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NEWS REVIEW OF ~ CURRENTJVENTS Entente Allies Discover They Must Defend Poland Against Russian Bolsheviki. EAST PRUSSIA THREATENED ■s . King Feisal of Syria Yields to French —Drys Nominate Watkins—Harding Is Notified and Cox Declares for Wilson’s League Policy—Rail Workers Os. sered Wage Increase. • By EDWARD W. PICKARD. International attention was center-ed-during the week on the Russo-Po-lish situation, in which the diplomats found plenty to disturb their equanimity. In the first place, the Moscow government, replying to the British note asking if it would arrange an armistice with Poland, rejected in snibstance the British proposals. The Reds declined to go to London for any peace conference, holding that Great Britain is not impartial, and, in language so sarcastic that it hurt the feelings of the English statesmen, made it clear that they could deal with Poland direct. Their next move was to send a wireless message .to Warsaw expressing regret that Poland had seen fit to deal through the allies and suggesting that conversations on peace be conducted between the two governments without consulting or considering outsiders. So far as is known at this writing, the Poles have not replied definitely to this invitation, but a London report said they pad been told to apply for an armistice in order to test the sincerity of Moscow. Meanwhile, the soviet forces opened a general attack all along the line from the Roumanian border to the Pripet marshes, and though at first the Poles repulsed them in most places, at one point they broke across the border and were fighting on Polish soil. North of the Pripet the Reds moved rapidly and took Grodno. Their evident objective was Warsaw, and the civilians of that city were preparing to take flight, some already haying left. American relief organizations were ready to quit the city, and the Red Cross was shifting part of its headquarters to Cracow. Tn their advance through Lithuanian territory the bolsheviki seem to be threatening an invasion of East Prussia, and the German government is preparing to defend that region desperately. Fifty thousand of the best reichswehr troops have been mobilized and Berlin feels confident they can prevent an invasion if they’ can be maintained near the border. The danger, however, is that as the soviet Irmy draws near the bolshevik elefiStnls In other parts of Germany may break out and cause a scattering of those defense troops and leave open to the Russians the way into East Prussia. No doubt Germany will take advantage of the conditions to ask leave to mobilize more of her regular troops, and also it is likely the threat of Invasion will bring to light vast stores of concealed arms, including artillery. Early in the week Ignace Paderewski was made Polish plenipotentiary to Paris, and his return to power was taken as evidence that the Poles were willing to make peace with the Russians direct. The musician-statesman ■was expected to placate Lloyd George and Millerand. Pilsudsky, Polish ■chief of state, had refused to withdraw his armies to the lines specified by Lloyd George, insisting that national safety required the holding of the line of Baranowitz-Pinsk-Dubno. As a result of the Spa conference Great Britain and France are pledged to support Poland against Russian aggression, and they intend to give this support in the form of arms and munitions: men also will be supplied if this is considered necessary by British land French missions that have just been sent to Warsaw. But the British Finny Veterans. What Is the average age of fish? There is not a great deal of information on the point, but It would seem that a plaice is a veteran at twenty. One of that age was recently caught tn the North sea. It had been previously caught 16 years ago, when it was reckoned to be about four years old/ An identification disk was placed on it in accordance with the international scheme of inquiry into the migration, growth and age of fish. Then It was released, but it ultimately end-,

