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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
3
The Louisville Post reports former Governor W S Taylor will return to Kentucky from Indianapolis for trial on complicity in the Gobel murder case after the November election. Change of venue likely to move the case to Louisville. Taylor says he will return for a fair trial and bail if possible.
A man believed to be Claude Washburn of South Hend, Indiana, was found dead in the Michigan City harbor. A card in his pocket identified him as a member of Electrical Workers Union No. 182 for three years, and it is suspected he worked on a traction line. He appeared to be about 40 years old.
A cablegram to Washington from Honduras minister Dr. Angel Urgaect states that peace in Central America is fully restored and expresses confidence it will be maintained by the government and people.
Tony Osborn of Warsaw catches a buffalo fish weighing forty two pounds on Center Lake in North Warsaw Indiana. It is the largest hook and line catch in Kosciusko County in many years.
Terrific hail and thunderstorm sweep through Henderson Kentucky causing over 100000 dollars in damage. About sixty percent of tobacco crop believed destroyed across Henderson County.
An unidentified 60 year old man who was deaf and mute was struck and killed by a Baltimore and Ohio train west of Ravenna Ohio. The victim had "W. V." tattooed on his right forearm.
Irving Spalding, 15, son of A. F. Spalding of Springfield New Jersey, spent a day on a 600 foot cliff ledge near Los Angeles. He could not descend, a rescue party below lowered a rope from 100 feet above, and he was pulled to safety after two hours. He is reported all right aside from fright and strain.
Mrs. Margaret Castens, 04 years old, who received 15000 from a German convent pact of sixty five girls, died at her daughter's home in St Louis. Seventy five years earlier she studied near Stuttgart. The classmates agreed to fund a Berlin bank, and the last survivor would collect the amount. Three years ago she was told she would receive only a few thousand, but the payout exceeded 15000.
Robert Kenney, 19, of Lupus, Missouri, confessed to shooting his father Coleman R. Kenney on July 20 after a quarrel over an image and a Colt. He said he took a rifle from his room, went downstairs, found his father in a chair, fired, and then saw him dead with no further speech.
David Alexander aged 30 was shot and killed by William Hill aged 28 following a confrontation over his divorced wife. Hill pursued the couple after seeing them pass in a buggy, discharging buckshot that killed Alexander and lightly wounded the woman by stray shot. Both men are farmers.
Charles Luckenbill of Black Horse Pennsylvania saved a 6 year old boy from a falling pitchfork. He thrust his hand in front of the lad to shield him, receiving severe injuries that required amputation. Luckenbill lost a hand but saved the child from likely death.
Five thousand men and women contributed STO000 and ten bushels of jewelry and valuables at a Christian and Missionary Alliance convention meeting in Old Orchard Maine led by A. K B. Simpson. The congregation was erazed by hysteria, leaving zealots penniless and weakened.
A caucus of the Cleveland city council and Mayor Johnson backs a five cent cash fare with 8 cent tickets to address a sizable deficit in the street car system operating on a straight 8 cent basis. The plan would be put into operation by the Municipal Traction Company.
Eva Jones a carnival balloonist from Abbotsford Wisconsin fell nine hundred feet when a parachute rope broke. The tree caught her and she sustained serious injuries but is expected to recover.
A woman on a Passaic New Jersey tenement’s second floor dropped a hot flatiron that shattered from a window and struck eight year old Joseph Nendzio in the street. The boy’s skull was fractured and he is expected to die.
During a hurricane a large factory in Szegedin Hungary collapsed burying about 100 workmen. Four corpses and fourteen persons severely hurt have been recovered from the debris. Seventy persons remain missing unresolved in the wreckage.
May Williams, 17 and crowned Missouri's most beautiful, poisoned herself in Kansas City after her parents refused consent to marry the suitor and threatened to send her to a school. An heiress, she stood to inherit about 15000. She had won a state beauty contest last year and was known as the Missouri beauty.
The crew of the whaler TRowhead owned by Lieber & Co. mutinied at Fort Clarence near Nome, attacking Captain James A. Tilden and officers in a one hour battle. The captain won, the mutineers were jailed, and the ship’s fire was suppressed after they attempted to burn the vessel following demands to go ashore for gold fields.
Chicago's oldest practicing lawyer Moses J. Brown aged 88 was found guilty by a jury in Judge Windes court of conspiring to take the life of Mrs Annie Nolain. Associate lawyers Mrs Huth Laughlin and Austin Kelly were fined or sentenced to the penitentiary for one to five years. Brown received a $1000 fine and his associates were imprisoned. The case will be appealed as the defendants were accused of plotting to seize Mrs Nolain's property.
A tornado struck Mandan N B causing extensive damage with trees and buildings affected for an estimated 50000 dollars. A boy was lifted by the wind and carried three blocks, suffering serious bruising. The Inter Oovern Hotel roof collapsed into the dining room and the Lemars Hotel was unroofed as houses toppled and windows shattered.
Mehmed Ali Bey, Turkish minister to the United States, admits he received government orders recalling him from Washington. Mundji Bey, consul general at New York, named charge d affaires pending a new minister's arrival.
