The Tomahawk., 1919-09-25

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Medill Mccormick of Illinois took uI
the gage Of battle at Chicago in be-
half Of the reservationists to the
League of Nations covenant and the
peace treaty. Their attacks were
launched directly upon the claims
made for the covenant and treaty BY
President Wilson during his speeches
in middle West cities.
Two sisters were killed and third
sister and brother-in-law were bad
ly injured when an automobile in which
they were riding collided with Ham
mond car at Eighty-third street and
Jeffery avenue, Chicago. The dead
Miss Harriet McCrea, twenty-four
years old; Miss Dora McCree, twenty
years old.
The strike of United States Steel
corporation employees set for Septem'
ber %, will be deferred until after the
Industrial conference called for Octo-
ber by President Wilson, according
to New York dispatch.
With 1000 troops patrolling the prin'
cipal streets of Boston and squads OF
newly recruited police quartered In ev'
cry station, city officials said they had
the situation well in hand.
Col. James D. Bell of Brooklyn, N
Y, was unanimously elected comman-
der in chief Of the Grand Army OF the
Republic at Columbus, O. D. NJ. Hall
of Columbus was elected senior vice
commander.
Thirty-s+ven indictments against II
commission merchants and firms
were returned by the county grand
jury, which has been investigating the
high cost OF living at Indianapolis.
Resolutions opposing ratification by
the United States Of the peace treaty
in its present form were adopted al
most unanimously by delegates at
tending the annual encampment OF the
G. A. r. at Columbus, o.
Twenty-seven members of the crew
of the Ward line steamer Corydon lost
their lives when the vessel foundered
in the Bahama channel in the hurri'
cane which passed over Florida Tues
day, according to Miami dispatch.
Fl. A. Garnes, United States customs
inspector, was badly beaten and left
for dead by a party of Mexicans who
crossed the Rio Grande at the ford at
Ysleta, Tex. There were four In the
party.
Sporting
Nine games will be played in the
worlds series this fall. This was an
nounced at Cincinnati by Garry Herr
mann, chairman of the national base
ball commission.
Personal
Cardinal Gibbons gave a dinner at
the archepiscopal residence at Balti-
more in honor of Cardinal Mercier. the
guests including leading citizens OF
Baltimore and Washington.
County Judge Thomas F. Scully died
in st. Joseph's hospital at Chicago fol.
lowing an operation to remove an ulcer
on the stomach.
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Judge Henry Guerin of the Chicago
superior court was drowned in Lake
Michigan near Muskegon, Mich.
Before leaving for Baltimore, Card
inal Mercier issued the following
signed statement: "The American
army won the war. General Pershins
is genial leader. To him our re
spect. TO him our universal gratt
tude."
Foreign
Marshal Foch has recently asked the
Belgian government to have search
made for the body Of his son, who was
killed in battle in August, 1914, in the
Belgian Ardenpes, says a Paris dis
patch.
| Admiral Kolchak, in pursuing his Of
fensive against the bolsheviki, ha!
broken their front In three places, &C
. cording to official information reachin.
London.
1T has been decided to make grant!
amounting to about $4,5OO,OOO to hos
pitals and other institutions in England
and Wales from the surplus fund o.
the British Red Cross society ut Lon
don.
nonronfion has heen si0nad he