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Oo,ts— Lard, per 100 lbs.— PRICE IN AMERICAN MARKETS IS RAISED BECAUSE OF EURO PEAN PURCHASES. Chicago, Oct. ift.-Wheat bul^d in price here today owing 1 5f" tations at Liverpooland becauseof yes terday's large export saha on of the Atlantic. One of the latest houses in Chicago was °P®^y *"^1. ing all wants on the advance, however, a a Estimates that the exportable surplus in the United States large as a year ago ^^^WKher bulls. After opening to followed by a decided general decline. The market closed steady, to %c above last night. st^adv Oats held comparatively steady. Shorts did most of the buying. Figures confirming So: l'c&*-No. 46c No. 3, 44%@45c. 'i Chicago Grain and Provisions Furnl«hed Articles: Opening Highest Lowest Closing Wheat Dec 1.12%®% h:Iglher, and scoring a little further rise, the market receded to last nights level. The close was steady at lc to l%c ne et°weather proved only a tempor arffo^rf fitness in corn A ma loritv of pit speculators were on the selling side. The opening, which ranged report a decree in the Chicago stock of lard gave support to provisions. Trading, however, was inactive. r.hie«o Cash Grain. Chicago, Oct. 16. The cash grain ••"cjjsfc. r^. yellow, 72%@72%c. .,v Barley—55@72c. Tim\»ihy—$4@5.2S. Clover—$11 @14. Pork—$17.50. Lard—$10.55. Bibs—$10.75® 11.50. n°- stand- Oats—No. 3 white, 45@45%c, stana ard, 46%@47c. Rye—No. 2, 91@91%c, Kansas City C«hGwin.' Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 16.—The cash grain market higher Wheat—Market -t •, niiiffl ^NO: ^ed^^l.W NO. 3, $1Com^&cet to^c higher No.J mixed. 70c No. 3. 69%c, 2 H5%c No. 2 mixed, 42 @42%^. Rye-—S4^4c. Hay—Unchanged. s,^Ls?,co" a r-Th6 cash rw *&» 3. 74%c: No. y30^^0- 2 yellow. 75c No. 3 yellow,78%c, No. -vii. 74979%c No. 3 white, 7s%c. &-No 2 white, 48c standard, 47%@48c No. 3 white, 47c No. 4 white cash Omaha Cash Grain. Omaha,' Nebr.. Oct. 16.—The .^heaf-No.^S, $1.02@1.04% No. com—No3?White, 72%@72%c No. 3 whit™72%@72%c No. 2 yellow, 66% @67c' No 3 yellow, 66%@67c No. 2 No. ». Oats—Nq. 3 whte, 43@43%c. I Minneapolis Closing Grain. Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 16. The cash grain market follows: Wheat—Dec., $1.10% May, $1.16%, No. 2 hard, $1.12% No. 2 northern, |1.09%@1.11% No. 2 northern, $1.06% ^Corn—No. 3 yellow, 69@70c. Oats—No. 3 white, 43%®44c. Flax— $1.31% @1.32%. Pooria Cash Grain. Peoria, 111., Oct 16.—The cash grain market follows: Com—Unchanged No. 3 yellow, and better, 72%c No. 3 mixed and better, 72%c. Oats—Unchanged standard, 45%c No. 3 white, 45c. Chicago Primaries. Articles Receipts Shipments Wheat, bu 1,561,000 1,450,000 Corn bu .......... 303,000' 321,000 Oats' bu 1,093.00 618,000 Car Lot Receipts. Chicago, Oct. 16.—Today's car lot receipts follow: Wheat—95 cars, with 37 of contract grade. Corn—80 cars, with 31 of contract grade. Oats—229 cars, with 45 of contract grade. Total receipts of wheat at Chicago, Minneapolis and Duluth today were 924 cars, compared with 716 cars the cor responding day a year ago. Estimated cars tomorrow, Chicago Wheat, 89 corn, 88 oats, 219. New York Money Closing, *New York, Oct. 1.—Mercantile paper —6@7%. Sterling exchange—Firm 60 days, $4.93% cables, $4.98.25® 4.98.50 de mand, $4.97.50@4.97.75. Bar silver—50 %c. New York Sugar. New York, Oct. 16.—Raw sugar Steady molasses, 3.74c centrifugal,1 'L39C. -... -. -t iinahw-^tii'' ffiflif The Courier's Markets by Harper & Ward, rooms 1 and 2, Thirk floor, Ennls Building) 1.13% 1.12% 1-13* May 1.18% 1.18% 1.17% 1.18% Com— Dec 67 67@)67% 66% 66%@67 May 69%@69% 69% G8%@69 69% Dec 48% 48% 47%@4Z% 48% May ... 54%@%@% 51% 50% 51%@51% Mess Pork, per bbl.— Jan 18.77 18.82 18.60 18.65 Hov 10.35025 10.40 10.25 10.40 jan ..." 10.07 10.12 10.00 10.00 Short Ribs, per 100 lbs.— Jan 9.82 9.82 9.70 9.75 HEAVY EXPORTS SEND WHEAT UP SHIPPERS ACTIVE I DEMAND SUFFICIENTLY STRONG TO ENABLE THE SELLERS TO BOOST PRICE. Chicago, Oct. 16.