Interlocutory Order Halts Claims, Not Work, in Elkhart County
The circuit court in Elkhart issued an interlocutory order restraining the board of county commissioners and the National Concrete Co from presenting bills or receiving money on contracts tied to Elkhart projects until final hearing in October. The injunction also prevents payment on several contracts while allowing contractors to continue the work. Judges cited irregular bid timing and lack of defined plans as reasons, with total contracts valued at 16,795 across several firms including National Concrete Co and Hagadone Construction Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter T. Longawire
Elkhart Aint
National Concrete Co. Ofdianapolis
Hagadone Construction Co
Indianapolis
Elkhart Bridge & Iron Co
David B. Lehman
Middlebury
Judge Dodge
Circuit Court
Superior Court
J. L. Harman
National Concrete Co
Dodge
Elkhart Bridge & Iron Works
David Lehman
Supreme Court
Batchelor
Robbed Twice in One Day at Gordon's Grocery
Petty robberies at Alex Gordons grocery store on Indi ana avenue and Eighth street have troubled proprietor Gordon for weeks. About $8 was stolen on Monday from the money drawer in two installments, likely by boys who frequent the shop, while clerks in the meat market rear were distracted. The cash drawer lock has been out of repair.
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Gordon
Alex Gordon
Indiana Avenue
Eighth Street
Elk Hart Chapter National Railway Mail Clerks’ Association Formed
In Elkhart a meeting founded the Elk hart Chapter of the National Railway Mail Clerks Association. Charles Jeffries was chosen temporary president and W F Middleton was named chairman. The group aims to include all clerks in the district with Goshen Elkhart South Bend and nearby points uniting for mutual interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkhart
National Railway Mail Clerks’ Association
Charles Jeffries
W. F. Middleton
Charmain
Goshen
South Bend
Nude swimming on riverfront prompts police action
Residents along Johnson avenue reported nude men and boys swimming in the river at Moody avenue’s foot. An officer detained three youths, who were fined one dollar and costs each and ten days in county jail with sentences suspended by City Judge Hughes. They promised to report again today.
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Johnson Avenue
Moody Avenue
Hughes
County Inspectors Study Infirmary Lighting Upgrade
County commissioners inspected the infirmary lighting system, took measurements, and collected cost data for electric lights. Power would come from the Hen Island dam company. Supt. Warden has relied on kerosene lamps since last April, with an average of over fifty inmates held continuously.
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Hen Island
Auto Collision in Goshen Heads on Main Street
Autos owned by Dr. M. K. Kreider and Burt Smith of Goshen were badly damaged in a head on collision on South Main street at 7 p m Tuesday. Both cars were on the same side and moving opposite directions, and the crash occurred while trying to avoid a wagon. One car was a Ford and the other a Buick.
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Goshen
M. K. Kreider
Burt Smith
South Main Street
Ford
Buick
Consideration for Mourning at Castle U B Church
Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley state vice president of the W C T U gave a lengthy reading Tuesday night at Castle U B church titled At the Mercy of the State. The audience was small and there was no musical program due to the nearby home of Lake Shore Conductor D E Carpenter who died of injuries Tuesday.
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Elizabeth Stanley
Castle U. B
State
Lake Shore
D. E. Carpenter
Drayman Injured In Freight House Accident
Carl Coleman of East Jackson Street, a drayman, suffered severe bruising to his left foot when heavy machinery was dropped on it at a freight house while loading for Valley Paper Co. He cannot work for several days. Machinist Adam Tickfer injured a finger and bruised an instep by dropping a binder yoke. Goshen residents demand municipal water reform amid claims pumping facilities, chiefly from Rock Run, are inadequate and endangering public health due to lack of filtration.
