18 Jan 1908
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1908
Page
1
Samuel Gompers argues labor must resist injunctions used against workers, defending trial by jury and personal rights while condemning unwarranted injunctions. Edward P. Ripley attacks diverse railroad regulations, urging unified national regulation to ease business, criticizing press censure and public hostility that threatens railroad viability.
Mrs Clyde Seanor spent the day in Pittsburg while Mr and Mrs G Maude Marshall linger in the same city. Mrs Jason W Carson of Blacktick and her son were seen today. Miss Sara Bruce visits her sister Mia. O K Martin of Blaineville and R M Smith the photographer suffer illness. Herbert Russell stays home on Water Street with la grippe. T L Edwards, real estate man, returns after ten days ill with erysipelas and grip. Mia W T Work and daughter Nona visit Karlton Center Friday. J A Klingensmith of Farmers Bank leaves for Chicago on business. Mrs Harry White Jr departs for ten days to visit grandmother Mrs William McKengy of Pittsburg. Oleh Sherisinger of Church Street noted.
A string of sobering incidents reported from Greensburg to Wilkes Barre and beyond details deaths from a trail ambush, a coal fire clothing burn, a man slashing his throat after a spree, a child crushed by streetcar, sewer cave ins, and a cave-in trapping workers. Additional items include a bank director reshuffle, a homicide conviction, and a railroad post office improvement plan.
Immaculately dressed evangelist claiming to be Allin J. Lawrence enters the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City and confesses escape in 1900. He recounts Kansas and Nebraska leads, a side church revival, and his decision to reveal his true identity to serve the remaining sentence. His wife sues for divorce after his confession.
Dacol Mosimayn of McKees Skucks Virginia, after returning from a bear hunt near Chiluiton, carried two bears and a monster wildcat. He grappled the wildcat bare handed when it leapt from the bushes, gripping its throat until his companion arrived and the cat was killed.
Professor John W. Y. Larkin of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and Dr. O Hanlon examine an autopsy at a New York morgue. They report a brain weighing twenty four ounces, half the normal size, with no evidence of disease. Balloonists Spoiled the Tart. An ad from an 8 x newspaper in Hoechat Germany seeks balloonists who jumped over a help line on a recent event.
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