The Archive · 1929

NON, SPECIAL SERVICE Leavenworth

One prisoner in the federal penitentiary was killed today and three were wounded in the course of six hours rioting.

'A general prison escape was, averted only by strenuous efforts on the part of guards.

The riot started when the prisoners began to throw plates and break vup tables because they had been served with Mexican rice, which they previously had refused to eat.

Soon the, men were tearing out cell bars and wrecking property generally. They were driven to their cells by the guards on the great wall outside, who opened fire.

San Francisco, Aug. 1.

Lines of the Robert Dollar steamship interests were incorporated today for $100,000,000 under the name of the Dollar Steamship Lines, Ltd, Me.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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