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Show OFFICIALS OPPOSE I PROHIBITION LAW MICHIGAN COUNTY IN OPEN RE-BELLION RE-BELLION AGAINST ENFORCEMENT ENFORCE-MENT OF PROHIBITION. Rebellion Against Law Enforcement Led by County Prosecutor When Federal Enforcement Officers Seize Raisin Wine. Chicago. A "rebellion against prohibition" pro-hibition" has broken out in Iron county, Mich., and the county, led by-its by-its prosecuting attorney, is in "open revolt" against federal authority, Major A. L. Iialrymplc, federal prohibition pro-hibition director for the central states, notified Washington on .Sunday. Prohibition agents, leading a party of Michigan state constables, were held up February I'J by Iron county officials and wine they had confiscated confis-cated was taken from them, according to word brought to Chicago by Leo J. Grove of Marquette, supervising prohibition agent for the upper pen-Uisula. pen-Uisula. Major Dalrymple appealed to Attorney Attor-ney Genera Palmer, through Assistant Assist-ant Prohibition Director Guylord, to crder warrants issuetl for the arrest Of the prosecutor, two deputy sheriffs, two police officers anil three residents oi Iron liiver. a mining village. While Washington was setting the legal machinery in motion, Ialrymple Issued orders for a company of picked prohibition agents to gather here preparatory pre-paratory to starting on an armed expedition, ex-pedition, which, lie declared, will "clean up" Iron county. The attack on Grove and his party occurred within two miles of the spot where Captain Marsh of the constabulary constab-ulary was recently shot by a bootlegger. boot-legger. Grove, accompanied by Lieutenant K. G. Strope and Troopers Master and Kind of the state constabulary, seized eleven barrels of wine from Iron ltlver. The wine is said to be held by John, Peter and Stephen Scal-cucci, Scal-cucci, wealthy Italians, who own the packing plant and general store at Iron liiver. Grove loaded the liquor into a sleigh and started to move it to Caspian. Grove claims the counly officials took the wine from him, returned re-turned it to the Italians, and told them to post an armed guard over it, with orders to shoot if the federal agents tried to regain possession. |