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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1912
Page
8
The Bedford weekly newspaper lists J Brooks as editor and C Wicker as managing editor with editorial and circulation duties. Arry Askew serves as news editor and circulation manager and Jocelyn is society editor and manager of the job department.
The piece attacks Taft for supporting a one life office holding class and civil pension system. It argues his actions show poor judgment and un-American theory of protected lifelong office holders, contrasting with conservative values and country interests.
William Mays, 25, of Jeff ille, disappeared after promising to wed widow Mrs. Fox, 20, of Isville. They met at Mays, Ind, prepared wedding clothes, traveled to a church, but Mays vanished. A note claimed he planned to end his life at Old Union Church, but his body is not found.
Fragmented report notes fF Hamer, a local agent for the Baker car, selling a Studebaker roadster to the Walls. It mentions Wright in India returning home, Mrs J T Freeland traveling to Haute, and Marietta Stelter with a Washington family tied to Gus Ithoda on H Street.
Joseph H. Logue a diamond merchant in the McVickers Theater building was murdered in his office. The victim was shot stabbed and burned with acid in a suspected robbery. A shop boy found the body as Christmas shoppers filled the streets. Two visitors called at the shop, a man and a woman, but no clear suspect identity emerged.
The Crothersville baseball fans oppose selling the park and vote to keep the team for another year. The Crothersville herald envisions a county association with a County League of five or six teams to play Sunday baseball at modest costs, organized by Seymour supporters.
New York detectives arrested six men in three simultaneous raids across the city on charges of using the mails to defraud. Four are officers of the Sterling Debenture company. Three more suspects are being sought out of town, with two believed in Brookfield Massachusetts and one in Chicago.
The sum of 18.78 was donated Sunday by four churches to the Salvation Army for Xmas cheer. Officers express gratitude for the gift. Captain Schnarr seeks food donations for a Wednesday dinner. Visits and illnesses are noted for local residents including Shoulty, Gresham, Owens, Cuthill, Tilford Brown, Green family, Tyree, Gaines, and Lemon with travel and health updates.
They broke into the State Bank of Mattuck in Mattituck New Jersey and stole 5002 dollars before escaping by car. Police investigated and searched for the getaway vehicle and suspects.
Mrs I B Monical and daughter Clara travel to Indianapolis to visit her son Byron Boyd and family for the holidays. Mr and Mrs Homer Allen relocate from West 18th Street to the Misses Fish home on West 13th Street. Wilbur Glover Ralph and Wayne Mitchell Misses Mabel Erwin and Frances Durenberger I U students are home for the holidays.
Marriage license issued in Bedford for Andrew Duncan and Jean Thompson both of Bedford. Local brief notes list residents convalescing visiting relatives and returning home including Mrs Otto Shoulty Mrs C D Driscoll Clyde Bishop Mrs Walter Rout and Mrs John Feltnes. Several students and travelers are mentioned returning from Hanover Harrodsburg Champaign and Indianapolis.
In Springfield Missouri on December 21 a burning Bowerman school damaged by a candle flame caused a blaze during Christmas exercises. Fourteen year old Gertrude Brown played Marching Through Georgia as 450 pupils evacuated in smoke and flames. The building burned to the ground with losses estimated at 35000 dollars.
In Mexico, December 21, Ambassador Wilson rushes back as Taft’s harsh ultimatum is seen as near declaration of war. Rebels press attacks on Contepec and Juchitepec, raid rail hubs, seize haciendas, and push arms shipments. Madero faces intensified revolt. Washington reports Taft’s demand to Schuyler as a personal note to Madero.
Prime Minister and Mrs Borden will spend most of the parliamentary Christmas recess in the United States returning to Ottawa for the January 14 reassembly. They will visit New York City Washington and the Virginia Hot Springs during the trip.
London dispatch reports Russia obstructs negotiations on a $120,000,000 loan to China by a six power banker group. Moscow argues the loan cannot fund Chinese military preparations in Mongolia, affecting the diplomatic effort.
Miss Adelina Farmer a Boston high school teacher loses fiancé C P Barney a government engineer who dies in a hospital from fever Adelina arrives three hours after his death other items note Mrs Thomas Jameson returning to Louisville with daughter and brief visits by Miss Ethel Crain Mrs Samuel May and Silas Johnson visiting and Campbellsville connections.
Cleveland police pursue a possible kidnapping after Lillian Davidson once a Baptist mission teacher vanished from her home following a flood of letters. She was slated to be the chief witness at Dr. Giuseppe Romano's trial on illegal operations charges.
In Minneapolis, Lavina Bureen, who remained in the employ of the late Henry F. Brown until his death on December 14, is set to receive $1,000 from his estate. Brown, a lumberman, mine owner and cattle breeder, left an estate of about $350,000. the will, drafted in 1907, provided the $1,000 bequest if she remained in his employment at his death.
Clyde A. Risdon of the Southern Indiana Power Company departed for his Pennsylvania home to spend the holidays with family, according to a brief local note.
Miss Funice Scully left Tuesday morning for Bedford to visit her brother W. O. Scully and family, according to the Orleans Progress Examiner.
Card of thanks expresses gratitude to neighbors and friends for kindness and sympathy during illness and death of wife and mother. Mentions appreciation for floral offerings. Signed by James Hollowell and children.
Congressional investigators plan to hear J. P. Morgan & Co details after holidays with Lawrence O. Murray called in January to probe federal bank supervision. Dozen subpoenas issued, others likely to testify including J. F. Davison and figures such as William A. Clark and Charles W. Morse in a wide ranging inquiry into the money trust and collateral records.
Secretary of the Interior Fisher defends the administration's policy on U S coal lands in a letter to Representative Mondell. He says higher priced lands will be purchased and denies charges of monopoly, arguing land prices foster competition and avoid private monopoly. The Springs Wyoming lands were priced at 370 to 405 dollars per acre.
Henry I Nowlan urged the jury to convict the forty defendants in the dynamite conspiracy trial while cautioning against relying on suspicions and McManigal’s confession. He labeled Ortie E McManigal an arch fiend and argued the confession lacks sufficient corroboration.
Mr and Mrs Howard Byrne arrived Friday night from Terre Haute to spend Christmas with Mrs Gertrude Rariden and family at Hill Top. They plan to leave next Wednesday for Georgetown to stay with Mr Byrne s relatives until after New Years.
Mrs. Emily Rogers and her son Will from Anadarko Oklahoma are visiting Mr and Mrs 8 N Whitted.
Earl and Shirley Salyards and Paul White left for Petersburg Ind this afternoon to spend their vacation. Mr and Mrs W B Webster West 14th street have returned from St Louis where they spent a few days.
In Andersonville Georgia on December 21 Governor Deneen of Illinois presided over the unveiling of an Illinois memorial for soldiers buried there. Captain J J Ryan accepted the shaft for the U S Army. The monument cost about ten thousand dollars and stands as a major northern state tribute in the national cemetery.
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