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Domestic Dr. P. C. Regan, a Waukegan (Ill.) dentist, was killed when an automobile in which he was returning from a fishing trip at Fox Lake turned turtle near Ingleside, Ill. * Fire destroyed the grain elevator of McKenney, Rodgers & Co. of Chicago, located at Laporte, Ind. The estimated loss is $150,000. ... Worth's museum at Newcastle, Ind., a private collection of relics and curios, said to be the most extensive of its kind in America, was destroyed by fire with a loss of probably $1,000,000. * * American business men, aided by the federal reserve bank system, will be able successfully to withstand the shock of European competition after the war, in the opinion of Charles Hamlin, governor of the federal reserve board at New York. ... Creditors of the Industrial Savings bank, an old-time private institution of Chicago, caused" to be filed in federal court an involuntary petition for the appointment of a receiver. The institution's liabilities total about $1,000,000, with assets half that amount. ... Organized workers in virtually every industry in greater New York were formally called upon to cease work Wednesday in sympathy with striking traction employees. Labor leaders assert approximately 600,000 men and women are involved. ... A new scale of bread prices for Chicago, predicted ever since the conference of the master bakers in that city more than a week ago, was announced by one of the city's largest wholesalers. A new size loaf will be put on the market and will cost 6 cents. *** Wild rioting in New York by strikers along routes where surface cars were being operated kept the police in constant battles with strikers. Several cars were wrecked. A score of rioters were arrested. Others were sent to hospitals.
