The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-29
Far and Near

mere VINO has given his VIE DON
of candy every Saturday for the
past forty-one years. j. A. Spitzig
of Lakewood, started the habit when
he and Mrs. Spitzig We're bride and
groom. He is a grandfather now.
Once he was i'll in a hospital for
several months but he saw to it that
the candy was delivered regularly.
DETROIT-Claiming he lost
four fingers in punch press,
while working here i'm 1923 for
the Ford Motor Company, Ernest
BedOr, 81, of st. JOhnsbury, VT,
has filed $4,000 damage suit in
Federal Court.
BUCHAREST-Dr of thirty
persons during Black sea storms is
reported from the coast. The steamer
Astoria foundered off Kavarna with
twenty-five persons aboard and the
freighter Protos went down en- route
to Constantinople from Constanza.
BELGRADE-LOcal newspapers
report that President Ahmed ZOgu
of Albania, planned to proclaim
himself king and to marry one of
the daughters of the Italian royal
family.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Pending con-
struction of a free bridge across the
Missouri river. ferry service may be
inaugurated unless tolls are reduced
by the owners of toll bridge
across the river here.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-"What
can / do for your" asked A. l..
LightfOOt of a customer in his
store. The customer, it developed
after few minutes conversation,
was LightfOOt's sister, Mrs. Emma
Spencer, "a, whom he had not
seen for fifty-seven years. v
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of DIR
Hartmann from Paris to Bucharest
to observe the results Of the op
GRAFTON performed by him on King
Ferdinand is imminent, the newspa
per Lupta says. Officials were reti
cent regarding the report.
MEXICO CITY-Great Britain
and Mexico have signed an agree
ment with respect to claims of Brit
ish citizens against Mexico in con
nection with the numerous revolu
lions and consequent damage to for
eign owned property, it was reliab
ly reported here.
GENOA, Italy-The Italian liner
Colombo, with NNeapOlitan emf
grants to the United States aboard,
cOllided in port with the English
freighter DiOmed, but it was ex-
pected the Colombo would be able
to resume her voyage. Damage
was slight.
| CHICAGO-Edward Collins. &C
was stricken with a heart attacl
while kneeling in prayer beside hi
bed. He was dead when found b.
his landlady.
WAUKEGAN, Ill.-Mrs. jon
Peterson died here just twenty-fou
hours before she was to have cele
brated her golden wedding annivel
sary.
ST. CLOUD, Mim.-The old.
story about the fire in the ice
box" came true here. Friction
set fire to the insulation of mo-
tor in an electric refrigerator and
the refrigeration became, instead,
furnace
AMESl Iowa-Fat women who ar
wont to term the scales incorrec
when the hand goes too far aroun
find little solace in the store of a.
enterprising merchant here. Tw
scales sit beside each other in tn
store. The merchant said that il
variably the fat leave the first an
go to the secopd to verify the initia
reading, and Invariably, he SAID
they weight just as much on one a
the other.
MADISON, Wis.-Private garbag
concerns may be prohibited fror
hauling the commodity over the cit
streets here. The collection and dis
posal Of garbage in Madison is
municipal right and private collect
ors must follow the city regulations
the attorney generals office ha
ruled.
NEW YORk-William Beebe. nat
uralist, has sailed for Haiti as hea,
Of the tenth expedition Of the dc