The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-05-12
NEWS NOTES.

i Inc COmmlttee on RESOLUTIONS OF tn
Third National Peace Conference adopt
ed resolution embodying the sugges
ton Of financial neutrality" as
preventive Of war between nations, an,
urging the adoption OF an internationa
agreement between all the leading ma
tons Of the. world to condemn the prac
tice Of lending money for warfare.
Mammoth Cave was selected as tn,
next meeting place Of the Kentuck,
Federation of Women's Clubs by tn,
Executive Committee. A new depart
ment of national reservations was ere
ated, with Mrs. James A. Mitchell, o
Bowling Green, chairman.
John Mcnamara, secretary OF the In
ternational Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers Association, and his brother
James B. Mcnamara, were arraigned in
Los Angeles on charges of dynamiting
and murder. June / was set as the time
for entering the pleas.
Andrew Carnegie was presented with
gold medal by twenty-one American
republics. The ceremonies we're held
in the beautiful Pan-American Union
building in Washington, toward which
Mr.. Carnegie has given over 81, 900, 900.
Representative Richmond Pearson
Hobson, of Alabama, will deliver the
annual Grafton at the sixteenth reunion
encampment Of the United Sons of Con-
federate Veterans OF the United States
at Little Rock, May Is to Is.
Representative Peters, of Massachu-
setts, introduced bill in the National
House to amend the patent law. 1t is
a move to prevent trust from monop-
olizing the machine branch Of the foot
wear industry.
Business in the steel trade last week
was spasmodic, and because Of the
smaller specifications on contracts the
operations of furnaces and mills were
reduced from 60 to 65 per cent OF ca
pacity
With the adjournment of the Cana
dian Parliament will begin an educa-
tional campaign for reciprocity through
out Canada, under the direction of the
Liberal leaders of the House.
The United States Steel Corporation
is reported to be negotiating for the
purchase of the Moran Company's ship
building plant in Seattle The prop
erty is valued at over 100000.
The National convention OF the Order
Birth Abraham. which opened in In
started the proceedings by
Russia for failure to honor
American passports.
Prof. +. L. Charles, Assistant Profess
'or Of Agricultural Education in the
University of Illinois, committed sui
,ide by choking himself with book
trap.
The Portuguese bishops have deter
mined to refuse the pensions proffered
0 the clergy as the result of the sepa-
alton of Church and State.
The completion OF dam No. in the
)hio River at Wellsville, o., will add
wenty miles to the nine-foot stage be-
ween Pittsburg and Cairo.
Oklahoma City has been selected as
ne meeting place Of the general con-
srence of the Methodist Episcopal
hurch, South, in 1914.
Carlo di Pollogio, said to be an Italian
obleman, was arrested in New York on
I'd charge of smuggling two old paint
lgs into this country
Atthe Hoe library sale book by John
Winthrop, printed at Boston in 1645,
as sold to Harry E. Huntington, of
os Angeles, for $4,000
For the first time the dome OF the
apitol at Washington was circled by !
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a aeroplane. The aviator was Lincoln
eachey.
Refrigerator season is most here, we
ave them. Mailing Keiser Hardware
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