Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-08-13
Domestic

Holland, H., and escaped with about
1000, of which $4,000 was in cash and
and $4,000 in Liberty bonds.
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The state of North Dakota, through
the State Mill and Elevator associa-
ton at Bismarck. has purchased a
flour mill and is now locating four
large mills and terminal elevators.
United States Attorney Charles F.
Clyne returned to Chicago from Wash
ihgton with the complete plans of the
federal government for the criminal
prosecution of the five big Chicago
! 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. III. 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 hundred or more actors
and actresses struck and closed II at
fractions in New York's first-class the
aters.
| Steaming in silence and with the
majestic dreadnaughts surrounded by
a Gordon of darling destroyers, Ad-
miral Hugh Rodman's experimenting
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.
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 (Ill.) 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 1900
men, most of them youths, joined in
/ big riot, practically wrecking a
score Of street cars at Muskegon, Mich.
A tornado which formed FIVE miles
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
throats 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. c. Keter.
Mathew Weydell and Perry Fullmer
descended on Elgin, Ill. and raided an
| alleged Illicit still.
The bodies Of Arnold Henderson,
Chester, Ill. and Sidney G.. Uhlik,
Hamilton, H., seamen, drowned of
New London, Conn.,, when the subma-