illinois were shocked to learn of the death of Rev., M. F. Ault, who died at his home in Kaasas several day* ago. Rev. Mr. Ault was one of th* best known Methodist pastors In tbf atnot^-eonfenm