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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1912
Page
6
Washington announces Sunday mail suspension for all first and second class offices as a result of the new postal appropriation act. Only special delivery letters will pass that day and mail will not be placed in lock boxes nationwide.
Reports say Rafael Reyes former president of Colombia suffered serious injuries near Lourdes France with fears for recovery. The text also notes riots after a queue cutting edict near Pekin and other international incidents including U S Marine deployments in Nicaragua.
George Thompson a noted Denver aviator died when his aeroplane was upset by a cross current near Lamar Colorado Thompson was crushed under the wreckage and killed. In other news Clarence S Darrows attorneys moved to dismiss the indictment in the McNamara case with the bribery of the first juror questioned by the Los Angeles Supreme Court. A woman and a boy were admitted and.
Dr FW Joslin a dentist from Big Rapids Michigan his wife and four year old son Howard were killed when a freight train struck their car less than a mile from Detroit. The mother likely injured the boy Burr eleven rescued after the crash. Willis Lounsferry a former Oregon fruit dealer hijacked mail on a Union Pacific train near Kansas City then wounded himself and was captured. In Kansas City two playmates of a four year old boy named Timmerman were released on bond after admitting involvement in the boy’s death.
The annual meeting in Milwaukee faces possible division over admitting a colored member. Ma Ma Byrum, niece of Gen Luke Wright and daughter of Chicago real estate man David B Byrum, secretly married Lieut John D C Oglesby in Milwaukee two weeks earlier. The piece notes Runaway wedding and prior convention city choices by German editors and mentions James Otto of Manlius Illinois celebrating his sixty eighth anniversary with 102 descendants present.
The piece urges revision of labor laws to fit modern industry and machinery. It stresses wage earners must organize on solid, businesslike lines, protect women workers, and confront capital consolidation. It cites Wendell Phillips urging unity and action for a stronger labor movement.
A fragmentary verse depicts labor as a majestic, shaping force powering cities and progress. It contrasts the loud, rattling work of machines with the quiet, steadfast strength of workers, then shifts to a booming critique of further noise and the rush of industrial activity.
A nine member presidential commission will investigate the general condition of labor in key industries including agriculture, and the relations between employers and employees. The study covers industrial conditions, public welfare effects, worker safety, and the growth of employers’ associations and wage earners’ groups.
Indianapolis August 28 A statewide gathering of Republican workers will be held in Indianapolis on September 4 under state chairman Fred A Sims. The state committee will convene for a general conference on campaign planning and all county chairmen are invited to attend.
The Shelbyville Methodist Protestant Indians conference ended ten days of sessions at polity without favoring a $15,000 gift for a $45,000 church in Muncie. The plan asked the conference to give $5,000 and guarantee $10,000, with Muncie to be the permanent meeting place and ministers entertained free. The conference spent about $800 last year.
The first death in Wabash from anterior acute poliomyelitis since recognition of its contagiousness occurred with the six year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Brown. Illness lasted three days, diagnosis made within three hours of death. Dr. N H Thompson issued private funeral instructions and a quarantine was set to prevent spread.
In South Bend on August 28, Father Victor Von Kubinyi, excommunicated by Bishop H J Alerding of Fort Wayne, remains in his clerical role as head of the new Hungarian Catholic church here. He says he has left Alerding’s jurisdiction and will ignore the ban.
Mrs R Lyle Kelley and her six year old daughter Beatrice died after stepping in front of a south Michigan street car in South Bend. Three year old Richard was bruised but survived. Mrs Kelley is the wife of the secretary of the South Bend Remedy company and a member of a prominent local family.
Irene Ham, daughter of John and Katherine Ham of Shelbyville, ran away with Kyle E. Stana of Connersville. They obtained a marriage license and were wed by Rev. W. G. Clinton of the Methodist Episcopal church, then left for Connersville.
The Indiana state council of the Junior Order United American Mechanics and its auxiliary the Daughters of America opened in Indianapolis today. About one hundred delegates attended the Junior Order session and about seventy five attended the auxiliary meeting.
The Rev G F Powers of Indianapolis has accepted a call to lead the Christian church in Yonsei after being united in marriage to a Kansas woman.
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