World News In Brief From Washington To Grassy Utah
A Washington dispatch says Presidents Harding and Obregon will meet soon on the Mexican American boundary to pledge friendship. General Gouraud visited Wilson and placed a wreath at Arlington. The British debt funding wrap up involved 4.6 billion dollars in bonds surrendered. A gas pedal wreck at Grassy Utah killed seven and injured seventy four. The Hsich Cummins act cost the government 478 million. Two American women were sentenced for murder in New York and Chicago. The Nevada Supreme Court denied rehearing in Gee Jon and Hughie Sing case. Congress limits physician liquor prescriptions. Train crash near Fort Wayne killed a family of three and injured Evelyn McGolowski. Mrs. Lewis S. Thompson named New Jersey’s Republican national committee member.
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Obregon
Anna Buzzi
Frederic Schneider
New York
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Frank Nitts
Chicago
Nevada Supreme Court
Carson City
Gee Jon
Hughie Sing
Smuggling claim surfaces after Manila voyage report
Domestic Vicente Aldanese reports regular smuggling of Chinese into the Philippines after returning from Filipino ports. Other items note Roland Pothier’s release from Providence jail after nine months for 1918 Camp Lewis murder, the North German Lloyd Muenchen’s maiden voyage from Hoboken, Rockefeller’s 84th birthday in Tarrytown, and several political and legal developments.
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Manila
Philippine
Philippines
Roland R. Pothier
Providence
R. L
Federal Court of Appeals
Maj
Alexander Cronkhite
Camp Lewis
Hoboken
New York Harbor
Notable French Admiral Ferdinand de Bon Dies in Paris
After a long illness Vice Admiral Ferdinand Jean Jacques de Bon former chief of the French naval general staff died in Paris. At the Washington arms conference he headed the French naval advisory commission. William St Day a former associate justice of the United States Supreme Court died at his cottage on Mackinac Island Michigan. He was with his son William L Day and wife at the time.
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Paris
Washington
Naval Advisory Commission
William St. Day
United States Supreme Court
Mackinac Island
Mich
William L. Day
Berlin unrest and international tensions ripple across Europe
Reports recount Berlin training fatalities and strikes as 60 000 metal workers walk out while train wrecks in England and Canton railways prompt casualties. Meanwhile French troops seize Frankfurt amid fighting with Communists and fascists as Allied talks loom with Britain and the United States.
Labor day speaker chosen by Springfield Federation of Labor
Van A. Bitten of Pittsburgh a United Mine Workers leader is named principal speaker for Labor day by the Springfield Federation of Labor. Anthony M. Jackson returns home after earning a bachelor of philosophy in foreign commerce from Notre Dame. Charles Schaub dies in Decatur from injuries after a chemical explosion at home. Kewanee council rejects American Gas offer to sell public utilities for 1.25 million over 30 years. Andrew Chisman dies in Hillsboro from injuries from a coal fall fifteen years ago. Dr. Matthew Reasoner, medical officer with the U S army in Coblenz, rejoins family in Alton. Charles R. Kimber named business manager of the Pennsylvanian at the University of Pennsylvania. Illinois faculty rail tests planned under Prof. A N Talbot. A special legislature session may adopt a new soldiers bonus bond issue of at least 12 million. Herman Suelau killed in Aurora baseball game by a throw to tag out at home plate.
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van A. Bitten
Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers of America
Springfield Federation of Labor
Springfield
Springfield Highway Division Nears 50 Miles Weekly Goal
The state highway division at Springfield reports 33 miles of standard 18 foot pavement laid last week, bringing the yearly total to 207.32 miles. A bright meteor lit Shelbyville and area, passing southeast and over homes of E I Walred and Alva Jones, followed by a loud explosion sounding as if it struck ground or burst overhead.
