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I i£*mi ** #iaii PP^'" • V THE McHETTRY PLAINDEALEB, McHEKTRY, ILL. m mum s - ' k~*;4 - - »* * -* V. v' *• t. isw*&iit£ !» %- *£- * {M CIS m ;' 1 "BIllJ SENATE thival Would Keep ftxei fejf Counties in Witic|| Collected. Springfield--A battle as to whether . the state or the counties should be entitled to funds accruing from a gasoline tax of 2 rents a gallon was imminent In the general* assembly when Senator Robert K. Duval of St. Clair ,bounty Introduced a bill to keep the gasoline taxes in the counties In which they are collected. The plan is in dl- . tect opposition on the Teel measure, /•fhtroduced in the house. This bill ,; Ifrould turn the proceeds of a gasoline tax of 2 cents a gallon over to the . rotate road bond fund controlled by the fitate administration. It is estimated ^iat such a tax would create & revenue -'•«f $12,000,000 a year. x The Duval bill carries a special provision by which the gasoline tax eol- • 'lected in Chicago and Cook county ^•ould be divided equally between the Vijity and courfly governments for street ,<(nd highway purposes. More Charges for Autoists* Another charge against auto owners Is proposed by City Comptroller Martin '•'M. O'Brien of Chicago. He wants a fbeesure drawn up and passed by the general assembly giving the city au- 0>orlty to collect a license fee of $2 from every person driving an automobile in Chicago. j An estimate from the Chicago city •all is that this will gtve Chicago $500,- fll)0 a year additional revenue. The estimate is viewed as conservative, as S"ere are more than 350,000 autos in hicago with an average of at least #ie driver for each machine. If the pending measures assessing Jiarges against automobile ownership nd operation pass, the city driver's cense fee will be the sixth In the selles of tax and license bills the auto- «*ts will be called upon to pay. These Include a general property tax of $8 on #»ch $100 as assessed valuation, state . license of $8, city license of $10, gasoline tax averaging $12.46 a year, city .driver's license of $2, state driver's 11- eenae, probably $1. Ask Probe of Grain Firms. - * A resolution for the appointment of : iR special senate committee to investl- #»te the operations of big grain firms %a8 introduced by Senator Harold C. "Jtesslnger of Aurora. T Tlie senate concurred in house ac- • Hon requesting the secretary of war %ot to reduce the flow of water through Chicago drainage canal. sx Bills introduced in senate were: By jltarbour--To authorize excess munlci- Tfftal condemnations. By Boyd--To prohibit highway curves within 100 feet of fjaiiroad .grade crossings. By Telford --To provide death penalty for mbl> ery with weapon. By Duval--To impose 2-cent gasoline tax. By Hicks-- To permit establishment of county ||chool districts. :» Resolutions introduced in senate: By Hicks--For appointment of committee Qf three to study proposed changes "lb election law. By Forrester--Buu-|. Croft plan of reapportionment. The house passed the $3,000,000 Lincoln park bond issue bill with an Emergency clause to put the proposi- «on on the February 24 ballbt. The house passed the $9,000,000 Lincoln park lake front improvement bond proposal. lis Bills introduced In house: By Bancroft-- To require auditor to publish state pay rolls. By Curran--$60,000 deficiency appropriation for Auditor Kelson. By Bennett--To add additional penalty for prisoners attempting to escape. By Mallby--To make robbery of United States malls, national and state banks punishable by death. By Schnackberger--To create commission to join with Indiana board in Minna harbor project. By Springer--To appropriate $30,000 for Cook county . agricultural experimental station. By Thon--To authdrize sale of Mississippi river land to federal government for game preserve. By E. \V. Turner-- To appropriate $3,000,000 additional for soldiers' bonus and extend time for filing claims to July 1. ILLINOIS AUTO TRAIL MARKS BARRED BY STATE Springfield. -- Definite refusal of the department of public works and buildings and the division of highways to approve any further automobile trail msrklngs Is Illinois was announced by Cornelius R. Miller, director of the department. "The matter is of such importance," Mr. Miller said, "that it han been considered by