Circus Train Slams Into Herd of Elephants in Aurora
A Chicago, Aurora and Elgin train crashed into a Hagenback-Wallace circus elephant herd in Aurora Illinois killing one trainer Andra Stickwell of Springfield and a circus elephant. Six others injured and several elephants stampeded through city streets before recapture.
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Chicago
Hagenback-Wallace Circus
Chicago, Aurora and Elgin
Aurora
Illinois
Andra Stickwell
Springfield
Hagenback-Wallace
Bitter Elks fight over gag rule at Grand Lodge session
The upcoming Grand Lodge meeting faces a major clash as Meriwether attacks a so called gag rule, threatening a historic rift in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks comparable to the 1894 Atlantic City Jamestown dispute. The session opens tomorrow with leadership selection as a front for the confrontation.
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ELKS
Meriwether
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Atlantic City
Jamestown
Grand Lodge
Gaz
Law
Lee Meriwether
St. Louis
John F. Malley
Boston
A. B. Lewis
Elkdom
Order
Chicago
Mr. Lewis
Circle
Coolidges Spend Quiet Day in Memory of Son
President and Mrs. Coolidge spent a calm day at the Black Hills summer White House reflecting on the death of their son Calvin three years ago. They attended a Hermosa church service where youth preacher Rolf Liam spoke on nature as God’s voice. After lunch they kept to seclusion as tourists and photographers crowded the lodge area.
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Rapid City
S. D
White House
Black Hills
Hermosa
Climax Near at ARMa Parley Stands Pat on Status
Report notes early rounds of ARMa talks fail to reduce cruiser and gun sizes as major obstacle. Bridgeman may seek postponement to consult the ministry amid propagandist criticisms and shaky status signals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arma
Pat
Three investigations converge on Brooklyn murder scene
Parts of human bodies found in Brooklyns 28 Prospect Place cellar. The grisly discovery ties to a double murder case in New York City with two women victims aged 65 and 40. Police linked evidence from Battery Park to the brownstone and Brooklyn home in a sprawling, brutal inquiry.
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New York World News Service
New York
Prospect Place
Brooklyn
Carpenter
Ludwig Halverson Lee
Sarah Elizabeth Brownall
Lee
Alfred Bennett
Prospect Place House
Manhattamu
Lower East Side
Willett Street
Otto Neilson
Inspector Sullivan
Floods devastate Saxony with dozens dead and towns ruined
Massive floods sweep Saxony after weekend cloud bursts. Bergiesshubel reports 93 dead in one district with hundreds missing. Bridges down and half the population homeless as Federal troops and emergency workers rush to aid.
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Dresden
Saxony
Bergiesshubel
Glashutte
Lauenstein
Ireland Violence Tallies Extend Through 1920s Crimes
New York reports a long string of Irish killings from 1919 to 1923. Victims include Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith, plus Gen. Sir Henry Wilson and several Irish officials. Ongoing assassinations underscore turmoil linked to Dublin and Belfast events.
O Higgins Shot in Dublin as Ireland Mourns Strong Man
Kevin O'Higgins vice president of the Irish Free State, minister of justice and foreign affairs, was assassinated in Dublin while walking from his home. Three gunmen opened fire as a car stopped beside him, he uttered I forgive them and I die for my country. His death echoes the fate of Michael Collins and follows years of political tension and security measures. The attack prompted a cabinet meeting and a nationwide search for the killers, with his death noted as a blow to the Free State’s leadership in a turbulent period.
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Dublin
Ireland
Kevin O'Higgins
Irish Free State
Michael Collins
Black Rock
O'Higgins
The
Free State Council
Justice and Foreign Affairs
Booterstown
Eamon Fleming
Ministry of Finance
John MacNeil
Fleming
Kevin
Prof. MacNeill
Mussolini
Free State
Tim Healy
de Valera
Dr. O'Higgins
Maurice Healy
Cork
Eamon de Valera
Wiliam Cosgrave
Miner Believed Dead Found Alive After Two Days
Chisholm Minn July 10 Nick Bozenich was buried under ore and earth for two days and rescued by fellow workers who had dug for his body forty six hours He was unhurt though very tired from standing A fall of earth Friday trapped him but heavy timbers formed a shelter keeping him alive
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Chisholm
Minn
Nick Bozenich
Bruce Mine
Bozenich
Three Drown After Auto Plunges From Ohio Ferry
In Point Pleasant Belmont County Ohio River accident on a ferry the Theurich car slid off the vessel into the water. Mrs A E Theurich and her eighteen months old daughter and Mrs William Scott Bell of Wheeling West Virginia drowned. Theurich, Bell and a three year old son were rescued. bodies recovered.
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Bellaire
A. E. Theurich
William Scott Bell
Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio River
Point Pleasant
Belmont County
Theurich
Bell
Thurich
Soviet Claim British Direct Spies Arrest Twenty Five
Tass announces 25 arrests at Leningrad connected to a spying network said to be directed by a British Secret Service agent. The alleged group aimed to obtain details of the Red Army chemical resources and includes several former naval and military officers.
