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The Yale expositor., 1916-12-28
Grain, Etc.

Wheat: Cash No. red.
S1.66; December opened with drop
of &c at $1.59 1-2 and advanced to
$1.66; May opened at s1.66 1-2 and adj
vaDced to $1.72; July, sT.40; No L
white, S1.61.
Corn-Cash No 3, 81 l-2c; No 8 yell
low, 99c; No 4 yellow, 97c.
Oats-Standard, Sc 1-2c; No white,
Sec No 4 white, 55c.
Rye-Cash No 2, S1.42.
Beans-Immediate and prompt ship
ment, s575; January, $3.50.
Seeds-Prime red clover, $1,000;
March, $1,000; alsike, $10.75; timothy,
S2.45; alfalfa, $9d10.
Flour-Per 1876 lbs, in eighth paper
sacks: Best winter patent, $40;
second patent, $3.50; straight. sS.40;
spring patent, $9.40; rye -four, $3.50
per bbl.
Hay--No l timothy. s1491J; stand
ard timothy, s1S.5O914; rye straw,
$9.5OG 10; wheat and oat straw, $3.50
d9 per ton in carlots, Detroit.
Feed-In 100-lb sacks, jobbing lots:
Bran, $31; standard niddlings, $33;
fine middlings, $35; cracked corn,
$42; coarse cornmeal, $40; corn aud
oat chop, $37 per ton.
The Yale expositor., 1916-12-28
TELEGRAPHlC FLASHES

After residing in White Cloud for
35 years, Mrs. p. J. Youngquist. wife
of a local shoe dealer, was found dead
OF heart disease beside her chair, from
which she bad fallen.
Daniel Christie, 81 years old, died
at his home in Muskegon. He was
the owner and manager Of the largest
grocery In Muskegon.
The farming management depart.
ment department OF the Michigan Ag.
ricultural college has completed an in.
vestigation OF farm conditions in Sag
NAV county and reports that farms
ranging from 100 to 174 acres were
found to be most profitable, netting
se14 as an evarage labor income, com.
pared with $4S5 for farms of so to 99
acres. Farms less than 80 acres were
found Improbable.
The Yale expositor., 1916-12-28
Happenings
Of the World
Tersely Told
European War News

Parliament was prorogued at London
by King George until February Z. In
the address from the throne proroguing
parliament King George declared that
"the vigorous prosecution of the war
would be the single aim of England un-
til the security of Europe had been es'
tablished. He indicated that peace is
not yet in sight.
The German submarine U-45 has
been sunk by destroyers, according to
a Nantes dispatch to Paris. The U-4S
recently sank steamers off Saint Ma
Eaire.
The British steamer St.Ursula was
torpedoed and sunk with the loss OF
four members of the crew, the state
department at Washington was in
formed by William Keblinger, Amerl'
can consul at Malta. Six Americans
were on hoard, but none was lost.
The Yale expositor., 1916-12-28
TEACHERS TO GET PENSION
Pension Fund Act Passed St the Leg.
islature of 1915 Held Con-
stitutlonaI.

Iansing-A teachers pension fund
for which hundreds of Michigan
school teachers have been religiously
working for years, is now an assured
fact.
The supreme court, in an opinion
written by Justice Flavius l.. Brooke,
of Detroit, held that the pension fund
act passed by the legislature of 1915
is constitutional and should be put
into effect.
AS a result the board, which was
appointed by Governor Ferris to put
the act into effect, will, 1t is expected,
at once adopt plans for the collection
Of the payments from the teachers.
This board is headed by Judge Will
liam F. Connolly, of Detroit.
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General Markets

