The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-03-05

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of Frederick C. Sharood, special ex-
aminer for the Interstate Commerce
Commission, in the hearing by the
commission of the company's affairs.
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The finest house in America was
thrown open to the public recently for
the first time. Anyone who had the
S. to pay for the pleasure could knock
at the door at 962 Fifth avenue New
York and walk right into ex-senator
William A. Clark's mansion.
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Governor Clarke has signed the
Mulct Repeal Bill which will close all
Iowa saloons saloons January l, 1916.
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Examination by the police of what
was believed to be a stick of dynamite
found in the Japanese exhibit in the
Palace of Manufactures at the Pan
ama-Pacific Exposition has disclosed
that it was Japanese toy, according
to statement by the exposition Off
Gals.
Thirty-six indicted master plumbers
on trial the last two weeks in the fed
eral court at Des Moines for violation
of the Sherman Antitrust Law, were
found guilty The jury returned a
sealed verdict in the night. Nearly all
the indicted men are widely known in
Iowa.
Although shots are being exchanged
at intervals and another Indian was
wounded, probably fatally, the posse
engaged with the Piutes at Bluff,
Utah, are no nearer being able to
overpower the renegades than they
were week ago.
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Seventy-five students of the Salina,
Kas., High School, about half of them
girls were expelled for leaving the
school in a body for the purpose of
celebrating Wsshingtons birthday.
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Richard L. Goode, former judge of
the st. Louis Court of Appeals, has
been appointed dean of the law school
of Washington University. He will
assume his new duties July /. Goode
formerly liven in Springfield, Mo.
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Unwilling to abandon a daughter
who was partly paralyzed, William II.
Stutzman, 46 years old, with two other
members of his family, died with her
in flames which destroyed their home
in East st. Louis, Ill.
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A Polish girl in Sam Harbor, N. Y,
has received letter from her brother,
soldier in East Prussia, in which he
promised to desert and join her in
America. Across the envelope, EVIL
IDENTIFY written by censor, was your
brother will not desert. He was taken
out and shot this morning"
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Billy Sunday paid tribute to John
d. Rockefeller in Philadelphia during
his sermon on Job, the Man of Tribu-
lation and Corquering Faith" Sunday
observed that Job was the Rockefel-
Ter of his day.
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Western Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Ne
braska and South Dakota were swept
by wind, sleet and snow storm which
Frustrated telephone and telegraph
service in those states recently.
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Foreign Affairs.
ITO live like king" is a phrase
that no longer signifies in Prussia
an enviable height of luxury with
plenty of good things to eat and drink.
Indeed, the emperor and empress al
ways have eaten simply, in compari-
son with many wealthy Germans, but
the war has made the bills of fare at
court still simpler.
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The military governor of Strassburg,
capital of Asace-Lorraine, has pro-
hibited the sale or consumption of
absinthe Persons who violate the or
der will be sentenced to a years i'm
prisonment.
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The German official press bureau
announces that it has reports from
Rotterdam that nine thousand British
sailors in the merchant service have
refused to leave port because of the
fear of German submarines.
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Prince Leopold, the 14-year-old son
of King Albert of Belgium, is at the
front. When Antwerp was bombarded
the royal youth, with his brother and
sisters, was sent to England, where
they are the guests of Earl Curzon.
Since then he has been Fostering his
father to allow him to go back to
Flanders. At last his entreaties have
been acceded to.
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Treasury bills to the amount of 100
million dollars were offered in London
recently. They were over-subscribed
in six hours. Part of the issue natures
in six months and the remainder in
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