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FUND JUGGLING j IN BANK SNARL I Examiner Finds New Sensation in Lorimer Bank Quiz. SMITHBORO INSTITUTION SHUT It la Believed that Collateral In La Salle Street Institution Was Used Twice—Munday Still Talks of Reorganization—Four Suits Filed in St Louis. Chicago, June 17.—Double use of collateral deposited as security for loans in the La Salle Street Trust and Savings bank—conversion of the stocks, bonds or mortgages into cash and the use of this money—is to be charged in the report on the bank's affairs, now being prepared by Daniel V. Harkin, chief state bank examiner. Evidence bearing out this charge made by the examiner will result, it is said by state officials, in criminal prosecutions in connection with the closing of the bank. Bank of Smithboro Closed. The bank of Smithboro, a private bank affiliated with the Lorimer-Mun-day chain, also was closed today. The bank was organized as a private institution by Mr. Munday in 1908. It had a capital of $25,000. Mr. Munday’s son, J. G. Munday, has been vice president, with J. F. Cannon as cashier and Grayce E. Martin as assistant cashier. Every possible effort was put forth, to prevent the bank from closing after the crash of the La Salle Street Trust and Savings bank in Chicago, which had been the principal correspondent of the Smithboro bank. $50,000 Sureties Gone? Disappearance of real estate securities valued at $50,000 or more, securities which had been put up as collateral for loans, was reported in the investigation of the affairs of the bank, according to information current in banking circles. The securities are said to have been sold to St. Louis parties. Suits Filed in St. Louis. Depositors on the bank began action in St. Louis to obtain possession of money of the La Salle street bank on deposit in St. Louis financial institutions. Four attachment suits were filed for amounts totaling approximately $4,600. TARIFF MOTHER OF A TRUST General Funston Shows It In Dealing with Mexican Combination. Vera Cruz, June 17.—General Juneton will take energetic measures against the merchants* trust which has been increasing the cost of living, by issuing a decree which suspends the tariff and charges on all foodstuffs imported until further notice. This affects the merchandise shipped from any port not later than June 25. It is said that a, ship load of merchandise is now ready to leave Galveston. The suspension will remain until June 25, at a foreign port. By that time it is hoped there will be enough food in the market to break the combination. It is altogether likely that prices will begin to drop at once. VILLA RESIGNS AND : WILLJEJVEBNQP Rebel Leader Is Incensed Oter Repulse cl Nalera. Saltillo, June 17. —The resignation of General Villa is confirmed here. A commission is now en route from Torreon to select a new commander for Villa’s army. Felipe Angeles, Carranza’s secret tary es war, is likely to be chosen. Villa will be military governor of Chihuahua, where he will replace Fidfe! Avila, who is now acting. Villa's withdrawal is said to be the cutgrowth of General Natera’s attempt to take Zacatecas without orders. A statement from General Carranza has been requested and is expected soon. FIND M’CARRICK BOY’S BODY , Seven-Year-Old Child Missing Since March 12 Was Drowned. Philadelphia, June 17.—The body of Warren McCarriek, 7. years old, who. disappeared from his home on March 12, was found floating in the Delaware river off here. An uncle of the boy recognized the clothes and felt sure the drowned child was his nephew. Detectives also identified some of the slothes from a description given by the mother. Mrs. McCarriek will examine the clothes. The police believe the child met death by accident. A country-wide search was instituts ad at the time of the boy’s disappearance, and more than $5,000 was offered for information leading to the ' recovery of the child and conviction of the supposed kidnapers. ■’

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I r-“ i MELLEN AND M’REYNOLDS ' Il Attorney General Would Prosecute Former Rail Head. I | ' :s b I ■F.. Photos by American Press Association WILL PROSECUTE MELLEN Attorney General to Procceed in Conapkacy Case Indictment WASHINGTON, D. C.—The attorney general is preparing to proceed against Charles S. Mellen under the indictment returned against him in : 1912 for conspiracy under the antitrust act in the so-called Grand Trunk case. This indictment was obtained under the Taft administration. Mr. Mcßeynollds always has expressed to ■ push it, but he has been waiting on a settlement of the dissolution proceedings before undertaking any crimiral action. It is believed the attorney general will also try to move against some of the New Haven directors. Mr. Mellen and his attorney have contended that he has gained immunity through testifying before the interstate commerce commission, but the attorney general is likely to try that question out in the courts if necessary. BODY OF STEVENSON IS TO LIE IN STATE Funeral To-morrow Afternoon at Bloomington, 111. CHICAGO — Adlai E. Stevenson, vice president during the second Cleveland administration, died here at the Presbyterian hospital. Mr. Stevenson had