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NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Attempt of Communists to Run Metal Industries of Italy Likely to Fail. TECHNICAL MEN HOLD OUT Lithuanians Open Hostilities Against the Poles—British Won’t Release Irish Hunger Strikers—Destructive Earthquake in Italy—velopments in Politics. By EDWARD J. PICKARD. Soviet rule in the industrial region of northern Italy came rather suddenly, but it was not unexpected by those who were watching developments, there; The experiment of thlfworkers ,1s of great interest, but the indications are that it will be a failure. Employers In the big metallurgical works of that part of the country undertook to head off a threatened general strike for increased wages by putting a lockout into effect. The immediata result was the seizure of the plants by the workers, .who put them under the management of the soviets, and are trying to operate them on communistic principles. The owners did not resist, but the technical and administrative staffs unanimously re--fused to join in with the others, and consequently the latter are having a hard time in making good. They have no- one capable of directing thfeif efforts, and tltousands of them are drifting away and refusing to work at all. In the plants that are running the ■waste is stjid to be appalling. So far the communists have generally refrained from violence —indeed, there has no occasion for it Therefore the government has declined Ho interfere, trusting that the employers and men will finally adjust their ..differences. The government of Italy is in a more precarious position than any other of the great powers and cannot afford to antagonize the laborites and communists. If the soviet movement spreads to other industries and interferes with the public services and the provisioning of the people, Premier Giolitti may be forced to Intervene. In order to meet that eventuality, it Is said, the employees of the communized automobile factories at Turin are building armored cars and; tanks, and the airplane makers at Brescia are mounting on planes a number of machine guns that were secretly removed from the arsenal at Venice. The situation may be cleared up by two conferences that opened near the close of the week. q Italian manufacturers declare that the wage increase demanded by the 1500,000 metal workers employed by them would add at least 1,000,000,000 lire to their pay roll, and that this burden could not be sustained. They point out that Italy pays 18 times the pre-war price for coal, while England pays only three times, America only 3.5, France six, and even Germany only 11. As a result foreign production is replacing Italian. Polish troops, in their operations against the Russians, have run afoul of the Lithuanians, and hostilities have broken out between the two countries. The bone of contention is the province of Suwalki, which is inhabited mainly by Lithuanians and was- given to {Lithuania by Russia when the Poles were driven out recently. Attacking suddenly, the Lithuanians defeated the Poles in the region of Seiny and then by forced marches advanced beyond die city of Suwalki, with the evident intention of assaulting the Augustowo fortress, to which heavy Polish re-en-forcements were rushed. Poland protested to the League of Nations against the action of Lithuania, but that country refused to accept the blame, stating that it does not recognize the lines of demarcation fixed by Earl Curzon and Marshal Foch, but Is ready to cease hostilities and negotiate a new line. Os course, the Russian reds took

LEVIATHAN LAID UP A YEAR Tan Million Dollars Needed to Refit * the Liner That Figured Conspicuously in War. New York.—One year ago the former United States transport Leviathan arrived from Brest with General Pershing on board and several thousand American troops returning from the war. and was tied up at Hoboken, v here she has since been -lying idle. **'he vessel was turaed err* by her

