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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1914
Page
2
The column muses on war, weather, matrimony, theater rumors, seaweed as coal, coal barons, fashion, umbrellas, rhubarb pie, orators, love varieties, a wireless divorce, wireless weddings, auto installments, gas pay as you go, the Majestic ship, peace lovers, and soy milk changing farm tasks.
A French scientist used ultraviolet rays to transform bacilli of one disease into bacilli of another. The claim raises alarm and invites public scrutiny of the method and its risks.
A reflection on growing dangers from collisions in air travel and human ambition. The text juxtaposes trivial mishaps with grand issues while noting material imports and urban cleanliness. It mentions about forty bananas per person in the United States last year and ends with a sardonic call to let challenges come if peelings stay off the sidewalks.
A letter from Lucretia Borgia helped push a London autograph sale past $2,000, despite fears of a poisoned pen. The piece mocks political ruin and jokes about honesty, time, and the gum habit, noting Americans waste millions on chewing gum while it sticks to sidewalks.
The Louisville Courier Journal notes a pragmatic view on challenges and invites readers to consider gardening as a feasible project with careful planning and effort. It frames gardening as attainable despite obstacles.
Lieutenant Patrick N. Bellinger chief aviator of the naval aero squadron was shot at while flying over the Veracruz outposts near Vera Cruz Mexico. About twenty five shots were fired though he escaped unharmed and the hydro airplane sustained no material damage. The attack marked a second time Mexicans fired on Bel lingers aircraft as he sought to locate Mexican forces believed massing around the port. Captain Hill of the marines led a response but the marksmen remained unseen from a protected position. Bellinger was about 1000 feet up at sixty miles per hour with unprotected body a good mark but the plane largely survived the volley.
Charles Hecker former lieutenant of police was found guilty of the murder of Herman Rosenthal. The verdict was guilty in the first degree. Justice Seabury said sentence would be passed May 29. The jurors deliberated about four hours before reaching the verdict as Becker showed hatred toward them. His wife wept as the verdict was read and the jury filed to the room. Becker faces the death penalty in the electric chair.
Series of short notices report incidents across Indiana towns. Ebberts attempts suicide in jail after being charged with passing a forged check. a Terre Haute auto race crash injures Gene Albion and Louis Kwoczalla. Fisher seeks public hearing on mayoral police charges in Lafayette. Michael Eikhorn killed by a moving traction car near Brookfield. Prof. E. E. Jones resigns from Indiana University to join Northwestern. Martin Hosier arrested for forging a $25 check in Elwood. Monroe County Republicans set June 27 for county convention. Mrs. Charles Holland killed in a runaway accident in Bedford and her husband critically injured.
Charles S. Mellen former president of the New Haven railroad testified before the interstate commerce commission detailing his claim that J Pierpont Morgan knew of the Grand Trunk negotiations and that he felt the elder Morgan would be harmed by an indictment. He described Morgan’s reaction to a leadership change and his own role in bearing the blame for the indictment. Mellen further stated that Nelson W Aldrich helped unload Rhode Island trolley properties to the New Haven at a price of 19 to 20 million dollars a valuation twice the properties value.
Panama May 25 The theft of a ton of dynamite from the Gatun government warehouse alarms officials. Three prisoners, two Colombians and a Black man, are charged with the theft. Police traced the explosive to the suspect’s residence as Colonel Goethals notes defects in the steel locks.
In Sandwich England on May 23 Chick Evans of Chicago and Harold Weber of Toledo failed to advance in the British amateur golf championship. They were defeated by McFarlane and Hutchison, the remaining American survivors.
Two blasts at 1342 West Madison Street wreck a four story burning building injuring twenty firemen and many spectators. Panic spreads as flying debris shatters windows and damages nearby stores. Property loss estimated at 76000 dollars with extensive damage to adjacent houses and shops.
Eugene Houghteling, agent for the West Shore railroad at Tappan New York, was shot to death defending his employer’s property. Two robbers escaped with eighteen dollars.
In Friars Point Mississippi on May 25 Joe Thompson and Dave Nash two Black men were hanged for the killing of Deputy Sheriff Frank Mullen. Mullen went to the steamboat landing to arrest a suspect when he was slain.
In Akron on May 25 Lawrence Winum aged 21 was killed and three others were seriously injured when the automobile they rode in crashed into a telephone pole in South Akron.
Terre Haute reports the 1915 M E Woman's Home Missionary society meeting selecting Dana as the gathering site. Mrs Henry Ostrom of Greencastle is elected president with T J Everett Mattox church Terre Haute first vice president and John Levering Centenary church Terre Haute second vice president. Several officers from Greencastle Terre Haute Brazil West Indianapolis and Rockville are listed with roles including corresponding secretary recording secretary treasurer mite box secretary literature secretary tithing secretary and evangelist. Hannah Mahala Jewett receives junior life membership.
Harvey Johnston 43 a farmer died from injuries after his buggy was hit by the Muncie interurban car east bound. Thomas Johnston 37 received a head injury. Both men reportedly drank prior to the crash when they rode a horse along a trestle south west of Winchester. The horse fell and was held ten minutes before the collision at the west limits of the city.
Pere Marquette officials say two boys tampered with a switch near the south bound afternoon train wreck in Laporte last week causing the switch to throw as the locomotive neared. The engine and fireman escaped injury and three coaches derailed but stayed upright. no passengers were hurt as the train approached yard limits.
The fourteenth annual Eleventh District Medical association session convened in Logansport with a clinic at St. Joseph hospital and a banquet at the Baptist temple basement. About one hundred physicians attended as Drs. Quick, Homer, and Grayson read papers.
William Day found guilty of assault and battery on Clayton Rook by a jury. He was fined $25 and costs and sentenced to ten days in jail. Day faced charges of assault with intent to commit murder for a March penknife fight. he pleaded self defense.
Mrs. Minnie McConkey of Richmond was awarded $1,000 in circuit court against the Lake Erie and Western railroad. She claimed permanent crippling after a baggage truck belonging to the railroad struck her, originally seeking $30,000.
Martin Andrews, 37, son of Jacob Andrews of South Bend, died after being run over by a Monon train. He was found with both legs severed on the tracks by a southbound passenger train crew, conscious but dying on the hospital operating table. Coroner Hannell investigates. Andrews had recently separated from his wife and said he had nothing to live for.
The article notes Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta becoming major wheat producers. It cites 1904 58 million bushels rising to 150 million in 1909 and near 200 million by 1913. It discusses Canada’s trade with the United States and Germany and describes large settler inflows from the United States and Europe to western provinces with trains carrying farm families and capital.
A young society woman chats with a new acquaintance in a conservatory. She asks which eye color he admires, black or blue, and he responds that thought is too dim to decide at the moment as the exchange ends.
A humorous exchange features a father questioning a young man with his daughter. The reply calls the suitor a budding poet and the father tells him to return when his work bears fruit, implying patience and accomplishment before promise.
A Plain Dealer item reports a man keeps numerous slugs in old cigar boxes in a composing room and offers to copy a few names from the boxes for someone. The brief notes the informal method and potential questions about authentication.
The quotation notes a general state about stage craze and trouble. It mentions Growcher and Eve in a Garden Eden setting where a man races sorrows after attempting a snake charmer performance. The fragment hints at a theatrical tale about ambition and consequence.
A neighbor recounts a Sunday incident where a brother was ostracized after an ostrich pecked him, causing local concern. The tale reflects a small community’s reaction to an unusual animal encounter and its social impact.
A wife jokes that anger may raise blood sugar, remarking that her husband tastes sweeter after they quarrel. The exchange playfully links mood and physiology in a domestic moment.
Mrs Grammercy remarks on how a mother raises her daughter and Mrs Park agrees. The child received a stuffed big dog toy rather than a doll, as observed by the judge.
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