The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-03-13

limiting the hours OF LABOR OF women
in the District of Columbia to eight
hours.
Domestic Items.
The worst snow storm of the win
ter has been raging over large port
of the Middle West. Throughout Mis-
souri,, Iowa, Central and Southern Hi
nois, Kansas, Nebraska, Indiana and
Ohio heavy snow was falling, ac'
companied by high wind. Telegraph
and telephone lines were demoralized,
and steam railroad traffic was badly
delayed
The federal supreme court has de-
cided that search of a suspected per-
sons premises and seizure OF papers
without warrant is illegal.
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The coolest weather of the year has
just been recorded in Little Falls, N.
Y. The mercury dropped to AZ de-
grees below zero
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Three deaths in st. Louis and vi
cinity were directly attributed to the
blizzard which ragged there during two
days.
The 47,529 women who voted in the
Chicago primaries were instrumental
in ousting ten Democratic candidates
for aldermen, who sought reelection.
Seven of these were on the Hearst
Harrison faction, two were followers
of Roger Sullivan and one was an
independent
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Hundreds Of passengers on trains
in Central Illinois were cared for in
farmhouses and village hotels, while
section gangs and crews of rescue en-
gines were trying to dig trains out of
snowdrifts, some of which were TWEEN
ty feet deep. So severe was the biz
card all day and so relentless the
wind, that the snow filled in as fast
as it could be shoveled out. The stu
alton became so desperate on some
roads that operations were abandoned
temporarily, and all attention direct
ed toward caring for the passengers.
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Four masked robbers overpowered
two guards in the office of State
Treasurer Brown, at the Iowa state
capitol at Des MONIES and Worked for
three hours on the big safe to obtain
$500, but failed to force an entrance
with two charges of nitroglycerin.
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Sam Petty, negro accused of hav-
ing killed Charles w. Kirkland, dep
uty sheriff, was shot to death by a
mob of three hundred men at Leland,
Miss, and his body burned.
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An offer of 100000 for his stock
in the Chicago National League ball
club has been made to Charles p. Taft
by syndicate of six Chicago business
men.
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Attracted by the strange sight OF
heavy SHOWS, many persons in vari-
GUS places in Mississippi and Louisi-
ana arose early and stayed away from
business in order to enjoy the nov.
city. The heaviest fall was at Laurel,
Miss, where the ground was covered
six inches deep with more falling.
Although Official fluctuations were
not completed, treasury officials esti.
mated that fewer than twenty national
banks of 7,493 in the United States
have not made application for mem.
bership in the federal reserve banking
system.
Word comes from Crystal Falls.
Mich, that Leonard Nicola, an employ.
ment agent for mining company, had
dangerously wounded three members
of the Western Federation. He said
they attacked him. Nicola has been
arrested
Joseph w. Folk, solicitor of the
state department and former governor
Of Missouri, has been offered, and
probably will accept, the new post OF
chief counsel for the Interstate Com
merce Commission, at salary OF
$4,000 a year.