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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1910
Page
6
Democrats claim the last session spent 1 926 000 000 while Republicans dispute totals from 907 000 000 to 1 054 000 000. Taft era poses retrenchment test as Hale Tawney and Livingston contrast bills and future treasury impact.
At the Democratic state convention in Dayton Ohio Governor Judson Harmon was renominated by acclamation. A resolutions committee measure declaring Harmon the party’s choice for president in 1920 was unanimously adopted amid cheering.
John Mitchell a steel worker at Breckenridge Pennsylvania was accidentally precipitated into a soaking pit containing a white hot ingot and his body was consumed by the metal as it slowly sank.
Horace T. Jones special agent of the general land office who testified against Secretary Ballinger has received notice of dismissal from government service.
Washington dispatch notes the majority report of a special senate committee led by Senator Lodge on the rising cost of living from 1960 to 1910. It cites causes such as higher land values and wages, increased farm demand, population shifts, immigration, land fertility, banking access, storage capacity, distribution costs, industrial combinations, advertising, and higher living standards.
The Gore charge of a $50000 bribe to withdraw opposition to Oklahoma land laws spurred a Senate resolution directing a five member select committee to probe coal and asphalt property sales for Choctaw and Chickasaw lands. Congress also votes for separate inquiries into McMurray contracts. Leonard Hand dies from injuries after being struck by a baseball in Cincinnati.
The Sixty-first Congress enacted several measures: railroad regulation expansion and a stock inquiry commission. postal savings banks. a mines bureau. Arizona and New Mexico statehood. land withdrawal for conservation. navy expansion. tariff cost studies. a federal-expenditure economies commission. white slave traffic suppression. irrigation bonds. safety appliance law extensions. political campaign finance publicity. a new tariff system for the Philippine Islands. and a push toward Hawaiian prohibition. Also proposed but not enacted: injunction powers, merchant marine revival, public health bureau, federal court procedure reform, Alaska governance, higher magazine postage, Sherman antitrust amendment, and federal corporate incorporation.
Indictments returned at Springfield against five people including two state representatives, Lee O Neil Browne of Ottawa and Robert E Wilson of Chicago, for conspiracy to bribe. Frank J Traut of Beardstown, Louis P Hirsheimer of Pittsfield, and A B Johnston of Springfield also charged. Johnston tied to Ford Johnston contract for senate and house desks.
Rain kept crowds indoors along the border as electors gathered. Troops were stationed at polling sites and crowds were not tolerated. Anti re electionists faded in effort with their candidate jailed. A Mexico City report says Corral will not be vice president, though reelection seems certain.
Roumania warns Greece to state intentions regarding demands for restitution for the looting of a Roumanian mailboat at Piraeus or facing reprisals. The ultimatum presses for clarification and action on compensation.
Governor Adolph Eberhart of Minnesota is renominated by Republicans. Arthur Donner resigns as treasurer of American Sugar Refining, a post since 1899 with a $100,000 salary. Anna Wing Cockrell announces engagement to Greek minister L A Coromilas. Mrs. George Millinger of Cincinnati plans self harm with a gasoline torch and will die from burns. A body found in a Portland depot trunk leads to the detention of his wife and J P Webb on charges. Mrs. Consolazio travels to Reno seeking divorce after a recent marriage to a Trenton priest. The dead letter office processes about 40,000 postcards daily. Oberlin awards LL D to Wilbur and Orville Wright. Jane Addams receives Yale MA. Hereford elected Supreme Chancellor of the Court of Honor. Goldwin Smith leaves residuary estate to Cornell, likely over $1,000,000. Mrs. W P G Harding is said to have died by suicide. Marion Snider, stage actress Marion Taylor, drowns in the Hudson after a capsizing skiff. Fire at Andersen Bulletin office causes $10,000 loss. J Pierpont Morgan returns from Europe. Taft family settles in summer capital. Mrs. Bruno Rokowsky of Astoria is found stabbed. husband sought. U S France trade nears $259.06 million for year. Cleveland police chief Fred Kohler acquitted. Mrs. W M Stevens near death after assault by a tramp. Lagorte mayor Lemuel Darrow elected Indiana Municipal League president. Roosevelt to attend National Conservation Congress in St Paul. Timer the will of Esha P Wilbur leaves $17 million to family.