the state board of highway advisers of Illinois, and by unanimous vote they have refused to approve «ny further trail markings. "Many Individuals have sought to capitalize the popular demand for marked cross-country routes by organizing trail associations, collecting large sums of money from our citizens In return for routing trails through their cities and giving little service in return. -4 "Realizing the importance of systematic and Judicious marking, this department has made a most careful study of this subject, with the result that Illinois today has one of the most complete and comprehensive marking systems In the United States. Need for the specially marked trail la Illinois has passed, yet we are constantly besieged by the promoters of these organizations, and even by our own good citizens, who have beet) misled by the^ rosy plctuiys of large financial returns for their communities, painted by these promoters and organizers, to permit marking of new routes on the same highways which have already been paved and marked by the state." its Chicago.--Modification of the quarantine law so that members of families will be allowed to remain In their homes If they ace .Isolated from the sickroom, was announced by the county health commissioner. I Chicago.--Efficiency lists posted at police headquaters show for January 2.080 arrests as compared with 1,588 for the same month of 1923. Washington, D. C.--The house commerce committee reported a bill to authorize construction of a bridge over £U*tpi>l river at Cairo, III. Kankakee.--Five bandits held up the -- ^ jlradley State bank and escaped with I'" between »5,000 and $fi.(MKt. p?fV' Springfield.;^Virtually every phase the farming business will be treated ^•'\'y*at the thirtieth annual session of the I" Illinois Farmers' institute, to be held 'at Paris February 18, 10 and 20, «c- " co-ding to the program announced here H. E. Young, secretary/ Tlie farm -* --meeting Is the culmination of a series "" >f s®therlnfs held in the counties of "witbe state. >. fprtngflelfc--A legislative proposal ^ requiring the traffic to come to a full *'-•^ stop before entering state highways i#., froni either side, will be sponsored by' Springfield Automobile club. fi *•' Springfield.--Science has vindicated SiS^v tbe mnch-mallgned schoolboy and his E • ^ more tolerable sister whose attend- • ance records have fallen into dis- Instead of truancy, carefully conducted studies show that downright sk-kness is the real cause ol i most of the absenteeism which peren- years' service, niaily perturbs the peaceful mind of school teacher and parent, declares Dr. Isaac D. Bawliags, state health director. Peoria.--SlTchael Delehanfy, Peoria contractor, was found frozen to death an abandoned tractor ut I'evrim. , GaUsburg.--M. O. Williamson, eighty-five years old, former state treasurer of Illinois, broke a silence of 23 years and told how he, with 15 others, opened the casket of Abraham Lincoln on September 20, 1902, gazed at the body of the great emancipator and then closed and sealed the casket, which was bedded in solid concrete, never again to be exposed to mortal eyes. Williamson was a member ol the board of trustees of the Lincoln monument, and as the time drew near for the placing of the body of Lincoln under the monument the board decided, with the consent of Robert Lincoln, the son, to open the casket before it was sealed forever. "When the copper covering the bust was bent back we reverently bent forward. There was Lincoln, looking just like his last pictures, seemingly asleep. His face was darker than yours or mine now. But that was to be expected. Otherwise there was scarcely a change. His features stood out as If they had been engraved in my inem ory from pictures of him. It seemed as though we might have spoken to him and awakened him. He wore a black bow tie, which was slightly mildewed. One lapel of his dark coat also was slightly mildewed." Paris.--Varied subjects rangikg from the care of the child th period furniture in the home will be presented to women attending the sessions of the thirtieth Illinois Fanners' institute and department of household science, to be held at l'arls Februury 18-20. Women prominent In social work, hygiene and the study of home problems are on the program for lectures and talks on problems in the home and life of the woman on the farm. Chicago.