The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-12-04


recluse, who died near Tacoma, Wash.
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Forty-three survivors and fifteen
dead from the wrecked coasting
steamer Hanalei which went ashore
near Bolinas, Cal, have been account
ed for by life savers.
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Seven crackesmen entered the Chi
cago office of the Anheuser-Busch
Brewing Company and after binding
and gagging the Waterman blew the
safe and escaped with about $4,000.
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Destructive forest fires in Oklahoma
are spreading to the southwest and
have reached more than half the dis
lance to the Texas lines.
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Two thousand men who were
thrown out of employment early last
spring have returned to work at the
South Chicago plant of che Illinois
Steel Company. The rail and struc-
tural mills were reopened.
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Thomas Mcclure, quarter back on
the Russellville, Ark, High School
football team, is dead as the result of
an injury received in game with
Little Rock High School week ago.
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A bequest of $4,000 is the reward
which has been given Henry A. Bolles
of Montville, Conn, for saving little
girl from drowning twenty-eight years
ago. The girl was the daughter Of a
Mr.. Trumbull of New York.
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Jesse earle, who held up and robbed
the Southern Pacific Sunset Limited"
train at Cotton, Cal, getting 81 in loot,
has been sentenced to a term OF five
years at Folsom penitentiary upon his
plea Of guilty.
Whipped by school teacher at
Brookhaven, Miss, for a minor infrac
ton of the rules of he school, Kirby
Clay collapsed and died within a few
minutes. A coroner's verdict said
death was directly due to heart dis
ease.
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The Waechter Anzeiger, a leading
German daily at Cleveland, o.. urges
that all German children born NOvem-
Der 10, be named Emden to comment
crate the sinking of the German crus
er Emden.
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To allay anxiety over the effect up
on human health of the present wide
spread epidemic of the foot and
mouth disease, the Department Of Ag-
riculture has issued statement in
forming the public that there is little
danger of human infection and that
even where humans contracted the
disease the cases rarely were danger
Gus.
More than fifty persons are suffer
ing from ptomaine poisoning at Pana,
ILL.,, as the result of barbecue held
there in celebration of the completion
of a new brick road. More than a
score are in dangerous condition.
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Alarm on the part of foreign consuls
in Tampico regarding the safety Of
$500 foreigners in that city in the
event of an attack by Villas forces
has induced the American consul to
request the sending of an army trans
port to that city.
Louis Foss, negro, and j. Mckee
we're injured, probably fatally at
Springfield, ILL.,, when trunk which
they we're unloading from Chicago
& Alton train, was blown to pieces by
explosives it contained. The trunk
was owned by an Italian coal miner.
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Foreign Affairs.
Seven hundred Irish soldiers have
made their wills in the little form at
tached to their prayer books, be-
queathing all their possessions to
John Redmond, Home Rule champion,
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Lists of subscription to the greatest
war loan in history, amounting to one
and three-quarter billion dollars or
rather more than half the total of the
British national debt, have been closed
successfully by England.
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The Methodist Episcopal church in
America will attempt to raise $780,
900 for the relief of European war
sufferers.
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The Cologne, Germany, Gazette says
the reports of German desire for
peace. which, it says, are probably in
spired by the British, belong to the
region of higher political idiocy"
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The municipal council of Brauns-
berg, Germany, appeals to townsfolk
to kill superfuous cats and send their
hides to manufacturers, who will turn
them into body belts for soldiers.
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Personal.