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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1928
Page
4
A Saturday power outage near Ada disrupted Byng plant lines and crippled the Oklahoma Pipeline Co. telegraph, plunging the city into darkness and causing thousands in losses. The piece warns that attacks on power plants could paralyze national life in future wars.
In West Frankfort Illinois a gas explosion deep underground at Peabody Industrial mine No. 18 killed 21 miners and injured others. State director of mines A D Lewis led the inquiry while a Franklin county coroner convened a jury. The blast struck without warning as 600 workers were in place.
Pontotoc County Clerk W A Peck challenges the state examiners audit as unsigned and unlegal, citing misprints and mischarges. He claims six months of review revealed repeated errors by prior examiners and vows to run for county commissioner in Commissioner's District No 2, defending his record.
Democrats plan precinct meetings at regular voting places Friday January 13 with 2 PM sessions outside Ada and an evening start in Ada. Each polling place will elect a precinct chairman vice chairman secretary and four committee members. Fred F. Brydia urges full attendance and active rallies.
Los Angeles January 6 A complete test of California new insanity defense law will be used in the Hickman trials. William Edward Hickman, 19, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to kidnapping and murder of Marian Parker. He and accomplice Weslby Hunt face a second murder charge in a drug store holdup, with separate insanity and sanity considerations to govern guilt and punishment.
Former Kansas Governor Jonathan M. Davis and his son traced tracks in the snow to Lester Jackson after four hogs disappeared from their farm near Fort Scott. Jackson confessed to four stray hogs after a call to the Iola sheriff, and Earl Jackson of Iola was sought for delivery failure.
In Antlers on January 6 Capt. Ben B. Locke, noted Choctaw Indian soldier, poet and philosopher, was laid to rest among Locke family graves as numerous Choctaw citizens and former military associates attended the private ceremony at the family cemetery. He died Wednesday at the Soldiers Memorial hospital in Muskogee. The report also notes that John Quincy Adams’s wife was born in London.
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