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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1906
Page
10
Indianapolis reports Pauline Skinman the kidnapped child of Paul V Skillman has been located by detectives in San Francisco and will be returned. The case drew sorrowing attention as authorities confirmed the child’s safety and impending reunion.
Chief McWeeny issued emphatic orders to police sergeants to clean streets by removing street walkers and chair warmers and forcing female vagrants from the city. Saloon keepers, hotels, and rooming houses are warned of prosecution for illegal acts and minors barred from liquor areas. Gambling on Sundays to stop. drunkenness and boisterous conduct to be vigorously punished. Prosecution urged for drug stores selling liquor to intoxicated persons.
Miss Pearl E. Elwyn, a Chicago theater company member, was shot in the leg by a man in the rear of the house after making remarks about local affairs. The audience panicked as the assailant fled, the wound described as non serious, the bullet in the calf.
Feb 26 Indianapolis report details the harsh hazing at the Winona Technical School where several freshmen were held to an electrical circuit for long enough to leave them barely conscious. Friends say attackers misunderstood the machines and luck, not care, kept the incident from turning fatal.
Several hundred women from Protestant mission societies in Laporte Indiana pledge daily prayer for local officials. They aim to make the crusade a reform wave to enforce laws and guide officials in their duties and become crusaders.
The Indianapolis Sentinel pauses publication amid unprofitability. The daily subscription list and plant are taken over by the Indianapolis News. The Sunday Sentinel will be taken over by the Indianapolis Star.
Former Speaker David B. Henderson of the national House of Representatives died at Mercy Hospital Dubuque Ia from paresis after nine months of illness. Funeral services set for Thursday in the Episcopal church with Col George D Perkins of Sioux City delivering the eulogy. He was twice elected speaker and served ten terms in Congress before withdrawing in 1902.
In New Orleans on February 26 a mob lynched Wills Page, who killed 11 year old Phara Gantz of Bienville. He was found in a swamp, surrendered begging for life, then tied to a tree and burned after being shot. The mob, aided by the father of the victim, ignored pleas for a trial.
Dispatch from Hindman Kentucky reports that during an attempted arrest of Karo and Perry Stone and Henry C Short eight miles from Hindman the Stone brothers were killed while Deputy Internal Revenue Collector Holliday and Short were wounded.
Gambier Ohio February 26 three cadets die and nine are seriously hurt after a fire destroyed Milner hall Delano hall and North halls at Kenyon military academy. Cadets Winfield Scott Kunkle J E Henderson and James J Fuller were found dead in Delano hall with others missing or injured as Gambier lacked fire protection. Estimated property loss is $100000.
Willemstad Curacao Feb 26 Advices from Venezuela say President Castro vows to humble France break up the Monroe doctrine clear out the French and then attack Americans Englishmen Germans He aims to clear foreigners from the country Americans are his target The populace longs for an American protectorate while a better class urges immediate U S intervention for humanitarian reasons
A nervous traveler pleads to reach a distant railroad station two miles away as a grizzled coach driver paces the final miles. The passenger rewards the driver with a silver dollar after guessing they will catch the train.
The New Orleans Times Democrat recounts a traveler’s tale of a sluggish Arkansas branch line. A tiny engine with dingy coaches dragged 12 to 15 box cars while delays mounted and conductors and players kept missing.
Washington February 15 The Senate approved the subsidy shipping bill by 38 to 27 with all yes votes from Republicans aside from five crossing party lines. The measure creates 13 new mail lines, increases subventions to Pacific Australasia routes, and imposes naval reserve crew requirements on subsidized vessels. Fortifications appropriations debate continues as Philippines policy and army navy roles divide lawmakers.
A five kitten was discovered inside a mail sack taken from a moving train on the Ohio River division near Waenna. Mail clerks reported the animal had either been placed there or entered accidentally during the loading, with a rough transfer to the car noted.
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