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THE BffcHMTRY PLAIXDEAfJOt, MeHXHltY, IM* m (ILLINOIS I BREVITIES ^BSllWBBSSBBttBUKSZSEES5SSSS^Srmmm~mmm'"""" Springfield.--With smallpox 20 times JOcre prevalent than it was at this Ctnie last year In Illinois Dr. Isaac D Rawllngs, state health director, has Issued a warning urging general vaccination. While the situation at present la not alarming It is sufficiently •cote to cause grave concern among health officers who look forward to the next few months with disagreeable misgivings. A similar situation exists throughout the entire country, having attracted the attention of the surgeon general of the United States public health service, who has Issued a special letter to 9iate health officers pointing out that dahger of epidemic conditions In unvaccinated areas Is Imminent.- "Last week." said Doctor liftwlings, 'H\ cases of smallpox were (reported In Illinois against ,2 tor the corresponding week in 1923." Chicago.--The first anniversary of the founding of free dental clinics at Cook County hospital is being celebrated. Dr. M. H. Killip, superintendent of the clinic, in an address made at the first of the series of meetings to be held during the week for the discussion of the clinics' progress. Mid the record shows about 30,000 operations in the last year. *In September," he said, "we cared for 1,300 children and the demands have become so urgent that our facilities are taxed to the limit. We are averaging about a hundred cases a day and every patient is worthy and unable to employ the service of a private dentist. There is no doubt that the school records of the children treated at the clinic have improved." Springfield.--The state division of highway announced that bids will be received December 17, 1924, for 36 sections of pavement, aggregating 202.9 miles in length; 13 heavy grading sections, aggregating 71.5 miles In length; seven heavy bridge sections consisting of eight large bridges. The «rt»rk is scattered among various counties of the state on important Chicago.--Donation of the land on which the University dub la located, valued at more than $1,500,000, wai made to the Chicago Coraintinity Trust for charitable and educational purposes, by James A. Fatten, millionaire wheat operator. The following institutions were designated under the terms of the donation as immediate beneficiaries of the gift: Evanston hospital, located at 2650 Ridge avenue, Evanston, to receive one-quarter of the net income; Presbyterian hftnie, located in Einerson road. Evanston, te receive one-quarter of the net income; board of Christian education of the Presbyterian church to receive onehalf of the net income for the particular use of the following colleges: Blackburn university, Carlinville; Lincoln college, a department of the James Milliken university, Lincoln; Lake Forest university, Lake Forest; Illinois college, Jacksonville; University of Illinois, for the benefit of the I*resbyterian students. The annual lncomej from the property now amounts to between $40,000 and $45,- 000. Chicago.--Chicago, tn all probability, in the near future will have a lightvessel to guide the huge ships in and out of the harbor. Lieutenant Kent of the local hvdrographic office in the federal building, has been interviewing lake skippers arid getting their ideas on the subject before making a recommendation for such a vessel. He asks that captains of all lake boats write him their ideas. The proposed .position of the lightship is at the ten-mile dumping ground, which is at present protected and served only by a blinking gas buoy. The vessel, ten miles out in the lake, will enable skippers to find Chicago in the fog or heavy smoke which drifts over the lake on southwest winds. Chicago.--"There should be established in several American universities a .thoroughly equipped school of politics, ranking with the best schools of the other learned professions," President E. D. Burton of the University of Chicago said at a dinner of the Chicago Bar association. He declared that "polities could be converted into a profession by putting It upon a higher level, with higher standards, educationally and ethically." Such a rp arts of the original bond isstie sys- . sc.ho.ol,. he sai,d,, „'w ould fit mm e~n to eDn„ - tem. The award of contracts on the _ ' , ... _.iU ... basis of those bids is conditioned on the passage of the $100,000,000 road band issue Springfield.