Prohibition Party tactics in Indiana stir election tempers
The Cannelton Enquirer editorial attacks Prohibition leaders in Indiana for seeking Republican votes to elect their legislature candidates. It argues the plan undermines temperance, aids Democrats, and praises Republican persistence in prohibition support, urging Prohibitionists to back Republican state candidates in November.
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Prohibition Party
Swallow
Indiana
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Prohibition
Crawfordsville
House
Senate
Madison Pa. Dedication of Middleton Monument to Soldier Dead
George Middleton of Chicago donated a $15,000 monument to Madison and Jefferson county honoring soldiers who served. Governor Augustine Willson of Kentucky spoke as 2,000 names were placed in the cornerstone with Grand Army of the Republic ceremonies. A U.S. battalion and band participated, with Indiana militia and Kentucky officials present.
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Madison
Ind
George Middleton
Chicago
Augustus E. Willson
Kentucky
Jefferson County
Grand Army of the Republic
United States
W. B. Haldeman
Indiana
Third Indiana Cavalry
Middleton
Middleton Park
Middleton Rimeelf
Third Cavalry
Illinois Fetasstums Survey of Illinois Oil Field Oils
The U S Geological Survey reports a systematic comparison of crude oils from the new Illinois field. Samples collected in February and April were analyzed for odor color gravity sulphur and distillation range to 300 C. Oils vary by pool from 39.5 to 22.3 deg B with low sulphur content statewide and 0.2% average paraffin wax and little asphalt.
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Springfield
United States
United States Geological Survey
Minois
Winois Field
H. Foster Bain
Washington
David T. Day
Engler
Pittsburg
Bridgeport
Duncansville
Raid on Brown casino and Colonial hotel in Indiana
Acting under orders from Attorney General James Bingham and Governor Hanly, two squads raided A Brown’s casino at French Lick and the Colonial hotel at West Baden to seize gambling gear. Expecting no reopenings this season, officers found no equipment, as much had already been removed. raids preceded by tips from Indianapolis and central Indiana.
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French Lick
Ind
James Bingham
Brown's
Colonial
West Baden
Brown
Hanly
Paoli
Brown Casino
Indianapolis
Truelson confession probed as Gunness sale draws crowds
In Laporte Indiana on June 3 investigators pursue every claim from Julius Truelson though he recanted his confession. The Gunness personal property auction drew between four and six thousand attendees with bids driving prices high and receipts well above a typical sale.
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Truelson
Laporte
Ind
Julius Truelson
Vernon
Tex
Smith
Smutzer
Guinness
Gunness
Belle Gunness
Cotton season late as 1908 estimates show smaller acreage
Memphis reports from the Feeder s Educational and Co operative union say May 30 cotton planted acreage totals 28 832 0 acres versus 31 311 0 last year. Stand about 89 percent, 15 days late. Boll weevil appearing but not yet damaging. With normal weather a 12 000 000 bale crop is possible. poor conditions could exceed last season.
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Memphis
Tenn
Fe Mers’ Educational and Co-operati Union
National Cotton Ginners’ Association
Boll
Emigration Bureau Calls Chinaman Smuggling Tale a Hoax
Commissioner Frank P. Sargent condemns last week’s report that twelve Chinese were smuggled into the United States and found dead in New York as a rank falsehood. The bureau investigated and the Commerce and Labor Department officially declares the tale a hoax.
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Washington
Une
Frank P. Sargent
Bureau of Immigration
New York
Boston
Emigration Bureau
Department of Commerce and Labor
Doctor killer Coffman dies in jail hospital
Rev. S A Coffman who murdered his wife at Meadowdale parsonage two weeks ago died in Fairmont W V hospital from nervous collapse. He faced murder charges and was to be tried this week. He had shown possible mental derangement, refused food for three days after a padded cell confinement. In St Thomas D W I a plague report cites one fatal bubonic case and two suspected cases being watched.
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Eastern States
Maine
Vermont
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Hampshire
New York
Michigan
Iowa
Grand Lodge of Good Templars
Oswego
N. Y
Chicago
National Prohibition Reform Party
Washington
New Party
Columbus
Prohibition Party
James Black
York Pa
John Russell
Prohibition
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Indianapolis
Clinton Bowen Fisk
Fisk University
Union
South Carolina
John Bidwell
California
Bryan
Congress
Fairmont
W. Va
S. A. Coffman
Meadowdale Parsonage
St. Thomas
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