Convictions in Kidnap Plot Against Mary Pickford
Claude Holcomb and Z Stephens convicted in supreme court of conspiring to kidnap Mary Pickford for 200000 dollars. Adrian Wood acquitted. Jury deliberated six hours after a three week trial. Sentencing set for 10 am with motions for a new trial planned.
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Associated Prose
Los Angeles
Claude Holcomb
Z. Stephens
Supreme Court
Mary Pickroe
Rani G
Adrian Wood
Hor
Hor Did the Acquitted Deeddant
Lee
Stephens
Toorrean
Wilcox Nominated for U S Senate at Wisconsin GOP Conventi
Roy P. Wilcox of Eau Claire won the Republican nomination for U S senator at the Oshkosh convention on the fourth ballot, routing rivals including Pieplow and McGovern. The late Senator La Follette’s son backs the progressive ticket. Wilcox, born 1873, is a lawyer and former Wisconsin state senator who recently led the state bar association.
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Associated Press
Oshkosh
Wis
Roy P. Wilcox
Eauclaire
Republican Party
United States
Wilcox
Coolidge
la Fi
la Follette
Dean H. L. Russell
Thegriculture College
University of Wisconsin
McGovern
Pieplow
Clauson
Titus
George W. Blanchard
Edgerton
William L. Pieplow
Milwaukee
Eauclairy
Mr. Wilcox
Wisconsin State Senate
Wisconsin
Yte Bar Association
Arkansas Posse Scours Hills for Negro Murderer
A large posse of about 1,590 men searches the Saline River bottoms near Rison for Will Atwood a Black man suspected of shooting two Cleveland County deputy sheriffs Ulyses Baldwin and George Rogers at Rison Pine Bluff surgeons declare a last stand to save the victims life Dan Curry who accompanied deputies when they tried to search Atwoods home was wounded slightly Atwood is a fugitive from the Cummins State Convict Farm
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Associated Press
Pine Bluff
Ark
Saline River
Rizon
Will Atwood
Cleveland County
Bree
Ulyses Baldwin
George Rogers
Dan Curry
Bit
Atwood
Cummins
Investigation planned into treatment of Negroes in Missouri
Assistant District Attorney C. J. Statler said Department of Justice agents will likely go to Bragg City in Pemiscott County to probe reports that Negro residents are being threatened and intimidated. The inquiry follows urgent appeals from federal officials after word of dynamited Negro houses and injured children, with locals accusing lack of sheriffly action before cotton picking begins.
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ST. Louis
Statler
Department of Justice
Bragg City
Pemiscott County
Missouri
United States
Hukiiede
Curry
George Browning
Tornado Hits Waco Causes Moderate Damage in East District
A small tornado touched down in east Waco around Peach and Slay streets, toppling a brick wall, tearing a roof, removing signs, uprooting trees, and shifting a house off its foundation. On the west riverbank strong winds felled trees, broke windows, downed wires and poles, and cut power north of Austin Avenue for about two hours.
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Associated Press
Waco
Peach and Slay Streets
Austin Avenue
Four Die as Train Hits Auto Near Harrisburg
Bhugenh Ore Aug 13 Four people were killed when a Southern Pacific passenger train struck an automobile near Harrisburg tonight. Two children were badly injured and rushed to Eugene for care.
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Associated Press
Death Penalty Sought for 17 Year Old Slayer in Missouri
Everett Adams, 17, confessed to killing Aden R. Clawson in a highway incident near Jefferson City. Prosecutor Roy Rucker said he would seek the death penalty if Adams pleads guilty, with the youth likely to be bound over to the October circuit term. Adams arrived with his father and Wilmington officers, was detained in Pettis county jail, and may receive appointed counsel due to his father's inability to hire an attorney.
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Associated Press
Sedalia
Everett Adams
Aden R. Clawson
Lodi
N. Y
Roy Rucker
Bettis County
Henry Adams
Wilmington
Ohio
Ben South
Garden City
Kansas
Pettis County
South
Young Adams
Rucker
Police
Oll Brown
Clawson
Jefferson City
Adams
Everett
American Sailors Glash With Thugs In New Zealand
American sailors on leave from a U S warship in Christ Church Port Lyttelton faced disorder in Victoria Square as Hoodlum elements taunted them. Sailors were ordered back to ships after several were arrested by their patrol. no injuries were reported and the disturbance began with insulting remarks.