--Carpenters will obtain a wage increase of*$l a day, or approxi mately $5,700<000 during ^he coming year, as the result of a contract signed by, the Carpenters' District council and five of Chicago's largest building contractors. They now get $1.25 an hour. The contract signiui insures continuance of the building boom bf removing - tb« menace ol a strike. Paris.--'J. J. Dwyer, age forty-six, said by l'arls police to have been often under suspicion, but never caught in any alleged illegal act until about a week ago, is dead und Cooper Brown, a deputy sheriff of Edgar county, was wounded in a free-for-all fight ilk. the streets of Blanford. Jollet.--State Commander G. G Clnaven of Springfield delivered the principal address at a state conference of the department of Illinois, Veterans of Foreign Wars, here. Members of the ladies' auxiliary were addressed by Effie King, national president. Hlghwood.--John Cannoa, Northwestern railway gateman at Highwood, was fined $15 after Marshal Frank Llewellyn had testified he had found the watchman asleep at his post us a limited train was roaring past: Woodstock.--Mrs. Anna Kunch, proprietress of the "Inn" at Fox River Grove, was fined $2,000 and sentenced to AO days In the county jail for prohibition law violation. She was givei time to arrange her affairs. Springfield.--Fixing the death penalty would be made obligatory for an Illinois judge sitting in first-degree murder cases similar to the Loeb-Leopold slaying, under a measure which Representative Theodore Smith of Chi cago plans to ictroduos in the" legislature. Herrin.--New liquor raids, promulgated by Ku Klux Klan leaders, were begun here. One pint of whisky was the net result when a posse of deputies raided four suspected groggerles in Herrin, two In Blairville and two at Hurst. Chicago,--Fred L. Brewer, an engineer of the Rock Island railroad, who, in 1899, set the record for the run from Chicago to Rock Island, which has never been equaled, has been pensioned after nearly fifty WOULD REDUCE FRANCE'S DEBT British Offer Rebate on War Lo&ns--Want Enough to Pay U. S. London.--Great Britain's nbtfif to France, explaining the Baldwin government's viewpoint on repayment of France's debt to Great Britain, lays down succinctly the principles on which Great Britain hopes France will agree to meet her obligations, without going into any detail or figures. The main points of the note are: First, that Great Britain declines to fligree that France's payments should be dependent on Germany's full payment of the Dawes plan annuities. Second, that, with a view to facilitating repayments, Great Britain is willing to accept fixed annual payments, irrespective of the Dawes proceeds, with a further annual charge on the French share in those proceeds. Third, that Great Britain will devote any surplus beyond requirements for her American indebtedness to diminish the burdeus upon Great Britain's allies. The note suggests that French* payments might be divided into, first, fixed receipts from the Dawes annuities in a particular year, and, second, a further annual charge on the French share in the Dawes annuities. "It would, of course, be understood," says the note In conclusion, "first, that all counter claims by France against Great Britain would be superseded, and, secondly, that If and when payments derived by Great Britain from European war debts and reparations were sufficient to provide for a full discharge of British obligations toward the United States over the full period of such obligations, including payments already made, any surplus would be used to diminish the burden resting upon Great Britain's allies." DR. A. R. DOCHEZ Tom Laivson, Financier, Dies in Boston Hospital^ Boston.