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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1906
Page
6
Telegraphic world news reports a Philadelphia murder case in which Charlotte Kelly and Harry Somers were committed to jail by the coroner pending grand jury action. Witnesses described a dagger wound to Mrs. Maurice K. Lewis as the motive behind the suspected crime.
A depot in Bordeaux, France, housing valuable merchandise, was destroyed by fire causing an estimated loss of 400000 dollars. Damaged goods and inventory were wiped out, with authorities investigating the blaze for possible causes.
John Wipf of a farm seven miles from Omaha pursued a burglar who shot at him twice grazing his temple and finger. Wipf captured the man and turned him over to authorities and later sued for two thousand dollars in damages, a case noted as unique in state legal annals.
Postmaster General Cortelyou releases figures for the fiscal year ending June 30 1906 showing total postal receipts of 167,032,783 dollars, a 9.88 percent rise from 1905, and expenditures of 174,449,779 dollars. The annual deficit drops from 14,572,584 dollars in 1905 to 10,? million in 1906, a decline of over 4 million.
John A Stranahan of Frairbank S D reports a method to collect electricity from the air using Herizian waves. He demonstrates powering his family ranch buildings farm machinery irrigation pumps and an electric motor driven by airborne collectors attached to tandem kites rising high above the farm.
A paper unsigned but purported as the last will of C E Schoelkopf a Kansas City real estate dealer who died on a train near Yates Center Kansas leaves most of the estate to charity and Grand Avenue Methodist Church. The Arlington and Kemper buildings worth 500000 are bequeathed to the church and a forty acre tract is left to the city as a park. In a separate item John Thimilion the Parsons family killer near Houston Missouri is described as a raving maniac after threats of lynching and two suicide attempts in jail.
The Pittsburg multimillionaire’s son in law Reverend Edward Laughlinson preacher his first sermon as assistant pastor at a Presbyterian chapel in a poor Philadelphia district. He chose to cast his lot with the poor after Princeton graduation and marriage to Judge Wilson’s daughter.
Carnegie hero fund commission awarded medals and some cash to fifteen individuals and heirs of one other for valiant deeds. Of the recipients, sixteen are from or near Chicago.
In a Mount Kisco New York suburb robbery the summer residence of banker G Louis Boissevain was breached. Jewelry and cash totaling more than 10 000 dollars were stolen from the home amid a community of affluent residents.
Weekly trade review notes increased activity in principal lines with a general advance in prices.
The grand jury in Jackson returned a voluminous indictment against the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. The 1524 counts accuse discriminatory oil transportation rates under federal law, with potential penalties up to 8048,000,000 total. George Randolph, district attorney, aims to serve Rockefeller and other officials in Jackson.
Fannie Wayne Hopkins widow of Major Robert Topkins Standard Oil organizer wed Fred J D Leroy guardian of her son in Newton Pennsylvania. Leroy had led a five year legal fight to secure most of the fortune for the boy and widow. The will was upheld May 2 granting the widow two thirds of the estate valued at about 5 6 million.
Two consignments totaling more than six thousand dollars vanished when a Rock Island passenger train plunged into the Cimarron river near Dover Oklahoma weeks ago. Agents of a local insurance company aim to locate a registered package containing five thousand dollars believed buried in quicksand.
Margaret Schweitzer aged 4 was found unharmed in a wolf den near Menominee Michigan after two days lost. She played with a litter of pups and scolded rescuers for scaring away the nice little doggies claiming she ate nuts and did not fear hunger. Potatoes Wrapped in Pink S: A barrel of fancy potatoes wrapped in pink tissue was shipped from Greeley Colorado to Valmer Brown in Paris France at about 38 cents per tuber. Brown, a wealthy Greeley resident, will pay for Paris market potatoes.