—Hog prices today were chiefly sustained by a fair demand from shippers. The wet weather made cattle offerings show at a disadvantage. Arrival of sheep and lambs did not appear over-plentiful although in ex cess of the number on the correspond ing day a week ago. Chicago Livestock Opening. Chicago, Oct. 16.—The opening live stock market follows: Hogs—Market steady at yesterday's average receipts, 12,000 bulk, $7.30@ 7.80 light, $7.45®8.05 mixed, $7.15@ 8.15 heavy, $7@8.05 rough, $7@7.15 pigs, $4.50 @7.50. Cattle—Market steady receipts, 1, 000 beeves, $6.50@10.90 steers, $6.10@ 9.10 stockers and feeders, $5.15@8.10 cows and heifers, $3.40@9 calves, $7.50 @11.25. Sheep—Market slow receipts, 12,^" 000 sheep, $4.75@6 yearlings, $5. 6.40 lambs, $6@7.85. Chicago Live Stock Closing. Chicago, Oct. 16.—The closing live stock market follows: Hogs—Market slow, shade lower re ceipts, 12,000 estimated tomorrow. Cattle—Market steady receipts, 500 top, $10.90. Sheep—Market steady: receipts, 000 top, $6 lambs, $7.85. Kansas City Live Stock. Kansas City, Mo.. Oct. 16.—The live stock market follows Hogs—Market steady receipts, 3 000 bulk, §7.10@7.45 heavy, $7.25@ 7.45 packers and butchers, $7.25@7.55 light, $7@7.45 pigs, $6.50@7. Cattle—Market steady receipts, 1, 500 prime fed steers, $9.65@10.75 dressed beef steers, $7.75@9.50 western steers, $6.50@9 cows, $4.50@7.25 heif ers, $6.50@9.50, stockers and feeders, $5.75@S calves, $6.50@10.50. Sheep—Market steady receipts, 4, 00 lambs, $6.90@7.40 yearlings, $5.25@ 6 wethers, $5@5.65 ewes, $4.25@5 stockers and feeders, $3.7 5 @6.90. St. Louis Live Stock. 000" bulk, $7.S0@7.75 light, $7.40@8 *°r£ peaches, basket, 30c watermelons, heavy, $7@8 mixed, $7.15@8.10 rough: live St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 16.—The stock market follows: Hogs—Market lOcvhigher receipts, 6,000 pigs and lights, $7@7.90 mixed and butchers, $7.50@8 good heavy, $7.70@8. Cattle—Market steady receipts, 2, 500 native^ beef steers, $7.50@10.85 cows and heifers, $6@9.65 stockers and feeders, $fi@7.50 calves, $6® 10.50. Sheep—Market steady receipts, 3, 600 native muttons, $4@5.40 lambs, $7 @8. Omaha Live Stock. South Omaha, Nebr., Oct. 16.—The live stock market follows: Hogs—Market steady receipts, 3, 000| heavy, $7.15@7.30 light, $7.30@ 7.50' pigs, $6.50@7.30 bulk, $7.20@ 7.30. Cattle—Market steady: receipts, 700 native steers, $7.40@10.50 cows and heifers, $5.50@7.3(T western steers, $6 @8.40 calves, $7.75@10.25. Sheep—Market strong receipts, 6, 000 yearlings, $5.60@6.10 wethers, $5.25@5.65 lambs, $7@7.60. New York Produce. New York, Oct. 16.—Butter—Market firmer receipts, 4,907 tubs packing stock, current make No. 2, 20@20%c. Cheese—Steady receipts 1,195 boxes state whole milk fresh undergrades, 11 @14%c. Eggs—Market firmer receipts, 5, 000 cases fresh gathered extra fine, 32 @34c extra firsts, 29@31c firsts, 25@ 28c seconds, 21@24c state Pennsyl vania and nearby hennery browns, 34@ 36c do gathered browns, and mixed colors, 27@34c. Poultry—Dressed, steady western chickens, 16@20c fowls, 14@20c tur keys, 18@20c. Chicago Produce. Chicago, Oct. 16.—Butter—Unchang ed. Eggs—Higher: receipts, 6,820 cases at mark, cases included, 19@22c or dinary firsts, 19%@20%c firsts, 22@ 22 %c. Potatoes—Unchanged receipts, 40 cars. Poultry—Alive, lower springs, 13c fowls, 12 %c. I St. Louis Produce. St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 16.—Poultry and butter unchanged. Eggs—21c. Kansas City Produce. Kansas City, Oct. 16.—Butter, eggs and poultry unchanged. AMERICAN GUILTY OF SLAYING WIFE London, Oct. 16.