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Associated Press
Christ Church
N. Z
United States
Port Lyttelton
Victoria Square
Turkish President Divorces Latife Hanoum In Decree
News from Constantinople reports that Mustafa Kemal Pasha, president of the Turkish Republic, divorce by decree his wife Latife Hanoum, a western educated heiress. Rumors say Latife sought the separation while Kemal’s divorce power rests with the president. Latife speaks English and French and studied in England and France.
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Associated Press
London
Constantinople
Mustapha Kemal Pasha
Latife Hanoum
Mustapha Kemal
Smyrna
Turkey
Sheik Al-Islam
Mme. Latife
Latife
Trench
France
Chiselhurst
England
Late Wisconsin bulletins and assorted 1925 news items
A 25 year old man held up a mail messenger in Kewanee Illinois and escaped with a registered pouch after forcing the driver to move the vehicle. Austin releases include a 1924 25 prison labor report and work program for 1925 26. Texas rail crossings fatality and injury figures for May total 19 dead and 79 wounded. In Toledo Pittsburgh native Charles C Guenther elected president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Milwaukee violinist Gustave Bach, son of the Bach family, dies at his father Christopher Bach's home. El Paso reports Mrs J R Butler says her daughter Catherine Hinden, 17, was bitten by a shark at Ocean Park California with blood poisoning feared but later said not in danger.
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Associated Press
Kewanee, Ills
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Post Office
Austin
Texas Committee On Prison and Labor
Milwaukee
Gustave Bach
Christopher Bach
Bach
Associated Presa
EL Paso
Texas
J. R. Butler
Catherine Hinden
Ocean Park
California
Thirty Five Cattle Die In Railroad Yards At Temple
Thirty five head of beef cattle died in the Santa Fe yards at Temple Texas this afternoon while en route to Fort Worth. The cattle had been dipped at Crabb in Fort Bend county and it is believed the dipping solution was too strong. Carcasses were removed to the city incinerator and burned.
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Associated Press
Temple
Texas
Santa Fe
Crabb
Fort Bend
Fort Worth
Injunction Granted Against Miners in Arkansas
Fort Smith Ark August 13 A temporary injunction restraining district 21 of the United Mine Workers from interfering with the operation of the Bernice Anthracite Coal Company and the Bernice Investment Company at Russellville was granted by Judge Frank A Youmans in federal district court.
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Associated Press
Fort Smith
Ark
District 21
United Mine Workers
Bernice Anthracite Coal Company
Bernice Investment Company
Russellville
Frank A. Youmans
Federal District Court
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and West Texas Friday
Amarillo and vicinity expect fair weather Friday with cooler temperatures. West Texas and northern New Mexico show Friday showers and partly cloudy skies. a Colorado high pressure ridge moves southeast keeping conditions generally fair and cool tonight.
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Colorado
Rocky Mountain
Lake
Meccaes
Sir Biasis
Saab
Fifty One Sign Up For Trade Journey To South Plains
Fifty one people signed up to join a trade trip to the South Plains. Participants include Colorado Fuel and Iron, Amarillo Feed and Seed, West Texas State Teachers College, and W. M. Moore Lumber Co. Each firm sends one representative. the college sends two. Evetts Haley and Prof. R. P. Terrell are the college reps. Committees from the Wholesale and Manufacturers' Association and the Board of City Development organized the signups. The group departs Amarillo Monday at 8 PM and returns Wednesday night, visiting Plainview Abernathy Crosbyton Lubbock Slaton and other towns.
