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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1920
Page
2
In a telegram to Jouett Shouse McAdoo says he cannot permit his name to appear at the San Francisco convention and will not seek the nomination. He cites the need to rehabilitate his fortune and expenses he cannot assume, narrowing the field to eleven candidates still in contention.
The passage notes political action tied to U S railroads and anti strike measures. It mentions a federation and a figure in his seventy first year, reflecting a historical labor policy discussion in Montreal.
Brief note reports anthrax in Nebraska cattle herds with cases near a locality in the state and mentions loss by Mr. Grabowski. The item notes a 30 year history of the disease in the area.
Nicholas Murray Butler says a "money group" of stock gamblers mining promoters and others tried to buy General Wood’s presidential nomination. He credits New York's 68 delegates with halting the drive, preventing a sale by wealth and force in the GOP convention.
A mob of about 5 000 overran police, jailed three circus roustabouts named Isaac Mc Ghie Elmer Jackson and Nate Green aged about 22, and executed them at the Duluth police station for an alleged assault on a 17 year old white girl. Two others were acquitted and released. The crowd used bricks and water from police hoses in the melee.
Leaders of the Committee of 48 and the labor party plan talks on a shared candidate for a new party. A questionnaire of committee members showed a majority favoring Senator Robert M. LaFollette as the potential nominee.
Frank A. Harrison, manager of Johnson’s Nebraska campaign, labels the action as treachery and desertion of delegates from instructed states. The remark targets the term used to describe the breakdown in support and the resulting rift within the Johnson ranks.
An official notice reports a second case of burnt termination campaign in Florida as authorities expand efforts to prevent disease spread amid public health concerns.
Following a $400,000 jewel theft from Enrico Caruso's home, extra detectives were deployed to guard Caruso and her baby. Corrigan, head of police, notes suspicions of Mafia involvement.
Nebraska court actions include United States District Attorney filing a case against Harry Kelly and Walter Ingham for assault and robbery of Wichita post office workers. Statewide notes cover Skinner Packing as a holding company in Omaha, railroad bridges near Irwin, a lodge campaign statement in Lincoln, farm labor wages in Dodge and Buffalo counties, and drought era crop conditions.
In Chicago’s South Side near Thirty-fifth Street and Indiana Avenue a riot followed a flag burning by a group said to support a back to Africa movement. Police restored order after several hundred negroes gathered and shots were fired injuring a white policeman and multiple black individuals. Exact casualty numbers were not known.
Attorney General Palmer directs federal district attorneys to scrutinize alleged price gouging in bituminous coal. He cites reports of mines charging seven to eleven dollars per ton and notes January 1920 costs, including labor, raising production cost to about 2.79 dollars per ton.
A 17 year old youth died in Galveston with bubonic plague suspected after a brief illness. Dr M F Boyd of the State Medical College announced the diagnosis, joined by federal state county and city health officers. An immediate rat and mouse extermination drive was ordered and Surgeon General Cummings was asked to send health service experts to assist.
Indianapolis will host this year’s Grand Army of the Republic encampment replacing Atlantic City. The decision was made at a meeting of the national group.
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