The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-08-15
Domestic

Domestic
Four youthful white bandits and one
elderly negro held up the South Hoi-
land Trust and Savings bank, South
Holland, Ill, and escaped with about
81 900, of which $4,000 was in cash and
and $4,000 in Liberty bonds.
The state of North Dakota, through
the State Mill and Elevator associa-
ton at Bismarck, has purchased
flour mill and is now locating four
large mills and terminal elevators.
United States Attorney Charles F.
Clyne returned to Chicago from Wash
iIgton with the complete plans Of the
federal government for the criminal
prosecution Of the five big Chicago
j packers.
Joe Ridgeway, who was severely
| cut in the street car riots Tuesday
night at Muskegon, Mich. died, the
| first victim Of the disorder.
About 600 employees Of Cudahy
Bros company packing plant at Mil
waukee went on strike demanding rec
ignition Of their union, the mems lead
ers announced.
Lieut.. w. 81. Tillisch Of Minneapolis,
stationed at Ellington flying field,
Houston, Tex, and e. L. DAWN of the
Texas department Of agriculture were
killed instantly when their airplane
FELL.
Twenty-three negroes were indicted
by the special grand jury investigat-
ing the race riots at Chicago, bringing
the number who must face trial on
various charges to more than forty.
Its treasury exhausted and unable
to obtain further credit, the Mid
CrosstOwn Railway company, operat"
ing crosstown cars on Twenty-eighth
and Twenty-ninth streets, New York,
suspended operation. ..... .
..-..
Six youthful bandits entered the
Sixteenth Street bank at Chicago
shortly after two o'clock, locked four
employees and three customers in the
presidents private Office and escaped
with $500. .........
On notice varying from five to thir-
ty minutes a hundred or more actors
and actresses struck and closed IL at
fractions in New York's first-class the
aters.
Steaming in silence and with the
majestic dreadnaughts surrounded by
Gordon of darling destroyers, Ad-
miral Hugh Rodman's epoch-making
Pacific fleet entered the San Diego
(Cal.) harbor.
A strike of Brooklyn Rapid Transit
company employees affiliated with the
Amalgamated Association Of Street
and Electric Railway Employees, was
voted unanimously at union meeting.
Negroes employed on paving work
at Lexington, 175 miles west of Lin
coin, Neb., were forced to leave town
by a white mob. A negro shack was
riddled with bullets.
Governor Philip at Madison, Wis,
issued proclamation to the people of
the state asking that dealers in the
necessities of life desist from charging
abnormal prices.
Because officials of the Chicago &
Joliet Electric railway would not grant
their demands for 20 cents wage In
crease, joliet (Hl.) street car men
went on strike. They refused an in
crease of 10 cents an hour.
Protesting against the boost to seven
cents street car fare more than 1000
men, most of them youths, Joined in
big riot, practically wrecking a
score of street cars at Muskegon, Mich.
A tornado which formed five mixes
northwest of Bristow, Ia, struck that
town, causing heavy damage to crops
and property, but injuring no one. A
number Of farm animals were killed.
August Kayser, forty-five years old,
st. Louis (Mo.) butcher, killed three
Of his children by slashing their
threats and then attempted his own
| life.
Robert and Ralph Lambert, twenty
one and twenty-six years old, were
drowned when swimming in a gravel
| pit pool on the banks of the Sangamon
river at Decatur, Ill.
Twenty-Five men, fourteen stills and
several hundred gallons of illicit
| whisky were taken to Chicago after
Internal Revenue Agents L. G. Keter,
Mathew Weydell and Perry Fullmsr
descended on Elgin, H., and raided an
alleged Illicit still.
The bodies Of Arnold Henderson,
Chester, H., and Sidney G. Uhlik,
uop,;Itnp III Soapon droupad ofp