government is greatly vexed With the Poles. Premier Lloyd George on Wednesday gave voice to this feeling in a statement to the house of commons. He said, “If ever a nation in history has gone war mad, that nation is Poland” and characterized its course as reckless and foolish. This, however, he asserted, does not justify the crushing of the new nation, adding: “The whole fabric of European peace depends on an independent Poland. There is no time for the machinery of the League of Nations to interfere. If the bolsheviks overrun Poland and reach the German frontier, they deprive the allies of the' entire fruits of victory.” If the Russian bolsheviki decline to come to terms, the .allies will give material aid pot only to the Poles, but also to Gen. Baron Wrangel and others who are fighting the soviet government. For the present France’s trouble in Syria seems to be over. According to a report from Beirut, King Feisal of Syria has accepted all the terms of General Gouraud’s ultimatum and it is believed the French ean now occupy the territory assigned them without further attacks. Feisal had been Informed that Great Britain would not support him, taking the position that his independence is not inconsistent with a French mandate over Syria. At the time he yielded the French troops were ready to move on Damascus, his capital. Operations in Anatolia ceased for a time, Kemal Pasha and his nationalists being held in check, but in Thrace there were signs of the outbreak of a new Balkan war. The Greeks, to whom western Thrace was awarded, had not advanced far inland, but according to reports Bulgaria, which claimed the territory, was getting into action against them, and had called the class of 1921 to the colors. The Bulgarian irregulars were helping Jafar Tayar, who, with headquarters at Adrianople, is trying to hold western Thrace for Turkey. It was a lively week In Ireland. Several British officers were assassinated, at least one town was looted and partly burned, and there, was desperate fighting in Belfast in which a number of persons were killed. The opposing forces in that city were Sinn Fein and Orangemen employees in the shipyards. Bloody battles in the vicinity of Peking marked the progress of the civil war .in China early in the week, and then came the news that the rebels had been defeated and had given up the struggle against the government. The Prohibition party met in national convention in Lincoln, Neb., and rather surprised itself by nominating William J. Bryan for president at the first session. The nomination was made by acclamation and came after a stampede of the delegates started by the adoption of a resolution. “tendering” the honor to the Nebraskan. On Thursday Bryan absolutely declined, so the convention named Rev. Aaron S. Watkins of Germantown, 0., and gave the second place to D. Leigh Colvin of New York. Formal opening of the Republican presidential campaign came with the notification Os Senator Harding that he was the party’s standard bearer and the delivery of his speech of acceptance. This took place in his home town, Marion, where most of the big party leaders and many thousands of others had assembled. Here are some of the salient points in the senator’s speech: “I believe in party government as distinguished from personal government, individual, dictatorial, autocratic or what not.” “Our vision Includes more than a chief executive. We believe in a cabinet of highest capacity, equal to the responsibilities which our system contemplates, in whose councils the vice president, second official of the republic, shall be asked to participate.” “I promise you formal and effective peace so quickly as a Republican congress can pass its declaration for a Republican executive to sign.” “No surrender of rights to a world council or its military alliance, no assumed mandatory however appealing, ever shall summon the sons of this republic to war. Their supreme sac l ed its romantic career in the tolls of a trawl net The oldest-living fish would seem to be carp, specimens of which have been known to live 200 years; while at Plymouth, In a tank, is a large conger eel whose age is reckoned at forty. Outbreaks of Influenza. Noah Webster, In his “Brief History »f Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases,” published in 1799, described 44 instances of Influenza, dating in Europe from 1174 and in America from

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rifice shall only be asked for Americt and its call of honor.” “We approve collective bargaining." “Gross expansion of currency and credits has depreciated the dollar. We will attempt intelligent and courageous deflation.” “When competition—natural, fair impelling competition —is suppressed whether by law, compact or conspiracy we halt the march of progress, silence the voice of aspiration and paralyze the will for achievement.” “The human element comes first, and I want the employers in Industry to understand the aspirations, the convictions, the yearnings of million? of American wage earners.” “War establishes its higher standards for wages and they abide. I wish the higher wage to abide, on one explicit condition—that the wage-earner will give full return for the wage received.” Governor