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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1923
Page
7
A terse report suggests Spain for the present is to be governed by a Directorate of Generals. The mode of government is described as reached in official or contemporary accounts.
Final figures from Tokio place 77 822 dead and Yokohama 43 767 with 120 000 missing in Tokio. The American Red Cross Japanese relief fund neared 8 million dollars with 7 454 500 subscribed. Typhoon hits the coast with ships taking refuge. Totori inundated near Kobe. Madrid reports Spain to be governed by a directorate of generals led by Primo Rivera with civilian ministers except war and marine.
Mrs. Albert Whiteside of Hollis Oklahoma posted a $10,000 bond in Childress Texas after being charged with fatally shooting Mrs. H A Maxwell at the fairgrounds. She waived an examining trial and returned to her father in law’s home to await grand jury action. Maxwell’s body to be sent to Lanham for burial. Whiteside’s husband had not seen her since the incident but came to be with Maxwell on her deathbed and to care for Maxwell’s two daughters.
Brownsville Texas September 1 19 h A call for a meeting of the Republican state executive committee to be held September 22 in Dallas to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry McGregor the national executive committeeman was issued today by R B Creager chairman
Jack Dempsey retained the heavyweight title with a second round knockout of Luis Angel Firpo. The champion showcased mastery as Firpo was floored twice and stopped by a right uppercut. Dempsey’s form dispelled doubts about his punching strength since Shelby last July.
Belgrade reports deny tension with Italy over Fiume conference work. Foreign office states both nations seek agreement. A Geneva telegraph item says Italy and Singo Slavia will register the Rapallo treaty and Santa Margherita border accord with the League of Nations.
Two armed men robbed the Fraiberg Jewelry Company in Cleveland. They forced the president Frank Fraiberg his brother Henry and the bookkeeper to open the safe, took jewelry valued around 20000 dollars and 500 in cash, then bound the trio and escaped.
In Atlanta on September 15 Judge George Bell of Fulton superior court ordered Knights of the Ku Klux Klan officials to testify before the court commissioner as evidence in the petition by David Rittenhouse of Philadelphia and others seeking to place the Klan under receivership.
The British government paid the American treasury 31,085,000 dollars as the final installment of principal and interest on a 122,000,000 dollar loan used to buy silver for India's major coinage during World War I.
Premier Poincare praised the American army for clearing the St Mihiel salient and rebuilding Hatton Chatel with funds donated by Miss Belle Skinner of Holyoke. The village's forty houses and church and abbey have been restored.
Macon Georgia September 15 The case of Dr C Yarborough charged with rioting in connection with the flogging of F Mills was given to the jury at noon today.
A slow steady rain began this morning in San Angelo and is expected to become general. The moisture should help ranges but vex farmers as cotton opens rapidly. A similar steady rain reports from Abilene as well.
Abilene Texas September 15 noon the jury still deliberates in the Tom Rosa case connected with the shooting of H L Roberson at Seminole. The jury retired after being charged at 10 o clock last night.
Dayton Ohio Sept 15 Major E L Napier flight surgeon at McCook Field was instantly killed when the aircraft he piloted plunged to the ground Witnesses say the right wing buckled causing the fatal fall and several observers watched the tragedy unfold at the field.
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