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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1925
Page
8
Robert E. Crowe state’s attorney of Chicago personally prosecutes William D. Shepherd for the murder of Billy McClintock. He also spearheads the city’s renewed fight against gunmen who have been killing policemen.
Washington reports 1928 income tax receipts of $703,962,165 from 7,698,321 returns detailing $26.89 billion total income. The number of returns rose 910,840 from 1922, with average net income $3,421.04 and average tax $91.44. Illinois ranks fourth with 676,489 returns and $2.359 billion.
Detectives led 50 raids into the Genna brothers district in the old Nineteenth Ward. Police seized stills and mash and arrested over 820 gang members and imported distillers. Thousands of gallons of alcohol were confiscated, with weapons also seized as authorities vow a sustained war on gang rule after the killings of four officers and the Genna leader Mike Genna.
French garrison of 76 men led by a sergeant is wiped out at Bibane in Morocco as Moors recapture the fortress. Despite relief attempts by Col. Freydenberg and Gen. Columbat, tribesmen overran the post and burned it after capture.
Six Marines under Captain W. P. T. Hill arrived from Camp Quantico Virginia to establish a marine guard camp in Swampscott for President Coolidge's summer stay.
Chicken thieves duped Cyril De Clark of Rock Island stealing about seventy five fowls. Mrs Elmira Earl Bowen one of the first women to master telegraphy died at Joliet. Winnebago county abolished groundhog bounty after no decrease in pests. Four people collected bounty on about four thousand groundhog scalps within thirty days. A fatal wreck near Staunton when John Zayne and family were killed at a crossing. Fire wiped out the Western Packing and Provision fertilizer plant in Chicago causing about one hundred thousand dollars damage. Eight hundred Span American War veterans delegates at Decatur urged state bonus for Spain war veterans redistricting a deep waterway Chicago to Gulf and a prohibition racing and boxing referendum. Moonshine trial set for June 23 in Freeport for Voespel Lyman Reilly and others. Oscar Rohling attempted suicide in Chicago detective bureau cell after arrest for child abandonment and to recover. They broadcast Niagara Falls roar by radio, misinterpreted by some as the U S Senate.
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