Cox. and Franklin D Roosevelt began the week with a lengthy conference with President Wilson in the White House. After the meeting it was formally announced that the president and the Democratic nominees are in full accord on the League of Nations issue. Governoi Cox said: ■ “We are agreed as to the meaning and sufficiency of the Democratic platform and the duty of the party in the face of the threatened bad faith to the world in the name of America. His thought is still of the war and the pledges we gave to those who sacrificed. What he promised, I shall, if elected, endeavor with all my strength to give.” The president announced that he had found, what he already knew, that Governor Cox and he Were “absolutely at one with respect to the great issue of the League of Nations and that he is ready to be the champion in every respect of the honor of the nation and the secure peace of the world.” On Tuesday the Democratic national committee met in Columbus, 0., tc prepare for the campaign. Mr. Cox’s choice for chairman was Edmund H Moore, his pre-convention manager, but Mr. Moore absolutely declined. The governor then asked the election pi former Congressman George White of Marietta, and the committee, most of whose members were said to favot the retention of Homer S. Cummings in the place, yielded and named Mr. White. To comply with the rules laid down by the San Francisco convention. Mr. Moore resigned from the committee and Mr. White was elected in his place. Governor Cox is to be notified on August 7 and Roosevelt two days later. Whether or not to accept a wage increase of $600,000,000 yearly, including about $140,000,000 back pay, was the proposition put up to the rail workers of the country last week by ths United States railway labor board. The long awaited award was announced in Chicago to the representatives of eighteen brotherhoods and unions, and it really did not please them at all, as they demanded apprbximately twice as much. Some of the members of the grand council were not empowered to accept the award finally, so a referendum vote of the two million rail workers becomes necessary. The chiefs of one uqion, the Order of Railway Telegraphers, rejected the award, and they called for a referendum vote on strike. Os course the railway executives at once began looking for means to pay the advanced wages, and they already have worked out a schedule of increased rates, both freight and passenger, for presentation to the interstate commerce commission. TJie passenger increase asked is from one half to one per cent per mile. That for freight will undoubtedly be heavy. In the death of William K. Vanderbilt in Paris one of America’s leading financiers and sportsmen passed. He inherited a large share of the vast estate of his father, and is believed to have left a fortune of between $50,000,000 and $100,000,000. Despite his wealth he worked his way up from the bottom in the rallro&d business. Another death of the week, interesting but not important, was that of Joachim, youngest son of the former kaiser. Distressed by financial difficulties, he committed suicide in Berlin. 1647. All of them are associated with earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, comets, droughts and similar disturbances of like nature. The epidemic of 1789 was described by Benjamin Rush. Doctor Rush’s account reveals a remarkable parallelism between the epidemic of 1789-90 and that of 1918-19. It Includes a classic description of the sneezing, hoarseness and sore throat, trfe sense of weariness, chills and fever, .pains in the head and infection in the frontal sinus.

Happenings of the World Tersely Told Politics Democratic National Chairman George White officially announced at Columbus, 0.. that Saturday, August 7, been definitely set as the date for the notification of Governor Cox of his nomination as presidential candidate. * • • Ohio got Its third presidential candidate for the 1920 campaign when the Prohibition national convention at Lincoln, Neb., nominated Rev. Aaron S. Watkins of Germantown. 