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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1928
Page
1
In a grim inner city tragedy, an estranged husband shoots his wife and then murders himself during a failed reconciliation effort. The incident occurred before authorities and investigators are tracing the sequence of events.
Alfred Barsanti 59 shot and killed Catherine Barsanti 55 at their one room home in East Fourth street Anaconda after failing to reconcile He then killed himself as Chief Cullen forced entry Neighbors heard two gunshots and found the couple after the tragedy with the husband clasping the wife in a final embrace.
Sphinx mountain 41 miles south of Livingston is sliding toward the Yellowstone River. Track walkers report the track toward the river moved 100 feet, with a 200 foot drop to the water. 150 feet of track reportedly broken off and hanging over the bank as darkness hampers assessment. Railway officials rush to scene to inspect at daylight.
Hayden opens speech as three scions attend at dinner time. Dawes breaks the vote, creating a swing in the chamber.
Norway proposes large airplanes and station ships to locate the Italia crew in the Arctic. The plan, sent to Rome for approval, involves an Italian aviator joining the Hobby sealer to reach Kings Bay. Lieutenant Holm leads expeditions amid efforts to aid Gen. Umberto Nobile’s party.
George Allen Chisholm pleaded guilty to murdering his two young sons in Valparaiso Indiana. Judge Grant Crumpacker sentenced the 35 year old Canadian war veteran to life imprisonment after considering mitigating evidence and his claimed wartime injuries. The judge rejected the state’s death penalty request noting the atrocity and that no man could be normal after such acts.
Billings May 28 Slightly cooler weather and a rainstorm in the Beartooth mountains halted the Yellowstone river rise. Melted snow in the Stillwater River, a Yellowstone tributary, fed the high waters but the flood level began to drop as last night’s rain and cooler temps slowed snow melt. Forest Service reports persistent heavy snow in the mountains.
Reports from Zara and Dalmatia describe attacks on Jugo Slav residents by Italians. Police brace streets as 30 students are wounded in Belgrade clashes and buildings are surrounded. King Alexander portraits burned in Zara provokes further protests.
Attorney W D Kyle as special master sold the Boston Montana Mining Property Boston Montana Milling and Power and Montana Southern railroad at Dillon under Beaverhead county court order. Frank H Tyre, rep of the stockholders reorganization committee, bought the properties for 125000 to be applied to the settlement.
In a Democratic primary in the District of Columbia on May 28 delegates to the Houston convention were chosen to support Governor Smith of New York until released by his manager. Twelve delegates were selected, each with half a vote, giving DC six votes at the Democratic national convention.
The city of Butte and the Butte Chamber of Commerce praised John D. Ryan for donating 15000 to buy and equip a 400 acre airport. Mayor Beadle and Willard Thompson lauded his sustained interest in Butte and Montana’s welfare. The gift covered purchase and equipment costs and followed a public appeal.
Three of the four state witnesses in the Carl Brown hit and run case were arrested yesterday. The development follows the ongoing manslaughter charge against Brown as details continue to unfold on Page 6.
Arthur D. Gooley 48, conductor of the log train, was killed when a log rolled from the deck of a flat car and crushed his skull at Harper's logging camp south of Darby Montana. The accident occurred this afternoon.
Washington May 28 Senate leaders planned to renew efforts to end the session by tomorrow night a 40 to 40 tie on adjournment sent the question to Vice President Dawes who voted to table the house resolution fixing quitting time an all night session followed as opponents warned of a long filibuster and pushed another adjournment bid
In Washington on May 28 the senate, failing to set an adjournment date, debated the Boulder Canyon dam bill with a long filibuster. A Pittman resolution authorized a commission of engineers to examine the Boulder dam site under Interior Department oversight to resolve debates over canyon wall safety.
Arthur Le Roy Antoine was sentenced in Oakland to life at San Quentin after confessing to murdering his wife and disposing of the body in the Carquinez Strait. He wed 18-year-old Lillian Stovall four days after her death to marry a younger woman.
Mary Hickman 18 sister of Edward Hickman the Marian Parker slayer will be sent to an institution for supervision and restraint and later moved out of the city by the municipal welfare department. She had been shoplifting under pretense and feared developing kleptomania while denying insanity. Authorities withheld the receiving institution’s name.
More than 4,000 veterans and auxiliary members from Montana will attend a three day joint convention in Butte June 25 26 and 27. The gathering brings together the Grand Army of the Republic United Spanish War Veterans Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion with hundreds of hotel reservations already made. M J Mullen in charge called it the first joint encampment in the state and predicted it may be ten years before Butte hosts such a gathering again.
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