The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 11, Number 51, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 17 April 1919 — Page 2

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS, DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS , \ Kernels Culled From Events of Mo* ment In All Parts of the Worlds Os Interest to All the People Everywhere. "Personal John L. Jackson, bachelor, who was found dead in an automobile near Fort Worth, Tex., left his entire estate, valued at $500,000, to the Spiritualists of the United States to establish a college. * * * Judge Samuel S. Barney of t(ie United States court of claims at Washing- . ton has resigned, effective April 15. He is now at his home in Wisconsip. * * * Sidney Drew, actor on the legitimate stage and famous as a movie star, died at his home in New York. * - * * Washington A reduction of 10 cents per ton in the freight rates on sand, gravel, crushed stone and other road-building materials, when consigned to states, counties or municipalities, was announced by Railways Director Hires at Washington. * * • A company of American troops recently showed some hesitation in re turning to the fighting fronts south nf Archangel, declaring that the war wi :h Germany was over and that the United States was not at war with the btlsheviki. The regiment commander in a speech said that they were fighting a desperate defensive battle ana appealed to them to stick it out. Tpe company then left for the front. * * * Patients in army hospitals March 31 totaled 56,979. Os these 38,214 have been brought from overseas, the war department at Washington announce^. • * * The largest crop of winter wheat ever grown was forecast for this year by the department of agriculture at Washington, basing its estimate on conditions existing April lv The enorj rnous yield of 837,000,000 bushels was announced. • *' » The war labor board at Washington decided unanimously for the adoption of a 48-hour week for nearly 110,000 workers in 456 silk mills in the New York district. * • * General Pershing advised the war department' at Washington that the Twenty-ninth, Thirty-third (Prairie) and Seventy-ninth divisions had been released for return to the United States, the order effective immediately as to the Twenty-ninth, as to the Thirty-third April 12, and as to the Seventy-ninth April 10. * • s Foreign Thirty United States submarine chasers left Lisbon for Gibraltar. ** • 1 The advance of the bolshevik! is likely to force the allies to evacuate Sebastopol, on the Black sea, near the southern extremity of the Crimea, according to the Paris Instransigeant. • * * An Archangel special says American and Russian forces raided the bolshevik position about Bolshie Ozerki, taking nine prisoners and two machine guns and destroying a blockhouse. * * * Gen. Emiliano Zapata, the rebel leader in southern Mexico has been killed by government troops, according to an announcement made by the Mexican war department at Mexico City. * • • The seven largest banks in Berlin were closed as a result of the spread of the strike of bank employees and intimidation by the strikers. * * * A Seoul dispatch says nine persons are reported to have been killed and many others injured in disorders at Songdo, Changshon, Song Yang, Wlju and Honghyon, in the province of Ping Yang. * * * The Interallied club will hold a reception at Paris in honor of Mrs. Woodtow Wilson. ,■* % * * * The visit to Paris of the Dutch financiers, Van Den Iloven and Ter Meulen, an Amsterdam news agency says, has reference to the conclusion of a loan by neutral states to Germany of £200,000,000. * • • Government troops are reported at t Berlin to have entered Essen and to have occupied the Krupp plant, which, according to previous reports, had been seized by the Essen strikers. • * • A London dispatch says the British war office in a statement on the north Russian campaign estimates the bolshevik losses in the attack on Sred Meklirenga on April 5 at 400 killed and wounded. The bolshevik attempt to break through to the Dvina and cut off the troops farther south on the river was foiled. • • * The national executive of the labor party at a meeting at London formulated a statement of policy, demanding that the Paris conference put an end to the protracted discussions and make peace in accordance with President Wilson’s 14 points. • * • Forces of the Russian government at Omsk have defeated two bolshevik! regiments in Sarapul, on the Kama river, 150 miles southwest of Perm, a' cording to an official announcement received from Omsk. Nine hundred bolshevik! were killed.

