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*f$ews ^Nuggets From Illinois Springfield.--With the death of tttshop Ryan of the Catholic diocese of Alton, Father Timothy Hickey, whose Hfe story is the story of the Alton dio- COse, automatically relinquished his post as vicar general. Father Hickey been in the priesthood for 65 years, and the entire period of his Service has been spent In central Illinois with the exception of a few •tooths in Ireland before he came to till a section, which was then missionary territory for his church. During that period he has seen the diocese grow from a few little parishes of Struggling Irish Immigrants to an organization with many school*, con- <J*nts and charitable Institutions. • Springfield.--If you want to keep in the best of health during the hot weather, cut down on your meat diet tp once a day and be careful of iced drinks. This is the advice Issued by Dr. L D. Rawllngs, state director of public health. Fresh vegetables are the best foods for the summer table, and plenty of fruit should be added. They both, contain vitamines of high value to the human system. Greens, soch as spinach, are excellent during the hot season, and eggs are a satlsflictory substitute for meat, according to Doctor Rawllngs. . Elgin.--A campaign against swindlers who Impersonate officers and arrest motorists on the public highways &as begun here. Numerous complaints have been received by the police of Elgin and neighboring towns, who say that , they have been halted on the pretense that they have been speeding or offending in some other Bast St. Louis.--"Prosecution of offenders of the Volstead act should be under the terms of the internal revenue laws of 1862," Federal Judge, English has decreed. The internal revenue law states that property of any violator may be confiscated and turned over to the government, and anyone holding a lien or mortgage would lose the security. The state-', rnent from the Judge followed the ap* pearance of Warner Vesse of Danville* who was charged yrith the possession and transportation of liquor. The judge asked the sheriff if Vesse knew his car would be held by the government. Jerseyville.--The feasibility of growing cotton .in central Illinois is being considered by the farmers in the rich Nutwood drainage district. This die-, trict comprises thousands of acres of,^ reclaimed bottom land along the nil* nols river. For the last few yeara some of the farmers have been growing cotton in their gardens as an ornamental plant, and the success of the experiment has set them to speculating upon the possibility of competing with the South in the cultivation of this staple product. Springfield.--More than 300 worker® in public welfare, representing state, county and private Institutions, will gather in Bloomington October 25 to 28 for the Illinois conference on public welfare to which nationally known authorities In this field have been Invited. The state conference is officially a part of the machinery of the state of Illinois for caring' for its unfortunates. AH expenses of the conference are met by appropriation of the legislature. Pana.--While Mrs. Clarence Carrier, Assumption, was hanging her washing on a wire clothes line her hands came in contact with a 2,300-volt crossed service wire. Unconscious, she was dragged away by her eight-year-old son, Haldane. Her hands were badly BRITAIN BREAKS WITH HER ALLY Ruhr Seiztrt^ Policy Brings • < Pay-Up Demand From f j1 * London.. SATS PUN IMPERILS PEACE In 8harp Note of Warning, Sent Also to Belgium, Paris It Told Is Must ; • 8*ttl# War Debts--Occup* X ° tion Illegal. , ^ London, Aug. 13.--Great Britain has spoken bluntly to France and Belgium at last. All England is throbbing with speculation as to the tremendous results which may be expected from the government's latest note to her. two allies. The note, 8,000 words long, announces flatly that Britain may be compelled to enter separate negotiations with Germany unless the French and Belgian attitudes are modified. The recipients of the note are informed by Viscount Curzon that the occupation of the Ruhr is Illegal. The language of Britain is not the language of one ally to two others. It is the language of a nation which feels its interests are vitally impaired by the policies which other nations are pursuing. The entente remains the entente in name only. Great Britain is now on the other side of the fence from France and Belgium. A definite reply is demanded by the note. The document is one which -two weeks ago could not have been sent because of Frank W. Stearns, a Boston business man, is President Coolidge's most intimate friend. Washington looks cm him as another Colonel House. way and have been forced to give Burned and she was unconscious for the 0pp,,sm0n 0f extreme members of money to the bogus officers. The sher-1 hours. Her physician says she will Iff has issued a warning, advising mo- recover. torists to make no payments to any-1 Rockford.