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Newspaper

Elkhart Daily Review

Location

Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Aug 01, 1908

Page

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Saloon License Legal Question Sparks Hearing

Saloonkeeper Charles Smith faces a liquor sale without license charge after continuing operations past a July 10 expiration. Lawyer J H State argues the license dates from the superior court decision, not the commissioner issue, a point central to the case now under review by Edward Dalka and county officials. A 9 a m Wednesday hearing is set, with Potts and Smith described as partners and other license actions planned for next Monday.

Smith J. H. State Aquor St. Joseph County Potts and Smith

Miller Defines His Attitude On Labor Legislation

Goshen Republican nominee for Congress Hon. Charles W. Miller outlines his positions on injunctions eight hour law for government work Sherman anti trust reforms and Beveridge child labor proposals. He supports limited injunctions with notice, universal eight hour coverage, possible amendments to the Sherman act, and a nationwide child labor law pending constitutional review.

Charles W. Miller Goshen Congress Workingmen's South Bend Central Labor Union Beveridge Muler

Dentist Dowell Victim of Noon Theft at Wells Block

Thief entered Dr. C. M. Dowell's dental rooms above Wells clothing store during the noon hour Friday, stealing $1 in stamps and the gold portions of an unfinished bridge and crown valued at $10. The burglar relocked doors, implying familiarity with the office. Dowell had already moved gold to a safe after a previous January robbery.

C. M. Dowell Wells Clothing Dowell

Suits Filed in Superior Court to Enforce Assessments

A. E. B. Darling filed six suits in the superior court to foreclose on unpaid assessments for sewer and sidewalk improvements. Plaintiffs include Michael Fishley v Percy Wid dis Bucklen Mrs Payne Holbrook and the heirs of Havillah Beardsley and Frank Brumbaugh v Mary Smallwood.

A. EB. Darling Michael Fishley Percy T. Widdis Fishley William G. Holbrook Sarah A. Payne Herbert H. Buckley Havillah Beardsley Frank Brumbaugh Mary Smallwood Wy, Bucklen

Honest Stranger Returns Five-Dollar Bill at Depot

War ren Wahl recounts a man who found a five-dollar bill at the depot last Monday noon and handed it to a stranger who sought the owner. Wahl suggested a ticket buyer on the same train might own it. The money was turned over to the stranger, who searched for the owner honestly.

Warren Wahl Wahl

Child Nearly Drowns After Gasoline Mistook for Water

Three year old Dorothy Berger of Chicago visiting relatives in White Pigeon drank gasoline from a tank believing it water. She collapsed and turned blue but received prompt medical aid and is reported improving by a physician.

Dorothy Ernest Berger Chicago

Mrs Maybrick Story Draws Large Chau tauqua Audience

Mrs Maybrick, whose case stirred two nations, spoke to a packed crowd at Chau tauqua. The tale covered her marriage to James Maybrick, life in England, his death, arsenic discovery, trial and fifteen years imprisonment, and her subsequent release aided by American women.

Maybrick Slayton Jubilee Singers Mr. Maybrick England America Indiana Michigan City Lfe

Crowd at Chautauqua draws big Saturday attendance

Mrs Maybrick attracts a large crowd to the Chautauqua with Sunday expected to be even bigger. Local news notes include political organizing halts, business moves, theft reports, licensing battles, and regional incidents across Indiana and beyond.

Weather Forecast For Tonight And Sunday

Government forecast calls for generally fair conditions tonight and Sunday with a slowly rising temperature. Local condition remains fair with Miles Medical Co providing the daily forecast.

Miles Medical Co

Accidents Rise Across Months in Local Shops

A local surgeon reports accidents rose from thirty seven in May to fifty nine in July with three fractures one amputation and one trespasser noted. Clarence Wright a Lake Shore motorman was injured on the Fullmer farm after returning to duty. John Anderson and Dwight Shoup, Lake Shore workers, suffered hand injuries. Mrs Earl Patterson sprained an ankle on the Chautauqua grounds. Jesse Horn injured a finger at the Angldile scale factory.

