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tl Cll7t/i*rv c* c JHr JNk 4Si^r I M Jl JCsS) ^SW-V 'rm$w%*P$£: w*"!;: . .,•=•' 'V# Kiitm MW'tW& !#pWi 5*5 .S*r THE ^ftHWRY ~ T>T. A"fryfii^A- «Qj*fy yt' • v < *rjJ« < r3fc#ftl£ Prfyv - * »*> -• ,. ,( 'v<j #. i- J A A" H.AAv *®»i**fleld .--Pneumonia la one of treacherous, fatal and prevases in Illinois, According to tkf ttlte director of health. It la esa cold weather difceaee alfbdttgh Its real cause is a tiny organlint or germ called pneumoccocus. To tvoid pneumonia, keep in good physl- <Skl trim, advises the state health director, who adds that fresh air,'sunshine and exercise without undue exponm are the Important factors la jr--pfng well. Belleville.--The floor of a chicken yard is the latest booze cache discovered by St Clair county officials in their searrti for illicit liquor. After •parching for an hour for liquor In the Home of Elmer Conklln, near here, tkree deputies looked under an old feeding platform in the chicken yard. Itve hundred quarts of beer were frund in a pit beneath It r Springfield. -- Establishment te %>ringfieid of a bureau of statistical •^search was provided for by the board of directors of the Illinois State Teachers' association by the appropriation «f $10,000 as recommended by the conwntion. The bureau will be In charge 'M Robert C. Moore of CarlinvlUe, *ecf& fctary of the association. Monmouth.--A "hobby show" in ithleh boys were given an opportunity •<> display their pet hobby as their parents show their prize pumpkins and (Cakes at the county fair was held by tfie Youhg Men's Christian association Hew Year's day. The show was open fbr exhibits in manual training, art, pets and collections. ; I West Frankfort.--The problem of jpsposing of moonshine mash seized in folds has been solved by Wiley Ilall, , "prohibition agent by the use of dyna- Niite. A huge vat, 35 feet long, 15 feet wide and 12 feet deep, recently discov- •red on a f;arm, was finally emptied «fter prohibition officers had exploded *4|>ur sticks of dynamite in the bottom. „ Springfield.--Organized labor will teckle "the ugly problem of unemployment seriously for the first time" at the International convention of the United .UTine Workers of America at Indian- *jk>11s, Ind., January 23, according to . Duncan McDonald of Springfield, 5for- »er president of the Illinois Mine Workers and prominent labor leader. " Quincy.--Father Cyprian Frank will be among the next band of mission- Aries sent to China by the Passionist j order of the Catholic church. He at- .tended St. Mary's parochial school at . Hount Sterling, Franciscan Fathers' ,f ' College, Quincy, and joined the Pasr^ Aonist order In Louisville. Polo.--Elias Dlehl, who at ninety* *' illne years of age could "mate" garden and spilt firewood, died at his home. He was Ogle county's oldest •tan and had made his home for three-quarters of a century In a house *rhich he had built J Metaraora.--Court approval has yeen given what is known as (he Rome View levee drainage district and the Contract let for the Improvement, Hthich will reclaim about 4,500 acres. $f this area 3,200 acres is submerged lir partly submerged. , Litchfield.--The famous William A1 t^oung farm, apples from which won #rst prizes at the world's fair® at Paris, France, and Chicago, was sold tyi master in chancery sale^at approximately $6 an acre. The property was purchased by heir's. - J & Cairo.--Several thousand Masons from Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky ' ,'i ^ook part in the celebration of tile corr jber-stuae laying of the new Masonic >• temple. Arthur E Wood, Chicago, wor- «vfchipfui grand master, [(resided. The |>uilding will be completed by spring. Chicago.--Urbana high school won * • ig the trophy in the mixed chorus class at the state-Wide contest being conducted by the Illinois Music Teachers' association. Harrison and University high schools of Chicago were second pad third. Springfield.--Celebration in 1924 of the one hundredth anniversary of the third and last visit to the United States of La Fayette, Revolutionary ihero of France and America, will bring into prominence his only visit to T11I- ^jfenois. | Quincy.--The Independent school, m •> ' jnear here, built In 1846, recently "" * 'Mburned, was for many years a place i^S/of historic Interest. The building was S1' ai 'made of heavy hewn oak beams and 'originally was equipped with rough Jhoine-made benches and desks. j Effingham.