Indiana Counties Go Dry and Other Regional News
Local option results show Elkhart and Orange counties vote dry by margins of 800 and 677, with 38 counties now dry. Chicago area accidents claim four lives as a wall collapses on workers. McAfee, a posterity inspector known as the Anthony Comstock of Chicago, dies of heart disease. Mrs Pierre Lorillard Jr. commits suicide in Washington. birds ignite a Terre Haute nest fire. A Hammond buzz saw injures two, Richmond mowing works burn for 100000, Windsor Hotel at Cornwall burns with one dead and many missing.
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Indiana
Elkhart County
Orange County
Elkhart
Goshen
French Lick
West Baden
Anthony Comstock
Chicago
Robert W. McAfee
State Street
McAfee
Postal Service
Western Society For the Suppression of Vice
Crawfordsville
Ind
Pierre Lorilard, Jr
du Pont Circle
Washington, D. C
Lorillard
Count Aeppelin's dirigible sets new crew record
News wires report Count Aeppelin's airship carrying twenty six aboard set a new record. Also, Peter Dieter of Naperville Illinois was found murdered on a ranch near Puebla California.
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Count Aeppelin
Peter Dieter
Naperville, DL
Puebla
Cal
Flood Sweeps Parkersburg as Water Towers Burst
A flood from two ruptured water tanks in Parkersburg West Virginia kills three people and injures several others. Homes are wrecked and damaged as a wall of water rushes down Prospect Hill, with total damage estimated between 200000 and 250000 dollars.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Walter Wagele
John Maloney
Burt
Kate Krernees
Clara Jones
Prospect Bill
St. John’s Lutheran
Missing Kasson Student Frances Renning Disappears
Frances Renning a junior at the Minnesota State University in Minneapolis vanished after failing all exams and dropping from the rolls in February. Her father sought help from Twin Cities police after learning she boarded a Chicago Great Western train with no stated destination.
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Minnesota University Papil
Frances Renning
Kasson
Minn
State University
Minneapolis
Twin Cities
Miss Benning
University
Great Bridge Dynamited Amid Labor Strife
An explosion of nitroglycerin at the Lake Shore Railroad bridge construction site in Hammond and Indiana Harbor Indiana destroyed half a million dollars of property and imperiled hundreds of lives. The blast, blamed on labor trouble between union workers and Pittsburg Construction Company of Pittsburgh, wrecked the steel structure under construction.
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Hammond
Indiana Harbor
Ind
Lake Shore
Union Wokmen
Pittsburg Construction Company
Pittsburg
Repairing mine fences as strike prep in anthracite
Lehigh Valley Coal Company moves to fortify collieries in Mayzleton and Cranberry by installing new barbed wire atop high fences. The plan echoes 1902 measures when fences kept strikers off property and police protected mines. President Lewis urges miners to observe April as a holiday and avoid internal strife.
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United Mine Workers of America
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Mayzleton
A. Pardee & Co
Cranberry
Lewis
Miners’ Union
G A R Founder Captain Kanan Dies in Decatur
The Grand Army of the Republic charter member and first commander Capt M F Kanan died in Decatur Illinois on Friday. Surviving charter member Capt Chris Ricbsame of Bloomington recalls his six year tenure as Decatur mayor and a term in the Illinois State Senate.
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Kanan
Flesat Post
M. F. Kanan
Grand Army of the Republic
Decatur
Lil
Chris Ricbsame
Bloomington
State Senate
Manitoba Cuts Game License Fee For U S Visitors
The Manitoba government lowers the seasonal game license price for Americans visiting the province from 100 to 50 dollars. In Valencia five killed and seventy eight injured as hall floor collapses during conscription draw. Moscow fines Count Volstoi article on death penalty. Unionists win Glasgow by election, government suffers a setback. Venezuela court convicts Castro in absence, exiling him to Dresden.
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Manitoba
Valencia
Spain
Moscow
Russia
Zhign
Volstoi
Castro
Dresden
Governor Curry Resigns as New Mexico Governor
Governor George Curry telegraphed President Taft to resign from his post citing a planned Washington visit to discuss New Mexico matters with the President and the Interior Secretary. A closely fought clash with Eagle editor A J Loomis over a statehood article sparked calls for removal as charges were prepared to be filed.
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George Curry
Taft
New Mexico
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Statehood
Interior
Ballinger
Curry
A. J. Loomis
the Eagle
Territorial Capitol
Loomis
England to Buy War Ships Dreadnoughts from Brazil
Rumors revive canal scare as UK debates three Dreadnoughts being built in England for Brazil. In Commons opposition presses for guarantees of four conditional ships, Prime Minister Asquith stalls, linking to Germany’s naval buildup and denying link to two powers standard. The noncommittal stance may spark renewed public and press agitation.
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Brazil
England
House of Commons
Asquith
Germany
Palmer wills most of estate to three daughters
General William J. Palmer left virtually his entire 5 million dollar estate to his three daughters with no public bequests. Iris probate filed in Colorado Springs by Edward M. Shephard of New York notes Palmer believed public gifts should come before death and that he gave away more than he kept for the family.
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William J. Palmer
Iris
Colorado Springs
Edward M. Shepard
New York
Palmer
Tornado Rips Fort Deposit. Child Dies in Fire
A tornado tore through Fort Deposit Alabama causing extensive damage in the negro quarter on the Norwood Johnson place injuring several. The Buchanan place cottage of Miles Henderson was blown apart and a nearby cottage wrecked. A small child was carried into a fireplace and burned to death.
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Vornado
Fort Deposit
Ala
Norwood Johnson Place
Buchanan Place
Miles Henderson
Henderson
Kidnapers Arrested After Sharon Boy Returned Home
William Whitla was rescued after a nationwide hunt as his father handed over a $10,000 ransom to a woman linked to the kidnapers. A Cleveland duo, a man and a woman, were arrested with $9,790 in currency, while Whitla's description aided by Captain Norman Shattuck led to the capture. The suspects, intoxicated, denied knowing each other and await further questioning in separate cells.
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Willie Whitla
Sharon
Cleveland
Shackleton
Pole
Tosadenn
Ramson
United States
Hamburg
Theodore Roosevelt
New York
William Whitls
Sle
Hollenden
Willie
Whitia
Wille Whitla
Whitla
Central
Norman Shattuck
Frank Wood
Pennsylvania
Duggy
Wan
Captain Shattuck
Gov Curry Stays In Office After Taft Request
Governor Curry withdraws resignation as Governor of New Mexico after telegraph from President Taft. He refused public disclosure, saying publicity must come from the White House. The message reportedly expressed Taft’s confidence in Curry and urged reconsideration.
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Taft
Curry
Washington
New Mexico
White House
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Windsor
Cornwall, Ont
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News of the World
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Ingland
Chicago Federation of Labor
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Wilmette, H
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Rough Rider
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Los Angeles
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Lavender
sTonse
Clark
House of Representatives
Wayne
Cannon
Deneen
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John D. Sharp
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