MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1917, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

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VIGILANTES AND 1.W.1v.

VANCOUVER, Aug. 9.

Montana messages indicate that the lynching of Frank Little, the I.W.W. • leader, was duo to the wrath of the citizens at the I.W.W. operations in connection with the strike. - Following the identification of LitUe’a body, the Butte members of the I.W. W. telegraphed appeals for aid to 1

William Hayward (president of the organisation) and other officials, it woe said that a message was immediately received from Hayward saying that the resources of the'l.W.W. organisation i would be employed to bring the lynchers to justice. '• : » It was half-past three when tbv six men, after searching the lodging house found Little, and carried him into the waiting automobile. The body was dis- , covered by the polico ,at 8 o'clock. The card on the body bore the figures 3—7—77, the old sign of the Vigilantes in Montana. NATIONALISING RAILWAYS. VANCOUVER, Aug. 2. The Canadian Minister for Finance announced that the Government' nau taken control of the Canadian Northern 'Railway, with the view of prouao, later nationalisation. The Government will abo make a loan' to the Grand Trunk Pacific Company of £1,500,000 to tide the company over the war depression. The Dominion holds £8,000,000 in Canadian Northern capital, and will purchase the remaining £12,000,000 of capitalisation, taking over . the entire system, including branch lines, telegraphs, express steamship, and hotel elevators, over a system of 9500 miles. THE IRISH CONVENTION. rAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION & REUTER.] (Received, This Day at 8.50. a.m.) LONDON August 16. The Press Bureau states that the Grand Committee made arrangements for tho Irish Convention on Augusef 21st to discuss a scheme of the Dominion* type. I 1 . A MASONIC RESIGNATION. LONDON, Aug : 16. Mr Lotchevorth as resigned the Masoiiic secretaryship. PREMIUM BONDS. C LONDON, Aug. 16Mr Bonar law has announced that he is appointing a Select Committee to consider the raising of money by means of premium bonds.