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iPN REDS T'.fT?!!! w. b. wnnu.' ^ i - GALL STRIKE Walkout of Every City Is Latest of MOBS RIOT IN BRAN0ENBUR6 r •'••si M: -I.'-,. . • ,r %|n AiHI-CapltaHam Demonstration 'punched All Over Nation by Com* .' jmunlrt*--Mulheim Miners Quit, Loot Officials' Homes. **** '1 .;i#ertih, June 18.--A general strike of all workmen In Germany Is being urged by the radical unionists followin# the mob demonstrations in Brandenburg Saturday, and extra police precautions are being taken In all Industrial,. centers. Radical leaders are sending out propaganda and agents to eleven work centers in Germany In an effort to spread the strike. Directors' Homes Looted. This action Is not considered as a protest against the Ruhr occupation so much as a demonstration against capital. In Mulheim the miners went oat on strike and the homes of several mine directors were looted by the mobs. Some of the men went back to their jobs when their demands wore met by the industrial chiefs. , Firing at Brandenburg. J At Brandenburg there was much firing, but no casualties were reported. An attack on the United Stares is printed in Chancellor Cuno's oQldal organ, Die Zelt. mi H 6,000 KILLED IN' PERSIA QUAKE Five Prosperous Villages Hurled ^^^Oiyflountainsidi vgp * Buried. C> ? Public Rebuke for Pennsy Railroad by Labor Board Chicago, June 18.--One of the most unqualified official indictments ever laid against a public utility is contained in a United States railroad labor board decision formally rebuking the Pennsylvania railway for having violated a labor board order, thereby "denying to its shop employees essential rights as laboring men to which congress had declared them entitled." The railway, It charges, has placed itself in a position similar to that of employees •who strike against provisions of federal law. W. B. Maxwell, British novelist, who came to New York to represent the British Society of Authors at the arts congress of the Authors' League of America. NINE SLAIN AT SEA Smugglers Try to Rob Ship's Chinese passengers. TWo Negro "Bad Men* Killed by Policemen in Chicago Chicago, June 18.--Two negro "bad men" were shot and killed, one by a colored policeman and another by an investigator for the Committee of Fifteen, as a climax to an afternoon of feverish excitement in the "black belt" during which police raiding squads, armed with axes and sledge hammers, had battered down the .doors of barricaded gambling dens and vice reaorta. Daugherty's Son Escapes Asylum for Booze Cure 8tamford, Conn., June 18.--Major .Draper M. Dauglierty, only son of United States Attorney-General Harry M. Dauglierty, who obtained much publicity during the airing of Dottie King's murder here last March and who later, at his family's request, was committed to a sanitarium here as a habitual drunkard, escaped from the institution and fled in a fast roadster. Great Britain Launches World's Biggest Submarine London, June 18.--To the strains of 'Vale Britannia," the X-l, claimed to be the largest submarine in the world, was launched at the Chatham shipyard. The launching was strictly private, as the building of undersea fighters has been since their inception*; All approaches to the dockyard wen carefully guarded by police. Three Thousand Perish in Persia Quake; 100,000 Flee Paris, June 18.--New earthquake shocks in Persia have wiped out 3,000 more persons and destroyed eight villages in the last week, according to meager reports. The shocks continue as 100,000 persons, their homes destroyed by earthquakes throughout the last months, are fleeing in terror from the Khamseh region. Three Killed as Train Hits Auto at Crossing Henry, 111., June 18.--Three persons were killed here at Meridan's crossing when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Rock Island train. The dead are Henry Reeves, forty-five, and wife, fifty-live, and Charles B. Rey. Mrs. Reeves' brother and Robert Reeve* a grandson, were seriously injured. Buenos Aires Reds Strife, ' " Buenos Aires, Argentina, Otrtfe Ifc.-- The federation of stevedores on Sunday declared a port strike In connection with the communist general strike. Four steamers scheduled to sail were unable to depart. FWt*¥illow Men, Two WMtes and Two Negroes, Are Killedjta Battle. New York, June 15.--A strange story of a fight on the high seas, In which five Chinese, two white men and two negroes were slain aboard the sloop Mary Beatrice, was told here by one of the surviving Chinese. The Mary Beatrice, a two-masted British "Bahama sponger," was found ofT New York bay without crew or captain and with fifteen Chinamen aboard. One of them made a statement to Immigration authorities, asserting that after he and his fellow orientals had paid $500 apiece to be smuggled into the United States from Cuba, the skipper , absconded with the money, the crew tried to hold up the Chinamen, and in the ensuing battle the Chinese, whites and negroes died. The bodies were pitched overboard and the fifteen survivors cleaned up the ship, set distress signals, and sat down to wait for something to happen. They are being held for deportation. MESSINA ON SMALLER SCALE 250,000 Acres of Land Are Opened to Ex-Service Men Washington, June 15.--More than 250,000 acres of public land in six western states were ordered thrown open by the Interior department for homestead entry to ex-service men of the World war. Exact dates for the filing of entries will be announced by the land officers In the various states. 425 Students Register MI Uncle Sam's Army Campus Camp Custer, Mich., June 15.--Four hundred and twenty-five students from eighteen colleges, universities and military acadeiples have arrived at Camp Custer for the six weeks' course of training prescribed by the War department for all advanced course students of the Reserve Officers' Training corps. President Urges More Homage for Old Glory Washington, June 15.--American citizens should know TThe Star- Spangled Banner" and be able to ning it Instead of mumbling the words, as nine-tenths of them now do, President Harding said in addressing the Flag day meeting held by the Americanization commission of the Am^n Lg. gion in Continental halL • China Under Five-Man Rule; Peking Cabinet Now Governs Peking, June 15.--With the executive branch of the Chinese government disorganized by the flight of President Li Yuan-Hung and the resignation of the cabinet, the semblance of a national administration is being carried on by five representatives of the various ministries. Representatives of the departments of justice, finances, navy and foreign affairs have agreed to car* ry on a provisional government. Discover Plot to Slay Crown Prince of fWmanla Vienna, June 18.--A plot to assassinate Crown Prince Carol of Rumania by Magyar revolutionists in Transylvania was discovered at Bucharest. The revolutionists also had planned to wipe out the entire dynasty, as well as prominent army officers. A score have been arrested. l' . May Reduce Federal Taxes. Washington, June 18.--Prespects for a reduction of federal taes are reported to be brighter as a result of. the showing to be made by the Treasury department at the end of the fiscal year, June 30. jffngtan •mbatsy at Moaeew IW Appeal Aid Declares Death Roll Probably Will Exceed Twenty Thousand. , UmcoWi June 16.--Thousand* have perished In repeated earthquake shocks in the mountainous district of northwest Persia, according to information received by the Persian embassy here. The dead are already known to exceed 3,000, and many thousands more were injured. The whole population IS flying in panic to open country further south, destitute and homeless. Details received show a picture like that of Messina on a small scale. Five prosperous villages were perched on the hillside overlooking a fertile valley north of the town of Torbat. Shortly after midnight, While the population was sleeping in rough cottages of unmortared stones, the first shock,^suddenly brought roofs .down on their heads. The second shock, severer than the first, hurled the whole plateau, on which the village rested, off the mountainside down with an appalling crash. Of 3,000 persons peacefully sleeping ten minutes before, not one survived, and their remains are buried under millions of tons citf rocks. The town of Torbat, almost entirely i of one-story buildings, on the plain, suffered less, but here, too, the casualties numbered 1,000. killed and hundreds injured. The Persian embassy has issued an appeal for relief funds. The charge d'affaires says the area of the disaster is fully 1,000 square miles and the population affected not less than a quarter of a million. The death roU probably will exceed 20,000. •"-% 'IIS. SURPLUS Government Budget Shows a Billion Dollars Saved in 'M'W «Year, .jjsiy M -"iV AIMS AT NEW ECONOMIES Two Nations Pay United States First Cash on Loans Washington, June 16.