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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1907
Page
4
A Goshen based Eagles lodge in Anderson will stage an indoor circus. The event aims to entertain members and the public at the lodge hall with acts and displays.
Webs is seriously injured in Victer Mabtecat cane med bets Dr Biliran. A minister asks ladies to remove hats during Faster service. No change in telephone operators strike at Linton. Citizens ordering phones taken out. John CU Harkness retires from Friends Orphans Home. George M Baldwin sues Vandalia Coal for 25000 in Linton. Game wardens watch duck hunters at Hammond. Two Chicago men fined. Workmen find a two pound fish in Bourbon stream. Time lock at State Treasurer’s office on strike. Thieves break into Southern Railway shops at Princeton. Rattlesnake delays near Jasper. Pepper-throwing at Muncie church meeting causes sneeze fit. Little daughter of WJ Brown in Oakland City saved from a snake by mother. Fort Wayne businessmen dispute raid on gambling house remark.
Henry Sunderman of Jackson county died Friday afternoon when an emery wheel burst while he ground a plowpoint on a gas engine powered wheel. A fragment struck him, killing him instantly near Dedleytown.
John Y. Williams and Mae Harding, William R. Ingle and Ava E. Myers, Frederick S. Hart and Bessie A. Ray hill, Henry C. Wilson and Nettie Davis appear in the marriage notices of the period.
Marion becomes battleground in a planned merger clash between Ringling Barnum Forepaugh and Buffalo Bill shows and Col. Ben Wallace leading the Wallace Hagenback outfit. May 20 rings planned for Ringlings. Wallace Hagenback in Marion April 29. War posters, bills, and lithographs spark turf battles as promoters rush to control cities and billboards amid escalating tensions.
All Over The State item notes Cannelton may receive an interurban line while nearby towns consider utilities reforms and new lines. Other developments include Van Buren’s electric plant, renewed rail or streetcar prospects, and assorted municipal changes across Indiana.
Describes mass starvation in China with thousands dying of hunger along highways. Notes aid arriving from other cities and questions what Bedford communities and churches can do. Calls for public involvement to support relief efforts until harvests improve.
The W C T U of Stinesville plans a campaign against local liquor sales claiming disorder rose after Blooming ton saloons closed. University students and Bloomington residents visit Stinesville on weekends, overwhelming the town marshal who, with few citizens, struggles to keep peace. The WCTU will urge the town council to act.
Masten, a Loogootee railroad mail clerk crippled in the Seymour wreck last August, settled his injury claim with Gardiner and Tharp in Washington for 2 250. No suit was filed. He has not worked since. Mason McCord W J Hamilton and Charles Correll also hurt in the Huron wreck have returned to work. Hamilton and Correll have suits for 25 000 and 10 000 respectively.
Attorney Edwin Carr of Bloomington, representing Indiana University trustees, departs next Wednesday for Glasgow to pursue the title to the Donaldson farm in Lawrence county east of Mitchell. He will be away about six weeks and also spend a week or more in northern Ireland. The farm has long been in court. Indiana University contends ownership, while rivals claim the heirs reside in Scotland. Mr. Stout of Orange County holds a deed.
Col Stephen D Sayles a Washington county pioneer dies of uremic poisoning born September 26 1828 in Washington county He helped organize the first Indiana three year regiment and served as captain and lieutenant colonel He was a Republican candidate for Congress and later retired to lumber work He leaves a widow aged 84 and daughter Mrs Hobbs burial set for Friday at 10 am under G A R auspices
John R Walsh, a Chicago banker, faces a federal grand jury indictment for misapplying funds at Chicago National Bank. The piece argues rival interests and Hearst papers push a lemon narrative to ruin Walsh, while Walsh fights back and seeks to prove the charges baseless. Terre Haute brief notes the fatal crush of Jo A Cox, a Bedford brakeman, between trains.
Work on a new Monon station at Ellettsville will begin on the 15th of this month. The frame building will be up to date and located on the site of the old station. The old station was burned one Sunday last summer and two boxcar stations have since suffered similar destruction.
A list of gardening and botany books available at Bedford Public Library includes Bailey titles on garden making and vegetable gardening, Ely on a woman's hardy garden, Fletcher on making a fruit garden, Tenderson on gardening for profit and pleasure, Gray on plant physiology, Lounsberry on wildflowers, Pratt on flowers, Arnott on climbing plants and wall shrubs, Elling on a plea for manly plants, and Parsons' According To Season.
Misses Lola Koopengarner and Elizbeth Stanford of Tunnelton visit friends in Bedford and travel toward Terre Haute for the spring Normal. Rev. Jacob Allinger called to Seymour to assist in a Quarterly meeting due to Rev. Hiller's illness.
The I O O F marking its 26th anniversary on the 27th, with committees from the I O O I and the daughters of Rebekah organizing a program and banquet menu.
In 1871 and 1872 Washington Indiana fielded rival baseball teams the Washingtons and the Black Diamond miners. Bob Bailey led the miners with four teammates still living in Indianapolis and Washington veterans. The clubs toured the state creating fanfare with versatile players and a 14 second four-base dash record attributed to Bailey’s group.
Bloomington in Monroe County suffers from ill effects after licensed saloons were removed by impractical leaders. The town surrounding Indiana University sees rising drinking despite being home to the state’s great educational institution.
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