Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 42, Number 50, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 9 August 1923 — Page 2

WIN CITIZENSHIP BY FEW SECONDS Eleven Transatlantic Liners Race i~ T t to Land Immigrants Before August Quota Is Filled. ' it BRING > IH 11,960 PERSONS Machinery at Ellis Island Put at Top Speed to Handle the New Arrivals—Accommodations Are Taxed. New York, Aug. 1. —Eight Transat- I ■tantiC liners entered in the race to land their immigrants before the August quotas were filled flashed across i the finish line and Into quarantine within four minutes, immediately after midnight. , In the next two minutes three more vessels arrived, making a total of Hrcheeked in at 12 :OS. Nine more were expected to arrive before morning. Thee first arrival was the steamship America, which arrived at 12:02. , The others were listed in the following order: Madonna, .12 :OS, Orizaba and Argentina, 12:04, Drottnfogholm, Lithuanian, Columbia and Franeonia,- 12:06; Bremen and' Vestris, 12:07; Bergensfjord. 12:08. Bring In 11,960 Persons. The 11 steame.rs brought 11,000 first/ second, and third-class immigrants. Immigration Commissioner Curran announced that he would be able to handle only about 2,000 of them today if the machinery at Ellis island ran ; smoothly and could house only 1.7001 overglghj by Jamming the immigration I buildings. , ! It was impossible to ascertain defl- j -nttely Just what quotas, if any, had ) been filled or' exceeded by the arriving steamers. Commissioner Curran had predicted, however, that seight quotas of the lesser European countries would be filled' within the first half hour of the new quota perlM. . < Fog It a Handicap. New York,'Aug. I,—Because of a dense fog off Nantucket liglitship which extends' 100 miles to the east- j ward, the liners bringing. grunts for-the August quota rush were under a handicap in makirig their goal.] -: - One Hundred Reported Killed in German Railroad Wreck Berlin, Aug. I.—One hundred are be- j lle'ved to have been killed at the Krei- : ensen station at the Junction of the Hanover and Cnssel line when the Hamburg-Munich express crashed Into a train standing at the station. Forty- I four bodies were recovered' from the wreckage immediately after the accl- l dent, ahd'WlnJurtd were cared for in the hospital at Goettingen. Say' Mussolini Has Army of Half a Million Men Rome, Aug. I.—The supreme council of the Fascist party issued a bulletin on Premier Mussolini's accomplishments. It speaks especially of its "formidable invisible army,” consist- i ing of a reserve militia of blackshirts which was recently created by Signor Mussolini and which comprises 500.000 men “destined to the task of assuring the continuation of the Fascist regime.” Leviathan Made Handsome Profit on Maiden Trip Washington, July 30.—A gross profit of $379,000 was realized from the j maiden voyage of the Leviathan, it] was announced at the offices of Hftfj Shipping board., Receipts on the out-! Ward voyage from New Ynnc to Europe wgre $411,000, and those on the j return trip were $308,000, a total of $779,000. The actual "but of pocket" operating expenditures for the round trip totaled $400,000. Senator Underwood Is Candidate for Presidency Montgomery, Ala., I.—Oscar W UndervffSid, senior senator from Alabama, jninarity. leader in the sen-' ate and appointee of President Harding as representative of the'fnlledl States in the disarmament conference Ut, Washington, announced himself as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President. In a speech to” the Alabama legislature. Steamships Rush to Land Immigrants at New York New York, Aug.-Jr—Eight' transatlantic liners in the race to land the|r Immigrants, before the August quotas were filled flashed across the flnlsh.fiine and. Into quar "i antlne within four minutes. In tlie next two minutes three more vessels arrived, making a_Jotai of eleven checked )n at 12‘:08. Nine more arrived luter. - Bodyguard Causes Comment. Columbus, 0.. Aug. I.—Two icn serving life sentences for mcr.der ac]compunled Governor "Vic" Donah'y when he and n party went ipto the Canadian woods for a two weeks’ vacation, is was alleged. Invite George to Visit America. London. -Aug. I,—.lames .1.- Duels, United States secretary of labor, an A Ills party, guests of I.loyd George, Invited him Jo attend- the. -Welsh xe. union in Chicago and the American Levinn convention in ,San Francisco.

