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MERE MENTION Senator Smith of South Carolina and Representative Houghton of Iowa, are ho'ding hearings in Atlanta today and tomorrow in connection with the work of the joint congressional commission of the house and senate on short time The four-story torural credits bacco factory building of the J. A. Dart Tobacco company of Richmond, was destroyed by fire Tuesday with a loss Official reports from of $160,000 San Francisco describe the cold snap there as the most severe since 1913. Much damage has been done to fruit J. T. Russell, Chicago, prestrees ident of the National Association of Meat Councils, states that the dollar is now worth 72 cents in the purchase of meat products as compared with 100 There was a run on cents in 1913 the Georgia Railroad bank at Augusta, last Wednesday, caused, it is alleged, by malicious reports. Jacob Phinzy, the president, has offered a reward of $5,000 for proof to establish responsibility of the parties who originated the The Dyer anti-lynching reports bill that puts mob violence of whatever nature within the jurisdiction of the state government, passed the house yesterday by a vote of 230 to 119. The bill provides life imprisonment or lesser penalties for persons who participate in lynchings and for state, county and municipal officials who fail through negligence to prevent them. The measure also stipulates that the county in which mobs form or kill anyone shall forfeit $10,000 to the family of the victim.