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v^:-W From luinots Warren.--Jo Daviess county Ropub- |lean women have organized, with the »V following officer*: President, Mrs. ii00t Harry C. Tear, Warren; vice president, Mrs. M. J. Berg, Galena; secre- . < tary, Mrs. Fred Coppernoll, Stockton; treasurer, Mrs. E. A. Laign, Elisabeth. Mount Vernon.--Not even during ' 'j the l»oom period of the World war has *"*' • * there been so many men employed In ^ the shops of the Mount Vernon Car ^ Manufacturing company as are on the » v »v' pay roll of the plant at the present • •" time. Two thousand one hundred and ; ^ ' five workmen are employed. Springfield.--Only seventy-nine per cent of the Illinois corn crop this fall '-Vis merchantable, according to the <*e- Pv port of the Federal Crop Reporting ? service for Illinois at Springfield. :> • Ninety per cent of last year's crop was P " merchantable and the average for the Btate is eighty-three per cent. , The lower quality of the Illinois corn this year was rejH»rted to be due to the £ . unfavorable September weather. Springfield.--Edgar county la re- • ported to be the only county in Illinois where 100 per <*ent of the cattle have been tuberculin tested. Records show that all herds owned by the state have ^ been tuberculin tested one or more times and that over 26 pe»- cent of the original herds were slaughtered because they were infected with tuberculosis. Mooseheart--"Illinois Day," will be celebrated at Mooseheart, Saturday, November 24, according to arrangements now being made. An athletic program, a big frolic and a conclave will be held under the auspices of the local post of the American Legion. Legionnaires and Moose members from many parts of the state are expected to be present. Sheffield.--"Yes, we have no bat nanas," were the first words learned by Karl Augenendt, who recently arrived from Germany. On the boat on which he crossed the ocean he heard the song so often that he memorized the words. His relatives were astonished when, inquiring after Augenendt's health, he replied, "Yes, we have no bananas." Springfield.--A theater to be owned v and operated by the unions of Springfield will be constructed under plans adopted by the executive committee of sub-district No. 4, United Mine W orkers of America. The theater will be in a labor,temple which it is planned to build. The executive committee is at work on definlnte plans for the structure. Springfield.--The past season has been favorable for white potatoes in Illinois and yield and quality are the best since 1915 according to Springfield authorities. The average yield per acre this year is 92 bushels as against 62 Stymour.--The flock of HwpMhin Cheep from the B. F- Harris ilfrms, Seymour, will be represented by 18 contestants in the breeding classes" at the Intematlonal Live Stock exposition to Chicago, December 1-8. This exhibitor had the champion ewe at Iowa and Illinois state fairs and the •liampion ram at the Michigan state fair this summer and should make a strong showing at Chicago in the supreme contests of the year before the "Court of Last Resort" of the live stock industry. Urbana.--The College of Law of the University of Illinoffe !• at last on its way. Held back for years because of unavoidable circumstances, the last two years have seen great cflhnges. The law arm of the university is now rapidly becoming one of the leading graduate law schools of the country. This is demonstrated by the fact that this year the number of students in the law school who have come from other universities and colleges is larger than ever before. Springfield.--Indorsed checks from all parts of the world are pouring into the offices of the Illinois state treasurer at Springfield. They are the bonus vouchers mailed to the World war veterans of Illinois. Approximately twenty per cent of the men who answered the call to the colors in Illinois have left their native state and have scattered throughout the United States and to many other countries. Evanston. -- School children of Evanston have saved $43,634.60 in the last year under a school saving system, according to the last reports. This amount is in addition to a substantial sum withdrawn* during the past summer to invest in securities. Since the saving system was instituted one year ago, 7,144 children have opened accounts. Jerseyville.--Death , came at the same in&tant to Mr. and Mrs. George W. Lumley, aged resident's of Kampsville. Calhoun county. So close were their deaths, that their seven children, who were with them at the time, do not know which of their parents passed away first. Mrs. Lumley was seventy years of age and her husband was seventy-two. Sterling.