Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-05
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A report from Washington says thai
q majority OF the senate is pledged tc
an amendment to the Tariff bill that
will place a prohibitive tax on all
gambling in futures on the products
OF the soil. Spectators in sugar
grain and cotton are said to be in a
panic over the outlook. President vii
Son is behind the movement.
President Wilson's charge that an
"insidious lobby" is at work in Wash
dngton in behalf Of desired changes
in the Tariff bill has been brought
to Che formal notice Of the senate and
house. Resolutions have been intro
duced in both houses, demanding an
immediate investigation.
President Wilson told the White
House correspondents that he be-
lieved the most extraordinary lobby
ever gathered by special interests to
influence legislation is now mustered
In Washington to fight the tariff bill
in a public statement the president
says that there is every evidence that
money is being spent like water by
what he characterizes as the most
numerous, Industrious and insidious
lobby ever seen in Washington.
The federal supreme court has de-
cided that patented articles upon
which price restrictions have been
placed by manufacturers may be re-
sold by retailers at cut rates. Safety
razors, talking machines and thou
sands of other patented articles are
affected by the decision.
Representative Nicely Of Kansas has
asked President Wilson to direct At
torney General McReynolds to fore
close a mortgage on a 100-mile strip
of Missouri Pacific railroad between
Atchison and Waterville, Kan, al
1eged to be due the government for
bunds issued in 1862.
The proposed increase OF freight
rates on lumber from southern points
TO Missouri has been suspended by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
until June 20.
Domestic Items.
! Imprisoned between the platform
and flooring of gun carriage on the
battleship New York at the Brooklyn
navy yard, Frank Duffy, a workman,
watched the breech end Of 6-inch
gun slowly descend upon him. His
head was crushed to pulp.
Long Beach, Cal, is to pay for the
funerals of the 81 persons killed in
the recent pier disaster there out OF
fund to be raised by special tax
levy.
The south wing Of University hall
at Ann Arbor, Mich, the Oldest build
ing on the campus, has been destroyed
by fire.
In his libel suit against Michigan
editor, Col. Roosevelt went on the
stand at Marquette and entered a
forceful denial that he was addicted
70 the use of intoxicating beverages,
or that he was ever drunk. Many
other witnesses corroborated the col
nners Statament
Tim Warren, 17-year-old Toledo
boy, was run over and killed by Rock
Island train at Belleville, Kan.
Two persons were killed and four
injured in wreck on the Pennsylva-
mia lines near Niles, o.
Jacob Dunn and Seeley Davenport,
the Wharton, N. j., woodchoppers who
sent threatening letters to President
Wilson, have been sentenced to state
prison, Dunn for five years and DAY.
Rnport for two
Frank Carbone, member of a ,physi.
cal culture school at Chicago, is dead
from injuries received while sparring
in the school.
A score of students were injured
when a temporary stand in the as
sehibly room of the Akron, O.. Gen.
trail High School collapsed while the
students were rehearsing for the
commencement exercises.
John Moon OF Fort Worth, Texas,
lost his life in an attempt to save
two girls from drowning in the Trim
ity river.
The wife and three small children
OF Rolla H. Peck, cashier of the
Farmers Bank of Strasburg, Mo-, were
burned to death in a coal oil explo-
sion at their home there. The acct,
dent was caused by pouring the oil
in the range to hurry the fire.
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A reorganization of the Frisco rail.
road system is forecasted in state
ment by the counsel for the receivers.
1t is certain that the contract under
x.,1,tn1. A. HI.sa.-.