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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1901
Page
4
A Carthage celebration drew large crowds for mill race events, boat fights, swimming, and bicycle races led by local youths. Rushville game missteps, a balloon collapse, and a late fireworks finale capped the long day, with Ex-Gov Will Cumback delivering a brief patriotic speech.
On Monday night a committee led by J. D. Dennis organized to secure a town lecture series for Carthage and vicinity. Dennis presides, Stager treasurer, Scholl secretary. The course aims to bring top talents, fund further entertainments if surplus arises, and deliver four strong numbers rather than five weak ones. The plan mirrors Connersville at 260 dollars, with ticket sales determining contract fulfillment. The first acts include Hawthorne Musical Club in October, Fred Emerson Brooks’s poetry and oratory, and Leonard Graver’s dramatic lectures slated for late October to November.
The advertisement highlights magician Ritchie and his troupe in a show featuring Miss Williams and Mrs. Ritchie. It notes his modern magic apparatus and strong musical voice as the act's standout qualities. Dec. 2 is proposed as the performance date.
Nineteen people die and many are injured after a head on crash near Norton on the Chicago and Alton line. Conductor McAnna of the freight and several officials are named among the dead. The passenger train had split into three sections due to Epworth League business. The wreck destroyed engines and telescoped cars. relief crews transported the injured to hospitals.
A Norfolk and Western era disaster record: The Knickerbocker on the Big Four derailed after colliding with a freight car on the Lake Shore line near Nottingham Ohio. Engineer Frank Anderson of Buffalo and mail clerk O G Mc Cullen of Cincinnati were killed. Several others injured. Passengers unharmed. Cincinnati farewell meetings cap Christian Endeavor convention with about 20 000 in attendance. Frederick D White son of Ambassador White shot himself in his Syracuse home after neurastheia.
St Paul July 11 state pardon board approved the parole of Coleman and James Younger who have been in Stillwater penitentiary for 25 years for complicity in a crime. The decision marks a long awaited clemency for the historic case and sets a new chapter for the two men amid continued public interest in the Younger saga.
A report recalls the robbery and killing linked to the raid on the Northfield Minnesota bank, highlighting the deadly outcome and the event's significance in the town's history.
The Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias in Chicago is investigating the Endowment Rank. John B Hinsey, ex-president of the Endowment Bank, resigns from the board of control as civil and criminal action against liable parties is endorsed. Proposals urge expulsion for lodge members violating funds handling. Prosecutions likely target former Endowment Bank officials.
In El Reno Oklahoma Territory on July 11 crowds gathered at registration booths as President McKinley’s opening of lands in the 10th area led 13 000 farms in the Iowa Comanche country to file for homesteads. Registrations continue until all 58 000 applicants are recorded with a lottery to begin July 29. The scene, though large, lacks the open rush of the Cherokee strip opening a decade ago, with orderly crowds amid an expected town population near 20 000.
Manila residents witnessed the ceremonial inauguration with Governor Taft taking the oath of office administered by Chief Justice Arellano. Taft announced that on September 1, 1901, three native members would join the commission, and four provinces were not yet ready for civil government while insurrection persisted in five provinces.
Fort Wayne July 9 following the discovery of little Alice Cothrell's body in a cistern at Charles Dunn's Wallen home Dunn was arrested last evening charged with the child's murder. Coroner's inquest showed evidence of a criminal assault and that the girl was dead before being placed in the cistern. The case has aroused great excitement across Indiana.
A 63-year-old mill owner, married, is formally charged with a murder investigated this morning. He proclaims innocence as doctors and officers confirm the girl was killed and dumped into a cistern beneath the kitchen, accessed by a narrow trap door.
Indianapolis July 10 A letter from Pan American director general Buchanan to Governor Durbin's secretary indicates September 14 is Indiana day at the exposition. Durbin and his military staff may travel by special car, with a possible Indiana train arranged to the fair. Crown Point July 11 A farmer Henry Smith, grieving after multiple family deaths, killed himself by Paris green poison after threatening his daughter in a field. Indianapolis July 5 Miss May Harding, 20, died by fire in her home while attempting to ignite a coal oil fire, the incident incinerating the house.
In New Albany on July 11 John Carteau aged 28 was shot and killed by Joseph Turner 25 after Carteau tried to take Turner's wife away. Turner surrendered next morning after finding Carteau's body in the yard. Turner a mulatto. Also in Indiana reports of Madden shot in Hammond, Wright killed in balloon accident at New Carlisle and Mrs. Edwin T. Brown mentioned in Evansville notice.
Logansport Indiana reports John Burk aged 102 years nine months dies at Lake Scott home after long life from Tipperary Ireland 1799 arrival 1848. In La Porte Mortimer Nye ex lieutenant governor dies after apoplexy paralysis post Fourth of July address. Colfax sees 28 year old William Conrad killed by dynamite.
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