March 26, 1915
Dead men were placed on the registration books in Terre Haute last October, according to Ira Wellman, Silas R. Brewer and Joseph G. Elder, who testified on Tuesday in the Terre Haute election fraud case. The three men said they had verified the poll as taken from the registration books and found many registered from vacant houses, impossible numbers and addresses outside of the precincts in which they were working, in addition to several hundred names of men who could not be found at all.
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All prisoners are decapitated, railroads and telegraph wires destroyed and conquest in Egypt kept a secret by England for months: A German merchant who has returned from Egypt is authority for the declaration that the whole of the Sudan, including Khartum and also parts of Nubia, is in possession of the dervishes.
The statements of the traveler are published in the Vossische Zeitung. He describes also an engagement near Fashoda last December, in which General Hawly of the British army and a number of other officers, with nearly 2,000 men, lost their lives.
Thousands of tribesmen responded to the appeal of the dervishes and December 13, 40,000 of them marched in the direction of Fashoda, on the While Nile, where General Hawley opposed them with 6,000 troops. Of the men under Hawley all the native soldiers deserted to the dervishes, leaving them only 2,000 men. Most of this contingent was killed and General Hawley and all his officers fell. Nabur El-Asi, commanding the dervishes, had all his prisoners decapitated.
March 29,1940
A big, bad, bold robber with very sticky fingers and extra large feet gained entrance to the Star office either Saturday or Sunday night, and before he left made a successful raid on the office safe, securing during his probable short visit, the sum of 10 one-dollar bills, and a small amount of change left in the till at the close of business Saturday afternoon.
The thief entered the building through a back window and presumably wasted no time in getting to the large safe in the front office. The doors of the strong box were closed, but not locked. He ransacked the contents of the safe and found $10 in one of the small drawers and broke a key in attempting to purloin other locked drawers. After cleaning out the till of all small change, and a lot of pennies, too, the thief made his exit through the back window without leaving worthwhile clues to his identity. It was, however, discovered that he had extra large feet for Mr. Robber left behind him some very nice imprints of his soles on some paper in the press room where he made his exit.
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A hospital for this city and the south end of the county is more than a possibility if the people manifest sufficient interest.
This was made known this week when the Franciscan Sisters, now operating an old-people’s home near the southeast corner of the fairgrounds, said that a hospital is possible if the community shows an interest in its support.
It would be built, it is reported, on the same tract of land on which the old people’s home is located, the former M.W. Williams farm.
March 26, 1965
The first jury trial to assess damages for condemnation of land used for Interstate 65 right of way was concluded last Wednesday night. John and Cornella Scheerings of Lowell were awarded $9,823 for about 15 acres. They had been offered $6,714 by the Indiana Highway Department right-of-way buyers, Mrs. Scheeringa said.
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A fire at the Henderlong Lumber Co.’s ready-mix concrete plant late Saturday afternoon was put out by Crown Point department volunteers. The building was kept under observation until midnight but fire broke out again Sunday morning at 5:30. The building houses conveyors and weighing scales operated by a number of electric motors and controlled at a central switchboard. Arnold Henderlong estimates the damage in excess of $35,000. Rebuilding the structure and replacement of equipment and electrical wiring will take 30 days, he said.
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A Lowell man was killed, a Crown Point woman and her teenage daughter injured in a head-on auto-truck collision Monday afternoon on the Nine-Mile stretch, seven miles south of Crown Point.
Fatally burned in the Pyrofax gas truck he was driving was Millard T. Clark, 42, of Lowell. Taken to St. Margaret hospital, Hammond, were Marylynn Louise Kleinschmidt, 40, of Route 4, Crown Point, and daughter Christyne, 15. Mrs. Kleinschmidt remains a patient for treatment of lacerations of the knees, neck and head. Twenty-seven stiches were taken at the hairline to close the wounds, her husband, Charles Kleinschmidt, told. Chris, treated for lacerations and bruises, was released from the hospital Wednesday afternoon, her father said.
Clark was driving the 1959 Chevrolet truck, pulling a trailer north on Route 55, and the Kleinschmidt auto was going south at about 50 miles an hour when the accident occurred. For an undetermined reason, the truck pulled into the southbound lane and although Mrs. Kleinschmidt applied brakes and went off the berm of the road to avoid the collision, she was struck head on. Both vehicles were a total loss.
