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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1908
Page
5
The New York Herald reports Taft leads in New York state as campaign winds down. Chanler's chances improve against Hughes, with observers noting a flood of opposition strength and a brisk, decisive Republican push to swing the state.
Nehemiah D. Sperry of Connecticut's second district remains a leading political figure at 81. He has served since 1861 in various roles, earned support across parties, and is noted for his vigor and prior actions including backing a bond for Briscoe's Monitor.
Senator Frank M. Kistler will travel to North Judson for a Democratic speech tonight and plans to speak Friday evening at Star City, where he is unexpectedly killed.
Honest man with good references sought to travel Indiana for a well known Boston wholesale firm. Experience optional if h6s8ling, permanent role, $60 plus merchant expenses. Apply M. B. Co. Gee Parkman Building Boston Mass.
Danville veteran Russel Warner, blind from Spanish American War days, receives a $100 monthly pension. Bedford faces scarlet fever fears with possible school closures. Rev. Lawrence Kent of New York has accepted a call to St. Paul’s in Laporte. Greeenfield seeks Henry Camp on assault charges. he was captured near Anderson. Linden’s Grover Pullum lost a hand in a cement mixer accident. New Castle names Ira Nicholson merchant policeman as the office is formed. An electric locomotive is under construction for the I. U. T. at Anderson shops, capable of pulling seven passenger cars. Hartford City forces street lights at railroad crossings. Shelbyville to investigate illegal tobacco sales with about 30 underage smokers. A tin cask with a human skeleton was found at the city crematory. mystery surrounds the case. Taft to speak in South Bend late this month. date undisclosed. Milton farmer c. J. Ayers was shot by tenant Bert Blue and wounded. Nashville woman Mrs. Sarah Kelley threatened by whitecoppers to leave. Frosts kill the state tomato crop. Greensburg electrician Eugene W. Cooper died near Gibraltar and was buried at sea. Terre Haute miner James Swarbrake killed by electricity in Wabash mine. Windfall veteran Scott Carroll hanged himself in a closet.
London reports Miss Margaret Drexel has written Wilbur Wright asking to fly in his aeroplane and offering to fund his experiments when she comes of age. Wright forwarded the request noting flight safety favors only qualified operators. She then pivoted toward loyalty to family duties as a bridesmaid for Lady Cynthia Needham.
In Pullman Illinois on October 5 residents recall Jessie May Tinsley daughter of General Superintendent Robert Tinsley as a friend to all. She will marry North Stone a Harvard graduate in Evansville Indiana on October 7 with the wedding at the Pullman club.
A Watson club with seventy six members was formed Saturday night at Galveston. This brings the club’s total to three hundred members added last week. The local Republican drum corps and glee club attended. C N Hiatt elected president, Thomas Pence secretary, A P Watkins vice president of the North precinct, Ed Faucett for the South precinct. Mayor George P McKee and Oscar B Conant were principal speakers.
In Royal Center the Democratic slate held a Saturday night meeting in city hall attended by all but two candidates. The hall proved small as the petition for Marshall club members circulated outside. Speakers included Hankee Graves Moroney Davis Butler and Kleckner addressing the crowd.
Two Newcastle anglers arrived at Lake Cicott to fish but were forced to discard carp minnows in the street as locals oppose carp bait. The lake remains carp free and residents restrict such bait use.
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