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" . ' "A CECELl'l ORDERS CHICAGO BROKERS PUZZLED BY j EUROPEAN ME88AQ1 TO AGENTS , TO DISPOSE OP HOLDINGS. ' SELL AT VERY HEAVY LOSS Action Gives Rise to Mar.y Conjec tures as to Cause of Sudden Chans In Plan Important New From Dardanelles Rumdred. London, Aug. 14. Wide circulation ' was given on Thursday to a . rumor that the government had received new of military successes closely af fecting Russia. This rumor was based on the activity at rising prices cf Russian securities on the stock ex change. Russian exchange dropped eight points to 13j. . Chicago, 'Aug. 14. The Chicago wheat pit the "pulse" of the world's grain trade closed on Thursday In feverish excitement following the can cellation by representatives of the al lies of grain contracts aggregating over 2,000,000 bushels of wheat, recent ly bought for September shipment. What word the European buyers re ceived from abroad remained a mys tery. It wat of sufficient Import, however, to cause the foreign buyers to surrender a profit of around ten cents a bushel, or over $200,000 on the contracts canceled, so that they might be relieved of them. Not only were cancellations report ed by Chicago houses, but some of the seaboard exporters claimed to have closed out all open contracts, in one Instance the United Kingdom buy er reselling at equal to 28 cents under what the same wheat would cost de livered In Liverpool. Canadian ex porters also reported ' cancellations and three cargoes of Argentina corn were canceled by Italy. France also resold wheat In this country. Whether the Dardanelles was on the verge of being forced, which would re lease Russian grains for European con sumption, or whether there had been authoritative Information that the opening of the straits was only a mat ter of a short time, was a question much discussed by prominent grain men. They professed to be "up In the air," although Intensely interested in press cablegram early In the day from London telling of wide circula tion there of a rumor that the gov ernment had received news of "mili tary successes closely affecting Rus sia." . 2 HELD IN MACKUN MURDER Silas N. Eversole, Former Preacher, of Bristol, Ind., and 8on Arrested. Goshen, Ind., Aug. 14. Silas N. Eversole, sixty years of age, a former Dunkard preacher, and his son, S. Newton Eversole, both of whom live on a farm two and one-half miles north of Bristol, were taken Into cus tody on Thursday by Sheriff Thomas as suspects in the Hazel Macklln mur der case, which ever since October has been Indiana's greatest unsolved crime mystery. The crime that shocked northern In diana was discovered October 24, 1914, when the dead body of Hazel Macklln, a fifteen-year-old South Bend girl, was found in a vault in Island park. She had been strangled to death. It de veloped that the fifteen-year-old girl had gone to meet a man who replied to her advertisement for a position on a farm. ' For two months a search was made, and then came the finding of the dead glrl,v strangled. SIX DIE IN EXCURSION CRASH Freight Train Runs Into Car Bearing Knlahta of Pythla Lodge Mem- ' KJ bers as Storm Rages. Columbus, O Aug. 14. Six lives (were lost on Thursday in a collision of a freight train on the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern railroad with a Special train carrying the Knights of 'ythlaa lodge of Mount Sterling on the return from an outing at Cedar Point ' More than a score were injured. The crash occurred at Orient during a tor Tentlal rainstorm. The dead were Margaret Sollars. Logan Holler, Thornie Neff, Thad Mitchell, Fred Oearhart and Carl Hetchelsderfer. Several of the injured, most of whom ace in Columbus hos pitals, may not recover. ' Tltusvllle, Pa., Aug. 14. Train No. .66 on the Pennsylvania railway, known, as the Pittsburgh and Buffalo Dyer, Jumped the track half a mile west of this city on Thursday. The engine and two passenger coaches went into the ditch, and, according to reports received here, seven persons were injured. , Arrested Spy. Tallahassee, Fla., Ang. 14. August .Orbolph 1 tinder arrest here on a federal warrant charging him with : making sketches of various light houses and government reservations aUong th Florida coast. V ' . U. S. A. Airman Killed. , Port SU1, Okla., Aug. 14. Quarter ' master Capt George H. Knox of the tJ. 8. A. was killed and Lieut P. B. Button, hit aid, probably was fatally Injured, when an aeroplane in which they were firing tell MO 'eat. POLAND HAY BE lfi yWyiJkyKPi Austria 53 Whichever side wins in the world from the struggle as an independent and Russia have virtually promised as kingdom of Poland and the way in which ing nations, f ; U. S. SENDS WARSHIPS COMMANDER M'NAMEE AT VERA CRUZ WIRES FOR AID. Situation In Mexico Take Startling Turn That May