Mountaineers Seek Revenge Over Lynching Case
Carl Etherington, an Anti-Saloon League detective and Kentucky mountaineer, was lynched in Newark Ohio. His father Hartwell Etherington supposedly leads a Kentucky band to seek revenge, offering a rewards for mob ringleaders. Governor Harmon probes the case. Mayor Atherton and Sheriff Linke face possible removal. Carl Etherington's funeral drew a large crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Etherington
Anti-Saloon League
Ohio
Cleveland
Antipaloon League
Newark
Hartwell Etherington
Kentucky
Ohio City
Etherington
Willisburg
Harmon
Weybrecht
Atherton
Linke
Smythe
Columbus
Maharaja Gaekwar Arrested After Police Stop in New Rochelle
Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda was briefly arrested after his auto was stopped for speeding in New Rochelle. Prof. Bumpus from the Museum of Natural History intervened with the officer to avoid a formal arrest amid potential diplomatic fuss. Also noted: Lehigh Valley Railway plans to restore pre-1907 higher passenger rates. Pennsylvania Supreme Court blocks enforcement of the two cent fare law of 1907.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Maharaja Gaekwar of
Baroda
New Rochelle
Prof
Bumpus
Museum of Natural History
Gaekwar
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Caldwell Braces After Destructive Electrical Storm
An electrical storm swept Caldwell New Jersey causing thousands of dollars in damage. Lightning struck buildings and utility lines, sparking fires and damaging homes and shops, with emergency crews assessing the scene and residents reporting outages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caldwell
N. J
Runaway Preacher and Teen Arrested in Kansas City
Clinton D. Sharpe the Schenectady New York preacher who vanished in June with Eunice Graham Whitaker fourteen, was arrested in Kansas City with Miss Whitaker at a boarding house on Holmes Street They used the names Ellsworth Attwell and Mrs Sharpe and the arrest followed Schenectady sheriff request Sharpe earned by selling religious papers writing cards and peddling soap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Clinton Dewitt Sharpe
Schenectady
N. Y
Eunice Graham Whitaker
Sharpe
Miss Whitaker
Holmes Street
Marry Ellsworth Attwell
Missouri St. Louis Area Train Hold Up Described as Major Fiasco
Engineer J R Quinn and Fireman EB Murphy of the Missouri Kansas Texas passenger train No 3 report a bold hold up at Bissell's cut twelve miles north of St Louis early Sunday. Three young bandits halted the train with a red lantern fired shots and sent word for the express messenger Pete Shelton to surrender. Shelton refused and the bandits departed. Police pursue several clues as lantern shells and a mask are found at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R. Quinn
EB. Murphy
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Bissell’s Cut
St. Louis
Missouri
Pete Shelton
Sedana
Shelton
Angry Boy's Deed At Huntington WV Ends in Homicide
Victor Walton, eighteen, shot and killed his father on the Huntington doorstep after a dispute over returning home to a distressed mother. Walton, who had left for work in a coat mine, fired as he retrieved his clothes and wounded a brother who tried to intervene. He is jailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
West Virginia
Victor Walton
Young Walton
Johnson Retains Heavyweight Title With Knockout
Jack Johnson defends his title in Reno by knocking out James J. Jeffries in the fifteenth round. Jeffries, revived in his corner, admits the KO was fair and offers no excuses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Johnson
Reno
Sporting World
James J. Jeffries
Jeff
Crane
War Secretary Arrives at Honolulu Aboard Global Tour
Secretary J M Dickingan and party land in Honolulu during a world voyage. Also noted are appointments and crimes including Edward Weiss’s murder suicide in Detroit and a suspected bank examiner move for George Q Biegler of Indianapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Dickingan
Honolulu
George Q. Biegler
American National Bank
Indianapolis
Resolutions Honor Death of Daniel Ambrose Dringle
The New Salisbury Lodge I O O F venerates Daniel Ambrose Dringle of Washington County age 80 who has died. The lodge expresses gratitude for founding members and pledges to follow their example, honors his memory with 30 days of mourning and badge wear, extends sympathy to his family, and orders copies sent to county papers for publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Salisbury
Harrison and
Washington Counties
Sunday School Celebration at Rogers Camp Ground
A Sunday school celebration is planned in the grove north of Rogers Camp Ground in Posey township on Thursday July 21. The Rogers Camp Ground Sunday School will host with other Sunday schools and the public invited. The program features songs recitations and speeches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rogers’ Camp Ground
Posey Township
Wisconsin Forest Fires Cost Millions in Damages
Wisconsin fires across the state caused nearly 3 million dollars in losses with 5 mills destroyed at about 100 thousand each. Twenty of seventy one timber workers suffered illness from heat while fighting the fires and no definite deaths have been recorded from the flames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Chippewa Falls
Marinette and
Wausau
Medford
Prentice
Phillips
Government crop report for July updates acreage and conditions
The July crop report shows corn planted at 114,083,000 acres up 4 percent from last year. Wheat on farms at 5.3 percent of last year’s crop, winter wheat average condition 81.5, spring wheat 64.6, oats 82.2, with July 1 conditions compared to prior year and ten year averages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corres
President’s plan signals vacancies in Supreme Court
The text notes Justice Fuller’s death and Governor Hughes potential nomination for chief justice creating a vacancy. It cites a congressional act enabling Associate Justice Moody to retire within months, with Taft set to name two successors one for the new chief justice vacancy and one to fill Moody’s seat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Fuller
