Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-06-23

light when the body of a 2-month-old girl baby was washed ashore from the dainage canal near Lemont, H.
 Minister of Munitions Lloyd-George announced in commons that the gov ernment is sending "a prominent busi- ness man" to the United States to dis cuss the whole subject of American and Canadian war contracts.
 Joseph H. Peterson, attorney-gen- eral of Idaho, was acquitted of a charge of complicity in embezzle- ments from the state treasury.
 The proposed employment of wom- en as bus and tram car conductors for Birmingham, Eng, has been aban doned.
 The reconstruction of the district of Colon, Panama Zone, which was de stroyed in the great conflagration of April 30, has begun.
 It was learned from authoritative sources that Len Small of Kankakee, IL, will be elected president of the state board of agriculture.
 Plans are announced by the Ford Motor Car company to establish a plant on the Detroit river below River Rouge to manufacture all the steel which it will use for making parts for automobiles.
 A{ah ol Harlan, Kan. as the result of stom- och ailment. She weighed 800 pounds. President Wilson will announce his selection of a successor to former Sec retary of State Bryan upon his return, shortly after July 4, from his vacation trip to Cornish, N. H.
 Because the purchase contract was not ready to be submitted the board of directors of the Detroit United Rail- ways company adjourned until June 30.
 The Nashville, Tenn, scandal over the disappearance of the city books had new sensation when it became known that J. B. West, Jr, assistant treasurer, was unaccounted for and his whereabouts unknown.
 The American dollar is now worth more than 100 cents. The drop in sterling exchange to s476&s makes the American bill represent value of $1.02A in English coin.
 
 A report of Joseph E. Davies, com missioner of corporations on trust laws and unfair competition, made several months ago, was given out in Washington. It draws special atten- ton to the difference in the treatment of trade monopolies and combinations between the United States and cer- tain foreign countries. MT Davies urges that state laws regarding com petition be made more uniform. The federal laws on the subject are now quite satisfactory.
 Mrs. Frank Betz was hit by an in- terurban car at Harrisburg, H., and killed instantly. This was the first serious accident since the street car system was installed.
 Ava B. Johnson, president of the Baldwin locomotive works, said he had received a cable message from the Russian government awarding a contract to the company for 250 loco motives. The order amounts to $6,0O0, 900.
 Arbitration of the strike of 16,000 union carpenters which has tied up building operations in Chicago since April l has begun.
 Servian troops who invaded Albania have occupied the city of Elbassan and are moving westward along the Scumbi river toward the Adriatic Their advance guard is less than 30 miles from the sea.
 Leaders of 10000 striking painters have refused to permit a referendum vote to be taken on the new proposal submitted by the employers for set clement of the strike in Chicago.
 Miss Katie Freedle, 20 years old, of Greenfield, Mo, is charged with be- ing an accessory in the murder of her child, an infant, whose dead body was found one night last September.
 The British steamer Toftwood from Galveston, May Is, via Newport News, May A. for Havre, has arrived at Cherbourg with fire in her cargo.
 
 An investigation into the boiler ex- plosion on the torpedo beat destroyer Bailey in Chesapeake bay, four miiez out of Annapolis. was ordered by the navy department
 Ant-war riots arc reported to have broken out iA C0GstARtinople. Ger. maa soldierv wWs attacked A sks lnaGiB v ysrkA