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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1908
Page
3
In Alton Illinois detectives pursue a bearded killer after a jewel rich woman found in the Mississippi bears his facial image in her eyes. Doctors and police plan to enlarge the retinal print to identify and locate the man as the motive remains unknown.
After Major Alfred Dreyfus was shot by Gregori of the Gaulois during Zola’s burial procession from Montmartre to the Pantheon, France’s war party renews hostility to Dreyfus and his supporters. The attack intensifies anti Dreyfus sentiment tied to Zola’s advocacy and the J accuse letter.
Mrs Leora Plummer, who wed Hooey after a brief acquaintance, drank carbolic acid in their hotel apartments. Robbie Johnson, a former suitor, saved her by forcing the bottle from her lips and later fed her milk and whisky. Hooey, distraught, rushed from the hotel. the couple were later married by a justice of the peace and she was moved to her mother’s home.
Col J L Taylor one of the oldest railroaders in the country lectured at the YMCA gymnasium to local railroaders on explosives. His talk featured stereopticon views of disasters caused by rough handling of high explosives and drew a large audience.
In Indiana news, four hundred Roumanians who labored in Muncie iron mills have left for home. Laporte County commissioners allocate seventy thousand dollars for a new jail. Ira Porter of Portland faces trial for his wife’s murder. Shelbyville’s Charles Coleman killer Leslie Bundrant gets life imprisonment. Mt. Vernon considers a franchise for an artificial gas plant.
Philadelphia reports that after 120 years Uncle Sam will produce the national colors in the Schuylkill Arsenal silk workshop. The quartermaster general ordered preliminary contracts for materials to begin work on the 46 star flag for Oklahoma statehood. Embroiderers and skilled workers to craft gold-edged national colors with the four by six flag size. Reconstructed hunting flags and new star arrangement planned for all army posts by July 4.
The Coey balloon piloted by Capt. C. L. Brambaugh with Charles Leishiter and Charles H. Coey set new long distance marks, covering 860 miles in eleven hours at 73 mph before a heavy rainstorm near Clear Lake. In the prior year’s international race the Pommern won at 80 miles with 22 mph average.
John Potthoff a somnambulist residing on Ohio Street was badly injured after falling down an open stairway. He sustained a severe back sprain from the fall.
New York June. The Children’s Relief Society formed in public school No 65 to feed pupils in lower east side districts. A exhausted mother Mrs Sarah Goldberg with six children collapsed, begging for food. ambulance called, Gouverneur hospital notified, funds raised to feed the family.
A fragment of vaudeville dialogue features Osgar and Adolf Haf trading gags about misunderstandings and mishaps. The exchange includes playful mispronunciations, jokes about a missing brother, a rubber, a turner, a gas remark, and a punny line about a pork house worker.
Two local residents Albert Bringhurst and James O Connell were treated at St Vincent s hospital after a Prest-O-Lite plant explosion. Bringhurst suffered cuts from flying glass while O Connell escaped with injuries. Several others were hurt but no fatalities reported.
An Indiana advertisement claims Colonial Country Club Hotel at West Baden Springs offers mineral baths that cure kidney liver and stomach ailments including constipation and nervousness. It promises benefits for a small cost and offers five gallons of mineral water shipped with home treatment guidance for two dollars.
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