Cranberrits-Late Howes, 1925 per
bu and 1926 per bbl.
Apples--Baldwin, Spy and King,
s5.5O@5.75 per bbl for the best.
Cabbage-s45O per bbl.
Dressed Hogs-12 1-2613c per lb.
omatoes-Hothouse, 22c per lb.
Celery-Kalamaoo, 20Q25c per
doz.
New Potatoes-Bermuda, s1o.5O911
per bbl.
Sweet Potatoes-Jersey, Kindred,
81 per crate.
Honey-Fancy white, 16917c; ex-
tracted, 9Q1Ocper ID.
Dressed Calves-Farcy, 1906 1-2c;
No 2, 14Q14 1-2c per ID.
Potatoes-In carlots: Bulk, s1500
1.55; in sacks. s1.6O81.65 per bu.
Lettuce-Head lettuce, S1.75d2 per
case: hothouse, Il 1-2G15c per lb.
Onions-Spanish. s1.75 per crate;
Michigan yellow, $iq4.1O per 10OIb
sack.
Live Poultry-No l spring chickens,
1S61sc; No spring chickens, 100
llCs NO n6lSt L ~ AoNs ANp = hNhSs
1ec: small hens, 13d14c; ducks, 100
zoe; geese, 1913 1-2c; turkeys. 2so
per lb.
Eggs-Receipts, $50 cases; hrsts,
39c current receipts, 3Sc per doz.
Michigan flats, 22 1-2c:
Wisconsin flats, 2S sac; Wisconsin
daisies, 24c; Wisconsin double daisies,
% S-4c: New York flats, 24c; long
horns. "a 1-2c; Michigan daisies, %
SIC: imported Swiss. 55@6Oc; domes-
tic Swiss, 27632c brick, % 1-2c; linn
burger, lib pkgs. 24c; do 2lb pkgs,
23 1-2c per lb.
Tallow-No /, &c; No 2, &c per ID.
Dressed Poultry-Chickens, zoe;
hens. 17d1sc; ducks, 21-22c; geese,
100 zoe; turkeys, 32d33c per ID.
Hides-No / cured. 24c; No green,
21c; No / cured bulls, 24c; No green
bulls, 15c; No 1 cured veal kip, soc;
No i green veal kip, 25c; No l cured
murrain, 20c; No green murrain,
1Sc: No cured calf. SSc; No / green
calf, SEC; No ] horsehides, IS; No q
horsehides, 81; No hides 1c and No
kip and calf l 1-2c lower than the
above; sheepskins, as to amount 81
WOOL. 50c6s1 each.
The Yale expositor., 1916-12-28
NINETEEN AMERICANS DIE
U.Boat Torpedoes Transport and Am.
orleans Aboard Perish.

London--Seventeen American mule
teers have been killed and IL of the
crew of the British horse transport
ship Russian, which was sunk by a
submarine in the Mediterranean De-
cember IA. The British admiralty
makes this announcement: "The
empty westbound British horse trans
port ship Russian was sunk by sub
marine in the Mediterranean Decem-
ber IA. Eleven of the crew were kill
ed. including the chief officer, the first
officer and the second officer. Also IL
American muleteers were killed.
Their names have been communicated
TO the American consul"
The Yale expositor., 1916-12-28
MARKET QUOTATIONS
Live Stock.

DETROlT-Cattle: Receipts, 3,45A
Best heavy steers, SSd9; best handy
weight butcher steers, $7@775; mix.
ed steers and heifers, S7Q7.50 handy
light butchers, S6Q6.5O; light butch"
ers, S5q6; best cows, S6.50G7;
butcher cows, S5.2546; common
cows, S4.75q5; Gamers and cutters,
$44475; best heavy bulls, $3.50
$50; stock bulls, $45)45; feeders,
$6.5O@7; stockers, $5G675; mixers
and springers, s40@75.
Calves-Receipts. l. l0S. The veal
calf trade was active, best grades
bringing $12 to 10; mediums, SO to
$11, and heavy, $3.50 TO ST.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts, 6,092.
Best lambs, $13Q13.25; fair lambs,
$12@12.75; light TO common lambs,
$9q10; yearlings, s9611; fair to
good sheep, $Sas75; culls and COM
mon, S566.
Hogs-Receipts, 10,410. Pigs sell
ing at $3.50 to 1915 and mixed grades
$3.50 to $10
The Yale expositor., 1916-12-28