—Charles Ifenry Weston, formerly of Salem, Mass., was today found guilty of murdering hia wife September 22. He was declared insane and was committed to an asy lum. The Westons were popular in the American colony. Weston was a prey to the hallucination that the Germans were about to overrun England. •. iteia NO CHANGES IN LOCAL PORKERS THIS MORNING—ALL OTHER LISTS QUIET. Local hogs remained the same this morning as Thursday, and for the first time in several days all remained steady, except for slight changes in vegetable list. Today's market follows: WHOLESALE—Live Stock. Hogs—(Corrested daily by John Mor rell & Co.)—120® 150, $6.30 150@180, $7.00 180@200, $7.15 200@240 ,$7.20 240@300, $7.20 300 and over, $7.00 packers, $6.25@6.55. Grain and Hay. Grain and hay—Street prices—Oats, 38@40c straw, $4@5 hay, $11@13 65@70c old corn, 68@70c. Butter, Eggs and Poultry. Butter fat—No. 1, 30c No. 2, 27c. country butter, grocers pay, 20 @25c Eggs—Doz., 20c. Poultry—(These prices are pai'l to producers): Hens, 10%c springs, 9%c geese, 7c ducks, 9c turkeys, 10c. Eggs—Doz., 18c. Wool and Hides. Wool—Bright medium, 18%@20%c semi-bright medium, 16%©17%c fine Delane, 14%@18%c fine Merino, 11%® 13%c burry, to 3%c less. Hides—Cured, 11 %c green. No. 1, 10%c No. '2, 9%c No. 1 horse bides, $1.50 No. 2. $2.50. RETAIL PRICES—FloKr and Feed Flour and feed—Qraham flour, pe# sack, 30c corn chops, per cwt., $1.75 shorts^ per cwt., $1.65 bran, per cwt., $1.55 corn, new, per bu., 70c hay, per cwt., 75c straw, per cwt, 40® 50c meal, per sack, 20c corn and oat chop, per cwt, $1.75 corn chop, 20 11)8.. 40c oil meal, per cwt., $2. Butter, Eggs and Poultry. Creamery butter, 38c country buttert 80c. Eggs—Dozeh, 25c. Poultry—Gees&,' dressed Hx, 20o tur keys, dressed, 27%c springs, 20@25cj hens, dressed, 23c cfucks, dressed, 23c. Fresh and Salt Fish. Fresh fish—Catfish, lb., 20c trout. 17%c halibut. 20c salmon, 17%c pickeril, 15c. Salt fish—Mackeral, 10@25c herring, 4 for 25c codfish, 10@20c lake fish, pail, 70c. Can oysters, 30-35@50-55c. Fruits. Fruits Bananas, 20 25c lemons. 15@20c! 1,- 12,/ oranges, 30@50c doz., cantel- oupes, 5@10c Sekel pears, pk., 75c red cabbage, 5c lb Tokay grapes, lb., 10c pears, bu., $1. Vegetables. Cabbage, per hd., 5@10c Spanish onions, 6%c cauliflower 15@25c garlic 20c beets, 3c per pound endive bunch, 10c celery, bunch, 6c new turnips, 3c lb. egg plant, 5@10c mangoes^ 10@15c cucumbers, 10@ 12 %c fresh tomatoes, 10c spinach, 5c head lettuce, 10@15c radishes, 5® 2 for 5c parsley, 5® 10c bunch young onions, 2 for 5c leaf lettuce, 5c po tatoes, pk, 20c bu, 75c parrots, 2 bunches, 5c green beansl lb., 10c okra, doz., 10c Swiss chard, 5c bunch. CHICAGO DAILY MARKET NOTES Sentiment among the grain trade last night was mixed. As gne operator put it, the export and speculative buy ing is not large enough to carry prices higher in the face of local realizing. It must not be overlooked, however, that so long as war continues there will be little disposition to sell short, which makes the market susceptible to sharp breaks at times. Bulls are keeping long a little grain all the time,'except ing that ultimately prices will work higher. Wheat traders said export houses had taken the offerings by.local longs and they predicted higher prices for today. Those .who are bearish on oats say there must te a further decline before there is any good on the bull side. The price of Canadian oats of 50c free on board New York mentioned yesterday was in bond and for export. To do-, mesticate the oats it would cost 6c more, making them 56c. Milwaukee is said to have sold 100,000 bu 36-lb clip ped oats to Baltimore yesterday at 49c. This is lower than any other market. Chicago offered 38-lb oats to Balti more at 2%c over December. Sales of cash wheat to exporters at mestic and oats 200,OOt) bu to exporters anct 245,000 bu domestic. Seaboard re ported 1,500,000 bu wheat sold for ex port in all positions, including 200,000 bu Manitobas. No. 2 hard sold at V^c over December at the gulf and l%c under c. i. f. Buffalo. Charters were for 100,000 bu corn at lc to Buffalo. Firmness prevailed in the Chicago sample wheat market. No. 2 red and No. 2 hard selling at 2c under Deuffri ber, against 