The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-08-21
EARLY news
OF Battle
TORN EUROPE
REPORTS TO THE JUSTICE DE
PARTMENT.

food prices all along the line.
| A district Attorney in Texas re-
ported that granulated sugar had ris-
en- from $3.50 to $3.50 per hundred
weight since a week ago; Swiss
cheese from % to 38 cents, flour from
$40 to $50, beef ribs from 18 to
81 cents per pound, sirloin % to 80
Icents, pork lOin Is to Is cents and
lSmOked ham from 20 to % cents.
The District Attorney suggested
that small consumers are charged
even higher prices than hotels and
restaurants, the figures quoted.
A letter to the Attorney General
from the manager of one of the lar.
lgest live stock commission companies
in the West reported that while hogs
declined in Chicago 81 per hundred
pounds, and cattle declined IS to IS
icents per hundred pounds, dressed
products to the consumer advanced
several cents per pound.
"The packers claimed that reduc-
tions were made on account of finan.
cial conditions" he wrote, but l do
not know what excuse they have for
advancing the dressed article. There
is very little beef or pork exported
1--WE believe that the present prices
have been created by men who have
no regard for humanity in their rush
to satisfy their greed"
This statement was made yesterday
in a petition received at the Depart
ment of Justice from railroad employ
es of Jacksonville, Fla, who asserted
their belief that wholesalers and re-
tailers in foOdstuffs have been hold
ing meetings in Jacksonville to con-
troll food prices.
Additional special agents of the De-
partment of Justice were dispatched
yesterday to Cleveland, Providence,
Baltimore, Pittsburg and Buffalo to
assist in the nationwide investigation
of the increased price of foodstuffs.
| United States District Attorneys all
over the country have begun inquiries
and in many places grand juries al
ready are at work. At Buffalo John
l.. O'Brien, the District Attorney, will
direct special efforts to ascertain the
cause of the rise in the cost of -four
Fred Robertson, District Attorney
at Topeka, Kan, reported to-day that
1.-The unusual circumstances of wheat
going down on the market and the
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prominently in the Kansas City daily
newspapers for several days past
A flood of letters reached Attorney
General McRoberts yesterday from
voluntary correspondents regarding
the advance in food prices. A Brook
Ign correspondent claimed to have
specific information that the packers
there are rapidly increasing the
prices of fresh meats, Notwithstanding
an unusual amount of meat in cold
storage in New York.
Gamers protested against the sugar
increase in price. A large Middle
West firm wrote that the refiners,
''by their joint system of selling their
products through certain brokers,
have the public at their mercy"
FOREIGN BUILT SHIPS MAY REG
| lister.
| WASHINGTON, Aug. 18-Congress
Monday passed the Emergency Ship
ping Bill, which will authorize the
President to admit foreign built ships
to American registry, so that COM
mercial fleets may sail the seas under
protection of the American flag while
belligerents of Europe are at war and
securing the oceans for prizes. Pres
ident Wilson will sign the bill tO-mOr-
row.
AS finally agreed to the bill, be-
| sides providing for the registry of
| foreign built ships, authorizes the
| President, in his discretion, to sus-
pend provisions of the law requiring
all watch officers of American vessels
! in the foreign trade to be citizens of
the United States, requiring survey,
| inspection and measurements of YES
sells admitted to registry by officers
of the United States.
U. S. WILL NOT OPPOSE JAPAN.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 49,
Japan'S ultimatum to Germany will
not be protested by the United States.
| President Wilson, Monday, said he
believed Japan's declaration that
Kiao Chow would eventually be
returned to China is made in good
faith and indicated that the United
States will take a passive position
concerning the events in the Orient.
Secretary Bryan fatty declined to
discuss Japan'S move, but it is known
the ROOt-Takahira agreement in 1908
sounded the United States before de-
claring it's position in regard to Ger
many.
On November 80, 1908, Secretary of
State Root, on behalf of the United
States, and Ambassador Takahira,
representing Japan, exchanged notes
avowing the aim, policy and intention
OF each government toward the Far
East, the exchange being designed to
strengthen the relations of friendship
and to preserve the general peace.
BRUSSELS PREPARES FOR ON
SLAUGHT.
AMSTERDAM, Holland, Aug. 49,
A dispatch from Brussels says that |
the seat of government has been NOV |
ed to Antwerp and that many of the |
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