--Free employment offices in Illinois placed 11,573 applicants for work out of 19,796 who applled in the month of September, accor^ din .g to . fig.ure.s . an.no unced by the. , , . . . . . •»lva te dek pa.rktm- ent of la-b or--. JTom.b s eo faferaed I n o..t g u .i l t y t o c h. a r g e s o f p o i s o n i n gT hhias wife, Anna, andWilford Sweeten. The ter political life with high ideals and purposes, but with capacity to serve humanity under the conditions 'of. today." Mount Vernon.--Counsel for Lawrence M. Hight withdrew an application for a sanity hearing, and the former Ina clergyman entered a plea of 10 KILLED WHEN TRAIN HITS CAR Towerman's Failure to Lower Gates at Chicago "Causes Accident.' 7;^ Chicago.--Failure of a towej-man to lower the guard gates at the grade crossing on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul at North avenue at 1:45 a. m. was declared responsible for a collision between a freight train and a street car in which ten persona were killed and thirty-one injured. The dead are: Elmer Bahnfleth, Mrs. Delia Byrne. Benjamin Cavelleri, Anna May Geraghty, Mrs. Mary Geraghty, Patrick O'Malley, Miss Catherine Ruebhausen. Miss Louise Ruebhausen, Dr. Menkin Schienkin, William Welch. John Brahe, 1633 Fulton street, the towerman, himself a cripple as a result of a railroad accident, was ordered held in custody. Two physicldans declared he showed signs of Intoxication, and he admitted having taken "a few drinks" earlier. His plea Was- that he had not seen the train, which was backing toward the south, with the locomotive at its northern end. What the coroner observed when he reached the scene was this: The street car had been cut In half by the Impact, demolished and carried nearly fifty feet ahead of the freight car. Men, women and children had been buried in the ruins. The fire department was still at work digging in the debris for bodies, the firemen carefully swinging axes that they might release those still pinioned by the wreckage. Ambulances were coming from all directions, hastening away with victims to hospitals. Mothers were frantic as they hunted children torn from them in the wreck. Emergency surgery was being practiced on the streets. The street car contained about sixty passengers, young folks returning from dances, families returning home from visits to relatives. Among the! dead, Coroner Wolff discovered Dr. M. M. Schienkin of Palestine, one of the world leaders in the Zlon movement. He had been in Chicago three weeks, representing the Zion Commonwealth, an organization promoting the sale of land in Palestine to Jews all over the world. His mission was the establishment of the Herzalla colony. STANLEY BALDWIN through the bureaus totaled 13,844. Men who registered for jobs at the 18 state bureaus numbered 12,778, and * women, 7,018. Those reported placed #ere 7,180 men and 4,393 women. Common laborers headed the list of . applicants in the state, 'there were S.792 reported placed out of 5,612 who applied. Danville.--The damage suit of J. X. Moore, an attorney, for a string of ihercantlle stores in Illinois, Iowa, llissouri and Wisconsin, against the Itlgin, Joliet ft Eastern railway, was dismissed when settlement offered by Hie railroad company was accepted, 'the terms not being made public. JKloore was injured at Libertyville ' When he drove his auto into the side if the leading engine of a doubleiieader freight and was badly hurt, feeing still in a plaster cast on account Of a broken back. Peoria.--After a thrilling gun battie through streets and alleys, Frank Watklns, alleged nefcro peddler, was captured and is bemg questioned in . c_o nnection w.i.th. .t,h e killing o.f James | ert R. Levy, destroyed the $500,000 1 IV. „ T „ Willlums, narcotic agent, in Chicago. Premises of his house in Peoria's "tenderloin" were searched after his arrest and a considerable quantity of drugs were found. Peoria police communicated immediately with Chicago authorities to find If Watklns is the one who killed the Chicago officer. Rockford.