Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1922-07-19
Domestic

Domestic
Reduction of the army to 125,0O0
enlisted men provided for by congress
is in progress. The army began the
fiscal year with 128,700 enlisted men.
1t is expected that by natural wastage,
due to curtailed recruiting, a total of
less than $4,000 will have been
| reached by August 1.
The Mast & Co. stock brokerage
firm of Chicago closed it's doors. The
Chicago Title and Trust company took
over it's affairs as receiver The lia-
bilities were said to be between S6,-
100000 and 100000.
Mrs. Clara p Phillips, wife of Al
Phillips, an oil broker of Los Angeles,
Cal, is under arrest in Tucson, Ariz.,
charged with the hammer murder of
Mrs. Alberta Meadows, pretty wild
owed bank clerk. Jealousy over Phil
lips alleged attentions to Mrs. Mead
Ows caused the crime, police said.
She was arrested while en- route to
Ell Paso, Tex.
One bandit was killed and Sergt.
James w Mccarthy of the detective
bureau was shot during a desperate
battle in which detectives frustrated
robbery of the Central Manufacturing
District bank at Chicago. Two other
bandits were captured.
Edward Tilden II, wealthy broker
and son of William A. Tilden, former
president of the Fort Dearborn Ma
tional bank, was sued for divorce in
the Superior court at Chicago by Mrs.
+! Gladys Hempel Tilden. Mrs. Tilden
charged habitual drunkenness and
cruelty.
An unqualified defiance to railroad
executives was issued at Chicago by
| Bert NJ. Jewell. The head of the
striking federated shop craftsmen as
serted his men will not go back to
work until the strike has been set
! tied LET it be said now and for
ever" said Mr.. Jewell, "that this
strike will not be called off and that
! the men will not be ordered back to
work until justice has been secured"
The miners will not accept Presi-
! dent Harding's proposal Of settlement
/ of the coal strike, leaders forecast,
/ if the anthracite operators statement
! of acceptance interprets the White
! House views. According to union
leaders, the anthracite operators ac-
! cepted the proposal as a purely Grbi-
tration plan, and the miners, it was
declared, will not consent to it on that
! basis.
DR. John Dill Robertson, former
1 commissioner of health at Chicago,
and recently appointed to the school
| board by Mayor Thompson, was unan-
imously elected president of the
! board.
Initial steps have been taken toward
I UdSlS 1OI Negotiating d SSIliSIuChL
| of the strike of railroad shopmen in
! the northwest, it was learned in au-
! thoritative sources at st. Paul, MINI.
Four persons, including two women,
were taken into custody by police at
| New Orleans and charged with violat-
ing federal iniunctions TO prevent in
! reference with the operation of
! trains. The four are specifically
charged with an assault upon a maid
employed by the Pullman company.
A deputy United States marshal on
/ guard at the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas shops at Muskogee, Okla, was
seized by a band of about twenty men,
/ said to be strikers. as he was leaving
duty. He was beaten over the head
and carried away in an automobile.
| There were five cars.
The German steamship Aladdin was
seized by United States marshal Dy-
son at Jacksonville Fla, following the
arrest of the engineer. Albert Rettick
on charge of violating the prohibit