--Rev. Jesse S- y* o»e when stopped for any alleged of- pastor of Court Street Methodist •fongg church, is mentioned as a possible ? Danville.--When a good citizen of successor to Rev. E. B. Crawford as Prime Minister Baldwin's own party, the Conservatives. But the attitude of both the French and Belgian governments in ignoring British suggestions for a reply to Germany's reparation proposals gave Mr. Oanville is arrested and finds that he superintendent of Rockford district of ga|(jwin a stronger position in the cabflbes not have enough money to guar- the Rock River conference. The se- I inet That position was further antee his appearance in court next lection will be made at the meeting strengthened by the steady increase of day, he can sign his own bond, Mayor of the conference in Chicago In Oc- I unemployment as a result of the de- T. F. Shouse has decided. Reputable tober. I crease in Germany's foreign trade, people, the mayor explains, are some- Springfield. -- Louis Matazel of J T|ie note }n(iicates that Great Brit- " Standard City was accidentally killed M times arrested for minor infractions of the city law, such as driving a car With un dimmed lights. He believes it Would be unfair to lock a man of good character up because he does not have •Dough money with him to meet the emergency. *•/ Rock Island.--After 13 years of separation and tragedy, Timothy Kwaby his friend, John Sudor, with whom he was hunting squirrels. Sudor mistook the yellow cap Matazel was wearing for a squirrel and fired at his friend. He returned to Standard City and gave himself up. He was not held. Springfield.--Ralph Clarkson's offl- •ishu and his sister, Miss Susan Kwa-1 elal portrait of Frank O. Lowden, Illi- •»isbu of Hamedon, Persia, are to be I nois' World war governor, has bt«n reunited. Miss Kwanishu left Persia I shipped to the capital and soon will |4our months ago and Is now waiting in be hung in the executive offices of the •pJarseilles, France, for permission to statehouse, with the portraits of 25 .-^fcnter the United States. In 1918, when other governors of Illinois. AGAIN SEEKS BONUS American Legion Cheered by Interview With the President,. New Chief Executive Has First Meeting With Cabinet--Coal Situation Subjects Conw^ , •red by Him. ] the Near East was disrupted by war and revolution, the mother of the famv# vtly waa murdered and the daughter kidnaped by roving bands. Danville.--The abduction and alleged imlstreatment of William O'Brien, a ^Spanish-American war soldier, member of the Danville National Home, g*p-v"; •• •' >ho was dumped from an automobile y"? node in front of the entrance to the [4 ' National Home grounds, is declared v < by police officers to be an incident in ^ \ - a war between bootleggers. O'Brien ' had been used as an investigator in a !£ 7 number of liquor cases. & , ' Rockford.--When Giullus Campoll P * pt was convicted in Judge F. Carpenter's I*, court of violation of the Volstead act, ^ Judge sent him back to his farm . to get in his crop*. He ordered the i »h convicted man to report September 1 3 " "/ «" . for sentence. "Harvesting farm . "crops must be done when the condl- - tions are right," said the judge. "A man may serve a jail sentence any time.'* Danville.--David McDanlel, an undertaker's assistant, sixty-two, is wearing the first straw hat ever on his head. McDanlel, who spent more than thirty years on a farm, always wore a derby or a heavy cap to plow, sow, thrash in, put up hay and do most anything. He was given a new Bang- Gibson City.--This city will entertain the seventy-third animal state convention of the Christian churches of Illinois, the dates being set for October 1-4. Missionary society and various •auxiliary bodies will be represented and hold sectional meetings. Aurora.--Mrs. Marie Senft has brought suit against her husband, John Senft, asking $2,000 damages for "false arrest." Tlie wife declares her husband had her placed In an asylum for the Insane without proper legal proceedings. Danville.--Samuel Cowden Swift, 81, Civil war veteran and building contractor, is dead after an illness of a year. He is one of the last of the old volunteer fire fighters who served ain is prepared to make great conces-- sions in tlie matter of allied debts to her if a general settlement is reached whereby she may obtain a sufficient sum in reparations from Germany and sufficient payment from her allies to pay her war debt to the United States. France is told bluntly that she cannot in honor repudiate her debts to Great Britain, and that the present practice of adding interest to capital cannot be indefinitely continued. The note also attacks the French attitude that she and Belgium alone were the great sufferers in the war. This altitude is condemned by the average Englishman as "sentimental rot." Sunk ships and cargoes rotting at the bottom of the sea may not be shocks like ruined villages in France and Belgium, but they are equally material damage caused by the German aggression and represent equally heavy losses of national wealth," says Lord Curzon bluntly. f The note estimates at 14,200,000,000 ?old marks (about $3,550,000,000) the sum which Britain needs in order to pay her debt to America, and Lord Curzon says that Britain must have that amount from Germany and her illi®*--.'