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NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS league of Nations Assembly Is Trying to Find Some Way to Save Armenia. AMERICA ASKED TO MEDIATE Ralfour Suspects Plan to Recognize Kemal Pasha—Poles and Bolshevik! Resume Negotiations— Affairs In Greece—Murders and Reprisals in Dublin. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. What shall be done to save Armenia? That is the questiqp' that absorbed much of -the attention of the League of Nations assembly last week, and it is not yet solved, nor, apparently, in the way of being solved. The Armenian problem was forced on the attention of the assembly by the repeated questions of members of delegations whose countries would not be Involved, and the representatives of the greater powers were compelled to take It up. The net result, so farjqsthe appointment of a commlssionMnlch will examine the Armenian situation. Sir Robert Cecil, South Africa, is its chairman, and the other members are: Senator Henri La Fontaine, Belgium; Doctor Frldjof Nansen, Norway; Honorio Piteyrredon, Argentina; Signor Schanzl, Italy, and Rene Vivian!,' France. In the course of the debftte Vlvianl proposed that the league council should seek some government which will mediate for Armenia with the Turkish nationalists and try to obtain a cessation of hostilities. The council thereupon cabled to President Wilson asking the United States to act as mediator in the case, pointing out that although the senate had rejected the mandate for Armenia, a new situation had arisen and a new solution was possible. The United States is not asked to send an expeditionary force and only a small outlay of money will be necessary, since we are asked merely to represent Armenia by entering negotiations toward ending warfare with Kemal Pasha. It is believed in Geneva that the Nationalist leader would welcome America as mediator because the fixing of the boundaries of Armenia was left to President Wilson. M. Vlvianl declared that the United States would be the most logical power to represent Armenia in the proposed negotiations, and that the fact that it was not a member of the league would not interfere. Some correspondents saw in all this talk an endeavor to “lure” the United States into the league. Mr. Balfour saw more than this in the French plan. He believed it was the beginning of an effort to tear up the treaty of Sevres with Turkey and to deprive Greece of the territory given her by that pact; also that it was designed first to recognize Mustapha Kemal He demanded whether the Kemalists would be offered money or territory as a bribe to cease attacking the Armenians, and said Kemal was entirely indifferent about the league’s opinion; furthermore, he did not believe a mandatory power for Armenia could be found anywhere in the world, and said the league could not send an expedition into Asia Minor unless it was under the control of some treaty signing power. Various delegates asserted their belief that the United States would now accept the mandate and furnish the expeditionary force, which, according to Doctor Nansen of Norway, would require 60,000 men and $100,000,000. High French officials in Paris said on Wednesday that France would nipt send a man or spend a franc on an Armenian mandate, but intimated that she might ask Kemal Pasha what changes in the treaty would make it acceptable to him. The league subcommission on new members has decided not to admit states carved out of the former Russian empire—Lithuania, Latvia, Esthonia and Ukraine; and undoubtedly this means that Azerbaijan, Georgia and other states in the Caucasus will

PAVE WAY FOR BUDGET PLAN Chairman Good Calls House Committee on Appropriations to Consider Proposed Money Bill. Washington. — Representative Good, chairman of the house committee on appropriations. Is In favor of the passage of the bill creating a budget system for the government at the coming session of congress. Both the house sad senate passed such a measure at

be refused admittance. This accords with the position taken by the, United States administration some weeks ago. The league council decided to limit the scope of policing operations to the Vilna region and to keep the league “army” down to 1,800 men. Os these Spain will supply 300, Sweden 100, France at least 1,000, and Great Britain and Belgium small detachments. Holland and Switzerland refused to participate. Peace negotiations between Poland and soviet Russia were resumed after a lapse that threatened the renewal of active hostilities. The Poles, however, consented to withdraw their troops to the armistice line. Moscow notified Lithuania that the Red forces would have to occupy Vilna, which is still in the hands of General Zellgouskl. The soviet