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Shelbyville
Vicinlty
E. I. Walred
Alva Jones
Hooded visitors deliver church letter at Assumption park
An automobile load of hooded Klans men arrived at the city park union church meeting near Assumption. They moved to the pastor's stand and presented a letter, then departed quietly. The letter commends recent Protestant clergy actions on local matters.
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Union Church
Assumption
Santa Anna’s cork leg sparks Texas museum dispute
Reports from Springfield say interest rises in the famous wooden leg of Santa Anna. Texas seeks to claim the war trophy to keep it in Austin, arguing the artifact belongs in the state’s museum rather than Springfield.
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Springfield
Texas
Lone Star
Austin
Tex
Bees Sting Team of Horses to Death Near Benton
A team belonging to W. J. King living northeast of Benton was killed by a swarm of bees. John Foley, a restaurant owner in Galena, was electrocuted after stepping into a refrigerator at his business.
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W. J. King
Benton
John Foley
Galena
July meetings of Illinois miners examining board announced
Springfield announces the July schedule for the Illinois miners examining board. John Mulligan, secretary, lists meetings at Belleville July 9 at the courthouse Eldorado July 10 at the mine rescue station Herrin July 11 at the Rome club Benton July 12 at city hall Duquoin July 18 at the miners hall Staunton July 14 at the Labor temple.
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Illinois Miners’ Examining Board
Springfield
John Mulligan
Belleville
Courthouse
Eldorado
Herrin
Rome Club
Benton
City Hall
Duquoin
Staunton
Labor Temple
Calhoun County Apple Vinegar Factory Plans Announced
Calhoun county known as the Apple King dom of finois, the only county without a railroad, now boasts a $100,000 vinegar factory named the Calhoun Vinegar company. The plant will produce cider and also handle canning and pickling of apple by products. It will additionally manufacture alcohol for mechanical use from molasses sourced in the South.
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Calhoun County
Finois
Calhoun Vinegar Company
Eleven Die As Shell Plant Blast Levels East Alton
An explosion at the Western Cambridge plant in East Alton, Illinois, killed eleven workers and injured twenty three. The blast, believed sparked by friction igniting stockpiled powder from salvaged munitions, occurred in a fireproof building where workers extracted powder from 30-30 cartridges.
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Illinois
Fourteen Arrests After Fort Wayne Liquor Raid
Federal prohibition agents conducted a city wide roundup in Fort Wayne Indiana with a raid on a prominent resident's home. Officers seized liquor valued around fifteen thousand dollars. The resident, his brother in law of a city official, and twelve others were arrested.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
France to Keep 660000 Troops Ready for War
Paris reports the plan to reorganize France’s army of 660 000 men was distributed to parliament by Col. Jean Fabry. It envisions a modernized force aligned with lessons from the great war and focused on aviation and new war materials.
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Paris
France
Jean Fabry
Chamber Army Commission
First Carload of New Crop Wheat Reaches Chicago
The first new crop wheat reached Chicago from southern Illinois on Tuesday. One car graded No. 1 hard and tested 61 pounds to the bushel, selling for $1.05 a bushel, two and a half cents higher than July at the same sale.
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Chicago
Illinois
President Harding welcomed in Alaska in Juneau harbor
The arrival of President Harding aboard the U S S Henderson on Tuesday drew a warm greeting in Juneau Alaska harbor. Vessels blew whistles as the welcoming committee led by Mayor Goldstein boarded the ship.
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Harding
Alaska
Juneau
U. S
S. Henderson
Goldstein
Henderson
Chancellor Cuno’s Salary Raised to $20.51 a Week
Berlin reports the German government approved wage increases for officials averaging eight percent. Chancellor Cuno’s new payroll amounts to 27,000,000 marks monthly equal to about $20.51 per week.
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Cuno
Berlin
Germany
Hailstones Kill Twenty Three in Rostov District
Heavy hailstones near Rostov in the Don district killed 23 people, most of them peasants, as they fled to the fields to safeguard their cattle. The storm caused widespread casualties and farm damage.
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Rostov
Donn
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