advantage of this complication and renewed their attacks on the Poles, but with small success or utter failure. General Budenny, it was reported, was gathering large forces in the I’ripet marshes with which he intended to move against either Lemberg or Lublin. Predictions that the Germans would be unwilling or unable to disarm and properly intern the many thousands of Russians who were forced across the East Prussian border have been fulfilled. Several times lately large bodies of these reds have recrossed |he frontier and attacked Polish positions. They were captured or repulsed, but Poland naturally is peeved. She has sent notes to the allied powers, demanding that Germany be compelled to follow the rules of warfare and keep these bolshevik forces in restraint. The Poles allege that the entire Third bolshevik cavalry corps in East Prussia has been neither disarmed nor interned and their horses have not been taken away from them. They say these troops are in a position to charge across the frontier whenever they wish. The Germans reply that they have insufficient reichswehr troops to guard so many reds. * The Independent Socialists of Germany have turned against the Lenine regime in Russia, and in conference at Berlin they declared against union With Moscow. Prof. Karl Ballod, one of their wisest leaders, who has been in Russia for several months, told them the Russian soviet chiefs have failed to show that they can establish socialism in their country and have proved (hemselves wholly incapable* of effecting an economic restoration- of Russia. He pictured the food, transportation and industrial conditions there as deplorable. The Germans were highly displeased with the anti-socialistic policies adopted by Lenine and Trotzky. Reports from southern Russia during the week were contradictory. One day there would be a story of the defeat of Baron. Wrangel’s forces, and the next day dispatches telling of victories over the reds. At this time ’the latest report is that Wrangel’s troops had surrounded the bolshevik! at Kachovka and that a fierce battle was in progress with the bridge over th a Dnieper river as the immediate prize. The town is of great strategic value. The Russians are using most of their reserves in combating Wrangel. Hie Polish general staff has declined to undertake a joint offensive against the reds in combination with Wrangel, pointing out that peace negotiations at Riga are imminent and that the allied attitude prevents the renewing of the campaign unless the soviet government refuses equitable terms. At this writing Terence MacSwiney, lord mayor of Cork, was still alive, but very weak, and there was no prospect of his relief save by death. This may be delayed a considerable time as he is fed during his periods of unconsciousness. Sir Hamar Greenwood, chief secretary for Ireland, on returning from a visit with Lloyd George in Switzerland, announced: “The decision of the government is final and irrevocable. Neither the lord mayor of Cork nor any other Irish hunger striker will be released. It would be a monstrous thing if any prisoner, political or otherwise, could secure his release at will by refusing food.” The British government has made It clear that the Irish need expect little leniency as long as they continue their campaign of assassination against the constabulary and military in Iceland. It was reported from Rome that the pope had interceded in behalf of MacSwiney, and the mayors of a number of American cities sent cablegrams asking his release. Dispatches from London said Archbishop Mannix of Australia might be permitted to go to Ireland within a few days, having convinced the authorities that he is opposed to extremist measures and seeks to act as peacemaker. Earthquake shocks in northern Italy killed several thousand persons, made many more thousands homeless and did tremendous damage to property. The region affected lies between Florence, Milan and the Adriatic coast. Numerous towns and villages were wholly or partly destroyed and edi-

commander, Capt. E. H. Durrell of the United States navy to the United States Shipping board, whose flag was hoisted in the place of the naval ensign. During her lying up the cost has been estimated at $5,000 a day for upkeep, including a skeleton crew to look after the pipes/ wash down decks and guard the gangway, and totals $1,825,000 for the 12 months. She was the first transport to be laid off by the war department last fall on account of her heavy consumption of coal and the

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fices famous for centuries were laid In ruins. The great Carrara marble quarries are about In the center of the shaken region, and it was reported that hundreds of workers were entombed there. Relief agencies got Into operation quickly, and King Victor Emmanuel hurried to the scene to do what he could, directing the efforts of the rescuers, and feeding and consoling the survivors. Later In the week there were dew quakes, in the Emilia district, causing further loss of lives and destruction of property. In matters political the presidential candidates and the campaign fund investigation «had to share interest last week with’ some Important primaries. The results . of these were not satisfactory to the upholders of President