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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1905
Page
2
A lengthy New York legislative inquiry probes Equitable Life and key figures Chauncey Depew David Hill Jacob Schiff and former Gov Odell over loans and salaries amid Tammany pressure. The piece contrasts mayoral hopes with machine politics as Jerome presses for reform and McClellan’s mixed support.
Opinion piece argues public outrage over the Equitable damage case in New York. It cites six Republican committee members and lawyers Hughes and McKeen as they push for thorough reforms to prevent future theft and restore public trust. The column also notes immigration issues raised by New York’s child welfare findings and broader social contrasts.
A New York paper notes most chorus girls were formerly servant girls. It argues the step from kitchen to stage should be publicized to ease finding young women willing to do housework.
The piece details how the Metropolitan Turf association and 150 or more layers, backliners, and field layers profit daily, with extensive outlays and gains. It notes about 10,000 attendees lose an average $1.60 each after entry costs, and estimates a yearly net profit of $20,000 for a top layer, totaling millions in public losses.
The Washington Star quotes Plodding Pete lamenting his job hunt, noting how opportunities shift from New York to Frisco and back. He explains the paradox of arriving to find jobs already filled, illustrating a cycle of missed chances.
The text describes censorship in China with severe punishments for authors and readers, including 100 blows and lifetime ban for objectionable books and penalties for readers. It portrays a grim suppression of free expression.
A Detroit Tribune item recalls a thin bather noting the water felt warmer after entering, saying he had grown used to it, while a heavier bathers remarks a Boston girl left and a New Orleans girl arrived, highlighting a casual scene at the pool.
A farmer dining at a restaurant requests buttermilk and faces sharp local judgment. The quip by Atchison Glabe likens a farmer asking for buttermilk to a butcher eating packing-house sausage, underscoring rural stereotypes.
A bear in market terms is one who sells in anticipation of falling prices to buy back later at a lower level. The term is linked to the tale of a man who sold a bear skin before catching the animal.
A Kansas farmer protecting his sheep by placing a lamb with strychnine outside the pen found nine wolves dead within sixty feet of the carcass the next morning.
Introduction of American vines in French vineyards raises yield per acre from 16 to 22 barrels to 38 to 48 barrels.
Flies stop traffic as a plague forces diversion on principal routes to Cardiff decks threatening transit flow and city streets.
A Wheaton jury awarded Panhandle railroad $100,000 against Chicago for losses in the Debs A R U strike riots of 1894. It found $40,000 for in transit merchandise while upholding city liability for failure to curb mobs and prevent car burnings amid escalating strikes and fires in freight yards.
A mob of about 100 masked men abducted John Moore from Craven county jail in Newbern and lynched him near a Neuse river bridge after capturing him during an attempted robbery at Clarks seven miles away. Sheriff Biddle pleaded for lawful process but the mob persisted. Moore was shot after being tied and led to the bridge. The motive is linked to a low $300 bond set at his preliminary hearing.
In Minneapolis Minnesota a man, believed to be W Bowen of Sublette Illinois, shot himself after Rev W B Riley's sermon at the First Baptist Church. A $700 draft in the name of Bowen was found on him. He died instantly.
Two men are confirmed dead Pat Graney an engineer and his fireman after an excursion train from Cincinnati wrecked three miles southeast of Logansport Indiana. Several hundred passengers were aboard and relief trains with doctors rushed to the scene amid expected high casualty figures.
Crane & Co. served notice of a $6,000 damages claim against Chicago claiming destruction of hundreds of feet of board fence along Ogden avenue Rockwell and West Fifteenth streets and Pennsylvania railroad tracks by a mob of about 1 000 people during August 7 and 8.
Roland W. Diller pioneer settler of Illinois and intimate associate of Abraham Lincoln died at his home in Springfield after a lingering illness at age 85. He was one of Lincoln's closest personal friends throughout his political career and once occupied the room over Diller's drug store where Lincoln kept an office.
The new women’s hall at the University of Illinois, funded by an 80 000 pound appropriation, nears completion and will be ready for dedication during October installation ceremonies. Eighty women attend the school, and the building is described as a beautiful tribute.
Alderman George Schmidt intervened as peacemaker between Vandalia participants A. J. Howell Jesse Davis and Charles Howard. Howell and Davis assaulted Schmidt, cutting out his eye and leaving him in precarious condition. Howard was slightly injured.
Bloomington reports Prof. J H McMurray of Central college Huntington Ind has accepted Lincoln college Lincoln HI presidency. Danville judge Albert Emerson longtime west buyer of railroad right of way died of cancer. Pekin mink den devastates chicken stock near city hall. Peoria Maccabees plan Illinois convention Oct 26 to fight rising rates. Thompson s accident on Chicago Milwaukee St Paul lines.
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