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Newspaper
Francesville Tribune
Location
Francesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1911
Page
2
A summary of Senate probes into the Lorimer election and sugar trust links, Taft urging pure food law updates, finance committee reports on wool and free list bills, and pending battles over direct senatorial election. Also notes on state legislation, fisheries, windfalls, and notable public figures abroad.
Mrs. J. W. Pinchot of Washington recovers from an appendectomy at her son Amos Pinchot’s New York home. Minnie Ashley, famed American vocalist, plans a stage return. Senator Henry Gassaway Davis announces his granddaughter Katherine Brown’s engagement to Lieut. Chester P. Barnett. O Melcher and his 12 year old daughter were injured in a derailment near MacFarland Kansas. Mrs. Melcher seriously hurt but alive.
Foreign King George and Queen Mary reviewed a great parade of warships at Spithead. Emperor William dined aboard the American battleship Louisiana hosted by Admiral Badger. A thief seized Mrs Mary Scott Lord Harrison's handbag in Venice and was arrested. White Star Line strike ends as employers accept terms. Ferdinand Edmond Duez convicted in Paris of embezzling 1.2 million dollars and sentenced to twelve years hard labor.
Reports to the state board of tax commissioners show real estate valuations will disappoint this year with smaller increases than hoped. Large properties lag behind, township assessors resisted higher valuations, and potential state tax levies for schools and institutions may rise in 1913. Conservation of egg quality noted by Bert Cohn in Greensburg and surrounding towns. Charles A. Reeves settles with the state board of accounts in a Hartford City case, nearing final repayment and stepping back from Daily Journal.
A train carried about twenty five physicians from Indianapolis and surrounding areas to Los Angeles for the annual meeting of the American Medical Association. Dr W N Wishard and Dr J N Hurty will attend, among others from Indiana including Dr Ada Switzer Dr John F Barnhill Dr F B Wynn Dr Alison Maxwell Dr Jane Ketcham Dr Alice L Hobbs and Dr G W Woollen. Central Indiana physicians join from other regions.
Leo K. Fesler secretary of the Indiana Republican Editorial association sent notices that the annual summer outing will be held in Detroit from July 17 to 20. The National Republican Editorial association will convene there, with an optional two week sightseeing trip through Canada to Toronto, Quebec, Cobalt and the Muskoka lake country.
The state board of medical registration heard evidence in the case of Dr. Perre Lafayette Stewart of the United Doctors. The board took no action and likely will not decide until the July meeting. He faces gross immorality charges tied to an advertisement in Muncie claiming cures for certain ailments.
Eight dog heads and one cow head arrived at the state health laboratory for rabies analysis but no definite results were possible due to improper preservation. Some animals were killed after attacks. one head lacked ice, another dog’s brain was brown from trauma. Heads came from Alt Ayr Newton county, Columbus, and from Rensselaer Evansville Farmersburg Lafayette and Oliver near Evansville where children were bitten.
The sixty first semi annual meeting of the Indiana County Superintendents association will be held June 27 and 28 at the state house. Programs include talks by John F Haines Noblesville on the work of the county superintendent, and William O Wilson Mt Vernon on achieving results. Le'.and Shock North Vernon discusses impressions after three weeks. Purdue’s G I Christie addresses on agriculture in public schools with practical suggestions. A Q G Fulkerson Washington speaks on seventh and eighth grade history. A R Huyette Bluffton covers conducting a county institute.
Articles filed with the secretary of state list Mussman Manufacturing company Indianapolis with capital stock of 5000 to manufacture millinery goods and directors H. H. Mussman W. G. Miller D. W. Mussman and H. J. Mauer. The Stanley Differential Hub company Logansport with capital stock of 60000 to manufacture automobile parts and directors E. D. Morgan G. M. Stanley Zachary Taylor Clark Taylor and Joseph Taylor.
A Hammond fire from an unknown source destroyed a four-story Hammond Storage building used for milling and storing distillery feed and cotton seed meal. The loss runs about 100000 dollars with half covered by insurance. Also in Logansport a 12 year old boy, Carl Liming, saved his life by leaping into the Eel river after his clothes were set ablaze by gasoline, suffering serious burns to the chest and legs.
Bloomington June 26 The Monroe county grand jury adjourned after two weeks without returning indictments against any of seven men charged in the white cap case involving Harvey McFarley a New Harmony farmer. The jury said evidence was insufficient and McFarley on the stand did not strengthen his charges against the men.
Dr CL. P. Nims head of Indiana University's official training department will assist in a safe Fourth of July in Bloomington. He will lead a day long program on Jordan field featuring a juvenile sports lineup coached by Dr Hutchins and Assistant Director Kase from the Boys' Athletic Club.
George Faulkner, a Kokomo mine worker near this city in Brazil, was buried under a massive slate fall for hours. He stayed conscious and called for help when a mule driver passed. Miners freed him after great effort. he suffered serious internal injuries.
June 26 Fowler farmer Peter Larsen aged sixty three committed suicide after a quarrel with his wife. He struck himself with a hand ax and fell into a cisterna. Neighbors found the body. coroner ruled wounds were self inflicted and not murder.
George F. E. Mc Reynolds of Lake Erie & Western Railway asks Indiana Board of Pardons to grant clemency for James Vagus, inmate long imprisoned for patricide after about 32 years in the state prison, with a plea set before the board at its June meeting.
At a Tri Kappa state convention business session the officers for the ensuing year were elected. Hazel Harrison of Columbia City was named grand president Jean Bishop of Rushville grand vice president Bessie Baer of Wabash secretary Ruth Meek of Greensburg treasurer and Mrs Juliet Crittenberger of Anderson editor of Cross Keys.
Sharon E. Jones president of the National Hardware Dealers Association states in a Richmond hardware store that all employees using cigarettes will be discharged and department heads are ordered to hire women who use cigarettes.
Nine year old Earl Frederick Merkle, son of Mrs. Dollie Hanson, drowned in White river at the High Street bridge in Muncie. He and other non swimming boys played along the river tanks in shallow water when the accident occurred.
In an interview Mr. W. J. White, head of Canadian government immigration offices in the United States, reports uniformly good crops across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta with a large increase in acreage this year. Prospects include 200,000,000 bushels of wheat, steady land prices, and rising emigration toward rail lines as settlers seek farms with sheltering poplar groves and strong grasses for mixed farming.
A social Ohio tale describes a young man who declines Mrs Wood's invitation with a formal notice saying Henry Blank declines with pleasure Mrs Wood's invitation for the nineteenth and thanks her extremely for the opportunity. The example is cited from Lippincott's Magazine.
A light exchange on how to answer questions about a beach show. The speaker insists on categoric and dogmatic methods for addressing inquiries.
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