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Newspaper
Princeton Democrat
Location
Princeton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1971
Page
2
Governor Brown of Missouri, elected last year with Republican and Democratic backing, severs ties with the GOP and will act independently. The New York Express condemns riot tactics and urges lawfulness, civil order, and respect for rights, warning that liberty is not license and vigilantism must end.
Sunday tragedy in London Shelby County Miss Lizzie Smith rejected proposal from Henry Ellington an editor. He attacked her stamping beating breaking her jaw severing an ear then fled to woods. Neighbors pursued captured him jail. Miss Smith died soon after with impossible recovery.
The N S Commercial Advertiser praises Thomas A Hendricks as the leading Democratic presidential choice, noting his Senate speeches and stump orations reveal a broad liberal mind, decisiveness, and independence. It contrasts him with party trimmers while criticizing Bible use in public schools via Theodore Tiltons Golden Age article.
A severe storm struck Omaha July 29 washing out roads and bridges and destroying crops. It brought heavy lightning and damaged two city buildings and a horse died. The Union Pacific track between Omaha and Gilmore was washed away in spots and a flood carried a quarter mile of rail. A car of railroad iron lodged in a tree five feet high. No train will depart before Monday morning as the Omaha and Southwestern line was submerged in many places.
Harper’s Weekly, Radical, notes Grant’s waning popularity due to friendships, counsels, officer choices, San Domingo, nepotism, reform failures, and indifference. Springfield Republican questions open-air music harms the poor, suggests a Sunday birds bill. Also: Internal Revenue decides borrowed capital and deposits in banking exempt from tax, likely cutting revenue by millions and triggering lawsuits.
A Sullivan county Justice ruled that a verbal contract requires a lamp as proof. Franklin county spent 114000 for new bridges in the year ending June 30. Robert Hawthorn cut 32 ton 600 pounds of hay from eight acres. Jeffersonville will send 500 cases to the Clark Criminal Court next term for liquor law violations. Local talks of forming a stock company to buy Col. Alexander’s stock farm in Kentucky. William Coleman was arrested in Versailles for rape of a girl under 14, surrendered after a bail alibi. A drunken man slept on a sidewalk with matches, igniting fumes. The Albert barn in Madison township burned, loss 2900, suspicious fire when straw was moved and horses stampeded toward the barn.
General G T Boyle died suddenly of apoplexy at his Louisville home this afternoon at three o'clock. A leading lawyer and prominent citizen, he was 53 and had been involved in regional rail ventures including the Evansville Henderson and Nashville Railroad. A Brigadier General in the Federal Army, he also served as Military Governor of Kentucky. his father was Judge John Boyle, former Kentucky Chief Justice.
The annual Gibson County Teachers Institute meets at Brick School Building Patoka at 9 A M August 14 for five days. W T Davis and Charles Norman lead arrangements for boarding at reasonable rates. Examinations for license start Friday August 18 at 1 PM. another will be held in Princeton on the first Saturday in September. Applicants must show good moral character. W T Stilwell, School Examiner.
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