Show prominent member in school affairs indicted peoria III oot 13 the grand jury returned a final report today with a true bill against oliver J bailey chairman of the finance committee ot the peoria school board and holding him on a charge of malfeasance in office failing and neglecting to perform his duties as such public officer and suffering and permitting newton C dougherty to misappropriate and unlawfully convert to his own use the school moneys la charged mr bailey ia president of the dime savings bank and a director in the central national hank and an officer in many other financial institutions th jury censured the entire board for criminal negligence in administering the affairs of the city schools forty three additional indictments were also returned against dougherty tor embezzlement and forgery the jury was discharged formally ENGINEER WAS unconscious while train dashed on to the verge of destruction chicago oct 13 in a wild runaway dash an illinois central fast mall train that left for the south abc n m today narrowly escaped wreck and destruction st at the grand crossing the engineer frank A rugg was struck by some projection after passing six ty third street and fell unconscious at his post not until the destruction of tho train was imminent was his condition discovered and the wild flight of the fast mail brought to an end by ruggs fireman tearing through darkness the train approached a net work of tracks at grand crossing with speed then paul A wheeler the fireman found the engineer unconscious and bleeding from a jagged wound in the head and brought the train to a stop at the verge of the danger point Rugg had struck some object while he was peering from the cab window it was almost a miracle burdock blood bittera cured me of a terrible breaking out all over the body I 1 am very grateful miss julia dilbridge Fil bridge west bomwell Com well conn DOMINICAN LANDS PURCHASED washington oct 13 secretary taft has approved a settlement arranged by the philippine government which completes the purchase of the dominican friar lands in the philippine islands these lands include nearly halt oe those purchased from tho friars and amount to about acres after the contracts were signed it was found that a mistake had occurred by reason of a difference in the english and spanish versions of surveys the spanish version mado the price more than the english version it was also found that the titles to eight different tracts were defective while secretary taft was in the islands be effected a compromise by which the titles were to be made and the purchase money paid according to the english version while tho in controversy contro ersy was to bo submitted to arbitration since his return the secretary has received a cabla from wright saying that the dominican 1 agents have offered to compromise by accepting secretary tatt cabled gov wright approving the compromise the total amount to be paid to tha dominicans is 1 the money will be paid in new york october 20 ANTI militarism SPREADING new york oct 13 anti militarism is spreading in italy says a despatch herald from rome to tha new york many meetings mee tinga held last night in cities in the north were broken up afy the police who made twenty arrests some of the persons taken in custody being soldiers orders have been sent to all the prefects to prohibit such meetings and the minister of justice has bon instructed to give a peremptory trial to all offenders passing sentence on the day ot their condemnation information lias been obtained from the prefects of the provinces generals of iho army and tho italian embassy in paris to the effect that the anti mil movement is duo to an under standing between italian and french anarchists tho socialist journal avanal has been confiscated a second time for militarist danl publishing an anil testo JAPS AFTER FOREIGN boklo oct 33 a bank proposes to add a trust to its business to facilitate department the introduction of foreign capital into the country i |