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Newspaper
Flora Enterprise Sentinel
Location
Flora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1905
Page
6
A survey of agricultural output and economic indicators across multiple regions. Items cover Australian wheat, Cuban sugar, U.S. sugar consumption, French wine, South African Chinese labor, Irish potato famine impacts, royal salaries, German wage trends, catalpa cultivation, and modern port cargo handling at Galveston with electric systems.
Fire gutted nearly every building in Sunman Indiana causing losses over sixty thousand dollars with scant insurance. A livery barn hotels saloons residences stores burned while Morris and Patesville units aided. Four horses perished in the stable of origin. Fire likely started by a cigar stub.
High wind wrecked a portion of the American Window Gas Co. factory in Gas City. Two Marion men were crushed. William Nee suffered a bad back sprain and a head cut and is believed to be near death. Luther Arnold has a broken collar bone and serious injuries but is expected to recover. Nee, Arnold and 15 other men were tarrying the abandoned structure when the wind collapsed the remaining section.
Morris Tygart, 45, describes a bold street robbery by a woman who forced him to surrender cash then handed the loot to an accomplice. He followed them briefly before they disappeared into an alley near Marion's business district.
Edward J. Robbins cashier of the defunct Auburn bank was found guilty of receiving deposits knowing the bank insolvent and sentenced to two to three years in the penitentiary plus a 149 fine. His father, the bank president, was fined 100 on conviction. The prisoner had been under 2500 bond for a year and was jailed. A separate item reports Willie Rinehart aged 11 shot by an arrow at school, dying soon after.
A Noblesville reform wave leads Mayor Dulin to order police to arrest society hosts for prize card parties. Elmer Crane and Walter Brown, cigar store proprietor, and Harry Benner, fish market operator, are jailed for keeping their businesses open on Sundays. Officials aim to close restaurants livery stables and drug stores on Sundays.
Hammond Indiana March 23 The Republic Iron and Steel Co filed a mortgage with Crown Point county clerk covering plants statewide for ten million dollars First National Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago holds the mortgage Funds to be used in developing eastern plants. Jackson Hill Strike Sees Trio Reinstated In Terre Haute Three men discharged in the Jackson Hill strike were reinstated after the miners nationwide dispute The decision rested with Mine Superintendent Evans and District President Boyle. Estate Left in Trust Dr Horace Wardner Civil War army surgeon and brain disease expert leaves an estate of 100000 in trust for his widow with remainder to heirs in several states. Alleged He Eloped With Two Women Indianapolis March 26 Harriet L Clark sues for divorce claiming Charles M Clark eloped with two women May Billingsly of Kansas City and Emma Northup the minister’s sister Goshen Goshen March 25 A contractor jailed for keeping his 13 year old daughter from school under Indiana law. Closed Its Doors Shelbyville March 23 Local office of the National Commission o has closed its doors to trade due to grain market losses 20000 surplus exhausted. Sent a Bullet Through His Brain Indianapolis March 25 John W Browning 65 veteran railroad man horseman and politician shot himself at his home ending his life.
Indianapolis report says Edward Dorsey, colored of Indianapolis, 14, admitted to the National Soldiers' Home at Marion, claims the world’s oldest active alpha beta student status. Danville and Anderson game notes recount players hit by foul incidents and defensive plays to end a tight contest. Cincinnati item notes B. Jackman of Glencoe weighing 467 pounds begins travel for a whisky house after a week in the Palace hotel.
The Supreme Anti-Treating League of America filed articles of incorporation. The home offices are Princeton, Indiana, where the anti-treating bill introduced during the recess session of the legislature was prepared.
A Chicago Tribune remark notes Trene-Lil Skimmerhorn acting in private theatricals as a young girl and Maybelle-She hadn’t. It took her half a day to make her face fit the part.
The north bound midnight mail pouch from Bedford Indiana was found in the city’s north part cut to pieces with many drafts missing including a $40,000 item. In Goshen Indiana a 69 year old man hanged himself at his home after ongoing health decline and his second suicide attempt.
Mrs Adams Earl, widow of a millionaire merchant railroad builder and pioneer, died at age 84 at her Fairhurst home just outside Lafayette, Indiana, on March 25.
Manager Barrows of the Indianapolis team received a letter from Manager Griffiths of the New York Americans offering Pitchers Hogg and Starkless and Catcher Duff for the season.
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