The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-08-15

n Warrants charging W. H. Benne
\ and his wife with the murder of MI
. Augusta Hoffman who disappear
mysteriously from the Bennett hon
1 at Chattanooga, Tenn, in 1915, we
served as they left their room in
hotel where they have been above
to stay under surveillance after b,
3 ing brought here from Rome, Georgi
a week ago.
The story of a thrilling chase /
the waters of Montauk point, Me-
n York, during which hundreds of shot
were fired and a r~um-running zach
made three attempt to ram a spec
boat of the customs maine patro
twas told after the arrival at tn
barge office of the patrol vesse
Shark. On it were three agents
e Lyons, Geary and Dureck, who cap
;, tured the converted submarine chas
er William the 18th with a crew Of
{ three and 300 cases of liquor aboard
T The body of Benjamin F. Rice
well-known Tulsa, Okla, attorney
was found huddled wei the grave OF
his father, Benjamin F. Rice, Sr.
former United States senator from
Arkansas, in a local cemetery. There
was a bullet wound in his right tenn
pie and a note found on his body in
dicated hat he had committed suf-
eide.
A police sergeant at Omaha, Neb.
found Mary Wisner, 8 years and 6
months old, tied to a wall in the home
of Roy Hill, with her hands above
her head and a tantalizing plate of
grapes in front of her.
Three bandits held up the First
National bank of Highland, ILL.,, and
escaped with between $4,000 and
$4,000.
A judgment of $1,000, 004.33
against the Sinclair Oil company, the
Garfield Oil Company and the Ex-
change Oil company was awarded the
six children of Mr.. and Mrs. James
A. Crews, deceased, by Judge j. B.
Cullison in the district court at Enid,
Okla. The suit, which had been
pending for nearly three years, was
filed by Miss Laura Crews, guard
of the minor Crews children.
Intimation by Mayor Hylan, who
is in California with William Ran
dolph Hearst, that he may run for
Democratic nomination for gov
ernor if the progressives demand it
caused a fury in political circles of
New York.
Fourteen men were injured, seven
seriously in a fall of slate in the La
mont mine of the H. C. Prick Coke
company, three miles north of Union
own, Pa. Three of the men suffer
ID fractured backs and their condi-
ion at the Uniontown hospital is
aid to be critical.
Seven officials of the Municipal
Savings. and Loan company, Repre-
entative Realty company, and five
peal allied companies were indicted
t Clevelend, Ohio, by a grand jury.
he indictments charged embezzle- !,
tent, certification to false financial
tatements and perjury. ;
FOREIGN /
II is rumored at Ottawa, Ont, that q,
harles NJ. Schawb will purchase the a
81 ,000, 900 plant and mines Of the ;
ritish-American Nickel company,
hich recently went into liquidation.
he company has a mine at Sudbury v
I'd a plant at Deschenes. I
il
Secretary of State Hughes arrived h
Paris and was greeted by Minis =
r of Justice Renoult, the acting
Ambassador Herrick and a
rye number of persons prominent n
political and governmental circles. R
; went to the home of Mr.. Herrick A
lere he will live during his stay. e.
For the first time since the inter
led conference assembled the Il;
delegates have indicated a re
llingness to surrender under GER f.
conditions, their right to separ-
!, action against Germany in cas-
a Preparations default under the m
ives plan. Id
ii,
A few minutes after receiving the of
NAL notification that her divorce re-
l been granted, Mrs. Julius Flesch- M,
mn, former wife of the American wi
last king" and former mayor of m,
announced to her friends tb,
t she is engaged to marry Jay tic
'rien the polo player.
homas Lee Woolwine of Los An 10
rs is slightly better at his hotel no
Paris. His physicians report his *
eral condition improved but he re- co,
extremely weak. The doctors w
ed that no more blood transfu- TIL
IS will be resorted to, and that tbe
another relapse occurs his re- Ms
cry is confidently expected.