The Dolores star., 1922-07-14
GENERAL

ne IRE WTlCn swept tne Locust
Point river front of the Baltimore *
Ohio railroad at Baltimore recently,
caused damage estimated by the COM
pany at 81 ,SO4.9OO and seriously threat
ened the public health service hospital
at Fort McHenry.
Creditors of the stock brokerage
firm of Kardos * Burke. New York.
which failed for S3.OOOOOO, We're in
formed at a meeting that tle two part
ners. John Burke, former treasurer of
the United States and governor of
North Dakota, and Louis Montgomery
kardos. Jr., We're penniIess.
Eleven persons We're killed and sew
enty-two injured when the midnight
flyer" on the Philadelphia & Reading
railroad left the rails, through the mis-
take of signalman, and plunged down
thirtyfoot embankment near Win
slow Junction, n. j., according to a
complete casualty list issued by the
state police.
Thlbodaux, surprise horse of the
Kentucky Special, when he ran a SEN
| sational second to Whiskaway and
| beat the great Norwich, came back and
won the Latonia derby from Yoshimi
| and Olympus in the easiest kind of
fashion. Withdrawal of Broomster
| and Margaret Winsor had reduced the
field to three starters.
The National Industrial Traffic
League at Chicago issued statement
regarding the effect the recent Coro.
| pado case might have upon the nation
wide rail strike. The statement, in part,
| follows: ''lf the strike should be con-
Quoted with violence and the destruc-
ton of life and property ensues, the
| organizations which have promoted the
| strike, their officers and agents, NAV
| be held liable in civil damages for
losses entailed.
Bennie Leonard, world champion
| lightweight fighter, smashed Rocky
Kansas almost at will all over the ring
in the eighth round of their scheduled
ten-round titular contest at Michigan
City, Ind, and the Buffalo, n. Y, chal-
lenger's seconds threw in the sponge
to save their man from something
more than a TECHNICAL Knockout.
| Watermelons for which Georgia
growers are glad to get from to l7h
cents each, are selling in the retail
market in New York City at 20 cents
to S1.5O, said statement issued by
Hershell S. Jones, Director of the State
Department Bureau of Farms and
Markets. High freight rates, mostly
| nnIt t.ll ly ffrh n,-tn .t1,
''bit" taken in turn by four middlemen
make up the difference, he said.
Adjt. Gen. C. E. Black today visited
the scene of the recent mine war at
the mine of the Southern Illinois Coal
Company near Herrin, ILL.,, and held
conferences with local officials. Gen
eral Black is understood to have made
the visit at the request of Governor
Len Small. Before departing for Chi
cago, he declared that he found condi-
tions entirely satisfactory in the VII
Hanson county coal fields
Frances Decamp, Is years old
daughter of Mrs. Lillian DeCamp OF
Helena, Montana, was drowned in thu
Woolston reservoir, on Mount Helena
while camping there with n party OF
2icnickers. The child went to the
reservoir to dip out water, leaned oyeI
TO far and fell In.
The Douglas National Bank, said tc
be the only national bank in the coun
try where all the officers and director,
and stockholders are negroes, ha,
opened at Chicago. The bank 10 locat
ed in the negro residential and busi
ness district