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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1912
Page
2
Lagrange Ind Nov 5 A head on collision between a passenger and freight train on the Wabash near Eddy left 1 fireman dead and the engineer seriously injured. About 25 hurt, none seriously. Eye witness says engines jammed and overturned beside the track. Coroner to investigate assigning blame.
Daniel G. Reid was elected president of the Tobacco Products Corporation at a directors meeting in New York on November 1. The firm was formed to conduct general tobacco business competing with former American Tobacco Company subsidiaries. William H. Butler and Mika de Melachrine were elected directors and vice presidents.
Two men died and extensive property damage occurred within ten miles after an explosion destroyed the American Company nitroglycerine factory at Bradner in Wood County. The deceased are Edward Linkenstein, 45, and Hugh Easton, 55. The plant reportedly held 900 quarts of nitroglycerine.
In Asheville North Carolina on a large election rally at a schoolhouse in Harvar dsville John F E Horst a well known farmer became overcome with excitement and suffered a paralytic stroke leading to almost instant death with authorities noting the event occurred amid the political gathering.
Evansville Indiana November 6 Reverend William F Dunn of Granite City Illinois is under arrest charged with luring 18 year old Mies Ensell Mickell to the city and living with her as husband and wife for three weeks. Also Rhode Island Ex Governor George H Utter dies at fifty eight in Westerly after stomach trouble. Taos New Mexico man A P Probert sentenced to six to eight years in penitentiary for embezzling 500 from Roy A Clifford.
An armed man robbed the jewelry store of Andrew Stauver on St Andrew Street in Wheeling West Virginia, taking about 2009 dollars. Police reported the incident occurred November 1 and the robber fled with the cash.
A wireless from Salonika reports Turkish forces, routed at Yenidje, attacking toward the city in disorder. In Statista they plundered a monastery, killing a monk and a 3 year old child. shells terrorized Scutari during bombardment, while Constantinople fears both Christians and Muslims as Bulgarians close in and a Turkish steamer sinks after a mine.
Washington reports Louisiana has notified the state department of ratifying the income tax amendment. Only two more states are required for the three fourths needed for adoption. Thirty three states have approved. Ohio is expected to act favorably. Several states have yet to respond.
Mabel Barrigon, famed actress and wife of comedian Joseph Howard, died in Toronto after a long tuberculosis battle. She had traveled nationwide seeking a cure and spent her final weeks in a helpless condition.
Three children aged seven five and three died in a Hallbrite Bask blaze on the outskirts of Winnipeg. The mother Mrs Frank Gerrish was away tending a sick neighbor and had locked the children inside. Fire started mysteriously leaving only charred remains.
Allentown Pa Nov 5 Milton Rabinold of Wescoes ville was instantly killed and three others were seriously injured when a car in a joy ride collided with a team here.
Maj. Gen. Robert Maitland O'Reilly former surgeon general of the United States Army died in Washington after a week of illness from Bright's disease. He served as surgeon general from September 1902 to January 1909.
A dated roundup lists key battles and moves in the Balkan War from October through November, noting Montenegro declares war on Turkey, Serbian and Bulgarian offensives, Turkish naval actions, and Serbian and Bulgarian captures leading to Turkish retreat and pleas for mediation by the great powers.
Chicago police halted doubts as Charles Newton Conway admitted murdering Sophia G. Singer. He said the victim attacked him with a handkerchief containing a doorknob and that he struck her with a nearby razor, then gagged and tied her before fleeing with his wife to Hammond and Lima, where they were arrested.
The interstate commerce commission warns rail carriers and shippers that withholding cars amounts to theft. It cites a current car shortage as a threat to commerce and industry and urges higher per diem rates, immediate car theft inspections, and faster freight trains to prevent a 1906-07 style shutdown.
In Cleveland on Monday Antonio J. Patto twenty an Italian shot and killed Martha Haller seventeen a department store salesgirl after she spurned him and then killed himself.
Eugene Noble Foss second weighed 80 pounds at birth in Horton on Monday marking Governor Foss as a grandfather and coinciding with the governor’s wife Mrs. Foss birthday.
Utica reports the death of James Schoolcraft Sherman vice president of the United States. President Taft and the Senate attended as processions and services were held at First Presbyterian church. The funeral included a state pause with flags at half mast and official mourning across the military and judiciary.
Samuel Gompers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison, labor leaders, appealed from a dc Supreme Court ruling finding them guilty of contempt of court and sentencing them to district jail. A hearing in the appellate court likely by January 1913. they have thirty days to pay costs and thirty days to file briefs.
Sixty passengers on a Joliet & Southern interurban car narrowly escaped death when a Belt Line freight train crashed into the trolley at a crossing east of Joliet. Several people were injured in the collision reported Monday.
A Canadian Pacific Railway strike began in Ottawa on Monday affecting 5 090 clerks and stenographers across the railway's stations and offices. The action halts routine duties and prompts potential service delays nationwide.
Gov Woodrow Wilson wears a narrow plaster strip over a scalp wound from a car mishap on the way home from Red Bank New Jersey He brushed off photographers and showed no sign of injury as Capt William J McDonald the Texas Ranger and bodyguard was shaken but ready to accompany him The party joked about shooting and marksmanship in the incident in Princeton New Jersey and Paterson New Jersey last night.
Milwaukee dispatch reports John Schrank, the would be assassin, hoping for Roosevelt's forgiveness and a light sentence. Schrank told cellmate Bernard Gottschalk that Roosevelt, like McKinley, would show mercy and that he should be pitied rather than condemned.
"Father" John Russell, founder of the Prohibition party and the oldest Methodist preacher in the Detroit conference, dies at his daughter's home in Detroit. Born in Livingston County New York in 1822, he helped organize the first national Prohibition convention in Chicago and was the party’s first vice presidential candidate in 1872.
A Missouri Kansas and Texas train left the rails at Abonita north of Fort Worth on November 4, tumbling into a ditch. The entire consist ended on its side with the engine on the embankment. No deaths or serious injuries were reported among the passengers.
In St Louis on November 2 the jury returned a verdict for Mrs Edna K Bonstett in a suit to collect two $10,000 life insurance policies on her brother George A Kimmel who disappeared in Kansas City. The claimant failed to prove his identity to the jury.
Daniel F. McNamara of Detroit was sentenced to thirty days in the state house of correction for keeping his shop open on Sunday after being arrested on a Sunday opening charge.
Miller G. Huggins will manage the St. Louis National League baseball club next season, succeeding Roger Bresnahan, who has been dismissed, according to an announcement made here on Monday.
Nell Brown and Dolly Smith are reportedly engaged, prompting speculation about their acquaintance. The fragment notes a surprising social pairing and hints at prior familiarity, with no further confirmation.
A fragment shows a character named Kenworthy regarded as not right mentally. The dialogue mentions a question about the number 80 and references a plan to join a game night for auction bridge versus less engaging games like bean-porridge-hot or tit tat-toe.
A court trial recounts a killing in the county jail as a witness describes the deceased in scathing dialect. The judge and jury hear humorous asides amid the testimony while the exchange highlights race and character in the case.
An Ohio woman credits caffeine free Postum with reversing coffee caused heart trouble and dyspepsia. She reports improved sleep, weight gain, and restored appetite after switching, urging proper preparation and endorsing The Road to Wellville in ads from Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan.
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