The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01

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an oil we'll owned by the Gladys Belle
Oil Company, five miles northwest of
Tulsa, Ok
A recent storm near Tulsa, Okla,
caused damage estimated at $250,OOO
to the oil interests in that field.
The Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey has paid into the state treas
ury half million dollars in cash.
which was the amount of the penalty
agreed upon in the compromise of the
case of the state of Texas against the
company for violating the antitrust
laws. Coincident with the payment
of this fine was a 2-cent-a-gallon raise
in the price of gasoline in Texas.
Foreign Affairs.
Forty thousand citizens OF the
United States now in Mexico are about
to lose all they possess, according to
Mrs. Paul Hudson, wife of the pro-
prietor of the Mexican Herald, the
American newspaper published in the
City of Mexico.
Seven men were killed by the ex.
plosion of ton of gunpowder at the
plant of the Canadian Explosive Com
pany at Beloiel Pieces of brick and
wood fell mile away.
Without declaring war and appar-,
emily trusting that the jealousies of
the powers will prevent any European
interference, Turkey has begun an in
vasion of Bulgaria.
A further detachment Of the mutt
nous Swiss Guards has left the Vati.
can. Some of them threatened to
make unpleasant revelations.
The Vatican at Rome recently was
in a state of siege as the outcome of
the mutiny of the Swiss guards, whose
demands in the form of a memorial
relating their grievances and setting
forth the conditions on which they
would remain in the service were fat
ly rejected. Three leaders in the
movement were expelled from the Vat
lean. Four othrs left at night, and
twelve have requested leave to depart
for their homes in October.
Fourteen German coal miners were
found dead in a mine near Geilen.
hrchen, Prussia. A fall of coal en-
tombed them for twenty-four hours.
After desperate fight lasting three
days the Mexican rebels captured Tor
reon, according to a wireless dispatch
from Zacatecas.
The whole kingdom OF Wurtemburg
Germany, was shaken by sharp
earthquake recently. Many chimneys
collapsed.
Alarmed by threats OF the rebels to
attack the port of Frontera on the east
coast Of Mexico the American consul |
has asked Washington to send a gun
goat
United States Charge Williams at
Peliin, China, has called upon Rear |
Admiral Nicholson for a guard of ma.
rines from the Asiatic squadron to
Kuling, in Kiang 81 province, where
Americans are said to be in danger.
The sublime porte has issued formal
orders to the Turkish army to occupy
Thrace and Adrianople
Personal.
Representative Victor Murdoch of
Kansas experienced a new thrill at
Boston. lie packed himself in a first |
class mail package and was shot at
express train speed through the pneu.
matte tube that runs beneath the city
streets from the postolIice to the Bos.
ton & Maine Railway Station.
President Wilson has nominated
L. Il. Pinkham of Hawaii to be gov
ernor of Hawaii.
President Wilson has nominated
Preston C. West of Oklahoma to be
an assistant attorney general attach,
ed to the Interior Department
Ralph Reynor, driving 7-passenger,
Speedwell motor car, with
nickel trimmings, belonging to Col.
Willis Wood, has flashed over route
from Kansas City to the Atlantic
Coast Reynor was arrested in Ports
mouth, Va, in company with two
women who made the trip with him.
Paul Little, prosecuting attorney
announced that he would nolle pros the
charge Of first degree murder against
the Rev. Marion Caps of White