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'0 r.TO.-3*SP lifftt HllllSHlT nrftfMilaiiMBi ;•-•« Vf ^sS4': ;V-'. > H - i-" SPT ^wj f(pggets From Illinois ; ••' Springfield.--When a county votes * ' to change from county to township Organization, the sheriff of the coun- • '-ity, who Is ex-offlcio county collector, phall continue to act as collector of taxes for the current year, or until " "township organization is completed, Attorney General Brundage at Sprlug- ^-jield has held in an opinion given Floyd M. McClure, state's attorney, of Cass county, where the change to a * tpwnshlp organisation was recently effected. . Jacksonville.--After a two-year : fght to escape the penitentiary, * Samuel T. Zachary, seventy-four, of 'Jacksonville, convicted of killing 'Buther Crawford, a farmer, following an argument regarding a boundary line, surrendered to Sheriff Thomas ^ ind was taken to the penitentiary at , !<Chester. Zachary had pleaded self-defense. ^ Springfield.--Provisional statistics indicate that 183,230 births and §2.308 deaths were registered in Illinois dur- " Dig 1923. This means a net increase ... :;in population of more than 50,000 from : births alone. Based on these figures a the birth rate per 1,000 population was : 19.6 and the death rate was 12.1, a ..... very healthy condition according to V*tate officials at Springfield. Belvidere.-- The Boone ' County farmers' institute at its annnal ses- " alon at Belvidere went on record in ' Opposition to the proposed $100,000,000 : JSard-road bond issue, reasons being that the automobile licenses will not _ be sufficient to pay the cost and that " lliere is a probability of direct taxation having to be resorted to before the bonds could be paid off. Springfield.--During the last .three '^eare more than 33,000 fewer people %ed in Illinois than during the preceding triennial, according to official ^Statistics given out at Springfield. This fe true in spite of tlie^fact that the population of the state increased by . Something like 225,000, Evidently Illinois is a good state In which to live. Mount Carroll.--To obtain needed revenue for its street department, thie city of Mount Carroll adopted a wheeltax ordinance. Imposing a tax of $1 on every sort of vehicle. Owners of dray and taxi lines are taxed $15 ananally for the first machine, $10 for the -•^second and $5 for each other car or Gray. _r__ petllL--The averagg cost <rf produc- - thg a crop of corn In central Blinds Ik $28.42, according to statistics compiled- by the Tazewell County Corn club at Jfekln. The average yield .. iHeing fofty bushels. an acre, the farmer must get 62 cents a bushel for his J JBorn to break even. - , « Princeton.--Damage softs totaling »*Jp20,000 have been filed In Circuit court llere against the Rock Island ; Railroad company by the widows of - John Koos and Joseph Paulin, business partners, who were killed when a Jtrain •truck an automobile in which they Krere riding. Savanna.--Giencarry Country club Is the name given the newly perfected or- > ionization composed of residents of Satanna and Mount Carroll. The grounds > ij|re situated midway between the two towns, on the newly paved state bond issue road No. 27. The club membership is to be limited to 100. Eureka.--Receipt of a check for $35,- 607 brings the total endowment fund of Eureka college to $420,000, according to President Bert Wilson. The check was received from the general educational board of New York city, which pledged $135,000 to the fund. Sheffield.--The case of William Heauiner, convicted January 24, 1923, for participation in a train robbery of (15,000 worth of silk from a Burlington train near Arlington, in Bureau county, comes up before the board of pardons and paroles soon. Springfield.--Sustaining the decision -IfiW not the state civil service commission In dismissing Isadore Levin, Springfield attorney, as secretary of the commission, the Sangamon county Circuit "court overruled Levin's petition ^Jor Jreinstatement. * Joliet--Construction at Joliet of an engine house and other buildings, to cost $250,000, is contemplated by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Panl railroad. Enlarging of the yards also is planned. Springfield.-Former Lieutenant Governor John G. Oglesby of Elkhart, formally announced that he will not be a candidate for that office in the Republican primaries. '" Danville.