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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1908
Page
3
A feverish batch of brief items reports Anni Kiselia surviving a false death warning and refusing nourishment before nurses persuaded her to eat a little. Other reports cover Quebec plans for Champlain centenary sites, Armstrong shipping rattlesnakes for museums and shows, a Birmingham murder suicide in Alabama, Indianapolis blinds tiger arrests, Coffeyville welcome for Emmett Dalton, and related local details.
The report compiles varied items from Davenport Iowa to Paris and Muskogee Oklahoma, noting a blind pianist once enslaved near Columbus now famed in Europe, railway strain from the Mississippi slide country, a Paris attack on a minister, birds protection debates in Indiana, a Depew teacher marriage trend, and French novelist views on murder punishment.
A Huntington marriage unites Hon Horace M Kean and Lula B Miller in an Indiana Odd Fellows circle. Paris suburbia sees American women artists jogging open air work with no male escort. Joplin Missouri reports a fatal shooting as a husband kills by a wife after months of trouble. Roosevelt invites nine scientists to the Pan American congress in Chile. Minnesota plans $3 million drainage drive moving 13 million cubic yards of dirt. European monarchs largely smoking cigars?
The dispatches describe rulers from Austria to the czar smoking habits and a June Mexico City decree barring foreigners from locating or acquiring mining properties. U.S. interests protest the proposed law as American miners push back. Additional notes cover New Haven and Boston & Maine staff organizing to influence elections, a fatal shooting in Shawnee, and beef packers facing shortages with high prices and low cattle receipts in Chicago.
Governor Gillett formulates a plan for a state road corridor from valley to coast spanning the commonwealth. He proposes issuing bonds totaling 18 million dollars to finance the project, aiming for roughly six thousand dollars per mile of road.
Milton Bassett and others file a petition for a new gravel road in Washington township Daviess County Indiana. The board of county commissioners will hear the petition on July 7 1908 at 10 am in Washington at the county courthouse.
Milton Bassett and 50 residents petition to establish a public highway through a densely populated area in Washington Township, Daviess County Indiana. They request the road be laid out 30 feet wide, graded, drained, and paved with screened gravel, with jurisdiction granted to local authorities.Mary C. Fish Notary Public. Grant Faith attorney for petitioners. 1908.
The receiver in the Davis circuit court case 11 659 between George Parker et al and City Water Company offers the city water works franchise and full water system for sale by public auction June 20 1908 at Gardiner Tharp Gardiner office Washington Indiana. Bids not under 85000 dollars will be considered and sale is free of liens except unpaid taxes.
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