The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-08-08
NEWS NOTES

tons sent them by the Senate Finance
COMMITTEES in regard to the probable
effect Of the Democratic Tariff Bill,
Senator La Toilette stating that only
sixty-six replies had been received to
2, 800 sets sent out
The District Attorney Of Yuha Coun-
ty, California. deputy sheriff and two
hop pickers we're killed and eight per-
sons wounded in battle between strik-
ing hop pickers and officers at Wheat
land, Cal. Five companies Of militia
were rushed to WheatIand.
The declaration that President Huerta,
of Mexico, would not resign Or brook
foreign interference in his administra-
ton has beclouded the situation at
washington, II Is stated. and caused
renewed activity on the part q the
rebel iunta.
Private detectives Of one agency are
watching house in Providence, r. l.,
suspected Of being the home Of the
fence for the Narragansett Pier jewel
robbers, while another agency is watch
ing house IN South Boston.
The Biblical storyof the flood is con-
firmed BY translation Of the hero
glyphics on tablet found in Nippur
by University Of Pennsylvania expe-
di,ion, which is believed to be at lesst
4, 900 years old.
That South and Central American
Republics protested against the Mica
raguan protectorate, and brought pres
sure to bear at Washington causing its
abandonment. is the story going the
rounds in Washington.
Mrs. John II. Hanan places no Gre
dence in the report that her missing
jewel shad been located in the safe Of
boston brokerage firm, where they
were said to have beer pledged for a
loan OF 100000.
The Mexican situation has developed
| to the place where Huerta either must
abdicate or surrender TO the Consttu-
tionalists. Administration officials are
endeayoring TO prevent unnecessary
agitation.
4 Official news at the State Department
that Gen. Cipriano Castro had returned
to Venezuela created a sensation at tbs
State Department, which has watched
him closely for the last FIVE years.
Consideration Of the Administration
Currency Bill was practically concluded
by the Democrats Of the House Bank
ing and Currency Committee after more
than FIVE weeks discussion.
/ The condition Of the growing cotton
crop Of the United States on July 2f
was 1916 per cent. ofnormal, the United
States Department Of Agriculture s croI
reporting board announced.
President Wilson has methodically
entered into the summer life at Wash
! ington. The White House is being rem.
ovated in preparation for the wedding
Of Miss Jessie Wilson.
/ Chief Justice Neil, Of the Tennessee
Supreme Court, in an order declining tc
issue supersedeas upholds the Demo
cratic election law passed recently BY
the Legislature.
i Suffragettes interrupted the morning
service at st. Paul's Cathedral, London
by chanting prayer for Mrs. Emme
lime Pankhurst. They we're elected by
Iushers.
Il Plans to hasten action on the Tariff
Bill are being made by Democratic lead
ers. The lobby" Investigation, il i
stated, will become 4 doable-barrelet
affair.
An investigation Of the alleged hare
coal trust has been proposed in a resolu-
Il ton introduced in the House by Repre-
sentative Murray, Of Massachusetts.
A Fort Smith, Ark, wholesale drug
gist was sentenced to $50 days in jai
and $3.50 fine for sending liquor intc
the Indian country Of Oklahoma.
The Allies presented plan Of settling
differences with Bulgaria that woult
|lIeave that nation little of the territory
\ taken in the Turkish War.
A report mas reached the state Depart
\ ment that Crest Britain Is contemplat
ling establishing great naval base i
Bermuda Islands,
II Leaders Of the miners union and th'
II Michigan state Federation o. Labor con
ierrsd on the strike 81 copper miners .
Calumet, Mich.
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