Son of Accused Woman Testifies in Sweetin-Hight Murder Trial
MT VERNON Ill December 17 A 14 year old boy testified that Rev Lawrence Hight visited his mother Elsie Sweetin at the Sweetin home and sent him to play, scene of emotion in court as the boy aided the defense against poisoning charges in the Wilford Sweetin and Anna Hight case. Witnesses described late night meetings and encounters near the Sweetin home including a tie pile signal site and Hight’s funeral remarks.
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International News Service
MT. Vernon
Stanton Sweetin
Lawrence Hight
Sweetin
MT. Verton
Ill
Smalltown
Elsie Sweetin
Wilford Sweetin
Anna Hight
Inn
Hight
Molly Jones
Lon Gossman
Irene Christian
Ina
Esther Fowler
Alva N. Turner
Laboring Earnings Dip Slightly as Employment Falls
Washington reports a small drop in employment and a slight decline in per capita earnings from October to November. Officials attribute the decrease to seasonal decline rather than a business slump.
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International News Service
Washington
Department of Labor
Soldier Kills Wife in Indianapolis
In Indianapolis a U S soldier shot and killed his wife Fernie Fae Dorsey 25 a Pride's luncheonette waitress at 35 East Ohio Street. John Jack Dorsey stationed at Vincennes Ind fled after the murder at 3 p m yesterday at the mother in law Nora M Eaglefeather 2314 Kenwood Avenue.
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Indianapolis
United States
Fernie Fae Dorsey
Pride’s
East Ohio Street
John
Jack) Dorsey
Vincennes
Ind
Dorsey
Nora M. Eaglefeather
Kenwood Avenue
Newcastle builds eighteen churches in eighteen years
NEW CASTLE Ind December 17 This city with a population of fifteen thousand has a record of constructing eighteen new churches in as many years. The Presbyterian church will move to a new building within weeks. Churches built include two by Methodists Christians Friends Baptists Wesleyan Methodists Catholic Nazarene Church of God and two by colored congregations The Olivet chapel Pilgrim Holiness church Methodist mission and Salvation Army citadel also erected. Total estimated church related expenditure nears one million dollars.
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Newcastle
Ind
Presbyterian Church
Christians, Friends
Baptists
Nazarene
Church of God
Church of Christ
Olivet Chapel
Pilgrim Holiness Church
Methodist Mission
Salvation Army
Early History of Linton Recalled from Old Newspapers
The piece recalls Greene county’s early settlement at Black Creek in 1816 by John Jessup and family, the Moss and other pioneer families, Buck Creek naming from abundant bucks, Linton’s 1830s founding by Wyckliff Wines, 1850 survey, first hotel, wagon factory, early schoolhouse, and the 1884 population of about 200.
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Bloomfield
Greene County
White River
Stockton Township
Linton
Storkton Township
Black Creek
John Jessup
Jessup
William Lemon
Thomas Smith
C. M
Laban Moss
Aquilla
Nathaniel Moss
Buck Creek
Wyckliff Wines
W. F. Sherwood
James McClung
Isaac V. Coddington
Methodist Church
Langley Arrested for Intoxication in Washington
Representative John W. Langley of Kentucky, a Republican, was arrested in Washington on December 17 for intoxication. The brief item notes the political figure’s detention amid ongoing coverage of congressional activity.
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Washington
John W. Langley
Kentucky
Congressman's Arrest Ties To Prohibition Conviction
The congressman was taken into custody by Patrolman Smith after a Saturday intoxication report. He posted $10 collateral for a police court appearance and listed the Oxford hotel as his residence. Langley, recently convicted in federal court for conspiracy to violate prohibition laws, was sentenced to two years but released pending appeal. He was re-elected to the 69th congress in November despite the charges and conviction.
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Smith
Oxford
Langley
Liberty
White House presses for postal pay veto upheld
The White House renewed direct pressure to have the Senate uphold President Coolidge's veto of the postal pay bill. The measure would add 68 million dollars annually to government costs by raising postal employee pay. Coolidge conferred with Senators Borah Sterling Curtis and then with six other Republican senators.
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International News Service
Washington
White House
Senate
Cooclidge
Coolidge
Borah
Sterling
Curtis
State Mine Inspector Carey Littlejohn In Serious Condition
Indianapolis Dec 17 Carey Littlejohn state mine inspector is in serious condition at Methodist hospital after an intestinal operation. His condition has grown worse since the operation, according to latest reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Carey Littlejohn
Methodist Hospital
Clodfelder Case Faces Trial in Vincennes Circuit Court
The Clodfelder highway robbery case tied to Knox grand jury indictments went to trial in the Knox circuit court. A 25 name venire was drawn, 18 summoned, with several ill or excused. Accused robber Clodfelder allegedly held up Mrs. Jessie Bond, taking notes worth 8000 dollars. Notes reportedly recovered at his Oakland business. Floyd Young leads with aid from W A Cullop and W H Hill. defense by Padgett Clark and W L Slinkard.
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Vincennes
Clodfelder
Jessie Bond
Oaktown
Floyd Young
W. A. Cullop
W. H. Hill
Padgett & Clark
W. L. Slinkard
Greene County
Teapot Dome Compared to Pinhead Comment by Norris
Senator Norris of Nebraska charged in the senate that passage of the Underwood Muscle Shoals bill would make Teapot Dome look like a pinhead. He called the bill a rape upon the treasury a gold brick to farmers and the giving away of the American public’s inheritance to a private corporation.
