The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-06-25


council with Secretary Lane provide
for the elimination of the Indian Ter
ritory Illuminating Oil company and
for the releasing of properties in lots
not to exceed 1890 acres.
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Added to almost daily downpour OF
two weeks a 10-inch rain washed out
Burlington main line track at Red
Willow, Neb., Immediately after the
section had been cleared by the Chi
cago Limited.
Captain William NJ. Offley, chief of
the United States secret service at
New York, has confirmed the report OF
the disappearance of Heinz Harden
berg who was to have testified before
the federal grand jury which is inves-
tigating affdavits made by Gustav
Stahl and, presumably others, that the
Lusitania had four guns mounted be-
fore the day she sailed on her last
trip.
Normal service on Chicago elevated |
and surface car lines has been resum-
ed as the result of an agreement |
reached after railway and labor repre-
sentatives and council committee |
headed by Mayor Thompson, in an all |
night session, had agreed on arbitra'
ton.
Six persons were injured, two fatal
ly, by tornado which swept High
more, S. d. Thirty buildings were
RACED by the twister in Blunt, near |
Highmore. North of Blunt crops suf-
fered and heavy loss of live stock !
was registered
The Indianapolis Supreme Court has
impeached Eli H. Redman, formerly |
Judge of the Vigo County Circuit Court |
VI Terre Haute, declaring there was
no dispute over the facts in the |
case.
Announcement was made at Okla !
homa City by w. G. Ashton, state COM
missioner of labor, that apparently
enough harvest hands now are in Ok
lahoma to handle the wheat crop.
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| A. D. Hood, sheriff of Fairfield
county, S. c., and Jules Smith, ne
gro prisoner. were killed and eight
others we're injured in an attack on
the sheriff's party at Winnsboro while
the negro was being taken to court
for trial
The tornado which hit the town of
Blunt S. D., recently, is estimated to
have caused a loss of $250,000 in Blnnt
and vicinity and injured a score Of
persons. No loss of life has been re
ported.
"A strike OF employees of the Gary e
Interurban Railroad Company within
fifteen days is said to be threatened.
The men want last years contract re-
newed, but the company, explaining
that it must practice drastic retrench-
ment, has offered a contract calling
for 20 per cent cut in wages.
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The federal district court at New
York has granted immunity to John
l.. Billiard, former director of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Company, who was indicted with TWEEN
ty other directors, past and present
for alleged criminal violation of thu
antitrust law.
The death recently at Lakeport,
Cal, of Charles Mifflin Hammond, who
managed President Taft's campaign in
California in 1912, is announced.
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Two men are dead, two more were
injured so badly that they may die and
main building of the Ponca City Ice
Company's plant was wrecked by an
explosion at Porca City, Okla.
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Henry Toberg, a Chicago street car
conductor whose wealth is estimated
by his fellow workmen to be quarter
million dollars, is enjoying his first
vacation since 1887 as a result of the
street car strike.
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Foreign.
Lieutenant Reginald A. Warne.
ford, who gained fame recently by
blowing to pieces Zeppelin over Bel
GUM, was killed by the fall of an
aeroplane at Buc, France Lieutenant
Warneford was plotting the machine,
which had as a passenger Henry
Beach Needham, the American writer,
who also was killed.
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Peril of American settlers in the
Yaqui Valley of Sonora state brought
riders for the dispatch of three cruis.
ers for the west coast of Mexico, and
authorization to Admiral Thomas B.
Howard to land an expeditionary
force if he thinks best.
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Five hostile airmen bombarded