Lake Shore Clarence Wright Fullmer John Anderson Dwight Shoup Earl Patterson Beardsley Avenue Jesse Horn Goshen Avenue

Health Report and Work Hours Change in Lake Shore Shops

The July health report lists twenty six deaths including Roscoe Stone and Sadie Wormald, with four teen and two fifths per cent mortality and thirty six births, plus cases of scarlet fever, diphtheria and measles. Workers will start at 6 30 a m and finish at 4 30 p m, adding one hour and extending Saturday to five hours.

Lake Shore I. W. Short Roscoe Stone Sadie Wormald Drake

Elkhart Motor Car Co Opens New Factory

The Elkhart Motor Car Co moved into its new factory today and plans to begin operations next week. The company has finished three cars which will be delivered to local purchasers next week.

Elkhart Motor Car Co

Mob Kills Four Black Residents in Russellville Kentucky

In Russellville Kentucky Aug 1 a mob of about fifty seized four Black men Virgil Jones Tom Jones Robert Jones and Joe Riley from Logan county jail and hanged them. The mob claimed a racial motive linked to the Cunningham case a white farmer killed by a Black man Rufus Browder. Browder remains jailed in Louisville. The mob left a warning card in the jailhouse.

John Temple Graves Tom Watson Norman E. Mack Taft Bryan Ketchel Kelly San Francisco John Mitchell Civic Federation Dun J. Hill Pacific Henry County Indiana British Columbia Kentucky Iinois Russellville Nashville Pike Logan County Virgil Jones Tom Jones Robert Jones Joe Riley James Cunningham Allensville Todd County Rufus Browder Browder Cunningham Louisville Bult

Lad Dies Twice in Day in Noblesville

Nelson Pfaff aged fifteen son of farmer Jacob Pfaff died twice in one day at Cool creek after being submerged for twenty minutes. He revived after ten minutes of resuscitation by his father and a physician. but an hour later he worsened and died.

Noblesville Ind Nelson Jacob Pfaff Cool Creek

Good Advice Timely Given

Mrs Ethel Willis a nurse saved a fourteen year old boy near Superior Wisconsin by halting a throttled child from moving as a train passed over him after five cars had crossed the boy crawled toward the rails she commanded him to hug the ground and the train stopped unhurt.

Superior Wis Ethel Willis

Count Boni de Castellane Wins August Custody

In Paris on August 1, Count Boni de Castellane secured a supplementary custody ruling for his three children. The court granted custody for August in addition to September, citing his inability to see the children during their year in the United States with their mother, Princess de Sagan.

Paris Boni de Castellane Princess de Sagan Boni United States

Woman's Startling Experience Near Boulder Creek

Mrs. S Sloan of Boulder Creek recounts a landslide incident where her husband’s severed head appeared in a path as he cried beneath earth. He survived a long burial under rock with a broken shoulder, rescued after nearly an hour.

San Jose Cal S. 5 Sloan Boulder Creek

Clara Kanter Awakens After 100 Hours in Coma

Clara Kanter, kidnapped and assaulted earlier in the week, awoke from a comatose state after about 100 hours and dressed herself before neighbors blocked her attempt to leave Pittsburg.

Pittsburg Clara Kanter

Insanity Leads to Double Tragedy in Blackberry Farm

At the Morrell farm John Larson shot his best friend A Morrell and housekeeper Mrs Matty idleain then killed himself. Larson, momentarily insane, regained reason after firing. Morrell tried to help but died. Larson killed himself. In Warsaw Indiana Violetta Bowen sixteen died after a needle piercing her heart. She awoke to a strange sensation and later pains for months. doctors fear needle point pierced heart walls. She had moved from Denver with her mother Mrs Thomas Walden. father Joseph Bowen lives in Haines.

Hlindsan A. Morrell Matty d John Larson Morrell Larson Mor Raloo Warsaw Ind Violetta Marie Bowen Miss Bowen

New Republican State Committee Executive Panel Named

Indianapolis August 1 Official announcement of the new executive committee of the Republican state committee was made yesterday. Members include John Moorman Knox James E Piety Terre Haute Owen Carr Rushville Charles R Remy Columbus and E W Bowen Delphi. The group is seen as a strong capable slate with broad political experience.

