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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1913
Page
5
A broad summary of Washington federal activity covers tariff debates and committee actions, postmaster moves, resignations from Ways and Means, and confirmations including underwood simmons tariff bill passage in the senate. Also noted are crop losses, Mayor Gaynor's death, and a mix of local incidents and investigations.
Dublin correspondent reports an unconfirmed rumor that the Earl of Aberdeen may resign as Lord lieutenant of Ireland. A Japanese force reportedly landed at Nanking with cruisers and marines. King George to sponsor Roxburghe heir. Zeppelin L-1 sank after a Heligoland hurricane. seven of 23 crew saved.
Personal Thomas A. Edison being told by his physician to avoid vacations. A two week holiday left him exhausted, returning Sunday to Lewellyn Park West Orange New Jersey. Funeral for Mayor Gaynor set for Monday at Trinity Church with Bishop Greer officiating. He will be buried at Greenwood Cemetery Brooklyn. James Farley, strikebreaker and horseman, died at Plattsburgh New York aged forty. Edward Lucas of Howling Green Kentucky acquitted of murder of his employer J W Harlan at White Stone quarries. Lucas had accused Harlan of trying to break up his home. James C OConnor Joliet Illinois banker real estate broker alleged to have forged notes totaling over two hundred thousand dollars died in Will County jail. A dozen citizens who helped arrest him threatened to kill him on sight.
E A Bristol of Indianapolis was chosen president with H H Rans as secretary treasurer and a full executive board named. Additional officers include A N Anderson auditor and multiple regional directors. The report covers Adventists in Indiana, Beechwood academy directors, and Minnesota fair visitors discussing a “made in Indianapolis” exposition building.
The annual Indiana Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church will meet in Rushville from September 16 to 22. Bishop William F. Anderson of Cincinnati will preside with W. H. Wylie as entertaining pastor The program includes welcomes by Will M. Sparkes and Cyrus M. Yocum, anniversary events for Epworth League and Church Temperance Society, hospital and board of conference claimants observances, and addresses by church leaders on education and church organization.
J M N Tindall of Richmond Va former Hartford City and Indianapolis speaker described signs of the times citing Nahum II 4 about chariots and torches fulfilled by trains electric coaches and cars. J H Ford spoke to youths. W W Eastman and J W Mackintosh joined for colporteur work. KE EB Franklin reported field missionary duties eight months with $900 gain in subscription book sales.
President Darling announces the yearly committee for the Northern Indiana Editorial association. Executive members are J. A. Beane of Goshen J. A. Kautz of Kokomo and A. S. Powers. A second committee handles proposing an advertising agency with newspaper men as corporators: A. S. Boyea of Plymouth A. D. Moffet of Elwood and Dear E. Bavahart of Rochester.
Jeffersonville justice Oscar L. Hay, content with eight hundred to two thousand marriages yearly, seeks to boost the business by proposing a matrimonial bureau to match couples from a stored list. He envisions registering men and women willing to marry, then guiding them to each other for a fee of four to five thousand dollars.
Two men, Jesse Painter of Grand Rapids and Michael Mace of South Bend, filed bigamy charges against a woman here. They say both marriages occurred locally and that she could have three husbands. Painter cites a 1907 marriage and Mace a marriage four years later, with no divorces. The prosecutor was urged to notify Grand Rapids authorities to take her into custody. The men report the woman is known as Mary Mace in Grand Rapids.
Oscar Stewart, forty one, a Universal constable, lies dying in Union hospital after being shot by Sidney Johnson, a Universal saloon keeper, who had been arrested a week earlier for Sunday liquor sales. Johnson fired from his office as Stewart spoke by, wounding him through the liver and in the leg. Universal is a new mining town near the Vigo Vermilion county line.
Various Indiana towns report calamities and crimes. Lightning kills two horses and a steer near Pleasantville. Franklin reports a jewelry store robbery for the third time. Rabid dogs near Ellettsville are shot. a 10-year-old from Bloomington is sent to reform school after stealing a $10 bill. Lightning strikes two Worthington barns. a Columbus sawmill burns, with $2,500 loss and $2,000 insurance. A Putnam county jury convicts James Andrew Jackson for assault. two Greensburg girls are detained in Col umbus and sent home by Greensburg’s police chief. The will of Jane Ludlow bequeaths estate to George Ludlow. Southern Indiana Power Company sues for condemnation along White River. several landowners named. Various trips, age notes, and legal actions follow in Jeffersonville Elkhart and Connersville.
Evansville residents report Chandler avenue school boys refuse city filtered water for its taste and smell. Students carry water in jugs and bottles to class amid teacher dislike. The new filtration plant cost about $250000 and lime usage caused the odor. Superintendent James H. Tomlin likely to be asked to settle the dispute.
Jeffersonville Sept 12 Dr Harry Eaken a local dentist shot and killed a marauder he believed was raiding his hen roost. The victim proved to be a large raccoon and no court action will follow. The blast came after he heard a noise and fired. He did not anticipate the thief’s identity.
Mrs Adah F Pleasant asks the circuit court for divorce from her husband married in 1890 alleging he fished constantly day and night in all seasons and was rarely home, leaving her to manage living arrangements. In Mooresville a ten year old boy set fire to three barns on his way home from school, destroying them. the child claimed he did it to object to going to school.
The body of Mrs. Jang Lane, 33, was found at her Evansville home on September 12. The coroner reports death by her own action through ingesting poison.
Hurt by Cinnaron Bear New Albany Sept 12 Warder W Stevens once a Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor of Indiana narrowly escaped death when attacked by a bear during a recent hunt near his Baker Oregon home.
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