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Mrs. Ellis A. Yost of Huntington, W. Va., vice chairman of the women's Joint congressional committee and legislative representative of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance union, has been appointed by President Harding to attend the International Congress Against Alcoholism which will be held in Copenhagen Aug. 20-24.

AUTO WRECKS KILL 13 Train Figures in Two Collisions • - Within Short Time. <• .4 First Disaster at Highland, 111., and the Second at Liggett Crossing; Near Terre Haute, Indian^ Terre Haute, Ind., July 80.—Nine motorists were instantly killed when their machine was demolished by a train at the Liggett crossing of the Pennsylvania lines, eight miles west of this city. ]jTbb accident was Jhe second fatal smash in which the train had figured a' distance of 100 miles. It having stauefe- an auto with four -passengers at Highland, 111., killing qll of them. The ttgjp was being pulled by two locomotives at the time of the second "ccidenj.jmd raring at’.a high rate of speed to make up time lost In the first smash. Those killed in the Liggett’s Crossing accident were: Mrs. Velda Bostwick, forty-one, of Danville, and her five children —May, eighteen: Richard, Bixteen; Trilla,, thirteen; Etta, three, and Frink, one. Mrs. Ethel .Slavens, 1 twenty-one, of Central Terre Haute, and her infant daughter, Anna Leona, and Raymond Thomason, twenty-bnV of Danville, driver of the machine. „ „ ]_ • According to' C. G. Giillshle, telegraph operator in a tower at Llggett's Crossing, the Bostwick machine had come_ to a halt as It approached the crossing. ' “ The driver then, apparently, decided he had time to cross the tracks ahead of the train and started his auto. , It was smashed in the middle. The mangled bodies of the motorists were strewn along the tracks for more than 100 yards. The victims of the Highland accident, aU of whom were residents £t Garden City, were: John Fzaz, forty: John. Fzaz, Jr., fourteen Lengyle, nineteen, and George Doako, •thirty-three. Fluctuations in Grain^/ Credited to Speculators Washington, July 30.—Frequent and temporary fluctuations in grain prices are caused largely by speculation, while long-time fluctuations may be attributed entirely to other, causes, ! chiefly supply and demand This Is the conclusion reached by the federal trade commission, mnde public In the second vplume of a report on “Methods and Operations' of Grain Exporters." -The commission recommends among other mutters that the Chicago board make public each the total volume of futures operations the pre-. ceding day, and that brokers be prohibited from speculating in futures for their own account.

British Knight Plans to Ease Arid Foreign Throats London, July 28.—Lieut. Col. Sir Broderick Hartwell', former British I srmy officer, has' Issued n circular Injilting subscriptions of $12.50 or over ! for a whisky selling expedition one the | high seas, according to the London Dully Express. Sir Roderick plans to i send 10.000 cases of whisky to a foreign port within a month. A private ship, sailing under sealed orders for i>n unknown destination, will cnrry the cargo. The baronet states he -has already arranged for 5,000 senses, jthd guarantees to return), money invested phis 20. per cent Interest within sixty days. ' ..... * j JJope Baris Sleeveless Gowns. . Rome, Atjg. L—During a papal rei the Vatican the pontiff excluded nil women who. were "lmI properly dressed." The Iran fell upon ! Women who exposed their arms and j shoulders,' \ ' +~~ rr . - Movie Star to Rj-Wed. Los Angeles, Cfll., A tig. I.—Mildred ' Harris, motion Jlffiture actress, formerly the wife of Charlie Chaplin, adI mlt.ted that sire eypectgij-tocatnni’i’y. | She was quoted as stating her fiance i u nn eastern capitalist.

FRENCH REJECT “BRITISH OFFERS <?©• All Pronosals Are Declared Unacceptable by the Poincare Government. SITUATION IS NOW GRAVE Much Anger Aroused In England Ovir the Summary Rejection of ths Proposed Plans—Will Discuss Reparations Problem. London, July, 31. —Premier Poincare's reply to Lord Curzon regarding the proposed British Dote to Germany, and the covering memoranda, were delivered to the British foreign office. The French premier’s reply firmly rejects all the British proposals, some of them arbitrarily and others after j long'd™wn-out legal .argument. -It is felt here that the tone of the i reply is likely to lead to a grave ! crisis. | It is learned from a high . dlplo- ! matic source that the French ask Britain to make plain Just how mush she j expects' for reparations. Britain Is asked bluntly whether she will be satisfied with a sum from Germany which will enable her to liquidate her debt to America. Paris newspapers had given the Impression thM Poincare's answer would be cordial. ThU reply had the effect of a bombshell. That the British are Incensed is indicated by the announcement by the Exchange Telegraph that the discussion of the military occupation of the Ruhr and the reparations problem will take place In the house of commons Thursday.

