Mystery surrounds death of Mrs Ridgley in Hot Springs
Private detectives hired by Mrs Ridgley’s relatives investigate her Hot Springs death amid reports she was murdered for money and jewelry. The deceased, once wealthy in central Illinois, had lived in Chicago and Assumption and faced earlier legal financial troubles. Detectives seek a rival friend who traveled with the body to Assumption.
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Assumption, Ill
Chicago
Central Illinois
Pana
Mra
Ora Belle Browns
Kidgiey
Hot Springs
Ark
Tus
Midgley
Central
Minots
Francis White Named Chief of Latin American Affairs
Francis White of Baltimore former first secretary of the Almerican embassy at Buenos Aires has been appointed chief of the division of Latin American affairs at the state department succeeding Sumner Welles who resigned. White is thirty years old and has served in diplomacy since 1915 with his last post in Peking.
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Francis White
Baltimore
Almerican
Buenos Aires
State Department
Sumner Welles
A White
St Peking
Mystery Death in Hot Springs Widow Traced by Florida Investments
Investigators follow a trail from Florida to Hawaii and Illinois as they probe the death of Mrs Ridgley in a Hot Springs cottage after her $100,000 fortune vanished. A $50,000 hotel deal in Melbourne Florida is tied to her journey and a chain of associates including Mrs Horn and Mrs Hiern. Authorities plan to exhume the body and review the Hot Springs death certificate.
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Ridgies
Hot Springs
Ark
Hiineix
Florida
Juspeier
Ridgley
Melbourne
Fla
Horn
Alice Horn
N. la Salle Street
Hiern
la Salle Street
Palmer House
Bot Springs
Toledo Woman Who Fatally Shot Ex Husband Ends Life
Mrs. Curlessy Tepper twenty eight who killed her former husband John H Tepper a prominent Ohio restaurant owner in a Toledo restaurant in April committed suicide by drinking in the General hospital where she has been confined since the shooting
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Curlessy Tepper
Ohio
Toledo
John H. Tepper
General Hospital
Electrocution Death at River Slough Fishing Site
Webbher Grammar aged sixty four died from burns after the tip of his metal fishing rod touched a live wire in a slough on the Milneis river near Valley City TH. The incident occurred June 13.
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Baylin
Webbher Grammar
Grammar
Milneis
Valley City
Wisconsin flood does great damage in Green Bay region
Northeastern Wisconsin reels from a severe flood with rail lines washed out and basins full. Rainfall tops 37 inches in Green Bay area, with bridges culverts and tracks destroyed from Midway to Ashland and widespread crop loss expected.
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Green Bay
Wis
Wisconsin
Green Bay Weather Bureau
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Midway
Askeuton
Lake Shore
Northwestern
Neenah
Manitowoc
Clintonville
Little Rapids
Depere
Wisconsin Public Service
Company
Ridge Point
Kaukauna
Dypere
Deadly New York Storm Causes High Toll and Drownings
Across New York the worst storm on record killed at least 65, with many missing and injured. In Buckeye Lake Ohio a tornado at Newark left three dead, thirteen seriously hurt, and five cottages buried. a bathhouse collapse added to the toll.
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New York
Clasen Point Park
Long Island Sound
Ohio
Newark
Buckeye Lake
Byron Hill
M. Seigler
Lydia Wohle
Columbus
Columbus Man Saves Child From Drowning After Lightning Strike
J HW Hank of Columbus was struck by lightning and then Hank aided by Jack Boyer of Columbus, grasped a child thrown into the water at Viens and saved her from drowning before collapsing.
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J. HW
Hank
Columbus
Jack Boyer
Viens
Peace in China Still Distant Amid Three Day Battle
Heavy fighting between Chinwangton and Shanhaikwan rages for a third day. Chang Tero forces drive on the Chutli line near the Gulf of Linotung while General Wa holds the front. Wounded riders, Third division, and foreign protection regiments are dispatched amid ongoing hostilities.
