The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-06-04

hundred feet Of church.
Jack Carter, a laborer, was arrested
in Sioux City, Ia, charged with pour
ing oil on and burning bull dog own
ed by l. A. Evans. 1t is alleged that
Carter was angered because the Evans
dog followed dog owned by Carter
The offense is punishable by q peni'
Tertiary sentence.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, leader OF New
York's social set, 1t dead at Glen Cliff,
her summer home at Garrison. N. Y.
She died of cerebral hemorrhage after
an illness which had lasted only few
hours.
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Nine men are dead as the result Of
dust explosion in the Smokeless Coal
Company's No. mine at Johnstown,
Pa. Conner Phillips, director of first
aid work for the Cambria Steel Com
pany, lost his life while leading a
rescuing party into the mine.
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To make crossing patrolmen more
discernable on rainy or dark days New
York City has solved the problem by
ordering its officers stationed in con-
gested districts to garb themselves in
white raincoats. white hats and white
boots.
The United States court of appeals
has refused to lower the bonds Of ex-
Mayor Don NJ. Roberts of Terre Haute,
Judge Eli Redman and nine other con-
victed conspirators now serving SEN
fences at Leavenworth for election cor
ruption.
The Mayo brothers, famous sur
geons, have given to the University
of Minnesota for social service work
$2,0O0,000 and laboratory equipment
which will make this school the finest
of the kind in the world.
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Billy Sunday, reviyallst, collected
100000 during a months revival in
the factory town of Paterson, N. j..
recently He was backed in his mis-
sion by all the big manufacturing and
non.union labor interests in that city.
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The second conviction of former Po-
lice Lieut. Charles Becker, for insti
eating the murder of Herman Rosen-
thai, the New York gambler, has been
upheld by the court of appeals. Beck
er now must die.
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A new brand of robber, the stork
thief has begun operations at Indian
apolis. Mrs. A. w. Brandt had pack
ed layette for n visit to a maternity
hospital, and had it waiting in the
front room. When no one was look
ing in walked Mr.. Stork-thief and took
every blessed thing. Diamonds and
money lying around handy were left
untouched.
The boiler OF sand dredging ma
chine blew up on the Pennsylvania
side of the Delaware river near Bor-
dentown, N. j., killing five persons.
The dead are: Anthony Matte of
Trenton, N. j., captain of the dredge;
John Marley, engineer; and the wife
and two children Of Harry Stout of
Gloucester, N. j., cook on the dredge.
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Thomas A. Edison's new invention,
the telescribe, is a combination of the
telephone and phonograph; a long dis
lance debating machine that doubles
back. 1t will give to both parties to
a telephone conversation phono-
graphic record of what both have said
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Daniel Donohee, 20 years old, of
Youngstown, o., was killed and seven
teen other persons were injured, nine
dangerously, in a collision of two small
trains on the "Dip-the-Dips" at Idora
Park there. The park had just open.
ed its summer season.
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Foreign.
The war has hit the artists and art
dealers of Holland so severely that
fine paintings are selling as low as
500 In these days of enforced re-
trenchment. there is little money for
the purchase of pictures and the usual
inflow Of tourists has been checked by
war.
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German financial interests, in antici-
patton of the war with Italy, began
as early as May to withdraw capital
from Italy. This was accomplished
even in cases which entailed consider
able sacrifices, so that sequestration
of German property might be avoided.
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Italy has supplanted England, at
least temporarily, as the object of
German hatred A wave of anger
against what is in Berlin universally
called italian treachery," is express
ed in the German press.
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The German. Austrian and Italian