Communist Uprisings in Germany Turn Out Fizzle Berlin, July 80.—The Communists’ ; promise of a “Red ounday” for Germany—a Sunday that would menace the Fascisti and bourgeoisie and perhaps result in the overthrow of the Cuno government—proved a very pale pink Sunday. 1 ■Five are dead and twenty or more injured, but .as Germany gauges her “dnys of protest and demonstration," * this represents a very light toll. I In Berlin, Frankfort, Dresden, Breslau and Munich the demonstrations were almost complete, fizzles. The proclamation of President Ebert and Chancellor Cuno, announcing the'.lnstallation of energetic reform measures to relieve the population, calmed the people and robbed the Reds of a great deal of their thunder. I Blame Premier Baldwin for Yielding to United States London, July 31.—The Dally Express ! says that , Premier Baldwin threw away the only weapon with which to settle, the European crisis when he ■ settled the American debt. The Ex- ! press suggests’ that .America would j have consented to be drawn into European politics, would have delayed asking payment and would have Joined England in forcing settlement from France. } | Dr. Cook of Pole Fame Indicted in Oil Swindle Los Angeles. Cal., Aug. 1. —Nearly ! thirty Individuals, including Dr. Frederick A. Cook, who pnee proclaimed himself the discoverer of the North pole, and two corporations, were indieted by the federal grand Jury here, I on charges of misuse of the malls in ] connection with alleged oil swindles : In Texas, chiefly at Fort Worth and j vicinity... ; ' -V Canadian Northwest Has t Snow That Covers Crops 1 Calgary, Alta., Aug. 1. - Snow covered the crops fifteen miles west of Calgary and the foothills are white. Snow also is reported in Banff. De Winton and Clarsholm. A tempera- [ Jure of 38 degrees above zero, ohly j six points above freezing, was registered in some sections. o

-'.-Y n. Auto With Five Men Jumps Into Tree Top; All Saved Oelwejn, la., July 28. —Five men and an automobile were suspended In the branches of a tree, thirty feet above ground and obliged to remain there until a derrick waStbrought, when Fred Itelneke IdSt control of his machine and it left a highway bridge near-here. Wood Embroglio Causes Boycott of U. S. Wares Manila. July 28—A boycott against American goods’ lias been launched In Srin Mtnguel. Bulacnn province, a short distance north of Manila, where the sentiment against Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood and American supporters of ills policy is strong. - Predicts Falling Off In Revenqs. Washington, July 31.—Ordinary receipts of the government for the cur-, retit year will "he $203,437,243 less thnn for the fiscal year' 1923, Director of tlie Budget .Lord estimated In his nnnual report. Liquor Proposal Is Secret. London. July 31.—Premier Baldwin announced that the United States refuses to permit Grent-Brltaih tp make public proposals which would give America the right to search any ship wittilu the twelve-mile limit.

THE NAPPANEE ADVANCE-NEWS

LORD CARNhu.- ’ | I ~T n ' Lord Carnegie, head of the Carnegie clan, who is shortly to marry Princess Maud of Fife, daughter of the Princess Royal.