never recovered from the shock caused by the death of his wife five months ago, which ended a companionship of almost fifty years. He was bom in Christian county, Ky., Feb. 23, 1835. In 1852 he came to Illinois. He was elected to congress in 1894 in the Bloomington district which hitherto had given a republican 3,000 plurality. Later President Cleveland ■elected Adlai Stevenson as first assistant postmaster general in his first administration. He was elected vice president in 1892. TOWN IS WIPED OUT BY FLOOD Inhabitants of Hillsboro, N. M., Have Narrow Escape From Waters. ALBERQUERQUE, N. M. — Hillsboro, in the southwest corner of New Mexico, practically was destroyed by a flood which swept through the principal business section. Thomas Murphy, a pioneer resident and first sheriff of the copnty, is missing and is believed to have been drowned. No other loss of life is reported. > Suffrage Wins in High Court SPRINGFIELD, ILL.—By a vote of 4 to 3 the Illinois supreme court upheld the constitutionality of the woman’s suffrage act. The three disseating justices are Democrats. The opinion of the majority is based on a previous finding upholding the right es women to vote in school elections. |

7 PERISH IN FIRE ~ — I Laborers Trapped by Flames While Eating Meal. BUILOIN6 IS SOAKED IN OIL Many Jump From Windows of Lodging | House in Milford, Mas*., Blaze and ’ Are Injured on Stones Below—Heat 1 So Intense In Burning Building Firomen Cannot Enter. MILFORD, MASS. — Seven men were burned to death and twenty Injured seriously when eighty persons were trapped in a burning Armenian lodging house here early in the day. The bodies were taken from the upper floors of the four-and-a-half-story brick and wooden building. In addition to the twenty men taken to the hospital suffering from burns or from injuries received in jumping from windows, thirty sustained minor hurts. The interior of the building was burned out. Many Jump From Windows. The fire, the cause ot which has not been determined, started in the dining ball on the ground floor of the structure, which was at the corner of West and Cherry streets. When the firemen arrived flames were shooting through all four floors. Escape by the two narrow stairways was cut off and the only njeans of getting out of the building was by jumping from the windows. There was a scene of wild excitement as the crazed men attempted to save their lives. Buildign Is Soaked in Oil. The building, erected more than fifty years ago, formerly was used as a shoe factory, and its timbers were impregnated with oils. The heat was so intense that the firemen were unable to enter, and the only way they could aid the occupants was by spreading nets and blankets to catch them as they leaped from the windows. The victims were laborers and molders employed at a manufacturing plant in Hopedale. None of them had families. DEATH TAKES GRAND DUKE Adolph Frederick of MecklenburgStrelltz, Aged 66, Passes Away. BERLIN. — Grand Duke Adolph 1 Frederick of Mecklenburg-Strelitz is dead. The grand duke was born in 1848, the son of Grand Duke Frederick William, whom he succeeded as reigning grand duke on the latter's ! death, in 1904, and Princess Augusta, the daughter of the late Duke Adolphus of Cambridge. In 1907 the grand duke announced that he would grant a constitution to the duchy, but this met with much opposition from the nobles and was abandoned. A form of constitutional government, it is understood, is now about to be introduced. LADDER, GIRL, ‘FACE ABOUT' Copper Makes Men Turn Heads While Stenographer Trips Down “Aerial.” NEW YORK. — Half a dozen fire engines, a squad of reserves, and a few hundred interested spectators gathered in front of the building at 498 Broome street to rescue a stenographer who was locked in. Even with all the rescuers it is doubtful if they would have achieved their purpose had it not been for the gallantry of Patrolman Harry Welch. At least the stenographer, who is Miss Mollie Mat, would have waited until dark before climbinb down the ladder. Patrolman Welch made the men in the crowd turn their heads away while Miss Mat skipped down the ladder. BOMB AT CORONATION CHAIR Militants Attempt Destruction of the Famous Scottish Stone. LONDON. — An attempt to blow up the coronation chair, which has been in Westminster abbey since 1296, has been made. The outrage is attributed by the authorities to suffragettes. The chair, generally called St. Edward’s chair, out of respect to Edvard the Confessor, near whose shrine it stands, wag made by order of King Edward 1., to hold the coronation stone or “stone of destiny,” on which the ancient Scottish kings used to sit when they were crowned. It was captured by Edward I. from the Scots. The damage to the chair was slight. LEAVES 100_DESCENQANTS Woman of 97 Survived by Ten Great-Great-Grandchildren. LAMAR. MISSOURI — Mrs. Elizabeth Isenhower, 97 years old, died st her home here. ’ She leaves more than 100 grandchildren, great-grandchildren and grab great-children. Judge Hornblower Is Dead. LITCHFIELD, CONN. — William Sutler Hornblower, associate judge of the New York court of appeals and •nee nominated to the United States supreme court, died at 1:97 o'clock 1* the morning of myocarditis.

