Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-01-01
SUMMARY OF HAPPENINGS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
Brief Review of the Most Important
Events of the World During
Past Week.

Decrease in the purchasing power
of the dollar has seriously affected
American railroads according to state
ments made before the Interstate Com
merce Commission at a hearing on the
proposed 5 per cent advance in freight
rates by railroads in Eastern classifi-
cation territory.
Many officials of the Philippine gov
eminent threatened to hand in their
designations in consequence of the pas
sage by the assembly of an appropria-
ton bill by which economies amount
ing t $4,000, 900 in the governments
expenditure are affected, chiefly by the
reduction of salaries.
Asserting that it is the ambition of
the Navy Department to save $1,000
900 on the construction of battleshio
No. 80. through obtaining real compe-
tition bids for iron and steel, the de-
partment issued a statement explain
ing the award of a contract for four
stern tube shafts to an Independent
firm whose bid was far less than that
OF the "Trust" bidders.
Solicitor Alder E. Hill, of Spartan
burg, has prepared a bill, which will
be introduced in each branch of the
Legislature on the converting of thai
body next month, making the carry
ing of unlawful or concealed weapons
a felony, punishment by Imprisonment
for between n and five years, with
out the alternative of a fine. The Of
Tense is at present punishable by a
maximum sentence of 500 fine or 80
days Imprisonment. Solicitor Hill de-
clares the carrying of weapons is re.
sponsible for a large proportion of the
crimes of violence n that drastoc
measures are needed to break up the
practice.
With all of the great gun batteries
planned for the United States seacoast
defenses by the Endicott board p
years ago, nearing completion, the
army faces a serious problem in the
lack of artiIlerymen to man the FORTH
cations. This situation today was
brought to the attention of the war de.
partment in the annual report of Brig
adler General E. M. Weaver, chief O
coast artillery. He reported that his
corps had less than one-fourth of one
relief" available for permanent duty ii
the batteries and that the ORGANIZED
military wastnot prepared to furnish
its required quota of reserves.
An earnest plea that congress have
more regard for the needs of the rev
enue cutter service and that it provide
more vessels to render aid on the higf
seas, the Great Lakes and the Ohio
and Mississippi river, was made to Sec
rotary McAdoo by Captain E. P. Der.
tholf, commandment of the service.
Declaring that she has been threat
ed by the California ~suffragists will
bodily harm if she returns to tina
state, Miss Annie Book, a former sui
frage leader of Los Angeles, is nov
spending her time in Washington AMI
~exerting her every effort to precludt
tho further granting of the ballot II
women.
Judge Edgar Aldrich ruled that tn
mental condition of Harry X. Thay
must be determined in the Fedora
courts. The courts announcement
was made at the hearning on Thaw'
} petition for bail.
: Compulsory vaccination for the pre-
| vention of typhoid fever in the Unitet
! States army has given the countr
practically an .immunized" ngi:tini
force, but one case of the diseaje max
t ing its appearance during the a's1 I
!, months of 1912. according o .ort
. just obtained from the Office cf sur
! geon General Torney Of the war deaat