U, S. MARKET REPORT Weekly Marketgram by Bureau of Agricultural Economics. j Washington.—For the week ending ; July 27.—FRUITS AND VEGETABLES —Georgia Elberta peaches. [email protected] per 6-basket carriers and bu. baskets;, eastern markets. Tom Watson watermelons. 22-30-lb. average, [email protected] bulk per car. Virginia and Maryland Irish cobbler potatoes. [email protected] per bbl. leading markets; .early Ohios, $1,.71 @ 2.00? e..ck, per 100 lbs. In Chicago. LIVE STOCK AND MEATS.—Chicago prices: Hogs. top. $7.75; bulk of sales. [email protected]. Medium and good beef steers, $7.75@ 10.90; butcher cows and heifers, $3.40@10; feeder steera. M.ls@ 8; light and medium.weight veal calves, s9@ll; fat lambs, $10.75@13; feeding lambs, [email protected]; yearlings, $7.75@ 11.60; fat ewes, $3.50 @7. Btocker and feeder shipments from twelve Important markets during the week ending July 20 were; cattle and calves. 47.205; hogs. 5,867; sheep, 32.087. DAIRY PRODUCTS.—Butter: 92 score butter. Chicago, 40c. CHEESE.—Prices at Wisconsin- dak’y cheese markets July 26;. flats, twins. single daisies. IJlVtc; Young America/?, 23c; longhorns, 22%c; square i prints. 23c. HAY.— No. 1 timothy. Minneapolis, ' sl7; St. Louis. sl9. No.-l prairie, Minneapolis. $15.50; St. Louis. $16.50. f =' FEEnr—Minn eapol r?rn, j'2 nt mid-“ dlings, $24.75; flour middlings. $297 rye feed. $24. GRAlN.—Chicago cash market:' No. 2 red winter n heat. 980 No. 2 hard winter wheat. 98c; No. mixed corn, 9‘oc; No. 2 yellow corn. 90c; No. 3 w’hite oats, 42c. Average farm prices: No. 2 mixed corn In central. lowa. 76c; No. 2 hard winter wheat In central Kansas. 78c. English Newspaper Highly ' Praises President Harding Lonfinn,_ Aug. “ediforlnT.” earnestly hoping for President Harfling's recovery, the Daily I Mall says British interest in the Pres-, 1 dent's rase is personal ns well as 1 rtfftcinl. The rdlmrlal* adds: “He has j earned title tp remembrance in tire ' history of the world, as w*H as that 1 of the republic, and has held his place not unworthily In that famous line ofdemocratlc rulers that runs from Washington through Adams, Monroe, ! Lincbhi -and Roosevelt." Puts Destiny of Entente Flatly Up to Great Britain Paris, Aug. I.—Qua! d’Orsay makes I no attempt to hide the fact that the i Britislfclmpression is very had, accordI ing to the reports' of Comte de Bt. ! Aulaire, the French ambassador to LondonT'fWnch sources believe Prime Minister Baldwin may be forced to make a declaration of a separate British policy toward Germany. 'Further concessions on -France's part are out of the question. The aesjiny of the entente, therefore. Is flatly up to the i Engiish. Thunderstorms Cause Heavy Damage Throughout Maryland Baltimore, Md„ July 317—Cloudbursts and a series of terrific ttvun* ; (lerstormS sweeping the coutffles of ]western Maryland esused the Patapseo river to overflow Jts banks, sweep- : ing bridges and buildings before It, ' driving hundreds of fandlies:irfiqMJSelF I homes and causing damage that will, iron Into millions of dollars. So far as Is known no lives were lost.One entire tOAvn, Marriotsville, Is reported under, water. Conference of European Powers Practically Failure f ' Slnnlapßunmnla, July 31.—The conI ference of the powers of the little • I entente ended with Pojnnd still outsldg the nllianee but Greece*definitely in. Affnlrs of the Whole alliance have not’ been bettered by the conference, which leaves Czechoslovakia and Poland more bitter than ever over their boundary, quarrel in the Carpathian ! mountains, v " V . • ——ater- , Mllliona Drawing Pension*. Geneva, Aug. 1. —The number of . casualties -In the World war drawing I pensions ts estimated at 10,000:000 iif a report to a conference'of expert# , held; U'vSlUily methods of placing these men ,nt work. Lady Astor’i Bill a Law. London, Aug. I.—lto^nl.assent was 1 given to Lady Astor's lfquor bill, thus formally placing It upon the statute '■ hooks. Tlie hill jftoMblts the sale „f Intoxlcntlftg liquors to liny person un J tier eighteen years old.

News Brevities From Indiana

The,-auroral reunion of- the One Hundred Sixtieth Indiana regitnent In the war with Spain will be held In Anderson August 20. The state Highway commission has announced that anew bridge will be constructed over the Salamonie river (if Metamoras, three mil A southeast of Montpelier. The fifth annual conference of the Indiana Methodist Episcopal Institute Closed nt Bethany Park when, 36 students received ,certificates of graduation. * Mrs. Mary Ann Cullen,Smith, eightythree, widow of James B. Smith, a veteran of the Civil war, died of paralysis at the home of her daughter at LawrencebUrg. ■ . • •’ , Thomas Taylor, who came to Bedford several months ngo from Salem, succumbed after a surgical operation for the relief of intestinal ulcers. He is survived by the widow. Despondent over his physical condition, John WltkoWski, twenty-six, exservice man and shell-shock victim, committed suicide at' South BeDd By shooting himself. He recently returned from hospitals at Cleveland and Dayton. Blackford county farmers report the eh.lnch bugs are unusually bad at the present time. The pests are nowleaving wheat add oats fields and goinginto corn. Farmers are employing the creosote line and oil plan of combating the hugs. New Harmony dam has been selected for the.first annual, camp ,of farm women of Vanderburg, bounty-, to be .held August 7 to 10. Any woman in" the Qovrnt,v is eligible to attend. Tin; campi-r.' will be required to do their own cooking. , " Falrmount, Liberty, Green and Jes-. fersp.ii townsjiips have united for the purpose of holding a fall festival in Fairmount. October 9, 10, 11 and 12. It will he in the nature of a street fair and there will be a large exhibit of products of the farm and a live stock show. •G- A W a *..^f.. 7Hie”lndiana refrftnatory at Jeffersonyilie, has announced that -two farms owneil and operated By the Institution will be sold on sealed bids. The fa mis have been operated by the state for several years. The sale is made necessary by the coming removal of the reformatory to Pendleton. * , ’ '..The old Spencer hotel In Marion, where Willis Van Devanter, an asso s ciatt* justice of the United States Supreme court, first studied law/is being razed to make way for anew hotel building. The present huildihg was' ejected in.,. LSOfl. .The firm of Van* Devanter & .McDonald, had offices in the building. The senior member of the firm was the father of the Supreme court justice. The new Spencer hotel will cost approximately $450,000, Mrs. Viola Burc-hcC, -forty-five, wife of Rev. \V. -Ar Hardier, pastor of the Church of Christ at Newcastle, was killed and Mrs. William Dameron, alsq of NewCastl*. was' seriously injured when the mitmrioblie In Which they were riding skidded,off the road and struck a telephone pole a mile north of Lewisville. Jfrs. Rureher suffered n liroken neck and was dead when taken from tlio car. Mrs. Dameron suffered a fractured skull, a broken nose and a broken arm. The Rev. Mr. Hurcher waw,.driving. the automobile. i • fc — ; ': 7 ;• Tliirteen persons were killed hv an easDbdilttd- Ylennavlvanla.— passenger train in two. separate accidents, one at Highland, 111., In which four persons were killed, and the other at Liggett, eight miles west of Terre Haute, In which nine were killed. The ■dead in the IJggett accident ‘were: Mrs. Volta Bostwick. forty-one; Richard Bostwick. sixteen ; Clarence Bost-wb-k. thirteen'months: May Bostwick. etghm>iv: Trilla Bostwick, .thirteen* Etta Malessa Bostwick. three, nil of Daii.vi.ile;, Mrs.—Etlad Slavens.Hwenty.one, and Anna Leona Slavens’, three months, of Terre Haute; Raymond Tliotnnsoii, Drmvllle, the driver. The deqd In t.lie I ligbland tragedy ■ were : John Se/s. forty: Sera Dnhkn. thirty; .Toe Long,vie, thirty-five; John Sezs, Jr„ fourteen. AU were residents of HlgliKind. • <f> Control of the bnrherry growth, In Shelby county was started nt ftheihyville liy D. ’H, Thom Vis hnd'O, 11. Mcgßrnsle of the United States Depnrtnf Agriculture, who Ijave lieen jsklghed to the section In tlie lnvestlihlion that Is being conducted toward ■radicatlon of hnrheiTy. which causes [)lnck stem rush In wheat." The body of Orville Morns, twenty, in automobile mechanic, was found in - tlie Illinois Central yards at Kvnville by a yardman. Both legs and at) rm bud been cut from the body.