--Christina Meeker, eight- Seen. an employee of the glove factory Jut Sigel, a few miles north of here, had her entire scalp torn ffenn her head by a machine. Sterling.--Rev. E. F. Caslow has resigned the pastorate of the First Church of the Brethren, effective February I, and will accept a new charge at Woodland, Mich, 'f' Ik Par,8>--Former Congressman Frank * O'Halr of Paris formally announced j! his candidacy for the Democratic nom- , i v \ inatlon for governor of Illinois. Virden.--Sylvester Wilson, seventeen fe years old, high school boy, in a school ill ^ play given here was supposed to end Kf^8 "*hls life with a razor. Stage fright gripped him as he raised bis arm to W ' pull the back of the razor .across his throat. He forgot which was the back |jjivn t or tj,e edge, decided to take a chance A , rather that spoil the play--ami guessed wrong. Nine stitches were BfTif't- j, necesgary t0 close the wound. f'f' ' |V Elgin.--Because a fortune teller told 1$:; ' her 12 years ago that flie would die fj; , in 1928. Mrs. Louis Schauer, fifty-five, WtJn- wa« driven to suicide by hanging. J'h'fii' P.ontiac.--Charles Melbourn, tlilrty- ^ I 'if four, of Bloomlngton was killed and m- ' Mrs. Kemp, aged resident of Pontine, was wounded when shot by William Leady. thirty-three, with whom Melbourn had come to pass the evening. Leudy had been a patient at the state hospital at Jacksonville and was out on parole. Marton.--Edgar Potter, twenty-two yeats old, was shot and killed by Ike Collier, policeman, at Creal Springs, ivhen Potter is alleged to have resisted arrest upon a charge of highway robbeqr- & V '-i " Harrlatourg.--Harve Rann, former acting chief of "police of Carrier Miiis. was acquitted oi a charge of having riurdered Hugh Tliompson on September 17, 1922. Acting Chie< Ranu shot and killed Thompson after the officer had been assaulted and badly beaten. Springfield.--County treasurers, acting as county collectors, can not compel the county to pay premiums on their surety bonds Or on the bonds of their employees, according to an opinion of Attorney General tS. J. Brundage£ rendered to Robert W. Beese. state's attorney of Sterling. Rockford.--Increased prosperity for northern Illinois through an Increase of nearly $100,000 in income tax collections for the calendar year in Winnebago and five adjacent counties is the latest estimate from the office of Wllllston E. Reckhow, chief deputy collector for the ninth division of the Internal Revenue department Springfield--State Auditor Andrew Russel announced that he had taken charge of the Arnold State bank at Colfax at the request of the bank's board of directors, following the accidental death of the cashier. Mr. Russel said the bank would be sold1 to some other bank in the neighborhood, without loss to any Investors. Springfield.--Overeating is the greatest single cause of- diabetes, according to the best medical opinion. It is estimated by the state health department that 20,000 people in Illinois are suffering from diabetes and it is known that more than 1,000 deaths occur annually in the state frorti this disease. 1 Dixon.--Another fatal automobile, accident has occurred on Lincoln Highway near this city. As a result Myron Donnelly, twenty-three, of Rock Falls, Is dead and his companions, Thomas Clark, twenty-two, and Fred Krebs, twenty-three, both of Rock Falls, badly bruised. Urbana.--Representatives of every color, race, sex, religion and nationality are eligible to membership in Phi Kappa Epsilon, an honorary international intercollegiate fraternity which has been formed at the University of Illinois here by American and foreign students. Elgin.--The will of William H. Garrelts, disposing of an estate of $90,000, leaves' everything to the widow, but with the provision that she must sup-' port their six sons as long as they operate the Garrelts farqi, east of Elgin. They also are to be paid $200 each yearly. Lenox.--Because he had read of banks being plundered, George S. Hilton, seventy-six, kept $50,000 worth of negotiable securities in a small safe in his house until friends found out about It and at their request k conservator was appointed and the bonds placed in a safety deposit box. Lovlngton.--His ambition to be pastor in his native town, where his father also was one time in charge of a church, is soon to be realized by Rev. &. D. Brown, who has resigned a charge at Bloomington to accept the pastorate of the local Christian church. Joliet.