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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1904
Page
4
A teamster noted a hollow log with strong odor while logs were hauled from country to city. Curious youths cut it open finding scent and a skunk inside. The animal fled, leaving a lingering odor that persisted a day later. The group vowed to avoid further stunts with the log.
Editorial pages across the region question the oil pumping cases tied to John Rockefeller. Quashed indictments won't end the fight as state officers plan new affidavits and re-arrests. If Standard wins Sunday work is allowed, profits rise for the company amid debate over wells and salt-water risks.
The former Wells county girl killed on the Denver Rio Grande Rock in Colorado is linked to Wells city families. She was a second cousin of J K Rinehart and taught in Markle schools years ago. Funeral time unavailable. will be held at her old home in Zanesville and burial planned with her parents in the local cemetery.
Bluffton company members gathered at the armory to review camp gear and return home all equipment. The expected successor to Bert Wasson was postponed to next Tuesday. Ladies of the Wednesday after club of Muncie visited Miss Emma Walling, with several locals listed among attendees.
Sweet Springs Missouri reports former Senator G G Vest has died at seventy four after weeks near death. Survived by wife son Alexander daughter Mrs George P B Jackson and her husband and Mrs Thompson. Body to be taken to St Louis for burial. Governor Dockery suspends public business for funeral day.
A Daily News dispatch dated Aug 6 describes July incidents where Armenian insurgents attacked Turkish soldiers and Kurds near Outchkilissa and other villages. Bombs at dawn killed several soldiers as clashes left garrisons strewn, with hundreds dead.
Justice White of the supreme court Brooklyn declared the eight hour law unconstitutional and granted writs of mandamus to compel the city to pay Brooklyn Alcatraz company $13,000 and Uvalde Asphalt company $10,000. The payments had been withheld because contractors allegedly required employees to work more than eight hours daily.
Washington officials are directed not to engage in state or local political contests to avoid compromising the Roosevelt administration. President Roosevelt has avoided factional trouble and federal officials are advised to stay neutral in such contests.
Pueblo Colorado reports complete returns from all undertakings show sixty three identified and two unidentified dead in the St Louis flyer wreck. Finding of bodies has practically ceased and the total will not rise much.
A mob of 200 men and boys, including strikers and sympathizers, halted a train carrying strike breakers at Riverside Kansas last night. They beat non union men with clubs, dumped baggage into the Kaw River, and set a car on fire. Police extinguished the blaze and no arrests were made.
Notices report Sir William M Banks death in London and George C Yost in Missouri at 74. A Grand Army rate war and Minnesota Democrats seeking James J Hill for governor are noted. Texas tragedy at Rockwall leaves a husband and two children dead. King Edward approves Curzon’s India viceroy renewal. Buffalo fire damages a five story building with 400000 loss. Amalgamated Moat Cutters and Butchers Union orders abstention in New York. English Knight Templar to attend San Francisco conclave.
The Eden Colorado disaster leaves eighty dead or missing after two passenger cars and a baggage car plunge into Dry Creek. Rescue teams recover seventy six bodies with fifty identified. many victims unnamed as sands drift over remains.
A Louisville Henderson and Saint Louis train line bridge at Spottsville Kentucky opened on its pivot and carried a flat freight car with eight crew members into the water. The accident occurred last night and all eight men drowned.
Harry Snider aged 26 of Jefferson township four miles northeast of Ossian ingested a large dose of caustic potash Tuesday morning. He had been despondent over a failed relationship with Neickart and resisted treatment briefly before a stomach pump was used. His condition remained critical as doctors worked to counter the poison and may prove fatal.
Miss Lotta Shoup of Zanesville who taught in Markle and Hartford County schools and recent travels in Denver perished in the Rilo Grande wreck. Her parents D A and wife are buried at Zanesville. Uncle J A Shoup of Indianapolis arranged burial. body recovered and to be shipped to Zanesville for funeral when arrival time is known.
