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.(United Press AssociaFion.—By Electric Telegraph:—Copyright.) U.S.A. BALLOON RACE. NEAV YORK, May 30. News from Pittsburgh slates: Fourteen balloons left here to-day in a national elimination balloon race, over South AVestern Pennsylvania. They ran info severe electrical storms, during which' six balloons were forced down, or were struck by lightning. One man was killed, and one was injured severely. Others are reported to lie injured, shocked or frozen. One balloon landed near a town on some high tension wires and thus put tlie town in darkness.
NEAV YORK, Alav 31
The latest reports from Pittsburg (Pennsylvania) states that two of tlie balloon pilots were killed as the result of the electrical storms. TOLEDO HORROR, VANCOUVER, May 20.
Harold Charles Hoppe, aged twentysix years, a cliaffeur, at Toledo, has confessed to outraging and killing the girl Dorothy Selanoowski, whose mutilation was cabled yesterday.
The police believe him to lie more or less insane, A BIG ROBBERY.
NEW YORK, May 31
News from Indianapolis states that more than two hundred guests at a speedway dinner and dance at a country club were robbed by armed bandits, of their money, jewellery and other valuables, estimated to lie worth between one hundred and fifty thousand and two hundred thousand dollars.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1928, Page 2
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