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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1908
Page
6
Charles Thompson, sixty, of Hopkinsville Kentucky, died instantly when a wagon he was driving with a heavily loaded team slipped into a rut and the wagon wheel passed over his neck near his Carl neighborhood home. Columbus Ohio reports a Grand Lodge of the B of L E session where temperance measures and transit labor issues are discussed.
A tale from Jacksonville Pennsylvania recounts Isaac Hollar breaking a fifteen year vow of silence toward his wife after she suffered a sudden speech loss during an argument. He used the moment to deliver a long speech, while she merely motions, then studies the mute alphabet. Other items recount a Connecticut doctor injured by an electric sign and a Iowa man jailed after trying to claim a daughter in a real estate joke.
A fragmentary local notice recounts printer errors in a nearby town, a high school commencement with grads including Tubbs, and a cascade of fatal incidents. John McGaughey, Marion County former commissioner, died by suicide amid grand jury bribe investigations. George Sterry and son died after a quarrel over a marriage match in New York. In Elwood, lightning killed Mrs. Clarence Beck carrying a baby, who survived.
In Louisville, George William Jeffreys, heir to a substantial English fortune, was found after a London barrister’s letter, having lived in the U S for 28 years and in Louisville 24 years. He may owe his wealth to estates of thousands of pounds as family history links him to England's landed gentry.
The first annual commencement at Elnora certified high school Friday evening drew a large crowd. Seven graduates, four boys and three girls, received diplomas. The class included Howard Toelle Otis Courtney Emmett Pope Elis Malone Nellie Courtney Pearl Brown and Flossie Smiley. Rev. Thomas H. Kuhn of Richmond gave the commencement address.
A speaker gave one of the best addresses heard in Elnora with the audience showing full attention and applause. Music accompanied the occasion provided by the Odon orchestra and an Elnora quartet. Elnora high school earned certified class status after its recent inspection by County Superintendent Burris and city schools chief W F Axtell for the state board of education.
Now in progress in the Kittitas valley southwest of Spokane Bill Taylor a veteran ranger leads a group of riders to complete the roundup by June end. Fifty or more wild horses roam the range with two famed stallions noted for speed and tameness avoidance. Some animals were captured years ago and returned to the wild, and many fetch high prices once broken. Taylor predicts the final band will be branded and the ranges opened to more profitable farming.
Bloomington May 18 Dr Victor Keene arrived to address Indiana University but was telegrammed to Chicago by J Ogden Armour after his daughter Lolita was bitten by a mad dog. Indianapolis May 19 Attorney General Bingham files suit against five breweries for violating state laws, seeking forfeiture of corporate rights and alleging real estate leasing and multiple illegal activities including bawdy houses and gambling. Breweries named include Terre Haute Brewing, Capital Brewing, and Home and American companies.
Boarders across Washington discuss a supposed rise in prices with anxious tones. California news lapses and coffee hardens while pancakes fail to stay on plates. Dyspeptic residents denounce a trust for withholding breakfast and drink, as sorrowful figures with strained appetites endure.
In a satirical debate a group of speakers discuss prunes as a new industry and social symbol. They describe inflated fruit used in unusual ways, from tobacco pouches to fashion items, while humorously lamenting rising prune prices and the costs of transporting them from California to markets. The discourse blends whimsy with economic critique.
Beginning with a sunrise service atop Hot Springs mountain thousands gather as the Southern Baptist Convention continues its sessions. Midnight mark ends double sermons in the auditorium theater and convention hall with a light rain falling through morning hours. Lisbon dispatch notes Mundo prints two forms of a story about Klås Manners attacking the young daughter of a lady in waiting to Queen Amelie, affecting royal matrimony plans amid King Carlos and Queen Amelia’s awareness of Manuel’s affection.
King Emanuel shocks court by announcing he will marry for love, rejecting a suitable alliance with a European royal house. Queen Amelia and the Duke of Oporto had favored a British match amid monarchist hopes. Oporto residents of all political hues sent homage to the king after the scene at the palace.
Gerald Smith assistant secretary of the Y M C A in Washington visits his parents in Bellefontaine Ohio and recounts a story of Quinten Roosevelt and Taft Jr at the YMCA. Taft junior signs up for membership as the other boy doubts it.
May 18 report from Chicago describes Frank Kaleht accused of assaulting women on a Halstead car, attacked by a group of Greeks with knives threatening decapitation. Simultaneously a New York telegram notes a Chinatown panic over fifteen barrels shipped from El Paso containing a Chinaman body, linked to smuggling.
President Roosevelt criticized District Attorney Jerome for telling a half hour tale in Washington last Friday about shaking dice for drinks. He called the account undignified and questioned the propriety of such behavior while noting his conversation with John S. Whalen and James J. Hovey.
In Valparaiso Indiana a two year-old son of Frank Hiskotis fell into a tub of water in the yard and drowned. His mother witnessed the accident and, in rushing to aid, she fell and the child died.
Isaac Brock of Western North Carolina, believed oldest living American, celebrated his 120th birthday. Born March 1, 1788, twenty miles north of Asheville, his memory has recently begun to fail.
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