--The First Evangelical church of Rockford will receive $100,- 000 by the decision of the Illinois Su- . preme court in confirming the decision of the Winnebago County Circuit court in upholding the will of Godfrey Grant, who gave nearly all his property to the church and ignored many near relatives. Only a few thousand, outside of the $100,000 left the church, were willed to Grant's family. Springfield. -- Educational opportu n.i.tl.e.s in .I llinois are n*o•t eq»u.a«l. a»nid . lv ,k nown .b an.k er and, R*»e pub>lni can po~ilii*tli- children in some counties have al-1 •, ,J, A most three times as many educational advantages as those in others, according to statistics on the subject compiled by the Illinois State Teachers' association department of research. The investigations were conducted by the association under Robert C. Moore, director. Metamora.--3j C. Irving has in his possession a -snotgun which was used by Albert Edward, prince of Wales when he came to central Illinois on a hunting expedition in 1860. The arrival in this country of the present prince of Wales created considerable interest in the old-time weapon. Evanston.--Miss Kathleen Wrtght of 732 Emerson street and Miss Lu change in defense tactics was made after Judge J. C. Kern had overruled motions for a change of venue and for continuance of the sanity hearing. After riight's plea the court set October 31 as the date for hearing arguments on a motion for a separate trial for Mrs. Elsie Sweeten, jointly charged with murder. Paris.--Ralph Collins, with several aliases, arrested on a charge of automobile theft and committed to the county jail, is a much wanted criminal, it was found. He escaped from the Ohio state penitentiary a year ago after having been sentenced for 25 yea re for robbing a bank in Cleveland and killing a policeman. He confessed several robberies and bank raids near Kansas City and is believed to have been a member of the gang which has been preying on country hanks „in Illinois the last few months. Elgin.--Federal agents, acting under orders of United States Marshal Robbrewery of (he Elgin Ice and Beverage company, the plant owned by "Butch" Crowley, of gold doorknob fame. The order was to "dismantle and destroy." The injunctions issued against the Puro Products company and the Standard Beverage company, the latter owned by Terry Druggan, also may be supplemented by a destruction order. Rock Island.--W. J. Barker, attorney for John Looney, wanted in Rock Island on a charge of violation of the Dyer act, has not yet perfected an appeal to the United States Supreme court from the Circuit Court of Appeals decision handed down in St. Louis. Barker said, however, that the appeal would be filed and would act as a stay in bringing Looney back to Rock Island. Dolton.--Charles E. Waterman, wide clan of Dolton, was seriously Injured and his wife. Clara, was killed when his sedan was struck, carried 350 feet and demolished by a train of the Pennsylvania Railway system. The accident occurred at Greenwood road, a private thoroughfare entering Waterman's 200-acre farm near Dolton. Alton.--The Grand theater, a mov ing picture house, was badly damaged by a fire which started on the stage while a special performance was in progress. The audience escaped un harmed with the exception of two women, who were slightly burned about the face. Danville.--A special grand Jiiry called to Investigate the killing of Eld cille King, 1417 Leland avenue, co-eds redge Hepburn on the farm of John in Northwestern university, are slow- Booe, near Silverwood, where Heply recovering from the shock of an burn was a tenant, refused to return experience which they encountered when they were assailed by an angry farmer who caught them and a student borrowing cornstalks for decorations. Danville.--Rev. Father Timothy F Monahan fell and broke his arm and lelocated the shoulder while watch-, lng two men playing on the Danville Country club golf course. Colona.--Sixty thousand small bass, pickerel, perch, crappies and bullheads were distributed along the Hennepin canal near here by the Illinois ttsli commission. The fish were obtained from the backwaters along the Mississippi river, where they had been left stranded by the receding water. Sprifigfield.--There, Is no legal way •to keep a qualified voter out of any political party he wishes to join nor to stop him from presenting his name as • candidate for that party, if he com Ten Persons Wounded in Klan War at Niles, Ohio Nlles, Ohio.