Hold Up Mail Train Robbery Sparks Desert Hunt
Four armed men halted a Union Pacific mail train in southwestern Wyoming, binding two clerks and fleeing with twenty three pouches of registered mail. Deputies and cowboys pursued through desolate dunes while air crews aided the search. A reference Society recalls outlaw Bill Carlisle, already imprisoned in Rawlins.
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Wamsutter
Wyo
Wyoming
Union Pacific
Cheyenne
Salt Lake City
Rawtins
Here
Wamncutter
Rock Springs
Colorado
Rawlins
Bill” Carlisle
Carlisle
Mail Train Bandits Steal Only Money and Jewelry
Bandits robbed a Union Pacific mail train near Wyoming with expert precision, tossing securities and bonds to the floor while taking money and jewelry. Mail clerks were tied but uninjured, and investigators report three rings valued at about $5,000 were left behind.
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Ogden
Utah
Union Pacific
Wyoming
H. A. Connett
Western Division
Green River
Connett
A. J. Miller
Miller
Madigan
War on vandals nets 25 arrests in Cleveland
In Cleveland on August 14 authorities rounded up twenty three men and two women amid a campaign to curb vandalism tied to painters and glaziers strikes. Inspector Cody said one detainee may be the ringleader of months of damage including a new window smashing and a stink bomb found outside George D. Cornell, head of the Contracting Painters Committee.
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Cleveland
Cody
George D. Cornell
Dry Chief Samples Rum in Ship's Food on Trip
General Lincoln C Andrews head of the prohibition service said he may have ingested liquor while returning from London. He recalled the ship’s captain serving pancakes soaked in rum and sherbet with champagne, noting he told the captain it was all right because he had to eat.
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Washington
Lincoln C. Andrews
Prohibition Forces
London
Andrews
Public Service Commission
Long
Andrews Plans New Crusade Against Liquor Enforcement
Lincoln C. Andrews chief of prohibition forces returns from London with plans to tighten control of liquor traffic. He aims to organize a foreign control division to implement the rum smuggling agreement with Great Britain and will seek Harry Anslinger for help. He will hold a September conference to outline policy and expects Congress to pass the reorganization bill.
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Washington
Lincoln C. Andrews
Prohibition
London
Great Britain
Andrews
State Department
Harry J. Anslinger
Bahama Islands
State and Commerce Departments
Congress
House
Gen. Andrews
Primary AI Goes 10 Chabbe For An Opinion
Officials expected a state attorney general ruling on the August 10 1926 primary canvass. County Prosecutor Charles S Bell recused himself due to candidacy leaving Dudley M Outcast to present questions to the Ohio Attorney General. Discrepancies in tallies appeared in wards nine and others with officials predicting finish by midweek.
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Charles S. Bell
C. C. Crabbe
Board of Elections
Bell
Common Pleas Court
Michigan
Dudley Miller
Columbus
Crabbe
Board of
Cincinnati
Ohio
Dudley M. Outcast
Attorney General of
Robert P. Taft II
Edwin D. Schorr
President Coolidge Probes Alcohol Poisoning Plan
The plan to poison industrial alcohol to deter beverage use unsettles officials in Washington. The Treasury and prohibition units face scrutiny as observers discuss methods and potential orders.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Coolidge
Prohibition Unit
Treasury Department
Charleston Pact Suicide Case Involving Ky Couple
Miss Viola Dye of Pikeville Kentucky and Alex Mitchell of Ashland Kentucky planned to die together in Charleston. They bought a gun a drug and a disinfectant and drove there where Mitchell took the drug first and Dye followed she drank disinfectant which counteracted the drug. Dye died in hospital and Mitchells body was found in a hotel room earlier the same day a note asked that Mrs Mitchell and Dye parents be notified.
