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Madison Wisconsin State Journal (Newspaper) - May 17, 1920, Madison, Wisconsin Badger weather showers this afternoon. Cloudy tonight. Tuesday fair and warmer. Light variable winds becoming southerly tuesday. City edition ten pages vol. 135, no. 47. 81st , wis., monday afternoon May 17, 1920. Price three cent railroads agree to wage boost Gas fumes kill two Madison boys boar Bill t. S. Jessup week 70 wind up Alin d Emu memorial drive and b. Stein Are victims May 25, set for completion of Union building fund Campaign in Dane county Sheboygan county exceeds quota 50 per cent collapse Carranza imminent aides taken in Europe by Obregon Mother discovers t tragedy when son and his Roommate fail to answer morning Call o Var if owe by kit a White asleep in Timir room two a. To son youth Wen found dead Early today. >11 Effort by the fire and Pollee department with lung motor and Pul motor failed to revive the victim. A Maei Stein 19. And Thomas r Joeene 22, died at Stein Home. Or. A. C. Stein Mother of Bernard conduct a Rooming Houe at 47 Sidney text i to two boy occupied room pm the Sionil floor. Your or Stein worded in the whop at Tho or Aholt and be up with the Union Transfer company. They had been out together during the Day and retired about la o clock Lam night. A middling Light in their room a a on Light a chandelier. At 9 to Thlu morning in Stein called several Tim and receiving a Quot reply from Hie boy went up to their room and knocked. There in no response. Found by Mother she then smelled a. Pushing open the door a a attn it overcome by the acrid fume. Screaming for help she rushed into the room arid found the two it of i i in their bed. I the Fine department a called ii fir Aid in ant re applied the to i lice with their lung Otar w pm also i Cai led. But ill Effort were unavailing the men Coroner w. E. Campbell i declared Hal teen dead for at learn i two How re. An examination of the room allowed that Bish the transom and window i Wrt cloned. The a Jet wis found i of in. The death. Coroner chinos. I thought May Hay i get Neamand by the a fight being a it i Mut Llo Burn turned Down. Speculate on cause pairing the night either the a v try never Welt Down. Extinguish my Ite Light or in Anim manner Tho Light a mown rail. Whan tile . Limiter the firm he Pothana Cairn on again i the mom would have been tilled with f death taking fume. Ii the Bodle showed no Igram of niggle. To by worn both in May posture. Lying a of in map slumber u j Cohu p come from i Pfalle. He i came to Madison last sept pm Lier. He i is unto and. I tar nand slate i survived by i Mother two Bencher a a Barie. 14. My George. 7. And on Auger Kushi in id. The Parent of Tom in amp were i 11 wait am to arrive this noon. 7 saved from burning Boa t p i i Hsi a y. May 2.a been i designated a the Day for the l non memorial building at the University. This action a taken by the commit i Erin charge after a meeting at which reports of Progress were received. Mile c. Riley Dane county Shnirman reported that the Campaign among faculty and students of the University to rats $100 of. Is in ifs last stages the amount subscribed to Date exceeding $50.olio. Sheboygan county was the first county in the state to make final returns and alumni and friends of the University in that county exceeded their quota by j>0 per cent. Full re Vort from Campaign Headquarters in Milwaukee show that in the several places where the Campaign has been finished the quota has been exceeded and that in All other places Progress has been Gratifying. The Dane county committee is out to make a big showing. There Are upwards of 1,100 graduate in Dane county. Madison will be the Home of the memorial. The general Campaign was initiated Pron a Pally to construct a memorial to the University men who fought and died for the ideals for which Wisconsin alumni strive. Madison alumni and the people of the City of Madison the committee feel will be eager to do their part in bringing to this City a building which from the View joint of purpose and Are item urns cannot be surpassed. Davison tells methodist general conference starvation and disease have undermined nations Levi p. Morton is dead at s6 Pressman strike for higher pay Minneapolis a j. Ii Norman Flat representative of the finance