The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-07-03

/ Nearly half the "Old Witch City"
of Salem, Mass, rich in historic
buildings and tradition, has been dew
astated by fire that caused an es-
timated loss of $2O,OO0OOO, destroyed
a thousand buildings, including a
score of manufacturing establish
ments, and made ten thousand of the
forty-five thousand residents home
less. The fire originated in the Korn
Leather Factory on the west side of
the city about o'clock in the after
noon, swept through the shoe and
leather manufacturing district, ruin
ing every building in a curving path
two miles long and more than half
mile wide.
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A motor tragedy in which five per-
sons were killed was disclosed when
| Japanese fishermen found the bodies
of a man, three women and boy, in
the surf near Whites Point, Cal The
bodies were those of-Percy Townsend.
Mrs. Laura Townsend, his mother;
| lOAo AONhoCnu, Hlb SiSltI, MyIllc
Brandon, and an unknown boy
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Three deaths caused by the heat
were reported to the police at st.
Louis. Several persons were pros
trated by the heat and one man was
injured seriously in the explosion of
an oil tank said to have been caused
by the intense scorching of the suns
rays.
On some of the sheep ranches west
| of San Angelo, Tex, the grass has
grown to such an unusual height that
sheepmen have lost many lambs in
the tall grass. The lambs get away
from the ewes and herders fail to
find them
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Harvey II. Buker was killed, Mrs.
Roy Smith probably fatally injured
and Mr.. Buker's wife and Miss Lii
lian Jones were injured when their
motor car was struck by passenger
train near Preston, Md.
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Mrs. Laura Dombrowski, charged
with stealing bolt of silk from a
dressmaker, offered to give her baby
to the dressmaker as recompense.
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r. M. Adams of Anderson, Ind, was
stabbed and hurled to his death from
a freight train on which he was rid
ing near Atchison, Kan. His body
rolled under the train.
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Foreign Arfairs-
Friction between Outposts of the
American forces at Vera Cruz and the
Mexican command which holds the
passes toward the City of Mexico
which has been increasing of late,
became acute when efforts were made
to learn something of the fate of a
missing American marine who disap-
peared off post.
+ T. +
That all reports of alarming,
armed and deep divisions between
General Carranza and General villa
are false" and that the small diff
ferences will be arranged with the
highest patriotism by both sides" was
the main part of an official statement
given out at Carranza's headquarters
in Saltillo, Mex.
+ 4. T.
Through the invitation OF the United
States government and the good of
fees of the three South American
mediators, representatives of the two
warning factions in Mexico-the Con
stitutionalists and the Huerta govern
ment-soon will be brought face to
face in an informal conference, dis
tinct from the mediation proceedings
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The Belgian steamer Cortland, from
Montreal for Rotterdam, went ashore
on the rock two miles to the north
east of the Bishop Rock, Sicily
Islands.
Zacatecas. an important city Of
Central Mexico, has fallen into the
hands of the constitutionalists. This
was announced by General Villas off
Gals here. Two of the rebel generals
were wounded.
+ T. =
Personal.
Miss Belva A. Lockwood, the only
woman who ever ran for the presi
dency of the United States. fell in hel
office at Washington and suffered 6
broken arm and shoulder. Miss
Lockwood Is "a wears old.