--Asa M. Bushnell, president of the American Trust and Banking company, has been elected presi dent -of the Danville Clearing House association. lioekf ord.--Walter R. Craig Post, American Legion, was nearly burned out when a $25,000 fire flamed up in the club building at Rockford. " Duquoin.--Judge K. C. Ronald of Duquoln, prominent Republican mem- / ber of the legislature, has entered the race for governor. " v Chicago.--Chicago has Increased Its population by 270,171 persons during the last four years, according to a nar, tlonal survey of cities of over 10,000 population. The census of 1920 gave Chicago 2,701,705 residents, while the survey gives the present population as 2^71,876. Sterling.--J. J. Ludens and W. Burleigh of Sterling have started on a 32,000-mile sight-seeing Journey a rotund the world. Mollne.---The Mollne puMic library y.ua discontinued the circulation of bodks on Sundays. - ; Belleville.--Alleging that chemicals, dust and dirt from the Aluminum Ore U company of East St. Louis are a menace to the health of residents of the vicinity of the plant, Mrs. Ellen Troy, B A Miller and C. J. Miller have filed stilt in the Circuit court hera asking $45,000 damages. | Springfield.--Rev. Mother iMarciana, Wxty-nlne, for the last 18 years mother supreme at St. John's hospital here, who had Jurisdiction over the Sisters of the Order of Saint Francis in 13 hospitals in . Illinois and Wisconsin, fltel after an Illness of U* months. Springfield.--Col. A. A- Sprague of Chicago for senator, and Judge Norman L. Jones of Carollton for governor, head the ticket drawn up by the Democratic advisory convention. The full ticket follows: For senutor, Col. .A. A. Sprague of Chicago; for governor. Judge Norman L. Jones of-Carrollton; for lieutenant governor, Ferdinand Garesche of Madison; for secretary of state, Andrew Olson of Moiine; for auditor, State Senator Edward J. Hughes of Chicago; for treasurer, John C. Marrin of Salem; for attorney general, Thomas Donovan of Joliet; for congressman at large, Mrs. Mary Hart of Benton and Albert A. Albert of Paris. Farmer City.--Donald Horr, living near here, buried his dog, after it had been struck by a railroad train and apparently killed, but Shep, as he was called, grew tired of his new environment and returned to his master's residence and demanded food. The dog had been badly stunned and, as the ground was frozen solifl, the clods with which bis body was covered allowed the «ir to get in while Shep recovered from his accident, and also allowed him to dig his way out. Springfield.--Property belonging to the Illinois State Normal university at Normal is "private property belonging to the board of education of the state of Illinois," incorporated under legislative act of February 18, 1857, and as such is not entitled to the legal services of the attorney general, according to an opinion given Francis G. Blair, state superintendent of public instruction by Attorney-General Brundage at Springfield. Eureka.--Young men of Illinois between the ages of eighteen and twentyfour years are eligible to participate in the competitive examinations, beginning April 7, for appointments as cadet or cadet engineers in the United States coast guard service, according to W. V. E. Jacobs of Eurelca, acting commandant. Peoria.--Illinois plumbers, in connection with their state convention, offered $5,000 in prizes to high school students for the best essays upon "The Story of the Bath." Of the 22 awards, two of $l,500~each will be awarded to the boy and, girl writing the best essays. Peoria.--Quick response by the Peoria fire department saved many h(fuses in Dunlap from destruction. The J. L. Siegele general store was destroyed and sparks scattered by a high wind threatened adjoining buildings and many. houses before the Peoria engines arrived. Rock Island.--The Rev. A. D. Freden, pastor of the Lutheran church at Orion, was elected president of the Rock Island district of the Augustana Lutheran church. The election came at the district conference held at the First Lutheran church of Slock Island. ^ - Mollne. -- Asking for ft postage stamp, a holdup man got away with $1280 at the West End Tailor shop. Henry Heimbeck, proprietor, also conducts a postal station aud was checking up the day's receipt* when the bandit entered. < Springfield.