0.. after learning from William J. Bryan that he would not accept the nomination voted him. • • • Senator Robert M. Ln Follette at Madison, Wfs„ repudiated the Republican party—the party which thrice elected him governor of Wisconsin and twice senator from that state — In a signed editorial. • • • The Anti-Saloon League of America, through ks executive committee nt Washington, refused to indorse or condemn either the Democratic or Republican candidate for president. • • • Christensen, Farmer-Labor party candidate for president, telegraphed an appeal from Denver. Colo., to Senator Harding and Governor Cox to join him in demanding that President Wilson release Debs. • * ♦ Col. Gilbert E. Seaman was indorsed for the Republican gubernatorial nomination at a conference held nt Milwaukee by members of the Republican party of the state. • • • Domestic A tornado that swept through the southern part of McHenry county. North Dakota, took toll of between eight and ten lives and caused heavy property damage, according to a dispatch from Devil’s Lake. The village of Drake was in the path of the storm and many buildings were wrecked. * • « With one exception all of the 18 rail brotherhoods have accepted, under protest. the awards at Chicago granting wage increases. The Order of Railway Telegraphers will refer the matter to its members with an order for i strike vote. * « * The body of a nude woman, jammed In a trunk, was found by employees of the American Railway Express company among the unclaimed baggage in the company's East Forty-fourth street warehouse, New York. The trunk had been received from Detroit June 17. ♦ * • . Rev. J. H. Hefndon, negro evangelist, was struck dead by lightning while reading his text at a revival meeting at Holly Springs, Miss. No one else in the church was injured. Federal agents Friday made the biggest whisky seizure in the history of that section of the state when they confiscated liquor valued at $267,560 on a railroad siding at Lang, O. • • ♦ Following three days of fruitless argument over the question of unanimous action of the railway labor board’s wage award, the grand council of the sixteen heads of rail unions decided at Chicago to leave action on the matter up to the individual unions. • • • Illinois railroads presented to the public utilities commission at Chicago, a request for an increase in intrastate freight rates, following the increased wages awarded their employees by the labor board. * • • The wage increase announced by the federal labor board at Chicago adds approximately $600,000.(160 to the annual pay roll of 1.892.287 employees. • • * Bodies of 881 American soldiers who died overseas arrived at New York from Danzig and Antwerp. Twentyfive “war brides” of French and German nativity were among the first cabin passengers. • • • Mrs. John Roesch and seven children were burned to death when their home at Copeland. 20 miles north of Bonners Ferry. Idaho, was destroyed by fire. Her husband is being held pending investigation. • • ♦ Hog Island,'near Philadelphia, established a new world’s ship-launch-ing record. Seven 7,825-ton steel cargo carriers, the last on the ways at the big plant, were sent overboard within fifty minutes. * * ♦ Approximately 700 employees of the Middle Fork mine at Benton, 81., went on strike to enforce demands of drivers, pumpmen and timbermen—day laborers —for more pay. * • ♦ The reply of the Russian soviet government to the British note concerning an armistice with Poland, rejects in substance the British peace proposals. * « « More than 2.000 moving picture workers in New York and vicinity went on strike, tying up or crippling a score of film plants. * • • Edwin R. Bergdoll, who disappeared from his Philadelphia home about two years ago and since that time has been sought on charges of draft evasion, surrendered at Governor’s Island, N. Y. He is a younger half-brother of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the millionaire draft evader. Three armed men held up the Bank of St. Marie, 111., shortly before noon, obtained $20,000 in Liberty bonds. sl,800 in cosh, and after locking the cashier in the vault, escaped in an automobile. \

Washington ' Poland has asked the state department at Washington, to formally announce to the world that the nation has “the moral support” of the United States in its battle with the Russian bolsheviki. • • • An increase of 20 per cent in passenger fare and 50 per cent in Pullman charges was asked of the interstate commerce commission at Washington, by the railroads to cover part of the $600,000,000 wage pward. • * • i Conciliator W. H. Ury has heen as t signed by the department of labor at t Washington to a controversy of raas rine engineers with certain launch c companies at San Francisco. * • • John S. Davis, American ambassador to Great Britain, will sail for the - United States on August 18 on a leave i of absence, the state department a< t Washington announced. t• • • r The car sendee commission a< t Washington ordered the diversion oi i 25.000 empty box cars from easterr, and southeastern territory to western lines to handle the grain crops for r t period of 30 days. • • « ? To fight the high cost of living, th< i war department at Washington, an - nounced that it