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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1902
Page
4
A couple in South Chicago test living on five dollars weekly. Mrs. Curphey details budget items including bread meat tea coffee milk butter eggs vegetables and prices to sustain themselves for the week. The plan relies on simple staples and frugal portions within a tiny cottage.
General Alexander, speaking at West Point, warned that secession would be rejected as a proposition of death by own action. He noted that a century ago separation seemed seductive, but modern interdependence through capital and railways makes secession unthinkable.
Philadelphia residents joined a Chinese Christian mission led by Rev. Frederic Poole for a Transport to Saratoga Park near Potts Town. About 200 Chinese residents and 20 children toured, with fireworks, a baseball outfit, and boat rides on a placid lake, without drownings.
Postoffice Inspector Kile traced Jackson B. Thomas alias J J Dudley a noted forger once active in Indiana. The man used multiple aliases to obtain thousands with forged deeds and mortgages from Crawfordsville Kokomo Logansport and other towns before arrest in Atlantic City. He was sentenced to 17 years and investigators question Auditor White over a $600 forged mortgage tied to Sneed.
Carl J Carrolson of Muncie a tailor claims kin to the late William Rice of New York and has been recognized by a New York surrogate as an heir to the vast estate. He says his mother was the late Rice's daughter in law and that Rice and his mother were murdered, a claim supported by photographs brought to New York lawyers who deemed kinship proven. The case follows months of pursuit from penniless beginnings to a probable share of the Marsh estate in New York.
A writer extols bird individuality from the hermit thrush to the blue jay and catbird, noting 150 to 300 species in Indiana and city nesting patterns along the St. Joe River. He explains observation tips, gender differences, nest building, and the seasonal song cycle from spring to late July.
Milwaukee on June 25 reports Arvey Eimerman and Hobart Eimerman two brothers ages 14 and 9 were run down by a Wells street electric car on the Wauwatosa line while crossing toward a swim. The motorman rang the bell but the boys did not move and the car could not stop.
Michigan Supreme Court affirms the statute forbidding the manufacture or sale of oleomargarine. The decision upholds a law passed by the legislature, with Lansing as the state capital noted in the ruling.
The court sustained the conviction of George W. Rotter a Petoskey grocer found guilty of selling colored margarine. It ruled the legislature had power to enact the law and that courts cannot weigh wisdom or policy of such enactments.
Judge Houghton fixed Tuesday July 17 as the trial date for Bill Edson. Edson was saved from lynching at Vincennes by a militia company and 200 deputy sheriffs, according to reports from Washington Indiana.
In Knoxville Tennessee on June 25 and after acquittals four times for the killing of Washington Smith on July 16 1896, Judge David T. Rogers a prominent man was shot and killed by Troy Smith aged 25 son of Washington Smith.
Warsaw residents oppose the Winona Agricultural and Technical School Association plans to locate the school at Winona Lake, claiming funds were raised with a Warsaw site condition. They warn of potential legal action and question Dr. Dickey and Dr. Chapman on the issue while emphasizing the arsenal grounds as the preferred site for a national technical institute.
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