--The Treasury has received the first &eml-annual payments to be made by any foreign governments on principal and Interest on loans made by the United States during the war from Great Britain and Finland. Great Britain's remittance, made in Liberty bonds, purchased in the open market, amounted to $69,000,- 000. The Finnish payment* in was 9135,000. Kidnap Mail "Messenger and Steal $4,000 Pay Roll Pocahontas, 111., June 16.--Postoffice inspectors of the southern district of Illinois are searching for four thieves who kidnaped a mail messenger here, taking a $4,000 pay roll of a local coal company. The robbers fled In the direction of St. Louis after throwing John Green, the fifty-year-old messenger, out of their automobile nettr Colllnsvlllfc • Canada Won't Stop Liquor Flow Into United States Windsor, Ont., June 16.--Canadian officials informed E. C. Yellowley, chief of American prohibition enforcement agents, after a brief conference, that they could give little assistance to the United States In checking the flow of liquor into Michigan, because shipping of liquor was legal Under Do minion and provincial laws. Baby Plane Climbs 2,350 Feet on Minimum of Gas London, June 16.--A baby airplane, 23 feet long with a wing span of 37 feet, remained in the air one hour and eight minutes, climbing to a height of 2,350 feet. It attained a speed of 52 miles an hour, while its entire gasoline consumption was seven-eighths a gallon. , Thieves Snare'$50,000 * Diamonds in Los Angeles Los Angeles, June 16.--Two thieves entered the downtown office of Max Light, a diamond merchant, s unned him with a blackjack, locked him and a patron In a closet, and escaped with diamonds valued at approximately $50,000, according to reports to % police. T.' Trinity Income $1,249,870. '?ew York> June 18 ~The Income of ' fPrtnity church corporation in the year Just closed was $1,249,870, according to the year book of the parish, made public. Rentals received for real estate .* -were $1,138,120. « i • • i • Radio Used to Catch Fish. London, June 15.--Thirty English •team trawlers have been equipped with radio apparatus bo that one vessel in a group may call others which are near by to help take shoals of fish \whlch are too large for a single vessel. Rhodes 8eholar Honored. •London, June 15.--John G. Madden •f Kansas City, American Rhodes Setiolar, was named senior student at Lincoln's Inn after gaining the highest honors at Oxford law schools and In jtwi Busiish bar esaminatinn- 300 Chinese Miners Drown, Shanghai, June 18.--Three hundred Chinese coal miners were drowned at Tsaocliwung when meddlesome soldiers cut off the electric power, stopping the pumps of the mine, according to advices received here. Premier Stamboulisky Is Killed in Battle, Report Sofia, June 16.--Alexander Stamboulisky, premier of Bulgaria since 1918, was killed in the village of Vetren, near his native town of Slavovltza. He was shot In an attempt by a party of peasants to rescue him from guards who had captured him. John McParland Dies. Indianapolis, Ind., June 18. -- John McParland, president of the International Typographical union and well known In trade union circles throughout the Eugllsh-speaklng world, died here of heart trouble. , Bride Sees Husband. Die. Chicago, June 16.--Norman Bfie, twenty-seven years old. an automobile salesman, was crushed and burned to death and his bride of five weeks was injured when Bue's car was ground into wreckage between two street cars. Wets Win in Wisconsin. Madison, Wis., June 16. The Tucker bill providing for repeal of the Severson prohibition enforcement law in Wisconsin was passed by the assembly, 38 to 85. This measure now §m M WP**' Golden Chain 8utpendera. Paris, June 18.