R. R. STRIKE ST0PPIN6 TRAFFIC
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MORE RAILWAY EMPLOYEES JOIN STRIKE:
TRAFFIC HAMPERED OH SEVERAL LIHES
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special to Hie Nome Nugget by The Associated Press:
WASHINGTON. Aug. 7—Officials of the Hallway brotherhoods an
nounced today that over forty live thousand members of the Brotherhood
or Hallway Clerks and Freight Handlers. Including a large number of ex
..r striking for an increase of wages.
Railroads Suspending Freight Service Owing to Growing Strike.
CHICAGO. Aug. 7—The Iowa and Minnesota divisions of the
Chicago and Northwestern Hailroad have been forced to suspend freight
service on account of the strike of the railway shopmen. Practically all
freight traffic is at a standstill in the divisions named.
The strike is also affecting the passenger service and trains have
officials in charge of the road admit that there is a serious prospect that
tlv strike may practically suspend nil traffic within a short period miles
something develops to stop the growth of the strike movement.
RIOTING AND SHOOTING DEVELOP IN
CONNECTION WITH BROOKLYN CAR STRIKE
Special to The Nugget by The Associated Press.
.VICW YORK. Aug. 7—Serious rioting and some shooting marked tin
second day of the strike on the surface* and elevated lines of tin* Brooklyr
Rapid Transit Company. A considerable number were injured in the rioting
tl ough none seriously so far as known.
The strikers claim that fifty per eont of the entire traffic systen
ot the company is paralyzed as a result of the strike.
The shots fired in connection with today’s disturbances were direct
ed . t the crews of wrecking outfits sent out to clear the lines of a number
cars disabled by the strikers.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PREPARING TO
LAUNCH PROSECUTIONS AGAINST PACKERS
S.S. VICTORIA
Leaves SEATTLE
Aug.
15th
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Ltaves NOME
Aug.
27th
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
R. A. Carroll agent, Nome
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Attorney Cljfte stated in an interview Hint the government intend?
to proceed against the puckers under the criminal sections of the Sherman
i:» w and will also bring civil suits under the same act. The packers will
also be prosecuted under tin* food control art on charges of hoarding food
iapplies the detriment of the people.
SCHOONER COLLIDES WITH STEAMER OFF ST. JOHN.
!ne: la! to Tie Nugget by The Associated Press.
ST. JOHN. Aug. 7—The Schooner Gallia Collided with the British
steamer Warwick today a short distance off St. I'Merre Island, the Frond
owned island possession near this port. The Gallia sunk immediately.
It is believed that approximately twenty lives were lost in the colli
sion. The Gallia carried a crow of fifteen, none of whom have been account
ed for, and five passengers out of .1 total of twelve carried by the schoonei
.•re also missing.
The vessels came together while proceeding in a dense fog. which
greatly hindered the efforts of the steamer crew to save the lives of those
aboard the Gallia.
LOS ANGELES BOMB
SUSPECT SUICIDES
WHEN QUESTIONED
Special to The Nome Nugget by The Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7—Public interest in the recent attempt tt
bomb the home of former Assistant Attorney General Lawler was heightenec
today by the spectacular suicide of Charles McGuire, Assistant Chief En
gineer of tiie Board of Public Utilities, during an interview with Distrlc
Attorney Woolwine, at which the latter openly charged .McGuire with beinj
either a principal or an accomplice of those, who were responsible for tin
partial destruction of the Lawler home and the injury of Mr and Mrs Lawlei
last Sunday.
. McGuire leaped through the window^ of the District Attorney's offici
and fell to his death on the sidewalk eleven stories below when Woolwim
questioned him regarding the bombing. Woolwine told McGuire that hi:
connection with the bombing was so well established that he intended t<
ask the Grand Jury to indict him. The declaration apparently plungoi
McGuire into a frenzy of apprehension. Those who witnessed the seem
say he jumped for the open window when the tenor of the District Attorney':
remark became clear to him. The detectives who accompanied him to tin
office undertook to stop him but McGuire fought them off and plunged througl
the window before the officers could prevent.
The suicide has confirmed the view of the official.^ that McGuire wa
the man mainly responsible for the bombing of the Lawler home
McGuire is known to have been exceedingly- hostile to Lawler since th
latter blocked a recent effort of McGuire’s to break the will of a decease
capitalist relative.
HEW PMiFNfFLEET
REACHES SAN DIEM
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Special *o the Nome Nugget by The Associated Press:
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 7—The arriving Pacific fleet was given a tremcnc
ous ovation by many thousand people when it appeared in San Diego bn
today.
Thousands of visitors from all parts of the southwest saw Secretar
of the Navy Daniels review the great fleet as it entered the bay and seven
thousand persons visited the ships after they came to anchor at the close of th
spectacular review.
Daniels witnessed the passing of the long line of battleships from th
deck of the cruiser Montana. As the l>ig fleet came out of the tog hangin
over the ocean, each vessel fired a salute of nineteen guns in honor of tli
head of the navy department as it passed the Montana.
Secretary Daniels later visited the flagship of the fleet and held a shoi
conference with Admiral Rodman, the commander.
DECLARES CAPITALISTS
PLUNDERED RAILROADS
Special to tlm Nugget By the Associated Tress.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 7—Glenn K. Plumb. the noted Thicago lawy.-r
and private operation of the railroads to the Senate In February, told (li -
the railways of the nation have been for years systematical!) plundered
tion with the actual railroad operations.
the Wall Street banking houses^/the Itockefcller and Morgan interests
every right of way in the I'nited States for yens and also asserted that
extent even at the present time.
The Ghicago attorney said the looting and wrecking of the New
Haven, the Chicago and Alton and the Bock Island and Frisco lines are
examples of the work of the great financial interests but were conducted
so ..kfllfully that the fine hand of Hie banking interests is scarcely dis
cernible.
ARCHDUKE JOSEPH
OVERTHROWS NEW
HUNGARIAN
Spe.-iul to The Nome Nuggdt by The Associated Press.
I’ABIS. Aug. 7 —The Hungarian Socialist cabinet has been overthrown
by Archduke Joseph, who lias established a new ministry in Bialap.-M. ..<•
The unexpected political debacle nec-iirred yesterday and i- raid t 1
from the Austrian crown which ..used his
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