Fifteen million dollars' worth of foodstuffs—a total of 69.UQ0 tons—have been sent into Austria by the supreme economic couucll during the first three months of this year, Herbert C. Hoover annouuced at Paris. * * * A London dispatch says Japanese forces have defeated 600 bolshevist troops in a seven-days’ battle west of Irkutsk, killing 544 of the red soldiers, or more than half of the latter’s force. The Japanese suffered ouly GO casualties. * * » A Stockholm dispatch says 16,000 men, women and children died of starvation in Petrograd in December and January. The total number of deaths from all causes in those two months is 20,000. • * * The Ukrainian soviet .roops have ! captured Odessa, according to advices from Kiev, transmitted by wireless from Moscow under date of April 7i * * * Storage sheds of the American Red i Cross were among the food depots pillaged by armed crowds in Nuremberg, according to dispatches received at Basle. Goods to the value of $175,000 are said to have been taken from various food depots. * * • A Saloniki dispatch says Bulgarian troops have been sent to Strumnitza to suppress an uprising of Irridentist Greeks. • * • A Berlin dispatch says a “state of war” exists in Nuremberg, northern Bavaria, according to placards posted there. Parades and demonstrations are forbidden there and the public is forbidden to be on the streets between 11 p. m. and 5 a. m. * * • In disturbances in Delhi in the last few days eight persons were killec and twelve injured, n dispatch from Reuter’s correspondent at the Ipdian capital says. The city is now quiet. • • • Peace Notes The peace conference at Paris hn9 reached an agreement on all questions concerning, peace with Germany, reparations, indemnities and the frontiers of tlie Rhine and Poland, according to an interview in the Petit Journal with the private secretary of Premier Lloyd George. * • • The league of nations commission at Paris completed its meeting. No sections were included granting the Japanese and Fren.ch demands, but Japan and France announced that they would reserve the right to bring up the desired amendments before the plenary session of the peace conference. • • • The supreme economic council at Paris adopted a resolution calling attention of the associated governments to the extreme gravity and urgency of the present economic situation in Europe. * • * The league of nations commission at Paris adopted a new section to the covenant specifically providing that the Montioe doctrine is not to be affected by the provisions of the covenant. • • # The responsibility of the German emperor for the war and the means for bringing him to trial by one of the allied governments, probably Belgium, have been definitely determined upon by the council of four at Paris- • • • The principle of proportionate representation was adopted as the foundation for electoral reforms in the chamber of deputies at Paris, when a motion to that effect was carried by a vote of 235 to £oi. • * • Domestic Fwleral Judge Landis at Chicago hielcmo the grand jury 20 stock salesmen of the Consumers’ Packing company, fixing their bonds at $30,000 each. * * * The American cruisers Galveston and Chester, carrying American engineer troops and Brig. Gen. W. P. Richardson, the new commander of tfle American forces in north Russia, have arrived at Murmansk. * * * Introduction of anti-Japanese legislation in the California legislature would be “extremely unfortunate at this time,” said Robert Lansing, secretary of state. In a cablegram to the stijtte senate, received at Sacramento. * * * Two million rounds of 7-millimeter rifle cartridges for the use of the Mexican government forces were taken across to the Mexican side of the border at Laredo, Tex., by permission of thfl American authorities. • * * Deportation of 40 men serving sentence in the federal prison at Leavenworth, including 12 of the 37 members of the I. W. W. recently admitted to bail pending rehearing of their cases, is (jailed for in warrants served by an immigration * * • Returns received from every section of Michigan, while unofficial, show the state has voted to remain dry. Most of the counties of the state voted three to one against the wine and beei amendment to the constitution. • * * Os 622 members of the Cincinna fire department, 522 “resigned” in body, leaving the municipality wit. little protection in case of fire. Tin action was the result of a decision of the Fire Fighters’ union, following an ignored demand for restoration of foui discharged men to duty. * * * Eight men held up the Baden ban 1 in the northern section of St. Louis and escaped with between $40,000 anu $50,000. • • • After lying dormant for about year Mount Lassen, In the Sierra near Reddington, Cal., resumed vo canic eruptions. * • • Edward E. Morgan, an American citizen, was murdered at Chivela, 47 miles from Salina Cruz, Mex., on the night of April 8, according to advices to the stnt* department

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I—Carter Glass, secretary of the treasury (left), and Frank R. Wilson, publicity man for the loan, unfurling for the Victory loan campaign the historic flag which flew over the dome of the capitol when President Wilson was inaugurated, when war was declared and when the armistice was signed. 2—The advance guard of the American troops arriving at MoJsberjg, the farthest point into Germany reached by the Americans. 3 —Gen. Joseph Haller, commander of the Polish divisions in France, which are being sent to Poland, standing with his staff in front of the Cathedral of Louvain.

NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Council of Four in Paris Has Agreed on Most of the Peace Problems. TREATY MAY BE READY SOON Hint That President Wilson Would Withdraw Has Effect—Soviet Government Set Up in Bavaria Opposed by Peasants—Allies Forced to Evacuate Odessa. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Most of the great problems confronting the peace conference were settled last week by the “Big Four”—perhaps. That is to say, at the close of the week they were settled, but before this Teaches the reader they may be all unsettled again. Such has been the way of the in the past. However, If there is not agreement on the vital questions mighty soon, there is some reason to believe President Wilson will withdraw from the deliberations and come home. He startled the conference and the world by ordering his transport, the George Washington, made ready for another trip to* Europe, and asking when it blight be expected there. Some of the Paris papers declared Mr. Wilson vas thus trying to force the French delegates to mitigate their demands; pessimists saw in the action the probability of hopeless disagreement ; optimists said it meant the treaty was nearly ready for submission to the Germans. The theory of the optimists was borne out by dispatches late in the week stating that the Big Four had agreed: That William Hohenzollern and others responsible for breach oft treaty and of rules of war must stand trial, probably before a Belgian court, but that the death penalty should not be imposed on the former kaiser; that France shall be given control of the mines of the Saar valley, but shall not be permitted to annex any of that territory and that a commission shall regulate strikes by miners there; that Germany must make an initial payment of $5,000,000,000 reparation in 1921, after which a commission shall assess a yearly indemnity. The Rhine frontier, the ultimate disposition of Danzig, the Italian claims to Fiume and the Dalmatian coast and some lesser matters remained to be settled at the time these dispatches were sent. That agreement on these questions was believed to be imminent was indicated by the fact that the commission to prepare for the signing of the peace treaty at Versailles was busy making the necessary arrangements for that momentous occasion. Premier Paderewski urged before the council of four that Poland should be given Danzig and the coal fields of Teschen, Silesia, but the belief was that this matter, as well as that of the Rhineland, would be settled In conformity with Mr. Wilson’s 14 points, his absolute adherence to which he again declared ; that, of course, would preclude the annexation of enemy territory. How the Italian claims would be settled there was no intimation. According to reports, Mr. Lansing’s opposition to the British and French desire that the former kaiser should be tried by an international tribunal resulted in the compromise plan stated above. The Americans, it was said, were in favor only of a moral indictment without recourse to prosecution, owing to the lack of an international law covering the case. The Japanese representative supported this view. The reparations clause specifies that the enemy countries must admit their responsibility for all losses and damage to allied and associated nations arid their citizens due to unjustifiable aggression; also that Germany is to pay the expenses of the commission

PROTESTS ACTS OF JAPANESE American Consular Official in Korea Points Out Danger in Practice » Recently Adopted. Seoul, Korea. —Leo A. Bergholz of the American consulate here has made Inquiry of the Korean government general relative to the appearance on the streets of Japanese civilians armed with heavy dubs, suggesting that such practice might be dangerous to the lives of foreigners. He declared that

during the period—probably thirty years—in which damages are to be collected. The Americans would have preferred that the treaty should name the fixed amount of indemnity to be collected, but did not insist on this, in order to hasten agreement. The five billion first payment is to be made by Germany, in cash or securities, before May 1, 1921. It is supposed the total to be demanded will be about $45,000,000,000. Owing to the illness of President Wilson during the early part of the week, the commission on the league of nations did not meet until Thursday evening. At that time the completed draft of the covenant, comprising 27 articles, was submitted. There is no longer any doubt in Paris that the league covenant will be a part of the peace treaty, and in this country the opposition seems to be losing some of Its vehemence. It was announced that the commission had adopted a section specifically safeguarding the Monroe doctrine, and that Geneva, Switzerland, hau been selected as the seat of the league of nations. An Important and interesting part of the treaty, which has been formulated, deals with water aud rail communications in enemy states. Freedom of transportation through Germany and Austria and equality of treatment in ports and harbors are provided. The regulation of transportation aver the Rhine and for ; the entrance o’*' ’and some nonpartisan states to the present Mannheim convention between Germany and Holland covering the navigation of the Rhine. The European commission controlling the mouths of the Danube will be continued, representatives of present enemy states being excluded from it, and a similar international commission will be established provisionally for the upper Danube. This will last until a new general Danube convention is established. A new international convention covering the navigation of the Elbe and Oder rivers is recommended to protect the interests of Poland and Czechoslovakia and give them freedom of navigation without discriminating duties, down through German territory to the North and Baltic seas. These states would be further given free port privileges at certain north German harbors in order that they may be enabled to develop their export affil import commerce. Bolshevism made another big’ play last week when a soviet government of Bavaria was set up in Munich by •the revolutionary central council. The landtag was dissolved and people’s commissions appointed. This action was supported in Wurzburg and Ratisbon, but throughout Bavaria generally it was violently opposed not only by the bourgeoisie but also by the peasants. The latter hold control of the food supply and declared they would refuse to deliver food while the soviet government remained in power. The bolshevists prepared measures for the communization of property and the formation of a Red army, while the government they sought to replace, refusing to retire, set itself up in Bamberg. Ltiter in the week the citizens and officials of Wurzburg struck against the soviet government and ousted Its agents after severe fighting. The diet met in Bamburg and the minjsters said they regarded the situation with confidence and that outside help to suppress the bolshevists was not needed. The communist government of Hungary rejected the propositions made by General Smuts for the allies, concerning the neutral zone and other matters, and made counter-proposals, with which Smuts returned to Pari?. Meanwhile the Hungarian bolshevists were cheered by the news that Lenine was sending them 150,000 men. In an intercepted wireless message to Tchitcherin, Russian foreign minister, Bela Kun, said: “We do not want to use the dictatorship of the Hungarian proletariat to take bourgeois chestnuts out of the fire for the bourgeoisie. When the German proletariat shall have power

if the armed civilians are attached to the police force they should be so designated, and that if they are not the practice should b© abandoned. He expressed fear that if such action were not taken foreigners might adopt measures for self-protection, which might bring about an undesirable situation. In its reply the government general admitted that the Japanese were armed, but said they |md armed to protect themselves against the Koreans. It was stated that the civilians not attached to the police force, but assur-

they will use It for the benefit of German imperialism, and will throw out Seheidemann, Ebert. Noske, David and their press valets.” Persistent efforts to induce German Austria to go bolshevik were hampered by the dependence of the Austrians on the allies for food, but Amsterdam dispatches said a soviet republic was proclaimed in Salzburg, which is near the Bavarian border. In Vienna conditions became steadily worse and acts of violence increased. A meeting of the soldiers and workmen’s council of Vienna was called for April 14 for the purpose of discussing a soviet form of government. In Germany there were continual outbreaks against the Ebert government, the greatest demonstrations being in Essen, Magdeburg and in the former duchy of Brunswick. The Essen radicals brought about a strike of the Krupp workers and seized the plant, but were ousted by government troops, after which two-thirds of the men went back to work. The insurgents of Magdeburg also were routed by soldiers sent by Minister oi Military Affairs Noske. From Brunswick came reports of a strong movement in favor of a soviet government, and communists ’bf Saxony made a like demand. 