--Golden chains as suspenders to hold up "undies" is the latest Paris fad. Delicate chains of tiny links, like those attached to spectacles, now replace ribbons over the shoulder. Zionists Arrive (n Baltlmom, ' Baltimore. Md., June 16.--Delegtftea have begun to arrive here for the three-day convention of the Zionist Organization of America. Methods for rebuilding the Jewish homeland In Palestine will be discussed. Croker's Widow Wins Case. Dublin, June 16.--Mrs. Beula 0®. ker, widow of Richard Croker. onetime Tammany Hall leader, was sustained by a Jury which upheld Mr. Croker's will. In which she was bequeathed almost the entire ottate. J. It. McCarl, comptroller general the United States, is charged with settlement of all claims and demands whatever by the government of the United States or against lt^THrr McCarl has recently come Into public notice by controversies with cabinet members because of his refusal to approve certain claims of their departments. U. S. MARKET REPORT Weekly Marketgram by Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Washington.--For the week ending June 14--FRUITS AND VEGETABLES --South Carolina cobbler potatoes, |5A00 @5.75 per bbl. In most cities, $6.5u@ 6.00 in Chicago, »4.25@4.75 f. o. b. California salmon tint cantaloupes, standard '46's, $3.50@4.50 In city markets, $2.15@2.50 f. o. b. cash track. Florida Tom Watson watermelons. 22-28 lbs., S350.00@600.00 bulk per car in city markets. Florida fancy count tomatoes. turning wrapped. $3.5fc@6.00 per rlx-basket carried; repacked stock, $6.00 #8.50; South Carolina tomatoes, $5.00<?r5.25; Texas 4's, $2.00@>2.60 In city markets; Mississippi green and turning wrapped 4's. $2.00@3.00 in consuming centers, $1.50(S>1.60 f. o. b. Georgia Uneeda ptjac^es. 6's. $1.50@2.25 in leading clti^*. LIVEjETOCK--Chicago prices: Hogs, top, $7.05; bulk of sales. «6.60@6.»0; medium and good beef steers, $8.30S?> 10.65; butcher cows and heifers. $4.25@ 10.25; feeder Bteers, $6.40@8.75; light and medium weight veal calvcs, $8.25® 11.00; fat lambs, $12.00@14.75; spring lambs, I13.75@16.25; yearlings. $8,250 1*00; fat ewes, $3.00@6.25. HAT--No. 1 timothy, $19.50 Cincinnati. $24.00 Chicago, $17.60 Minneapolis, $28.50 St. Louis. FEED -- Bran, $19.00; middlings, $23.00; flour middlings, $28.00; red dog, $31.00; srye feed, $24.50 Minneapolis; gluten feod. $37.15 Chicago; white hominy feed, $82.50 St Louis, $33.50 Chicago; s2 per cent ^linseed meal, $38.50 Minneapolis. GRAIN--Chicago cash market: No. 2 red winter wheat. $1.24; No. 2 flard winter whsat, $1.12; No. 2 mixed corn, 84c; No. 2 yellow corn, 84c; No. 3 white oats, 44c. Average farm prices: No. 2 mixed corn In central Io\%i, 7}c; No. 2 hard winter wheat in central Kansas, 92c. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Butter, 92 score, 38Hc Chicago. Cheese at Wisconsin primary markets: Flats, 24c; twins, 23%c; daisies, 24c; double daisies, 23^c; young Americas. 24c; longhorns, 24o; square prints, 259&C. New Drive for Wage Boosts Affects 150,000 Rail Clerks Chicago, June 16.--A drive which will break all records thus far established for wage increases of workers In the' field of railway labor Is about to be precipitated by 150,0u0 clerks and similar employee classifications upon the adjudication docket of the United States railroad labor board. These demands for advances, which would require an additional expenditure by the railroads of more than $40,000,000 a year, are now under negotiation between the workers and the managements of seventeen major class American carriers, it was disclosed here. U. S. Women Shock Paris by f Hiding Legs Under Long Skirt! Paris, June 14.--"Shocking" is the way Jean Patou, famous Parisian dressmaker, described the long skirts worn by American women tourists in France recently. Patou's ejaculation of amazement at the American fashions followed the remark In a Parisian newspaper that all Parisian women were laughing at the "prudish American women who have carried their prudlshness to the point Of dovr* dlness." "Convict" Mooney Heads List of Molders' Delegates San Francisco, June 15.