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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1910
Page
6
Marshall Wilson, formerly a train dispatcher in Flora, Illinois, is promoted to chief train dispatcher. C. E. Goldsby reverts to dispatcher as duties expand to include Springfield and Beardstown divisions. Wilson began Tuesday, finishing his fifteenth year with the company.
In Boonville on Monday in Warrick County Francis Chapple and John Ringham, residents of Eby, argued over business matters at their shared blacksmith shop. Ringham allegedly struck Chapple with a red hot iron, fatally wounding him. Ringham fled and is sought by authorities. Chapple required four stitches and remained unconscious. both men were married with families.
Armanda Lower is granted a divorce from Jacob Lower at Lagrange after a hearing before a crowd of deaf mute witnesses. Lower, a wealthy farmer, faced a cross complaint accusing ill temper while the wife alleged cruelty and public gossip by the husband. They wed in 1890 and have no children.
Captain Frank Snider and Job Smoot of this city attend a battalion shoot at Vincennes with several company reps. They arrived home this morning. Snider is the only member of the company delegation to qualify for the regimental shoot at Spencer on June 16 and 17.
Seth Bales son of Frank Bales of Epsom formerly a reformatory teacher at Plainfield has left for Terre Haute to enroll in the state normal school due to illness and to return home.
R B F Kelley of Springfield Illinois describes kidney and bladder troubles that worsened over a year. After taking Foley Kidney Pills for a few weeks his headaches and bladder pain disappeared and his condition improved, with normal bladder action and no distress. Sold by Smith and Winton.
Abby C. Howe formerly married to Charles Yarlott weds Dr. Clarence Russell of Lamar Colorado after seeking a divorce and returning to her father Samuel Howe. Miss Anna Swadener weds Dr. John H. Reed, a local physician, with Rev. Madison Swadener officiating. Reed had divorced his first wife in April 1909 after a cross-complaint was withdrawn during alimony settlement.
Judge Combs of Clinton county ruled that Tippecanoe county treasurer Lee Duncan must immediately turn over to Lafayette tax money amounting to 60 000 dollars. The decision overturns a prior ruling allowing semi annual city tax remittance and ends weeks of treasury strain as banks funded warrants.
About twenty five members of class 2 of the First Christian church staged a surprise fruit shower for John Bellville at his East Van Trees street home on Tuesday night. The event featured music, conversation, a short talk by Bellville about Johnson Bible College in Kimberland Heights Tennessee, and a three month vacation stay. Refreshments were served.
Jess Moddrell James Gill and Superintendent Ward of the gas works traveled to Oakland City Tuesday to view a gigantic oil well shot projecting output of 150 barrels a day. On return their automobile hit a stump on a rough road breaking the steering gear causing considerable delay.
railroad officers deny a report that two nonunion machinists fought Thursday afternoon with weapons drawn and one man was slashed in the neck. Physicians treated minor injuries as the rumor spread, and officers say the tale began from these injuries. A railroader on the trail branded the report as buncombe.
Mrs James B Wilson wife of the circuit court judge died suddenly in Bloomington while a reception was being prepared for her brother in law Herschel Wilson and Pride of Chicago. She was fifty, a noted society and club woman, member of the Navajo and Wednesday clubs, daughter of Ma M C Stephenson of Worthington, survived by husband and two sons.
Evansville court dismissed charges of assault and battery against Martin Diedrich and J R Muensterman Jr following an all day hearing. The cases against Ben Huber and Louis Bohrer, charged with them, will be continued Thursday.
A surprise dinner was hosted Sunday at Mr and Mrs Charles Raymann home for Mrs Raymanns twentieth birthday anniversary. Miss Biddie Doyle of Montgomery attended as an out of town guest and many beautiful presents were exchanged during a sumptuous dinner.
Omer Loop of Greentown, a Indiana University freshman football halfback and law student, swallowed a mercury tablet at a Bloomington drugstore night. Physicians fear for his life as motives offered include a possible love affair or outside troubles. Loop says it was a mistaken act. He played outfield for the 1910 freshman diamond squad and worked as a Daily Student paper carrier.
Judd Loveland a B and O brakeman from Garrett was dragged under a train at Wellsboro and suffered a crushed leg. He died at a Chicago hospital after surgeons failed to save him. A college graduate, he had begun at the bottom to work up in railroad service.
Crawfordsville June y Frank Royalty editor of the Wingate News was killed at Merlott at noon yesterday when he tried to board a Clover Laat train in motion and was cut in two.
President Taft sent a special message to Congress urging immediate effect of ICC authority to review and suspend railroad rate increases. A White House meeting with eastern trunk line leaders yielded an agreement to defer rate hikes until the railroad bill authorizes ICC to decide on such matters.
C. M. Walker departs Saturday for Poplar Bluff Missouri to take a storekeeper job with the Missouri Pacific. He has spent seven years in the local shops storekeeper's department and will not move his family yet, but plans to in the near future.
The First Methodist church board of trustees awarded the contract for a new eight room parsonage to Kretz and Barber, local contractors. The modern house will be built on the Walnut and Meridian streets lot at an estimated cost of $4,000.
Walter A. Fitch, a well known New York artist, died Sunday night in a Greenport hospital from suicide. Fitch, who lived in Cos Cob Connecticut, had a mother who is a wealthy resident of Pasadena California.
Dr. Leon B. Doxey, previously charged with murder alongside his wife in the Willam J. Erder case, was released from jail in St. Louis after Circuit Attorney Jones entered a nolle prosequi. Doxey plans to move to Columbus Nebraska where his wife, acquitted last week, currently resides.
Charles Owens, a day clerk at the Globe hotel, resigns to take a position at the Mandsbach coal mines after recently marrying Grace Hogshead.
After locating a roughly $15 000 drop in personal property values in Odon and Madison township this year the board of review expects to order a general increase in Odon taxes to compensate.
Miss Pauline Sanford and Miss Edna Wilson, city school teachers, will depart in a few days for Denver to spend the summer there and at Mt. Vista.
Ray Patrick motorman on car 18 resigns and will move to Terre Haute for a motorman post on the car line. This marks the third Washington motorman to leave for that city and take a similar position.
Coroner A Hl Holder will rule that Frank Haffey's death in White River was accidental after examining witnesses and the body. A murder charge was not supported and the verdict will be filed with the county clerk in a few days. A false alarm was reported from box 2 at West First and Denty Avenue, prompting a central department response.
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