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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1910
Page
7
Airbrake men and their wives from across the United States and Canada plan a two day escape from convention worries. They will test rapid transit at the Indianapolis Speedway in vehicles lacking speed checkers and spend time on airbrake talks, meals, dreams, and demonstrations before returning home for a year until the next gathering.
A banquet at the Claypool hotel featured the Indiana Funeral Directors' association with the maxim elaborated upon by speakers. State President J. D. Ammons of Columbus served as toastmaster as oratory centered on undertaker methods. Addresses by J. H. McCully of Ifaville and Robert Smith of Evansville followed. W. P. Hokenschuh of Iowa City spoke on embalming in Wednesday session. convention to close Thursday afternoon.
James K. Cave 77 was found dead at Linden Koeler Lake in Fort Collins. He attached fishing lines to his hat coat and neck to secure the body for discovery, citing despondency from ill health. He left a note gifting his gold watch to his son Fred and a widow with six children.
Patrolmen Tague and Thomas Smith entered Mike Spanos pool room at 53544 E Washington St on a Wednesday night. They found 16 men playing cards and gambling. Officers seized 90 cents and two decks of cards before arresting the entire crowd.
A federal court judgment awarded McBride Electric company $14,500 from the city of Fort Wayne after a contract dispute over a municipal power plant construction. The company had claimed about $26,608.26 was due.
In Wabash Indiana on May 12 Miss Ruth Rhemy aged 18 an organist quit the United Brethren church during the sermon. After the first songs she hastened home packed a few clothes and disappeared leaving her parents in distress.
James Vaughn a black porter in a Delaware Street saloon claimed to find a Masonic diamond ring on the saloon floor valued at 150. Detectives Mullin and Houser took him to the police station while they search for the rightful owner.
Mrs Florce Hillsberry formerly of Indianapolis now living at 528 W Seventh St files a police court warrant against her husband Clarence E Hillsberry and Julia Wolf of 814 E Pearl St. She accuses them of misconduct and says her bricklayer husband deserted her for the other woman and they moved to this city.
London May 12 reports Austen Chamberlain dismissed as groundless rumors of his father ex Premier Neville Chamberlain death. The brief note states there is barely any basis for the reports, reflecting ongoing media speculation.
State examiners report trustees across Indiana townships facing repayment for overpayments and improper expenses. Thomas J. Deffenbaugh of Penn township must return 258.60 plus 258.60 in bond and rent costs. Other cases include Dermody, Donovan, James, Eaton, Peter, Marburger, Gonter, Roth, Beck and several advisory board mispayments, with praise for several honest, diligent managers.
Chicago May 12 Cordwood is not mutton as city sealer John Kjellenger files 20 suits against Armour Swift Anglo-American Libby Schwarzchild and Hammond packing companies. He claims packers inflate weights by skewers adding 28 pounds to 78 lambs, costing butchers about 210 per 3 000 carcasses and netting the firms over 61 million dollars annually.
Ora Hill, 15, son of Peter Hill of Salt Creek township, was descending a hill when he slipped and fell with a shotgun in hand. The weapon discharged, striking his breast. he is reported as dying. The incident occurred near Bloomington on a Wednesday morning.
New York May 12 Brooklyn Rapid Transit stock long called the market’s football was placed on a 5 percent basis at Thursday's directors meeting as a quarterly dividend of one and a quarter percent was declared. The last declaration was 3 percent.
Rev. John Wright Johnson, 91, of Fountain City, declared dead, revived Thursday morning then fading. He helped Eliza Harris reach Canada with underground railroad aid, an elder relative of Levi Coffin. His wife, 86, also near death after a fall that broke her hip last Tuesday while tending him.
The Florida was launched at Brooklyn under Naval Constructors Baxter and Grausbeck. It features eight foot armor belt, additional nine inch belt, heavy casemates, four to five inch barbette protection, ten turbine Parsons engines, twelve water-tube boilers, and dual coal or oil burning furnaces. At 68 percent complete at launch, the hull weighs about 9000 tons.
Gary Indiana May 12 The ninth annual convention of Knights of Columbus of Indiana elected state officers including state deputy Charles R Duffin Terre Haute and state secretary W V O'Donnell Columbus re elected state treasurer L F Miller Vincennes and state advocate H H B Corbett Gary re elected state warden William Regan Connersville and state chaplain Rev W J Cronin Rushville Delegates were Rev W J Cronin A J Padgett Washington and W L Ferrick Logansport The next convention will be held in Richmond
In Laporte on May 12 Judge J C Richter ruled against the United States bureau of naturalization and held that an Assyrian is a white man. He ordered the issuance of a second naturalization paper to Norman Abraham Tamber an Assyrian who had fought the bureau's ruling that Assyrians cannot become citizens.
Clarinda Rose Nicholson, a centenarian born July 5, 1809 in Chillicothe Ohio, died Thursday at her Ladoga area home near Crawfordsville Indiana. She moved to the area in 1840 and is survived by four children, twenty seven grandchildren, and twenty six great grandchildren.
In a broad meditation on modern civilization, the speaker argues that wealth and politics should be separate from public service, praising citizen soldiers and the global reach of today’s world movement. He stresses virtues at home, organization, and a strong religious spirit, urging balanced progress and civic duty before global citizenship.
New York reports that theories about Hindu vengeance in the murder of William Beeman and housekeeper Margaret Meehans are discarded. Jewelry worth at least $10,000 was stolen. Three suspects were arrested as police press toward the trail, aided by a muslin thumb print tying the suspect to the Cannon residence.
New York May 12 A case hinges on a chicken swimming to decide payment of up to 250 dollars for 2000 strawberry plants. Justice Clark T Rogers says the plant value may be awarded if the chicken can swim. Julian Duckhudt's defense claims his chickens cannot swim as they are not freaks. A six foot stream between farms blocks a swim, and Duckhudt challenges Knight to produce proof of swimming chickens.
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