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Newspaper
Francesville Tribune
Location
Francesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1908
Page
2
A Brooklyn waiter died after receiving a $3 tip, prompting reflections on tipping. The column riffs on social mores from Francesville Indiana to New York hotels, debt, and public manners with humor and irony.
James P. Goodrich of Winchester Republican state chairman bought at a receiver sale the Washington waterworks plant for 94000 dollars. Evansville board orders Gunness murders films removed from theaters under license penalties. Greenfield man Crane faces divorce suit claiming cruel treatment and fifteen wives claimed by plaintiff. he admits seven marriages. Columbus society swoons over swimming parties amid high life chatter. Evansville youth Earnest Lubitz shoots and kills Horace Jackson, a black assailant.
After a baseball game between Hungarian and Polish teams in South Bend police charged members of both teams with riot assault and battery highway robbery and several other offenses.
Clint Redman, an Evansville man with a history of accusations, now says police threats forced him to make three confessions to killing Mrs Eva Beichlein a white woman. He plans to resist the murder charge.
Prof A B Reynolds of South Bend formerly at Notre Dame has left education to manage vast mining tracts in southern Utah recently inherited. The lands are valued between $500 000 and $1 000 000, marking a major career shift.
The Potts family of Mishawaka will cast thirty votes for the Republican presidential nominee at the coming election. Nine sons, seventeen nephews, and the brothers together form the total, all Republicans.
A major fire destroyed the White City amusement resort at Broad Ripple near Cahiers br Indiana last week. All buildings and the boardwalk were consumed with virtually no fire protection, leaving the company and workers helpless. Loss estimated around 160000 dollars.
A thief who entered Mrs. John Reitz of Evansville's home stole $4000 in diamonds from a bedroom. He re entered the house the following night and placed the jewels back in the same casket, and police believe he was conscience stricken.
The Inter-State Holiness Society of southern Indiana and Illinois purchases 8,765 acres three miles west of Georgetown for 84800 dollars. A town will be laid out on the property with plans for a university to be completed by January 1, 1909.
A Terre Haute jury awarded John Sawyer 3500 for injuries from a powder car explosion on the Big Four at Sandford. The four week trial tested the railroad’s responsibility in an unexplained blast that killed twenty and injured thirty, with forty damage suits pending.
Nicodem Witucki, indicted for the murder of Antone Ciencelewski, was acquitted by a South Bend jury after a retirement of only thirty eight minutes. Public sentiment had been bitter toward Witucki, the crime appearing particularly brutal, and the verdict surprised many as it was quickly reached.
George Moore aged 54 of Stevens county Washington and Mary Catherine McQueen aged 50 of Clifford near Columbus were married last week. They were childhood sweethearts in Jackson county and were betrothed at ages 16 and 20 before a quarrel led to Moore moving West where he became a wealthy rancher.
The State Board of Agriculture will award bronze medals to all veterans attending the State Fair this year. A veterans' day will offer free admission and provide headquarters for the old soldiers on the grounds.
Indiana University conferred 336 degrees last week. Among them 188 earned A B degrees, 42 LL B, 72 M D, 34 A M, and 3 Ph D, highlighting the university’s broad range of programs.
Night intrusion at William Compton’s Shelby County ginseng patch results in theft valued at $100. No arrests reported. Local authorities investigating possible motive and suspects.
Lawyer Suggs, Sullivan county's oldest resident, died after a two year illness at the advanced age of 103. The obituary notes his long career and status as a community figure.
State Fish and Game Commissioner Z H Sweeney leads a bid to set aside four thousand acres in Montgomery County as a game preserve. Captain E P McCluskey visits farmers near Darlington and secures promises of three years no hunting in exchange for releasing Hungarian partridges to replace thinning quail populations. Partridges weigh about two pounds and endure six inches of snow, with four partridges equaling eight or nine quail. Sweeney says partridges coexist with quail and no family conflicts are expected if released where quail are abundant.
Indiana's Dr. J N Hurty urges caution for Independence Day celebrations warning dust in streets and toy pistols as sources of lockjaw. He distributes a pamphlet detailing the germ, July deaths, and prevention through prompt wound care and tetanus antitoxin use within 24 hours.
