Objections Rise Over South Main Street Paving Plan
At a Germania Hall meeting led by ex Judge J D Osborne fifty property owners signed a remonstrance against the South Main asphalt-macadam paving from Prairie south. Critics cite added financial burden in hard times and uncertain payoffs, noting ten day filing windows to halt the project unless a majority remonstrance is filed, with council appeal requiring two thirds vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Public Works
Main Street
Prairie South
Germania Hall
J. D. Osborne
South Main Street
Chicago
Muskegon
Mich
Bridge payment withheld over nonconforming work
County auditor Batchelor and the county commissioners halted payments on twelve bridges for not meeting contract plans and specifications. Among them are two Benton township spans by Elkhart Bridge & Iron Co costing 750 dollars, one Benton township span by D. D. Lehman, and an Olive township span by Contractor Cripe. Cement curing is cited as a key issue in not accepting the work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Batchelor
Benton Township
Elkhart Bridge & Iron Co
D. D
Lehman
Olive Township
Cripe
Claimed Robbery On Lake Shore Train No 20
Chicago salesman F J Soul told officials he was robbed of seventy dollars on Lake Shore train No 20 at Englewood station Sunday night. He said he boarded with two grips and, after mixing with a crowd, found his inside pocket relieved of the money. He borrowed funds from the hotel to continue his trip through South Bend and Elkhart on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Shore
Englewood
F. J. Soul
Chicago
South Bend
Elkhart
Mr. Soul
Englewood Station
Powers to Lecture in Goshen This Fall
Caleb Powers known for alleged link to Governor Goebel murder will lecture in Goshen this fall. Arrangements are under way for Powers to share his side of the Goebel case with the public during the event.
May Hear Nordica In South Bend This Autumn
Nordica, regarded as one of the world’s greatest sopranos, may be heard in South Bend this autumn if a local movement succeeds. Organizers aim to bring the gifted vocalist to town, offering residents a rare musical event with a premier artist of the day.
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Lillian Nordica
South Bend
Refute Campaign Lies At Republican Meeting
A large gathering of Republican committeemen and workers met at Hoff mans hall on Monday evening. Attendees from every city precinct and several rural precincts voiced confidence in Republican nominees for national, state, and county offices. Speakers praised Tafts experience and urged continued party support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoffman’s Hall
William Taft
William J. Bryan
A. G. Graham
South Bend
L. G. Rothschild
Indianapolis
Foster
Knox
Charles W. Miller
Goshen
Kosciusko County
Perry Smith
Mr. Foster
John L. Moorman
Starke County
Miller
Moorman
Knox County
State Tax Levy Holds at Twelve Cents Per Hundred
County Auditor D. Batchelor has been notified that the state tax rate for next year will be twelve cents on every $100, identical to the current rate. The notice confirms no change in the levy.
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Batchelor
Plucky Girl Ends Thrilling Drive Incident Near Essig Hill
A seven year old girl Bessie Bowers and four year old Bernice with their father Thomas Bowers were driving south of the city when a frightened horse bolted after meeting a passing auto. Bessie held the lines until the horse stopped. the father was bruised but not seriously hurt and is able to walk today. Separately plans were filed to repair the St Joseph river bridge between Elkhart and St Joseph counties, including raising the south pier to match the north, demolishing the old pier, building a steel shell, adding a new plank floor and repainting metal work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Bowers
West
Franklin Street
Bessie
Bernice
Essig Hill
Mr. Bowers
St. Joseph River
Elkshart
St. Joseph
South Bend
Commissioners
Elkhart County
St. Joseph County
Abe Goldsmith of Ligonier Dies at 56 in Insurance Windfall
Abe Goldsmith of Ligonier, noted in Monday's Review, belonged to Straus Bros. & Co. in Ligonier. He carried life insurance totaling 60 000 dollars. Having built wealth with his brothers-in-law J. and Ike Straus through banking and real estate, his family is well provided for. He was fifty six years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abe Goldsmith
Ligonier
Straus Bros. & Co
Goldsmith
8. J. and
Ike Straus
Handcar Theft Near Depot Stolen and Recovered
Miscreants broke the lock from a handcar beside the Big Four section house near the depot Friday night and rode it away. Section Foreman Flennar found the vehicle hidden in weeds off the right of way near the Chicago Telephone Supply on Monday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flennar
Chicago Telephone Supply. Co
Justice Oberholtzer Faces Jurisdiction Question in Smith Liquor Case
The Smith liquor license case stalled as Justice Oberholtzer missed the 9 a.m. call. Deputy Prosecutor Darling sought to argue the jurisdiction issue, while defense attorney J. H. State said the matter was not set for today. State contends the justice lacks original jurisdiction and may certify upward. prosecutors hint at a new case if this one collapses, possibly with a special city judge for a venue change.