.pc> a. o. ivumiiei oi ctinioli coun ty was re-elegtcd president fit tlie clos> ing session of the Epworth Longue institute ut, tlie Battle Ground camp meeting ground at Lafayette. Wheat yields on some farms in the North Manchester vicinity ure greater than for several years. Lee Frederick rhynshed 222 imsliels of wheat, a little’ more than 44 bushels to the acre, Hffl nine and a hi, If acres Charles "fi."flora o6iame3 :tr>i bushels to the acre. ——. Y The average wlieat yield in Barttiolomew county will not exceed' 15 buthels to the acre*, according to the county agricultural agent. The yield in some .localities was good, but in others exceedingly poor. Ilecuuse of continued rains, many farmers have not yet completed thrashing. Many of the 188 prisoners who were taken ill at the state farm at Greoneastle have returned to work, Ralph Howard, superintendent of the said. Samples of food v were .sent to the state board of health at Indianapolis, and, according to tlie board, the milk contained a bacterial infection which was caused by an un sanitary cream separator.-., Continuing until September 1, nine-ty-three rallies will be held in this state by the Methodist Episcopal churches to promote more effectivecounty organization of Methodist activities. Committees of ministers and laymen have been appointed in each co.unty to act as hosts during the rallies, many of which will be held in groves or parks. A. L. Donaldson, chief engineer of the state board of accounts, has-been called to I.aporte to aid the city of Laporte and the Pike Construction company of Wabash reach an agreement in a dispute over accepting a pavement completed by the Wabash firm last fall. The city afid .the Bike compimy have been-at deadlock . oyer a settlement. . '• E. A. Tucker, mayos- of Columbus, issued o statement to the effect- that the affairs of the city are being adminis-tered-more efficiently now than under the board of public works, which was abolished two months ago. Tlie mayor stated that the city council and its Committees, winch have. charge7J}ffiffiM administer the-.affairs of the city more promptly and efiiciently than did the ; board, of works. “ A cut in die electric light rate to consumers of one cent a kilowatt, for the first fifty kilowatts was enacted by the Fort Wayne municipal light plant after official’ notification of the pro- ! posed action had been sent to tlie : Indiana state public service comniis.akm— .Xlui rwiweliou-'’goe intrr-vffctT" September 1. The present rate; is seven cents a kilowatt, and, according to reports, the 13.839 patrons of the city light plant will effect an annual saying of ’583.034 through the reduction in the rate. ') ' \ ' ♦ - Chickens owned in Vanderhurg ebunty are valued "nt more than the hogs, according to figures given out by the county assessor. The assessment lists show there are 6,763 j dozens of chickens -in Vanderhurg county with a total value of $51,900.32, an average of $7 a dozen. There are 1,108 brood sowsm-the ’county with a total value of $23,672, or an average, of s2l each. There are 4.266 .swine: -classed as- otlier hogs, the value of which Is $25,400, an v avAYige of $5 , Indiamvjjas proportionately fewqr .deaths of infants less than one year old In cities Os 10,000 or more population than twenty other states In the •United States birth, registration area, according to a report of the American Child Health association. In 31 cities! of Indiana, tlie report shows, the infant mortality rate for 1922 was 73.1 for each MOO births. Statistics of the state “hoard of, health sho-vy, that for, the entire state of Indiana in 1922, 68.1 bahjes under one year -old died put of every 1,000. For tlie rural section of ihe state tlie Infant mortality rate was 59.1, while In all cities the rate was 77 out ot every 1,000. Indiana farmers have borrowed $50,722,234 from the banks of the federal farm loan system, according to a tabulation of the loans up to June 30, compiled from reports mnde to tile federal farm loan hoard. Tills is Indiana's participation in a tola! of $1,100,095,510 advanced to farmed throughout the United States, by the joint stock, land hanks and federal land, banks since tlie systems were imtborlzed by rhe congress. Qf tlie total of $50,722,234 borrowed by Indiana' farmers, $25,302,600 was borrowed frotii federal land banks ami $25,359,654 represented loahs made by the Joint lund banks. About, 7,000 farmers berrftwed from the federal land bunks and 4.2(H) from tlie Joint stock land banks. BocnuSf there D no dependable method ,of financing the lied Cross nursing service In Wodmsli county, it may lie ,T. I!. Dutiblp A G’u- hulWers of Uolumbus, have been nvyardeil a contract to build anew hlgji school building at Courtland at a cpst of Oharleß G. IJaxter, fifty-four. Nickel Plate conductor, wlm, lost both legs in im accident hear Continental, 0., dleT at the Methodist hospital at 'Fort Wayne L

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