Mrs. Iva Barnes was found not guilty
of the murder of her husband, James
X. Barnes, by jury at Chicago.
Mark r. Bacon of Wyandotte, Re
publican, was declared elected con-
gressman from the Second Michigan
district.
Christmas pardon was granted by
Governor Whitman at Albany, n. u,
TO William j. Cummins, who has served
three years and two months of states
prison sentence of four years and eight
months for his part in the wrecking OF
the Carnegie Trust company of New
York. Many millions of dollars were
involved in the failure.
Four miners, Clarence Hicks, James
Hamilton and Arthur Trelau were
killed I'm n cavern In the Block-house
Zinc and Lead mines four miles south
of Platteville, Wis.
Baron Robert Il. Oppenheim, Lon
don and Paris banker, held up Mt New
York by immigration authorities on the
ground that he had been implicated In
charges involving moral turptude
was ordered released by the immigra'
ton bureau pending further investiga'
tion under bond of 81 900.
Charles Noe, a hnlf-breed Indian,
confessed that he. and not Miss Ber-
tha Smith, beat TO death Charles
Stone. building contractor, whose
body was found near the girls home
at St. Louis, Mo. She made the state
ment, she said, TO shield Noe.
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Foreign

King Christian of Denmark, in the
cabinet council at Copenhagen, rau-
fed the treaty providing for the sale
of the Danish West Indies TO the
United States.
Both houses of the Danish parlla-
ment at Copenhagen now have APP
proved the sale OF the Danish West
Indies TO the United States. The lands
thing, or upper house, voted fayorably
upon the proposition, 40 10 10.
The British government has decided
to release the Irish prisoners who were
interned after the rebellion in Ireland.
Henry L. Duke, chief secretary for Ire
land, made the announcement in the
house of commons.
Premier Lloyd-George said In the
house of commons at London that II
was felt that the allies should know
before entering on negotiations that
Germany was prepared TO accede to
the only terms possible for peace TO
be obtained and maintained in Europe.
The premier said that without repara-
ton peace would be impossible. lie
declared there were no proposals for
peace. To enter into proposals of
which they had no Knowledge was TO
put their heads into n moose with the
ropes end in the hands OF Germany.
Claude Grahame-White, aviator, and
Ethel Levy, former wife of George Nj.
Cohan, were married in London. The
aviator's first wife, Dorothy Taylor of
New York, divorced him.
In Berlin diplomatic circles, says IN
Exchange Telegraph dispatch to Lon
don from Amsterdam, it is understood
that the German emperor will at an
| early date summon to headquarters
the American ambassador, james W.
Gerard. with the view to discussing
with him possible American mediation
and action.
Premier BRAND announced In the
senate at Paris that the allied govern
ments will send their formal reply ia
Germany's peace offer at once, def
nitely stating that the allied govern
ments cannot seriously consider Ii.
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Domestic

The will OF Miss Clara l.. Klcclarul
formerly Clara de Riquet, princess de
Chimay, who was Clara L. Ward of De-
troit, Mich, was filed ia probate court
at Chicago. The estate amounts to
more than $1,OOO0O0.
Four bodies have been recovered
from the smoldering ruins of the Ma
sonic Home at Wichita, Kan. One other
guest is missing and scores are suffer
ing from injuries received in the burn
ing structure.
A centrifugal machine gun, said TO
throw 5000 projectiles a minute at
an initial velocity of 1900 feet Sec
ond, was tested by United States naval
authorities at Vallejo, Cal. The gun is
operated by electricity.
Buoyant recoveries of from So TO SIC
at the opening of the New York stock
market, prompted by the developments
In the peace situation, caused hur-
ried covering of short commissions and
q strong tone in the stock market.
A. A. Bedford was elected president
of the Standard Oil company of New
Jersey to succeed the late John D.
Archbold. Mr.. Bedford has for some
years been vice president and treas
urer of the company.
Wall street had its widest expert
ence In IA years on Thursday, when
every stock on the list went down in
value because of President Wilson's
peace notes TO the warning powers
The losses ran into the hundreds OF
millions as the "war-bride" stock in.
fiation was fattened out. In a sensa'
tional drop from S10S to $101 share
United States Steel common alone suf
fered market value slump of about
S4OOO0,0OO. Total sales numbered 8,
10000.
Nicholas Dahm, twenty-three years
old, and his bride Of a month, Mary
twenty-one years old, were found deac
from gas in their home at Evanston
Ill.
Two miners are dead and 10 injured
following a gas explosion In the Oil
phant-JOhnson mine, near BruceVlle
Ind. William Bailey and Thomas Pat
terson, both of Bruceville, were killed
James J. O'Kelly, nationalist mem
ber of the house of commons, died II
London.
Miss Nettie NJ. Richardson of Pitts
burgh. Pa. was given a verdict TO
$4,000 In her 100000 breach-of
promise suit against Henry Dennison
her wealthy octogenarian third cousin
Samuel G.. Davis of Tulsa, Okla.
wealthy dealer Ia Indian glands, wa
shot and killed at Joplin, Mo-. in tin
nome of Mrs Daisy Carter, q divorces
to whom be was to have been married
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Washington

