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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1908
Page
2
New York dispatch describes a girl at Clifton, Illinois, begging Dr. Warner to save her cat hooked by a fish line. The doctor sedated the cat and removed the hook, while the grateful child clutched the ether sleepy animal and thanked him. Also reports a bank burglary near Spokane and Bill Gates taking wife number four in Coeur d’Alene.
Egg Harbor City reports Mrs. Carlonia L. Pierce seventy five writes to the local paper about a bright light and a ball of fire shaped like a moon faced entity seen near her window on the night of November 21 while alone at a Mullica Township farm. Oil City finds an iron kettle of coins worth three thousand dollars buried by the late farmer Jon Caldwell.
William T. Haviland former mayor was run over by his car last night while cranking it. A leg arm and rib injuries reported with condition not yet known. He was driving with his wife and friends in Bellefontaire. Morocco Ind Dec 1 P Hines trapped a wolf after a daylong chase. the wolf leaped into a trap and was killed after a savage scuffle with dogs and a guard.
New York on December 1 reports the St. Regis imposes a rule limiting dogs to twelve inches in length, citing past troubles at the Fifth Avenue hotel. The incident involves the Hine collie owned by C A of St. Louis, staying with a guest, and the hotel manager confirms the new policy was not a personal judgment but hotel regulation.
In Pittsburg a dog dispute ends with Mr Tilles guiding his collie away after Mascord declares the animal over the limit. Separate notices describe a whisky accident saving a man, a missing Spokane father, a vast railway tunnel build in Idaho, and a South Dakota romance turning to divorce.
A series of short items recounts a truck accident fatality in New York when Daniel Quigley died during surgery after stones fell on his foot. Quentin Roosevelt starts school in Washington and blurts out his father’s role. A Wisconsin funeral episode ends in a threatened church altercation over remarks about the dead. Isaac Jacobson’s death leads to a tense burial scene in Indiana. A New York Hippodrome scene describes a tiny pig frightening an elephant as it races through streets, causing chaos and crowds to flee.
A circus elephant ran amok through a Kansas City area yard, tearing fences and dashing through tenements until four elephants were driven back to the hippodrome. Separately, Martin Joanson reports cannibal tribes in the South Seas, warning of danger and arming travelers. A wreck on the Indiana Union Traction line near Arcanum injuries ten others and Frey of Darks county is severely burned.
Public auction to the highest bidder at the courthouse door in Washington Indiana. The sale follows an execution issued from the Davie ss circuit court dated November 16 1908 and an attachment against John L Stanley. The sale runs between 10 am and 4 pm the rent and profits for a term not exceeding years of the following year in Daviess county. The southeast quarter of the north
Daviess County Indiana sheriff announces public auction of John L. Stanley’s real estate totaling 158 acres plus rents and profits to satisfy Emory Vandagrift receiver judgment against Stanley. Property includes sections 33 34 27 with Indian Hill Road boundary and a school fund mortgage of 1550 dollars interest six percent. One third of 10 acres of corn from 1908 to be sold as directed.
Notice states Thomas G. Wadsworth has been appointed administrator of the estate of Thomas Wadsworth Jr by the Daviess circuit court Indiana. He has qualified and the estate is believed solvent. Dated November 20 1908. Administrator Hastings Allen Hastings attorneys.
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