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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1908
Page
3
The mean July temperature was 75.1 degrees, 0.5 above last year and 1.1 above the long term average. The hottest day reached 99 on the 12th and the coolest 47 on the 8th with 13 days at 90 or above. Total July rainfall was 4.79 inches, 0.32 above last year and 1.70 above the average.
John W Kern will be notified of his nomination by the Democratic party for vice president on Tuesday August 25 at the state fair grounds in Indianapolis Indiana. Mr Kern and state committee chairman U S Jackson announced the date saying no definite plans are set but details will be arranged in a few days Bryan is expected to speak and may deliver his only Indiana address of the campaign.
W. J. Bryan spent a busy day in Fairview Nebraska greeting visitors and escorting large parties through his home. He issued a statement criticizing Tafts use of the phonograph for political speeches and urged that such recordings be seen as a dignified way to discuss public questions.
Idaho Democrats meet in Wallace to form a permanent organization and adjourn until tomorrow morning. An anti-DuBois faction held a separate meeting and decided to object only after credentials committee report is read.
Votes counted after close at 3 pm August 31 determine the winner who will drive away the pony buggy and harness from the Tribune office. No rule changes or offers will be made. Ballots issued per rules and counted when deposited. results published Tuesdays and Fridays.
The narrative recalls a wilderness fire near Hosmer and Fernie that drove a trainload of survivors through a blaze belt. Passengers, including many women and children, faced heat, smoke, and panic while aid arrived from volunteers and rail services. Resilience and rescue efforts followed as the fire burned out.
Eighteen more bodies have been recovered from the ruins by tonight with the death toll likely higher than early estimates. A relief train carrying 1,500 people from Michel returned Sunday night. A logging crew of Elk Lumber, twenty men, is still missing, presumed dead, after a collapse that trapped them in the mountain area. The fate of Michel and Hosmer towns remains uncertain as rescue work continues.
United States District Attorney Baker of Washington and his bride of two months escaped a fatal plunge when their car rolled down Walnut mountain near Sherry New York. The auto sped out of control on a sharp hill and dropped nearly 200 feet, injuring several friends on the honeymoon trip.
Lightning struck the Ahead barn one half mile east of Young America at 1 15 this morning, destroying the barn and its contents. The loss is about 1500 with no insurance. A horse and buggy belonging to Joseph Keal were burned. Mr and Mrs Ahead were awakened by thunder and neighbors could not save the building. The barn stored 20 tons of hay 150 bushels each of corn and wheat and multiple farming tools.
Secretary of War Wright met Col Hugh L Scott to discuss the eight cadets recommended for dismissal by a board. He will announce a conclusion within about forty eight hours and will not discuss details before then. The president said he did not order dismissal or reinstatement. No orders to return have been issued.
Police driver James Farrell, 45, sacrificed himself to save his seventeen year old son Arthur during a pier swim. Farrell released his hold to keep the boy from drowning as both sank, while bystanders including Robert Graham and two youths tried to rescue him in West Fifty-second Street waters. Farrell’s blue ribbon for careful driving hangs at home.
A man from Seattle carried his legless fiancée into Newport Kentucky’s county clerk office to obtain a marriage license. John B. Rapp and Pearl Rappell, plans unknown, were later married at a parsonage after the clerk prepared the license.
In Rome Georgia on August 4 Marie Davis aged nine rescued two year old Jewel Roberts from a crazed bull that had tossed him and aimed to gore him. She slid under the beast, lifted the child, and ran to a fence where they found safety. Jewel Roberts was seriously injured but survived.
Berry Dixon a coal miner near Harrisburg is comatose after a slate fell on his head at work. He awakens to eat and speaks gibberish, not knowing his name, while asleep he talks with sense. Doctors ponder whether the head injury triggers the strange mental change.
Ten thousand Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias marched through Boston led by bands in martial displays. Brigades from across the country and Canada formed a grand line as banners adorned downtown offices. Major General Arthur Stobbart of Indiana led the procession with review by Lt. Governor Draper and Boston Mayor Hibbard. The event closed with the supreme temple Pythian Sisters opening their tenth biennial reunion at the Brunswick.
Victoria British Columbia reports from the Montague steamer recount savage acts during the Pokow recapture. Prisoners were tied to stakes and mutilated as rebels fell, with many others killed in brutal acts against survivors.
The Democrats of Harrison Township will meet in convention Thursday August 13 at Lucerne to name a township ticket. L. A. Reed left yesterday afternoon with a party for the Panhandle country in Texas.
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