--A rellgibu* innovation was the holding of a service In Fourth Street Methodist church for non-churcli members only, members of Fourth Street and other churches being barred. The ushers were men who were not affiliated with any denomination. Urbana.--The College of Agriculture of the University of Illinois will make a strong bid for championship honors in the sheep classes at the -International Live Stock exposition whicfc will be held in Chicago, I>ecember 1-8. The university has entered 30 sheep in the coming show. Cairo.--The building of a bridge across the Ohio and Mississippi rivers "at their juncture at Cairo, is being advocated by the Mississippi Valley I Highway association. The bridge | would connect Illinois, Kentucky and I Missouri and could be built at a cost M. S. HERSHEY bushels last year. The state produc tlon totals 10,948.000 bushels us coin- ' of ten million dollars, it is estimated, pared with T,40T#» bushels a year ago. Rockford.--Illinois chrysanthemums well international honors at the annual chrysanthemum show of the Chrysanthemum Society of America, held at Indianapolis, Ind. In competition against leading flower growers of the United States and Canada chrysunthe-1 mams grown by H. W. Buckbee, of j itockford, took four first prizes, six second prizes and four thirds Rockford.--Secret hearings of cases involving erring girls is being urged vpon County Judge Fred E. Carpenter by the Winnebago County League of Woinun Voters, which believes better results can be accomplished if the accused are spared the l.umiliation of publicity when their cases are brought op in court. -Dixon. -- Closing of Rock river against clamming operations for a nam' hgr of yeaifos, in order to permit reestablishing of the mollusk beds. Is belaJ-- It v* "" />lnnt*v»un/1 nlmwuls It. & Hershey. millionaire, late and candy manufacturer, who has Just let It be known to the public that five years ago "be turned over his entire fortune of about $00,090000 to the Hershey Industrial school at Hershey, Pa. This is an orphanage and becomes, next to Girnrd college, Phifadelpbia, the wealthiest In the country. •ti' New York State Leads in Pre* scriDtions for Rum, Says ^'"Official ReporU'^'J' urged by elammers and nimrods ©F Lee and Whiteside counties. The «jam beds were practically exhausted this year. i Marseilles.--A gypsy caravan de lux, njhich is touring Illinois, paid a visit tft Marseilles, giving residents of th? city an idea of the manner in which lite modern nomads travel. The cara- < vfcn consisted of two motor trucks and Hiree large touring cars. Elgin.--Salary Increases for firemen and policemen has been asked, heads of both departments have indicated. The present wage for patrolmen and trucknieh is $125 a month. Belvidere.--Mrs. Sylvia Herring, of San Francisco and Mrs. Youen Ferguson. Belvidere, sisters, enjoyed a reunion. after not having seen each other for fifty-two years. Ottawa.--The largest liquor haul Since prohibition in La Salle county was made when Sheriff E. J. Welter seized seventy-five barrels of beer at : the warehouse of the Callahan Artificial Ice company. * Waukegan.--More than $100,000 has been lost by Waukegan Investors In German marks, according to the estimates of local bankers. Sterling.--An "own-your-home" campaign has been started here and in Hock Falls, Sterling's sister city, across Hock river. The aim is to provide at least 500 new houses for each city. Building and loan associations and banks are co-operating iu tlie movement. Mount Vernon.--The annual election ; of officers for tlie Jefferson County Farmers' Institute was held and the ; , * following were elected: President, Joe Payne. Woodlawn; vice president. T. ^ v.; J. Holtslaw, and secretary-treasurer, . / f.eander Wooden, Shiloh. | %pringfleld.--Two teams, consisting '//. of a physician and nurse from the ' staJT of the state department of pub- , i lie health, are now in tlie field for the j !k' purpose of promoting the eBtablish- •%, ibent of public nursing services, par- "A- ticuiarly in the schools, infant and child health centers and the adoption a mode) milk ordinance. f • Pana.--Nokomls Coal company Mine No. 10 set a new hoisting record - for central Illinois mines when 5,840 tons were hoisted in eignt hours, 1.927 hoists which Itttad ljSO railroad coal Woodstock.--An organization to guard Illinois cattle from tuberculai infection has been formed at Woodstock. It is known as the Illinois Antituberculosis Vigilance association and its purpose Is to see £hat the national and state laws regarding bovine tuberculosis are enforced. Centralla.