Tal department of the Dupont Ontive Tell new York a among Woven saved j from a burning motor boat on lathe Minnetonka following a gasoline exp j Losion that showered the party with burning Oil. Or. And mrs. Til Emna w. Hicks arum j daughter Fin re on Tucker mrs. Myrtle Phelps of Harvey and Joseph Meyer were i members of the party. H s. Christian drove his i de j boat against the burning Craft Ami j took the party off. Parents come for songs body the Parent of w. In Millar University instructor who died saturday night after his Arm had been torn away by the let of a steam engine i reached Madison this morning the body was taken yesterday from i the general Hospital to the Frau Tach j funeral Parlours Whir la was prepared j Tor shipment to North mend. Neb. The part tits will take the hotly Home j with them. Wood alcohol fatal to five Tolk in i expected lid wholesale arrests were j inlay in the Wood Alco j hoi ski tuning epidemic which claimed live lives in the lad 24 hours. Two person died late yesterday and to others were taken to hospitals in a j serious condition. Execute four for treason former vice president of United states Dies of pneumonia on birthday Rhinebeck. N y. Levi p. Morton who was vice president during the presidency of Benjamin Harrison from in to in. And governor of new York stats from 189 to 1&97. Died of bronchial pneumonia sunday i 9 birthday. Or. Morton a taken Iii with a slight cold three or four Days ago. Hut his condition did not become serious until sunday morning when bronchial pneumonia developed. He lapsed into unconsciousness soon after and the end came peacefully at 9 10 o clock. Relatives at bedside the relatives with him when he died Wen i daughter. I Mary Morton who had been with him Alme i inst previous uterus and i Nephew Morton Minot who has had the management of his interests for the last seven years. Ills other daughters. Mrs William c. Eustis of i Wahington la. A. And or. H. Morton have been notified. He a 19 living grandchildren five Hie children of or Eustis and five the children of mrs. Winthrop Rutherford of Alla Kueht n. J. Now dead wonderful vitality or. Morton was Given up by his physician Iii 1913. When he a few red at the Point of death from Asierto Sehle Rosi Bat he rallied with an astonishing exhibition of vitality and re gained something of his former Rug Gen eat. He Hod spent his time since then at Washington. D. Cd a in the Winter and at i country estate in the Bummer. Until a few Days ago he had been driven about his grounds and on drives around Rhine Herk in i automobile. Two charged with swindle Chicago charged with defrauding. To Olio men and women in All parts of the country of Small savings totalling $.1 000,90. Samuel m Gcowman and j Ashur j. Goldfine. Mail order financiers i were purred on trial in Federal court Here today. Sex governor Dies suddenly Winn i req former governor ii. B. Glenn of North Carolina member of the International joint waterway commission died suddenly of heart failure Here Munday night. He has hem offering from heart trouble for several years. Wauwatosa has $50,000 Blaze Milwaukee investigation is tinder Way today to determine the cause of a tire which caused $50,009 damage to Milwaukee county buildings at Wauwatosa West of the Eity late Munday. The tire destroyed $40,900 Worth of merchandise in the general county storehouse and caused $10,000 damage to the buildings. Twenty five walk out our ing Day negotiations with employers Are pending Twenty five member of the Madl i a son printing in res men and assistants Union no. 20h. Are on a strike Imlay demanding increased pay and recognition of their org eats non. Meeting. Are now in Pengra in an attempt in reach a settlement. Among the shops affect Eft Here Are the Democrat printing company and the Frint shop. The riled printing company employed Only one Union press a and he rec rued last week Van Miles select by president Mike Luloff to handle negotiations for the Union. Is to meet officials of the cant j Well company during the Day to negotiate for the unionizing of the shop i members of the Union Are receiving from $17 to $3$ a week a five Dollar a week increase is asked. Part of the Democrat presses Are running Tho print shop is operating to capacity according to Erwin c. Koch proprietor the riled presses Are also in Ojo