Lower coast gazette., 1913-02-15
NATIONAL NEWS.

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A young g:rl II years Of age, by
name Miss BRAKEMAN, a striking gar
ment worker, was killed by a clothing
merchant OF Rochester in that city
when that gentleman shot into a crowd
Of attacking strikers apparently to de-
fend himself from threatened injury.
The attitude Of the California SEN
ators and representatives at Washing
ton in asking for governmental aid for
the Panama Exposition at San Fran
cisco in 1915 bears cut the predictions
made by the New Orleans aspirants at
that time that the speeches of the men
from California and their promises Of
there being no need for governmental
assistance and their swell talk about
plenty Of money and golden support
was nothing but gas and e~lcquential
inaccuracy.
Ninety per cent Of the fremen on
fitty-four Of the eastern railroads IA
vor q general strike upon these fifty
four lines. This vote is pregnant with
the probability of a bloody strike. Ten
thousand men are involved.
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The strike Of the white goods work
ers in New York is near to an end. The
employers have agreed to a program
which provides for higher wages, a re-
duction in the hours Of labor ard a pay
ment for legal holidays.
Thirty nine midshipmen of the u. S.
Naval Academy at Annapolis must re-
sign on account Of their failure to pass
the semi-annual examination held re-
Gently. Two Louisianisns are among
the SO delinquents. By name they are
Donald B. Pitchard and Albert L. Hut
son.
The United States gunboat Nashville
now in the New Orleans harbor has
been ordered by the State Department
to make ready to sail at a moments
notice. She sailed Monday for some
point in Honduras.
Mr.. w. j. BRYAN over whose very
name opponents pour vile abrsa and
champions rave with all poetic fervor,'
is row in Havana. There he is royalty
entertained, and we'll he might be thus
paid homage to. For he was ever the
staneh opponent of colonialism and i'm
periaIism. He wanted all Of cur pcses-
sions to be free and as Cuba has been
granted her Independence Cuba may
well entertain the agitator Of the ques-
ton whereby she received her God be-
slowed prilileges.
A gambler Of New York has torn eff
the covering that has hid the graft Of
che New York police force. He claims
to have paid the police $50, 900 and
names as the beneiciaries of bis tribute
seven captains and a sheriff. One Of
the captains named is a brother-in-law
Of Chas. Murphy, boss Of Tammany.
Governor sulzer Of New York, has
ordered ar investigation TO ascertain
whether promotion was denied a jew
ish officer in the New York State
National Guard because of his religion.
1t is claimed that such was the case.
Captain-L.-G-4Marsh II S. N. adj
dressing the New York Maritime Ex-
advocated the establishment Of
National Naval Reserve.
The first arrest for stealing matter
sent by parcel pest occurred in New
Yory recently. A boy was arrested
while in the act of taking packages
from a parcel post box.
The United States Attorney General
and the Union Pacific and the South
ern Pacific Railway men have agreed
upon a method Of dissolying the two
corporations. The Union Pa
cific will sell II per cent Of the South
ern Pacific stock. The Central Pacific
will become part of the Union Pacific
aud by means of this acquisition the
Union Pacific viii be enabled to reach
the Pacific Coast.
River: thence along the