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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1923
Page
2
Rioters attacked Klansmen after a parade halted on a bridge in Carnegie. A white robed man died after being struck, as police detained ten Klansmen and seized weapons. David Cabell, claiming East Liberty Klan leadership, was among those arrested.
The text states rect traffic for the meeting with permission from 8S. H. Gardner, district attorney of Allegheny county. Cabel and two others in army uniforms claim World War I veterans. seven others wore civilian clothes. Cabel, in his cell, says Sam Rich, acting grand dragon of Pennsylvania, arranged the meeting and named him traffic director.
Charles B. Warren former ambassador to Japan and high commissioner to Mexico returned to Detroit on August 26 and rejected rumors of an ambassadorial appointment to Mexico He stated his mission is completed and he would not accept the post and informed President Coolidge and Secretary Hughes He expressed confidence the Mexico City conference report and recommendations would be accepted by the United States
Manuel McFadden and Matt Wallace were arrested on reckless driving charges by Deputies Duggan and Lowney after their car collided with a vehicle driven by Guay near the Harrison Avenue station. A child in the Guay car was thrown to the ground but not injured.
In the 200 block North Main street last night police found a still mash and twelve cases of beer in a rooming house near the post office. James Fullerton was arrested by Officers Fairchilds Larkin and Orrison.
The successor to the airmail service left Omaha before mail pickup finished. Pilot Jack Knight set a transcontinental flight record and a longest night flight, flying from Cheyenne to Buchanan, Michigan, about 1,000 miles, after receiving word his father was not expected to live and was granted permission to use a mail plane. He arrived this morning to find D. M. Knight still alive.
The Denver Clearing House association sent 500000 dollars to the institution as bank officials chase a mysterious woman who telephoned wives of depositors and local papers with rumors the Home Savings and Trust company was about to fail. District Attorney Phillip S. Vancz warned that spreading false bank rumors leads to arrest and trial.
The first seven miles of a new 4600 mile Atlantic cable were laid from the cable ship Faraday off Far Rockaway led by Clarence H. Mackay. The line will run via Nova Scotia and the Azores to Havre, France, with a 1200 letters per minute capacity and is slated for completion in October.
Helena Aug 25 Notice of a public hearing Oct 8 was given by the state railway commission to consider requests by railroad companies including Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Great Northern Northern Pacific and White Sulphur Springs Yellowstone Park to cancel the differential rate on coarse grains over wheat and raise the wheat rate to align with coarse grain rates after ICC ruling that coarse grains were not entitled to lower rates in parts of the state.
Secretary of Labor James Davis praised Calvin Coolidge as the best fit for the 1924 Republican nomination at a Pittsburg reception. Davis, head of the Loyal Order of Moose, lauded Coolidge’s record and said the party will name him and the people will elect him.
Two men were killed and a policeman likely fatally wounded when an officer tried to break up a noisy party in Scollysquire early this morning. Patrolman Anthony J. Rock is reported dying at a hospital. Names of the two dead remain unascertained, one being a sailor.
The United Mine Workers press a firm ultimatum that arbitration cannot avert a wage dispute with coal operators. Mr. Lewis cites an August 31 suspension of mining if no contract exists, while urging continued maintenance work to prevent mine flooding.
AP reports 32 million tons of hard coal in domestic sizes ready for consumers by Sept 1, about 45 percent of annual fresh anthracite use across 48 states Canada and Mexico. Production has surged, with a 2,000,000 ton weekly pace since June, lifting yearly output to around 104,000,000 tons and easing lake shipments to support Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota and the Dakotas during a possible slowdown.
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