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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1913
Page
5
The treasury announces income tax at source rules starting next Saturday affecting bonds notes and similar obligations for citizens residents and aliens. Secretary Daniels says Oregon will lead the Pacific fleet through the Panama Canal when opened in 1915.
Across Italy six people died and many wounded as elections proceeded. Premier Giolitti is re elected with his cabinet amid Kaiser's opposition. Roosevelt praises Americas ties in Rio de Janeiro. The Annie Roberts sank in Sydney harbor with four crew drowned. Philippine scouts clash with Moros at Takapo. Captain McElderry wounded and later dies.
Reported crisis as no clear presidential majority after elections in Mexico. Catholic party backs Gamboa while Felix Diaz resigns as army commander. The Ward Line steamship Morro Castle was held at Vera Cruz with U.S. mail aboard. Massacre reported in Michoacan and Diaz's arrival in Vera Cruz amid rumors of deportation. Arrests made in assassination plot involving Daniel Madero and Evaristo Madero.
Workmen at Globe Stove and Range Co in Kokomo uncover an aluminum tube eight by three inches with a fuse nipple filled with giant powder. Plant manager J C Patten stops, opens, and confirms danger, while an investigation finds no source or motive, suggesting accidental disposal rather than an attempt to wreck the foundry.
Rushville attorneys filed suit in Shelbyville to remove Walter Kuhn as guardian of August Ebbing's children Elizabeth and Anna on grounds that Ebbing consented to resign and Kuhn influenced him under intoxicants. Ebbing claims Kuhn sought divorce and poisoned the children's views against their parents calling them immoral and alleging an attempted poisoning by the stepmother.
New Castle Oct 20 Frank C Ritter brother of Mrs W A Winters testified before the grand jury about Catherine Winters who has been missing since March 20 Ritter refused the oath of secrecy saying information had been public and he blamed the prosecutor for press leaks H H Evans the prosecuting attorney prepared a summons but Ritter appeared in the jury room without service.
Albert Campbell was killed in South Bend when an elevator weighing sixty thousand pounds crushed him between floor levels as he attempted to send the car to a lower floor without stepping on the lift.
At Hanni's crossing Plainfield two men Willam Spear age forty two and Cra Am bros age thirty were killed when the automobile they rode in was struck by a Vandalian passenger train.
Four prominent Laporte women were killed when struck by a fast Pere Marquette freight train near a grade crossing on Saturday. Funerals for Mrs Edwin Schurz, Mrs Carlton Shafer, and Mrs Fannie P Heinze will be held at their homes, with Mrs William Darling Brace to be buried in Washington. Coroner E G Blinks opens an investigation into possible criminal negligence over missing flagman or brakeman on the box car.
In Greenfield the Federation of Women's Clubs plans a popular lecture as a benefit for a sick member. Henryville reports a northbound car strike injuring William McGregor. Greenfield health officer confirms genuine cases of tonsillitis and quashes sterile quarantine for three families. Elwood sees Harry Rea arrested for striking a railroad conductor, pleads guilty, fined $10 and 30 days. Elkhart charity group plans a wood yard program for winter relief. Newcastle grand jury indicts Robert Rhodius for grand larceny over stolen hides. Princeton sues Evansville Public Utilities for $5,000 over injuries to a teen on a crowded car. Milton man Marcus Moore suffers paralysis, remains unconscious as family gathers. Jeffersonville divorce case ends with dismissal after alimony claim. Shelbyville Odd Fellows set county meeting at Morristown with nine hundred members across six lodges. Lawrenceburg Amanda Huffman wins divorce from Aaron Huffman in a large settlement. Tipton guardian suit over David Miller’s estate. Aurora home in Manchester Township burns from chimney fire. losses total about $8,009 with light insurance.
Gov. Ammons ordered the state militia to disarm mine guards and strikers in Southern Colorado coal fields after operators refused his mediation. He urged a return to pre strike conditions with a small wage increase and warned troops would disarm guards if owners failed to do so. A clash at Ludlow left no reported casualties despite heavy gunfire from about 350 armed personnel.
James Larkin, leader of the Irish transport workers, is found guilty on sedition and inciting to riot charges in Dublin. He receives seven months imprisonment as the attorney general brands him a wicked and dangerous criminal.
Rockland Maine reports the official trials for the Texas were completed after a port engine accident. Builders and government officials found the results entirely satisfactory. The fastest mile run achieved 22.28 knots, surpassing the contract speed by over 14 knots.
A dividing wall at the Ft. Smith municipal water plant collapsed without warning, killing assistant engineer G. R. Grabler. Companions George Walker and R. C. Golden narrowly escaped.
An eight-car Southern Railway local train derailed near Easley, Greenville area, causing the entire train to overturn. One trainman killed, another fatally injured, and several passengers injured with varying severity. Authorities investigate cause and tally casualties.
Market listings show corn, oats, wheat, and mixed feeds with prices per bushel or hundredweight. Livestock bids cover cattle shippers and butcher steers, hogs, calves, and sheep with ranges for quality grades and weights.
A sudden strike in New York threatens to halt mail delivery in Manhattan south of Forty-fifth Street. About 60 drivers quit their trucks and called on more than 100 others to join. They demand union recognition and oppose 12 to 16 hour shifts and dangerous high speed work.
A Portland physician attended five consecutive generations of a single family starting with a ninety nine year old great great grandmother who died of gangrene. He then treated the daughter aged seventy five, the daughter’s son a florist aged fifty, the son a twenty seven year old clerk, and finally the clerk’s wife who gave birth to a baby barely three months after the great great grandmother’s death.
During morning service the organist complains about the organ-blower's noise after playing. A London preacher arrives to preach. A choir boy misreads a note from the organist telling the blower to stop, and hands it to the preacher. The note requests quieter playing to let the music be heard.
Two women report relief from female ailments after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs James Leclear of Detroit states two years of suffering, sleep loss, and nervous strain eased after trying the medicine. Mrs Cras Boetu of Philadelphia says two bottles relieved organic inflammation with no recurrence after marriage and motherhood.
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