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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1936
Page
4
Market notes indicate hog values fell as quality cattle prices remained erratic. Traders report lower demand and cautious bidding affecting hog prices, while cattle demand shows scattered activity across major Chicago yards.
Roland E. Markwell, 21, of Rochester New York confessed to federal authorities in Buffalo that he authored extortion notes demanding 250 000 from Frank E. Gannett and Louis E Wehle both Rochester publishers. A separate Chicago case reports Phillip Mikes 34 shooting his wife Penelope 31 and a foster daughter Lulu 17 after a family quarrel wounding his stepson Louis 16 and himself. In Chicago's bloody twentieth ward State Representative Albert J. Prignano was killed by three gunmen who fled after failing to start their car.
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