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Carl Coleman
East Jackson Street
Valley Paper Co
Adam Tickfer
Goshen
Rock Run
Divorce suit and custody battle filed in Superior Court
Amanda M. Jacobs sues Willis B. Jacobs for divorce custody of Floyd seven and Treve eighteen months with six dollars weekly support. Married June 24 1899 separated July 27 1908 cruelty non support and adultery charged. Proctor represents plaintiff. Transformer fire at Main and Short spurred alarm as residents awaited fire department. George Jenkinson Mishawaka dies aged fifty one.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amanda M. Jacobs
Willis B. Jacobs
Floyd
Treve
KR. BH. Proctor
Protracted Tyler avenue brawl and Moyer reunion noted
A Tuesday night fight on Tyler avenue in front of the Standard Hotel involved about a dozen Lake Shore employees with injuries but no arrests. Separately, about 140 Samuel Moyer family members gathered at Island for their third annual reunion with a long family history recounted and descendants listed from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana.
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Tyler Avenue
Standard Hotel
Lake Shore
Nancy Buckwalter
Gardner
Jacob
Benjamin F. Monger
Olive Township
Samuel
Sarah
Samuel Moyer
David
Moyer
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Switzerland
America
Gardner, NL
Henry Moyer
Harmony
Abraham Moyer
Andrew Johnson
Mason, Ill
Sarah Mackey
Warren
Scott Huntly
West Farmington
George Foster
Talbott
Ind
Funeral for Lake Shore Conductor David E Carpenter
The funeral for Lake Shore conductor David E Carpenter, who died in a wreck seven miles west of Elkhart, will be held Friday at 2 30 p m at 418 Middlebury Street. Rev L A Beeks of Trinity M E church will officiate. Mrs Carpenter remains seriously but not dangerously ill. Brakeman D Mack is reported in good condition. The Mishawaka correspondent noted the caboose fell ten feet off an embankment as the train descended a grade.
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David
D. Mack
Bridge contracts suspended for county claims payment
Judge Dodge halts payment of recent bridge and arch contract claims for the county. Other items include a public teachers list, thefts at a Wolf’s addition grocer, Lloyd Simonton winning a golf trophy, and various national and local notes from the day’s ENEWS.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judge Dodge
Wolf
Lloyd Simonton
Tyler Avenue
Weather Forecast Partly cloudy and cooler by Thursday
The forecast calls for local showers tonight with Partly cloudy and cooler conditions later. Thursday is expected to be generally fair and cool with local cloudy conditions and mild winds.
Osceola Boy Kept Awaiting Naval Court Martial
The Fourth Circuit rules that a minor who enlisted fraudulently or not remains under military authority and can be held for desertion. Rooney Booker of Osceola Ind was not to be released pending naval court martial and is to be returned to naval custody. The decision covers Maryland Virginia and the Carolinas as part of the circuit.
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United States Circuit Court of Appeals For
Fourth Circuit
Rooney Booker
Osceola
Ind
Booker
Naval Court
Naval
Maryland
Virginias
Carolinas
Middlebury Woman Suffers Finger Injury At Hospital
Mrs Charles McGary of Middlebury who accompanied Sheriff Ziesel to Loneycliff as an attendant for a Middlebury patient may lose her little finger after a hospital cab door shut on it. Doctors at Logansport were unsure about amputation while patient Mrs Frank Martin, 40, is described as not in serious condition.
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Charles McGary
Middlebury
Sheriff Ziesel
Loneycliff
Rolling Stock Breakdowns Slow Freight on Big Four Line
Rolling stock and engines suffered repeated failures on Big Four train No. 25 over two days. Switch engine needed for each run and freight crews handled their own yard switching due to loss of the switch engine. Local workers cite Wabash strike as causing overall poor rolling stock and slow freight, leading to yard overstocking. northbound trains ran over an hour late, blamed on old worn engines unable to keep up with schedule.
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Big Four
Wabash
Train Hits Auto in Tragic Minneapolis Crash
Minneapolis reports a morning collision near Lake Minne Tonka where John Gluck, a millionaire brewer, and his wife were killed instantly. Their two children are seriously injured, a sister-in-law is dying, and the family party was touring by car.