4 As had been anticipated, the allies were forced to evacuate Odessa, being attacked by an overwhelming number of Ukrainian bolsheviki. This was really a considerable triumph for Lenine find Trotzky,"for they gained control of the most fertile regions of southern Russia besides capturing large supplies of cash. The allied commander withdrew his troops, numbering about 50,000. to Constantinople and Roumnnia. In North Russia the soviet troops appeared to be preparing for a renewal of their offensive, despite their recent vain and costly attempts against the allied forces. British re-enforcements and American engineers sailed from England for Archangel. Decidedly unpleasant was the admission by the war department that open mutiny was threatened recently by the American troops in North Russia unless Washington speedily announced its policy as to early withdrawal of the armed forces in that region. Some of the men flatly refused to go to front line positions. The American soldiers cannot understand why they are called on" to make war against Russians when war has not been declared, and it is declared this feeling Is shared by the troops of other nationalities. Representatives of the anti-bolshevik Russians have repeatedly said in this country that they ask only munitions and moral support from the allies, and have urged that all the armed forces of the latter be withdrawn from Russia as speedily as possible. The Esthonians reported continued successes against the bolsheviki. including the capture of seven villages and many prisoners. Conditions in Roumania and Boland are causing the allies considerable worry, for there is danger, some feel, of a great bolshevist combination of Russians, Hungarians and Germans that would crush those two countries. The allied troops that went from Odessa to Roumania will help some, but it was felt that no time should be lost in getting General Haller’s Polish divisions to Poland. Marshal Foch arranged with the Germans that those divisions might bo transported by train across Germany, and if necessary might be landed itt Danzig. In this compromise of the dispute with the Huns over the East Prussian port, It is felt by many that tho allies yielded too easily to Germany and did not give due support to tho claims of Poland. In England Premier Lloyd George was bitterly assailed for his Danzig policy. Freakish weather worked havoc in the Southwest and West last week. In north Texas, southern Oklahoma and Arkansas there was a terrific tornado that killed about one hundred persons, injured many more and destroyed property worth millions of dollars. Heavy snow in the Rocky mountain states tied up the railroads and demoralized wire communication.

ance was given that the government general would do its best to prevent abuse of the practice. Seventy-one persons charged with engaging In demonstrations have been sentenced to prison for terms of from six months to three years. It Is reported that the police are at* tempting to force merchants to keep their shops open at Sblngishu on the Manchurian frontier. It is declared the Japanese authorl* ties are unable to deal with the site* tloa arising from demonstrations.

| Hoosier State Happenings jj Notre Dame.—Rev. Dr. John Cavanaugh, C. S. C., president of the University of Notre Dame, announced his resignation. The resignation will take effect some time after the scholastic year closes in June. Washington. D. C. —Assistant Postmaster General Blakslee says he expects to restore at least three of the motor postal routes in Indiana when tlie new appropriation becomes available July 1. He has not yet decided which routes will be continued. Richmond.—The offices of the American Friends lioard in this city received a cablegram from the Friends board in London, England, saying that the proposed world’s conference of Friends, at which the subject of peace was to be considered, would not be held next August as contemplated, but would take place in August, 1920. Muncie.—Three persons are dead as a result of a collision between a Lake Erie & Western railroad freight train and a city street car. Four persons were hurt, two of them seriously. The dead: Mrs. Charles Spall, age sixty, wife of a Muncie restaurant keeper; Harry Kara, returned soldier; William Hutzler, his nephew, also a returned soldier. Petersburg.—Governor “Goodrich has reappointed Judge G. H. Ward of Winchester to try the famous Patoka river dredge case, and the trial will follow the April term of the Pike circuit court. More than GOO taxpayers have signed petitions against the improvement which is to extend from a point near Winslow to the county line, a distance of eight miles. The cost is estimated at SBOO,OOO. Indianapolis!—The state board of tax commissioners is investigating the legality of sales by a former county treasurer, of real estate under the delinquent tax law in Floyd county where for $5 a bidder got a bunch of lots, a part of which have been resold for $2,000. John Mitchell, auditor of Floyd county, made an inquiry about the legality of the sale, and the state board has asked tlie attorney general for an opinion. Indianapolis.—Net receipts of the state automobile department for the last six months of 1918 amount to $58,707.53, according to figures announced by Frank A. Richards, clerk in the department, and yerified by Tom Barr and Horatio Harryman of the state board of accounts. Within the next ten days, probably, warrants will be maileu to each county in the state for the county’s 1 share in the fund. Marion county will receive the largest amount —$3,405.23. Indianapolis.—The appointment of a receiver for the property and assets of the Muncie National Institute, deeded to the Indiana State Normal school in 1918, is demnnded in a suit filed in the United States court, in which the court also is asked to declare null and void the deeds to the state institution. The deeds, it is alleged, never were accepted and are incompetent to pass title to the property. The plaintiff is tlie Old Second National bank of Aurora, Hi. Indianapolis. —More aphids or plant lice have made their appearance on fruit trees in the state than ever before, Frank Wallace, chief of the entomology divis.on of the conservation department, said. Fruit trees should .be sprayed with a- solution of threefourths of a pint of nicotine sulphate and two pounds of laundry soap in 50 gallons of water to kill tlie plant lice, Mr. Wallace said. “The prospect for the fruit crop in Indiana never looked better or bigger than at present.” said Mr. Wallace. Indianapolis.—A special session of tlie Indiana general assembly in all probability will be held to straighten out the situation precipitated by the fact that amendments to the county unit highway bill, which were adopted by the legislature on the last night of its regular session, were left out of the enrolled act. The proposal for a special session was considered at a conference of Governor Goodrich and othef state officials the past week. If It is decided that a special session is to be held, it will be called April 21. Indianapolis.—L. N. Hines, state superintendent of publie Instruction, has advised township trustees to withhold pay from school teachers who now refuse to teach school extra days In order to make up time lost when tlie schools were closed on account of the influenza-pneumonia epidemic last winter. • The attorney general, the state board of accounts and the' state superintendent’s office some time ago agreed that the teachers should make up the time lost or as much of it as possible, the exact time to.be made up to he dependent on the judgment of the township trustees. Logansport.—More than 250 men, representing Boone, Clinton, Cnrroll, Cass and Fulton counties, met here and perfected the Michigan Road association. The purpose is to maintain the Michigan road from Indianapolis to South Bend as a main market highway. Washington, D. C.—The following civil service examinations for presi-j dential postmasters in Indiana will be! held April 12; For postmaster at j Farmland, salary $1,400, examination, at Winchester; Newburg, $1,200. examination at Evansville; Doann, sl.000, examination at Christopher. • CVmnersville. —Fayette county will have 26,872 acre of corn this year, according to the county agricultural agent, who has completed a survey. This will be more than 1,000 acres below the crop of 1918, yet It will be slightly higher than the rotative cropping scheme of the county warrants ns steady farming practice, in the opinion of the agent. Many blue grass pastures, unplowed for years, were planted in corn in 1918. and the greater number of these will be returned to pasture in the next four years. Throe-fourths of Fayette county’s corn i«,e > : • ’owed.

