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Newspaper
Flora Enterprise Sentinel
Location
Flora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1904
Page
3
A playful verse from M. Lewis in the Houston Post imagines a child pleading to keep playing with a pair of blue eyes. The child contemplates be the dog or a train of cars as an imaginative game unfolds on the floor.
The narrative follows Raoul de Ligny and companions from Iroquois towns to Lake St. George and Richelieu passage. After winters at Montreal and a frontier settlement, the August gathering of tribes marks the Great Peace, with Iroquois and others arriving by land and river in a remarkable assembly.
Law remains torn between extension of the fur trade and a personal vow to the Messasebe. Du Mesne and Pierre Noir depart with news of Greysolon du Lhut while Mary Connynge disappears from the Convent as Raoul de Ligny sails with a mysterious Paris-bound lady and a child clings to Catharine.
A scene in New France unfolds with Law and Joncaire, the ambassador of peace, exchanging wary pleasantries. Joncaire glances at Law’s child, remarking on the savage woman who bore it, then hints at continued intrigue as the dialogue ends with To Be Continued.
Gen Ian Hamilton led a mixed Canadian and regular unit on the Boer War east of Bloemfontein. A Toronto Irish boy chased a rooster before a review, then hurled the dead bird at Hamilton and claimed half of it as payment, earning only two days in quad for a notorious discipline breach.
A London News note from Squerries Court Kent recounts Mrs Wolfe mother of a great general preserving a curious recipe for a medicine described as a restorative. The process mixes garden snails with green earth worms herbs and spices in milk and distillation, yielding a remedy to be taken by the patient in measured spoonfuls.
Mrs Brown’s busy day kept him with his children until a national holiday granted leisure. He invited a shy little girl on a long walk, and though she spoke little, her eyes and a single line of thanks revealed deep gratitude. She whispered, “What flower do you like best.”
Meetings were held at the Columbia and Marion clubs to arrange a public reception for Republican vice presidential nominee Senator Fairbanks on his return from Chicago. The event is expected to be informal and nonpartisan, possibly at Tomlinson hall, with arrival on the Big Four train around 6 PM. The city awaits delegates and decorated commemorations mark the Maennechor anniversary with choirs rehearsing at Tomlinson hall.
Andrew Humphreys 83 prominent Southern Indiana Democrat died at his home in Linton of general debility. A Tennessee native, he served as representative and senator in the Indiana legislature and was the oldest living state lawmaker. He voted for every Democratic nominee since 1844 and served in the 44th Congress during the Hayes-Tilden dispute. He was appointed Indian agent for Utah by President Buchanan in 1868.
Benj Springs, a Negro murderer from Terre Haute, faces execution on July 1 at the Michigan City state prison. Guards guard his cell with extra precautions after he broke his chair and hid a piece of it as a potential escape weapon. officials expect him to resist fiercely at the gallows.
Harry Brown held for grand larceny escaped from South Bend jail. He entered the women’s ward, climbed to a door, opened a scuttle, found a ledge, and crawled to a jail roof. He descended a telephone wire to a pole as night fell.
In Kokomo Frank Valentine and W K Stacy were shocked by a 30 000 volt contact at a sub station. Valentine died instantly while Stacy survived with serious injuries. In Shelbyville the Home Bank of St Paul closed its doors on June 24 amid preparations for bankruptcy. In Vernon 15 year old Elmer Kinnear drowned after falling into a pond. In Princeton Rev Dr D P Putnam will resign to join Lane Seminary faculty. In Shelbyville Abner Bailey shot himself, apparently due to the St Paul bank failure.
Police hunt a mysterious assailant after a man on a bicycle offered candy to Lillie Reel, seven, who refused then was forced to swallow caustic powder. The child suffered burns to mouth and throat. the mother chased the attacker to a lumber yard before losing sight of him.
A June 25 riot on the steamer D A Nisbet near Evansville involved nearly 100 African American passengers threatening Sam Watson a prominent Black politician. The mob beat Watson with clubs and beer glasses before Captain Sam Hornbrook armed with a winchester dispersed them. No arrests reported.
The Indiana supreme court affirmed a lower court ruling in Warren County treasurer case. The 1893 act postponing elections to unify terms is unconstitutional. It affects about 185 county offices statewide. Elect next November for county treasurers and other offices whose terms end before 1906 general election.
George and Henry Bausback driving a Jersey cow along the Blue River Pike in Shelbyville Indiana when a fast automobile provoked the animal. The cow charged and toppled horse and buggy over a forty foot embankment. George landed in a barbed wire fence but escaped injury by falling into the river. Henry was unhurt.
Dr. George N. Hilligoss of Cincinnati resigns as president of the Indiana Association of Spiritualists citing ill health. The resignation came by letter to the association's executive board during their Chester field camp session in Anderson.
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