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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1907
Page
1
Hartford City reports Jon Anderson once an orphan who ran away as a boy and later became a wealthy Silver City Iowa resident. After returning to Indiana to reconnect with relatives, he fell seriously ill and his Indiana relatives travel to his side.
Blutmon Wels county plans to exceed the four percent debt limit to fund gravel road improvements. Petitions for 49 new gravel roads have been filed, about half in Nottingham and Liberty townships. Five county wide gravel road petitions exist, with a major Allen county farmers fight over assessments. A joint commissioners meeting is set for July 11 to hear the case.
Totl Road profits noted in the New Albany Laresville and Corsdon Plank Road Company annual report filed with the county recorder. The firm paid a dividend of 5201.52 on 351,700 capital amid year receipts of syedd. Organized early last century to connect New Albany and Corydon, the line later faded as a plank road, replaced by a pike, remaining among Illinois’ few such routes.
In Newton County the five Democratic trustees met at the county seat to vote for Prof. W.O. Schanlnut as county superintendent. The five Republican trustees abstained. With Kelengerber the Republican candidate likely to challenge, a protracted legal struggle is anticipated.
Laporte Elmer E. Rogers superintendent of Starke county schools asks northern Indiana boards for teachers. Several Starke county schools will close without instructors, an unusual situation not seen before in the county.
E L Bennett of Hanna lost a flowing mustache after an altercation with Ray Coomer who attacked him with scissors. Coomer is charged with assault and Bennett plans heavy damages and a jury trial.
Rev. Alexander McFerrin resigns from Washington Avenue Presbyterian Church following a committee inquiry into alleged mistreatment of his wife who has since become insane. His wife was moved by her sister to her parents’ home in Cleveland.
Frank Anyniewicz aged 23 was arrested in the Wanatah bank while attempting to cash a 3165 check signed Carl H. Lindner a grain dealer. He is said to have passed four similar checks recently in northern Indiana.
The Indiana Methodist-Episcopal conference, originally set for September in Columbus, has been rescheduled to September 25. The session will last seven days, per updated notice.
Mahlon Brewer of Fairmount, a wealthy farmer, left a detailed will filed in Grant circuit court. His 220 acre farm is to be leased until Forest M. Brewer reaches age, with lease income dedicated to educating his four minor children who may attend college. After education and small bequests, the farm may be sold and the residue divided among his nine children by his first wife. a antinuptial contract provides for the second wife.
Columbus authorities and the Indiana rail line clash over use of Madison avenue as the interurban route. The Pennsylvanianes sought injunctions in circuit court and won a temporary restraining order served on A B Sappington and the foreman of the work crew.
Frances Matthews, five, daughter of Mrs Leora Matthews of Jonesville, bit her tongue severely while playing near her grandmother's home. A board flew up and struck her face, causing the tongue to be nearly severed. Physicians hope it will grow back in place as the child remains unable to speak from swelling.
An interurban station costing 8900 will be built in Newcastle by the Indianapolis & Eastern Traction company. The facility at Race and South Fourteenth streets will include a passenger waiting room a freight department and offices, easing delays for riders in all weather.
Sam Jervis a glass worker swore off scrap tobacco after pulling a bloody finger from his mouth. The dirty rag from the factory caused mouth and throat poisoning and he is under a physician's care. He vows to abstain from all scrap tobacco.
Farmers on the Sycamore street pike in Kokomo reported hundreds of worms burrowing along the road. Residents gathered specimens to show Prof. Mc Caughan of Kokomo High School for classification and study.
Columbus Marshal Edward Norton returned from Smithville in Monroe County with Joseph and Andrew Stull, two of seven men accused of beating William T. Vanest a blacksmith of South Fiethany on June 23. Norton said the pair were each bound over to $50 bond and appeared not eager to discuss the charge.
Elwood Chester Coppeck has filed suit against the Pittsburg Cincinnati Chicago and St Louis Railroad for 2000 alleging an employee pulled him from his seat and rough handled him while he was en route to Hamilton Ohio with his fiancée who was equally upset by the incident.
In La Plata Maryland the Bowie family is acquitted of murder in the death of Hubert Posey amid the unwritten law sentiment. The Bowie matriarch Mary K E and her son Henry are cleared of blame, while Priscilla Bowie wept as the jury announces a verdict reflecting local opinion.
San Diego reports a second Japanese national arrested at Fort Rosecrans after sketches were detected nearby. The man served as a fort employee and possessed a Standard engineering book with a well drawn blueprint, indicating notable technical skill.
In Toledo Ohio Judge Lindley W. Morris sentenced twenty one Lumber Dealers' Credit Association members and two bridge agents to six months in the workhouse after they pleaded guilty to Valentine anti-trust indictments. Nine Brick Dealers' Association members were fined $1000 each.
Albert Peverette a bank robber and Lake Shore gang member escaped near Marquette prison with two guards overnight. He and two accomplices were entering the driveway when he leaped from the carriage and freed both his hand and foot shackles.