Wilson’s draft of the league covenant, for their opponents scored in three states, widely separated. In New Hampshire United States Senator Moses, who is one of the “irreconcilables,” was renominated by the Republicans, having a majority of 12,000 over H. L. Spaulding in a total vote of 45,000. Spaulding advocated a league with the Lodge reservations: what may have counted more, he was opposed to womari suffrage. Georgia’s Democratic primaries Resulted in the nomination of Thomas E. Watson, former Populist, for United States senator. His opponents were Senator Hoke Smith and Gov. Hugh Dorsey, the latter making the race as an administration candidate and accepting the league as submitted by President Wilson; Watson has been an open foe of the administration and opposes the leaguje in any form. A third test was in Wisconsin, where the Republicans renominated Senator Irvine L. Lenroot, a Lodge reservationist. Senator Brandegee was renominated hy the Republicans of Connecticut, and Senator Marcus Smith I>y the Democrats of Arizona. Persistent digging by tl»e senatorial committee on campaign funds brought out facts favorable to both sides. Among the witnesses heard was Harry M. Blair, assistant to Republican Treasurer Upham, and the author of the now famous J “Form 101” plan for larger cities. He said that he had 250 copies of this Circular made, locked most of them in a safe, but took several to New York, where his Idea of raising the limit of subscriptions was rejected by the Republican committee. Consequently the circular was never issued, but Mr. Blair admitted some copies might have got out and thus come into the hands of Mr. Cox. Dudley S. Blossom of Cleveland gave evidence in support of the Cox charge that special quotas were fixed for the larger cities, admitting that the Cleveland quota was $400,000. and that he was In charge of 20 teams named to raise that sum. He said that only $74,000 has been raised or pledged. Other evidence heard by the committee established the Cox charge that within the Republican national committee there was a volunteer as well as a paid organization for raising funds; and refuted . the Democratic candidate’s charges that the Republican fund was to be $16,000,000 or anything like that, and that subscriptions of more than SI,OOO were sought The fact was developed that state and local managers all down the line expanded the quotas they were asked to raise, in order to get the amount asked by the national committee. A man from Augusta. 111., produced letters to the postmaster of that town soliciting contributions to the Democratic fund. Those bore the signature of Charles Boeschenstein, Democratic national committeeman for Ulionis. The Republican members of the investigating committee asked that Boeschenstein be summoned to explain. One important event tn the world of sport took place on Labor day. That was the vain attempt of Billy Miske to take away from Jack Dempsey the heavyweight championship. The fight was staged at Benton Harbor. Mich., and was witnessed by some 20.000 men and a few women. Mr. Miske was game, but he never had a chance. In the third round Mr. Dempsey knocked him down and, as he arose, shot a right hook to the jaw that put him on the mat for the count.

cost of a crew of 1,200 officers and men, which she must carry. So far the shipping board has declined offers made by steamship companies with tho proviso that the ship should be reconditioned before the purchase. This would cost about $10,000,000, and It Is understood the shipping board has not that amount to its credit, so the biggest ship in the world continues idle. ' • , . Capt. John Jamison has been in charge of the Leviathan since last November with a skeleton crew. - -

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD • RIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK I CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS Kernel* Culled From Event* of Mo* tnent In All Parte of the World— Os Interest to All th* People Everywhere. Washington President Wilson at Washington, tn a telegram to representatives of the anthracite workers in Pennsylvania, refused to grant their request to reconvene the joint scale committee of operators and miners. • « • The United States government at Washington has sent a new note to Mexico City demanding that the lives and property rights of all Americans in Mexico be accorded fullest protection by the newly elected government. Rifle strength of the Bolshevist army on the Polish front was reduced by more than one-half as a result of the Polish counter-offensive, according to Washington. The soviet armies, the advices stated, have