would sell at lowei than pre war quotations, several mil lion dollars’ worth of canned meats. * • * t Railroads were ordered by the Inter- • state commerce commission at Wash ■ ington. to give preference and prioritj In the supply of cars for the trans portation of bituminous coal consigned r to lake ports for transportation to th< i Northwest. J Sporting Resolute won her second cup racf in the international series at Sandy • Hook, N. J., by jumping into the lead ■ at the start and holding her advantage I* • • Jack Johnson, negro, former heavyweight champion pugilist, crossed tht international boundary line from Mexico at San Diego, Cal., and was arrested by a deputy United States mar- • shal. * * * 1 Personal Gov. Calvin Coolidge is “taking a > rest.” With Mrs. Coolidge and their i two sons, John and Calvin, he is on his father’s farm in the hills of Vermont near Plymouth. • • • Frank Trumbull of New York city* ; former railway president and banker, - died at a hotel at Santa Barbara, Cal. * * * • William K. Vanderbilt, the American financier, died at Paris Thursday. He had been slowly declining, sufferI ing from heart disease, with compli- : cations. * • • i Mrs. Cornwallis-West, wife of the i late Col. William Cornwallis-West and > mother of the princess of Pless and : the duchess of Westminster, died at Arnewood near Milford, England, after a long illness. • * • ' Foreign . A proposal to send groups of soldiers into the agricultural districts to aid in gathering the harvest is being . considered by the minister of war at 1 Paris. France’s harvest promises to be a good one, but there is a great i scarcity of farm laborers. • * * A gpvernmental upheaval has taken i place at Warsaw, with the result that . the socialists are in power. Their pol- ■ icy is immediate and direct armistice negotiations with soviet Russia. A ; new cabinet has been formed. Witos Dashminsky, socialist leader, is premier. * « « , A Paris dispatch says, should the Russian soviet commander refuse to , accept Poland’s plea for an armistice allied forces will immediately be rushed to the Russo-Polish front by way of Germany. * * * General Villa and his forces, said to number 100 men, are heading toward Coahuila, according to statements of deserters, as reported by Gen. Joaquin Amaro, chief of operations at Chihuahua. One death from bubonic plague and one new case were reported at Vera Cruz during the last twenty-four hours. Two new cases of yellow fever were reported. * • * A Berlin dispatch says scouting detachments of the soviet armies are reported within about 40 miles of the German border, and it is expected Trotzky’s cavalry will be at the East Prussian border. * ♦ ♦ The Mexican power schooner Jacoris Conde formerly the Japanese owned Toni Maru. upset and foundered off Mazatlan, Mexico, with the loss of 42 lives. * * * King Feisul at Beirut, Syria, has agreed to accept the terms of the . French ultimatum with regard to Syria (understood to Include acquiescence to the French mandate) delivered last week. • • • : Upon the urgent advice of French i military experts at Warsaw, all Amer- 1 ■ lean relief workers have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to ! quit Poland on an hour’s notice. ■ Nine persons have been killed in rioting and scores wounded at Belfast. [ Rioting started In the nationalist > quarter of Belfast as a result* of at--5 tacks by unionists on the shipyards, . when attempts were made to expel Sinn Feiners. Ten Sinn Feiners were f wounded in the attack and had to be . removed to hospitals. Others escaped by swimming the river. ♦ * * c The Russian bolsheviki, In their westward push, have e reached the vicinity 1 of the former Russo-German battle > line on the western edge of the Pripet J marshes. Here the Poles are making La stand, says a_Warsaw report.

Hoosier State Happenings ' Washington.—Wheat thrashing is half finished tn Daviess county, and the crop is believed to be not more than 50 per cent of normal. There were many fields that were not cut. The yields in other fields were poor. Corn prosi>ects are fine. The tomato season is near and canning factories of the county will begin operation within a few days. Blackberries are more plentiful this year than last, when there was a record crop. The price opened at 50 cents a gallon and has now dropped to 40 cents. Many patches have been leased and 50 cents admittance is being charged. This, however, entitled one to pick all day and carry away all he can pick. Own ers of the patches say they cannot get pickers and find this the best way to get the berries to the public. Indianapolis.