Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-01-30
Domestic t.ems.

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With simple but impressive cere-
monies the body OF John Paul Jones,
first admiral OF the American navy,
was recently placed in the new crypt
under the Naval Academy at Annap.
oils, Md.
After Nick Stifner walked into a
farm house near Olathe, Kan, and
asked one of the inmates to shoot
him, he was judged insane by the
johnson county probate court.
Mrs. Mary ]. Silvers, 70 years old,
was arrested recently at Falls, Oh,
on a charge of selling whisky in yio-
lation of the state prohibition law.
A fire which started in the base
ment of the Paxton hotel annex at
Omaha threatened 10 destroy the six
story hotel building and caused a
panic among the guests, nearly. forty
of whom were removed from the
structure by means of aerial ladders
manned by firemen.
The New York stock exchange has
filed a brief with the House Money
Trust committee, in which it seeks to
show that the federal government has
no power TO control its business. The
brief states that the exchange is
amenable to state laws only, and that
only to a limited extent.
The evidence produced by the state
before the Kansas Public Utilities
Commission in a hearing at Topeka
showed that it cost the Kansas
Natural Gas company liz cents a
thousand cubic feet to furnish gas to
the cities of Kansas and Missouri.
The report also showed that more
than 81 900, 900 had been paid in divi-
bends to r. A. Long and r. NJ. Snyder
Of Kansas City.
Bandits robbed the bank at Mounds.
Ok, locked the cashier in the vault
and made their escape with $500 in
currency and silver.
One fireman was drowned and ten
others were overcome BY chemical
fumes and smoke while fighting a
IRE in a st. Louis business building.
A gap 400 feet wide has opened in
the levee at Big Lake and water is
pouring into Mississippi county, No,
through the Fish lake basin.
Six lives were lost recently in a
storm on Prince William Sound,
Alaska.
The executive council of the Mod.
ern Woodmen Of America have de.
cided not to put the new and higher
rates into force, but 10 leave the mat
ter for the next head camp to settle.
The decision Of the suits now pend
ing will have no effect on the ques.
ton.
Oliver Kelley, in whose home the
foundation for farmers grange move
ment was laid, is dead in Washing
ton. He was 81 years old.
The city council Of Grand Rapids,
Mich, has voted to establish a mu-
nicipal coal yard in order to fight the
local coal trust.
The Indians Of the Usage Nation,
at a tribal meeting in Pawhuska, re-
pudiated the proposed scheme to
grant a blanket lease to 0 5000 acres
of oil and gas lands owned by the
tribe and by practically a unanimous
vote sustained the position of secre-
tary Fisher.
In order to conform to a new city
ordinance, the school board of Des
Moines, Ia, was compelled to pur-
chase a set OF towels for each indI.
vidual pupil.
Four men were killed In an explo-
sion OF Equitable Powder company's
plant in Fort Smith. Ark.
A farmer near Pittsburg, Kan, re.
Gently sold seven hogs for a total Of
s172.85.
The directors Of a bank at Orange,
Connecticut, have ordered that a cav.
ings handbook showink a deposit OF
one dollar be presented to each baby
born in the town during 1913.