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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1925
Page
1
Texas Governor Miriam A. Ferguson announced a $500 reward for each conviction of liquor violators valued at $5,000 or more. She challenged Methodist groups to aid in enforcing prohibition, asserting frustration with criticism of her pardon policy amid highway probe tensions.
Police and juvenile authorities opened a probe into John Warren McCord of Alaska, seeking to adopt 13 year old Victoria Deschamps of Missoula. They questioned his plans to take her to Alaska next spring amid parental objections and an unclear marriage status.
Two day Montana session opens at the New Finlen hotel with 80 chambers represented. Notable speakers include Fred Mirrett A H Bowmen W F Stapleton Tom Greenfield Dr Alfred Atkinson and others guiding secretary duties and statewide fellowship.
Storms sweep the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts with tidal waves and heavy snow. Sicily and Calabria report devastation from flooding, Brittany and France face gales and ice, Madrid endures record cold, and Britain records snow in London.
New York dispatch reports Cunard liner Antonio officer R. J. Finlow refused an actress’s kiss, citing the rule that only a married man can publicly kiss women. He, being single, declined as the captain was away, noting the risk of becoming undesirably single by indiscriminate kissing.
Mrs Catherine Rogers and her 19 year old daughter Zera confessed to robbing the Renner State Bank yesterday. They took 390 dollars in coins. Both women, held on 5000 dollar bonds, await trial as their husband and father, a disabled World War veteran, faces hardship.
Relatives of the late Senator William A. Clark contributed $700,000 to fund a new wing for the Clark art collection at the Corcoran gallery of art. The gift comes from the widow Mrs William A Clark Miss Huguette Clark and two of his daughters Mrs Lewis R B Morris and Mrs Marius du Brabant. The plan calls for a building costing about $790,000 with 17 galleries designed by Charles A Platt and contracted to James Baird Company. The work will start once plans are finalized and approved.
East Park street grocer P M Bonino denied rumors that Italian friends of Joe Cicerelli and Antone Favero, murdered Sunday night, planned to lynch Tony Vettere who is charged with the brutal killings. He says Meaderville residents, though saddened, would not seek vigilante action.
Grand Junction Colorado reports rancher Thomas Ternahan saved by Adobe the mongrel. While riding a roundup a bull charged. the horse died and Ternahan was pinned. The dog leaped the bull, held its nose, allowing Ternahan to fire two shots that killed the bull.
Grand Rapids reports seven killed when a car was hit by a Michigan interurban train at a grade crossing. Four men and three women died instantly. the crash scattered debris along the roadbed. Motorman Donald Peterson said airbrakes failed after the collision, preventing a quick stop. authorities worked to identify the victims.
Leon Trotzky, ill but defiant, told a Soviet meeting at Kislovodsk that the United States influenced the Locarno agreements and that Britain acted as America’s puppet. He noted Britain as Europe’s peacemaker while asserting hidden U.S. power guided European policy.
Paris November 28 Aristide Briand presented his eighth cabinet to the president after a long contest with political factions. The new ministry is described as liberal and formed largely along partisan lines amid ongoing maneuvering within the government.
White Plains Nov 24 trial counsel for Leonard Kip Rhinelander said he would counter Ross Chidester chauffeur testimony that Rhinelander inquired before marriage whether the father of Alice Jones was a negro. Judge Mille noted temporary alimony of 246 a month would continue if Rhinelander loses, discontinue if he wins.
Harold Bowers three year old son of Fletcher and Mrs. Bowers of Fairfield, 30 miles west, suffocated when the family home burned last night while parents were away. A sister tried to rescue him, wrapping a coat around her head and crawling through flames, but the child died. Origin of the fire is unknown.
The infant Miriam Bar bara Durnam died after a pet bear named Jiggs mauled her at the Karst ranch in Gallatin country. The child had fought meningitis and weeks of illness in Butte and Bozeman. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Durham of Salesville, faced tragedy as the bear attack preceded the fatal outcome. Funeral services were planned in Bozeman with burial in Bozeman.
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