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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1908
Page
5
Hon. James E. Watson spoke for over two hours at Elkhart urging Republican unity and praising Roosevelt era policies. The big crowd cheered as he contrasted Taft, Bryan, and Roosevelt, defended labor gains, and rebutted Gompers criticisms while highlighting Republican legislative achievements for workers.
Ephraim Holderman a car rider was crushed under wheels while walking up the east hump at 10 p m Saturday died en route to the baggage room. Brakeman F H Berger tried to stop the cars but could not. He had just returned from the Dakotas and was on his second night on duty as an extra man. Holderman boarded at Albert Kinney’s home and lived with kin at 708 Thomas street. He was born December 17 1881 survived by a large family. A service will be held Tuesday at the brother’s home then Shaum church. The accident disrupted a westbound crew led by Grover Holderman.
Rev. Dr. W. J. Frazer pastor of the Presbyterian church at Oxford Ohio declines a call from the Seventh Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis He prefers to stay in Oxford where the congregation has recently raised his salary without reference to the Indianapolis offer.
Mrs J L Bottorff joined temporarily to replace Mrs W H Schntz in St Pauls ME church South Bend choir. She sang with the group for the first time Sunday and the program noted her alto solo.
Central fire company rushed to Crescent street in Kenwood at 8 10 p m Sunday to extinguish a grass fire that threatened nearby property.
J B Watson makes a remarkable impression on a large voter gathering. Spartanburg, S C prevents mob violence. Dreyfus scores against Paris paper and Japan prepares welcome for American fleet. Death follows a football game in Pennsylvania. Two men survive a 4000 foot balloon fall in Germany. New York American League team appoints a new manager. Holistic news roundup from October 12, 1908.
Government forecast predicts fair conditions with rising temperatures. Local observations show fair skies, temperatures expected to reach higher highs than today. Winds light to moderate, speeds noted in miles per hour.
A Los Angeles mother Jessie M Green seeks her son Wilford Green who left home two years ago and was last heard from in Elkhart Kalamazoo. Police locate Wilfred Green as a Lake Shore storehouse employee married, living at 505 South Second Street, after a period of disappearance and confusion over the spelling of his name.
St Louis police chief questions a man named Mr Reice or Rice, said to be a constable in or near Elkhart, and notes his son Otto is wanted in St Louis. No such constable is known locally. county records show a William J. Rice in Washington township.
The Elkhart Bristol Board and Paper Co. operates about four years and is rapidly handling orders. With a workforce of twenty five, only four weeks of downtime occurred in four years, and recent reports claim the mill has run Sundays to compensate for those lost weeks to meet two months of intense production.
Elkhart Brass Mfg Co. has placed another large order for five tons of gas cocks with the St. Louis house that previously supplied ten tons. Albert E. Hansen, a company leader, is touring the northwest to the Pacific coast and will return via the southwest on company business.
The Dream theatre will close for a short period, not open to top vaudeville, as Manager Butterfield cites insufficient city patronage. He says a possible reopening in about two weeks may occur.
The Evangelical General Mission Board convened in Elkhart hosting four bishops and other leaders. G. Heinmiller was reelected president as the board adjourned its 1908 session. Auditing reported a total annuity fund of 214 768.89 and permanent funds of 109 425.49.MISSIONS include eight workers in China, hospital plans, and new missions in Italy, Milwaukee, and Kansas City.
W H Taft arrived in Morrow Ohio for a heavy speaking schedule. He planned appearances in sixteen towns that day. In Sabina he endorsed woman suffrage telling schoolchildren they cannot vote yet but hope girls will vote in the future.
Harry Thaw was kept at Matteawan asylum as the insanity hearing was dismissed by Justice Mills. The ruling ends any immediate hope of release. Mills ruled on Thaw’s appeal for liberty and then heard arguments on producing him in Pittsburgh per Federal Judge Archbold’s order.
New York Oct 12 The New York American League team club has announced George Stallings as manager succeeding Elberfeld.