--A new division of thfl railway conductors' union has been Instituted at Centralla. The division ta known as Egypt Division No. 508, and is composed of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy conductors running out of Centralia. Carrollton.--Surrounded by friends and neighbors at Carrollton Greene couuty, his home, Circuit Judge Norman L. Jones, of the Seventh Illinois judicial circuit, announced his -candidacy for governor subject to the Democratic primary next April. Waukegan.--W. P. .Higley, who fo» fifty years has conducted a retail store at Waukegan and recalls selling eggs at 5 cents a %dozen and enough gingham to make a dress for 40 cents, has announced his retirement from business. Chicago.--Within * century Chicago's population will be 250,000,000 persons, or more than the present total U. S. MARKET REPORT Weekly Marketgram by Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Washington.--For the week ending Sov. 17.--LIVE STOCK--Chicago pricpa: Hogs. (6.90 for the top and $6.20 @6.80 for the bulk. Medium and good beef Bteers, $7.90<fJ11.50; butcher cows and heifers, $3.10®10.75; feeder steers, $4.35 f 7.65; light and medium weight veal calves, $4.00@7.00. Fat lambs, $10.75© 13.10; feeding lambs. $11.25® 12.60; yearling*, $8.00011.26; fat ewes. $4.00 ©7.00. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES--New York and Pennsylvania round white potatoes, $1.65Ctl.8S sacked and bulk per 100 lbs., mostly $1.35 f. o. b.; northern sacked round whites, 90c@$1.06 Chicago. 85® 90c t. o. b.; mweet potatoes ranged $3.50@4.40 per bbl. leading markets. Onions, yellow varieties, $2.50® 3.00 sacked per 100 lbs. consuming centers. , Cabbage, Danish type, steady at shipping points, at $13.00@14.00. Baldwin apples, $4.50 per bbl.; York Imperials, $3.00 @3.50. GRAIN--No. 1 dark northern spring wheat. $1.09@ 1.20 Minneapolis; No. t hard winter wheat. $1.04%@1.05% Chicago, $1.02(311.08 Kansas City; No. 2 red winter wheat, $1.10@1.15 St. Louis; No. 2 yellow corn, 79c Chicago; No. 3 white corn, '88c St. Louis; No. 3 white oats, 42<4@43\4c, 44@ 45c St. Louis. HAY--No. 1 timothy, $24.00 Cincinnati, $27.00 Chicago, $19.50 Minneapolis, $23.50 St. Louis; No. 1 alfalfa, $24.00 Minneapolis; No. 1 prairie, $20.00 Chicago. $16.50 Minneapolis, $18.50 St. Louis. DAIRY PRODUCT8--Butter, 82 score, 61%e Chicago. Cheese prices at Wisconsin primary markets: Twins, 24c; single daisies, 24^4c; double daisies, 2414c; young Americas, 25c; longhorn^ 25c; square prints, 26c. • 24 Banks Shut Within 6 Days in Nortlwest Minneapolis, Minn. -- Twenty-four conntry banks in the Minneapolis territory closed in the six business dayi from October 28 to 29 Inclusive. Hence the development of what looks like a return to conditions of eighteen months or two years aga At no time, however, have there been so many banks closed or put on the doubtful list In so short a time. At least one bank has been reported in the doubtfa! or uncertain class for every one ported closed. ILLINOIS SECOND IN 'PATIENTS' Washington.--Retail druggists of 27 states, the District of Columbie^jPorto Rico, and Hawaii, where the law permits prescriptions of liquor for medicinal use, filled 11,268,468 such prescriptions during the fiscal year ended June 30, according to the first summary of this kind issued by the prohibition bureau. A total of 1,400,614.9 gallons were thus sold. New York led all states In the number of prescriptions issued with 3,638,- 751. Illinois was second with 2.168,788 and California third, with 739,742. Tennessee, with 171, was the lowest. The first three named states also led in the amounts of whisky sold on prescription, New York gelling 442 996 gallons, Illinois 268,070, and California 89,764 gallons. • Massachusetts was second to New York in wine sales, its total being 4,923 gallons. New York's ftital was 10,027 and California's third, 4,704. Massachusetts led In brandy sales with 2,840 gallons, New York was next with 2,110, and Wisconsin thlrji with 782. New York also sold more gin than any other state, 2,710 gallons, compared with 1,619 in Massachusetts and 703 in Illinois. ^ Leaders in alcohol sales were: New York, 482 gallons; Pennsylvania, 247, and Vermont, 184, I^Iassncliusetts sold 1,448 gallons of rem; New Hampshire, 154, and New York, 112, Hawaii, the summary showed, issued 3,065 prescriptions during the year for 463 gallons of liquors. Porto Rico, with 1,278 prescriptions, sold 147 gal Ions. Aboyt 50,000 physicians, or one-third of the total number In the United States, prohibition officials estimated, have availed themselves qt the liquor prescription privilege. . ^ President Coo. idge Sics Water Spaniels on to Rum Hounds Washington.