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: INDIANA STATE NEWS ■■ IHIW IMI Boy Confutes a Slaying. j MARION, B«D. — W’u*n * Lanning, twenty-one years old, is dead at his home iB Fairmount, eleven miles south of this city, and “Pone” Niverson, twenty-three years old, his brother, Orville Niversoa, twenty, and L Sherman twenty-five, are in I jail here charged with assault and battery on Lanning with intent to kill. 1 The death of Lanning was dne to a 1 broken back and other injuries r+ i ceived late Saturday night in a brawl t when he was struck and knock i t Iron- the Tenth sth set bridge over tae Mississinewa River between Jonesboro and Gas City. Besides the men ! .in jail, two women are said to have . witnessed the fight. "“Pone” Niverson 3 is said to have confessed to Gas City j officers that he struck Lanning and, knocked him from the bridge, the lat- . ter striking the rocks about fifteen r feet below. I Senior Year Book Delayed. i BLOOMINGTON, IND. — Indiana • university students here received . word that the Arbutus, the year book | -of the senior class, would likely not be finished on time, and that they' could not be distributed until after , the students had left for home. The publication ot the book was delayed almost an entire week this spring on account of a strike at the Mitchell Printing company of Green- , field, which firm is Jpatting out the j book this year. In case the books do 3 not reach here this week a loss of _ several hundreds, of debars will be l caused to the senior cUss, and an in- ‘ t ‘ dividual assessment of the members of : 9 the class may be necniMHy before the members receive the|jr r Woman Bigamist Sentenced. , ANDERSON, IND.— Six months . in jail and a fine of $l9O were imposed . on Mrs. Mabel Martha of Alexandria r when she admitted 'had two liv- [ ing husbands and * ot been di * , vorced from either, gjjn said she was , married in 1911 to J<HubA Harvey, who was killed a few months later in a mine explosion. | She married Alger Bps of Indian- . apolis in 1913 after c courtship covering one day. She soms left -him and last September was marnea to Georg# | Martin without going through the form-1 ■ ality of getting a fWw? tom'Bw.i She saK she gave tie IXhorttfes and * the minister the name of Mabel Schofield. Her latest husband is a glass worker employed at Alexandria. i —————— i Fined For Doing As Boys Do. ELWOOD, IND. —September Morns i disported themselves in the waiters of a gravel pit west of the city > while two members of the sterner sex - remained on the bank to see that no one stole their discarded wardrobes. 1 Persons who stroled to the grove call- * ed the police. The officers made a . hurried trip to the scene in an autoi mobile and arrested Ida Raney, May t Nokes, Goldie Creagmile, Lawrence Gaunt and Ray Rodney. Each pleaded guilty and was fined sls. Two of the girls are still in jail. i - —————— Joke On Reckless Drivers. HAMMOND, IND.—The police of Hammond and Gary are searching for practical jokers who have been terorizing autoists on secluded dark roads with dummies of men and women. 1 The autoists thought they were kill- • lug pedestrians when they ran over these forms in the road. Several women have been made seriously ill by screams from the roadside at these times. - -- Aeronaut Killed by Fall. RICHMOND, IND. — J. O. Gill, of Mt Sterling, 0., an aeronaut, was instantly killed here when the third ' parachute of the string attached to his balloon failed to open and he fell nearly 500 feet, his body being literally crushed to a jelly. ' Gill’s performance was to have marked the closing number of the program -at the formal opening of Morton Park and Lake. Has Been Punished Enough. HAMMOND, IND.—“I don’t know where to go to serve this warrant now,” said Sheriff Henry Whitaker of Crown Point He had papers for the arrest of Charles Lindeman, who went to Milwaukee. A deputy sheriff there called at the heme of William Arndt to get Lindeman and a woman answering the knock on the door said, “Mr. Lindeman just died.” Storm Victim May Die. EVANSVILLE, IND.