Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-08-01
NEWS Of THE WEEK
HAPPENINGS OF The sevEk
PAST DAYS ARE sRisFlY
PRESENTED.
FROM AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own ard Fer
slen Countries Are Hsre Given
In Short Meter FER
eusy Readers.

The interstate commerce commits
sion has approved the proposed re-
duction of express rates throughout
the country The new rates will give
the public the benefit OF q reduction
averaging rs cents on all packages Of
five pounds and from 10 to 80 cents
on heavier packages.
The new passenger and freight
rates ordered by the United States su-
preme court In its recent decision In
the Minnesota rate cases became OF.
fective. Passenger rates are reduced
tc cents a mile and the new freight
rates carry reductions from s to 20
per cent
Glass and commodities rates from
st, Louis to Kansas points were de-.
elared unreasonable and unduly dis
criminatorY by decision OF the inter
state commerce commission.
A zinc box containing a liquid and
believed by the police to be a bomb.
was delivered by parcel post at the
office OF the Carnegie corporation. II
was reported that the package was
addressed to Andrew Carnegie
Cardenia F. King, the former imam.
clcr, who Is serving a l6.year sen.
tence for embezzlement, died al the
Bridgewater. Mass, state hospital the
day before his pardon was to be
granted.
In her will fled in New York. Mrs.
Della Fox Levy. known on the stage.
Gs Della Fox. left her entire estate.
said to amount 10 between slO,0Oo and
$4,000. to her father. Andrew J. .Fex
Of st. Louis.
Eight southern provinces Of China
are reported to have revolted against
the government Of President Yuan
Shlh KAT. whose overthrow II Ia as
serted by their leaders, win prevent
civil war between the south and the.
north
John Jacob Astor, Jr.. 10 Americas
youngest phiianthropist Unable to.
talk, Baby Astor sent 500 to the New
York Diet Kitchen association.
through his mother.
An indignation fund 10 being raised
by the National League for opposing
woman suffrage.
An increase In the weight limit OF
parcel post packages from II to 90
pounds within the frst and second de-
livery zones. reduction OF rates
within these zones and the substitu-
tion Of q more convenient rate chart
for the present map are among the
important changes In the operation OF
the parcel post system announced by
Postmaster General Burleson.
Twenty thousand children were
guests Of Bailie P. Waggener, mil
honaire railroad man. at his annual
chlldrens picnic. All the expenses
even including railroad fare 10 Atchi.
son, Kan, were borne by waggener.
Col. @. w. Goethals has notified
Lieut. Col David B, 0aiIlard. chief Of
the central division of the canal. that
steam.shovel work In the Culshra cut
section will be conducted on the as
sumption that Gamboa dixie will BE-
dynamlted October 10.
At Marion. ILL.,, Albert Warren, 80
years old. was sentenced TO IS years
in prison after a fury had returned
a verdict finding him guilty Of charges
brought by his own child, a girl is
years old.
William Wilcox. inmate OF an asy-
lum at Danville. Pa. is basing a fght
for liberty on claims that he has made
fortune leaning moaey 10 inmates
and answering pushes.
To have q neat esq for his old age.
not because his salary IL too small. IL,
why Speaker Champ CLARK gives
chaatauqua lectures. he states.
A seat on the New York stock en-
change sold for $4,000. which is
s1.000 less than the last sale = few
days ago, which was the lowest In re-
cent years.
About 200 feet Of the big conerdam
- the government dam being built
across the Ohio river, II miles below
Evansville. Ind, gave way with : rush
of water. Four barses filled with coal.
flve pile drivers. one steam derrick.
three launches and lumber barge we're