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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1912
Page
4
President Taft rejects an invitation to enter into a joint debate with Eugene V. Debs. The item notes Debs had been named as the Socialist party candidate for president and Taft declined the debate offer.
President Taft welcomed delegates to the fifteenth international conference on hygiene and demography in Washington where about 2,600 American and European scientists attended. He revoked the Indian affairs ban on religious garb in schools, citing a government bulletin noting rising costs from 1890 to 1912 with meat prices up about 65 percent. Postmaster General Hitchcock seeks Attorney General Wickersham’s opinion on new publicity requirements and congressional constitutional authority. A Costa Rican protest urged U S forces in Nicaragua to withdraw, delivered to Langhorne. The Public Health Service searches for five insanity experts to join duties assessing arriving aliens.
A batch of short items covers a Kansas inheritance tax case tied to Edwin Hawley, train wrecks in Minneapolis and near Rochester causing injuries and deaths, an international rubber trades exposition in New York, a Milwaukee mill fire with losses, an aviator’s fatal crash in Iowa, and a Brookline murder case involving a gardener.
The gunboat Petrel left Guantanamo for New York while a cablegram from Rear Admiral Southerland reports a battle between American forces and rebels near Managua. Meanwhile Italian General Enver Bey’s forces claim heavy Turkish and Arab losses at Derna, and US Marines are rushing to Granada amid reports of attacks on sailors. A Dutch financier Hiddink is sought after a suspected $87,600 securities advance from Amsterdam.
The report notes a Col Manufacturing strike in Hartford with 500 workers over an efficiency system, Cornell’s club house fire destroying uniforms, a $70,000 theft from a Louisville and Nashville express between Pensacola and Flomaton, and a 6000-strong mob in Superior Wisconsin damaging street railway property and injuring workers. It also mentions a Mexican revolutionary funding claim, and a divorce suit in Philadelphia following a high profile Atlanta acquittal.
Personal T McGrath resigns as superintendent of motive power for the Chicago and Alton railroad with no successor named. Mrs Carleton Washburne former Miss Heloise Chandler begins a self supporting career after marriage under a prenup. Robert A Wellman, brother of Arctic explorer Walter Wellman, dies at sixty after falling in a hotel elevator shaft in St Joseph Missouri. Mother Ernesta, former Notre Dame commissary general, dies of apoplexy at Notre Dame convent in Bloomington. Nat Goodwin may never appear on stage due to a prior accident. reports say he will be out.
Indiana launches a five train movement from Logansport to Richmond and Richmond to Union City October 1 to 5 operated with Pennsylvania Railroad. Purdue University will lecture on beef cattle feeding and animal husbandry with specimen feeding steers carried on board and exhibited at each stop. The program covers feeding methods cattle and hog feeding and feeder selection.
A woman, about fifty, visited the Franklin county clerk seeking a marriage license for John Brown but the record proved missing. She erased the day in the date of October 21, 1882, on a Whitcomb Long license records show. Elwood Avery of Indianapolis issued the license to Isaac M Whitcomb and Lillie Long.
In Princeton on Sept 20 Chief of Police Haley clashed with attorney J I Gamble during cross examination. Haley lost his temper, jumped the table, and knocked Gamble to the floor as Mayor Davidson and Prosecutor Trapper separated the pair. An old grudge is blamed for the brawl.
Harry Shepard of Mitchell was arrested by Marshal Walker and taken to Indianapolis after deserting from the army two years ago and receiving a dishonorable discharge for youth. The report also notes the death of Joshua Bays, sixty five, found Saturday afternoon in Gymaris cemetery near Linton.
Ruth Mahaney sixteen perished when a Terre Haute couple’s car skidded near Stilea Ville. Mrs Mahaney was badly hurt and Mr Mahaney sustained minor injuries while trying to rescue them. The Mahaneys were en route to Notre Dame for St Mary’s College admission. Patsy Crackerjack, a Terre Haute nickname, is noted for the family.
The jury acquitted Arthur P. Moore of Indianapolis once a police officer charged with killing his partner John McKinney on March 28. Moore was found not guilty after the trial held in Martinsville.
Wealthy merchant John Popper of Popper Gray & Co. was robbed on Seventeenth Street and Ninth Avenue as two bandits grabbed $800 in cash and $1,000 in negotiable paper. Patrolman Martin chased the robbers who opened fire. they escaped into a crowded side street while a trolley car passed. Popper was en route to make his weekly deposit at the New York County Bank.
Explosion rocked a five story Elizabeth Street tenement part owned by the Astor estate. The blast at the ground floor Italian department store rattled 1300 residents as shops nearby were shattered by the force, with police and emergency crews rushing to the scene.
In Muskogee Oklahoma three farmers Sam Robinson W A Larrimore and Johnston were shot after tensions rose over imported black cotton pickers in Briartown. Deputies were dispatched as citizens reportedly organized to remove the laborers, leading to a clash as farmers defended the workers.
Reports from Lawrenceburg Kokomo Lafayette Terre Haute Greensburg Nedford Columbus Lawrenceburg Princeton Anderson and more cover drownings highway collisions arson indictments and civil actions. Notable items include the discovery of a 16 year old boy’s body by a fisherman and grand jury indictments for murder and partition actions with settlements reached in railway injury suits.
Police reserves were called to quell a riot of 1500 public school students protesting the transfer of school principals. Pupils from two schools damaged windows and forced janitors to retreat with vegetables while the crowd paraded the streets and barred nonparticipants from entering buildings.
New Albany Ind with orders booked to sustain two years the Ohblo Falls Iron Co plans to resume full operation in all departments on double turn. The plant, among the biggest of its kind in this section, employs 600 men.
A detailed listing of Cincinnati market quotes across commodities. Wheat corn oats hay and livestock prices show bid and ask ranges for No 2 to No 4 grades timothy and clover hay cattle hogs sheep and lambs with figures per hundredweight or per unit and occasional misprints corrected from the source.
Covington police arrest William H. Kruse a bank teller at the German National Bank on a warrant from Bank Examiner P. N. Johnston. He faces charges of defalcation totaling $14,000. investigation by federal authorities continues.
Letters from Mrs Henry Leisenenc and Mrs G B Whittington describe relief from female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The Pinkham company in Lynn Massachusetts says thousands of grateful letters arrive and offers confidential advice from a woman.
An Edwards County farmer lures a man from Kinsley with a ride in his auto then forces him to work on the farm for a week. The next morning the man learns the distance to town and that he is near the town after being held for labor.
Albert J. Peveridge describes in Chicago a corrupt boss who proclaims virtue while a millionaire asks to buy support. The boss refuses outright then offers to rent his backing for the campaign term, prompting a mollified reply.
A doctor reportedly chose a diet change over medicines for a gravely ill patient, citing a case where gradual grape-nut foods improved appetite color and strength. The patient recovered weight to 158 pounds and regained vitality after four years of severe gastritis. The testimonial is attributed to Poatdm Co Battle Creek Michigan.
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