The Tomahawk., 1919-10-09

unrepentant OnarcnlSt.
Two thousand striking steel work.
ers with their wives and children
rioted at Waukegan, Ill. They at
tackled 300 police and special deputies,
tore off their stars. bombarded them
with bricks and stones and threatened
to burn the home of one Of their num-
Der. The trouble started when 300 non
union men left the plant of the Amer1-
can Steel and Wire company for home.
United States Senator Owen Of Okla
homa, in an address at st. Louis. at
tributed the high cost of living to &C.
tivities Of Interstate monopolies. which
he declared limit production in many
lines, control distribution and are not
content with reasonable profits.
immigration officials at Laredo, Tex,
have rounded up and deported to Mex
leo 29S Mexican laborers smuggled IN
to this country. >.
Tugmen of the Whitney Brothers,
Barnet & Record company and Eng"
land Towing company went on strike
at Duluth, Minn., in response to call
for a strike on the Great lakes.
The steel workers and not the mill
owners will surely win, according to
Samuel Gompers, president OF tnd
American Federation Of Labor. who
declared in q statement that the report
that the strike was crumbling was
based on INSPIRED and untrustworthy"
reports from Pittsburgh and elsewhere.
One Of the old coast defense bat
tleships-the Iowa, Indiana or Mas
sachusetts-recently placed out OF
commission by the navy department at
Washington will be used as targeo
for defense batteries.
William J. Flynn, chief Of the bu:
reau of Investigation of the depart
ment of Justice, is in Pittsburgh. 1t
was said at Washington he probably
would look into the strike situation.
Federal Judge Evans at Chicago
fined the Cudahy Packing company
$8S75 for collecting excessive damage
claims from q railroad company which
the packing company alleged had im'
properly iced meat cars.
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Sporting
With Grover Cleveland Alexander
on the slab, the Reds, newly crowned
champions of the National league
were licked ut Cincinnati in the final
game Of the season for both teams, z
to O.
White Sox went through the mo-
tions of winding up the American
league season at Chicago. Detroit woD
by a score Of 10 to 9.
A gift of $2O,O0O,000 from John D.
for the improvement OF
medical education in the United States
was announced by the general educa'
ton board at New York.
Foreign,
Gen. NJ. M. Dieguez. commander OF
the Carranza forces In Chihuahua.
Mex, reported that six Villa followers
had surrendered to his troops and
sought amnesty. Their pardon was
granted. 1t was said.
American aviators flying into Mexico
will be fired upon by Mexican troops,
said q message received in Ell Paso,
Tex, from Mexico City by Ell Nacional,
n newspaper here.
President Wilson will make a third
trip to Paris. according to a London
report current in diplomatic quarters.
If the senate attaches any amendments
to the League Of Nations scheme or
any Of the treaty clauses.
After wavering for weeks as to
whether to turn to the political par
ties Of the left or right for necessary
support to insure It longer life. the
German government has turned Its
back upon extreme radicalism.
A Berlin dispatch says the Schwer-
in property tax bureau has confiscated
the property and fortune Of Anthony
Fokker, the well-known builder of air-
planes.
A movement Is on foot In Hungary
to restore the monarchy with the for
mer Archduke Francis Joseph Otto,
eldest son of former Emperor Charles.
as king, according to a Budapest dis
patch.
Paris music hall strike leaders say
the present contest in which they are
engaged is "going to be q life and
death struggle"
So far as Berlin knows. Countess
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