Chesterton Tribune - April 29, 1886
Local News -
A seventeen pound cat-fish was caught by the Smith Bros. last Monday, and
sold on our streets the day following. It was a monster.
Three boys and a policeman were bitten by a mad-dog at Pullman, Ils. Last
Tuesday. A subscription paper is being circulated to raise money to send
the victims to Paris to be treated by Pasteur, the famous French physician.
Great excitement prevails in the town. Chesterton has a score or more of
worthless curs that should be killed or muzzled before they too go mad and
do some damage.
C.A. Anderson has just received an outfit for his cigar factory, and will
commence making cigars next Monday. He has secured the services of Mr.
Sandberg, and experienced cigar maker from Chicago, who will take charge of
the show. Mr. Anderson will employ three men to start with. Now our
business men should encourage and patronize this enterprise. Mr. Anderson
guarantees first class work, and if he can supply the trade as well as
outsiders he should be given the preference. His workmen will spend their
money with us, while outside cigar men take it away. The cigar trade of
this township will keep seven or eight men steady employed the year around.
For some time past Chesterton and Westchester township has been free from
quacks, but indications point to the fact that this state of affairs will
not last long unless something is done. This state, and county is overrun
with quacks. There are the painless teeth carpenters, chronic disease
artists, compound oxygen manipulators, patent cure-all,
Indian graduates, and a thousand other sharks. The law is strict enough on
them, and all that remains to be done is to enforce it. Valparaiso is the
paradise of quacks, because the people and the newspapers pet and encourage
them. The consequence is that that community is annually fleeced out of
thousands of dollars by these frauds. To those traveling doctors who think
of visiting us this spring, we would say, don't you risk it, unless your
documents will prove you to be a competent, legitimate physician. Show us a
traveling doctor, and we can show you a swindling quack nine times out of
ten.
Mr. Sovereign, of Westville, spent Sunday in Chesterton with his daughter
Mrs. Will Lahayne.
Frank Ingram and wife, of Valparaiso, are visiting here with their uncles
George and J C Beck. Frank hankers after the Recordershp and is working
hard for the nomination.
It is rumored that the Bankers & Merchants Telegraph Company will open an
office here soon. It is necessary for this to be done, for under the
present system, managers of offices along the lines keep the wires in
repair. The distance between Laporte and Hobart is too great for those
offices, and a station at this point would divide the work. Charley Johnson
will be the operator should the office be placed here. As the charge is 25
cents for a 20 word message, it would be a benefit to telegraphic patrons.
Prof. Nichols, of the Popular Science News, has analyzed the liquid sold by
the "compound oxygen treatment" fakirs. And found it to be a solution of
nitrate of ammonia. The "compound oxygen" obtained by inhaling through this
solution is imply common air and nothing more. Prof. Nichols says it is
difficult to see why the somewhat expensive nitrate of ammonia should be
used when common salt, sand, or even pure water would answer the purpose
equally well. There is no such substance as compound oxygen, and aside from
teaching the subjects how to breathe, the only effect of the numerous and
widely advertised "treatments" is to produce an anemic condition of the
pocket-book of the credulous patient - Daily News.
Marble Head Lime
For Sale by Pillman Bros., Hageman at $1.00 per barrel. This is cash price,
and no credit given on this figure.
Graham, the Wife Murderer, Lynched
George Graham, who murdered his wife on the Malloy farm on the last night of
last September, was lynched by a mob shortly after 2 o'clock, Tuesday
morning. The mob numbered between 100 and 150 men, who were armed with shot
guns, rifles and pistols and wore masks. They were on horseback and marched
quietly and in regular order into the city and up to the jail, where several
of them dismounted, entered, took the sheriff and guard prisoners, and led
Graham out. Graham persisted to the last that Cora Lee and Mrs. Molloy were
innocent. He was hung at 2:20 a.m.
Graham had lived at Fort Wayne, Ind., where he married the woman he killed.
He was twice sentenced to the penitentiary at Michigan City. While there
Mrs. Molloy became interested in the man, and when his last term expired
made an effort to reform him. She gave him employment, and while thus
engaged he became acquainted with Cora Lee, Mrs. Molloy's adopted daughter.
He proposed marriage, assuring the two women that his first wife has secured
a divorce while he was in prison. This she had done, but they were
afterward remarried. Mrs. Molloy and Cora Lee were satisfied that Graham
was free of matrimonial entanglements, and Cora was permitted to marry
Graham. The first wife, who had been deserted in Fort Wayne, soon learned
of Graham's last marriage, and a prosecution followed in Springfield for
bigamy. Graham, to free himself of this trouble, induced his first wife to
leave Fort Wayne and meet him in St. Louis, whence he was to take her to
Springfield and endeavor to reach some solution of the trouble. After
leaving St. Louis, Mrs. Graham was never seen alive by anyone who knew here.
Graham killed her to free himself from the prosecution of bigamy.
Her relatives agitated the matter after her disappearance until the
Springfield authorities made search and found her body in an abandoned well
on the Molloy farm. Graham and Cora Lee were at once arrested for the crime
and Mrs. Molloy was taken into custody as she stepped from the train at
Springfield on her return from a professional tour in Illinois. The
preliminary examination resulted in the holding of Graham as principal and
the two women as accessories.
{Typist note} - There is no indication that this item had any bearing on
Chesterton, so being of the curious sort, I did some research on this
lynching et al.
Found this article from September 2004 - how interesting.
http://springfield.news-leader.com/columnists/obrien/0926-Lastchapte-187331.
html
Happy New Year to all, and hopefully the best team wins the Rose Bowl this
evening.
GO BLUE!!