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Moscow
Russia
Leningrad
Tass
Secret Service
Red Army
Woman flogged by masked men in Alabama case continues
The flogging of Mrs Bertha A Slay in Florence Alabama by eight men in Ku Klux Klan costumes is under investigation after she told Sheriff Stutts of Colbert County. State police join the probe as Gov Graves calls for swift justice amid secrecy surrounding recent cases.
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Sheffield
Ala
Bertha A. Slay
Florence
Lucile Dodson
Burglar Loots Avondale Grocer’s Home Escapes Armed Return
A pants burglar invaded grocer Charles Rauch’s home at 115 Louis Street Avondale early yesterday. He fled through a window after Rauch fired a revolver wounding no one. The thief escaped with $225 cash and $550 jewelry. Police link him to multiple Avondale Clifton and Corryville robberies.
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Charles Rauch
Louis Street
Avondale
Rauch
Catherine Rauch
Actress May Lorraine Falls From Window, Killed
New York report says Mrs John White known on stage as May Lorraine died when she fell from a second story apartment window early today. She reportedly fell asleep waiting for her husband, a theater stage manager based in Perth Amboy New Jersey.
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New York
Runnmrs
John White
May Lorraine
Perth Amboy
N. J
Dayton Man Arrested in California Embezzlement Charge
John E. Bronzo age 27 former bookkeeper for Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Company was arrested in Los Angeles on a charge of embezzling 3400 dollars from the Dayton firm. He reportedly left Dayton June 10 with Mildred McBee a telephone operator. McBee was not detained by Los Angeles police.
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Dayton
John E. Bronzo
Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Company
Los Angeles
Cal
Dayton Company
Bronzo
Mildred McBee
Miss McBee
Inked in Whiskers on Washington Counterfeiting Ring
Warden A. A. McCorckle of the Penience Penitentiary reveals a prison counterfeiting ring. About 70 dollars were realized by the ring with notes raised from Washington to resemble Lincoln. A convict was found with several raised notes after an attempted pass at the prison commissary.
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Nashville
Tenn
A. A. McCorckle
Penience Penitentiary
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Ring Swindles Race Fans at Windsor
Three Toronto residents George Whitehouse Kenneth Woodruff and May Woodruff were arrested on vagrancy charges in Windsor Ontario in connection with a betting ring that allegedly swindled Buffalo racing fans out of thousands. The ring used a Devonshire race track signal system and quick calls to Buffalo to place bets after receivers learned winners. A grandstand signal from the stands alerted an assistant at a nearby house where a telephone provided rapid updates.
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Windsor
Ont
Buffalo
N. Y
Devonshire Race Track
George Whitehouse
Kenneth Woodruff
May
Toronto
Marie Kryl Reverses Plan to Marry Count Spiro
Marie Kryl daughter of Bohumir Kryl the famed bandmaster has balked at marrying Count Spiro Hadji Kyriacos a Greek scholar. She now says she will not wed him and that her future husband, if any, will be American. Her father had offered $100000 to each daughter on marriage after age thirty. Josephine earlier forfeited her chance by marrying in 1924.
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Chicago
Marie Kryl
Bohumir Kryl
Chicago Herald and Examiner
Marie
Josephine
Spiro Hadji-Kyriacos
Count Spiro
O Higgins and Cosgrave Targeted in May Assassination Attempt
The Dublin cor respondent recalls the failed May attack on Kevin O'Higgins and President Cosgrave as they crossed O Connell Street after a meeting. A smoke bomb was hurled but Brig Gen Daly caught it, averting detonation. O Higgins faced pressure to spare Roy O Connor but refused after a night of deliberation. O Connors will later be found to leave everything to the O Higgins family, nearly causing O Higgins to collapse.
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London
Westminster Gazette
Dublin
Kevin O’higgins
Cosgrave
O’connell
Daly
O'Higgins
Roy O’connor
O’higgins
O’connor
Kevin O'Higgins
Six Injured as Train Strikes Freight Cars
In Macon Missouri on July 10 six people were injured when CB&Q passenger train No 17 struck forty eight freight cars rolling wild one mile east of the city. Engineer David Williams of Brookfield suffered a broken left leg and bruises while fireman Charles H Rose, also of Brookfield, was severely scalded.
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Elestruck
Cheerful Gardner
Fred Wells
Edmont Welsh
Logansport
Ind
Macon
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Here
David Williams
Brookfield
Charles H. Rose
Baltimore aviator arrives in Rangoon en route to Amsterdam
Van Lear Black of Baltimore arrived in Rangoon today on a flight from Bangkok and is returning to Amsterdam after a journey from Bangkok to Rangoon.
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Rangoon
India
van Lear Black
Baltimore
Bangkok
Amsterdam
Dutch East Indies
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Thomas O’higgins
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