--Approximately $27,000 was earned in ten months by 85 per cent of the boys attending the Central and Junior High schools at Springfield, according to a report of Principal Lyman K. Davis. The boys work outside of school hours. Pana. -- A medical commission, headed by Dr. J. N. Nelms, adjudged insane Robert A. Smith, under indictment at Pana for five deaths from poisonous whisky he is alleged to have prepared. Smith has been in jail since October 11 last. Jerseyville.--There were-exactly the same number of babies bon\ in Jersey county, in 1923 that there were in 1922--232 each year. Of these 118 were boys and 114 Were girls, while the year before it was 115 boys and 117 girls. Benton.--L. A. McFarland, forty-five, prominent Hamilton county farmer and stockman, was found frozen to death on a country road ten miles east of Benton. . 37 KRJID IN •' ^ ILLINOIS MINE Blast, Flames and Poison vSjjjg** Injure Many at ~ Johnson City. Johnson City, HI. -- Thirty-seven miners were killed, a half dozen severely injured and a dozen others were less dangerously injured in the east side mine of the Crerar-Clinen Coal company by an explosion. Many of the bodies brought from the mine were charred beyond recognition by the flames. Attempts to identify the dead were upavalling, and officials gave up the attempt until a full check of the force could be obtained. Among the dead were Herbert McCul lough, mine manager, and Jesse Ford, mlue boss. • The cause of the disaster la unknown. State mine workers and others familiar with mine explosions claim that the Crerar mine was considered unusually safe In so far as gas expiosiona were concerned. , When the explosion took place there were 375 men In the workings. The men near the entrances escaped, but entries number 9, 10, 11 and 12, lacked in the depths of the colliery where the actual explosion took place, were trapped. Rescue parties were rushed from Herrin and Benton, lU., and proceeded at once to rid the shafts of gas and to batten off the entries in which the men are imprisoned. Hundreds of men volunteered to go down into the mine when four Johnson City physicians announced their intention to go down into the poisonous gases of the burning mine and see if they could find any living victims. It was more than six hotirs after the explosion before the rescuers werfe able to penetrate through the passages where the deadly blast had destroyed so many lives. There they found dead men strewn about, while others were helpless from injuries. One group of 15 men were found In a pitiable plight, their clothes having been mostly stripped from them by the force to the explosion and their bodies severely singed. \ " (J. S. Beaten in First Round of War Fraud Caae Washington.--The federal government lost its grip on valuable documents In a war fraud conspiracy case and came near to having to expose Us hand with regard to other documentary evidence in the case before Federal Justice Hitz, when a motion of Sellm B. Joseph, wealthy financier <5f Chicago and 115 Broadway, New York, one of the defendants, for a return of personal property was heard and decided favorably. The conspiracy case dates back to the summer of 1918, and Indirectly involves a $40,000,000 contract for sblps for the shipping board, which were to have been built at a yard at Perth Amboy, N. J. JAMES HARTNESS James Hartness, former governor of Vermont, has been elected president of the American engineering council. As the successor of Herbert Hoover and Mortimer E. Cooley, he will direct a nation-wide movement for the establishment of a national department Of public works. - •i.'N ...'i i i. • ' , i iywifiyi VtiS. DETACHMENT i DEFEATS FILIPINOS Land* Under Fire, Storm* . Trenches, Burnt Town. f - Manila.--Aided by a machine gun barrage from the United States gtmboat Sacramento, 100 members of the constabulary under Col. C. H. Bowers landed at Bucas Island.and charged the trenches of the Colorums, religious fanatics, who have been running arnjick. One member the constabulary was killed, while the Colorum loss lai unknown. Two dead and two wounded were found. Colonel Bowers Immediately boarded the Sacramento after burning a Colorum town, Socorro, fearing that bad weather would force the gunboat from the coast. Attempting to oust the American staff, 250 Filipinos armed with bolos and other weapons invaded the Binalbagan sugar plantation in the central part of Negros island. The Americans, Including Charles Locey, manager; Charles Kocber, assistant, and Mr. Oarralchael, the superintendent, are standing pat. Kocher was assaulted by two men on January *8. The constabulary reports that two Moros from Slassl Island, Mindanao, ran amuck and killed nine Dutch sailors and wounded nineteen others on board a Dutch vessel which carried passengers. The two Moros then jumped overboard, but Dutch sailors killed them while they were swimming. * Coolidge ' Orders Special to Let No Guilty*' Escape Penalty* 1 Washington.