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Newspaper
Connersville Curier
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1901
Page
2
Vigo county authorities assess ten thousand dollars for jail repairs after the mob assault. Sheriff Fasig faced praise for not resisting the mob while public sentiment and fear grow among African Americans with many fleeing to Brazil.
Indianapolis March 1 The house killed by a 9 to 58 vote the Agenew ship canal bill from Lake Michigan to the Calumet river with an estimated cost of several millions to be assessed on nearby property. The east and west railroad lines opposed the measure.
In Guthrie Oklahoma Territory on March 1 a charivari party fired a pistol during festivities. The shot went through a house wall and killed George Serrell who was asleep in bed on the second floor. The victim was the brother of the groom. The mother of the dead is expected to arrive to console the family.
Indianapolis March 2. Speaker Artman denounces members leaving for home during business and orders doorkeepers to bring absentees back from union station. The House passes a bill raising appellate judges salaries by 500 a year and a package of measures including increasing the governor's salary, funding for the governor's secretary, state statistician and superintendent, plus rolls on anti lynching, school funds, St Clair park sale, mandatory primaries in Marion and Vanderburgh, and belchery statute extensions.
Wm. Jones, a Negro, was stabbed to death by Will Mitchell of Bedford in Marion on Friday night after a day of quarrels over a girl from Terre Haute. Mitchell fled. the girl, a mulatto, had come to Marion three weeks ago. Local police have not yet captured the killer.
General Assembly notes in Indianapolis report the House passed a bill placing imprisonment from ten years to life on kidnappers for ransom. Gov. Durbin vetoes railroad consolidation bill, citing constitutional protections. Other items include ship canal defeat, express bill passage, and salary and election measures.
In Kokomo Indiana on March 4 county school officials and city lawyers camped at Oakford to restore order after a dispute over alleged misconduct by Fred Stahl principal. The confrontation led to the teacher striking Lemuel Newhouse and a fine for assault. Authorities halted arrests when warrants ran out.
News briefs from Kokomo and neighboring towns report a custody dispute in which Minnie Wilson seeks possession of her child amid alleged violence by her brothers Alonzo and Shepherd Green, a missing baby, and assertions of unfitness. Other items note Charles Bellew's death from a live wire near Merion and a street fight injury in Bluffton with suspect Dock Starr at large.
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