government has now pretty' nearly cleared Russia of all its active opponents. Petlura’s troops have about all escaped from the Ukraine into Poland and have been disarmed there, and now it is announced that General Semenoff’s campaign in Siberia has collapsed entirely. His last base has been taken by the Reds, the corps that was defending it having mutinied, killed Its officers and joined the Bolshevikl. Semenoff himself has fled to Japan. Unless the temper of the Greek people changes, they will vote, on December 5, for the return of Constantine to the throne. This will be the logical outcome of the victory of Gounaris and Rhallis in the election. However, the new government is placed in a somewhat uncomfortable position, for to restore the ex-king will be to alienate France and possibly Great Britain. The former has warned Greece that it will withdraw its material and moral support, but It is not known certainly what attitude Lloyd George will assume. The Greek newspapers favorable to Constantine assert that Great Britain is willing to recognize the right of Greece to manage her own affairs and that King George is in constant communication with Constantine and has assented to his return to the throne. *■ Os course, Rhallis and his confreres are most worried over the possible effect of the restoration on Greece’s adventure in Asia Minor. They can hardly hope to maintain their army there against the Turkish nationalists and the Arabs without the active cooperation of the entente allies, and, too, they rely on the British to supply the money needed for the occupation. It is said by them that Venizelists left the treasury empty, destroyed quantities of documents and left Athens without informing their successors of the state of business in the various departments. ' Queen Mother Olga, the regent, staged a triumphal return last week for two of Constantine's brothers, Prince Andreas and Prince Christopher. They were received by enthusiastic crowds and escorted to the palace. The same day the foreign newspaper correspondents made formal complaint that the press censorship was being continued and that their dispatches were suppressed or delayed. Rhallis and Gounaris made explanations and promised all restrictions should be removed. Paris had press dispatches from Smyrna saying the Greek army In Asia Minor was spilt Into two camps, one for and one against Constantine, and that fighting between them already had broken out. Some of the troops were said to be demobilizing themselves, declaring they were done with the war against the Turks. Sunday, November 21, was a day of bloodshed and terror in Dublin. The Sinn Fein assassins early in the day put into execution a deliberate plan of murder, calling 14 British officers or former officers to their doors and shooting them dead. About sixty others were wounded in these attacks. The black and tans got into action at once, making many arrests. Then they forcibly entered Croke park, where 15,000 persons were watching a football game, and, being hooted and attacked, fired on the crowd. Several score of persons were killed and many wounded before the wild combat ended. Os course more murders and more reprisals followed, and the military took possession of the city. Numerous ar-

the recent session, which was vetoed by President Wilson, who objected to the control over the comptroller of the proposed system retained by congress. The house of representatives thereupon amended the bill to meet the objection of the president, and the measure is now awaiting final action by the senate. Meantime, Mr. Good has called the house committee on appropriations together <9 consider tqpney bill. for. the coming session, and as soon as the house convenes the question of in-

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rests were made by them and quantities of documents said to be incriminating seized. Though attacked bitterly by the opposition press and members of parliament for this Dublin affair as well as for its Irish policy generally, the government defended its position with extraordinary tenacity, and to support It made public captured documents which were said to expose Sinn Fein plots for a campaign of terrorism in England, Including assassinations and the destruction of property by dynamite and fire. In the house of commons Wednesday night Lloyd George scored a notable victory. Former Premier Asquith moved a resolution expressing abhorrence of the Dublin assassinations and condemning the reprisals and urging immediate steps to pacify Ireland. Col. John Ward by an amendment changed the motion into an expression of admiration for the courage of the crown forces in Ireland, and this was adopted by a vote of 303 to 83, amid the cheers of the government’s supporters. An echo of the Irish