A Georgia merchant was shot and killed Saturday night near a segregated picnic in Americus. The assassinator is unknown. the victim, Gay Thomas Dixon, was in the vicinity when the shooting occurred. Local authorities are investigating the crime as a violent homicide.
New York reports Attorney General Bonaparte filed in federal court a petition against major tobacco firms led by American Tobacco and Imperial Tobacco along with 56 associated corporations and 29 individuals. The action aims to dissolve the trust by breaking its antitrust agreements and may trigger criminal prosecutions under the Sherman law.
A large pack on Mec Pike Island near St Louis starved into ferocity endangering river traffic. Humane society vows to prosecute owners if found and will feed the animals from boats before removing them from the island.
London reports the death of Sir William Henry Perkin born 1838. He pioneered the coal tar color industry with the mauve dye discovered in 1856 and later scaled its production. He visited the United States last fall and received an LL D from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Charles Stoner filed in Toulon circuit court a 30000 suit against William Pilgrim William Real Earl Lattin Earl Hull William Hardwood and Edward Starkey for injuries from hazing tied to a tombstone in Bradford cemetery. The 15 year old Bradford High School student is crippled for life after the tombstone fell.
Fire raged on a British steamer near Algeria on Sunday after a torpedo hit. A destroyer towed the vessel out into the roadstead as the only means to save it.
The Idaho trial of W. D. Haywood enters its tenth week with the state presenting rebuttal evidence. Harry Orchard testifies as the alleged killer of 18 men tied to a Western Federation plot to control labor. A warrant issues for Dr. I. L. McGee after he claimed Orchard’s Idaho sightings. Dewey’s confession surfaces as defense witnesses challenge its reliability.
Leon Maille a Havre naval reservist fired twice at President Fallieres on the Champs-Elysees after a garrison review at Longchamp. Police halted the enraged crowd as Maille, claiming grave revelations, was taken to a station. Officials doubt a plot, noting his ties to anti militarist agitation.
Three men died and another fatally injured when a new concrete building collapsed at the Bridgman Bros. plant at Fifteenth Street and Washington Avenue in Philadelphia. Eighteen others were injured and search crews fear additional victims remain buried in the debris.
Hazleton Pa nine bodies recovered from an abandoned slope of the Lehigh and Wilkes Barre Coal Company at Honeybrook. The disaster marks the first mine tragedy since the new employers liability act took effect following the last legislature.
Phra Ratanagapti, charged affairs of the Siamese legation, arrived in Washington on Friday from London after paying respects to the king. Reports say the visit to the United States may occur next year.
In Roanoke, a four hour riot left nine Greek restaurants three Greek shoe polishing parlors and two Syrian shops wrecked. A dispute over five cents sparked the violence. Mayor Joel H Cutchin urged crowds to disperse and was struck by rocks. Police and fire officials were injured by flying stones during the disturbance.
The English novelist Louise de la Ramee known as Ouida is named on a new civil pension list for literary merit. Awarded 750 dollars yearly, her finances had collapsed from luxury to poverty after years in Lucca and Masarosa, Italy, including periods of actual hunger.
Two men entered the Emil Mantel and Charles Medias pawnshop on Massachusetts Avenue in the downtown district Thursday night. They struck the clerk with a hose, rendered him unconscious, and escaped with about $3,000 in plunder. Clerk Simon Gold was fatally wounded.
Six people were drowned late Friday evening near Russell, Pennsylvania, eleven miles south of Jamestown, New York. Nine had boarded a gasoline launch on the Conewango River, which was swollen by rains. the boat was swept over a dam.
Baltimore report states John W. H Geiger, former cashier of the Canton National Bank, was found guilty in United States court of abstracting and fraudulently using bank funds. Proceedings detail the fraudulent act and conviction in the federal court.
A charitable woman once gave five dollars to a man who warned he might be forced to crime due to hunger. The man’s plea for pity ends with a stark claim that he would beg to work instead of committing a dreadful act, a tale cited by Harper's Weekly.
The article notes a steady influx of western and southern figures into New York's power circles. It highlights Theodore P. Shonts tackling transit, Thomas F. Ryan’s Equitable Life shift to policyholders, and Morton era improvements. It also cites E. I. Gary of U S Steel, John W. Gates, Henry C. Frick, Norman B. Ream, WM Moore, and Daniel G. Reid as prominent western figures in the city.
A Virginia truck farmer recounts how a neighbor's dog attacked his Somali named Sam Moore while he was working. Sam evaded the dog until bitten on the calf as his wife Mandy rushed to help. Sam directed Mandy to throw the stone at him instead of the dog to spare him.
In a rural physiology class a girl calls the bones of the head the skull and a boy answers noggin. The teacher confirms the term cranium and a student provides the informal synonym during a Judge's Library moment.
A grocer tests Postum Food Coffee and learns from a customer that proper preparation matters. The customer explains that heating the coffee for a short time changes the flavor, helping the grocer understand why some buyers prefer it despite initial negative impressions.
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