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Klan Disorders Rock Bay State

GUNS BLAZE, DOZEN HURT IN KKK RIOT

Police of Three Towns Unable to Restore Order in Massachusetts Battle

STATE TROOPS CALLED

Band of Klansmen Besieged in Cellar, Rescued From Mob of 500 Rioters

West Wood, Mass., Aug. 3. (AP)—Injury to a dozen or more persons, the wrecking of a farm house in the Islington district here, and the arrest of three men for carrying concealed weapons was the aftermath of the Ku Klux Klan’s first attempt to hold a meeting in the district since the state police stopped supplying guards for Klan gatherings.

Mob of Five Hundred

The meeting in a field of the Boston, Providence highway here yesterday, ended in a riot which the police of three towns were unable to quell. A mob of 500 anti-Klan sympathizers and three score Klansmen staged a pitched battle with fists, rocks and brick bats. Although fire arms were in evidence, no shots were fired.

Klansmen Escape

Most of the Klansmen escaped in their cars, but a few were bottled up on the south Stephen Illisleey where they huddled in the cellar while every window and much of the furniture disintegrated under a hail of rocks from the outside. Among those injured by flying missiles were Bernice Lee and May Wheeler of Waltham.

Posted inDaily News Immigration

Break Alien Smuggling Ring

CHIEF JAILED AND GANG HALTED

Captain Hanson Says “All Is Tight” in Del Rio District.

A large smuggling ring with headquarters at Monterey, and operating solely for the purpose of smuggling aliens into this country, is believed to have been broken up with the arrest at Del Rio of a man who is believed to be the head of the smugglers, according to Captain W. H. Hanson, head of the immigration forces of this district, who returned from Del Rio Saturday.

With the co-operation and in company with Felix Salinas, inspector of immigration in Nuevo Laredo, Captain Hanson made a thorough inspection of border immigration work in the vicinity of Del Rio and Eagle Pass.

Posted inAviation Daily News Travelers' Tales

World Flight Flagship Wins Place as Smithsonian Exhibit

Douglas World Cruiser "Chicago" (Photo: Smithsonian Air & Space Museum)
Douglas World Cruiser “Chicago”, (A19250008000), on display in the Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight Gallery, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC. (Smithsonian Photo by Eric Long) [_T8A3778] [NASM2020-07130]

The Douglas world cruiser Chicago, flagship of the Army Air Service world flight, which has been sitting in a hangar at McCook Field. Dayton, Ohio, since last November, awaiting final disposition, will be placed in the aircraft building of the Smithsonian Institution in a short time, it was announced today by the War Department.

The decision to bring the Chicago here was made final by Acting Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis, who wrote Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the institution, yesterday that he had instructed the chief of Air Service “to take the necessary steps to have the Chicago brought to Washington and turned over to you. for the purpose of placing it in the exhibit of the Smithsonian Institution.”

At the Army Air Service it was said the Supply Division already had received instructions to prepare the Chicago for shipment to Washington by rail. The suggestion had been made that Capt. Lowell H. Smith, leader of the flight and pilot of the plane, fly it to Washington, but the Air Service did not wish to take the risk with such a historic and famous plane. Its exposure to all sorts of weather and salt water on the globe flight may have caused a structural weakness in some isolated place, which, it was argued, might fall when the plane was off the ground.

Posted inMaritime & Naval History US Civil War

August 1, 1862 – Dispatch from the Gunboat Arkansas

CSS Arkansas running through the Union fleet above Vicksburg, Mississippi, 15 July 1862

The following is the dispatch in the Richmond Whig from the commander of the rebel gunboat Arkansas:

Vicksburg, July 15, 1862.

We engaged today, from six to eight a. m., with the enemy’s fleet above Vicksburg, consisting of four or more iron clad vessels and two heavy sloops-of-war, and four gunboats and seven or eight rams. We drove an iron-clad ashore, with colors down and disabled, blew up a ram, burned one vessel and damaged several others. Our smokestack was so shot to pieces that we lost steam, and could not use our vessel as a ram. We were otherwise cut up as we engaged at close quarters. Lost ten killed and fifteen wounded others with slight wounds.

Posted inDaily News True Crime

Infuriated at Loss of Favorite Pipe, Philadelphia Man Runs Wild

Seventy-Year-Old Fighter Holds 40 Policemen At Bay For Two Hours—Throws Tear Bombs Back At Officers—Finally Dies After Ten Bullet Wounds.

By The Associated Press.

Philadelphia. July 31—Riddled by ten bullets after he had held 40 policemen at bay for two hours in his home last night. Joseph Marino, nearly 70 years old, died early today. Marino became incensed at missing a favorite pipe, his wife said, and chased her to the street with a revolver, firing wildly.

He retreated as police arrived, and barricaded himself in a pool room in the basement of his house. With half a dozen weapons he kept up a rain of bullets at all who approached.

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Chicago Hotel Bandits Slain or Captured in Bloody Battle

HOTEL CLERK IS ALSO KILLED IN BOLD ROBBERY ON GOLD COAST

Death Penalty Will Be Asked by Crowe for Pair Captured After Spectacular Holdup.

CHICAGO, July 30.—(By The Associated Press.)—In movie thriller style, a robber crew, masked and bristling with pistols and shotguns, invaded the exclusive Drake hotel In Chicago’s “Gold Coast” at tea time yesterday, enacting scenes of killing and sanguinary gun fighting that extended subsequently for an hour over northside boulevards.

When the spectacular affair was over, of five robbers, two were dead and one captured; a hotel clerk had been killed; two women Imd been injured: two robbers had escaped with $10,000 and as a finality early today, one of the escaped holdup men was found and the one previously arrested confessed fully.

The robbery was staged within a stone’s throw of tho residential mansions of Chicago’s 400, while hundreds of guests thronged the lobbies and heavy traffic crowded adjacent Michigan Avenue. A dozen policemen were within call.

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July 28, 1862 – Latest by Evening Papers

The Tribune’s Washington dispatch says a German printer boy who has been a year getting from New Orleans via Richmond, where he was imprisoned three months, has arrived here.

He estimates the number of fighting men at Richmond at 70,000, and confirms the report that four divisions under Longstreet, Ewell, Hill and Jackson are stationed along the railroad from Staunton to Gordonsville, and at Louisa Court House, under Stonewall Jackson, numbering in all. in his opinion, 50,000 men: but it is improbable that these divisions average more than 12,000 after the severe fighting on the Chickahominy. Thirty thousand is probably nearer the number. Their pickets extend to New Market, and their course appears to be up the Shenandoah Valley.

A letter from Norfolk states that there have been several cases of yellow fever there.