Indianapolis. — Two persons have died in Indianapolis from sleeping sickness, according to reports to the board of health. Evansville.—Charles (Smoky) Rauch, convicted of first-degree murder for the killing of Mrs. Charles Sherwood last December, has been sentenced to the state prison for life by Judge Phillip C. Gould, judge of the Vanderburg circuit court. Indianapolis. — The average well, from the standpoint of the health of- * ficer, is a public scandal, it was declared by Dr. Harry E. Barnard, chief chemist of tlie Indiana state board of health, and head of the food and drug division, before the Indiana Sanitary and Water Supply association in session here. Indiauapolis.—Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, U. S. A., officially will open tin* Victory loan campaign in tlie state of Indiana with an address probably on Saturday, April 19, and Carter Glass, secretary of the treasury, will address a second Victory loan demonstration - - the bight of April 22, according to announcements made at the state and county Victory loan headquarters. Jasper.—The Citizens Trust company of Huntinghurg has been appointed receiver for the B. F. Shaver Canning company. It is said the assets are approximately $130,000 and the liabilities SIIO,OOOI The company 'has plants in Jasper, Huntington. Boonville. Dubois, Dale and Tennyson!'\_ It is understood that the receiver will operate plants during the coming season to their full capacity. Logansport.—Real estate transfers aggregating- more than $1,000,000 were recorded in this county during February, and March this year. County Recorder Tousley reports an unprece- h dented number of mortgage releases filed during the same period. He deI dares the activity in real estate trahs- | actions is without parallel, showing faith in tlie ability of the country to weather the reconstruction period with flying colors. Washington. D. C.—There were 203 names in an army casualty list recently given out by the war department. Indianians included were: Private Edwin Parker, Harrodsburg, severely wounded. Private Earl Boze. Geneva, wounded, degree undeter- . mined: Private Earl Neal, R. F. D. 1, Flat Rock, wounded, degree undetermined ; Private Wilmer Russell Ford, Bryant, slightly wounded; Lieut. Allen Bell, South Bend, missing in action. Indianapolis.—-From reports made by assessors on the progress of their work to the state board of tax commissioners, it appears that horses are being assessed thi< year' on an average from S9O to $100; cattle, SSO to $65; hogs. $lB to $25; sheep. sl2 to $10: automobiles,‘s3oo to $450; household goods, SIOO to S2OO, and farm implements, SIOO to $250. These figures are considerably higher than they were last year. The average assessment of automobiles last year was $247.71. Indianjipolis. — “These people all know there is a prohibition law in Indiana and I am determined they shall know that it- will be enforced,” said Judge Albert B. Anderson in federal court, in sentencing John Beer, a . wholesale liquor dealer of Louisville. Ky., to pay a fine of SIOO and to serve six months in the Marion county jail far violation of the Reed amendment. Lorenz Leppert. formerly an Indianapolis saloonkeeper, now living in Louisville, received a similar sentence. Peru. —At the closing session df the North Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference here, the report of the conference treasurer, revealed that durj ing the conference year of 1918 the I benevolences disbursed amounted to $339,070. Jeffersonville.—Growers and packers alike are considerably in the dark as to the tomato canning industry hereabouts. The Jeffersonville Canning company is entering into some contracts at sl4 a -ton, which is $3 less than roost contracts placed last year. According to William Kilgus, manager of the company, this means only a slight reduction in the price of canned tomatoes. Cans cost double what they did before the war, and the price of tomatoes is still $2 higher than In 1914. Tomatoes that sold at $2 a dozen have receded to $1.50, which means at least 15 cents a can retail for No. 3s. Growers say they must have at least as high a price as last year. Indianapolis. —Lawrence Newlin of West York. 111., experienced some difficulty in finding an outlet for a drove of the biggest good hogs ever on the Indianapolis market, but he had the satisfaction of knowing that he received the highest price, a head, ever paid here and it was said that u»e transaction was a record for any market. This record drove included 32 head of a total weight of 17,000 pounds, an average ,of 532 pounds a head. They sold at $19.50 a hundred pounds, making an average of $103.83 a head. The former record, made September 18, 1918, was $95.47 a head for 38 hogs. Sows have sold here as high as $102.20 a head and as high as $171.70 has been paid for a stag. Indianapolis.—The War Mothers of American, organized at Evansville last year, has started *a national movement to merge all organizations composed of the nearest woman relatives of men who were in the United States service in the world w ar. Terre Haute.— Eugene V. Debs, several times candidate for president on the Socialist ticket, who faces ten years' imprisonment for violation of th« espionage act, is ill at his home h« re suffering from a severe attack of *c atie rheumatism. Relatives who are attending him say his condition is not dangerous. Hartford City.—Notice has been posted in the plant of the American Window Glass company here advising the men that they need not look for other' employment this summer as the plant will be operated continuously. Evansville.— Trinity Methodist Episcopal church of Evansville, it was announced, has raised $58,643 in the centenary campaign of the denomination for religious welfare work. The quota of the church was $50,000. The Presbyterian churches of Evansville have raised more than $70,000 in the financial campaign for the new era movement of their denomination.