Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1914 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

John Arthur Johnson, negro pugilist, will have to appear before Federal Judge Geiger in Chicago next Friday or else his appeal bond of $15,000 will be ordered forfeited. Johnson was convicted of violating the Mann act and sentenced to the penitentiary by Judge Carpenter. Johnson Is now in France. He already has forfeited one bond of $30,000.

Secretary Daniels Thursday signed the contract plans for the three new battleships authorized by congress this year. These ships, to be named the California, Mississip-' pi and Idaho, will be the largest battleships yet designed for the United States, and their cost, exclusive of armor and armament, has been limited to $7,800,000 each.

Drowning of more than 3,000 persons and property losses of $4,000,000 resulting from Wheat floods sweeping through 29 districts hi the province of Kang-Tung, China, were reported Thursday in consular advices to the state department from Canton. Eight million persons axe in want, the report added, crops having been destroyed and the country is still under water.