Sullivan Fire Destroys Largest Block in City
A three story Citizens Trust block on Sullivan Indiana’s public square burned after 5:30 am. Losses near 100000 with heavy damage to Citizens Trust Bank Masons lodge and Woodmen lodge. The Sullivan Union newspaper plant and several offices suffered water damage. A bystander, Mrs. Mary Guirl, died from apoplexy watching the fire.
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Sullivan
Ind
Citizen’s Trust Company
Public Square
Citizens’ Trust Company
Trust Company
Masonic Lodge
Sullivan Union
Robert White
Supreme Court to recess from Monday to January 5
Washington December 10 Chief Justice Taft announced a recess of the Supreme Court from next Monday to January 5. The announcement sets the court's period of adjournment and returns to work after the holiday interval.
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U. S. Supreme Court
Washington
Taft
Supreme Court
Leon Trotzky in Moscow Stricken by Illness
International News Service reports Leon Trotzky, Soviet war commissioner, is seriously ill in Moscow. He has faced recent attacks aimed at his removal from the political bureau, with no response yet to critics.
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Moscow
Leon Trotzky
Trotzky
Red
Canton Students Escape from Bandits
Twenty two more of the 88 Canton Christian college students and teachers captured by Chinese bandits have escaped their captors and returned to Canton.
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Canton
China
Christian College
Three Bandits Rob Bank in Shawnee Oklahoma
Three masked bandits robbed the Federal National Bank in Shawnee Oklahoma, locked seven employees and three customers in the vault, and escaped with eighteen thousand dollars.
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International Nisws Service
Shawneee, Okla
Federal National Bank
Hughes to rebuke Britain over Dawes plan shares
Secretary of State Hughes will send a note to Great Britain stating the United States considers it untenable that Britain oppose pro rata sharing of Dawes plan funds Germany pays to meet reparations. The note responds to a British objection delivered last night.
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Linternational News Servicio
Washington
Hughes
Great Britain
United States
America
Germany
Shoppers Accelerate Christmas Purchases in Linton
Christmas trade has begun early in Linton with shoppers from farther away visiting daily. Stores report strong interest and a larger out of town customer base as good roads facilitate extended buying. Shopping traditionally peaks last week, yet this year starts as Thanksgiving arrivals surge.
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Linton
Staie
Hearing on Jasonville Water Co rate petition
The Jasonville Water Co faced a heated rate hearing before Judge Maurice Douglas of Indiana Public Service Commission. Attorneys for the company and Jasonville clashed over hydrant charges as water from an abandoned coal mine was described as nonpotable yet used for fire protection. company argued current hydrant rents at 86 dollars plus the 20 dollar per hydrant rental were inadequate to cover expenses. Douglas reserved ruling for a later date.
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Maurice Douglas
Public Service Commission of Indiana
Jasonville
Roosters’ Club
Oscar QR. Shields
Sonville
Water Company
Douglas
Power boat Woodall burns with nine men missing
Saltimorn Md Dec 10 The power boat Woodall owned by the Marine Transport corp burned to the water line in Chesapeake Bay late yesterday en route from Philadelphia to Baltimore. The crew numbered eight or nine. Searchers from Aberdeen proving grounds, the coast guard cutter Winnessnet and two fleets of craft scoured the Elk Susquehanna and Sassafras rivers area for the missing men. One body washed ashore near Bitterton nine miles away with a life preserver. The fate of the other eight remains unknown.
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Saltimorn
Woodall
Marine Transport Corporation
Cheasapeake Bay
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Coast Guard
Winnessnet
Elk, Susquehanna
Sassafras
Bitterton
Schoolboy 16 Confesses to Murder of Classmate Betsy Ross
Camden New Jersey December 10 Stanley D Mathis 16 confessed this afternoon he murdered his classmate and sweetheart Betsy Ross 16 after quarrelling when she rebuked him for treasuring six lewd pictures.
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Linternational News Servicio
Camden
N. J
Stanley D. Mathis
Betsy Ross
S Glenn Young Faces Murder Assault
S Glenn Young, former Ku Klux Klan liquor raider, left Herrin Illinois for Golconda to surrender on an indictment of assault to murder returned by a Pope county grand jury. He was accompanied by friends and headed to the jail to await proceedings.