^,. ^ ,;'jh £•t Wasfatastft, Aug. 9.--Tie tw&r altuation and the soldiers' bonus issue were among subjects brought to the attention of President Cooiidge Thursday. , Former Senator Calder of New York urged the President to take immediate steps to prevent an anthracite strike. Representative Treadway of Massachusetts also discussed the coai situation. A delegation of state commanders of the Ainericau Legion called on the President, after which William Doyle, Massachusetts commander, declared that Mr. Cooiidge cau be depended upon to support a soldiers' bonus. Mr. Doyle said that as governor of Massachusetts Mr. Cooiidge was the first to sigtjt a state bonus bill. It was not indicated, however, that the President gave any assurances to the delegation. < The President had his first meeting with his cabinet, when all members in OVER GERMANY Food Rioters Are Shot Down by < -tlie Police at Hamr*^ ?r, ' - burg. COMMUNISTS THREATEftCOUP Proclamation by President Ebert For* bids Circulation of Pamphlets D«- . pending Overthrow of C^i. ! -1 ' tutlonal Government, I V . Berlin, Aug. 1L--A wave of ttiifcetf broke over Berlin Friday. With tha slogan. "No money, no work," perhaps 250,000 workers induiged In a home brand of passive resistance In factories and workshops, or laid down their work altogether. and marched out. . Two causes are held directly responsible for the strike epidemic. They are the money famine and the slowness with which wages are being adjusted to meet the depreciation of the mark within the past few days. The employees of the so-called "money press" walked out Bhortly i before noon to enforce their demand tfor a living wage. With the entire country already in distress and coaoa because of the government's inability to turn out money fast enough, the news of the money prlntera' strike spread new gloom. The threat of a revolution which for weeks has been talked about throughout the country, was heard in the reichstag when a speaker of tye communist party warned the government that its financial program would be answered with the proclamation of a soviet state "In which the present capitalist . government would be crushed to pieces under the heels of the German proletariat." A proclamation Issued by President Ebert forbids tlie circulation of pamphlets demanding the overthrow of the constitutional government or Incitement to acts of violence or acta that are likely to endanger public i>rder. The penalty is three months' imprisonment and a fine not exceeding 500,000,000 marks. Thirty thousand moneyless, hungry workers of Hamburg rioted. The police fired on the mob, killing one, poundfng many. The Siemens works iiave locked out 100,000 because the the city met in the President's room at the New Willard hotel betore leaving for the capitol to accompany the I men practiced passive resistance and body of President Harding to the rail- sabotage. Militia and strikers clasbed road station. It was stated that there it Luebeck. Twenty were wounded, was no discussion of public questions German police at Grefeld fired on at the meeting. * crowd of several thousand who Attorney General Daugherty was in .vere staging a demonstration against from Civil war days until the coming S6VIN1 KttUid lH "ftUftT of the paid fire fighters in 1S78. Rockford.--Prof. C. S. Anderson, who for four years was head of the department of agriculture of Rockford high school, has been engaged as assistant professor of agricultural instruction at tlie University of Illinois. Springfield.--A plea to farmers and rural communities to' make war on harmful weeds is made by the division of plant Industry, state department of agriculture, in a new bulletin, "Illinois Seed and Weed Control Laws." Danville.--The state fish officials by Germans and French Dusseldorf, Aug. lS.-v-Sev^n tiermans were killed and nineteen wounded in Geisenklrehen Sunday morning by German police and French soldiers. Hie German police lost control of a mob looting shops and breaking windows and were compelled to ask the I French to co-operate with them. The usual signal fired into die air was dis- | regarded by the mob and the soldiers I flred at tlienf. kok hat on promise to wear it. Mc-1 have been summoned by the officers of Bergdoil, U. S. Draft Dodger, T Daniel says he always imagined 4uch a hat would give him a headacht Springfield.