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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1904
Page
3
Verse by J. M. Lewis printed in the Houston Post quotes a poem from Westville Indiana urging readers to seek nature’s solace. It invites Wandering by willows and streams to forget loneliness and village woes as birds sing and alders shade the scene.
In a winter exile, Dr. McGrath and Jim Mastick guard Mollie as she dies and returns, sharing visions of home and life beyond. Mollie’s messages to Jim reveal love, loss, and a reluctant acceptance of death. News from Dawson later unsettles the group with pages of distant events.
A New York photographer proclaims a “for men only” policy citing temperaments and portraits of generals and Wall Street leaders. He favors cabinet-size, character filled images of men, discourages effeminate clients, and argues true portraits reveal individuality beyond mere likeness.
The New York Tribune notes Havana style cemeteries with thick walls and honeycomb niches rented by the city. Burial plots pay three to five year sealing fees and 25 year rents before title, yet vacancies persist as bones are cleared when rents default. Cartagena in Colombia also has a large bone pile in its cemetery.
A fragment notes that a British producer supplies paper used in France Spain and Italy. It highlights cross border trade and the spread of British manufacturing to continental European readers.
Miss Stella Best 19 deserts fiancé Frank Lyles 20 after quarrel. He later marries Stella’s sister Lulu Best, who claims drugged complicity and elopes to Kansas City before returning home. Parents puzzled by daughter’s behavior as church wedding plans collapse.
James McDonald indicted for the murder of Miss Sarah Schafer was arraigned in Bedford after arriving from Bloomington. He pleaded not guilty to two murder counts and an attempted assault with his trial set for May 16 in Lawrence County Circuit Court. He appeared heavily manacled under guard as hundreds watched.
In Bourbon Indiana on March 19 a clash erupted amid pro Japanese and pro Russian sentiments. Armenian Charles Barbara and Chinese Lee Yuan fought amid a melee that injured several locals and students from the nearby college. Police dispersed the mob and kept watch afterward.
August Kleasing of Kokomo Indiana faced a fatal moment after a surgical procedure. He told a friend he was ready to die but had made peace with all. While seeking water he collapsed from thirst when the glass stood empty and died shortly after.
Reports confirm George F. McCulloch purchased the Terre Haute electric lighting plant the Terre Haute street car line the Brazil and Terre Haute interurban line and the Brazil street car line along with the Brazil electric lighting plant from Terre Haute Electric Co the Boston based Stone and Webster company.
Nashville Indiana March 17 The Mt Liberty Isaac Evans general store was saved from a blaze by his shepherd dog Rover who guards the storeroom. The dog woke Evans by howling and clawing at the door after noticing fire in the floor. Evans extinguished the flames before they spread.
Manford McBride aged 12 on a trestle in Brazil Indiana pulled his 6 year old cousin Harry Sampson from danger as a northbound train approached. Sampson's leg was severed at the knee but he clung to the bridge edge until the train passed. Doctors expect possible recovery.
The Cincinnati Bluffton and Chicago railroad begins work on a Pennville to Portland extension and expects trains to run on its tracks to Cincinnati and Chicago within a year and a half.
In Indianapolis on March 19 the supreme court set April 7 for the lawyers who have begun representing Moses Fowler Chase to appear and show their authority to act for him, in relation to seeking a writ of mandamus to control the circuit judge’s actions.
Edwin Caldwell a wealthy farmer from Laporte Indiana died after persistent hiccups began last Monday and continued until his death Friday physicians could not explain the cause or stop the episode Caldwell’s prolonged hiccupping caused fatal suffering in an unusual medical event for the region.
Elberfeld and Millersburg Telephone Co. is incorporated in Boonville Indiana on March 17. The firm has existed for years and is known locally as the Farmers' Line. Incorporators include Fred Kampe Henry Kelle and Henry Ahrens.
Ada A. Hollenbeck of Springfield instituted a suit in Anderson to partition a real estate complex owned with Louis Baer of Cincinnati. The property includes two business blocks valued at about $60,000.
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