trouble was heard in New York Thanksgiving day, when an anti-English mob undertook to sack the Union club on Fifth avenue. On the club building was flying the American flag between British and French flags, and the manager was asked to remove the British emblem. He complied, but later the flag was replaced, and then the mob attacked the building, breaking all Its. windows and destroying most of its paintings and furnishings before the police could disperse it. The American commission on conditions in Ireland is hearing many witnesses and has now decided to send a special committee to conduct a firsthand investigation. It is made up of Maj. Oliver P. Newman of Washington, Rev. Dr. Norman Thomas and Arthur Gleason of New York and J. H. Maurer, president of the Penpsylvania State Federation of Labor./ The row between the Western Union Telegraph company and the administration has reached the acute stage. It has to do with the laying of certain cables at Biscayne bay, Miami, Fla., permission for which was granted some time ago. Connected with it was the attempt to land a cable from Barbados, which the Navy department prevented. The company thereupon declined to carry further messages for the State department at reduced rates, and the Navy department threatened to destroy the bay cable if the construction work was not stopped. The company applied for an injunction to restrain Secretary Daniels from interfering with the work, and the next day Secretary of War Baker revoked the permit for the laying of the cables. The courts must now decide the entire matter. President-elect Harding and his party landed at Cristobal on Tuesday for a five-day visit in the Canal Zone. Wednesday he made a trip on the canal to Panama City and called on President Porras. Later the president crossed into American territory to return the call. Thursday Mr. Harding had a game of golf, followed by dinner with President Porras, and Friday he returned to Cristobal, whence he sailed on Sunday for Norfolk. A Thanksgiving day announcement was made to the effect that John D. Rockefeller had given to charities and public Institutions the sum of $63,763,357,'in memory of his late wife. The fund is being administered by the Laura Spellman Rockefeller memorial, chartered in New York, and the beneficiaries are mostly organizations in the support of which Mrs. Rockefeller was especially interested in her lifetime. More than eight millions of the fund already has been appropriated to 22 institutions. It is estimated that this brings the total of Mr. Rockefeller’s big gifts up to approximately $475,000,000, making him the most munificent giver 'known to history. Gaston Chevrolet, one of the best known of the automobile speed kings, was killed and Eddie O’Donnel, another race driver, fatally hurt when their cars collided during the 250mile national championship race at Los Angeles on Thanksgiving da#. The contest was won by Sarles.

creasing the membership of that committee from 21 to 35, as provided in the resolution passed by the house last May, will come up for consideration. This step will bring the military, naval, agricultural, Indian, post office, pension, rivers and harbors, diplomatic and. consular and public buildings appropriation bills under the jurisdiction of the main committee, thereby effectually centralizing control of approwlationaln the house and. placing that j body in a position to work in entire I harmony with a budget system.

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Personal Joseph J. Ryan, youngest son olf Thomas Fortune Ryan, millionaire capitalist, is dead at New York. • * * The sum of $63,000,000 has been set aside by John D. Rockefeller of New York, in a fund to be known as the Laura Spellman Memorial, in honor of the wife of the financier. George M. Smith, managing editor of the New York Tribune, died suddenly at his home in New York from ptomaine poisoning, complicated with heart disease. -,• • • Dr. Charles H. Vilas, regent of the University of Wisconsin, died at his home at Madison. * * • John Beall, ninety years of age. inventor of the Beall degerminator, known wherever corn is milled, died at Decatur, 111., of pneumonia. His inventions are known throughout the world. Washington Exports during October Increased nearly $150,000,000, while imports decreased approximately $1,000,000, foreign trade figures made public by the Department of Commerce at Washington show. W. A. F. Ekengren, Swedish minister United States, died at the legation at Washington after a brief illness. • * • President Wilson at Washington has commuted the sentence of Franz Rintelen, a German convicted of wartime conspiracy, on condition that he leave the United States before next January 1. Practical suspension of the nation’s business marked the