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Gleaned From the Month's News
A volcanic eruption occurring at
Kagoshima in Japan on January 13,
caused as much loss of life as the
celebrated eruption of Vesuvius,
which destroyed the ancient Roman
towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii.
Kagoshlrna, with a population of
over C0,000, was almost completely
covered with ashes, as was also the
adjacent island Sakura, containing
1C, 000 inhabitants, which is the seat
Of the volcano that was in eruption.
Tho eruption was accompanied by
earthquake shocks, more than 350
occurring in one day. President Wil
son, as president of the American
Red Cross, made an appeal to the
American people for those suffering
ii Japan from these disasters and
from threatened famine.
James L. Curley, democrat, was
elected mayor of Boston by a plural
ity of 0,059 over Thomas J. Kenny,
also a democrat and a candidate of
the citizens municipal league.
It was announced that paresis, or
softening of the brain, had yielded to
a now treatment by spinal injection,
in experiments conductod hv n tt
S. Oglivo and George Draper of New
York. Dr. Oglive insists that the
new method is by no means a pan
acea, nor is it effective in all cases,
but urges tho necessity of early
diagnosis and application, as at least
a deterrant.
Count I to, Japanese fleet admiral
and hero of tho war with China,
died in Tokio.
Missouri corporations subject to
the federal corporation tax gained
both in numbers and In net incomes
In 1913, as shown by comparison of
last year's report with that of 1912.
Tho Northwestern National bank
of Minneapolis, Minn., announced an
Increase of 1-2 per cent on all sav
ings deposits. This banking depar
ture according to tho president, E.
W. Decker, was made possible solely
by the Increased facilities obtained
through the bank's connection with
the federal reserve institution and is
tho first advantage derived from the
now national currency law.
The validity of the so-called "blue
sky" law of Iowa was sustained in a
decree filed in federal court nt Don
Moines by Judge Smith McPherson.
Tho law sooks to control the sale of
investment securities in the state,
and its constitutionality was assailed
by investment brokers of Kansas
City, St. LouiB and New York.
The Boll Telephone company an
nounced the construction of lines
3,400 miles long, the longest in tho
.world, conecting New York and San
Francisco, to be completed in 1915.
General satisfaction was expressed
in Paris on tho conferring nf Mm
Cross of tho Legion of Honor on
Sarah Bernhardt, the famous French
jictross.
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:, Bishops of tho Catholic, Episcopal
4and Methodist churches, in answer
',to requests by the New York Times
for opinions on tho modern stylos of
i rdanoing, sent replies, all of them re
,j gretting the present-day tendency,
.(While somo vigorously assailed the
now dances as destructive of moral
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; Fully $500,000,000 was lost to the
people of the United States in loans
r on insurance policies, pledged dur
ing panic years, according to an in
Yestlgatlon made by life companies
which found that only 10 per cent of
tnoae loans were repaid.
The annual live stock report of the
Orange Judd Farmer, made public at
Chicago recently, showed a farm
wealth in this form of property that
broke all records. The increase in
value in 12 months was placed at
$443,750,000, while the total value
of all classes of farm animals reached
$5,596,024,000. By way of com
parison the total value represented
50 per cent more than the total
money in circulation In the United
States and was almost eaual to all
deposits in the 7,400 national banks
in existence. The numbers of meat
producing animals showed a de
crease, beef cattle recording a de
crease of 1,702,000 head, or five per
cent; hogs decreased 4,982,000, or
seven per cent. The decrease in
numbers caused a heavy increase in
average value per head. The de
crease in hogs was the result of
heavy cholera losses in important
states, coupled with a shortage in
corn.
Mrs. Finley J. Shepard, formerly
puss weien Gould, celebrated the
, first anniversary of her marriage by
(feeding nearly 1,000 homeless and
I hungry men on the Bowery (New
i York) and gave beds for the night
co over 4uu or them.
William C. Van Antwerp, one of
the governors of tho New York stock
exenange, in an address before an as
semblage of bankers, praised the
trust message of President Wilson as
a "mandate of fair play, for altruism
and for righteousness."
A bumper crop of citrus fruits for
California was perdicted for this year
by E. O. McCormick, vice-president
of the Southern Pacific railroad. He
placed prospective shipments at 40 -000
cars.
United States Commissioner of
Education Claxton favors the aboli
tion of the summer vacation in the
public schools and would have city
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pupils given vocational training at
that period.
D'rectors of the National City bank
of New York voted to join the fed
eral reserve system. This is the
largest banking institution' in the
country.
It was announced that the Union
Pacific railroad, In anticipation of in
creased business, had placed an
order for 5,000 new freight cars.
The Michigan "blue sky law" is
unconstitutional, according to a de
cision filed in the United States dis
trict court at Detroit,
that the Michigan law
restraint of commerce
and would be a burden
commerce, which the
would not permit
It was held
would act in
of all kinds
on interstate
government
Injunctions restraining the prose
XUn of sults t0 recover $24,000,
000 overcharges against the railways
operating in Missouri were dissolved
by the federal court at Kansas City;
which sustained the validity of state
rate laws.
The Hershey, Pa., Chocolate com
pany distributed a fund of $100,00a
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