Oct 1906 Eagle in Fremont Highlights Local Notices
Fremont newspaper The Eagle reports October 1906 local notices and brief items. Community updates include named residents, small events, and public postings typical of a mid‑summer season edition.
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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1906
Page
2
Widow Winemiller and neighbor die in Pettis county shooting
In War Saw Mo seven miles away shots shattered a window killing widow Mrs. Alex Winemiller instantly as her 14 year old son was badly wounded. Neighbor Felix Crawford died two hours after the incident. J A Long, son in law to Crawford, is charged with the shooting and a sheriff lead posse hunts Pettis county hills for Long.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sinin
Alex Winemiller
Warsaw
Winemiller
Felix Crawford
J A. Long
Pettis County
Long
Daring Kenosha Jewelry Store Burglary Stuns City
A bold burglary in Kenosha Wisconsin saw unknown intruders cut from a window at the T vy Dale jewelry store and steal watches and jewelry worth several hundred dollars. The theft occurred in the business district with many bystanders nearby. the robbers fled and no crew was captured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenosha
Wis
T. Vy. Dale
Three Killed at Grade Crossing in Iowa
A Chicago and Northwestern east-bound train struck a carriage near Lowden Iowa, killing Mrs. Charles Luett, her two children, and her brother-in-law William Luett. Only a baby girl survived. The collision happened at a grade crossing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago & Northwestern
Lowden
Iowa
Charles Luett
Luett
William Luett
Wealthy Houston dealer shoots wife then commits suicide
Daniel Van Valkenburgh fatally shot his wife at his Houston Heights home and then killed himself with a self-inflicted gunshot. He had separated from his wife two months earlier and had filed for divorce. In Indiana, Mrs Warren G Sayre, wife of ex Speaker Sayre, collapsed and died of heart disease at her home in Wabash while being assisted by her husband. She was 60.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston Heights
Tex
Daniel van Valkenburgh
Warren Sayre Dien
Warren G. Sayre
Sayre
Indiana House of Representatives
Wabash
Ind
London Banker P MacFadyen Ends Life After Suspension
P MacFadyen head of MacFadyen & Co. bankers of London England, who had a suspension announced recently, killed himself within an hour of posting the failure notice on the bank door by leaping in front of a train in a railroad tunnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Hanker
P. MacFadyen
MacFadyen & Co
Eng
New York Broker Fatina and Henning Losses Reported
The failure of J W Henning an operator on the New York Stock Exchange was announced on the floor. Henning a large trader, is said to have suffered losses in Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul during April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Massachusetts ruling limits labor union coercion in strikes
The Massachusetts Supreme Court holds that labor unions may strike against parties with whom they have a trade dispute but may not coerce innocent third parties. The decision arises from a dispute between stone cutters and pointers in Boston over union membership and contractor actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribunal
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Boston
Catters
Cutters’ Union
Ten Die In Boarding House Fire In Birmingham
A fire at Mrs. E. B. Watley’s boarding house on Third avenue Birmingham Alabama killed ten men and left two seriously injured and one slightly hurt. Twenty one boarders mostly street railway workers occupied the second floor where all fatalities occurred as flames swept the building. Firemen saved none of the belongings and furniture was consumed. The blaze is believed incendiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. BE. Watley
Third Avenue
Birmingham
Ala
Youth Discovers Electricity From Air At Fairbank Ranch
John A. Stranahan of near Fairbank South Dakota reports experiments with Hertzian waves yielding electricity from the air. His devices light his family’s ranch homes, power farm machinery, pump irrigation ditches, and drive an electric motor. He flew tandem box kites to test the method, with wires to collectors between them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Stranahan
Fairbank
S. 10
Stranahan
Stranalan
Peace Gift Bonbons Contain Lethal Strychnine
City Chemist Cross of Kansas City reports a box of bonbons sent as a peace offering contains enough strychnine to kill three people. Dr. James Eldridge presented the candy for analysis after a quarrel between two women and a reconciliation attempt. The recipient took the box to Dr. Eldridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City
Cross
Kansas City
James C.eldridge
Fidridge
Child Found Safe After Two Days Lost in Wolf Den
Four year old Margaret Schweitzer was discovered unharmed in a wolf den near Menominee Michigan after two days missing. She played with a wolf litter, scolded rescuers for removing the pups and said she stayed warm and fed by gathering nuts along the way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Schweitzer
Menominee
Mich
French Submarine Sinks in Tunis Harbor
