The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-06-12
TOLD BRIEFLY
THE NEWS OF SEVEN
DAYS IN ALL LANDS
Washington.

Sutherland resolution directing Presl-
dent Wilson to open negotiations with
Great Britain for special arbitration
of the Panama tolls dispute. The
resolution now goes to the senate.
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The senate has passed the annual
naval appropriation bill, carrying
about SAL, 100000 providing for the
administration two-battle ship con-
struction program and authorizing in
addition the building OF third mod
ern dreadnought with money to be
derived from the sale OF the battle
ships Idaho and Mississippi.
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Despite certificates of physicians
that II William Rockefeller testifies
before the Interstate Commerce Com
mission It will endanger his life, the
magnate will be forced to tell what
he knows OF the wrecking Of the New
Haven, according to an announce
ment by Joseph H. Folk, counsel for
the commission.
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Trade unions and farmers unions
would be specifically legalized in their
existence and declared not to be COM
binations in restraint Of trade by a
paragraph which the house has incor-
porated in the Clayton bill to supple
ment the antitrust laws.
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Domestic Items.
Arthur Fowler, a British subject,
found guilty of the murder OF John
Jeames, hanged himself to the bars
in his cell at Dayton, o.
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The body OF Lawrence Irving, the
English actor, one of the victims OF
the Empress of Ireland disater, has
been picked up ON the west banks OF
the st. Lawrence below Rimoush.
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j. X. Codding, formerly warden OF
the Kansas state prison, who several
months ago was appointed assistant
attorney general with explicit orders
from Attorney General John Dawson
to clamp the prohbltory lid on Leav-
enworth, was shot and seriously
wounded by Jake Wiseman, an alleged
joint keeper of Richardson, a suburb.
Coddings condition was reported to
be serious.
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The confusion as to the number OF
persons who persisted in the Empress
of Ireland disaster has been one OF
the distressing features of the trag-
edy, and the uncertainty was further
emphasized when figures declared
by the Canadian Pacific Railway
Steamship Company to be official
raised the death list to 1,O24 from
$50.
Judge Foell of the superior court
of Cook county, Illinois, has sustained
the injunction restraining Chief
johnson from pitching for any club
except the Cincinnati Nationals and
by the decision stopped what was
predicted would be the biggest raid
on ball players ever made in the his
tory OF the game.
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Kill the man who rocks the boat,
the Cincinnati health officer, Mr.
Lands, advised in his weekly bulle'
tin. use anything handy, a boat
hook or an oar"
David TruaX, so years Old, Ire
termer, died recently in the Kansas
penitentiary at Lansing. Death came
while he was behind the steel bars.
A pardon had been signed by Gov
ernor Hodges and was on the way
to the prison. Truax was pioneer
OF Meade county, Kas., and mem
Der of the famous Ninety-first New
York infantry in the Union army.
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Southbound Katy No. passenger
train, running six hours late, crashed
into local freight train pulling out
of the main track at McAlester, Ok,
wrecking three freight cars and Sc
verely injuring the freight fireman,
Steve Elkins.
Benjamin Smith, IS years old, shot
and killed his brother, Fred, q
years old, in quarrel over property
in Chicago. The slayer told the pc
lice that Fred attacked his sister
Mable, and that he shot to protect
her.
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Keepers Of geese in Claridge, Pa.
were ordered to keep the fowls with
in their yards, following the death o
the 2O-months-old son of Mrs. Martin
Hakey. While at play in the yard
the baby was attacked by geese be
longing to a neighbor and pecked t,
death.
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George H. Luchsinger, president o
the Humboldt Savings bank, one o
the largest financial institutions Il
San Francisco, committed suicide b
inhaling gas. Financial worry wa
given as the cause.
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Kansas, Missouri and Oklahom
raisers of wheat need at least $500