Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Charles Wesley Simmons, 79, onetime sheriff; from a paralytic stroke, in Wichita, Kan. He many times arrested Carrie Nation, famed militant Prohibitionist, was made miserable by her hatchet crusades (TIME...
...space of a few days. Flooded by an eleven-hour cloudburst they swept away bridges, houses and villages. Hardest hit was Perry County, Ky., with some 30 dead. The estimated death list has passed 100, with reports from isolated mountain districts expected materially to increase this total. Said Sheriff William Cornett of Perry County: "This is undoubtedly the worst catastrophe that Kentucky has ever known...
...disfigured face, living with a madman. When Kit dis covers that she too is an outcast from Petersburg, he obligingly takes her back there. Expecting to be arrested for the pie episode, he goes to the house of George Montgomery, who takes him in and hides him. Soon the sheriff comes. In a ludicrous trial, Kit is ac quitted to the great discomfiture of ogreish District Attorney Sprinkle Kit's companions in theft get a pardon from the governor. Miss Siddons' madman reappears and is packed off to the asylum. Miss Siddons has her face fixed, her reputation mends slowly...
...noon shift changed; they hoped by display of power to draw non-union men into the striking ranks. But non-union men, indifferent, raised no cheers. Only heart-breaking news came to the marchers; another company, the huge Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corp. had decided to go nonunion. And then Sheriff Robert H. Braun of Allegheny County ordered the police to disperse all groups of pickets. Meanwhile, in Ohio the Powhatan Mining Co. informed strikers that they must either pay rent or get out of the company's houses. The Union, disheartened, settled down to a long, long wait...
...schoolhouse one day last week. How come, she demanded of Schoolteacher Mabel Dougherty, 120 pounds, that Mrs. Abe Conklin, wife of the Sandy Field truant officer, had dared to come nosing around her farm with Abe Conklin's tin badge, impersonating an officer in the house of Deputy Sheriff and Park Policeman Youmans, (who has two badges, one of them gold) and presuming to ask why his son, Howard Youmans, had been absent from school so often lately. Mrs. Youmans paused for breath. Well, said Teacher Dougherty, Howard had been absent a lot and- "I know more...