The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-01-05

yer, ACCORDING 10 tue VcTulCl VI d CUi-
oner's jury, which was received at Eu-
reka recently.
Creation OF federal commission to
decide disputes between railroads and
their employees, regardless of whether
the United States Supreme Court may
hold the Adamson Act constitutional,
was the suggestion which the chiefs
Of the four railway brotherhoods indi-
Gated they might place before the con-
ference committee Of railroad man
ayers.
An acetylene plant in the cellar OF
the Madison hotel at Mount Holly,
N. j., exploded and the building was
destroyed. OF the twenty-eight per-
sons in the hotel at the time. twenty
three have been rescued. It Is feared
the other five have been killed.
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Foodstuffs continue to leave Amsri-
can ports for Europe in vast quanti-
ties. Figures published by the bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce
show that In the first eleven months
Of this year they reached value OF
about $3.50, 100000 or at the rate of
more than sSO,OOO,OOO month.
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Nine persons are known to have
been killed and fourteen are known
to have been injured in tornado that
swept 4-mile path over South Gen.
trail Arkansas recently. Unconfirmed
reports tell Of many more deaths, and
1t seems certain that the casualty list
will be much increased when COM
munication Is restored.
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Southwest.
Five hundred gallons Of whiskey,
wine and beer were poured into city
water wagon at Phoenix, AriZ., and
the streets of the business section
sprNkled with the liquor. Two hun
bred motor cars and several floats
formed a parade that followed the
water wagon
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Hot Springs attorneys have received
notice from Little Rock that the sec
rotary of state had issued an order
canoeing the charter Of the Western
Union Telegraph Company and pro-
hibiting it from doing business in the
state Of Arkansas.
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The Prairie Oil Company has raised
the price Of crude oil ten cents bar
rel in Oklahoma to S1.40 a barrel. The
total daily production of the Oklahoma
oil fields at present is 25S.000 barrels.
This makes the fifth time since Octo.
Der the price of crude oil has been
raised.
The Champlain test well In the un-
developed oil field at CovingtOn. near
Enid. Ok. blew in the other night with
gusher which threw oil thirty feet
above the standard derrick.
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Maj. Powell Clayton, formerly at
tached to the general staff and re-
Gently assigned to the Sixteenth Cav
airy on the Mexican border, died re-
Gently at Fort Sam Houston. Tex.
from injuries received two weeks ago.
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Although General Carranza has not
replied to the demand of the United
States that he either fatty or repudi-
ate the protocol drawn by the Next
@n-American joint commission. the
expiration of the time limit was not
made the occasion for formally declar-
ing the negotiations at an end.
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Foreign.
The Finnish steamer Oihonna, or
l,07O tons. with regiment OF Rus
sian coast artillery from the Aland
islands, struck mine and sank in
few minutes, according to a dispatch
to the Frankfurter Zeitung. from
Copenhagen. All on board. with the
VAScptioh VI hhty PCioOhhSb eho Seiu W
have been drowned.
Thomas Chase Casgrain, postmaster
general of Canada, died Of pneumonia
at Ottawa recently. He WIS born in
Detroit in 1852. For many years he
was one Of the Dominion's leading law
yers.
The announcement Is made in Ber-
lin newspapers that the order Of merit
has been conferred upon Captain Val
entiner, commander of German sub
marine, for sinking 1913 ships OF to-
tai tonnage of $4,000.
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Six passengers were killed and sew
eral others were injured when the
eastbound Toronto Montreal Canadian
Pacific Railroad Express crashed into
the westbound Cornwall local near st.
Polycarpe Junction, according to re-
ports at divisional headquarters.
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Recent reports received from Swift
xerland have represented the internal
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