OAR MAY OOPKTY TTMYS. SYA 18U OTTY. W. 3.

FoboVtt..—ills* Kos« Oalaan, bAy-tv-o years old, a teacLer in Psblic School No. 4, this city, rfaaiged with shoplift]Df In a New York store. In t-b* conn of special sesslona. New York, was sentenced tr an Indeter::.!nate sentence of from sir months to three Tears In the pehlteitiary. Uorrittown.—Mrs. Anna Smith of Malapardu, widow of Adolphe Smith, one of the tro rf m»— win. died In October from drinking poisonous liquor eld by Nicholas Tokle*. a storekeeptr at V.'hlppf ny, was arrested by J. Panl ^..nlestr. of th» Morris county prosecutor’s atafT. charged with rlolating the Van Nees act by making and celling what is alleged to be brandy. t'nioo Hill—Search for a strong box in which the late Dr. Joseph Ventrice,

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paed to have kept his wealtn. halvag failed to disclose the chest, hit widow and children are trying to Pnd sn o>4 mattress, placed la front of the bcuse for the sea Terser, which, they think, ■day hare contained bis wirings West Hoboken. — More than *000 person filed past the biet In New Amsterdam hall of Detective lieutenant Charies Harm, who was shot down recently while vainly defending a bank-' ■Jensen ger and the <21/100 he m as carrying. loral pieces mice banked to form a background and police under -command of Chief Rohrbuch acted as « guard of boner. Bayonne—Chnrges of blacfcmr .1 and tonjicrsonatlrg an officer jrtr* made by the loca police . gainst Walter Masieraon and Alfred Ziohler A charge of carry ing u concealed w apen was also nedo against Zlcbler, who is t- eotynlne years old. and who lives In Jamaica, Long Island. K. Y. fioedentown. — Frank T. Hu cu a nan, former member of city council whose term expired this year as a member •f the local Board of Education, has Lwn re-appolnted to Uic hoard by Mayor Brukeley. and at the organlw ti.m eedng of the board In the QtJ Hall ho was rc-elected president of the body tor the fifth consecutive time. Trentou.—A general slam' was sent •at by the local police for Mrs. Catherine Logan, fifty-five years old of 113 Cooper st:«et wno disappeared January h. The Newark police have been asked to aid In (be seorch for her. Mrs. Logan left her home that morning to go to mass in the Sacred Heart Church and all trace of her since has been lost. Florence — With delegations from Burlington. Bordenlown sad other nearoy places In attendance, the annua’ rally of the Baptist Young Peo-plt-’s Unlor was recently held la the

Princeton.--A mild sensation was Caused on the Princeton campus when several boxes of rabbtah In the basement ot the university library caught fire. The three chemical tni-k* of the local fire department were Immediately trahed to the sceoto and their prompt artlm undoubtedly prevented a much larger fire. Hightstowa.—Ktarr O. Cooper, secretary of the Peddle faculty, has been granteo a th.re months' Ictve ot sb-».-n<v for the portsme of Zurcpeab travel, sccordlng to recent announcement ifnAtr to ti*e faculty by Headmaster H. W. SsoUacd. Woodbury.—A tow cases of scarlet fever have been extorted to the Board of Health. Petmagrove. 1 ormer Mayor Slnion t'uonlnghsni lias a Iem.ru tree which U filled wlOi fruit Just now. one •f the lemons lieing more thau 12 to.lies in circumference. Trenton.—Senator Sliupwm. minority - leeder. presetited his b .l prodding fiat lu all municipalities where trolley car franchiaes call for five cent fares the mte shill be no higher than that •mm. Thi> step was prompted by the action of the Public Service Hallway Company In Ignoring th~ state •gencics and appealing to the federal courts to get a •»1 cent fare. New Brunswick.—CoorUi y and consideration cos* lamia Benenlrk of South Bound Brook (14o and ■ beadaeije, Ifritlng on toe canal road, be came upon an apparently stalled motor, with fwo men looking Into toe engine and aNhlrd at the wheel He alighted, offer'd a>-<iistance, locked at the starter And awrkened from the tomes of chloroform hour* inter In hla own car. Ills pockets rifled. Mount Hoi: i A cl-ar path for Are apparatus nlgbt calls is desired by the Buiilngtou County Flreen's Aasocialion to aucti an extent that tie legislature win be asked to pass a law that will require all Are apparan • to display two green lights in add lion to the usual headlights aa a warning to vehicle drivers to give the firemen an unobatruclrd right of way. The aaaorlatiou has apf-iinted a legislative committee to confer with Kona tor Itoberta Mil /Ssietpblymsn Powell and decide on a brief law that Till rover the

point.