—A total of $1,887.338,35 in the common school fund of the state is ready for distribution to the counties. The June apportionment to the' counties was announced by a deputy state superintendent of public instruction. Deductions ranging from SI,OOO to $3,000 wqre made in the money to be given to four counties, to make up part of a deficit in their teachers’ pension funds. The remainder of the deficit, which 1 totals $14,000, will be made up from the December apportionment. The deductions were made as follows: Knox county, Vincennes unit, $3,000; Clark county, Jes ' fersonville unit, $2,000; Jeffersoe county, county unit, SI,OOO, and Bar tholomew county, county unit, SI,OOO 1 Noblesville.—The first load of new wheat brought to Noblesville by a farmer living southeast of the city, tested 57 pounds and brought $2.57 a bushel, which is the highest price ever paid for new wheat in Hamilton county. It was of a comparatively poor grade because of a high percentage of moisture,- the result of the recent heavy rains. The fleldFfrom which it was thrashed produced 13 bushels to the acre. It is thought that this will be about the average of the wheat which will be thrashed in this part of Indiana during the next two weeks. Indianapolis.—lndiana farmers are advised not to contract to buy fertilizer -until an investigation started by the Indiana Federation of Farmers’ associations has been completed, according to a statment given out by Lewis Taylor, general secretary of the organization. The federation has an agent investigating the rapid increase in the price of fertilizer in the last few months. Mr. Taylor said the price of fertilizer had increased approximately 25 per cent since last spring. Anderson. —Elevator operators believe that Madison county farmers are thrashing too soon because of a high per centage of moisture revealed by tests of the wheat. The first of new wheat delivered in Andbrson contained 17 per cent moisture, tested 56 pounds to the bushel and was graded as No. 3. At Pendleton where 2,500 bushels of new wheat were received, the test e ranged from 51 to 60 pounds - to the bushel, with a yield of 18 to 28% bushels to the acre. Lafayette. — Tippecanoe county farmers report a light yield of wheat. Thrashing thus far indicates a crop considerably lower than last year’s figures. In a few localities the yield is not far below normal, but on some farms not more than four or five bushels to the acre are being realized. At West Point the yield is about twenty bushels to the acre, and at Battle Ground about twelve bushels. Petersburg. — Pike county wheat growers are selling considerable wheat at $2.50 and $2.55 a bushel, and only those who have granaries are andeayoring to hold their wheat. The uncertain conditions of the Chicago wheat market has caused many to sell who had intended holding their crop. Most of the renters are hauling their wheat in from the machine as it is thrashed. Noblesville. —W. A. Stockinger, who has been principal of the high school at Marlon for the last seven years, was elected to be superintendent of Noblesville schools. He will succeed A. C. Payne, who resigned recently to become superintendent of the schools at Connersville. Crown Point. —Five alleged Lake county murderers are to be tried in the next term of the Lake county courts. The defendantswill be Milarlo Hermandson, Sparlan Zarin, Nivok Dundevich, William Thornton and Roderick Horn. Indianapolis. —Robert C. Johnson, thirty-one years old, an escaped military prisoner from Fort Benjamin Harrison, was shot and mortally wounded by a searching party which tried to recapture him on the public square in Noblesville. Indianapolis.—More than 100,000 persons are expected to come here the week of September 19 to 25, when the forty-fifth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic and allied organizations is held, according to the executive committee in charge jf general arrangements. Decatur. —The wheat crop in Adams -ounty is discouraging, farmers say. In some districts the yield will not be jver five bushels to the acre, but there are some fields which will average 20 and 25 bushels. The corn crop will be a little short. Seymour.—An exceptionally big yield of clover seed Is forecast by farmers In Jackson county. The clover fields are in fine condition and a big crop of hay was harvested at the first cutting. Because of the high price paid for seed practically all the second crop will ripen fonimlling;Brazil. —Kenneth Williams, twentyfour years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Williams of Brazil, an exsoldier of the world war, died of a broken neck suffered recently when he dived into shallow water, 14 miles /south of here.

