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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1915
Page
5
World War items from the period report Russian resistance growing in Poland, Arras shelled and cathedral on fire, French casualties through June 1 1915 total 1 400 000 with 400 000 killed and 700 000 wounded.
Personal John M. Studebaker, last surviving founder of the Studebaker company, retires and Frederick Fish becomes chairman. Separate report says Gen. Porfirio Diaz of Mexico dies in Paris. Diaz Jr. cites age related illness. Diaz, born September 15, 1830 in Oaxaca, led Mexico for 35 years with a four year gap as president until 1911.
Reports describe intense fighting between Villa and Carranza forces near Villa Garcia midway between Paredon and Monterey. Disturbing accounts note cavalry charges and heavy casualties among camp followers and women.
An explosion at the Canadian Explosives company plant in Beloell Quebec left seven men dead and ten severely injured. Premier Asquith announced in London the engagement of his eldest daughter Violet to Maurice Bonham, his principal secretary.
In Washington Burleson warned a deficit exceeding 10 million dollars in postal revenues. An explosion in the senate wing reception room of the capitol caused minor damage, confined mainly to the room, and estimated at about six hundred dollars by Capitol Superintendent Woods.
Gas City backed a wet majority of eight in a local option election amid arrests for attempting to vote illegally. Center Township outside Marion will hold an August 3 option vote with dry and wet election commissioners named and a 644-name petition backing the dry side.
William Howard Taft telegraphs acceptance from Point Apex Quebec to the Chautauqua Association of Rockville for an address on Sunday August 15. He travels to Denver for an American Bar Association talk the next day and will be met for transit by auto. Charles W. Fairbanks will be invited to preside.
Evansville reports Dr. George Washington Buckner United States minister to Liberia has not resigned but is understood to notify Washington that he will do so before his sixty day furlough ends. Buckner arrived home thirty days ago on leave. appointed by President Wilson after his 1912 inauguration.
L. R. Romine, agricultural instructor at the consolidated school in Fall Creek township Madison County, resigns to accept a U S Department of Agriculture position in Washington under Dr Lane in agricultural education development.
George Klueg was fined $25 and costs after being tried before city judge Rudolph Fritsch for running a baseball pool in Evansville. Police had warned cigar stores poolrooms and saloons that baseball pools would not be permitted.
The Murcie campaign to fund a chefs' school under the International Stewards' Association and Murcie Normal Institute has raised about $2000. Funds were gathered by selling neat lapel buttons to men.
In Montpelier the dry side carried the local option election by 18 votes with wards showing First 149 wets 105 drys, Second 108 wets 87 drys, Third 122 wets 27 drys. Five arrests for illegal voting followed challenges at polling places.
Bloomington woman Mrs. Kenneth Stein reports a postcard from her brother Sergeant Neill Campbell of Company C Royal Scots in France. He writes that out of his company of 100 men only he and one private have escaped injury or death. Stein and her husband moved to Bloomington from Edinburgh four years ago.
Michael Lohner aged sixty four was shot in the intestines with a shotgun by Floyd Long at a fishing camp on the Ohio River above Evansville. Lohner is in serious condition with little hope of recovery. Lohner says the shooting was accidental as Long was cleaning a gun.
Mrs Eliza H Taylor aged ninety three long resident of Tippecanoe County since 1841 came from Virginia. The Taylor Station area is named for her husband. She leaves son John H Taylor and numerous grandchildren.
Nine month old Anna Belle Brown, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ora Brown, living south of Winchester, drowned in a kitchen bucket containing six inches of water. The child crawled from another room and fell into the bucket. parents found the body.
Six weeks after eating bologna sausage George Richard son of Mr and Mrs George Brandon of Union City grew very ill. He cannot eat any food without convulsions and is emaciated. He is kept alive by artificial feeding.
Four year old Clarence Deninger son of Walter Deninger died after falling from a wagon load of kindling in Evansville. He was crushed under the wheels and died shortly after the accident.
Martin, a young farmer near Kokomo, will lose his arm after a fifty pound hay fork prong fell from its track and penetrated his shoulder. The accident occurred as he worked on the farm, a hospital report said.
County commissioners order a local option election in Haddon Township Sullivan County to be held on July 21. The move follows a formal decision by the county governing body to authorize the vote and determine the local option.
At the final session in Indianapolis the Luther League of Indiana elected layman Oliver J. Fetta of Indianapolis as president, succeeding Rev. D. S. Hoyer of Lafayette. Mabel Rex of Mulberry was recording secretary. W. F. Rentz of Fort Wayne was re elected treasurer.
The state conference of charities and corrections announces James F. Jackson of Cleveland will speak on organized welfare work at the Richmond gathering next fall. Jackson's session is November 1 under the local charities development committee led by Dr. Cecil C. North. Other speakers include Professor J. J. Pettijohn and Dr. North. The university will bring a child welfare exhibit to Richmond.
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