A definite plan for universal mill
tary training will be laid before con-
gress at Washington next month in the
shape of bill formulated by the gen.
eral staff of the army, accompanied by
complete estimates of cost, us COM
pared with the present volunteer sys-
TEN.
Commander Ralph Earle was APP
pointed chief of the navy's bureau of
ordnance, with the rank of rear ad-
miral The nomination was confirmed
by the senate at Washington.
Secretary Lansing issued a state
ment at Washington amplifying and
qualifying the one he made earlier in
the day regarding the presidents notes
to the belligerents because, he said,
he feared some incorrect inferences
were being drawn from his first utter
ance. Secretary Lansing said his pur-
pose In making the second statement
was to make 1t clear beyond question
that there was no change In the policy
/ or neutranty OF the Omteu suites. III
the first statement he said the United
States was on the verge of war.
|
Dispatches received at Washington
from Europe indicate that the subma-
rine war peril is soon TO be revived,
perhaps In an intensified form.
/
The view In allied. Teutonic and dip
lomatic circles at Washington is that
the presidents peace note will have
the effect of bringing peace percep-
tibly closer.
President Wilson announced al
Washington that the shipping board
would. be composed of the following
members: Democrats, William Den
man of San Francisco. Bernard n. Ba.
ker of Baltimore and John A. Donald
of New York city. Republicans, John
Barber White of Kansas City and
Theodore Brent OF New Orleans
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MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS

Mayor Henry w. Nordhouse Of
Manistee is planning to order coal
for distribution at cost to the poor
of Manistee.
Secretary George Brown announced
that the twenty-sixth annual meeting
of the Michigan Improved Live Stock
Breeders and Feeders association
will be held at the Michigan Agricul-
tural college January II to 19. The
closing day of the session will be
featured by an auction sale of pedi-
greed cattle.
Mrs. Frances Dedrosh was burned
TO death with her daughter, Mary, six
years old, whom she attempted to
save when the farm house one and
one-half miles north OF Wayne, was
destroyed by fire. Flames awakened
Mr.. and Mrs. Dedrosh. Each caught
up one of the younger children and
rushed down the burning stairs. The
mother ran back before Dedrosh
could stop her He tried to follow
but the stairs collapsed.
Railroad Commissioner Cunningham
sent a letter to the mayors of Grand
Rapids, Jackson, Lansing and other
Michigan cities asking them to cooper
ate with shippers in seeing that fuel
and other freight is promptly unloaded
and the cars returned that assistance
in the freight congestion and car
| shortage may be relieved Such CO
operation in Detroit has helped to a
large extent and IL is believed other
Michigan cities can help proportion
ately.
East Lansing has gone through one
of the biggest building booms in the
! history of the city during the last
year. The Official count shows that
as residences costing from $4,000 10
$4,000 have been constructed besides
two business blocks, new four-story
Masonic temple costing $4,000, new
fire-proof grade and high school cost
ing 100000, a new gymnasium on the
Michigan Agricultural campus costing
s220,O00 and engineering building cost
ing about $4,000.
There will be no more tag days OF
soliciting for charity in kalamazoo
New Years eve 700 workers will can
vass for funds to be divided between
the benevolent institutions. and Other
methods will be abolished.
Retween 5000 and $500 in money
The Yale expositor., 1916-12-28
Mexican War NezcS