--Plans for the Treasury department" for extending the coast gjiard service for action in prevention of rum smuggling have been approved by Prestdent Coolldge. The Treasury department proposes an expenditure of $20,000,000 for new ships and $8,500,000 for additional men, to provide a service adequate to patrol the coasts for the rum pirates, and the President is expected to say something on behalf of the proposals ixiJilS forthcoming message to congress. , ^ Ten Thousand Rehabilitated ?^ Veterans Are Seeking Work * -Washington.--The veterans' bureau is looking for jobs for 10,000 former service men who have Just been rehabilitated. They are a part of 71,000 now taking courses and have been at It for four years. Director Frank T Hlnes has written a letter to every American Legion post to ask assistance in obtaining employment, for their comrades. a-jft John S. Itedovsky, claiming to he metropolitan archbishop of North America and the Aleutian Islands of the Russian Greek Catholic church under authority from the present Holy Synod of the church, has started dispossess proceedings upon Metropolitan Platon Rojdesvensky at the Russian St. Nicholas cathedral, New York city, from which he has been forcibly evicted. Metropolitan Rojdesvensky Is lieing aided by Bishop Manning, who is said to have denounced Archbishop Kedovsky as a representative of the soviet government. This the Intter denies. • ; ;r' POLITICAL POT BOILS Johnson and McAdoo iir Campaign for Presidency, Paris.--Premier , Polncare consolidated -his position before a cheering chamber of deputies by practically repudiating allied debts. "The allied debts were the price paid for a - common victory," stated the French premier In the midst of cheers and violent applauRe by ail parties. "We shall pay them with Class C bonds when Germany has paid, and not before." ' • The Class C bonds represent the figurative debt ©f ^Germany over and above the $12,500,000,000 In cash which experts agreed was the absolute limit of the reich's capacity to These bonds will probably never be paid, or at least the minimum time which must elapse before Germany is In a position to pay them will be 78 years. According to Premier Poincare's speech, America roust wait nearly, a century before being paid, during which the interest will continue to pile up until payment will be a physical impossibility. Before the premier opened his speech he faced a considerable Socialist opposition. He knew that if be attempted to explain or Justify his present Ruhr policy, he would meet with violent opposition from the extreme left. He therefore chose the moment to make the sensational statement of what has for a long time been the hidden policy of the French government-- that the allied debts could not be paid. His speech may be taken aa an absolute indication of the opinion of all French parties, including the Socialists and Communists, bince alir^applauded wildly. r' Woman and Three Men Slain in Quarrel Over a Girl Bemldji, Minn.--A quarrel over a girl in a farmhouse near Kelllher, 50 miles north of this city, resulted In the murder of four persons and the murderer is at-large. Tly* man, Leonard Portano, who carried on a wholesale killing, taking most of a day lo track down his victims, escaped into the Nojth woods. The dead are Oscar Tlmmy and John Sanders, farmers; Mrs. Sanders and J. A. Wilson, town marshal. population of the western hemisphere, DR. J. PAUL GOODE, HEAD of the geo- Savings Deposits Doubled In A# fha I _ •y £ • J- ,'n graphical department of the University of Chicago, said. Rock Island.--The amount of $10,- 000 has been set as the 1924 quota of the tri-clty Zionist organization for the Palestine *und. The campaign will open with .»anquet at the Masonic Temple at Rock Island, December 4 Mount Vernon.--The body of a baby girl was found In a sealed glass fruit Jar by the side of the road south of Nason. #Thls Is the second cuje of the kind in Jefferson county in lest than a week. Danville--John Tash, eighty-one Civil war veteran and the last sur vivor of Company K of the One Hun dred and Twenty-fifth Illinois Volun teers, is dead after a long illnesp. .Toilet.--Rev. James A. Griffin, D. D. rector of St. Mary's church at .Toilet was appointed by Pope Plus to b< bishop of the diocese of Alton. Chicago.