—Struck by lightning during,the storm that did damage estimated at SIOO,OOO here, W. W. Bell, 45 years old, a factory em-| ploye, may not Hve>. When he grasped a light wire charged by lightning, George Kiler, electrician, was stunned and Adam Schnabel, custodian of Wii lard library, was- slightly injured when lightning struck the tbwer of this building. The latter two are'not seriously hurt. - . ..»■ — Artificial Pond Opens. | RICHMOND, INp.—Morton Lake, a beautiful artificial basin pf water 1® Richmond’s new Morton Park, has been opened. The park is owned by the Richmond Lake abd Park company, mmpoaed of business men, which has spent more than $50,009 In developing the rosert.

BERRY BUYERS DUPED ! BY MAILORDER FRAUD Aleged Dealer Gets Indianans i Cash aad Leaves Ton. 1 WORTHINGTON, IND.—For several days an advertisement has been running in an Indianapolis afternoon paper in which “F. P. Ross of 'Worthington, Ind.,” offered to supply strawberries to mail order customers at $2 per crate of thirty-two boxes if the cash accompanied the order. He received a voluminous mail which brought him money orders, checks and cash by the armload. i Inquiries soon commenced to come , in concerning “F. P. Ross” and his strawberry crop. Ross was sought at the Commercial Hotel, but there it was learned that he had flown to parts unknown, leaving a goodly-sized board bill, as well as many duped customers. | It is said that his advertisement net- ! ted him more than SIOO and there are : several uncalled for letters awaiting him at the postoffice. $20,000,000 TO AID ANIMALS Man Gives SI,OOO for Use With Accrued Interest In 2164. EVANSVILLE, IND. — Adolph Meizer, a philanthropist and friend of dumb animals, announced a tentative ! gift of SI,OOO to Elbert Hubbard’s com ; munity at East Aurora, N. Y. The bequest is similar to that made more than a year ago to this city by Mr. Melzer. The money is to be deposited for 250 years in a bank designated by Mr. Hubbard and compounded semiannually at 4 per cent interest. In 250 years it will amount to approximately $20,000,000 and is to be used for the benefit of animals of that day. SUIT FOR MALPRACTICE FAILS Woman Is Defeated In Acftihn to Recover $20,000 Damages. SHELBYVILLE, IND. — After »« ..v» ho» . h.u. tb. vetfTtet for the defendants, Dr. O. G. Pfaff, a surgeon of Indianapolis, and Dr. Morris Drake, secretary of the board of health of this city. Her charge was based on alleged negligence during an operation in November, 1912, in which, she alleges, a piece of gauze two feet long was left in her body. TOOK SNOOZE BESIDE TRACK Man Uses Rail as Pillow; Injury May Cause His Death. WARSAW, IND. — Winfield Winship, twenty-six years old, a Warsaw cigar maker, may die of injuries received late in the afternoon when he was struck by a Big Four train just south of the city. He is in a local hospital with a dislocated shoulder and ■his head badly bruised. He was sleeping at the side of the track with his head against the rail and failed to wake up in time to escape. THREATS LEAD TO ARREST Cash in Banw Brings Trouble in Dying Woman’s Home. SOUTH BEND, IND.—Being enraged because his wife, in the last stages of tuberculosis, had jacked her house- ' hold goods, preparatory to going to the home of her sister to die, and had laid claim to a bank deposit of S3OO, Joseph Wesitz threatened to kill his wife’s relatives. He was prevented from carrying out his threat by the police, who took him into custody. GREW TOO FERVENT OVER IT Petersburg Celebration Over Rain Hit by Storm. PETERSBURG, IND.—The heaviest rainfall in eight weeks in Pike county for an hour. Nearly an inch of rain fell and the drought is broken. The wind blew over trees, but damaged no property. Hundreds of persons were attending' a big jollification celebration here over the rain of the day before. SAVED BY PRESENCE OF MIND Man, Buried 15 Minutes by Cavoin, Little Hurt SOUTH BEND, INI>-His quick presence of mind in placing his hand over his mouth saved Charles Connssems from death when he was buried by a cavein on the Mishawaka avenue sewer. fie was removed after fifteen minutes’ work by a score of laborers. He is only slightly hurt, Charaed With Robbing Malls. VINCENNES, IND. — Wilbur M. Schaller, substitute clerk at the Vincennes postoffice, was arrested by Inspector Ely of Indlanaolis .on a charge ot robbing the mail*. He is of a prom-1 Inent family, . •