--With more than 6,000 applicants for teachers' certificates, A. L. Whittenberg, secretary of the Illinois ex winning board, prophesies that there will be a plentiful supply of teachers for Illinois schools the coming year. Jacksonville.--Joseph Smith, ninety, who is dead here, leaves 107 living descendants, Including 11 children, 48 the Danville Rod nnd Gun club to ascertain the cause of thousands of dead game fish In the lake at the gun club grounds. Pontiac.--The cornerstone has been laid for the new gymnasium of the Pontiac high school to cost $100,000. It will be one of the finest structures of the kind among the prep schools of Illinois. Freeport.--The city has granted a pension of $50 a month to Mrs. Anna Kills Kidnaper in Gernlany Berlin, Aug. 13.--In an attempt to I kidnap Grover Cleveland Bergdoil, the millionaire American draft evader, in the town of Eberbaeh, Baden, one | Frenchman was killed by Bergdoil | with a revolver, and another wounded. Their two ileeing American eompan- I ions, Captain Griffith and Victor Nielsen, with an uutoniobile equipped with chloroform, ritles and ropes, were cupconference with the President for some time preceding the meeting. It has been expected that the attorney genefal jvould be the first to retire from the cabinet, but whether this question was under discussion was not made known. Former Senator Calder and Representative Treadway, who discussed the coal situation with President Cooiidge, both have taken an active part in urging coal legislation. Mr. Calder, author of a bill providing for the regulation of the coal industry, said that- he told Mr. Cooiidge that the coal situation is threatening to become serious and that something must be done by the government. Mr. Calder arranged to see the President again on the subject in about ten days. -- Train Derailed by Auto; C. & E- I. Gets Datoaijk Danville. 111., Aug. 10-- For the first time known a railroad compauy was reimbursed for damage to locomotive, cars and track caused by an automobile. Heirs of the owner and driver of the car, who have since died, remunerated the railroad from the estate. A settlement out of court ends litigation which has been In progress seven years. June 3, 1916, Harper Daniels, retired business man of this city, drove his car on a crossing of the Chicago ft Eastern Illinois as a passenger train came up. In the collision the locom«*ve was derailed and Charles Everthart, engineer, was killed. The heirs of Danlpls finally agreed to $5,000 settlement, one-third of which goes to the road and for court costs, while the widow of Everthart receives the remainder. :he scarcity of food and the high cost )f living, killing one and wounding ten. The casualties In riots throughout 3ermany numbered 400. Twelve were tilled and thirty wounded In a street Ight at Neurode, near GlKtat, Silesia, in Glatz there were numerous clashes, nany miUtiumen as well as workers veing killed. Three were killed and ten wounded during clashes at Hanorer -between Communists and police. Professor Besredka, one of the head specialists of the Pasteur institute, Paris, who has introduced "lntro-vaocine" or vaccination by administering pills. Standard Oii Company of \y-Reduces Price in Eleven « ' States. ASSERTS RATE IS BELOW C9S| BIG ESTATE SETTLED Report Shows William Rockefeller Left $102,000^000. grandchildren and 48 great-grandchll- Frueh, mother of Motorcycle Officer the Gefman policy m - - dren. He cultivated his own farm and did most of the work himself until he waa past eighty. Woodhull.--Chicken thieves have raided poultry houses In many Henry county farms, thieves taking (he choicest fowls of the flocks. On tile farm of Fremont Peck, near here, 300 thoroughbred chickens were stolen. Mattoon.--Mrs. Alma Guess dropped dead of heat prostration while walking to her home. Rochelle.--The contract has been let for the paving of the unfinished portion of the Lincoln highway here, a .bid of $70,050 having been accepted. Bock Island.--A fund of $100, to be available for the city of Rock Island la the year 2156, has been donated to the municipality by a local newspaper. If the money is put at compound interest, It is estimated the $100 will increase to $1,000,000 in 233 years. The only String attached to the gift is that the money, when it amounts to $1,000,000, Shall be spent for the good of Rock Clarence Frueh, who was killed by a bandit whom he had arrested. Elgin.--Brasses to the value of more than $1,000 were stripped from Chicago & Northwestern < railway freight cars that had been left standing on a side track here. "Elgin.--Rev. M. C. Tunlson of Logansport, Ind., is to become pastor of the First Baptist church of this city, succeeding Rev. A. D. McGyashan, who resigned several weeks ago. Rock Island.