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Waikato Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2586, 19 August 1922, Page 5

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TRAIN WRECKERS j. BIG REWARD OFFERED : "- (By Cable—Press Association)* (Received 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 18, Following the derailment of the Buf-falo-Niagara Falls train, nine were: injured. Railway officials announced that 60 sticks of dynamite were found on the track. a Ten thousand dollars reward hasbeen offered for the arrest of the traittwreckers, DISASTROUS FOREST FIRES LOSS OF LIFE -- * (By Cable—Press Association). (Received .11 aan) NEW FORK, August 1& Twelve persons have died and three villages have been destroyed by forest fires in the north-west of Minnesota. INDUSTRIAL TROUBLES AMERICAN CONFERENCE "—' ' '■ ■■' ' '■■ (Received 12 noon). (By Cable—Press Association), NEW YORK, August 18. The joint conference of railway executives and railway brotherhood in the shopmen's strike adjourned lasf night, without arriving at a definite conclusion, but both are satisfied with the progress made. Seniority "rights are still the stumbling block. The conference resumes this morning. . . The Anthracite conference at Philadelphia adjourned till this afternoon for both sides to confer with their colleagues, and Washington Administration officials now expect President Harding will address Congress on the industrial situation at noon to-day.