--Sixteen are under arrest as civil and military authoritiea swept In to the Investigation of the rioting that took a toll of ten wounded when Knights of the Flaming Circle met Knights of the Klan in a gun battle. ' Order has been restored. The military are in possession. Flying squads of militiamen roar through the streets in armored cars and it is practically assured there will be no further outbreak or bloodshed while the soldiers are here. Maj. Gen. Benson W. Hough's military investigation of the bitter fighting Was launched with 1,000 National Guardsmen at his command. The three riot victims most seriously wounded, are E. G. Victor, a klansman from Farrell, Pa., who wais said to be dying in the hospital at Warren. With Victor In the hospital also dangerously wounded are two other klansmen, L. E. Shirley of Mineral Ridge, Ohio, and E. E. Cope of Sebring, Ohio. Victor and Cope were taken from a, klan automobile after they were alleged to have fired on the Knights of the Flaming Circle, dragged to the field In which the latter were assembled, where Cope was blackjacked and Victor shot through the chest and stomach. Truce Htdts China War; < President Tsao Resignf Tientsin.--Peace negotiations are proceeding between Gen. Feng Tu Hsing, "the Christian general," and Gen. Wu Pel Fu. An armistice has been aranged and fighting has ceased. There is a tremendous Influx of Chinese refugees into the foreign concessions. Japanese are guarding the approaches with machine guns, searching incomers. Peking.--Marshal Tuan Chi Jul, former premier, is expected to reach Peking in two days. He comes as generalissimo of the citizens' army and In all likelihood will be the next President. President Tsao has sent his resignation to parliament. Tientsin.--Nine foreign gunboats are in the river here. Three cruisers, American, British and Italian, have anchored at Taku and are sending marines to protect this city. Stanley Baldwin'probably will again become prime minister of Great Britain, since the Conservative party, of which he is leader, won the.parllamentary elections. »• EXPORTS. GAIN IN SEPTEMBER U. S. Figures Show increase in Trade With Europe, Washington.--During the month of September exports from the United States totaled $427,635,576 worth of merchandise, as compared with $381,- 443,570 for the corresponding period last year, showing an increase of $46,- 20^006. Imports totaled $288,125,817. as compared with $253,645,380 in September, 1923, an increase of $24,480,- 437. "fhese figures were given out In a statement made public by the Department of Commerce, and show that the increase In exports is due principally to a general increase In America's trade with Europe. Slight general Increases, with but few exceptions, are noted in the trade with nearly every country in the world. Pneumonic Plague Grows in Los Angeles; 22 Dead Los Angeles, Cal.--Seven more deaths were reported in £,os Angeles as the result of the pneumonic plague. This brings the to.tal since the outbreak started to 22. Two of the latest victims were heroes who fell in the line of duty. One was Father M. Brualla, priest of the Plaza church on the outskirts of the Mexican quarter, and the other Emmet McLauthin, forty-eight, an ambulance driver. Father Brualla gave extreme unction to one of the dying plague victims, and McLauthin contracted the disease while taking victims to the isolation hospital. (/. S. Protests Killing of Briton in Mexico Mexico City.--C. D. Hodsen, Canadian superintendent of the Arroya mine of the Mezapii Copper company of Zacatecas, was killed during the night by bandits who entered his home and shot him to death. Victor J. Coleman, a British subject, from Jamaica, an employee of the El Aquila company, was captured by bandits In the state of Vera Cruz. The United States ambassador has made the customary representations on behalf of Great Britain. American Troops Bat Chinese From Tientsin Tientsin, China.--Foreign troops are guarding Tientsin from an Influx of wounded Chinese soldiers, formerly member of Wu Pel Fa's central government armies. Two shiploads of the men arrived and moored their craft on the river bank adjoining the old Russian concession. Mrs. Loeb Sole Heir to $3,000,000 Estate Chicago.