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Minneapolis
John Guck
Minneapolis and
St. Louis
Lake Minnetonka
Charges Against Army Officers Stir New York Crisis
New York reports nearly all army officers rally to defend Capt. Peter Haines after Mrs. Haines publicizes counter charges to a divorce suit. The allegations accuse Haines of an unmentionable crime and claim such conduct is widespread among officers known to the couple.
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New York
United States Army
Peter Haines
Wm. KE. Annis
A Sexton Encounters Moving Skull in Churchyard
London reports James Green, sexton at Horsted Keynes Sussex, dug in the churchyard and saw a skull appear and move. He watched as the skull emerged fully, only to be revealed as a mole nesting inside the skull.
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Sexton
London
James Green
Horsted Keynes
Sussex
Mr. Green
Woman Kills Baby and Herself in Illinois Woods
A twenty five year old woman was found dead in Evanston, with her infant baby murdered by being stabbed in the brain with a hat pin. Police suspect death by self harm though a murder theory is not ruled out. A note bearing the name Mrs. Fred Goldbego and address 519 West Thirteenth street, Chicago, was found on her. The pair had been in Evanston for a week and the mother is identified as the child’s mother.
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Chicago
Evanston
Thomas Weeney
Fred Goldbego
West Thirteenth Street
Strike Clouds Break Over Indiana Mine Row
President of the United Mine Workers declined to reveal the telegram to President Van Horn of District No. 2. He said he favors advising over ordering. Rumors said he ordered a return to work. Indiana operators and miners officials meet today to seek a settlement.
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Indianapolis
United Mine Workers
van Horn
Indiana
Syracuse University secretary commits death by own act
Rev. James G. Phelps financial secretary of Syracuse University killed himself in an Utica hotel. His body was found hanging from a window and a note read he was tired of life. He had ties to the Northern Christian Advocate.
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Tennessee
Louisville
Bryan
National
England
Elwood
Indiana
Sam Tella
Wilhelmina
Venezuela
Hayes
New York
Haines-Ann
Syracuse University
Chicago
Baby
Utica
N. Y
James G. Phelps
Hayes mobbed by admirers after marathon win in New York
John Hayes, winner of the Marathon, was mobbed by hundreds of friends and fellow athletes as the White Star liner Oceante arrived in New York.
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New York
John Hayes
Oldfield-Ryan Race Off After Manslaughter Charge
John J. Ryan, former racing promoter, is arrested in Covington on manslaughter charges after Ignatz Wandrack was struck and killed by Ryan’s racing machine. A planned $2,500-a-side match race with Barney Oldfield is reportedly canceled. Ryan bound over to the October grand jury.
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Ryan
Cincinnati
John J. Ryan
Furf Phinger
Covington
Ignatz Wandrack
Kentucky Hills
Barney Oldfield
Oldfield
Sea Serpent Made of Cork at Long Lake Mystery Solved
Kalamazoo resident Frank Denner confessed he built a cork filled canvas sea serpent with a wire control after claiming to see a creature in Long Lake last year. He spent winter and money on the hoax to frighten bathers, who fled in panic.
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Kalamazoo
Long Lake
Frank Denner
St. George
Thaw Owes His Mother Much
Mrs Mary Thaw filed a claim against her son Harry K Thaw for 209674.21 in Pittsburgh on Aug 19 before Referee Blair. The suit alleges twenty four promissory notes from 400 to 20000 issued between June 28 1906 and August 8 1907.
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Thaw
Pitttsburg
Mary Thaw
Harry K. Thaw
Blair
Lusitania Sets Pace With Four Day Atlantic Run
The Lusitania on the short course is breaking records across the Atlantic. If the recent speed continues, she will arrive tomorrow night making her a four day crossing the first in history.
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Lusitania
New York
Atlantic
Soldiers Going Home After Mideast Incident Returns
The First Regiment, arrived Saturday, left for Chicago this morning and will bypass Kankakee where tensions rose after Private Klein killed a boy stealing a hide. The city remained quiet today in Springfield.
