Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-10-29
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An embargo on the sale and shipment
of arms and ammunition Oh the border
was put into effect by the southern
department of the United States army,
according to orders received at Ell Paso,
Tex
Formation Of a political party among
the employees of Pennsylvania rail
roads was announced at Pittsburgh,
Pa, by the central committee created
by railroad men to cooperate with
the steel strike
Steven Raglan, aged thirty-three, as
Sistant United States attorney, was
shot and instantly killed on Front
street at Ketchikan Alaska, and the
authorities are holding in custody Pat
Shannahan.
One man was fatally wounded and
another seriously injured when police
at Youngstown, o., broke up two al
legged attempts at arson by striking
steel workers.
Street cars and automobiles carry
ing workingmen to the plant OF the
United Alloy Steel corporation at Can
ton, o., were stoned by hundreds of
strikers and sympathizers.
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Woman air police-3O of them be-
tween eighteen and twenty-five years
old-are to be added to "New York's
finest" Police headquarters announced
they will be trained at the aviation
corps school.
J. It. Mccoy, seventy-five, prominent
oil man of Oil City, Pa, was killed at
Tusla, Okla, when struck by motor
car near the home of his daughter,
Mrs. f. A. Gillespie
Criminal prosecution of at least a
dozen army officers and civilians will
be asked by the congressional subcom-
mittee which completed it's inquiry
into the $27000O00 munition contract
scandal at Chicago.
A general strike of all labor to help
the steel strikers win was advocated
by speakers before the convention of
the Illinois Federation of Labor at
Peoria.
The Mount Carmel (In.) Trust and
Savings bank was closed by the state
auditors office.
Bishop Thomas F. Gailor of Tennes.
see was elected at Detroit, Mich, presi-
dent of the council which is to govern
the general administration of the
Protestant Episcopal Church of Amer
lea.
Vincent Sakraida, a director of the
State Deposit bank was instantly
killed. and his brother, John Sakrada,
the cashier, was seriously wounded
when robbers attacked the institution
at Beaver Falls, Pa.
More than 1000 members of the
American Iron and Steel institute at
meeting at New York unanimously
adopted a resolution indorsing the
stand taken by Gilbert H. Gary at the
Washington industrial conference.
Between twenty and thirty men
were badly burned by an explosion OF
gas on board the Standard Oil com
pany's tank steamer w. H Tilford al
the yards of the Baltimore Dry Docks
company at Baltimore.
Three safeblowers robbed the Burr
Oak (Mich.) State bank of a sum of
money not yet determined. One of the
robbers was shot and dangerously
wounded by his companions by mis-.
take.
Resolutions opposing the granting
by congress of further bonuses TO dis
charged soldiers were adopted at
meeting of the American Legion of
Oklahoma at Oklahoma City.
William o. jenkins, American con.
Sular agent at Puebla, Mex, was kid.
mapped by three masked bandits at
Puebla and is being held for $150.0OO
ransom, the state department at
Washington was advised.
Bandits held up the Perrysburg
Banking company's bank at Perrys.
burg, near Toledo, o. and escaped
with $1,000.
Foreign
Stockholm dispatch says that for
the second time the presentation of
the annual Nobel peace prizes will be
postponed. The prizes for 1918 and
1919 are still to be awarded.
The government at London was de-
feated by majority of e in a vote in
the house of commons on an amend
ment to the aliens bill. The vote was
1855 to 11S.
The antibolshevist forces under Adj