2@3c under Wednesday. For thirty-day shipment 2c under De cember was bid for No. 2 red or No. 2 hard. Outside cash wheat markets glowed considerable strength, mills and ele vator interests clearing up the Kansas City "offerings at Wednesday's best prices and 200,000 bu sold for export Receipts at St. Louis were small, and sold readily at unchanged prices. Omaha advanced %@%c. Milwaokee was unchanged to %c lower. Premiums or. No. -1 northern blue stem at Minneapolis advanced %c, due to a good milling demand, with sales at l@l%c over December. Velvet chaff brought %@lc underv December. At Winnipeg No. 1 northern sold at %c over October, No. 2 northern at 3c under October and No. 3 northern at 8c under. Export sales 200,000 bu. Duluth sold durums fo^ export. Cash corti values were irregular. Chi cago was "unchanged to lc higher, St. Louis unchanged to lc higher, Kansas City unchanged to %c higher, Omaha %@l%c lower, Peoria %c lower and Minneapolis %c higher. While shipping demand for cash oats was good the Chicago sample market had an easier tone, with values un changed to %c lower. St. Louis', how ever, was up %@MsC. Kansas City and ..... Chicago yesterday were 310,000 bu, and university of Iowa homecoming next A1!*™ Thursday, Friday and Saturday when J'*#'? a 4, '•QfcV'jr OTTUMWA COURIER, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 191* BISSELL IS AFTER THE AUDITORSHIP FRED L. BISSELL. The candidate for county auditor on the republican ticket is Fred L. Bissell, a native of Kirkville, but a resident of Ottumwa for the past twenty-two years. Fred attended the lo cal public schools and the Ottumwa Commercial college and for a time was engaged as a drug clerk. In the train service of the Milwaukee he was employed as brakeman and is well known among the railroad men. For the past two years he has been em ployed by the Ottumwa Seed Co. He is unmarried and resides with his par ents at 913 West Fourth street. Mr. Bissell has never held any public of fice. JEFF SAYS: Now that it is not stylish to be slim, the ladies who have been dyettin' kin once more square away at the table and Oat a good hearty meal. Go to it, you hun gry ones! A. yesterday, the average price at $7.57 bwing the lowest of the year, $1 lower than a month ajjo and 70c below a year ago. Light kinds were in large supply and suffered most decline. Closing trade was top heavy with 5,500 left in the pens. Packing droves, 328@344 lbs, cost $7.32@7.40 and 200@245 lbs. $7.50@7.73. ALBIA. Misses Laura Duncan and Genevieve Anderson c&me down from Cedar Rap ids and spent Saturday with their studies at Coe college Sunday. Mrs. Frank Morrow who has been a guest of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Morrow, went from here to Oskaloosa the last of the week for a visit before returning to her home in Spencer, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Ressler have re turned from Marshall county where they spent several days visiting rela tives and friends. They also visited in Iowa Falls. The little daughter of T. W. Bailey is on the sick list. Mrs. J. P. White spent Sunday in Des Moines where she gave a mission ary lecture at Elm wood Ujjited Pres byterian church in the west part of the city. Dr. H. C. Eschbach left Sunday night for Chicago where hev is attending the National Association of Surgeons meet ing this week. He was joined the first of tlfe week by Mrs. Eschbach who a„„ day with her daughter Miss Barbara, who is attending Western college. IOWA S. U. EXPECTS BIG ATTENDANCE Iowa City, Oct. 16.