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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1903
Page
3
Indiana politics stage a heated clash as the Gray railroad consolidation faces likely lower chamber battle while the Bell measure to bar deadly weapon sales except by sheriff dies. Gov Durbin signs broader reforms and images of lobbying pressure rise as county officer pay fights intensify.
Senator Gray offered Miller prepared amendments to bar consolidating companies from claiming vested rights in routes, adopted by a viva voce vote. Senator Hendes proposed a second amendment to curb foreign firms absorbing domestic roads from arguing immunity from Indiana laws.
Senator Goodwine's bill to separate the girls' industrial school from the women's prison passes the house and awaits senate concurrence. The measure, with an amended board of control of three women, authorizes $150,000 for a cottage plan facility near Indianapolis and is regarded as the session's most important legislation.
In Indianapolis the Gray railroad consolidation bill won senate engrossment amid acrimonious debate and is expected to pass the house. Governors and rail interests are seen as poised to prevail after a three year fight.
Indianapolis February 28. Prosecutor Ruckelshaus will consent to sending Rufus Cantrell to Chicago to testify on alleged grave robbing. Cantrell vows to name accomplices and physicians in Oakwood and other cemeteries and identify active ghouls after leaving Chicago. Senate Bill 100, signed by the governor, frees all grave robbers under arrest by repealing former laws and enacting an emergency clause.
Jasper Indiana February 26 Mrs Josephine Miller widow of John Miller once a prominent Jasper manufacturer is dead at age 70. She had long lived with the late Mrs Krause who died last week. A brother in Germany wrote that after 50 years he believed she was dead and only now learned her name and address. Her son answered confirming her death and the receipt of the letter.
Bliss Wagner Clarence Dunham and Edward Clancy were arrested in separate villages on charges of attempting to rob the Smith bank at Westville Indiana on November 30 and of killing Wesley Reynolds who was shot guarding the bank. The trio, already jailed in Laporte, has prior burglary robbery and grand larceny records. A detective says there is sufficient evidence to convict them and guards protect the jail from possible assault.
Albert Knapp, a confessed murderer, began his criminal career in Terre Haute. He married Emma Stubbs in Terre Haute on November 19, 1883. He was arrested January 25, 1884 for larceny, pleaded guilty February 27, and received one year at the Jeffersonville reformatory. His wife, age 17, obtained a divorce soon after his imprisonment and later left Indiana.
Sheriff Philip E. Loitch collapsed from a severe internal hemorrhage while pursuing a boy ordered to a reform school. The boy reeled back, then helped the sheriff into Corydon in a buggy, twelve miles away, where the deputy completed the arrest.
In Evansville Indiana on February 26 the funeral of Col Alfred Dale Owen was held at Mt Vernon. The body was buried in the Owen burial ground at New Harmony with a Knights Templar special car chartered by Evansville to attend.
Corydon Indiana February 27 Joseph Brown a prominent farmer of Boone township accidentally shot his right foot off while out hunting a nearby friend came to his aid and prevented a likely death on the spot
Marion Indiana February 27 Joseph Todd was riding at speed when a fleeing cow struck a yard and a wire clothes line cut his mouth from ear to ear. He was driving cattle and was unseated as the line caught him.
Indianapolis February 27. John Hyle known nationwide as Red Hyle a hotel thief and confidence man was taken into custody at the Stubbins hotel Thursday. At headquarters Hyle asserted his name as John W Henderson.
Marion Indiana February 28 Dr Enoch P Jones a pioneer physician of Indiana died Friday morning He was born in Montgomery county Ohio and graduated from the Eclectic medical college of Cincinnati in 1854.
In Muncie Indiana on February 28 east bound Big Four passenger No 16 collided head on with a freight in local yards. Both engines were practically demolished and several passengers were severely injured. Rev C M Carter of Muncie suffered a broken shoulder blade. Neither engine left the track.
A wife shows off a cheap brass door plate marked Wilkins after a sale. Her husband mocks the purchase, then she jokes that if she dies the plate might help her husband marry a man named Wilkins.
Burglars broke into the Garrett post office early Friday morning and took about 3000 dollars in cash stamps money orders and registers. The theft was described as a very daring one.
New Bedford resident Ulric Levasseur recounts a long illness with general weakness and back pain cured after two months of Dodd's Kidney Pills. He praises the remedy as a God sent cure and says he is now strong and able.
A Yonkers Statesman line notes Lipton arriving again to share tea and lift spirits amid nerves gossip. The brief item plays on tea culture and social visits in a light civic tone.
A quirky Philadelphia Record clip features two goats bantering about pain after reading a poem. The first goat complains of a stomach ache from the poem while the second jokes about writer's cramp, delivering a lighthearted animal tale.
A Long Island Sound steamboat halted in heavy fog. The traveler asks why, the pilot cites inability to see the river. The friend replies stars exist but the boat will not move until the biter busts. Passengers retire for the night.
Product advertisement from New York area paper touts Mother Gray Nurse at Children's Home in New York cure feverishness stomach troubles and worms. Sample free, price 25 cents. Includes address Olmsted LeRoy New York. Also an old joke about two footpads debating lawfulness.
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