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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1910
Page
4
A sweeping digest notes testimonies in an Illinois Central car repair fraud trial claiming Ostermann threats, society marriages with gifts, technological feats in auto racing, political shifts in Ohio and New York, and rising cotton prices. It mentions Roosevelts stance on bossism, Vanderbilt in control of New York Central, and unrest in Columbus riots and Huntington jail clashes.
Washington releases the Japan Korea treaty declaring the Hermit kingdom now Chosen under Japanese sovereignty. President Taft’s keynote letter to William B. McKinley defends the Payne tariff with note on possible changes.
Mayor Thomas E Knotts calmed a drunken Chippewa group during a wild west parade in Gary. Police seized rifles and liquor as fires and yells filled the air. Knotts spoke to the men in their language ending the disturbance. Foreign workers fled in fear at the sight of the Indians.
Workmen uncover an Indian skeleton ten feet underground in a gravel pit on the Uriah Bertsch farm east of here. The remains likely belong to a seventy five year old squaw buried head downward. Nearby relics suggest the area was once an Indian rendezvous.
Hiram McFerron, a Columbus nurseryman, found six ears in one husk while husking sweet corn. One ear was normal size and the other five were small but perfectly formed. He also grows Irish potatoes on top of the ground and expects a second strawberry crop.
A southbound Monon passenger train struck a fire department truck at Fifteenth and Spring streets. The truck was demolished and a horse was killed. Firemen William Moss Philip Reilly and Harry Lowry were thrown to the ground but escaped serious injuries.
Susine Silk a two year old filly valued at 500 dollars by owner Charles Johnson of Rushville was killed in Greenfield while being exhibited for a prize in her class. Ross Hunt driving a pair of horses in the game square collided with Johnson the tongue to the buggy severing the artery in the mare’s breast.
Milton Hutson, a prominent farmer near Newcastle, has a dog that fetches and delivers the rural mail. The dog runs to meet the mail wagon, grips letters and papers in its teeth, and deposits them on the doorstep for the Hutson family to receive, ignoring a roadside mailbox.
In Rensselaer Vannie Arnold aged fourteen fished the Kankakee near Wheatfield. He netted a fourteen pound pickerel after jumping in to recapture it, measuring thirty eight inches. Recent reports note several large catches including a pair totaling forty pounds with a buyer paying four hundred dollars.
Edward Brennan, a Hammond businessman, fell into the Wolf river from a crowded Trammond Street car near the bridge on the way to Tammond. Patrolman John Cars on, who dove to recover him, fell from the bridge and was rescued after a third submersion. he remains in critical condition.
Conductor W L Dooley reports a sunflower sprouting in a tree thirty feet above ground in the fork of a North Conde street tree near Lake Erie Western railroad. The 59 foot tall tree hosts a large stalk with multiple blooms and an owl’s nest has long been in the same fork. It is believed a drifting seed from the owl’s nest caused the growth this year.
Daughters of the American Revolution urge preservation of Corydon’s constitutional elm where Indiana’s original constitution was adopted. The tree shows decay and state entomologist Benjamin W. Douglass plans immediate measures to save the historic tree.
Charles F. Kappes, a St. Paul businessman, found a perfectly round marble sized object inside a boiled egg. The outer shell matched an egg but the inner object contained a white egg like substance, prompting surprise.
A thunder storm struck the farm of J J Vickery in Noblesville and lightning set the barn ablaze. The barn and contents valued at about 4000 dollars were lost, with 60 tons of mixed hay 50 tons of baled straw 500 bushels of wheat 700 bushels of oats and farm tools destroyed. The structure carried 2800 dollars of insurance.
In a stone quarry near New Salisbury, Harrison County, William Dawson uncovered a foot embedded in blue lime stone twelve feet below the surface. The impression, about the size of a cow foot yet longer, is believed by geologists to have formed over a thousand years around the relic of a moose or buffalo.
P W Carter of Bellefontaine claims to have a corn ear showing an odd number of rows rather than the usual even pairing. The ear is described as a freak and very rare by corn experts and locals.
Glenn Curtiss of Hammondsport New York set a new over water flight record by crossing Lake Erie from Euclid Beach near Cleveland to Cedar Point Ohio, about sixty miles, in roughly one hour nineteen minutes. A crowd of about 100000 watched as the aeroplane landed at Cedar Point and Curtiss was carried to his hotel.
Crowds on Park Row watch in horror as a man plunges from a twenty six story Park Row building. The body crashes through a skylight into a six story adjacent structure and becomes jammed in elevator machinery. Identification is uncertain and motive unknown.
President Taft may approve a plan to raise the battleship Maine from Havana harbor using pneumatic caissons and steel cables. If adopted, the ship would be preserved intact and sail home by Christmas, delivering a long delayed verdict to the nation.
In a collision one mile northeast of Lawrence Indiana Union Traction car hit a cut of Big Four freight cars. Five persons were bruised and the interurban car demolished. Motorman R. H. Sullivan of Anderson leaped clear to save himself. Passengers escaped serious injury though the crash was severe.
Miss Mabel Cornelia Moulton married Rev J Wilbur Chapman in Providence Rhode Island where Miss Moulton resides. The ceremony links the noted New York evangelist with his bride after a world tour and the marriage is noted for the prominence of the parties.
Salt Palace, a salt structure and city landmark in Salt Lake City Utah, was destroyed by fire causing uninsured losses of 26000 dollars. Defective wiring is named as the cause.
Spanish American veterans have voted to hold their next gathering in Oklahoma City. Louisville’s delegation fought hard but was rejected for the meeting location.
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