--Despite the fact he Is serving a life term In San Qaentln, Tom Mooney was one of the delegates named by the San Francisco Molders' union to their international convention at = Cleveland next September. Lenin Reported improved. Moscow, June 16.--The condition of Premier Lenin Is decidedly Improved, according to reports here, and his physicians are allowing him to read newspapers but refuse to let *»»"> cpn. slder official documents. * $10,000,000 Utah Plant Planned. Salt Lake City, June 16.--The Utah Power and Light company announces that it is planning to spend $10,000,000 and employ 1,000 men for three years to construct one of the largest hydroelectric projects in the West. Commons Advances Wet BIN. 'tiondon, June 15.--The measure making compulsory the carrying of liquor on all passenger ships entering British ports has passed Its second reading in commons by a vote of 111 to 8L New World's Record. Midlothian, Va., June 15.--"Dido," a hound owned by W. B. F. Johnson, is believed to have established a world's record when she became the mother of a litter of twenty-six pupa, tM more than the previous record Cxpectsd Deficit of $823,000,000 for Ciwrent Fiscal Year Is Turneilt , a Big Surplus, It la Announced. .^Washington, June 19.--A billion-dollar saving of government revenues during the current fiscal year ending June 30 was announced by President Harding and Director of the Budget Lord at a meeting of the business organization of the government. An anticipated deficit of $823,000,000, faced a year ago. in ordinary government expenditure, has been turned into a $200,000,000 surplug of receipts over expenditures. Appropriations for the fiscal year 1924 are $3,700,000,000, which is $234,- 000,000 less than appropriated for 1923 and $7,825,000 less than asked for In the budget submitted to congress last December. A revised estimate of ordinary receipts for 1924 Is $3,638,000,000. Expenditures, Including $507,000,000 for public debt reduction, are estimated at $3,668,000,000, indicating a deficit of $30,000,000. President Harding declared that this deficit not only must be wiped out, but the coming year must close with a substantial balance on the other side of the ledger. For the fiscal year 1925, on which burget estimates soon will be com-* piled, the President called for a reduction of estimates of $126,000,000 under the 1924 appropriations. He set $1,700,000,000 as the maximum of expenditures, exclusive of reduction of interest on the public debt and the requirements of the Post Office dei>artuli^ l • • n nun BY PACT M. „ Senate Concurs in House Amend- - ii*nts Adding 200 Miles -c Paving. v Mount Etna in Eruption; 30,000 Homeless in Flight Catania, Sicily, June 19. -- Thirty thousand persons are homeless and four villages wiped out following the eruption of Mount Etna Sunday, which hurled monster sheets of molten lava skyward. The volcano's red crest was still roaring Monday night. American tourists at the famous resort of Taormlna, on the eastern slopes of the mountain, were terrified witnesses of the catastrophe. Five volcanic mouths have opened on the sides of the main cone, vomiting torrents of lava. French Troops Take Over All Trains in the Ruhr Essen, June 19.--Fj*(nce took her last step to starve the Ruhr Into submission. Raidiflg the branch lines between Essen and Dortmund, the French troops seized 2,000 freight cars and 170 locomotives. France thus is placed In entire control of the transportation lines in the Ruhr. The railway workers have refused to run trains for France, but have been transporting food in trains which have operated over lines not'yet seized by the French. 160,500 German Marks for $1; 100,000,000 Russ Rubles Berlin, June 19.--Berlin is buzzing with talk of Impending outlaw strikes after the mark had suffered a collapse which once during the day saw it selling at 160,500 to the dollar among unofficial dealers. In pre-war days 160,500 marks represented nearly $40,000. In Russia the dollar, brings 1^0^0tfifl|)! soviet rubles. 