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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1913
Page
4
Reports cover a range of events from Taft's Panama Canal inspection and a naval air reconnaissance milestone to proposed customs house closures. Also noted are labor legislation discussions, a Kellogg's antitrust inquiry, plague precautions for ships from Hawaii, a dramatic bank incident, a royal debut party, a hostage-tinged kidnapping tale, and a fatal quicksand accident.
A foreign and official bulletin says Bar on Hardinge, the viceroy of India, is progressing satisfactorily after a bomb attack by an Indian fanatic on Monday. The report notes his injury severity and improving condition amid widespread unrest.
Personal Virginia greeted the eighth son of a family to become U S president as Woodrow Wilson traveled from Alexandria to Staunton amid exuberant reception. Reports note illnesses of John L R Keene and Timothy P D Sullivan, with former in New York and latter recovering enough for a possible Washington appearance. Mrs Wilson hires Isabella Hagner as White House secretary and Vincent Astor raises wages for Ferncliffe estate workers. Reckie Moll, UW coach and Purdue football mentor, dies in Madison of typhoid at twenty four.
Bloomington dispatch reports discovery of preserved human bones in a Pray farm cave near Ellettsville Indiana. A 22 member party found bone-filled chambers including a 15 by 15 room. Dr W W Harris identified the remains as human with a carved wall inscription reading John Byers 1870. death cause unknown.
Lawrenceburg reports a housekeeper theft by Thelma Owens who disappeared with $123 from a Bible held by engineer Louis J. Eberhardt of George H. Bishop Saw and Edge Tool Manufacturing. A warrant follows her departure after writing Thou shalt not be caught stealing on a Bible leaf. The Bible reading note from South Bend and Evansville snow reports accompany this item.
Martin Shepherd, a 73 year old farmer near Goldsmith, traveled to Tipton to formalize a contract. The agreement included a unique clause ensuring his collie, the child's companion, would live as a family guest and receive the same meals, with any mistreatment allowing lease cancellation.
Wilbur Stouder, 72, son of former police chief J C Stouder, attempted to climb a wire fence while out with his parents. His father's shotgun discharged, tearing away his left arm below the elbow and maiming the right hand as he fell during the incident on a hunting excursion in Stantington on December 23.
Porter Deckard a farmer living south of Nashville returned from a coon hunt and killed a large wildcat. His lead dogs stayed with him as he fired twice, the second shot striking the cat in the head. Local wildcats are suspected in the area.
Leta Charles ton a colored woman aged about 108 died at the Henry county Infirmary where she had lived five years. She claimed to be born in Virginia and said she had been a slave on General Robert E. Lee estate.
Vincennes reports James H. Curry a 45 year old Johnson township official shot himself in the head at a boarding house run by his wife. The death is ruled suicide by his own action. Local authorities are investigating the case.
Samuel R. Taine, 61, a renowned poultry expert in the United States, died suddenly at his home in Sptceland, Newcastlea on December 2. His death was reported as unexpected by colleagues and the industry mourns a leading authority.
William H. Walton, 68, president of the Laporte County Fair Association and a prominent figure in state horticulture, died at his home in Laporte on December 26. He was widely known in local and state agricultural circles.
Ira Burge a Terre Haute schoolteacher was arrested by Sheriff Browning during church services in Polk township on December 27 on a charge of wife and child desertion.
Mrs. David Crim age 59 collapsed and died while attending the funeral of her cousin Samuel Lane in Spiceland. She was with immediate family around the bier when the incident occurred.
Indiana brief notices from Terre Haute to Brazil report a man killed by an interurban car near Terre Haute Will West twenty seven of Seeleyville Ida and other local items In Waterloo township Fay ette county Milton Ben Cole and Charles Null trap raccoons skunks opossums and a mink Elkhart residents sick after meat from a suspected cholera hog Elwood Carl Chaplin eludes police after misrepresentation charge in obtaining credit Charlottesville revival closes Wabash Mrs Katharine Shivy injured in a switch engine incident near Philadelphia Lawrenceburg fish tipped from sunken hull by Christmas divers Jeffersonville parolee Kenneth Davis returned to reformatory Martinsville Christmas gifts for poor children supplied by gas company W C T U Kaffee Klatch and others Noonville assault charge against William Allen Evanaville fire destroys John Carsons home and Brazil interurban car Injury to William German on a motorcycle strike line note
The United States government seized 38 union leaders convicted of conspiracy and promoting explosions tied to non-union work. The International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers suffered major swaths of its leadership, led by president Frank M. Ryan, amid a purge linked to deadly crimes in Los Angeles. Daniel Buckley and Herman G. Seiffert were acquitted.
Benjamin Turner, held on an alleged murder charge from a nine year old case near At Tanta Georgia, is released after Atlanta police chief writes that county officers will not pursue Turner since all witnesses are dead.
In Batesville Arkansas a plot to kill Representative W. J. Caldwell led to the fatal wounding of conspirator One Parsons by fellow conspirator James McCartney at Oli Trough near Batesville. McCartney is jailed. Both men are Caldwell’s brothers in law.
A detailed snapshot of Cincinnati market quotes spanning wheat corn oats hay poultry cattle hogs sheep and lambs with price ranges and grades for various classes and weights. Includes wheat red white and mixed grades, oats timothy clover hay, poultry sections with weight based pricing, cattle and hogs by category, and lambs with current bid values.
In Chicago 200 Sunday school children marched from Lorimer Memorial Baptist Church as smoke filled the room though no fire burned there. Organist Elmer Anderson and teacher Martha Marquardt led the hymn Onward Christian Soldier and guided the children to safety before flames forced their retreat.
Surveyors chart new districts as Canada prepares for a surge of settlers from the United States and abroad. Officials project about 200000 Americans and 400000 total newcomers this year, drawn by potential in British Columbia and the three prairie provinces, with railway expansion opening vast lands for farming and fruit growing. James A. Flaherty of the Knights of Columbus praises Canada as a land of opportunities for young men seeking new prospects in the Northwest.
A fragment from Stray Stories and Cincinnati Enquirer humor columns features a family and pets debating party behavior. The exchange includes a joke about late trains to Lonelyville and a quip defining a pessimist as a man who carries an umbrella to a ball game.
Readers advised to examine every Castoria bottle for the physicians recommended signature and warning that it has been in use for over 30 years. The notice emphasizes Castoria as a safe remedy for infants and children and recalls the familiar slogan Children Cry for Fletcher s Castoria.
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