Indianapolis. — Reductions of the assesseu value of 218 Indiana corpof* atlons, including public utilities, made by the state board of tax commissioners during its second 1920 session, were announced by the The reductions run into the millions of dollars, but the exact amount has not been determined. A total of 323 corporations filed appeals with the tux board for reductions after their original assessments were announced in May. The board denied the appials of 105. In spite of the reductions made at this session, it is believed that the total assessed valuacf Indiana corporations will be several million dollars more than that of 1919. Large reductions were ordered by the board in the case of transportation companies and building and. loan companies. Indianapolis.—The seriousness of the grain car shortage in Indiana has taken precedence over the coal situation, according to statements made by John W. McCardle, vice chairman of the public service commission, by managers of Indiana railroads, at a conference. The managers' reports snowed that the coal car situation has I improved about 20 per cent within the last few weeks. The managers of eight railroads reported that they are moving a total of 1,485 empty box cars to western connections which ' will be used for moving grain. Mr. McCardle telegraphed the interstate commerce commission in an effort to have some of these cars diverted to the Indiana roads. Peterusburg.—Because of the priority orders- given the railroads for the handling of coal and grain, live-stock shippers are experiencing considerable trouble in getting cars in which to ship, live stock to the city market. . Hundreds of fat hogs are awaiting ship* • I ment, and a delay in forwarding cars i will mean a big loss to feeders and j shippers alike. There will he the ' greatest corn crop ever grown in Pike ■ county, and many fields will average . from 60 to 100 buslrrTs*>q ae&. The crop in the White river bottoms, though planted in June, promises to exceed anything ever grown in the liver bottoms. Many, farmers have reduced the live stock and will sell their corn crops. Indianapolis.—One of the most unusual cases that has come to the attention of the Indianapolis police and coroner in several months developed with the finding of the bodj* of Paul Fisher, age elevn. son of Mr. and Mrs.. Charles Fisher, near Indianapolis, tie<l to a cross beam of a water tank on the farm of Henry Weber. The boy was tied w-ith an old rattan whip which was wrapped around the bean» and his neck in such away as to cause strangulation, Indianapolis. — Announcement is’ made by Richard Lieber, director of conservation in Indiana, that the Indiana Audubon society will establish headquarters in the state conservation uffices-in the statehouse, and the society is to co-operate with department' officials in the work of bird protection, conservation and propaganda. It is probable, the society will establish oneor more of its executives at headquarters. Indianapolis. — Indianapolis’ millers have not been buying any new crop wheat and have not contracted for any. They say the chief reason is at present that the price is too high, that exporters sold considerable wheat for July shipment, that rains have delayed cutting, thrashing and marketing and that these buyers have to make prices high to gather up the scattered supplies ready for so they can fill their contracts. Lawrenceburg.—Enos E. Hayes, a well-known farmer and breeder of blooded stock, residing near the Ohio and Indiana state line, has harvested two acres of Early Ohio potatoes, and will replant seed for a late crop. The two acres of rich new soil produced 857% bushels of potatoes of a good size, which were sold on the local market for 10 cents a pound. Shelbyville.—Every wheat thrashing outfit in Shelby county is now busy in the fields. The wheat yield in the county this year, judging from die grain that has been thrashed, will average better than usual, it is , said.. Only a few poor yields have been reported. Seymour.—C. L. Cope, aged twentyfive years, a dentist, was electrocuted at Seymour while making an X-ray photograph of a patient’s teeth. A spark from the X-ray machine carried 40,000 volts through his body. The patient was unharmed. Versailles—John Hallet, age sixty, a farmer, fired seven shots into thebody of L. C. Matthews, age fifty-six, at Matthews' home, near New Marion, and ended his own life by taking strychnine. Matthews died instantly. Goshen.—Goshen hospital, which was closed June 1, following differences between the board of directors!, and doctors, and as the result of differences between physicians, nurses and matrons, has been opened. Warsaw. —Kosciusko county will have a community nurse. It has been decided by the Red Cross. This nurse will conduct "a physical examination of school children. Lafayette.—Farmers in Tippecanoe and ten surrounding counties comprising District 1, of the State Federation of Farmers will defer the planting of wheat one week this fall in the hope of checking the Hessian fly. This action was decided on at a conference of county agricultural agents. Indianapolis.—Governor Goodrich his signed senate bill 367. which amends an act to protect cities of the fifth class, adjacent towns, lands and highways and other properties within four miles of such city from floods and inundations. Indianapolis.—The lower house of the legislature passed the administration tax legalizing bill by a vote of 63 to 30 under suspension of the rules. The measure, which was passed with slight amendments, legalizes the action of the state board of tax commissioners in making the state-wide horizontal increases in tax assessments. Indianapolis. — Governor Goodrich signed house bill No. 537, which appropriated $20,000 for the expense of the special session of the legislature. Thia was the first bill submitted to the governor and the first signed by hhn