The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-11-27

pictures and view specimens of every
class of object connected with the war,
including guns and uniforms actually
used in battle, at great war museum
to be erected by the Modern Historic
Records Association, of which William
II. Taft is honorary president.
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Material increases In passenger
fares practically throughout the coun-
try except in Southeastern territory,
will be caused December l by ad-
vances announced by railroads in
trunk line territory between New York
City and Pittsburgh, and in Central
Passenger Association territory, be-
tween Pittsburgh and Chicago and St.
Louis.
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More than a quarter of a million
members of the Presbyterian church
in the United States have been placed
on the suspended roll" within the
last five years.
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Seattle has been selected by the ex-
ecutive committee as the place for the
1915 convention of the Womans Chris
tian Temperance Union. The date will
be decided later.
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Herbert w. Lewis, head of the Chill
drens' Home Aid society of California,
committed suiced after his arrest
on a felony warrant, the complainant
being a 15-year-old girl in his charge.
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William j. Reynolds, freight con-
ductor on the Chicago Northwestern
railroad, was killed in battle with a
robber between ERADICATE and Rutland,
la. The slayer escaped.
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AS the result, according to physi-
clans, of drinking one hundred glasses
of beer daily, the mind of John Wurs-
ter, driver of brewery wagon in Gin
cinnati, has become a blank.
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Robert L. Metcalfe, former civil
governor of the Panama Canal zone,
now chairman of the canal opening
committee, has bought a weekly news
paper at Omaha.
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The frigate independence, last of
the fighting ships built for the War of
1872, finally has found a purchaser.
The Navy Department appraised it at
$4,000, but was unable to get bids at
that figure, and after two attempts,
the old vessel has been knocked down
to Capt. John H. Binder of Berkeley,
Cal, for $3,515. The independence for
fifty years had been used as a train
/. ing ship at Mare Island before it was
placed out of commission.
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Jewels, the value of which is esti-
mated at from $4,000 to $4,000, were
stolen from a Chicago loan bank by
two robbers who bound the proprie-
tor, a clerk and two customers, looted
the safe and escaped.
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The twenty-hrst annual convention
of the United Daughters of the Con-
federacy has come to a close at Sa-
vannah, Ga. The 1915 convention will
be held in San Francisco.
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Roswell C. F. Smith, formerly a
choir singer in a Chicago church, who
confessed to killing 4-year-old Hazel
Weinstein, has been found guilty OF
murder and sentenced to be hanged.
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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 a !
riculture has issued a statemeNr
forming the public that there Is liLtle
danger of human infection and that
even where humans contracted the
disease the cases rarely were danger
GUS.
Complete unofficial returns indicate
that the bill to abolish capital punish
ment In Oregon carried at the election,
November 3, the totals being: Yes,
lUU,UOOi no, J5,Uio. Inc lalS vi lhO
measure was in doubt.
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Alarm on the part OF foreign cGnsuls
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.
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Foreign Affairs.
Italy has Joined with the United
States and Spain in Belgian relief
work. A widely known engineer, &C.
lasio Gaetani, investigated the COM
mittees work last week and returned
to Rome to submit his report
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David Lloyd George, chancellor Of
the exchequer in the House Of Com
mons, estimates that the cost of one
year of the war for England would be
$50 million pounds (2,250 million dol
lars) the largest amount England has
ever spent on a war and more than
tu,ioa what was snent in the four