Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-09-24
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
The total attendance at the Pana-
ma-Pacific exposition has passed the
100000 mark, it was announced in
San Francisco, Sept. s.
Coroner Hoffman of Chicago report
ed that the Eastland disaster cost S12
lives Fifty-two victims were less
than 20 years of age; 361 were men
and boys, and 451 women and girls.
One hundred thousand San Fran
cisco visitors turned out to celebrate
the exposition freedom from a debt
Of $780, 600, which the exposition has
been carrying since the first Of the
year, and to attend the burning of
the mortgage.
With his skull fractured and his
nose broken by blows from ham,
mer Chief of Police Washington
James Of Bingham, Mass. shot and
killed one prisoner and assisted in cap
turing another after the prisoners
had severely beaten him and locked
him in a cell in an attempt to es-
cope.
In one of the most spectacular and
closest finishes ever witnessed at the
end Of 500 mile race, Earl Cooper
of Los Angeles won the first motor
derby over the new Twin City speed
way at Fort Smelling, MINI. Cooper
was less than one second ahead of his
teammate, Gil Anderson of 1ndianap-
oils, who finished second.
The clearing CT debris from the sub.
marine F-4, which was lost outside
Honolulu harbor, March Is, with all
hands, and which was raised recently
and is now in dry dock, is practically
completed. Little hope is entertained
for the identifications Of the bodies
of the twenty-five men, who persisted
in the submarine.
Senator James d. Phelan of Califor-
MIA, speaking before the National Fed
Grafton of Postoffice Clerks at San
Francisco, advocated government PEN
sions for postal employees and pledged
himself to assist in the pension move
ment at the next session of congress.
An order for More than 100000
glass house tank blocks to be shipped
to Japan by Steubenville, Ohio,
clay company has been received. The
order is said to be the largest Of its
kind ever given in the United States
Major General George w. Goethals,
speaking before the San Francisco
Commercial club, said he intended to
endeavor to have congress, at its next
session, establish uniform rules for
the measuring of vessels and the
charging of tolls at the Panama canal.
Judge William s. Knowles of the
eighth judicial district of Rhode Is.
land was assassinated just after he
had left his bungalow in north Sci.
tuate to take trolley car for Provi
dence.
The strike Of 1,500 carpenters of
Newark, N. J., and its suburbs for an
increase Of fifty cents per day has
virtually been won by the strikers.
Nearly fifty per cent of the men have
gone back to work, their employers
having signed the new scale.
c. II. Adams and Mrs. Abbie A. Ad.
ans Of Nebraska have been appointed
on the national association of patriot
ic instructors, which meets in Wash
ington at the same time with the ma
tional encampment Of the G. A. r.
The bullet.riddled bodies of two
American, who were killed by
Mexican bandits about twelve miles
north Of Brownsville. Tex. were
found recently in the bed of dried
lake. They were Earl Donaldson.
farmer from Fayette, Mo-, and an en-
gineer named Smith.
The Cobb county grand jury re-
ported at Marietta, Ga, that It was
unable to find enough evidence, after
two days examination Of Witnesses.
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