I'll man.—Chris. A. Belling has been C ilfH-inted chief and Charles J. ley a rat st ant ctuef of the fire depsrttu.ii I here. Tnmtoo.—The nmemhly paascl a bill fur the i-eoncjDixstlua of Uu lufWntry of the New Jersey National 4>uard and fur placing upon the uaasslgneO list Brigadier <»eneral Howard b. Borden of Ch-eanlc, sad New Yotk, wealthy adUdaman. whose election r of the Infantry brigade

fc the rraignatiiin of nearly two scores •f ex-service ufleers cf t*w One Hun-

drfd and Fourteenth Infantry.

measure ha* no* a* yet been officially listed as before the legislature. Assemblyman Champion. Republican, of Essex has latrodnced a bin to repeal the Hurley boxing law and restore the 191(1 act for amateur boxing. New Brunswick.—Walter Harris of Princeton Junction, arrested in Sandusky, O, on the charge of stealing an automobile owned by Michael De’esoa or this city, was accr.ltted la the county court here. Jciige Peter F. Daly, presiding, said the offense wsi ■‘reprehensible." hut not criminal and the court directed a verdict of not guilty Newark. -- One .hotsand or more commercial alcohol manufacturers and dealers are threatened with license revocations as the result of an Investigation begun recently of charges that much of their product Is findlns its way into the handr. of bootleggers. Trenton. — Reports that Brigadier Gen err! Howard S. Bordea. commander of the Fifty-seventh Infantry Brigade, would grace fully retire from his military post and i *rmli reorganisation of the New Jersey National Guard, continned. although attempts to verify the story were onevalllag. Mercer. - Report of the January grand Jury win he returned in court here Interest centers abcut the Jury’s findings In the Allenlown-BobblnsvIIIe road oil scandal, and there is much speculation eo the question of whether any Indictments gt -.-vlag out of the Investigation will be ret-rmed. Sewell — John North, who resides here, says be ha* the largest tomato vie.? in south Jersey. He states that it requires 288 square feet of glass to cover At present there ate L000 tomatoes on It. They weigh from u half to three-quarters of a poui.d each. Some of the clusters e*e composed of as umny aa 18 tomatoes. Newton.—Colonel Walter F. Whittetndre of this place were named by Gov* error Edwards to represent the mat# at the tenth annual convention of the rinited States Good Roads’ Association at Phuenlx. Arit, April 10. Engtishtown.—la order to alleviate ■he crowded condition exlslirg in the English town rammar school, the voters of Manabpan township at a. special election voted to build an addition to the school. The addition will contain two -laasrooma, nurse's room, teachers" rest room, with locker, also an auditorium seatin': 380 pupils, with stage and two dressing rooms. Jersey City. — Another death from poisonous alcohol the third here In two days, was reported to the police. The latest victim wa« ATlliam Space, thir-ty-alx, who died In the Jersey City Hospital Newton.—Awakened by the crackle of ilames at 8 o'clock In the morning. Eugene Hodimer, rho lived in a small house on the Northrup farm, on -he Sparta read, escaped In bis night clothes when the house burned. Nothing was saved. Jersey City. — Stephen C. liawbey. twenty-four, committed arlride at the of Uls paieuts by drinking poison. He had been on; of work and was la pooi health. Burlington.—Because of the small auionst at Ins iance on the church bulMlnt of the Wealey A M. E. Zion Church, vtUch was destroyed by fire recently, the future of the congTegattoa Is very uncertain. Jersey City.—la the circul; court a Jury m the case of ten-year-oid Helen Mattson of 6 Vegmat Court, who, with her Cither. August Mattson, had sued to reco er BJ.OOm from Mrs Anng 0. W'egman of 613 Garfield avenue, gave a verdict of 32/100 for the girl and 3500 for her father. NtrwfleM.—Edward Vans mat, former deputy postmaster of Vineland, has been appotatod postmaster here. I’ciuugruve—The requirement of o 43.000 l>ond has put hearty all the Jitneys 1-ere out of business Uoadstown.—Rev. W. A. Ma.~?lenrb; has been extended a tall to the pastorale o the < '..lnAsej Baptist Cburdt. Treuton.—Chief Justice Gunmere o« the Court of Erors and Appeals, filed an opinion, euncuvred in by Justices Treochard, Bla- k and Van Buklrk. dissenting fr»m the majority decision of the court, upholding by a W to 4 vote the action of Vice Chancellor Malcolm Buchanan in enjoining “Jieareful picketing." Newton.—Announcement was made of tie death of Henry C. Eunneil associate editor of the New Jersey Herald, at Ida home here.* He wax seventy-eight yeers old and was widely interested la civic and fraternal af-