--Rather than see his father go to jail on a liquor charge, Camiel Dolleslager. nineteen, offered to take the sentence In his parent's stead.- He was informed that this could not be done and the law must be i carried out. The son pleaded he was I one of seven children and that brothers and sisters needed his ther's support. Sterling.--Mrs. Roeetta Baister, who lived north of here, Is dead at the age of ninety-eight years, eleven months and two days. Shfe was the oldest per- Americah Steamer Agaiff " Fired On by the Chipfese London, Aug. 13.--A Iteuter dispatch from Ichany reports that Chinese soldiers* fired on the American steamer Alice Dollar at Foochow, wounding a passenger. Guards aboard the steamer returned the fire, killing three and wounding eight of the aoiliers. ' " ~y bry Agents Safe Whefc- Deputies Raise Hftf , Hazard, Ky., Aug. 13.--Six deputy sheriffs who went from here to Cockbill's fork on Lost Creek, where four prohibition agents had been surrounded by a band of moonshiners, returned t6 Hazard with seven prisoners and she moonshine stills, after having exehanjred shots with moonshiners in a brief battle, in which no one was wounded. Rumors that' three of the prohibition agents had been killed by moonshiners were set at rest by the deputy tariffs. r , ^ t J < ' ' ria. . * _ '-J,* * Chancellor Cuno Resign#*1^ * Gustave Stresemann Is In Berlin, Aug. 13.^Chancellor Cuno and his cabinet resigned Sunday. President Ebert asked Dr. Gustave Stresemann to assume the chancellorship. Doctor Stresemann accepted. The ministry will be the first majority coalition cabinet in Germany's history. It will consist of the Peoples, Socialist, Democratic and Clerical parties. Doctor Stresemann Is president of the German-American Commercial union and a leader of the industrialists. _ Administration Exp«n«e«i' KxseutoraP Commissions and Inheritance Taxea Ate Up $20,000,000--Estata OMHM to >V'" New York, Aug. 10.--William Rockefeller left an estate with a gross value of $102,584,439.36, It was shown in the report of the state tax commission. The report showed a net value of $67,649,660.30 after deductions for administration expenses, debts, funeral expenses and commissions to executors. Mr. Rockefeller, who died June 24, 1922, had numerous debts of several million dollars each. Some ot the largest were to Jessup ft Lamont, $7,846,532.88. Chase National bank. $6,331,069.47; Central Union Trust compuny, $3,515,350.68; Bank of Manhattan Company, $2,052,222.22; Farmers Loan & Trust company, $2,010,743.05, and New York Ufa In. sura nee company, $2,013,000. Administration expenses amount to $2,800,000, commission to executor*, $1,688,927.39, and funeral expenses more than $13,000.- The federal and state Inheritance taxes amount to more than $16,000,000. The entire estate passes, according to the will, to Mrs. Emma R. Mc- Alpin, William G. Rockefeller (since deceased), Percy A. Rockefeller and Mrs. Geraldine A. Dodge. The largest assets of the estate were in United States government, state and municipal bonds, in which his investment amounted to more than $43,000,- 000. His Standard Oil company holdings were as follows: Standard Oil of New Jersey, 2,584 shares; New York, 3,520; California, .34,924, and Indiana, 22,100. In the National City Bank of New York be held 18,480 shares, . ' Statement Issued by the Board of rector* Aftw Protracted Meeting Sa*a Action is Due,to. \ Distribution.' Chicago, Aug. 14.--The Standard .1 Oil Company of Indiana announced a reduction of 6.6 cents a gallon in tha price of gasoline, effective at once V. eleven states served by that company* This price cut, the largest In manf years, came as a result of a controversy In the oil Industry over the best methods of relieving producers, refiners and marketers of the mid-cell* tinent field from the burden of excessive supplies and it was directly pre* clpitated by the action of fk»v. W. H. McMaster of South Dakota in offer-: ing gasoline to the public at 16 centa a gallon. A statement Issued by the Standard Oil-Company of Indiana, after a protracted meeting by the board of dl» rectors, follows: , "The Standard Oil Company of In-^ dlana announces an immediate reduction in the price of gasoline of 0.6 cents per gallon, applicable throughout the entire territory in which it does business. • "It asserts that the retail price*, thus made are far below the cost production and distribution. * "The governor of the State of South Dakota, buying distress gasoline low cyst of production, and charging against the state no adequate cost for distribution, is selling gasoline to the public lit, the State of South Dakota at 16 cerfts pier gallon. "The Standard Oil Company of Indiana, operating on Its established policy that the customers who. purchase Its goods should never be compelled to pay a higher price than that maintained and fixed by-any competitor, quality and service being duly, considered, has met this price." Doctor Certainly Paricea , . . ,t Tools Inside This Patient GW Dies, 2 Dying, and 41 1 Hurt in Strange Crash Harding Left $750,000. Waahington, Aug. 18. -- The latff President Harding was worth abottt ihree-quarters of a million dollars at he time of his death, and most of this will go to Mrs. Florence Kling Having, his widow. i Plainfield.