--According to the will of Albert H. Loeb, lute vice president of Sears-Roebuck ft Co., his widow, Mrs. Anna Bel man Loeb, is named as sole beneficiary of his $8,000,000 estate. The instrument was filed in the probate court. It was made six years ago. an Indictment. Arguel S>vank of Georgetown has been released. The evidence showed that Swank had fired In self-defense after Hepburn, who had been beating Mrs. Hepburn, resented Swank's response'to the appeal of his wife to stop the fight. Mokena--The Mokena bank at this place wan robbed of between $4,000 and $5,000 by five bandits. Mattoon.--The broom-corn crop of central Illinois is practically all harvested. The yield is estimated at 9.600 tons, at prices ranging from $1.75 to $2.42. - Streator.--Joseph Hunter, sixty, a former minister, was found dead in an old cistern at his home, supposedly a suicide. He had been despondent be cause of ill health. Freeport.--Forty acres adjoining the Freeport Country club hav^ been purchased by the club and will be used to Flight Believed Off Tokyo.--Although Major Zamnl, Argentine world flyer, is still seeking ships to carry supplies for his flight across the North Pacific ocean, it is believed his inability to charter them will prevent completion of the trip. plies with the election laws, MUi,sftey enlarge the golf qmm.i&m rtm to General Brundage decided. . I eighteen holes. ' " Red Croat Uses $4,421 flOO Washington.--The annual report of the Red Cross shows that a total of $4,421,110 was expended during the last year to aid former service men and enlisted men still on duty. Confesses Wall Street Bom& New York.--A man giving the name of Richard O'Hara walked Into a police station an Friday and said he was the/'drlver of the wagon which carried the bomb used in tbe Wail Street explosion of 1920." 2 Die in Halloween Prank Seattle, Wash.--Thomas B. Mage, fifteen, and Ted Vanderstag, fifteen, were electrocuted here in an attempt to hoist Ia garbage can to tbe top of an electric light pole as a Halloween prank. Mrs. W. G. Harding Better After Serious Breakdown Marlon, Ohio.--The condition of Mrs. Warren G. Harding, widow of the late President Harding, who has been Buffering from general exhaustion at the Sawyer home at White Oaks farm, near here, was reported Improved. HOWARD M. GORE E. H. Dodd, Publisher, Badly Injured by Auto New York.--Edward II. Dodd, president of Dodd, Mead ft Co., the publishing corporation, received a fracture of the skull and Internal, injuries when he was knocked down by an au«Ma»- bile. . Papers Would Be Defendants Washington.--A number of newspapers have asked Attorney General Stone to make them defendants In his test case to ascertain the rights of newspapers to publish federal Income tax records. POWER IN BRITAIN Conservatives in Big Victory Over Labor Forces--Baldwin to Be Premiif*ft tendon.--The Conservative party Is headed Upward early return to power, with a working majority over all others, following Great Britain's general election. The Conservatives won 198 seats 111 parliament. The Laborltes won T2 and the Liberals only 22. ^ This shows a net gain Of 40 seats for the Conservatives an«i *a net loss of 15 for tbe Laborltes and 36 for the Liberals. Returns from the general election indicate that Stanley Baldwin. Conservative leader, will be returned to the house of commons and>to the premiership with a clear majority over both Labor and Liberals. The Zinovieff forgery,* urging revolution in England and its attendant "Red scare," disgust with the bungling manner with which Premier MacDonald bus handled Russian affairs, and generul dissatisfaction among ordinary citizens at Labor's record, have combined in producing an overwhelming anti-Labor verdict. Former Premier Herbert H. Asqulth went down to defeat along with many of his followers. The London boroughs which had reported gave indications that the capital, like the lesser cities, was coming back into the Conservative fold. The first announcement of a Laborite elected was Arthur Henderson, secretary of home affairs. The first Labor leader whose defeat was announced was Ben Tlllett Austen Chamberlain was re-elected for the west division of Birmingham. Lady Astor, American-born "commoner," retained her seat in commons in the ranks of the Conservatives by a majority of 5.079 over the Labor candidate, Capt. G. W. BrenaS. Senator McKinley Gives $340,000 to Colleges Chicago.