Pike County Coal Miners Idle Amid Day Men Strike
Some 1500 to 1700 miners in Pike County are idle due to a strike of the day men across railroad mines. Ayrshire and Atlas mines shut with 600 and 4090 workers affected. Gladstone shaft and others closed, costing about 20095 dollars daily in wages and reducing output by about 959 to 1000 tons per day. Big Four railroad mines in Davies County also closed.
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Petersburg
Ind
Pike County
Ayrshire
Atlas
Gladstone
Big Four
Davies County
Inquire If They May Make Apple Cider
Indianapolis July 30 Charles Orbison reports a prohibition enforcement issue in Indiana. Farmers and others ask about manufacturing cider and vinegar from fruit groves. The ruling allows non intoxical cider made at home or by custom makers without permit, with sale to the public or to vinegar makers who hold vinegar permits.
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Indianapolis
Charles Orbison
Indiana
Wheat Yield Low in Warrick County
Boonville Indiana July 30. About 25 000 acres in Warrick County with roughly half threshed. Yields are very low not more than 7 or 8 bushels per acre. best report 26 bushels. About 600 acres of tomatoes under contract to canning firms. yield about 6 tons per acre. 32 000 acres of corn late. 1 500 acres of tobacco. Hot weather and frequent rains hamper crop, farm labor scarce, harvest prices from 5.00 to 16.00 dollars per day. labor and hours demand rising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boonville
Ind
Heinz
County Ten
Political Gridlock Delays Adjournment of Indiana Session
Conferees on tax legislation reach agreement but leadership warns of poll costs if adjournment delays continue. Republican leaders, including E. M. Wasmuth and Fred Sims, press for quick action after a day of closed‑door talks as the special session stagnates and the Senate and House race to finalize a tax plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Senate
House
E. M. Wasmuth
Fred Sims
U. S
Supreme Court
Republican Party
Goodrich
Bergdoll Sought in Seattle and Bellingham by Secret Service
Government secret service agents search Seattle and Bellingham for Grover Cleveland Bergdoll the draft evader who escaped Philadelphia guards last May. Judge W B Douglas says Bergdoll was seen on a Great Northern train from Spokane, wearing a changed suit and overcoat, speaking with a German accent and asking about boat departures to Bellingham near the Canadian border.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Government
Secret Service
Bellingham
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Philadelphia
W. B. Douglas
St. Paul
Minn
Department of Justice
Bergdoll
Great Northern
Spokane
Douglas
Editor Elias Montfort Dies in New York Area at 72
Elias Riggs Montfort longtime journalist and veteran civic leader died suddenly at Oaks Corners near Geneva New York. He served as G A R commander in 1915 former commander of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and Cincinnati postmaster under McKinley Roosevelt and Taft. He edited the Herald and Presbyter.
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Geneva
N. Y
Elias Riggs Montfort
Military Order of the Loyal Legion
Cincinnati
McKinley
Roosevelt
Taft
Herald and Presbyter
Oaks Corners
Ere
Flivver Driver Pleads Guilty in City Court
Arthur Dill arraigned before Mayor Shubart on driving a flivver without a license. He pleaded guilty and was fined $1 and costs for each offense totaling $22, which was stayed. He was arrested in the early morning by Patrolmen King and King.
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Arthur Dill
Shubart
King End
King
Ludendorff Offers Million-Strong Army for Moscow Return
Berlin dispatch reports General Ludendorff offered the British chargé d affaires in Berlin to raise an army of one million to fight the Bolsheviks in Russia in exchange for Pos en return and annulment of Versailles clauses including those on Danzig.
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Pss
Ludendorff
Berlin
Journal
Waffaires
Russia
Germany
Posen
Danzig
Operators of state decline Lewis confab in Chicago
Indiana coal operators on July 30 declined a joint conference with miners urged by John L. Lewis to alter the interstate agreement and the commerce commission award. They insisted contracts must be enforced and suggested resuming mines with government oversight to address complaints. A meeting of operators to discuss the strike situation was set for tomorrow with leaders from Illinois Indiana Ohio and western Pennsylvania.
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Chicago
Indiana
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Commerce Commission
Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators’Association
Lewis
Thomas T. Brewster
Ilinois
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Deaths Richard T. Tingle 76 in Gibson county
Richard T. Tingle aged 76 years 2 months 19 days died Thursday night at 11 50 at Methodist hospital from stomach disorders. Funeral Sunday at 4 from S H Berger 222 East Emerson street. Burial Warnock cemetery. Survived by daughter Rachel Tingle Butler Mo son Edward East Also sister Mary Ash Independent Eas two brothers W E Tingle Zanesville J F Tingle Dickens Sdak. Born May 11 1844 in Cambridge Oh his career as bailiff/deputy sheriff in Gibson county.
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Richard T. Tingle
Gibson County Circuit Court
Methodist Hospital
S. H. Berger
East
Emerson Street
Radcliff & Calvin
South Main Street
Warnock
Rachel Tingle
Butler Mo
Edward
Mary Ash
Independent
Eas
W. E. Tingle
Zanesville
J. F. Tingle
Dickens
South Dakota
Cambridge
Alice Johnson
Bailliff
F. W. Hauss
Gibson Circuit Court
Murphy
Infant Lewis Smith Died of Brain Fever at Grandmother’s Home
One year old Lewis Smith, son of Mr and Mrs Alien Smith, died Thursday night at his grandmother Mrs Page’s house at 1022 Stout Street. Death was caused by brain fever. Funeral set for Saturday at 9:30 AM at Mrs Page’s home with burial in the I O O F cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis
Alien Smith
Page
Stout Street
Hoosiers Stendal Hall Game Relocated to Coal Mine Park
The Hoosiers and Stendal will play Sunday afternoon at Coal Mine Park instead of Southside Park. The game is set for 2 30 oclock.
