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IMON PA ABI A AND SCX-TELEGBAM VOL. XCIL, No. 207 Palladium. Kst 131. Consolidated With Sun-Telegram, 1907. RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY EVENING, AUG. 31, 1922. SINGLE COPY, 3 CENTS

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BONUS BILL APPROVED BY SENATE VOTE

Measure Passes Upper House

and Goes to Conference Committee of Both Houses for Final Action.

SUPPORT IS EXPECTED

BULLETIN WASHINGTON. Aug. 31. The soldier bonus bill was passed today by the senate and now goes to the conference committee of the two houses.

(Ev Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. A final vote on the soldiers' bonu3 bill before adjournment of the senate today appeared to be reasonably certain. All pending amendments had been disposed of and general debate begun before the recess last night. As far as leaders were advised only three or four senators planned to deliver prepared addresses, but there "was likelihood of another general dis

cussion such as ha. occurred each of the seven days the bill has been under consideration. Passage of the measure was regarded as a foregone conclusion, but whether it would reach the statute books was conceded by friends and foes alike to be another question. They held that this probably would depend on President Harding since it was regarded as very doubtful that there could be obtained in the senate the necesrary two-thirds to pass the bill over an executive veto. Houses Must Agree. It will be sometime, however, before the measure reaches the White I House. After the senate vote it will be sent back to the house, which is expected to order it to conference for adjustment of the differences between the two houses. After the conferees complete their work the next step will be action by the house and senate on the conference report. With that approved the bill would be ready for the president. As amended by the senate the soldiers" bonus bill would become effective January 1, 1923 and would provide three optional plans for veterans cf the World war, other than those whose adjusted service pay would noc exceed $50. These would be paid in cash. The options are: Adjusted service certificates, payable in 20 years or sooner at death and containing loan provisions. Vocational training aid at the rate of $1.75 a uav up to a total of 140 per - cent of the adjusted service credit. Heme Ownership , Aid in purchasing a farm or home, the total amount to range from 100 per cent of the adjusted service credit if the money were advanced in

1923 to 140 per cent of the adjusted service credit if the payment were

made in 1928 or thereafter. Adjusted service pay, or adjusted service credit, would be figured on the basis of $1 a day for domestic service and $125 a day for foreign service, Jess the $60 paid at discharge. But in no event could the amount of the credit of the veteran who performed no over-seas service exceed $500 and the amount of the credit of the veteran who performed any overseas service exceed $628. Adjusted service certificates would have a face value equal to the sum of the adjusted service credit of the

veteran increased by 25 per cent, plus interest thereon for 20 years at the rate of 4V2 per cent a year compounded annually. Banks May Loan Money Until Jan. 1. 1926, any National bank, or any bank or trust company incorporated under the laws of any state, territory, possession or the district of Columbia, would be authorized to loan to any veteran upon his promissory note secured by his adjusted service credit plus interest thereon from the date of the certificate to the date of the loan, at the rate of 4Vz ' per cent a year. Should the veteran fail to pay the principal and interest of the loan within 6 months after its maturity the government would pay to the. bank the amount of such principal and interest and take over the certificate. This

would be restored to the veteran at any time prior to its maturity upon receipt from him of the amount paid by the government to the bank plus interest on that amount at the rate of 4 Per cent a 'ear. compounded annually. The rate of interest charged the veteran by the bank could not exceed by more than two per cent a year the rate charged at the date of the loan for the discount of commercial paper Ly the federal reserve bank for the federal reserve district in which the lank was located. If a veteran died before the matur(Continued on Page Fourteen)

