The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-12-24

The strike of fifteen hundred gar
ment workers, which, for tire
months, has practically tied up the
clothing manufacturing business OF
Chicago, will be settled within ten
days, Sidney Hillman, president of the
Garment Workers Union, announced
the other day.
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Beer glasses boiled and whisky
glasses subjected to the same steriliz-
ing treatment will be the only ones
permitted in saloons in Montclair, N.
j., according to an edict of the health
department.
1t has been learned authoritatively
that high official of one of the larg-
est international unions in America is
seriously involved in the investigation
United States Attorney Marshall is
making into the Franz Won Rintelen
conspiracy to foment strikes in NUM-
ton factories.
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Baron George Wilhelm Won Brinck-
en-, an attache of the German consulate
in San Francisco; C. C. Crowley, a de-
tective employed by the consulate, and
Margaret Cornell, a secret agent said
to be in Crowley's employ, have been
indicted by the grand jury on two
counts each.
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woman and two children lost their
lives in a tenement house fire on the
upper East Side in New York the other
day. Firemen, hampered by freezing
weather and binding snowstorm,
rescued more than thirty women and
children from fire escapes.
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The Southwest.
William Faltin, whom r. B. Sims,
warden of Florence, Ariz., peniten-
tiary, refused to hang November 26,
was declared insane by jury at Phoe-
nix, and was taken to the state hos
pital. The prisoner was convicted Of
having slain a man.
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Posses searching for the robbers
who held up southbound Kansas City
Southern passenger train No. l near
Mena, Ark, discontinued pursuit when
it appeared that the outlaws probably
had reached safety in the wilds of the
mountains of West Arkansas.
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Thirteen men and five women, said
to comprise a bandit gang, have been
arrested in Mexico City and all ex-
cept the women will be shot publicly,
according to cablegram received at
Galveston, Tex.
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Ninety-nine years Imprisonment
was the sentence given Dave Widener
at Dallas, Tex, for robbery with fire.
arms. Frank Kelley received a SINH
lar sentence.
Charging willful neglect of duty,
malfeasance in office and drunken
ness, the special grand jury which has
been in session at McAlester, Ok,
closed its work by asking the removal
of County Attorney John w. Crow.
According to authentic sources at
Ell Paso, Tex, General villa has taken
to chihuahua City as prisoners thirty
American employees of the Pearson
properties of MADEIRA, Chihuahua.
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Two masked bandits entered the
First State Bank of Depew, Ok, re-
Gently and after taking more than
$4,000, rode out of town Posses were
formed and started in pursuit J. L.
Flint, president of the bank, and four
customers were marched into the
vault.
Oklahoma oil reached the highest
price in twelve years when the Prairie
Oil and Gas Company, at the opening
of the market in Tulsa, Ok, posted
1O.cent advance, sending the price up
to $113.
William Sheldon, deputy United
States marshal stationed in Grove,
Ok, was shot by bootleggers recently
and probably will die. He was trail
ing bootleggers who crossed the state
line near Sloan Springs, Ark, when
they turned upon him.
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The total Prussian losses to date
are 2,244,24S according to Rotterdam
dispatches. No accurate figures as 10
the losses among Saxon, Wurttemberg
and Bavarian troops are obtainablo.
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Foreign
After being detained in Kirkwall for
more than twenty-four hours, Henry
Ford's peace ship, the Oscar II, was
released by the British, and accord
ing to word received at a late hour,
she started on her way to Christiania
Norway.
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The aged King Peter of Servia, who
was forced to flee through the Alban-
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