AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1922, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. huge gas explosion. NEW YORK, July 31. Forty persons, mostly children, were seriously burned .or otherwise injured at Chicago ,when an 180 foot illuminating gas tank, containing more than four million feet of gas, exploded from some cause unknown. The children were singed by the spurt of flame, and lay in the streets writhing with pain and screaming.

wholesale POISONING. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 1. A sensation was caused by death of two girls and the illness of one hundred office workers, who lunched in a restaurant-in a Broadway skyscraper. All the victims were taken violently ill after eating Huckleberry pie, which an. analysis revealed contained a large quantity of arsenic. Charles Abrahamson, a cook, who was discharged by the restaurant has been arrested on a charge of homicide, A third victim has died.

MINE STRIKE. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 1. According to a Philadelphia message, Lewis, president of the mine workers ha» called a conference of operators and miners in Cleveland for Monday. It is believed he has the operators assurance of the acceptance of some plan for the settlement of the mine strike. GOLFER INJURED. NEW YORK, August 1. At San Jose, California John Black, runner up for the American open golf championship, is dying after a motor accident.

CHICAGO STRIKE. CHICAGO, August 1,

a striko of twenty thousand tramway elevator railway workers has. tied up the c|ity transportation.

MR HARDING’S OFFER, (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) WASHINGTON, August 1

Mr Harding has published a summary of the plan submitted to the railway manager and strikers for a settlement of the strike. It provides that both sides shnll recognise the validity of all Railway Labour Board’s decisions, carrying them out and also the withdrawal of all labour. All strikers to return to work with seniority and other rights unimpaired. .

STEAMERS COIJADED. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 1

The excursion steamer Grand. Republic with 1261 passengers aboard collided with the ferry boat Chautauqua on the Hudson river in a fog. Fifty were injured in a panic. Both vessels made the shore.