suffered heavily from desertions. « • • President Wilson at Washington In a proclamation urged state governors to set apart Saturday, October 9, as Fire Prevention day and to request a general observance by .the public. • * • In an effort to end illicit distilling of intoxicating liquor, the treasury at Washington decided to tighten regulations around the sale of stills and add another check to Its means of tracing down their users. > * * * One of the big surprises In the congressional race in Wisconsin was the '’defeat of Representative John J. Esch for renomination. Mr. Esch was the author of the railroad bill bearing his name. ** * i Corn prospects improved during August and promised on September 1 a crop of 3,131,000.000 bushels,, the department of agriculture at Washington announced. Personal Olive Thomas. American moving picture actress and wife of Jack Pickford, died at the American hospital at Paris. She was suffering from mercurial poisoning, having swallowed bichloride of mercury. * * • Warren Delano, uncle of the Democratic vice presidential candidate and one of the wealthy members of the Dutchess county colony, was instantly killed at the New York Central railroad crossing at Barrytown, N. Y. • • * ■ -rDomestic An earthquake shock was felt at Riverside, Cal., about 6:15 in the morning. It was of sufficient violence to awaken sleepers, %nd many persons fled Into the open until the tremors subsided. No damage was reported. • * • Four men were burned to death at Baltimore, Md., in a fire aboard the steamship Aeolus, formerly the Ham-burg-American liner Grosser Kurfurst, which is being reconditioned there. * • • Carrying TOC pounds of mall, the first transcontinental postal airplane to leave San Francisco cleared from the Marina field at 6:15 a. m. Raymond J. Little was the pilot. * * * Maj. Gen. George H. Harries of Chicago was elected commander in chief of the Military Order of the World War at the closing session of the organization’s first meeting at Detroit. • • • Fifty police officers at the state fair at Indianapolis were called upon early in the day to quell a camel which wandered into a soft drink booth and drank ten gallons of red lemonade. The Spanish cruiser Alphonso XIII has arrived at New York from Annap- ! oils. It is the first Spanish naval vessel to visit Cuba and the United States , since the Spanish-American war. W. A. Gardiner, a citizen of the United States, who was captured by Pedro Zamora, the Jallst'd bandit, on August 20 at Cuale, has escaped, according to official advice received at Mexico City. The Chicago-New York United , States mail plane, driven by Lieutenant Riddlesburger, was wrecked in landing in a cornfield near Elkhart, Ind. The pilot was not injured. * ♦ * The Prudential Trust company of i Boston, with a capital of $200,000, was taken over by Bank Commissioner , Joseph C. Allen. Newhall Brock, twenty-four, son of C. J. Brock, a Boston banker, was killed when struck by a bolt of lightning at Amarillo, Tex. A $20,000 registered bull belonging to John F. Jelke, wealthy Chicago butterine manufacturer, was lost in a fire which destroyed the Jelke dairy barns near Elgin, 111. 1 Reports at union headquarters at ' Birmingham, Ala., indicated that more ’ than 10,0000 men, half the number emi ployed in the bituminous coal mines > In that section, had obeyed the strike . tall. I i Federal Judge Garvin in Brooklyn i npheld United States commissioners’ decisions that seizure of liquors without a search warrant Is a “clear violation of the fourth amendment to the .. Constitution.?. .

Woolen suits this fall ought to b< from 15 to 25 per cent cheaper that last year. The American Woolen company placed Its exhibit before buyers | at New York at this substantial anc unexpected reduction. A grand jury investigation of alleget baseball gambling and the recent near . scandal that resulted from it in connection with the Cub-Philadelphia game, was ordered by Chief Justici Charles A. McDonald of Chicago. Politics Senator Warren G. Harding arrived back home at Marion, 0., enthusiastic over the welcome accorded him during his entire trip to the Minnesota fair and return. • a • An agricultural program designed to keep the nation self-sustaining and to improve the condition of the farmer was outlined by Senator Harding in a speech at the Minnesota fair at St, Paul, Minn. a a * Foreign Viscount Uchlda, minister of foreign affairs at Tokyo, gave a luncheon in honor of the American congressmen who are visiting Japan. The function was attended by the entire cabinet and other notables. a a a The Polish armies On the northeastern front deli /ered a series