Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1913-06-06
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WORLD S NEWS
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Domestic
Seth Aucgs, a farmer. has confessed
that b. murdered his wife with q
billy, poured kerosene over the bed
ding and set FIRE to HIS home near
Williamsburg, Ind, last September
according to an announcement by the
Richmond, Ind, police.
A gang Of laborers employed by
contractors on the Magnolia improve
ment work Of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad was struck by an eastbound
passenger train at Doe Gully W. Va
Nine OF the workmen were killed and
four others badly injured,
Samuel Gompers, the labor leader,
is confined to a sanitar,um at Atlantic
City, n j., under the care OF nurse
recovering from a general breakdown
and an operation back of the ear.
Vilhlalma Stefansson, commander
OF the Canadian arctic expedition,
which will seek the unknown conti
nent' which scientists believe exists
in the arctic, left New York for Otta
wa on the first stage Of the journey
to Victoria, where he viii join the ex
pedition.
The body of BILLY Bob" Atkinson,
3 years old, whose disappearance q
week ago set hundreds of citizens and
students OF the University of Kansas
searching the countryside, was found
by a fisherman in the Kansas river,
~ miles east Of Lawrence, Kan.
Guarded by strong detachment OF
police and followed by mob of sew
eral thousand persons, Ben Reitman
and Emma Goldman were escorted to
1he SaA Diego tCal) railroad station
and ple0ed on Santa Fe train boun
for the north.
The district court Of appeals at
Washington refused a writ Of error
by which attorneys for Samuel Com
pers, John Mitchell and Frank Morri-
son, the labor leaders. wanted to carry
on appeal from their conviction for
contempt Of court In the Buck Stove
and Range case to the supreme court
of the United States.
Charging that 100000 carried IN
the Indian appropriation bill is beins
passed upon by senators with prac
tically no knowledge as to how tht
money is to be used, Senator Lane oI
Oregon read a formal statement tC
the Indian Affairs committee, demand
ing radical changes In the system o.
caring for the redmen.
Emperor Yoshlhito of Japau has
taken Ill. The physicians In attend-
ance declare that he is suffering from
Inflammation of the lungs. He is In a
state Of high fever. Eight court ply.
siclans are In constant attendance on
him.
John Kirby, Jr., Of Dayton. o., re-
firing president of the American Man
ufacturers' association, received a
check for $4,000 from the delegates
In recognition of his efficiency as
president and his fearless battles
against militant labor unionism which
have been as effectnal as those of any
one man In the country In establish.
ing the principle of the open shop"
John McReynolds, 70 years old, pio
neer newspaper man of Kansas City
Mo, Is dead. Kansas City's second
newspaper, the Metropolitan, was
founded by McReynolds in 1859.
John Moon, 35 years old, father oI
five children. and who had Just arisen
from sick bed. sacrificed his life al
Fort Worth, Tex. in trying to save
two girls from drowning in the Trim
fly river.
Because he has not kept his prom
court, Henry w. A. Page. the New York
linen merchant. convicted year age
of criminal libel for assailing the New
York Judiciary, members OF congress
and other public officials, must serve
his sentence of five years in the peni
tentlary and pay q fine Of $1,000.
within a few weeks William Lori
mer will announce his candidacy fol
United States senator from Illinol Ia
1914. He has made up his mind tC
run at the Republican primaries next
April A preliminary Organization
has been started with the object il
view of electing Lorimer in Novem
Der. 1914,
Peter Bradovitcb, an Austrian, con
nned in the Southern Idaho insane
asylum. Blackfoot. Idaho, killed BIZ
Eve roommates by beating them oyel
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