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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1901
Page
5
An old advertisement promotes Cas Carets Candy Cathartic as a remedy for constipation or diarrhoea. It claims genuine tablets stamped C C C and that they are never sold in bulk, available from all druggists for 10 cents.
A Monon special will depart Crawfornshire at 0.30 am Oct 8 for Chicago to view Ben Hur. The Supreme Tribe buys the auditorium lower floor to ensure space. tickets 1.50 and 2.90. Round trip fare 30.90. Details from W. W. Layton Crawfordville or F. L. Snowder Crawfordville Ind. A great treat for Ben Hur fans.
Mrs Olive Rhodes and family return thanks to friends and neighbors for their services and attention during the last illness of her sister Anna Reed. Dress goods of all sorts at Loeb's Stores.
An advertisement extols Benson's Porous Plaster for coughs colds chest diseases rheumatism grip neuralgia kidney trouble and back pain. It warns against Capsicum Strengthening or Belladonna plasters and touts endorsements from physicians druggists and widespread use with 55 top awards. Seabury Johnson Mfg Chemists New York sells for 26 cents with postage on order.
Indiana news reports Governor Durbin will not designate Indiana day at the Buffalo exposition. Telegrams urged October for better attendance, but Durbin cites logistical hurdles and resists reworking plans after officials and National Guard members already traveled at their own expense.
ITS DAYS ARE NUMBERED Frankton Indiana September 23 says gas supply by Manufacturers Gas Co Indianapolis will erect four substations to feed its large east station. Substations will cover wells-light areas with one at Fesler farm north of Frankton another near Orestes another near Summitville and a fourth at Alexandria.
The sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows will convene in Des Moines Ind. The body proposes a constitutional amendment to allow state jurisdictions to admit men of mixed Indian and white blood. The ruling is optional but open for acceptance. This move is seen as highly significant.
Washington Indiana September 25 Benjamin Pillowes and John Wins quarreled over a nickel while playing craps in a saloon Pillowes drew a revolver and fired twice Wins disarmed him then Pillowes was disarmed Wins fired three shots Wims was shot in the left breast and arm and is fatally injured
Richard Johnson of Monumenut City secretly wed Etta Householder, 15, in Andrews with Rev Lowh Fisher officiating. George Householder prosecutes Johnson for subornation of perjury after he allegedly secured W E Tooker to swear the girl was 18.
Winchester Sept 20 A 19 year old named Omer Peelee was fatally shot last evening while posing as President McKinsey at Buffalo for Miller. The same week another actor playing the sin was involved as the weapon a Flobert rifle passed through Peelee’s stomach. The tragedy follows a dramatic performance with fatal injury reported.
Anderson Ind Sept 20 Governor Durbin wired his refusal to commute the sentence of Earold Smith to Plainfield instead of Jeffersonville. Smith, a society young man, recently confessed to the diamond robbery at Westburns store.
In Lawrenceburg Louisiana a head on collision on a Big Four line near here Saturday night left fireman Benjamin Meios dead and six others injured when a passenger train collided with a freight on the branch of the Big Four railroad.
John Lr win, 60, of northwestern Missouri and member of the 12th Ohio cavalry, visiting his brother in Ridegville, Ind, was run down by a backing freight in a local yard. He lost both legs and is expected to die.
Evansville report says tramps set fire to a barn belonging to Marion Briscoe in Warrick County. The blaze killed five race horses valued at about $10,000. The incident is being investigated by local authorities.
The three year old child of Frank Wheeler near Valparaiso Indiana overturned a churn filled with hot water and was fatally scalded on September 20.
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