—Indications point to record breaking attendance at the tkree conventions, two reunions, and the state conference of the republican^ and democrats are to be held in Iowa City. Never before in the history of the athletic management has the advance demand for seats to a football game been so great. Manager N. A. Kellogg has been almost swamped with orders for tickets from alumni, and the sale of season tickets in Iowa City has oeen so heavy that the seating capacity of th big bleachers will be taxed to the utmost when Iowa plays Minnesota. Special boxes will be constructed in front of the grandstands as was done last year at the time of the Iowa-Ames game when 8,300 people crowded on Iowa Field to see the Hawkeyes win the state championship. In case the attendance exceeds last year's record Manager Kellogg plans to erect a slanting platform at the south end of the field for those who pay the general admission fee. Minnesota is/ reported to have a strong eleven and Iowa supporters who have closely followed the fortunes of the Hawkeyes predict a close game un less an unusual amount of hard luck strikes the squad. ILjL/ A nrcs DI7TT *ns .U.EiiuV/l- .lvA lo TV MEET AT EDDYVILLE The democratic candidates for the county offices and W. H. Hamilton, candidate from the same party for congressman from the sixth district will hold a meeting at Eddyville this evening. The Ottumwa men left the city this noon and jwere met there by Peoria were unchanged, Omaha %ciMr- Hamilton. All indications point to lower, Milwaukee %@%c lower and! a very good meeting for the up county of them appeared to be nervous at the Minneapolis »£c higher. town this evening. The, same party arraignment, with the young tnaa the The advance in hog values was lostjwill be at Farson Saturday evening, j^more quiet of the two. •k 'Wi LUCDSCOTEIIGHERS MEET AT CHARITON ANNUAL INSTITUTE IN THREE DAYS' SE3SION MISS DUN GAN IN CHARGE. Chariton, Oct. 16.—The annual teach ers' institute of Lucas county convened yesterday for three days' session. The meetings are being held at the high school building, the county sup erintendent, Miss Myrtle Dungan, be ing in charge. The faculty consists of the following instructors Dr. Charles Gray Shaw, New York university, New York City Dr. Frank E. Brown, Di rector public speaking, South Dakota Stat* Agricultural college, Brookings, South Dakota Mary Jane Wyland, principal of high school, Harlan, Iowa, Kate R. Logan, assistant state leader, junior work, Ames college, Ames. Rae Stephenson, primary supervisor, High land Park college, Des Moines Prdf. R. K. Farrar, Professor Agricultural Education, Ames college, Ames Aman da Westling, music supervisor, Chari ton, Iowa. The following is tie pro gram which is being carried out Thursday Morning. 8:00—-Music, Miss Westling. 8:30—'"Domestic Science Cooking" Miss Logan. 9:15—"The Teacher as a Psycholo gist" Dr. Shaw. 10:00—Chapel. 10:20—"Oral Story Telling" Prof. Brown. Thursday Afternoon.' 2:00—Parade. 3:00—"Knowledge and Intellectual Life'' Dr. Shaw (Assembly Room) "Poe and the Short Story" Prof. Brown (Room A.) "Play as Education" 'Miss Wyland (Room B). "Agriculture—Corn" Prof. Farrar (Room C) Thursday Evening. Solo, Miss Jessie Mclntire. "The Piute, the Garden and the Iron Tower" Dr. Shaw. Baritone solo, Lloyd Mikesell. Friday Morning. 8:00—Music, Miss Westling. 8:30—"Methods in reading and phon ics" Miss Stephenson. 9:45—"Educating the Will," Dr. Shaw. 10:00 Chapel. 10:20—"Methods and Standards of criticism" Prof. BrQwn. 11:05—"Domestic Art Sewing" Miss Logan. "Reading" (Town Teachers) Miss Stephenson. Friday Afternoon. 1:15—"The School Playground" (rur al) Miss Wyland. "The Humanity of Hamlet" (Town) Prof. Brown. 2:00—"The Moral Life," Dr. Shaw. 2:45—"Agriculture Chickens," Prot. Farrar. Friday Evening. 8:00—Violin solo, Prof. B. O. son. "Reading of Enoch Arden Music," Prof. Brown. wii- with Saturday Morning. 8:00—Music, Miss Westling. 8:30—"Handwork, Seatwork and Na ture Study," Miss Stephenson. 9:45—"Emotion and Its Expression," Dr. Shaw. 10:00—Chapel. 10:20—"Imagination and the Voice," Prof. Brown. 11:05—"Manual Training," Miss Logan. "Arithmetic and Nature Study," Miss Stephenson. Saturday Afternoon. 1:15—"The School as a Social Cen ter." Miss Wyland. "The Poetry of Burns," Prof. Brown. 