SENATOR OVERMAN 11 | == Seeks Inquiry Into’ Use of Senate Letter Paper in Mine Projeet Flroto by American Press Association. : WASHINGTON, D. C.—Senator Ov- ■ erman introduced a resolution for an into the use of senate i letter paper in connection with pro- • motion of a gold mining property at Gold Hill, N. C. The resolution was referred to a committee without a vote. It also provides investigation of whether government employes have been used to inspect the property. I * ~r . . . ... — ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ | SHORT CUTS TO THE NEWS | To win a hot of SIOO, Pilot Konschol shaved himself while flying in an aeroplane at Vienna. Mme, Gluck, ths American singer, and Efrem Zimbalist, the Russian vio- ' Tin ist ware married at Londom— ' : r~ President Wilson, in addressing the Democratic steering committee, was in- ' sistent upon a complete trust program. Sylvia Pankhurot has undertaken a hunger strike, whether in or out of prison, until Premier Asquith consents to receive a suffragist deputation. Four persons were killed, eight probably fatally and nine seriously hurt, when a gas main which the victims were repairing exploded at Columbus, O. Carl Person, the Clinton, ill., labor editor, who has been in jail since he shot Tonq Musser, for Clinton chief of police, was admitted to bail in the sum of $12,000. Kermit Roosevelt, fourth son of the colonel, was married in Madrid, to Miss Belle Wyatt Willard. All the formalities of the Spanish law were observed religiously. Emil Seidel, mayor of Milwaukee for one term, was chosen as candidate for United States senator on the Social Democratic ticket at the caucus of the party at Milwaukee. The stacking of grain is urged by government officials on account of the bumper wheat crop, and the poor facilities for handling it. “Plow early for next crop,” is added. Four were killed at Goldfield, Nev., when an auto driven by a physician, turned out to avoid striking another machine. The doctor’s automobile plunged over an embankment. Theodore Roosevelt 111., Colonel Roosevelt’s first grandson to bear the family name, was born at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., in New York City. A railroad, 2,200 miles in length, from Denver to San Diego, Cal., to cost $150,000,000, will be built by the Southwestern Pacific railroad, which filed articles of incorporation at Sacrarmento Cal. The white sloop Resolute won a glorious race off Sandy Hook. She defeated the Vanitie four minutes 16 seconds actual time and with her al lowance by 7 minutes 29 seconds. The trial established a record for cup defenders. By agreeing out of court to settle $375,000 on his sister, Miss Florence L. Brandt, William Ziegler, the adopted son of the late William Ziegler, ths baking powder manufacturer, has ended the litigation brought against the Ziegler estate by Miss Brandt at New York. President Wilson next March personally will lead the great international fleet of warships from Hampton Roads to Colon, to participate in the formal opening of the Panama canal by passing through it on the bridge of the world-famous, old battleship Oregan as leader of the long Un» of fighttag craft of all nations. While being prepared to take children for a ride the elephant in the zoo in Walbridge Park knifed his keeper, Michael Raddatz. He knocked the man down with a blow of his trunk, ' then knelt, on him and made three , thrusts through his body with his tusks. When Radditz wks attacked six I little children stood in line, waltlnJl | pkced ah the beagl