--Enforcement of the prohibition act has added about $145,000 to the treasury of Will county, according to records of the treasurer's office. Most of the money has been distributed among the various school districts. Galesburg.--A document under date of January 15, 1801, which proclaims secession of Mississippi from the Union and swears allegiance to the Southern Confederacy has been presented to Lombard college. Durand.--Hunters In this vicinity complain that rabbits are very scarce tills winter. They lay the.Scarcity to foxes, which have increased rapidly since the county quit paying bounty on them. Freeport.--The United States Department of Agriculture has been consulted in an effort to save thousands of fine oak > trees in Freeport parks, many of which have been killed by blight during the last year. Decatur.--Charles M. Borchers, former mayor of Decatur, and aspirant for the Democratic nomination as governor, has started on a tow of southern Illinois in the interests of his candidacy. Peoria.--Shooting a hole through the pet cock of the automobile in which they were escaping, Tom Crockett, village marshal at Annawan, captured four alleged robbers. Polo.--I E. Hess, Widely known throughout central Illinois as a student and a writer of bird lore, died following an attack of ptomaine poisoning. ViUn Grove. -- John p. Seltzer, eighty, is dead. Be was a large land owner and a director of the First National bank. Caledonia.--A deer which recently appeared in this vicinity in Boone county has been seen grazing with cat tie in the pasture of farms. Dowell.--With an output of 4,002 tons In eight hours the Kathleen mine of the Union Colliery company establishes a new record for this field. Galesburg.--Bootleg whjsky is men ttoned often in the annual report of Coroner G. S, Bower, detailing 68 violent deaths In 1923 as a record. Sterling.--Knowing that his death was but a few hours away, John H Ahrens, retired Sterling merchant requested that his daughter, Bernlce, and her fiance. A, Perry Bacon, be married before the end. Accordingly, they were quietly married. Twelve hours later Ahrens died. Evanston.--Every indication points Ito success In developing a band device which the totally deaf may curry and by which they may receive Impressions of oral speech. Prof. Robert H. Uault, head of the psychology, department of Northwestern university, announced. Springfield.--Total Chicago grain inspections for 1923 will *xceed the inspections of 1922 and 11)19. when "production was at a peak." by more than 1,000,000 bushels, Clifford Ireland of Peoria, director of the «Vpnrfi»ent of trade and commerce, announced m his review of the department divisions for the year. Galesburg.--E. P. Williams, nestor of Knox County. Bar jtwoHatiou, |g dead. He was ninety-one years old. fie carne to Illinois when a buy from Missouri with his parents.. Mr. WHMmua pw AbTahttn Uccdn persntiaily, FREDERICK C. BILLARD . S. IN COURT Award of $100,000 Goes to Winner After 50,000,000 Vote on ldei ' fYork.--Edward WV •«r ail bounced that the $100,000 prize offered by him on jftly 2 "for the best prac ticable plan by which the United States may co-operate with other nations looking toward the prevention of war" has been awarded by the jury headetT by Elihu Root, for plan No, 1469 of the 22,165 plans submitted. The name of the person submitting the winning plan will not be disclosed pending a popular vote on It to be Conducted with the assistance of sev eral hundred organizations and newspapers in which those In charge of the award expect not less than 50,000,000 persons will participate The main points of the prize winning plan follow: .^v.. • ' • 1. Enter the permanent court: That the United States adhere to the permanent court of international Justice for the reasons and under the conditions stated by Secretary Hughes and President Harding in February, 1928. A ^ 2. Co-operate-wrlth the League of Nations, without full membership at present. That without becoming a member of the League of Nations as at present constituted, the United States government should extend its present cooperation with the league and propose participation in the work of Its) assembly and council under the folr lowing conditions and reservations: Safeguarding of Monroe Doctrine.