Gary to be a Sunday school town after vice crackdown
Gary police chief Jose Martin says the city will close all vice venues including saloons gambling dens and penny slots after Governor Marshall's letter urging action. Four officers will enforce the shutdown with all blind tigers and resorts ordered closed and Sunday operations halted for vaudeville and ice cream parlors.
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Gary
Ind
Jose Martin
Magic City of Steel
Thomas Knotts
Marshall
Martin
Knotts
Tragedy at Mt Ebal Church Follows Drinking Episode
Bloomington Indiana reports a fatal shooting at Mt Ebal church during an ice cream social. Lewis Sipes twenty fired two shots wounding farmer Clellan Nikirk thirty six. Nikirk is likely to die. Sipes, jailed, admitted liquor fueled the act after prior disturbances at the gathering. He calmly sought more ice cream after the event.
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Bloomington
Ind
Mt. Ebal Church
Lewis Sipes
Clellan Nikirk
Polk Township
Nikirk
Sipes
Ratliff
Gipes
Twenty-year-old Miller shoots watchman at Winona Park
Austin Miller of Gainesville Fla shot night watchman Lon Howe at Winona Lake near Kosciusko lodge after following him in the park. Miller said Howe had made false statements about his mother and he acted in defense, then fled toward Chicago. Howe lay seriously wounded at his home. An arrest is being sought as Miller rode a Pennsylvania train west.
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Warsaw
Ind
Austin Miller
Ganesville
Fla
Lon Howe
Winona Lake
Chicago
Howe
Kosciusko Lodge
Miller
Mier
Tipton Bank Losses and Local Tragedies Reported
Washington reports that Tipton’s First National Bank may reopen with enough cash. losses by Noah Marker amount to about 145000. In Indiana, Mrs. John Jernett and Mrs. Lida Barnes die by suicide and gunshot respectively, and Noah Banta dies from injuries after a runaway. Hulman & Co. in Evansville suffers over 100000 in fire losses to a four story warehouse.
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Washington
Naliscal Bank
Miller Weir
First National Bank of Tipton
Noah Marker
Laporte
Ind
John Jernett
Lida Barnes
Kingsbury
Lawton
Mich
Noah Banta
Charles A. Banta
Banta
Evansville
Hulman & Co
Deaths in Indiana Towns and a Self Inflicted Wound
News items from Indiana report Thomas Bump 60 years old in Princeton on August 4 strangling himself with a rope and a stone in the Wa bash river. In Frankfort a kerosene stove fire killed Mrs Thomas Kesterson and her 12 year old daughter Lulu. Indianapolis reports traveling salesman Frank Maherpey shot and killed himself.
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Princeton
Ind
Thomas Bump
Wabash River
Frankfort
Thomas Kesterson
Lulu
Indianapolis
Frank Maharpey
Geppondeat
Paris announces engagement of Marquis de Charette and Miss Lusseanne Henning
Miscellany of 1909 dispatches notes the Paris engagement, cotton condition to July 25 at 71.7, moves in Chicago wheat, Algerian sharpshooters clash with tribesmen, and French plans to evacuate Melilla amid danger. Casualties listed and other global briefs follow.
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Marquis de Charette
Lusseanne Henning
Kentucky
Paris
National Ginners’ Association
Algeria
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Detroit
Frank Rosbach
Cleveland
W. A. Sturgeon & Co
Ronsbach
Panville
Ben Russell
Taranet
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Blu
Avuaaer
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Young Man
Florida
Watchman
Tipton Bank
National Examiner
Parker Winfield Kerr
Libertyville
Indiana
Portugal
Melilla
Emmett Booker
Smithville
United States
Dun
Gabrielle D'Annunzio
Stanley Ketchel
Sam Langford
New York
St. Paul
Germany
Manila
Emma Michel
Titusville
Pierce Arrow
W. F. Winchester
Glidden
American Automobile Association
Northwest
James R. Keene
Manchuria
Henry C. Swords
Fulton Trust Company
New York Stock Exchange
Franklin W. Gilley
Catalonia
Barcelona
Pee Dee
Andrews Ferry
N. c
Manuel
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