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Three armed thugs clubbed the night watchman of a motor taxicab service In East Sixty-fourth street at New York, and after binding and blindfolding him. blew the office safe and made their escape with $51,000. Price reductions of approximately 83 1-3 per cent on window shades were announced by the Columbia Mills. Inc., of New York, the largest manufacturers in that industry in the country. Return of steel prices to the base established by the United States industrial board March 21, 1919, developed at Pittsburgh, Pa., when the Jones & Laughlin Steel company adopted new selling rates, The body of Curley McKelvey, a negro, brother of Ophelous McKelvey, who shot and killed James E. Adams of Worth county, was found hanging from a tree at Dewitt, Ga. Three bank examiners are working on the books of the State bank of Fillmore, N. Y., following the disappearance of C. J. Howden, president, and the discovery of an alleged shortage of $50,000. Lack of demand for cotton oil and meal is given by officers of the Buckeye Cotton on company at Memphis Tenn., as the cause for the closing down of its plant there. About 500 men are thrown out of work. A Minneapolis (Minn.) dispatch says that two more banks in North Dakota suspended business during the past week. making a total of 15 financial institutions which have so far closed their doors in that state. Walter Henry and Leonard Olson were killed and Eugene Henry seriously injured when their automobile was struck by a passenger train at a crossing near Kewanee, III. The CP * was dragged 800 feet. Six men were burned to death in a fire at the Parish mine of the Railway Fuel company, nine miles south of Jasper. Ala., following a gas explosion. Ten others were injured. six of them seriously, and four of them died later. Bonus checks aggregating more than $7,000,000 for employees of the Ford Motor company are now being write ten and their distribution will start January 1 next according to announcement at Detroit. Mich. The house of bishops of the Methedist Episcopal church, in session at Atlantic City, N. J., decided to formally withdraw from the Interchurch world movement. Mrs. Julia Drewrey thirty-five years old. was shot and killed in her home at Carlisle. Pa. The district attorney is holding two soldiers from the field service school there. on suspicion. A state bank at A herton. Mo., was held up and robbed of all its available cash, according to telephone advices.
