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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1925
Page
5
CHICAGO Directrs of the Standard Oil of Indiana today declared a dividend of 2% per share, payable September 15 to stockholders of record August 15. The report notes a wave of international and regional oil market activity and labor negotiations affecting prices and distributions.
Authorities exhumed the body of 80 year old Colorado pioneer James Hoy after his death last May under unclear circumstances. Adel A. Hoy of St. Louis requested investigation as chemists analyzed the remains for possible poisoning. A will was reportedly found. physicians cited gastroenteritis as a factor in the death.
President Coolidge met with Iowa former RNC chair John T. Adams to gauge insurgent Republican strength in the Midwest. Wisconsin could see LaFollette successor amid a Klan and wets challenge. North and South Dakota seat contests loom with Ladd case in North Dakota and Norbeck up for re election in South Dakota.
Otto Rice of St Joseph Massachusetts owner of Thistledown Cleveland training stables confessed to United States officials that he gave drugs to horses to dope them for racing. He admitted handling narcotics and giving dope to jockeys and others, while denying selling narcotics. He was held on a 3000 dollar bond after his admission to Commissioner Monhanan.
Armed guards patrol Hainee reservoir at the head of the Los Angeles aqueduct to deter potential violence amid the ongoing water rights dispute between Los Angeles and Owens Valley ranchers. Officials fear a repeat demonstration by protesting ranchers.
In Chicago the sanity trial for Russell Scott began with Judge Joseph B. David warning against sensational tactics as jurors are selected. The case concerns whether Scott is sane after fatally shooting Joseph Maurer during a drug store hold up. Scott's father attended. his mother was reportedly en route from Detroit with funds to sustain the defense.
Mystery surrounds the loss of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt’s $30,000 earrings worn at European courts. Reports say thieves took the gems while Mrs. Vanderbilt and her daughter Grace traveled from Prague to Marienbad as General Vanderbilt returned to America promptly by sailing from Naples.
Des Moines citizens planned a protest against a telephone rate increase that took effect last Saturday. Officials said more than 200 people registered today at a joint meeting of associations as local trades urged alignment while business would not be affected.
Judge Whitmore will leave his current post to form a new law firm with Horace M. Boorman, creating Bow, Whitmore and Boorman Attor neys and Counsellors at Law. The move, planned for September, solidifies a prominent Iowa legal partnership, leveraging Boorman’s decades of trial work and Whitmore’s judiciary background.
Funeral services for Edgar Addison Bancroft, former American ambassador to Japan, will be held at Etany St An sulgh in Tokio next Wednesday at 7 oclock. Bancroft died at Karuizawa near Tokio last Tuesday. Bishop li of the Episcopal church will officiate.
In Washington on August 4, Senator Brookhart of Iowa leads Democratic challenger Daniel F Steck by about 1,022 votes in a Senate Elections Committee recount of 25 counties amid contested ballots. The overall totals show Brookhart 104,401 to Steck 103,? with protests filed on 1,548 votes and Steck’s supervisors challenging 1,496 ballots. The committee will determine which ballots are valid, potentially affecting Brookhart’s seat.
L R Nelson and family return from a two week journey covering 2500 miles. In Des Moines Mildred works there while Nelson notes North Dakota renters earning more from crops and that the grain samples from C H Theebe’s Forbes area farms look strong. He says North Dakota crops ease local financial concerns and farmers feel better about year.
New York reports Arthur Chambers, an artist, died by gas in his room after drawing a self portrait and scrawling a final note saying Justified exit Too old no faith death no hope broke money total zero. In Pittsburgh the Pirates beat the Phillies 8 to 2 in the first game of a doubleheader.
Mrs Sophia Neff longtime Atlantic resident died at the home of her son Lou J Neff 402 Oak Street at five o'clock on her seventy second birthday death attributed to heart trouble She was born in Wisconsin August 2 and married Silas Neff December 31 1874 in Darlington Wis The couple moved to Shelby County then Atlantic survived by husband two sons Philo and Sou of Atlantic three daughters Mrs S Wright Audubon Mrs Frank Pelrett Hamilton Ill and Mrs Ira Stetzel Ross Sixteen grandchildren and two sisters Emma Koebe Walnut and Kate Neffo Liberal Kans Funeral services at the local M E Church with Rev A Gable will be held at two tomorrow Interment in Atlantic Cemetery
A lone bandit halted a car near Fort Logan early today and shot four occupants. Marie McCormick, 17, was killed instantly. Mrs Julian Stearns died of wounds. Fred Funker, 19, died en route to hospital. Carl Perry survived with a serious arm wound as police search city and mountains.
In St Louis on Aug 3 Sheriff Anton Schuler with 15 deputies seized the city jail and jailed jailer Leffman and 20 guards amid a factional dispute within the city administration over jail jurisdiction. No violence occurred, though several skirmishes and tense moments were reported as the district court advised a show of force.
Judge Thomas C. Whitmore of Iowa's 15th judicial district resigns effective September 1 after ill health and desire to be with his wife. He will be succeeded by attorney H A Mantz of Audubon, a noted state lawyer, a choice praised by Governor Hammill for the bench.
In South Richmond, Rev George W Holder 45 a retired Disciples of Christchurch minister shot and killed his wife and then killed himself. The couple had married recently and Holder, once housekeeper to the minister, retired due to ill health. He died minutes after the shooting.
Adair Iowa August 3 Special to News Telegraph Mr and Mrs T H Magarell and son George left for Winnipeg Canada today after a visit with R H Magarell and family the past week.
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