of successful attacks upon the Russians and took 3,300 prisoners, four guns and two armored trains, says the Warsaw communique. a a a A Rome dispatch says that a volcanic crater opened at the top of Pizza d’Ucello, a mountain 5,845 feet high, above nine miles northeast of Spezin. a a a A Constantinople dispatch says that thousands of leaflets, warning Turkish nationalists that if they do not yield Greek forces will occupy Constantinople, are being distributed through Anatolia. aa a " According to a Constantinople dispatch, Tarsus, the birthplace of St. Paul, about twenty miles southeast of Adano, is being besieged by the Turks, and the French garrison and the 25.000 inhabitants of the place are short of food. a a a According to a Warsaw dispatch the Polish armies on the northeastern front delivered a spries of successful attacks upon the Russians and took 3,300 prisoners, four guas and two armored trains. a a a Rudolf Mosse, well known as a publisher, is dead at Berlin. Herr Mosse was born in Gratz in 1843. He was the publisher of the Berliner Tageblati and the Berliner Volks Zeltung.. a a * A Rome dispatch says another violent earthquake occurred in the Emilia district at 2:35 o’clock in the morning, causing the loss of lives and important damage. The shock was more violent than that of last Tuesday. Gabriele d’Annunato proclaimed Flume an independent, state. D’Annunzio declared he had received private news from Paris which forced him to declare Fiume to be independent. * * * Armed and masked men attacked four police officers at Tullow, County Carlow, Ireland. Two of the constables were shot dead and another seriously wounded. * *. • Three hundred and fifty delegates, representing 20 nations, were present at the opening session of the International Congress of Women at Christiania. • * • Five transports of Greek troops have landed at Ismid, on the Gulf of Ismid, 50 miles southeast of Constantinople, and are replacing the British forces there. • • * Forty former German liners, totaling nearly 400.000 tons, including the Imperator, the Kaiserin and the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, were offered for sale by Lord Inchape in behalf of the government at London. • • • Premier Millerand of France, Marshal Foch, General Degoutte and General Lecomte, escorted by a company of American cavalry which met them at Weissenturn, visited Coblenz. * * « In the last two weeks In August General Wrangel. the antibolshevik commander in South Russia, took 5.000 bolshevik! prisoners and captured 12 cannon and 51 machine guns, he reports from Sebastopol. A Manchester, N. H„ dispatch says Senator George H. Moses, opponent of the League of Nations and of woman suffrage, was renominated by the Republicans in Tuesday’s primary by a plurality of about 12.000. The Chicago Tribune’s Paris correspondent cables as follows: “Monday’s earthquake caused a loss of life of perhaps 5,000 and tremendous damage in the region bounded by Florence, Milan and the coast, it became known, despite the efforts of the Italian government to hold up the news ” Several serious revolts against the : Russian soviet government have brok-, • en out in the neighborhood of Moscow ■ and have been suppressed with much ; bloodshed, says a Copenhagen dispatch. , A delegation from the Tokyo munlcl. : pal assembly is planning to visit th« » United States to study civil Improve- ■ ment and particularly roads and tram--1 ways. ►'• • • The city and county magistrates ol Dublin resigned in a body as a protest to the British government against its policy In Ireland. A constable was shot dead in th* railway station at Galway, keland. Three of his assailants were killed and ope or two wounded. (

8 Hoosier News | | Briefly Told | Indianapolis.—The Blackford county team, which won first honors in the boys’ live stock judging contest at the state fair was composed of Mark W. Langdon, Charles Clamme, Jr., and Vaughn Johnson. The Blackford county boys won a S2OO trophy and trips to the International Live Stock exposition at Chicago in November. The Decatur and Tipton county teams tied for place, while fourth place went to the Madison county team and fifth to the three boys from Clay county. The Dearborn county team won first honors in judging dairy cattle, and will represent Indiana in the junior judging contest at the national dairy show in Chicago in October. The next four tennis in this event in the order in which they finished follow : Madison, Wells, White and Tippecanoe counties. So.uth Bend.