Indianapolis John Moorman Knox James E. Piety Terre Haute Owen Carr Rushville Charles R. Remy Columbus E. W. Bowen Delphi Claypool Hotel

Corrigan McKinney to Build Two Furnaces and Docks

Corrigan, McKinney & Co. will construct two iron furnaces and extensive upper river ore docks at a cost of 2 1/2 million dollars. Each furnace will produce about 200 000 tons of pig iron annually and employ 800 workers.

Cleveland Ohio Corrigan, McKinney & Co Upper Washington Bonaparte Oklahoma

Democratic Editors Meet in Indianapolis Campaign Preview

In Indianapolis on August 1 the Democratic editorial association and executive committees met to outline campaign policies. All Democratic papers will receive plate matter from the press bureau at no charge. John W. Kern and Thomas R. Marshall spoke at Fairview Park on the role of Indiana editors in the election.

Indianapolis Ind John W. Kern Thomas R. Marshall Indiana Fairview Park

Fire destroys shop and nearby buildings in Thorntown

Fire discovered at 3 a.m. in an old carriage shop in Thorntown Indiana destroyed the shop a drug store an icehouse and a barn and damaged six business houses. Loss estimated at 15000 with 10000 insured.

Thorntown Ind Ifire

Mine accident injures Joseph Booker in Linton

In Linton Indiana on August 1 Joseph Booker was walking through the Little Giant mine front entry when a shot explosion sent flying particles striking him across the body. He is expected to be disabled from the injuries.

Linton Ind Joseph Booker Eate

Mitchell to Lead Trade Agreement Efforts for Federation

This Aug. 1 dispatch reports John Mitchell ex-president of the United Mine Workers will devote his full time to the trade agreement department of the National Civil Federation. Mitchell will work from offices at 281 Fourth Avenue, New York, with aims to advance industrial peace and reform employer worker relations.

New York Ralph M. Ensley National Civil Federation John Mitchell United Mine Workers of America Mederation Mitchell Seth Tow Federation Low Fourth Avenue

Just What He Expected Hills abandon Pacific trade claim

St Paul August 1 James J Bill chairman of the Great Northern says Hill lines dropped the marine share in trade with Japan and China as the Pacific trade ceased to pay He blames not the Interstate Commerce Commission but needful legislation to revive ocean carriage rather than subsidies.

St. Paul Hill Lines Japan China James J. Bill Great Northern Hill Interstate Commerce Commission Commission America

William P Call longtime Brown County official dies at 92

William P Call prominent Green Bay figure and first marshal of Depere ex sheriff of Brown County and assessor dies at ninety two. He is survived by twenty one grandchildren forty great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren with two sons and two daughters.

Green Bay Wis William P. Call Depere Brown County Call

When McCloud Awoke

Lansing reports Wilson McCloud a Lenawee county farmhand visited the city with a man who claimed to be a sign painter They drank alcohol together and woke later on the Grand river bank while the painter and his pocketbook containing 25 dollars vanished from the scene

Lansing Mich Wilson McLoud Lenawee County McCloud Grand River

Pier Fire Devastates Hamburg-America Wharf

Philadelphia reports the Hamburg America line pier of the International Mercantile Marine company destroyed by a spectacular fire. Loss estimated at 400,000 dollars includes a steamer cargo and large quantities of merchandise. fire suspected to have started from crossed electric wires.

Philadelphia Hamburg-America Line International Mercantile Marine Company

Two Sides Ends in Witty Domestic Verse

A brief, quirky exchange on marriage and money, highlighting mutual affection and bargaining between a man and his wife. The fragment hints at a humorous争 undertone about cigars and generosity within a couple.

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Charles Smith Irwin Potts Charles A. Smith South Main Street Supt. Silvers Edward Dalka Police News Withers Prough C. C. Shaw Poy Relenega Sisterhood of Epiphany Truro Cornwall Baroness Roques Rouen France Chandler James Maybrick Liverpool the Daily Review Ella Bussick Women’s Department Bartholomew County White River Jennings County Civil Federation Dea J.H. Hill Pacific Ocean
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