Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-07-30
NEWS IF THE WEEK
HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
 PRESENTED.
FROM AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For eign Countries Are Here Given In Short Meter for
 Busy Readers.


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 Concerted opposition. has developed in congress to Postmaster General Burleson's order reducing parcel post rates and increasing the maximum size of packages to be handled in the service. The senate postoffice com mittee requested MT. Burleson to ap- pear before the committee with an explanation of the authority for his action.
 Jack Johnson, with his medicine ball is appearing in the Revue at the Follies Bergere in the space formerly allotted to Anna Held, now in Lon don. Johnson is said to be getting $1,200 night.
 A militant suffragette larson squad set fire to large unoccupied mansion at Perry Bar, near Birmingham, Eng land, and burned it to the ground.
 Thirty days in the city garage. y This isn't "wag'' sentence, but mere Iy clever device by which Commits Eioner of Safety Alexander Nisbet hopes to curb the speed fiends of Den yer.
 Eight southern provinces Of China are reported to have revolted against the government of President Yuan Shin Kai, whose overthrow it is as serted by their leaders, will prevent civil war between the south and the north
 Class and commodities rates from St. Louis to Kansas points were de- clared unreasonable and unduly dis criminatory by decision of the inter- state commerce commission.
 A zinc box containing a liquid and believed by the police to be bomb, was delivered by parcel post at the office of the Carnegie corporation. It was reported that the package was addressed to Andrew Carnegie.
 Cardenia F. King, the former finan- cier, who is serving 15-year sen tence for embezzlement, died at the Bridgewater, Mass, state daital. the day DeIor9 Bis pardon was to be Ss~aerv will filed York, Mrs. Della Fox Ec-y, knowf1~SIf the stage as Della Fox, left her entire estate, said to amount to between $10,000 and $15000, to her father. Andrew J. Fox of St. Louis.
 Twenty thousand children were guests of Bailie P. Waggener, mil lionaire railroad man, at his annual children's picnic. All the expenses, even including railroad fare to Atchi- son, Kan, were borne by Waggener.
 Senator Fall of New Mexico called up in the senate his resolution for the protection of American citizens in for eign countries. It refers to conditions in Mexico. Chairman Bacon of the foreign relations committee demanded that it be sent to that committee, that its terms might be carefully weighed.
 An indignation fund is being raised by the National League for opposing woman suffrage.
 An increase in the weight limit of parcel post packages from II to 20 pounds within the first and second de- livery zones, reduction of rates within these zones and the substitu- tion of more convenient rate chart for the present map are among the important changes in the operation of the parcel post system announced by Postmaster General Burleson.
 The new passenger and freight rates ordered by the United States su- preme court in it's recent decision in the Minnesota rate cases became eff fective. Passenger rates are reduced tc cents a Elile and the new freight rates carry reductions from , to 40 per cent.
 Col. c. w. Goethals has notified Lieut.. Col. David B. Gaillard chief of the central division of the canal, that steam-shovel work in the Culebra cut section will be conducted on the as- sumption that Gamboa dike will be dynamited October 10.
 About 200 feet of the big cofferdam cr the government dam being built across the Ohio river, F miles below Evansville, Ind, gave way with rush of water. Four barges filled with coal five pile drivers, one steam derrick, three launches and lumber barge were lost.
 Hugo Meisner, 27 years old, a ma chinist for the Hygienic Ice Co.,, New York WAS fnilnd frozen tn death in fhn