Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-06-06

are dying lingering and painful deaths
at the West Washington market. In
New York, owing TO the determined
stand by the wholesale dealers in live
poultry against buying overweighted
''fed up fowls.
Stephen ]. Stilwell, New York stat
senator from the Bronx, recently ex
onerated by the New York state sen
ate of charges of bribery, was fount
guilty of bribery by jury In New
York City.
Three white and two negro laboregz
were drowned in a canal basin In New
Orleans when a section of the bank
caved In. The men were at werk OF
concrete wall.
Members OF the district supreme
court Of Washington filed a petition
with the supreme court Of the United
States asking that that tribunal grant
a review of the contempt case against
President Gompers, Vice President
Mitchell and eScretary Morrison.
Travelling northeast, a column of
grasshoppsrs five miles wide and IS
miles long Is reported in northeastern
New Mexico
The supreme court will review the
decision of the eighth district circuit
court of appeals in ttb "bleached
-four" case. The lower court declined
TO confscate -four bleached by cleo
trlcity,-
After having executed a reconnoi
ter in which the revolutionists ap-
preached nearly within range Of the
guns of the federal garrison in Mata
moras, Mex, the besiegers are re
ported encamped nine miles OF that
city.
Leo NJ. Frank was indicted by an
Atlanta, Ga, grand jury for the mur.
der Of 1i-year.old Mary Phagan,
whose body was found In the pencil
factory building In that city, OF which
Frank was superintendent, a month
ago.
Adviees from Alaska say four of
the great volcanoes of the Alaska pen.
insula and the Aleutian archipelago
are smoking.
In consequence of the resumption
of hostilitlcs between the Bulgarian
and Greek troops, King Constantine
Of Greece, accompanied by Prince
Alexander and the general staff of the
army, left Athens for SalonM
The steamer Nevada, with 200 pas.
sengers on board, struck three mines
in succession In the Gulf of Smyrna
and sank. Only eighty Of the passen.
gers and crew are reported saved.
The condition of Emperor Yoshihi
to was so favorable that he received
in audience several state officials
The bulletin issued this morning indi
Gated normal conditions. The ten.
perature was 9S7S, pulse 70, respira
tion %.
Ex-Presldent Taft In his lecture to
Yale on Some Questions of Modern
Government" discussed the short,
sighted policy of the United States in
not maintaining sufficient army
Declaring that the unrestricted ad-
mission of aliens would ruin the
United States farmer by throwing
land into the hands of great corpora.
tions who would people II with cheap
imported labor-as he claimed has
/ been done in acknowledgements
tive Sisson of Mississippi defended
the California antialien land law in
the house.
Gov. Edward f. Dunno Of Illinois,
accompanied by 'Adit. Gen, Dickson
and his military staE, rode in the
pageant OF 1000 G. A. r. veterans
and 5000 women and young men OF
auxiliary organizations in Alton at the
fortyseyenth annual reunion.
The supreme court Of the United
States recessed to June 8. No dect
sion was rendered the big railroad
rate cases.
b. Sanders Walker, the Macon (Ga
banker who had been slowly dying for
a week from the effect of blchloride
OF mercury poison, taken by mistake,
is dead.
Attorney General Carmody Of New
York has told Gov Sulzer his ap-
pointment of John Mitchell as state
commissioner OF labor is invalid.
A suit involving allegations OF
drunkennsss on the part OF a former
4 president OF the United States Is be
ing heard at Marquette. Mich. by q
jury composed OF four miners, three
teamsters, two farmers. one black
smith. one locomotive fireman and eas
woodman.