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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1910
Page
4
Jessie Morrison wins parole after a 25 year term for killing Mrs. Olin Castle in Eldorado Kansas. The week covers Roosevelt's New York convention lead, aviation deaths, a steam of tragedies, and political maneuvers including Lorimer case developments.
At the seventh annual Indiana County Commissioners Association session Evansville was chosen as the next convention site. Officers named include President Louis P. Seeburger Vigo and Vice President John B. Wyss Allen, with Colonel H. R. Smith Marion as secretary. An endorsement of Graham bill creating a state highway commission was discussed along with financial rulings on gravel road repairs.
Fred Glick aged nineteen was found dead in his bed after turning on the gas in his room and not turning it off. An inquest heard his brother say Glick had always undressed in the dark due to fear of gas from a childhood incident when a friend died from asphyxiation.
Bert Murrel, a young farmer, shot a large bald eagle on the John Bartlett farm near Albany while hunting squirrels. The bird reportedly measured eight feet two inches from tip to tip, with eagles being rare in the area in recent years.
A chicken hawk of unusual size was killed in the southern county and brought to the city for display. The bird measures over five feet from tip to tip and will be mounted by Taxidermist Beasley of Lebanon.
A souvenir postal card addressed to John W. Mart of this city arrived at his family an hour after his death. Carl McPherson of South Bend, a longtime friend, sent the card and asked to hear from Mart. Mart was a conductor for the Indiana Union Traction Company between this city and Wabash. he had been ill three days from a cerebral hemorrhage. A widow and two children survive.
South Dublin wells are drying as the Pennsylvania railroad proceeds with a double track project. The Cole place well and a Perry Wilson farm spring are gone, and residents fear further water loss as underground springs partner with the cut. Steam shovel work caused rapid water influx. workers struck briefly, then returned with gum boots.
South Bend Leon Lum a Chinese of Chicago and Miss Sfeten C Banks daughter of W L Banks of South Bend failed to secure a marriage license here after attempting in Elkhart county earlier that day. They sought Judge V W Wanfleet but he lacked jurisdiction. Helen Banks gave age twenty two and said her father a retired army officer approved the union. the couple noted paternal objection would not help.
Frank Lineback of Greenfield took seven chickens from an incubator last March. The birds proved to be exceptionally productive with all laying daily through summer and one producing a triple yolk egg. They are all brooding now and due to hatch next week.
In Logansport Indiana a seventeen year old boy identified as R Z Daisy of Warsaw was killed last night when struck by a southbound Indiana Union traction car on a trestle over the Wabash River. The youth had been missing from home for several weeks and his father confirmed the identity.
By the death of Tate Willam Elliott, his two children John Walter Elliott and Mrs. Clara S. Gorgas inherit an equal share of an estate valued between 150000 and 175000 dollars. Personal property totaling about 90000 dollars is also split evenly between them.
Evansville four year old Elizabeth Perrin died after being struck by a street car in Evansville. In South Bend Elmer Reeson was seriously injured and his wagon horse was killed when a street car struck his wagon. Owensville dogs killed twenty of Mrs Samuel Hatfield s turkeys and Trustee Montgomery will reimburse the loss. Eaton lightning struck Solomon Deeter s barn destroying the building and nearly all contents. Deeter was stunned. Clinton Daisy Davis sues Frank Slater for five thousand dollars alleging carelessness after her five year old son James Jeffries broke his leg when a tree limb fell from a sawed branch.
Coroner Herman Thoma orders the arrest of Del Wilson of Ossian, conductor on the extra south bound car, on an involuntary manslaughter charge. Motorman BR F Corkwell remains at Hope hospital with little change in condition. Victims Tribolet, Elenberg er, and Parkhurst show fragile or improving states as hospital reports continue.
A taxicab carrying Edward Atwater and George Cornwell was struck by a train at a private crossing north of the city. Cornwell died four hours after the accident in Vassar hospital. Atwater suffered a fractured skull and broken leg. The chauffeur George Key is in grave condition. Cornwell was vice president and trustee of Poughkeepsie Savings Bank. Atwater, a wealthy banker and president of the Farmers and Manufacturers Bank of Poughkeepsie.
In Newark Ohio three prisoners tied to the Carl ftherington lynching last July changed pleas to guilty in court. Tinel Buehler 21 was fined 200 and jailed 30 days for rioting plus 20 fine and 10 days for assault and battery. Charles Baker 24 colored received 200 fine and 30 days for rioting. Charles Clay was fined 300 and 30 days for rioting.
King Victor Emmanuel and his cousin the count of Turin narrowly avoided a fatal accident when aviator Simon did not see them as he started his aeroplane at Milan Aerodome. The machine sped toward them but they threw themselves to the ground as it swept past, narrowly clearing the pair.
Charles Bordolo, a leading German resident of Danville, was found dead with a stab wound near a blacksmith shop. William Nicelum, a laborer who quarreled with Bordolo the night before, has been arrested and charged with the crime. Bordolo was 45, and married.
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