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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1916
Page
4
In Lickskillet, Constable St Plum and Eph Keef compete as Santa Claus candidates at the church tree. The village church plans a Thanksgiving sermon and offering to help the poor, while townsfolk gossip about politics, pranks, and small-town mischief.
Reports across several towns describe a 21 hour jury deliberation ending in the conviction or finding related to the murder of Charles Harris as William Troscher is named in connection with the case. Other items note a beheaded student near Goshen suspected of attending Michigan Agricultural College and local crimes including a Madison burglar attack on Arthur Poe.
The sentence of Charles F. Steilow, convicted in the case of another Charles, to be executed by the electric chair, was commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Whitman. The decision follows new clemency considerations involving Phelps, a New York farmer.
A proposed plan by a special committee of the United Mine Workers led by John P. White would tax members 25 cents monthly for five years and pay a $24 monthly pension to all miners over 65, with eligibility after ten years of membership. The scheme also envisions pensions for incapacitated miners under 65 and expects a $5,000,000 fund after five years. The committee found at least 77,000 miners would qualify, and the plan aims to avoid state homes by keeping retirees with families.
The post office warns that with Christmas on a Sunday there will be no delivery that day. Mail must be sent by Saturday to avoid a backlog. parcels face weight and insurance limits, and wrapping and legible addresses are stressed to ease handling.
Government agents in El Paso reported that Carlos Ketelsen German vice consul and two Americans were killed in Chihuahua by Villa bandits and an American girl had been carried away, claims not confirmed. Washington officials confirmed the illness in cattle as stomatitis, not foot and mouth disease, noting stomatitis is rarely fatal and stock recover in Europe in eight to ten days.
The postal bureau in Washington charges the public to supply full and precise addresses. Missing street numbers room or box details cause delays and misdelivery especially in large cities. Mail should show full address including route number and return address to aid postmasters and ensure timely delivery.
John P. White, international president of the United Mine Workers of America, urged a seven hour work day. He spoke to mining unions in the Christopher NL field on Sunday noting machines drive the change and that pick mining is vanishing from many districts.
The semi-annual convention of Madison township Sunday schools at Odor elected officers. President D. & Williams. Vice-president Milton Herron. Secretary-treasurer Zella Ackerman. Department heads Roose Culmer and Mrs William Bechtel. Adult Pred Shaffer. Home Florence Winklepleck. Teachers training J K McCarter. Temperance Olive Demotte. Missionary Jacob Pershing. Next convention time and place to be announced.
Treasury Department estimates seek appropriations for Indiana post office sites and buildings in the next fiscal year. Amounts include Huntington 323.00 to continue work, Kendallville 20,000 for site and building, Shelbyville 20,000 for continuation, Valparaiso 25,000 for site and building, Washington 10,000 for completion.
The Third Indiana Infantry left Llano Grande Texas on Monday afternoon for Fort Benjamin Harrison where it will be mustered out of federal service. They were the last of the five national guard regiments recently released from border duty by order of the War Department.
John Mahoney pleaded guilty before Judge Ogden on Saturday to forging his mother's name on a check. He received a suspended sentence of from year years to fourteen years. Mahoney had previously pleaded not guilty. John Goyer, of Hugh Ue Cox & Co clothing, had returned from Bicknell where he attended the funeral of his mother.
The article surveys wartime policy crises in Britain and US domestic wrangles. It notes cabinet strains in England, tax fluidity in Indiana city finances, treasurer controversies, and looming Supreme Court questions on the Adamson Act. It also tracks congress debates on rail government seizure, election funding, and Ford peace efforts amid a broad sweep of national figures and local politics.
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