Fourteen men, either living or their corpses, lie at the bottom of Biserta harbor in 130 feet of water after the French submarine Gutin disappeared during trials. It is believed they shared the fate of the Farfadet crew, all of whom were drowned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biserta Harbor
Tunis
Gutin
Farfadet
Three Children Smothered in Canton Grave Pit
In Canton Ohio three children Casper Ertle Sylvia Ertle and Dora Rice ages 3 4 and 7 were smothered to death in a grave pit where they played after failing to return for supper A searching party found the bodies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casper
Sylvia Ertle
Dora Rice
Canton
Ohio
Gasoline Explosion Hits Fort Recovery Kills Five
Five people were killed and about twenty injured in a gasoline explosion at the Meinerding dry goods and hardware store in Fort Recovery Ohio. The blast sparked a fire that consumed the town’s west side and destroyed eight buildings with the cause still unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meinerding Dry Goods and Hardware
Fort Recovery
Ohio
West Aide
Fire Sweeps Summerside Town Destroys Forty-Two Buildings
A blaze starting at Summerside railway station in Summerside Prince Edward Island spread rapidly prompting a call for aid from Charlottetown. The fire destroyed forty two structures including the post office the English and Baptist churches and four hotels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Summerside
P.be. 1
Ald
Charlottetown
Hunted Leper George Rashid Dies in West Virginia
George Rashid, a Syrian leper driven from several Eastern cities, died of heart failure in a Wickens shanty near Clarksburg West Virginia. Cremation was ordered by county authorities after his death. He had been housed in a railroad supported shanty with a nurse, and had been repeatedly attacked and fired upon in Pickens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Rashid
Wickens
Clarksburg
W. Va
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Rashid Jef Elkins
New York
Keyser
Rashid
Pickens
Polar Expedition Letters Recovered After Five Years
Two buoy messages from the Baldwin-Zeigler polar expedition drifted near Franz Josef Land. Found July 10, 76 on Moffen Island by Captain Strenerson, the letters were forwarded to Evion J. Baldwin then to the State Department. They describe a coal shortage that forced the party to turn back.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franz Josef Land
Baldwin-Zeigler
Arctic
Cowboys in Indian Fight Near Gillette Wyoming
Two white cowboys were killed and several Utes wounded when Indians raided a cattle camp near Gillette Wyoming. The Indians seized cattle and meat, while the cowboys defended the camp. Gov. Brooks sought federal troops to round up the Indians and return them to their Utah reserve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Gillette
Wyo
Gov. Brooks
War Department
Tah
Utah
Dakota
Indictment Filed Against Standard Oil for Oil Carload Abuses
A Jackson Tennessee grand jury returned a voluminous indictment against the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, part of the Standard Oil group. The 1024 counts allege discriminatory rates on carload shipments over three years, with penalties ranging from 1000 to 20000 dollars per count, totaling up to 30480000 dollars. George Randolph, District Attorney, will seek service on John D Rockefeller and other officials to testify in Jackson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Standard
United States
Jackson
Tenn
Standard Oil Company
BR. McCall
George Randolph
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Standard Oil Group
Randolph
John 1D. Rockefeller
Bridal Trip on Trolley Covers 3000 Miles to Mackinac
Charles Hubach of Tiffin Ohio and his bride completed a 3000 mile wedding journey mostly by boat and trolley. They began in Coledo traveling through northern Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Camida by trolley, then moved to Mackinac by boat. The single steam leg was between Tiffin and Poleda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Hubach
Tiffin
Ohio
Coledo
Pennsylvania
New York
Camida
Mackinac
Poleda
Ohio Woman Held as Poisoner in Father’s Death Attempt
Kesgie May Berther, of Mount Gilead Ohio, is under arrest accused of putting poison in her father Herron Toldingsworths coffee last April. Her husband sits jailed on a separate assault charge tied to the same case. Proximity of farm ownership allegedly motivates the crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Herron Tiodingsworth
Kesgie May Berther
Mount Gilead
Toldingsworth
Treasury Shortage Probe in St Louis Vaults
Secret Service agents count ten million dollars in coin at the United States sub treasury in St Louis to verify a claimed shortage of sixty one thousand two hundred dollars. Paying teller D P Dyer Jr is relieved pending inquiries as Adkins, the sub treasurer, sought an official inspection long overdue by ten months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sam
St. Louis
United States
Secret Service
D. P. Dyer
Sub-Treasury
Pat Dyer
Adkins
Treasury Department
Big Car Firm at Hammond Plans $5 Million Plant
