The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-03-12

Juvenile court work under jurisdiction
of the district court has passed second
reading in the house and its final pas
sage seemed assured. The senate is
also expected to approve the measure.
1t is understood Governor Carlson
will veto the bill.
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A skull, a right shoulder blade, a
left thigh bone, an upper arm bone
and one finger bone were found in the
stomach of a 12-foot shark captured
by Henry Sanford of New York, and
Richard Conn near Soldier Key, twelve
miles from Miami, Fla. Nine other
sharks we're caught by Sanford at the
same time.
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Prof. Hiram Bingham of Yale Uni
versity, who discovered a lost Inca
city Of marble in Peru, has sailed by
the United Fruit steamer Zacapa with
a Yale Peruvian expedition to COM
plete the work of uncovering the mys-
teries Of Inca civilization.
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The Ten Eyck prize for speaking
one of the most highly valued at Yale
University, was won recently by
Chang-Hsu Henry Wang of Ningpo,
China, a member of the class of 1916.
His subject was China and the Euro
pean War"
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BILLY" Sunday, the evangelist, has
received and rejected call to save"
Paris. There is hell enough in the
United States to occupy my time" is
his explanation of his refusal of the
call
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Wholesale Liquor Dealers AS
sociation of America at its quarterly
session in Cincinnati, adopted resolu-
tons refusing to engage in an ex-
change OF charges of falsehood with
Kansas Prohibitionists.
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While conducting experiments with
explosives at Topeka, Kas., Edwin
Menninger, 20 years old, student at
Washburn College, was probably fat
ally injured. His left eye was blown
out, finger blown off his left hand
and he was terribly burned about the
face, head and body.
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Miss Ruth Waters of Philadelphia,
discovered that there is q limit to SER
vice even Of first class hotel like the
Biltmore, in New York. can furnish
its guests, when she requested Mrs.
Nan Corrigan Bates, a news stand
girl, to lick a stamp for her and the
latter declined.
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Mrs. Arthur Talbot and her three
children were burned to death in their
home at Quebec, Can. The recent
storm had so crippled the fire alarm
system and blocked the streets with
snow that firemen were unable to
reach the house in time to rescue the
family.
Contracts for the purchase Of 1900
baggage and forage wagons have been
placed by the French government with
Chicago and Kenosha, Wis, manufac-
turers.
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Plans to GUST saloons from Chicago
in 1916 were discussed recently at the
opening of temperance headquarters
there. More than three hundred
churches have agreed to support the
movement.
Headquarters of the American lie.
gion will be opened in New York soon
and according to statements issued by
organizers OF the movement the en-
rollment of members will be begun at
once.
Asa Goodwin, said to be the Oldest
man in Alabama, died recently at Bes-
semer on the eve of his 108th birthday
anniversary, of pneumonia. Goodwin
was born in Georgia in 1907 He had
seventy-four grandchildren, 227 great
grandchildren, and fifteen great great
grandchildren.
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Brigadier General Scott, chief of
staff of the army, has left Washington
for Utah, to attempt peaceful settle
ment with the recalcitrant Piute In
dams.
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The Japanese boycott instituted at
the direction of the Chinese Six Com
panies because of Japans demands on
China is being observed throughout
the Pacific Coast.
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Foreign Affairs.
A committee, headed by Nine. Poin-
care, wife of the president, and includ-
ing several of the most widely known
women in France, has been organized
to conduct feminine propaganda in
favor of France in neutral countries.