Legless Mendicant Deceives New York, Exposed by Police NEW YORK, Aug. 31. When his au

tomobile was attached today it. became

Known that Horton A. Malone. a leg

less mendicant, who pushed himself I

about on wheels, begging on Fifth avenue and" the city's affluent side streets, occupies a suite of three rooms

and a bath in one of Broadway's exclusive hotels, lavishes diamonds on his wife, boasts a bank account and employes a chauffeur. Malone recently returned from a three months' holiday at Lake Mohansic, near Peekskill, N. Y., and found that he could not use his town car because his chauffeur, David Morrison, had gotten himself into difficulties during his employer's absence.' Arrested by Detectives Morrison had been arrested by detectives who charged they found hypodermic needles in the car. Harry Frank, a lawyer, it was said, was retained by Morrison, who subsequently called in another attorney. When Frank submitted a bill for $100, Malone declined to pay it, saying the lawyer had rendered no service. When

Frank sued, Malone ignored the sum

mons and judgment was obtained by default. Then, when a city magistrate gave permission to attach Malone's automobile, his identity as a familiar figure on

Fifth avenue was revealed a legless

man wno pusnes nimseir along on a little platform set on rollers collecting

the nickels, dimes and quarters of the

city s tender-hearted.

Oliver Harriman's Son Marries Student

HUNGARIAN FORGES ARE CONCENTRATED ON AUSTRIAN LINE

CBy Associated Press) VIENNA, Aug. 31 Reports of the

concentration of Hungarian forces on the western border of Austria are officially confirmed. The Hungarian newspaper Anap explains that these gatherings are Jue to uprisings which have already occurred in Burgenland, but this is the first intimation of such disorders to reach here. It is reported that the notorious Hungarian bands headed by Baron Pronay and Major Hejjas are reforming across the line, preparing to take advantage of whatever situation may develop to occupy the territory lost to Hungary when allotted to Austria under the peace settlement. Travellers from the south report Jugo-Slav troop movements in strength on the Austrian frontier. Rumors of

actual .Jugo-Slav mobilization, how

ever, are unconfirmed. Maneuvers Begin The maneuvers of the first an.l fifth Czech divisions begin today in the Budweis are of Czecho-Slovakia, about 40,000 men of all branches of the service being conducted tiiere. The British gunboat Clowworm has arrived here unexpectedly constituting the only armed foreign force in the city. While Vienna is outwardly calm awaiting the verdict of the League of Nations on Chancellors

Seipul's letter asking for aid in the

present financial economic crisis, the

nign tension is evidencea m many

ways. Lloyds underwriters here have re

fused the applications of the big hotels, cafes, luxury shops and similar establishments for riot insurance at

any premium. Permit No Attack

M. Cantacuzene, Rumanian minister,

after a conference with the chancellor.

gave a statement to the Neues Weiner Tageblatt saying that the little en

tente would permit nothing which

could be construed as an attack on

its interests in the Austrian problem. Rumania would accordingly support the proposals of Premier Benes of Czecho-Slovakia and any plan which contemplated placing Austria under a hegemony government of any kind would meet resistance. In this connection it is reported Rumania is meeting the Hungarian military activities on the Austrian frontier by a similar movement along Hungary's border.

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BOOST NEEDED TO MAINTAIN LIVING WAGE

Statistician of Maintenance of

Way Men Informs Labor Board of Basis of Living Wage Principle. whartonITdefense

Profiteers of War

Hard-Boiled" Lot, U. S. Fund Indicates

Announcement has just been made that John Harriman, 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Harriman, had married Miss Alice A. Laidley of Chicago. It was a studio romance that had its inception at a party given by

Howard Chandler Christy. Harriman is a freshman at Princeton. Miss Laidley had been living with the Christys. Her father was the late Willam H Laidley, banker and broker of Chicago.

Reparations Body

to Accept Belgian Moratorium Plan

(By Associated Press) PARIS, Aug. SI. The reparations

commission late today unanimously accepted the Belgian compromise on t'.re German moratorium. M. DuBois, the

French member of the commission,

voted with his colleague after a long

Interview with Premier Poincare between sessions.

Commissioners are prepared to make

further efforts for an agreement and even the American observer with the commission. Col. James A. Logan, Jr., is contributing toward the movement,

according to L'Oeuvre.

