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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1911
Page
2
A Rome letter reports 1060 Turkish soldiers and 38 Arabs killed when a powder magazine exploded from a shell fired by an Italian battleship Napoli during Derna bombardment. Italians also suffered a reverse near Tripoli with 100 dead after a reconnoitering run.
The estate of Levi C Weir former Adams Express president who lived near Mineola New York is valued at 2 265 000 dollars with a net after debts and expenses of 2 500 000 dollars Willet M Hays assistant secretary of agriculture receives a bronze medal from the fourth conference of genetics for work in plant and animal breeding.
The government decrees all royalist emigrants not involved in the recent rising must return to Portugal or have estates confiscated. An earthquake in Sicily killed many. Santa Venerina and Giarre suffered severe shocks. In Hankow a fierce, indecisive battle left 700 imperial troops and as many rebels dead or wounded. Two thousand insurgents attacked government forces from Peking, with both sides showing brave defense.
Northern Indiana Dental association convenes its twenty third annual session with 150 present. President J W Stage of Goshen urges passage of a general dental inspection law for Indiana schools and a delegation to the general assembly.
The Indiana apple show commission completes plans for an exposition in Tomlinson Hall with speeches by Governor Marshall Charles W Fairbanks and George Ade. Ade will exhibit apples from his Kentland farm. A 100 point score system is set for packages and displays with auctions to follow the show. The commission stores about 5000 bushels of early apples and has promises of many fall and winter apples from exhibitors statewide.
Following actions by H. B. Barnard chief chemist for Indiana state health board Gov Thomas R Marshall called a state meeting on conservation of natural resources. Barnard prepared notices to a dozen departments and organizations asking participation. The meeting will be held in Indianapolis on October 28.
Attorney General Honan advised W H O'Brien that an assessment company formed under the 1897 act may write life or accident insurance or both if proper reserves are pledged. The Farmers and Merchants Mutual Life assoc of Princeton Ind sought to reorganize solely for accident insurance, but since its purpose was life insurance, the reorganization was deemed illegal.
Total Indiana deaths in September reached 2,409 with a state rate of 10.8. The September year prior saw a rate of 12.4. City rate matched 12.4 while country rate stood at 9.6. Violent deaths totaled 202, tuberculosis 195, and cancer 153. There were 6,051 births, a rate of 22, compared with 19.9 the previous year.
About 200 agriculturalists from across Indiana attend Purdue University for the fourteenth annual extension workers conference. The three day sessions are in Agricultural Hall with tours of research departments for visiting workers. The first session opened with general instructions for extension workers.
Indiana pension records show grants to Levi W. Bailey thirty dollars George Bennett six dollars Abraham Bitner fifteen Aaron N. Crouch fifteen William K. Delph eight William F P Dinsmore thirty Francis M. Eddleman fifteen Peter M. Gates fifteen Malinda J Greenlees twelve William Warvey fifteen Charles W Herrens ten Thomas Hudson thirty Elizabeth Jackson twelve Hulda Kreider twelve George McGee thirty William Miller twenty Ben J F Neiman six Thomas P. Sawyer thirty Andrew H. Simpson twenty four.
Indianapolis, Oct 21. Brown H. Brown president John L. Ketcham secretary treasurer William R. Brown superintendent Frank J. Vinson former auditor and Harry Holliday former pay master indicted by Marion County grand jury. Receivership and bankruptcy proceedings cited as company assets near one million dollars.
A bolt of lightning struck the home of John Goppert in Stark County on October 21. Busters burned the Mrs. Goppert’s dress and her skin, while a little girl eight years old poured water to save her she barely survived the frightful blaze.
In Kokomo on October 21 Miss Pearl Myers of near Amboy, Miami County sues Samuel Frybarger, a school teacher, for 5000 dollars for breach of promise. Frybarger says she had two or three other lovers and he doubted her sincerity about marriage.
In Newcastle on October 21 the thirty sixth annual reunion of the Eighth and Eighteenth Indiana regiments and the First Indiana battery selected Franklin as next year’s site. Col. W. T. Stott of Franklin was named president and E. G. Burgett of Wabash secretary. Resolutions urged a dollar-a-day pension for veterans.
Hammond Oct 21 Doctors wired Frank Alts jaws after a brutal Chicago robbery attack. He suffered three jaw fractures and cannot open his mouth for a month. He was robbed of money and left for dead on the pavement by two assailants.
An order signed by Superintendent Curry of Flora Illinois posted at the B and O Southwestern shops calls for a meeting of all foremen department heads engineers and conductors. The gathering marks the first step toward a new efficiency plan for the system.
Miss Ethel Shepherd twenty of Bicknell lost her left eye when a dynamite cap placed in an old kindling block exploded as she chopped wood for the evening fire in Vincennes on October 21.
Georg Ade pledges to build a two story Sigma Chi chapter house on a hillside lot overlooking the Wabash river. The plan drawn by William Munn calls for an English style two story home with wings. Groundbreaking next March with occupancy in September and a cornerstone in June.
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