The Tomahawk., 1919-11-27
Domestic


Policemen on duty at night in Chi.
cago will wear civilian clothes if rec
concentrations of Chief Garr!ty before
the council are carried out.
A 12 month Industrial armistice to
settle labor unrest was advocated by
delegates to the 22d annual convention
of the American mining congress at
st. Louis.
A $1O,OCo Christmas cargo of food,
clothing and toys will be sent TO needy
children of Germany by the 1ndepen-
dent German American Woman's club
of Chicago.
Seven occupants Of an automobile,
including six nurses, returning from
a social affair, we're killed when the
car was struck by train at grade
crossing near Buffalo, N. Y.
Rioting between whites and negroes
broke out at Wilmington, DEL, follow
ing the killing of one policeman and
the wounding of another by negroes
whom they we're questioning regard
ing a recent robbery.
A warning that permanent prohibit
ton was not assured in the United
States was sounded by Rev. Dr. Daniel
A. Polling Of Boston in an address
before the National Women's Chris
tian Temperance union convention at
St. Louis.
Curiosity, prompted by desire to
be near a spectacular blaze of four
oil tanks, lured eight persons to their
deaths at Hays, Kansas. and resulted
in the serious injury of 26 persons,
and the less serious injury of scores
Of others.
Railroads have sufficient coal to
operate for from rs to 80 days, Walker
D. Hines, director general of railroads,
declared on his arrival in Chicago to
meet with regional directors. Nv e1..:
eral frei2ht embargo will be declared
while the coal pile holds out, he said.
Public Ownership League of Amer
ica at the closing session in Chicago
adopted a resolution urging congress
to appoint a commission for convert
ing the steam railway, telephone and
telegraph systems of the country into
branch of the postoficc department
under government ownership.
The total value of the new construc'
ton in Minnesota, North Dakota and
South Dakota for the first 10 months
of 1919 amounted to more than $751;
100000, a total which has been ex'
ceeded only once before, in 1916, ac
cording to building statistics. In 1916
the total for the 10 months period
was $6O,974,O00.
Activities against I. w. w. are being
continued in different parts of Wash
ington and Oregon. In Tacoma par.
ties were sent to nearby logging
camps, where it was reported l. w.
w. were arming. Sixty-six alleged
I. w. w. were arraigned in Tacoma
for violation of the state criminal
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Captain Robert Hunter Fitzhugh, 83,
author, educator, missionary, philan.
thropist and the last surviving mem
ber of the staff of General Robert E.
Lee, died at his home at Lexington.
KY.
Foreign
Bolivia has ratified the treaty of
Versailles.
Lettish troops still are advancing
along the entire front west of Riga.
General Judenich, commander-in.
chief of the Russian army of the
Northwest, has resigned.
80 t.,
in Spain that society has been organ.
lied at Madrid to import wooden
houses from America.
A floating mine was declared re-
sponsible for the sinking of the Ameri-
can steamer Council Bluffs, off the
coast of Holland, but the crew was
saved.
A delegation of French intellectuals
will visit Mexico within the next few
months with an idea of creating a
better understanding between the two
countries.
The Bolsheviki have been over
thrown in Brest-Litovsk, a soviet wire
less dispatch from Moscow admits
After fighting for eight days, the Boil
sheviki withdrew.
Representatives of Esthonia, Letvia,
Lithuania, Finland, Poland, Ukrania
and White Russia have declared in
favor of formation of a political and
military alliance for defense.
A bill embodying the British cabi.
net committees report on Ireland, to
be presented in commons in a fort.
night, provides for two legislatures
with supreme central senate, accord.
ing to report.
On the ground that the president
alone could say when war with Ger.
many ended. the federal court of ap.
peals at New Orleans affirmed the sen.
tence imposed on Lucian C. Laughter,
Tarrant. Texas. convicted of having
violated in April, 1919. the Reed
and selective service act
by taking liquor into Camp Bowie.
The frozen bodies of several Aus
trian artillerymen, perfectly preserved.
have been discovered by ST. Bernard