Two companies of the Fourteenth In
fantry arrived at Ajo, Ariz., from
Yuma under command of Colonel Jones
to guard against possible raid on
the big copper camp by Mexican ban
dts.
Baudelio Tribe, a follower of villa.
who is said 10 have instituted the prac-
tice of cutting off the ears of Carran-
"a prisoners, and II of his band were
executed by "home guards" and "many
Villa troops" killed in a battle south
west of chihuahua City.
Puebla and Orizaba have fallen into
the hands of soldiers of Feliz Diaz
and Jalapa is in the hands of other
revolutionary forces, according to re-
ports received by United States agents
at FL Paso, Tex.
Secretary Lane and his colleagues
on the INSTRUMENTATION joint COM
mission at Philadelphia placed upon
General CarranZa the responsibility of
deciding whether the American gov
ernment should continue its efforts
to effect a satisfactory and amicable
adjustment of the questions affecting
the relations of the two countries, and
then adjourned until after the holi-
days.
The Yale expositor., 1916-12-28

The Godfrey residence or Monroe
was estroyed by a fire which caught
apparently in the kitchen roof and
was well under way before being dis
covered The place was occupied by
Fred Milligan. The cold hindered The
fremen.
The Yale expositor., 1916-12-28

A short time after he had walked IL
miles from the county house. at Mar
shall, to Albion, "Billy" Gilbert, 10
Years old, was found dead Of heart
disease In his bed at the home OF a
relativ-
The Yale expositor., 1916-12-28

Between $500 and $500 in money
and stamps was taken from the Brit
ton postofiice. The postoffice is in "a
general stors owned by Cass Zeluff,
who is serving on the grand jury In
Detroit The door of the store was
opened with key and the safe, which
was unlocked, was simply opened.
The Yale expositor., 1916-12-28

The view In allied, Teutonic and dip
lomatic circles at Washington is that
the presidents peace note will have
the effect of bringing peace percep-
tibly closer.
The Yale expositor., 1916-12-28

Samuel G. Davis of Tulsa, Okla,
wealthy dealer ia Indian glands, was
shot and killed at Joplin, Mo-, in the
nome of Mrs. Daisy Carter, q dlvOrcee
to whom be was to have been married.
The Yale expositor., 1916-12-28

Dispatches received at Washington
from Europe Indicate that the submn-
rine war peril Is soon TO be revived,
perhaps In an intensified form.
The Yale expositor., 1916-12-28

Miss Nettie NJ Richardson Of Pitts
burgh. Pa. was given a verdict for
$4,000 in her $5OO,O0O breach-of-
promise suit against Henry Dennison.
her wealthy octogenarlan third cousin.
The Yale expositor., 1916-12-28

Four bodies have been recovered
from the smoldering ruins of the Ma
sonic Home at Wichita, Kan. One other
guest is missing and scores are suffer
ing from injuries received in the burn
ing structure.
The Yale expositor., 1916-12-28

Nicholas Dahm. twenty-three years
old, and his bride of month, Mary,
twenty-one years old, were found dead
from gas In their home at Evanston,
Ill.
The Yale expositor., 1916-12-28

King Christian of Denmark, in the
cabinet council at Copenhagen, rau
fed the treaty providing for the sale
of the Danish West Indies TO th'
United States.
The Yale expositor., 1916-12-28

James J. O'KeIly, nationalist MEM
Der of the house of commons, died in
London.
The Yale expositor., 1916-12-28

Two miners are dead and Is injured
following gas explosion In the Oil
phant-Johnson mine, near Bruceville,
Ind. William Bailey and Thomas Pat
terson, both of Bruceville, were killed.
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AGAINST LAW TO WHIP CoNyICTs
Attorney General Answers Inquiry
From Board Of Charities and Cor.
rectiOnS,

