The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-04-10
SEVEN DAYS
OF NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Washington.


Washington.
After three months of consideration
the reserve bank organization COM
mittee has announced that it had d.
vided the continental United States
into twelve banking districts and Sc
lected the following twelve cities
where federal reserve banks are to be
located under the new currency law:
Kansas City. New York, Philadelphia,
Boston, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta,
Chicago, st. Louis, Minneapolis, Dali
las and San Francisco.
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On recommendation of the Inter
state Commerce Commission Iresl.
dent Wilson has awarded medal OF
honor to A. C. Werner, a railroad
brakeman of Smithville, Tex, who, at
the peril of his own life, saved child
who was standing on railroad track
In front of an approaching train.
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Pensions Tor widows snd minor
children OF the officers and men who
served in the Spanish war, the Philip
pine instruction and the Boxer up
rising in China would be authorized
by bill which passed the house by
a vote of 276 to "a.
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Major General William w. Woth-
erspoon, now assistant chief Of stan
of the army, has been selected tC sue
coed Major General Leonard Wood as
chief of staff at the end OF General
Woods term, April %.
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The most notable victory OF Presi-
dent Wilson's administration came
with the rollcall on the bill repeating
the Panama Canal tolls exemption for
American vessels. The house by a
vote OF PAT to 161 sustained the po-
sition of the President. The opposi-
tion of Speaker Champ Clark to the
Wilson administration proved ineffec-
tive.
After three months OF considera-
tion the reserve bank organization
ommittee-Secretarie McAdoo and
Houston and Comptroller of the Cur
rency Williams-charged with laying |
the ground work for the new cur
rency system, is about ready to de-
fine geographically the limits of the
federal reserve districts into which |
continental United States is to be di-
vided for banking purposes, and at
the same time name the cities in each
district where reserve banks are to
be located.
Actual work OF constructing the !
great white marble memorial the Ma
tion is to erect to Abraham Lincoln
has begun at Washington. In Poto-
mac Park, the site of the proposed
memorial, large force of workmen
have begun excavating.
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Senator Thompson and the congress
sional delegation from Kansas have
asked President Wilson to appoint
John l.. Caldwell OF Fort Scott, Kan,
minister to Persia,
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I , Domestic Items.
]. l.. lawson farmer living near
Bennington, Ok, was shot and killed
by his wife, Ella Lawson, as he lay
in bed. The woman and l9year-
old son are under arrest awaiting
preliminary hearing.
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Chicago. in 1912, granted more than
five times as many divorces as Lon
don, notwithstanding London's popu-
lation is more than three times that
of Chicago.
The price of gasoline in st. Louis
has been cut to thirteen cents a gal
Ion by the Standard Oil Company.
This cut is the fifth made by the Stan
dard Oil Company since November 4.
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William r. Baum, aged 80, mail
clerk in the railway mail service, has
been arrested in Harrisburg, Pa,
charged with having stolen $4,000
from the mails.
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The Tilden homestead, at New Leb-
anon, N. Y, built by Elan Tilden in
1888, where his son, Gov. Samuel J.
Tilden, was born one hundred years
ago, has been burned, probably by an
incendiary.
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The police have begun a search for |
4-year-old Lille Eidelman of st. Louis |
on the theory that she had been kid
mapped by a woman under the iniiu-
ence of a maternal mania"
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The planting of one million pine
trees, the first reforestation work by |
the state of Minnesota on a large |
scale, has begun in ltasca and Crow
Wing counties
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While playing with revolver at
his home in Independence, Mo-. Virgil |