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Oberholtzer
C. A. Smith
Darling
J. H. State
Myr
State
Late objections to South Main street paving
A review notes lingering objections to the proposed paving project on South Main Street with community concerns and local official responses recorded amid a flurry of August activity across Goshen and surrounding areas.
Collapse of Building In Chelsea Kills Eighteen
Eighteen men are reported killed with several injured after a brick Chelsea Square building collapsed during internal rebuilding work. Ten dead and seven badly hurt have been taken out. fifteen remain buried, and rescue teams continue search as police and fire crews work the rubble. Twelve men escaped through a rear door as hundreds assist at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chelsea
Mass
Chelsea Square
Teachers Institute in Goshen Holds Session
The Elkhart County Teachers Institute met in Goshen high school's assembly room with County Sept. Weaver presiding. Miss Frances Stutz acted as recording secretary and H. Shamory enrolled. A resolutions committee was named: Miss Margaret Wilson, Vernon Schwalm, and M. L. Moyer. About fifty teachers attended. Dr. Edwin D. Starbuck of Iowa University spoke on The Stages of Child Development outlining four periods. His Monday afternoon topic was Mental Heredity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkhart County
Weather forecast civic region partly cloudy and mild
Government forecast notes partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with gradually rising temperatures. Local conditions show partly cloudy skies, furnished daily by Miles Medical Co. Maximum 74, minimum 50, wind around 12 mph.
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Miles Medical Co
Despondent English Widow Makes Suicide Attempt in Elkhart
Mrs. Catherine Jane Quillian, 59, slashed her throat with a pocket knife and razor at her son John Killey’s home on Middlebury Street after 2 pm Monday. She is improving at Clark Hospital, with doctors hopeful for recovery after initial danger from blood loss. Her son found her in a pool of blood, and neighbors and Officer Pearce assisted.
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Quillian
Catherine Jane Quillian
John Killey
Middlebury Street
Clark Hospital
Milwaukee
Elkhart
Seret
George Whiteman
Abe Pearce
Popcorn Wagon Theft Sparks Warrants for Three Local Boys
Peter Lampres reported his Big Four depot popcorn and crackerjack wagon broken into Sunday night. Warrants issued for Fred Fuller and John Doe for glass breaking, and Oscar Robinson for stealing gum. A third unnamed youth accompanied them. the men are accused of prior wagon-tipping two weeks earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Lampres
Big Four
Fred Fuller
John Doe
Oscar Robinson
Fuller
Robinson
Boys Fight and Crowd Draws Police Attention
Corwin Jeffries and Bert Weaver were arrested Monday evening on charges of fighting and released on their own recognizance to appear at 9 am today. A caller said boys fought on Moody Avenue, with 25 to 30 in a crowd making loud noise near Lexington Avenue. Deputy Prosecutor Darling lectured them and sent them home with a warning of possible heavy fines if brought in again.
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Corwin Jeffries
Bert Weaver
Moody Avenue
Little
Lexington Avenue
Darling
Commissioner Finds Met Co Charges Not Proven
Richard L. Hand of Elizabethtown, appointed by Gov. Hughes to hear charges against District Attorney William Travers Jerome, finds none proven and recommends dismissal of the charges. He states Jerome has discharged duties with zeal and public good as motive and shows no incapacity or neglect.
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Albany
N. Y
Richard L. Hand
Elizabethtown
Hughes
William Travers Jerome
New York County
Metropolitan Street Railway Co
Jerome
Hand
Cattle Eat Dynamite and Blow Up in Field
Oscar Huff of near Bremen, Indiana, loses two steers in a bizarre blast incident. While blasting stumps, the cattle ingested dynamite left nearby. A thrown stone later caused the dynamite in the first steer to explode, blowing the animal to pieces and shocking the herd, causing a second steer to explode. The blasts were heard for miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth
Ind
Oscar Huff
Bremen
Huff
Boy Reunited After Newspaper Appeal in Indiana
In Warsaw on August 25 Charles Bowman, raised on a LaPorte county farm, connected with his mother Mrs. Jessie Hyde of Warsaw after reading a newspaper notice. Separated for twelve years since age three, he had been in an orphanage in Mishawaka and later adopted by a South Bend family. The mother sought help through papers, and the boy read the notice and reached out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Ind
Jessie Hyde
Fountain County
Charles Bowman
LaPorte County
Mishawaka
South Bend
Mrs Stuckman’s Record As Longtime School Teacher
Mrs Emma A Stuckman a Napa nee woman approaches her six seven and one hundredth teaching term having reared three children since 1851 she began teaching at fourteen in a Milford log school house. She has taught brothers sisters in laws and children with sons William in the US Navy and Edwin a physician at Napaiee.
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Emma A. Stuckman
Stuckman
Milford
William Stuckman
United States
Edwin D. Stuckman
Nappaiee
Brisk Demand for Freight Cars
The Lake Shore's weekly car bulletin reports 3,000 refrigerator cars for handling grains and fruits, with brisk demand for box cars. Demand for flat and coal cars remains about the same.