--A Aowlng the arrival of Walker, Methodist missionary, at the site of the present village of Plainfield In 1823, was staged at the Electric park auditorium In connection with the centennial celebration of the vli- Plggly Wiggiy Head Quits. Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 13.--Declaring :hat h«> lias lost his entire fortune and his business, Clarence Saunders tnnoiimed that he would relinquish all control of Plggly Wiggiy, Inc., his chain store corporation. ' Salem, Ore., Auj,. 11.--When Jerry Wyant of San Fran<isco underwent a surgical operation at a local hospital surgeons found In his bladder not the malignant cancerous growth that they feared but a surgeon's rubber glove. Wyant underwent a previous operation in San Francisco about two years ago, Ills physician here said that a few months after that, operation a doctors sponge waa removed from WyautVkbdomen. U. 6. Senatora Tour Russia. Moscow, Aug. 13.--Senators William 11. King of Utah and Edwin F. Ladd of North Dakota and Representative James A. Fretir of Wisconsin, who have been visiting this city, left for a trip Into the Interior. $123,017 From Chicago Ball Fat*S> Chicago, Aug. 13.--Tax collected on big leagri baseball games in the Nyack, N. Y., Aug. 10.--One young woman was scalded to death, two more are dying and eleven others were injured here in one of the strangest automobile accidents of recent years, when a sightseeing bus in which they had driven from New York collided with a steam roller. All the injured were enveloped in clouds of steam When the Impact burst a pipe on .tiw steam roller. Famed Horseman Dies. Chicago, Aug. 13--Frank D. Weir, sixty-five years old, of Covington, Ky., widely known as the owner of famous race horses, died suddenly Saturday when stricken with a heart attack while driving his automobile. Class One Railroads of • U. S. Net $87,74^000 jfew York, Aug. 10.--The class one railroads of the country showed an aggregate net railway operating income for the month of June of $87,- 742,000, equivalent to 5.47 per cent a year on their minimum tentative valuation as fixed by the Interstate commerce commission for rate-inaking purposel and including additions and betterments made on the properties up to J a n u a r y 1 , 1 9 2 3 . ^^ Auto Caravan Eighty Utiles Long Creeps Ihto Marion Lima, O., Aug. 10.--City official* state that automobiles en route to tha Harding funeral stretched out to distance of eighty miles from Marion. Cars were running two and three abreast and there was not a break of more than ten feet for many miles. The caravan was being canstantly augmented by cars from several directions, all converging in the "Harding highway" to the west. French Call British Note ; ^ an Act of Economic War Paris, Aug. 13.--"The British note is a declaration of moral and economic war against France," one of the highest officials of the foreign office said. "Almost every point raised is an attack on the moral integrity of the French nation, and no government, whatever party, could dlsouss aoch terms." New Primary in Mississippi. Jackson, Miss., Aug. 11.--A second primary to be he.d August 28 will determine whether H. L. Whitfield or es- Governor Theodore G. Bilbo of Poplar^ ville will be the next governor of Mississippi. Tulsa Flogging Brings Troops and Martial Law to Oklahoma 'City, Okla., Aug. 14.-- Gov. J. C. Walton Issued a proclamation placing the city of Tulsa under martial law. Guard units from Oklahoma City and Okmulgee were Immediately ordered to proceed to Tulsa. Issuance of the proclamation followed flogging of Nathan Hantman of Tulsa. Hantman called at the governor's of- %ce and was In conference with Aidrich Blake, executive counselor. The martial law order was promulgated Immediately after ffohtnmn told story. - iM killed and William Gllmore, his panlon, was seriously injured when braces in a boxcar In which they Were riding crushed them as the train »/ «ame to a halt In the Santa Fe railt? ad yards in Chilllcothe. * for the past ten years director of athletics at the Urbana high school, resigned and will accept i position as supervisor of athletics of the Houston (Tex.) schools. Bronson was a star player on the University of Illinois football and baseball team*. Monmouth.