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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1907
Page
5
Local notes list visits by J. W. Whicker from Attica and Miss Iva LeClaire visiting family. Mrs. Rachel Graham returns home. Grandma Hegg remains seriously ill. Fred Reed from Veedersburg reports his mother's health unchanged. Covington vs Danville colored team results 8 to 2. new rugs and linoleum at J Loeb stores. Dr Sailor now uses crutches after a fall.
Wallace resident Miss Shoat declared the most beautiful woman in Indiana. The Crawfordsville high school girl earns the modest title as she is noted for grace and local charm amid Wallace and Crawfordsville ties.
Miss Ura Shoaf of Wallace claims first prize in Indianapolis Star beauty contest with Miss Maud Cunningham of Indianapolis taking second. The judges praise the decision and note potential family ties as a wrinkle in the tale. Fountain County is praised in beauty, religion, politics, and resources.
Correspondence arrives late this week noting an ad change for J Loeb. The Leader reports P J McMahon’s livery sale drew many buyers with all stock sold. 9x12 rugs featured at M Boards. Mr and Mrs Sam Martin visited Rileysburg due to Mrs Prather’s illness.
Men s shirts and collars advertised at Spence Smith and Spence and at Frank Bingham who traveled the state collecting fees due the State from Justices of the Peace and deputy prosecutors. Miss Jennie DuBois fell while washing last Friday, sustaining two broken ribs and other injuries but is improving.
A Wednesday afternoon blaze caused by coal oil use destroyed William McGinnis residence and all belongings on the reserva tion. The loss includes a subscription paper to fund a new home, reportedly met with liberal donations.
Mrs. Frank Bilsland and her infant arrived from New York. T. M. Rima traveled to French Lick on Tuesday for a brief rest.
Rian returned home from Knoxville commercial school on Wednesday. The W C T U will meet Mrs E M Boord on Monday evening May 27. All invited. Burton Bart Sewel and family visited last week. New bugs at J Loeb’s Stores. Ex Mayor Miles had a stroke Monday morning and remains in serious condition though showing some improvement.
Mrs. H. R. Claypool was badly burned while using gasoline around the house on Monday. Timely aid from Mr. Claypool likely prevented her death.
Dr Miller rents the Houp property of M Herzog and will move in next week. Offices to be fitted in the old bottling works rooms and ready for occupancy in a few days.
Tidal lodge No. 36 will observe June 9 as their annual decoration day with services at the court house at 2 30 p m. A band and speaker are secured and a good attendance is desired. the public is invited.
Mrs Elliot Mitchell of the Oliver Palin farm northeast of Newtown died after taking poison Tuesday evening, about 7 o clock, dying an hour later in agony. She was 40, survived by husband, a daughter aged 19 and two sons aged 17 and 15. She said she did not know why she took the poison. Funeral services were held Thursday with burial at Wingate.
The church invites the public to attend Sunday School at 9 30 a.m. and preaching services each Sunday with morning and evening sermons on the first and third Sundays. A Thursday prayer meeting at 7 30 p.m. is also announced.
Extra pants new spring pat terns. The four year old daughter of Cyrus Schults of Maiden was fatally scalded when a kettle of hot water spilled on her in the kitchen. Other items note streetcars resuming service in Evanaville and the Indiana Funeral Directors association holding its twenty seventh annual convention in Indianapolis at the Claypool hotel.
The article discusses mothers managing their children's companions. It warns against Pharisaism and neighborly ill will while preventing unsuitable friendships. It advocates supervising play in early years and gradually teaching right principles to foster trust.
A government report to President Roosevelt charges Standard Oil with a thirty five year monopoly built on railroad rebates and discrimination. It asserts control of refining, production, export, and pipeline transport with vast profits by fewer than a dozen men, lasting through 1904.
Report from Mexico City claims a federation scheme for Central America moving to launch a revolution within ninety days. Zelaya friendly rulers are said to govern Salvador and Honduras, Cabrera to fall, and Policarpo Bonilla named as first president of a larger republic with subordinate governors and states.
A cable from President Zelaya of Nicaragua to the Nicaraguan consul in New Orleans reports that the Salvadoran revolution began yesterday. The message names Prudencio Alfaro as the rebel leader but provides no further details.
In Reldaville Georgia on May 23 a posse surrounded a swamp linked to an incident involving Flem Padgett a Black resident. The event followed mob violence Tuesday that left two Black people dead three others dead and seven injured after an attack on Mrs Laura Moore near here.
Chickasha I T May 22 Clyde Fitch a negro charged with assaulting a ten year old negro girl was tried by a jury composed entirely of negroes found guilty and sentenced to life in the penitentiary.