--The famous Shropshire flock of A. Broughton & Cons. Albany Wis., which produced the champloi ram jof that breed at the recent Wis consin state fair will be- represented by 19 breeding and one fat sheep at the International Live Stock expos! tlon in Chicago, December 1-8, where the champions of the continent vlll contest for the supreme honors of the year. Elgin.--The Elgin Poultry apd Pet Stock association will stage a dog show In connection with its annual poultry exposition, to be held January 21-26, Mt. Vernon.--A check for seven dol iitrs. written in 1889 was presented foi payment at the Thirtl National bank recently. The check was made out by Judge Albert Watson to the credit of G. Hertenstein and was drawn on the Mt. Vernon bank, an institution no longer in existence. The check was paid Without protest Springfield,--The examination of 1,913 babies at seven different bettet baby conferences held recently by the state department of public health showed tlie presence of 8,751 physical dftftcts of one kind or another. U. S. During Last Ten Yeart New York.--Each person in th« United States would have $158 I# ths total deposits In the savings departments of banks and trust companleo were divided equally among the entire population, according to figures made public by the savings bank division oi the Bankers' association. Savings deports, which were only $8,425,275,000 In 1912, Increased to $17,331,749,000 lo 1922. The number of savings accounts Increased from 12,584,316 to 30^23^20, France Stays in Ruhr Until Paid in Full, Says Poincare Paris.--"France will remain on the Rhine until ever clause of the treaty is fulfilled and $he Is secure against aggression," Premier Poincare said In a, speech at Neuilly-sur-Seine. The declaration is taken to mean that the Itohr and the Ithineiand will never bft evacuated by France. , , > r 22 Business Men Seized*, Violated Hoosier Blue Law Frank tort, ind.--Twenty-two Frankfort business men, Including proprietors of garages, drug stores, theaters, restaurants, soft-drink and shoeshining parlors, were arrested eharged with operating their places of business on Sunday. AU were re*ui^d.to app e a r f o r t r i a l . > • < ; \ ? • :4lto<*igo.--Senator Hiram Johnson nnd William G- McAdoo both formally entered the race for the presidency Thursday when they made statements announcing they would be candidates. Senator Johnson made his announcement after four days of conferences with political advisers In Chicago, and his formal statement was made to a group of newspaper men after be had made his decision. With . Albert Lasker and William Wrigley, Jr., becking hiin. Senator Johnson, it Is assumed. wHI have plenty of funds for his canvass, and his friends are confident he will prove an even stronger primary candidate than in 1920, when he was victorious In nearly every direct primary contest he entered. Mr. McAdoo's declaration in Omaha that a statement made by David L. Rockwell that friends of Mr. McAdoo Intend to nominate him was accurate was interpreted as his formal announcement. "If I have any further comment to make it will come later," Mr. McAdoo asserted aftefadmitting his candidacy. Mr. McAdoo Is reported to have held a brief conference with Democrat!*' leaders. L Mr. McAdoo wac In Omaha en route to the Pacific coast . Allies United in Demand to Banish Former Paris.--Tlie allies are practically In agreement In demanding that Germany banish the former crown prince and they Intend to couple with this a demand that Germany shall accord protection to the allied military control commission. Here the allied accord stops. What cannot be decided upon is what shall be done to Germany If the Berlin government refuses either or-hoth of tlie demands. . . Four Persons Die of Gas in a Rockford (III.) Home Rockford, 111.--Gas from a furnace Is believed to have killed John Werner, age fifty-one, his wife, age fortyseven, their daughter, Karlne, twentytwo years old, a school teacher, and Walter Wallner, a boarder, whose bodies were found in their home at 514 Prairie street. Communists Open War on Krupp Factory; Three Slain Dusseldorf.--A communist demonstration on a large scale, directed against the Krupp factory, began at Espen Friday night. Three communists were killed and twenty wounded by the German police. • +- Italians Going to Braill. Rome.--Premier Mussolini has promised his support for a 'plan to colonise a large portion of Brazil. The South American government already has approved ^he Idea. Grants of 50 acres of land will be made to each faulty. CAOO wdopikat. Ja «U* etnas tt» door. 4 MiiitniSTi, a»wir " dMMttwd total. A tmtmvSm..... fat fo*r Mtk, a«ktr 01 Btator • •• ••• 1 '• X- 14*000,000 Autos in U. S3 " 3,000,000 in Other Lands Washington.