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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1912
Page
11
Judge Shea ruled the Lawrence county Board of Commissioners had no jurisdiction over Ed ward James's application for a wholesale liquor license. The case arose after the city was voted dry and the board refused to consider the request. James sued to compel action and to require a formal record of the proceedings.
Four men Frank Garrison Noble Pald er H E Roberts and Mike Morgan were executed at the Oregon State Penitentiary after lengthy delays while Gov Oswald West refused further clemency appeals. The hangings came after a November 5 verdict supporting capital punishment and were intended to demonstrate the end of legal hangings in the state.
thieves hurled a brick wrapped in a newspaper through a window of M. Wiegand jewelry store at 1448 Addison Road and fled with a tray holding two dozen diamonds valued at 2000 dollars in Cleveland Ohio.
Berlin reports Emperor William will attend the funeral of Bavaria regent Prince Luitpold with the rulers of kingdoms and principalities. Funeral date not fixed amid talk to depose mad King Otto and crown Prince Ludwig as Bavaria king.
H. P. Pawley, Superintendent of the Co T H and S EB Rwy Co, and Mr. Jackson, Superintendent of motive power of the same company, made an inspection trip to Oolitic and the quarry district Thursday.
The will of William H. Bawer a prominent stock raiser of Browns Town is filed in Jackson county circuit court. He leaves a two hundred acre farm in Owen township to his widow for life with remainder to the state if an agricultural experiment station is established there. The widow may lease to the state at 150 dollars yearly. He also leaves a two thousand dollar hotel property in Brownstown to Clear Spring Lodge No 323 F and A M with power of sale if used to beautify Bower cemetery already donated to the lodge.
Mrs. Clara Schumann, wife of Herman M. Schumann cafe owner, leaped from a fifteenth floor window of the National Bank of Commerce building in St. Louis. She had been despondent over ill health and left a note with her name and address before the jump.
Bremen reports twenty one thousand textile workers have been locked out by the Employers' association of the Muesterland district amid a strike by workers. A small will.
The Commonwealth of Australia passes a monopolies bill by 41 to 26 to empower the government to regulate trusts and business combines. The note notes concerns over rail pricing by the International Steel Trust and fears of foreign control in Australia. Britain objects to limiting canal access for Canadian or foreign ships while Sherman antitrust implications loom. Australia’s move aligns with curbing foreign trusts and is seen as within rights by Globe-Democrat observers.
Indiana Anti-Saloon League President S. P. Shumaker spoke in Muncie on anti-saloon day denying reports that offices in Evansville Terre Haute Fort Wayne and South Bend closed. He described a county unit plan and three-state district realignment to strengthen organization and drive the temperance crusade statewide.
The jury in the Samuel Gray versus Baltimore and Ohio Railway Co case over the death of Sarah Gray failed to agree after being reinstructed by the court. They filed out that morning and requested rereading of the instructions. The panel began Thursday and by Friday no agreement was possible.
A daughter was born Monday morning to Mr and Mrs Jacob Bruce of West 16th Street.
Local merchants in Bedford show a bright assortment of Christmas goods this season. Window displays highlight toys, decorations, and gift ideas to attract shoppers. Store owners expect steady sales through December with several discounts offered.
Bedford accounts show Chief John Woodruff raiding a downtown soft drink place run by Bert Scoggan and finding Policeman James Maroney in the act of paying for whiskey. Scoggan was arrested, Maroney sent home, and a trial set for Tuesday as officials weigh action against the premises.
Mrs. Mary Ellison died suddenly at her Heltonville area home Thursday morning. The funeral was conducted Saturday forenoon at 10 o'clock by Rev. Ray Banks of Heltonville. Burial followed at Gilgal beside her husband, long deceased.
Mr and Mrs Martin Benson and sons Warren and Howard depart for Wilmington North Carolina to visit Howard's sister Mrs Michause and family. Mrs Lettie Dodd who lived with her sister Miss Fannie Dixon on South J street plans to move in the new year to take a millinery position with a Nashville Tennessee firm.
Everett E. Erwin a 33 year old train dispatcher at Elizabeth Street office Western Maryland Railway was found ground to pieces along the tracks near Hagertown Md last night He was preparing to leave on train No 7 for Mitchell Ind and is believed to have been run down by an engine His arms and right leg were severed and his head mashed by the impact
A boy was born to Mr and Mrs Frank Mitchell of Washington Avenue on Friday night. The new arrival joins the family along with the parents and relatives awaiting the name and details.
Noah Pearcy, an Indiana Reformatory carpentry instructor formerly of Bedford, was severely burned in Jeffersonville when two convicts named Williams and Allen attacked him with diluted ammonia. They hid in a boiler room, blinded him and tried to escape before guards stopped them. Pearcy received hospital care and remains at home on West Market Street for continued treatment.
Thos. E. Henderson of West 4th street, an employee of Bedford Stone Construction Company, mashed the middle finger of his right hand Thursday between a car floor and iron dogs. The injury causes him considerable pain.
Mrs Robert Reed and her daughter Miss Anna have returned home after an extended visit in Chicago.
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