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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1910
Page
3
Aviators Chavez of Peru and Weymann of the United States began a trans Alpine attempt from Brigue Switzerland toward Milan Italy. Strong winds forced an early landing after a short flight with both pilots unhurt.
London reports Crippen sought divorce so he could wed Ethel LeNeve, the Crippen inquest hears. Neighbor Mrs. Jackson testified LeNeve planned marriage after Mrs. Crippen’s supposed departure, with LeNeve noting Crippen and his wife argued often and she feared being the cause.
Washington Sept 19. National board for the promotion of rifle practice is making efforts to organize rifle clubs in public schools. Circulars are being sent to inform and promote school participation.
Special to The Sun. Bedford Indiana September 19 Bedford is in poor shape from failure of the water works engines. The eighteen stone mills have shut down and threaten suit against the city. Fire insurance men say they will boost rates unless conditions are speedily bettered.
In South Bend Indiana on September 19 the St Joseph county democratic convention rejected endorsing John W Kern. The move leaves legislative candidates free to vote their conscience, solidifying Beveridge support. Labor backs Beveridge while Kern faces anti Kern sentiment over bribery accusations by brewery interests. John B Stoll of South Bend Vine editor is a Beveridge supporter.
Sirgerville Pa September 19 An idle moment and 20 cents have brought Oscar Wotring a windfall He planted 20 peach trees years ago to test San Jose scale resistance The trees bore a second large crop this year A milkman offered 100 cash for the crop and bought 284 baskets sold at 106 a basket totaling 29116 the yield proves a profitable gamble
Wabash Indiana September 19 traction cars must stop at every crossing under a new city ordinance. The measure also requires the railroad to place a flagman at each crossing. The rule applies whether passengers are boarding or alighting, and targets preventing accidents.
Special to The Sun. Henry Lay terrorized Dunkirk Saturday night and was captured asleep in his shack Sunday with two shotguns beside him. He attacked Mont Ravime Simmons and Lazarus Jones homes, forced entry, shot windows, and drove the family to the cellar before retreating. Lay had been shot by Thomas McMannavy two years earlier after forcing McMannavy’s daughter to accompany him at gunpoint.
Chicago reports a population of 2,185,283 in the latest census, up 486,708 since 1900, lifting it from sixth to fourth among world cities. Paris leads with 2,714,068, while Tokyo and Berlin trail closely. New Orleans drops to fifteenth as Detroit Milwaukee and Newark advance ahead of it.
Miss Bella Ritchell a Russian Jewess and local school teacher sues the L. N. railroad in Bourbon county Kentucky circuit court for 25000 dollars. She alleges conductor Robert Lusk forced her from Middlesburg to Lexington to ride in the jim crow car, her valise hurled to the floor while she was led to the nigger compartment.
In Vernon Indiana on September 19 the Fourth district Republican convention nominated John Kamman of Seymour to oppose Lincoln Dixon. The party endorsed Beveridge and the national administration and adopted the tariff plank. A separate district convention nominated William Le Grande for the Scott and Jennings legislature district, and John R. Carney for prosecutor. County ticket: Clerk W A Wildman, Auditor E P Trapp, Sheriff John Donnell, Treasurer John Schierling, Coroner C C Jordan, Surveyor D B Clapp.
Bloomington Indiana assistants to teachers at Indiana University are being chosen. Miss Caroline A Black from Cincinnati will be a botany assistant. Max Mapes Ellis and his wife Marion Lee Durbin Ellis of Vincennes will assist in zoology. Mary Tey Harmon from the University of Pennsylvania will assist in biology. Charles A Unneher of Princeton will assist in physics. Claude Gaston and Miss Gertrude Ione McQuain will teach fellows in mathematics. A R Knees of Frankfort and O R Overman of Windfall teach chemistry fellows. I E Lee of Crawfordsville, R S Davidson of New Richmond, and O B Carter of Bedford will be assistants. Willmer Souder of Salem will be a physics teaching fellow and James Galloway of Ligonier a geology teaching fellow.
The Interstate Commerce Commission will hold a session in Evansville on October 4 to hear charges from local lumber manufacturers that they paid the Illinois Central railroad more than 125000 in freight overcharges. The lumber men organized to seek refunds and escalated the matter to federal regulators.
Elbert B. Rhodes proposes donating sixty acres of Dunn meadow northeast of Indiana University for a state university expansion. If the state rejects, Rhodes will plat the land and sell it in lots after acquiring the property from Moses F. Dunn for 125600 dollars.
