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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1913
Page
2
John W. Loyd, 25, killed himself in Mrs. Bertha Pruitt’s presence after a year of keeping company she refused to marry. Pruitt, mother of two, had not divorced her husband. Coroner Maxwell heard Loyd's action followed their relationship dispute.
Mrs. Cora Lawson of Madison County sues former neighbor Mrs. Cora Edwards in Madison superior court for 10000 dollars alleging alienation of her husband Marshall Lawson. The Edwards family includes Evan Edwards a local schoolteacher and Thomas Baxter a pioneer. Both couples vanished months ago and are said to be living in Pensacola Florida. Mrs. Lawson also seeks a divorce.
Thomas Hauer announces Charles Q. Eriaman Robert L. Sackett and John J. Schultz will join the board of public works. Eriaman is a Republican Schultz a Democrat Sackett a Progressive. Eriaman and Schultz are businessmen while Sackett is Purdue faculty, known engineer with Earlham background.
E A Linville of Connersville sues Consolidated Telephone Co of Hendricks County for 15000 alleging a fall from a damaged cable line in North Salem injured his spine while repairing a line. He sues under the employers' liability act in Hendricks Circuit Court. The case is before a jury.
Offensive actions across Mexico include a rebel dynamiting of a troop train killing 103 soldiers and 20 camp followers, a summary court martial execution by dynamite, and reports of captures and killings. Huerta vows to continue fighting as Wilson signals policy shifts.
Boston officials probe deadly Arcadia hotel blaze that killed 28 workers. Joseph G Lyons, head of the low priced lodging chain, suspects the fire began under the stairs in the main hallway. He notes three prior mysterious fires at the same property.
The Baker bill granting San Francisco water supply and power rights in the Hetch Hetchy valley of the Tuolumne river in Yosemite national park passed the Senate 43 to 26. It had already cleared the House in the same form and now goes to the president for signature.
Berlin reports Bavarian people will pay 1.5 million for a real king after 27 years of Ludwig’s regency costing about 1.6 million annually. The figure reflects the anticipated maintenance of monarchic rule and royal expenses.
Denver December 9 Roy Montgomery mayor of Gillette Wyoming was sentenced in federal court on Saturday to two years and six months in the penitentiary for violation of the Mann act.
Norfolk report says 197 passengers were rescued from the burning steamer Rio Grande by the British Swanmore 205 miles northwest of Diamond Shoals. Swannmore ferried off evacuees amid choppy seas before breakfast as crews battled flames and fumes.
George E. Davis a dynamiter testifies of how he was hired to blow up bridges viaducts and other structures built by non union labor. He provides dates and places of dynamite outrages as federal indictments grow against officers and members of the International Bridge and Structural Ironworkers Association.
Mrs Pankhurst was released from Exet er jails after a three day hunger and thirst strike and sent to a hospital. A medical certificate cites pleurisy as her condition. Ego War hits the capital as Washington residents face an egg boycott to curb prices.
James Trickey famed Iowa tackle of 1912 died at his Cedar Falls home Friday from peritonitis. A University of Iowa graduate, Trickey left an enduring mark on early Hawkeye football.
Floods flood Texas towns driving thousands from homes and causing heavy loss of life. A Houston motor boat train was dispatched to rescue marooned San Felipe residents amid reports of up to 600 dead and $4 million in property damage. Elsewhere 20 000 homeless across Bryan Herne Temple La Grange Austin Navasco Marlin Delton Waco and surrounding areas face hunger and exposure as storms recede. Colorado mountains see tragedies from snow slides and a survivor emerges from a mile long slide while two companions are buried.
Col David Duboise Gaillard, engineer in charge of the Culebra Cut project on the Panama Canal, died at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after seven years of tropical work. He will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Survived by his widow and son Lieut. David P. Gaillard. both were with him at death.
Sidney A. Witherbee, an American from Michigan, arrives from Mexico with a peace plan gaining support from prominent figures. The proposal envisions an all American union with Latin republics as partners, no territory gains by force, a tribunal for interdependent disputes, and concerted action to deter foreign invasion.
Washington reports anti-suffragists before the house rules committee Thursday denounced a proposed special committee on woman suffrage while asserting that their aim is to conserve the family. Mrs Dodge of New York led opposition stating suffragists have many hearings and claim unfair treatment is unfounded.
In Bingham Utah on December 8 experts at the Utah Apex mine began tearing bulkheads at the Parnell tunnel to release fumes and smoke that could suffocate a person. They searched for Raphael Lopes murderer of six men including four deputy sheriffs but found no body. The area where the body was expected to be found showed no evidence of the fugitive.
Chicago news reports the death of A Montgomery Ward a longtime Chicago merchant and head of the Ward company. He rose from an apprentice in a stave factory to president of a $40 000 000 firm and died at Highland Park at seventy due to pneumonia following a hip fracture and long illness.
Missipp i story notes A Hobbs indicted with Lieutenant Governor Bilbo issued an open letter challenging Governor Brewer to a duel. He accuses Brewer of seeking Bilbo’s removal of U S Senator Vardaman and claims immunity was offered for turning on Bilbo. He says Brewer indicted him after failure to win Bilbo over.
Otto H. Kahn head of Kahn Loeb Co and chair of grand opera executive committees fainted after finishing a speech at a Chicago banquet.
News from Bucharest reports a deadly rail crash near Contesti Saturday night. A collision between a passenger train and a freight train left about 100 people affected, with fatalities and injuries confirmed.
Sixteen Industrial Workers of the World were arrested near city hall after defying police orders to stop street speeches. Two riot calls were sent to police headquarters as the disturbance unfolded.
Washington reports the Navy’s enlisted force exceeds 60,000 for the first time since the Civil War, totaling 60,186 men. The gain since July 1 stands at 2,068 as of December 9.
The Dyckman farmhouse, a surviving 1784 Dyckman homestead on Manhattan Island, will be presented to the city with park department acceptance by Commissioner Stover. Daughters of the Revolution plan to convert it into a museum at Isham Park overlooking the Hudson, preserving a link to early Dutch New York.
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