Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-10-06


disaster.
| Guilty, by loans from the American
people, who had no reason to expect
that they would not be repaid. He
also drew attention to the American
suspicion that If the loans were for
given the money thus released might
| be used in new wars.
ICONRAD e. SPENS, railway off,
~ cial of Chicago, who was appoint
ed federal fuel distributor under the
act passed by congress, started in by
| warning the various states that his
| powers do not extend to coal mined
and sold within given state and
their officials must look after that
end of the proposition. He then asked
eight leading railway executives to
serve as an advisory committee in the
| fuel transportation emergency and
| named 13 prominent business men as
members of an advisory committee for
industry, to keep in touch with the
|
| dustries in their respective districts.
Large Industrial consumers are asked
| to cOnfine their purchases of coal un-
| der present conditions as closely to
current needs as safety permits; to
| suspend accumulation Of advance
stocks of coal until the present emer-
gency pressure on production is re-
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ately and return them to service and
| to promptly furnish material required
| for new railroad equipment or repairs.
THE grand jury in Marion, ILL.,,
L which investigated the Herrin coal
mine massacre, indicted 76 men for
| participation in the outrage A Of
them for murder. All of the latter
| group have been put under arrest, and
| Of the total 20 are still at large Eight
of those accused of murder are held
| without bail. The others were re-
leased on bonds, which were furnished
/ by the leading citizens of Marion
The defense of the men, as already
outlined by their lawyers, will be, in
brief, that this Is private persecu-
ton by political boss and a labor
hating organization" the allusion be-
ing to Attorney General Brundage and
the Illinois Chamber of Commerce.
| FEDERAL JUDGE WILKINSON in
Chicago formally entered the tenn
porary injunction obtained by Attor-
ney General Daugherty against the
railway shopmen, having sustained it
on all points. The proceedings were
| perfunctory and the attorneys for the
union did not concern themselves
| with the form of the order. They
| said they hoped to be permitted to
I take the case direct to the Supreme
| court of the United States on appeal.
@ ONE twenty thousand veterans Of
y the Civil war assembled in Des
Moines, Ia, for the fifty sixth national
encampment of the Grand Army Of the
Republic. On Wednesday three
fourths of these grizzled warriors es-
corted by two regiments of the regu-
| lar army, marched in the yearly
| parade-an event that grows more
! and more pathetic as the years pass
They were reviewed by their COM
mander-in-chief, Lewis s. Pitcher, and
by Hanford MacNider, national COM
| mander of the American Legion. One
tragedy marked the occasion. NJ ].
Mackenhausen of White Bear Lake,
Mimi, dropped dead after two hours
of marching. Judge J. w. Willett Of
Tama, Ia, was elected commander-in-
chief for the coming year.
THOMAS e. WATSON, United
i States senator from Georgia, one
of the most fiery political figures Of
the time, died suddenly of asthma
Tuesday in Washington. For 20
years he was active in state and ma
tional politics, and he was the Populist
nominee for vice president in 1896 and
for President in 1904. The Populists
elected him to the house of repre-
sentatives in 1891, and in 1920 he was
elected senator. He was opposed to
Woodrow Wilson and his policies and
was especially against the League Of
Nations.
\ CCORDING to the Freeman's
Journal Of Dublin, cannon de
Valera has abdicated as leader of the
Irish republicans and Liam Lynch has
succeeded him. The newspaper says
49,
as Lynch is driving his followers to
fight to the bitter end. The repub-
licans are keeping up their guerrilla
warfare, but the Free Staters are
steadily cleaning them up, especially
now In County Kerry.