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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1928
Page
1
The committee released a wage agreement reported by the Vincennes newspaper. Details outline terms reached after negotiations, with emphasis on wage adjustments and implementation timelines for workers at the plant.
Dispatch from Vincennes reports Knox Consolidated miners in Knox County and Bicknell vote to accept the 1917 wage scale. Two plants to start next Monday with full operation expected within 30 days. A Knox County Miners association conducts outside negotiations and plans formal officers next week.
Sullivan county commissioners met with John Williams chair of the state highway commission to discuss paving Highway 54 from the Greene Sullivan line to Merom about twenty five miles. They contract to pay about one fourth of the cost not to exceed 100000 dollars. The road will be paved next year with surveys under way from Bloomfield through Linton toward the west Greene county line and to the Wabash river under state and county agreement.
Official bulletin from royal physicians reports King George is feverish due to lung condition with stable general health. Sir Stanley Hewett stayed near the king while the Prince of Wales traveled to Cairo to reach the bedside and the Duke of Gloucester departed Capetown for London aboard Balmoral Castle.
Special report from Indianapolis. Attorneys for the Ku Klux Klan answered more than one hundred questions about the organization and its activities posed by Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliam in a circuit court case aimed at ousting the klan from Indiana. Gilliam claims the klan intends to dictate Indiana politics.
At least three Gulf Line crew members died when an explosion in the pumps under the crew quarters wrecked the American oil tanker off Port Arthur. Rescuers struggled to reach the wrecked ship and recover other suspected casualties.
Alvin Padgett, attorney for Dreyfus Rhoades sentenced to death for Patrolman Simon Caine’s murder, announced that the motion for a new trial will be filed with Judge Claude Smith at Princeton on December 11. If denied, the case will be taken to the Supreme Court for a second time.
Mrs. Herbert Hollingsworth died this afternoon at 2 30 at the family home northwest of the city after a long illness. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by the family.
Police search for William Howell, a discharged Crawford County infirmary inmate, believed to have killed three people last night in Fort Smith. He allegedly shot Clifford Deffenbaugh the infirmary superintendent, his wife, and inmate Jim Nicholson in their home.
Hoosier humorist George Ade, longtime anti prohibitionist, told friends during a Chicago telephone chat that he contributed to anti liquor literature supporting Harry Leslie for Indiana governor. He later learned the material was sponsored by the anti saloon league and said the sum was $100 with friends adding a cipher as a joke.
Albert Easton a 42 year old Wheatland miner was crushed under the mine cage at Standard coal mine in Wheatland Ind about 7 15 last night He had just signalled the cage to return after two men were brought to the top He died at the scene and is survived by his widow and five children He had lived in Wheatland four years coming from Tennessee and previously worked in the old Standard mine Eli Williams witnessed the tragedy and signalled for the cage to rake.
Customs agents seized liquor valued at 120 000 after a wall paper shipment from Antwerp leaked on a Red Star pier. The cargo included 34 large packing cases marked wall paper and 120 cases of liquor hidden inside smaller compartments.
An oil fever spreads through Oklahoma City and Wichita as new gusher wells pour oil at Bartlesville sand depth. Landowners rush to sell, royalty buyers flood Sedgwick County, and city life stalls while prospects of tax relief and dividends energize residents. Oklahoma City eyes rival Tulsa as a 5,000 barrel daily gusher emerges south of town.
Statewide influenza cases rise with several areas reporting outbreaks and school closures. In Anderson seven deaths from influenza and pneumonia last week. Evansville reports an epidemic of influenza and grippe with hundreds of cases. Gosport and Delaware County schools may close. Indianapolis records several cases but no epidemic yet. Authorities urge precautions and house warnings as the situation develops.
Democratic State Chairman K Karl Peters drew up a bill to require separate ballots or a separate row on voting machines for presidential electors in the coming legislature. He says confusion under the current ticket system harms voters and both parties, and that separating tickets would ease ballot clarity and respect for officeholders.
Charles Belmer a 45 year old miner employed by the Red Shaft Coal Company near Washington Indiana was killed Friday afternoon when caught under a fall of slate during timbering. No witnesses. the body was found minutes later by John Rogers who had been working with him. Belmer leaves two sons in Terre Haute.
Two bandits were killed in a shootout with six police officers in Indianapolis after a tipped robbery plot at the William Holt dry goods and hardware store. Two officers were wounded as the confrontation unfolded inside and around the store, with one bandit entering first and a second dying at the scene. A third suspect was captured nearby.
Vernard Fearn, 35, coal mine operator, was shot on his porch by a well dressed woman aged 20 to 25. He died in his wife’s arms. The killer fled toward a bus to Canton after the incident but authorities lost her trail. she had visited the home in the prior two nights seeking the wife’s band.
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