fair*.

Trenton.—New Jersey I* the leeding cranberry Ktate, according to statistics presented at the fifty-second annua. meeting of the American Cranberry Grower*' Association, held at the Adelphia Hotel 1'hiladelphlg, wit j orar UK* ot the larguffi grower* pre*ent. There are nearly iZ.UOO acres of cranberry txig* In the Ktate, from which 1'iu.OOU barrels of berries were picked la:3 year. The industry I* on the Increase, according to H. It \Veis>. New Jersey Ktate crop statistician. !n an addseaa. He said «»J nfiditionei acre* were planted last year which | will he r next ven«oii There are 221 j growers in New Jersey. ! VYoudMown.—Fur the first lime lr | many mouths desirable houses are ngaia n ..liable for rentera, due largely <o (be moving of dul'unt works eiu- . I'loyses to CATBey's Point. | Tiee: on.—Governor i>; wards sent I to tb* ••-nat« the tominalloti of John | O. Bigelow, a lawyer Newark, us j Prone, utor of Essex County. He ul»> | subtnlKcd the hsiue of John Enright of Freehold a* Ktate CoimaJaalaner of Edu'st.ua and Uvat of J. Kpencer Smith of Tcnafly and Robert F. Engle of Beach Haven as membc.s of the Stale oBard of f’-.aumerce and Nar.-

NEWS REVIEW OF ClIRRENT EVENTS Settlement of Shanturig Controversy Announced to the Arms Conference.

UHI. TREATY IS APPROVED

: Questions Also Puses Foreign Debt Refunding Bill—Senator Kenyon la Made Federal Circuit Judge. By EDWARD W. PICKARD S ECRETARY of State Hughes and Arthur J. Balfour accompUahed a great feat of real diplomacy last week when they succeeded in persuading China and Japan to accept the compromise arrangement by which the longstanding and troublesome Shantung controversy la brought to an end. The

of the Bus* tbuir death by wanton murder on the high aaas." In completing a wonderful day’s work, the conferee** gave Us approval resolutions relating to <3>lna, to be ibodied in treat*#*, lurtuding deriararion of the open door, publication of existing treaties, agreements and with China, radio estabChina. Chiaeae railways, withdrawal of foreign i^utofficea. withal of foreign troop* from Chiterritory. and reduction of Oilmilitary fame* to the ini crest

day to the fifth plenary session of the conference, and both the atatacmeu voiced their personal rejoicing over It because It was their own plan. Mr. Balfour went further and told something that aroused the conferees to cheers. He aaid that Great Britain had decided to enter at once into negotiations for tb# rertoration to China of the ter* rltory of Wd-Eal-Wei. which it has since (he time when t Arthur. 1 wl3 get back ocveretgnty over her moat ancient sad moat thickly-popu-lated province in its entirety. In all majov details the agreement between Japan and Chins la as w&stidd in these -xluans a week ago. Japan it to get out of Tslngtao aud the 0»Jt fields within alx months, and Is to give up the Tsingtao-Tsiiianfu railway within nine month*. The one discordant note In Washtogtoo was sounded by Ma Btu. representative of the Ornton cor eminent Bo asserted the Chloeec people would net recognire the treaty rgreed upoi to tin