--A gift of $340,000 from Senator William B. McKinley t^ five Illinois colleges and the Presbyterian student center at the University of Illinois, was announced at a banquet of the Presbyterian Social Union of Chicago in the Auditorium hotel. The fund was given to the Illinois Presbyterian education fund, which, when added to the $750,000 gift of James A. Patten, makes the total collected In two days $1,336,000. Senator Me- Klnley's gift will be divided as follows: Presbyterian student center, University of Illinois, $200,000; and Blackburn college. Carlinville; Lincoln college, Lincoln; James Milliken university, Decatur; Illinois college, Jacksonville; Lake Forest college. Lake Forest, each $28,000. Anne Stillman Bitten by Vicious Police Dogs Grande Piles, Que.--Mrs. H. P. Davison, formerly Anne^ Stillman, Is suffering from bites of dogs at > the Grande Anse camp, where she Is spending her honeymoon. The dogs, according to the report, leaped upon her, tearlnj her fur coat and Inflicting several wounds. At Mondanne, N. Y„ Mrs. Anne U. Stlllman's Pleasantville home, it was said no word had been received of the attack upon Mrs. H. P. Davison. Mrs. Stlllman's secretary said the dogs at the camp at Grande Anse were Belgian police dogs sent from here. She said one of the same dogs last spring tore Baby Guy Stillman's face until eight stitches were needed to close the wounds. £/. S. Resumes Probe Into * Hog Buying at Chicago Chicago.--The Department of Agriculture resumed its Investigation of the merger of Armour ft Co., and Morris ft Co., effected two years ago. to determine whether it conforms to the packers' and stockyards act. The meeting was held at the stockyards. During the session the question under consideration was whether the refusal of Armour A Co., to purchase traders' hogs constituted unlawful discrimination In restraint of trade under the terms of the federal statutes. The investigation was started by the late Secretary Wallace, who took the position that there might be a violation of the law In the merger. New portrait of Howard M. Gore, assistant <secretary of agriculture and Republican nominee for governor of West Virginia, who took temporary charge of the Department of Agriculture upon the death of Secretary Wallace. U. S. GOVERNMENT v MARKET QUOTATIONS Washington.--For week ending' October 30.--DAIRY PUODUCTS--Closing Wholesale price 92 score butter: Chicago, 88%c. Wholesale prices on Wisconsin primary cheese markets October 29: Twins. 17%c; square prints, 19%c; •ingle daisies, 18Kc; double daisies, l'Xc; longhorns. 18%c; young Americas, 18%4c. HAY--Quoted October SO: No. 1 timothy. CIScago, 124.00; No. X alfalfa, Kansas City, «20.t0; No. 1 prairie, Chicago, $18.00. GRAIN--Quoted October SO: -No. 1 dark northern spring wheat, Minneapolis, $1.38 @1.68; No. 2 red winter wheat: Chicago, $1.47@1.48; St. Louis, $1.51 @ 1.54; Kansas City, $1.49; No. 2 hard winter wheat: Chicago, $1.39 1.40; St. Louis, $1.38; Kansas City, $1.30® 1.42; No. 2 mixed corn: Chicago, $1.04% @1.06hi; Minneapolis, $1.01* @ 1.03%; Kansas City, 96c; No. S yellow corn: Chicago, $1.05H@1.07%; Minneapolis. $1.07% @1.07%; Kansas City, $1.01; No. 3 yellow corn: Chicago, $1.06 1.06 tt; Minneapolis, $1.06 K; St. Louis, $1.05^6; No. 3 white corn: Chicago, $1.04% @1.05%; St. Louis, $1.05; No. 3 white oats: Chicago, 44% @ 46%; Minneapolis, 42%@42%c; St. Louis, 48@48%c; No. S white oats, Kansas City, 48c. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES--Northern sacked round white potatoes. 70O 90c carlot sales in Chicago, 65@65o t o. b. Northern Danish cabbage, $15.00@20.00 in mldwestern cities; $8.00 @9.00 f. o. b. Kenosha, Wis. Midwestern yellow onions ranged $1,400 $2.00; $1.26@1.S5 f. o. b. Warsaw, Ind. Illinois Jonathans, $7.00@8.00 in Chicago. LIVE STOCK AND MEATS--Chicago hog prices closed at $10.10 for top and $8.00@9.60 for bulk; medium and good beef steers, $6.75® 11.60; butcher cows and heifers. $3.40® 11.60; feeder steers. $4.50@7.75: liKht and medium weight veal calves, $8.25010.60; fat lambs. $12.60018.76; feeding lambs, $11,260 14.00; yearlings, $8.60011.26; fat ewas, $4.2607.26. Callet Visits White House Washington.--President-elect Calles of Mexico lunched on Sunday with President Coolldge at the White House and honored the grave of the unknown soldier with a wreath. Many Attend Forgan Rites Chicago.