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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1928
Page
4
Mrs. Everett Miley of Petersburg was fined 1 and costs after striking neighbor Mrs. William Harbison over the head with a rolling pin during a rent dispute over sixty cents. The blow caused a scalp gash needing eight stitches.
United Press report confirms Gen Umberto Nobile and five Italia crew members were found after 26 days adrift north of Northeastland. Rumors swirl of Amundsen’s landing near the North East Land camp as rescue efforts unfold amid grim uncertainties and hope in Oslo.
In Bloomington Indiana on June 20 a seven months old infant son of Robert and Mrs Baugh died when a porch pillar loosened from the roof structure fell onto the crib as the children played on the porch. The impact crushed the infant’s skull and caused near instant death.
Petersburg Ind June 20 for the second time in sixteen years the Pike County Racing Association will cancel its annual races in late July. Officials cite mining downturn and poor crop prospects as reasons. Runners may return next year if profitable.
United Press dispatch reports Robert Powell a 24 year old black man was dragged from a dying bed at Jefferson Davis hospital in Houston Texas and lynched on a remote road six miles from town. Powell had been charged with killing city detective A W Davis. Five hours after masked armed men seized him his body was found hanging from a post under a wooden bridge.
Two men were held in Indianapolis after a 16 year old girl reported being forced from her car at gunpoint, attacked and held for hours before being released near her home. Police quoted her account of the kidnapping and subsequent assault.
The Hoosier delegation to the national Democratic convention will depart Indianapolis tomorrow. Early members include Charles A. Greathouse national committeeman and permanent secretary, R. Earl Peters state chairman, L. G. Ellingham Ort Wayne, John Heller Decatur, Virgil Simmons Bluffton, and Marshal Williams state committee secretary. The Evans Woollen special will arrive next Monday morning.
George Remus, the former bootlegger who killed his wife Imogene, is released from the Lima state hospital for the criminally insane by order of Ohio’s supreme court. The decision rejects the hospital chief’s claim over release authority and allows a habeas corpus aimed at proving sanity.
Terre Haute men Carl Jennings and Calvin Holmes testify that Kenneth Spurgeon instigated the Terre Haute mail robbery and planned an earlier attempt at Jasonville on March 26 with a Brazil detective reportedly to protect the crew. Holmes pleads guilty and Jennings receives a 26 year sentence on three counts. Spurgeon is held for investigation by Federal Judge Baltzell.
President Coolidge seeks at least a month of seclusion at Cedar Lodge on the Brule river with Mrs Coolidge's health improving though she remains largely out of view. Authorities note access is limited with only river traffic allowed nearby and few sightings during the lingering rainy weather.
Fragmentary notes state William M. Butler of the national committee and his secretaries spent the night as reporters, seated nearby, were moved away by a secret service guard due to lax security at the lodge.
London dispatch notes Amelia Earhart receives the lion's share of praise for the trans Atlantic flight. Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon, companions on the Friendship, are found resting in their Hyde Park hotel rooms and expressing a desire to sleep and delay plans.
In Bloomington Indiana on June 20 a copper ball from the Monroe County Court House tower opened after the 1907 demolition. It contained copies of the Bloomington Times from October 1, 1858 and the Bloomington Republican Progress from October 18, 1876. The finds include a fair program from 1873 and note editors William A. Gabe C. G. Skut and James W Cook. The old courthouse brick temple was replaced in 1907.
Dores Brown, who confessed to shooting and killing Mrs. Laura McMahon, his housekeeper, in Vincennes Indiana, pleaded not guilty yesterday and asked the court to appoint an attorney. Authorities expect an insanity defense.
In Terre Tuate on June 20 Judge Omar Traylor issued a temporary restraining order against Harvey Cartwright president of the United Mine Workers Graventh District and William Mitch secretary of the miner workers. Mitch said no prior notice was received and urged court investigation before granting the order.
In Laurel Point West Virginia the National Coal Company mine explosion killed five miners and injured seven. Twenty two workers were in the shaft when the blast occurred and ten escaped unscathed. Seven injured were admitted to Morgantown hospital as the night crew of twenty two was at work.
Wind and lightning swept the middlewest causing widespread damage in Illinois and Indiana. Five dead initially with reports of more across regions. Tornadoes hit parts of Oklahoma and a crowded night of storms. Chicago faced fires from lightning and a peak wind of 147 miles per hour. Over 40 calls to fire departments as residents faced electrical disturbances.
Renewed cyclones today pushed the death toll from the weekend storms to nine. The latest casualty was reported near Frederick Oklahoma as the system swept the southwest since Saturday.
Torrential rains lasting through night and morning caused the Des Peres river to overflow its banks flooding more than twenty city blocks in South St Louis. Police and firemen rescued marooned families by motor boat.
Six men seized mail sacks worth about two hundred thousand dollars at Toronto Union Station last night. They dragged the sacks from a platform, loaded them into a car, and fled as the procession of workers prepared the shipment for Chicago.
Richard E Byrd announced naming two aircraft for the South Polar expedition. One plane honors Floyd Bennett, a companion who died in relief aid efforts, and the other plane bears another commemorative name.
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