Mr. Uugliee preemted to the conference the completed draft of AM naval imitation treaty with the sgriomect on Pacific fortlflcations, and U wts fo-mally LJopted. No materia! change to the treaty as already d**taFVfcd had been made, and the I'scifie agreement also stands in toe mein pa formerly described. According to the fortifications dstue the status quo must be maintained by America Ja the Philipp In? and Aleutian Islands; by Great Britain in Hongkong and the Pacific islands east of U0 degrees ear. longitude; by Japan to the Kurfla, Bonin and Lcocboo islands, AruataiOihltns. Formosa and the Pescadores. In presenting - the fi-e-power naval pact. Mr. Hngfaes aaid: Thlr treaty absolutely ends the race to competition of naval armaments. At the same time It leaves the security of nations unimpaired. It Is significant of far more ala., because bent we are talkinc of arms to the language of pence and have takm the grratest forward step to eatahUah vha reign at

Ing bis coxntrjr*e naval pMley. said France had appealed for v hat she must imve to defeed h*** ►df, and added: “The camouflxgad cliust of Imperialtotic Stow* which Orman ptopaeanda parade* about the unlverne may *HU deceive a few *rtless minds, but it will eoon evoke noUslug but cmile*." Klihn Root presented for apiirovgl the ihra power treaty outlawlnc i-iiaea rs* and the use of the auhmnr I'isinat merctiunt *hlri>lng. He plslnjd that It does not undertok<odlfjr international law to nvard visit and aearch. but tc state tlw m Important provisions which air.-adF atv * part of the law of nathmi. “It doe# undertake.*’ said Mr. Itooft "to stop the violation of these rulaa and the doing to death of women urti children and other aoncomhatants tqr declaring the wanton deatroctic, of merchant vessel* carrying passed to be a vidatloG at the laws at

proposed that the 1 cut to htJf. with s vfcw. to x the hrishea of the <

March have rcce, -ed the iavitatton feda Itaeif btom^Tby^aK' eettor former Premier BrUmc i meeting of the enpre Premier Poincare is devoting much attention to too German repara m and has asked the oti-ar allied governmenti to state their views as to the procedure that should bo adopted In regard to the latest proposals maoe by Germany. He Intimates that France ^sre to Uaav. the who> matter to tite hands of the reparation* cowiaiaslon. as the treaty of Vereailles provides, nent word to Italy tiut be pereanaliy will bead tie Russiau Genoa.

nHE i

late of the OnHed I

olgn debt Into ot

was ’O to 23 Borah. La FoUotto tog tlw Demw-ade measure is virtually as the adtotustre tioo i-rcum mended, though Preetdeot Herding didn't of IU provltiona of N-Y-b Carolina adTemd an meat .novidtog for the use of the Interest on the allied loan* to pay s •okSIrrs’ banns, and Kenslar Jane* of New Mexico offered another prodding fa- the payment of the bonus directly out of ibe treasury. Both were defeated. Senator M (-Cumber ruling a bill ws* now being prepared that would give adjusted rompenahtiuo to the former service men. Senator Borah denounced the Mil sr a whose ultimhte purj»oee waa the cellatlou of the entire foreign

P BESIDEKT Harding Ker.yon logetber furnished the coontry with a great aurprlae lust work. The President nomlnaied the Iowa statesman to be Judge of the I'u'ted 8u<t>« Circuit court. Eighth circuit, and Mr. Xet-von at once aunounewj hla acceptar.c*. The senate >

XJEARLY iw isbedw

ha senate thwt poUtlcal life did that federal bench. I am deeply appreciative of the act of the President to appointing In Washing:oc. it waa believed Bepsaentative Burton Sweet of would succeed Kenyoo In the An announced candidate lor the place is H. G. Weaver. lowr lawyer and farmer, president of the American Shorthorn Breeders' association aud of the Iowa Agricultnra<

hundred

isbed when the roof of the Knickerbocker movie theater In Washington collapsed under the weight of a bevvy Know-full. Nearly all the vt-tlms were instantly, but one. and perhapn o« prominent, so reived several days. This waa Edward H. shaugh-

o. second assistant •L The bouse Dto

trict of Columbia totnmittee has under consideration a plan to purchaae the site of the theater and transform 4 into a park to which ■!»*» be a memorial to those who loot

lives hi the dtoaster. This terrible sect dent

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total to many roar*. Deep aoow, high galea and severe cold almost paralysed many .dries and greatly '