ration. Strike leaders Elai in that the smaller shops Are ready to accept the de mands but Are waiting for the verdict of the larger employers contempt Case is dismissed nem York Contemp of court j proceedings against Quot Nicky Quot a Nallen j i alleged Quot Mourier mind Quot in the >.909, j 1090 Iron theft Case. Were cd i a a leased j by United states District judge Knox j a today. Assistant District attorney j pooling announced a in Stein would be i arraigned in general session court to j Morrow on charges of receiving stolen property and of grand larceny another theft in Minneapolis Minn Lapour two unmasked t be rat its held up the w. C Jab or jewelry store Here today and obtained 19 a j diamonds valued at $ it too. The robber left a Driver and ear across the Anreei quietly ignored the i More and c of marbled c is clerk to put lip their hand Axel Peterson i watchmaker a beaten Sud tet unconscious and the window i Spur of Gem stolen. Thousands of Dollar Worth of gems in show castes were untouched bar yanks from Oil properties japanese vote _. Lun in Cen years ago William bang rats a Quot it 1 1 Hasting sent. Telegram dl./1 / j Jura inc. Fun Oakland. Gal. To Yerington Washington great Britain has excluded american and ail other from developing or owning in any Way Oil properties within it Juns a Lugiori. President Wilson today informed the ornate in response to a Resolution of senator Gore can to hold wire co. For full loss via Remington the supreme court i today decided Telegraph companies j cannot in held liable for the full amount of losses caused by delays in delivering telegrams. Thirteen years ago. William Lane Bari three men and one woman Fern executed at Vincennes today Fol awing i heir conviction of t Martin by court martial. Quot by Ash i a Quot it it n Universal suffrage in Jan san was Defeated in the elections to the diet held May 19, according of advices today to the Japan re be . The elections gave the government party if Japan control of the diet by a la a majority. Nev., to Stop payment on a draft it j $11,259 the Telegram Bec us of do 1 May i deliver failed to arrive until j after the draft was paid. The e state of Lange and had in i a awarded damage from the West i pm i Nion for Hie full extent of Tho j loss by the lower courts. I Des Moi neb starvation and disease Hae so undermined Middle and Eastern Europe that a Complete economic political moral and physical collapse is imminent with it attendant menace to the rest of civil nation. According to Henry p. Davidson. Chairman of the Hoard of directors of the league of red Cross societies. Davidson made this declaration in an address today before the general conference of methodist episcopal Church. He made the following rec in Amnnda Lions that co gees St once appropriate $500.000 000 for use in Central and Eastern Europe. That the president appoint a commission of three and invest it with Complete Power to supervise distribution of food and raw materials in the stricken area. That these supplies should be sold on a Liberal financial terms that immediately after adoption of the plan the government should other governments in a position to do so to participate in the undertaking. Crisis is acute the crisis is so acute that the situation Cloes not admit of delay. A Wjt cent with the possibility if consequence one hardly Doe contemplate Quot Davison said the situation is far beyond the scope of individual Charity. In picturing the situation in the countries Davison Sabl i feel it i be Entiat that the people of the United Ftazie realize that one of the most Lerr Ihle tragedies in the history of the human world is being enacted within the territory Between the rattle Adriatic and Black sea s. Quot the reports which come to us make Clear that Iii these War ravaged land civilisation has broken Down. Disease bereavement and suffering Are present in practically every household while focal Anc clothing Are insufficient to make life tolerable Quot men. Women Anet c Hildren Are dying by thousands and Over vast Nore Evill i de area ther is to lie found neither medical appliances nor medical skill sufficient to Cope w in he devastating plague Quot wholesale starvation is threatened this summer unless a. An procure food supplies in Large quantities. There Are now approximately rates of typhus in Boland and the area occupied by Boyish troop. In such districts there is but one doctor to it each 15 1.090 people. In the Ukraine typhus an def Lunexa have affected most of the population. In Many cases i territory 40 mile in diameter has but but one physician. Quot in Vienna inn ooh school children Are Uncle of i in and diseased i Mea use of food and fuel shortage deaths exceed births Quot the number if deaths in Budapest is double the number if birth. If i clo Omo children in the school. 100,900 Are dependent on Public Charity. Tiler Are 150,009 workers Idle Quot in Rumania tuber utes spread ing n an tin peered t coed manner. Al Energy ire devoted to King Iii types Pidor at Bay a typhus and Small pox hav invaded the four Suntres comp Sag czech Kovaka and there s Lac k of me do nes soap and . Quot in Vertila typhus has broken out again and there Arn licit two Hundred physician for the entire country. In m on ton urn where food is running Short there Are hut five pity in ads for a population of 590,000 a How Long do you Tecler the plague of typhus Wil confine self to those rain lands a if not throttled it May spilt itself into a Stern Europe Anc creep to our own Shore. This is one Mcgrace. The other Mon threatening. More terrible i the menace of the worlds ill will we Ca. Nafford to die. But to he despised fore ver As a arc i and Shari hic Al nation s a Fate we must not Richardson Bishop the Rev. Ernest to. Richardson Brooklyn. N. Was elected a Bishop by the methodist general conference Matur Lay night according to an off i i announcement today. Seven while Bishops and two negro Bishops remain to be chosen by the conference another Tia Ilot will retaken tomorrow two killed in Belfast riots London two in were killed and several other including a police inspector wounded in rioting saturday and Sandal night Between unionists and sinn Briner in Belfast dispatches i Here said. Troop finally restored or i i Cabinet and 2,000 prisoners captured chief and group of followers make desperate stand Xvi by Ralph h. Turner sex Rio City dramatic a Founti of the heroic instant of v Enuh Tianco a arrant de used president of Mexico at Rincon Acla. Near Hee i Here tonight without water or proviso cons our numbered and surrounded on practically Alt ride a the t Urenn Wistar personally led by general Murgita and the Quot first c Hief Quot Foug it be it i lately. Re Ort i minted unstinting by the bravery of to neral Idu Gula. Llu. For i , advice wild. The it Arva Zista probably would have col biased. He led them in a desperate Ila Rye whim resulted in i Heil cutting i heir Way through the revolutionary ring an i escaping into the Mountain when la Flentse Tiger from he rebel Lender arrived with the revolutionary offer of Safe conduct for if he would surrender my right Tor the message in shred and slapped the messenger in the face rebel advice a id. Carranza Calm no i to min gala Barra stood out Tor i bravery and coolness. Frequently he a Sumet Persona charge of Chi Traiton. During one Tiebee engage Mon Uhr Ranza n horse was shot but he obtained another and continued calmly to direct i troop. T the Torrao Ziatas held out determinedly a acting Aid from Gen. Guadalupe Saba hot the commander to Vera unix. When word came that he and i troop had brine the i earn Hinfon the last How for winning Van i shed cd a said and a Urguia Dira t1 i site Nylon tee escape toward tile last dispatches Wihl there a Grant confusion. Part of the c Arranz fore a were i ii off md1 member of the Cabinet became rep-1 a rated from the president. The Cabin to and 2.non prisoner were i captured by revolutionist near san j Marco. Rex a Vaid. General Dan did Aguilar son in Law if Darr Anri i has been captured lev the rebels a i mris Here tee a general Pablo Gonzales ten May ii mind a manifesto announcing he had w uh-1 drawn As n candidate for the presidency to preserve Harmony among the revolutionary elements and insure1 sue Cess of the movement. Ternate withdraw in appear Emily left j he Fielde it a in to Cle Riera Alvaro Bra Gem. French demand German forfeit London a a guarantee against possible demonstration by of Frankfort uni other German Cltie-., m the newly occupied Rhine territory when French troops arc Wil drawn. Beginning today the French have Cie Fri angled Ilia the German Post a for Felt of a million