The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-24

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NAL vote reported to have been taken
by the court on these questions in
secret session
Seized with fit of crying at the
marriage of her older sister, Anna
Owiak, 10 years old, of Chicago, died
few hours later of physical exhaus-
ton. She feared her sister was leav-
ing home never to return.
Clyde Pearson, Is years old, was
stabbed probably fatally at Van Buren,.
Ark, by Ben Fain. Is years old in a
fight while the boys were returning
from school, Parsons wounds re-
quirSd thirty stitches
Francis Inch, the boyish looking
Briton who commanded the burned
steamer Volturno, has arrived in New
York. bringing with him 81 survivors.
passengers and crew, of his vessel
rOur persons were Killed and more
than twenty injured when a freight
car loaded with cross ties, which
broke from a train on down grade
crashed into an interurban passenger
car near Dallas, Tex.
Petitions have been filed with the
Oklahoma City city clerk asking for
the recall of the city commissioners
and the charter form of government.
approximately two thousand sigma
lures are attached to the petitions.
Foreign Affairs.
All hope of rescIing more of the
miners entombed in the Universal col
lieries at Cardiff, Wales, where an ex-
plosion occurred, has been abandoned.
The report that party of twenty
nine men had been found alive in one
of the galleries has proved to be erro-
neous, but a large number of bodies
were encountered.
The diplomatic representatives of
Great Britain, France, Spain, Cuba.
Guatemala and Norway at a confer
ence decided to recommend that their
respective governments send warships
to Mexico for the purpose OF afford
ing legation guards, should conditions
so require.
More than 400 Welsh coal miners
persisted, it is believed from fire and
afterdamp in the Universal colliery
near Cardiff, Wales. An explosion
shattered the works shortly after 931
men had descended into the pit. The
rescued miners, the members of the
life-saving gangs and the officials of
the mine declared that they could hold
out no hope for those of the miners
still below.
An earth shock, accompanied by dis
tant rumblings, was felt recently at
Messina. Sicily. The disturbance con.
tinued about ten seconds. 1t caused !
much alarm, but no severe damage.
The international balloon race for |
the James Gordon Bennett trophy ap- |
parently is won by an American again.
With seventeen of the eighteen bal.
looms which started from Paris report
ed, tie youthful r. H. Epson of AK
ron, O., U. S. A., flying his second
race as a pilot, leads with more than
four hundred miles
What issues clearly from all the
narratives regarding the burning of
the Volturno is that practically all the
lives lost were sacrificed in attempts
to launch all the boats before the ar
rival Of other steamers, and that had
Captain Inch known so much help
would be forthcoming practically all
might have been saved.
Not since the Titanic sank has
Europe been so thrilled as by a wire
less message, telling of the burning
Of the steamship Yolturno in mid.
Atlantic with a loss so far as can be
ascertained at present OF 1856 lives and
the rescue of 521. The survivors are
now aboard fleet of steamers sum.
moned by the Volturno's wireless call
for help some of which are bound
eastward and others westward. The
Volturno sailed from Rotterdam on
October 2 for New York According
to the official statement she carried
twenty-five first cabin passengers, 5SS
steerage and crew numbering 90.
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