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South Plains
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
Amarillo Feed and Seed Company
West Texas State Teachers College
W. M. Moore Lumber Co
Teachers College
Evetts Haley
The
Panhandle-Plains Historical Society
Handkerchief May Decide Boy's Fate
Chicago reports the state rests its case in Raymond Costello murder trial. A polka dot handkerchief tied as a gag was found with 16 year old Mardie White's mutilated body under a South Side porch. Witnesses place Costello with the girl the night of her death and identify the handkerchief as his.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Raymond Costello
Maderie White
South Side
Costello
Macedonian Fighter Killed During Prison Escape
Angelico Nikoloff once a Macedonian fighter, died after a prison escape attempt in Skopje. Convicted two years earlier for a death sentence reduced to imprisonment, he seized a guard’s rifle during hard labor, fled six days, and was killed in a rifle exchange with police.
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Associated Preas
Skopje
Serbia
Angelico Nikoloff
Nikoloff
Potter County Raises Tax Rate to 95 Cents
Potter County commissioners set the tax rate at 95 cents per $100 value, up 16 cents from 80. The increased revenue, about $30,000, funds fair park warrants, a courthouse heating system, and a new annex east of the courthouse. The one-story fireproof annex will house the county clerk, include a large vault, and cost $4,000 to $5,000 with Iny A. Carlander as architect.
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Potter County
Commissioners’ Court
Fair Park
Court House
Iny A. Carlander
Slaughter of 500 Cattle Begins in Infected District
Houston Aug 13 Wartime style culling as foot and mouth disease spreads on the infected range near south Houston. Immediate slaughter and burial of about 600 head of contact cattle underway with trenches dug to bury doomed livestock. Government and state officials expect thousands more cattle to die in coming days as ditching machines intensify the fight. Only Mexico and Alabama have embargoes in place so far.
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Associated Press
Houston
South
Mexico
Alabama
Earthquake Shocks Felt Across Gallatin County Montana
Associated Press report from Bozeman Montana notes light earthquake shocks felt at 3 30 pm in Bozeman and Gallatin county including Manhattan and Three Forks. No damage reported. shocks less severe than the 7 50 pm tremor the night before.
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Uy Associated Press
Bozeman
Mont
Gallatin County
Manhattan
Three Forks
Printers Raise Age Limit for Pension to 65
At Kalamazoo Michigan on August 13 the International Typographical Union delegates debated and then adopted changes to pension rules. The law commission proposed raising the pension age from 60 to 65 and requiring 26 years of union membership. Also approved was banning drawing pension while working two days a week. The changes aim to save the pension fund from abuse said Fred Barker of Spokane.
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Associated Presa
Laws Commission
Fred Barker
Spokane
Wash
Commission
Man Detained for Threat to Secretary Mellon
Kansas City Aug 13 Willy Reeme an admirer of Carrie Nation and John Brown was held for investigation after confessing to threaten the life of Andrew W Mellon secretary of the treasury. He was arrested by police and secret service men following an anonymous letter to Mellon over lax enforcement of prohibition. No federal statute covers the case and charges had not been announced.
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Kansas City
Willy Reeme
Carrie Nation
John Brown
Andrew W. Mellon
Treasury
Reenie
Secret Service
Reeme
Missouri
Investigation into Capture of Rev William H Turner in China
Greenville N C August 13 Reports of the capture of the Rev William H Turner American missionary by Chinese bandits were forwarded to Secretary Kellogg today by Representative McSwaim who asked the state department to investigate. Turner a former resident of Greenville was said to be held for ransom per Rev J H King Oklahoma superintendent of the Pentecostal Holiness Church.
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Associated Press
Greenville
N. C
William H. Turner
Kellogg
Representative McSwaim
State Department
McSwaim
J. H. King
Oklahoma
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Turner
Woodmen Disband After Five Days of Galveston Drill
Woodmen of the World conclude a five day training and festivities in Galveston with final drills and prize awards to be announced tomorrow. The Associated Press reports from Galveston and Berlin notes a separate incident where a communist demonstrator was killed and a policeman wounded in clashes tonight.
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Treas
Galveston
Associated Pres
Berlin
Tonigh
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Sao Tay
Miller
Mitchell
Excelsior Springs
Arkansas
Lad
Texas Railroad Commission
Toledo
Charles C. Guenther
Pittsburgh
Order of Eagles
Otto Deluse
Indianapolis
Seattle
Montana
Man
Mellon
W. H. Turner
China
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