Anc de liver six boat ii Gas a Frankfort dispatch byway of Berlin said today French forces quit Frankfort Fakih French and belgian troops evacuated Frankfort at 5 a. In. Today according to message Here hold Comrade of boy Bandit Chicago Dick Hythe Comrade of Horace Vav Altern Lacy train robber was timing held by Federal authorities today in connection with the Holdup of a mall car near Here piday night when Walton secured $90,000. Walton killed a policeman and was shot to death by officers after a 20-Mtnuie siege. Mrs. Walton left Here Las with the bodies of her son and he i husband l. T. Walton father of the Bandit died while in route her to claim the Baxly of his son. They will be buried together tomorrow Al Champaign i. Pay raise to affect 1500 Here Madison railway executives said today that probably 1.200 employees Nee will receive salary increases under the proposed $2,500 minimum wage adjustment now under consideration by the United states railway labor Board in Chicago. The Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul pays 500 men at Madison. Practically All expect an increase if the brotherhoods demands Are met according to j. C. Prien local agent. The Northwestern Road pay Roll at Madison carries about 700 men classified under Heads which probably will Receiva increases. The Illinois Central Road hat about 15 employees in this City who expect increases. Determine increases automatic Rise or decrease As Cost of living fluctuates urged Public to Bear Burden Farmers to urge party Reform producers plan to Force recognition of wants at big conventions Washington organized Farmers hive completed plans to fora recognition of the or wants in the Peai Dontia platforms of both political parties according to information Here today. I Nii tical terrier have in to Warner. That unless Farmers obtain this recognition there is possibility of the origin of a new party it lots loathed. A committee of 190 farm representatives will go to Chicago and ban Francisco to work for planks desired by Farmers Secretary Chart a. Lyman. National in card of farm organizations. Said today. Among reforms de ired by Farmer a outlined today by Lyman Ara. Amendment of anti Trust legislation to give Farmers full Opportunity to buy and sell food through cooperative organization without the continual menace of prosecution and imprisonment on Harg. Of monopoly. New legislation to regulate the packing Industry to establish real Competition and Stop the exploitation by packers of farm is and Stock rate is. Government operation of the muscle Shoals Nitro Plant to provide fertilizers it a reasonable Cost and remove american finners from the of the chilean nitrate Trust. The Farmer of the country will take a More Active interest in the coming Campaign than Ever before. Representative Baer n. Do a non partisan representative in Lite House predicted t Oday. Police taken on girls charge Chicago chalked with tining it year old Bertha Walt tech of Batties Rock kan., in a Sioum of ill Fain to Herman Lorse it Cham Bliss negro am or. Emma to were placed on Tim Here today. Miss w in bet k died Hor i it Atter she was removed from the a. Legend tenderloin House miss w Lei Dud that so to work. Mot Bel it a by to Bito go to a poll Emu told polic e in for muh it re from a Reful i Nee help she Aid. Asks Steps to reduce prices w Ahu i not 1n the t # adopted a in munition by it Cormack Lite to a Kins Reserve Aesir i tee inform what a Iris to pure scr. To Fiat the us re lies Aid re and to mobilize credits crop in Lite Filiti. The due for to Dav or my i a Deral Enate to de pm ice Moniri hic agg Railroad of n j through e. T Whittier hair Man of the conference committee of the railway manager. Inlay told president Wilson s Railroad labor in Oard Here they were ready i it Grunt wage increases to employees. The extent of increase a ant specified it will be left to the Hoard Whittler urps a a system whereby wage should la automatically Iii creased or rut a Tho Cost of living Rise or fall. W age inc Reker. According let w Littler. Will be punned Ltd to the Public in Jio shape of increased rate in i Asse i per and freight in rolex some part of he new demands in a rid love the Board pro Han y will find Justl Toni by the Rte in la Quot Cost of said w Hittler or his statement. A ii Iller declared lha Railroad owners would stand icy the Board decision. 