Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-07-10
Domestic Items.


Details of the lobby work of the
National Association of Manufacturers,
In signed stattment by Col. Martin
M Mulhall published in New York
and Chicago papers, has caused SEN
sation throughout the nation. Colonel
Mulhall, who has been the chief lob
byist for the association for several
years, tells how legislation was infiu-
enced by control of those high in au-
thority In the government. Colonel
Mulhall claims to he aole to back up
his statement by documentary evil
dence in the shape of vouchers for
money paid out and letters from many
congressman and senators.
Thousands of veterans of the Union
and Confederate armies attended a
monster campfire on the opening day
of the great peace fete on the his
toric battlefield of Gettysburg. A
city of 5000 tents covers the field
in which are housed the $4,000 vet.
Grams who took part in the great con-
test so years ago. and who have jour
neyed from all parts of the Union to
participate in the celebration.
Edward and Paul Covitz, former
wooden merchants of Chicago, and
Joseph Clarke, public fire insurance
adjuster, were found guilty of causing
fire in the Covitz place Of business
November 5, 1912. These are the first
convictions OF the socalled arson trust
members.
The body of George Townsend, rail
road builder and mine operator, who
disappeared from the Baltimore hotel
in Kansas City the other day, has
been found on a sandbar in the Mis-
souri, river by Ward S. Arnold and
w. e. Kirkpatrick, who were associ-
ated with Mr. Townsend in business.
Every Bell telephone in Venice,
Granite City and Madison, ILL.,, was
put out of commission when heavy
lead cable was cut by sympathizers
of the striking girl operators of st.
Louis, -.
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Mrs. Myrtle H. Gear, wife Of Dale
Gear, manager of the Topeka baseball
club of the Western League, has been
given divorce in Oklahoma City on
the grounds OF nonsupport and aban-
donment.
Two trainmen were killed and an
other injured severely when south
bound Louisville & Nashville passen-
ger train No. 33 was wrecked at Kes-
wick, Ky.
After the nome OF their parents was
destroyed by fire at Fort Worth, Ethel
Abshear, years old, was killed; her
sister, Evelyn, years old, was fatal
ly injured, and Mrs. J. j. Brookshire,
the girls aunt, was killed, when
motor car overturned in Forest Park.
Two hundred tons of fuel oil on
board Standard Oil tank steamer
exploded while the vessel was at an
Choir in New York harbor. Five per
SONS were killed, six injured and a
dozen are unaccounted for.
A recent fire in the Ioia plant of
the United Kansas Portland Cement
Company did damage to the extent
Of $4,000, fully covered by insurance
Governor Dunno mas signed the
Equal Suffrage bill. BY signing his
name the Illinois governor enfran-
chised 100000 women, more than
doubling the number of women en-
titled to vote in the United States.
Damage to the extent OF $4,000
was done at Alliance, o., when fire
works stored in mill went off pre-
maturely.
Parcels post stamps will be valid
on all classes of mail on and after
July l, and ordinary stamps, includ-
ing commemorative issues, will be
good on parcels post packages under
an order just issued by Postmaster
General Burleson.
The body of a man found floating
in the East River at New York has
been identified as that of William P.
>Smyth, formerly of ST. Louis, who was
United States consul to Birmingham,
England in the administration OF
President Harrison.