The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-09-11
UNITED STATES NEWS
BIRTHDAY GIFTS


Association, $4,000 to the Orphans
Home, and the same amount to the
First Presbyterian Church of SYRIA
cuse which was her girlhood home
Mrs Sage's gifts to Syracuse Univer-
sty now amount to S270,000.
RAIN IN THREE STATES
Showers are reported in many
parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and Mis-
souri,. Southern Kansas and northern
Oklahoma received the heaviest rain
fall The rains brought relief from
the extreme and untimely heat.
PASSING THE TARIFF BILL
On the 9th of September the Tariff
Bill over which Congress has been
working all summer, passed the Sen
ate by vote of forty-four to thirty
seven. All three parties were rep
resented in the vote for the bill. The
large majority of Republicans voted
against it, and also two Democrats
President Wilson expressed pleasure
at the outcome. The bill represents
reduction of nearly 20 per cent
from the existing rates
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
STRICKEN
While reviewing a parade at Ok
land, California, on the 9th inst, the
Secretary Of the Interior, Franklin X.
| oil IN fatN hA al Nf
overwork and weak heart Tho the
case is not serious, absolute rest is
demanded.
SHOVELS QUIT PANAMA CANAL
Work on the Panama Canal is ten
days ahead of schedule time.
The excavation by dry shoveling is
ended. The workmen are engaged in
removing steam shovels, thirty-six
miles of railroad track and in general
cleaning out the Culebra cut, prepar-
atory to turning water into the chan
mel on the 9Th of October Drilling
and blasting are going on loosening
rock and earth for the work of the
steam dredges which will do the re-
mainder of the excavation after the
water has been let in.
TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE
Special sessions of the Legislature
of Tennessee showed reduced Demo-
cratic margin, and it is possible that
Gov Hooper may be able to secure
the passage of his bills, including a
group that gives the Governor power
to enforce existing laws. The fight
that is going on in Nashville against
the open saloon in violation of the
statutes, will help materially in the
passage of these measures.
HOME OF DANIEL WEBSTER
The old New Hampshire farmhouse
near Franklin, N. H., in which Daniel
Webster was born, has been repaired
and restored to look as it did when
Daniel Webster was born in 1882. At
that time it was the farthest north
of any house in New Hampshire.
Here the great constitutional lawyer
learned to read with the most marvel
Gus voice at the knee of his mother.
A great celebration by the Daniel
Webster Birthplace Association
marked the restoration of the old
home.
DO WE LOSE THAW?
The report prevails that Harry X.
Thaw purposes to become British
subject if he gets free from the
| clutches of the law. 1t is expected
that it will take at least a year to get
final decision in his case.
EXPLORING THE AMAZON
An exploring party of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, headed by DR.,
| Farabee, is now at the headwaters of
a northern branch of the Amazon,
near the borders of Guinea, about
1000 miles from the mouth of the
Amazon. This region is almost
wholly unknown to white men. They
expect to reach a tribe of Indians,
the Arawak, that was in existence
when Columbus discovered America.
The expedition expects to open up
regions that have hitherto been I'M
/ traverSed.
WILL MRS PANKHURST BE RE-
CEIVED?
Newspapers are discussing the
question whether Mrs. Pankhurst by
her various arrests has put herself
in a class of undesirable aliens, and
would be refused admission by the
immigration authorities in the event
that she makes her proposed visit to
the United States in October.
AUTO AND TRAIN COLLIDE
As a result of collision between
an automobile and a New Haven
train at crossing near South Nor
walk, Conn, September 9th, three per-
sons were killed and one injured.
GOOD ROADS IN ARKANSAS
The Governor of Arkansas clad in a
hickory shirt takes a shovel in hand
TO lead $4,000 men with their picks,
shovels, and road machinery to re-