In Sterling. Joseph Sadusky is dead and Anthony Waskie dying after drinking wood alcohol sold to them by strangers who claimed it was whisky. Relatives allege enemies orchestrated the poisoning.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis widow of the Confederate president died in New York after a weeklong illness due to pneumonia. Her death ends nearly all direct family ties to the Lost Cause with one remaining relative noted.
Reno Hutchinson, secretary of the Y M C A, was shot and killed about 8 oclock Monday night by a highwayman at Seventh and Howard streets in Spokane Washington.
An automobile speeding on Detroit avenue Cleveland struck a trolley pole at Kenilworth avenue Lakewood and exploded. Four occupants were injured and two may die.
One man was killed and several others seriously hurt when a passenger train of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad left the track near Crete NL thirty miles south of Chicago after striking a defective rail. Fire destroys a furniture factory. Wire damaged the John P. De Camp Company at 232 East Front Street Cincinnati.
Evangelist Samuel Porter Jones, known as Sam, died on a Choctaw and Gulf train near Little Rock Arkansas. Born in Alabama in 1847 he rose from drinking problem to temperance lecturer and preacher of the Methodist church south. He lived in Carterville Georgia and toured nationwide delivering revival meetings and writings including Quit Your Meanness.
A naptha launch with six men and women ran into rapids within a half mile of Niagara Falls. Albert Greenwood of Chippewa Ont saved the group after two perilous trips, bringing Captain Charles Lentz, Mrs Lentz, Mrs Charles Clappham and daughter Nellie, Dr. C W Clendan, and James Herschel to shore. The launch’s rudder was damaged when Lentz struck a sandbar in the dark. Greenwood signaled from shore and then led the rescue effort.
Jodie Hamilton a Missouri farmer was arrested at Houston and confessed to killing Barney Parsons his wife and their three children aged 11 4 and 1 after a quarrel over crop sales He allegedly shot Parsons then clubbed the others hauled the bodies in Parsons wagon and dumped them into Big Piney Creek where fishermen found them the next day strong talk of lynching followed and officers moved in to spirit him away
In Smithville Missouri a newly married couple Jesse Webb 25 and his bride on their two week honeymoon carried out a suicide pact. Webb shot himself and the bride then killed herself with a bullet to the brain. Webb survived briefly and recalled the pact to end their lives due to tuberculosis.
Ernest A. Denicke son of a millionaire banker was held for trial for manslaughter by Superior Judge William P Lawler. The shooting occurred on the waterfront during the San Francisco fire of April 19 and the judge called the act wanton reckless and the result of bad judgment. Denicke had been released by Judge Shortall in police court after the first preliminary examination but was rearrested and examined again before Lawler as committing magistrate.
The Supreme Court denied Burton of Kansas a rehearing on his conviction for taking an attorney’s fee in a government interest case while serving as senator. The decision paves the way for immediate imprisonment following the sentence and fine.
An explosion at Wingate colliery near Durham England killed twenty five miners and entombed about two hundred others. Only a small portion of the thousand men employed were underground at the time. Officials cite fire damp as the probable cause.
Walter Cunningham, president of the North American Land Company, was found guilty in the U S District Court in St Paul Minnesota of using the mails with intent to defraud in connection with collecting fees from people who bought land through him.
Commercial operations in Chicago show heightened activity in response to colder weather and urgent needs in manufacturing and construction. Rail facilities hinder prompt forwarding of commodities while raw materials prices rise for pig iron copper and other metals. New building plans and factory extensions boost investment and major projects including a $20,000,000 passenger station spur optimism for early terminal expansion.
Regional price listings show cattle hogs and sheep ranges across major markets. Chicago prices span cattle 4.00 to 7.30 hogs 4.00 to 6.60 sheep to 5.40, grains include corn 40 to 72 cents, wheat 60 to 73 cents, oats 32 to 38 cents, rye 64 to 66 cents, with butter eggs and produce also noted. Other entries cover Indianapolis St Louis and Cincinnati markets with similar bid ranges for cattle hogs sheep and staples.
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