The eighty five ton Gloucester schooner Maggie and May owned by G. Dennis was run down sixty miles off the Nova Scotia coast by the German schoolship Fryen. Nine crew members perished including Captain Erick McCatheran in the tragedy at sea.
An explosion of a storm automobile near Vainesville Ohio killed Mrs. Mary Rowdan aged 63 and Mrs. Rose Beckwith aged 43 instantly. Jed Beckwith, 45, was fairly injured and Bessie Beckwith, 16, was badly bruised and burned.
Alfred I. Cox treasurer and general manager of the Atlantic works at Mast Boston Mass and Edward P. Robinson of the same company were arrested on conspiracy to defraud Boston through collusive bids for city contracts. Lach was held in 2000 dollars for trial.
Four youths about 18 were arrested in Hast Macungie Pennsylvania on a charge of sensing a young girl while she slept in her home. They claim she jilted them. The names Harvey Littenbender Furrey Wicand William Hittenbender and Elmer Keller appear in the notice.
William J. Bryan accepted the Democratic presidential nomination and stated the central issue facing the nation is whether the people shall govern themselves. He framed the campaign around this question as a test of popular rule.
After criticism in the Russian duma, the Czar dismissed Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaivitch from the presidency of the council for national defense. The move signals rising tensions in the imperial leadership and shifts in wartime policy.
The Chicago Directory Co estimates Chicago's population at 2 425 000 in its 1008 issue, an increase of 20 700 names from last year. The Johnson family leads with 7 024 names, followed by 5 116 for the Smiths and 1 848 German relatives who spell Schmidt. Names like Ek and Ex are shortest. Szszkowics and Cayzweki among the longest. Edward Fat and Thomas Lean appear in the same pages, with Frank Broke and Samuel Rich also noted.
Elizabeth M. Stewart known as Mother Stewart, famed temperance advocate, died at her Hicksville Ohio home at age 92. She founded Ohio's first WCTU chapter in 1878 and helped start England's WCTU in 1876. She lectured across the South after the Civil War and later followed Alexander Dowie at Zion City before living with friends in Hicksville.
A severe hail storm swept nine South Dakota counties including Walworth Metherson Edmands Brown Faulk Spink and Clark. Crop losses range from 25 percent to total with wide damage in Ashton to Clark County. Mound City reports twenty five farms swept clean by hail.
James Goodlove, proprietor of a rural hotel, shot Frank McCormack Kk, a hotel bus driver, at the Pennsylvania railway station in Upper Sandusky Ohio. A mob gathered on the depot platform and attempted to hang Goodlove after a tense quarrel over business rivalry. women fainted as panic spread.
Bodies of Charles Emerson and Frank Metermott, officers of the Methne Mass police, were found bruised and beaten in the town. Two others were sent out the previous night to watch for chicken and vegetable thieves, with strong evidence indicating the officers were killed.
George Cooke a well known landscape architect connected with Samuel B Tarsons of New York died at the Willows a mountain resort near Alpine California from an accident several days earlier He was thrown from a wagon and fell fifty feet breaking five ribs and dislocating a shoulder
A Birmingham Mineral Railroad train near Blocton was fired on. Conductor Collins a deputy sheriff and a strike breaker were killed. Eight others injured. The train carried First Regiment personnel a large group of strike breakers and about twenty special deputies.
A boiler exploded at the York railing mill in Pennsylvania killing eight workers and seriously injuring nearly twenty others. The mill had been closed about a week for repairs with forty men at work on an engine when the disaster occurred, causing thousands of dollars in damage.
C. W. Trickett assistant attorney general of Wyandotte county Kansas arrested at his home on state warrant charging malfeasance in office. Complaint alleges he accepted fees and settled exsex before defendants were arraigned in court.
Frank P. Sargent commissioner of the bureau of immigration and naturalization is seriously ill at his Washington residence after a nervous shock from a fall at Shepherdstown West Virginia where he was spending his summer vacation recently.
A black youth about 18 named Charlie Lokie was lynched in Lifton Georgia for insulting remarks to white women. The event caused no excitement. Separately, Harry Thaw is declared bankrupt and Barry K. Thiw files for bankruptcy in Pittsburgh as a move to challenge the trial’s heavy exposure.
A positive crop report and improved rail orders signal confidence in weekly markets. Trade moves forward with slower recovery in heavy production after heat, while demand expands in pig iron, wire, iron and lumber. Western freight rises with more mill activity and lake transport, and wholesale markets draw more merchants boosting dry goods, apparel, footwear and furniture sales amid firmer prices. Failures in Chicago district total 21 with liabilities over 5 000 at four.
Trade, crop and industrial developments mostly favorable with fall merchants excursions broadening sales for jobbers and wholesalers. Iron and steel, hardware, western coal and lumber show more activity while early fall buying remains cautious. US weekly business failures total 205, Canada 19, versus prior periods.
A dense ledger of assorted price ranges for cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye and related farm products across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo with values in varied cents and dollars including quality notes and unit specifications and a late line referencing clover seed in October.
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