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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1902
Page
7
Solomon Harper, unemployed window glass worker, struck his wife with a skillet in Marion, fracturing her skull. He is guarded at home per the dying wife’s wish to avoid jail. Harper, 25, and his younger wife have a 14 month old baby. Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Crawfordsville Ind Oct 27 Edward Luther is jailed on a charge of criminal assault on ten year old Pearl McCoy. The crime is alleged to have occurred a week ago and the child did not reveal it until after waking from effects. She identified Luther in jail and he is bound over in court.
Richmond Indiana October 27 eighteen year old Alma Eubank daughter of Mr and Mrs William T Eubank attempted suicide by poison and self inflicted gunshot. Grief over the death of Jover is given as cause. Monon Indiana October 77 an eighteen year old youth named Tub shot himself early this morning in a separate brief item.
TERRE HAUTE Ind Oct 27 A Big Four eastbound passenger train nearly plunged into the Wabash river at the city bridge after a bad track caused the engine to jump the rails. Three cars left the track but speed was checked by an alert engineer, preventing disaster. Also reports Will Dalton returns from Colorado hoping to locate his brother Louis presumed lost in a three week blizzard after a mining venture Turned fatal. In Nimrod mines Danville a loaded coal car ran away killing Goss and injuring Mack and others.
Shelbyville hosts the Ninth district Churches of Christ annual convention at First Christian Church. Delegates began arriving by afternoon with Mrs. E. F. Mahan leading devotions and praise. Bertha McQuinn read a paper on loyalty and payment, as W. Snitt of Rushville spoke on Christian Endeavor standards.
Fourteen year old Lucy Ray was located after three months of disappearance spanning Chicago Terre Haute Hammond and Joliet. Police arrested William O Rourke as the man accused of abducting her following a jealousy driven lead. The girl was safely returned to her parents and her stepfather F K Warner of Hammond was briefly held by authorities.
The text details a woman's admission to aiding in taking a girl to Terre Haute and Chicago after her husband planned a second disappearance. It covers subsequent police pursuit, a gas well dispute at Elwood, and local civic actions by Elwood students forming a literary society and injunction lawsuits by gas franchise holders over metering contracts. The chaotic report combines crime, legal actions, and community notes from Elwood and Hammond.
Fire near LaPorte destroys the Lonn business block and damages four adjacent blocks. Origin unknown, at 3 a.m. four hours fought. Loss about 25000 dollars with 15000 insured. John Lonn Heavy loser, two thirds of total damage. Local notices report other Indiana items: divorce suit in Marion, golden wedding in Wabash, interurban rail progress at Winchester, embezzlement verdict in Marion, river body case in Evansville, smallpox quarantine near Mitchell, and a thief’s juvenile confinement sentence in Kokomo.
Evansville Ind Oct 27 This afternoon a large barn on the farm of John Aldrich inames county destroyed by fire. The loss is about 200 dollars.
MARION IND Oct 27 William Smith King 72 pioneer resident of Jonesboro died this morning after a five day illness. Born in Ohio Sept 24 18 he came to Indiana as a boy and helped establish the first butcher shop in Jonesboro in 187. WABASH IND Oct 27 Melissa Bigler widow of Lewis Bigler and mother of Warren Bigler former secretary of the Republican state committee is dead. She lived with her son for years rarely leaving home. ELWOOD IND Oct 27 Mrs D C Vaughn wife of a prominent Welshman in the city died in a Columbus hospital at 1 30 this morning after last Thursday operation. LEBANON IND Oct 27 Rev Whitfield Hall veteran Methodist minister died Sunday night at his home age 62. He had been in the ministry for three decades and the funeral will be held GOSHEN IND Oct 27 W W Greer who operated aS e a n e about two this morning at Sheboygan Wis from the effects of
Stroke of cure on Saturday ended a business trip. Frank Schwegman, 53, dies of kidney trouble at Richmond. Mrs Rebecca Francis, elderly Bedford resident, passes away from pneumonia. Elwood hosts a themed fundraiser and expects substantial proceeds. In Muncie three youths pleaded guilty to petit larceny and were swiftly sentenced. Portland quarantines nine homes due to potential smallpox exposure. Rev Dr Charles Little marks 30 years in Marion’s Presbyterian Church with a service. In the county, game law violators fined after arrests for quail and song birds. Peru to debate consolidating Fort Wayne to Webash electric lines. Wabash opposes. Richmond Woman’s Relief Corps to convene in Connersville. Benjamin Starr attends. Hammond man seeks missing daughter, fearing foul play.
At a Democratic mass meeting in Madison Square Garden on October 27, Adlai E. Stevenson W R Hearst and others discussed the trust question. Hearst blasted Republicans for ties to trusts while Stevenson warned of protective tariffs and the rise of giant corporations. Devery received a rousing ovation as he entered.
Manila dispatch reports the planned departure from Camp Vicars Mindanao around November 5 of artillery infantry cavalry and engineers with friendly natives to pursue the Sultan of Bacolod. Reports say Sultan Caraca north of Lake Sanao is strengthening forts to resist Americans. Moros block Maciu fort routes but can be dispersed. In San Francisco Logan will sail Sunday for Manila with about 100 recruits and 30 passengers. Sheridan arriving from the Philippines and Nagasaki with six troops of the Ninth Cavalry, 60 men, 25 casualties, 174 sick, eight prisoners and five insane. Sumner led by General Chaffee and Vice Governor Wright left Nagasaki four days before Sheridan, delayed by Honolulu, due next week.
London dispatches report a heated Commons session as Nationalists led by William O'Brien pushed to adjourn to debate the Irish crimes act. O'Brien accused Wyndham of aiding landlords and endangering peace while Campbell-Bannerman and Harcourt backed the opposition. The vote failed 215 to not clear. Balfour’s climb down cited as part of a broader Irish policy shift. King Edward reviewed guardsmen returning from South Africa and addressed them, praising their service. A later item notes reports Washington and St. Louis exposition visit talks involving the Prince and Princess of Wales, with no official invitation yet.
George Chapman, an American-born Southwark saloon keeper, was arraigned on charges of poisoning a young woman who lived with him as his wife. He allegedly runs a pattern of deadly incidents in his properties, with two prior wife deaths. Police consider exhumation of the bodies as part of the inquiry.
Reports say Bodunen in Manchuria fell to bandit control as Russian troops were dispatched for relief. Other items note General De Wet’s plan to sail for South Africa on November 1 and Botha and Delarey eyeing a visit to America. Pope related matters, a Prague trial over forged nobility patents, McClellan voyage to New York, and Samoa arbitration opinions in Stockholm.
In Montpelier Indiana an October report shows 45 wells completed in the Greater Indiana field, with 79 gas wells or dry holes. Production fell 15 percent from September while drilling rose, and 381 wells are drilling with 192 rigs active. Grant and Wells counties show notable activity as Indiana leads Ohio in oil operations.
Within ten days a man posing as a paper agent has obtained money from Journal friends by fraud. On the 15th he used the name O A Bell in Bluffton and earlier in Valparaiso as I pens to charge expenses. A scoundrel, he deserves arrest on sight. Any man soliciting credit or claiming to be a traveling agent should be regarded as a fraud. our traveling men carry credentials stating no credit.
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