4 t ' . , ^ ! .. ^ _ j of Immlgrlffe , Hammer at America's Gates New York, June 19.--With 1,500 immigrants already waiting at Ellis island to gain admittance under new quotas available July 1, word was brought here on the Anchor liner Cameronla that Glasgow is crowded with passengers, disappointed in June, and waiting almost at the limit of their fuads -to take the July sUps, 6. S. Refunds to Taxpayers $116,000,000 in 11 Months Washington, June 19.--Progress by the internal revenue bureau, £n auditing and settling back tax<p has run the item of refunds to taxpayers to $116,000,000 for the first eleven months of the present fiscal year. As against this item, however, the government has collected in delinquent taxes and on false returns nearly $400,000,000, ; ^ Wallace's Assistant Resign^ ^ Washington, June 19.--AssIstaOT 'Secretary of Agriculture Charles W. Pugsley resigned in order to become president of the South Dakota College of Agriculture and Mechanical 'Arts on September 80. Zionists Welcome Other Groups. Baltimore, Md., June 19.--The Zion» 1st convention adopted a resolution asking the world Zionist congress to Invite Jewish non-Zionist groups to participate in the affairs of the Jewish colony In Palestine. .. . ' Cost of Living Goes Up. Washington, June 19.--The cost of •living increased slightly during the last montli, the Department of Labor announced. Prices on eighteen staple food articles increased from 1 per cent to 20 per cent. $205,000 for Camp Grant Buildings. Rockford, 111., June 19.--Fifteen hundred Camp Grant buildings were sold at auction to the Camp Grant Wrecking company of Chicago, for $205,000. More than five hundred bidders were p r e s e n t , . » , WET PUM WHS III HOUSE Houss 8ession Ends In Row Over ' Brundage Fund--Amendment Hits - Lake-to-Gulf Waterway Plan-- s 8enate Kills Women's Bill*, Springfield. -- The administration's $100,000,000 hard road bond Issue proposal was passed by the house today, 100 to 43. The senate concurred in house amendments, adding about 200 miles to the 6,000 miles It Is proposed to build If the voters approve the issue at the November, 1024, election. The vote was 84 to 4. The bill now goes to Governor Small for his approval. O. K.'s Chicago License Measure. Chicago Democratic leaders, by working nearly all night and all day, succeeded In getting through enough votes to pass the bill granting Chicago the power to tax as well#as license nearly all industries, except transportation and building. The vote in the senate was 28 to 17. The* bill has already passed the house. May Canalize Big Muddy. The senate passed a bill appropriating $500,000 to "canalize the Big Muddy river." The vote was 28 to 7. The Big Muddy flows into the Mississippi far below Chester. Ids origin is in the eastern portion of the state and it flows through part of the thick coal vein district of southern Illinois. The theoretical purpose of the bill is to haul coal by barge from Williamson, Franklin, and other counties to St. Louis, Kansas City, Peoria, and Chicago, when waterways will permit. Solons Pass Out Bouquets. Speaker David E. Shanahan, dean of the house and guest of honor at the biennial banquet, of the Illinois house of representatives, was presented with a huge silver loving cup by his Republican colleagues. Representative Little (Champaign), Republican floor leader, was presented with a gold-headed cane. House Dei ocrats honored Minority Leader Devine (Lee) with a diamond pin. A gubernatorial boom for Mr. Devine was launched by his Democratic colleagues at the banquet. Representative Igoe (Dem., Chicago'), former minority leader, started the ball rolling for the Lee county man. Fifty-Fifty for Drys-Wets. Honors were fairly, evenly divided by wets and drys in the Illinois general assembly. The wets won In the house and the drys scored In the senate. The wets' victory in the house surprised the drys. The vote was 78 to 70, one morto than the constitutional majority required. The dry victory in the senate -was on the straight repeal bill of Senator Adolph Marks. The vote chalked Up was 13 for, 32 against. House Session in RowL . Speaker David Shanahan's gavel rising and falling over