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Hall
Hoosiers
Stendale
Coal Mine Park
Southside Park
Motorize the Farm tour to visit area Tuesday
A motorcade of about twenty motor trucks arrives Tuesday at 3 p.m. in Princeton as part of the Motorize the Farm tour. Claude A. Smith chairs the local committee arranging the welcome and demonstrations to show motor trucks as economical farm transport and aid to marketing. Bands, entertainers, and talks by national agricultural figures accompany the tour through Poseyville Cyn thiana Owensville Ft Branch Oakland City Winslow Petersburg Huntingburg with a Princeton night meeting at 7:30 on the square.
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Claude A. Smith
Evansville
State Departments of Agriculture
Poseyville
Cynthiana
Owensville
Ft. Branch
Oakland City
Winslow
Petersburg
Huntingburg
Princeton
Tiyneman Farm
Knights of Pythias drill prizes awarded to Terre Haute and Akron
Terre Haute Indiana and Akron Ohio won first prizes in class A and class B drills. Albion Michigan and Evansville Indiana earned second prizes in class B while St. Louis captured third.
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United Press
Cleveland
Terre Haute
Ind
Akron
Knights of Pythias
Albion
Mich
Evansville
St. Louis
Municipal electric plant to shut down without coal supply
Logansport Indiana reports the municipal electric light plant faces closure as coal reserves run near empty. A single car of coal from the Pennsylvania Railroad kept it operating, while four cars sent to the plant have been lost, threatening future power service.
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Logansport
Ind
Municipal Electric Light Plant
Pennsylvania Railroad
Airmail Flight Lands in Cleveland Pilot Acosta Arrives
Pilot Bert Acosta lands one of three monoplanes in Cleveland at 3 p m after taking off from Long Island on a trans continental air mail flight. Two other planes reached the landing station at 5 30 and 7 15 p m. The trio planned to reach Chicago at noon today.
Acreage Shifts Reported for Gibson County Crops
County Agent Virgil Mood details Gibson county crop changes for 1920 with wheat down from 35 000 to 14 000 acres and corn at 40 000 acres while oats improve. Tomatoes under Heinz contract at 16 dollars per ton and cantaloupes ship to northern markets. Labor supplies tighten as harvest nears.
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Virgil Mood
Gibson County
Dublin railway chief shot dead in his office
Frank Brooks chairman of the Dublin South eastern Railway was shot in his office in Dublin and the assailants escaped. The killing occurred July 30 and details remain sparse as investigators pursue leads.
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Dublin
Ireland
Frank Brooks
Dublin Southeastern Railway
Nine Mines Operating In Indiana After Strike Action
Terre Haute reports say only nine coal mines in Indiana were in operation today due to unauthorized strikes by day workers and drivers. These mines produce just over 500 tons daily. Evansville notes 3,300 strikers in the Indiana pocket district, leaving only four of forty mines active with incomplete forces. Reports from the southern coast bureau indicate only 14 mines remained working in the state.
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United Press
Terre Haute
Ind
United Mine Workers of America
Evansville
Indiana “Pocket
Here
Indiana Coast Bureau
Illinois and Indiana coal operators press for work resumption
Illinois coal operators and Indiana producers urged union officials to resume work before wage talks. The Illinois conference sent telegrams to John L. Lewis and Frank Farrington asking adherence to contracts. With Indiana action, miners then planned to defer talks and refer the issue to President Wilson.
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Chicago
Til
Illinois
Indiana
John L. Lewis
Indianapolis
Frank Farrington
Tlinois
Springfield
Wilson
Operators Try Hand In Joint Meeting Prospect
Coal operators of the central competitive field prepared to meet today after an unauthorized strike crippling industry across Indiana Illinois and the Chicago area. The operators' executive committee in Chicago discussed John L Lewis invitation for a joint meeting to seek a cure for miners and operators. Indiana operators urged Lewis to secure miners' return to work ensure fuel supply and win government authority for higher wages.
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Chicago
Indiana
Illinois
Operators’ Association
John L. Lewis
Lewis
National Mine Workers grant leaders full power in emergency
Indianapolis July 30. National officers received absolute authority to act as they deem necessary in the present emergency. Executive officers announced the move amid widespread telegrams sent concerning the unauthorized day men strike in Illinois and Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
National Mine Workers
Illinois
Indiana
Bread costs rise in forty city survey
St. Louis July 30 report shows bread prices up 6.16 percent over the past year across forty leading cities. Loaves range from ten ounces to two pounds with prices from a few cents to a quarter, reflecting broad variation in cost.
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United Press
ST. Louis
Life
The Phonograph With a Soul at Guthrie Music House
G W Guthrie Music House invites the public to meet The New Edison The Phonograph With a Soul at South Side Square Local ad promotes this sound reproduction device as a source of satisfaction and pleasure for music lovers Bodied by a single promotional notice
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Edison
G.W. Guthrie Music House
South Side Square
Man 19 Held Over Car Theft Charge In Hartford City
Ralph Mullen, 19, is jailed in Hartford City charged in city court with operating an automobile belonging to his father-in-law John Long without permission. He drove the car from a garage and kept it for three hours and pleaded not guilty at the preliminary.
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Hartford City
Ind
Ralph Mullen
John Long
Mullen
Long
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