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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1911
Page
5
Three killed when a Big Four railroad train struck a car at a track crossing near Sellersburg on the way to Jeffersonville. Victims were Mr and Mrs James Taney and their adopted daughter Miss May Taney. A letter found on May hinted at a secret marriage to Joseph Byers of Speed.
Miss Annie Lisey stays with Mrs. Malinda Hall while Mr and Mrs James Pindell of Cen onus visit their son Aiva Pindell and family. Several couples and individuals list Sunday visits with relatives and ongoing building work by contractors Hardsaw Miller and Marving McCarty. A church event at Woodman Hall drew good attendance and praise.
A list of residents and visitors is recorded with mentions of an ill infant son of Mr and Mrs John Wrasse and improved health of Mrs Henry Miller. Social arrivals include Chester Berryman of Rhode Island and others visiting relatives in Columbus. A Confederate leader John Morgan escape tale is noted as believed by penitentiary authorities. The piece also lists local movements to New Albany and Louisville for family visits and business trips.
The U S House approved the reciprocity agreement with Canada by 269 to 89 with ten Democrats and seventy nine Republicans against it. Indiana's delegation supported the measure, including twelve Democrats and one Republican. The bill moves to the Senate as part of a broader plan adding articles to the free list. Local notices include health updates for Altha Lemmer and Mary Kessinger, and a series of social and community items from Corydon and surrounding towns.
Washington April 24. Correspondence among Representative Korbly Secretary Meyer and Superintendent John Marshall Bowyer over snubbing Miss Katherine Beers at academy functions led to Bowyer's resignation. President Taft is said to bear direct responsibility for Bowyer's retirement, effective May 1. Meyer notes the department ordered Bowyer to apologize to Mr Beers and his daughter. In separate local items, a court case was continued due to missing witnesses, a Morgan County farmer sold a mare for 300 dollars, and notes on church gifts and a new birth announce community happenings and communion sets.
A cryptic note suggests calling a phone line to obtain an accident ticket for a fee of $5000 from a group named Travelers of Harbford. The text reads like a scam outline with unclear authorities and locations.
Los Angeles and Indianapolis dispatches report secretary John J. McNamara of the Structural Iron Workers arrested on charges of directing a widespread dynamiting campaign. Police say evidence includes dynamite, clocks, fuse and storage sites, with brother James B. McNamara and Ortie E. McManigal linked to the plots.
In Tiffin Ohio Detective Burns and an operative found 400 pounds of dynamite in a city shed minutes after arriving from Indianapolis. Burns says Ortie McManigal stored the explosive, in a shed owned by James McManigal near residences. Burns had a key to unlock the padlock and identified the site with Chief Meyers.
Ottawa reports the reciprocity bill passed the house with government satisfaction. A private Washington dispatch to a prominent supporter says Senate odds favor a 12 to 15 vote majority for the bill, signaling strong provincial support and confidence ahead.
Detective William J. Burns led efforts to pursue and identify suspects linked to a series of dynamite attacks. The article highlights his pursuit methods and the impact of his investigations on public safety and crime-solving in ongoing cases.
El Paso report says the armistice has been extended five days after Francisco Madero signed terms on Sunday. General Navarro of federal forces had already signed. No fighting or fortification building allowed during the pause. peace advocates see progress toward settlement.
Investigations into vote buying and political corruption in Vermillion county halted as the grand jury adjourned. Alleged obstruction included lost subpoenas and a judge's ruling limiting retroactive indictments beyond eighteen months, shielding the Kimbrough Plat machine.
Mrs Matthew T Scott of Illinois was re elected president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution over Mrs William C Story of New York. Scott won 614 votes to 456, a 148 vote margin, continuing the close historic contest and sparking loud applause.
Arthur Adams a former detective with the Adams agency shot himself in a third floor room at the Stubbins hotel in Indianapolis on April 21. He is the brother of Ford J Adams head of the same agency who killed himself in February in a Denison hotel room.
Charles Souder of Columbia City dies from injuries after his wagon is struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad train at a grade crossing near his home in Fort Waste Ind. on April 22.
Eight year old Leon Nichols was struck and killed by a streetcar as he walked to school in Terre Haute Indiana on April 21. The accident occurred near his home and the boy died instantly.
Ortie McManigal, held with John J. McNamara, confesses in a tightly typed two dozen page document to a long series of dynamite attacks that killed about a hundred and destroyed millions in property. He says the group answered to secretary McNamara and targeted open shop plants and erectors' sites in a nationwide campaign. The tale unfolds with Burns agency detectives and Los Angeles indictments looming.
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