William Folwell, 36, former All Trenton pitcher, travels with wife Elizabeth and children Anna 14, George Warren 11, arriving in Warsaw after a 1100 mile walk from Janesville Wisconsin. The troupe plans to rest three to four weeks before home. Folwell pitched with both hands, though right arm is natural.
Yale corporation held its fall meeting with President Taft in attendance. He arrived by private car and stayed for the session where salary increases for faculty were the leading business, with favorable action anticipated before his planned departure to Cincinnati at 3 o clock.
Special to The Sun Wabash Ind Sept 19 Next years meeting of the Wabash county W C T A will be held at North Manchester Officers were elected for the ensuing year Mrs L A Morgan president Mrs John Flora North Manchester vice president Mrs Flora Winesburg North Manchester recording secretary Mrs Lillian Harkness corresponding secretary Mrs Ena Bowman North Manchester treasurer Delegates to the Ft Wayne convention were Mesdames B B Morgan Josie Comstock Frances Jenkins and Emma Smallwood of Wabash
More than 10,000 visited Plainfield Indiana to attend the western yearly meeting of Friends. Meetings were in a large tent and in the church with Rev. and Mrs. Dann of England addressing the church service. Rev. Willis Bond of Carmel spoke in a small tent and Fred Cope of Noblesville spoke outdoors. Levi Mills spoke in the church at night.
The Wabash valley pow wow of Red Men will be held in Noblesville September 28. It is expected 10,000 Red Men will attend, more than the city has ever hosted.
Newkirk Oklahoma September 19 The case of the attack on Taylor and J W Shepherd two brothers and the reported assault on Taylor’s 13 year old daughter Ebby was solved Monday The girl confessed to County Attorney Burns that she beat both men with an axe because they had whipped her The two men were found Friday morning and the girl had previously said a stranger attacked her The girl is described as feeble minded.
Shelbyville report says five men caused six thousand dollars of damage to Fred Evans’s building and Joseph Johnson’s business in Gwynneville on Sunday. Fire origin unknown. Bucket brigade tried to save the main structures but saved surrounding buildings. About seventeen hundred insurance carried.
Crawfordsville Ind September 15 Word reached here that John and Taylor Shepperd former Waveland residents were brutally attacked in bed at Newkirk Oklahoma Police say robbery was the motive and both men are believed to die from injuries The case underscores a deadly assault tied to a robbery.
M C Reeves promotes a city park plan in Columbus by asking twenty men to each buy an acre of Perry's grove and donate it to the city for park use. The proposed scheme seeks private support to create a public green space.
Dr and Mrs A J Banker adopted Mrs Thomas Lloyd White who came to their home as a baby and remained until her marriage years ago in Columbus on September 19.
Four miniature houses, each priced like a ten room dwelling, are being built in a Pittsburg cabinet shop for E. P. Mellon. They will be shipped to his four granddaughters in Pittsburg Kansas and Texas, with full furniture fittings included, at a cost of several thousand dollars.
New Albany Ind Sept 19 David Keller weight 100 pounds the largest man in Floyd county died Sunday at his Georgetown home aged 88 He is survived by his widow and nine children Keller served for years as a justice of the peace in his township and was an assistant doorkeeper at the last session of the legislature
Dr. William Cooper, 71, a pioneer surgeon, died Saturday in Kokomo after an operation. He practiced in Carroll, Clinton, Cass and Howard counties, amassed 1,000 acres and sizeable property. Survived by children Mrs. John W. Kern Indianapolis, Mrs. J. B. Schultz Logansport, Mrs. John Arthur, and Judge R. M. Cooper Kokomo.
Marion Indiana reports Mark Nesbitt a 40 year old wealthy farmer drank poison Monday in view of his 10 year old daughter and died within two hours. Nesbitt had shot Robert Stillwell a decade earlier but was acquitted on self defense. He had brooded over the affair.
Bedford Ind Sept 19 The E C Newlams Post No 155 W R C announces a membership of 100, claiming to be the state’s largest. President Mrs Nora Hartley was recently named to the state hospital board.
Columbus Ind Sept 19 The largest life insurance policy to mature here was that of W A Mooney president of the Mooney tannery which has just matured The policy was for 35000 dollars.
Washington reports that national banks rated weak face a last chance to shore up operations or exit. Comptroller Murray will wield full authority to enforce sound banking in strong banks and compel weak ones to strengthen or retire, paying off depositors and preserving some investment for shareholders.
Washington dispatch reports a new counterfeit ten dollar banknote in circulation. The note is poorly photo etched with stitched thread fragments visible. Bank officials warn careful money handlers may still detect the flaw.
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