--President Coolidge has decided to employ special counsel, drawn from both the Republican and Democratic parties, to proceed with court action as a result of evidence adduced at the senate committee hearings on the leasing of naval oil leases. The President issupd the following statement: - "It is not for the President _to determine criminal guilt or reader Judgment in civil cases: that is the function of the courts. It is hqt for him to prejudge. I shall do neither. But when facts- are revealed to me that require action for the purpose of insuring the enforcement of either civil or criminal liability, such action Will be taken. That is t^e-province of, the executive. ' "Acting under my direction, the Department of Justice has been observing the source of the evidence which has been revealed at. the hearings conducted by the senatorial committee investigating certain oil leases made on naval reserves, which I believe warrant action for the purpos€~<>f enforcing the law and protecting the rights of the public. "This is confirmed by reporta,made to me from the committee. - r • >- "If there has been any crime it must be'prosecuted. If there has been any property of the United States illegally transferred «r leased K JBnst be- re< covered. . ' "I feel that the public 13 entitled to know that in the conduct of such action no one is shielded for any party, political or other reasons. As I understand, men are Involved who belong to both political parties, and having^ been advised by the Department of Justice that it is in accord with former precedents, I propose to employ special counsel of high rank drawn from both political parties to bring such action for the enforcement of the law. 1 Counsel will-be Instructed to prosecute these cases In the courts so that if there is any guilt It will be punished; if there Is any civil liability it will be enforced; if there fig any fraud It will bp revealed; and if there are any contracts which are illegal they will be canceled. Every law will be enforced, and every right of the people and the government will be protected^* Coolidge Demandt Teapot Guilty Be Punished Washington.--President Coolidge and his cabinet determined the navy's valuable oil reserves leased to Doheny and Sinclair must be returned to the government. The scandal of the $100,000 loan to former Secretary of the Interior Fall, preceding the lease of the California reserves to Doheny and the Sinclair lease of Teapot Dome, were discussed exclusively at the conference. At the end of the long session It was decided all persons guilty of conspiring to get the leases must be punished. The principal question was how individuals responsible for the transactions can be made aoleiMble to the law. 1923 Crop Value Near Ten-Billion Mark ^afihlngton.--More than one-sixth of the entire land area of the country was used in growing farm crops last year. The Department of Agriculture calculates the total acreage of all crops at 372,829,000 acres, or r>82,0O8 square miles. Farm crops produced not merely those sold, had a hypothetical total value of $9,470,976,000 in 1923, or almost a mlUlon dollars more than In 1922* Texas continues to hold first place in acreage and value of all crops. Galesburg.--All telephone wires In Galesburg are to be placed under; ground. A conduit system will be commenced which wll| require five yean to complete. Galesburg.--S, H. Thompson of Quincy has been rie-eleeted president of the Illinois Agricultural association. Chauncey B. Watson of DeKalb is vice president. Winnebago.--A gift of 100 silk-bound Bibles has been made by United States Senator and Mrs. Medill Mo- Cormick to Middle Creek Presbyterian church at Winnebago. Petersburg.--Twenty new automobiles and the warehouse of the Brass Industrial plant, a canning company at Petersburg, were destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at $60,000. Elgin.