Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-02-06
NEWS Of THE WEEK
D0INCS OF SEVEN DAYS
Interesting Items Gathered From All
Parts Of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
eft of Our Readers.
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ShlSS9 SNolN W q iAc t~.AA 80
years. To become q law the measure
must get a two-thirds majority in the
House and be ratified by the legis-
iatures of two-thirds Of all the states
in the Union.
George p. McCabe, solicitor Of the
Department of Agriculture, has pre-
scented his resignation to Secretary
Wilson, effective March 4. 1t has
been accepted. He will so to Port
land. Ore.
Thus far the legislatures Of ten
states have ratified the proposed
amendment TO the constitution pro-
viding for the election Of United
States senators by direct vote OF the
people.
Maj. Gen. Bell, commanding in the
Philippines, reports a surprise attack
on an American camp by Moros near
Jolo in which four troopers We're
wounded.
BY a tie vote the Republicans OF
the senate lost in their effort to con-
slider President Taft's appointments.
The Progressives voted with the Dem
ocrats.
With the election of Democratic
senator from Delaware that party now
has a majority of two in the United
States senate.
Domestic TENS.
For four hours Michael Roser, 63
years old, lay bound and gagged on
the floor Of a Chicago department
store, where he had been left by safe
blowers, watching a fire started by
the crooks slowly burning its way
toward him. He succeeded in free
ing himself in time to call the fire
department, but the flames caused a
loss of $4,000 to the building.
A riot between strikers and strike
breakers of a Trenton, n. j., porce-
lain plant occurred when the import.
ed men were attacked on the street.
Stones and bricks we're hurled and
knives were freely used. Later the
Office of the plant was wrecked by a
dynamite bomb.
A bandit robbed the safe of an eX-
press car in Chicago and escaped
with a bag of currency believed to
contain several thousand dollars.
Usrrn-oAJ No
who reported to the police that his
wife had been shot by a burglar, has
been arrested and charged with the
shooting,
Several persons were injured When
an eastbound Frisco passenger train
left the rails heal Ardmore, Okla
The smoker turned over but no one
was killed.
Elmer Norris, five years old, OF
Bataria, Ark, was killed whent a
homemade gasoline engine put to
gether by an elder brother exploded
The older boy failed to equip the
boiler with a safety valve.
Carl D. Higgins, a Juror in the third
trial of Dr.. Hyde for the murder o
Thomas H. Swone at Kansas City, was
dismissed from the case after physi
clans declared him too ill to serve
The probable result will be another
mistrial.
A boys cry Of fire when a motion
picture reel exploded in New Yorl
caused a panic among the patrons, il
which two women were killed anc
eleven other persons severely injured
Fire recently swept the water from
of Savannah, Ga, causing a loss o
$500, 900.
At its annual business meeting II
Topcka. the Kansas Day Club adopte,
creed which it believed would hav,
tendency t o unite all factions Of tn
Republican party. The meeting wa
attended by 600 people.
BY a Virginia court decision Nth
telegraph companies In that state ar
not compelled to deliver telegram
on Sunday except in case OF sicknes
or death.
A Chicago woman has been fined
police court for calling a neighbo
nemes over the telephone.
Sixteen horses were burned to deaf
In an incendiary fire which destroye
Young's livery stable at Iawton. Oh
william Mckinley of Chicago ha
been elected speaker OF the llino
House, thus breaking q long deadloc
which has prevented the inductio
into Office Of the newly elected DEM
cratic administration and b~a!lotjnu o
the United States ~senatorship.