The Standard Steel Car Company of Butler Pennsylvania capitalized at $15000 with 100 cars daily and $100000 in value plans a $5000000 plant in Tammoil Indiana. Construction begins at once as 4000 workers gain employment and a $200000 weekly payroll is projected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hammond
Standard Steel Car Company
Butler
Tammouil
Ind
Woman Dies from Fright Over Fake Hydrophobia
Mrs. Charles Freeland, 22, of Steubenville Ohio, died of heart paralysis amid hysteria over imagined hydrophobia after a cat bite seven weeks earlier. Doctors say it is a rare, fright induced death though she underwent three weeks of treatment and read extensive hydrophobia literature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Freeland
Steubenville
Ohio
Earthquake felt along New England coast across states
Tremors were reported from Massachusetts to Maine with two shocks near Portland Maine causing a temporary bridge to sink several feet. No major property damage was reported as other towns felt the tremors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Massachusetts
Maine
Portland
Hurricane toll and damage across Florida and Caribbean
A hurricane swept through Florida Cuba and Central America causing massive loss of life and property. The death toll includes 250 drowned on Blott's Island off the Florida coast and 20 in Havana with many more killed in San Salvador. Property losses reach into the millions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Cuba
Central America
Blott’s Island
Havana
San Sanlvader
Standard Oil Guilty in Ohio Anti Trust Trial
A Findlay jury finds Standard Oil Company guilty under the state anti trust law and subject to fine and imprisonment. The case against John D Rockefeller on the same charges is held up pending an appeal of the corporation's suit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard Oil Company
Findlay
Ohio
John J. Rockefeller
Russian Steamer Varyagin Sunk by Floating Mine
A Vladivostok dispatch reports the Russian wooden coasting steamer Varyagin struck a floating mine and foundered. The disaster costs the lives of the crew and 200 passengers with only one survivor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vladivostok
Varyagin
Potatoes Wrapped in Pink Basue Paper Ship From Greeley
A barrel of fancy potatoes, each tuber wrapped in pink basue paper, was shipped from Greeley Colorado by express to Palmer Brown in Paris France. Brown, a wealthy Greeley resident, will pay nearly 18 cents per potato for the stock he prefers over Paris offerings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greeley
Colo
Express
Palmer Brown
Paris
France
Brown
Marlboroughs May Part Ends Union Strained
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough live apart after frequent quarrels. W. K. Vanderbilt, father of a wife, is in London attempting to avert a permanent separation.
Village Girl Killed In Hunting Mistake Near Heyfield
William Cason on a hunting expedition near Heyfield Minnesota shot and killed 14 year old Mable Stevenson whom he believed to be a woodchuck. The incident occurred as he stalked through the area prompting local authorities to investigate the tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ville
Woodchuck
William Cason
Heyfield
Minn
Mable Stevenson
Actor Frank Mordaunt Dies at Bedford City Sanitarium
Actor and manager Frank Mordaunt died in a Bedford City Virginia sanitarium after a four year illness. He was born in New England sixty four years ago and his real name was Arthur Tr Markham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Mordaunt
Bedford City
Arthur ‘Tr. Markham
Mr. Mordaunt
New England
Carnegie Medals Awarded to Local Heroes
Fifteen individuals and the heirs of one other received Carnegie hero fund medals for valiant deeds. The ceremony highlighted recipients from or near Chicago among the honorees and included monetary awards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnegie
Peraone
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Chicago
Trade shows strong demand and high prices in Chicago area
Dun's Review of Trade notes gains in bank exchanges and production demand with the highest mine and forest product prices this year. Chicago roads earn more while car shortages persist. 26 failures in Chicago district, equal to last week. New York wholesale volume remains large with active reorder trade and cotton goods in heavy demand. woolens improve and prices stay steady per Bradstreets report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Dun
New York
Bradstreet
Market Price Averages for Cattle Hogs and Grains Across Cities
Chicago to Buffalo and Detroit list wide ranges for cattle hogs and sheep with figures for wheat corn oats rye and hay. Prices show regional variation with values for New York Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Milwaukee and more. Butter eggs and creamery butter quoted with unit spreads across markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
Eges
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Fremont, Indiana
Gee Q. Aa Fk. M
G Ton
N. M. ‘Ith
Guarda
Robert Clarke
Jackson County
Mississippi
Lucedale
Clarke
Wife
Y Taft
Chiio
Taft
Lancaster
Cleveland
Bank of Vergennes, II
Abraham Himmel
Sullivan, Fed
National Bank
Sullivan
Labor Strikes Legal
Treasury
Pawpaw
Lo T
Watson's
William Green
Town Topics Publishing Company
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