observance of Thanksgiving day in Washington. • * • Campaign expenditures of the Republican national committee between June 14 and November 19 totaled $4,022,580, and receipts amounted to $3,833,152, according to a final report received by the clerk of the house at Washington. Domestic The house of bishops of the Mpthodist Episcopal church, in session at Atlantic City, N. J., decided to formally withdraw from the interchurch world movement. • • • Three armed thugs cliibbed the night watchman of a motor taxicab service on East Sixty-fourth street at New York, and after binding and blindfolding him, blew the office safe and made their escape with $51,000. • • • Price reductions of approximately 33 1-3 per cent on window shades were announced by the Columbia Mills, Inc., of New York, the largest manufacturers In that industry in the country. * • * • Return of steel prices to the base established by the United States industrial board March 21. 1919, developed at Pittsburgh, Pa., when the Jones & Laughlin Steel company adopted new selling rates. • • * The body of Curley McKelvey, a negro. frother of Ophelias McKelvey, who shot and killed James E. Adams of Worth county, was found hanging from a tree at Dewitt, Ga. • • * Three bank examiners are working on the books of the State bank of Fllmore, N. Y, following the disappearance of C. J. Howden, president, and the discovery of an alleged shortage of $50,000. * • * Mrs. Julia Drewrey, thirty-five years old, was shot and killed in her home at Carlisle, Pa. The district attorney is holding two soldiers from the field service school here, oh suspicion. * • • Lack of demand for cotton oil and meal Is given by officers of the Buckeye Cotton Oil company at Memphis, Tenn., as the cause for the closing down of Its plant there. About 50Q men are thrown out of work. • * • Six men were burned to death in a fire at the Parish mine of the Railway Fuel company, nine miles south of Jasper, Ala., following a gas explosion. Ten others were injured, six of them seriously, and four of them died later. • • * Refusal of demands that the British flag be lowered from the place it occupied with the American and French emblems in front of the Union club at New York led to an attack by 5,000 Irish sympathizers. When the two hours’ siege was over all of the windows on the lower floors of the club had been smashed, several persons had been injured and four arrests had been made. v A game of golf was the chief feature of President-elect Harding’s Thanksgiving day program. An Iceberg in the steamship track east of Newfoundland was reported to Boston by a wireless dispatch. The appearance of Ice In mldatlantic at this season Is unusual. The private bank of Wiggins & Wiggins at Homer, til., closed. It is said the'bank was failed to the amount of $280,000. •• • ? K. H. Rehrbaugh of New York, who served as X, JL C..A. .secretary ©ser- ' seas dutlng the W<udd war, was found I dead in a hotel at Pittsburgh. Pa.

“Jake” L. Hamon, na Jional committeeman from Oklahoma who was wounded Sunday night in i hotel room, died at Ardmor, Okla. Thirty members of the next hons< of representatives in the Minnesctt legislature, which convenes at St Paul in January, are claimed as as filiated with the Nonpartisan league. • • • More than thirty lives have alreadj been reported lost in the worst storn that has lashed the north Paclfit coast in years. The wind reached c velocity of 80 miles an hour, says t Seattle dispatch. • • • Robert Lowe, negro youth, chargee with assaulting a ten-year-old white girl at Arlington, Tex., was acquitted by a jury at Fort Worth, Tex. Th< negro recently was rescued twice from a mob. • • • Gaston Chevrolet, one of the world’s premier automobile race drivers, was instantly killed; Lyle Joies, mechanl cian for Eddie O'Donnell, was fatallj injured and died later, and Eddie O’Donnell suffered a fractured skull as the result of a collision between Chev rolet’s Frontenac and the Deusenberj car driven by O'Donnell in the turr from the stretch in the 250-mile ract at Los Angeles. John Bresnahan Chevrolet s mechanician, was serious ly but not fatally hurt. • » • Edna Hollingsworth, twenty-one years old, and Florence Russell, aged sixteen, of Summitville, Ind., were instantly killed when they were run ovet by a Big Four freight car. • • • Flying at a speed of virtually three miles a minute, Lieut C. C. Mosley, piloting an American made VervilePackard army plane, won the first Pulitzer trophy aeronautic race at Mineola, N. Y., against a field of 34 starters • • • Oliver W. Filteau, thirty-five, shot and killed his wife, Mrs. Katherine Filteau, thirty-one, after a quarrel at San Antonio, Tex. He then turned the gun on himself, dying instantly. They have three children, all under nine. • • • Five persons, four