AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1920, Page 1

AMERICAN ITEMS.

STRIKE TROUBLES. ,l>y Electric 'J ele.grapli —Copy a,.-. NEW YORK, August 8. A Tramway strike at Denver," Colorado resudted in serious rioting. The strikers wrecked the street cars and sheds, and also the office of the “Post” newspaper which opposed the strike. The strikers met with a fusilade of bullets which killed three and wounded thirty-five. Preparations were made to proclaim martial law and a draft of five hundred troops from an adjoining camp arrived. Upon this the union declared the strike off.

RACE RIOTS. NEW YORK, August 8. Conditions of anarchy prevails in Frankfort, Illinois, owing to trouble between Italian mineworkers and other citizens, arising out of the finding of the bodies of two boys who had been allegedly kidnapped and brutally murdered.. Severe street fighting followed in which seven were killed and sixty five wounded. Many houses of foreigners were burned. The mayor ordered Italians to leave the town. Four companies of troops were sent to restore order.

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. NEW YORK, August 8. At Dayton, Governor Cox, (Democrat Candidate), in a speech on his acceptance of the Democratic Presidential nomination, said:—“ln signing the Peace Treaty there should not be any mental reservations, unexpressed in plain words. Senator’s Harding’s plan meant a separate peace with Germany. The Monroe Doctrine was the very essence of Article Ten in tlie Lea. gue Covenant. No Treaty can override our constitution, which reserves to Congress alone the power to declare war. Harding proposes that we remain out of the League. I am in favour of going in. The first duty of tlie new administration will lie clearly the ratification of tli© Treaty.”

AMERICAN LOAN. NEW YORK, August 9. Another issue of Treasury certificates for one hundred and fifty million dollars is offered at par, with accrued interest through the Federal Reserve Banks. ..