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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1912
Page
9
President Taft refused an invitation to enter into a joint presidential debate with Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist party nominee, signaling no public confrontation between the candidates at this time.
About 2500 scientists from America and Europe attend the fifteenth international congress on hygiene and demography in Washington. Taft revokes a prior order forbidding religious garb in Indian schools and explains his action.
Reports detail multiple incidents including Kansas inheritance tax ruling for Edwin Hawley estate, two freight train collisions in Minneapolis causing deaths and injuries, and a Pittsburg Shawmut & Northern excursion crash near Niles New York with several fatalities. Other items cover rubber expo in New York, a Milwaukee mill fire causing $250000 loss, a fatal airplane crash in Shenandoah Iowa, a gardener charged with manslaughter after an unknown man was killed stealing violets, a fire destroying a Kansas City park plant and two residences, and weather-impeded efforts around Mount Charleston.
A telegraph note from Rear Admiral Southerland reports a battle between American naval forces and rebels near Managua and Granada Nicaragua as U S Marines rush from Managua to Granada to confront rebel activity. The dispatch notes additional fighting in Derna and Derna burial figures.
Reports detail a hydroplane accident near Chicago injuring Ignace Semeniouk, a Hartford strike at Colt Manufacturing with 500 workers involved, destruction of Cornell’s clubhouse by fire, $70,000 stolen from a Louisville & Nashville express, a 5000-strong mob damaging Superior streetcars, Didapp alleging foreign support for Madero, and Grace filing for divorce after alleged abuse in Philadelphia.
Personal T. J. McGrath resigns as superintendent of motive power on the Chicago and Alton railroad. Mrs. Carleton Woodburne, formerly Miss Halatie Chandler, named as successor for liberty provisions, will illustrate for a magazine. Robert A. Wellman, brother of Arctic explorer Walther Wellman, dies in a St Joseph hotel elevator shaft fall at sixty. Ernesta, former Notre Dame commissary general, dies of apoplexy at Notre Dame mother house Bloomington Indiana. Nat Goodwin may return to stage after accident near Los Angeles. expected back in a few weeks.
Indiana announces a live stock improvement train in early October. The Pennsylvania Railroad will run the two division spectral train from Troganeport to Redmond and Richmond to Union City, carrying Purdue lectures on cattle feeding, with specimen feeding steers exhibited at each stop and talks on up to date feeding methods and feeder selection.
In Frankfort a stranger, about forty years old, visited the county clerk and sought to view a license for Isang M Whitcomb and Lillie Lang issued in October 1882. She erased the day from the date, claiming the license was fraud. The clerk noted the Whitcomb Lang marriage and found no John Brown license in the record. A deputy spotted the erasure as the woman left the office. The license was issued by Elwood Avery of Indianapolis.
Princeton report states the grand jury investigates a cross examination incident as Chief Haley lost his temper and fought Attorney J J Gamble. Mayor Davidson and Prosecutor Trapper intervened to separate the two in what is described as a long standing grudge.
John Mc Quithy, a Rising Sun fisherman, found the body of Miss Mary Huey, 35, of Metlevue Kentucky, while raising a troutine in the Ohio River near the Kentucky shore.
Deserter Harry Shepard of Mitchell is taken to Indianapolis by Marshal Wilker after deserting two years ago and being dishonorably discharged for his youth.
The body of Joshua Bays, sixty five years old, was found late yesterday afternoon near the Gymaris cemetery just outside the city. Relatives are notified as authorities investigate the death.
Ruth Mahaney, 16, dies after a car overturns near Stilea ville while en route to Saint Mary's College Notre Dame. Her mother suffers serious injuries, father Patrick Mahaney escapes with minor burns as the vehicle pins Ruth under a wheel. The Mahaneys are from Yerre Haute and the father is known locally as Patay Crackerjack, a pop culture figure.
A Texas steer escaped from the Roge Vine pens and charged the Old South Carolina Democratic Club luncheon causing panic. Attendees fled through windows as chairs and dishes were toppled and the clubhouse wrecked before the animal was driven out. In Martingville a jury acquitted Arthur J. Moore in the murder case of his partner Joly McKievey from March 28.
Indiana items report a fisherman finding a midsection body in the Ohio River near Covington Kentucky, a Kokomo license-fee rebate suit, Noah Cartmill's $1,000 damages suit against Minley Steele, and multiple local incidents. Building Laborers convention in Terre Haute with about 100 delegates, a Washington farm house fire causing $4,000 loss, John Weston hurt in an engine accident, Maude Ping indicted for murder, and a Belvedere Hotel fire blamed on defective wiring. Additional notes include rail strike settlements, court indictments in Gibson and Dearborn counties, and a partition suit in Anderson with missing funds unspecified.
Wealthy merchant John Popper of Popper Gray & Co. is robbed on Seventeenth Street and Ninth Avenue as he heads to deposit cash and negotiable papers. Bandits in a touring car fire on Patrolman Martin before fleeing into a crowded side street.
In a five story tenement owned by the Astor estate on Elizabeth street a bomb exploded at the doorway of a ground floor Italian department store. It blew sounds louder than any prior blast on the street causing chaos as residents fled their beds. Police at headquarters three blocks away were stunned.
In Muskogee Oklahoma three farmers Sam Robinson W A Larrimore and Joan Fulton were shot amid tension after recently imported African American cotton pickers faced expulsion. Deputies occupy Briartown as clashes erupt over the labor dispute leaving the fate of the farmers unclear.
Police were called to quell a riot involving about 1500 public school pupils protesting the transfer of principals. Students from two schools smashed windows and used vegetables as missiles, paraded the streets, and blocked nonparticipants from entering buildings.
New Albany Ind with orders booked to run the Ohio Falls roa Co farm plant for two years the firm plans to resume full operation in all departments on double turn. The plant employs Guy men.
The Cincinnati markets report lists wheat, corn, oats, hay, cattle, hogs, calves, sheep and lamb prices. Prices span No. 2 red wheat at 1.036 to 1.06 and various corn white and yellow grades, hay timothy and clover values, cattle ranges for shippers to cows, hogs from fat to light packers, calves and lambs with multiple quality brackets.
Covington Kentucky William H Kruse teller of the German National Bank was arrested on a war warrant by Bank Examiner P N Johnston. He is charged with defalcation totaling $14000 from the bank funds. Deputy Federal Marshal Ammmet Orr sentenced the arrest.
Grateful letters from women like Mrs Henry Leisesenco of Kearneysville and Mrs G B Whitington recount dramatic recoveries from female ailments after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The Pinkham Medicine Co in Lyxn, Massachusetts invites readers to write for confidential advice answered by a woman.
The text hints at a lax stance toward neighbors' affairs unless money is owed, implying financial concerns drive attention and involvement in community relations.
A Kansas City Journal item says a county farmer drove a man from Insley to his farm to force him into harvest work. The man, unaware he was near town, worked a week while the farmer planned to pay him next Saturday for harvest help. The incident highlights coercion in labor.
In Chicago Albert J. Meveristie recalls a corrupt bowl where a millionaire seeks senate support. The boss proclaims he will not sell backing, then suggests renting it for the campaign term, prompting a shifted, mollified response.
A patient with severe gastritis credits a doctor for recommending only food, specifically Grape-Nuts, to restore health. Over four years, the patient improves from near starvation to 153 pounds, gaining color, memory, strength, and mobility, with continued use reported. The testimonial is attributed to Peastdm Co., Battle Creek, Michigan, and references a book titled The Road to Well.
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