Washington May 18 The president will depart next Wednesday for Indianapolis and the White House will be quiet until September He returns June 2 then may go to Virginia June 9 he leaves for the Jamestown exposition to speak on June 10 to the National Editorial association and at the Georgia state building opening He visits Oyster Bay June 12 for the summer with no encouragement for political disturbance.
The U S supreme court will rule on the drive to oust breweries from Kansas after the Kansas supreme court appointed receivers for Anheuser Busch properties in the state. Bonds for supersedeas were filed and the case is appealed to the U S supreme court challenging state seizure of the assets.
Four coal-passers die and one Detroit passenger J M Rhoades fatally burned when the Crosby Mne steamer Naomi burns to the water's edge between Grand Haven and Milwaukee. Fifty passengers and most crew are rescued by the Kerr. Naomi's loss is about $225,000 under Captain Thos Traill.
Odessa residents recount a deadly wave of violence after the assassination of three police officials. At 8 p.m. rioters identified as Black Hundreds roamed the streets beating people, with Jews among the hundreds seriously injured. Police stood by, and no arrests were recorded as the mob carried on.
Harrisburg May 17. The 1907 Pennsylvania legislature closes with an appropriation record of 15 million dollars for public schools seven million for roads six million for Civil War veterans pensions and twenty nine million for charities and other needs. A two cent steam road fare and a railroad commission measure accompany major reforms including constitutional rail regulation and an employers liability bill.
Amelia Staffeldt, fifteen, was outraged and murdered near her father’s Elmhurst farm on Long Island. The crime occurred in a lonely area as she wandered for dandelions. About 200 neighbors later searched the countryside for the killer but found nothing.
Three of the first twelve probationary jurors were chosen for Mayor Schmitz’s extortion trial in San Francisco. Judge Dunne issued a new venue of twenty as the pool narrowed. The trial scene shifted this morning to the Bush street synagogue with Ruef involvement cited.
At the Elza furnace of Jones & Laughlin Steel company five men were killed and four fatally injured when a slip caused a furnace explosion. Molten metal showered the workers nearly cremating them in the incident dated May 22.
San Francisco May 28 more street cars were run yesterday by the United Railroads than on any day since the carmen's strike began. Three additional lines on Polk and Larkin Folsom and Bryant streets were opened today. No serious trouble has been reported.
At the grand lodge meeting in Indianapolis plans were approved for a fourteen story building on Washington and Pennsylvania streets with a large auditorium above the fourteenth floor. The project costs about 600000 dollars, fronts 115 by 67 feet, and starts June 1. The Odd Fellows hold the corner as a key retail district site once bought for 9000 dollars and now valued over 300000.
Indianapolis May 23 The Indiana grand lodge I O O F reports year end membership 72 578 with a net gain of 3 637. Lodge total 735 a net gain of seven. Receipts 359 137 42 gross resources 3 698 910 91, debt 521 804 29 leaving net resources 3 177 106 62.
The state board of tax commissioners closed its first session today and increased the assessed valuation of corporate property in Indiana by about 12 million dollars from 224,377,446 in 1906 to 236,790,754 this year. The growth rate is unparalleled in prior years.
Tony Miller who killed his former wife Mrs Elizabeth Hurd in Muncie Indiana Tuesday was captured in a box car in the citys southern part yesterday afternoon after a gun fight. He held officers at bay for about ninety minutes before being overpowered. Miller was wounded in the leg during the final fusillade.
In Petersburg Indiana Ab Traylor, a farmer near Orwell, after his stepmother Mrs John Traylor testified against him in a Pike circuit court divorce suit, fired a double barreled shotgun into her back, killing her. He is jailed and says he acted in self defense claiming she fired first with a revolver.
Oren Brown a 27 year old stock hauler from Albany and his brother in law Willie Hudson aged 13 of Portland were killed instantly in a nitroglycerin plant blast at the Charles Brammer farm in Muncie Indiana. The explosion destroyed the plant leaving only a gaping crater.
Indianapolis May 17 Sinnninger of Fowlerton was arrested on a capias and released on $500 bond to appear for arraignment in federal court May 21. He was indicted by the federal grand jury for placing in the Fowlerton Post Office a copy of the Fowlerton Review with a scurrilous defamatory article about certain persons.
In Dunnville seven miles northeast of Sullivan, a free for all revolver fight at a dance in Walter Dunns hall left one man dead and two seriously wounded. Taylor Smith was shot in the stomach and is expected to die. Coon Shepherd was shot through the body and James Goodman was hit in the right hip.
The two year old child of Mr and Mrs Newton Jeffries was scalded to death when a coffee pot spout dropped while the mother poured coffee. This follows a previous tragedy two years ago when another child died from burns obtained outdoors on hot coals.
The boiler makers' strike in the St. Louis & Louisville division of the Southern Railroad is growing serious in Princeton Indiana. Unless a satisfactory adjustment is made soon it is feared other unions in the city will go out in sympathy with the strikers.
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