the stormiest session seen in the house in yeans, saved from defeat, for a few hours at least, the measure appropriating $75,- 000 to the attorney general for prosecution of civil suits against former state treasurers. A physical encounter between Speaker Shanahan and Representative O'Neill Browne of Ottawa was narrowly averted at one point in the session. The bill obviously had failed to receive the required 77, a constitutional majority. Representative Smejkal moved further consideration be deferred. Representative Browne moved the motion be laid on the table and Representative McCarthy of Aurora changed his vote and announced he would move reconsideration of the ballot.. The roll on the Smejkal motion resulted'in 54 to 64 against and Speaker Shanahan announced further consideration of the biU wuld be deferred and took note of the McCarthy motion. House bill No. 588, as amended, delays for years, if It does not actually prevent, the construction of the lakestb- the-gulf waterway, in the opinion of those who have made a study of it. The amended portion of the bill comes from the pen of Representative Lee O'Neill Browne (Dem., La Salle), and is said to be inspired by certain residents of Ottawa. * Law Mill Stops Tuesday. Both senate and house agreed that they would quit legislating next Tuesday, or rather on the legislative day of next Tuesday. The actual time of quitting may be well into Wednesday. That is the last "legislative day" possible, in the opinion of the legislators, to give the governor* ten days in which to consider the bills passed before July V All Over the 8tate. Galesburg.--Alleging alienation of the affections of his wife. Andrew F. Strandburg has filed suit against H. E. Lindstrum, demanding $25,000. The suit is the sequel to a suit for separate maintenance recently Hied by Mrs. Strandburg. Bloomington. -- Frequent showers have been invaluable to Vegetation In central Illinois, but farmers are kept busy |ightlng weeds. Grain is thriving and frillts are developing rapidly. Scarcity of farmhands continues and the demand is far greater than the supply. Dixon.--A new source of sand and gravel for building purposes has been found in the bed of Rock river, a gravel bed having been located under the middle of the stream. It has a depth of 50 feet and extends a great distance under the river's bed. It is 40 per cent sand. Qalena.--John Franklin Jewell, American consul at Birmingham, England, was married June 2 at Birkenhead, England, to Miss Jeanette Sears of Birkenhead. The newlyweds will be at home after July 1, at the American consulate at Birmingham. "Hpggets From Illinois Princeton.--Mrs. Laura Savage tiaS^ filed suit in Circuit court against Mrs. " ' Jx>la Codington, Mrs. Pauline Dahl- J V fren and Mrs. Daisy Dremann, trustee# &• of the local lodge of Pythian Sister^jj asking $10,000 damages. She charges! them with having damaged her reputa-k * i ^ tion by causing the issuance of a waiM *, 4% * rant authorizing a search of her house? s *V for missing robes and Jewels of tbe^ Pythian Sisters organization. >-,! 1 ^ Moline.--The Mollne Community,^& Service council is preparing to show": j '4^." free moving pictures in the parks this,4, ^3 summer, according to announcement' by A. L. Herring of the council. In*. some of the parks bleachers will bet provided, while in others spectators '*.,, will sit on the grass. Both educational •" and dramatic pictures will be shown. Galesburg.--The Galesburg fire de-i,"**: partment was called out to extinguish/), a number of fiery crosses burning in^'tvarious sections of the town, thought^* ?•- by the police to have been erected by* * J{ JI members of the Ku Klux Klan. , Thefy , crosses were 16 feet high, and made ot'7 4 2 by 6-lnch pine boards wrapped in oil-; soaked cloth. Springfield.--Construction contract? awarded during May in the central ; West, including Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, ' Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma amount- . ed to $117,312,000, an Increase over April of 8 per cent and over May, 1922, of 1 per cent, according to a survey on .< > building activities. Springfield.