, 1920-08-19


Avail Johnson, 10, said to have been
missing from his home in Leachville,
Ark, for eight months, was located at
Elgin, Neb., according to information
from that place. He had been travel
ing with a theatrical company.
A request for the appointment of n
receiver for the Terminal Railroad AS
ISOLATION of st. Louis was made in a
motion filed / n United States District
Court at st. Louis by the Missouri
Pacific; Missouri, Kansas & Texas /;
Frisco, n Rock Island railroad COM
panies.
Ed Shanahan, about 50 years old, of
81. Louis, Mo-, was found dead in his
room in a hotel at Albuquerque. A
draft for S1,976 and S425 in cash were
found on his person and a note to no.
tify J.. ]. Flynn, 5 South Sixth street,
St. Louis. Letters indicated he had
been in the mining business.
Phillip Lauricelli, San Francisco
laborer, shot and killed his mother
in-law, Mrs. Dolly Rollins, while she
was cooking breakfast at his home
in San Francisco, dragged his wife,
Eva, from bed and shot her, proba-
bly, fatally, and then killed himself.
Jealousy was given as the motive. .
While cutting hay on his farm, Fred
Lockwood, a rancher of the North
Fork country lei Eugene, Ore, cut
off both feet of his 3-year-old daugh-
ter, who vas playing in the tall grass.
The little girl was not seen by her
father until an instant before the
scythe hit her. A surgeon from Flor
sncs attended the child's injuries.
With Villa out of the way and spo-
radio banditry apparently suppressed.
Mexico business men are anxious to re-
sumo their old business and social re-
lations with the United States. In fur
therance Of this, the chambers of
commerce Of Ell Paso, Texas, and of
Juarez, Mexico, have held a conference
to discuss the best means Of bringing
It about. Leading business men Of the
two cities attended.
A replica of the palace of the Legion
Of Honor is to be built at the entrance
Of the Golden Gate, on a hill overlook
ing San Francisco bay, as a memorial
to soldiers who persisted in the world
war, according to Mrs. A. B. Spreck-
els of San Francisco, on her return
from Europe. The memorial, of white
stone and marble, will be decorated
with gifts from allied nations and the
rooms will be furnished with objects
Of European art. The memorial is to
be built by Mrs. Spreckels and her
husband, she said, adding she had
brought the plans with her.
WASHINGTON
The Detroit United Railways Com
pany has filed with the United States
Supreme Court a petition asking q per-
manent injunction restraining the city
Of Detroit from taking over the De-
troit traction lines.
The Department of Justice at
Washington is conducting an inves-
tigation into the textile industry to
determine whether the closing of
cotton and wooden mills is due to a
conspiracy by manufacturers to con-
tinue high prices.
Loans of 1897, $50 to the Chicago
Great Western railroad int $35, 600 to
thS ALL <hlboA ullIouu " atolcI tllC
roads in purchasing additional equip
ment has been approved by the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
Federal income tax returns show
that there are approximately $4,000
persons In the United States who
might be classified as members of the
"millionaire group" and that there are
at least 10000 millionaires now In the
United States, 1t has been announced
In Washington.
Exposure of what a war department
announcement at Washington charac-
terizes as a "despicable swindle," by
which the mother of a dead soldier
was the victim, prompted a new warn
ing by the department hat relatives
of the soldier dead should pay no
money to any person or organization
for information as to burial places. In
quiries will receive prompt attention,
the warning said. In the case exposed
the grave of the soldier was never To-
Gated. The swindler told the mother
he would visit Washington If she
would pay his expenses and see what
could be done. Later he reported sue
cess and the body would be sent home.
Renewal until August 81, 1921, of
the agreement between employees and
producers In the California oil fields
was announced by the Department of
Labor at Washington. The $1,000 oil
workers affected will receive an in
crease of rs cents a day and employees
In all other branches of the industry
will get an increase Of IS cents a day.
Permission to increase express rates
to absorb the wage award Of the rail-
road labor board at Chicago, estimated
at $48,S00, 805, was asked from the In
terstate Commerce Commission by the