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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1912
Page
2
World news notes summarize recent items of interest from various regions. Highlights cover political developments economic shifts cultural events and notable incidents compiled for quick reading by time‑pressed readers. The brief aims to provide concise updates with essential dates places and organizations where available.
Gov Simeon E Baldwin was renominated without opposition at the adjourned Democratic state convention in Hartford Conn Other state officers and seven presidential electors were also named in the roll call and official slate.
Washington telegraphs that General Orozco was captured on American soil by Captain Thomas F. Mitchell's patrol between El Paso and Douglas. The collier Proteus, latest in American Navy auxiliary ships, launched at Newport News. US intervention in Santo Domingo imminent after rebel seizure of frontier custom houses. Earth slides in the Culebra Cut amount to 16.5 million cubic yards, at least 20 percent of total excavation.
Domestic Miss Theodora Booth, daughter of Gen. Ballington Booth, was shaken in an East Lake New York auto crash with two friends. no serious injuries. Bertram Spencer, convicted of Miss Martha Blackstone’s Springfield murder, was electrocuted in Boston with calm nerve, aided by a Christian Science adviser. Government suit against International Harvester pauses witness calls. Perkins Deering would be immune if testifying. Thomas Wilson, Pontiac factory manager, died when his car tipped into a ditch near Pontiac. James Williams, a Black man, died in Auburns electric chair after a rambling valedictory. Caro the Taft poodle returned to Parramatta, joy in the president’s household. Taft’s car episode preceded his disappearance. Nora n Wwail, Dallense aviator.
A collage of historical flare reports incidents from Hillsville to Boston. Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards escape pursuit while Nineteenth Century crossing murders prompt city watchman warnings. Lusitania sighting, hazing deaths at UNC Charlotte, Cassie Chadwick recoveries and Oberlin bank losses wrap a brewing era of turmoil.
Professor Vinzenz Czerny of Heidelberg is identified as a surgeon and bacteriologist associated with the university. A fragment mentions a weed Seoder in connection with the subject, but details are unclear.
John Kalmo wk i a fourteen year old boy was hand cuffed and led by a chain to Jeffersonville reformatory to prevent escape. He had escaped a state reformatory and was captured in Chicago after stealing from family members. He will be committed for eight years.
At Eaton Riverside park a mob of several hundred confronted aviator Ira Hunt after a failed takeoff. Hunt, wearing a gun at his waist, climbed atop his plane and deterred the crowd from entering the Mississinewa river. Park manager Shutterly barricaded himself in the park hotel dining room as guests sheltered and doors were broken.
Funeral of the late Rev Abraham Newton Marlatt held in Connersville with large attendance. Burial in Waterloo township. Born in Wayne county seventy eight years ago he was ordained in 1863 and served many charges until 1902. He was a presiding elder of the Jeffersonville district and long a DePauw University visitors’ board member. Widow and eight children survive.
Valparaiso reports Frank Vist, Elgin Joliet & Eastern foreman at McCool, beaten and robbed, body found under a freight train. He was last seen in Croker with a roll of bills. $45 salary paid. Coroner Lewis delayed inquest pending movement inquiry.
Rushville on Sept 18 starts a high school anti smoking crusade. When asked to sign a pledge to abstain during the school year more than fifty percent of the boys signed. It is hoped the rest will also abstain.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed the Grand opera house the Baldwin Rathburn grocery and meat market and the Weekly News plant at Hebron in Porter County causing about 10000 in losses.
Fort Wayne hosts the Fort Wayne presbytery annual session as Rev. James D. Gray of Chicago delivers the main address.
Hammond report says Steve Barzo of Gary was fatally injured at Crown Point races when his motorcycle lost control on a turn and crashed into a board fence.
Wabash Sept 18 Dr J W Stewart of this city was nominated by the Republican district conventions for congressman from the Eleventh district. Eight ballots were taken.
Minneapolis reports the first football injury of the 1912 season as Paul Ostdick suffers both bones of his right forearm broken and remains in bed at his home in Minneapolis.
A retired officer cites a National Magazine piece claiming ancient Egypt boasted a civil service, mail delivery, a turbine, and even phonographs and wireless telegraphy long before modern times. The account argues Rome was not the mother of laws and that Egyptian music predates the banjo’s sound.
A theory links old brown rats to plague spread via fleas more likely to bite humans. The text notes England and western Europe saw plague declines around Norway rat expansion, while California shows gray rats can spread infection. It questions which rat is most harmful and hints at potential benefits from gray rat presence.
At a Kansas agricultural experiment station three cows were selected and first treated with utmost care and gentleness. They yielded thirty six pounds of milk with 4.3 percent butter fat. When frightened by howling, barking dogs and similar stimuli the cows produced twenty three pounds of milk with 38.4 percent butter fat.
The Tching Pao, Peking’s official gazette, marks a thousandth anniversary as the world’s oldest newspaper. Its archives hold every issue at the palace, and the paper’s commitment to accuracy is historic, with past journalists facing severe penalties for errors.
In New York a group of men jailed for failing to pay alimony held a Christmas banquet inside the jail. Twelve men attended, two returning after being released two days earlier. The song I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now accompanied each toast and Our Unfortunate Successors drew laughs.
The fragment discusses the universe and its parts as a series of accidents that renew with each breath. It describes a single substance in constant flux, with each instant bringing disappearance and replacement by similar elements, ending with a reference to the spectator being drawn into a belt attributed to Abd-Allah.
Four youths and four young women were arrested in Odessa after dining together and kissing at parting. They received short prison terms with appeals confirming the sentences. Public kissing in Russia carries a fine of 15 shillings, higher penalties up to 25 shillings in a tramcar.
A terse dialogue centers on Nora asking if her husband is home. Answer comes from a child, confirming he is in the library working. The line ends with a quiet, unspoken tension as the mother requests to wake him for a meeting.
Harry Junke of Chicago describes a severe arm burn last year that refused to heal with a standard salve. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment on a linen bandage, the wound improved from the first day and he returned to work quickly.
A speaker declares the woman suffrage movement will advance with gigantic strides from now on. The remark follows a light jest about discarding the hobble skirt as a sign of changing times.
A concise piece tracing the sequence from kindergarten through high school to college and asking what college prepares students for. It suggests college leads to life, highlighting education as a ladder to broader aims.
Excavations at Paternoster Row and St Pauls Alley, London reveal a 60 foot chalk and rubble wall from the twelfth century that once enclosed Old St Pauls. Finds include a Roman amphora, Roman vases, Samian ware, a camel skull, eighteenth century pipes, and three Norman arches near Bartholomew Close likely from a priory cloister.
A physician reports long standing nervous heart trouble improved after quitting coffee for Postum. He credits the change with restoring his heart and urges others with coffee sensitivity to try Postum, noting better flavor and vital sustainment.
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