--More than 3,000 persons, including men prominent in the Hnan- Hal and industrial world, and friends attended the last rites In honor of James B. Forgan. veteran banker, at the Fourth Presbyterian church. Mrs. Burnett, Author of "Lord Fauntleroy," Dies Mew York.--Frances Hodgson Burnett, author and playwright, known particularly for her novel and play, "Little Lord Fauntleroy," died at her home. Pfundome park, at Plandome. Long island. She was seventy-dve years old and had been In poor health for Several months. To Sign League Pact Cherbourg, France.--Despite its feelings on the Immigration question, Canada will sign the League of Nations protocol. Senator Raoul Dandurand, head of Canada's league delegation, declared. Jap Denies Mexican Project Mexico City.--The head of the .lapanese -mission has advised the United States ambassador that his mission is entirely industrial and not for the purpose of colonization, as was reported. Law Closes Steamer Line„ Copenhagen.--The East Asiatic company, operating a steamship line from Baltic ports to the United States to carry Immigrants from central Europe, has sold out its fleet of steamers as a result of American immigration laws. % Mexico to Pay Employees Mexico City.--President Obregon hai been authorized by congres" to alienate sufficient national properties to obtain money for the payment of salaries due government employees. Priest Free of Murder .. . ^ Charge After Three Ytittrt Montreal. Que.--It took a Jury almost four hours to decide that Father Adelard Delorme was innocent of tbe murder o* his half-brother, Raoul, In January, 1922. Judge Tessler Immediately ordered that Father Delorme be released from custody, and the accused cleric for the first time In three years found Mmself a free man. He did not know what to do, he was so bewildered. Father Delorme has been suspended from exercising his priestly function by the archbishop of Montreal. The murder of Raoul Delorme remains a mystery. This young man. a half-brother of Father Delorme. was found shot to death In a shack on the outskirts of Montreal. He was joint biheritor with the priest of an estate valued at nearly $1,000,000. Two Trainers Die With Horses in Train Fire El Paso, Texas.--Herbert "Ike" Tullett of San Ysidero, Cal., trainer for the Tam O'Shanter racing stables, and "Buck" Murray, assistant to Tullett died in the FX Paso county hospital of burns received in a flre which originated In an express car in the Bl Paso Union depot yards at 1 o'clock in the morning. Lieutenant Colonel, a valuable horse, which won prize money at the Dallas state fair, died in the flames with several other horses. The stable had been shipped to Texas Jrom the Aurora track in Illinois. " Highest Ranking Officer in Spanish Army Jaded Madrid.--General Berenguer. the highest ranking officer of the Spanish army, was condemned to six months' imprisonment in the fortress of Fuenterrabia for publicly disapproving of the dictatorship of Gen. Prlmo de Rivera at a meeting In Madrid Tuesday night. General Ferrabla also was sentenoed te six month*' JnprUonment Russ Not to Export Wheat Moscow. --The Soviet government has been obliged to abandon its plan for the exportation of wheat, it was announced at a meeting of the central eotamlttee of t&e QomnjUBlst party. ' ' Aged Opera Singer Dies New Bedford. Mass.--Mrs. William R. Swift of Cincinnati, formerly wellknown In tbe musical world as Mme. Louise Dotti, died at St Luke's hospital here. Russia to Pay Small Debts I>Hr|s.--M. Tchltcherin promises satisfaction for small French owners of czarist bonds and guarantees safety to French commercial enterprises in Russia, in a statement made public here on Thursday. , Smuggling Meet Called ... Washington.--A conference Is being arranged between United States and Mexican officials to discuss means of checking tlijr smuggHag 9f narcotic drags. Doctor Burton Recovering Ann Arbor.--Dr. Marion Leroy Burton. president of the University of Michigan, who has been seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia, has pawed the crisis and. Is recovering. MBS. HARDING ILLi DOCTORSALARMED Widow of Late President !* -Suffering From Kidneyp, Trouble at Marion, O. Marion, Ohio.