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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1922
Page
1
Four leaders named Rory OConnor Liam Mellows Joseph McKelvey and Richard Barrett were executed in Mount Joy Prison in reprisal killings following the assassination of Sean Hales. The executions mark a harsh response by authorities during the crisis in the Free State.
Fire rips through Astoria Oregon destroying the business district and left about two thousand people homeless. The blaze lasted ten hours consuming banks hotels stores and newspapers with estimated losses near twelve million dollars. City officials organized relief with help from Portland and Seaside as residents opened homes and cottages to shelter the needy.
Congress told the need to begin coordinating all transportation plans. A strike was discussed as part of the broader rail issue.
Four Irish republican leaders Roderick O'Connor Liam Mellowes Joseph McKelvey and Richard Barrett were executed at Mount Joy prison at 9 20 this morning by order of a court martial. The action followed a Dublin assassination and was presented as reprisal by the Free State government after a heated debate in Parliament.
Senator elect Shipstead led the Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing opposing Pierce Butler’s Supreme Court nomination. The Minnesota figure faces questions over Twin Cities traction financing and Butler’s corporate counsel work. Next hearings set for Wednesday. final adjournment delays swearing in until January.
The roster shows positions for Montana personnel at Great Falls with players Lowry Baier Anderson Sohl Schreiber Bluhm Richardson Winters Drake Cranston Middleton Babcock and reserves Fallys Jaeger Lenny Cowan Martin Murphy Shaw Miles City linemen Mayo Jones Clear nan Flynn Baccus Nugent with officials A D Jones umpire Lansing and Steve Sullivan head linesman and Charles Metheal Timor also named.
For the first time in Montana, the Standard will broadcast a live football game from Clark park between Miles City and Great Falls. Kickoff is at 2 o clock with rapid plays flashed statewide to Miles City, Great Falls, and beyond via the Great Falls Tribune station and local receivers.
A strong earthquake hit Kiushin the southern island of Japan. Many killed or injured and hundreds of houses destroyed per a Tokio dispatch to Central News.
Seven police and federal agents raided a Brown's Gulch ranch recovering five stills, about 350 gallons of moonshine, and 2,000 gallons of mash. John Riley was arrested for illicit distilling. Stills ranged 50 to 70 gallons with two found in a farmhouse basement still warm. Evidence pointed to a former tank near Rocker used as a moonshine warehouse.
Interstate Commerce Commission will resume Washington hearings January 17 on railroad consolidation in the West. The panel will revisit Northwest consolidation and also reexamine the proposed mergers of Northern Pacific with Chicago Burlington and Quincy and Great Northern with Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul.
Miles City and Great Falls teams travel from across the state to Butte for the Montana inter scholastic championship game at Clark park field at 2 o clock. Fans from Butte and Milestown fill hotels as Blue and White backers discuss the evenly matched squads led by Coach M L Crouch and Coach Charles McAuliffe.
President Harding spoke to Congress on the state of the union, highlighting transportation, prohibition enforcement, and farm credits as top national issues. He responded to critics who claimed the United States was aloof, defending international involvement and calling for an early meeting of governors and federal authorities to align national and state enforcement policies.
The mob seized Charlile Wright after his arrest in Madison and burned him at a stream near Perry, Fla. Wright confessed to killing Miss Ruby Hendry with Albert Young as an accomplice, who was seized at Kinderley, Ga. The body burned as the crowd set pine and grass aflame.
Georges Clemenceau in Washington calls President Hardings message an overture toward European diplomacy. He notes the four power pact as a basis for peace and hopes talks with America could advance common interests. White House declines further comment.
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