—Heavy rains have eliminated any fear for the potato crop of northern Indiana and southern Michigan. According to growers, the yield will now be above normal and of sufficient diggers can be obtained the price should drop. Fruit is so plentiful -throughout the district that otily the choicest specimens are being harvested. The yield is so large that the fear to put any but the best on the market, realizing that a flooded market will reduce the price to a point to make the raising of fruit unprofitable. Plums, peacnes, apples and grapes were never more plentiful and along the highways of southern Michigan the displays made up of boxed and unboxed fruit are attracting thp attention of autdlsts. Jeffersonville.—Finding they can cut the cost of bridge construction about 50 per cent, the board of commissioners for Clark county proposes to build a number of bridges and has asked the coilinty’ council to appropriate about 60 per cent of the estimates of the county engineer. The decision is based on experience when no bid was for building one bridge. Contractors said the engineers estimate of $1,048 >vas too low. The board built the bridge, with one of the members as superintendent. The structure was completed in eleven days, with the addition of two eight-foot concrete wing walls, at a total cost of $565.65, a saving of $452.35. Anderson. —YCbmerr of Anderson will have to pay poll tax under the provisions |of an ordinance passed by tlie city council in making appropriations and fixing the tax rate for next year. The ordinance proposes that “each inhabitant of Anderson between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years” must pay a poll tax. The ordinance as originally drafted specified that each “male inhabitant” between certain ages should pay poll tax. but before the ordinance was passed the word I‘male” was stricken from the ordinance. Valparaiso. — H. L. Crumpacker, judge Os the Porter superior court, hhs set cases -of James (Red) Parker, Thomqs and Albert Batchelor and Dan Trkulja, accused of killing: Herman .Uecker during a raid on the State bank at Toileston, for September 20. The men were convicted of murder in the Lake circuit court at Crown Point and were sentenced to death. On appeal to the state supreme court a motion fbr a new trial was sustained and the case was then transferred, Columbus. —A public sale of live stock | and other personal property, w’hicli was held by Stephen Sparks on his fitrm, near Columbus, had just closed when a large stock and feed barn ibumed. The loss, estimated to be $5,000, was more than Mr. Sparks realized from the sale. The fire is believed to have started from a cigarette thrown into some straw in the barn. Richmond. — The, Wayne county council accepted the offer of “reliable persons,” whose identity is not yet made known, to give to the county $50.000 in Liberty bonds as the purchase price of $50,000 *i county bonds, to be issued for making improvements at the county tuberculosis hospital. Lafayette.—Enrollment at Purdue university has passed the 2,700 mark, it was announced at the university registrar’s office, where it was said many more registrations are expected. The number of young women students enrolled is far in advance of any previous year. Indianapolis. — More than 2,000 schoolchildren in Indianapolis are forced to attend school only in halfday sessions because of the crowded condition of the school buildings since the opening of the schools. Terre Haute. —Home-grown peaches will probably be on the Terre Haute markets in a few days. It is understood the crop in Vigo county is heavy and that they will sell for about $1.75 a bushel. Evansville. —The strike of the furniture workers of the city, which started 17 weeks ago, when 2,500 workers went out, has been called off. Valparaiso.—William St. Clair, near this city, reports a yield of 49% bushels of seed from eight and a naif acres of clover. The yield is the largest ever recorded in the county. He attributes the remarkable yield to the large number of honeybees that infested his field. The seed tised for planting purposes cost $34 a bushel. • Indianapolis. — Attendance for the week at the state fair went well over the 100,000 mark. “Big Thursday” lived up to its old reputation of being the chief day at the Hoosier exposition. Indianapolis.—Faculties for practically every school in Indiana have been appointed, and there remains a surplus of 300 on which to draw to complete the teaching system, according to the assistant superintendent of public instruction. Few calls are being received now for teachers, it is said. Clinton. —Three men were killed here by a gas explosion in the submarine mine while they were feeding the mine mules about 200 feet from the hoist Seventeen mules were killed.