The newspaper declared Col. Logan

intervened yesterday to support the Belgian plan, advanced by Premier Theunis. and indicated that while the United States was unable to' intervene

FIGHTING OF TURKISH NATIONALISTS, GREEKS IS HEAVY, SAY REPORTS

, CBy Associated Press CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 31. The

first two communiques issued by the

Turkish nationalists on the battle cen

tering around Afiun Karahissar indicate that the fighting was extremely heavy. The Turks do not give the

number of Greeks taken prisoner, but

say they captured considerable booty. The Kemalists. according to the

communiques were forced to break through a triple defense system of barbed wire entanglements storming the Greek positions. General Tricoupis, Greek commander effected the evacuation of the city in a skillful manner. The Turkish cavalry pursued- the Greeks in the direction of Banaz, to ;the southwest, but the retreat was finally brought ,o a standstill by counter attacks.

The fall of Afiun Karahassir, al-

at the present time she was preparing though a serious loss to the Greeks in

to make concrete proposals in Novem-; view ot the fact that it has railway ber. Therefore, the Teunis plan which j connections, does not involve the left the decision open to tne future j evacuation of Eski-Shehr.

appeared to him worthy of considera

tion. The commission was displeased by the action of the Geiman government in publishing broadcast the text of Herr Schroeder's statement to the commission. The statement laid the blame for everything on circumstances, pleading that Germany could have found a

way out of the impasse but for the assassination of Foreign Minister Rathenau and the failure of the international loan, which created a panic and destroyed all her well laid plans.

The capture of Eski-Shehr, principal stronghold of the Greeks on the Asia Minor fighting front was reported yesterday in a Paris dispatch quoting of

ficials. Smyrna dispatches last night said intensive fighting continued south of the Afiun Karahissar railway

tne Greeks although greatly outnum

bered opposing stubborn resistance to

the massed attacks of the Turks.

RECEIVER CONTROLS CHICAGO AND ALTON

(By United Press)

CHICAGO. Aug. 31. -The Chicago

and Alton railroad was virtually under government control today. Action of

the Texas Oil company of Houston,

Texas, in asking for a receivership for the road resulted in the naming of William G. Bie'rd, president of the

road, and William W. Wheeler, attorney, as receivers. They are under di

rect sunervision of the federal court.

Officials of the road refused to es-

, timate the assets today, but declared the total indebtedness was $14,000,000. The Texas company had a $33,000 oioim ntrainst. the company. In the

petition for receivership attorneys declared that the road was in default for materials, supplies, etc., to the exr 1 RftO.000. Officials of the

declared that the combined rail

and coal strike caused the insolvency .,- Aitor. Th road's main source

of revenue was derived through the

CLEVELAND HOUSES ARE BLOWN TO BITS

(By United Press) CLEVELAND, Ohio. Aug 31. Four

houses under construction in Garfield

Heights were blown to bits just before dawn today by what police believe were powerful blasts of dynamite.

Four separate explosions were heard

in quick succession.

The explosion smashed windows

and routed residents from their beds in a radius of two or three miles. The wreckage of the house caught fire

immediately. Residence across the street from the houses that were

blown up surfred most. Police reported however, that no one was Injured. Squads of police were scour

ing the city to trace those responsible. Police were working on the theory that labor trouble may have been the cause of the blasts.

17 HURT WHEN TRAINS CRASH IN DENSE FOG

(By United Press) JERSEY CITY, N. J.. Aug. 31 Seventeen persons were injured, some se rlously today when two Hudson and Manhattan Electric trains collited in a dense fog on the Hackensack

Meadows. The collision occurred at

8:20 arm. A train driven by motorman John

Burke, crashed into the rear of a

train-which, had left Newark a few minutes ahead of it. Both train-; were bound for New York. ' Burke wan seriously hurt. One of the passengers also was severely Injured. Four ol the Injured were taken to Jersey City, where ambulances had been summoned to meet them at the Summit street station. . The Hudson and Manhattan railway runs from New York under the Hudson river to Jersey City and Newark. Its trains run underground through

Jersey City but run on the surface across the "Meadows" and to Newark. The trains are all steel and are operated by electricity.

