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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1905
Page
2
Indianapolis dispatch reports Governor Hanly likely to sue former Indiana auditors to recover money collected from foreign insurance companies and misappropriated into the auditor's office under the old fee system. The sum involved is described as large and part of the 1881 to 1905 period.
Grand jurors in Napoleon Ohio return indictments against infirmary board members Henry Bickhoff and James Speisa for accepting bribes in a superintendent appointment. James Biggins is indicted for bribery and James Conway of Liberty Center is charged as go-between. The case centers on $300 paid for the office, with Conway keeping $150 and sharing the rest with the officials. Court date to consider further indictments is expected, with rumors of more officials and merchants involved in overcharges.
Ten thousand tons of coal on ten barges and the towboat Coal City were lost under Cincinnati Ohio river bridge. The rapid current pushed the tow across the stream, capsizing ten barges and dumping 1,000 tons from each into the river. No lives were reported lost. The incident involved the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad bridge and a Pittsburgh origin tow.
The Chicago Washington Park track, famed for the American Derby, faces probable sale within the coming year. One hundred stockholders are urged to attend the annual meeting to discuss selling the eighty acre property valued at about 1.5 million dollars.
John R. Ward, Indiana adjutant general, resigns after Gov. Hanly demands action following an investigation into his accounts. The committee cites a shortage of 760.75 from padded requisitions for pay and supplies for Indiana National Guard units. Ward previously served under Gov. Durbin and in the Spanish American War.
A tacit agreement has been drafted by miners and operators representatives and confirmed by a United Mine Workers official. The statement notes there will be no strike next spring in the anthracite region.
The Nantucket lightship sprang a leak during a fierce Atlantic storm while chained far from land. A frantic distress call was sent as the vessel neared incapacitation and the wireless apparatus went out of service.
Edward Atkinson a prominent Boston social and political economist died suddenly after an attack of acute indigestion affecting the heart He was years old
A mother Mrs. John Thomason and her five children aged 7 months to 9 years perished in a Columbus Avenue New York five story building fire. Two others were injured and many tenants fled in panic. The latch on a door to the hall jammed trapping them, and the mother died while trying to shield her children.
David W. Morrill visited the Elliott home to escort his fiancée to church. After finding no response, he reentered to discover five family members including Mrs Elliott and three children and a guest unconscious from gas, acting to revive them.
Mrs. A E Teekctell, president of the WGC T U in Macksville Kansas and about twenty members attacked traveling liquor salesmen Myron Mooney and I B Halfpike armed with buggy whips and rotten eggs Mooney escaped a beating by denying his identity while Halfpike was beaten The assailants fled the town and will not return to make sales
Escaped convict M. M. Letts, once a Princeton Kansas AT and SF station agent, who stole $70 000 worth of railroad tickets and burned the depot in 1908, has been arrested in Panama where he worked under an assumed name as a canal commission clerk.
Judge Blair sentences William McWilliams for the murder of his wife and five children to hang on December 14 1905 at the Independence Iowa court. The Anamosa penitentiary will house the execution as crowds of farmers in attendance favored the death penalty.
The crop reporting board of the Bureau of Statistics in the Department of Agriculture releases its monthly Winter Wheat Report. December 1 condition listed at 04.1 with 81,941,000 cultivated acres, up 3 percent from fall 1904 sowing.
Announcement from Washington states Mise Aliee Roosevelt is engaged to Nicholas Longworth. The engagement will be followed by a wedding in early spring at a ceremony in Washington.
J Wallace Vanetta of Dexter surrendered to the Ann Arbor sheriff after his guilty conscience led him to reveal a string of robberies. He testified that he and Arthur Reese robbed a Dexter resident Brass and an associate Charles Connor, with Reese later pleading guilty and receiving a five to twenty year sentence.
Ralph W. Rose renowned world champion shot putter and AAU star is jailed in Stanislaus County Modesto California on vagrancy allegations amid an inquiry into possible ties to a Southern Pacific freight car break in Newman. He admits riding the train but denies any criminal act.
The Topeka federal grand jury returned twelve indictments against eastern land and cattle companies for illegally fencing public lands. Authorities anticipate over fifty more indictments in southwestern Kansas. One case targets the Boice Cattle Company of New York with H. S. Boice of Kansas City as president for fencing more than 6,000 acres in Norton County half government-owned.
Hiram Goddard of La Crosse Wis a lumber man has learned certificates on 7000 acres of pine land in the Oregon timber district are fraudulent He bought the lands from Horace G McKinley of La Crosse who was among the original defendants in the land fraud trials in Portland The lands are valued at 85 to 50 per acre depending on timber and the total value is placed between 150000 and 200000
The steel freight steamer German of Duluth Minnesota laden with iron ore for Illinois Steel Company South Chicago plant was freed from a reef off Glencoe Illinois. Ninety laborers jettisoned 1600 tons of ore before release. The hull breach was minor and the vessel was towed to Chicago.
In Omaha Criminal Court Pat Crowe was found not guilty of shooting Officer Jackson on Sept 6. Immediately after release he was rearrested on a charge of robbing Edward A. Cudahy of 25000 in the famed kidnapping case. Horseman Kills His Wife in New York Street House.
A negro, Lewis Scott, was taken from officers near Cleveland Mississippi and hanged by an unidentified mob after firing a shotgun at offices while resisting a larceny warrant. D. L. Neyman was wounded in the incident.
Debates and votes sweep Congress with Panama Canal funding, naval appointments, and constitutional questions. Tillman attacks interstate rates while Bonaparte and Newberry receive executive confirmations. Philippine independence policy and statehood plans for Oklahoma and New Mexico arise amid routine adjournments.
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