Mine Picket Strife Leads to Court Appearance
Deputy Sheriff Fred Heck ordered two pickets Fred Worden and Leo Mathew to appear in Glouster court after a night investigation at Mine No 10 near Sunday Creek Coal. A second rioting claim was filed by Lee Love accusing miners of shooting and threatening violence at the picket camp prompting a court appearance for Skinner and Miller.
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Glouster
Sunday Creek Coal Company
Fred Worden
Leo Mathew
J. Skinner
Frank Miller
Fred Heck
Heck
Worden
Mathew
John Andrews
Andrews
Marshal Henry Williams
Andrew
Mine No. 10
Lee Love
Silas Blower
Marshal Williams
Skinner
Miller
Gormley
Justice of the Peace
Rebels Hold Two Americans as Ransom Demand Reported
Dispatches say W H Mitchell and John F Hooper engineers were captured by Mexican rebels on June 22 near Rio Blanco north of Guadalajara. A note to the Guadalajara consul says ransom is 18 000 pesos and the men are still prisoners.
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Washington
U.P
W. H. Mitchell
John F. Hooper
State Department
Edward P. Lowry
Guadalajara
Lowry
Rio Blanco
Bank Banking Lineage Extended From Athens to Cincinnati
Representative James Brown Davis of Cincinnati, grandson of J. D. Brown, current president of the Bank of Athens, is visiting his grandfather. A Yale graduate with Harvard Business School postgrad work in investment banking, Davis plans to work in New York in the fall. He is a fourth generation Brown in banking.
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James Brown Davis
Cincinnati
J. D. Brown
Bank of Athens
Yale University
Harvard School of Business Administration
John Yorn
Young Davis
L. J. Davis
First National Bank
New York
Brown
Hoover to Decide on California University Trip Plans
Washington July 2. Herbert Hoover will decide today his schedule to leave for Stanford California to be notified as the Republican presidential nominee. A notification ceremony is set for late August with Hoover visiting friends on the Pacific coast before then. He plans a July 10 departure, with a Brule Wisconsin stop to resign as secretary of commerce.
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Washington
UPR
Herbert Hoover
Stanford University
Calif
Cap
Hoover
Pacific Coast
Brule
Wis
Coolidge
Hubert Work
Republican National Committee
West Branch
Iowa
Prohibition Agents Fail Civil Service Tests in Kentucky District
In Louisville and Cincinnati reports say 35 of 45 prohibition agents in the Kentucky Tennessee enforcement districts failed their civil service exams and successors will be drawn from those who passed. Officials withheld confirmation awaiting Washington. The rumor suggests a major personnel shake up within days. Also in Cincinnati a municipal judge ruled street searches by officers without warrants unlawful and dismissed several defendants seized on streetcar exits.
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Louisville
U.P
Prohibition
Kentucky-Tennessee
William O. Mays
Washington
Cincinnati
U.R
Joseph H. Woeste
Kentucky
Izaak Waltonians To Meet Tuesday Night
Alliance report notes the Izaak Waltonians will gather Tuesday at 7 30 in City hall. In other news five men escaped death when a 25 foot trench wall collapse occurred injuring three.
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Izaak Waltonians
Isaak Walton League
Alliance
Former agent seeks damages after arrest in Columbus
William Z. Mathews, a former federal prohibition agent, demands 50000 in damages in a suit filed against federal prohibition officials. He alleges false arrest for conspiracy to violate federal prohibition laws. Defendants include Walter R. Fogg Roy W. Shafer Charles L. Burlbut and William H. Walker. The case was dismissed by a federal grand jury.
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Columbus
U.P
William Z. Mathews
Walter R. Fogg
Roy W. Shaffer
Charles L. Burlbut
William H. Walker
Prohibition
Mathews
Joseph W. Horner
Chancellor Mueller Moves to Unqualified Vote of Confidence
Berlin July 2. The new coalition cabinet led by Chancellor Hermann Mueller will demand an unqualified vote of confidence as it submits its legislative program to the Reichstag. It is expected nationalists and communists will also file motions of no-confidence in the government.
