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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1909
Page
6
Danby grocer Richard Purdy repeatedly dumped his neighbors’ cats, even stuffing one in a brick lined bag and tossing it into Darby creek. The cat survived, arriving soaked and alive under a stove. Local readers note the stubborn animal’s repeated escapes. The report blends odd personal misdeeds with a human-interest moment.
Georgetown Delaware March 2. A prominent farmer Benjamin Baylis had Miss Prettyman arrested for beating his young son at school amid claims she whipped him severely drawing blood. The school board allegedly urged the punishment. she bonds for next term. Community sympathy reported for the teacher.
A late 19th century report notes a couple who wed in 1860, split after the Civil War, and were reunited for forty-two years before divorce. In New York a judge grants a decree in a case involving alleged attempted murder by a husband who placed his wife on a railroad track. Additional brief items cover a fatal accident at a metal shop, and a Philadelphia man who attempted suicide due to poverty.
New York court action on distributing the estate of Margaret W. Fol som with James La Tone praised for preventing cruelty to animals after rescuing a dog. The report blends legal proceedings with sensational local anecdotes including a sheepish account of a barber Xavier Moll's death and a town medical scare.
Frankfort Indiana March 24 Attorney A H Boulder filed a pleading challenging the county board authority to promulgate the county option. The hearing held recently concluded with the county vote disputed as to whether the board acted correctly in formulating the option. Boulder contends the board failed to make an estimate of expenses.
In New York on Lincoln's Birthday Abraham Hollander returns to a hallway crowded with cheering neighbors celebrating his new twins and another baby. The Hollander family now has five children, with three newborns weighing seven to eight pounds each.
Mrs Susan H Yonce aged thirty nine was found dead in a boarding house room in Washington with five gas jets turned on beside photographs of her two children. Former Beaufort North Carolina resident and ai clerk in the Bureau of Statistics department of agriculture she had worked in the census and Treasury offices and was a southern college graduate. The coroner ruled death by her own action.
An historic silver leaf maple said to be planted by Andrew Jackson near the White House yard collapsed in a recent windstorm. It stood about fifteen feet from the 1898 McKinley oak and had been hollow for years, described as the home of a pair of gray ekes, before the tragedy was noted.
Pond and Guy Morris trapped a female gray wolf near Hatsville in Nohead Hollow. Six traps at a cave mouth caught four as she tried to leave. The 100 pound wolf fought to escape and was killed with a club. The pelt was sold to a local farrier. In Bloomfield Indiana Newton Strickland and his son William died of pneumonia at home within minutes of each other. Three others are ill with the same disease. An elderly man died after collapsing from starvation and exposure, likely after four days without food. In Altoona Pennsylvania a fifteen year old hunter found the skeleton of Phillip Corcelius with laudanum bottles nearby, identified as a missing Petersburg man from last April.
Washington March 2 reports say Taft’s impending inaugural will displease Wall Street financiers who hoped for a reactionary stance. Clippings note advance attempts to learn Taft policy on corporations as it could sway stock exchanges.
A sequence of items reports Evelyn Wood Wellman, a stage personality known as Evelyn Schraft, taking poison on a Chicago elevated train and dying in Lebanon hospital after bidding her parents farewell. Other notes include Dale McCain, thirteen, struck by a rock in Princeton Indiana, fracturing his skull but expected to recover, and Elizabeth Martin seeking divorce from James T. Martin in Winchester Virginia after cruel treatment and incompatibility. Judge Harrison has approved counsel fees and temporary alimony. trial slated for next term.
Whitesburg Kentucky March 2 Harrison Banks a 30 year old man died from wounds inflicted by a bulldog that attacked him at the command of his brother Elijah Banks. Harrison had entered Elijahs home to intervene in a brutal beating of his wife who remains unconscious and seriously ill. Elijah Banks is under arrest.
Report describes a glass sun heater with a steel frame and sixty one plugs that contact thick glass to generate electricity. The device includes automatic cut outs when voltage dips. Inventor Cove recently earned a Canadian gold medal for a Bay of Fundy tides harness plan.
Bloomfield Indiana March 2 reports say local hunters enjoy fine sport due to large numbers of wild ducks on Waite river. Advance guard arrived weeks ago and now flocks appear with many good bags as proof of skilled shooting around Old Bed tong pond south west of town where wild geese also frequent.
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