men and one womaq, were hurled to their death when a large boiler in the condensary of the marketing plant at Stoughton Wis., exploded. • • • Bonus checks aggregating more than $7,000,000 for employees of the Ford Motor company are now being written and their distribution will start January 1 next, according to announcement at Detroit, Mich. * • * Drugs Valued at SIOO,OOO and said to have been smuggled from Canada were seized in a government raid at Toledo, O. • • * Wild turkeys are plentiful in th* vicinity of San Antonio, Tex., according to hunters. They are becoming a pest to the farmers. Ralph Gibson, forty-three, of Shell Rock, la., was strangled when his coat j caught in a screw of a gasoline propelled corn shelter he was operating. « « * The State Bank of Mohall did not open its doors. It is the tenth bank in North Dakota to close down in the past ten days on account of depleted resources. / • • • Foreign Extremists among the Mexican socialists at Mexico City, are demanding revision of the federal constltuticn and the adoption of some of the soviet principles. • • * Two priests were arrested by the police and military at Carrick-on-Shan-nln, in Ireland. Reports state also that I more than fifty people were arrested by the authorities at Athlone. * * * Dispatches from Warsaw -state that the peace negotiations between Poland and Russia which were being conducted at Riga have been broken off by the soviet delegation on orders from Moscow. « • • One of the sentries at Dublin castle was attacked by armed men. The sentry opened fire, killing three of the attacking party. • * » Sir Hamar Greenwood, chief secretary for Ireland, declareddn the house of commons at London that plans of “paid assasslna," discovered recently, Included destruction of life and property in England. • • • France and Great Britain, the Petit Parlslen of Paris says, “will refuse to recognize Constantine if he reascends the throne” of Greece, and adds: “The friends of our enemies are not ovr friends.” * * * Announcement Is made at Paris of the engagement of Count de Castellane, son of Count Boni de Castellane, and Mlle. Paternotre, daughter of Jutes Paternotre, formerly French ambaswdor to the United States. General Sokolnikov, commander of the Russian Bolshevist forces on the Turkestan front, has ordered his troops to proceed immediately to taka up a position on the Afghan-Indian frontier, according to a London dispatch. Internment camps are about to be established in Ireland by the British government, wherein the Sinn Fein leaders who are arrested will be lodged until the restoration of peace, says a Dublin dispatch. Preparations have been made by the German aniline syndicate to erect nitrogen plants in the United States and Japan, and directors of the syndicate have already opened negotiations with these governments, says a Berlin dispatch. A Paris dispatch says that the French cruiser Lorraine has been ordered to proceed at once to Piraeus, In order to safeguard French interests -in Greece until internal disorders over the succession to the throne are set- , tied.

INDIANA State News

Seymour. — The members of the lackson County Farmers’ federation lave formed a shipping association for rhe handling of live stock. The county has been divided into three units ind a manager appointed for each. Farmers having live stock ready for delivery will inform the unit manager, Aho will advise them when the car vill go forward. The manager will •eceive a small commission for his .vork. The freight and other expenses .rill be prorated according -to the iveight of the individual shipments. The idpn, it is said, is especially favorable for small shippers who heretofore have been required to sell to buyers at unsatisfactory prices. Large shippers either' had a carload of their >wn stock or were able to sell to better advantage because of their knowledge of market conditions. Indianapolis.—The Indiana securities commission has ruled that the entire cost of floating a stock or securities issue, authorized by it under the lew “blue-sky” law. must not exceed 20 per cent, and the commission will aot permit the 20 per cent maximum !n all instances. It intends that at least 80 per cent of the money obtained from stocks or securities sates must go into the corporation’s treasury. The average per cent to be permitted for commissions, advertising and other costs incident to placing an Issue with investors is not expected by some of the members of the commission to exceed approximately 15 per cent. Indianapolis.