--Thomas W. Law son, not^d financier, and author of "Friday the Thirteenth," "Frenzied Finance," "The Leak" and other books, died in a hospital here after a suddeh relapse following a recent operation. His two sons, Douglas and Arnold Lawson, were with him when the end came. "Tom" Lawson. son of a Nova Scotia carpenter, began his spectacular career by running away from school at twelve and finding employment in the old State street firm of Stevens, Amory & Co. By the time he was sixteen he was counting his gains and losses in four figures. From then on his life was a series of ups and downs with fortune alternately frowning and smiling upon him. Huge fortunes were made and lost overnight. It is said that In 20 years he made and lost $40,000,000. Mr. Lawson was said to have spent $2,000,000 on Dreamwold, his magnificent estate at Egypt, Mass. With the passage of years, however, Mr. Lawson's luck seemed to desert him, his golden touch lost its Midaslike power. And so in 1922 Dreamwold and everything connected with It went under the auctioneer's hammer to meet liabilities of about $225,000. After the sale! Mr. Lawson disappeared from public view and there were rumors that he was dying. He spent much of his time living quietly In Maine and Boston. Forbes and Thompson Get Two-Year Terms in Prison Chicago. -- Col. Charles R. Forbes and John W. Thompson, Chicago and St. Louis contractor, will carry their efforts to avoid serving two years in a federal penitentiary to the highest courts of the land. But after Federal Judge Carpenter bad ordered them imprisoned for such a period and fined each $10,000 for their parts in the veterans' bureau graft cases, they were told that the record of the case had been cautiously prepared--and had been made as near bullet proof as possible for just such an attempt to appeal as wa#'; j|inounced. Jack Dempsey and Bride Start on Honeymoon Trip San Diego.--Jack Dempsey and his bride, Estelle Taylor, started on their honeymoon. They left for a supposedly secret destination in the fighter's car, but friends say the Holly wood bungalow of Miss Taylor was their goal. , ' Contrary to the many rumors that Mrs. Dempsey would not permit her champion husband to fight in the rln; again, she said: "I don't want Jack to fight any more, but, if he wants to fight he- will, so why fuss about it? The ceremony took place at the First Presbyterian church here. Renew Hunt for Assassin Cairo, Egypt.--In a renewed campaign to round up all those responsible for the assassination of Sir Lee Stack, sidar of Egypt, several months ago, authorities here have made" a' number of arrests. jbii" uphonse R. Dochez of New York, well-known medical Investigator, formerly of the Rockefeller Institute, who devised the serum that is being successfully used In the enre of scarlet fever. Many cases are cured within 24 hours, and the remedy is hailed with thankfulness by the medical profession. I'aEfiji ifcil YEAST KING DIES DURING POLO GAME Julius Fleischmann Succumbs at Miami Beach. Miami, Fla. -- Julius Fleischmann, former mayor of Cincinnati for two terms, millionaire philanthropist and sportsman, president of the Fleischmann company, said to be the largest yeast manufacturers in the world, died suddenly at Mlnmi Beach while playing polo. Death was believed to have been caused by a sudden attack of either acute heart trouble or apoplexy brought on by the violent exercise. For several years Mr. Fleischmann maintained a polo stable here and took an active part In the game despite the fact that he was in his fifty-third year and weighed almost 200 pounds,* Mr. Fleischmann, who had been divorced twice, is survived by a daughter, Mrs. H. C. Yeiser, Jr., of New York, who gave birth to a baby boy in a Cincinnati hospital earlier in the day, and a son, Julius Fleischmann. Jr., of Cincinnati, who, friends here said, was en route to New York, from where he was to sail for Paris. He also left a sister. Mrs. C. R. Holmes of New York, and a brother. Col. Max Fleischmann," who is in the heart of Africa on a big game hunting expedition with his wife. Messages may not rench him for a considerable time. Herrin Sheriff Agrees to Exile to Bring Peace Springfield. -- Some measure of peace In Williamson county Is expected to follow an agreement reached in the office of Governor Small whereby Sheriff Galllgan will stay away from Herrin until such time as Governor Small tells him he can go back. Gajllgan, according to an announcement from the governor's office, agreed to the voluntary exile and agreed also to turn over his office In Herrin to Deputy Sheriff Randall G. Parks. Sheriff Galllgan agreed, moreover, to discharge all special duties assigned to him in other parts of Williamson county and to appoint only deputies approved by tfie county board of supervisors. Sister of Harvard Head Falls to Her Death Boston, Mass.