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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1909
Page
3
A large bonfire started during the Wabash Purdue football game damaged about 106 dollars worth of property on the campus area. A group of Wabash College students faces possible grand jury questions and plea deals with fines to avoid imprisonment.
Capt Peter J Visser once with the Hyle riflemen army unit faced South Bend justice court on a hotel bill dispute. Pleading guilty he was fined and later rearrested for moving his trunk from an inn without settling the bill. Trial set for November 16.
Ernest Harrington head of the Warrington Theatrical Company was found guilty in a local justice court of fraudulently concealing a diamond stud from W. J. Walsh a sign writer who had already won a $54 judgment. Harrington then surrendered the diamond to Sheriff Skelton only to gain his release from jail.
In Marion three clubs operating under a state charter for intellectual improvement face liquor law violations. Police shut them after arrests for operating blind tigers, ending a period of permissive operation.
A city school board edict leads the Emanon Club and two fraternities to surrender their charters. Other items report Clement Webster jailed in Mishawaka for deserting family, the Washington post office leasing new quarters in Fort Wayne, the golden wedding of George and Mrs Warris, a suicide in the Ft Wayne asylum, and a Shelbyville ministerial association formed with Rev L O Richmond as chair.
Indianapolis report shows Col. Frank Shellhouse losing his shoulder straps as six companies of the Uniform Rank are expelled by Brig. Gen. Merrill Wilson. Tension grows toward an independent Indiana uniform rank with a two year feud and a split among members.
South Bend State Attorney C E Pattee says three more members of the Fleming bunco steering gang, active in 1908 and said to have cleared about 500000 in two years, are under arrest in San Francisco. Leader Fleming is in Michigan City prison for the Springborn 10000 swindle, Thomas Gay is held in Streator Illinois and expected back, while William Blain John Dur ee and C F Foster await in San Francisco.
Logansport twins W S Petit and W J Petit share 727 Eighteenth Street and near identical initials. W J Petit just married Zadie Barfield of Huntington and his twin plans to wed Mabel Johnson in Logansport at Market Street M W church.
Police from Mishawaka and South Bend pursue leads in the Enoch Highshew murder. They plan to detain several women linked to the victim to locate relatives connected with the shooting on the alleged nights of the crime.
In South Bend, a 17 year old bride, Mrs. C. F. Petrie, kissed her husband goodbye then eloped with an unknown man. The pair were last seen boarding a Mishawaka streetcar. The deserted husband seeks a home for his child as the mother has died.
Harry Eble 22 admits firing the pistol that killed Otto Eggerman in Seymour. He says the weapon discharged accidentally while he was loading it, the bullet striking Eggerman in the head. Eble told his mother first, who urged him to confess.
More than 4000 people attend the Vigo county soldiers and sailors monument cornerstone ceremony. Nearly all local civil war veterans participate as Past Department Commander William A. Ketcham of Indianapolis delivers the address. The monument cost is $35000.
Fort Wayne plant, one of the oldest and most successful in the city, will wind up its affairs and go out of business about the first of the year due to a severe shortage of available female workers.
Frankie Boyer ten years old son of Mr and Mrs J A Boyer was struck by an east bound Lake Erie passenger train and instantly killed. His neck was broken while he had been on an errand for his mother at a neighbor.
Logansport despondent William Pfaff aged 55 retired from Vandalia shops took his life by cutting his throat in a self inflicted death.
A young white man entered the Merchants National Bank in New Albany Indiana and shot Cashier J W Fawcett and President J K Woodward. Fawcett died. Woodward wounded. The gunman fled across the Ohio River, swallowed poison, was captured near the riverbank, and jailed at Jeffersonville.
Aut 51 to late 52 or early 33 in Macedonia, Paul defends apostleship amid Corinth church turmoil. He cites beatings, visions, the third heaven, and a thorn in the flesh, explaining strength in weakness and the need for spiritual revelation over human praise.
Toronto Ontario a vast system of industrial education by establishing trades schools with public schools is recommended in the American Federation of Labor special commission report read by John Mitchell. It states future welfare depends on industrial training and protecting workers with educated hands and minds for self chosen vocations and informed citizenship.
L. 5S Taylor was elected treasurer of the Pullman company in Chicago to succeed retiring K. Demmeler. Other officers were re elected as business was stated to be at maximum volume.
Washington reports a jump of more than 21 million dollars in U S exports for October, rising to 123,643,72? from 101,783,048. The data highlight a sizable year over year increase in export value and show a strong trade performance for the month.
A quirky miscellany notes Lucky Christopher and Columbus finding joy in an Atlantic trip without tips and pity for future voyagers. Mentions smokers preferring Lewis Single Binder cigar quality over others. A crude oil milk remark by Tohn D. and a Pierce’s Pills patrimony praised for stomach liver and bowels.
The California Fig Syrup Co touts a full statement on every package to assure purity and uniformity of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. It claims exclusive knowledge of its manufacturing method and urges purchase only from genuine California Fig Syrup Co products via leading druggists.
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