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Newspaper
Francesville Tribune
Location
Francesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1906
Page
4
A fragmentary item mentions a shipment of Akron salt described as the best salt this side of Salt Lake. It references Continental Limited and Lake store with scattered place names and numbers in a wartime era style.
A romance from New Orleans to Washington ends in Wyoming as Mary Crissman elopes with Robert Fielding posing as a cowboy. Fielding defeats rival Bob Taylor in a roping and cutting challenge, earning Miss Crissman’s hand and her father’s reluctant consent.
The infant daughter of Miles Barnett escaped death when a runaway horse leaped over a go cart near a crowded thoroughfare in Atlantic City. Mrs Barnett fainted as Jacob Kumpf threw himself before the horse, taking serious injuries while saving the child.
James Kelly, a farmer at John M. Mack's Frankford estate, is jailed in Moyamensing on charges of fiendish cruelty to nine year old John Carroll whom he adopted. Carroll testified nails were driven through his heels into the floor to curb escapes. The boy, claiming actual slavery, led to warrants, and a chase ended with Kelly and his wife arrested in Holmesburg after Mack followed in a car. A separate note reports Dr Fastenrath testing fish taming in Lake Lugano by feeding bread to fish for days, leading to social acceptance of the doctor’s theory.
The three foot two inch man named Charles Levy also known as Rudolph Jerusalem sky and Cohn faced bigamy charges in New York's Essex Market court with bail set at 2000 dollars. Lizzie Jerusalamsky No. 1 seeks punishment for abandonment and Betty Cohn of Hoboken claimed marriage in June 1905. In a separate item Charles McNulty of Kentucky died after eating three dozen eggs and other foods following a bet.
A collection of editorial snippets and quips from the Francesville Tribune discussing politics, beef packers, Bryan, and local civic notes. It highlights reflections on public affairs, health fines for vaults, and a nod to advertising prices, all in a wry local tone.
The Maine clergy report a pattern of one divorce for every six marriages and form an interdenominational committee to promote signature rules for clergymen as part of a statewide crusade.
A proposed set of rules for signers pledging not to marry strangers, to refuse remarrying any divorced person within a year of decree, and to marry only the innocent party under specified conditions. The draft outlines specific eligibility and stipulations for remarriage after divorce.
The court held that a citizen who has not paid taxes for ten years cannot stop county commissioners from deducting accrued taxes from sums owed to him by the county treasury. Cain Baker claimed a $60 ditch warrant. the treasurer deducted taxes and paid $10.38. Baker pursued mandamus. the circuit court favored him, but the supreme court reversed.
John Slater was trapped for two hours in a partly built Milwaukee river tunnel when water poured in through a break. Observers saw him through a bullseye as the flood rose to his neck before firemen opened a door and saved him. He was found insane and benumbed, hospitalized after the ordeal.
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