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Sept. 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16,1922 
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night to tin 1 mainland, a half-mile away. 
The steamer hud van upon .I he rocks, hut 
was not seriously damaged, 
Matthew P. Griffin, former chief of 
the Tinted States Secret Service in the 
Philadelphia district, and Andrew Ham¬ 
ilton. former police lieutenant of Phila¬ 
delphia, are among 11 men for whom 
Federal warrants charging conspiracy to 
defraud the Government, were issued July 
Ml. The warrants grew out of a case 
nearly a year old. in Which it was al¬ 
leged water was substituted for alcohol 
in 100 barrels in a Government ware¬ 
house. Government investigators said 
that the alleged object of substituting 
water for alcohol was that the liquor 
might be sold illegally in this country : to 
dodge internal revenue tax. which is not 
collectible on exported alcohol, and that 
insurance might he collected when the 
supposed alcohol was ‘‘lost at sea." Grif¬ 
fin and Hamilton recently resigned their 
positions. 
Forty persons, many of I hem children, 
were burned nr otherwise injured when 
the 180-foot gas tank containing more 
than 1.000.000 cubic feet of gas. at Throop 
and Eleanor streets. Chicago, exploded 
July Ml. The cause of the blast has not 
been determined. The police say that the 
destruction of the plant may make it dif¬ 
ficult ever to fix the cause. It is reported 
that there was a minor explosion earlier 
in tin* day. hut it was so slight that no 
attention was paid to it. The tank stood 
in the neighborhood of frame houses, over¬ 
run with children. When it exploded 
sheets of flames spread for a block, burn¬ 
ing everyone it touched, setting fire to 
the houses and carrying with it an ex¬ 
plosive force that smashed windows and 
howled over pedestrians. 
Six persons have died and many more 
are seriously and perhaps fatally ill as n 
result of eating pastry poisoned with ar¬ 
senic at a restaurant on Broadway. New 
York City. July Ml. The cause is un¬ 
known, and no evidence of malice was 
shown 
Six persons were killed and 25 to MO 
injured in a head-on collision August 1 
between a northbound excursion train and 
southbound passenger train from Dayton 
on the Cincinnati. Lebanon & Northern 
Railroad at Lester Station, a suburb of 
Cincinnati. Most of the fatalities were 
among the excursionists, members of the 
Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. 
The two locomotives rushed together and 
the flames. McHenry tried to save them, 
but died in the attempt. 
WASHINGTON.—The railroad execu¬ 
tives. in session in New York, voted 
down President Harding’s plan to settle 
the railroad strike. The plan was ac¬ 
ceptable to the labor unions. Three prop¬ 
ositions were made by President Harding: 
First—That railway managers and 
workmen agree to recognize the validity 
of all decisions of the Labor Hoard and 
put them into effect. 
Second—That tin* carriers withdraw 
all lawsuits resulting from the strike and 
that both sides consent to a rehearing of 
the disputes over which the walkout was 
Called. 
Third—-That all strikers he taken hark 
with full seniority and other rights, with 
the understanding that, neither side shall 
discriminate in its attitude toward strik¬ 
ers and men who remained on their jobs. 
It was the third provision which 
stirred the executives. They rejected it 
outright. As for the two others, the sec¬ 
ond was accepted with seemingly technical 
modifications, and the first with such res- 
ervalions that its qualified approval prob¬ 
ably will he construed ns a rejection in 
union circles. The vote on all the pro¬ 
posals was 20. > to 2. This was in effect 
a unanimous vote, because an even 
stronger stand was sought against the 
Ilnrding proposals. 
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Kentucky Louisville. September 11-1G. 
New York Syracuse, September 11-10. 
Vermont White River Junction. Sep¬ 
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New Jersey—Trenton. September 25-30. 
Kansas—Hutchinson, September 16-22. 
Ohio — Columbus. September 28-Octo- 
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