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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1906
Page
2
A 28 year old glass worker Frank Coulter was robbed and tied to a stake near Steubenville Ohio by four men who built a fire beneath him. He escaped, wandered to the Ohio River, regained shore and staggered to Steubenville hospital. His attackers are unknown and his condition is serious.
The torpedo ship Algeciras stationed in Toulon harbor France was totally destroyed by fire. About 600 men were aboard when the blaze started and most are believed saved with only uncertain casualties.
The body of Dora Gilman twenty was found in weeds near New Arlington Ohio with signs of a brutal struggle. Police and the coroner investigate a possible attack at night and note the rain may hinder clues. Gilman worked at the National Cash Register factory and had a lover in Sharonville near Cincinnati.
A student and an older brother attacked Miss Carpenter at Culp school house north of Mt. Vernon Ohio. Ford Korden struck the teacher with a poker and Clarence Borden knocked her unconscious and pulled hair. William Chamberlain was knocked unconscious while trying to intervene. Hunters arrived as pupils panicked. Borden was jailed.
Secretary Metcalf of the Department of Commerce and Labor directs the California investigation into fires insurance claim settlements after the San Francisco earthquake. George E. Butler of Ross is named special agent with 38 years in Pacific coast insurance.
A Gra ham Morton steamer named Mrontenas from Chicago bound for St Joseph was blown 14 miles off course in a mid lake storm and limped into Racine after twelve hours of wind and waves. In the English channel a collision between the North German Lloyd steamer Wilhelm der Grosse and the British royal mail steamer Orinne left thirteen dead and many injured. Also noted a missing jewels case and Enrico Caruso was convicted in New York for insulting women.
A Colorado Midland eastbound passenger train No. collided with two light engines at Ivanhoe Colorado. Two gas sengers were killed and several injured in the wreck. The report notes the incident as costly and deadly. Also mentioned is a separate item: union printers have spent nearly $6,000,000 in their drive for an eight hour workday.
Chicago writer William English Walling reports from Russia predicting rapid revolutionary growth beyond cities. He says peasants, the empire’s backbone, will force a crisis and the czarist regime will fall as mass discontent spreads through villages. His wife Anna Strunsky will lecture in the U S and Canada.
A 17-year-old youth named Kleene, towering at six feet three, was committed to an insane asylum by Judge Gibbs after rapid physical development triggered mental derangement. Once arraigned, his speech shifted from tears to laughter as his mind failed. He had been small for his age until three years prior when his growth accelerated.
The sheriff of Iardin county Kentucky plans to sell Dock Auberry at auction under the state vagrancy law. Auberry, described as a strong, able bodied man with no visible means of support and deemed too lazy to work, was tried and convicted last week. The item includes his nine month service period.
Postmaster General Cortelyou awarded the four year stamp printing contract to the bureau of engraving and printing, rejecting the lower bid from the American Bank Note Company. The saving of $17,000 annually was deemed to be outweighed by potential losses from machinery downtime and upheaval during transition.
Towboats Raymond Horner and G. W. Thomas from Dittsburg, Pa., plowed into Steubenville Ohio piers in dense fog, sinking ten coal barges packed with 25,400 bushels. The boats and bridge foundations suffered only minor damage. sunken coal will be dislodged with dynamite.
Joseph F. Smith, president of the Mormon Church, pleaded guilty in District Court Salt Lake City to a statutory charge and was fined 800 dollars. The charge related to a birth announced of President Smith's forty third child born to his fifth wife.
Mrs Mary Unzzard died in a hospital at Kiltuning Pac from typhoid fever. Five of her children remain in the same hospital in critical condition, while the husband and two other children are at home with fever. Several children are said to be sinking.
Louis Goifferitta, an Italian grocer, was found shot to death in his Marion, Ohio barn. Police say a é-gauge shotgun killed him and $1000 was missing from his pockets. His 14 year old daughter discovered the body after he went to hitch his team. There is no crew to the murderer.
Capt William T. MelKiterick, son in law of the late Gen William Shaffer, filed for letters testamentary as administrator of the estate. The petition states no will has been found for Gen Shaffer, with the estate valued at $15,000.
Mutilated body of an expressman found in an empty lot at Thirty first Street and Shields Avenue in Chicago. Police attribute the murder to a gang of robbers and three arrests have been made.
A lone bandit robbed fifteen passengers on a train near Glasgow Missouri but was nabbed by a station agent who telegraphed ahead and helped arrange the capture of the thief that day. He was placed in jail.
Robert Vance Freeman, early Poison Squad participant under Dr. H A Wiley, died of tuberculosis in Washington. Freeman's mother alleges boric acid exposure in the test caused his illness and vows legal action, while Wiley rejects the claim as unfounded. The attending physician remains non committal.
George Dillon a clerk for the Fruit and Produce Trade Association faced Toombs County court in New York after waiving examination and being held on 2500 bail. Ward W. Suod a manager for the association and the American Copper and Gold Company testified that Dillon used the association’s letters to persuade customers to invest in the Eastern Trust Company at 100 a share. Dillon signed as assistant secretary at times and used the name C H Adams at others. Assistant District Attorney Krotel stated he had evidence Dillon collected over 10,000 from unsuspecting customers.
A former cashier of the First National Bank of Springfield Ohio A R Cobaugh aged about sixty five ended his life by hanging himself in the basement beam of his home He had been ill for two years and recently faced a suit over funds from an estate he acted as executor for more than two decades He later died in a sanitarium in Pennsylvania and a hearing on the estate matter was pending Woodville wreck engineer Galnauer testified at a Valparaiso inquest claiming full responsibility and was arrested along with Conductor Moste and Brakeman Woodward of the freight train all held on $3 bail
A guest list of 400 witnesses a possible deliberate food poisoning at the marriage of Miss Anna Florence Slavin and Samuel B. Breslin in Springfield Massachusetts. The dean of Max Odens, the bride's uncle, dies, and sixty others fall seriously ill with more fatalities anticipated.
Unknown assailants exploded dynamite at a Canadian hotel seven miles up the north fork of the Kittle River from Grand Forks B C killing Louise King 18 and an unnamed Italian and wounding nine others three dynamite boxes were used authorities seek suspects and motive in this violent act in the remote border region a cautionary note on early 20th century crime and railway frontier life.
Odessa Mervill of Bt. Paul lies at home heavily bandaged after she rushed toward a doll in a store window and smashed the glass. Her hands and face show deep lacerations from the broken pane.
A combination mail and express car on east bound Pennsylvania train No. 32 caught fire at Mansfield Ohio and was practically destroyed. The car, used for transfer mail delivery between Mansfield and Wooster, was severely damaged in the blaze.
The Monon railroad will challenge ICC authority to set man al compensation for service, and a court battle is anticipated over the commission’s recent decision.
In Kansas City Kansas the St Charles hotel in Ar kansas City witnessed a fatal hotel hold up. Two masked men shot and killed night clerk William Goff and wounded eight others. The robbers entered while the men sat in the hotel office a few hours earlier.
Trade reports from Chicago depict unseasonable warmth and strong demand for holiday specialties while staple goods face smaller orders. Production in iron and steel remains steady, rail congestion grows, and railroads report higher earnings as equipment expands. Brisk wholesale and retail activity, with high quality purchases, marks a robust season.
Regional market notes list cattle hogs sheep and wheat pricing across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York Toledo with bids from No. 2 corn 43 to 48 cents No. 2 oats 34 to 40 cents and rye 68 to 68. The record shows varying ranges for cattle from common to prime and hogs from fair to choice, plus hay butter eggs and clover seed values.
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