--An ordinance to standardize traffic regulations was discussed in Elgin at a meeting of mayors and other representatives of cities throughout Illinois. Galesburg.--Loss of the school at Raritan by fire the other day was the fifth school In the vicinity of Galesburg to burn in a year. TaylorVilla.--Martin B. Miller, eighty- eight, wealthy retired Christian county farmer, a friend of Abraham Lincoln and many years engaged in the butchering business, died here. Originally from Louisville, Ky., Miller located In Springfield, where he had Lincoln as a customer for years. ^ Peoria.--Undismayed by the fact that"be has only one arm, August Froe. llger, a farmer living near Tampico, has held bis own with two-handed cornshuckers this year and boasts a record of 145 bushels picked In one day. Lewi st own. -- Fourteen skeletons, supposed to be those of prehistoric men, haye been unearthed on a farm near here. The adult skeletons were unusually large, some of them Indicating that In life the men were seven feet tall. Skeletons of two babies and two half-grown children were Included in the find. Chicago--The. fire losses in] 1923 were $1,838,036 less than in 1932, a<^ cording to a report made to Mayor Dever by Fire Marshal Edward J. Buckley. The losses were la 1922 and $5,773404 in Mexican Federal Forces Take Strategic Position Mexico City.--Federal forces under General Martinez have captured the town of Esperanza, considered one of the most strategic positions on the, railway between the capital and Vera Cruz. Another federal success was reported from San Miguel. General Almazan's cavalry defeated General Fortunato Maycotte's rebel forces at both San Miguel and Saltepec and when the Insurgents retreated General Almazan's troops pursued them to Canada, state of Morelos. .The rebels were dispersed there. War Finance Branch Opens at Sioux Fails, S. Dak. Sioux Ftdls, S. D.--After a conference with bankers here, Eugene Meyer, Jr., managing director of the War Finance corporation, announced that the! corporation would establish immediately a branch agency In Sioux Falls In order to bring its resources and assistance In closer contact with the South Dakota bank situation, which has become critical, due to numerous failures. 8eal Steaks In Paris. Paris.--Seal steaks are being sold in the Paris markets to combat the high cost of living. The people showed slight Interest In the new meat, which was offered at half the price of horse meat. Minister's Wife Quits Mat#. Seattle, Wash.--Mrs. Helen West left her husband, the Rev. James West, who preached the funeral sermon In San Francisco for Warren G. Harding, because she is weary of being "just the minister's Wife." New Alliancs Signed. Paris.--A treaty- "of alllano* w»d friendship" between France and Czechoslovakia was signed at the foreign office here. Premier Poincare affixed his signature for France and Dr. Edouard Benes for Czechoslovakia. Stands Pat on Russia Washington--President Coolidge, it was said at the White House, is not Inclined to let the attitude of the UnitedoS-tatas government towards the question of the Russian recognition be Miners' Convention Adopts Policy of Moderation Indianapolis, Ind.--The United Mine Workers' convention unanimously adopted the report of President John L. Lewis, opposing a strike or suspension and discretion in wage demands in the soft coal Industry of the country this spring. Resolutions adopted favor a campaign of organization In nonunion fields, admonition against too much affiliation with the Farmer- Labor party, and recognition of Russia with certain and definite reserva-v tions. Doheny Says $Td0,00& Fall Loan Was Personal Washington.--Edward L. Doheny, California oil operator, told the senate public lands committee that he lent former Secretary Albert B. Fall $100,000 late in 1921. The loan was purely a personal matter, Mr. Doheny testified. The money, Mr. boheny said, was used by Secretary Fall to Improve his ranch holdings In New Mexico. Lincoln Victims? Heads Found in Cement Block Aurora, 111.--Whether stones, statues,- flowers, or hidden closets will reveal any more secrets of the amazing workings of the mind of Warren J. Lincoln has become a matter of close search in Aurora. Finding of the severed heads of Mrs. Llna Lincoln and her brother, Byron Shoup, encased in an oblong cement block 18 by 30 inches, which Lincoln had used as a porch support for months and then relied down by the riverside, left the police prepared for any bizarre eventuality. V Clover, Oldest Horse, Hide and Hearty of 83 Bloomsburg, Pa.