State Board of Health compilations show 221 people killed by violence in Indiana during May. The 1907 May total was 180, with last month recording 24 murders and 41 personal crisis reports.
Ground was broken in Indianapolis last week for the Citizens' Gas Company plant to furnish fuel and lighting gas at 60 cents a thousand cubic feet.
In a memory page from the Fourth, two girls at a matinee watch war imagery on a canvas as Mabel fears for her soldier sweetheart Arthur. A dream of muddy water unsettles her until a letter reveals his fate, while a later poem reflects nostalgia for earlier, louder celebrations and a lost finger in a boyhood firework mishap.
A guide describes discharging a cannon firecracker by pinching it between thumb and forefinger. It warns the risk increases with age and notes that the very young can lose a hand or part of an arm.
A humorous exchange when a juvenile answers a teacher about Independence Day. The boy says the celebration honors China for inventing fireworks, prompting a pause before further discussion.
A Philadelphia Press correspondent recalls arriving in Geneva on July 3 and seeing American flags beside Swiss ones. He notes expatriate enthusiasm as Americans celebrate Independence Day abroad with moonlight lake excursions, bunting, and a spirited but imperfect band performance.
The Yale chaplain laments mankind’s depravity in morning exercises. A freshman quips about Harvard, reflecting campus rivalries and student culture at Yale as Life magazine notes the scene.
The first notable English wood engravers were Edward Kirkall born 1695 and John Jackson who died 1754. The art gained vitality when the Bewick brothers near the end of the eighteenth century founded the English school, which has since stood second to none.
A Swiss official claims 200 Russians will spend more in a month than 1,000 English travelers, highlighting the high expenditure of wealthy Russian visitors for hotels and retailers across the host lands.
The piece notes that in India one can travel days without seeing a European. White colonies exist in capitals, but outside, only a handful of planters traders and missionaries are spread across the land. In Benares a visitor might go a year without seeing a white face.
The Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo da Vinci around 1500 to 1504, hangs in the Louvre Paris. It depicts the third wife of Francesco del Giocondo, and Francis I later bought it for 4000 gold crowns.
The passage urges spiritual transformation by God s Word as the true preventive against worldly conformity. It warns that the devil promotes liberty to mask fear that some captives may experience genuine freedom.
Fashion editor advertises Paris pattern numbers for Misses waist patterns in sizes 13 to 17 years. Describes shirt waists with turn down collars elbow sleeves and variations including tucked fronts body linings and three-quarter sleeves. Includes fabric tips and requests 10 cents with pattern number size name and address.
Moving pictures use rolls of film about three quarters of an inch wide. The films run in long lengths, sometimes feet long, and images are projected rapidly onto a white surface so the eye cannot detect the intervals between frames.
During the Italian revolution Paganini was seized as a suspect and confined for years. He played a violin with a single string and, through relentless practice, developed an execution so superb he could surpass others playing on four strings.
Fossil remains show sas safras exists as a native only in America. It bears three kinds of leaves on the same branch and its roots bark and wood are valued for flavor in medicines.
The custom of drinking healths began with Danish rule in England. To prevent throat stabbing during toasts a man would ask some of the sitters by to be his pledge or surety while taking his draft.
A barber argues with a patron about a dull razor. The customer insists the razor was used at a ball last night and needs a whetstone to restore its edge, as reported by Chicago News.
A dramatic tale from the St. Louis Republic recalls a home game where a foul ball struck the umpire near the heart, nearly causing death. The account emphasizes the crowd's reaction and the event's infamous humor.
Bilkins laments a suit refusal at a pawnbroker and Clubby suggests trying another shop.
In a playful scene after breaking a family wishbone, he asks what the other wished and she replies that she wished his wish would come true, revealing a tender exchange between two people. The moment centers on affection and hopeful anticipation.
Molly asks if George told his father about the $500 bank balance. George replies the father said he borrowed it. The exchange appears as a brief humor sketch featuring a parental figure and a loan implication.
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