2:00—"How to Cultivate Taste," Dr. Shaw. 2:45—"Agritulture Potatoes," Prof. Farrar. TRIES METHODS OP. MRS. PANKHURST (Continued From Page 1.) sion that he was not aware of the awfulness of his crime and his ap preciation of its magnitude seemed that of a young boy unable to realize the enormity of taking the life of an other. Many at Arraignment. When the couple were arraigned a few minutes before 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon in Justice W. J. Berry's court, a large crowd of people were attracted to the scene through morbid curiosity. The word that the prisoners were being taken to the justice court for arraignment spread quickly arid the two rooms of Ihe court, the stair way leading to them and the street in front were packed with people anxious to get a glimpse of the young people. They were taken to and from the place in Sheriff Knox's car and were accompanied by Sheriffs Knox and Grimes, Deputies Morrissey and Richards. After being brought into the room and seated £he court waited for fully ten minutes for the noise of shuffling feet to quiet so that the charge might be read. The instrument as read to McCormick and Mrs. McCallough charged them "with murder and that they had feloniously and with intent to commit robbery, killed I. W. Mellott on October 6, 1914, and that said kill ing had been deliberate anO Premedi tated." Young McCormick attorney stated that' he would waive to the grand jury and the woman answered in the same manner. It was with no little difficulty that the officers made their way down the stairs to the wait- car- Btreet V*?* People gathered in the until Market street was filled al- most across its entire width and part of the crowd had overflowed into Com mercial street. After the party had entered the car some of the more curious began climbing on the rear and side parts of the machine and every one was jostling everyone else in an effort to see the prisoners. Both *1* ik "jAti iMiriftii iiniiiiiiWirfr pv: Sfm^BWWW. -WWu W. THE SCOTTISH RITE IOWA CONSI8TORY TO HOLD FALL MEETING AT CEDAR a RAP|D8i Cedar Rapids, Oct. 16.—Programs have been Issued for the fall reunion of the Iowa Consistory, Scottish Rite, which will be held in the Consistory building on October 27, 28, 29 and 30, and during which a large claBS of can didates will take the several degrees in Scottish Rite Masonury. The pro grams are unusually neat and well ar ranged, and are being distributed by T. M. Giberson, Master of Kadosh, Iown Consistory No. 2. The reunion will open at 7:30 p. m. on Monday, October 27, with the regu lar chapter, council and consistory session, reception of petitions and bal loting, and at 8 o'clock an address will be delivered by the Rev. Joseph Fort Newton. On Tuesday, beginning at 9 a. m., Kilwinning lodge of Perfection will confer.the fourth, fifth, sixth, ninth, tenth and fourteenth degrees in full form. On Wednesday Bruce chap*, ter Rose Croix will work the fifteenth and eighteenth degrees in full form, and in the evening the twentieth de gree will be exemplified by St. An drew's council, Knights of Kadosh. On Thursday St. Andrew's council will work the twenty-first, the twen ty-ninth and thirtieth degrees, and on Friday the Iowa Consistory will confer the thirty-first and thirty-second de grees. 1 The reunion' will close on Friday evening with a reception, followed by the consistory ball. W.R.C. DISTRICT MEETING 0CT.29 MEMBERS OF GEORGE STRONG CORPS 21 PLAN AN ENTER TAINMENT. Fairfield, Oct. 16.—Members of Geo. Strong Corps No. 21, W. R. C. of this city will be hosts to. the annual con* vention of the 17th district which is to be held here on Thursday, October 29. The sessions will be held in the south side Odd Fellow hall where din ner and supper will be served to the visitors. Delegates and a number of members are expected from Mt. Pleasant, Wash ington, Wapello, tolumbiiB Junction, Riverside, Burlington, Keokuk and Ft. Madison. A camp fire program is be ing arranged by the ladies for the evening and it is said that it will be an unusually interesting literary treat. The program has been prepared as follows: 9:00 a. m.