Explosion at Canadian

Colleries Kills Nine

(By Associated Press) CUMBERLAND, B. C, Aug 31.-

Nine men were killed and 17 injured yesterday afternoon by an explosion

in mine No. 4 of the Canadian Collieries .Dunsmuir Ltd. The cause of the

explosion has not been determined, Of the 17 injured seven are in a ser

ious condition. The dead include three white mn, the rest -being Orien

tals. No fire followed the explosion

An Investigation is to be made. Repairs already started are expected to

tae only a few days.

(By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Aug. 31. Pursuing the efforts of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way employes and railroad shop laborers to base its plea for increased wages on a "living wage principle," W. G. Lee, union statistician, today before the railroad labor board testified that what he termed the living wage as established in all

branches of American industry would

mean an increase of from 22 to 34 per cent

The lowest range of a 22 percent in

crease, Mr. Lock said, would only raise to ' an annual wage of $1,600 those

workers now receiving less than that, some on a basis of an aggregate wage budget in industry of $33,000,000,000

in 1918.

An average wage of $1,600, Mr. Lockj further said, would increase the cost of living 14 percent, but he declared the increased financial burden would be offset by other factors. Explains Increase. As against a $33,000,000,000, which the witness said labor bad received in wages in 1913, Mr. Lock said capital in that year had received a return of $28,000,000,000.

In explaining how he had concluded

that the increased wage which he said would be called by this so-called "living wage" would be compensated, Mr.

Lock said the added financial burden

would be offset by the "efficiency of

labor and the increase of American

capital and that labor would be stabilized." .

Emphatic denial of charges that he

is serving not only as a member of

the United States Railroad Labor board but also as president of the striking shop crafts organization was made today by A. O. Wharton, one of the three labor members of the board. Formerly With Federation Mr. Wharton made the retort when

informed of a dispatch saying thei charges would be contained in an ar-j tide, in the Sept 2 issue of a New York magazine, quoting another member of the federal arbitration body as saying "the shopmen's strike was engineered from the inside of the labor board." .

Mr. Wharton was president of the

railway employes' department of the American Federation of Labor from 1912 to 1920, when he, was appointed

to tbe labor board. He said he was

re-elected president at the union's con

vention last April, but that his re-election was merely a formal tribute in appreciation of past services.

"It was specifically understood, he

said, "that I was not to serve as head

of the organization and that I was not

to do anything that conflicts with my

duties as a member of the labor board."

Refused to Servfe. As soon as I was formally notified

of my election, I wrote a letter to Mr.

Jewell, in which I refused to serve, but

thanked the organization for the vote of confidence. This is a matter of record."

It also is charged, according to the

report, that Albert Phillips, another

labor member of the board, is vice-

president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Mr. Phillips is at present in California. Mr. Wharton said he knew nothing of circumstances under which Mr. Phillipps took office.

Section 306 of the transport act un

der which the labor board was created

provides that no member shall be ac

tively - connected with any labor organization or any railway enterprise and that he shall have no pecuniary

interest in any carrier enterprise, but

adds that he siall not be required to

relinquish honorary membership in, or his rights in ny insurance or pension or other benefit fund maintained by any organization of employes or subordinate officials or by a carrier.

PALLADIUM NEWS Br RE A IT WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. Just to show what a "hard-boiled" lot are the war profiteers treasury officials point to the fact only $42,764.95 was turned into the government's famous "consci

ence fund" during the two years of

the late war, 1917 and 1918, and the ! three following years. That total is $12,153.20 less than the "conscience fund" contributions for 1916, which amounted to $54,923.15. This year, up to the present time, less than $2,500 has found its way into the "conscience fund." , During the war period the federal government was robbed of millions of dollars. The first contribution to the "conscience fund" was made in 1811, a fiedollar bill, and from then up to the first of last January $514,939.88 is the total of the sum; received from those who could have no peace of mind until they had made restitution of funds rightfully belonging to the government. Disposition of Funds Money or its equivalent received from citizens suffering from pangs of conscience is, upon receipt, sent to the division of bookkeeping and warrants, and through that branch of the treas

ury Is checked and finally reaches the general fund and becomes a part of

the money available for the mainte

nance of the government.

Practically all contributions to the

"conscience fund" are anonymous. The largest amount that has ever been re

ceived as .a single contribution was

$30,000. It is needless to state that it was not contributed by one of the late

war profiteers. The smallest contribution was 2 cents. Pay For Mule

Not so long ago treasurv officials

were amused by a letter which accom

panied a "conscience fund" contribution. The writer stated the payment he was making was to cover the value

of a mule that he claimed he had ob

tained possession of unlawfully during

the Civil war.

An Englishman sent in a small sum

equal to a customs fee which he had avoided paying when he arrived in

the United States on a pleasure trip

The proportion of contributions to the "conscience fund" are divided about equally betwen the sexes. One year the majority of contributors will be women, the next year the men will

take the lead.

EXPOSE PLOT TO DYNAMITE FAST EXPRESS

Chicago Police Hold Men

Charged With Trying to Wreck New York Central Train at Gary.

WRECK AT CINCINNATI

Hiram Johnson Assured

Of Senate Renomination (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30. Hiram Johnson today was assured of the Republican nomination for the United States senatorship by a margin of more than 65,000 votes. On the face of the latest returns the vote in 5,751 of 6,695 precincts stood Johnson 273,762, C. C. Moore, 20S.C9S.

Man Who Fired First Shot

For 13. S. in War Re-enlists

(By United Press) INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 31 Alex M. Arch of South Bend, who signalled the

start of America's fight against Germany in the World war by firing the first shot, was working for Uncle Sam

again today. Arch re-enlisted to join

his old outfit, the 6th field artillery at Camp Bix and retained. his rank as

sergeant by special permission.

Weather . Forecast

Tax Levy of 28 or 29 Cents Seems Probable ;

Increase Over This Year (By United Press) INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Aug. 31. A. 28 or 29 cent state tax lew for 1923 seemed probable tgday. - This would be four or five cents higher than the 1922 rate. While definite figures were not available to the state board of tax commissioners, it was unofficially figured that valuations throughout the state will decrease $600,000,000. If this slump materializes, the increase in the rate will necessarily be three cents on each $100 of taxable property in order to preserve the revenue, obtained in 1922. More revenue will be needed next year to carry on the state's business. With a deficit already existing in the general fund and expenses of the coming session of the legislature to bear, the state must also provide for a building program which includes a new reformatory arv Pendleton.

FOR RICHMOND AND VICINITY By W. E. Moore

Partly cloudy and continued warm tonight and Friday; local showers or

thunderstorms.

The barometric pressure is high over

the states east of the Mississippi river and low over the northwest, which

will cause continued warm weather uq

til Saturday or probably longer. The

weather will be unsettled. Temperatures Yesterday

Maximum &0 Minimum .' 57

Today

Noon 77

Weather Conditions The warm

wave has increased in size and now

covers most of the United States, and a storm center of considerable energy is centered over the northwest and is causing showers and thunderstorms in

several places over the plain states

Thunderstorms occurred in parts of Indiana and 'Ohio last night, and more

general rains occurred over Iowa. Mis

souri and Illinois. The temperatures

still range from SS to 94 degrees over the plain states as far north as the

Canadian border.