--Mrs. Florence Kllng Harding, wids^ of the late President, who has been ill of kidney trouble for several weeks, was slightly Improved < on Monday night, although complications have arisen, a bulletin issued |»y Dr. Carl W. Sawyer stated. Doctor Sawyer's formal statement said: "Mrs. Harding Is somewhat bettei after resting well. New complications have developed, however, which arc yet undefined." Weakened with grief by the deatt of her husband, Mrs. Harding suffered a second shock with the death a few weeks ago of Dr. Charles E. Sawyer, personal physician to the late President and long a friend of the fam»y- Dr. Carl w. Sawyer is the sen ; the late Dr. C. E. Sawyer. _ ^ It became known that Dr. James & Wood of Cleveland was called Marion for consultation. Mrs. Hard* ing is making her home at White Oakt farm, the home Of the late General Sawyer. - , m Farmer U. S. Senator Cole Dies at Age of. 102 " Los Angeles, Cal.--Cornelius Cole, former United States senator and friend of Abraham Lincoln, died at his home here. He was one hundred and two years and two months old. The direct cause of death, phygclans announced, was incipient pntiOK monia, old age and heart disease. Mr. Cole was born at Lodi, N. T.^ September 17, 1822--the year after Napoleon's death. He remembered that during his clildlhood days the depressing effects of tbe Revolutionary war had not entirely passed away, and he clearly recalled having seed soldiers who had served under Wash* ington in the days of '76. During the Civil war Mr. Cole occupied a seat in the house of representatives and in 1806 was elected to the United States senate from California, serving until 1878. In 1021 Senator Cole appeared once again in Washington and took his old place in the senate. Rev. G. E. Hunt of Madison Freed of Heresy Charge Madison, Wis.--Dr. George E. Hunt, for twenty years pastor of the Christ Presbyterian church, Madison, was cleared of a charge of heresy against him by other clergymen of the Madison presbytery of the church. The trial was hqlfl in the Parkside Presbyterian church. The memmbere of the presbytery voted, 21 to 4, for "exoneration." Rev. R. H. Altcherson of Poynette, prosecutor in the case, declared that he would appeal to the synod. Doctor Hunt did not take the stand* but left it to his accusers to prove the charge against him. The decision sustains Doctor Hunt in his assertions that the Bible and the Presbyterian confession of faith are not infallible. He declares that the explanation in Genesis of the creation of the world and such stories as Jonah and the whale and Daniel la the lions' den are ridiculous. Frank O. Lowden Refuses to Consider Cabinet Pcmt Oregon, 111.--Frank O. Lowden, former governor of Illinois, in replying to farm organizations seeking to recommend him to President Coolldge for the post of secretary of agriculture, stated that because he felt he could be of more help to fanners outside the department than at Its head, he should, If the position were tendered him, feel it his duty to decline. The former governor telegraphed his" reply to organisations who requests^ , his permission to indorse him. Four Oil Companies Indicted as Tnupt Danville, Va.--The grand Jury reported indictments against the Standard OH Company of New Jersey, the Texas company, the Red Oil company aftd the Gulf Refining company, charging violation of the Virginia an^* trust statutes, enacted less than a year ago. II Killed, 4 Injured WhervTrain Hitit 'Bue Newport News, W->Eleven persons were killed and four others were seriously Injured when a Chesapeake fc Ohio passenger train struck a bus bound from Hampton for Poquegtp at Lee's Crossing, near Hamptofc, . Highest Radio Station Opened Tarbes, France.--The highest radiotelephonic station in the world has been opened at the observatory on the Pic du Midi, some 10,000 feet in altitude. The station uses a 350-meter wave length. 27 Die of Black Smattpox Minneapolis, Minn. -- Twenty-sexsa persons have died here since October 1 from black smallpox and 116 cases have been reported, health officials said. Mellon Awards Medals * Washington.--Secretary Mellon forwarded to the Navy department three treasury life-saving medals which have been awarded te men connected with the navy for rescues from drowning. ^ Navy Oil Files Before Court Washington.--Secret files in the Navy department, sqbpoenaed by the Los Angeles federal court in the suit to cancel the Elk Hills oil reserve^ leases, are en route to California. ' ^