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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1929
Page
6
McAlester Oklahoma witnesses a collapse in a coal mine trapping sixty miners as rescue teams press on amid danger. Forty three bodies are recovered with seventeen still missing two thousand feet below. Resources, hope, and a fragile Christmas mood vanish as workers, families, and officials cope with the tragedy.
Frank A Neely, prosperous farmer near New Bern Tennessee, notes a creek on his property frequently changes the directions of flow as many as three times a day. The reason for this behavior remains unknown.
Thousands of jobless demonstrators gathered near City hall as officials debated Christmas relief. Police formed a cordon. several officers and protesters were injured in clashes. Shops closed amid fears of looting as bricks were hurled from a building.
The Greene county corn crop is in grave danger as twelve days of rain dampness and lack of wind and sun mold harvested corn in cribs and spoil unharvested ears. Farmers report widespread losses, price pressures, and fears the worst crop year in memory.
Paul McCaslin a 47 year old Chicago insurance broker drowned himself in Calvary Cemetery lake after police investigated his death. A daughter told officers he had suffered heavy losses in the stock market drop and had disappeared from his home the night before.
Springfield Illinois December 18 with ten hours of motions and affidavits as John L Lewis battles to retain control of the Illinois district of the United Mine Workers. Harry Fishwick has an injunction halting Lewis and opens tomorrow with oral arguments likely this afternoon. Lewis contends his action was within power to revoke state charters while Fishwick argues Lewis tenure expired in March 1929 and charters could not be revoked by him.
Sandborn Indiana high school boys will appear before the grand jury to testify about liquor traffic among students. Sheriff Kruse led raids after Marion Sandborn, 16, named sellers Ed Lutey George Klutey and Anprose Hilen. A deputy was splashed by liquor leaking from a jar during a raid at Hulen’s house.
Lawrence I. Orr reports Vanderburg county official Henry J. Mercer of Pigeon township Evansville padded payrolls by 11968 dollars over seven years from 1928. Mercer, under indictment by the Vanderburg county grand jury, fled to Mexico as defalcations came to light. The seven year review was prepared by B Heritage and Millard Robinson.
Bloomfield reports multiple civil actions filed including William Logston Jr vs Alfred Stalcup over a noon Oct 29 accident with damages sought at 10000. Other cases include Paul Fry vs Lee Hamlin, Jax M Harlin note suit, and more. Bloomfield American Legion marked its tenth charter anniversary with 40 members and talks by former organizers.
The Linton Country Club elected officers for the 1930 season at a board meeting. President W. H. Stewart, Vice President D. D. Terhune, Secretary Andy Humphreys, Treasurer Claude Maxwell were chosen. The meeting reviewed a successful season and noted new members. Virgil Morey, the club golf pro, plans to return for the 1930 season after wintering in Terre Haute.
Samuel McNaught, longtime Iowa Anti-Saloon League official and former Indiana lawyer, was named superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League. His nomination was the sole one presented to Indiana trustees by Dr. F Scott McBride, the national superintendent.
Jack Curtis and Miss Helen Wakefield of Linton were married in Bloomfield on Tuesday by Justice of the Peace W. E. Buckner.
Indianapolis December 18 Gov Warry G Leslie remained noncommittal about calling a special session of the General Assembly to consider relieving the bankrupt state and schools. He said figures on the schools are being gathered by state officials and that an announcement will be made after the facts are studied.
Crabtree described as a bad man shot and killed Justice Inskipp at his doorstep and then killed Ben Miller and Ed Wolford at their homes after learning of a betrayer. Three women were wounded. Crabtree was jailed for intoxication prior to the killings.
The city council met for the last session of the year and approved a $1650 transfer from the general to the street fund for Tolgon and Harvey properties at the west end of A street NW. The group also plans first floor alterations for separate city treasurer offices and anticipates announcing appointive officers at the January first meeting. The highway plan to reroute State Road No. 54 and pave it next year was discussed.
Federal officers dynamited a huge $40,000 distilling plant found in a barn on the Sturm farm near Clinton Dana. Arrests followed: Sturm, Albert Moore, Tom Crome, Angelo Steffani, Theodore Cholera, William Cholera of Clinton, Joe Provask i of Shepardsville and Carl Snodgrass of Dana. Suspects held in Indianapolis custody.
Capt. Charles H. Roland, 97, a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln and wartime comrade of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, died in Mountain View Alabama after a brief illness. He met Lincoln in Washington and sat beside Grant at the War Department desk before moving to Nevada and settling in Mountain View in 1916.
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