--Mrs. KatheH^te Bowiker, a sister of President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard and of Amy Lowell, the poet, fell from the window of her apartment on the fourth floor or the Hotel Vendome and was instantly killed. She had been sitting, watching some workmen In the rear of the hotel, and, It is believed, leaned too far out, losing her balance. Mrs. Bowiker was related to former President Theodore Roosevelt and was one of his warmest admlrevs. Mrs. Bowiker's first marriage was to Alfred Roosevelt, a cousin of the late ex-President. He died several years ago. Later Bhe was married to T. James Bowiker, an Englishman. Eleven Jap Sailors Perish in Collision Vancouver, B. C.--Eleven Japanese sailors, including one officer and two petty officers, were drowned in the harbor here when the pinnace In which they were returning to the cruiser Idzuma. after shore leave, collided with the Canadian Pacific tug Xanoose. The Idzuma Is one of three vessels of the Japanese navy training squadron here on the last leg of a '20,000- mile tour. The others are the cruisers Asaina and Yakuino. Find Three Asphyxiated Washington.--Mrs. Frances Walker, thirty-five, her daughter Mary, sixteen, and her son Lindsay, fourteen, were found dead In their gas-filled apartment, the windows and doors of which bad been sealed. PfT IN TURMOIL AS WHEAT DROPS Selling of Flcitchmann'a Holdingc Believed to Have Started Slump. Chicago.--May wheat threw the pit into pandemoninm on Friday with another break in price. It dropped to $1.85 a bushel, which was a fall of about 21 cents from the high mark eight days ago. It staggered up a point or so, and when the bell rang It was some 19 cents below the high mark. With it weot the paper profits of many a clerk and stenographer and dabbler who merrily flipped aboard the market wheu prices were racing towards the $2 mark, but who did not leap off in time. Many a hopeful who went in on a shoestring In recent weeks went out on a shutter, and many a contemplated trip to Florida will probably be supplanted with a period of two a day at the one-arm restaurants. , Other marketf--Winnipeg, Kansas City, Minneapolis and the rest--took the parachute drop as did Chicago. To all appearances exporters were the chief beneficiaries of the tumble. From 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 bushels were sold for overseas consumption, the foreign buyers hopping in and buying just as they have whenever a break has come In recent months. , Veteran traders said the bedlam In the pit had not been duplicated since the days of Joe Letter's wheat corner. Trades came so fast that at times the price at one side of the pit was half a cent higher than at the other side. Half a cent drop between quotations was the order. In one short period of about an hour a fluctuation of nearly ten cents occurred in the price of grain. In analytical mood after the cloee, the professional talent held that the 6lump was started by the selling of 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 bushels of long May, credited to Julius Fleischmann, the yeast man, who died suddenly at Miami. This started the price down, and then the stop-loss orders did the rest. All told, more than 100,000,000 bushels of May wheat were dealt In on the Chicago exchange, almost a record for the last four years. How the farmer Is afTected Is a question which the experts are pondering. From some quarters comes the plaint that agriculture itself is not much of a beneficiary of the recent net advance. Some figure that 80 per cent of the wheat crop of 1924 has already been sold at an average price of between $1.30 and $1.40 a bushel. But other crops, it is pointed out, have gone up In price with wheat. Corn, for Instance, has registered a neat advance, and 80 per cent of the corn is fed on the farm. The stuff held In the feed bins has Increased in value Indiana Votes $50,000 to Fight Chicken Plague Indianapolis, Ind.