--Clover, the oldest horse In the world, • is celebrating his fifty-third birthday this week at Catavlssa. He is hale and hearty, eats a-peck of oats and plenty of lipy each day and still looks capable of showing the younger generation a clean pair of heels. Clover was sent to the races until he was twenty-four years old and then retired to an easy life in good grazing pastures. He is now the buggy horse of a kindly old country minister. Mother' and Two Children Die in Crossing Crash Hammond, Ind.---A yound mother, her two children, and her cousin were killed when a fast passenger train of the Nickel Plate railroad demolished an automobile at the Columbia avenue crossing. Three other occupants of the car were Injured. The dead are Sirs. Beatrice Doner, twenty-eight years old, Hammond; her one-yrar-old son John, her three-year-old daughter Sarah, and her eighteen-year-old cousin, Robert Paterson of Mollne, III. > Kill 54 Colorum? :. Manila.--Fifty-four Colorums, religious fanatics who recently ran amuck, were killed, 19 wounded and 13 captured in a second battle within a week between Filipino constabulary under Col. C. H. Bowers and the Colorums. ' 4 \ Lucky Year for Detroit. Mich.--Not a lake seaman lost his life In a shipwreck)during the 1923 navigation season, President Wllllam Livingston declares in his annual report to the Lake Carriers' association here. \ To Purchase Vlrgil't Tomb. Naples.--Premier Mussolini has ordered the purchase of the tomb of Virgil, which now Is private property. The surrounding plot will be transformed Into a Greco-Roman garden with roses, laurel and myrtle. To 8tfve All Co-Opa. Chicago.--With a new marketing* partment, to be organized shuriiy, th« American Farm federation will otTer Impartial service to all cooperative marketing organizations, according to a pr6gram developed here. affected bjr the action of tfher powers, i sxii: German Prisons ^Crowded. Berlin.--There are more than 100,- 000 persons In the prisons of Prussia alone. The ten big prisons of Berlin are all filled to overflowing as a result of the Influx of prlissoo&ft?prraa Xfrroomta .the Japan Protests Orieni Bears on Immigration Bill ^Washington.--A protest has been made by Japan to the United States government against the proposed im migration law pending in congress that would bar all Japanese Immigration to this country. The State depart ment officially stated that the protest has been received from Maaanao, Hanlhara, Japanese ambassador. ' DR. LUIS • fT SHI ? Dr. Luis Felipe Ccrea, now a practicing New York attorney, who has been nominat-ed for the presidency of Nicaragua. The nomination has been accepted by Dr. Corea and he will depart soon for his native land to talk with political leaders. s : riff* y. 5. GOVERNMENT MARKET REPORT Washington.--For the week ending JTan. 26.--LIVE) STOCK--Chicago prices: jHoge, *7.30 for the top and $7.00 @7.25 for the bulk. ' Medium and good beet 'steers, $7.75 @10.60; butcher cows and heifers, »3.40@10.75; feeder steers, |4.50 @8.00; light and medium weight veal calves, $10.00® 12.75. Fat lambs, $12.00 P14.00; feeding lambs, $11.25@13.25; yearlings, $9.00® 12.00; fat ewes, $5.00 @8.36. FRUIT& AND VEGETABLES--Northern round white potatoes, $1.35 @1.50 In Chicago, $1.10@1.15 f. o-b. Tennessee Nancy Hall sweet potatoes, kiln dried, $2.50 2.65 per bushel hamper, and Georgia Porto Ricans, $2.50@2.75 per bushel crate In Chicago. Texas spinach, Jl.85fa2.00 per bushel basket in Chicago, $2.25@2.50 In New York, 90c@$1.00 f. o; b. Laredo, Tex. Northern stock cabbage, $31.00@33.00 in Chicago, $26.00@ 28.00 f. o. b. Yellow, onions, $2.25@2.73 sacked per 100 lbs. consuming centers. Northwestern extra fancy winesap apples, $2.25 @2.75 per box. HAY--No. 1 timothy, $*5.00 Cincinnati, $26/50 Chicago, $1».50 Minneapolis; No. 1 alfalfa, $29.00 Chicago, $23.00 Minneapolis; No. 1 prairie, $21.00 Chicago, $16.00 Minneapolis. GRAIN--No. 1 dark northern spring wheat, $1.1S@1.27% Minneapolis; No. 2 hard winter wheat, $1.09^4 @1.12 Chicago; No. 2 red winter wheat. $1.11% Chicago; No. 2 yellow corn,. 80Kc ChW'Jcago; No. 3 white oats, 47%@48fec Chicago, 44%c Minneapolis. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Butter, 92 score, 51 %c Chicago. Cheese prices at Wisconsin primary markets: Twins, 23c; single, daisies, 23ftc; double daisies, 2SK.c; longhorns, 22%c; square prints, 24c. Supreme Trifcun*l Supports /Prohibition in Case of St»" ^ Louis Institution. Democrats Shy at G. O. P. Offer of Tax Entente Washington.'--A compromise on the Mellon plan for tax reduction was of-* fered to the Democratic members of the ways and means committee of the house and declined. Chairman Green of Iowa, as spokesman for the Republican majority, told the Democrats that Republican members were willing to meet and consider the measure from a nonpartisan standpoint and to compromise between the Mellon and Garner plans. Representatixe Garner of Texas, ranking minority member, refused to commit his partj^ Living Costs Continue to Advance, Washington Says Washington.--Average living costs in typical American cities last December were 73.2 per cent greater than they were In the same month of 1913, according to the Department of Labor. The costs were also greater by 1.1 per qent than during September, 1923, and by 3.7 per cent than during December, 1922. Furniture, clothing and housing showed the greatest percentage of Inn creases. The report was. based upon findings as to retail prices In 32 cities. 15,000 New York Central Trainmen Get Pay Increase New York.--Fifteen thousand engineers and firemen of the New York Central lines will receive a wage increase of approximately 5 per cent under a new agreement signed here. Increases to engineers, firemen, hostljBrs and hostlers' helpers will be as follows; Passenger service, 24 cents for 100 miles; freight service, 80 cents for 100 miles; yard and hostler service, 32 cents a day. > j Montana Bank Closed. Missoula,^lont.--Due to heavy withdrawals since the first of the week, the American Bank and Trust company of this city closed Its doors Friday, an hour after It had opened for business. Train Kill* Foitr Autolsts.? i Ravenna, O.--Two men and two women were Instantly killed ^here when a train demolished their auto- Mobile at a grade crossing. The men were Identified as James North and Andrew Nofeler of" Alliance. Petrograd Renamed Leningrad. , ^ Moscow.--Announcement was tft&de here that the funeral of Nlcolal Lenin had been poistponed from Saturday until Sunday. It also was announced that-* Retrograde had been renamed Leningrad. United States Warshifr Leaving Mexican Waters (Washington.--The State department announced that American war vessels ordered to , Vera Crns and Tampico were already in process of being withdrawn from Mexican waters since the rebel leaders had abandoned their attempted blockade of Tampico and had ordered mines removed from harbors. Spinach Thrice Daily. Newark, N. J.--Thomas A. Edison's diet, three meals dally. Is quite simple, his wife says in an interview published In Charm. It consists of spinach, tomatoes, carrots, sardines and a glass of milk. . Washington.--The Supreme court uj>- held the right of a state to prevent National banks within its boundaries from establishing branch establishments and at the same time ruled that the same prohibition Is carried in tit* federal statutes themselves. *** The decision of the court BettleS, controversy which has disturbed the banking world for several months. .It was handed down in the case of th» First National bank of St. Louis. The bank previously had demurred from a state law prohibiting establishment Of" branches. Losing In the federal court, the bank: appealed. The Supreme court held in the opinion that the Missouri law was not in .conflict with ted- »sral statutes. The state of Missouri had bee# Joined by 18 other'states in maintaining the right of state governments, to prevent national banks from opening branches. The opinloh of tlie court was delivered by Justice Sutherland. Chief Justice Taft, Justice Van Deventer and Justice Butler dissented. "What the state is seeking to do is tb vindicate and enforce Its own laws,?