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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1913
Page
6
Tyres Dunham helps a frightened woman named Mary Remington escape a plot to force her into an insane asylum. After a perilous pursuit in Chicago, Dunham rescues her at a hotel, reveals her true name, and marries her at a YWCA with detectives and police handling pursuers.
Mr Snibbies expelled burglar does not deserve credit. He got out of bed slipped on his shoes and said he was going down stairs to teach the intruder a lesson. He fought the burglar, dragged him to the hall and kicked him. His wife reveals the attack and the burglar’s identity.
The note describes purifying impure water by filtering through charcoal and a large flower pot. A layer of clean moss covers the hole, followed by a three quarter full mix of sand and charcoal. A linen cloth lines the pot and hangs over the sides, then water poured through yields pure water.
In Allen County Indiana two men attacked and bound Dorothy Harber seventeen at her home eight miles south of Fort Wayne. They robbed about 45 dollars and jewelry after forcing her to reveal hiding places and left a false gas jet running. She described the attackers, one with a false mustache.
In Logansport on December 19 Miss Minnie Miller fell ill while at work in a restaurant. She requested a peppermint bottle and an unlooking male worker grabbed the shelf bottle, rushed to her, and handed it to her. She drank and cried she had been poisoned. A physician diagnosed roach poison and she is expected to recover.
Wabash Indiana December 17 A H Plummer judge of the Wabash county circuit court ruled a prisoner may not substitute another to serve his jail term Addison VanDyne serving a thirty day sentence for intoxication asked to take over the remaining 120 days of John Burnett 180 day forgery sentence Judge Plummer held such action illegal
A man named Harry J. Lampke forty six a cigar maker with no home tried to rob Rev. Chas D. Wilson pastor of the Hamlin Methodist Episcopal church near the parsonage. The minister struck him on the chin and Lampke went down. Patrolman Griffith arrested him after he revived.
In Jeffersonville Thomas Admire, a painter, reported he felt pain after a violent sneeze, later diagnosed as a fractured rib by a physician who questioned him about the pain's onset. In Ft Wayne a school fire drill led to a safe six minute evacuation with no injuries.
In Gary on December 19 Ethel Smith suffered a relapse after learning her brother Ray age twenty one lost an arm in a hunting accident near La Porte. Also on December 19 Rushville reports the first shipment of goods to pass through the Panama Canal, sent by the F H Windate Manufacturing Company via New York City.
Terre Haute reports the Adams Express Company advertising for Scout a long eared hound that gnawed free from a crate while being shipped from New Philadelphia Ohio to Cowden Illinois. The event highlights a missing dog case tied to intercity freight.
In Lafayette on December 17 a deputy sheriff seized a horselike animal from the Moore home after humane authorities found prolonged confinement and severe neglect. Sarah Moore and her son Wilbur, tied to the late William H. Moore, face cruelty affidavits as officials condemn the emaciated, nearly blind animal kept in a rear barn for fourteen years.
A Logansport man, Verne Tucker, 60, died after being struck by a westbound Wabash train at Seventeenth Street. Other items include a Pittsboro druggist fined for leaving his store in charge of an unregistered person, an eighteen year old hand amputation at a Brazil packing house, a quail-hunting accident injuring farmer Samuel Huffman near Patoka, and burglary sentencing for Floyd Mullin. Additional notes cover political redistricting in Gary, a Gary mayoral advisory change, missing husband Martin McCandliss reappearing, limited homicide jury trials in Clark County, pastor Decker’s election in Greenfield, and a mule accident in Connersville near Nulltown.
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