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as a resuit of the corporation campaign contributions to Governor Cox. CHICAGO: NHorothy Noble, four years old, was set on fire and burned to death vesterday by Robert Scaniow five years oid, when she refused to give him some candy. Neighbors ran to the assistance of the little girl, but she was severely burned before the fire could be put out. She died in Stanns Hospital. LUNDON: Serious rioting broke out at Aldershot at midnight last night when two bhundred Irish anl cold-stream gruards stazed a demonstration battering tne duors of the iocal guard-houses und demanding the release of their imyrison- ed comrades. DUBLIN: Great pritain has made an open declaration of war in Ireland is the interpretation Sinn Fein leaders here today placed on the speech of Premier i.loyd-George 1t Carnavon, Wales. NAPLES: All macaroni factories in nearoy towns which had been taken over by new workers nave been return- ed to their owaers. In some cases it was necessary to call out the police o effect the transfer. CLEVELAND: Charges against Rube Marquard, port-side flinger for the Brooklyn iDodgers, arrested on the charge of ticket scalping, will not be vressed it was stated today by police officials. SCARBOROUGH, NEW YORK: *'Silly 1ulk” is the way Mrs, Frank A. Vander- lip characterized Chauncey Maeper’s stat~ment that nine-tentis of the womeun of the United States will vote the same as their husbands. SANTA CLARA, CALIFURNIA. A eyelone swept through this city today do- ing considerable damage to proprriy. No one reported injured. Was the firsi since 1868 and lasted twenty minutes. TELEGRAMS. ST. CROIX STATION. Lokio, Oct. Bth.—The intention of the Japanese Govt. to send additional troops to Manchuria on the Corean border has been officially annouvced. The treops are being despatehed as quickly das pos- sibie in consequence of frequent raids by bandits who are terrorizing the popula- tion, which includes many Chinese, and the evidence received that the Chin:se “troops are unablc to prevent the disorders. Warsaw, Oct. Bth.—The League of Na- tions has sent a commission to consider the situation in connection with the fix- ing of the boundaries of Poland and Lith- uania. Provisional frontiers have al- ready been arranged as far as the Ger- man frontier to the confluence of the rivers Igorka and Niemen, following the route towards Uchies. The Poles and Lithuanians have been ordered to with- draw o 0 six kilometres from the limits designated. , : Wars:'w, Oct. 19th.— i.ithuanian insur- rectic. ..ts, led by the Polish (General, ST L 9 r AN LD Zell Gouski have oecupied Vilna, the Lith- uanian capital, as a protest against the decision of the Poiish-Lithuanian peace delegates to include the Vilna distriet in Lithuanian territory. The insurgents claim that Vilna an'-yé‘n'ondo rightly be- long to Poland. London, Oct. 10th.——Lord Curzon, Sec retary for Foreign Affairs, has annou .ced that the Rritish Navy will attack al’ submarines encountered on the high seas. Several Bolsheviki submarines are re- ported operating in Danzig Bay, whieh are menacing Polish supplies. Paris, Oct. 10th.—The next meeting of the League of Nations, scheduled to be held at Brussels on October 14th, has been postponed to October 20th. London., Oet. 10th. —Madrid reports state that the industmal situation at Barcelona is extremely eritical. Troops and police have been reinforced. It is likely thai martial law will be pro claimed. The troops are expected (o remain neutral if the workers seize the factories. Paris, Oct. 10th.—The Paris-Nantes mght express was wrecked accidental- lv - ast night, and resulted in the death of forty persons and the injury of more than one hundred. Cameron, Texas, Oect. 10th.—A fire believed to have been of incendiary ori- gin, tonight destioyed 70,000 bales of cotton in warehouses here. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000. Washington, Oct. 9th.——A White House statement issued today gives the steno- grapher’s report of the address of Presi- dent Wilsen at the eighth plenary ses sion of the Paris Peace Conference, con- tracdicting the claim of Senator Spencer that the President promiscd to send an American army over seas if Rumania in- vaded Serbia. The President denied mak- ing such a promise. The stenographic report just issued substantiates his claim New York, Oct. 10th.-—-The American steamer Abangareg, enroute from New Orleans to Havana, Kingston and Port Limon, went ashore off Kingston light house. She was floated undamaged. Havana, Oct. 10th—President Menocal issued a deeree last night proclaiming moratorium effective until December Ist. following a conference of bankers and government officials regarding Cuban financial conditinns. Paris, Oct. Bth.——Germany is expected to make a new proposai regardii g repa- rations. She will suggest rebuilding the French devastated regions by a German eyndicate, free of controi by the French. France is expected to refuse. . London, Oect. 10th.—The Prince of Wales arrived tonight at Spithead on board H. M. S. Renown, from his Aus- tralian trip. He made a forma! landing. Tomorrow ine Prince will be accorded a popular reception in London. NEW YORK, Oet, Tth 1920 Fiour, Blenczd Ciears St. Lawrence isran :. pr. brl: $10.60 Meal, Kilndried ver 100 hs $3.35 i New Season’s Pork per bri. $37.00 Heavy Mess Pork per bbl. §3l 00 « Sugar---Crystais maximum per 100 Ibs t $8.51. ' Molasses sugar 89° test, no quotation. | Cotton, Middling Upland, at Liverpoo! ‘ per lh, 18 12-100 d. ' #oxchange, New York and London, 60 | ~ days’ sight $3.453 | Exchange New York and [.ondon, sight $3.494 | LONDON, Oect. Tth 1920. ! Sugar, Demerara Crystals, Govt. controll- ‘ ed price, duty paid 1295. 9d. | ** Demerara Crystals free of con- | trol, duty paid, 955. 103s. } *“ Moscovado Govt. co trolled price, | duty paid, 1245. 9d. | i - free oi control dutyypaid i bB, 158 ; . P fine 85s. | German Beet 88-/¢ f.o.b. no sales. . White Java sugar cif United Kingdom , nominal 84s. od. . Demerara Rum, per gal. nominal. . Triniadad Cocoa, Good Middling Red no- i minal pe: ewt 78s, od. i Cottor Medium 'ine Sea Island, at liv- i erpool per Ib. nominal . Bank of kngland rate of Discount per | cent, . : Consols 456%. ! Three per cent rentes in Paris Fes, 53,90 i All prices subject to correction. % PRICES CUT ON FORD AUTOS | One of the most significant steps so | far taken in the downward movement | of prices is the action of the Ford Co., i whiech has just made the following ' new prices: runabouts §395, touring cars | $440, sedans $795, truck chassis §545, | tractors §s79o. Electric starting and | lighting is included in coupes and sedans { and ecan be added to runabouts and ' touring cars for S7O extra. Henry Ford | says ‘‘the war is.over and it is time | war prices were over.”—Pathfinder. i Oct. 2nd i e B HSR l it may well be said that in Cunba | Americans are finding the Uspirit of *, 1920’°, and they dont need ouija-boards ' down there to find it, either. —Jhid. | Silk shirts, the ads says, are coming i down. If they will come down justa \ little further they’ll do fine as evenin | gowns for ultra-fashionable ladies. Thid. | BARBARQUS—Barbar —"'How do you like tha'razor sir?’’ ! VictiM—‘‘l coald hardly think it was possible thar { was being shaved!”’ ' BARBER —Flatterad—""Then shat did you think sir?”’ VicTilM 'That ] was being sand pa- pered!"’——St. Thomas Mail Notes, Oci sth.