-- The United States accepts the League of Nations as an instrument of mutual counsel, but it will assume no obligations to interfere with political questions of policy or internal administration of any foreign state. MISS CUNNINGHAM Commander Frederick C. Blllard has been appointed commandant of the United States coast gaard. He was born in Washington, D. C., in 1873 and entered the.coast guard in 1894. During the war he first served as superintendent of the Coast Guard acadery and then commanded the Aphro- . jdite operating in European waters. He has the Navy Cross and the Spanish- American war medal. Workmen Dig Up Leaden Plate Buried in 1S90 .'Washington.--a discovery that may lead to solution of one of .the oldest mysteries of American history was made here when a man digging a hole to plant a holly tree unearthed a leaden plate inscribed as follows: "Virginia Dare died here captif powhaten 1590 Charles R." The inscription apparently referred to Virginia Dare, first white child born on the North American continent, and a member of the lost colony, whose fate h&s never been solved. V Four Die in Blaze at Rushville, III.; Big Lou Rushville, 111.--Four persons were killed, three injured and seven business houses destroyed by a fire which swept the business section of this city. The dead are: Elmo Burns, sixteen, son of L. M. Burns, circuit clerk of Schuyler county; Raymond Brlggs, twenty-; two, married, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Brlggs; Maurice McFeeters, twenty-eight, single, son of Mr. and Mrs. William McFeeters; John Stover, twenty-two, single. a > a K. of C. Council Masnrtlc Guests at Syracuse, N. Y. Syracuse, N. Y,--Members of Union council, Knights of Columbus, were guests at a reception given by Syracuse Masons in the Masonic temple. This was the first event of its kind in Syracuse, and the first of a series of interfraternal gatherings to be held this winter. The meetings are being arranged for the promotion of good fellowship and a better working ajv rangement In philanthropic work. THIRTY-SIX PERSONS DIE IN DUST BLAST Many Others Injured in Pekin, III., Explosion. Pekin, 111.--Fire and ice, steel, concrete and brick made of the wrecked > plant of the Corn Products here the tomb of thirty bodies. An explosion occurred at three o'clock In the morning. It trapped the thirty employees in the debris. Rescuers, working under glaring searchlights, worked all night in an effort to reach the bodies. They were handicapped by the bitter cold. Of those taken out, blown out or leaping out, alive, the death toll Is mounting. Six are reported dead In hospitals here and at Peoria, making the estimated total of dead thirty-six, with no blame yet fixed, and the only explanation being "dust explosion." A list given out here of identified dead included the following, names: Jfm Hoi ton, Otto Welberg, George Leiber, Manuel Hicks, Lee Harding. The Injured are counted at thirty at the hospitals, and It Is said that many of these will be hqjpless cripples If they survive. State Fire Marshal John G. Camber said the catastrophe was due to an explosion of dust, similar to disasters that have occurred In other starch factories, grain elevators, flour mills, and like plants, where dust Is created and let accumulate. He cited' Tut's Sarcophagus Found; King's Ransoms in Case Luxor.--The sarcophagus of Tut- Ankh-Amen has been ^brought to light after remaining hidden for more than three thousand years in the tomb of the pharaohs in the Valley of the >|vi£gs. The long-sought treasure of tuuiquity, carved from pinkish granite, probably Assuan stone, ^les within the fourth casket of blazing gold--a casket even more brilliant than the other shrines enclosing the sarcophugls, its doors covered with cartouches of the dead pharaoh, surrounding a figure of the monarch. Government Bars Arms to President Ohregon's Foe Washington. -- Shipments of arms from the United States to the De la Huerta revolutionary group in Mexico are being discouraged by the administration as against the policy of the American government The attitude of this government" on the question was sent to Department of Justice agents in New Orleans after a conference between officials of the attorney general's office, and of,j^,^ateL department vi Women to Honor Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Taft Jan. IS Washington.--Mrs. William Howard Taft and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wives of the only living ex-p^esidents of the United States, will be guests of t£e National League of Women voters at a reception in the league's national headquarters here on January 15. More than 1,200 invitations to meet them have been Issued to prominent women of official and social Washington. Mabel Normand Collapse* f Is Taken to a Hospital Loa Angeles, Cal.