A large gathering celebrated Guy Lahues eighteenth birthday at his home last Saturday night. Guests included Amelia Windish, Lorena Windish, Verda Barksdale, Lindell Frederick, and many others with both women and men from the Lahue, Conrad, Pope, McKim, and Miller families. Attendees chatted and played games, departing late with best wishes for the honoree.
Mrs C Miller shows improvement while Mr John Wilson returns to activities. Mrs Christian Lind visits relatives in Louisville and Mr John Walter sees Mr and Mrs Louis Reinhardt. Philip Reinhardt travels to Louisville and Philip Reinhardt visits brother Wm M Rheinhardt near Ramsey who is seriously ill. Mr and Mrs Wm Hart and daughters Maude Corinne and Mr and Mrs Joe Piazza with children from Louisville visit Mr and Mrs Louis Reinhardt.
Captain Simeon P. Gillett former president of Citizens National Bank Evansville Ind was arrested on federal grand jury indictment charging embezzlement false entries in bank books and in reports to the controller of the currency with about 9000 allegedly abstracted and 770 misapplied. The 87 count indictment also accuses him of insolvent loan payments and false reports from 1907 to 1909 inflating loan and deposit figures.
The Cincinnati Chicago and Louisville railway was sold in Indianapolis by special master Noble C Butler. Buyers Carl Remington and Gilbert Cannon of New York, for Chesapeake and Ohio, paid 5.2 million dollars, the minimum bid allowed. A 550000 dollar certified check secured the bid. The line runs from Cincinnati to Chicago over roughly 280 miles, shorter than competing routes.
Wheat cutting began on the Graham farm near Washington Indiana with an auto binder. An auto plow rigged with three binders handled over fifty acres in a single day drawing hundreds of spectators including farm machinery makers.
French Lick Indiana June 27 Democratic Editorial association closed its midsummer meeting Saturday afternoon. Little business was conducted as attendees spent time sightseeing. National Committeeman Taggart provided carriages for those who wished to tour the French Lick valley.
In Bend Indiana on June 25 four year old Ladislaw Kujawska son of George Kujawska struck a match to locate a lost baseball. The flame spread to kindling and hay in a shed and enveloped the child, leaving a charred body.
Fort Wayne judge Owen N. Heaton wins Republican nomination by acclamation in Sendallville Indiana Twelfth district convention. Heaton faced no opposition and will run for Congress.
Terre Haute Indiana June 25 Judge of the circuit court on the petition of John E Lamb has appointed a bar committee to investigate the charge that Felix Presoninics forged a name and should be disbarred.
Madison Indiana June 27 reports the Southeastern Indiana insane hospital will be ready to receive patients around July 15 with a 2 million investment. Dr E P Busse named superintendent at 3600 annually, supported by four internes and 120 attendants. The facility aims for 1200 patient capacity and employs nearly 300 when full across six state institutions.
Indianapolis reports the Association of Indiana Brewers will vigorously promote cleaning up saloon operations in remaining wet territory and educate the public to repeal the county local option law. The group works with authorities to regulate saloons and prevent temperance movement spread.
Charles Stephenson was found guilty of mistreating an eight year old girl and sentenced to two to fourteen years in the Michigan City prison. He had previously served one term in the northern prison for an alleged manslaughter at Noblesville.
A jury in Sullivan circuit court found John Vanhook not guilty of the two year old murder charge in the shooting death of Fred Martin at the Reliance coal mine near Shelburn. Vanhook, 22, faced a murder verdict after the June trial date.
James S. Deiver a leading Democratic politician and farmer from Jefferson Township vanished two weeks after selling his farm. Searches and inquiries are being conducted to locate him.
James C. Gibson, a farmer near Pvansville Indiana, grew enraged at a cow and tied her head to the harm door then cut out her tongue with a knife. The incident occurred about June 25 as reported from the area.
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