Indiana Liquor Ruling Strikes Down County Option Law
In a sweeping ruling Judge Dodge voids most of Indiana's local option law. Fredeke of Goshen had license renewal in 1908 before the act was promulgated, prompting tests of the law's constitutionality. Elkheart County’s dry vote and prosecutors' non appeal shape the aftermath.
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William F. Fredeke
Goshen
Hanly
Dodge
Indiana
Proctor
Fredeke
Commissioners’ Court
Elkhart County
Burris
Tragic Sudden Death as Train Approaches Onarga Woman
The T-yeapoard daughter of J. D. Thorne of Onarga Illinois was paralyzed by fear as an Illinois Central train neared. She held her hands up and allowed the engine to strike her despite having time to escape.
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T-yeapoard
J. D. Thorne
Onarga
Illinois Central
Taxes Show Big Estate Inheritance Tax Revealed
The State Comptroller received a payment of 146000 dollars as collateral inheritance tax on the estate of Louis A Heinsheimer. The banker was said to leave an estate of 14600000 dollars. Katherine Clemmons Gould won a legal separation from Howard Gould in New York Supreme Court after a three week trial. Alimony was set aside at 36000 dollars per year, though Gould sought 250000.
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Gould
Katherine Clemmons Gould
Howard Gould
Jay Gould
Justice Dowling
Supreme Court
New York City
Purt
Chevrolet Wins Coke Cup Auto Race at Crown Point-Lowell
Louis Chevrolet won the Coke Cup on the Crown Point Lowell course driving a Buick 395.66 miles in 8 hours 1 minute 39 seconds at about 49.3 mph. Billy Bourque finished second in the Knox, George Robertson third in a Locomobile, with several cars finishing within minutes of the winner. Chicago Auto Club officials announced $60,000 spent on the event and issued no receipts or deficit figures.
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Louis Chevrolet
Crown Point-Lowell
Billy” Bourque
Knox
George Robertson
Chevrolet
Bourque
Orner
Buick
Cne Cane
Locomobile
Robertson
Hearne
Stoddard -Dayton
Mayelbeck
Ppuick
Kelas Et Strang
Amliller
Apperson
Aytle
BORA
Sca Vpes
Denison
E Burman
Seymour
Locomobile Florida
Strang
Chicago Auto Club
Royal Spanish Princess Born to Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria of Spain announced the birth of a daughter at 6:25 a.m. Tuesday. Fifteen guns fired to mark the event as the king presented the healthy, blonde infant to dignitaries. The newborn is smaller than her brothers, with Prince Alfonso the elder sibling mentioned.
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Victoria
Spain
Alfonso
Soldier acquitted in killing of 16 year old in Paxton trial
The jury found Private Joseph B. Klein not guilty after a twenty minute deliberation in Paxton Illinois. Klein had been charged with murder in the August death of Earl Nelson a 16 year old Kankakee boy during unrest as the First Regiment moved to Springfield. Nelson died from injuries sustained when Klein, in charge of an ammunition car, ejected him.
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Joseph B. Klein
Earl Nelson
Kankakee
Springfield
Paxton
Ill
Klein
Neilson
Nine Die In South Shore Electric Railway Wreck At Samuel's Crossing
A head on collision between two heavy South Shore Electric Railway cars near Samuel's Crossing Indiana at 9 pm Saturday killed nine men and injured over a dozen. The west bound motorman died. the east bound motorman jumped and survived. Passengers were local farmers and residents of Porter and Michigan City. Extrication took hours and injured were taken to area farms and South Bend area towns.
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South Shore Electric Railway
Samuel’s Crossing
Ind
Lake Shore
Porter
Michigan City
South Bend
Balloon tragedy kills Russian court officials in St Petersburg
A balloon accident in St Petersburg kills Court Chamberlain Palitzin his wife and Count Rostoff, the director of the Empress Alexander private chancellery, along with Russing Count. The General Wannowski balloon rose from the military balloon park with Captain Korbe in charge and drifted over the city before Rostoff pulled the rip cord causing gas release and a fatal descent.
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Palitzin
Rostof Itseff
Empress Alexandra
St. Petersburg
Wannowski
Army Department
Korbe
Rostof
Count Rostof
Fight for the Pennants Standing of Clubs in Leagues
The article surveys standings in the major baseball leagues as teams chase pennants. It highlights leaders, closers, and shifts in the race with emphasis on clubs and key figures shaping the season’s momentum.
Fire kills five men and sixty eight horses at Duluth barn
A late Saturday blaze at the board of trade livery barn in Duluth, of unknown origin, killed five men and sixty eight horses. The $30,000 barn damage was centered on the rear entrance where firefighters found the charred remains after the fire was under control. Barrett and Zimmerman, horse dealers of St. Paul, owned the building.