Lead to Clash With U. 8. Washington, Aug. 12. The situation in Mexico took a new and startling turn on Tuesday, and it is believed there is a strong probability a clash between the United States and Car ranza is imminent The developments of the day were: 1. Commander McNamee, in com mand of the naval forces of the east coast, reported that mobs in Vera Crux were being Incited to murder for eigners, and that the situation was extremely serious. He asked that two battleships be sent to him at once. 2. In response to his request, the battleships Louisiana and New Hamp shire sailed last night from Newport, R. I., for Vera Cruz. The gunboat Marietta also has been ordered from Progreso to Vera Cruz. It is under stood also that the gunboats Wheeling and Machlas, which are on the Mexi can coast, have been ordered there. 3. President Wilson has decided to cut short his vacation in Cornish, N. H., and return to Washington at once. Washington, Aug. 11. The United States and the six Latin-American countries represented in the Pan American conference on Mexican af fairs have agreed upon a definite pol icy for the settlement of the Mexican problem. This announcement was made by Secretary of State Lansing on Monday. IOWA MAYOR KILLS WOMAN Joseph Blackman, Executive of Do Soto, Ends Life When Vlo tlm Dies. De Soto, la., Aug. 13. Mayor Joseph Blackman on Wednesday shot and killed Mrs. C. J. Jordan, forty, wife of a real estate dealer, and then committed suicide by shooting. Mayor Blackman boarded at the Jordan home, and It is believed he and Mrs. Jordan quarreled because she had gono out into the country to cook for threshers. Black- man is said to have been drinking. The. killing of Mrs. Jordan took place in her kitchen. Blackman had Just finished his breakfast Mrs. Jordan's mother was in the kitchen and wit nessed the shooting of her daughter. ADMITS $20,000 BANK THEFT Paying Teller of Cedar Rapids (la.) National Confesses His Bandit 8tory Was Fabrication. Cedjir Rapids, la., Aug. 13. Leo L. Penin, paying teller in the Cedar Rapids National bank, . which was robbed of $20,000 on August 4, con fessed on Wednesday that his story of an armed bandit entering the bank and forcing him to . open th vault was a fabrication, and that he himself committed the theft Ten thousand dollars of the amount stolen has been returned to the bank by Perrin. ' 8hoot Peace Advocates? ' London. Aug. 12. Several persons In Germany have been shot by firing squads for advocating a peace propa ganda, aays a Central News dispatch from Amsterdam. ' -Spanish Airship Explodes. Madrid, Aug.. 12. An officer and 11 soldiers were injured when the mili tary airship Alfonso XIII exploded while being inflated at Guadalajara. " ' U-x : Marines 8top Disorder. V . Washington. Aug. 14. American ma rines were called upon Wednesday to put down some disorder in Port an Prince. Haiti. Admiral Caperton ad vised the navy department No men tion of casualties was mad. . Wheat for Europe. "' Galveston, Tex., Aug. 14. Three ves sels departed from here, carrying 688 COO bushels of wheat to Europe. - Forty thousand bushels went to Liverpool, SRI RAO hnahAla want tn f ait ...... I and 2 87,0 00b ushers iren. J? Load, KluGDO.'.l AGAIN war, Poland seems likely to emerge kingdom once more, for both Germany much. The map shows the ancient it was divided among the neighbor . AIR FLEETS KILIq 14 ZEPPELIN8 DROP BOMBS ON TOWNS IN ENGLAND. ' ' ( Women and Children Are Slain by Ex plodlng Missiles Raid Also ' . Mads on Bavaria. London, Aug. 11. East coast towns of England and Scotland are passing a sleepless night in momentary ex pectation of a fresh Invasion by Ger man Zeppelin airships on a bomb dropping expedition. The anxiety is based partly on a re port that five Zeppelins were seen fly ing past an island near the entrance to the Zuyder Zee toward Scotland on Monday and partly on knowledge that the "war of the air" has been re opened with greater vigor and more stupendous operations than ever ex perienced. The first blows In the new campaign fell almost simultaneously on not only England, but Germany. A German air squadron raided the east, coast of England and killed fourteen person while dropping bombs for four hours on Tuesday. An allied aeroplane fleet raided Bavaria and killed eight civil ians at Sankt Ingbert. After the raid in which they killed fourteen and injured fourteen civil ians in England, which lasted from 8:30 o'clock Monday evening until 12:30 o'clock Tuesday morning, the Germans lost one of their airships. It is believed four or five big Zeppelins took part in the raid. One of them was attacked by gunfire on its way home and so seriously damaged that it fell into the sea. It was towed to Ostend, a Belgian port held by Ger mans, but there was attacked by al lied aviators from Dunkjrk, who