South Bend.—The survey of the r*P“ permint growing area of Indiana and Michigan by a special committee appointed at a conference of members of the Peppermint Growers’ association, shows a net increase in peppermint for 1920 over 1919 of 2,195 acres, with a probable reduction in total yield from 35,000 to 45,1*00 pounds. Tlie acreage harvested in 1919 was reduced 2,635 acres by winterkilling and other destructive causes. New mint planted for 1920 has increased the total acreage, however. . Since the survey began in July, weathi er conditions have somewhat improved : the crop prospects, but the reports re- . ceived from all districts of the mint I area indicate a reduction i» ttotal ■ yield. Tlie summary of the situation is as follows: Harvested in 1919, 13.* 405 ricres; old mint to be harvested in 1920, 10.775 acres; new mint hatvested in 1920, 5,262 acres; net increase in 1920 over 1919, 2,195 acres. Indianapolis.—According to figures compiled by a traffic manager of the Indianapolis stock yards, the local market is growing fast as one of the leading distributing points for hogs. The August, receipts, 227,113 hogs, were the second largest and lacked only 40,000 of being half as large as the leading market, Chicago. At the close of seven months this year the Indianapolis market was in sixth place and at the close of the eight months’ period had moved into fourtli place. Chicago, St. Louis and Omaha were larger. Indianapolis received 11.500more hogs tsan Kansas City in eight months and there is only 5 per cent decrease so far this year, while at Kansas City tlie loss is 25 per cent compared with the same titw last year. Sotith Bend,—Onion pulling in St. Joseph county is under way. nnd with a line thus obtained on the size of the crop, growers are already saying that tlie wholesale price, which hovers around 1 cent a pound, is due for a marked increase. This assumption is based partly on the Shortage of the crop of Bermuda onions, the chief, center of which is ‘Laredo, Tex. According to the growers, tlie shortage is so marked that Bermuda seed has jumped from $2.50 a pound t0,.58a pound. This, it is stated, will counterbalance the effect of a record 1 crop of dhe ordinary onion, so extensively raised in this part of the state, and of which, this year, there are 44.000 acrCs in the United States, Indianapolis.—L. 11. Wright, director of the state 'highway commission, filed an intervening petition with the public service com- ‘ mission asking that stone, cement ( and all other road-building material , receive consideration in the distribution of open-top freight cars. The petition asks for the same relief for road contractors, which was asked by the Illinois Sand and Gravel Produc- ' ers’ association in a petition tiled with the conuuission. Roads now un- . der construction by the state highway, department will remain torn up until late- next spring unless materials are secured by the contractors, according to the petition. 1 /’ Franklin.—-The plant of the Franklin Canning company, a branch factory of the Fatne Canning company, New York, was destroyed by fire with a loss on buildings and contents of $1(M),000, covered by insurance. Ail of the buildings- weredestroyed with the exception of a wareroom and the office. The flames started in the boiler room and were not discovered until -after they had gained much headway. The plant was in the midst of its corn pack. and. according to the manager, ,60 per cent of the pack was canned. It is estimated that tlie amount saved would amount to $35,000. Wabash. —Members of the town board of North Manchester and the ' coal dealers of that city are again on 1 friendly terms, following the drafting ■ of a new coal ordinance. .Under the ' new ordinance a weighmaster will have power to force the weighing on ’ the city scales of any load of coal, if ' In his estimation it is “short.” Tlie dealers agreed to the terms of tlie • new ordinance and deliveries have 1 started again. 1 Indianapolis.—The monthly report of the co-operative crop reporting service for Indiana shows an improvement in nearly all crops over a month ago. the most notable of which are the ooru and oqts crops. The former shows an increase of 6,206,000 bushels ami the latter an increase of 5.605,000 bushels. Clover seed shows an especially large increase over last year, being 109,000 bushels larger. Lafayette.—The Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis joined forces in four central western Indiana counties for war against the white plague. A petition will be presented to tlie commissioners of Tippecanoe, Benton, Warren and White counties, asking for a special election to determine the question oj an appropriation of $250,000 for a hospital for tuberculosis patients. Alexandria. —M. C. Seybert. a farmer of Monroe township, Madison county says he has the record for oats yield. Twelve acres of oats brought 750 bushels. Evansville.— Many of the farmers in the pocket counties are plowing ground for their wheat. It is said that the acreage in this region this fall will be under that of last year, owing to *he'high price of fertilize:, coupled with the present price of wheat, which is not satisfactory to the farmers. Hammond.—The Railway Motor Car tcompany of Hammond has sold a tract of land of 20 acres in the city limits to R. B. Harter of Chicago for $225,000. Mr. Harter is head of a manufacturing concern and expects to open a plant. Brazil. —The county commissioners have accepted the offer of- the Brazil Civic club to provide the motive power for drags to be used in Improving the Clay county roads. The commissioners have ordered four new uteel drags and the business men will supply trucks for work on roads within ten miles of Brazil. Nobleville. —One thousand five hundred Marys attended the annual reunion of Marys recently. Ml st of the, centra* states were represented. Next’ , year’s meeting will be held in Indianapolis.