The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-05-21

General New
The Oklahoma Bankers Association
is protesting to the Federal Reserve
Board against the division of the State
into reserve districts.
Four large storage tanks of oil at
the Standard Oil plant at Unionville,
N. Y, were burned Saturday with a
loss of about $4OO, 1000.
Mrs. Bridget D. Curran, l08 years
old, died in Pennsylvania Friday.
Four sisters the youngest Of whom is
80, live in Ireland. Her mother lived
to be l02.
The diplomatic and consular ap-
preparation bill, aggregating S., 600, 600
was passed Saturday. It provides
for the acquisition of embassy sites
and buildings in Toxic at $l4O,O 600
and in Mexico City at $3.50, 900.
Under resolution adopted Satur-
day by the General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
the next quadrennial conference will
meet March 2, 1918, at city to be
fixed later by the commission having
the matter in charge.
Fire early Saturday destroyed a
warehouse of the Merchants and
Planters Compress Co., near the
waterfront at Galveston, Texas, and
badly damaged 1000 bales of cotton
stored in the building. The loss is
estimated at $500, 900.
The Pierce Oil Corporation, incor-
porated under the laws Of Virginia,
has filed suit seeking to compel the
State of Texas to grant it permit to
do business in Texas. The action
follows recent refusal Of the Secre-
tary of State to grant an application
for permit.
Within two weeks, about June l.,
the harvest Of what now promises to
be one of the largest wheat crops
ever produced in Oklahoma will be-
gin in the southern part of the State.
Greater acreage and much better con-
dition at this season of the year than
the average form the basis for the
estimate.
President Wilson on last Saturday
served warning on Gov. Ammons
that the State of Colorado must be
prepared to maintain peace in the coal
miners strike district without Federal
aid. The President said that Federal
troops would remain in the troubled
districts 'only until the State of Colo
RADIO has time and opportunity to re-
sumo complete sovereignty and con-
troll"
Although many Senators are yet to
speak on the bill to repeal the exemp-
ton clause of the Panama Canal act,
Senator Kern, majority leader, is
hopeful that debate would close in
another week and that a vote might
be reached by May Is. Advocates of
repeal say they expect to pass the bill
by safe majority, but those opposed
are confident they will surprise the
administration leaders.
The explosion in the mines of the
New River Galleries Co., in West
Virginia, April %, which resulted in
the death of l72 men in mine No. 5
and eight in mine No. 6, was caused
by an accumulation of gas following
a short circuiting of the air, was the
verdict of the coroner's jury. The
verdict exonorates the company from
all blame.
The Italian government has re-
quested the Italian inventor, Giulo
Ulivi, the discoverer Of the ultra vio-
let ray, by means Of which gunpow-
der and torpedoes have been explod-
ed from long distance, to test his
discovery in the Mediterranean. Ac-
cording to the conditions fixed for the
test it will be necessary for him TO
cause an explosion at a distance of
about thirteen miles through the hills.
After being amended on motion of.
Representative Borland. the bill au-
thorizing the construction Of a bridge
across the Missouri River near Kan
sas City was passed by the House May