Lower coast gazette., 1913-09-13

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building the Park, Moody and Prin.
cess Hotels, st. Louis, Iron Mountain
e. Southern Railroad station and shops
and the Ozark Sanitarium were totally
DESTROYED. The fire started at $3.50
o'clock in the evening in a negro's
cabin and died out at the foot OF West
Mountain, the southern extremity OF
Hot spsjngs, at midnight. The use Of
dynamite prevented the obliteratlon OF
the business district by the flames
which. famed by a forty-mile-an-hour
gale, threatened to leave Hot Springs
a smoldering city of ruins.
The Mississippi legislative commit,
tee possesses documentary evidence OF
the looting of the Mississippi State
Insane Asylum by officials and en-
~ployees of the institution. Meat mas
been stolen. Whiskey for medicinal
purposes was guzzled at the rate OF a
gallon a day.
The State National Bank OF Fort
Worth. Tex, is short 100000. Ihe
hanks solvency will not be affected.
Vice President M. l.. Wo9ds, upon
whom the blame has been placed, mas
fled to whittier no n knows.
]. P. Morgan & Co. served notice
upon the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad Conhpqily OF their
intention to end their c%rnnection as
fiscal agents of the roaA -,
The Clarke cotton future law will
not go into effect until Sept. 1, 1914.
According to a bulletin,issued by the
investigating board Of the Mellon In
~stitute University of Pittsburg smoke
costs the Pittsburghers $10,oOo,oOO a
year. The per capita gate of loss Is
500.
The dry excavation ON the Panama
Canal ended ten days before the time
scheduled in the plans and predictions.
Small vessels probably vWill be able to
, it should be ready fos all kinds OF
shipping in the early part OF Decem
her.
? The Democratic leaders in Congress
have mapped out a plan OF action To-
,ha next twelve. months which EN-
traces the introducing, considering
and passing of laws relating to the
trust, railroad and currency problems
a President Wilson's trust views ar
photographed in the seven anti-trus
laws he had enacted while Governor o
New Jersey. The Cummins ideas 0
n forbidding railroads to lower rates U
= importers will be pressed at the mex
session as a part of the railroad rat
If law program.
The tariff bill as it will pass tn
Senate will show a 5 per cent. ecu
a. tion under the rates of the bill when
IS left the House.
w. F. Havemeyer. one of the O
II ganizers of the American Sugar Rein
I'd ing Company, was found dead In be
re in New York. He was GO years OF ag'
70 Four years ago U. T. G. Rice was a
:. itinerant preacher. He came to Ma
- toon. Ill. He was a pillar OF tt
church and an insurance and loa
broker. To-day he is in Jail. To-da
nj his trusting friends are $4,000 poore
!. and if they could ever get him to-da
. he would. he-a-dead man
as Fruit shipped from Colorado to Gs
as lup. New Mexico, by express retalf
hit at 12h cents a pound. The same kl.
of fruit from Colorado to CAM
ey shipped by parcel post was retalled
aw 5 cents a pound. No other factor b
nd the difference in the manner OF traI
nortation affected the price. The
duction of more than 100 per cent
IL tho nrice of this foodstuff is due to t
m. parcel post system.
OBJ. Snow fell at Holt, Arizona.
-. Sergeant F. Acosta, of the Mexlc
Federal army. was killed by Custol
~: I%nspector Jonah at Ell Paso, TEX
me Acosta rode across the information
is bridge and opened fire upon the G
tomhouse. Jonah and Hefrln
swered the fire and the crazed AGO
Oh fell dead. Acosta had become crs
is from smoking marahuana cigaret
cial filled with opium and from drink
inc. tequila. 900
Martin Mulhall was paid $245,OOo
I'D. ten years for legislative and compa
any work by the National Assoclaelon
al Manufacturers.
,on Senator Francis NeWlallus vi
xada will not bolt the Democratic
Gus iority and endanger the passage o.
ers. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. measure. :.
The betting on the result OF the \
York mayoralty fight favors Mcl
Mitchell. the F%usionist, is sec
her- choice. Gaynor is third choice In
gra' betting. oo,uoe
and The longshoremen OF Calves
hor. have struck and the Galveston WI
-. front is dead.
uiry Secretary Bryan defined a Prog
cav siye as a man ashamed to be a re-
that lican and afraid to be a Democrat
u AS a result of the drought the
dition Of corn in Missouri droppe'
TINS points. The condition now is 4l'S
ada, than half of last year.
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