Gun battle reports unfold near Blair West Virginia
Reports reach Charleston of a gun battle between Logan county deputies and armed men at Blair. News notes 900 deputies on Blair locals preparing trenches, Marmet marchers diverted, and a coroner and reporter robbed on Lens creek while investigating bodies. Governor Morgan says no formal statement yet.
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Associated Press
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Boone county
Chesapeake & Ohio
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C. F. Keeney
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W P Black
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Lena creek
Mdarmet
Black
Hast Bank
Chris Pettry
Wiliam Guinn
Eaat Bank
Lens creek
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Second highest becomes mayor if Roberts wins
Indiana state capitol July 25. Constitutional lawyers argue that if Donn Roberts wins the most votes for Terre Haute mayor the second highest vote getter would be declared mayor due to the 1921 ineligibility law tied to his federal conviction and prison sentence. Courts back the opinion and note cases where voters knowingly back an ineligible candidate.
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INDIANA STATE CAPITOL
Donn Roberts
Terre Haute
U. S Lesh
Roberts
Irish reply to Lloyd George note received in London
British Cabinet met two hours to discuss the Irish republican cabinet reply to Lloyd George. The reply was officially kept secret though read to Dublin’s Irish parliament and presented at Downing Street by Commandant Barton. Negotiations are viewed as ongoing with no termination implied.
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LONDON
Associated Press
Princ
Lloyd George
Lloyd Attys tieien
No. 10
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Robert Barton
Irish republican army
Art O'Brien
Gaelic League
Joseph McGrath
Barron
Eamon DeVelera
Ireland
air ministry
Admiralty
Hull
Maitland
gandolas
Irish Governor Summoned to London for Cabinet Talks
Viscount Fitzalan the lord lieutenant and governor of Ireland was summoned to London by the cabinet. The Irish republican cabinet’s reply to Lloyd George’s August 13 letter leaves an unmistakable opening for continuing peace negotiations, according to a source familiar with the text.
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DUBLIN
Associated Press
Viscount Fitzalan
Bodies found. Jackson county men under custody in murder case
In Seymour Indiana Aug 23 fearing mob violence authorities moved Bess Brooks and his three sons to Jeffersonville reformatory after the mutilated body of Amazona Montgomery a 46 year old farmer was found near his Montgomery farm The body showed multiple wounds and a crushed skull near a killed dog with a shotgun shell nearby Local detective Harry Webster assisted in the search and the Brooks family faced Jackson County Circuit Court on charges linked to Montgomerys disappearance and alleged chicken theft from spring effort continues on page eight
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Indianapolis Star
SEYMOUR
Ind
Jackson county
Bess Brooks
stats reformatory
Jeffersonville
Amazona
Montgomery
J. Otis Hays
William Shutts
Brownstown
Charles H. Wallace
Montgomery farm
Volney Carter
Mutton creek
Masonie lodge
Harry C. Webster
Indianapolis
Webster
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Ben
Wrenry
Lyman
Jennings county
Brooks
Jackson
Family Next Door Sued For Alleged Nervous Killing Din
William G Kruger and Bessie M Duckwall of 2804 Franklin Place filed in Circuit Court for 5000 dollars for nervous injuries. Kruger accuses the Duckwalls at 2802 Franklin Place of a prolonged racket after an eviction suit, pounding walls and floors, rattling radiators, cursing through walls, and playing a phonograph late at night to disrupt his family's sleep. The dispute traces to a previous eviction case now pending after March 23 1920 notice to move.
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William 8. Duckwall
Bessie M. Duckwall
Franklin Place
William “G. Kruger
Franklin plce
Kruger
Duckwalls
Ralston Faces New Breach Over Speakers Bureau Move
The Seventh District Democratic Women's Club faces renewed dissension as Thomas Meeker plans to name a bureau head over Miss Julia Landers. Woodburn Masson is eyed as chair, sparking a potential rift with the club which had agreed to run the speaking campaign.
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Democratic city committee
Thomas Meeker
speakers’ bureau
Julia IE Landers
womens organization
Woodburn Masson
Misa Landers
Mise Landera
Ralston
Miss Landers
Meeker
Mise Landers
womens club
Treaty With Germany Ratified to Define US Rights
The text of the peace treaty between Germany and the United States is released detailing definitions of rights, privileges, indemnities, and reparations for the United States. It outlines that the US will not be bound by certain Versailles treaty parts or League of Nations provisions unless expressly approved, and notes conditions for participation in reparations commissions. The treaty is to be ratified in Berlin once constitutional formalities are completed.
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Siam
Liberia
Morocco
Egypt
Turkey
Bulgaria
department
Geremany
Ellis Tortng Creayt
Tredrich BRonen
Yap
Nereainon
Treaty with Germany published in Berlin press
The State Department released the Berlin signed treaty with Germany, affirming Versailles provisions while excluding U S from the League of Nations. It preserves U S rights to overseas possessions like Yap, and covers reparations, military clauses, and economic arrangements, with explicit non-binding on future league actions. The document notes the agreement aligns with Congress resolutions and names officials who signed.
Weather Forecast Fragment Reflects Broad Regional Outlook
A garbled weather section projects a forecast for Friday and Saturday with varying confidence. It mentions partly cloudy conditions with possible local thunder in Indianapolis and nearby areas, noting temperature changes and general fair or unsettled trends. The text includes a United States Weather Bureau special report and almanac data with yesterday’s humidity and precipitation figures, plus normal comparisons and last year values.
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Indianapolia
ylenniey
partland
United States Weather Bureau
Indianapolia Star
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Executive control of federal business announced
Washington August 27 Director of the Budget Dawes outlined a new centralized system to govern ordinary government transactions. The plan envisions an executive council and boards overseeing purchases, supply, real estate, and related operations to cut costs and streamline federal work under President Harding.
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WASHINGTON
Dawes
Harding Gen
Spanish Planes Bombard Moroccan Armored Cars
Spanish airplanes have effectively bombarded positions of rebellious Moroccan tribes. Men and convoys of armored cars have yielded good results. In Madrid Geo Reigheder aid-de-camp to Gen Bereguier, the Spanish high commissioner in Morocco, conferred with King Alfonso about the situation. He said the King was eager to go to Malta but that the present of Alfonso was not advisable at the moment.
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Associated Press
MADRID
Geo Reigheder
Bereguier
Morocco
Alfonso
Malta
Many Villages Wiped Out by River Floods in Shantune
Hundreds of villages have been destroyed and thousands homeless after heavy rains swollen the Hoank-Ho river flooded large areas of Shantune province. The City of Brunswick, a 2400 ton American steamer from Mobile to Antwerp, grounded twenty miles from Sambro and signaling for assistance.
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