—One of the most vital matters of business awaiting the action of the regular session of the Indiana state legislature, which meets :n January, is the consideration of 16 proposed amendments to the state constitution, of which two of the most .'mportant proposals relate to the establishment of a budget system and the giving of power to the governor to veto items in the appropriation bills. A bill for the creation of an industrial court, similar to that of Kansas, is prepared for presentaation at the session of the assembly. Lafayette.—Sheriffs from 25 counties throughout Indiana met in Lafayette with William W. Weinhardt, sheriff of Tippecanoe county, and prepared a plea which they will present to the legislature at the coming session, asking for substantial increases In salaries and fees. The sheriffs, who attended the meeting, said that they were so underpaid that they cannot even meet their running expenses with the salaries and fees they are receiving. Corydon.—Miss Ida Luther of Webster township, Hawjjson county, has been engaged this fifu in hauling stone for a gravel road which is being constructed past her father’s farm. She picks up “nigger heads” on the farm and hauls them to the roads for the first course in construction. She drives the team, does all the work in loading and unloading stone, and makes from $lO to sl2 a day at the work. Noblesville.—Farmers in central Inliana are experiencing trouble in getting men to help gather their corn. It is estimated that half the corn' in this section of the state is yet in the Selds, and the farmers would like to crib it before bad weather. Most of them are offering 7 to 8 cents a bushel and a few 10 cents a bushel. At this rate the average corn busker could earn from $7 to $9 a day, but as a rule the men are not to be found even, at those wages. Shelbyville.—Tabulations on 12 test fields of corn in Shelby couibty, in which was planted seed com, some of which had been tested for disease, and other seed that had not been tested, which have just been compiled by the county agricultural agent, show that the tested seed, which was disease tree, produced an average of eight bushels more com to .the acre than the seed which was not tested. Indianapolis. — Sumner Kenner, Huntington city attorney, will be assistant attorney general of Indiana un3er U. S. Lesh, attorney general-elect, Mr. Lesh has announced. Mr. Kenner will fill the position made vacant early in January when Mr. Lesh', now assistant attorney general, becomes attorney general. Logansport.—Municipal coal yards In Logansport will be kept in operation until the consumers of the city are supplied with plenty of fuel for the winter and the coal merchants are able adequately to serve the citizens, according to James I. Barnes, mayor. Columbus. —An election will be held In Hope December 16, to decide whether the town will build and operate a light plant for lighting the streets of the town. Indianapolis.—Carleton B. McCulloch, defeated Democratic candidate tor governor, reported that he spent $13,231.64 in the campaign. Goshen. —Charles Wysong of Goshen, an expert trapper, who for many years has trapped along the Elkhart river in the Gostien vicinity, says the ?ra of lower prices for hides is here. Muskrat and skunk hides for which he received until recently as high as $4.25 each, are now bringing 25 cents. He says Goshen dealers in hides have lost heavily through the bottom falllrfg*out of rhe market. Washington, D. C.—The civil service commission announces that Dejember 21 a postmaster examination will be held at Gary and at Sheridan, the Gary office pays $3,600 a year and the Sheridan office $2,200 a year. Petersburg.—This is the largest shipping point for live stock in the state, hut during the last few weeks little, shipping has been dpne. This is due to ffie big drop in the price of corn and hogs. Farmers, who can buy hogs, retuse to sell com at the present price, md also refuse to sell their hogs, but 1 jre holding them for higher prices,

Indianapolis.—Two senators and one representatoive in the coming general assembly, who have been working on bills intended to 1 check profiteering in rents, have been conferring with Charles Kettleborough, director of the bureau of legislative information. Senator Robert L. Moorhead, Indianapolis; Senator William A. Arnold, Salem, and Representative James I. Day, East Chicago, would like to do something to curb ravettims landlords. Senator Arnold introduced at the July special session of the legislature a bill which would have made it a cause for court action if any landlord increased rent more than 25 per cent in one year, The bill had the indorsement of Stanley Wyckoff, then federal fair-price commissioner in Indiana. The bill was strangled in committee. Indianapolis.