--Dr. George W. Martin, for the last seven years head of the department of biology at Monmouth college, has resigned to accept the chair of biology at Washington and Jefferson college. Doctor Martin formerly taught at Vanderbilt university. - •' * i Pipe Lines Nearly Ready. Hammond, Ind., Aug. 10.--The ca paclty of the local plants of the Standard and Sinclair Oil companies will be nearly doubled by the approaching completion of the new l.lOo-tnile pipe line from Kansas and Oklahoma. , Chilean Statesman Arrives. New York, Aug. 10.--Foreign Mini* ter Carlos Aldunte of Chile arrived here to proceed to Washing!on to lay memorials and documents before Presr ldent Cooiidge concerning 1 he Tacna- Arica controversy of Peru aad Chile. i ' / . r Christian's Resignation Washington, Aug. 13. -- President „ Cooiidge accepted the resignation of Northern district of Illinois for 1922 I George B. Christian, Jr., secretary to enriched the government by $123,- the late President Harding, with 017.44, according to figures compiled understanding that it wouia by tlie collector of internal revenufc j come immediately effective. Secretary Christian Resigns. ? I Call Troops to Hlllsbora "* Marion. O., Aug. 11.--George B. Chris-1 Springfield, 111., Aug. 11. tian, secretary to Warren G. Harding of the Illinois National Guard were or- ' _ . , I afiri Hr nilPA as United States senator and as President, announced that he had submitted his resignation as executive secretary to president Cooiidge. Berlin Halts Payments to All the Allies, Report London, Aug. 14.--The older halting reparations payments to France and Belgium will be extended to include payments to all the allies, according to a dispatch from Berlin, which says a decision to this effect was made by» the German government. The reason given for this is that it is necessary to effect a financial jp|ars| in Germany. ft -- * Italy Keeps Out of Row Between France and England Rome, Aug. 14.--Italy is keeping out of the diplomatic battle between France and England over the Euhr and reparations. It 1s said that Premier Mussolini is convinced that behind the diplomatic battle are enormous business and industrial Interests who are struggling for economic supremacy in Europe. ' -- - is : Cooiidge Asks New Parley -- on the Coal Situation Washington, Aug. 14. -- President Cooiidge took his first step to avert a threatened anthracite strike September 1. After conferring with the President, the United States coal commission sent identical telegrams to anthracite operators and to leaders of the miners' union, inviting them to confer with the commission here at once. v 1 Volstead Represents U. S. * at World Ajiti-Rum Copenhagen, Aug. 14.--An international congress agaihst alcoholism will be held in Copenhagen from August 20 to 24. The American delegation will be headed by Andrew Volstead. Immediately following this Mr. Volstead will attend an International antitobacco congress. Irish Whisky Consumption Radltcatf. New York, Aug. 14.--Consumption of Irish whisky has fallen off 75 per cent since 1019, according to John Dunville, Irish whisky manufacturer, who arrived here on the Baltic. Ho blamed American prohibition. Abyssinia Would Join Geneva. Aug. 11.--The Abyssinian government has sent formal application to the League of Nations for admission to membership to be submitted at tha next meeting to be held by tha aa- Three Ola In Kendallviile, Ind., Aug. 10.--Threo dered to mobilize and proceed at once to Hlllsboro to do guard duty where a strike Is in progress at a ainc company's, P,ant- 200,000 at Harding Punaral. Marlon, O.. Aug. 11.--Tw thousand of the nation's crowded their way into this town of 30,000 to help In the final ceremony of returning the country boy" who became President to the soil. , • '-v.-., Ebert Attends Rites. HfrMn. Aug. II.--Solemn servfeaa far the late President Harding were conducted in the American church. President Ebert and American Ambassador lloughton attended, t prominent persons killed may die from Injuries received when an automobile In which they were riding was struck by a Pennsylvania railroad train. Harvey Confers With Cooiidge. Washington, Aug. 10.--George Harvey, American ambassador to England, will return to his post September 1, be announced, following an hour's conference with President Cooiidge at tha New Willard. German Revolution. New York, Aug. 14.--Returning on the Leviathan from a tour of Europe, Senator lJeed Srnoot of Utah declared that Germany is on the brink of revolution. "There were sinister rumors every place in Germany," he said. . Man Flogged tn I Harrisburg, III., Aug. 14. -- < Rut ledge of El Dorado reported to th6 ^ sheriff's office that he was taken out 1 l>y n>!ied men Saturday night an<^ flogged. He said he was returned to his home later in the night. " by Storm. Columbus, o., Aug. 14. -- I*mage amounting to hundreds of thousauda of dollars was done by severe wind and rain storms in nearly of Ohiy. One i suffered large