are reported to have blown It to frag ments. DECIDES FREIGHT RATE CASE Commerce Body Grants But Few of Proposed Increases Denied Ad vance on Principal Items. Washington, Aug. 13. The farmer and farm Interests have won a big vic tory over the railroads. The interatata commerce commission banded down its decision on Wednesday in the west ern rate advance case and granted but few of the railroads' proposed in creases. The proposed advance in grain, grain products, live stock And packing-house products the blnest on the list were denied. Commissioners Harlan and Daniel dissented from the majority opinion. Among the increases Justified were: Proposed increase on carload rates on brewers' rice and domestic rice. Proposed increase on carload rates on fruits and vegetables. Proposed increase on cark)ads for hay and straw where not In excess of Class C. .Among proposed rate increases re fused were: v On grain and grain products. On carload rates live stock. On packing-house products and fresh meats, with exceptions. , Fertilizer and fertilizer material. Broomcorn. - Cotton piece goods and cotton from Texas to points In the North. Wealthy Illinois Farmer Dies. Aurora, 111., Aug. 13. Asher B. Hav enhill, a , wealthy farmer, widely known throughout northern Illinois, is dead at his home at Fox station. 111., aged about eighty-five years. Mr. Havenhlll built a chain of six lake upon his country place, stocked with trout " Franc Oust Millionaire.' Paris, Aug. 13. Th permanent court-martial at Marseilles has sen tenced Henri Racine to deportation tor supplying essence of naroll and ollv oil through a Lausanne firm to a fa mous perfumer of Cologne. 1 Kaiser Fear Plot at Warsaw. Amsterdam. Ang. 13. Fear that Russian spies would attempt to take his life delayed the triumphal entry of th kaiser Into Warsaw, it ' was learned. ' All the puhllo places la Wat saw hav beenjnicryL . 0 uMw j ciuj ii TURK CRUISER TORPEDOED, AN OTHER HIT BRITISH AND GERMAN VESSELS SUNK. AUSTRIAN SUBMARINE LOST Former German Cruiser Breslau De stroyed by ; British 8ubs Craft Goeben Damaged and Beached Zeppelins Raid Thames Shipyards. London, Aug. 13. An Athens dis patch (o the London Dally News says British - submarines have entered the Black sea and torpedoed the Turkish cruiser which formerly was the Bres lau, on transport and one gunboat London, Aug. 13. A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph from Athens says that the Turkish cruiser Goeben. which was renamed the Sultan Selim after its sale by Germany 'to Turkey, has been torpedoed by an allied sub marine near the Bosporus. The crew, however, succeeded In running tbe warship aground in a creek, where workmen are now building a dike about it to enable repairs to be made. Berlin, Aug. 13. The German air ships, which raided the east coast 'of England Monday night and early Tues day morning, bombarded, with good results, warships on the Thames, the London docks, torAVdo boats near Har wich, and buildings on the Humber, says an official communication Issued by the admiralty. The text of the official statement follows: 'The night of August 9-10 German airships attacked fortified places and harbors on the English east coast "In spite of a strong defense, British warships on the Thames and the Lon don dock, torpedo boats near Harwich and important construction on th Humber were bombarded. It was ob served that the results were good. 'The airships returned from the suc cessful expedition." Another naval communication is sued reports: 'An official report received by wire less says that, our Baltic naval forces on the 10th attacked Russian ships in the archipelago near the Schaeren is lands and by their fire forced the Rus sians to withdraw, among them an armored cruiser of the Makaroff class. We also silenced th coastal batteries. 'The same day other German cruis er drove off Russian torpedo boats which appeared near tbe entrance to the Gulf of Riga, and an enemy de stroyer was seen to be on fire. Our ships repeatedly were attacked by enemy submarines, but all their tor pedoes missed 'the mark. Our ships suffered neither damage nor losses.' Great Britain's official account of the Zeppelin raid of the night of Au gust 9-10, the only news passed by the London censor, limited the German flyers' zone of operation to the "east coast. The British account added that four teen persons were killed and fourteen wounded by bombs dropped by the Germans while flying over English towns. Rome, via Paris, Aug. 13. It is of ficially announced that the Austrian submarine U-12 was torpedoed and sunk with all aboard in the upper Adri atic sea by an Italian 'submarine. London, Ang. 13. The sinking of the British auxiliary warship Ramsey by the German naval steamship Me teor and the blowing up of the latter in the North sea were announced offi cially. In addition to these losses eleven commercial vesesls were reported sunk. ' TELEGRAPHIC NOTES Rome,' Ang. 12. Teutonic ' claim that the Italians bad lost 200,000 men in the war against Austria are de nounced as a "ridiculous canard" In an official statement Issued by th war ministry. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 12. Two trainmen were killed when the Penn sylvania , railroad's fast passenger train running from St Xouis to New York went into an open switch and was wrecked near here. Washington, Aug. 12. The depart ment of Justice has approved the sug gestion of District Attorney Charles A. 'Karen that further proceedings , on tbe alleged election frauds in the Dan- villa (ill.) district be dropped. Washington, Aug. 12. Th United States dispatched to Vienna a reply rejecting the Austro-Hungarian views contending that the selling of war mn nltions to allies is against the rule of neutrality. Copenhagen, Aug. 13. The Danish schooner Jason was burned at sea. Her crew wffs saved by the gunboat Absalon. Stop Norwegian Mall Ship. ' Copenhagen, Aug. 14. The Norwe gian ship Iris, bound from Newcastle to Bergen, wa held up tn the North sea by a German submarine and com pelled to throw overboard all the Rus sian mall matter. , . , ' Bubonlo Plague In California. Sacramento. Cat.. Aux. 14 NtrV Gloria, who died at Uartlnes on July It, died from bubonlQ plague. ' Th uanrornia noara of - health was ia formed that a tactericlcrical arrnfv tton showed this. ' . , i Bay City. Th annual outing and picnic of the Sunday schools of Oge maw, Iosco and Arenac counties, held at Wenona beach, was attended by nearly 2,000. . . 1 k ' Standlsh. The soldier and sailors' reunion' for northern Michigan will be held at Grayling, September 14, 16 and 16. It will be attended by sol diers of the Spanish-American war, Woman' relief corps and other organ izations. ' Lansing. Attorney Q ineral Fellows has ruled that automobiles owned and operated by municipalities do not need, to take out licenses under the new law, but he recommends that some definite sort of identification be placed on such cars to make ownership ap parent , '. . . Eaton Rapids. The 'm scarcity of huckleberries this year as a result of the killing , frosts in May keeps the price up to 15 cents a Quart In a" number of the huckleberry swamps in Eaton, Jackson and Ingham coun ties there is not enough fruit to pay for picking. Bay City. Thomas Murphy, thirty two, was killed by the Mackinaw-Detroit train In the Michigan Central yards on the 1 West side. Murphy's body was found in an almost unrecog nizable condition an hour after the train passed. He was unmarried and resided with his parent, i . Muskegon. A petition for a manda mus 4 to compel the board of super visors to pay Mrs. Nellie B. Chlsholm. county school commissioner, $1,500 salary which she claims' under the statute passed by the 1913 legislature fixing salaries for county school com missioners in Michigan, was filed in circuit court. The board - has been paying Mrs. Chlsholm but $1,200. ' . ' Marquette. James' Land, twenty- two years old, of Cleveland, seaman o the Cleveland Cliffs Iron company's steamer Angeline, ' fell through an open hatchway into the hold of the vessel and was killed. His neck was broken. Land and other men were closing the hatches, when he stumbled over the combing and plunged back wards into the hold.', ' Bay City. Ruth Smeaton, aged six teen, and Albert Hessllng, twenty-sev en, elopers from Plnconning to De troit, where they were arrested, have been married. It is likely the abduc tion charges against the groom will be dropped, Hessllng having obtained a decree of divorce and the girl's mother then consenting to the mar riage. Grand Rapids. Playing about a pond on the Joseph Brewer farm at Plalnfleld Monday, Clyde Miller, four years old. suddenly lost his balance and fell, Into six feet of water. His baby sister cried for help, and em ployees of the farm arrived in time to fish the little fellow out of the water before he drowned. A pulmotor. rushed to the scene by auto, saved hi life. Battle Creek. The executive com mittee of the Free Methodist church ha selected Battle Creek for the Fif ty-first annual Michigan . conference August 18 to 23. Fully 400 ministers and other delegates will attend. All sessions will be presided i over by Bishop W. S. Bellew of New York, who will give dally talks. Sessions will undoubtedly be held at the First Methodist church, the Free Methodist church being too small Eaton Rapids. The ' thirty-second annual encampment- of the Eaton county battalion, G. A. R., closed with the business meeting. Officers elect ed: Colonel, John Thompson, Eaton Rapids; lieutenant colonel, C. L. Ev ans. Eaton Rapids; major, E. O. Rus sell, Grand Ledge; surgeon. Dr. p. H. Long, Eaton