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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1926
Page
1
A severe rail disaster in Florida results in a dining car being telescoped by impact. The majority of victims are reported to be inside the dining car as the train derailed and ran out of control. Authorities investigate the wreckage and casualty figures as rescue units search for survivors.
A force of American bluejackets has been landed at Rio Grande Bar Nicaragua to protect lives and property, according to a late state department release. Rear Admiral Latimer, aboard the Rochester, sent ashore sailors and heads to Puerto Cabezas as officials cite possible interference with hardwood lumber movements by rebels opposing the Managua government.
In Nicaragua near Chinanadega at El Punte government forces totaling 50 were killed after stumbling into an ambush set by liberal forces numbering over 300 well armed soldiers. The report is dated December 23 in Managua.
Albert Collins, electrician at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, drowned after a car crash Wednesday night when steering gear failed. The overturned vehicle sent him into the Gardiner River between mile markers one and seven. His body was found this morning on the riverbank with head and shoulders beneath the water.
Captain Ira C. Kaker and Lieutenant M. B. Fairchild of the U S Army Pan American flyers arrived at Vera Cruz from Tampico in the San Francisco at 8 30 p m EST. The hop from Tampico was postponed until tomorrow and the crowd had dispersed. The pilots landed safely, berthed the plane in the bay, and sought lodging for the night.
A Belgian father, mother, a young girl, and a baby were rescued from freezing on Peche Island in the Detroit River near Windsor. Interpreters say they paid $100 to be smuggled into the United States. the smuggler landed them on the island and fled in the dark.
Three large trucks carried abundant Christmas gifts from Butte to the state orphans home at Twin Bridges. Packages were Santa Claus wrapped with first and second choice requests, many including musical instruments. Anaconda company officials funded and organized the effort, with donations supported by local merchants and overseen by John D. Ryan Cornelius F. Kelley James R. Hobbins and L. Orvis Evans. gifts chosen by Jerry Murphy and Miss Eiza Russell.
A New York town mourns as a fatal home invasion is linked by investigators to a cobbler’s attempt to better the family’s standing. Police report a lethal argument escalated to murder amid ongoing inquiries.
In Baldwin New York Salvatore Arcadi a cobbler who sought more business and to better support his wife Angeline and six year old son Joseph was believed to have provoked an explosion that demolished his tavern and damaged a large part of the town's business district. An earlier threat demanding he stop canvassing trade appeared to prompt the act which left Arcadi likely dead with his wife and son among the victims.
Clyde Otis a 50 year old Butte mail carrier has walked about 121500 miles over 27 years averaging 15 miles daily. He travels within Butte and is believed to be the oldest Montana carrier in service. Sundays in summer he hikes to Lake Delmo fishing and in winter hunts rabbits near Feeley.
Butte post office processed 584 640 pieces of mail from9 am to midnight shattering all known records. On Wednesday 82 006 letters and cards were mailed as clerks battled the surge, with half a million cards and letters sent since Saturday. Postage totaled about 19 000 dollars as 7 000 parcel post pouches were dispatched yesterday.
Canton Ohio December 23 Patrick E McDermott testified at his murder trial for Don R Mellett the Canton publisher. He claimed involvement in a conspiracy and said he warned Mellett twice his life was in danger. He accused co defendant Co B McClintock and star witness Kascholk while denying knowledge of Rudner and Mazer.
New York Dec 23 The findings of Dr Charles Norris medical examiner that Mrs Robert H Ingersoll shot Wallace Probasco in her apartment Sunday night and then killed herself were accepted today by the district attorney office after a conference with detectives and the doorman. Probasco is in Murray Hill hospital under 12500 bail on 4 charges of suspicion of homicide.
Washington reports Christmas weather chances favor a white Christmas in the Rocky Mountain and Upper Midwest regions due to recent snowfall. Elsewhere forecasters expect rain and overcast skies across the East Middle West and South. Colder temperatures are anticipated in the Gulf and Middle Atlantic states as well.
In New York on December 24 a Baltimore woman, Mrs Kintelie Marr Bollman aged 42, died by suicide rather than pay blackmail. Police notes claim she loaned $50,000 to a man who did not repay and directed her estate to her brother George Marr and his children. A divorce decree for George Bollman dated January 1925 was found in her room.
State Department refuses to issue a permit for the shipment of ten machines purchased by Mexico in this country. The failed export blocks the border crossing and spares the ghost border from completion.
The United States said it refused a Mexican request for an export license to ship 10 aircraft bought from Douglas Aircraft near Los Angeles. Officials gave no reason, noting no licenses for military stores or equipment to Mexico have been issued since the embargo began, save for weapons sold by the U.S. government in 191X.
In Fort Wayne Dev 24 a strange obituary notes Josiah Birdsey Smith of Vicamot Lake declines a traditional vault and names six former sweethearts as pallbearers. He plans a monument built from red, white and blue stone, insisting no concrete overcoat should impede his spirit when the trumpet sounds.
Thirteen bodies were removed by midnight from the wreckage of two Southern Railway passenger trains in Rockmart Georgia. At least thirty are believed dead, with many injured as the Royal Palm and Ponce de Leon collided just after leaving Miami. The first section of the Ponce de Leon carried sleepers for Detroit Cleveland Louisville and Cincinnati. The diner car was destroyed and most casualties occurred there.
Malta Mont December 23 Walter Sturman is in hospital with birdshot in his abdomen after a feud with Master Moran that has lasted years. Reports say Sturman chased Moran through the mining town of Zortman then Moran retrieved a shotgun and wounded Sturman in the stomach. Sturman’s injuries are not considered fatal.
Fannie Keeler known as the girl with the glad laugh died in Calgary yesterday morning. Her body will be brought to Butte for burial. Born in Colorado Springs she moved to Butte as a child and appeared on stage with Uncle Dick Button. She later starred in vaudeville and with the Belmont Players and last performed in Butte last March.
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