For Indiana (By the United States

Weather Bureau) Unsettled tonight

and Friday; probably showers; slight

ly warmer Friday in the south portion

Paid Circulation Yesterday, was 11,677

PREDICT SETTLEMENT OF GOAL SUSPENSION

IN NEXT 24 HOURS

BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. Anthracite mine union officials negotiating with the operators' representatives in Philadelphia accepted the anthracite strike settlement proposal, advanced at Friday night's conference here, according to advices received today by official circles in the capital. The reports reaching here strengthened the hope that the operators would also consent to the settlement plan before the day was over. Details of the Philadelphia decision were not revealed, however, and no official would go farther than to express confidence in the outcome.

PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 31. -Settle

ment of the anthracite . suspension

within 24 hours was forecast today by

men in close toucn witn both, sides. Operators were in a secret conference

at the Ritz Carlton hotel early today, it was declared, while across the street at the Bellevue-Stratford, John

L. Lewis, international president of the

United Mine Workers and other union leaders were gathered. The hard coal mines will have been idle five months tomorrow. Those thoroughly familiar with the situation declared that the joint conferences broken off abruptly early last week over the deadlock on the arbitration problem might be resumed today to consider the compromise peace plan, suggested by United States Senators Pepper and Reed, of Pennsylvania at the long Conference n

Washington Tuesday.

(By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Aug. 31. With the ar

rest of three men early today, Chicago police declared they had bared a

plot to dynamite the "Western Ex-, press" on the New York Central at a point between Gary, Ind., and Chicago.

The wreck, according to the police.

was to have marked the beginning of

new reign of terror on railroads

throughout the country.

The "Western Express" is a fast

passenger train which leaves NewYork at 6 p. m. arriving in Chicago at , 3:15 the following afternoon.

According to information which the

police said they obtained with the

arrest of the three men, the original plan of the plotters was to blow up

the tram last Tuesday.

Change Plans The change, police said, was caused

by the capture of four men accused

of wrecking the Michigan Central's "Million Dollar Express" at Gary Aug. .

20, when two of the train crew were killed..

Frank R. Hartman was held as the

ringleader of the alleged conspirators.

his companions are J. J. Boyle and C. A. Lagham, who, the police said, are striking New York Central shopmen. At least two other men believed

to have been in the conspiracy were sought. First information of the Intended dynamiting, according to the police, was obtained by private detectives posing as strikers. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Aug. 31. Railroad detectives are investigating a mysterious explosion which occurred shortly before last midnight on a southbound Cleveland, Cincinnati. Chicago and St. Louis railroad track in Arlington heights, 30 feet north of a trestle. The charge, detectives say was set off by a time fuse, and made a hole three feet deep betwehn the rail, shattered several ties and spread the rails an inch and a half. The engineer of work train bound for Sharonville, who had been warned

by officials a few minutes before thai an explosion had damaged the trestle proceeded slowly and stopped at the trestle. When he saw the trestle was damaged, he sent the train slowly abead, the tender in front of the locomotive. When the train reached the damaged track the tender was derailed. No One On Train There was no one on the train except the engineer and fireman rail' officials said. Since the strike of railroad shopmen the work trains have been used to haul employes. Patrolmen were unable to find any traces of the persons who left the explosive. Big Four train No. 42, northbound was held up an hour and a half, but later was allowed to proceed when it was learned that the explosion had not damaged the main tracks.

(By United Press) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 31. Rail

road brotherhood chiefs today notified

their organizations their efforts as mediators in the shopmen's strike have failed.

They added: "It appears to be a fight to the fin

ish between the railroads and tho

shopmen."

They warned members of their re

spective organizations against becoming involved in any way. Orders to

'follow instructions heretofore given

to the letter" revealed the attitude of

the various ' brotherhood leaders toward the shopmen's strike remained

unchanged despite their attempts to

get together m a unified strike policy.

Interstate Commission

Orders Freight Priority On Western State Lines WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. The interstate commerce commission today declared an emergency existed on the railroads west of the Mississippi river and extended its priority orders to that territory. Under a previous emergency declaration, the priority system was ordered only for territory east of the Mississippi, although all roads were

ordered to expedite shipments of es

sential commodities.

