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Domestic The bodies of six persons were discovered in two neighboring houses in Colorado Springs, Colo. All had been murdered with an ax. The victims were slain in their own homes. Three were found in each house. The victims were Mrs. Alice May Burnham and her two small children and Henry F. Wayne, his wife and their one-yearold girl. The slayer has not been discovered. The International Harvester company will be allowed by the government to change its corporate form so as to comply with the Sherman antitrust law as recently interpreted by the Supreme court of the United States. A threatened dissolution suit is being delayed pending conferences by Attorney General Wickersham and counsel for the company on this readjustment. Chief of Police Charles E. Unsted, Policeman Stanley Howe, Richard Tucker, an insurance agent, and Wallace Markward, all residents of Coatesville, Pa., were arrested as the result of indictments returned by a grand jury that investigated the burning to death of Zack Walker, a negro murderer, on August 13. Upon the order of F. E. Baxter, superintendent of banks, Chief Examiner Charles B. Dodge, whose offices are in Cleveland, closed the Orangeville Savings bank, at Orangeville, Ohio. An appeal for immediate contributions to a fund for the relief of famine sufferers in China was sent broadcast in New York by the Red Cross. The New York senate unanimously adopted a resolution requesting New York's representatives in congress to use their best endeavors to secure the adoption of a resolution to submit to the legislatures of the several states an amendment to the federal Constitution delegating to congress power to establish uniform divorce laws. The Tradesmen's Trust company of Philadelphia, with a capital of $500,000, and deposits, when the last report was made, of $1,328,000, has closed Its doors. Melyille Braderick was shot and killed; his brother Robert was wounded and his cousin, Charles Braderick, is in a serious condition from being tied to a tree and left in the woods near Crescent City, III., at the time of the killing. The Bradericks, who are farmers, were the victims of three men, believed to be fugitives from justice, who stole two chickens from their farm. The Metropolitan Bank and Trust company of Cincinnati closed its doors on order of the state banking department. The bank, which was organized six years ago, has capital stock amounting to $110,000. A new crusade to evangelize the American continent, financed by men whose combined wealth runs into ten figures, was launched in New York. J. P. Morgan is the head of the financial department. An international municipal congress and exposition and an international good roads congress opened in Chicago. Harry Ahrens of Gilman, Ill., and Miss Kate Jerkins, whose home was six miles southeast of Del Rey, III., were killed when the buggy in which they were riding was struck by an Illinois Central passenger train near Paxton. Jacob Oppenheimer, under sentence for murder, killed Francisco Quijada, also condemned to die, with a piece of iron bar, in the corridor of the prison at Folsom, Cal. The killing was the result of ill feeling be-
