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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1919
Page
2
Long, mixed text reports on Bernstortt testimony before an investigating committee. It references U S wartime spies, international figures, and alleged plots, with discussion of anti anarchist measures and related political tensions in Washington.
Washington reports Weetam Senkins, American consular agent at Poebla, kidnapped by the cemnie Porhta and held for 150000 dollars ransom. The State Department has been advised. The Mexican Foreign Office says the Revermiment will take all possible steps to secure Jen King's release. The American embassy had been authorized to assist in obtaining the agent's release.
Dispatches report fierce fighting in the Pskov and Ostrov region with Esthonian forces taking 220 prisoners three guns and substantial material. A wire from General Denikin cites a brilliant position for the volunteer army despite temporary failures and signals the end of Petrogradian resistance.
Workers demand are met before lines return to private owners. Firemen and railway workers press for living costs relief, eight hour day, time and a half overtime, and wage equity. Timothy Rhea testifies before the Railroad Wages Board as disputes loom with the Railway Administration.
The President warns miners and operators that the government will keep coal mines running if needed. He calls for arbitration, urges individual obedience to strike orders, and vows to prosecute those who resist government authority. Cabinet sessions and consultations followed in the sick room.
Voters rejected both service-at-cost and eluate fare plans in the tramway election. The outcome follows a strike by trammen last July and a public stalemate over car fare. Official returns show the service-at-cost plan failed by about two to one, with roughly 21,000 ballots cast.
Sinn Feiners escape from Strangeway Jail Manchester where political prisoners gathered ten hours. One attacker felled the warden. another bound and gagged him. A rope ladder was thrown over the wall from the street during the breakout.
Clara Bar, a 16 year old daughter of Edgewood railroad signalman, shot her father Bartell Bartell at his home after a breakfast argument on moving to Philadelphia. The girl later claimed The Lord told her to do it, as police pursued inconsistencies in her initial account.
Ernest Fix a 17 year old attempted a caveman stunt to wed Miss Wally Engle. She testified he sat on her porch with a gun and threatened to kill her if they did not marry. He was held on $2000 bond for grand jury investigation.
Homer Parrish, a model prisoner in Carthage Missouri, escaped after a roll call. He wrote that he left to aid his mother facing mortgage payments and promised to return to finish his sentence. County officials chose leniency, saying the escape served a commendable purpose and noting its rarity in state records.
President Wilson vetoed the prohibition enforcement bill and the House overrode it by a 176 to 55 vote. Reported remarks describe continued labor disputes and the miners' union plans as stakes rise amid looming strikes in the bituminous field. Washington coverage notes Senate opposition and proposed amendments while intermixing labor and international diplomacy contexts.
Late market quotations show metal prices in Denver with scattered figures including per juncaten and pound rates, indicating settlement values across commodities.
Mayor Wallace M. Short of Sioux City Iowa announced backing to start a dairy company initiative to combat rising milk costs. The Roberts Sanitary Dairy Company holds a monopoly and raised milk prices to 16 cents per quart and 10 cents per pint in quart bottles.
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