Columbia, Feb. SIT is clear to
my mind that If sentence of cor
poral punishment is unconstitutional.
as 1t Is, certainly the infiiction of such
punishment without sentence would
be unlawful" says Thomas H. Peoples
attorney general, in an opinion rend-
cred yesterday upon request of Albert
tombstone. secretary of the State
board of charities and corrections.
The opinion is in part as follows:
THE prohibition against the infiic-
ton of corporal punishment extends
In my opinion, not only to prohibiting
the courts from sentencing a convict
to corporal punishment, as was for
merly permitted years ago under
some of our laws, but in my opinion
this prohibition extends also to con-
victs who are confined in the peni-
tentiary or upon the chaingangs and
1T Is unlawful to inflict corporal pun
ishment upon them"
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SCORES OF MIDDIEs FAIL.

e.
. Annapolis, Nd, Feb. 1.-Two hum
dred'" and twenty midshipmen, or
about one-fourth Of the entire mem
bership at the naval academy, win
be asked to resign because of their
failure to pass the half yearly exami-
nations according to reliable reports
here today. Many midshipmen claim
that these examinations were much
harder than usual but this is denied
by she instructors.
The number Of the failures in eacl,
class is said to be as follows: First or
graduating class, 20; second, 60; third,
60; fourth, 80.
One explanation of the large num-
ber OF failures is that instructors have
been forbidden to indicate in any way
to the midshipmen the character Of
the examination. The court of in
quiry which investigated the scholas-
tic methods of the academy recon-
mended abolition of the dope" sys-
tenn, as it, was called
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May Let Them Stay.

Washington, Feb. 2.-The standing
Of midshipmen who failed at the half
yearly examinations at Annapolis will
be decided finally by officials of the
navy department here, before whom
the recommendations of the examin-
ing board will come for review. So far
the board has not reported to Wash
ington. 1t was made clear at the de-
partment today that failure in the
examinations would not mean a re-
quest to resign. Officials believe that
in great many cases there probably
exists reasons for allowing those who
failed an opportunity to make up past
delinquencies.
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ness and to worship with sealed lips
and q rebellious heart.
On the night before he was to 60 to
Peril to attend the trial Of Luke Thix.
ton ne came with a very full and
heavy heart. He knew that It might
be farewell. Tomorrow he must put
to the test all his hold on his people
and all his audacity of resolution. He
stood at the verge Of an Austerlitx or
waterloo. and he had undertaken
the thing for no reason except that It
mad pleased her to command It.
He knew that among his own fol-
lowers there were smiles for the
power which "furrin" woman had
come to WELD over him, and IL one
failure marred his plans those smiles
would become derisiye. It was weak.
ness to go on as he was going, gazing
dumbly at her with boundless adora-
ton he dared not voice. Tonight he
would bluntly tell her that he was do
Ing these things because he loved her;
that while he was glad to do them,
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FOR BETTER LIVE STOCK.
Fee Dee Experiment Station to Lend
announcement.

Pee Dee Experiment Station to Lend
encouragement.
Florence, Feb. at was ANNOUNCE
ed after the recent visit of Prof. J.
N. Harper of Clemson college to the
Pee Dee experiment station this week
that the purpose of the station from
its incipiency, the care and feeding Of
live stock, would be deyeloped. and
that the station would be fully equip
ped for this work. Tests are to be
made of flesh and fat producing feeds,
butter fat in milk and rations for
beef cattle. The interest that is be-
ing awakened in this section in live
stock prompts the college to go ahead
as rapidly as possible in this work
because the records Of one year alone
do not establish a rule in such work,
though they help the farmer, and in
order to make the station Of as much
value as possible to the farmers thew
are asked to make free use of the
station. Prof. Shields of the live
stock department of Clemson college
and Prof. G. p. Newman Of the gov
ernment bureau Of animal industry
spent a day at the station planning
for tho development of the station and
they Will lay ont the work to be un-
dertaken and the plant necessary to
carry it on.