The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-12-25

state Commerce Commission sub
United TO Congress the past week,
Investigations of railroad accidents
during the year show seventy-six
accidents: fifty-One collisions and
twenty-five derailments, causing the
death of 2s3 and injury to 1880 per-
sons.
Fifty-six of these accidents were
caused by carelessness.
Hstch-H etchy Bill Signed.
President Wilson signed the
Hetch- Hetchy Bill granting a public
water supply to San Francisco. The
beautiful valley will be damned up,
forming a large lake from which
the city will receive its water sup
ply.
Mayor Opposed to Cigarettes.
Cigarette smoking by anybody,
anywhere. and at any time disgusts
me. I'm against it from start to
finish, and if il were within my
power ! would take steps to restrict
the sale of it," This statement made
by Mayor Henry w. Kiel of st.
Louis after he instructed his con-
fldential secretary to request all
visitors at his Office in the City Hall
to refrain from using cigarettes
while in his private sanctum.
Revenue School for Collectors.
The collectors of all the Internal
Revenue districts in the different
states, including Kentucky, will
gather in Washington for school of
instruction.
Secretary McAdoO says the new
income tax law makes it advisable
that all of the collectors should be
drilled in their duties under it.
Union Hatters Lose Danbury Case.
The Danbury Hatters' case was
decided in favor of ID. E. LOewe 4
Co. of Danbury, Conn.,, against The
Hatters' Union by the United States
supreme Court of Appeals. The
judgment and costs now amounting
to S272,0OO.
This case has been before the
courts for more than ten years. OF
the original 2iO defendants, more
than 80 have died since, and two
have gone insane.
The employees of the company
went out on strike in 1902 and boy
cotted the company's goods. The
Company entered suit under the
Sherman antitrust law, alleging
that its business was seriously in
jured by the boycott and claimed
S250,OO0 damages.
Currency Bill Passes Senate.
The Currency Bill, President Will
sons greatest legislative achieve
ment, has passed the Senate by Q
vote of 81 to 81. Not one Democrat
voted against it. Senator POindeX-
ter a Progressive and six Republi-
cans also voted with the Demo
Gratis in the final vote.
Arctic Winds to Make Electric.
Light.
The electrical engineering depart
ment of the University of Pennsyl'
vania will design and build an cleo
trio light plant, operated by wind
mills, to furnish light for the little
town of Point Hope, Alaska. Thi'
town is 100 miles north of the Arctic
circle and has a population of 400
II is the seat of a Religious Mission
The Polar night continues severa
months each year; the temperature
ranges from IS to IS degrees below
zero and the wind velocity is rare
ly below twenty miles an hour.
Army and Navy Oficers Repri-
manded.
President Wilson wrote letters |,
Secretaries Garrison and Daniels o
the War and Navy Department, re-
questing that very serious reprl'
mand be administered to those arm,
and navy officers who participate,
in the recent dinner of the Caraba'
Military Order at which the ad'
ministration's Philippine and otheI
policies were satriZed in song AM
speech.
Millions Spent on Luxuries.
In an address in New York, Hud
son Mamim states that the Ameri
can nation chew away every year il
gum the price of three dread
noughts. Enough money is spen
for liquor to build 200 battleships
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