*' Justice Sutherland read. "National banks are brought Into existence under federal legislation, are instrumentalities of the federal government and ares necessarily subject to the paramount authority of the United States. Nevertheless, national banks are subject to the laws of the state In respect to their affairs unless such laws interfere with the purposes of their creation, and tend to impair or destroy their efficiency as federal agencies or conflict with the paramount law of the Unfted States." ^ It was added by the court that thequestion was whether the law of Missouri conflicted with federal statutes. The majority opinion on this point was as follows: "In our opinion it does hot. The extent of the powers oT national banks is to be measured by the terms of the federal statutes telating to such associations and tKey can rightfully exercise only such asare expressly granted for such incidental powers as are necessary t» carry on the busines for which they are established-" Forty Miners Killed jft Shanktown*(Pa.) Coal Pit Shanktown, Pa.--'Hope for the lives of some forty miners entombed by an. explosion In the Lancashire mifte of the Barnes ft Tucker company here was practically given up when rescue workers reported that the wrecked mine was dense with "tyack damp" and that water was rising rapidly in the underground passageways. Thfr fanhouse of the mine was wrecked by the terrific blasf^and the fan was put out of order. The poison gas, the water, the lack of fresh air and a heavy fall of rock Impeded the progress of volunteer rescue workers who dug valiantly in an effort to t'each the tombed men. Eastern Belle Suicide; Social Whirl Victim Boston, Mass.--Miss Margaret. Harding, beautiful twenty-three-year-old society girl and daughter of William W. G. Harding, governor of the Federal Reserve bank here and former director of the whole federal reserve system, shot lier*>lf to death because she knew lung hemorrhages caused br the pace she set in the social world' were killing her, This became known following the funeral of the favorite ot New York, Washington and Boston younger society circles when her father bared tbe events leading the suicide. • --- Fifteen Killed by Gas; Blast Wrecks Big Home Pawtucket, R. I.--An explosion which shook the country side for twenty miles around wrecked \a twofamily house at Cumberland Hill, Manville, and In the ruins were found. 15 bodies. Many of the victims, It is believed, were asphyxiated before the explosion of Illuminating gas which was made more sevene by the detonation of dynamite stored in the cellar. Great Lakes Seaman Honored. Waukegan, ni.--Edwin Denby, secretary of the navy, gave high commendation to Marion L. Fielder, an apprentice seaman at the Great Lakes training station, for bravery In saving the life of Ralph Buetler, a sailor here. Qsorgia Woman to Hang. ' * Atlanta. Ga.--The Jury trying Mrs, Ida Hubhes, charged with murdering her mother-in-law, returned a verdict of guilty, without recommendation. The verdict' automatically ijiiHf h penalty of banging. Mipiaey Buys Another Paper, New York. -- Announcement made here that Frank A. Munsey, proprietor of the New York Herald, the Sun and Globe, ami Ev gram/ ha* purchased the Evening Mall. Bank Closet at Letts, la. M risen tine, la.--The Citizens' Savings bank of Letts, la., near here, was closed, by the state banking department. "Frozen" loans and withdrawmuse. \ Vote $100,000 for Coolidge to Strain Oil Dreg# Washington.--After a heated debate, in which the Democrats assailed the Republican administration in connection with the oil lease scandal, the house adopted a resolution appropriating $ 1(H),000 for the use of special counsel to be appointed by President Coolidge In his purposed investigation and possible prosecutions. . .,v® Women Smoke 7 Billion - -* New York.--Women smoked 7,000,- 000,000 cigarettes in 1923, according to the National Tobacco'exposition, In session here, so it was decided there should be something new and special 1q cigarettes henceforth -for milady^SI^ ^ -- ' tiued Under Trust Act. . ^ ; New York.--Sidney K. SanmelSott, proprietor of a theater In New Jersey, filed ^uit for $450,000 against Will H. Hays and a number of large picture producers, charging violation of the anti-trust laws. -W. .j h =C'-V.: . Many Counterfeit Bills. Chtcago.-r-From 300 to "tOO can plaints daily are being received by police regarding the circulation ot counterfeit $10 bills in the city and Its suburbs, according to an announcement made by Chief of Police Collins. Cavort Little Fellow. Washington.--A tax-reduction off 2$ per cent to every income the country on the first able Income received was a vote of the ways and (nittee of the house. / : * 1