53 percent increases wage increase to employs in the last four year have totalled $1,309,-000.100. Or 53 percent he said. Quot we Are Here in Good Faith and not to argue that All of the worker Rai Niest should Ira he Auld. Quot we appreciate fully that the increase received by some employer the last five year have not beet commensurate with the incr a de Cost of living Quot he said that wage paid workers in Othrie industries Are higher in some i Cali it in than those received by Railroad employees a admitted by Whittier i tic roads however he said cannot be expected to compete with outside rates rent for cent per hour. Donald Enion he declared. Must a glean to regularity and continuity of employ therul thinks top reached the a it eak of the Cost of Lix fing has been reached. Whittler said and to. Iola re must take this into considers t Ion. Quot with the Force now at work to bring a la nit a reduction in the High living Cost. It is next to impossible a it believe that the Peak in the Terras Iii the Ccu to of living has not Beer t Neci and a procedure that would fix Railroad wage Mitty on him leads of the present living Poi v Oil d hardly by defended. Uncle borne automatic Pirn Riple p a inbound in the award of you heard in readjust Basic rate As living curls go Hack toward the pre War taxis of Quot unless something in i Corpora gtd Tbs will provide for a review of the award after some specified period by wage rates that May now ice fixed by you a ire would by practically permanent boost freight rates Thea Whittler paid Doe not Mea it is intended to ask if in Tetra hould be taken away As fas tas the lost of living a Cwanek Down. For every $100,990,909 and led Iii the pay Roll about 3 percent must re added to freight rates he said. Carrier he said. Ara now Rickter the interstate Commerce Rommel Ion for a 2 a Ercene increase in cover 1 Vavage in Mal a granted in the last Twe. Fleeing negro electrocuted Chicago fleeing Aero Prairie i inc stumbling Over obstacles while a i heavy rite veiled him. William Jack i non a negro on Quot of the nine escaped convict from the Joliet Penitentiary i a the suied on i third rail a near i Wheaton. Iii., and was electrocuted. I la Bil Imbi and fell on the Raff while running Down the track. He a a Tda uti Fieri by i prison number. I eight other convicts All employed on the Quot Honor farm a were still at j larg. I detectives were posted today on the City a outskirts to watch All main roads arum with instructions to shoot in i night 150 a picture brides a arrive Clear a Merica n in Patent suit an Ira 2,000 British land in Ireland lond n Mora than 2.you British troop were landed at Bantry Ireland. About 50 mete West and South of Cork according to advices be re today the troops will be distributed a vast Cork St Points five Miles apart. The movement a believed Here to i be the first indication of new repro i us e measures planned it Gene ral j Mao read it commanding Britt to Force j in Ireland. I ame in that Mph passport peed Ive country Marn toe Japan Pasapor g before Thimmig will inv surround lure Brill Sci Bill i or lie japanese brides Hou tills count Trad Riffle la do. Aal on it mate Jane a runic in denied to tiros in this by Ria is sex Illume that the women were granted Bun was decreed Ommi Mintier White the Illey nit Aru be id is Iott of tile pie id Jap inspects naval Academy an n a1 Al ii. Mil Oaks const i net , and t it ii in acted the t in in a h e re in. A ived at i Jan. If ii Ial Lionor. Of Var viral h. A rpm. Jap six officer Tea naval it the visitor and were received be Washington John Wanamaker new York to not guilty of unfair com petition and infringement of Paten rights in Selling the american Tov build a a charged by Mecca no Ltd a British corp aeration maker of it in liar toy bulletin product called the supreme court today de tried. It was claimed the America in a Seid by Wanamaker was old entice with a British Quot Mecca no Quot prot we it Gay american a it tents. Lockjaw kills Farmer Here be Rev Rov Nill. Aged about ii Lour a in the Tow n of Bristol died a arly Tesla at the Hospital c i Cick cd Contra Ted from an of Rico i widow and four children survive i him i inert it re ices will la Beld at i Bristol wednesday

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