, 1921-10-20

The American freighter West
Comak, bound with cargo from San
Francisco for Glasgow, rammed the
Laird liner Rowan, a Glasgow-Dublin
night passenger boat, in n thick fog
off Corsewallpoint, Scotland, near the
mouth of the river Clyde. While the
Comak vas lowering its boats to aid
the stricken ship, a third steamer, the
Clan liner Clan Malcolm, from Glas-
Cow for Natal, South Africa, sped out
of the fog in answer to an s. o. S. call
and crashed amidships of the Rowan,
which sank a minute later. Thirteen
members of the Rowan's crew and
three passengers were lost.
GENERAL
Mrs. Myrtle Greenlee fell dead in a re-
vival meeting in Paris, ILL.,, while plead
ing with her husband to join a church.
The cause of death was described by
physicians rs heart disease aggravated
by religious excitement.
The State Bank of Muncie, Kansas,
was robbed recently, and in an tx
change of shots between the robbers
and bank officials, it is reported, L. e.
Worthington, cashier of the bank, WAS
shot. Telephone wires between Kan
sas City and Muncie were cut, pre-
sumably by the robbers.
Ray V. McGraw, formerly vice pres
ident n general manager of the Mis-
souri, Valley Cattle Loan Company of
Omaha, which was declared bankrupt
some time ago, has surrendered to the
sheriff on indictments, one of which
charged embezzlement of 100000 of
the company's funds.
One person is known to have been
killed and two were injured seriously
by an explosion that wrecked n whole
sale grocery in Detroit. Police began
a search of the debris in the belief
some of the occupants of apartments
in the upper floor might have per
ished. Joseph Caruso, proprietor of
the grocery, was unable to explain the
explosion or give the police a clue.
Directors of the Associated Dress
Industries of America bowed to the
decision of Partisan designers and in
dorsed the longer skirts. This means
that manufacturers of dresses over
the country will take up the matter in
their respective organizations for lndi.
vidual action" said David j. Moses
sohn, executive director. at is he
lieved that by spring tho new length
will be considered established and pub
licity approved"
Mrs. r. J. Rocker. 33, has been ar
rested In Memphis by federal officers
on a charge of being n fugitive from
justice, she being under indictment in
Dallas, Texas, the officers said, in CON
~nection with the embezzlement of $1O,-
900 from the West Side National Bank
in that city. According to the officers,
Mrs. Rocker, for whom n search has
been under way for six months, was
a friend of James Lyons. now serving
n seven-year sentence in a bank fraud.
More than 81, OO0, 600 u week WAS
spent on the highways in Ohio during
the past summer, beginning the litter
part of June. Vouchers for n total OF
S3.f61, 504 were paid out by the OHIO
Highway Department for work dore
between June Is and July 1. This -
the largest amount ever spent Ia that
short period of time since the depart
ment was organized.
A broken engagement and the an
nouncement hat her promised fiance
was preparing to marry another girl.
led to the fatal shooting of Boyd Rid
niger, 81, farmer. of Bradley's Ferry,
near Lead Hin, Ark. Miss Allie Stin.
nett. p, his former sweetheart, in the
%scuffle for the gun, was shot in the
thigh. Ridinger died four hours after
the shooting. Miss Stinnett surren
dered to the police.
Capt. A. Il. Randall, master of the
steamship Hudson, has been cleared OF
II charge of violating one of the most
sacred laws of Tie sea In that he
failed to give aid to seamen In dis.
tress. II. A. Sargent and ]. Il. Wilson
federal steamboat inspectors, decided
that his failure to pick up three men
adrift in n disabled motor boat Oft
New York harbor recently did not con.
stitute willful neglect of duty.
Damaged by one vessel in a dense
fog off the southwest coast OF Scot.
land and then sunk by another coming
to its aid, was the fate OF the Laird
line steamer Rowan, plying between
Glasgow and Dublin. Thirteen OF the
Rowan's crew and three passengers
are missing. Two passengers died aft.
err being rescued by vessels which re-
sponded to the wireless S. o. S. call.
The October festival, just ended in
Germany, resulted In consumption of
1,S94,000 quarts of beer In ten days.
The brew contained ID to IS per cent
alcohol.