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Springfield
Chicago
Kankakee
Klein
Kissel Shot in Hartford Quarrel Over Real Estate
Louis Kissel president of Kissel Motor Car Co and Hartford Plow Works was fatally shot by an unknown foreigner after a dispute over a small real estate parcel. The incident occurred in Hartford Wisconsin on August 19.
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Hartford
Wis
Louis Kissel
Kissel Motor Car Co
Hartford Plow Works
Race Rancor in Jellico Tennessee
In Jellico amid white miner tensions against blacks the uprising quiets after five leaders are arrested by Claiborne County Sheriff Hughes. The band drove thirty blacks from Campbell's mine forcing fast departure. Threats to burn or kill linger as black and white residents flee Jellico and nearby towns.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Noa Jeslica
Hughes
Claiborne County
Campbell's Mine
Authras
Jellico
Simply Tired of Life Ends Bankers Life Manager
Alfred T. Wimberly state manager of the Bankers Life Association of Des Moines Iowa was found dead in his Louisville home from a self inflicted pistol wound. A coroner said death was by suicide and a letter on the table quoted despondent remarks and claimed no guilt or domestic troubles.
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Louisville
Alfred T. Wimberly
Bankers’ Life Association
Des Mones
A. I. Wimberly
Turtle Snags Girl Then Drowns in White River
Miss Washburn, 19, nearly drowns when a large turtle seizes her toe and drags her under as boys try to rescue her. A diver retrieves her, and she regains consciousness on shore after seventeen minutes. She survives and plans not to fish White River again, joking about turtle stew.
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Miss Washburn
Fusefa 15 Mighty Onsartin Case Secrets Revealed
In Terre Haute Aug 19 Damian Jokuhaitus a Russian coal miner pursued Fusefa Stanguatis claiming payment of a marriage license fee and seeking a duplicate license after a canceled original. He stated the girl agreed to marry, and a duplicate license was issued for him.
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Terre Haute
Ful
Damian Jokuhaitus
Fusefa Stanguatis
Embezzler Captured in Ottawa Case Tied to Indiana Firm
Ottawa dispatch reports Edward Craven, claiming wine company plans, arrested as Edward Cotteringham, treasurer of Union Traction Co., Lipton Indiana. Charged with embezzling 85000. Detective De Vault identified him after recognition from description. He had Confederate bills but little valid money.
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Tndianapolis
Ottawa
Ont
Edward Craven
Edward Catteringham
Union Traction Company
Lipton
Ind
de Vault
Cotteringham
Giant freshwater pearl found near Crawfordsville
In Crawfordsville Indiana on August 19 Peter Coffman found a massive freshwater pearl weighing 57 grains in Sugar Creek near Thorn Town northeast of Crawfordsville. The record says the largest freshwater pearl weighed 60 grains and was shown at the St Louis Louisiana Purchase exposition.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Peter Coffman
Thorntown
St. Louis
Fisherman reels record perch in White River near Columbus
Warry Kinney from a White River fishing camp landed a seventeen pound white perch Saturday night, the largest ever caught in the area. Local fishermen theorize the fish is a tramp from a large stream. It fought hard before capture as Superintendent Gulick of the American Simplex auto factory in Mishawaka visited Columbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ind
Warry Kinney
White River
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L. W. Vail
Co. No. 2
George Jenkinson
Mishawaka
Long
Grand Rapids
Simonton
Michigan
V. W. van Fleet
Mr. Simonton
William Thaw
Harry
Miles Medical Co
Haines-Annis
San Jose
Muncie
Delaware County
Joseph F. Ducknall
Turtle and
Tootsie
Turtle
Hed Meer
Éwendelen Washburn
Onega
Gil
Esiipers
Mahar
Dolhar
Fusefa
Mighty “Onsartin
Gulick
American Simplex Automobile Factory
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