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until their task anoukl be campleted. and the only Mga of their doing* was

fore the voting began both the Hatton and Fr ' .s' gi-.'rtuuenu t hartor - favorite caudllate. I thong ■( to* anrceaaf d g-ard be on* •vhr would am ev ttaue to. fancies cf Mmsdlet. and many haRv-od Gaaparri bet the

toha. IU4 -nd No. t ■* «. rut’*, c. L l. track V*n 1 ■rrlte. Cere—Na a jcRaor, C%c: white. «. and Na 2 aLrx t «T Now York. aC rail Hay—No. L '24*23: No. j **: No. I. 1X20*4.

t projocte at Masoe i. Ala, -for sock action as com appropriate- Mr.

“tie goverffi now app- aprlatioo* ■moonttog to 44fij00U/)00 to IflO/MO.OBfi, of whP* Mr. Ford wifi x*-r the iMrtefit for approximately 100 years at 4 per rent." In the want the offer U rejwcud, the srerecafy gave it ac hi* “opinion that dam No. 2 fWItem dam) should bo nmipistod by the govtrnmcm and tb-t tiro power requirement* for eom Btorrtal iMtrpooi*. the benefit* to navigation. as well a* the poalbte nredof the gowriiinreit would warrant till*

preared the htilaf that tbs Presidesot out of the tbiatM of dm agrtreU-

C »AI, operators last week drrtarrfi there must be a radical redortl.m in the wage arele. which expire* March 31. Mine onloo end railroad union leaders laid pUua for ciMijMratlve ac tioo to prevent * lowering of miners’ wage*. ConeequeDtly a Sirike acoiuB Inevitable, and the natloual government. through Attorney General Dougherty, began planning t.. meet the ertaia. Whot a»cj>J Mr. Dougherty rvmtoaiplatoe ia not known, but in diecaaabg I he matter be pledged support of unions long as they are lawfully load acted, but questioned their right to impose the Closed-oh op principle. An Important feature of tfcs cjutoversy Is the proposal of the operntoi* to ahaltah -.he check off system, uudet which unloe dues are deducted frotc

too.. do a™ „ 3k»33A4; dofireu (31 ton. .'ocginr —* tia. 2. 21Cheeee—K:tu. wmmrn , fresh, -pecial*. 2uC«H«: to a rttn. Xbifi. a Live poultry—Chicken., fowls, 22823. reosters. li; «'»O40 PHILADELPHIA — WhSMtred wtotar. tL21*m ; dc. | •LMCl^O. Corn-No. 1 ttOtte; ■». ^ No. 2 rsllcw. local, (2AN3toCato—Finn; No. 2 whito, «6U| Nr 2 orbits, titfti Vl rt Kay—Timo.hy No. J. UldHti; ^ ». aamgto. 3*af made. Ilieis, dover tyH b mlgid, 22080VU: No. I r ‘ » Eggs-Ext,r aearhy fiat* ««t*. 44; r, retern extra firsts, t4j flrxts. 43; .’xncy *alncir4 932 ” • Potatoes—Watu. evrt. faxey. 92U Ujtter -Wwtora cranaaotr 33c: nearby prlxu, Umar. *4©fl Cheese—Nov Votk whoU rancy fiau, held. 32c; do, b«e :iVkt fait to good 13923: i tm«22H: »Ingle itR W: freah.

LIVE STOCK

BALTIMORE.—Beef Catuo—1 lat atoais, lu prime condition, : f* 1 ' 05 ® R» 140C poaaos, par p ©"Sr: a leer* weighing under bo-iud*. per pound. *©?; oxu P^und. 3^414; balk, par potted. L-mibx nod Shoop — Chotot sheep per pound. J*fiHc. tak u ‘l-aap. pw ppnad. »^0* ; to«dk *h*cu. pat pound, ft.