Declaring that in the opinion of

the commission an emergency which resuires immediate action exists upon, the lines of each and all the common carriers by railroad subject to the interstate commerce commission act west of the Mississippi," the commission issued service order No. 34 which promulgated rules for the movement of all freight traffic in the west. Priority in the movement of food, fuel, livestock and perishable products is ordered by the commission. The commission order will be effective Sept. L r

MINER INDICTED BY HERRIN JURY IN JAIL

(By Associated Press) MARION, 111-, Aug. 31. Otis Clark, a union coal miner, the first man indicted by the special grand jury investigating the Herrin massacre, in which

22 jersons were killed, surrendered at noon today. He is charged with the murder of M. C. MacDowell, superintendent of the Lester strip mine, where the massacre occurred. Clark surrendered after a conference with officials of the Illinois mine work

ers, who immediately arranged to fur

nish bond. ' Attorney General Brundage of Illi

nois, and other officials conducting the

inquiry, however, ordered Clark placed

in jail.

The indictment of Clark had been

hurried through, because it was learned that he was disposing of his pes

sessions in Johnson county near here and officials said that they feared he

contemplated fleeing.

Bury Daughter of Grant

With Modest Ceremonies

(By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Aug. 31. Funeral serv ices for Mrs. Nellie Grant Jones

daughter of General U. S. Grant, were held at the Lakeshore Drive home at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The burial will be at Springfield, 111. The funeral services were private and only friends

and relatives attended. The death of

Mrs. Nellie Grant, as she was always

affectionately known, was virtually

the first news of her in the last 10

years, that reached the public, thous

ands of whom of the older generation

had read of the girl who had spent a nart of her girlhood in the White House during. General Grant's two

years as president.

WILMINGTON, Del.. Aug. 31 Thi Pennsylvania railroad bridge at Fourteenth street, thi3 city, was damaged by an explosion, probably of a dyna

mite bomb, early today. The charge.

was so heavy that glass was broken

in houses of the neighborhood, but it

did not demolish, the bridge.

It damaged a stone abutment tore

the guard railing and displaced the

rails of the northbound track. No

trains were due at the time, but a

passenger train due 20 minutes later was held up for an hour until the track could be replaced. Guards at

the railroad ehops nearby where they

have been on duty since the shopmen's strike started, hurried to the scene but found no persons at the bridge.

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 31. Two

sticks of dynamite were hurled against

Big Four roundhouse here late last

night, throwing the 120 workmen In-, side into a panic. No one was hurt" but several large windows were shattered. The Big Four and Pennsylvania roads each offered $1,000 reward for the apprehension of those responsible for the wrecking of their freight

trains near Indianapolis.

CHICAGO, Aug. 31. Attorneys for

the American Federation of Labor declared today that a million-dollar de

fense fund had been obtained for a full investigation into the arrest cf four men in connection with the wreck

of "the Million-Dollar Express" at

Gary, recently. Attorneys declared they would not only probe the wreck, but investigate charges that the prisoners had been brutally beaten to ob

tain the confessions which they later

repudiated.

CHICAGO. Aug. 31. Passing of the Chicago and Alton railroad into tho hands of receivers, disclosure of new plots to wreck trains, and several actual attempts to cause derailments and blow up railroad property, wero high lights today in the nation's railroad situation, - With four men held on murder charges in connection with the Michigan Central wreck at Gary, Ind., Aug. 20, in which two enginemen were killed, preparing to repudiate their alleged confessions as the first step In their defense, Chicago police announced disclosures of a plot to blow up the "Western Express" of the NewYork Central lines. With the arrest of three men in connection with tha alleged plot came revelations of a widespread conspiracy to start a reign of terror on the railroads, the pollcsaid. An explosion of dynamite on tho main line of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St Louis railroad at Ar(Continued on Page Twelve)

hauling of coal.