—Registration. 9:30 a. m. Convention calied-to order by the local president, Mrs. Minrgaret C. Gantz. Scripture reading fend prayer—Mr-3. Mary E. Royce, chaplain of George Strong corps No. 21. Song—"America." Flag Salute. Address of welcome, Mrs. Margaret Gantz, Fairfield. Response. Department president, Mrs. Carrie I. Netcott of Independence, and visiting presidents of corps in the seventeenth district. Appointment of committee on 'resolu tions and press. Two minute written reports from corps delegates. Paper—"What can we do to Interest our members?" Mrs. Orpha Turner, secretary, of George Strong corps. Repofr of district delegate. Blackboard drill on quarterly reports conducted by department president. Announcements. Adjournment for dinner. 1:30 p. m. Called to order by the lo cal president, Mrs. Margaret Gantz. Minutes of the morning session read. Bxemplificttion of ritual by corpB No 21. Question box. Reports of committees. Reading of minutes of the session. Good of tie order talks by visiting delegates. Closing ceremonies. Supper. 7:30 p. m. Camp fire program. WOMEN PHYSICIANS ON INSANITY JURIES Chicago, Oct. 16.—A jury composed of women physicians, said to be the first, body of its kind, was impaneled yesterday to decide insanity cases be fore the insane court at the county de tention hospital. Out of 18 cases tried two women were discharged on th« ground that their husbands sought to have them adjudged insane and placed in asylums, "for no other rea son," the jurors decided, "than to get rid of them." MRS. MANSFIELD IS HEAD OF DAUGHTERS Burlington, Oct. 16.—Mrs. Ida Mans field wap yesterday unanimously re elected president of the Iowa branch of the King's Daughters. The honor is a well deserved one as Mrs. Mans field has worked heart and soul for the gp6d of the order. Burlington is proud of her. The election of the other offi cers will be announced today. Mrs. Mansfield was elected by acclamation so there was no need of counting the ballots. HONORS FOR TAFT. Providence, R. I., Oct. 16.—Brown university today, in connection with the celebration of her 150th anniver sary, conferred the degree of doctor of laws on William H. Taft, former presi dent of the United States and OA An drew Carnegie. Sffe* vere tr -V'V-'.r (, i' ft h* 5 ft* FILED WITH CLERK LAST DAY FOR OCTOBER TIRMfr CASES IS BUSY ONE FOR 4 DOCKETING CLERK, 'vtq Thursday was a busy day for th« docketing clerk In the office of th^'J'M clerk of the district court. That was the lost tiling day Ifor petl tlons to come up during the Octobff' ,V term which opens in Ottumwa on Mon-tof* daj, October 26. The four petition*1/-''?' which came In on Thursday afternoon. A. after o'clock were those of Wade H. McReynolds vs. Cecil B. McReyn olds, a divorce action the cam^ of S. L. McGavic Lumber Co. vs. A. Houk, ct al., In which a mechanic's llenjvy is Involved and two- damage sults^J^ against the Ottumwa Railway & Llghtr Co. in these last two cases Charles Basa^ft and A. M. Jackson appear as the plain-w" tiffs. Bass asks for (1,000 damages and Jackson for $250. The former charges' t» that on September 27, 1914 he was driving on Church street and the in which he was riding was struck by a street car belonging to the company and he was thrown to the pavement and*4 injured. Jackson, in his petition says' '7 that it was his buggy, Mr. Bass having hired it from him, and asks the |250 fortes alleged damages to the horse, buggy ,, and harness. The defendant's motion for a new'* trial in the ease of Mary C. Huffman/^ vs. the City of Ottumwa, was overruled*^ by the court Thursday, a judgment or-': dered against the defendant on the verdict given and October 26 is the tim®'3 given to tile a bill of exceptions. Suit"^*' money and temporary alimony ha^e been allowed in the divorce case of U.tem N. Parker vs. Grace V. Parker. The hearing on the application for a receiv- -1 er has been set for Monday October ?6, in the case of the Taylor King Marble ,w Co. vs. Luclle I. Allen. Tfie court wr,a occupied this morning with the hearing, of a demurrer in the case of Maddy vs.