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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1925
Page
1
Fire officials say up to eight bodies may be recovered from the Gillis theatre ruins after a blast and fire that killed one firefighter and left about a hundred inside the building. Police suspect the explosion began in a restaurant adjoining the theatre.
A rear end collision of two Chicago Rapid Transit elevated trains near Thirty-Fifth Street station killed an employee named Pierce Moore and injured at least five others. An empty train struck a north bound express, throwing a coach from the rails but remaining on the structure. Officials said no passengers suffered serious injuries.
Berkeley reports a rising number of women at U.S. universities and their sports participation signals a race of new Amazons. Professor James Huff McCurdy of Y W C A College Springfield predicts American women will be larger than grandmothers as measured in height and weight across twenty years.
A severe thunder storm struck New York causing debris to rain from St Patrick's Cathedral and disrupts at the American Museum of Natural History and Emanuel Evangelical church. No injuries reported though structural damage included a marble arm from the cathedral and a five ton granite ball detached from a tower.
George Farrell, Richard Nehouse and Elmer Hall, known as the Bourbon bandits, were electrocuted at the state penitentiary in Bee ville, Ky. They were hanged for the year old attempted bank robbery and murder of Frank Buchanan in Clintonville.
Elmer Henderson, 18, was attacked with a pitchfork as he protected three girls by the Little Arkansas River near Wichita. His right eye was destroyed and doctors fear the left may be lost. Suspects Harry Parsons, 20, and Paul Rowley, 16, of Augusta are jailed on charges.
Reports in Cleveland suggest a giant steel merger near completion that would elevate the city to a top steel center. Names bandied include Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube, plus Republic Steel and others, with a smaller group linked to McKinney and Bourne Fuller in the local district.
President Coolidge rests near Swampscott Massachusetts during a scheduled summer break from Washington. Crowds are small and visitors rare as he contemplates plans for a Cambridge July 3 speech with Cambridge mayor Quinn and possible Maine trip to Pittland Springs for governors conference.
Eureka dispatch reports Ardita Finch seven year old daughter of Rosa Finch of Fortuna was killed when a gas powered charge for a root beer barrel exploded on a Garberville back porch at a soft drink stand.
C W Harriod an electrical engineer from Sioux City Iowa died in San Francisco after slashing his throat with a razor and leaping from a sixth floor window at the Manx Hotel His wife was away at the time medical staff labeled the motive as a probable ill health factor He suffered fractures to his back arms and legs before he died in hospital
Alfred J. Pearson of Iowa was appointed by President Coolidge to be minister to Finland. John B. Stetson of Philadelphia was selected for the post. Pearson lives in Des Moines and has not sailed. Stetson will remain in the diplomatic service until an assignment is announced.
Crowds of Chinese strikers and rioters entered Shanghai's international settlement, stoning and robbing street cars. Police dispersed the disorder after clashes broke out.
Peter Barich a 38 year old Minneapolis man at a Veterans convention is reported to have ossification in his hands feet and chin with reduced sensation. Doctors have given up and list him as permanently totally disabled due to mustard gas exposure from freezing conditions on the front lines and later combat injuries.
Mrs. Mary Jones was sentenced to 25 to 40 years in Sing Sing for kidnapping three year old Raimondo Von Maluski on March 29. The boy remains missing. Judge Collins said Jones refused to reveal the child's fate and claimed the child is dead. the father insisted the boy may be alive and would be spared if she cooperated.
Sam Agovereta of Chinook Montana told police he lost 11500 to two confidence men in a coin matching scam. Detectives arrested Joseph Davis Ed Die Russell and Edward Russell of London who still had 2400. Davis met Agovereta on a train to Chicago and the men lured him to Grant Park near the Field Museum.
British echooner Marion Adams seized in Gulf of Mexico off Mobile with six motor boats, 11000 whiskey, and 23 prisoners. Vessels, men, and liquor towed to Mobile, federal authorities report.
Mrs Estelle Patrick of Wichita Kansas elected national commander of the Disabled Veterans of the World War Women’s Auxiliary at the national convention. She succeeds Mrs Anna J Weber of Colorado Springs Colorado.
Huron June 26 AP. To secure better credit for farmers in South Dakota through the federal intermediate credit system the Agricultural Finance Corporation of South Dakota will be organized at once after months of study.
Little Rock Arkansas June 26 AP Jack Buster and Perk Flowers were executed in the electric chair at the state penitentiary for murder.
Mrs Coolidge arrived in Swampscott Massachusetts and went on her first shopping outing. She rode to Balem this morning with Mrs Frank W accompanying her and visited a five and ten cent store to buy household necessities.
Chicago report says Stephen Demmon attorney and former club member linked to Theodore Roosevelt claims was arrested on a Baker New Mexico fugitive warrant charging use of the mails to defraud.
In Basel today a passenger aircraft crashed during takeoff for Paria. A woman passenger was killed and the pilot sustained serious injuries.
Dr Alexander Baxter vice president of Canton Christian College corrected a faculty and student committee report alleging foreigners fired on Chinese in a June 28 procession near Shameen. Baxter stated evidence favored Chinese fire origin and described a council inquiry and a Chinese issued statement signed by Henry and others.
Chinese leaders in Manila declare sympathy with the Chinese strike movement and offer contributions but oppose declaring a general strike in the Philippines. Most Chinese here are merchants or shopkeepers with few domestics or dock workers. The China strike has already impacted Philippine trade, visible in customs receipts.
Scattered lines show box score fragments and player names from multiple games including St Louis, Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit. Reads like partial box scores with pitcher and batter pairings and inning totals, but lacks coherent game outcomes.
A necklace of 134 pearls valued by experts at 800,000 francs was found last night in Paris and handed to the police by the finder. Under French law the finder becomes owner if unclaimed for a year and a day.
Gil Muff, a Wyoming rancher, narrowly escaped being crushed as a massive slide from Sheep Mountain raced toward his home and family. The collapse created a six to seven mile lake. two ranches nearby were destroyed and many cattle perished as residents evacuated Kelly to higher ground.
Ogden Utah June 26 Forest Service reports a huge landslide on the Gros Ventre river two miles below Horse Tail station inundating a canyon for over a mile and 200 feet deep. One ranch buried, narrow escape, road restoration impossible. Ritter McCain warns of possible inundation. J P Martin notes potential to use new lake as irrigation reservoir.
Des Moines June 26 AP President A R Tearney warned western league owners who plot to remove him they will get the worst whaling. He denounced home club umpiring and pledged to run the league for the people not the players. He said reports of mutiny were unfounded after an inquiry into a Herald complaint.
Chicago dispatch reports State's Attorney Robert Crowe delivering closing arguments in the Shepherd trial. Crowe denounced defense lawyers Stewart and O'Brien for levity and framed the case as a unique murder charge tied to a $1,000,000 estate, while accusing them of a frameup and questioning Judge Olson's financial interest. He attacked Shepherd as a spendthrift who benefited from a million-dollar life of comfort.
Chicago reports the William Darling Shepherd murder trial started about six weeks ago with extensive jury selection and testimony. He is charged on twenty two counts including using typhoid germs to cause the death of his foster son William Nelson McClintock who left Shepherd as chief beneficiary of an estate exceeding one million dollars. The boy died December four during a typhoid outbreak traced to oysters shipped from the east. whispers of wrongdoing circulated in Kenilworth prior to the death.
Rescue efforts at Burke mine after a rock and debris collapse on the wall of rock and debris stalled. Four men remain trapped with the main tunnel blocked and a full day expected to pass before any break into the raise. Damage estimated at 450000.
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