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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1912
Page
2
Anderson Indiana August 20 passengers on an Indianapolis bound interurban car watched a funnel shaped cloud pass just behind as the driver kept full power. The cyclone tore down wires and trees delaying news of damages while a rural mail carrier’s horse was electrocuted on a live wire.
A dispatch reports Williams Arizona 400 miles west of Albuquerque was severely shaken from 2 05 to 2 10 pm. Shocks reached Winslow 100 miles to the east. Holbrook nearby also endured severe shaking with broken windows, but no lives were lost.
Warren Sanders fatally shoots his wife Anna Sanders and mother-in-law Mrs. George Griffith at a railroad station after a seven year old daughter custody quarrel. Police report indicates attacker was Ashton, 1, before the fatal burst.
The poison strychnine was found in the coffee of George N. Nicholas of Rockingham and verified by state chemist W H Taylor. His housekeeper Jim Hopkins drank from the same pot and is gravely ill. Nicholas was valued at around 206000 but lived poorly.
Official returns report 143 fishermen drowned as a two day gale swept the Spanish coast near San Sebastian. King Alfonso and Dowager Queen Maria Christina led a public relief effort to collect aid for the victim families.
A head-on collision yesterday in South Bend between an interurban car and a work train on the Chicago South Bend and Northern Indiana railway killed O. Tuck, the head carpenter for the railway, in the city.
President Taft sent to the senate the nomination of Clinton Howard of Pellingham Washington to be United States judge for the western district of Washington. He would succeed Cornelius H Hanford.
A lone gunman boarded a Southern railroad train from Spartanburg at Biltmore station last night and frightened the express messenger with a revolver. He obtained 3000 dollars and escaped.
Virginia Christian, the first woman executed in Virginia by electric chair, was put to death yesterday in Richmond after Governor Mann refused clemency despite pleas from supporters.
Clarence S. Darrow, Chicago lawyer, was found not guilty in Los Angeles by Judge George H. Hutton on a bribery case related to the McNamara matter. Jurors deliberated 34 minutes with three ballots, amid emotional scenes. prosecutors indicated they would continue with other indictments.
A heavy cloud burst in Niles Michigan Aug 20 left two dead and several injured. Seven railroad bridges and miles of track were destroyed halting streetcar service and delaying trains on the Michigan Central and Big Four lines. In seven hours 14 inches of rain fell. fatalities Otto Seaver 34 and Billwoch 70 were struck by lightning while working on a house outside Niles.
Sea Girt N J Aug 19 Gov Woodrow Wilson says strong pressure is being applied to have him speak in Maine before the September 9 gubernatorial election. He now plans not to go but may be persuaded to change his mind. He has accepted an invitation to speak at the Spanish war veterans encampment in Atlantic City September 10. Roosevelt and Taft are invited to speak the same week on different days.
Maj. Gen. Thomas H. Harry, superintendent at West Point, is assigned to command the eastern division with headquarters in New York, succeeding the late Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Col. Townrley of the First Artillery will replace Harry. Brig. Gen. Tasker H. Ris is reassigned to head the eastern department duties.
Mexico City reports President Madero will convene an extraordinary congress to discuss Orozco’s peace proposal. Orozco seeks a full pardon for his officers and men and demands immediate reforms and removal of 73 government relatives. Orozco travels to Mexico City for talks. Juarez rebels move toward Sonora to join Salazar.
Colonel Roosevelt, nominating Chicago, urges New England leadership in the Progressive drive. He blasts both major parties as bossed and stresses tariff concerns for the region. A private Rhode Island dinner at Hotel Narragansett followed with Julius L. Mitchell and Dr. Matthews present as delegates and Roosevelt showing support for Black supporters.
Washington reports describe foreigners in Managua facing imminent death as rebels bombard the city. Marines arrived but cannot threaten rebels out of range. Several shells fell inside the American legation but no injuries occurred. Americans within the legation have been ordered to remain inside.
President Taft told the Maryland Republican Editorial association in the White House East Room that presidential electors who appear on the Republican ballot but intend to vote for another party are dishonest. He said those not for the Republican party should leave the field and urged a fair fight with no split loyalties.
A section of the new Panama wharf collapsed on Sunday and two electric cranes toppled into the Pacific, causing the mainteamer Newport to sink. Blasting had weakened the pier foundation.
