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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1897
Page
1
Wide Range of Indiana News Across Cities
Across the state, reports include smallpox in Greenwood, a sensational divorce case in Kokomo, deaths of Dr. T. W. Strain of Warsaw and Capt. John Bohan of Kokomo, and local crimes, financial cases, and a large Knights of Honor gathering in Terre Haute. Also notes on factory strikes, temperance drives, and tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bohan
Kokomo
Talmage Tours City and Comments on National Events
Rev IT De Witt Talmage passed through Indianapolis on his way to Danville to give a lecture and was interviewed on current issues. He supported both the Bradley Martin ball and the Washington inaugural reception financially, saying they would circulate money benefiting the poorer classes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Witt Talmage
Danville
Indianapolis
Washington
Indianapolis Journal
Young Turks threaten force amid unrest in Constantinople
Anxiety rises in Constantinople as Young Turks threaten force while Galata Market prices fall. Fly sheets denouncing the government litter Stamboul streets and the Russian Embassy warns the Porte of risks to Turkey's integrity amid Odessa naval preparations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Galata
Young Turk Party
Stamboul
Turkey
Odessa
Prominent Cleveland merchant shot dead by wife
George Davies a longtime commission merchant in Cleveland was shot by his wife at 9:30 this morning at their home 11 Grace Street. Davies died. Mrs Davies was arrested on a murder charge, crying as she claimed he had abused her and called her bitter names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert J. Rabb
William Gleason
Robert Landis
Walter Donnelly
Rushville
Carthage
Mary Adams
Amity
Heney G. McCaslin
Franklin
Ethel Murphy
Nashville
Anderson
Graham
Alexandria
Jack Worthington
Kentucky
Virginia
Alabama
Worthington
James 8. Meyers
Marion
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Thomas Green
Farmland
Cleveland
George Davies
Grace Street
Davies
Mysterious Woman Detained by Indiana Police
In Anderson Indiana a mysterious woman appeared and was detained by Chief Coburn. She registered at a leading hotel as Johnson and claimed no money when asked to pay. At other hotels she used the name Smith and later said she lived in Blueton. She had a neckwear assortment including tecks puffs and four in hands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson, Ind
Anderson
Coburn
Johnson
Smith
Blueton
Farmers Meet Resolutions Adopted At Fulton Institute
Rochester February 9 Farmers institute at the Academy of Music last week approved multiple resolutions. They oppose changing institute management from Purdue to the state board of agriculture and call for reduced public burdens and economy in government. They seek a 25 percent reduction in state realty valuation for tax purposes and oppose a Fulton County separate judicial district. Resolutions sent to Senator Drummond Representative Patterson Governor Mount and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
Farmers’ Institute
Academy of Music
Farmers of
Fulton
County’ Institute
Purdue University
State Board of Agriculture
State Board of Review
Fulton County
Charles P. Drummond
Mark Patterson
Mount
Haggard
House of Representatives
Samuel Bemenderfer
KB. Terry
BF. Smrri
McKinley may back new Department of Commerce and Industry
Ferdinand W. Peck and Franklin H. Head report to President elect McKinley in Washington. They say a Department of Commerce and Industry will be created at the next Congress and a tariff commission could become part of it. McKinley hinted he would support tariff issues being centralized under a tariff bureau within the new department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ferdinand W. Peck
National Business Men’s League
Franklin H. Head
Washington
Capitol
McSinley
Peck
Zied McKinley
Messrs. Peck
Head
Department of Commerce and Industry
League
Peek
Washington Inauguration Trip Promo by Big Four Route
Advertises travel to Washington for William McKinley’s inauguration via the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and Big Four Route. Highlights through palace sleeping cars from multiple Midwest cities, scenic scenery, Wagner sleeping cars, buffet parlor cars, and dining cars. Encourages tickets via Big Four and CO&O routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Four
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Chicago
St. Louis
Peoria
Indianapolis
Terre Haute
LaFayette
Benton Harbor
Detroit
Toledo
Sandusky
Springfield
Dayton
Cincinnati
Palace
Wagner
Queen Lil Promises Prolonged Visit Promise
A Cleveland Plain Dealer note reports Queen Lil vows a long national visit and cautions she will not use fascinations on Uncle John Sherman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lil Promisses
John Sherman
Cleveland
Train collision at Jones Station halts freight service in Hamilton
At 6:30 am the second and third sections of freight train No. 99 collided at Jones Station on the C H and D railroad. A caboose from the second section was badly wrecked and pushed off the tracks. four loaded freight cars suffered extensive damage. The wrecking crew that had cleared the Junction railroad last night assisted. No injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
Jones Station
Junction Railroad
Indiana County Salaries Bill Proposed Increases
A bill by Senator Hawkins in Indianapolis seeks to repeal the free and salary bill of 1895 and set 12 salary classes for Marion county officers with top rates for clerk auditor recorder and sheriff reaching up to $9,000 annually plus per cent fees. State officer salaries also rise including deputy roles in secretary of state auditor treasurer and supreme court staff. County officers have formed a strong lobby to push the measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Hawkins
Marion County
Supreme Court
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John L. Bonham
Telephone
Columbus,indiana
Fifth Street
William Anderson
Wm. Anderson
Ington and
Bell Phone
Drake
Buiders
Columbus
Jackson
Washington ST
T. G. Quick
J. A. Newton
Washington Street
Greenwood
T. W. Strain
Warsaw
Laporte
Mary Savier
St. Mary’s of the Woods
Wesley Taylor
Richmond
Logansport
Charles
Lanham
Abraham Cox
Lippincott
Elwood
Temperance
Lake County
Jane D. Baxter
Thomas Baxter
Greensburg
Miller
John E. Jones
Mary McCullum
Brookville
Robert T. Benefield
Equitable Life Insurance Company
John, K. Skiles
Dunkard
Frankfort
Robert Kneebs
Berlin
Cars
James D. Loop
Abner T. Bowen
Howard County
Delphi
Grand Lodge, K. of H
Indiana Grand Lodge of the Knights of Honor
Philip Klein
Evansville
A. C. Beecher
Lagrange
William Stephenson
Wabash
Ora C. la Rue
James W. Jacobs
Jeffersonville
S. W. Wales
A. W. Conduitt
Knights of Honor
Indiana
Young Turks
M’kinley
William McKinley
C.H. and
D. Railroad
Otto
H. L. Rost
Dunnington’s
Dunnington
Fournitore and Stores
White House
Lonsdale
Geo. Clark
U. No
Goves
JOS. V. Hill
Thsurance and
Loazis
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