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Herrin
Glenn Young
Golconda
Pope County
Young
Murder Trial In Mt Vernon My Elsie Sweetin Hight
In Mt Vernon Illinois Elsie Sweetin and her pastor Lawrence Hight face murder charges in the death of her husband Wilford Sweetin. Coroner chemist Dr William D McNally testified arsenic was found in the stomach and four local doctors described the illness and death. The packed courtroom heard witness accounts from physicians who treated Sweetin and stated no medicines containing poison were given. The defense warned of strategy to sacrifice Hight if needed.
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LIN Taiga National News Service
Mount Vernon
Elsie Sweetin
Lawrence Hight
Elsie
Wilford Sweetin
R. E. Smith
William D. McNally
Chicago
Inn
Wilford
Lawrence M. Highter
McNally
Sweetin
A. D. Harper
John Clinton
I. A. Foster
A. Thompson
Ina
Pto
Prohibition Agents Seize Fourth Bootleg Load In Indiana
Hammond Indiana federal prohibition officers seized a fourth carload of alcohol in a week totaling nearly 20 000 gallons with a market value around 100 000 or 2 000 000 in bootleg liquor. The cargo was consigned as paint.
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Cinternational Nisws
Bicamist Home From Prison 10 First Wife
Willard W. Long returns to New Albany to rebuild with his first wife Mrs. Mary Durett Long after two years in Michigan City prison for bigamy. He wed Miss Marjorie McFall of Louisville, who left with her parents after the trial. The scene at the Green Valley road home sparked a sensational arrest era in 1921.
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Louisville
Willard W. Long
New Albany
Mary Durett Long
Michigan City
Long
Marjorie McFall
Green Valley Road
Voice of God
Miss McFall
Jailbreak by Blackie Linton and William Highfield
Sawing their way from cells at Spencer jail, Blackie Linton and William Highfield escaped last night in a waiting automobile. They are linked to the November 6 1923 Spencer and Exchange National Bank robberies. William Mitchell remained behind claiming he slept through the escape. Deputy Gunyon alerted nearby towns as authorities pursue the pair and others linked to the robbery.
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Spencer
Ind
Blackie
Linton
William , Highfield
Terre Haute
Spencer National
Exchange National Banks
William Mitchell
Gunyon
McCarty
Michigan City
Billy Evans
Highfield
Mitchell
Coal City
Ince Death Ruled From Heart Disease By DA Kempsey
San Diego district attorney C. C. Kempley ruled that Thomas H. Ince died of heart disease after an investigation. The finding rejects earlier claims of foul play and aligns with the physician's diagnosis.
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Sinternational News Service
San Diego
Cal
Thomas H. Ince
Moving Picture
Ince
C. C. Kempley
Jury Panel Picked to Try Norman McCoy in Mrs. Mars Murder
In Los Angeles an all female jurors panel of nine women and three men was chosen to try Norman Kid McCoy for the murder of Mrs. Theresa Mars. Testimony began this morning after selection concluded yesterday afternoon.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Norman “Kid” McCoy
Theresa’Mars
British Involvement Angers Britain Over French Debts
In London on December 10, Sir John Simon attacked the war debt issue saying the United States would lend to the Allies with British guarantees but is now collecting from France without Britain’s consultation. The International News Service reports rising tensions in the British parliament over wartime debt arrangements.
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International News Service
London
House of
Eastern youth indicted in murder case in Indiana
Raymond L. Moseley of Readville Massachusetts was indicted yesterday on a charge of first degree murder in connection with the killing Saturday of Frank Rathfon and Elmer J. Kauffnag following Rathfon's action of Moseley's escape authorities said.
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South Bend
Raymond L. Moseley
Readville
Mags
Yegsterday
Frank Rathfon
Elmer J. Kauffnag
Rathfon
Moseley
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Jasonville Water CO
Woodall Burns
Schoolboy
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Maine
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Mrs. Sweetin
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Eastern Youth Indicted
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