Wytheville Virginia August 20 Slidna Ed wards one of the Hillaville courthouse assassins pleaded guilty to second degree murder and was sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary
The International Typographical Union meets in Cleveland and endorses a nationwide push for union text books in public schools and for pro labor school board candidates. President J. M. Lynch and the executive committee back the strike in Chicago pressrooms while denying the San Francisco Examiner composing room strike request.
The Stromboli volcano in violent eruption endangers inland areas near Messina Italy as ash showers pour from the crater. Inhabitants of Stromboli are panic stricken amid four months of activity.
Crazed by smoking, Victoria Ruiz a Cuban woman poured a gallon of kerosene on her clothing and set a lighted match to it Friday in Tampa Florida She was burned severely and died.
The Senate sustains Taft vetoes on the steel and wool bills with votes 32-39 and 39-36. Progressive Republicans split with the regulars on steel, while several joined to pass wool over veto. In the House, Democratic leaders fail to secure a two thirds margin to override Taft's veto on the legislative executive and judicial bill, 153 to 107.
Governor Dix appoints Supreme Justice John W. Goff as presiding judge for Lieut Charles Becker and others indicted in the Herman Rosenthal murder. Goff, active in the Lexow probe era, will oversee trials starting September 3 with Becker as the first defendant.
Fort Leavenworth Kansas hosts the largest mimic war yet with 6000 troops in the field using blank ammunition. A big pretend battle near the Soldiers' Home on August 27 will feature kills wounds and hospital tents with tag identification for the dead wounded and destroyed bridges.
Captain Cook reports Corsican sailing at half speed toward Liverpool after a five foot hole in the stem above the waterline. Allan line offices in Montreal say weather has cleared and there is no alarm. Hole measurements will be sent to Liverpool for plate fitting on arrival.
Daniel Shields Gunning aged 23, a member of a prominent New York family, leaped from a fourth floor window at the Hotel Touraine in Boston on August 20. He was dead on arrival. He was the grand nephew of Mrs. Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University, and was said to have been momentarily demented.
More than sixty icebergs were sighted in the Atlantic near Newfoundland by Captain Amundsen aboard the steamer Raxnarok as it arrived Sunday from Hotawoodvilla Newfoundland.
Berlin Aug 20 reports indicate the German Empress health remains unsatisfactory and may force her complete retirement from court and public life during the coming winter according to Sunday reports.
William Burke, Philadelphia city councilman elected on reform ticket, resigns and leaves the city after writing a confession likened to Jean Valjean. Burke, once Benjamin H. Tripp, served seven years in Massachusetts prison for a notorious crime before earning a woodcarving living and entering politics.
Acting Chairman William G McAdoo outlines a nationwide scheme allowing banks and trust companies to receive and transmit campaign subscriptions. Governor Wilson backs the plan to finance campaigns by popular subscriptions and to remove suspicions of minister influence.
In Juarez on August 20 a young woman described as Col. Lazzo Alanis’s wife led ten rebel soldiers into town disarming the provisional chief of police and six officers. She rode to a police station seized guns and rode away on officers' horses with her followers demanding provisions from stores before leaving.
Virginia Christian, convicted of killing Mrs Ida Virginia Helote in Hampton, Va, was executed in the state prison electric chair after three respite requests. Governor Mann had sought views from local authorities and clemency was deemed unwarranted.
Shanghai reports local republicans protested in Peking against the execution of two generals and sought to block Dr Sun Yat Sen and General Huang Ling from traveling to Peking. Sun ignored warnings and proceeded, raising fears of friction between the north and south.
Warren Sanders shot and killed Mrs. Weaten a Sanders and her mother Mrs. Griffith at the Ashton depot in Dixon county. He was arrested and jailed after the Sunday incident. The Griff iths were prominent, and Mrs. Sanders had sought divorce recently.
Chicago reports Mrs Westanna Sanders and Mrs George Griffith were fatally shot at the Ashton Missouri Pacific station by Warren E Sanders. The incident stems from marital trouble.
President Taft signed the $160,000,000 pension appropriation bill as his first official act Saturday. The measure authorized payments and ordered telegraph transmission to eighteen outlying agencies to begin pension disbursements.
New York readers note severe elm damage in Central Park from tussock moths. Officials urge timely spraying with arsenate or lead mixtures, costing about 1.30 per tree, plus winter trunk cleaning and cocoons removal to curb future outbreaks. Park Commissioner Stover says spraying is active across the park.
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