--Legislative and executive authority of Indiana was Invoked to prevent the spread of the deadly European poultry plague, found in nine counties of the eastern part of the state. Under suspension of the rule an emergency appropriation of $50,000' was voted by both bouses of the general assembly, the money to be used in combating and preventing the spread of the disease. The appropriation Is to become effective as soon as Governor Jackson signs the measure. Under the plan of combat, men from Purdue university, the live stock sanitary board and the federal bureau of animal industry are to be sent into the field and begin the battle at once. From the $50,000 fund poultry owners from whom chickens are taken to be destroyed In the fight will receive remuneration for their loss. The expense ot the fight otherwise will be defrayed from this fund. Borah Asks U. S. to Return Alien Funds Washington.--Chairman ""Borah of the senate foreign relations committee proposed a bill to restore the hlllion- dollar trust fund now adminis: tered by the alien property custodian to its former enemy owners. His revival of the proposition met'with objections from both sides of the chamber. Mr. Borah's measure provides that restoration of German and Austrian property be'made on Presidential orders to be irsued on authentication of applications from alien owners. The bill was referred in course to the judiciary committee. Mr. Borah asserted that the retention by the government of foreign property was In violation of "the soundest principles of morality, international decency, and common honesty." Clementel It Coming to U. S. Paris.--To obtain first-hand information necessary for an intelligent discussion of the Franco-American debt, M. Clementel, French finance minister, Is planning an anofficia' visit to the United States. Canton.--Patrick Kemper, assistant police chief, was shot five times, probably fatally, In a pistol battle with robbers whom he surprised In au attempt to blow the safe of the Scripps-Greer dry goods st«pe rabhnn escaped, Pay $24,000,000 Fines Washington. -- Imposition of stiff penalties has given dry law violators a stiff setback in the last year. Fines assessed in the enforcement* of the act in five years total $24,000,00*: * Turman Given 10-Year Term New York.--Moe Turman, twentysis years old, was Sentenced to a term of ten years' .imprisonment when he pleaded guilty to a forgery indictment. He is alleged to have pyramided a $100 loan into obligations totalling $2,000,000. May Lift Fowl Embargo New fork.--The embargo ngainst poultry may be lifted soon by Health Commissioner Monaglitan. Recent poultry imports have sb^wn no disease. Negro Kills Boy Pal _ , Chicago. -- To prevent testimony against him In the Juvenile court, Roy Glllum, fifteen, colored, killed his pal, Edward Schmidt, sixteen, whl\^. The body was found bjr two boys. ^ <p ' • 1 Re jects Child t*abor Man Helena, Mont.--By a rote of 29 to 24 the Montana state senate refused to ratify the child labor amendment to the Federal Constitution. The resolution passed the house with only 11 adverse Votes. Ship Fire Loss $1 #00,000 Brussels. -- Damage of approximately $1,000,000 wus done by a fire Cf* board the German UMmlhtp Odenwald, in dock at Antwerp with a cargo of copper and saltpeter from Chile. China Quits Opium Meet Geneva.--Following the lead of tbi United States delegation, China haf withdrawn from participation in th< League of Nations opium conferenc* Co curtail the production of opium. GEN. F. W. WARD Brig. Gen. Franklin W. Ward of the New York National Guard who has been mentioned as a successor to Maj. Gen. George C. RIckards, chief of the militia, bureau of the War department.' U. S. GOVERNMENT MARKET QUOTATIONS Washington.--For th« week ending February 6.--FRtJITS AND VEGETABLES-- Northern sacked round white potatoes, 91.00® 1.10 carlot sales in Chisago, 80@ 92c f. o. b. Midwestern yeiow onions, f2.75@3.26 In consuming :enters, $2.75@2.80 f. o. b. west Michigan points. Northwestern extra fancy tvlnesap apples, $3.50@3.65 per box In Chicago. LIVE STOCK--Chicago hog prices closed at $11.10 for top and 910-45Q 11.00 for bulk. Medium and good beef steers, $7.25®P 12.00; butcher cows and heifers, $4.00<g>10.75; light and medlnm weight veal calves, $9.25® 13.50. Fat lambs, 91&-25@ 18.50; feeding lambs, fl5.50@18.00; yearlings, 913.50@16.50; rat ewes, 96.25® 10.95. \ DAIRY PRODUCTS--Closing prices af 92-score butter: New York, 40c; Chicago, 39c; Philadelphia, 41c; Boston, tO^c. Wholesale prices at Wisconsin primary cheese markets February 5: Single daisies, 24o: .double daisies, 23 He; longhoriis, 24V4c. ORAIN--Quoted February 6: No. 1 lark northern wheat: Minneapolis, |1.75@2.06. No. 2 red winter wheat: ^t. Louis, 91-98®2.01. No. 4 red winter wheat: Chicago, 91-93^ No. 3 hard winter wheat: Chicago, 91-80% ® 1-84 V4. No. 2 hard winter wheat: St. Louis, Jl.84@il.92H. No. 4 mixed corn: Chi- ;ago, 91.16. No. 3 mixed corn: Minneapolis, 91.14#"!.18. No. 2 mixed corn: Kansas City, 91-18H- No. 2 yellow corn: Chicago, 91-32%; Kansas City, 91-22. No. 3 yellow corn: Chicago, 91-24; Minneapolis, 91-22^1)1.23; St. Louis, 91-20® 1.22. No. 4 white corn: Chicago, 91-17. No. 3 white corn: SI. Louis, 91-24. No. 2 white corn: Kansas City, 9l-21@1.22. No. 3 white oats: Chicago, 53®66%c;. Minneapolis, 51%®51%c; St. Louis, 55% @T>6c: Kansas City, 58%c. HAY--Quoted February 6: No. 1 timothy: Chicago, 923.0U. ,No, 4 alfalfa: Kansas City, 921.50. NO. 1 prairie: Chicago, 917-00. "Diana of Dunes" Dies After 9 Years in Sands Chicago.--"Diana of the Dunes" is" dead* Just nine years ago, when she was Alice Gray, she took up her residence umld the sand wastes between Gary and Michigan City. She managed to survive the bitter winter living in a tent, and the next spring became an object of general interest when deputy sheriffs scouted through the sand hills to find the nymph who was bathing without a bathing suit in the light of the full moon. She had graduated, a Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Chicago. She was a mathematician of distinction. She died In the arms of Paul Wilson,- whom she married three years ago. They lived together In a shack by the lake at the station which bears his name. The cause of her death was uremic poisoning. "Gas" Price Increase Brings House inquiry Washington.--New and far-reaching nntitrust action Is threatened as a result of the recent Increases In gasoline prices by Standard Oil companies, which were followed by tbe so-called Independents. Gasoline prices In Washington have advanced five cents within a week. On the motion of Representative Sealilman of Maryland the house has ordered an investigation of the increases in Washington. The Interior department has just announced that official statistics show that production broke all records In December lastw Indicating a full supply. U. S. Withdraws From International Opium Meet Geneva.--Withdrawal from the international opium conference here on the ground that the purpose of tbe meeting cannot he attained was announced by the American delegation. Chicago Drivers Get Rmse Chicago. -- Chicago teamsters and chauffeurs; approximately 6,800 of them, were given a pay boost of $2 a week In a decision handed down by Ezra J. Warner, the arbiter selected by both teamsters' unions to settle all wage controversies. Fhts Toll 202 in England London.--Influenza took the lives of 202 persons in England during the week. Twenty thousand persons are 111 of the disease In London aion* Ask Revision of Dry Act Carson City, Kev.--A resolution ask Ing congress to call a constitutions convention to consider a modificatioi of the prohibition amendment was adopted unanimously by the Nevadf state senate. ° « E ; y. Mine Strike Spreads Philippi, W. Va.--More than 35C union miners of the Galloway fiek near here, on Thursday afternoon wenf en strike In sympathy with the strik Ing miners of Wendell. n •1 Baroness von Vetsera Dead Vienna. -- Baroness von Vetsera, mother of the Countess Marie von Vetsera, who met a tragic death with the Crown Prince Rudolph at Myerling SO years ago, is dead at tbe age of seventy-eight. A. D. Shepard Dies in Algiers Nice, France.--A. D. Shepard of San Francisco, farmer traffic manager of the Southern Pacific railroad, died at Algiers from a sodden heart attack; according to advices received here. GUILTY OF MURDER Lawyer Convicted of Slap* ; ^ iag Wife--Gives ; in Prison. - Geneva, 111.--Warren J. Lincoln of Aurora fas sentenced to life Imprison-' ment by a jury- which found him guilty of murdering his wife, Llna. An indictment for the murder of bee: brother, Byron Shoup, still Is pent!* Ing. against Lincoln. When the verdict was announced Lincoln's son, John, threw his arms around his father's neck and they both wept tears of Joy. The trial of the eccentric lawyer and horticulturist, who burned bodies of his victims in his greenhouse furnace ant! later imbedded their heads in a block of concrete, ended without a direct demand for tbe death penalty by the state. In his closing argument tcMbe jury State's Attorney Charles L. Abbott recalled the amazing circumstances "of the murders" and their detection. Ifhe crime was committed on January It). 1923. Lincoln disposed of the bodies In tbe next few days and continue*! his seemingly uneventful life anions his flowers until April 29, 1923. Meanwhile no one had missed either Mrs. Lincoln or Shoup, and he might have kept his secret for years. Lincoln, however, preferred to dift» appear spectacularly. He made a trail of blood from his greenhouse to the well, making It appear that he had been murdered by his wife and her brother, and his body had been tossed Into the well. He vanished. On June 12 he was found in Chicago. He was questioned at length but revealed nothing. He said he had been kidnaped. He remained in Aurora for a month and then disappeared again. He was discovered again In Chicago months later and on January 12, 1924. he confessed and led police to th» spot where the heads had been entombed in stone. The great block of concrete was cracked open, the headswere fonnd and identified"LlMlft murder was solved. Ui S. to Control Drainage of Sewage Into Lakes, Riven Washington. -- Chicago's sanitation, problem is rapidly approaching a settlement. Secretary of .War Weeks announced that be, is considering a recommendation by the chief of engineers under the terms of which Chicago would bepermitted to divert 8,500 cubic feet of water a second from Lake Michigan, for the next five years on the condition that the sanitary district begin the construction of a sewage-treatment system, that compensating works tocontrol lake levels be constructed, and that the metering of tbe city water be established. The attitude the War department contemplates assuming in regard "to Chicago's sanitation problem is of farreaching significance. It Is to signalize thfe Inauguration Of a policy of strict control of the drainage of sewage Into navigable inland waters* which fall within the jurisdiction of the federal government. "The time will coipe,'" said General Taylor, chief of army engineers, "when every city in the United States will have to treat all of Its sewage and no municipality will be allowed to contaminate the waters of rivers or inland lakes. The dumping of sewage in lakes and rivers, the army engineers say, t». 'slowly killing off fish. Retail Food Prices Continue to Advance * Washington.--Continued increase to retail food prices during the month ending January 15 was shown in 20 out of 22 cities for which figures wer» announced by the bureau of labor statistics of the Department of Labor. The maximum increase of 4 per cent was reported at Cincinnati. Kansas City and Savannah. A 3 per cent increase was shown at Butte, Mont.*. Little Rock, Ark., Louisville, Ky^ Omaha and Peoria, 111., and 2 per cent at Atlanta, Baltimore, Buffalo, Detroit,. Indianapolis, Norfolk, Portland, Maine* and Springfield, 111. Orders Probe of General Electric, American Tobaoto•> Washington.--By a vote of 55 to 25» the senate adopted the Norris resolution for an investigation of'the General Electric company, accused of constituting the so-called power trust. The resolution was approved as an amendment to^the Ernst resolution, which provides for an investigation of the American Tobacco company and the Imperial Tobacco company of Great Britain and their alleged efforts to. hamper tobacco cooperatives. Gets Appropriation BUI Washington.--The independent offices' appropriation bill, carrying $492»- 384^24, which embodied an additiou of $34,717 to the house total was reported to the -innate. The bulk of the total, $450,000,000, goes to tbe' bureau. Hail Storm in Illinois Qalesburg. 111.--Despite hall stone*" as large as hazel nuts driven by ft strong wind in part of Knox county but little damage was reported. V. S. Grain Exports Decrease Washington.--Department of Commerce figures of grain exports from the Chited States last week show that 2.950.000 bushels were exported, conpared with 3,506,000 bushels the previous week. ---- John McCormack lU "New Orleans.--Tlie John McCorma^lr concert arranged for Monday was postponed owing to the tenor's illness from lagrlppe with wfekfc kf his hotel here. U :