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Charleston
W. Va
Viola Dye
Pikeville
Alex
Mitchell
Ashland
Roach
McClintock
McDermott
Cholera Spreads in Kiangsu and Shanghai Districts
Cholera is spreading in Kiangsu Province with outbreaks among native residents in multiple provincial centers. Reports from Shanghai dated August 14 indicate the epidemic continuing to grow in the region.
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Shanghai
Kiangsu
Tornadoes Kill Three and Injure Dozens in Ohio
A late day series of storms swept Ohio causing three deaths and twenty to thirty injuries. Shadyside saw extensive damage as a tornado demolished homes and Bellaire endured high winds with shattered windows. Several children, including Frank Donaldson and Walter Donaldson, were critically hurt when their house collapsed.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Shadyside
Bellaire
Pellaire
Frank Donaldson
Walter
Frank
Farm relief plan eyed as Hoover aides push private banking pool
A new farm relief proposal backed by Secretary Hoover envisions a private banking pool to finance co operative marketing, potentially totaling 100 million dollars with banks mortgage lenders and insurers forming an instrumentality. Charles H Barrett of the National Farmers Union met the President at White Pine Camp after stopping in New York en route to the Summer White House, with no details disclosed about the conference.
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White Pine Camp
N. Y
Hoover
Northwest Finance R Ciation
New York
Coolidge
Charles H. Barrett
National Farmers’ Union
White House
Barrett
California
Jardine
Policeman Among Mellette Slayers, Prosecutor Says
Mrs Wilson visits Geneva to honor a death bed promise to attend League of Nations assemblies. The note cites Lord Riddell's gossip column previewing remarks about Mrs Wilson and her Geneva trip.
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Mrs. Wilson
Geneva
John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Lord Riddell
Riddell
Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
Young student dies in garage retreat by rope
A 14 year old Joshua Allen Dellinger was found dead in a two story garage retreat at his father Frank Dellinger’s home 3074 Madison Road. Coroner ruled accidental strangulation from a rope ladder incident. The boy, a bright student fond of mechanical engineering, built the rope ladder to reach a cupola reading nook. His younger brother found him and his father cut the rope before summoning a doctor.
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Madison Road
Josqua Allen Dellinger
Frank Dellinger
Cincinnati
Lemon City
Fla
Joshua
Frank, Jr
Frank
Heir to Wealth ELD in Murder of Schoolmate
A continued report outlines the case involving an heir to wealth charged in the murder of his schoolmate. Prosecutors detail alleged planning and motive while defense argues lack of direct involvement. Court proceedings reveal family ties and potential impact on inheritance disputes.
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Canton, O
Don R. Meffett
Canton Dailyews
Stark County
Grand Jury
Joseph R. Roach
Canton
Co. B. McClintock
Eld
Four N Y State Troopers Face False Imprisonment Suit
Atlantic City reports four New York State troopers named Woodward Parkhurst Stevens and Kline from Hammonton Station face a false imprisonment and assault suit seeking 225000 in damages filed by Fred Zernick of Galloway New Jersey. Zernick alleges he was wounded by troopers during an arrest at his home after a rifle siege in which police fired hundreds of rounds into his house and then jailed him and his wife.
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New York World News Service
Atlantic City
N. J
Capias
Howard Cloud
Supreme Court
Ries
N. Robert Woodward
Guy Parkhurst
Roy Stevens
Wilmer Kline
Hammonton
Fred Zernick
Moss Hill Road
Galloway
William S. Harrison
Ernick
Zernick
Ndow
Seta
Mays Landing
Avi
British press debunks Kitchener body claim in London
Frank Power, the British journalist who said he found Lord Kitchener’s body, asserts the coffin is at Waterloo Station awaiting proper disposal. He claims the body could be the field marshal and says relatives and government will decide final disposition, while the British government dismisses the exhumed corpse tale.
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London
Frank Power
Lord Kitchener
Baldwin
Aterloo Station
Bog
Power
Hampshire
Orkneys
Waterloo Road
Waterloo Station
Field Marshal
Norway
The
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Bert H. Long
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