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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1914
Page
1
Well known Fifth Ward merchant Vollmer dies at home after long illness. Local business figure and longtime resident will be remembered for community involvement and shop on Main Street.
Washington mourns Henry Vollmer, Fifth ward grocer, philanthropist and school supporter who died after an Evansville hospital operation for an enlarged liver. He built a clean, trusted business, aided students like H C Wadsworth, and left an estate over 60 000 with eight children and a widow. Funeral from St Marys Church drew large crowd, with Knights of Columbus and German Benevolent Society in procession. The funeral mass was led by his son Father Theodore Vollmer of Evansville amid local clergy. He was remembered as kind, practical, and steadfast in helping neighbors.
Washington health officers report a smallpox case in the city. The patient is Mrs Otis Catt of Seventh and Grove streets. The house is quarantined to prevent spread.
An ordinance labeled number five proposes crossing legislation that would impose thousands in costs on railroads. The draft measure aims to regulate crossings and funding implications for rail infrastructure.
The council abandons gates option and imposes watchmen at ten B. and O. Southwestern crossings and five C. and E. I. crossings with penalties from 25 to 100 dollars. Merchants fear the measure is too drastic and push for dialogue with railroad officials to balance protection and traffic safety.
Washington thirteen year old Aliss Al ma Kehoe wins the silver badge for drawing Reading for August in the August St Nicholas league. Her work shows two pitkaninny buried in a watermelon and reveals evident talent. Century Company of New York sponsors the contest. Miss Kehoe is the daughter of John Kehoe of the west end.
Dr. E. M. Wells of Scottboro withdraws as the progressive auditor candidate for Scott County and renounces his pro gressives affiliations. He says party principles remain, and that past dissatisfactions with leaders have been remedied, signaling a return to the Republican fold.
The jury found Mme Calllaux not guilty of killing Gaston Calmette editor of Le Figaro, saying she acted under temporary insanity from fear of letters between her and her husband. Violent riot ensued as she exited by the witness door, guards parting the crowd while she shielded her face from cries of murderess.
A consignment of 4090 rifles was landed at New castle Wick low during the night and moved to Dublin in motor cars after evading coast guards. Two gunboats lit the bay as another batch of 1000 rifles landed near Kilcool Wick low. The coroner adjourned the inquest into Sunday clashes between the King's Own Scottish Borderers and the crowd to Thursday. Dead bodies were removed to Marlborough street cathedral as thousands followed the hearses with police and soldiers ordered to stay away.
Otto Kroetzer, an engineer on the B. and O. Southwestern, traveling in Germany with his mother, will begin his return trip home on July 29 or 4.
A funeral cortege moves quietly through town, coffins placed before the high altar at the cathedral. A requiem mass is celebrated before the procession continues to Glasnevin Cemetery for burial.
The Terre Haute incident involves Judge John Downey of Cullop Downey LaPlante who reportedly lost twenty five dollars to pocketbook theft in a crowd. A bundle of papers remained with the money and may be returned to the judge or his family, though the event was not officially reported to police.
At Columbus Nebraska the Democratic state convention rejected William J Bryan and his brother Charles W Bryan as they failed to insert a laudatory mention of Senator G M Hitchcock in the platform. The Hitchcock backer won the secretary post 649 to 431 signaling Bryan opposition waning and the platform kept the party line.
The Nebraska Republican and Progressive Republican factions unify at the LincolN convention with no discord from opening to close. No action on woman suffrage or prohibition. The combined platform supports protective tariffs and standard Republican policies and condemns the Wilson administration. A single slate of candidates will be chosen in a statewide primary in August.
Five horses owned by William Arney of Madison township wandered into a wheat granary. two died and the others were in bad shape. A well on the Nicholson farm near Wheatland was abandoned at 1 508 feet after Washington capital was invested in the venture and a showing of off was found at 1 350 feet.
The German ambassador in Washington calls for subjects to readiness as Austria Hungary declares war on Serbia after a note dated July 23, 1914. The Vienna declaration cites failed replies and seeks force, while Germany’s role and Clemenceau’s warning frame a broader European crisis with Russia and Slav populations.
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