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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1925
Page
4
An Elmora Citizens bank vault in Elinora was protected by Lewisite gas after burglars forced entry. Experts unleashed a three stage gas system to prevent door opening, forcing the robbers to flee with 11 cents.
Ralph Martindale aged 26 was electrocuted when his fishing rod touched a high tension wire from a bridge over the St. Joseph River in Mishawaka Indiana. The incident occurred Friday night as Martindale fished from the bridge.
United Press Dispatch reports Prof. A M Low predicts radical future human changes over the next centuries. Education of children may begin before birth, physiques alter, widely worn outfits emerge, telepathy and radio will reshape life, and interplanetary contact and flying submarines may mark future warfare.
At Crown Point Indiana prosecutors pursue death in the Anna Cunningham murder trial. A special panel of 50 jurors was summoned after 20-strong regular juries failed to select any. Cunningham confessed to arsenic killings of three children Walter Charles and Isabelle last April.
Dayton Tenn July 9 The Scopes evolution trial nears opening with Judge Ralston set to hear the case at 10 am tomorrow. Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone arrive to defend. Bryan heads the fundamentalist side insisting the core issue is God versus evolution and aims to prove God exists.
Clarence Darrow said his sole purpose in taking part in the Scopes evolution trial is to defend the rights of free speech as he boards a Chicago train for Dayton Tennessee. He will lead the defense in the famous case.
A historical remark argues civilization faces a major test and mocks William Jennings Bryan’s view that a Tennessee court or jury could sway global thoughts or inquiries. The tone questions legalism’s reach in shaping world opinion.
United Press dispatch from Chicago reports that for the third time a court postponement blocked William D. Shepherd from securing the $1,000,000 McClintock estate. Seven cousins seek to break Billy McClintock's will on grounds of undue influence, with hearings moved to Tuesday, July 14.
Indianapolis July 9 A possible loophole for further attempts to secure the freedom of D C Stephenson and Earl Klenck and Earl Gentry was seen in Judge Hines calling an adjourned Hamilton court session for July 22. Defense counsel were to meet the three men in jail at Noblesville. the adjournment limits to civil cases but a venue change motion may be pressed.
Nearly 1,200 citizen soldiers begin the annual training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana. Recruits age 16 to 21 from Indiana Kentucky Ohio and West Virginia are organized into companies and platoons ahead of intensive drill.
Jackson Tenn July 9 Federal Judge J W Ross indicted yesterday in the People's Savings bank failure was found dead today beneath his wrecked auto after driving off a bridge in an apparent suicide. Ross a longtime Republican power in western Tennessee politics had been appointed to the federal bench in 1922.
Twenty two coal operators and sixty United Mine Workers representatives opened the wage conference in Atlantic City New Jersey with a slim chance of compromise to avert a threatened anthracite strike. The operators called strike talk pure bluff as discussions began.
In Atlantic City on July 9 both sides seek to avert a strike while trading charges as miners and operators discuss wage scales and conditions for the coming year. The current contract has seven weeks left. miners hope for a ten percent raise. Operators reportedly seek wage cuts.
Ellis Searles of Indianapolis, editor of the Mine Workers' Journal, accuses operators of fabricating claims and misrepresenting facts in a developing dispute.
C H Reynolds assistant general superintendent of the Chicago and Northwestern railway died at his home in Norfolk Nebraska today. He was a prominent railroad official and longtime leader in the industry. Reynolds led major operations and service improvements during his career.
The spokesman for the operators denies a charge that minds were refused to workers, suggesting such an accusation would be pure bunk. He asserts no price-rise blame lies with the operators and notes negotiations could still proceed with the miners.
Governor Pinchot selects Secretary of the Mines Walsh and Labor Department official David Williams to attend the Atlantic City conference on coal operators and miners. They will monitor negotiations and report back, with Pinchot ready to act to prevent an anthracite tie up as in 1923.
Detectives sought to identify Earl Dunn as the man who assaulted several white women in Indianapolis over recent months. He was captured while attempting to rob James Lahy’s home and was identified as the assailant in connection with a Black woman.
The lifeless body of James Massingale, who had shot his wife and her brother in a jealous rage, was found in an alley near the scene. Massingale shot himself and died. The wife remains in serious condition and John Manus is not expected to live.
Seven inmates at the Missouri State Reformatory in Boonville escaped early today by cutting dormitory window protections. Four of the escapees were from Kansas City. Local authorities launched a search for the fugitives.
William Green, AFL president and former UMWA secretary, expects an amicable settlement to the anthracite wage dispute as a wage conference opens in Atlantic City. He cautions a brief operation pause but predicts no serious fallout and notes his optimism may be tempered by the situation. He spoke after addressing Willimantic workers and was en route to Boston.
A violent wind and rain storm in the St Paul Minneapolis area left four dead, 21 injured, and a missing child. The Lake Harriet pavilion collapsed injuring nine inside and trapping many others. Emma Miller 35 and her 3 year old May died in the soda fountain room. William Ford 30 was killed from a crane accident. Charles R Fiesler 47 died of heart failure triggered by wind damage to his drug store.
Scattered showers brought slight relief to sweltering Kansas and western Missouri as temperatures reached 106 in parts of Kansas and 100 in Kansas City yesterday. Heat prostrations were reported in several towns while the corn crop dries under the blazing sun.
Partly cloudy weather in parts of Texas gave little relief from a heat wave as temperatures climbed statewide. Fort Worth led at 103, Dallas reached 101, and San Antonio and Shreveport hit 100 with no heat related illnesses reported.
A heavy guard was placed on duty at the Indiana state reformatory Pendleton to prevent escaping prisoners on outside jobs. Prison officials ordered the increase after numerous escapes from the institution.
Richard White of Columbus and C L Hutchins of South Bend were ordered removed from the state department of health by the health board today with no explanation given for the action.
Drownings in Vigo county rose to eight with the death of 11 year old Proctor Lawson in Sugar Creek Terre Haute. His body was recovered minutes after he sank but revival efforts failed.
Fifteen automobiles were destroyed in a garage fire in Frankton Indiana this morning causing an estimated loss of twenty thousand dollars. Fire officials reported the blaze began early and fully engulfed the structure. Local residents aided by firefighters report no injuries. Authorities continue to investigate the cause of the fire.
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