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Berlin
U.R
Hermann Mueller
Reichstag
Ditch Digger Fatally Injured In Cleveland Cave-In
In Cleveland on July 2 Frank Breff a ditch digger was caught in a cave-in and perhaps fatally injured.
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Cleveland
U.R
Frank Breff
Boy Inventor's Fourth of July Torpedo Blast Wounds Six
A crippled 11 year old Philip Rosenblatt's improvised torpedoes exploded in his tenement in New York on July 2 injuring six, including his sister Esther and infant sibling Mary Margaret. Fire inspector Robert Withers was hospitalized after his hands were mangled. Patrolman Seubert sustained eye injuries.
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New York
U.R
Philip Rosenblatt
Rosenblatt
Philip
Mary Margaret
Robert Withers
Fire Department
Esther Rosenblatt
Louis
William Seubert
Union pickets clash near McClainsville mine
In St Clairsville Ohio on July 2 union pickets clashed with leaders of the save the union movement at the Rail and River Coal McClainsville mine. Two men were injured as deputies were called but miners had dispersed. A dynamite charge with a faulty fuse was found at a non union miner's house in Shadyside.
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ST. Clairsville
U.P
Save the Union Movement
McClainsville
Rail and River Coal Company
Save the Union Group
Shadyside
Turner for Governor Club Forms in Hamilton County
Columbus June 2 The Turner for Governor club of Hamilton county has obtained corporate papers from Secretary of State Brown confirming its formal organization and status.
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Columbus
U.R— “Turner
Hamilton County
Brown
Hoover changes church to avoid crowd at Friends meeting
Secretary of Commerce Hoover yesterday left the Friends meeting house after a crowd gathered to see him. Accompanied by Mrs. Hoover and family he attended the Friends Orthodox church instead. The Hoovers normally attend a Hicksite Quaker church, which split from the Orthodox branch over two centuries ago.
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Washington
U.P
Hoover
Friends Meeting House
Friends Orthodox Church
Hoovers
Quaker Church
Body of air mail pilot found after crash
The body of Leslie H. Smith, 25, air mail pilot for Robertson Aircraft, was found on a wrecked plane nine miles north of Ellsinore Missouri, ending a two and a half day search by airplanes a dirigible and thousands of volunteers. He disappeared Thursday night while en route from Little Rock to St Louis with photos from the Houston Democratic Convention. The crash occurred after the plane struck a large oak during a storm. The body will be taken to Memphis Missouri to die parents A H Smith.
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ST. Louis
U.P
Leslie H. Smith
Robertson Aircraft Corporation
Ellsinore
Missouri
Smith
Little Rock
Ark
Houston
Memphis
A. H. Smith
Work Resigns Cabinet To Lead Hoover Curtis Campaign
Wis July 2 Dr Hubert Work new chairman of the Republican national committee will visit President Coolidge today and submit his resignation as secretary of the interior He plans to devote full time to the Hoover Curtis campaign and may seek Coolidges advice or ask for speeches in support of the ticket The trip includes a Chicago conference and a Washington meeting tomorrow and the next day
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Superior
Wis
Hubert Work
Republican National Committee
President Coolidge
Interior
Chicago
Washington
Work
Hoover-Curtis
Mr. Coolidge
Russian icebreaker Krasin advances toward Italia camp rescue
Stockholm July 2 The Russian icebreaker Krasin has progressed far northward and may reach the Italia ice camp off North East land before tomorrow to rescue the six men reported stranded there.
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Stockholm
U.2
Krasain
Italia
North Eastland
Mellon reports US public debt falls in past year
Secretary Mellon announced the national public debt stood at 17.604 billion dollars as the new fiscal year began. The debt declined by 900 million in the last 12 months, with treasury surpluses mostly used for retirement, receipts at 4.042 billion and expenditures 3.644 billion, signaling continued improvement and plans to retire or refund over five billion in Liberty Bonds within 18 months.
