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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1912
Page
3
The verse laments industrial noise as it celebrates labor’s majestic force. It portrays factory sounds, rigors of construction, and the strong hands behind progress, while interjecting with humorous interruptions and bursts of exasperation.
A nine member commission appointed by the president and with Senate advice will investigate the general condition of labor in major industries including agriculture, employer employee relations, public welfare impacts, worker safety, labor associations, dispute mediation, and the entry of Asians into U S territories. The study will cover causes of industrial dissatisfaction and comparisons with other states and nations.
The document urges revision of labor laws to fit industrial changes and machinery advances. It stresses wage earners organizing on solid, businesslike lines and protecting women workers from overwork and under nutrition. It cites Wendell Phillips urging workers to organize and demand unity nationally.
A survey shows forty four states set an age limit for child labor with pressure to raise it, forty two limit weekly hours, thirteen boiler inspection laws, thirty seven require seats for female workers, seventeen protect construction workers, fourteen inspect bakeries, and forty eight plus DC provide wage liens, with mechanics' liens sometimes attached to property or funds. thirty five states have labor statistics bureaus.
The annual Wesleyan Methodist conference in Fairmount elected Marion clergy as officers for the coming year. Rev T P Baker became president with Rev J J Coleman as vice president, and Rev Francis R Eddy as secretary. Numerous evangelists and a planning committee were named, with a preliminary program for the state charities conference outlined.
H K Barnard state food and drug commissioner calls attention to Chicagos pure milk ordinance and notes Indiana cities lack similar regulation. He cites tuberculin testing pasteurization and temperature controls as needed and reports inspectors show dairymen skimming and watering milk with several arrests and convictions last month.
Articles filed in the secretary of state office report two new corporations. The None-Better Manufacturing Company of Hartford City to manufacture clothing with capital stock of 20000 and directors J. H. Schug C. S. Clark O. P. Schug Rudolph Schug and Christ Rich. The Wantz Development Company of Fort Wayne to deal in real estate with capital stock 60000 and directors C. L. Wantz H. M. Wantz L. P. Drayer H. A. Duemling and H. G. Keegan.
The Indiana County Auditors Association met at the Denison Hotel in Indianapolis and voted unanimously to appeal to Congress for legislation. They seek relief from the need to keep congressional township school funds separate. Current system requires separate interest receipts for each township, a burden worsened where counties hold parts of multiple townships. A 13 member legislation committee will draft resolutions to Indiana congressmen.
Dr J N Hurty state health commissioner addressed the Marion County W C T U urging scientific disease prevention. He said America advances but remains far from perfection and that Indiana faces high typhoid tolls relative to India’s cholera rate per population.
Evansville on August 26 a bartender August P. Mater shot Nellie Crawley after a quarrel about her returning to her former husband. He then shot himself in Garvin's park, dying under the tree where he courted her. Crawley was slightly injured and expected to recover.
Kalamazoo health board to locate the TB hospital in a vacant River side cemetery area on Gull street but residents near the cemetery warned an injunction if work begins. City council had moved there after protest in another city zone. They object to the hospital being near their homes despite no objection to cemeteries.
Shelbyville reports a Protestant Methodist conference debating a 15000 appropriation for building Munice Inds proposed 45000 church. The temperance issue was discussed with Rev. E S Shumaker of Indianapolis delivering a special address.
Gibson county township trustees favor county teachers attending higher education by a resolution granting a 25 cent per day salary increase for teachers who attend school. The measure was read to teachers at the county institute in Princeton on August 26.
In Greensburg on August 26 Harry Simpkins of Cincinnati eighteen and Harry Seller of Cincinnati were asleep between Big Four tracks when a passenger train killed Simpkins. Seller, who was riding with him from Chicago, woke after the collision and learned of the accident. Both youths were later driven from a passenger train in the yards here.
Two large centrifugal pumps have been ordered for University of Michigan Ann Arbor fire protection. They will boost from city mains and tie into the marine laboratory tank. The 12 inch campus mains will deliver 1250 gallons per minute to any building.
Frank Faltz a Shelbyville butcher entered his brother's slaughter house to kill hogs when bullets rained on the building and a hog was wounded. He cannot tell if the shots were aimed or fired by careless river hunters.
The body of Charles Biddle a fisherman for Joseph Dewey was recovered from the river in Monroe. He was about forty a widower and had come here from Wauseon Ohio last July. authorities believe he slipped while crossing a plank between two boats and struck his head on a boat then sank.
Three boys died and four were fatally injured when a passenger train struck them after they had just dodged a freight train in Terre Haute on August 26. Investigators describe the incident as a tragic crossing accident involving local youths.
Robbers entered the Ripley Hoke jewelry store through a rear window and stole diamonds, gold rings, watches, and other valuables worth about $500. An attempt to enter a second jeweler's shop failed due to an iron barred window. A reward is offered for the thieves. no clues yet.
Frankfort reports sixty year old Lewis Carter, seventy eight, was killed while walking on Kokomo Frankfort & Western tracks at Forest. A work car struck him after an interurban and a passenger train passed, despite signals and brakes. Carter was a prominent local farmer.
Lafayette Orville Maxson twenty years old is in a dying condition at St. Elizabeth hospital after his left arm was caught in a rope hoisting concrete to the Schulta building. He was raised to the pulley and spun around as the engine ran, the arm torn off, and doctors call it the most serious such injury they have seen.
In Kokomo H T Bayard a traveling representative for a Chicago oil firm was taken from an Interurban car and held on suspicion of bank forgery after a Frankfort robbery description matched him. Police stopped the car in transit to Benton Harbor Michigan and held him for several hours before releasing him.
The cornerstone of Princeton's new $60,000 school building was laid with Masonic rites. Robert A. Woods served as grand master, John W. Brady delivered the address. A heavy rain did not dampen a parade of hundreds. over 1,000 attended the exercises despite the downpour. The building promises to be a handsome, modern structure for the area.
Laporte James Caves of Martin County asks for a pardon at the September state board meeting. Caves, one of the oldest life term inmates at Michigan City prison, has served 21 years after being found guilty of murdering Conrad Kelly in Kellerstrville Indiana, his defense at trial was self defense.
Laporte Pinola on Lake Shore railroad escaped total ruin when the Laporte fire department battled a fierce blaze that destroyed the Johnston elevator and endangered the depot coal docks and all town buildings. Loss estimated at 20400 dollars with no insurance.
Grocers W H Reynolds and Ray Keach discovered forged checks when depositing at the bank. Each check totalled 14.40 and bore the name M Huber & Bro shoe dealers. A stranger used the checks to buy coffee at both stores and received change. A later attempt with 18.65 signed to Judge John M Lewis was refused.
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