The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-11-08

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Letter corner OF 1893 and close to tae
high mark in the history of the cereal
since Civil war days. December
wheat soared1 to $1.S6 and May to
$1.S5. r.: r.. = ..>.
Six persons were killed when an In
terurban car on the Northern Indiana
railroad struck an automobile at a
grade crossing near South Bend, Ind.
The dead are: Frank Brown, Mrs. o.
senburg, Mrs. Florence Elliott, Mrs.
Frank Elliott and two children Of
Mrs. Frcnk Elliott.
The house of deputies of the general
| convention Of the Protestant Episcopal
church, in session at St. Louis, adopt
ed a resolution urging that the men,
bers of the church be abstainers from
| the use of intoxicating liquors as a
beverage, especially at social func-
| tons.
United States army authorities at
for women to aid In obtaining recruits
for the army. The girls will be paid
81 for each recruit
Official announcement was made at
New York by ]. p. Morgan & Co. that
a new British loan OF American bank
ers, aggregating $3O0,00O,O00, had been
arranged. 1t will bear interest at 51a
per cent and is payable in two INSTALL
! ments, one Of three years and one Of
| five years.
At a special meeting of the board Of
conference claimants of the Methodist
Episcopal church ut Chicago, DR.. Jo-
seph B. Hingeley, secretary, reported
he had received certified check for
$4,000 being payment in part Of the
bequest Of Mrs. Ellen $. james of New
York.
The management Of the gold supply
of the country to meet the foreign
drain which is expected after the close
! of the war was discussed by A. C..
Miller of Washington, Il member OF the
federal reserve board, before the In
diana State Bankers association at
indianapolis. He said that the United
| States will be able to meet all de-
mandS
Hope that the government might de-
| clare an embargo on grain as a means
of restoring bread to the prices that
prevailed before the war were dissi-
pated by David r. Houston, secretary
OF agriculture while on il visit to Chi
cago. Congress never would pass a
law providing an embargo on grain,"
he said.
Indictments naming Chief of Police
Healey and his secretary, William Lut-
hardt, and Charles T. Essig, secretary
of the Sportmen's club, were obtained
at Chicago by States Attorney Hoyne
in a WhirlWind finish in his drive on al
legged city-hall graft. The indicted men
are charged with conspiracy and mall
feasance in Office.
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Eighteen men lost their lives as the
result Of an explosion in the Roden
coal mine at Marvel. Ala, and res
cuers have brought 16 bodies to the
surface. Six were negroes.
Robbers who entered the Bank of
Ringwood, ILL.,, blew open the safe with
| nitroglycerin, and escaped with So
600.
Waldemar Brown, former mayor Of
Manistee, Mich, was killed and nine
others injured when two automobiles
in which they were riding collde0
while trying to avoid 4 buggy
Foreign
The threatened strike of conductors
and trainmen of the Canadian Pa
citic railway has been called off, it
was officially announced at Winnipeg,
Man., after conference between rep
| resentatives of the employees and of.
| ticials Of the road.
The assassination OF the Austrian
! premier, Count Karl Stuergkh at Vien-
ma, was purely political ACT and was
induced by his refusal to convene par
| lament, according to the admissions
of DR.. Friedrich Adler, his assailunt,
made shortly after his arrest. Doctor
| Adler is an eccentric and super radical
! socialist, sometimes known as the
Liebknecht of Austria" He is editor
/ Of Der Kampf.
In an engagement in Santo Domingo
between American troops and rebel
forces Gen. Ramon Batista was killed.
Several Americans also were killed, in.
Guiding two officers, and one Ameri
can officer was wounded
WASHINGTON
! The first concrete results of the phys.
ical valuation of railroads upon which