The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-11-21


ers abroad Tor the American policy
toward Mexico shown in variety or
quiet diplomatic activities, give Fresi-
dent Wilson and Secretary bryan a
confident feeling that the elimination
OF Gen. Victoriano Huerta as pro
visional president OF Mexico soon
would be an accomplished fact.
The attempt to force the admins
tration Currency Bill through the SEN
ate by the way OF the Democratic
caucus has been abandoned ana the
banking and currency committee OF
the senate was given time Tor further
consideration OF the bill.
With a certainty that the Currency
bill Will soon be before him for his
signature, President Wilson turned to
the trust policy. This Will be the all
overshadowing issue of the regular
session of congress.
A silver service will be the wedding
son, according to an an announcement
made by Senator MARITIME, who is re-
ceivlng voluntary subscriptions from
his colleagues.
Railroads working employees over
time without rest in violation of the
Hours OF Service Law are liable to
fine for each employee SO worked, and
not merely for one fine in each in-
stance where q body of employees Is
concerned. The supreme court has
SO held.
The preliminary estimate OF the
corn crop, announced by the Agricul-
tural Department, makes the crop
2,4G3 million bushels, which Is SO mil
lion bushels more than the figures in
dicated by the October report month
ago.
Developments in the Mexican stu
alton here tended to emphasize pur-
pose on the part of the Washington
government to refuse to recognize any
of the acts of the Mexican new con-
gress.
Receivers of insolvent corporations
are not required to pay the corpora
ton tax imposed by the Payne-Aldrich
law, according to recent decision BY
the supreme court.
Domestic Items.
When John Machinery, city mar
shall of Caney, Kan, stopped motor
car at 10 o'clock at night, he was shot
by one of the two occupants, said to
be bootleggers from Bartlesville.
Machinery died half hour later.
Fifteen thousand dollars for an al
tar in the new St. Louis Cathedral is
set apart in the will of Mrs. Margaret
Meagher, just filed here. The Cathe-
dral, which cost $3OOOOOO is nearing
completion.
Attorney Daniel Donahoe, charged
with conspiring to defame Clarence S.
Funk, former general manager of the
International Harvester Company, was
found guilty at Chicago and fined
$4,000
The long controversy between rail-
roads of the East and their conductors
and trainmen over demands for more
pay has ended. The employees are
granted an increase in wages averag-
ing per cent and totaling $6,O00,O
annually.
The theft of money and jewelry val
ued at $4,000 from a mail sack was
discovered by James Stuart, postof
fee inspector at Chicago. The crime
is alleged by Colonel Stuart to have
been committed by Albert Tardy, q
mail wagon driver who is an ex-con
vict
Three men we're killed when a pipe
used for the transmission of steam
exploded at Indiana Harbor, Ind. The
dead are William Zielke, Nicholas
Pazkovics and F. F. Mangel
The average yields this year of al
crops in the United States are &C.!
per cent of last years and 1913 pc
cent of the average of recent years
Kansas crops are 61.4 per cent o
the average, Missouri Ill, Nebraska
rs, Oklahoma 61.7, Iowa 1924, Illinois
so, Minnesota 114.6.
Fourteen persons were killed ant
more than a hundred injured, sever
of them probably fatally, when tire
coaches of Central of Georgia pas
senger train left the rails seventeen
miles south of Eufala, Ala, an
plunged down steep embankment.
Troops E, F, G and H, comprisin
the second squadron of the Fifteent
cavalry, has left Fort Leavenwort
for Fort Bliss, Tex. Capt c. w. Col