Hughes
Congress
Moody Cam
Taft
Justice Dupage
Juste Moady
Government appeals to feed Indians in the mountains
The Mexican government has appealed to supply food to several thousand Indians in the mountain range to prevent them from starving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hasco
Mine dispute unsettled as talks stall in Indiana
Terre Haute July 11 The joint committee on Indiana coal mine labor law fails to bridge gaps over a fining clause in the permanent contract and a five days limit clause. Operators seek a fined penalty on miners for shutdowns, while miners oppose penalties before proper authority review. A new committee of five members from each side is named to report back.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Ind
Indiana
Joint Conference
Serious charges as examiners audit township funds
Examiners accuse Harrison township trustees William A. Thornton and F. C. Fispeck of improper expenditures totaling 7 119.50 and 1 638.50 respectively. Tein township irregularities from 1909 total 6 754.25 with claims against W O Weldele and George Weldele. Total repayable by the four trustees amounts to 13 873 75.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
William A. Thornton
Harrison Township
Vigo County
State Board of Accounts
F.C. Fispeck
Intein
Terre Haute
W. O. Weldele
George Weldele
Tragic Accidental Shooting Claims 14 Year Old
In Woomington Indiana on July 9 Myrtle Geubbs age fourteen died after her sister Hattie fired a revolver by accident while alone. Hattie joked about shooting Myrtie and the weapon misfired striking her above the left eye. Doctors say she cannot recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woomington
Ind
Myrtle G Eubbs
Samuel Grubbs
Hattie
Myrtie
Indiana Printers Win Million Roosevelt Books Print Contract
Hammond reports W B Conkey & Co awarded the printing job for 1 000 000 copies of Roosevelt in Africa by Scribner New York claiming it the largest single order to date. In Shelbyville a six year old boy Clarence Mallory son of George Mallory riding a head horse in a wheat field was struck by lightning and killed. the horse also died and a second animal was stunned. the father was nearby and unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hammond
Ind
W. B. Conkey & Co
Roosevelt
Africa
Scribner & Sons
New York
Shelbyville
Clarence
George Mallory
Fenns
Disappearance Mystery Plagues Princeton Couple
Princeton Indiana July 8 foul play is suspected as no clue has been found in the disappearance of Mrs Sam Iduge wife of a farmer six miles west of town. Her son, who has joined the search, believes she may have taken her life or met with foul play after vanishing June 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garnegie Trust Company
New York
George B. McCutcheon
Princeton
Ind
Sam Iduge
Here
Drowned in sight of fiancée at Lake Wa wasee
Roy Debow nineteen son of John H. Debow a wealthy farmer near Goshen drowned while bathing at Lake Wa wasee. He rowed out in a boat with his fiancée Miss Gladys Johnson when he jumped in and cramps struck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goshen
Ind
Roy Debow
John H. Debow
Here
Lake Wawasee
Hig
Gladys Johnson
Rail rate increase eyed delays urged by four state rail commissions
Indianapolis July 8 four state railroad commissioners from Illinois Ohio Michigan and Indiana met to seek a stay of new interstate rate hikes proposed to take effect August 1. They plan to petition the Interstate Commerce Commission to allow time for states to review rate sheets amid anticipated increases of about 16 percent in Ohio 18 percent in Michigan 20 percent in Indiana with Illinois not disclosed due to differing classifications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Illinois
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Interstate Commerce Commission
Frantic Man Killed in Indiana Disturbance
In Edinburg Indiana Samuel L Cooper thirty four was shot and killed by Marshal Gilbert Stafford who was called to quiet a disturbance at the Cooper home Cooper a known dope fiend attacked his mother with a chisel and drove his father and mother from the house after briefly wounding his mother The frenzied man then turned on the marshal who shot him through the heart after he attempted to kill himself
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Weiss
Detroit
Gertrude Lubowitz
Illinois State Board of Agriculture
Utica
Edinburg
Ind
Samuel L. Cooper
Gilbert Stafford
Cooper
Cooper Home
Traction War Looms Over Indiana Lines
Near Indianapolis on July 8 a major traction fight builds as McGowan interests seek control of central Indiana lines while the McKinley syndicate, already dominant in southern Illinois, eyes Indiana assets. A key entry point is the Ben Hur Traction holdings, with a receiver’s sale anticipated soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Indiana
McGowan
McKinley Syndicate
Illinois
McKinley
Ben Hur Traction Company
Careless Huntsmen Injured in Indiana Squirrel Hunt
Warsaw Indiana July 11 Wilbur Walton fifteen years old shot himself through the shoulder when his gun caught on a fence Frederick Grelder also had a weapon discharge while climbing a fence with a rifle and was struck in the side both youths in serious condition and may die
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Ind
Wilbur Walton
Frederick Grelder
Elderly Corydon Father of Twenty Nine Dead
James C. Em ily aged eighty three died in Corydon Indiana. He was the father of twenty nine children with fifteen living. He is survived by his third wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corydon
Ind
James C. Emily
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Sult
Aswark
of American Law
Johnson
Jeffries
American Press Association
Far East
W. J. Bryan
United States
Bryan
E. J. Wieand
A. J. Katz
University of Pennsylvania
Allentown
Chicago
Boston Herald Company
International Paper Company
Ark
Ballinger
Washington
Oliver Plow Works
South Bend
Josa
Illinois Central
Anoss
Mrs
Ella Flagg Young
Bureau of Statistics
Atlantic City
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