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Lake Shore
No Insurable Interest Claims Mooted by Elkhart Trust
Rumor from Goshen Democrat indicates Elkhart County Trust Co., receiver for American Mutual Life Insurance, plans suits against many policy holders to bar payment on policies. Contests hinge on alleged lack of insurable interest despite paid premiums and stated policy benefits.
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Goshen Democrat
Elkhart County Trust Oc
American Mutual Life Insurance Co
Elkhart
Leprosy Scare Grips Washington After Patient Identified
Washington residents face alarm as leprosy is found in the city. John R. Early, 35, of Lynn, North Carolina, a Spanish American War veteran seeking a pension, frequented streets and lunchrooms for five days before a doctor diagnosed his illness. He has a wife and one child.
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Washington
John R. Early
Lynn
N. C
Children Play Weston Travel From Goshen to Benton
The Wysong children aged thirteen twelve and nine from Goshen set out Sunday morning to visit grandmother Mrs. Frank Kramer. Their parents attended a Brethren camp meeting. The girls reached Benton eight miles away by dusk after going to their aunt Mrs Clyde Copenhaver. Parents were frantic until their location was known.
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Weston
Charles Wysong
Goshen
Frank Kramer
Strike Through Mistake In Italian Labor Row
In Battle Creek Michigan on August 25 the Grand Trunk strike erupted when Italian workers, misinformed by an interpreter, refused to work at the new locomotive shops and walked out. Some traveled to Chicago leaving pay unpaid. the interpreter received a six month suspension.
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Battle Creek
Micth
Grand Trunk
Chicago
Postoffice Is Robbed by Safe-Bursters in Waukegan
Robbers blew the postoffice safe early today at Waukegan NL and escaped with about $2,000 in money and stamps. They entered via a stairway over the postoffice, cut a hole in the floor, and dropped into the office to carry out the theft.
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Waukegan
Judge Baker defends courts by law and precedent
Goshen August 25 Judge Francis E Baker of the circuit court of appeals responded to attacks from metropolitan papers over the Standard Oil Stand and Landis decisions. He asserted that courts move only by law and precedent and said the injunction could have stuck if Landis had tied the Indiana Standard Oil injunction to the broader Standard Oil case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goshen
Francis E. Baker
Circuit Court of Appeals
Gunness Mystery Politics In LaPorte County Aug 26
In LaPorte Indiana supporters accuse Coroner C S Mack of partisan influence after he ruled the April 28 ruins body was Mrs Belle Gunness and three inquests named Republican physicians. Opponents cite two Democratic doctors barred from the post mortem and argue the coroner’s actions aided Ray Lamphere’s defense in the murder case.
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Gunness
LaPorte
Ind
C. S. Mack
LaPorte County
Hunness House
Belle Gunness
Mack
Darrow & Worden
Ray Lamphere
W. W. Walkinshaw
Osborn
Boldest Bandit Halts Yellowstone Stage Coaches
A lone highwayman halted eleven Yellowstone Park stage coaches near the Old Faithful Inn, robbing passengers of money drafts and jewelry worth over 82,000, then escaped on a transportation company horse. Soldiers from Fort Yellowstone pursued him. later reports say cavalry have him cornered in rough terrain as guests of the park hotel continued their journey.
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Geld Butte
Mont
Yellowstone Park
Fathirl Inn
Old Faithful Inn
Thunb Station
West Gallatin
West Boundaary
Park
Fort Yellowstone
Cheyenne
Wyo
United States Cavalry
Park Hotel
Kern Nominated for Vice President by Democrats at Indiana Event
In Indianapolis the Democratic leaders informed John W. Kern of his nomination for vice president. William J. Bryan and Norman E. Mack attended, with crowds gathered at the Colosseum as the party held a reception, speeches, and a formal notification ceremony.
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Indianapolis
Colosseum
Win. J. Bryan
Norman EE. Mack
John W. Kern
Bryan
Chicago
Mack
Woodson
Ryan
Country Club
Kem
Fair Grounds
Democratica
Cotosseum
Brean
Thomas Talgart
Norman FE. Mack
Bell Tells Kern the News at Civic Rally
Theo dore FE Bell of California, chairman of the notification committee, announces the nominee’s honor amid applause. John W. Kern replies with a speech defending party unity and criticizing Speaker Canney’s power in the House. Kern argues for tariff readjustment as an answer to lingering industrial weakness and high costs, reflecting debate on the Dingley era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore FE. Bell
California
John W. Kern
Bell
Kern
Wes
Wern
Hoosier
Canney
Conwen
Wis
Vhe
Dineley
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County Line Bridge
Caleb Powers
Osceola Cemetery
T. J. Jones
Catherine Quillian
Cincinnati
St. Paul
Owensburg
Hoosier State
Teachers’ Institute
LAW and
F. E. Baker
Czar and
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