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Tienen
Juhe T—Jen
Chang Terofin
Wu Wul-fu
Chinwangton
Shanhalkwan
Chang
Gulf of Linotung
Tientsin
China
Tangku
Coke
Shanhaikwan
Chinwangtao
Hindenburg Visit Sparks Controversy in Berlin
Berlin reports a civic and military student reception for Field Marshal von Hindenburg during his East Prussia battlefield visit. A communist counter demonstration at Koenigsberg led to a violent clash, prompting talk the government may ask him to limit such tours. Both Hindenburg and Ludendorff are praised by supporters but mocked by socialist elements as traveling salesmen.
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Berlin
Pield Marshal von Hindenburg
East I’ros
Sia
Koenigsberg
Laudendorff
Labor Meet Opens in Chicago Shaping AFL Fight
In Cincinnati on June 13 the American Federation of Labor began a two week convention in Chicago discussing open shop unemployment wage reductions recognition of Soviet Russia and the one big union. Gompers defended labor's aims pledging unity and progress while critical Supreme Court rulings drew sharp reaction. Delegates, arriving by parade, heard welcomes from Governor Davis and others as Adolf Kummer handed Gompers a carpenter made gavel.
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Cincinnati
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Executive Council
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Federation
Witl Bes
Organized Labor
United States Supreme Court
Coronado
British Trades Unions Congress
Benjamin Schlesinger
New York
Edward McGivern
Boston
Thomas F. Gatner
Washington
Armory
National Guard
America
Peter Dietz
Davis
Carrell
T. J. Donnelly
Ohio State Federation of Labor
Adolf Kummer
Baseball Player Chief Johnson Found Shot Dead in Des Moines
George Johnson known as Chief Johnson, a forty year old baseball player who played with the Tulsa team, was found murdered in the rear of a building in Des Moines. Police hold three men and a woman, all negroes, in connection with the death. The report notes the incident occurred June 13.
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Tes Moines
George Jonson
Johnson
Jahmeson
Tulsa
OkKla
Lodge Called to Forge Republican Bonus Tariff Accord
Washington dispatch reports Republicans split over whether to set aside the tariff bill for the soldier bonus. Senate majority leader Lodge will return Wednesday to convene a conference of GOP members. McCumber supports laying aside the tariff for the bonus, optimistic a vote can occur with brief debate.
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Washington
Senate
Senator Lodge
Lodge
McCumber
Aliance Committee
Ireland Constitution Articles Revised In London Return For Griffith
London June 18 The Evening Star reports the revised articles of the new Irish constitution are satisfactory Arthur Griffith will return to Tiblin and Colonial Secretary Churchill will delay his house announcement to synchronize with London and Voabtin publication dates.
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London
Evening Star
Arthur Griffith
Tiblin
Churchill
House of Commons
Wallace at Iowa State delivers commencement address
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, a noted Iowa State alumnus, speaks at the fifty first annual commencement in Ames. He laments a past era of expanding agriculture and industry under free public domain distribution and calls for national policy and conservation to unite growers and nations.
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Ames
WH. C. Wallace
Iowa State College
College
Wallace
Indians Take To Warpath At Point Pelee Park
Royal Canadian Mounted Police and local deputies brace for an 800-strong Walpole Island Indian group said to be on the war path. They threaten to seize the government park at Point Pelee, six miles from Leamington, amid a long-standing property dispute.
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Leamington
Ont
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Walpole Island
Government Park
Point Pelee
New Rail Wage Cut Ready For July 1 Implementation
Wage reductions estimated up to 40 million dollars apply to about 5,000 additional railway employees. The railroad labor board is expected to issue the ruling within days, with effects starting July 1, reducing the annual payroll by about 150 million dollars.
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Chicago
Railroad
Smith Brookhart Nominated by Republicans for Senate
Col. Smith Brookhart of Washington D C soldier and lawyer was nominated for the United States Senate by Republicans of Town, drawing eight percent in the primary.
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Col
Smith Brookhart
Washington
Wee
United States Senate
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