--By January 1 the world will have in operation 17.000,- 000 automobiles, passenger cars and trucks, according to an estimate by M. H. MoeplI, chief of the automotive division of the Commerce department. Of that total he says 14,000,000 will be running in the United States, or about one to every eight persons, whereas in the rest of the world the proportion will be about one to 112 persons. • This Winter Around the WotMl ^ Voo wffl enjoy Hfa more after taking this ' wondasfal cruia* on the Empress of - Sail from New York, Jta, 30, 192V |10M up, from starting point back to ssssW® i trig point - i:'*' ?. 17 Countries in 1 Crnxm.^g -t- 1 r \' Four months, and yoti see the world. Yoor'-sfji'-* meet the other human races. You get a new^i^igi* outlook. Or, take in the Canadian Pacific^,. '*? Mediterranean Cruise^* an the magnificent steamship Etnpres rf Scotland, sailing from New York, Jan. Time, 68 days; fares $800 up. Fall paifiea&m/raai ffte . , r P a c i f i c ^ «OBT. KLWORTHY, S. S..Oen. Act. I 40 N. Dearborn St* Tel. Randolph flIWI. ftilnagp / British Ambassador Geddes, Going Blind, to Quit His Job London.--One of the first tasks for the new government will be to select new. British ambassador at Washington. The treatment Sir Aucklad Geddes has been forced to undergo for eye trouble has been only partially successful, and he has now completely lost sight of one eye. The ambassador will return to Washington to clean up outstanding matters and then resign. • -- United States to IssdT^ ** New Savings Certificates Washington.--Secretary Mellon announced tonight a new offering treasury ' savings certificates, designated as the Issue of December 1, 1923, succeeding the Issue of December 1, 1922, and maturing In live years. They will carry maturity denominations of $25. $100 and $1,000. as have previous Issues, and will be offered for sale at $20. $80 and $800.. ^^ Many Slain in Food Riots in Several Geqnan Dusseldorf.--Food rioting and Communistic demonstrations continued in j $8,727.45 except for two or three Items Governor McCray's Assets- * Only $8,727, Says Committee IndianiipolU. -- Governor McCray's equities In all the 'assets which lie turned over to a committee several weeks ago for administration for tlie benefit of his creditors, aggregate only Bank Robber Caught. _ Center City, Minn.--Kit-hard Chafe, m former mall carrier, was arrested end Jailed three hours after he robbed the Shafer State bank. He escaped from the bank with between $4,500 and In cash and currency. .Train Kills Four Ijflen. • /;, rk. O.--Four Columbus were killed Thursday morning when the automobile in which they were rtding was struck by a Peunaylvgnia passenger train at Fraseyburg, northeast of here. Dusseldorf, Oberilk, Gelsenkirclien, Essen and Bochuin, with a constantly growing casualty llst,^ which has reached 188 slain. \ ft oil a Welti W«§»,' ' St. Loijls, Mo.--Holla Wells, former treasurer of the Democratic national committee, and Mrs. Carlotta Clark Church, widow of Alonzo Church, were married here. Both are promlnaWt ami wealthy local residents. Orld Player Dies of Injuries. Omaha, Neb.--George Seaman, quarter back of the Harrison, Neb., football team, died at Harrison Saturday night from injuries received Friday when his team pthyed the Chadron, Neb., squad. classed as "Indefinite," according to a letter sent to creditors by the committee. Claims of these creditors are estimated to be 'in excess of $2,000.00^ Coolldge Approves Mellon Flan. Washington.--Despite - the opposition of Republican leaders, President Coolldge has approved the tax reduction proposal of Secretary Mellon and will stand behind it without reservation when congress convenes. United States Judge Does Own Peeping; Grants Decree Washington.--An illustration of the possibilities of judicial short cuts was given in the Supreme court of tlie District of Columbia by Justice Stafford. The corespondent in a divorce case asserted no one could see Into his bedroom while standing on a railing outside. "That is not true," interjected the justice. "I went tlfere and looked In." A verdict tor the plaintiff was granted. Governor McCray Testifies He Used Others' Names Indianapolis, ind.--Under pressure by opposing counsel. Governor McCray today admitted he had Issued and signed notes bearing the names of other persons, although he had no authority to sign their names. The persons whose names were signed had no knowledge of the transactions, the governor testified. Former German Crown Prince Renounced the Throne, Report Paris.