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Board of Trade
Duluth
Barrett & Zimmerman
St. Paul
Slain Man Found in Akron Box Car After Robbery
Unidentified man about 40 was found dead in a box car in Akron Ohio with a crushed skull and pockets rifled. The car arrived from Hammond Indiana and a pocket note to J M O Lear mentions Fairfield elevated Ogden avenue, suggesting a Chicago address.
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Akron
Ohio
Hammond
Ind
J. M. O’lear
Fairfield
la Grange
Ogden Avenue
Chicago
Chicago harness racing revival eyed at Harlem track
Chicago horsemen push for summer racing at Harlem with the Hast betting system possibly used. The Marshalltown Driving Club plans bi weekly harness events at the local fair grounds after organizing at a meeting of horsemen. Rapid City wins the interscholastic Black Hills meet at Belle Fourche by one point over Deadwood High School. Kentucky racing commission appeal sits with Court of Appeals after Kenton Circuit Court ruled its enabling act invalid. Western horsemen report New York merchants seek midwest horses for delivery work, but orders outpace supply.
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Chicago
Harlem
Marshalltown
Iowa
Fair Grounds
Black Hills
Belle, Fourche
S. C
Rapid City
Deadwood High School
Kentucky State Racing Commission
Kenton
Court of Appeals
Trapped Boy Shot in Black Hand Extortion Plot
Fourteen year old Rudolph Berendt died after a police ambush in Chicago's Grand avenue and Desplaines street where he had been sent to collect two packages supposedly containing 15 000 dollars from Alfred Haase and cousin. Detective Heinreich of Sheffield Ave station said Berendt confessed to the plan before dying.
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Chicago
Rudolph Berendt
Philip Heinreich
Sheffield Avenue
Alfred Haase
Grand Avenue
Desplaines Street
Rudolph
E. Grossfeld
West Randolph Street
Grossfeld
Young Berendt
Austin Avenue
Well dressed highwayman robs Fort Worth bank for 8100
A lone, neatly dressed robber held up the Waggoner Bank and Trust Company in Fort Worth’s central business district on a Tuesday afternoon. Cashier Walter E B Wing handed over 8100 in currency at gunpoint before the bandit vanished into the crowd. police arrived five minutes later with no arrest.
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Waggoner Bank and Trust Company
Fort Worth
Tex
Texas
Walter EB. Wing
King
Fire in Pittsburg ignites panic at Colonial Annex Hotel
A $250000 blaze damaged the Arrott Power Building on Penn Avenue downtown Pittsburg Monday night. The fire driven flames prompted hundreds of hotel guests to flee in night clothes. Police hunt possible incendiary origin amid widespread fear of greater losses.
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Pittsburg
Arrott Power
Penn Avenue
Ty Firms
Colonial Annex
Cape Cod Canal Groundbreaking and Funded Project
August Belmont & Co. finance a $12 million Cape Cod canal project to run twelve miles from Sandwich to Buzzard's Bay. Belmont traveled from New York to Massachusetts to officiate the groundbreaking. The canal aims to remove a dangerous navigation point along the Atlantic coast and will be about thirty feet deep.
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August Belmont & Co
Western Canada Population The census shows 1.1 million people
Government census figures estimate western Canada population at 1.1 million with Manitoba 500 000 residents Saskatchewan 350 000 and Alberta 275 000 An increase noted over three years colegas.
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Canada
Western Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Fatal shooting follows heat wave in Minnesota area
Gust Bendickson, 45, fatally shot at his son while driving six miles west of P Minn. after the boy approached the house. authorities were alerted. The piece ties the event to a heat wave blamed for numerous deaths on the east coast, noting at least one dozen fatalities and more than twenty injuries.
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Gust Bendickson
P Minn
High
New 9
Senate Returns Hides to Duty Under Dingley Tariff
The Senate heeded the Dingley law as hides were taken from the free list and taxed at 15 percent ad valorem after a day of debate. House leaders pressed census funding and examined residence requirements for appointments amid tariff talks. Adjournment followed as Senate and House kept to routine committees and schedules.
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Senate Committee On Finance
Senate
Warren
Wyoming
Carter
Montana
Page
Vermont
House
Beef Trust
Dingley
Aldrich
Finance Committee
Linolleum
Beveridge
Tobacco Trust
Bailey
Newlands
Tawney
Committee On Appropriations
Census Bureau
Cannon
Chamber
Lynching at Arcadia as Attack Attempt Reported
Sparks from the wires report a Black man lynched in Arcadia Florida after trying to assault Mrs. P R Read. The item notes other health and academic news including typhoid inoculations in Omaha and MIT presidency formal induction for Dr Richard Cockburn MacLaury.
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Arcadia
Fla
P. R. Read
Omaha
Neb
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