--Miss Mabel Normand, motion picture actress, whose chauffeur shot and seriously wounded Courtland S. Dines, Denver oil operator and clubman, was removed to the Good Samaritan hospital suffering from what her physicians say is a nervous breakdown. The Btraln, excitement, and worry growing out of the shooting of Dines caused the IctNM to break down, it Is announced.' Teacher and Family of > Three Killed by Train Beliefontaine, O.--Four persons, one man and two women and a child, occupants of an automobile bearing a Michigan license, were instantly killed when the machine was struck by a Big Four train at Huntsvlll*, near here. The dead are Ernest R. Herron, a 'Detroit school teacher, who lived at Royal Oak, Mich., his wife, his mother. Mrs. W. E. Herron of Columbus Grove, O., and his daughter. Negroes Hurrying South. Paducali, Ky.--Scurrying before the chill advance of the northern winter, seventeen hundred negroes passed through Fulton Junction en route to their old homes In Dixie, the vanguard of an army to come. 0 Obregon Wins Two Battles. Mexico City.--Rebels lost 60 dead and a number of prisoners In engagements near Actopan and Chacovazco, according to an announcement issued by. the War department. The, federals were led by General Gobay. Western Pine Production. Portland, Ore.--A report just issued by the Western Pine Manufacturers' association shows a production during 1928 by member mills of approximately 1,700,000,000 feet. It was a record year, exceeding 1922 by 20 per cfs^ Teaches His Class by Phonet; Towa City, la.--Quarantined with emallpox fifty miles away, Millington Carpenter of the University of Iowa faculty, is teaching here with the aid of long distance telephone. He was taken sick during Christmas week. Opposition to Sale of ATOM to Obregon It Ignored P it ^ , . --:-- Washington. -- Negotiations fttr the sale of arms and munitions to the Obregon government were closed by the administration In the face of threatened legislation In congress to prevent sale of war supplies to any foreign country. The deal was completed by Secretary Weeks and representatives of the Obregcyi government Terms of the agreement provide that Mexico is to pay half of the amount due for the supplies In cash and the other half in thirty days. The amount Involved In the transaction was not disclosed. The' following statement was Issued by Secretary Weeks: "This government has sold to the Mexican government 5,000 Enfield rifles, model of 1917; 5,000,000 rounds of .30 ammunition, and eight D.H-4 airplanes, the .terms of the sale being one-half cash and one-half within thirty days. These articles do not cover the entire list requested originally, but the Mexican government finds they will answer its present requirements." It also was anuounced that within the last three months the United States has sent to Cuba munitions of war valued at approximately $100,000. It was pointed out in high official circles that the sales of munitions of war to Cuba and Mexico definitely mark the government's attitude regarding the sale of war materials to countries in the western hemisphere when revolutions are threatened. The transactions did not mark a departure from President Harding's policy against selling arms to European countries, It was asserted. The rifles and ammunition being sold to the Obregon government are at Fert Sam Houston, San Antonio, and at Fort Bliss, near El Paso. The airplanes are at Fatrfield depot Dayton. HI# Dorothy Cunningham of ^ ana li an associate member of Republican national committee. tho Germany Joins FranceT Paris.--The new Relchburg plan for payment of the German reparations by ceding to France a 30 per cent interest in German Industry is based on the United States and Great Britain cancelling the war debts due them. | : John D.'« Qolf Partner Diet, ' ftratond Beach, FJa.--Ashton Harvey, seventy, of New York, died suddfen^ jf on the Ormond Beach golf links while playing with John D. Rockefeller, Sr., whose occasional opponent he had been for the last five winters. Pope Pius XI to Pay High Honor to Virgin Mary Rome.