—Of the 1,446.101 electors of Indiana who registered for the general election this year, 183,140 did not vote. Approximately one person out of every seven registered did not go to the polls. The total vote of the ticket was 1,262,640, the Republican plurality being 185,006.; The total vote for President in Indiana in 1916, before women voted, was 717,189. The total vote this year was 545,775 greater than it was four years ago, or an increase of 76 per cent. If all those who registered this year had voted, the total vote would have been a little more than double that of four years ago. Indianapolis.—Hoosier taxpayers will be called on to provide at least $lO,000,000 more of state taxes alone if the legislature accedes to demands now in course of preparation. The state board jof tax commissioners in September provided for state tax levies to raise next year approximately $1,200,000 more than last year. Plans by various state departments, however, since that time have indicated that the departments will call; on the legislature to provide at least eight times the Increase provided by the tax board. Goshen.—Smallpox is so prevalent in Goshen that Dr. J. N. Hurty of Indianapolis, state health 'commissioner, has communicated with Dr. Albert J. • Irwin, city health officer, and other authorities, urging general vaccination ordefs. At one time recently there were 80 cases of the disease in Goshen and vicinity. Persons broken out with smallpox were found attending schools and working in factories. Recently there were 40 smallpox quarantines in effect in the city. Most of the cases were in light form. Indianapolis.—The 15 Indiana presidential electors, elected on the Republican ticket at the recent election, will meet at the statehouse, January 10, next, to cast the vote of the state for President and vice ' president of the United States. One of the electors will be selected to go to Washington in February and cast the 15 votes of Indiana for Senator Harding for President, and Governor Coolidge for vice president. Columbus. —The price of new corn on the, Columbus market recently was 55 cents a bushel, and local dealers predict it will fall lower. There is little of the 'crop moving, as farmers are holding it for a higher price, and are, selling only what they cannot place in cribs because of lack of room. Some dealers in southern Indiana are said to be offering 50 cents for the new corn crop. Terre Haute.—Miners of Terre Haute had the largest pay day on record in this field a few days ago. The First National bank alone made up in pay rolls about $375,000, and about $65,» 000 of it was in SSO bills. An official of the bank said the December pay is expected to be even larger than as a result of the miners working every day possible to get money for Christmas. Anderson. —The commission manager form of government for cities is being discussed by civic organizations here, and there is a movement to submit a memorial from Anderson to the next session of the Indiana legislature to make it possible for Indiana cities to adopt the commission form of operating a municipality. Bedford. —The Burton Fruit company has shipped 30 cars of apples, about 24,000 bushels, from orchards in Lawrence county. This does not include hundreds of bushels that have been sold to local consumers. Reports from all fruit raisers in the county show a bumper crop of all kinds of fruit. Indianapolis.—Evidence tending to show that Indianapolis, as well as other cities in the country, is held in the tight grip of a cement trust which controls the industry, thus throttlingcompetition and fixing prices, was revealed by an investigation among dealers and contractors. Noblesville. —Hanson Mabln, a negro, is dead in Noblesville at the age of one hundred and four. He was one of the oldest colored men in the central part of the state. Seymour. —Immediate relief from an acute coal shortage in this city is promised through the establishment of a municipal coal yard which was opened here. Valparaiso.—Valparaiso’s entire police force, with the exception of the chief, resigned, following the announcement of a change in the force to be made by the police board of the city council. Indianapolis.—John Barbazette, Republican presidential elector-at-large, who headed the ballot, received 696,870 votes In the election November 2, according to the tabulation completed by an accountant in the office of the secretary of state. Louis C. Hues- . mann, the other Republican elector-at-large, received 690,827. Hartford City.—A movement ’is on foot in Blackford county for the presentation of a bill, at the next session of the state legislature, asking for a separate Circuit court in the county. At the present time Wells and Blackford counties have the same judge. / Alexandria.—The price of corn in the bln reached a low point at Alexandria recently when several hundred bushels sold at a sale at 66»4c a busel. On account of the low prices prevailing for second-hand farming implements farmers have been discouraged in conducting public sales.