*',. Prevulsky. LONG DROUGHT AT BOSTON IS BROKEN' Boston, Oct 16.—Smoke-shrouded 2 Boston awoke today to the welcome1, sight of a light rain which aroused^-': hopes that the long drought would bei'" broken and that the numerous forest.^, and peat bog fires in the stata would be quenched. In the last seven weens less than a quarter of an inch pf Alsace continues the scene of daily, *.5 struggles for the possession of points^/", of vantage, the resulting of which it is i'/i difficult to ascertain as fortunes vary*.'' so rapidly. Towns are taken and re-/ taken repeatedly. The heavy fighting in the southern end of the battle line'V indicates that the Germans have prof-^*^ ited by the weakening of the French forces to regain ground they had lost there. ''Jffiu German Victory Belittled. ent of the Times in Paris in a review* of the situation on the French battle" ,, front says: "The German army corps —which drove the French from Lille had little effect upon the whole situation. Be-1, tween the "river Lys and the town of» La Basse, fifteen miles southwest Afraid of Spies. p/f '.iftzA vrain has fallen here. Late crops in many, parts of the state were seriously dam-^ $ aged and reservoirs, wells and springs have been depleted. Philadelphia, Oct. 16.—More than an* inch of rain fell in Pennsylvania in the. last 24 hours, breaking a dought which continued for 55 days. New Haven, 16.- Rain'. Conn., Oct. which began falling in Connecticut last^ night breaks a six weeks' drought and^l will materially check the many fires^' in woodlands of the state, some ofi? which growing serious. FRENCH ABOUT TO INVADE GERMANY'44 (Continued From Page 1.) the position, inflicting a stinging de, feat on their assailants and took 160 prisoners. In another solidly entrenched village the same regiment swept forward, digging in step by step until they got right up to the trenches of the enemy,! which they carried at the point of the *, bayonet, thus gaining a point needed for the support of the entire army. fV? For this exploit the regiment has been mentioned in orders. 4 •v"1! ••im. A otr Lille, the situation remains unchanged. The Germans destroyed the town halK at Arras, a fine sixteenth century building. "The enemy has abandoned the at-"-,, tempt to batter a way to Paris through Roye although guns are still' »j active there. The enemy is also slack in is or he Brimont and southeast of Rhelms where the allies have taken several formidable trenches. "The Germans' efforts to envelop f' Verdun from the north and from the'* southeast have been defeated. The position of the German wedge poshed through from Pont-a-Mousson to St Mihlel has become more uncomfort able'" 'frP-Xp All England is bussing now with talk of the spy menace, the papers. editorially and otherwise dwelling on 'J* the presence of Germans at the hotels|'«V^ are urging closer restrictions. Whatiy, is said to be a spy dressed in a Belgian! uniform has been arrested among the' refugees arriving from Belguim. ^. ,, Germans Expect Fight. .r London, Oct 16.—Telegraphing from Copenhagen, a correspondent of the^l Central News declares that a message received there from Berlin sets forth that the country is awaiting with the| greatest interest further news, of thei German advance towards Ostehd. It® is believed, however, that Ostend will5 not Jie taken without exceedingly^ heavy fighting, and that the British* evidently intend to bring some of thein dreadnoughts into the action. Th«, Germans assume that the outcome ,of such action will be a ppointmenfe (to England. MMfiliMHlM