The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-01-22
NEWS NOTES.

crease the appalling list of dead and
the enormous property loss. The
number of dead and injured in the
,Abruzzi alone is 10000, while the
number of bodies under the debris
at Avezzano is $4,000. From the
ruins of the latter place eighteen
persons were taken out still alive
after three days had elapsed. Trem-
ors have not ceased at Sora, where
cold rains have added to the suffer-
ing.
Whether resources of approx
mately quarter Of billion dollars
controlled by four great philanthro-
pic institutions should be employed
without Government regulation in
the promotion of public welfare is
one of the questions which the Fed
eral Industrial Relations Commits
sion will ask during the forthcom-
ing hearings in New York.
The Court of Appeals in a case
from Shelbyville, KY, held that
following a notice of contest by sa-
loonkeepers of that town of the
"dry" victory of last fall the saloons
may keep open pending a final de-
cision as to the contest. The opin-
ion of the Court of Appeals applies
to similar situations in several
cities of the State.
Tactics of the Senate minority
threaten to block the efforts of the
Democrats to put through any legis-
lation at this session but the appro-
priation bills. The Ship Purchase
Bill may be passed, but an extra ses-
sion is being considered.
Lieut.. Gen. Stoessel defender of
Port Arthur, who was condemned
to death after his surrender to the
japanese, but later was given his
liberty by the emperor of Russia,
died of paralysis, it is announced in
a Petrograd Dispatch
A world conference on perma-
nent peace, to be called at the con-
clusion of the European war, was
advocated by speakers at meeting
in Washington under the auspices
of the International Peace Forum.
That Secretary Bryan approved |
of Minister Sullivan was shown by a
letter introduced al The Dominican
probe. Witnesses said that the Sec
rotary of State was fooled by a i
group of New York financiers.
Evidence showing any illegality
in the increased price of flour and
wheat is being watched by the
United States District Attorneys, &C
cording to the statement of Attor-
ney General Gregory.
Six hundred draft horses, the
first of a consignment of 10000 to
be shipped through Boston for use
on European battlefields, left Boston
by the steamer Iberian for Man
chester, England.
That the American farmer need |
not fear the competition of the out
side world is what David F. Hous-
ton, Secretary of Agriculture, told |
a meeting of the Kansas Board of
Agriculture.
That a Memphis contractor was
told that a $4,000 payment would
assure him certain Dominican con-
tracts was the statement made at the
inquiry into the conduct of Minister
Sullivan.
The 18-karat diamonds said to
have been worn by the Queen of
Sheba were seized from a Turk in
New York on the charge that they
had been smuggled into this
country.
Great Britain has made a vigor-
GUS protest against Carranza's en-
barge on the Tampico oil fields. A
large part of England's naval fuel
is obtained from the Mexican fields.
President Wilson has written Os-
valid Garrison Willard, indorsing the
stand of the League to Limit Arma-
ments as expressed in resolutions on
which its organization is formed.
Foreign-owned oil properties are
now said to be in no danger of con-
fiscation by Mexican officials, follow
ing the receipt by Secretary Bryan
of note from Gen. Carranza.
A meeting of unemployed at Hull
House, Chicago, broke up in a riot,
the crowd being charged by mount
ed policemen, who arrested a score
Of persons.
The enginemen practically have
their testimony at the
Western arbitration hearing and the
railroads will begin their case Mon
lay. Hi
Applications for only $4,000 of
The cotton loan fund have been re-
,eived in New York Applications