--The church of Rome In 1924 will face an international dispute which will make the "fundamentalmodernist" fight look pale. Pope Plus XI, against the opposition, open or tacit, of mdre than half of the cardinals, is determined to bring about the proclamation of new dogma raising the Virgin Mary even higher In the Catholic heaven. The dogma will be called the "personal corporeal presence of the Virgin Mary In heaven," and declares the mother of God Is present on the throne of the queen of heaven, actually and physically, and on the same basis as God the FatlMMw God the Son and the Holy Ghost i Saranac Toboggan Stide Collapses; Two Are Killed Saranac Lake, N. Y.--Two persons were precipitated to sudden death at Dolpli Lewi soh n's Adirondack camp when a newly built tologgan slide collapsed. The victims were Nathan M. Shelley of Saranac and Mrs. Maude Shelley, his slster-ln-law. Mr. Shelley's daughter, Alice, suffered a broken leg. No one witnessed the accident The slide, nearly a mile long, had just been completed. Heavy masses of ice along the supports caused collaps*. - • U. & GOVERNMENT A ^ AA MARKET REPORT ^feshln^ton.--For the week ending Jan. 5.--LIVE STOCK--Chicago prices: Hoars, |7.35 for the top and |7.00@7.30 for the bulk. Medium and good beef Steers, J8.15@ll.35; butcher cows and beifers, $3.75@11.00; feeder steers, $4.00 @7.75; light and medium weight veal calves, *10.00® 13.50. lambs, $11.75 @13.85; feeding lambs, *11.00012.50; yearlings, »S,0«©12.00; fat ewes, *6.00 @ 8.50. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES--Sacked northern round white potatoes, *1.35@ 1.50 in Chicago, *1.10<&'1.25 f. o. b.; Tennessee Nancy Hall sweet potatoes, *2.70@2.80 in Chicago. 'Danish cabbage, *25.00@40.00 bulk per ton in leading markets, top of *50.00 and *60.00 in St Louis; at shipping points at *22.00@ 25.00. Yellow onions, *2.25@2.75 sacked per 100 lbs. consuming centers, *2.35 @ 2.45 f. o. b. New York Baldwin apples *3.50@5.00; northwestern extra fancy Jonathans, *2.00©2.26 per box in Chisago. Texas spinach, *1.25 @1.50 per bushel basket in leading markets. HAY--No. 1 timothy, *25.50 Cincinnati. *28.00 Chicago, $20.Minneapolis, *25.50 St. Louis; No. 1 alfalfa, *23.00 Minneapolis; No. 1 prairie, *17.00 Minneapolis, *19.00 St. LOUIB. GRAIN--No. 1 dark northern spring wheat. *1.j4@J.24 Minneapolis; No. 2 hard winter wheat, *1.05% Chicago, *1.07 Kansas City. *1.07% @1.09 St. Louis; No. 2 red winter wheat, *1.1(@ 1.17 St. Louis; No. 2 yellow corn, 74%o Chicago; No. 3 yellow corn, 73®74c St. Louis; No. 3 white oats, 44)&@45%c Chicago, 4<S@46^ic St. Louis. DAIRY FRODUCTS--Butter. 92 score, 54V4c Chicago. Cheese prices at Wisconsin primary markets: S^igrie daisies, 22c; double daisies, 21 %c; longhorns. Resigns Rather Than Act as Executioner Huntsville, Tex.--A day before the date set for the first electrocution in Texas, Capt. R. F. Coleman, warden of the Huntsville penitentiary,' will ,step out of office. Captain Coleman declared that the new state law placing on the warden at Huntsville the duty of executing condemned men was responsible for his action. Bo has served continuously since 1888. Hiram Johnson Opens in Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland, O.--In a speech raking the Coolldge administration fore and aft and blistering the Republican national committee and the Interests and Individuals supporting Mr. Coolidge politically, Senator Hiram Johnson (Rep., Cal.) opened his campaign here for the Republican nomination for president. The meeting was presided over by State Senator George H. Bender, Johnson manager in Ohio, and Senator Johnson, who was accompanied by Frank H. Hitchcock, his national campaign manager, was introduced by John D. Fackler, a prominent Boll Mooser In 1912. $2,000,000,000 Farm Business in U. S. in 1923 Washington. -- * arm organizations did over $2,000,000,000 business In 1923, the Department Of Agriculture announced. The estimates are based upon reports from 0,639 organizations. About 90 per cent of the organizations were engaged in selling products and about 10 per cent in collective purchasing of farm supplies. " s ^ ... . Mine Wage Parley t* ^ Set for February 11 Cleveland, O.--At a meeting here* of representatives of unlou miners and operators of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and western Pennsylvania, it was decided to hold a conference to negotiate a new wage agreement to become effective In the bituminous field April 1, 1924, on February 11, at Jacksonville, fia. ft Louis Has *1,500,000 Fire. St. Louis, Mo.--A spectacular tee In the business district caused an estimated damage of $1,500,000, destroying three buildings and damaging several others. Firemen fought the flames fourteen hours. , To Press Mexico Claim*. Washington.