The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-03-06

mouse by Representative .Mananan,
republican, of Minnesota, with reso-
luton for congressional investigation.
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Increasing the membership of the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
sixteen and dividing the country into
five districts, with headquarters at
Washington, Atlanta, Chicago, Kansas
City and San Francisco, is proposed
in bill introduced by Senator Ken
yon.
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Chairman Lever of the house com.
mittee on agriculture has reported to
the house the annual Agricultural
Appropriation bill. 1t aggregates
1884, 900, exclusive of permanent
appropriations, an increase of 1850, 1000
more than last years total.
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Americas adult illiteracy, described
as a national disgrace, can be wiped
out by the time the next federal cen
sus is taken If the work is under
taken at once, according to DR.. p. p.
Claxton, United States commissioner
OF education.
President Wilson has expressed the
belief that Chairman Frank p. Walsh
had based his estimate of 100000 men
cut of work in New York City al)ne
CIon current reports and not upon
any investigation by the commission.
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Domestic Items.
J. B. Smith, vice-president and gen.
eral manager, F. c. Mills, superinten-
dent, and E. II. Mayer, chief weigher
OF the Western Fuel Company of San
francisco, have been found guilty Of
defrauding the United States govern
ment by obtaining illegal tariff rebates
through false weights.
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Facing the startling fact that no
fewer than 961 New Workers have
disappeared in three months, 397 OF
them being girls and women, and that
only 100 of them have been found by
the police, the head of the New York
police department has ordered the po-
lice to divert their attention for
time from the gangsters and gunner
to the cadets and white slavers.
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Members of the Beasley expedition.
which left New York last summer to
explore uncharted regions of South
America, returned on the steamship
Byron and reported they had found
the bones of members of the Cromer
expedition. They entered the wllds OF
Peru nearly two years ago and were
never heard from.
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Mrs Ida Shaver of Wichita, has
fallen heir to $4,000 from the estate
of w. !. Meador, father of her first
husband who died in Bolton, Mo-, re-
Gently. The news came to Mrs Sha-
yer while she and her husband were
employed in cafe at Ponca City. !
Okla.
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A boy, Grated and shipped as live
stock, was the discovery made by a |
veterinary at Lincoln, Neb, when he
was called upon to inspect carload
of goods billed from Bertrand, Neb.,
to Burke, S. d.
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Tho n1Otinn m fnA oN-
ments against eight officials of the
Florida Fruit Lands Company has
been denied by Judge Van Valken-
burgh at Kansas City and the defend.
ants ordered to appear in court forth
with.
Mrs. Cynthia BuHum has been
placed on trial for murder at Little |
Valley, N. Y. The indictment charges |
her with having killed her husband, |
Willis Buffum, by feeding him slow
acting poison.
Sixty persons were injured, a score
of them severely, and five probably
fatally in collision of two Frisco |
passenger trains at Nichols Junction,
four miles west of Springfield, Mo.
The trains were No. 8, running from
Joplin and the west to st. Louis, and
No 4, running from Springfield to Kan
sas City.
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The Retail Liquor Dealers Associ.
alton of st. Joseph has adopted reso-
lutions denouncing the reported move.
ment in st. Louis for the opening of !
saloons in Missouri cities on Sunday.
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Mrs. Lola Fairy, who lives alone in
the north part of Parsons, KAN was
called to the door of her home and
as soon as the door was opened an
unidentified man stabbed her. wound.
ing her in the side and face.
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The country home of Mrs. William
X. Vanderbilt, Jr., at Jericho, N. Y,
valued with its furnishings and art
treasures at near $1,000 600, has been
destroyed by fire. The only occupants
were a caretaker and servants left to
look after the property.
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