Rapids; chaplain. Rev. John Claflln, Eaton Rapids. It was unanimously voted to hold' the 1916 encampment in Eaton Rapids. Eaton Rapids. The ginseng grow ers here who refused to sell their 1914 crop at the extremely low prices that prevailed last fall and winter, "on ac count of the European war," ' have made a good thing by "holding on." At this time they have offers of two dollars a pound more for their-last season's harvest of ginseng roots than the buyers offered them then, and they have a large amount of the kept- over product, in addition to the good harvest they will have again this sea son. . ' .; Lawton. Deo Warner, aged nine teen years, a graduate of Lawton High school,' was drowned while fish ing In Gravel lake, near here. He was with Deo Campbell, another Lawton boy. The latter saved himself. It is beMeved that In standing to change positions In the boat ' It was over turned. r Warner sank Immediately, but Campbell was able to reach tbe boat The body was recovered In a few minutes and respiratory treat ment was given for two hours, but without success. Warner was the soo of Mr., and Mrs. Jay Warner of Law ton. -' - ... , Ann'Arbdr. Mrs. Edward Mason of Ann Arbor, after luncheon, dressed herself in her best clothes, lay -down on a sofa, placed a -cloth saturated with chloroform" over her face, and when , her ' hnsband returned home about five o'clock he- found ber dead. Ill health' wa given as the motive fof her, act. . . v ' Grand Rapids. Oscar Doll, twenty- one, was drowned in Coldwater lake, near Mt Pleasant, while bathing. He had lzt recover: J from typhoid fever si 1) telreJ to bafe ten taken ".ih criuajs. . The boiy was recov Vo have i Luilt up Cur Cerlaln-td Roofing Is giving excel lent aervule on all rlauM 6 l"AAr. n over the world in all kinds of climate. . It is the roofing with a guarantee of 5, 10 and IS yearsfor 1, 2 or 3 ply respectively, and IttebackcdbyUiercapontibmtyof onrbi mUlj. Try it once you'll buy it anln. For muc by deler everywhere t reaaotuTbl prkca. General lUofinf Kanvfactarisf Co. ir tji. i , . f--. r -j. afrni,. 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Only Two Legs Left Carmargo, in Dewey county, Oklaj, has dogs big dogs, little dogs and in fact all kinds of dogs, but it has on that is somewhat of an oddity. This ia a dog that travels on two legs. Several months ago a dog belonging to Mr. Storey, section foreman of Sup ply, Okla., was run over by a train and two of his legs cut off. . For some time he was unable to move around, but now has recovered so that he" can nav igate Quite handily. The two legs on which he is forced to walk, are both on one side. . He not only walks, but can also run. and seems to be about as well able to get around as a dog with four good legs Guests Forced to Orlnk. Compulsory abstinence would hav seemed a complete inversion of the natural order to some of our ancestors. They believed in compulsory drinking, and In some old country mansions may still be seen, I believe, a ring let into the wall of the dining hall for the pun ishment of the man who would not, or could not drink his allotted share of liquor. ' : The culprit's arm was fixed in the ring, and be was given choice of drink ing In the ordinary way or having th liquor he refused poured down his sleeve. Hence tbe medieval Jest "Leavlng's sleeving." London Chron icle. . Australia and New Zealand are th greatest wool-producing countries. - NO IDEA What Caused th Trouble. "I alwayi drank coffee with the rest of the family, for It seemed as If ther was nothing for breakfast If wo did not have It on the table. . "I had been troubled for soma tim : with my heart, which did not fel right ; This trouble grew wors steadily. . V "Sometimes It would beat fast, and at other times very slowly, io that I would hardly be able to do work for an hour or two after breakfast, and If I walked up a hill, It gave me a severe pain.''. "I had no Idea of what the trouble was until a friend suggested that per haps ft might be coffee drinking. - I tried leaving off the coffee and began drinking Postum. The change came Quickly, t am glad to say that I am now entirely free from heart trouble and attribute the relief to leaving oft coffee and the use of Postum. "A number of my friends have aban doned coffee and have taken up Post um, Which they are . using ' steadily. There are some . people that make Postum very weak and tasteless, but If mad, according to directions. It is a very;, delicious, beverage." Name -given by Postum Co., Cattle Crek KIchV Postum cozaea la two farms: Postum Cereal th original form musti be wall boiled. lSe and 2Se pack- ages. : . - ' - Intiant Fcitann a schtW powder ' dissolves outeUy la a cup cf hot wa ter, and, with crtxn gad rzzzr, cukes a dtwdauj taverrrs lr.tant!y. tZa sad tea tv