Mr and Mrs Casper Lipschitz of 604 Washington street were thrown from a buggy when struck by a cut of cars crossing the FE and W Jackson street crossing at 5 a m. Mrs Lipschitz, 75, suffered a severe scalp wound a skull fracture and nose fracture. The train engineer was Joseph Cannon.
Twelve year old Cleo Smith son of John Smith of 112 Locust Street was kicked by a horse at noon sustaining a one inch cut at the base of the brain from a shoe nail. Three stitches were required. Father carried him home and the injury was not deemed serious. Cleo had a near miss with an automobile last Thursday on North Main Street, his bicycle ruined.
Aaron Baker of Elkhart Avenue employed by Dr. Miles Medical Co. was helping unload heavy paper rolls from a State Street warehouse. When the wagon moved, the rolls lurched forward and he jumped clear, badly spraining his right ankle.
The seventeen year old daughter of Jacob Paulus of five miles south of the city fell down stairs this morning and sustained serious injuries to her right side and elbow with internal injuries. She was unconscious when a physician arrived.
Claude Leers five year old son of August Leers of Wagner avenue was run over by a heavy butcher wagon driven by F. E. Herman on Saturday evening the wheels passed over the childs body without serious injury the exact sequence of events is not known.
Willis Halstead of 1005 Middlebury Street suffered severe injury to the first three fingers of his right hand in a corn shredder at Francis Light’s farm just east of the city. Doctors amended the severed digits close to the hand to save the limb.
Leonardo DeJulio, the Italian attacked on Harrison street, has improved enough to leave the hospital possibly today or Tuesday. He has recovered the use of his legs and most of his arms, with a full recovery deemed likely and remarkable.
Chicago Oct 12 L C Mann son of the Mann McCann Railway Supply Co vice president is under arrest on a charge of strangling Mrs Fannie Thompson to death in a Michigan avenue rooming house on July 1. He will be released on a 25000 bond this afternoon.
Chicago and Detroit clash in the world championship third game before 16 000 fans. Pfiester and Kling start for the Cubs against Mullin and Thomas for the Tigers as the afternoon wind holds. Detroit scores a run in the first as O Leary races home on a fumbled throw. Chicago fails to score in the early frames and trailing 1-0 after four innings.
Chicago reports a syndicate plans a race track on the Indiana Michigan state line claiming to evade two betting law stil es. They had earlier proposed New Buffalo Michigan but political opposition ended that plan. LaPorte County capitalists are said to be involved in financing an electric line to New Buffalo. Details of the evasion scheme remain unclear.
In Washington on Oct 12 William Jones, known as Bill Jones the avenger for his attempt to avenge Garfield, shot and killed John A. McPherson of Detroit at Bates farm on the city outskirts.
Austria's consul general in Antivari Montenegro was attacked by a mob. The garment tore the Austrian coat of arms from the doors, burned it, and sacked the building in the incident reported from Vienna on October 12.
Owensville Indiana October 12 Frank Meadows found in Barr creek the skeleton of a large snake hanging in the fork of two ribs. Vertebrae were three quarters of an inch in diameter with rib bones three inches long. Reptile likely five inches in diameter.
Washington Ind Oct 12 Alvin Padgett a leading member of the Daviess county bar and prominent in state politics stole a march on friends and quietly married Miss Helen Gibson a society belle Friends had expected the marriage but not so soon
Rockville Indiana Oct 12 Margaret Phillips on trial in Parke circuit court for murdering her infant boy was acquitted on grounds of insanity. She had poisoned her child.
Evansville Indiana October 12 mills reopen after shutdown employing several hundred workers as operations resume this morning.
The Elkhart Egg Case Co suspended operations at its factory just north of the Cornhorn factory. Straw board and other stock, and parts of machinery, are being sold.
The piece notes it is a fond Democratic hope Bryan will read his third defeat in November as an ultimatum, suggesting three rejections should show that the people rule. The remark frames the political moment as a test of Bryan’s stance and the public’s authority.
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