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TRUSTSJN PLOT President Says Big Business Creates Depre. iion. HE WILL KEEP UP TIE FIGHT He Declares the Influe ce of Administration Will Be U >d to Keep Congress in Session ntil Trust Legislation is Enacte —Will Expose Plotters. WASHINGTON. D. C -President Wilson laid upon big but ess the responsibility for creating depression which he had described s "psychological.” He virtually cha. ed that an organized campaign has ■ ~‘en waged to shake public confidence n the business outlook and means t force the adjournment of congress ithout the completing of the anti-tru t program. In setting forth his vien the president asserted with great er ihasis that all the influence he posset es will be exerted to keep congrest until the “business” legislation is e acted. Will Reveal Plotte a. The expressions from th president came at his regular semi-i eekly talk with the newspaper corr-spendents. He announced that the W ite House would, during the year, n ike public copies of letters that would expose the face of those who are accc ntable for the depression now ex! ing. The documents which were giv n out consist of a circular letter fror President Ashnelt of the Pictorial R- view company, which had been sen broadcast throughout the country con aining the argument that prosperity h. 1 been destroyed by the mischlev< isness of politicians. Attached to his letter was a form in which reclp snts were urged to write to members 11 congress with whom they were acqu luted, the president and other offici ts of the administration and memtx ?s of the interstate commerce commi sien. This form of letter contained a itsong appeal for the adjournment c eongress with the postponement of the antitrust program and for a favorable decision of the five per sent rate, eases. MOUNTAINEER SHOOI 5 EIGHT Later ts Slain Himself by F 9see—Only Two Will Recovr \ WHITESBURG, KY. — Five of eight persons shot at Neon, -ear here, by William Day, a mounti t-eer, are not expected to recover, ac vrding to reports received in Whitesl >rg. Victor Stampher, one of Day victims, died instantly. Day himseli was kilt ed by a posse. Day resisted arrest on a minor charge, broke from the o£ ers, and, running to his home, obtain i a shotgun and a supply of shells. He then returned to the madn street nd opened fire upon a crowd'of men nd boys? The five victims who are nc expected to live are Magistrate J. 1 Wright, M. Davis, hotel proprietor; .toy and Jcnne s Taylor, and Burnett ollins, a small boy. FLAG FOR NO MAN\‘ LAND International Body Meets ti Frame Government For Spltzberger islands. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Ax international conference unique it history convened in Christiania, Norv .y, when delegates from the United S ites and Russia, Norway and other torthern European countries met to frame a government for the world’s < le coun- * try without a flag—the opitzl jrgen islands, commonly called N > Man’s Land. Wiliam K. Collier of >sw Yofk and Fred K. Nielsen, asslstai : solicitor of the state department, are the American delegates. No Man’s Land, for centx ries un known, was found to hold valuable coal deposits some years ago. THAW DENIED BAIL AN3 TRIP Supreme Court to Pass on Re ease on Habeas Corpus Order WASHINGTON, “D. C.—H rry K Thaw was denied release on b il pending consideration by the supre* le court ot his extradition from New Hampshire to New York. The co rt also declined to grant the requ< st that Thaw be taken to Pittsburg! in the custody of Sheriff Drew of Co s’county, New Hampshire, to Yestlf; in the settlement of his father’s est te. Judge Aldrich of the federal x>urt In New Hampshire ordered Th: w’s release on habeas corpus proc edings. The supreme court will next pc is upon that. PEOPLE SWEPT INTO SE WERS Paris Experiences Terrific ard Destructive Thunder Storm. PARIS, FRANCE—The bodi s < a dozen or more persons engu 'ed by caveins that followed a terrii thunder storm were drawn into the sewers of the St. Lazare quarter. Rafi t burst the conduits, undermined stre L .s and houses, and big patches of tb roughfares have dropped away. The number of deaths or rhe extsai of the damage is unknowa.

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