Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-08-21
COMPENDIUM OF THE NEWS

@nu - breek BOY scouts nave Oeen
murdered.
Chicago x Alton shopmen and clerks
at Bloomington, ILL.,. 1000 strong, rat-
ned action Of Chicago meeting in de-
ciaring OF the strike of car repairers.
Another group of railroad WORKERS
the conductors, have asked the rail-
road administration at Washington Tor
increases In wages.
Investigation Of the coal situation 10y
the senate Interstate commerce com
mittee was authorized by the senate at
Washington.
Frederick Layton, aged ninety-two,
the oldest meat packer In the county,
died at Milwaukee following a weeks
illness.
A Washington dispatch says the
Carranza government will not be per
mltted to import further arms and mu-
nitions from the United States for the
present
Motormen and conductors of the
East st. Louis x Suburban Railway
company and subsidiary lines Went on
strike, tying up street car service in
l3 nearby Illinois towns
Federal officials at ST. Louis seized
2S4,lS0 pounds of coffee held in stor-
age In a warehouse on a libel intor-
nation issued by the United States
district attorney.
The seizure at Kansas City, No. of
10000 pounds of beans, said by fed
eral authorities TO have been stored
throughout the war, was ordered by
District Attorney Wilson.
Records made public at Washing
ton show war contracts still awaiting
liquidation amount to more than S.
000,000,0o0, although 50 per cent Of
the emergency commitments of the
government have been settled
Mrs, Freeman Hicks Of Joliet, ILL.,,
and her three-ye ar-old son, George,
were drowned in the Illinois and Mich
igan canal ten miles southwest of
Joliet when an automobile in which
they were passengers skidded
Agents Of the Investigation branch
of the department of justice at De-
troit said that In one cold-storage
plant visited frozen hog was found
which they were told had been in
storage % years.
A second skeleton was uncovered on
the premises of RUFF King, former
livery proprietor of Maple Hin, Kan.
King was arrested at Goodpastor,
Colo. recently, following discovery of
human bones buried In woodshed.
The first of the giants Of the trans
atlantic fleet to return to regular pas
senger service, La France Of the
French line, arrived at New York from
Hayre. La France brought 45S first
class All second-class and 253 steer
age passengers.
Arthur Hayday. Labor M. +. for
West Nottingham, who was cheered
by the admiring house of commons NJ
London when he stated that he was
the proud father Of l6 children, has
just been presented with No. H. a
fine healthy girl.
Twenty million pounds of meats
were reported seized when federal au-
thoritles raided the Booth Cold Stor-
age company at St. Louis. Large
stocks of eggs, cheese and other food
stulfs were said TO have been located.
The allied governments, according 10
dispatch from Innsbruck. have in
formed the Austrian government that
II will be held responsible for Bella
Kun. the Hungarian communist leader,
and for his delivery later for trial for
hanging and shooting Elungarians dur
ing his control in Budapest
Material aid for Admiral kolchnk's
retrenting army in Siberia is being
rushed to Vladiyostok by the Ameri-
can government. II was said officially
M Washington that $4,000 rifles aud
several million rounds Of ammunition
already had been sent from San Fran
cisco and thu additional equipment
would 90 forward this week On an
army transport