Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 42, Number 46, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 12 July 1923 — Page 2

$310,000,000 U. S. SURPLUS Vindication of Budget System Seen in Showing for Last Fiscal Year. MORE THAN WAS EXPECTED Cen. H. M. Cord, Director of the Budget, Issues Statement of Receipts end Expenditures of the Government. Washington, July 2.—The government closed the fiscal year with a surplus of approximately $310,000,000; _ac.cording to a issued by Gen. H. il. Lord, budget director. This is an , even naira favorable showing than was estimated two weeks, ago alien President Harding announced that the fiscal year would end with a balance of. ordinary receipts over expenditures j vf'.approximately $200,000,000. “The redaction is the’ total expen- j . dittoes f&r tile'fiscal year ending June i 30, 1923, as compared with tlie total expenditures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1922, will be. approximately $20.1,000,000,” General Lord said. “One year ago, the estimated reeeipts and expenditures indicated a deficit of $832,000,000 for the fiscal year 1923. The difference of $1,133,000,000 between this estimated deficit of $832,000,000 and the present estimated surplus of $310,000,000 Is accounted for by an increase in receipts of $787,000,000 and a reduction In the 000,000. —r— —Z. estimated total expenditures of $366,"The difference in receipts was occasioned by an increase of $213,000,000 in customs ternal revenue receipts, and $131,000,- j 000 in miscellaneous receipts. "The difference of $308,000,000 in .total estimated expenditures was the result of a reduction of $101,000,000 in general expenditures' and 1 $45,000,000 in interest on the public debt, and a net decrease of $170,800,000 in capital outlays, opera tijpgis in special accounts, refunds of tax receipts and retirement of the public debt required to be made from ordinary receipts.” Two Men Df-own in Ditch When Automobile Turns Turtle Hammond, Ind., July 2. —Jameg Bloomer and Alexander Duncan of Chicago were drowned when tlie auto- 1 mobile In which they were driving from Chicago to the ’Tippecanoe river overturned in a ditch nine miles south- j east of Hammond. TThey* were pinned face down ia the water, which was about two feet deep. 2,500 Whippings in Oklahoma in One Year Reported Oklahoma City, Okla., July 2,— Ex-, planation of why Governor Walton Is j determined to put an end to mob outrages In Oklahoma and Is ready to use military force. If necessary, was made by the executive’s secretary, Aldrich Blake, who declared “whipping parties” during the past year have numbered at least 2,500. Farmers Urged to Hold Wheat to Boost Price Washington, July 2.—A proposal wap made public by the American - Farm Bureau federation that a m|nijnum -of2tSbOOtMS3G-bushels of wheat be withdrawn by - American farmers from this year's visible supply in view of this country's indicated large sur-' plus, : ’' • ", - - 100 Slain When Russian ' ; Factions, War in Korea Shanghai, July 2.—A- shipload of Russian refugees arrived at Wodsung, at the mouth of the Yangtze river, bringing the story of a bloody battle at Oefisan, Korea, between riyal Russian factions; who had fled from Vhidlxostok. One general and ? i<)o of the rank and file fell in the fight. Rebels in China Led by American Officer J’elp.ng. July 2.—Capt. L. D. Kearney, formerly an of the American, - army. Is the leading figure in the '-Confederate States of China,” which has been organized in an attempt to seize the government of the country in tlie . present confusion, , < J Three Brothers Electrocuted While Riding Hay Derrick Twin Falls, Idaho, July 2.—Three brothers, Glen,. Tom and Lloyd Ak’en, fari.n hands, were electrocuted at their ranch home near Tuttle, Idalpv when a bay derrick op wlflch they were riding carpe In contact with an electric- - transmission line carrying 40,000 volts, Pinchot Cuts Own Salary, Hnrrlsburg, pa., July 2.—Gov, filf. ford Pinchot reduced hi if own sulnry from SIB,OOOto SIO,OOO n year when he loppedioff $2,155,040 from the general Appropriation * hill as passed by the senate J Rust Refugees Reach U, 8. San FrancUc.t, July 2.—The army, transporj Merritt nrrlv'erl herewith 520 -"TtffSilan refugees who fled from Vladivostok after the Bolsheviks took possession of the government at that Siberian port.

DR. G. D. OLDS \ . - Jr-

Dr. G. D. t'lds has been elected i nresiiient of Amherst college to sue-. . ceed Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, who j was requested to resign, STRIKE CASES DEAD Charges Against Coal Miners and Operators Dismissed. Attorney General Daugherty Urges Move, but Declares He Still Believes Defendants’ Acts Wers Unlawful. Indianapolis,- Ind., June 29. —Criminal conspiracy cases against 127 : coal operators, union officials and miners, and 99 corporations all growing out of the 1921 coal strike were j ! dismissed In the Federal court here by Judge A. B. Anderson. The rasds had been pending since Indictments were returned February 25, 1922. They were dismissed on the personal petition of,Harry M. Daugh- j erty. United States attorney general, j who appeared in court. Tlie Indictments nolle pressed 1 charged that the 1921 strike const!-1 tuted a gigantic conspiracy. Belief that a conviction could not he obtoindd formed the basis for the motion for dismlssaL Mr, Daugherty 4 '" said In n statement to the court. He declared, however, that many things done at a Joint meeting of operators t and miners constituted a conspiracy. Giant Liner Leviathan to Have Supply of Liquor New York, June 29.—The giant liner i Leviathan, it was said here, will have t a considerable stock of liquor In Its | medical cabinet when it sails July 4 lon its maiden voyage as a United States passenger vessel. The permit was Issued by Dr. E. K. Sprague of ■ the United States public health serv--1 Ice, blit the amount wns not disclosed. Other vessels flying the American flag also have applied for permits authorizing them to maintain a liquor store for medicinal purposes. Britain Never Will Agree to Twelve-Mile Limit London, -June 29.—Great Britain will not agree to the proposal that the -} United States be permitted to search foreign ships for liquor within twelve miles of the American shore. Thias was made plain in the house - of lords j by Marquis Curzoru,, foreign secretary. ! A debate was Tir progress on the ques- 1 j tlon of American seizures of ship liqrinr. i ' I No Seizure of Ships. Says Secretary Mellon 4 London, June 30—Andrew W. Met- , km, the American secretary of the treasury, when asked whether it was true that the United States intended to I seize ships carrying liquor 'lnto American waters, Is said to haye replied that this report “was a pure inveu- J '110,0." -- • -' ■ - l,j Slayer Killed by Motorcycle of the Man He Slew Freeport, 111., June 80.—Clarence Frtfeh, a member of the Freeport police fbrre, was shot and killed'by an ; unidentified tramp whom he had arrested at tlTfe Illinois Central depot here.. Then the'tramp, Itr attempting to escape on the officer’s motorcycle, crashed ditto a curbing and- broke his neck... ; . ‘ • ■■ , , -—*■ - -a Liquor Tangle May Force the Recall of Congress I Washington, June 29,-i-The foreign ship-- ltqfior tangle has reached such a critical stage that suggestions of a special session of congress to relieve : ; the Impending danger of serious Inter- | national eventualities were heard In official quarters. j • t~' — hGeneral Gomez la /Stain. 2 Caracas, July 2.—Gen./Juan C, Go- I Inez, first vice president/of Venezuela. , and govtiruor of jhe federal district! was assnsslnaled In hi/il, say's an oflo • el til bulletin which ha/ been publish*!}! 1 .here. - / ' Head# National Junior A. <jf C. .WlWH'ikee, \\'ls„ /.July 2.—Harry ft, I'Mortltiler Os Mijivaukee was <-i l( ,nen • president bv ohcTa.imiflqn at thq clos • Ing ’UTslpess sesiion of. the fourth an- • niml .convention of the National Junior ] Assoclntlun of Commerce J

REVEALS PLOT TO CRUSH LABOR President Hardinff Tells How He Saved the Unions From 'Capitalism. SAYS HE AVOIDED EXTREMES Discloses In Helena Speech How Organized Employers Tried to Get Him to Aid Move Against Collective Bargaining. . Helens* Mont., June 30.—1 none of tlie most remarkable speeches of his udmlnlstrdtiou and of his present tour of the Middle West and West, President Harding here proclaimed hlruself as -a .staunch defender of organizdd ! labor against .The assafllts of capital- 1 j ists who sought and hud. expected hiai . to help them break it-down. The’ President iirso made a fervent appeal for revival of religious sincerity among the American people; uttered stirring pronouncement on behalf of American womanhood; Insisted that the present standard of- American j ! wages must be sustained, rebuking j capitalist systems which have tried to use the Republican party to helplieat | back this standard; and In the most virile language reiterated his opposition to the Bolshevism of Russia. Here, where the I. W. W. movement | was, cradled, the President's words ! - were enthusiastically received, and, j earlier in the day at Butte, where he ! spoke on somewhat similar lines, be received a good hearing. In fils fiddress here the President I said, ’almost at the outset, that the capitalists of America had expected him to break down the position in the social structure reached by labor as a result of the \gar. ' , “On capital’s side of tht; line,’’ said the President, "were'those wild hoped j that the administration would lend It- | - self to their program of breaking dowii organized labor and"sending it j_ buck to tlie era of individual fiurgain- : ing for the Individual jo.b. i i “On the labor side of the line were 1 i those who hoped, by exorbitant demands and an attitude of uncompromising insistence, to force the nationalization of some of our most Imsojortant industpgg and services.* these two. extreme that we had behind us 'the oveWlieltning public opinion of the nation, we have tried to hold the scales prevent on the one .side the destruction of organized labor and, on the other side, to frustrate those programs which look to the ultimate destruction of private capital nnd the nationalization of all the national instrumentalities of production.” t British Labor Upholds Their King and Queen London, June 30.—A resolution declaring thut the royal family no longer wus a, necessary part of the British constitution failed in passage by an overwhelming majority ai the Labor party's congress. George Lausbury voiced" tlie party's attitude regarding royalty when he devlareF that It was immaterial now whether the British have a king or not. "I used to think that the monarchy made the workers poor,” Mr. Lansbury said. “Since I have j dined with royalty I have decided that ! - they ate-' ordinary ■ f 1 - I y—like anyone j else. They talk like you, only a little j I worse.” Premier Poincare of France- . Answers the Pope at Rome i Paris, June 3C.—Answering the pope, Premier Poincare t‘-ld the senate tjntt lie wanted the "temporal and spirltaUlEpJWCcs” to know Ural France will j continue byr "measures cf coercion until Germany surrenders.” The senate clieered him and unanimously j voted 307,000,000 francs credit which j he had asked for the Ruhr occupation. Seven Germans Doomed to Die for Sabotage in Ruhr 1 Mayer.ce, June 30.—Seven Germans were sentenced to’'death by a French court-martial for sabotage. The court condemned another man to penal servitude for life and unutlier to .five years' Imprisonment. The condemned men were Iterren Susse, Maurer, Gruber, Hufime, SchuCider, Dryer and Frey. . ' " • French Occupation of Ruhr Is Extended at Mayence I - 30.—French occupation 'was*extciided along the eastern edge of the Mayence bridgehead to Lungen, on the Burnstadt-Frfinkfort ii 'railroad line, eight miles south of Frankotjt, and to Eschbom on the i FranEf'rt-Kroraberg'Hne, seven and a I half miles west of Frank ftr-t. Nine Belgian Soldiers Killed. 1 JDuesse|dorf, Germany, July 2.—NlnA , Belgian soldiers were killed by the ex- , ; plosion of a time tomb In a passenger; ' car of a train carrying Belgian soldiers ! ion leave tliiek lo BiTglntn froai tlie Ruhr. ; - ”‘• *. Wolves Attack Boy in Texas. F"ri \Voxth„.Tes.. July 2.—Donnid i Mnthesofl. ef a .rabchrnn.n at Pnrndlse, i.waj truncked' hy- apack of wolves In a pasture and se- ■ , verelv injured before his futher res--1 cued him. 2 -

TIYE NAPPANEE ADVANCE-NEWS

MISS JANE ADDAMS

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Miss' Jane Add.nms, famous sociologist of Chicago, who was operated on in Tokyo for tumor.

U. S. MARKET REPORT Weekly Marketgram by Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Washinfifton.—For the week ending June 28 —LIVE : STOCK—rChIcago prices: Hogs, top, $7.30; bulk of to 57.15; good and medium weight beef ; steers, . $7.75(g10.50; butcher cows and heifers. 13.55(5 9.i5; feeder steers, $6.15 <U 8.50; light and medium weight vetfl calves, $8.25(g 10.25; fat larpbs, sl3® 15.65; yearlings, SH)®X4T fat ewes, $3.50 <g> 7. v FRUITS AND VEGETABLES—FIorida Tom Watson watermelons. 22-30 lbs. average, bulk per car, leading markets; $250@750 f. o. b. cash track to growers. Georgia melons. 22-26 lbs.. $250 0600 f. o. b. Georgia peaches. Carmans $272 25 f. o. b. Mississippi tomatoes, 4’s mostly, $1.7502.25, consuming centers; $1.5001.60 f. o. Texas stock, $L50(5'2.35; midwesterp cittes, sl.4o <@ t. o. h. North and Soul . Carolina Irish cobbler potatoes. $4.50@5 per bbl. leading citles; r $4.15 t. *o: b. Southern. Bliss Triumphs. $2.15 3.35 per 100 lbs., mid western cities. California salmon tints can .oupes. standards, 46’s, $3.50 (ft 5 Reading mar- ; kets; f. o. b.*' HAY—No. ,1 timothy. Cincinnati. | $20.50; Chicago, $24; Mimieapblis, t 517.50; St. Louis, $24.50; No. 1 prairie. St. Louis, *22; Minneapolis, sl7. I FEED—Minneapolis spring b*fcan. i $20.50; middlings. $25; winter bran, St. Louis. $23; glut* n feed. Chicago. $37.15; linseed meal, Minneapolis, S3B; white hominy feed. St. Louis. $30.50. GRAlN—Chicago cash market: No. 2 red winter wheat, $1.13; No. 2 hard winter wheat. $1.05; No. 2 mixed corn, 84c; No. 2 yellow corn, 85e; No. 8 white oafs, 44c. Average farm prices: No. 2 mixed corn in Central lowa. 70c; No. 2 hard winter Wheat in Central Kansas. 85c; No. 1 dark northern wheat In central North Dakota, 87c. j—r —• DAIRY PRODUCTS—Butter, 92 score, Chicago. 39q. CHEESE-—At Wisconsin primary markets: Twins, 21%c; daisies, 22c; double daisies, 21%c; young Americas, 2144 c; longhorns, square prints, 22V4c. Youth, Fifteen, Kills His Foster Mother to See World Springfield, 111., Jase;'29.—While a posse of fanners with bloodhounds! was searching the country near Auburn, fifteen miles south of here, for a tramp supposed to have murdered Mrs. Mary Seales, a seventy-five-year-old widow, her fifteen-year-old foster son, Ivun Wooten, confessed, according to police, that he had committed the murder, The boy ascribed his -deed, the authorities stated, to a de-. sire to get out lnto tho world and earn money for himself. He had lived at the Seales home_three years. Secretary Weeks Opposes Use Os. Army as Prohibition Force Washington. June 29.—Flat opposition- to any project for using the army jto aid ,in prohibition enforcement work was voiced by Secretary Weeks, speak-: Ing at the graduation exercises at the Army War .college. "I cannot believe,” he said, “that persons who advocate unusual employment for the army, sirHi as enforcement of prohibition, have given serious thought to the possible eonsequehees of such a practice.” ' i'"' South Bend (Ind.) Car Employees Get Pay Boost South Bend, Ind., .Time 29.—Three hundred employees of the Chicago, South Bend and Northern Indiana railroad, including city and, interurban motormen and conductors, were given wage increases of three cents JJO. hour. The Increase brings Hip wages of city street car employees up to !i0 cents afid of Interurban employees up to 52 cents. • . Bumble Bee Didn’t-Sting,-but Wrecks Car Instead . ‘L‘,*kA—Geneva, \VIs., June bumble bee wrecked an automobile and severely' Injured Mrs. Lillian Bally on the Elkfim road, ncarCdmo, Wls. Wlien a- child became" fright•ened as ‘theh insect flew Into tlie oar, tlm child grabbed the arm of Miss Pearl Marsden, Janesville, who was driving. Tlie car went Into a ditch. Porterfield Becomes Haynes’-Aid. , Washington. June 30. — K. l. j’orjerffeld -was appulnted speclul assistant ;.prcblbUii!rt commissioner,• with headquarters In Washington. jie has !-een serving ns divisional prohibition chief, with headquarters at Toledo. Ifiir.ols Roads Bill Signed. - Springfield, tit., June 30.—Governor Small Signed the bill for anew simj,JX)O,GOi> hard-roads bond Issue., projioshi wilt be submit tedto the voters of the state at tlie election In November, 1924 .

INDIANA NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

Paul Putts, six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Putts of Monon, Was drowned while swimming with his parents at a beach near Montlcello. y ' <£> The corner stone of the new Alqulna Methodist Episcopal church at Connersvllle, which will replace the building damaged by fire April 29, 1922, has been laid. Seventy-one girls, representing six of 'the nine- townships of Fayette county, have enrolled for summer club work under the directldn of the Purdue university extension division. Will A. Burton of Franklin was reelected secretary-treasurer and business manager of Franklin college for the fourteenth consecutive year at the recent meeting of the board of directors of Franklin. —_4> Sheep-killing dogs are causing much damage In Bartholomew county. Os a flock of sixteen sheep at the home of Walter Schedlt, near Columbus, thirteen were killed In one night. Heavy losses also have been suffered by other farmers. '* • >' "-*•!#•>*!— •— . Rev. Otho Winger, president of Manchester college at Wabash, named moderator of -the International Church |of the,Brethren for the second time, according to word" received at the college. . The conference this year Was held at Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I. J. Reuter, general manager of the Remy Electric company,- employing persons at Anderson, has posted notices at the factory that there will •be no shutdown of a week In July, ns iii, former years, because, he said, high production will be necessary in July to take care of orders on file. Harry Aainsworth of near Greensburg accepted a position as vocational agriculture teacher in the Knlghtstovvn high school, Mr. Ainsworth was In charge of the vocational work at Mt. Summit five years ago and has since been engaged in farming near Greens burg. He is a graduate of the University of Tllinoih.-, -i ■" a,*- ; Residents of the southern part of Crawford county, who were frightened recently by an earthquake shock, have learned that a landslide on the Indiana shore of the Ohio river, about two miles "above Alton, was responsible for the tremors. The slide was where the Indiana shore rises in. towering bluffs opposite the mouth of Wolf creek in Kentucky. $ Steps to assist in harvesting Indiana wheat were taken' by the Indiana Manufacturers' association at Indianapolis. F. M. Smith, secretary of the Association, sent letters to the 1,500 members of the organization in Indiana suggesting that “wherever possible those of our members who have sniptoyees that can assist In taking ?are of the crop, release these to the farmers. In their communities.” -— — With the singing of the “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching,” ,and. f’The Star Spangled Bon ner,'-’ as only veterans of the Civil wnr.cnn sing It, the survivors of Wilders’ ‘‘Lightning Brigade,'”. famous In the fighting of the UnWh forces, . dosed their last reunion as a separate body at Terre Haute. Only 14 members of the once' famous body of troops sttefided the meeting. The general contract Tor the new building for the Madison County Orphans’ Home "was awarded to Ben' F. Wright, of Anderson, on his bid of $102,000. The contract does not Include heating,‘plumbing and electric wiring. The building is to be erected on a 250-acre tract, bequeathed for that purpose by Calvin Bronneaherg, now dead, which lies two miles east of AfiffprgbTiv'anjbinrng ttre 'w-esr.srag or Mounds park. ’ Indiana’s gasoline tax of two cents a gallon was-ruled constitutional and valid by. the decision of Judge Lenn J. Dare in St..-. Joseph Superior court, No. 2, who sustained tlie demurrer filed In behalf of Robert Bracken, auditor of state, and Ora Davies, treasurer of state, by U. S. Lesh, atUJHify general. The deiiiurrer was filed to the suit of Bruce Oafill, of. South Bend, to enjoin tlie defendants from requiring users of motor vehicles to pay the license, fee as provided- In the act of 1923. -— if —— Atlanta, a small town south of Tipton, was the Scene of a brutal, murder imiLgulclff'.- when Ellliu A. Kstele, six-ty-five yearn old, beat anil shot Ids wife to (h ath and. then shot himself.Jealousy Is said by neiglihorsf to have ■caused ti e act. * j v; 'lire left hanii f Frank Fincli. seven, ,son of CouiTdbaan Selma Finch, Bortland, wgx blown off when the boy applied a mat cl) to ii dynamite cap, wlilch tie mid found oil a- public highway. The hoys eye* also were inlured and his face was lacerated

A grund Jury investigation of th Martinsville Gas mid Elettric company lias be.en ordered by Fred W. -Steiger, prosecutor Os Morghn” county. > r William Richardson, seventy-six years old, was -killed when lie was struck by a-Pennsylvunlu railroad passenger train at Coesse. ■ ’ ' <f The contract was awarded for the nev Evank school, to be built at a cost of $54,000, to G. W. Heinzmann & Son, of Marlon. Work on the new building, to tuke the place of one condemned, will begin soon. The 1924 state coiicffave of Knights Templar will be held at Ft. Wayne. Tiffs was decided at the closing business session of the sixty-ninth conclave at Winona Luke. Michigan City also extended an invitation. “ ‘ > •k The forty-third annual commencement of the Harrison public high school In Harrison township wns held In the Harrison Methodist Episcopal church, when 27 members of the senior class received their diplomas. The large bam on /the William Williamson farm in the eastern part (if Hamilton county burned. Six horses were cremated and a large amount of grain burned. The loss was estimated at $12,000, less than half of which is covered by insurance. • -3> Governor McCray and Lawrence F. Qrr, slate—examiner for. tlie -state board of accounts, will select possibly twenty or more men to work at $lO a day and certain expenses ns field exafiiiners for the state board of accounts, it was leumed at Indianapolis. The resignation of Don R. Mellett as editor and publisher of the Columbus Dally Ledger was tendered the directors and accepted. Mr, Mellett has been parti owner qgd editor of the paper for six years. He will retain his Interest in It, but will retire from ac> tive newspaper work for a time. Residents of North Anderson, who protested against annexation of the suburb to Anderson, have virtually lost their legal fight through a rulin'g of. Judge Ellis of Superior court that only owners of unplatted territory 1 have the right to remonstrate. Few owners of this kind have signed the remonstrance petition. <t> Within less than 24 hours after they ■ held up Cecil B. Brooks, cashier of the State bank at Mohawk, Aiitis (Jack) Whlsh, nineteen years old; Homer Dasey, eighteen years old, and John Borman, alias Vinson, eighteen years old, were sentenced in Circuit court at Greenfield by Judge John T. Walker to terms of 10 to 25 years. While returning tiT Corydon from church In his automobile with his wife and daughter, N. R. Davidson ran over a large cow snake. Stopping, he looked back to see the deatb-wrltli-Ings of the reptile, instead he saw the snake climbing up the side of the automobile. Davidson and his family deserted the-cgr, nnd the snake heid possession of It until it was badly Injured and dragged out. The Falrland, Franklin and Martinsville branch of the Big Four railroad is being improved and will be ready In September for heavier traffic, officials of the road say. A crew Os men Is at work on the line improving the roadbed, placing new ties In position and laying new rails. The new rails are lienvlpr than the Tails now on the road. Irfcreased freight buslifessr om the -branch, road made the improvements a necessity, It was said. Judge John P. Jeffries, in circuit court at Terre Haute, denied a motion for a plea in abatement entered by -attorneys for John Dagon, indicted for the murder ,of George Dlerdorf, n few months ago. ArgumefTfs oh the motion , were heard two weeks ago and the matter taken under advisement by the court. The legality of the Jury was attacked on the grouhffs that the Jury commissioners, when placing in the jury box the names of posslhre jfirors tor the year, failed to empty the box of names it already contained, making it possible for a’Juror to be drawn in two successive years. Entries In the Shelby county”fiv'eacre corn contest closed at Shelbyyille with-forty farm era 4tf4he- cnnnty eii. rolled to enter the competitloyi for honors In this brqneh of the agricultural club work. An effort will be made by the" officials of the Shelby county farm bureau to induce all the entrants to remain in the contest until the chise* of the program. Thirty-eight were signed up for the* club a year ago, -but‘only half the number completed tlie contest nnd submitted rec’ords on their production. Two gold* medals wC>e awarded Shelby county dull members last year for -having grown on nvernge of more than .100 bushels an acre'as members of the Five-Acre dub. Authority tj> merge Into the Wabash Valley Electric company eight Indiana public?.utilities said to lip worth from $2000,000 to $3,800,000 and to issue si,(Hio,(mx) to $2,000,000 worth of securities agnliist tlie organization lx contained, In an order the public service commission lias fssued at liullanapoHg: —— Alleging that she wns “gold" to her sixty-flve-yesr-old husband, Mrs. Sarah Baker, a t Went.v-.four-yen r-ulil wife, lias filed suit for'divorce in the Porter Circuit court at I.anorto

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