The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-01-20
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Three men held up and robbed the
Des Moines Qa.) City Railway COM
pany pay car of approximately $1,000.
The Anglo-Irish treaty creating the
Irish Free State was unanimously
ratified by the South Ireland parlia-
ment at Dublin.
The senate at Washington voted, 63
20 ., to amend the federal reserve act
so as to appoint a farmer to the fed
eral reserve board
-Four armed bandits held up the
Star Loan bank at Chicago and es-
capped with diamonds and other jewel
ry valued at $4,000.
A jury to try Roscoe ("Fatty') Ar
buckle was completed at San Fran
cisco. The jury finally selected num-
bers eleven men and one woman.
Arthur o. Meininger, cashier Of the
closed Night and Day bank at st.
Louis, was indicted on two charges Of
grand larceny and embezzlement.
-Four men in an automobile were
killed by Burlington passenger train
near Palmyra, II miles west of Han.
nibal, Mo. The men were farmers.
The number of freight cars lying idle
on January s was 646,673, according to
figures made public by the American
Railway association at Washington.
Sir John Kirk, who was chief officer
on the government expedition Of Da-
v1d Livingstone to Africa in 1853, died
In London, at the age of ninety years.
Charles P. Fox, fifty-five years old,
owner and editor of che California Oil
World, published at Los Angeles, died
at his home at Bakersfield, CAL, after
a long illness.
Four men in an automobile shot and
seriously wounded two bank messen-
gers of the Citizens Trust and Savings
bank at Chicago and robbed them of
$4,000 pay roll.
Sylvester T. Everett, prominent re
tired broker and one Of the country's
pioneers in the promotion of electric
railway construction, died at his home
at Cleveland, O.
One robber was killed and another
fatally wounded and captured when
six armed men held up w. Ell. Browns
rOadhOUse, ten miles south of Toledo,
O., at midnight.
Christopher Minor Spencer, one of
tho hOCf- inv
died at the home of his son, Roger M.
Spencer, at Hartford, Conn. He was
lightweight years old.
William j. Roberts, sixty, former
postmaster of Leavittsburg, O., was
sentenced at Cleveland, O., to four
years and six months in Leavenworth,
Kan, for embezzlement. :
The bodies of his wife, son and
daughter and the ak with which he
said he had killed them, were coolly
exhibited to Sheriff Vincent Aye and
his deputies at Charleston, ILL.,, by B.
f. Monroney.
Tentative agreement was reached
by Republican members of the senate
finance committee at Washington to
assess import duties under the new
permanent tariff law on the basis of
the selling price in the American
wholesale market.
Aid to the extent of $250,O0O in Aus.
tralian supplies, principally wheat, to
be shipped from Australian stores al
ready in Great Britain, is to be ex.
tended to, the starving peoples of Eu.
rope by the commonwealth govern.
ment at Melbourne
The discovery of the bodies of two
men, apparently foreign sailors, on the
beach at Biloxi, Miss, has led to ten
arrests by the police, who assert the
men were killed in a fight which fol-
lowed an attempt to hold up liquor
smuggling Cuban schooner.
The governmental powers Ior Ire
land, as vested in the British authori.
ties at Dublin castle, were turned over
to the provisional government of Ire
land, as constituted under the Anglo
Irish treaty. The transfer was made
at Dublin by Viscount Fitzalan, the
lord lieutenant.