The Ordway new era., 1921-07-15

ers. said to have been at work in the
office of the presidents secretary
shortly before the fire. 1t is said the
fire broke out simultaneously in three
places in the presidential suite.
Lieut.. Gen. Karl Stenger, charged
by the French government with hav-
ing ordered troops under his command
to take no prisoners and kill wounded
men during the fighting of August,
! 1914, has been acquitted by the Ger
man Supreme Court at Leipslc. en-
gagged in The trial of cases against al
legged war criminals. Mai. Brmu
Crus!us. tried on similar charge
was given sentence of Two years in
prison and forbidden TO wear the Ger
man uniform.
GENERAL
Approximately 1000 coke workers
/ in the Independent plants of the Con-
nellsville. PENNSYLVANIA. coke region
We're affected by 10 per cent reduc-
tion in wages, the second announced
this year. The new rate is about SO l-3
| per cent below the rate paid Jan. l,
but, according TO coke men. 45 per cent
higher than the prevailing rate in 1912.
Only about : per cent of the independ-
ent ovens are in operation.
Carl Wanderer, triple murderer, ex-
hausted his last trick in his efforts 10
dodge the gallows when the Chicago
jury that has been hearing his plea OF
that he was sane and must hang
I 4.
Judge David set the date of execution
for Friday, July 30 The sole hope
now remaining for Wanderer is that
Governor Small will intervene.
An alleged unauthorized strike by
200 pressmen in the printing shop of
the Cuneo-Henneberry Company, pub
fishers, of Chicago. resulted in the fill
ing of the praccipe of IL $4,000 suit
against the Chicago Printing and
Pressmens Union No. 3 and eight of
ficials and agents of the union Trou-
ble is said to have started over the
printing of the western edition of
weekly magazine, at whose plant
there was pressmen's strike.
Mrs. Eta b. He'll, the millionaire
maid of Chicago, was placed on pro-
baton for one year after she pleaded
guilty to four separate charges of lar
ceny. Mrs. He'll, the wife of wealthy
broker, was arrested and confessed
that she had looted dozen North
Shore homes while posing as maid"
Her loot ran above 100000. but resti-
tuition was made TO all her victims by
her husband. Tile probation sentence
was decreed by Judge Kerston in Grim
inal Court after attorneys for the
woman had appealed for cleinency.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Ne
braska Potash Company at Antioch,
eighteen miles east of Alliance, Neb.
1t is owned by Denver concern and
was valued at approximately 100000
The Catholic church and several 9th
er buildings caught fire from the
flames which We're famed by wind
Miss Jennie Fullers of Humboldt.
Neb., was awarded $1,000 dollars in
her suit for breach of promise against
Louis Henry Howe, also of Humboldt,
by the Nebraska Supreme Court Miss
Fellers claimed she had waited twen-
ty-two years for Howe on his promise
TO marry her She previously had
been awarded 1000 by District
Judge Troup of Douglas county, Ne
braska.
Fred Taylor, an ex-service man of
Wichita, Kan, is a hero. When an
ammonia pipe in grocery store near
Taylor's place of business broke he re-
membered his army training, rushed
home, donned his gas mask and
stopped the flow of poisonous fumes
before serious damage was done. \
number of customers were nrarIy suf-
focated by the fumes, but an recov-
cred following rescue by Taylor.
With the vote of the railway shop
men overwhelmingly opposed TO accep-
tance of wage reduction from 81 to
II cents an hour. as ordered by the
United States Railway. Labor Board,
railway circles are apprehensive that
the nation may be confronted with n
serious railroad crisis within fort
night
Eleven persons were killed and
twenty-five injured. when train en-
route for Tampico from San luis
Potosi. was derailed, becpuse of
washout. according to reports frsm
Tampico, Mexico.