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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1912
Page
4
President Taft moves to clarify the Panama Canal Zone policy and restrict medical practice under an executive order, excluding Christian Science and other nontraditional methods. He also reviews fake photograph scandals showing the president in meetings. A separate note mentions William II appointing Bernard Von Paelow in a German court line.
Reports from across North America and Europe detail a mix of crimes, political strife, and disasters. The Americas federation leader echoes protest against McNamara indictments while union fund drives spark controversy. accidents in Ashville and Toronto injure and kill. International tensions rise with Turkish, Persian, and Russian moves, plus labor strife in England and a Mexican rebellion ending with Reyes's surrender.
Harry Lauder nearly dies while attempting to cross the Clyde in a Gourock to Dungeon rowboat. The incident spotlights the famous Scotch comedian amid peril at sea.
Charles Roy a twenty four year old ranch hand from Fort Wayne is hospitalized after a pool hall stabbing in Walla Walla Washington. The assailant an unnamed Italian drunk earlier in the day fled and remains at large. Roy’s father Xavier Roy resides in Fort Wayne. The wound was six inches deep near Roy’s left lung and stomach.
John W. Cook aged fourteen of Center township accidentally shot himself while hunting after placing his rifle in a hollow log and pulling a string to fire. He retrieved a rabbit, then collapsed at home and died on the kitchen floor with the rabbit in his grasp.
Mrs Isabelle Naudain nee Woolf dies at her Charles Town home after years as a cripple. She danced at age twenty with the new president at Martin Van Buren's inaugural on March 4 1837. Her father, a Washington musician, played horn at Washington’s 1789 inauguration.
Mrs Sarah J Jourdan 62 died of heart disease at the Salt Fork cemetery while at her husband Jiannibal H Jourdan’s funeral. A man named John Orda entered James Griffins home took a witch and a pocketbook with a $3000 check. Thomas Strange reported a coat matching the base and Miller arrested the suspect in Michigan City Canatable.
Culver Thieves steal 200 dollars from a drug store. South Bend a man commits suicide by leaping into the river at Madison Street bridge. Nashville a wife seeks divorce and 20 250 dollars alimony. Crawfordsville a man flees to avoid death by suicide. Vincennes council rejects2 000 dollar murder prosecution funds. Winchester a jury awards 100 dollars in Powers v Shoup. Greenfield judge guilty in a case of provoking a woman and fined one dollar. Sullivan Constable raids Dat Gallagher’s blind tiger seizing whisky beer and a pump. Newcastle Jesse Freel murder trial postponed. Terre Haute Ellen Dillon sues for 5 000 against Famous Williams over a 1910 bar quarrel. Evansville Western Union retirements. Duke to serve as special agent. Anderson woman sues for 2 500 damages after stairs fall. Vincennes Mrs Mabry, deranged, walks into river. rescuer saves her. Cannelton Mrs Nancy Weatherbolt Leaf, 90, oldest resident, celebrates with long family line and many descendants.
Mrs Maria Maggart who lives east of the city has just taken her first train ride though she has always stayed within seven miles of a railway. She planned to ride with her daughter Mrs A J Cook but after her death last fall she delayed. Her grandson Merman Long from Kokomo urged her to go and she seemed to enjoy the trip.
Andrew Jackson, 40, was shot and likely to die after a quarrel with Morris Winston, 32, a restaurant cook. Winston has not been arrested. Both men are Black. The dispute arose supposedly over Winston paying attention to Mrs. Jackson in the restaurant.
Wabash county board of education rules teachers who arrive late to township institutes will not receive salaries. The measure follows numerous complaints about tardiness, with many instructors blaming irregular traction cars for the delays.
Warrick county farmers rush hog sales as corn prices rise to 60 cents per finisher. A cholera scare fuels urgency with hog numbers said to exceed previous records. One farmer notes 50 cent corn would not entice keeping pigs for possible pork.
S. J. Buck, a timber worker, was killed when a miners train struck him as he tried to crawl off the river bridge. The accident occurred as he tripped crossing ahead of the locomotive, leaving his body cut in two.
J Gaylord Smiler aged fifty five dies of heart disease while serving supper at the Knights of Pythias lodge hall in Thorntown He was unmarried wealthy and a prominent Mason and church member in Thorn town.
Samuel J. T. Haymaker thirty two is run down by an outbound West Indianapolis street car at Kentucky avenue and South street while walking to Pioneer Brass works. Motorman claims Haymaker seemed to dive onto tracks. Corrigan, a witness, left him moments before. Body trapped under the car required lifting, crowds gathered in mourning.
Charles F. Newman of Chester eight miles away, juror in a personal injury case, shot himself after returning home with other jurors while the judge prepared instructions. He told his wife he feared making a verdict error before his death.
A king cobra escapes from its cage aboard the German freighter Katterturm docking in Boston. The reptile has already killed one sailor and terrorized East Indian and Malay crew from Calcutta where it was shipped. Only two longshoremen agreed to unload due to fear.
Edward Van Beaver of Little Clear Creek Middlesboro Kentucky was blown to atoms while lighting a dynamite fuse he thought had gone out. He moved toward the blast to relight it during a Christmas celebration.
Seven Jefferson county jail inmates in Madison Indiana were found dead drunk after heating a poker, breaking into a whisky barrel and catching liquid in a dishpan, described locally as joy water.
About 300 firemen and hostlers in the employ of the Florida East Coast line went on strike demanding increased pay in Jacksonville Florida.
Harry Ferguson Omer Owens and Ed Bowman were arrested and charged with bootlegging. Four others have been arrested in the last three days on this charge with Hert Chestnut the other named in the reports.
Fifty years ago Archbishop John Ireland entered the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church. A large number of gifts from friends inside and outside of the city were received at his residence as the milestone was noted.
Shenandoah pa Joseph Reed and Thomas Levan miners were buried alive behind thousands of tons of coal and rock in the Packer No 4 colliery when a coal fall blocked the chute and cut off escape.
Seaboard Air Line train number 38 derailed at 6 25 miles northeast of Atlanta injuring one person severely and several others lightly. Authorities report no fatalities. Rescue crews work to clear the site and assess damage to cars and track.
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