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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1912
Page
6
In a dusty Southern tavern town the Barony sale triggers plots as Hannibal Wayne Hazard, a foundling linked to the Quintards, surfaces amid pursuit. Yancy defends Hannibal, Blount fights, and Captain Murrell presses his case while Judge Price faces a raucous crowd and a dramatic reveal of lineage.
A judge in Pleasantville is duped by a counterfeit bill and fearing mob justice. Solomon Mahaffy aids Hannibal and Bob Yancy, while Long-Legged Cavendish rescues Yancy from Elk river and ferries him to a Cavendish raft home. The jail siege ends as Mahaffy escapes with help and the judge flees into the night.
In Hartford City a beer bottle assault killed 25 year old Harry Leonard. Fred and Nelson Edwards of Upland are jailed as witnesses after a night of drinking. Purdue reports cattle sale records in Chicago with forty calves at $9.00 per hundred and thirty at $8.85. four women injured by a lightning strike near Michigan City including Blanche Spaulding and Chlebowski family members.
Philip Thompson, a Seymour police officer, arrested his brother George Thompson for public intoxication. George resisted, was injured in the scuffle, and later bailed his brother and paid the fine. While intoxicated, George was robbed of 75 and a gold watch presented by his brother.
A large rooster attacked a two year-old boy as he played in Bloomington on May 3. The mother, Mrs. Frank Burns, arrived and beat the bird away after the rooster felled the child and began to dig its spurs into him.
Henry Johnson aged eighty seven and described as a pioneer farmer has divided his $100000 estate among his six children. He notes he cannot read or write yet built a fortune starting without a cent and claims he never used tobacco or spent a cent foolishly.
Isaac Silcox aged 61 drank a bottle mislabeled as whisky containing carbolic acid and chloroform and died within hours. The bottle, used as a toothache remedy, had previously held liquor and was obtained by a Silcox family member.
Indianapolis on May 6 reports Joseph Van Horn aged 34 leaped from a third story hotel window on North Alabama Street. He died before hospital arrival and a wife’s departure was noted as a cause of his distress in the domestic troubles cited.
May 3 report from South Bend notes the Bayman family mourning after a wife a daughter and William J Bayman all died within nine months. Mr Bayman aged 68 came to Plymouth eleven years ago. Three children survive the family tragedy.
Ralph Blebop aged thirty five hibover was found dead on the Pennsylvania tracks at Union City east of Winchester by William Dunn yard watchman. Body mangled believed to have fallen asleep on the track. Widow and one child survive.
Harvey Phillips and Silas Vickers, operators of a Upland Indiana soft drink business, received $1000 fines and sixty day jail terms after Taylor University students raided the premises alleging violations of liquor laws.
May 6 report from Winchester notes Mary Mincer owns a chicken with four legs. Three legs are usable but the fourth is too short to reach the ground. In Lebanon a twin obituary records Malinda Lowman dying at 84 from heart disease at her daughter-in-law's home. She and sister Matilda McClure of Cloverdale Indiana were considered the oldest twins in the state, born in Montgomery.
William McAuliff fifty eight a farmer living on the edge of town hanged himself. He was a bachelor and lived with a sister. He leaves three sisters and one brother surviving him.
Indiana in Brief reports a boy weighing 15 1 4 pounds born to Mr and Mrs Townley in this city. The items note a range of local incidents from legal filings to deaths, including a mine injury suit in Sullivan and the death of a two year old in Detroit previously living in Logansport.
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