AMERICAN UNREST.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10361, 5 September 1922, Page 4

AMERICAN UNREST.

THE HERRIN MASSACRE. NEW YORK, August At Marion, Otis" Clark, who was indicted by the Grand* Jury on a charge of murdering Mr McDowell, the Herrin mine superintendent, surrendered to the police. THREE MEN ARRESTED. CHICAGO, August 31. The police arrested three men on u, charge of conspiracy to dynamite the New York Central's fast Western express. ANOTHER TRAIN WRECKED. NEW YORK, August 31. An attempt to derail the Illinois Ccmtral express near Council Bluffs, lowa, failed.' A work car, which was preceding the flyer by a few minutes, crashed into a pile of rocks which had been laid on the track. One man was killed and two fatally injured. BRIDGE BLOWN UP. NEW YORK, August 31. ' The railway bridge over a street in Wilmington, Delaware, has been blown up. The strikers ilare blamed. Chicago attorneys, representing the striking railway shopmen and the American Federation of Labour, announce that they have obtained a defence fund of 100,000 dollars to investigate the arrest of four men who were accused of wrecking a train. '\ A Washington telegram says that the Inter-State Commerce Commission has declared that an emergency exists in regard to the railways in West Mississippi, which are unable to properly serve the public in the transportation -, of essential commodities. The Commission will take over their regulation.