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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1908
Page
3
A political update notes the Independence Party intends to organize ahead of the coming election and hopes to poll more votes than ever, aiming to land a candidate and build a stronger organizational base.
Boston report details the Independence league's rapid growth under Secretary C O Powers, with 31 cities and 170 of 180 towns organized, plus a strong Boston ward structure. It notes past vote totals for governor candidates and the league’s aim to improve results next November.
Two mutilated men found on the desert south of Mesquite Springs are identified as Frank Swain and his son George W. Swain, mining men known in Los Angeles and Nevada camps. Authorities believe robbery led to the killings. relatives in Los Angeles and Bhfathon, Ind. were notified.
The Nelson presents a full week of acts including Mabel and Dorothy Goodwin in The New Bell Hop, Chris Lane in funny songs, Hazel Good with illustrated songs, and the Majestic Singing Three. Nelsonscope adds new motion pictures. A big new show arrives next Monday.
The St Joseph school rehearses an eighteen member cast for the four act comedy Two Orphans with June 16 commencement performance. Four graduates are John Ek Ahlmer Florence Schmitz Marguerite Hartz and Clara Baker. Elmer Hilse of Jasper loses his right arm in a hunting gun accident.
London reports English astronomers studying Jupiter now. they describe a world with towering inhabitants perhaps fifty feet tall, slow movements, and long meals. Tornado winds near the equator may prevent ships, while polar regions stay calmer and inhabited life prospers in scattered oases.
Rev Harry Phillips spoke to Seven Mile church youth as the Logansport circuit holds its fourth quarterly conference next weekend with Rev J Simons presiding at Sev en Mile. Families visiting Logansport residents and local farmers report corn planting and plowing progress. Children’s Day exercises are planned for Seven Mile with a fine program, while fruit crops look poor as fruit drops.
Local seniors entered the building last evening and pulled down the freshmen pennant from the flag pole after two days. Patrolman Skelton dispersed the gathering and those remaining on the roof needed help to descend.
U T excursion to Indianapolis on Sunday June 7 features a $1.25 round trip. Special tickets are valid on trains leaving at 5 00, 5 45, 7 30, and 9 00 a m with return on any train the same day.
Oil field activity increases around Portland as new wells go down. Chautauqua at Richmond runs August 21 to 30 in the city park. A 14 pound carp towed a rowboat on English lake. Haynes Hackett of Monon awarded 40000 for railroad injuries. Dynamite mishap fails to explode while erecting Lafayette battlefield monument. Abraham Welker of Hagerstown dies by own hand with a shotgun. Elsie and Robert Miller drowned in St Joseph river at Leeper park. Goshen rifle team to Culver on June 5. Goshen school board names William S. Charnely and J. W. Rep Logle. Herman Miller on trial for murder of Columbus Crey. White River navigability proposed up to Muncie.
Paris police scour the crime area as they probe artists models and follow clues in the Steinheil murder of the artist and his mother in law. The widow Madame Steinheil is described as hysterical and is being treated at Count Arlor’s residence.
Judson G. Rosebush, a Lawrence University professor, marries Miss Barbara Jane McNaughton heiress to a fortune of about eighty thousand dollars annually. The couple plans a wedding trip abroad while Rosebush continues teaching at Lawrence. Miss McNaughton is the only daughter of millionaire paper manufacturer John McNaughton.
Chicago June 4 The probable program for the national Republican convention to meet June 16 at the Coliseum in Chicago is outlined. The lineup includes keynote by J C Burrows, credentials and resolutions committees, permanent chair Henry Cabot Lodge, plat form adoption, and balloting for president with 491 threshold.
Republicans of the Tenth District plan a September barbecue at George Ade's Brook farm in Lafayette Indiana. President Roosevelt is likely to be invited to attend and deliver an address at the event. Mr Ade
The old fashioned spelling bee under the Modern Patriotic club will be tomorrow night in Stettiner hall. Proceeds go to the Y. M. C. A. fund and the Susan B. Anthony memorial fund. The program includes drum corps, mandolin club, vocal and piano solos, violin selections, quartette, and spelling rounds for prizes.
The piece touts Fairview Riverside with its green boulevards and animal cages, plus miles of walks. It hails White City as the grandest midwest amusement park with a sea water swimming pool nearly ten acres in ground.
An Eighth Street school baseball team defeated Franklin school by a score 5 to 3. Winning battery was Kinney and Woods, Franklin’s battery was Hyman and Dorsch.
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