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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1908
Page
2
Vandalia clerks call for revenge by challenging the shopmen to a baseball game next Sunday. The shopmen may agree as practice for a later game with Terre Haute clerical team on the 27. Multiple railroad staff changes reported including lay offs and sickness among night operators and engineers.
The Vandalia transported about 3,500 passengers on the Michigan division Sunday. Two specials operated Ft. Wayne to South Bend for the ball game, an excursion to the lake drew large crowds, and travel along the line was steady.
A. B. Uhley, a master carpenter on the Richmond division of the Panhandle railroad, shot himself at his Richmond home Sunday night after being arrested on a charge of criminal relations with a local woman. He faced likely conviction and died by his own hand. He was a well known figure in the city.
Wabash shops at Decatur Illinois are operating near full capacity as most furloughed workers return. In April the force was cut in half but now nearly all men have been recalled to work.
Walter Quinlan of the I A T motor crew was discharged from St Josephs hospital Sunday after a collision on Hill Top a month earlier. He returned to his Anderson home as Robert Green a Panhandle engineer and his family prepare to travel to Bay View Michigan for the summer for Mr Green s health. An examination of the book of rules began in Trainmaster Johnsons office yesterday inviting the classes to make progress in the training program.
Norwood Massachusetts June 8 Associated Press reports fourteen year old Anthony Santo admitted killing two boys in Brooklyn last March and later confessed to killing six year old Louise Staula in Dedham May 11. Police say his mind may be affected by illness and hold him for further investigation.
More than 300 homing pigeons released by Agent Linville of the Pacific Express Company traveled about 200 miles to their home loft in Detroit in four hours. The birds flew directly after release, were not fed but given water, and a telegram notified Noah's Ark club. A prior shipment two weeks earlier had three birds lost near town.
Survivors from the group stayed with the weakest members after the collapse, choosing solidarity over escape. The scene emphasized endurance and loyalty within the unit as they aligned with those most in need.
After the Ramillies victory, Lord John Hay commanded 1200 King's Foot troops who surrendered arms to halt a retreat. To prevent fleeing, each man cut a waistband piece, marching with one hand raised, guarded by 25 dragoons and a sergeant. Charles XII mimicked a similar ruse with Muscovites after Narva.
Louis N. Parker, master of the Warwick pageant, argues men should wear sympathetic colors instead of black for all occasions. He says women can dress in flowing colors and he hopes his pageants will end the prejudice against black attire as a universal formality.
The country editor's assistant reports Silas Kidder answered a letter about a lapsed subscription. Kidder returned the letter with Italian words scrawled on the bottom, seemingly "requieacat in pace." The Catholic Standard and Times notes the odd reply.
Gossip column recalls opera night chatter revealing Mrs Browning’s divorce plans, Mrs Biggs’s cherished dog and newborn, and the Huttons preparing to move to India, as reported in a Harper’s Weekly feature.
The professor points out that slang words often enter dictionaries as correct speech. The vacuous young woman concedes and jokes about the pace of language change and lexicography.
Samuel York visits friends in Cutler while Hugh Ammerman and brother head to Peru. Dr Ollie Galway and family visit from Indianapolis. Mr and Mrs George Cline visit Logansport friends. Marie Yantis returns home after weeks here. A car accident leaves no serious injuries with two bruised. Others visit families in Woodville and Waveland. Main street resident’s son ill with brain fever. Lincoln Gormerly travels through Flora to Deer Creek. Martha Voorhees' Chicago singer brother visits and sings in church.
Seventeen veterans and four war veterans from Civil War Black Hawk Mexican and Spanish American conflicts were honored as twenty one graves were decorated. The event featured Dr. C Good Republican congress candidate delivering an address at St. John's Church and a G A R quartet providing music.
Galveston Items' Walton and Walton area residents visit relatives in Kokomo Logansport and nearby towns. Births include daughters to the Ward and Devinny families. Community events feature M E Brotherhood and Children's Day programs, church services and school activities with multiple couples families and guests noted.
Silverton Colorado June 8 Twenty three men are missing and may be dead in the Gold King mine at Gladstone after a fire destroyed the mine building last Saturday. A rescue party of thirty four entered the mine to locate the missing workers, encountering bad air as they reached the fourth level. Fourteen reached the surface while twenty were overcome. Two special trains with three hundred men plus doctors and nurses were sent to assist the mine workers.
List of letters remaining at the Logansport post office for the week ending June 8 1908. Names include Geo Blackburn V Buckingham Mack Colgan Roy Mills J W Patton Scott J H Zam ie Elizabeth Barnett Cathryn Mrs R 34 Wolfe Sam Mrs and others. Call for advertised letters within ten days or they will go to the Dez Letter office. J M Johnston Postmaster.
The Wabash Valley traction lines will provide attractions for the park on July Fourth. An afternoon balloon ascension and all day band concerts are planned. Several ball games and additional amusements will be offered.
A sailor explains a pine fragment he carries, burned only to a shadow. The wood came from a whaleboat sunk in the late 1860s when harpooned whale diving dragged the boat down. Water pressure hardened the fiber, making the wood as hard as iron and resistant to flames.
A large influx of Japanese are emigrating to Java in what appears to be a coordinated effort. The pattern shows settlements in major towns increasing in proportion to each town’s population.
Most of them open furnished lodging houses or work as barbers, small shopkeepers, and assistants in stores. A few, however, are professors of the Japanese language in the Chinese schools.
The Nelson launches its second week of Greater Vaudeville with Prof Boynton's Dog Circus The Kimball Brothers eccentric singing Thel Hazel Good in a new illustrated song Miss Sophia Everett and Company in A House Warming and the Nelsonscope with The Sacrifice and A Comedy of Errors A full program change arrives Wednesday and Arthur Deming is added as a last half of week headliner Deming is a top vaudeville headliner seen in major cities and previously billed as a leading comedian here.
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