The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-03-27
CONDENSED NEWS
Huerta executed 149 mutlneers.

TED paying Zee 10 kill Panama cana
tolls.
representative Vol!mer Dem. la
delivered a maiden prosperity speech
IN the house
Seven bodies have been taken from
the ruins Of the St. Louis Seed com
pany's building.
The 1913 cotton crop was the most
valuable ever grown and second larg
est in point of quantity.
The house currency committee en-
gagged II p. Willis of New York to
draft a rural credits bill
| Robbers blew open the vault in the
First National bank at Gallatin Tenn.
stole $4,000 and escaped
The woman suffrage amendment to
J. the United States constitution was de.
! feated in the senate. 30 to "a.
The conference at Berlin of the
transatlantic shipping companies broke
up without reaching any settlement
Another officer of the royal flying
corps of the British army was killed
at Salisbury, Lieutenant II. f. Theeby,
An altitude record of 1903 feet for
a flight with three passengers was es.
tablished by Robert Thelen, a German
aviator
Professor Giussep Mercalli, director
of the observatory on Mt Vesuvius,
was found burned to death in his bed.
room at Naples.
A torpedo boat colllded with small
passenger steamer which plies be.
tween Venice and Lido and fifty per.
sons were drowned
Hearings in the governments anti.
trust suit against the Quaker Oats
company and the Great Western Ce,
real company began at Chicago.
The national Woman Suffrage assc-
citation appealed to President Wilson
to establish the first Saturday in May
of each year as "Woman's Independ.
ence Day"
Frank Alvord Perret, the American
volcanologist, was burned on the hands
and legs by an explosion of molten
lava, while studying the volcano of
Sakura-Jima, Japan.
An unidentified three. masted schoon.
er was sunk and its crew drowned
through a collision on the North sea
with the North German-Lloyd liner
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
The mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of seven-yearold Warren
McCarrick is as complete as when the
boy was first missed from his home at
Philadelphia two weeks ago.
Glenn w Bridgmann of Lockport,
N. y, was killed and twenty persons
were injured in a collision between
two cars ON the Buffalo and Rochester
trolley line at Wickwire, N. Y.
The earth opened and swallowed
two miners and work shanty on the
mountain side at the Kelley Run col.
iery at Shenandoah, Pa. No trace of
the men or building can be found.
Hans Schmidt. slayer OF Anna An.
muller, who was sentenced to die in
the electric chair this week, was
granted stay of execution by the I'll.
ing OF notice of appeal by counsel.
The steamship Imperator arrived at
New York from Hamburg after the
toughest voyage of its career. Four
lifebOats were missing from the davits,
having been carried away by wave
The Joint council of the United Shoe
Workers of America called a strike in
the factories operated by the Selby,
Drew and Excelsior companies. Ports
mouth, o. Four thousand employees
are affected
Miss Marie Wagner Of New York re
tanned her title as national woman in
door tennis champion by defeating
Mrs. G. n. Brard of Chicago. former
western champion, in the final round
Of the tournament
Holding that the title of Indians to
the submerged lands of Lake Michigan
had never been recognized. Judge Car.
penter in Chicago ruled adversely to
Indian claims on filled.in land along
the lake front in Chicago
The Marconi Wireless Telegraph
company of America won a victory in
the New York federal court, which, ac-
cording to its officers, gives the com.
pany almost complete control OF the
field Of wireless telegraphy.
The senate passed the urgent de-
ficiency bill, carrying a total of more
than $40, O0O, 900, 100000 of which was
added by the senate appropriations
committee for the maintenance of the
Mexican refugees at Fort Bliss
J. A. Eubanks, farmer living near
Oak Park Ga. killed his wife and two
daughters as they slept, set fire to his
home and several other farm buildings
and then fred n bullet through his
forehead diving in short time.
BY order of Emory Lattaner, state
superintendent of banks, the Ohio Saw.
ings bank at Liberty Center, o.. and
the Farmers and Merchants bank at
Custer o. were turned over to the
state banking department for liQuda-
ton.
Fred b, Young, a senior in the Ore.
ron apricultural school died Of ~