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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1908
Page
4
The Lafayette Sunday Times quotes liberal sentiment opposing county and state prohibition. It argues licenses for disorderly saloons are revoked and bans on untrustworthy establishments grow. It praises orderly urban saloons but warns a full reform may return the country to old inn and tavern methods.
A Washington dispatch to the Indianapolis Star accuses Cannon in the House and Aldrich in the Senate of leading a graft driven tariff bloc. It argues voters will back pledges against Cannonism and anti Cannon clubs form as criticisms grow. The piece notes Taft endorsed the bill and calls for a Democratic alternative.
The Candy Shop at the Studebaker nears end of run with a jammed house this summer. The cast including Frank Lalor Jack Hazard Florence Morrison and Annie Yeamans continues to draw laughs. Lucy Weston and Louis Harrison introduce a new ballad I mused to Spoon by the Light of the Moon.
Demas D. Bates former post master and member of Howell Bates Hillett Jones law firm to be chairman of the South Bend Republican central committee.
Tipton Indiana August 16 Depositors at First National Bank of Tipton are being paid as the bank reopens after weeks closed since the disappearance of assistant cashier Noah R Marker and a $60000 cash shortage. The bank holds about $750000 in vault cash and agents of the justice department oversee the resumption. a federal grand jury will investigate possible violations of national banking laws with Marker under $10000 bond.
Chicago detectives joined Logansport Indiana police in hunting four men whose plan to rob a special messenger near Logansport was stopped by a railroad employee’s warning. A gun battle with the robbers left 21 men escaped. The $400,000 was with the messenger and the cash was to be sent to the Virs? National Bank of Tipton Indiana which is to be reopened after the cashier Noah Marker vanished and reappeared.
Intense rivalry marks the American association standings with Milwaukee and Minneapolis leading by small margins. The race features close points gaps among Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and Indianapolis as teams contend for the 1909 pennant. A Louisville series against Minneapolis produced three shutout games, 1-0 totals.
Crowds in Indianapolis watch major racing names test the course at the new Meeter Speedway. Ziengal powers around the two and one half mile track in two minutes two seconds averaging 73.74 miles an hour as top demonstration. Several other nationally known drivers take turn in initial trial runs ahead of Thursday through Saturday races.
Everett Ches a wealthy truck gardener was killed when an automobile skidded on a wet road and crashed into a telegraph pole. He was riding with four other men as the car splintered the timber. In Greensburg Indiana Frank Stevenson and his family change jobs with a camping trip near his property.
Rev. Jacob E. Meeker of Campion Heights Congregations preached a short sermon at a Sunday evening garden event. He spoke from an improvised platform surrounded by peer tables, a theater, and a dancing pavilion in attendance.
Three people are missing near Old Forge Adirondacks including Miss Lillian Titus of Philadelphia and two Titus camp guests. A search party scours the woods as guns are fired to signal responders.
Fort William Ontario August 16 Striking dock laborers of the Canadian Pacific railway resumed work following a mayoral pledge that the company would employ them and settle grievances by arbitration.
New York August 16 Chinatown is in ferment over the stabbing death of Bow Kim twenty one a Chinese woman who came from San Francisco a year ago as wife of Chin Len thirty one. Six American women claiming to be wives of Chinese men were arrested but would not admit knowledge of the death. Len said he suspects Lee Sing perhaps killed her over a money dispute. Sing had once been in love with Bow Kim.
Beverly Massachusetts August 18 President Taft writes to Secretary Nagel warning that any census taker engaging in politics will be dismissed. He notes supervisors are chosen with input from senators and congressmen, but party favors must not compromise work. List of named census supervisors by district and state.
Sixteen governors have invited to join President Taft on his October Mississippi River journey. Invited are B B Comer Alabama G W Tonaghey Arkansas C Deneen Illinois T R Marshall Indiana A T Willson Kentucky J Y Sanders Louisiana RE Noel Mississippi H Hadhey Missouri A C Shalien berger Nebraska J P Fort New Jersey G Curry New Mexico C N Haskell Oklahoma R S Vessey South Dakota M R Patterson Tennessee T M Campbell Texas G H Prouty Vermont.
Washington reports that Congress plans a winter investigation into the interior department including the general land office and reclamation and forestry services. Focus areas include withdrawal and opening of public lands, Alaska land entries, water power sites, and alleged misuse of withdrawals by Secretary Ballinger and Gifford Pinchot.
In Rome Georgia on August 16 Edward Harris was shot by Frank Rossi a restaurant keeper. Rossi and his bride are jailed charged with the crime. Rossi says Harris flirted with Mrs Rossi leaving her with a wife and child.
A steam liner at the Hussissm dock was badly damaged when a fire led to water admission that caused the vessel to heel. Tugboats then pulled the liner upright and held it as it settled onto the mud bottom.
The silver service donated by the people of South Dakota five years ago remains stored in the New York navy yard. Captain James T. Smith of the cruiser South Dakota can request the gift from the navy department, but it has been forgotten.
LeRoy T. Steward is named head of Chicago police, succeeding George M. Shippy. He will resign as superintendent of the Chicago post office delivery and take office as soon as possible. Steward, 47, combines military training with extensive business experience and pledges an orderly city.
Philadelphia society man Anthony J. Drexel Biddle trains for a savate style match with Count de Saint Phal in Paris. The contest mixes fists and feet with a focus on foot work, and Biddle aims for victory for glory rather than prize.
Franklin Illinois Aug 16 G P Wright cashier his brother T W Wright and James Tribble arrested on complicity charge in the looting of the Franklin bank of 2500 last Thursday Wright brothers posted bonds of 2000 each and were released Tribble remains in custody
Fragmentary report from Monroe Las August 4 indicates a white man who filed suit was killed by hanging and shot, with uncertain details and wording preserved in the OCR.
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