The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-05-07


jury which reported after being out
more than forty-eisht hours.
The Coffin Makers Union of New
York has decided to postpone its gen
eral strike on account of the low death
rate in the city. The union antici-
pates more favorable opportunity
when continuous hot weather sets in.
Chicago policemen are to wear wrist
watches-that is, if they care to-ac-
cording to a recent ruling by Chief OF
Police Charles G. Healey. He said he
believed they would be more conven-
lent for uniformed policemen.
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The Chicago, Milwaukee & st, Paul
railroad has pushed the prosperity
ball along by announcing that it will
expend large sum for equipment in
the near future. The company has or
dered specifications prepared for the
building of two thousand freight cars
at its shops in West Milwaukee.
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Gov. ]. F. Strong has vetoed the
Anti-Hanging Bill passed recently by
the Alaska legislature. In his veto
message the governor said the present
law, leaving it to the discretion of the
jury to declare whether murderers
should be hanged or imprisoned for
life, was lenient enough.
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Philip T. White, the $6,OO0-a-year
manager of the Masury Paint Com
pany in Brooklyn, on trial as the lead
er of band of highwaymen, who held
up his employers bank messengers
and robbed them of $4,000 nearly a
year ago, confessed in court.
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Officials of the Independtn Harves.
ter Company, with headquarters al
Plano H., have been formally indicted
by the federal grand jury on charges
Of violating the postal laws in alleged
use of the United States mail to de-
fraud.
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A party of unidentified white men
shot into the cabin of Smith Briley,
negro, near Prescott, Ark, and killed
Briley's 12-year.old daughter. Prev
iously they had taken the negro's wife
from her home and given her terrific
beating. Briley fed when he heard
the riders coming.
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Miss Emily Wheeler, a wealthy
bankers daughter, was tricked by her
fiance, Arthur Hearn Cowl, heir to
millions, into killing him at Bridge
port, Conn. After kissing his 2O-year-
old sweetheart, the young millionaire
forced the tragedy.
George W. Wickersham, formerly
United States attorney general, has
been named by President Elihu Root
as chairman of the judiciary commit
tee of the New York State Constitu-
tional Convention.
Foreign.
From persons in close touch with
the war situation as it affects Italy
there has been obtained information
indicating that the government has
reached an understanding with Great
Britain and France concerning the
terms on which Italy will enter the
war if it decides to do so.
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The British war office has issued an
invitation to the heads of British
households to make supplies of sim
pie respirators which are required by
the troops at the front as protection
against asphiXiation gases. The re.
spirator is made Of gauze or fine wire
and is worn over the nose and mouth.
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The German government no longer
forbids the use of harsh speech about
the United States, and the newspapers
Of that country are indulging in an
orgy Of bitter denunciation of Amer
lea. The Cologne Gazette, mouthpiece
Of the government, describes Presi-
dent Wilson's recent speech on neu-
trality as a joke.
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Prince Joachim, the German en-
perors youngest son, is still at Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg's headquar-
ters, where he has received several
hundred proposals of marriage in the
last few months. Most of the letters
we're signed by names known in the
aristocracy.
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Miss Jane Adams, the noted Chi
cago woman philanthropist and sociol-
ogist, has been unanimously selected
as the permanent chairman of the Wo-
mems Congress, meeting at The
Hague to devise ways for ending the
war.
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A new draft of the Japanese de.
mands on China has been presented to
the Chinese foreign minister, Lu
Cheng, Hsaing, by the Japanese minis
ter, Eki Hioki, who previously notified
the Chinese foreign office that he had