-- Herr von Hoesch, German charge d'affaires, told Minister of Foreign Affulrs Perettl Delhi Uocca that the former German crown prince oftlelally renounced the throne and promised not to attempt % reatorationist movement before he was permilt«d return to-Germany. J jncle Sam's Dollar Deposes British Money on Paris Bourse Paris.--The dollar has deposed the pound sterling as the king of Europe's money markets following the sudden weakening of English exchange. The Paris bourse now considers American currency as gold and gives all quotations bused on dollars. Banker Sentenced to Prisoh. / Bisbee, Ariz.--Charles A. McDonald, president of the defunct Citizens* Bank nnd Trust company of this city, who pleaded guilty to receiving deposits knowing the bank was _Insolvent was sentenced to five years. The New Collector, Rastus, how is it you have give»[r';\ , op going to churchf* asked Pastorf!tI^-' * Brown. Well, sah," replied Rastus, "it's dla>'4 way. I likes to take an active part„:^-V; ;V; - an' I used to pass de collection' bas-- -J".'-; ket, but dey's give de Job to Brothato-^ ^ Green, who has just returned from* ovah thai-ah." "In recognition of liis heroic service* * [ suppose?" "No, snh. I reckon he got dat In \reco-nitipn o' his having lost"one bis hands."--Sunbeams. "CASCARETS" FOR LIVEn AND BOWELS--10C A - ; ' • • -• • Cores Biliousness, Constipation, Slcfc;" Headache,Indigestion. Drug stores.. Adr^ When the Nights Were Long. The successful man was addressing a class, exhorting the members to cul* ; tlvate a taste for good books. "My young friends," he said, "you shoul(f not only read good books but yo<| should own them in order to have ac| cess to them at all times. Why, whe# I was a boy I used to work all night to get money to buy books and get before dawn to read them." Captain Morris Acquitted. 8iin Diego, Cal.--Capt. Robert Mor> rls. commander of the division of destroyers which were wrecked at Honda In September, was acquitted of charges of negligence by the judge advocate of (he general court-martlaL 1 Former Professor Arrested. Varkton. Sask.--Wasyl Mackensuk. former professoi of the University of Prague, has been arrested after a search of six years. He is charged with a series of holdups and at ore robberies. Mine Safety Devices Urged. Philadelphia.--Dr. John B. Andrews, secretary of the American Association for Labor Legislation, declared that two-thirds of the mine accidents in the United States and Greut Britain timid be avoided by safety devices. Fifteen Killed in Rhine Battles. Dusseldorf.--At Himberg, In the die* trict of Nemvled, a battle occurred between the separatists and ||easants. The peasants were unned with revolvers and hand grenades and fifteen were killed. Citrus Consumption Hsevy, vj^og Angeles. Cal.--Consumption of citrus fruit in the United States and Canada totaled 113,000 carloads during the 1922-1923 fruit season, according to the California Fruit Ore* ers' exchange. U. S. Marines Land at Canton. Peking.--American marines have been landed at Canton to protect the United Statea mission, which is endangered by the exacted fall of Sun Vat iHM-tor Sun is ia> trenched at White OMd mountalfc When a mar. proposes he d5€StT| seem to realize that it may reedlt 1»--' his losing control of himself. Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION 6BKUIANS - Hot warier Sure Relief ELL-ANS J5»AND TH MX## ' O. K.'s Mellon'* Plan. Washington.--Willingness to accept n reduction In surtaxes <HI large Incomes was expressed here by Repre sehtative Dickinson (Rep., la.), leader of the house farm bloc, who tins beei opposed to the plan. Mieeourl Bank Closes. • J|(»tem»n, *Mo.--The bank of Patte*» son! capitalized at $10*000 and with total resources of $24,000, closed Its doors. The cashier, C. P. Kinder, is missing. He is charged *itb erahansllng the bank's funds. ^ 6usiness Is Warned. New York.--R. W. Bnbson, in a talk at Cooper Union, urged business men to reduce expenses, get out of debt, cut out fake optimism and false standards and get back to old-fashioned honsety, industry, thrift and »ervi<j§J ^ CHnieal teste lave proved ^ ZooKe Is highly effective in tins of nasal catarrh when need I* dilation aa a nasal apray. Ita effect is te deanae the nt neons membrane nnd reduce abnormal dia-; charges, thna clearing the nasal plH)fM Note: Atomise* fttingn «f hartl rubber. I***,--- • - lMMl-ll-lt-lMMMCOl.* AssmMSwmoMSAmm* WUiBntitThatQMCm*A «*1 | Make Wn^Bmumst - • Cuticura Soap Touch BE. M. U, CHICAGO, NO, is K&: