Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 42, Number 47, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 19 July 1923 — Page 2

SHELL EXPLOSION KILLS ELEVEN Twenty-three Others Injured by Blast in Illinois Plant SIX WOMEN AMONG THE DEAD Friction Sparks Believes to Have Ignited Huge Stores of Powder From Salvaged Munitions Left Over From the War. * Alton, 111., July 11.—The deaths resulting front a terrific explosion at the Western Cartridge company plant at Hast Alton reached' a total of eleven, when two more women employees died at a local hospital late Tuesday night.-. The number of. injured was repotted to be twenty-three; Six of those killed were women. They were; Mrs. Minnie Warren, At,'jn, 111.,, mother of ten children; Miss Anna Gorman. Miss Ruth Green, Mrs. Bessie Jenkins, and Mrs. Minute Wagner, all of Alton, and Miss Hazel Soung of Rockford, 111. The men killed were William jlnijnmer. of East Alton, Frank Beatles of Alton. Russell Rejharn. Wigtown, Ilk. Charles Hawkins, Alton, and Howard Hunter of Alton. The plant is about- five miles east of this city.. AIT available physicians and nurses were dispatched to the plant in ambulances and automobiles. Many residents of Alton who had relatives } employed at the -cartridge plant also hurried to the factory laa , were refused admittiince,} . The cause of the explosion is unknown. If occurred! in _a. fireproof structure in which about fifty employees, mostly women, were engaged In extracting powder from the 30-30 Infantry -cartridges which had ,Ut>t*ii | manufactured for the army -during the war, but had be,en repurchased by the company for the purpose of salvaging the copper and brass contained in the shells. * i Fire followed the explosion, but was soon extinguished by the company lire department.

Liquor Raid at Fort Wayne Results in Fourteen ArrestsFort Wayne, Ind., July 11.—A citywjde roundup by federal prohibition agents was featured Tuesday evening by a raid on the residence, of a prominent cftlzen, where the officers eonSscated dioice liquors estimated to be Worth $15,(100. The man whose home was raided was arrested, as was the jrotlier-ln-law of. one of the leading officials of the city and twelve other*! persons. France Will Keep 660.000 Troops Ready for War Paris, July 11.—The plan for the reorganization of France's army of 000,900 men was. distributed among tlie members of parliament by Col. Jean Fabry, reporter for the chamber army commission. It contemplates a mod-' cruized force Based on the lessons of , the great war.-with serious attention fo'new developments in aviation and war materials. f First Carload of New Crop Wheat Delivered in Chicago Chicago, July 11.—The first new crop wheat to reach... Chicago arrived Tuesday from southern Illinois. The consignment consisted of one car. It, graded No. 1 - hard and tested (itpounds' to the bushel. The lot' sold i at $1.05*4, or 2*4/cents higher than Juljr at tlie same sale, v.' -* j * . President ■ Warm Welcome in Alaska Juneau, Alaska. July 11. —The arrival of-President Harding Tuesday, aboard the U. S. S.-HendefWjti, was the signal for ap enthusiastic greet- } ing. ’ ¥ct!Ws in the harbor Idew Vlietr wliistles wildly as the welcoming <\ommitlee, headed by} Mayor GnUtein, boarded tlie Henderson. . Chancellor Cuno’s Salary Raised to $20.51 a Wegk Berlin, duly 11.—The German gov-i ernment Tuesday ahntmncedrwiige In- ' creases of officials averaging so per cent. Under the new pay roll Chancellor Cuno, ruler of Germany? gets 27,000,000" marks' monthly—s2?).;>J' a week. ~ * * , Hailstones Kill Twenty-three Persons in- Russian Storm 4. Riga. July Tl.rrlleavy hailstones are reported t(* nave tilied.23 peiq.le and much cattle near Rostov in the Donn district. The majority of those killed were peasurts. who ru'n into the fields t% save tlieir cattle, Twenty Chinese Bandit* Die in Battle. Hongkong, July 11.—Chinese troops engaged In a battle with about twenty of the bandits who belli up the Cnn-ton-KoWloon train last _ Saturday, Twenty of tlie bandits were killed, hut '/he others escaped. Duchess of York's "Cousin Slain. London, July 11.—Angus Patrick Botfreg-L.yon, a young stock lirokyr,-u cousin of the duchess of York, was found shot dead In his nutomobt!e"ut Woking, near London. It (s said He has been l:i poor health.

AM MUR B. WILLIaiyiS

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Artiiur 15. Williams of Buttle Creek. Mich., Republican* who by the small margin of 385 votes defeated Claude S. Camey of Kalamazoo, Democrat, for congress in the Third district, lie succeeds the late J. G. /Smith.

WOULD CONTROL MINES Board Recommends Federal Supervision of Coal. Commission Not in Favor of.Government Ownership—lnquiry Result Made Public. Washington, July Ik —The President should have the authorltyua--event-ef-cessation.’of operations in the anthracite co.al .industry to declare an emergency, take charge of the mines, fix wages and tlie compensation to the owner, Subject to review by the courts, and to distribute the production as lie deems wise... Tliis was tlie outstanding recommendation of the report of the United States coal commission made public kero. Created by congress last ucto"bej, the coal commission' hgs since been making an exhaustive study of anthracite conditions with, a view R> guaranteeing an adequate and uninterrupted supply of fuel ip the consumer at a reasonable rate! No specific legislation was .urged by the comrjissiomtprhe repon, T Auotiec report will be made before September 22, at, which time the life of the organization expires, dealing with conditions in the bituminous, industry. The commission announces that it opposed government ownership of the mines, hut for determining,the effbejt,. efUjenaturai monopoly on the. consumer. recommended publicity through annual reports made to some .governmental ’

Big Crops Again in 1923 Forecast; Billion Increase Wflgfalßgtpp, July 10-—Great crops are again In prospect for th,- Amerlcim farmer this'-ycnr, according to the July forecast for lending pfoduets issued by the Department of . Agriculture. This yeai’s crcps will lie worth over $1,000,000,000 more than last year's, on the basts ef-far-m—piSces-on July 1, 1923, compared with prices a year ago. Twelve of these crops, if they fulfill anticipations of the oftl"H foro„nct | mill tin Worth $7,52&,912.SOO on the basis of prices on July 1, 1923. Tills total does not Include tobacco and rice. Cow Halts Dawn-to-Dusk Air Trip Across United States St. Joseph, Mo.. July 10.—. Lieut. Russell 1,. Maugham army aviator who was forced to abandon bis dawn-to-dusk Sevf York to Kan —Francisco Cigfef Beat', St. Jpsepli, said surlier flight would be attempted within a week; lie was wtttrttj fifteen mltesof St. Joseph "ben Ids.engine went dead, Maugjian dropped into a pasture, but in milking a sharp turn to avoid strik. lug .a cow two of ..tin' steel tubes of TTuFTiiridlng gear broke. Wives Riot as Czechs ~ Propose Forced Bigamy London, July 9. —Compulsory bigauiy, proposed as a means of ,making up the losses-In population caused by the war; caused m-tur when It "Was ileliated in (Tie CzechosloVnkiniT parliament. Mile, IJcttn Kerpiskova, a woman deputy, Introduced a Dill to compof’mule t zecbft to tifkl- two wlvbg, whatever their personal Indlnajious might be. Heavy penalties were suggested for men who shirked their duty.— - 1 Cuban Population How 3,123,040. Havana, Cuing July 11. —The report of the director of- th” tmUdnal census, tiiade public' here, gives Culm a total population of 3,123,04'. on In-* ceinhnr 31, l!l22. as computed' with 2,-TO,DOI eh September 15,.1109. Terrific ,£torm in London. London; .ini., ill-Lonaoii and south ISgthnel '■Mmnbty—night expcrlcncT-iT tlic -w orst thunderstorm In -tire, memv ory of the oldest iiilmldtimt. The storm lasted seven, hours, with a eoni tlnnons nnallm*~ofthunder. .

CEATH FOR TWO WOMENSLAYERS Mrs. Nitti and Consort Given the Death Penalty at ‘ ‘ * Chicago. MRS. BUZZ! SENTENCED IN N.Y. |- ' ■ Jury Finds Mrs. Nitti and the Man She Married After Killing Mate • : .Guilty After Short Deliberation. •Chicago. July 10. —Twelve Jurors branded .Mrs. Subelle Nitti ‘'husband killer" and established a precedent for the state of Illinois by giving tlie ilcaU) penalty to tlie dumb, Crouching, ani- : mal-like Italian peasant, found guilty of the murder of Frank Nitti. Tire jury then returned a death verdict for Peter CrudeUe, Mrs. Nitti’s eb-uefpnduiit, fur- |. liter lover, and second husband. A fety-iionrs curlier, in New York city, Mrs. Anna liuzzi was .sentenced to die in (lie electric chair during tlie week of August tl for tlie murder of Frederick. Schneider, with whom she had lived for eight years. Tlie CoClc-eounty jury heeded .Prosecutor Miltoii D. Smith's closhigmrg-u----ment to "forget that thiS defendant is a wymian," .ami gave her the nooseafter- deHliertifing'-aaly. an hour and" forty-seven minutes, but at midnight -bo one had been found willing to tell Sabelie that she was the first woman in tlie state to have a hangman's noose made legally ready for her. J All evening tlie greasy woman moaned and gibbered in her Sicilian dialect for someone to tell her what "those men said." and* how many rmtwtbs she would have to stay in the jail. But no one would tell her. Mrs. Nitti grew hysterica! With, the frenzied pleading of a cruel animal that'had been cornered and tortured by anew kind of trap. Slie wgs not the cairn human wire the state charged, held her husband's head in her gnarled, hands while her lover, twenty-three years her'junior, pounded tlie sleeping •farmer over tlie head with a sixtpoundmammer. And when, still at bay, hut refusing - to lie exhausted, tlie dirty, disheveled woman flopped Into her bunk, she- did not slumber as peacefully as she did that July evening, a year ago. when she sent her lover and her sixteen-year-ofd son, Charlie, to oHjiiikS-her "man” into the catch basin neilr the edge of tlie fnrm.'-J * 13,048,128 Automobiles in United States on July 1 New York, July 10.—Motorhtrs and trucks registered ln v the United States on July 1 totaled 13.045.125, accordling to a survey just completed, by Au{tdatßtive Industries. This was a gain j of 2.4 ip.OOOj'over the Jtily 1,1022, total. Re'gistratioris have already passed' tlie j December, 1022, high-mark by 083,751, ftlius indicating that tlie final 1023' fig- ! ures will—;silp,w another gain bf 1,i 000,000 or . more. '

Mayor Johnson's Bank of ' Shelby Closes Its Doors Croat Falls. Mont.. July 11,—The First State bank .of Shelby of which Mayor James A. Johnson,, one of the barkers of tile liemifsey-Cllibons bout, is president,, closed Its doors Tuesday I morning, according In a statement ' made liere by State Hank Examiner j L. Q. Skelton, who .is here to take charge of the Stanton! Trust and. Bar- I lugs, hank, u inch, wcfil Intw yojuniary . liquidation. ■ < Thousands Riot in Berlin Suburb Over Food Prices Berlin, July. 10. —Serious food riots . took place In' Nowawes, a suburb of ;-fVtsdiUn. Several thousand persons,nceiyufpanied by their wives, stormed 'Tim intO'ltW.afterilealers bod rejected tlte aii*n\ VfowV'iA dciOimji to rgdupe prices, M.'irk'-tinVii I .wen,-beaten. Tile j rioters “sold" tlijir foodstuffs fur lit? low cost. , , Great Britain Casts Die; Wants U. S. Help on Ruhr r -■; Lwnlmu" July 10.—tlrvrrl —BrtTrrlT; nr I on the verge of a break_,wltli France. v At a two-hour enldnel meeting it, was i decfilwl that tile government should ' cissne a call to the United States, Italy and other allied- nmi neutral powers to join Iti It eobference to consider the reparations timurtlons. Turk-Allied Peace Treaty Is Completed at Lausanne 1 Lausanne, July 9, — The, Near Fast peace treaty wuft rotnldeted here. The treaty will mark the Until act of the World war, which began Afigust- 2, guild,. Oral means pence-in the Near East for tlie. ti.rsj tijne. in twelve years: Helen Ring Robinson Cies. , ' Denver, Colo., July 11.-—Helen 111 rig eftahlnwM, nationally known'; Woman suffrage lender, died here after A long ; illness. Bin; was the first p-oman state senator ,In Color.bio and waS widely known ns-a writer anti lecturer. Cloudburst'Wrecks Twelve Housei. Casper, Wyo„ Jtefy 11;.—A' cloiid " burst In The ('asper mountains caused Teotisldetabl damage near farkerotv i twenty miles east Os herb. ."Vile wall of flood 'water carried twelve small i dwellin'!*' SI distance nfVoo'. feet.

THE NAPPANEE ADVANCE-NEWS

CHARLES W. FUWLE

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Charles \V Fowie of New York, forelgn secretary of the Near East Relief, has been awarded the Gross of St. Xavier,-the highest civil honor, by the Greek government in recognition of his services in relief work.

U. S. MARKET REPORT Weekly Marketgram by Bureau of Agricultural Economics. the week ending July T— FRUITS AND VEGETABLES— Georgia Tom Watson watermelons. 22uvrac*'. J;ioo-$r,oo bulk per car at leading market's, S7O-$250 f.' ft* b. oash track to growers; Florida melons. $23J>-|250 per 22-2 S-lb. average .in St. Louis. .Texas stock, JIIO-$1.40 per 100 lbs. f. o. b. usual terms at shipping points. Georgia peaches. Carmans, $1.50 52.00 pei* 6-basket carrier. North and £otrth Cnrohna Irlsh cobbTer potatocs, $5.75-$6.50 per barrel at city markets. South ’Central bliss triumphs, $1.75$2.75 per 100 lbs. at midXvesternmarkets. California salmon tint cantaloupes standard 455, $2.50-$3.50 at consuming markets; $1.75 f. cf. ‘b. . OP AIN—-Chicago cash market—No. 2 red winter wheat $1.14; No. 2 Hard winter .wheat., $ 1.05; No. 2 mixetf corn, S2c; Nor'S Telldw cofcti. 84c; No. 3 white oats. 40c. Averaged farm price: No. 2 mixT-'d corn. G9c, daisy PRODFeTS—Butter. score. Chicago 37H'P- Cheese at Wis. prirharv markets: Flats, 214 c; twins. single daisies. 21Hc; double daisies. 219; young Ajmrlcas.- 21c; longhorns. 21%c; square prints. 215ic. TzIVE STOCK—-Chic?agt> prices: Hogs, top. $8.10; bulk' of sales. $7.15-18.00; medium ami good beef steers. SS.SO- - butcher cows and heifers. $3.75$10.25; feeder steers, $4 75-SS. 50; light and medium weight veal calves. $7.75$11.25. HAY—No. 1 timothy. Minneapolis.--$18.00; No. 1 prairie, St. Louis. $22.50, — Bran. $19.50; ipiddl ings, $24.00; flour middlings. $29.50; re(V.<Xa%. $32,00. Minneapolis: gtirtfen feed " $37.15, Chicago; White horniny feed. $31.00, St. Louis; $32.00. Chicago; $2 per cent linseed meal, $38.00 Minneapolis. Bo.dy of Roth Is Found in Basket Drifting in Lake Port Stanley, Out., July 10.—Lake Erie yielded the body of Lieut. L. J. Rath, pilot of the 111-fated United Spates.liavyTwUaijn-A-GO9B. .Strapped tA tlie basket 1 idloon and cladonly in hisgtmderwear, around whieh hatj body was found in tlie basket fotirteen miles off here by .Cap.t, George Wilson, fiiaster of a. fishing boat. 11 Die in 48 Hours, Death * /' Toll of Autos in Chicago _ Chicago, July 10—Motor fatalities cllniluul to . a .peak when six persons, four of them littld ehlldren, w,ere killed within six hours Monday afternoon. In forty-eight hours ending Monday night eleven persons, of whom seven were children, were-ldlled in aulbmobite aeddents. The total nunilwr of alitomobije deaths in Cook county •since January 1 son red to 34C. ' Turks Sink Greek Troop Ship. After Battle, Report Sofia, July 7. —A report received from Constantinople says that The Greeks attejnpted to land a regiment at Kara-Burun, near the Dardanelles, and that the Turks repulsed then.!, after severe figlilliig. There were tiiaffy "ehsuifttTeS oiTTioth sides, tlie re> port says. In.--tlie fighting-.* Turkish torpedo boat sank a Greek ship, aceording to tlie Constantinople - report,, and many wefe drowned. Bank Closes in Great Falls x g as Prize Fighters Leave Great Tails, Monk. July j(L—*fhe State Trust and Savings bank of Great Falla, .of " SOeorge .JX. Striintoh, one of the men who asplsted In financing tlie I iprnpsey-Gibbons light at Shelby. Juiy 4,’ is presldmlt, closed Its (Ukiis when It Was unable t,<*., liquidate. Its" >Tea rings at tlq; h c.nl clearing house.

Minnesota Parties Seek Full Vote. St. Paul. Minn.. Juy 10.—The final wpek In Minnesota’s senatorial campaign begun with the broadcasting, of on appeal by all partles for a full vote j TrTthe election on July 10, when a sue- ! egsstitt to Knute Nelson will he chosen,. Gouraud Sees Wilson. -. g Washington. July 10— Genmil Oriiß ! mud of France onlied on Woodrow Wilson before leaving -here for RufTidd. I Ambassador and Mihfe Jusserand necompanied the the former , nrec home.

!• News ! Brevities From Indiana |

Mrs. Clifford Simpson, thirty-five years old, suffered a broken leg In a fall sustained while walking along White river near Anderson. The Indiana women of Western college held a picnic at the Turkey Run State park June 28. Dinner was served at the hotel. 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 Montlcjefilo. S / Arthur Anderson, twenty-six, Cadillac, Mich., attempted to lonrd a Michigan Central train at the -state ltr.e near Hammond ant) fell under tlie cars. Both his legs were Cut off. Plans for remodeling the church at Hartford City, at a cost of $10,(100, were approved by the board of trustees. Bids yill be received soon for the work. A record of ten acres of wheat shocked In two hours was set by the employees of Jurgen's hardware storeand Ehmann’c meat market. The men (Went to 'the fields after Work In the stores in Terre Haute In answer to a Call made by farmers of Vigo county. Declaring the Bedford Stone Club auxiliary to be a combination In restraint of trade, Judge Z. -E. pougnn, -of the Hendricks circuit court at Danville. entered an jirder forfeiting the charter of the auxiliary and directingthat its affairs be closed. I. J. Reuter, general manager of the Remy Electric company, employing 3,000 persons, at Anderson, has ported notices at the factory that there wIH be no shutdown of a week In July, as In former years, because, he said, high production will be necessary In July to take care of orders on file. The work of refrescoing the interior pf the city school buildings Is being completed. Announcement was made that Miss Catherine Griner of Dunkirk.and Fiss Lena Feelig of Hartford City hnve signed contracts to teach here next year. Only four vncnneU v remain In the teaching staff.

That proper feeding has much to do with the .production of eggs was demonstrated at Hnrtford City by the results of the egg lnylng contest for Blackford county for the. month of May, A flock of hens owned by George O. Croft of JiJontpelier, won the contest with, an average, of 21.8 eggs. Raids on two fnrriis near Crawfordsville. j.wned by Winte Miller, resulted. In the arrest of eight men and- the confiscation of two la'rge stills, other apparatus and rfiash. In both raids it was sjiid that branches of the Hors! Thief ' Detective association assisted the police in obtaining evidence which formed the basic of the raids. , 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 posslble those of our members who have employees that can assist In .toklfig* care of the crop, release these to the farmers In their communities." . With the slnghig of the "Tramp, Tramp, .Tramp, the Boys Are Marching;' and “The Star Spangled Banner,’" sung as only veterans of the Civil war can sing It, the survivors of Wilders' “Lightning Brigade," famous In the fighting of t)ie Union forces, closed their last reunion ns a separnte body at Terre Haute. Only 14 members of the once fninotis body of troops attended the meeting. i> — ■ - * . C. C. Saulsberry, traveling repre4entatlve of tbe Indianapolis*News, was host at a picnic, of Noblesvllle News farriers at the new dam of the North Indiana Power company or White river, .four miles north of Nobleovllle. Reports hnve been filed by 227 hoys nd girls of Shelby county, who are members of the. .Slielliy County Poultry club, giving the. results of the club work and standing,zif each contestant to the middle of this month. The hoys and girls reported 4,292 chicks from the eggs that were distributed a month ago to he hatched and entered In the tontest. .

Atlanta, a small town south of Tipton, was the seene of n brutal murder end stilclde'when Kllhu A. Esfeie, slx-ty-flve years old, bent and shot his wife to death aful then shot himself. Jealousy Is said by neighbors to have - caused the act. ' The left htfnd Finch, seven, ion of Conn ell man Seltpa Finch, Port- ' land, was blown off when the boy npt pllfd a match to a dynamite cap, which he had found on a public highway. The boy's eyes also were Inlured and his face was lacerated.

Tlie buu bus Keen placed ou lie proposed efforts of tlie.Ku Kh,ix klt to noW a parade In East Oil re go Mayor Frank Callahan lias announced A grand Jury Investigation of tht Martinsville Gas and Electric company hue been ordered by Fred W. Steiger, prosecutor of Morgan eotjuityl $ ; ■><"' William Richardson, seventy-six years ojd, was killed when he wai struck by a Pennsylvania rallrbad pas senger train at Coesse. „ •' & " Deep scalp wounds und a broken ana were sustained by L. J. Caldwell, s traveling sitlesuiun from Chicago, when his automobile skidded In mud three miles southwest of Luporte ami turned over. JH S wife, who was- riding with him, escaped injury. A powerful speed engine at the west end of the machine room at the paper mill In Curthuge, “run away,’’ demolishing Itself and the foundatior and hurling a piece through the roof. No one was Injured. The damage amounted to several thousand dollars Governor McCray and Lawrence F. Orr, state examiner for the state board of accounts, will select possibly twenty or more men to work at $lO a day und certain expenses ns field examiners for the state board of accounts, ft was learned at Indianapolis. Miss Eva Sinclair, supervisor of art in the Seymour public schools, received first honors in the'art exhibit which closed at the Shields High School huilding at Seymour. Mrs. H. Lett and Mrs. Guy Cooper received honorable mention for their pictures. 4 ' , ♦ The resignation of Don R. Mellett ns editor and publisher of (he Columbus Daily Ledger was tendered the directors and accepted. , Mr. Mellett has been' part owner and editor of the paper for six years. He will retain Ills Interest In ft, but will retire from active newspaper work for a time. The Rev. Thomas McGrath of Indianapolis, who was ordained at St Melnrad several days ago, has been appointed-assistant to the Rev. H. N. Schneider of the Greensburg Catholic church. Tlie parish, with a membership of nearly 1,000, is said to be toe large for one pastor. - " Work has been started by the Inter state Public Service company on 8 new filtration, plant and pumping Station at Warsaw.' Water will be taken from Center lake, 1 The Improvement includes anew pumping station and new electric-driven pumps. The total cost will be in excess of SIOO,OOO. Twenty-eight graduates received diplomas at the Liberty' township commencement exercises held at Center church, Marion, first honors in oratory going -to Miss Florence Brewer Second honors were awarded Miss Nellie Simmons. Miss Juanita Corntier won the-high grade honors, Paul Wejntraut of ShelbyvlUe. one of twenty-four men arrested by Decatur county officials In a raid~bn a camp near St.,Omer on the night of June 10, entered a pfea of gilty to a clfSfrge of selling intoxicating liquoi in the mayor's court at Greensburg and was fined S2OO and costs, which he [laid. The Madison County grand 1 has returned an * tml-ictment against John Boyles of Alexandria, charging him with involuntary manslaughter (is the outcome of an accident'when Boyles’ automobile ran Into a car on which Glen Miller, an Alexandria garage-owner, was working} resulting In fatal injury to Miller.

Total current and delinquent',taxes collected during the last six months tp be distributed among state and county funds amounted to $2:072 953.04. according to the settlement sheet for collected state end county revenue and other taxes completed by Charles M. Lee of Terre Haute, auditor of Vigo county. ' • Thomas Davis, alias Hobart Davis who Is said by detersives to have confessed be was Involved with William Murphy In the holdup cjty strcWi car In Anderson and another In Mtihele and who confessed the theft of a number of automobiles In Indiana Cities, waived arraignment nt Muncle on a charge of vehicle-taking and was remanded to circuit court for trial. A surprise party upon the' occasion of the fifty-eighth wedding anniversarj of Mr. and Mrs, Jonathan Rnkei marked the observance of that event at Columbus, The surprise, was carried through by the (1. A. R. and the W. Tl.-C., of which they werp members. Baker, who was nt one time commander, of the loeaf O, A. R. post, watwa member of Company H, Twentyseventh Indiana Infantry. He found his bride, then a girl of sixteen, In Cumberland, Md.. and married her at the close of the war. Authority to’merge Into the Wabash Vnßey Electric company eight Indlnnh public utilities said to ho worth from $2,000,000 to $3,tH)0,000 and to Issue ,1,1.009.000't0 S2.(K)(yKjJj t worth of se-' entitles against tl.e organization is contained In nn order the public service commission hns Issued nt tndlnngpolls. ** . Alleging that she was "sold" to slxty five-yenr-ohl husband. Mrs. Sarah Baker, a twenty-four-yer.r-old wife, hns' filed suit for divorce In the forlei circuit court nt Importe..

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SimdaySchool 1 Lesson 7 ——*4*--- ~ — * • -•— (By REV. P. B. FITZWATER. D. D.. Teacher of English Bible in the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) (©. 1923. Western Union.)

LESSON FOR JULY 22 JOHN THE APOSTLE LESSON TEXT—Luke 9:49-56; John 19:25-27; I John 4:7, 8. GOLDEN TEXT—"God la lovj; and he that dwelleth id love dwelleth In God, and God in hinv."—l John 4:16. ' REFERENCE MATERIAL Mark 1:16-20: John 13:21-25; Acts 4:13-20, Rev. 1:9. ' —> PRIMARY Disciple Whom* Jesus Loved. . —————• JUNIOR TOPIC—John, the -Beloved - Disciple. - - " f ‘ - , INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—John, the Boaom Friend of J-eaua. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIO —A Character Study of John. I. His Intolerance of Irregular Service <Luke 9:40, 50). '“' John was conscientious In his Intolerance of this disciple. There seems to have been no question but what tbe man was-really casting out devils, even though he did not possess the same credentials as the twelve apos* ties. There seems to have £een no questioii as to the reality of the truth whicji this disciple taught or the work ' he did. The samq spirit has been manifested all through the Christian centuries. Whoever witnesses truly ot Christ and does His work has- God's recognition. Christ rebuked John's intolerance und declared that “he that is not against us Is for us.” May we everywhere show the same considern tlon to those who are doing the Lord'9 work even though they are not members of onr particular church. 11. John's Righteous Indignation .(Luke 9:51-56). 1. Facfe .Set Toward Jeruua--lem (vv."*sl-53). He knew what was before Him. He knew the awful fate awaiting Him ,at Jerusalem. Even though the dark shadow of tlfe'"cross hung across his path He resolutely nerved Ilirnself far the ordeal. Tht cfoss was no accident. The supreme purpose of His eonrfng was to save the world through His sacrificial death. This was in the plan of Gwd from, all eternity. The cross is the grand center of the Christian religion. Everyone who follows Jesus must take jj up his cross. 2, The. Inhospitable Samaritans (v. 53). Tlie Lord was to pass through that city on His way to Jerusalem. When the people discerned that His face was set for Jerusalem they re fused hospitality to Him. Tills Insult to the Lord so aroused the anger of John and Janies that they desired to call down fire from heaven to destroy the Samaritans. It was John's love for his Lord that, prompted this sugges- , tion. Christ rebuked him antj cor-/ heofFd his'spirit, but He knew thatjr proceeded from a heart of love. Love will brook no Insult to its object. Mistaken love has done much harm In the church. The pages of history are •red with the blood of heretics, to the everlasting shame, of the persecutors. Persecution Is not the way to deal with those who differ with ps. Tlie spirit is riot only wrong, hut it is futile, for the blood of the martyrs has always become the seed of tlio church. May Christ's rebuke to John take from our hearts the spirit of intolerance and revenge. Jesus came not to destroy, men, but to save them. 111. John's Cars of Christ’s Mother (John 19:25-27). 1. Jesus Saw His Mother (v. 26), .-Perilnps His physical suffering had so dimmed His vfslon that He had not seen her before. But even His death ngonles did hot cause Him to forget her. While engaged In tht redemption of the world. He displayed Hts tender humnn Interest In.this beautiful act. Tbe cross Is the center from which love flows. ••>- - ,

2. John Took Mafy to His Own Home (v. 27). The same John who wished 4cr call down fire upon the inhospitable Samaritans now ' Was engaged In the tenderest act of human nffeetion: He was earing for the motfier of his Lord, The reason .Testis entrusted her to John was flint He knew Ills real heart of love. Ile knew \thnt John's experience was such that he-could-enteh Into full sympathy with her In her great sorrow. IV. Test of Divine Birth (I John 4:7,8), John's experiences In life were such that now near the close of bis life he declared that the supreme test" of fellowship In the divine life is love. Lova Is the bond of perfection—the cord that hinds all virtues Into one harmonious bundle. All ( thV fruits of the Clfflstlun life spring out of this root. God Is love. All that Is good and beautiful In our lives Is but the very life of God flowing through us. 1 So With All Men. All men think all mortul but themselves. —Young. r Religion Is Necessary. Genius, without religion, Is only a lamp on the outer gate of a .paleee'f It may serve to east a gleam es light op those that are without; the lh habitant Is In dnrkuess. —H. More. Fortune of Complaint. The usual fortune of complaint la to .excite contempt more than pity.— Johnson. Muat Count on Christ. All history Is Incomprehensible without Christ. —ltenan.