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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1906
Page
5
The passage reflects on humble daily work feeding a greater life. It asserts that even small, honest efforts connect individuals to a larger, living organism called Society through shared wisdom and neighborly collaboration.
Kessington J Procter and family have returned to Dowagiac Michigan after a week visiting nearby. Mrs Samantha Luse and daughter Eva of Wikhart spent the holidays with J Ross and family. Frank Kindig returns to Lansing after holidays with his parents and studies at the agricultural college. J Ross travels to Cassopolis for township board meetings. Charles John and family of Union Mich spent Sunday with Will Yohn and wife. Mrs Patley of Tikhart entertained by Calvin Flickinger and wife. The rustic supper in the hall base Saturday night proved a success. Amelia Rinehart recovering from a misfortune that injured her leg. D W Bhys vacation included fishing and hunting. Myron Fisher of Fikhart visited the neighborhood Sunday. Wee Ellen Gardner visiting Ed par Gardner and wife of Elkhart.
Mrs Annie Hunter of Pittstown Pa writes she suffered four weeks with typhoid and pain. After trying doctors she said Electric Bitters restored her strength and health and gave her ability to walk straight again. Sold at Houseworth Bros drug store for 50 cents.
In a memoir excerpt, P Thomas Y Evans retells a tale of Napoleon at a Tuileries ball. A general slips on a polished floor and falls at the emperor’s feet, prompting the remark that this is the second time the general has fallen in the emperor’s presence, the first being at Solferino.
Revival meetings will begin at Zion Church in January. Mrs Ben Muser and daughters Alice and Mary spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Samuel Kegerreis. Mr and Mrs William Houseworth of Bristol were guests of Mr and Mrs Jonathan Hilbish. Stella Watts visited Miss Jessie Bickel. Mr and Mrs Sylvester Welter of Erhart were guests of Mr and Mrs Eugene Meiser. Ipent Long and son spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs
Matthew Styer, a Minnesota dental student, killed Pearl Wheaton 22 and Ruth Wheaton 25 at the Wheaton home after breaking in during the night. He fatally shot Mrs Wheaton before killing himself, with a child survivor escaping through a window.
Frankfort Ky Jan 3 Judge Thomas H Paynter nominated for United States senator to succeed S C Blackburn in a joint Democratic caucus. The nomination, effectively an election, comes as Democrats control both houses of the Kentucky legislature. Paynter born December 19 1851 in Lewis County has served three terms in Congress and sits on the Kentucky Court of Appeals.
Baltimore January 3 The grand jury investigating the Maryland Trust Company scandals returned presentments against three former officials. Henry J Bowson the former vice president was arrested on a capias and released on a $10 000 bond. The other two names are withheld pending arrest and custody.
Secretary Bon aparte acted on court martial proceedings against Commander Lucien Young of the Benning 300L. He was found guilty of part of the specifications alleging negligence of duty and sentenced to receive a letter of reprimand to be carried out.
Rochester Michigan January tragedy details a farmer Clarence A Barnum killing his wife Louise and children Clinton and the daughter before fatally shooting himself. Neighbors found the scene after breakfast with blood splattered rooms and a dining room table scene. Authorities note a letter to a brother in Waterloo indicating distress over harvest expectations.
Albany news item notes James W. Wadsworth Jr of Livingston County son of James Wadsworth and son in law of John, in the Thirty fourth congressional district. January 3 report from Albany.
Peoria Illinois January 3 The Everett audit on N C Dougherty defalcations shows a seven year shortage of 54140850 dollars with about 15000 dollars of authorized but unwarranted expenditures. It estimates an eighteen year total just under one million and notes forged scripts from 1888 1889. The report blames school board officers and calls them liable if funds cannot be collected from Dougherty and the Peoria National Bank. The bank's president Dougherty is named and the bank may be held liable for 332000 from fictitious script. The board elected Judge McCulloch to sue the bank and enjoin dividend payments. Senator Berry present says he will fight the claim in court. Medical stockholders are estates dependent on bank stock for livelihoods.
Moscow and Riga dispatches recount heavy losses from ten days of revolt with 549 killed 1065 wounded at hospitals plus 174 more deaths among the injured. Riga clashes left 11 dragoons killed 14 wounded as troops subdued 300 armed workmen. City life shifts to post rebellion normalcy with $5 million in property damage and factory reopenings while plans to press the revolt end.
An account outlines London's three poverty classes with homeless in jams and cheap coffee, aliens in crowded tenements, and workers earning around 4.50 to 7.50 per week. It notes babies hired to mendicants, and a family life stressed by low wages, despite London’s low food costs.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruling in James B. Howard v. Kentucky. Howard, tried three times in Franklin County for the Goebel governor murder on January 30, 1900, was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Court rejected review of the trial judge's jury selection and discharge procedures.
In Clinton Illinois a 100 foot distant bluff hides a colossal stone face resembling a human head. Discovered by S Tuller during a winter trip, the overhung Mississippi bluff now draws visitors after underbrush cleared to reveal the sphinx like profile viewed mainly from railroad tracks. The rock lies 50 feet from a crevasse and 200 feet above the Midland line, with Eagle Point bluff nearby.
Dr Albert B Atkins of San Francisco and Capt L D Wildman of the US signal corps report an experiment in Butchertown stockyards where two platinum electrodes and a galvanometer show brain activity during a steer’s life. The needle moves after brain stimulation and again after throat cutting, suggesting brain-origin electrical current.
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