The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-07-10
HERE AND THERE
WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
PARAGRAPHS

showed that the federal government
went through its first fiscal year I'M
der the Wilson administration with
its income exceeding ordinary expen-
ditures by $50, 7S4,542.O7.
4 + +
Democrats of the senate In con-
ference adopted resolution declaring
their purpose to stay in session until
the trust legislation passed by the
house has been acted upon by the
senate.
+ + +
Private dispatches received at
Washington from unofficial sources in
Mexico City stated that President
Huerta had sent his son and daugh-
ter toward Puerto Mexico and was
making preparations for his own de-
parture on short notice. The infor-
nation was conveyed to the state de-
partment.
r + +
President Wilson told a deputation
of more than five hundred woman
suffragists at the White House that
woman suffrage was a state issue and
not a national one, and for that rea-
son he would not use his influence for
the passage of constitutional amend
ment in congress.
+ + +
President Wilson has signed the
Naval Appropriation bill, which car
ries a provision for two new dread
noughts and permits the sale of the
battleships Mississippi and Idaho to
Greece for $12,OOO,OOO, to be used to
build a third new battleship.
r. + +
President Wilson has promised to
I'LL all positions under the federal
government now held by negroes with
other negroes in case of changes.
+ + +
President Wilson has sent the fol-
lowing message of coincidence to the
emperor of Austria Hungary: Deep
ly shocked at the atrocious murder OF
his imperial and royal highness Arch
duke Francis Ferdinand and consort
at an assassin's hands. l extend to
your majesty, to the royal family and
to the government Of tria-Hungary
the sincere condolences of the gov
eminent and people Of the United
States, and an expression of my own
profound sympathy"
+ + +
The senate is far from resigned to
the thought of six weeks or more OF
discussion Of trust legislation in mid
summer, but it is not probable that
the spirit Of open revolt will show
itself on the floor, and unless senate
leaders are at fault, in the predictions,
the three house bills or legislation
designed to cover the same ground
will be put through by the familiar
process, weeks Of debate in fruitless
effort to amend and then passage.
r r. r
big business" Is to be placed once
more on the grill by the United
States senate for the purpose of es-
tablishing exactly the part 1t has
played in initiating and supporting
revolutions in Mexico. The sensation
al correspondence between New York
financiers and their Washington
agents and General Carranza and 9TH
er constitutionalists confirms in great
detail the exposure Of some days ago.
+ + r
Domestic Items.
Ctoton,;do o,ohihit{on 80 tho Uo,,or
business in West Virginia became eff
fective with the end Of June. 1t
brings the total number of states in
the prohibition column up to nine.
Walter Atchison of Henderson, KY,
in jail in Williamsport, Ind, on
charge Of horse stealing, blew off his
head and wrecked his cell with dyna-
mite.
+ + +
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
has ordered Surgeon General Blue and
Assistant R. H. Crell to New Orleans
to investigate reports of bubonic
plague in that city Mobile, Ala,
Shreveport, La, and Austin, Tex,
have declared quarantine against New
Orleans.
r II
The hope that David Kane, the in
FAINT son of David Kane of Pittsburg,
would be able to see out of the cor
nea of pigs eye, which had been
grated onto the childs eye, has been
blasted.
r. + +
Wilbur Smith, 10 years old, of
Mount Zion, near Decatur, ILL.,, was
killed and his companion, Ted Harris,
same age, lost finger when a toy
cannon with which they were play
ing exploded.
+ + r.
With the enforcement OF a rigid
quarantine of the infected district and
the failure of new cases to develop,
health authorities of New Orleans
considered the bubonic plague situa-
tion there we'll in hand and predicted
there would be little difficulty in
stamping out the contagion.
+ 4 =
The new city charter for st. Louis
was adopted at an election by about