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(Story in Los Angeles Times.)

(Picture from the Boston Evening American, 12 May 1926)

(Advertisement in "Woman's Day", August 1970)

>Striking miners sabotaged the London to Edinburgh mainline at Cramlington, Northumberland, hoping to prevent a coal train from reaching its destination.

>But on 10 May 1926, during the General Strike, they unintentionally derailed the Flying Scotsman which was carrying 281 passengers.

(From the BBC website.)

Advertisement from Variety, May 5th 1926.

Observer and Brisbane Evening Courier:

>Firm action has boon taken by the Government for the maintenance of food supplies and essential services. Drastic regulations have been issued, and tho public is warned against hoarding. Stations have been opened for the recruiting of volunteers, and there has been a wonderful response to the appeal.

>(Australian Press Association).

>LONDON, May 4. Food stocks are normal on the whole, and in many cases above the average. The Government warned the public against hoarding foodstuffs. Drastic new regulations have been issued empowering the commandeering of food, forage, and fuel, and conferring powers to arrest any person impeding the measures for the “essential public safety or life of the community." All milk supplies have been commandeered, and 500 lorries will collect 300,000 gallons for London’s daily needs. The Government has received information that the railwaymen and transport workers are determined not to allow any traffic by road or rail.

>Crowds of people, outside every post office yesterday eagerly scanned official notices of restricted services, and appeals to use the post, telegraph, and telephone services as little as possible.

>Offers of services are pouring in throughout, the country. Recruiting stations for civilian volunteers were opened throughout the country yesterday, and the enlistments at Whitehall were 400 per hour. The number enrolled was 6,000 men and women.

>The council of the Organisation for the Maintenance of Supplies has handed over the whole organisation to the Government.

>The offices of the Trade Union Congress in Eccleston-Square were practically besieged the whole of yesterday by volunteers, offering to drive cars and act in other capacities, Soon after 10 o’clock, from the room where the Council was meeting, came the strains, "Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!"

From the Boston Evening American:

>London, May 3 (I.N.S.)--British industry and transportation will cease functioning abruptly at midnight tonight in obedience to the order for a general strike issued by the Trade Union Congress.

"Strike threats did not stop Stock Exchange London to Brighton walk -- Labour organised a monster demonstration to Hyde Park -- and Coaching Season started as usual"

>London April 27.

>Reuter's París correspondent says: A sensational poisoning case is reported from Nîmes where Antoinette Sierri, a middle-aged nurse, has been found guilty of poisoning six persons. She was sentent ed to death. Public indignation was such that 60 gendarmes were necessary to control the crowd at the Palais de Justice. Sierri administered pyralion used in viticulture to kill grubs; and heavily laden with arsenic. Her first victim was an elderly maiden lady with whom Sierri had no quarrel. The second was Sierri's Italian husband, and the third victim her lover, who it was said beat her violently. Evidence was given that Sierri danced round the man's dead body, but experts scouted the notion that the woman was insane, and said she had only lost her moral sense and seemed to delight in taking life for no cause. No instance was shown of any financial gain from the murders. Two of the others whom she poisoned were a couple from whom Sierri rented a room. The prosecution alleged that the woman attempted to poison five others, all of whom were her patients. They have not yet recovered.

(Her sentence was eventually reduced to life, and she died in 1968.)

>Chicago Ill. April 27--Assistant State's Attorney William McSwiggan, 26-year-old "hanging prosecutor" of the country's legal forces, was killed tonight when gangsters poured more than a hundred machine gun bullets into the automobile in which he and four other men were riding at 12th street and 56th avenue, Cicero.

>With him died James Doherty who, with Klondyke O'Donnell, was noted as one of the most desperate of the Cicero beer running leaders. A third man, Thomas Duffy, of 4712 West Harrison Street, was possibly fatally wounded.

>Machine Gunners Open Fire

>The car in which the five were riding was moving slowly west on Roosevelt Road when the second car, manned by the machine gunner and his crew, drew up alongside. Without warning the murderous volley was poured into the machine. McSwiggan, Doherty and Duffy, according to the witnesses, tried to escape by leaping out...

>Why Assistant State's attorney McSwiggan was with Doherty, who was once tried and acquitted with Miles O'Donnell, a brother of Klondyke, for the murder of Eddie Tannel, a Cicero resort keeper, was a matter of speculation...

(From The Atlanta Constitution, 28 April 1926. The rest of the article can be read at: The Atlanta Constitution 1926-04-28: Vol 58 Iss 319 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive)

Apparently Capone was the killer, and McSwiggan wasn't even a target--he just got caught in the crossfire of a gang war!

>CARTERET, N.J., April 26--The First Baptist Church, whose parishioners are all Negroes, was burned to the ground early this morning, the pastor, his wife and daughter were forced to flee to Elizabeth for refuge and more than 100 negro families were driven from town by a mob of white men, some masked and armed with clubs.

>The burning of the church followed the fatal stabbing of John Carroll, a local boxer, and the serious wounding of Ralph Johnson, both white, by a number of negroes early yesterday morning. One negro was arrested on a charge of murder and five others are being held as material witnesses.

>No personal injury was done to any of the negroes by the white men, but they cautioned against returning to Carteret. Throughout the day, however, some returned to their homes and some even appeared at the places where they are employed.

(From The New York Times April 27 1926. For the full article, go to The New York Times 1926-04-27: Vol 75 Iss 24930 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive)