The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-01-09
FLASHES Of THE WEEK
JOTTINGS FROM KILOGRAMS
Interesting Items Gathered From All
Parts of the World Condensed
into Small Space for the Ben.
eft OF Our Readers.
Washington.

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The gold value" of 1913 to the
world was $455,OOO,O0D. The produc
ton of the previous year exceedRd
this by $11 ,OO0,OUv. This was the first
estimate of the director of the mint,
George E. Roberts, made in 1914.
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Secretary of the Navy Daniels an
nounced he had ordered the scout
cruiser Chester to proceed from Vera
Cruz, Mexico, to Pass Christian, Miss,
with John Lind, President Wilson s
personal representative to the South
ern republic.
Rural credit legislation will be one
of the first questions before Congress
soon after it reassembles January IL.
Ten million dollars worth of pro
ducts, billion dollars of cash income
"a bumper year in spite of the
drouths and other setbacks-is the
| 1913 record of million American
farms. The value of the 1913 crops
is twice as great as that of 1899, more
than billion dollars more than 1909
and substantially greater than 1912,
according to the agricultural depart
ment.
Advocates of congressional probe
of the Calumet strike asserted that the
deportation of President Meyer of the
Western Federation of Miners would
furnish them with the necessary evil
dence of a deprivation Of constitu-
tional rights to justify the House rules
committee in reporting the resolution
of Macdonald of Michigan.
Domestic Items.
A thousand dollars worth Of jew
elry, stolen several weeks ago from
the home of DR.. H. B. Mckenzie in
Enid, Okla, has been recovered by
officers from three boys. The dia-
monds were found in wad of chew
ing gum fastened inside of a porch
step of vacant house.
Misleading newspaper advertising
hereafter will be punishable in Chi
cago by fine of from $25 to 5000, as
result of action taken by the city
council.
Several thousand noted educators
and churchmen, from 16 states and 70
foreign countries, are in Kansas City
for the Student Volunteer Movement
convention. In point of attendance
and enthusiasm this is the largest
gathering which the Student Volun-
teer movement has yet held.
The Western Federation Of Miners
has buried its dead at Calumet. Fifty
nine bodies, including those of forty
four children, we're carried through
the streets down a winding country
highway and laid in graves in snow
enshrouded cemetery within sight of
Lake Superior.
During the first seven months Of
the present year the combined coal
production of Missouri, Kansas, Ok
lahoma and Arkansas shows an in
crease of IL per cent over the same
period of last year, according to re-
port of the Southwestern Interstate
Operators Association.
A drug administered by their moth
er as medicine caused the deaths of
Harry and Laurel PETER and of two
younger children and the mother her
self, according to the verdict Of the
coroner's jury.
Six hangers and two aeroplanes at
the Hempsted IN. ", Aviation Field,
where some of Americas foremost avi-
ators learned to fly, were destroyed by
fire. The loss was $4,000.
An appeal to Congress to investi-
gate conditions in the copper country
of Michigan was made by the Chicago
Federation of Labor, in resolutions
which directly charged owners of the
mines AID their agents with being
responsible for the tragedy of Christ
mas Eve, when seventy-two children
and adults lost their lives.
One man was killed and another
injured, probably fatally, when strik.
ers attacked guards of an Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad bridge
connecting mines at Radiant and
Rockvale, Colo.
New York City leads London in
population by 100000, according to
figures made public by DR.. w. H. Gull
foy, statistician of the board of health.
He fixes New York's population at
5,376,966, a total based on the city's