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Newspaper
North Judson News
Location
North Judson, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1908
Page
3
William Thompson of Muncie a well digger was assaulted by Kite Williams stepson and Edward Nless in railroad yards while boarding a freight train. Thompson is unconscious with brain concussion and possible skull fracture. Williams is arrested and held without bail.
Marion lawmakers quickly annexed a ballpark area to the city to collect a $200 license from a circus. The move follows boundary irregularities that allowed tents outside the limits to dodge the fee. The council acted after a recent circus rented a park outside the city and then payable license was imposed.
Clarence Burton twelve years old stabbed Arthur Gray in the back with a penknife while returning from McCalla school Bloomington. Gray escaped serious harm. Lola Gray, mother of the injured boy, filed an affidavit against Burton for assault and battery.
Mrs. Alice Strube, a young woman who deserted her husband, attempted to kill her three month old child at the county infirmary near Princeton by dashing it to a concrete floor. She was restrained, escaped, and was pursued for two miles before capture. Authorities say she has a violent temper and had threatened the child's life. She is now in jail.
Frank Jones, 23, of Greenfield, reportedly killed himself with a target rifle at his mother Elizabeth Jones's home fearing tuberculosis. He was not married and died almost instantly after the forehead wound. Also reported is the death of 77 year old Matthew McCoy found in the street near his Bunker Hill residence, with heart disease cited as the probable cause. He was survived by his wife, an adult son and daughter.
A barn fire in Worthington claimed the lives of two Watts children. William M. Watts reported his seven year old daughter and three year old daughter died after the blaze they started while playing was likely accidental.
Thomas Cook aged 56 died in Indianapolis from apoplexy. A renowned traveling representative, he spent twenty two years as the Indianapolis drug house's agent, making him a well known figure in Indiana's business circles.
Worley Osborn wanted for the murder of Fairy McLain Miller in Kokomo was arrested in Logansport. He initially gave the name Barney Nunt before admitting his true identity.
John Martin, once a Chicago policeman, was seriously stabbed in a dispute with Harry Smith of Chicago at Hudson Lake.
In Jasonyville a boat overturned leading to the drownings of Thomas Ford and John Garfield. Rescue efforts recovered their bodies as authorities investigated the accident.
Two men drowned when logs swept them down the Wabash near Petersburg. Dr. Joseph Rogers died at Logansport. Death believed from enremic poisoning. Claude Pifer of Wabash College class of 06 named a Rhodes scholar. G H Roller ill with smallpox at Degonia Springs. cause unknown. Belle Gunness will read. estate valued at 15000 goes to children or Norwegian Orphans Home in Chicago.
A collage of editorial quips and humorous takes from several U S papers. Items reference Japan English studies hats and fashion, blithe observations on philanthropy and nobility, taxes in Japan, prohibition, land lords, education and early public transport. Includes jests about the Czar and Molasses in Philadelphia Ledger and Philadelphia Inquirer.
A Sunday morning blaze at the New Aveline Hotel in Fort Wayne Indiana killed ten guests with many missing and sixteen injured. Fire spared few escapes as flames swept the six story wood framed building, trapping patrons and causing dramatic rescues.
Austin hosts twenty eight unions while Salem forms a waiter union. Concord approves a fortnightly pay day for city laborers. German workers insured by law. Fall River spinners mark golden anniversary and burn a mortgage. Cedar Rapids contracts favor union labor for a government building. Wilfrid Paquette resigns Canadian textile leadership. Florida’s women clubs back a child labor law. Brockton Stitchers' Union elects Ellen Donovan as first woman delegate. Charlestown navy yard forms a union. West Virginia inspectors check mines for new law compliance. Labor paper planned in San Juan with 110 affiliated unions. AFL leader Furuseth to attend British Jade Union Congress. St Catherines workers strike for regular wages. England min wage award set at seven twenty five for tasters and finishers. San Francisco contemplates city wide labor unionization. Gompers meets with stage employers and electrical workers to resolve jurisdiction over moving picture shows.
South Dakota railroad and ware house commission orders reduced freight rates west of the Missouri river as a new tariff is drafted. The Pennsylvania Railroad shows higher earnings in 1907 but with a sharp rise in labor costs. Northern Pacific plans 200 refrigerator cars to support Northwest fruit traffic. Eastern railroads weigh a 10 cent a mile rate for the National Educational Association convention in Cleveland while retaining a $2 membership fee despite ICC objections.
A large concrete plant is planned at Merrillan Wisconsin within thirty days. The Minneapolis Trades and Labor Assembly passes a resolution in favor of the closed shop amid a dispute between painters and employers condemned by the real estate board.
The Japanese training cruiser Matsushima exploded near Makang a harbor in the Pescadores, sinking within minutes. Over 200 officers and sailors died. about 100 were saved. Cadets including sons of Baron Chinda and Prince Oyama feared lost. The ship carried 4 inch and 12 inch guns and was Admiral Ito’s flag ship at the Yalu.
A compiled sequence of historical notes listing events from 1552 Trent prorogation to 1900 canal gate explosion and Central American peace accords. Entries mention battles, coronations, explorations, treaties, inaugurations, and naval actions with various nations and figures.
Government experts cure locoed cattle and report prevention methods. Robert McGuire of Pennsylvania fathered twenty one children eighteen living. US lumber production sets a record at 37 500 736 000 board feet. Oklahoma reports green bugs with limited damage. Iowa experiment station tests apple storage for winter keeping. Illinois herd of 100 cows at Eastern hospital condemned as tubercular after state tests. St Paul railroad plans to end the wool baling rate, saving shippers about ten cents per hundred pounds. Western Utah salt covered 38 000 acres valued at 400 million dollars. A long curly haired freak horse sold in Chicago market. Secretary Wilson suggests growing potatoes or corn in Central Park for grass stand. Minnesota and Dakotas report best seeding season in years. small grains near completion. Birmingham man buys Rodriguez ranch in Durango Mexico for 1 2 million with 35 000 goats and 5 000 cattle. Prince Victor Narayan of India comes to Cornell for agriculture study then to tobacco work in the south. Wisconsin station proves sugar beets yield 19 38 percent sugar in north. Thirty Kansas farmers join a dry land alfalfa trial from Peru with ten acre plantings. seeds supplied to test arid districts.
In Ottawa Senator McDonald proposed restricting Lindons immigration and sought imperial aid. Senator Scott said Mackenzie King was sent to England for that purpose, leading McDonald to withdraw the resolution.
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