Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1922-01-05
GRIM DEATH BUSY
ON new YEAR'SDA
. ALL PARTS OF u. S.
First Day Of Year at Chicago
Marked With Shootings,
Robberiss and Disastrous
Fire-Several Depart This
World Via Home : Brew
Route.

. ShlCd6O, jan. l.-lue llFSL udy OIL
the new year in. Chicago was marked
by score Of crimes including the
shooting to death Of one man and
the theft of jewelry valued at $1O,-
600 from tw;e couples who were
held up by automobile bandits.
Mcrc thu; 15yG persons were taken
into custody yesterday by the police
in an effort to put stop to the law
lessness. ,-..s
Adolph Schelling was shot and fat
ally wounded by one Of two bandits
who entered his store and obtained
5000. +4-
Nine men and five women were
injured, two of them seriously, when
three automobiles collided. The ac-
cident occurred, according to the po-
lice when Herman App1egate,
manufacturer swerved his car from
side to side and drove it ,headon, into
two automobiles bound in the oppo-
sit direction. Applegate was arrest
ed Miss May Farrell sustained q
fractured skull and Miss Lilah Cor
ser was internally injured as re-
suit of the accident. &
..l Driest New Year
More than 200 persons were arr
rested by police and prohibition
agents in their campaign to make
Chicago dry at the opening of the
new year.
The warnings issued by Chief OF
Police Fitzmorris and Charles A.
Gregory, federal prohibition agent,
apparently had their effect. The
loop district scene of revelry where
thousands congregated to past years
was almost deserted and the search
ers for liquor law violators confined
their activities to the raidfng OF re-
mote clubs and watching hotels and
restaurants. s-Hl
Prohibition agents in reports as
serted that liquor could be bot at
many places but few Of the saloons
were raided altho! lists were
turned in to the prohibition director
and it was indicated action might be
taken later. 80. 335.s...s 3}se n
At the central police station. where
in previous years scores of men So
bered UP on New Years day only
four were booked for intoxication.
"Lt was the driest New Years Chi
cago has ever KNOWN" Chief OF Po-
lice Fitzmorris said. ''Not drink
could be bot in any downtown
cafe, restaurant, club or hotel.'
Two Firemen Killed
Two firemen were killed and seven
hurt several families were made
homeless and 100000 damage was
done in the first two big fires OF the
year here.
The deaths resulted when two fire
engines crashed. a There had been
great rivalry between the two en-
gines to see who would be the first
to answer fire this year. The alarr
which caused the deaths proved t..
be false. II
A garage and IS automobiles were
destroyed and a tenement house adj
Joining was burned, forcing score
of persons to flee from the building.
The second blaze destroyed the in
terror of a seven-story factory and
office building.
Boy Shoots Self
Butte, Mont. Jan. Carl Drew
16, while handling a small calibre
revolver at young peoples New
Year eve celebration shortly before
midnight Saturday night. accident
ally shot himself in the right temple
and died while being, rushed to g
hospital. :5 4.
Three Die From Drink b Il, Sss
New York; Jan. 2.-Father Knick-s
erbrocker turned his pockets inside
out today to pay the piper for piping
in the New Year amidst Volstead
defying celebration. that overspread,
Manhattan from Harlem to the Bat
terry Three violent deaths attribut-