The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01

United States district court. "De.
creased demand for beer adverse
legislation and the voting dry OF
many states and counties in the last
eight years" is given as the cause.
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The General Education Board,
founded by John ID. Rockefeller, has
in the last year subscribed $10,5S2,-
59l to colleges with the requirement
that additional amounts aggregating
S5O,3S4,32S be given by the public.
The Washburn-C Crosby company put
a check for S25 into the pay envelope
of each of the 700 men who work in
the wheat grinding and flour packing
and loading departments of the Min
neapolis mills of the company. when
1t paid off recently. Not a man had
any idea that this extra" was com.
ing.
Broken in health as the result of
her untiring nursing of wounded SOL
diers in Paris, Mrs. Richard Derby
who was Ethel Roosevelt, has re-
turned to New York.
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Jane Toppan, the nurse, who was
sent to the Taunton, Mass, Insane
Asylum June %, 1902, after she had
confessed that she had poisoned thirty
one persons, or case has been
| studied by the most noted alienists
of the country, has developed the de-
fusion that she was hired by the state
to rid the world of the men and wo-
men whom she murdered while serv-
ing them as a nurse.
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Suits to have the Arizona State Pro
hibition Law declared invalid have
been filed in the United States Dis
trict Court at Phoenix and Tucson.
Injunctions were asked by the Catho-
lie Church and by druggists and whole
sale and retail liquor dealers to pre-
vent the dry amendment going into
effect January /.
If Gov.-elect Robert l.. Williams of
Oklahoma is quoted correctly, there
will be slump in the number of Of
fees and appointees under his admin
istration for the next four years.
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Dry eyed and apparently indifferent
TO her fate, Mrs. Caroline Z. Becker,
50 years old of Detroit, has signed
complete confession telling how she
murdered Miss Frances Bomholt, a
G2-year-old spinster, FOR SIS.
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Rather than face charges made by
16-year.old girl, Frank Blanchard,
widely known manufacturer, G5
years old, who was under arrest at
GAINESVILLE, Wis, ended his life.
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Resolutions declaring that "un-
trained and incompetent surgery is
carried on under the protection Of
majority of our American hospitals
with grave danger and detriment to
vast number of patients we're adopt
ed by the Western Surgical Associa-
ton in the closing session of the twen-
ty-fourth annual convention at Denver.
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Mount Kanaka, a low-lying peak OF
the Coast Range, about sixty miles
southwest of Mount Shasta, in Cali;
fornia, appears to be new, although
entirely unofficial volcano-the newest
in the world.
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A petition urging upon Congress the
adoption of IAN Oriental policy based
upon a just and equitable regard for
the interests of all the nations con-
cerned" has been sent out by the Fed
eral Council of the Churches of Christ
in America, through its commission
on relations with Japan.
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Otto II. Kahn, who has been promi-
nently identified with the movement
to promote grand opera in English
through the medium of the Century
opera Company, has sent letter of
resignation from the board of directors
of the opera company.
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Mrs. Frank Leslie's million dollar
bequest to the cause of woman suf-
frage has been attacked in two suits
started in the supreme court by Flor
ence L. Weissbrod and Lonetta L. Hol-
lander grandchildren of Frank Leslie,
the founder OF the publishing firm
which bears his name.
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Fifty thousand dollars worth of
Jewels lost in New York recently by
Chicago bride have been returned, the
advertised reward of $4,000 has been
paid no questions were asked and the
incident is closed
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Between the hen and the consum-
err there is an estimated waste in
eggs of 5000 100000 annually in this
country, according to William Mann,
attorney for the New York Central
Railroad Company, who testified at
The inquiry into the butter and egg
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