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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1912
Page
2
Chicago judge rules that a dog death caused by a stove handled by a worker does not excuse paying the stove seller the remaining $35. Mrs Bovileghero testified she owned the dog and faced the bill after the employer dropped the stove. The ruling cites the inevitable march of progress. The piece weaves in satirical notes about governors and political mentions.
In Chicago a domestic relations court ruled against Mrs. Martha Chappel who sought a $37.50 coat while her husband William Chappell faced a $250 debt from furniture. Judge Goodnow noted the husband’s $3 daily earnings cannot fund costly apparel and debt repayment. The case of nonsupport was dismissed after the coat purchase details were reviewed.
Ghorge Ade speaks in Brock Indiana expressing no wish to be governor or candidate. The fragment notes his stance as part of a political context but provides limited surrounding details.
The will of John K. Church, a Boulder businessman who died recently, is filed for probate. The widow will inherit during her life the estate valued over 50 000 with a 5 000 legacy to niece Mrs Caroline E Whiting of Albion New York. The will excludes brothers and their sons and allocates the grandnieces and nephews as heirs. A peculiarity is that any grandnephew who becomes a minister forfeits his share. The document highlights Churchs eccentricity and unique distribution among descendants.
The will states the church as executor but not as legatee. The wife receives $10,000 outright while $5,000 goes to Mrs. Whiting. The remainder is placed in trust with Mrs. Church and Frank Church, with income paid to Mrs. Church for life provided she does not remarry.
In Brownsville Pennsylvania Elmer Wood, 11, dove into the Monongahela River and was fatally struck on the head by a stone hurled from the riverbank during a quarrel with John Karra, 14. Karra fled and authorities search the area as the victim’s body was recovered by Frick Coke officials.
A Vienna Imperial Museum expedition reports in Philadelphia that Saint Kanglous cave in the Karst mountains yielded over 1000 bronze implements dated to 1000 B.C. The items include swords axes lance heads and vessels likely offerings to a subterranean deity found at the bottom of a 150 foot pit.
Special Correspondence reports Robert Raymond and Agnes Cannon, both of Athena, united in marriage on Wednesday evening in Athena Oregon. Athena events note S. M. Smith of Weston visited Athena and other locals, Ada DeFreece became Pacific Telephone manager in Athena, and Rex Payne joined the Athena Bakery. Other Weston and Adams residents were in Athena on Thursday.
In Spartanburg physicians from the Thompson-McFadden Pellagra Commission report thirty five pellagra sufferers with skin lesions diarrhea and nervous disorders under observation. Three patients will be sent to New York's Post-Graduate Hospital for treatment next week with others to follow over the next six months as field researches seek the disease cause.
Government dispatches a warship to search for seven American castaways after a bottle note off Cape Horn mentions a wrecked steamer possibly named Virgenes. The castaways say they have a boat but fear cannibals and request help with one month of provisions.
Miss Mary M. Bartelme, former school teacher, lawyer and Cook county public guardian, will accept the assistant judge position of the juvenile court. She said she will sit on the bench, the first woman ever known in Chicago, to oversee girls and young women brought before the court as delinquents.
A Chicagoan Mrs Perry Chance, separated from Dr. Chance of Canton, is watched by a three-woman guard led by Mrs Mary Melvin as she faces a divorce. Hypnotic influence claims swirl around dentist Hasham as the hotel scene in Paris stays tight lipped.
Zemo stops dandruff with fast-acting formula. Apply with fingertips for clean scalp and glossy hair. Prepared by E. W. Rose Medicine Co. in St. Louis and sold by druggists for 1 dollar. trial bottle 25 cents with guarantee or money back at Pendleton Drug Store.
The text notes Mrs. Chance spends time at a villa near Fountainebleau where a bodyguard and dogs guard her. It mentions financial pursuits against her, with effects seized at Hotel Majestic for debts tied to the Chance residence in Rue de la Falsanderie. She paid promptly to reclaim clothes, jewelry, and trunks. Debts stem from an earlier forcible removal of furniture two months prior.
The Cleveland sermon by W A Bustard, Rockefeller’s Euclid Avenue Baptist pastor, lists ten admonitions for wives. It urges marrying for love not money, modest dress, handling home life, avoiding public tattling, resolving marital issues, avoiding nagging, modest self-view, steering children from gambling, telling truth to officials, and valuing the home as a wife’s domain with motherhood likened to royal duty.
Solomon Sobrnsky, an itinerant merchant, accused Mrs Elizabeth Carleton of the Bronx in Morrisonia police court of selling him a horse he says was misrepresented as kind and guaranteed to work in harness. He sought a horse and wagon to boost profits and agreed to pay $50 after viewing the animal.
A Pendleton druggist offers ethine double strength as a freckle removal remedy with a money back guarantee. One ounce usually suffices to show results, and the dealer pledges no cost unless freckles are removed, promising a clear complexion if successful.
Solomon recalled tears from a woman who praised a horse's virtues saying only hunger drove the sale. The horse died two nights later and a veterinary judge the animal at least 22 years old and worthless. Drusky then charged the woman with being a swindler. The case was adjourned.
Berlin. The Kaiser Wilhelm was humorously hoaxed during a Corfu holiday by statues planted by municipal authorities. Welcomed by the burgomaster he toured excavations and found statues and marble slabs, the reveals allegedly staged by German manufacturers.
Cecilia M. Chappelle a former New York broker's clerk was freed of a shoplifting charge in Los Angeles after reading the Ten Commandments and promising not to attempt death by her own action. Officials cited an earlier head injury blamed for kleptomania caused by stock market losses and gambling debts of 2500 borrowed from her father.
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