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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1904
Page
7
Fiwin L. Sabin reflects in Lippincott's on Dick and his girl leaving town by a fast auto ride versus the old slower method with Marthy and the horse Pete. He contrasts modern speed with tender memories of courtship and the slower, shaded road home.
Farmer Stone resists village water works arguing private property rights while town official Luke Mathers pushes for a right of way. The conflict escalates as a potential arbitrator, Luke’s daughter, offers a proposal amid tensions of public benefit versus individual property.
Farmer Stone blocks a town plan to lay a water line to a barnyard trough for locals. Mettie studies gravity systems and springs to solve the puzzle while Joshua and she face social friction and a looming lawsuit as the dispute over water access advances.
In a small town a dispute over a water trough leads to a night of digging by Mettie and Joshua. They jointly connect springs, restore water to the trough, and win acceptance. The town rewards the couple with a hearthstone and a village pipe to supply water for all time.
A humorous magazine snippet argues that a man must die a bachelor to meet a woman's ideal. It values renunciation and silence over confidences, claiming ecstasy becomes pain when amplified.
A Louvre hotel blaze on Lake avenue killed three guests and injured many as smoke trapped occupants. Victims include Mrs Florence Chapin and her son Bissell Chapin plus Patrick F Ryan. loss estimated at 12000 dollars. A second fire at Western News barns on East Huron Street burned a man, with another feared dead.
Dr John Alexander Dowie departed Zion City for a six month world journey. He will rest in the south before meeting in San Francisco January 19 20 then sail January 21 to Australia, meeting his wife and son Gladstone in Australia, conducting meetings in towns of early trials. He will visit India Africa Zurich for a Christian conference and plan to land in New York June 20 for Madison Square Garden meetings before returning to Zion City June 30.
Young Corbett defeated Eddie Hanlon in the sixteenth round at Mechanics Pavilion to capture the featherweight championship. Referee Graney halted the bout as Hanlon endured severe punishment, after pleas to retire from Hanlon’s seconds were ignored.
In Genoa United States Consul William H. Bishop and Dr. Alexander Graham Bell oversaw the exhumation of James Smithson founder of the Smithsonian. The casket was in pieces but bones intact. Bell will transport them to the United States on the steamship Princess Irene leaving Genoa January 5.
Dr Charles C Rice who was acquitted of murder is rearrested on insanity charges in Pueblo Colorado. He is confined in a sanitarium as an inquest into his mental condition is planned. Rice killed Policeman Martz while intoxicated on October 7 last. He and his wife were preparing to leave the city when arrested.
In Youngstown Ohio on December 31 1 788 workers at the Carnegie Steel Company plant face wage cuts dating from January 1. Overall reductions range from 11 to 26 percent with tonnage men suffering the largest decrease.
In Grandville near Grand Rapids on Tuesday, Piere Alberg and his daughter Mrs. Ida Dw iggens of Georgetown, Michigan, were killed when the Holland and Lake Michigan interurban car struck their cutter, reducing it to kindling.
Miss Bethel Woodward of Booneville Kentucky leaped from a south bound Cincinnati Southern train near Oakdale Tennessee on Tuesday while en route to Knoxville and was killed.
In Marion Indiana the Rev Erlougher and his wife rushed to board a train. The minister handed the baby and his grip to a baggage porter who loaded the valise into the cab and sent the couple aboard. The infant slept unharmed in the baggage area until reunited with the mother once the train reached its destination.
W E Dee a Chicago tile maker with Mecca Indiana plant learned by phone of a Chicago disaster. He chartered a switch engine and a special train to Danville then Chicago, seeking Edward and Louise Dee among the missing, hoping to reach by 3 AM.
John F. Eberlein once a postmaster and merchant of Mishawaka and Anna Engles a St Louis heiress filed for divorce after a brief honeymoon. The pair met on an ocean liner and wed after seven days of courtship. The couple lived together only a few weeks amid cruelty allegations.
Muncie Indiana January 2 Palmer university with 155 students shut its doors and will not reopen Monday. Trustees needed 100000 to trigger a matching endowment from Francis Asbury Palmer estate. the other 100000 could not be raised. Palmer was a New York millionaire who had conditioned the will.
In Wabash Indiana residents report their fine dogs have vanished and fear they were captured to feed animals in a circus wintering in nearby quarters. A complaint was filed with the circus proprietor.
Bluffton Indiana pupils were acquitted of assault and battery in the case over Ralph McBride who died months after initiation into the L. S. S. B. fraternity. The state could not prove the death was caused by hazing.
Shelby County Bar Association announces new officers for the year: President Alonzo Blair Vice President William A Yarling Secretary Elmer Bassett Treasurer Robert W Harrison Executive Committee David L Wilson and Edward K Adams listed for the officers.
Richmond Indiana December 30 W I Allen general manager of the Chicago Cincinnati and Louisville Railroad Co announces moving the office of superintendent of motive power from this city to Peru where the new shops are located.
Judge Carter of the superior court issued a temporary injunction against striking employes of the Indianapolis Foundry Co restraining interference with plant operations. The ruling cited John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers and reviewed accusations including assault threats and intimidating letters. About forty strikers were named as targets of the order.
Winimac Indiana January 1 Samuel Rees a local businessman now in Chicago is under arrest on charges of passing worthless checks in the name of Winimac merchants. He formerly did business with the Judy bank which later became Citizens bank forged checks were sent to Chicago and returned marked counterfeit.
Burial permits issued Friday name Indiana residents including Bessie L Herron Hammond Flora A Hensley Genevieve Hensley 10 Francis H Hensley Logansport Alice Kaufmann 5 Hammond Pauline Messler 18 Rensselaer John Pottlitzer 11 Lafayette Elenry L Richardson Whiting H B Spindler Etta B Spindler Lowell Ella Wachs Laporte Mrs Sadie Wolff Hammond.
Grace Hammond, 17, daughter of Thomas Hammond of Noblesville, was accidentally shot and killed by her cousin Littleton Harvey of Indianapolis. He fired at a rabbit with an old-fashioned shotgun as they left the residence, the shot striking her breast.
An Indiana town revives an old custom as Benham residents declare Tuesday a trading day. Citizens bring any article to trade including live stock buggy watch or pocket knife and find partners to swap goods.
Frank M. Johnson halted a bus to avoid a collision with a wagon, enabling a 12 year rift with Sol Gold, superintendent of Dearborn County schools, to end in Dillsboro Indiana on December 31.
The Indiana State Teachers' Association held its annual election. W. L. Bryan of the state university was chosen president, W. C. Brandenburg named chairman of the executive committee, J. B. Pearcy secretary and treasurer, and Miss Eate Woods recording secretary. District vice presidents were also named.
Mrs. Marion Rough wife of Edward Rough died from blood poisoning in Boonville Indiana on January 1 She was the chancellor of her lodge Court of Honor and a prominent local figure with several related deaths in the past month at the same lodge in this region.
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