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Newspaper
Washington Washington Democrat
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1908
Page
2
A fragmented report covers women’s suffrage views, local delegate counts, and political notes. It mentions Warrick County nominating a senatorial candidate, a straw berry belt presence in Albany, and rising building activity in Vincennes with a major Fort Wayne hotel fire and Tunis disaster details.
Laugh of this city left Saturday afternoon to tend a meeting of the chairmen of the joint protective board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
W. Briggs, recently purchasing the Ow Ding store, has moved from Knox Indiana to take charge of the shop at the local site.
A jumble of 1907 era items includes reports of M Michel Werner the motorcycle inventor, a paralyzed brain illness, and a retirement in Monte Carlo. Eight bodies recovered from a Sago Reduction Co plant ruin after a naptha tank explosion. missing personnel feared. Also notes stock security gains, a German aristocracy murder case, New York coal costs, Korea Japanese office plans, Louisiana political pageantry, and a missing Indiana man found dead in a water-filled quarry pit.
Toledo on May 4 reports Sergeant Ips Boyle of the Joca police killed by a gunshot during a disturbance. Officer A L Jackson and others pursued suspects Bechtel Ragere and Mack with Bechtel wounded and later arrested.
A mysterious double murder occurred early Sunday in a foreign colony in South Columbus. Victims include Edward Moldowan a Roumanian and Swindov Peni a Bulgarian. eight Bulgarians are in custody pending investigation. Police interpreter George Pokoto is accused of the crime by his countrymen.
Hayes reports a house fire at a homesteader named Yophers killing an eight month old infant. The mother left the child asleep and went to fetch a neighbor after hearing distressing sounds. The blaze started in the dwelling and the infant perished as firefighters arrived.
The piece argues the Democratic and Republican factions rally around William Jennings Bryan and William Howard Taft, urging party unity to defeat their rivals. It calls for H a political realignment, warns of a two party struggle, and stresses the need to avoid anti Bryan sentiment and promote a broader democratic program.
Report of a grand Taarskee- Selo ceremony with emperor and royal pageantry, despite heavy snowfall. Crowds gathered to glimpse the emperor and foreign dignitaries as the event proceeded in Europe.
Daily market summary listing cattle calves hogs and sheep with bid and asking ranges for Kansas City Chicago and Peoria. Includes weights grades and price quotes across beef pork and lamb sectors with references to grains and commodities like corn oats flax and wheat.
Baseball results from Chicago Cleveland St Louis Detroit and Pittsburgh with rain postponed games noted. An article also reports rising divorce rates in Paris and political moves for prosecuting attorney in the Forty ninth Judicial district with candidates Greenwood and Williams.
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