The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-07-10

ment of the conflict between the
United States and Mexico, at Niagara
Falls, but added that the task OF medi-
alton is not yet concluded. The am
bassador spoke at a luncheon given
by the three mediators to newspaper
correspondents.
Charles Springer was killed at his
home near Russell, Ia, when his mo-
tor car turned over as he was back
ing out of his yard. The car ran into
ditch. Mrs. Springer was thrown
out but was uninjured.
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Hope has been abandoned for five
miners trapped in an entry Of the
Sycamore Coal Mine, near William
son, W. Va, when fire spread from a
farmhouse to the place in which they
were working
Three persons we're killed and
twenty injured in collision of inter
urban cars three miles east Of Jack
son, Mich. A limited struck local.
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Foreign Affairs.
Ulster Volunteers, with rifles and
fixed bayonets, paraded the streets Of
Belfast, Ireland, In full uniform, I'M
der instructions from Lieut.. Gen. Sir
George Richardson, their commander
in-chief, as notice to the authorities,
it was said, that ulster will fight"
1t is believed the order is part Of a
Unionist plan to show the movements
strength in Belfast and that unless
means are found to prevent the dis
play the streets will be full Of mar
tial figures within the week.
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Open war between Austria and Ser
via may come as result of the arch
dukes assassination. The govern
ment's note to Servia, demanding that
conspirators in Belgrade, who are be-
lieved to have plotted the killing, be
ferreted out and punished, is consid-
cred practically to lay the RESPONSE
bility Of Princip's crime at the door
Of the Servian nation. 1t has great
ly added to the rising tide of anti
Servian feeling here.
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The Union of International Peace
Associations, embodying in its men,
bership 23O societies, has recon.
mended the acceptance of the Amer
lean invitation to hold the Worlds
congress in 1915 at San Francisco.
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In view of the existing condition in
Mexico Sir Lionel Garden, the British
minister, has advised all British sub
jects temporarily to leave the coun-
try. He said that the shortage of
fuel used in the operation of trains
was growing more acute daily and
that the trains probably soon would
stop running, which would make diff
ficult the departure of persons in the
interior.
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Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir
to the Austro- Hungarian throne, and
the Duchess of Hohenberg, his NOR
ganatic wife, were shot dead by a
Servian student in the main street Of
the Bosnian capital short time az
ter they had escaped death from a
bomb hurled at the royal automobile
| Thau Huara oloi, uybi1a M DIN th ron Ul,
the city on their annual visit to the
annexed provinces OF Bosnia and Her
zegovina. The archduke was struck
full in the face and the duchess was
shot through the abdomen and throat
They died few minutes before reach
ing the palace, to which they were
hurried with all speed.
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In a thick fog and rain which rem.
dered Tory Island invisible from the
mainland of Ireland, the Anchor Line
steamer California, bound from New
York for Glasgow, went ashore on the
rocks off that island Wireless calls
for help brought speedy assistance
from several small gunboats and tor
pedo boats which were patrolling the
Northwest Irish coast for gun runners
in connection with the Ulster move
ment.
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News reached Mexico City that
Emiliano Zapata, the southern revo
lutionary leader, had published de
cree rejecting an allegiance to Venus
tiano Carranza and saying that the
Constitutionalist Chief had refused tC
accept the plan of Ayala," the orig
inal agrarian proclamation Of the
southern leader.
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Emmett Stafford, 16, was drowned
and three companions we're barely
rescued from a similar fate, when
their boat sank in the middle of the
Arkansas river near Ozark, Ark.
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The mediators have formally &C
knowledged the latest note from Gen
eral Carranza, transmitted by Rafael
| Zubaran. his representative in Wash