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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1920
Page
2
President Wilson sent a telegram to John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers urging return to work in Illinois and Indiana. He would invite the joint scale committee of miners and operators to meet and resolve wage inequalities in the central competitive field.
The census bureau reports South Bend's population at 70,8838, up 17,299 and 32.3 percent since 1910. Other notes include Indiana University education dean Dr. Lester H. Smith elected president of Beaver Falls College, local farm reports, teacher shortages, and state budget allocations.
Indianapolis July 31 nine teen days into its life the special session of the Indiana general assembly passed over fifty laws. Key measures include two tax bills a war memorial coal commission and election law amendments for woman suffrage and state institution funding. The final title covers taxation legalizing and validating 1919 assessments and overassessed taxes authorizing loans to cover deficits and refunds, and extending tax and bond powers.
J Frank Hanly former Indiana governor and 1916 Prohibition presidential candidate died after his car was struck by a Pennsylvania railroad freight train near Dennison Ohio. Dr and Mrs C M Baker of Kilgore also perished with skull fractures after the collision at a dangerous grade crossing.
Senators honor Lieutenant Governor Edgar D. Bush of Salem by gifting The Life of John Marshall by Albert J. Beveridge. Logansport Senator Metzger delivered the presentation speech as Bush concluded his term at the close of the second special session on July 31 in Indianapolis.
Noted Prohibitionist leader and former Indiana governor dies after being struck by a train. The incident marks a sudden end to a prominent political figure active in temperance advocacy and state leadership.
Indianapolis memory of J Frank Hanly spans birth in 1863 at St Joseph to a varied career as lawyer state senator congressman governor and prohibition advocate. He lectured nationwide on prohibition and led the Flying Squadron movement before dying in an auto accident near Dennison Ohio in 1926.
A cigarette started fire in a trash pile ignited the Kokomo Lumber Co plant, spreading to the Kokomo Steel and Wire Co brick structure. The North Side blaze left both buildings a mass of flames as firefighters battled a water shortage.
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