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Washington
U.R
Secretary of Treasury
Mellon
Treasury
Heat Toll Rises From Ohio Traffic Crashes
In Ohio over the holiday weekend a heat wave and traffic crashes caused multiple fatalities and injuries. The toll includes Edward Lavelle 40 drowned in the Cuyahoga river and Emmett Kammen 40 injured in a truck collision. Hester Lamb 6 Hugh Coster 3 and Walter Postupak 11 died in separate incidents.
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Columbus
Ohio
Cleveland
Edward Lavelle
Cuyahoga River
Cincinnati
Emmett Kammen
Lockland
Hamilton
Hester Lamb
Coke Otto
Hugh Coster
Struthers
Walter Postupak
Lake Hamilton
Walter
Men Rescued After Dam Floods Locust Springs Mine
Forty nine miners were trapped when a dam at Locust Springs colliery burst, flooding the shaft. They reached a safety travelway and were rescued. only James Carey of Girardville needed medical attention for shock.
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MT. Carmel
U.R
Locust Springs
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Locust Gap
Here
James Carey
Girardville
Attack on Smuggling Ring Expands Across Detroit Port
Detroit July 2 More than a million aliens illegally reside in the country and the number grows through operations of large smuggling syndicates the Detroit News reports in a series on smuggling machinations. Windsor and Canadian routes feed Detroit’s role as a major entry point for aliens sent to Chicago Pittsburgh St Louis and other centers many die in the River crossing or by smugglers’ carelessness.
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Detroit
U.R
Detroit News
Detroit River
Windsor
Chicago
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Woman allegedly robs car in Oakland case named Marmont alias Brown
A woman invited to ride by an Oakland man produced a pistol, forced the owner out, and drove the car away. Police identify her as Monty Marmont alias Babe Brown despite her claim of being Miss Nobody from Nowhere.
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Oakland
Calif
Monty Marmont
Babe” Brown
Rain Delays Put Wheat Harvest in Southwest
Heavy moisture holds up harvest across the region with Kansas hit hard. Farmers fear losses unless warm weather returns and some fields remain too wet for tractors and combines. Despite delays, officials expect a possible record crop if conditions improve, promising big profits for many farmers.
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Kansas City
UPR
Southwest
Kansas
Balloons Reach Safe Lands In Gordon Bennett Race
Word from the Gordon Bennett international balloon race finds 12 craft in flight with several landings reported. Detroit, piloted by W. G. Naylor, landed near Cass Virginia after losing ballast, with no injuries. Other craft including the Switzerland pilot E. S. Maag and the Argentina vessel of Don Eduardo Bradley reported down in Virginia areas.
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Detroit
U.R
W. G. Naylor
Cass
W. Va
Russell Wherrit
E. S. Maag
Switzerland
Fairmount
Dangers Grow in Arctic Search for Italia Crew
Fears for six men stranded on an ice floe near Foyn island rise as melting ice and heavy floes slow rescue. Lieutenant Einer-Paul Lundborg and five companions await shelter with dwindling odds of relief. Amundsen and three others, missing since June 18, face grim prospects as radio contacts fail.
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Foyn Island
Einer-Paul Lundborg
Umberto Nobilenda
Knud Rasmussen
Italia
Lundborg
Rasmussen
Raald Amundsen
Sone
Latham
Amundsen
Rene Guilbaul
Lief Dietrichson
Tromsoe
Norway
Helmer Hansen
South Pole
Peter Freuchen
Two Boys Drown While Attempting Rescue at Pond
In Goudsboro Pennsylvania on July 3, 15 year old William H. Gardner leaped a pond to save 18 year old William W. English. Both were pulled under by undertow before bystanders could reach them.
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Gouldsboro
William H. Gardner
William W. English
Booklet Details Presidency From Nation’s Founding to Present
The Athens Messenger publishes a condensed presidency record covering each election and administration. It includes a Democratic nominee for president and notes about the nation’s political history.
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