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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1925
Page
6
A planned twelve company hard coal merger with assets around 1 billion dollars is advancing in Wall Street rumors. Pittsburgh Coal and Consolidation Coal would anchor the deal with Secretary Hoover possibly chosen to lead the merged firm.
Three men were killed when they became entangled in a live barbed wire fence that touched a high voltage electric line near City, Iowa. The victims were Joe Wall, 35, Paul Miller, 22, and John Miller, 24.
County officials order investigation into origin of blaze that destroyed the new Indiana County Ku Klux Klan home with an estimated 35 000 dollar loss.
Four additional miners were arrested in Henryetta and jailed in Okmulgee for violating Sheriff John Russell’s order banning public prayer meetings in the mining area.
Governor Sorlie of North Dakota plans to appoint Mrs. Edwin F. Ladd to the U S Senate seat left vacant by the death of her husband, according to advices received here.
Charlie Chaplin, confined to a New York hotel room, was able to motor to Long Beach on Long Island recently for a brief outing.
Shippers saved 658000 in freight charges in the first five months of 1925 through government barges on the Mississippi and Warrior Rivers. Inland Waterways Corporation head Brig. Gen. T Q Ashburn reports a net profit of 180676 after depreciation.
In Reading Massachusetts a clash between Ku Klux Klan members and anti-klan groups drew an estimated 1,000 to 1,700 participants. Shots, stones, clubs, and tear gas were reported with over twenty injured. Meanwhile in St Louis Mrs George Morley 53 died from shock after contact with a defective electric washing machine.
Chinese police and the military opened fire on striking mill workers during a recent demonstration in Tien Tsin. Eight workers were wounded, mostly in the legs.
A jury in Superior Judge Joseph B. David’s court found Russell Scott insane after his last fight to avoid the gallows. He will be committed immediately to a state hospital.
Kansas City police report Will K. Reemie an insurance man and Carrie Nation admirer admitted writing an anonymous letter threatening Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon. The letter mailed July 31 vowed to assassinate Mellon for “the good of the world” and referenced a planned resignation.
A strong wind hail and rain storm ten miles west of Hutchinson Kansas leveled buildings uprooted trees and killed livestock. A barn on Joe Haley's farm was lifted and crushed against the house, but the family escaped. Livestock were scattered as farmers worked to round up animals amid hail drifts over a foot deep.
A department of agriculture survey reports a decline of about 30 000 farms in the United States last year and a 1 200 000 acre drop in cropped lands. Idle exclusive summer fallow reaches 25 million acres with large tracts in Michigan Wisconsin Montana Washington and Oregon. The biggest new land brought into cultivation totals 1 million acres in the Great Plains dry farming regions. The farm drop is blamed partly on consolidations.
Washington thrift institutions reported a year over year gain in savings deposits from July 1 1924 to July 1 1925 totaling 533 368 000 across 904 banks. Total savings stood at 7 983 373 000 with a June rise of 129 649 000. Severe storm hits St Louis with extensive damage and downed wires but no fatalities or injuries recorded.
Hostilities flare at Caratepe on the Bulgarian frontier with Greeks attacking a Bulgarian outpost. Several hours of fighting reported from Constantinople as tensions rise in the region.
Swampscott Massachusetts reports President Coolidge will be asked to determine the terms for Belgium's debt settlement to the United States. The decision could influence postwar financial arrangements with the European nation.
Ten persons were killed and fifty injured when an express train jumped rails near Amiens station. Seven of the injured were reported with severe injuries.
Dan D. Casement of Manhattan Kansas a livestock raiser has been appointed special representative of the secretary of agriculture to review the forest range situation in Washington.
Secretary Jardine showing marked health gains after a week of treatment at Walter Reed hospital and plans to fulfill a speaking engagement later this month in Illinois.
In Norway near Oslo a scientific member of the Amundsen Ellsworth polar flight expedition Dr E Calwagen and a pilot were killed when their airplane crashed to the ground.
In Jefferson City Attorney General Otto ruled it unlawful to sell or display meat groceries and general merchandise on Sundays except in cases of urgent need. The issue followed a query from Kinder of St Francois County.
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