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International News Service
Washington
Norris
Nebraska
Senate
Treasury
Milford Bank Director Peterson Arrested After Shortage
Dr Frank Peterson a Milford Farmers State bank director and major stockholder was arrested in Warsaw Indiana on indictments from the Kosciusko county grand jury The bank closed last week with a 200000 shortage and Peterson faces charges that his account was overdrawn and that a 2500 bank note was not indorsed by directors He was freed on 3000 bond Indictments also named James T Shepard cashier who is imprisoned.
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Warsaw
Ind
Frank Peterson
Farmers State Bank of
Milford
Kosciusko County Grand
Indiana
Peterson
James T. Shepard
Chicago Pawn Shop Heist Nets $50,000 in Jewelry
Four bandits roamed into a Loop pawn shop at dusk disarmed a patrolman who entered during the robbery and fled with jewelry valued at fifty thousand dollars after holding six men.
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Chicago
International News Service
Infant dies after fire starts from celluloid comb
Ruby Osborne age 1, daughter of Mr and Mrs Clement Osborne, died in Evansville Indiana after a fire started by a celluloid comb in an open grate. The mother pulled off the flaming clothes but the burns proved fatal.
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Evansville
Ind
Ruby Osborne
Clement Osborne
McCulloch to retire from medical practice
Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch long time Indianapolis physician and 1928 Democratic candidate for governor will retire January 1 to serve as medical director of State Life Insurance company.
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Indianapolis
Carleton B. McCulloch
State Life Insurance Company
Poisoning attempt on wealthy retiree shocks Los Angeles
Police hunted a fiend believed behind the cyanide poisoning attempt on Joseph Melich a wealthy retired brewer. Sugar from Melichs home tested by Chemist Walker contained enough poison to kill a score of people amid a wave of fear in the city and the northwest.
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Fiend
Los Angeles
Sinternational News Service
Cal
Joseph Melich
Melich
Walker
Deadlock in Germany as Ebert seeks new cabinet
Berlin reports President Ebert faces a deadlock in his bid to form a new cabinet. The move comes as the latest cabinet crisis tests his leadership in the republic.
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Germany
Man Receives Prison Term For Firing On Officer
Peter Jano, 54, a Mexican from Gary, begins a two to fourteen year sentence for shooting Richard Fritz of the Michigan City police. He is also fined $2000. The incident occurred in LaPorte, Indiana, as reported by International News Service.
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Sinternational News Service
Laporte
Ind
Peter Jano
Gary
Richard Fritz
Michigan City
Jano
Strange court tale unfolds in Indiana estate case
In Princeton Indiana Judge S Baltzell hears an exception to a final report on the estate of Charles Geiselman. A woman claiming to be his wife Nellie Laib recounts a clandestine 1919 marriage in Evansville and a son born in 1920 before Geiselman died by suicide two days after the birth. The testimony also involves two Geiselman sisters and questions of paternity.
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Princeton
Ind
S. Baltzell
Charles Geiselman
Geisselman
Nellie Laib
Geiselman
Evansville
Schake
Knox County
M. C. Embree
Elva Geiselman
Bandit Seeks Cash, Grabs $7 From Indianapolis Canteen
Miss Zetta Whitaker, a cashier, faced a bandit in a north side restaurant. He asked for money and demanded the cash register be opened. She complied and the thief escaped with seven dollars in paper money.
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Indianapolis
Zetta Whitaker
North Side
County clerks gain fee on hunting and fishing licenses
Attorney General Lesh ruled that counties with populations over 15 000 may collect a 10 cent fee on each hunting and fishing license issued. He has not yet ruled on Marion county applicability where the clerk is on a straight salary.
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Indianapolis
Lesh
Marion County
Chicago Sinks Beneath Harsh Cold Wave
Chicago awoke to a historic freeze as the cold wave hammered the city, bringing the lowest temperatures in years and turning streets to ice. Winnipeg reported a slight warm trend with temperatures dropping to 16 below after a jump from 26 below.
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International News Service
Chicago
Winipeg
Severe cold wave hits western towns and Indiana
The report from Butte Montana notes a temperature drop of 77 degrees in twelve hours to 24 below zero with heavy snow across the north and west. The cold spell, though delayed, is expected to reach all parts of Indiana by nightfall with temperatures likely near 15 degrees above zero.
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International
Shavich
Butte
Mont
Hoosier State
Indiana Taxpayers Association Urges Statewide Organization
Indiana taxpayers are urged to organize across the state to maximize benefits from tax and budget laws and to enforce budget limits. Harry Miesse, secretary, presented the plan at a directors meeting and a legislative committee was appointed to monitor tax bills for the upcoming session. The group aims to establish local associations in every county, with 22 permanent and 11 temporary chapters already in place.
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Indianapolis
Harry Miesse
Indiana Taxpayers’ Association
General Assembly
WIFE HE WON BY CONGRESS SEAT SEEKS DIVORCE
Almena Michigan December 17 Representative Frank D Scott Republican of Michigan is named as defendant in a divorce suit filed by his wife, whom he won in Congress ten years ago. The suit, heard in circuit court December 29, follows a year and a half of separation amid reports of an unhappy marriage. Friends say Mrs Scott required his election to Congress as a condition of marriage.
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Alpena
Mich
Frank D. Scott
Michigan
Scott
Connecticut Elects Bingham to Senate in 1919 Vote
Governor-elect Hiram Bingham, Republican, wins United States Senate seat after Frank Brantley’s death. Bingham defeats Democrat Hamilton Hall by a margin of about 80,000 with 113 towns reporting. Bingham 84,161 Holt 52, [incomplete figures].
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New Haven
Hiram
United
Connecticut
Frank B.brantley
Bingham
Hailton Hall
Binghe
Holt
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