--Millions of dollars hi claims against Mexico now are being prepared by American citizens, covering damage to life and property at the bands of Mexican soldiers and authorities during the last 00 years. Earthquake In Turkestan. Moscow.--Eighty-three persons have been killed and 400 houses destroyed In a severe earthquake which ghook the province of Samarkand, in Russian Turkestan, according to advices received hera. ^ %• Veteran Publisher * Milwaukee, Wis.--John F. Crnmer, ninety-two, veteran publisher and for several years vice president of the Western Newspaper Union, died here Mr. Cramer is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Eugene R. Pike, Chicago. Quake Official Figure*. Tokyo.--The Japanese home oflBce Issued official figures on the recent earthquake ana fine, as follows: Dead and missing, 192,000; injured, 102,000; houses destroyed, 580,000; houses partially destroyed 126,000. Admiral Palmer to Bosk, ' All U: S. Merchant Fleet Washington.--Appointment of Leigh C. Paiiper, retired rear admiral of the United States navy, as president of the Emergency Fleet corporation was agreed 'to at a conference at the White House between President Coolidge and the shipping board and members of the merchant marine committees of congress. Selection of Admiral Palmer as head of the organization directly in charge of the operation of the government's merchant marine was suggested by President Coolidge. Receipts of Live Stock in Chicago Are Enormous Chicago.--Chicago's supply of live Stock for 1923 reached the enormous total of 18,543,000 head--by a good margin the largest ever received. The number of animals exceeded 1922 by 0,550,000, most of the gain being in the swine department, where the supply passed all previous records. The value of this enormous contribution is placed at $500,000,000. some $20,000,000 larger than last year, because of tha increased number of swln£ V. S. Dye Suit Dismissed by a Federal Judge Wilmington, Del.--The government's suit against the Chemical Foundation, Inc.. was dismissed by Judge Hugh M. Morris in the federal district court here. In an opinion 20,000 words long; Judge Morris swept aside every contention set up by the government for recovery of 6,700 seized German patents and trade marks sold by the alien property custodian to the foundation for the nominal sum of $271,000. -- "K Ohio River on Rampage,* f - liOttWville, Ky.--The Ohio riv«- Wf Its Kentucky tributaries have passed flood stage and are rising. Reports from 7 points as widely separated Pittsburgh and Cairo tell of menacing coudltions in many towns. Supreme Court Allows ^ of All Earnings Over ' i.75 Per Cent. Pf3>!@Q mm National Debt Cut. Washington. -- The treasury accomplished a net reduction of almost $400,- JU0.000 in the public debt in 1923, according to official figures mode public here. Outstanding obligations of the cation totaled $21.581), 100,34* , y. S. Railway Earning*. 'y,v Washington.--According to calculations issued by the bureuu of railway economics, the earnings of 192 Class 1 railroads during November were at the rate of 4.68 per cent on their tentative validation* , ^ t •••• ' " i: * "• V > '• •r./iu/..-. • » ' V - - u ; Wellesley Student Found Dead. Cincinnati, O.--Miss Myra Strauss Freiberg, nineteen, a student at Wellesley college, was found dead with a bullet wound in her head In the library of the residence of her cousin. Dr. EL B. Tapber. Clerk Heads Big Corporation Greensburg, Pa.--Starting as a clerk In a subsidiary company thirty-two years ago. Harry F. Bovard was elected president of the Keystone Coal and Coke company, which is a $10,0001)01) corporation. A~ ^ High Paper Rates ProtMte^ Washington.--Washington newspaper publishers protested to the Interstate commerce commission against the high newsprint paper rates maintained by the Canadian Pacltic and several jSp trunk lin^s, ; . ^ ^ , .v , .A..' Washington. -- Provisions of t hetransportation act requiring railroads' to divide with the government theirsxcess earnings above the (5.75 per :ent fixed by the lnterstete ^ommence commission as a reasoiwb&Lreturn ost; their valuation were, sustained by UmA Supreme court. j ; , . The attack on the constitutionality of the recapture clause was brought by the Dayton-Qoose Creek Railway company of Texas, but when the cafe reached the Supreme court, nineteen of the most important railway syategas. of the