Twenty Boehmer M. P. church youths gathered at pastor J. L. Barclay’s Liberty Center home for a surprise party. Ice cream, fruit, candles, and music filled the evening as the genial pastor, pleased and unworried, urged a return to the Salamonie circuit for another year.
The Kingsland Grays and Bluffton Side Side played a Sunday game near South Side. The Grays dominated until the final inning when a hit batter and errors allowed South Side to score twice, while the Grays tallied twelve runs.
Knightstown celebrates after an oil well shows 100 to 150 feet of oil and 100 feet of salt water at 160 feet depth in Trenton rock. Oil coated the drill floor and derrick, signaling a strong potential boom for the town and local economy.
A crowd of young people plans an evening picnic in the first grove across the river then to visit a girl’s house afterward. The day includes Mrs. T. J. Evans and Margaret Evans visiting the orphanage south of the city.
Walter Davenport recovering from illness. Mrs. Smith ill at daughter’s home Mrs. Tena Kleinknight. Preaching next Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Aid society social on church lawn next Saturday night. Lancaster township Sunday school convention at Christian church Murray next Sunday. Mrs. Fink and children of Bluffton visit T. J. Sowards. Sam Lash ill but able to sit up. Sunday school institute led by Col. Robert Cowden Dayton O at U B church Toesin closed. attendees benefited and inspired.
The Lancaster township Sunday school convention is set for Sunday August 14 at 2 o'clock at Murray Christian church. Program includes devotion, song, open discussion, recitations on faults of superintendent and teacher, and a 7 o'clock evening session led by county president W. H. Merriman.
Report says the L. E. and W. railroad company or its officials will place a string of derricks along the right of way from Munele to Lima and northward on the other branch. Development work to start at once as attempts to lease the right of way failed. If done, the company may offset producing wells along its lines.
Mrs. Wm. Latamore and her Fort Wayne daughter spent Sunday with friends in the city. They intend to move to Idaho in mid September, returning to the area previously. The Latamores once lived here but have been in Fort Wayne for some time.
News brief notes a Wells County couple obtaining a marriage license with prices reported as a ten cent cigar for reporters. Birds nest in the King Teeters weather whistle at Hammond factory, engineers repeatedly remove nests, screen wire fails, and the cycle continues. Hammond sees a tramp influx. police chief orders patrols to use night sticks forcefully against hoboes, declaring beatings as policy. A clubwoman quotes a motto on human nature and virtue.
City council approved buying a high grade wagon and a trained fire team. Initial doubts faded as the team proved its value by fast responses and rapid, coordinated runs, helping prevent potentially serious fires and showing the money was well spent.
Drs. L. H. Cook Louis Severin and B. H. Horton performed a strangulated hernia operation at Sourwine’s home Monday. Sourwine withstood the procedure well and, at last report, was recovering with good prospects for a speedy recovery.
Mrs D A Walmer country president of the W C T U visited Ossian on Sunday and spoke at a local church on temperance and W C T U work. Her Ossian ties and growing reputation as a strong worker were noted as she responded to a special invitation. The piece also notes a large Louisville fundraising invitation and Amity Lodge plans for a courthouse cornerstone ceremony later in September.
A Maine writer notes the despised skunk is more valuable to locals than all bees or deer in a season. He cites fur and oil from the animal as increasingly in demand, boosting its economic role.
The salaries for rural mail carriers are adjusted so that those appointed before June 1 1904 receive the maximum pay under current rules. A separate schedule from earlier guidance covers appointments after July 1. Also notices an excursion to Marion Indiana via Clover Leaf routes on Sunday August 14 1904 and details for the National Soldiers Home at Marion with contact for Clover Leaf route information.
The Bluffton market lists potato and grain prices, including wheat oats and clover seed, plus hay timothy and alfalfa values. Provisions cover butter lard and bacon, with live stock quotes for veal calves hogs and sheep, and lamb prices.
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