--Alice Barber, two-yearold daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Barber of Murrayville, was saved from death In a hospital when a sudden sneeze caused several grains of corn to be dislodged from her windpipe. The corn had blocked one of the girl's lungs for three weeks. Yorkville.--Pig club records in Kendsll county opened June 1 and close August 15. Two prizes of.$50 each have been offered for best results and - the county farm bureau has added $25 for the best report of feeding and 'methods. .• Bloomington.--Wool shearing la about completed in central Illinois. Farmers expect to realize 50 to 60 cents a pound for this season's clip, a marked advance over last year. A large portion of the crop will be sold through county pools. Moline.--Declaring that the dance halls of Moltne are a menace to girls, the board of control of the Federated Girls' clubs has presented resolutions to the city council asking an ordinance regulating theih andj^poviding a dance Inspector. • V % Rockford.--Robertittsynolds, seven- " teen, while working*#* on a carload of oats at an elevatOTPrapped and slid , down the chute with the flow of £?ain. His body was later found buri^d under • tons of the grain. Springfield.--The petition of the Farmers' Mutual Telephone company of Pike county, to - discontinue telephone service and' sell its property, was filed with the state commerce commission. Springfield.--Two meetings of the state teachers' pension board will be held June 21 to 22, whett the applications for 89 annuities from teachers throughout the f state will be acted upon. Chicago.--It is estimated that there will be over 600 deaths from automo- : bile accidents in Chicago during the present year. There were 292 deaths from this source for the first five months of the year. Rockford.--Bankers are making preparations for entertainment of the . Illinois Bankers' association June 26 ind 27. Chandler Starr of the Rockford National bank is In charge of the arrangements. Rockford.--Miss Vina Wals, Chicago student at Rockford college, wrote a poem entitled, "I Am No Poet," and carried off two poetry cups iwarded by the college. President W. - k. Maddox made the presentation. Watseka.--Edward Helkes, a former deputy sheriff, charged with killing Earl Jennings Wendell of Chicago, a University of Illinois student, was found not guilty. Elgin.--M. El Wilson of Macomb has seen engaged as coach of athletics at :lie Elgin high school, and will begin lis work in September. He Is a graduate ef Lombard college. Cairo.--Harvey L. Jordan, In whose dome three truckloads of stills, masb and other moonshine paraphernalia were found by police, was fined $1,000 in County court. Springfield.--The house passed the rhon amendment to the divorce law, permitting divorced persons to mart? new mates Immediately after decrees ire granted by the divorce courts. Rockford.--John Westhrook, forty »even, was thrown 100 feet when 1 struck by a fast east-bound Northwestern train, and killed instantly. Herrin.--Angelo Ambrose of Free Danspur lost three fingers when hi*. band was caught In a hay cutter. Chicago.--The business volume antif scale of Industrial operations for the first five months of the current yea« were greater than in the corresponding period of 1920, the all-time record period for volume of transaction, a recent summary of the business of the Chicago, clearing house reveals. Springfield.--Col. John J. Garrity ot Chicago has been appointed by Adjt. ' Gen. Cafrlos E. Black to be superintendent" of records and burial places oi soldiers and sailors of Illinois. He succeeds the late CoL BUI P. Lewis, who died May 31. , Chicago.--Illinois, with thirty-thre« women preachers, ranks third in the International Association of Women > preachers, the majority of whom are located here, according to announcement by Lulu C. Hunter, president. . Virtually every Protestant denomination in the stjite has a woman minister, the records show. Aledo.--Maj. Edward H. Dunavin of Rock Island, veteran ot the World war, was elected president of the One Hundred and Twenty-third Field Artillery Veterans? Umaial reunion. - MMiifSf'f-'t;. ? ^ L-P*