country joined in it. ^ Describing transportatldn^act legislation intended to build up* a system of railways, and to give the owners of the railways an opportunity to earn enough to maintain their properties and equipment in efficiency*. Chiel Justice taft declared that th» railroads had been placed ihore coiiK pletely than ever under the guardianship and control of the interstate cqafemerce commission. . i jj | He pointed out tha^ the eormnisgioh'is functions were no longer limited to the fixing of reasonable rates and the prevention of those which are discriminatory. v } ' \ The clauses of th» teaqsiportiijl||K^ act which provide for the recapture "SC excess earnings were "decked by thecourt "the key provision 6f the whole plan." The uniformity of rates detided upon as the most helpful to the weaker railroads would 'enable those of average efficiency, the court said>,tfr eani the prescribed maximum return. Bj^he recapture clauses congress la enabled to maintain uniform rates for all shippers and yet keep the net returns of railways, whether strong: or weak, to the varying percentages which are fair for them." ..'W* .f* •f4Xf President Coolidge Sig< Arms Embargo on Re Washington.--A formal embargo da private shipment of arms, to Mexico was declared by President Coolidge, the State department announced. The action was taken after representatives of the Adolfo de la Huerta faction had made attempts to buy arms and ammunitions in the United States. Tho embargo was proclaimed under the joint resolution of congress, approved Jan. 31, 1922, which makes it unlawful to ship arms into a country where violence exists' unless special per mission is granted by the President the United States. Ship Sinks, Eight Drifi <'r' Tivelve Hours in Icy Lake Bayfield, Wis.--At dawn, after one of the most terrific ^ales and blizzards In recent years over Lake Superior Wad subsided somewhat, a' little rowbdttt crept Into Port Arthur, Ont., landing the nearly frozen crew of the Thomps Fralnt, after the men had battled die waves and snowstorms on the ' open lake for more than twelve hours, and drifted over 100 miles. The Thomas Fraint sank off the Wisconsin shore between Bayfield, Wis., and Two Hi*- bors, Minn., at 8 p. m. Sundt§v Sun Yat-Sen in Chiiia Calls World Revolution Shanghai.--The Citizens' Diplomatic Association of the Canton Government, headed by Sun Yat-Sen, published k manifesto calling for a world revoWjtion, similar to the Bolshevik upheaval, to support Sun Yat-Sen against fiv» powers--the United States, Great Britain, France, Japan and Italy. In a recent interview with American newspaper men Sun Yat-Sen admitted hit connection with Red schemes to overthrow the United States. . n . . . . Halt Talk Long Enough 1 ' in House to Pass a Bill Washington.--The house held back the flood of pent-up oratory lone enough to pass the first bill of a general public character since the Sixtyeighth congress was convened. It was the old bill codifying federal laws which had passed the house in two previous congresses and failed in tha senate. There was. no opposition in the house today.. I v;#:i Vet Bureau Praud Washington.--Fraud and corruptkMI' existed in the veterans' bureau uniec* the directorship of Charles R. Forbes* John F. O'Ryan of New York, general counsel for the senate veterans* com* mittee, asserts In a report filed wltb» the committee. Qunmen Kill Chicago Policeman. > f Chicago.--Three negro robbers kiltftfti Patrolman Vincent Skiba, a veteran of the police department, and wounded - his partner, Patrolman Joseph O. Lamb, at Seventy-ninth street and Merrill avenue, and mude their escape. Russian* Rearrest Tikhon. ';'A~ Berlin.--Archbishop Tikhon, fornix head o£ the Orthodox Greek chuceb In Russia, has been rearrested in Moscow, the soviet government charging that his apartment was the center f|pf counter revolutionary activity, ' 1 • ' " » <*>. 345,516 Farmer* Sign Petition. Washington.--A petition bearing*' 345,MT5 signature* of farmers from number of states, urging reduction ef taxes and greater economy of government, was presented to congress by Representative Darrow. - i v % A.AV*: A -* , w> § ;. • . > i A? v , VA ;A%'-j ft*". i" • fi-Bi • t-^1- Vt" •"! • • .> \ M • Va* L. I Bomb Thrown at Kwaai. Jim London. -- Both Mustnplia K-eiaal Pasha, president of the Turkish republic, and his attractive wife were wounded by a bomb thrown by an assailant who Invaded their home, acto dtepateh#* >.•> -r * v <£0?# - Aj' '