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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1910
Page
4
A week of events includes Premier Asquith’s assault in the House of Commons by Buffragettes as police intervened. Gladys Graham travels from Calcutta to Canada, and several deaths report from Oregon Kentucky and Iowa. Revolt in Mexico grows with 65 rebels shot at Orizaba and Diaz forces active. Luther socialists attend AFL services in St Louis.
Documents found in a revolutionary house in Mexico City allege a plot to assassinate leading government officers including Foreign Minister Creel and Vice President Corral. Diaz’s life reportedly spared due to past service.
Dr Edward G Cannon 87 of Jeffersonville died in Nome Alaska after moving there in 1900 following a career as a forty-niner in California and as a physician. Born in Shelbyville Kentucky, he fought in the Mexican War and later pursued mining, farming potatoes, and developing claims for his family while remaining a Mormon. He returned home to Jeffersonville before his Alaskan period and was noted as the oldest Mason in Alaska.
Richard and Patrick O Boyle brothers who parted after their father died in St Louis reconnected after 36 years. They met in the Evansville Terre Haute railroad yard where Patrick serves as yardmaster. Richard learns their third brother John has lived in Berkeley for years.
T. T. Burrow owns a 100 year old almanac in South Bend. The paper covered volume, issued for 1811, contains charts and general world information. It features editorials on Profane Swearing Gaming and Advice to the Young Tradesmen and remains highly prized in the family.
Daniel Colbert fifty a farm employee and married hanged himself with a rope in woods near Joseph McCarty's home southwest of Princeton. He climbed a tree tied a noose and jumped. Body warm when found. Grand jury in session rumored to investigate him. He leaves a widow and several children.
Lafayette-Emmett Rutledge, a Woolworth store employee, fell from a ladder into the file display window. Glass shelves and merchandise collapsed, burying him. He swallowed pins during the fall and suffered severe internal injuries, taken to the hospital unconscious.
Mattoon reports brisk broomcorn trade with prices ranging from 80 to 120 dollars in the central district last week. Western brush shipments stay strong and are baled and seeded more efficiently than prior years. Despite expectations, pest brush growers remain solid holders rather than ceding the best fields.
While hunting near Evansville 3 M Blades killed a white female quail the first of its kind reported in this part of the state and considered a rare break in the local wildlife.
Washington township justice of the peace Lawson Brown, serving Martinsville, reports 164 weddings in his first term and 49 criminal trials. He notes 40 marriages last year and credits no local saloons for fewer cases. Previously in Jefferson township he also performed many ceremonies and kept White Rock flocks.
Henry Funk near Elizabeth in Harrison county marked his centenarian milestone with a quiet family reunion. Born on government land in Harrison county, he is the grandfather of Chester Funk and relative to Alice Maud and Clara Funk of New Albany and Dr. Austin Funk of Bedford. His father served in the War of 1812 under General Harrison at Tippecanoe. his grandfather was a Revolutionary War veteran. His wife died five years ago after their sixty seventh anniversary. he has been in and out of feeble health for about a year.
Alexander Sand reports a goat near his home began nursing and caring for abandoned fox cubs found about a month ago. Lana penned the foxes beside the barn where a nanny goat, whose kids were missing, began to feed and rear the fox kits. The foxes now accompany the goat and hide with her when food arrives.
In Goshen two young daughters of farmer Samuel Bardo near Middlebury were overcome by a fire. The eldest, about three, died and the younger, about one, is dying.
Local grocer O. O. Kennedy quips with the rising egg prices by displaying a window exhibit of two or three dozen eggs. A sign reads Eggs 10 cents down and 10 cents a week highlighting inflation with a humorous budget-friendly offer.
Charles Killion of Salem was kicked several times while hauling legs, then run overby a minle and left in critical condition. Authorities report the assault left him near lifeless and hospitalized with serious injuries.
Mrs Catherine Swafford sold twenty three turkeys for forty three dollars and twenty cents in Milton. Mrs Benjamin Copeland sold twenty nine for over forty dollars.
Henry Seckert, eighty, was accidentally drowned after falling into his well in Madison. Local authorities investigated the incident and mourners prepared for the funeral.
Indiana brief reports a five month old child of Mr and Mrs John Glossom dies after ingesting medicine intended for its mother. Other items note Ludson Worsham appointed cadet to West Point, a Crawfordsville farmhouse destroyed by fire, John A Kenner’s cancer and Hartsville, Odds Fellows lodge harvest, Bennet Wible’s Thanksgiving corn shucking 360 bushels and diphtheria in the Wible family.
An old-time ad item touts Mrs Austing Buckwheat Flour and Morris Eye Remedy for refreshing cleansing and stimulating circulation. It brags about Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets for stomach liver and bowels, sugar coated pellets easy to take.
A quotation extols a man as capable of anything, followed by a playful taunt about extending beyond that limit. The exchange highlights admiration for his adaptability and hints at limitless potential.
Tickets go on sale December 6 and 20 with liberal return limits. For details contact agent or write F. P. Parnin T. P. A. Ft. Wayne Indiana.
Jere L. Sullivan of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees International Alliance tells a Labor Day audience in Cincinnati that American hotels have improved, noting past harsh conditions at places like the One Horse of Tin Can and sharing a humorous travel anecdote about an English earl and a misdelivered room.
A boy in a Sunday school class, new member Jack, sits in the back seat on his first Sunday. Asked who killed Goliath, he replies he cannot see from the back seat, delivering a humorous take on attention and perception. The tale appears in Norman HL Mack's National Monthly.
A professor of astrology argues January births foretell prudence and taste in dress while April births are inconstant and fond of hostess roles. The nun questions whether any months yield girls not fond of dress, but the professor answers none.
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