Crashing Defeat of Moros and Pershing’s Victory at Bacolod
The report details Pershing's forces capturing Bacolod, killing about a hundred Moros and wounding many others on Minadanao. It notes American units Shaw's Battalion Twenty seventh Infantry Kilpatrick's Troop Fifteenth Cavalry and McNait's Battery in action after confronting Bucclodian resistance. The fort was captured and later destroyed amid efforts to burn nearby defenses.
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Manila
Pershing
Bacolod
Minadnao
Shaw
Twenty-seventh Infantry
Kilpatrick
Fifteenth Cavalry
McNait
West Shore
Persh
Krisses
Jeatto
Panandungan
Indiana Rural Free Delivery Plan Expands Nationwide Map Coverage
Washington announces nationwide expansion of rural free delivery in Indiana within two years. By July 1 twenty eight counties will receive complete district service, with more counties to follow as maps detail roads and farmhouses. The effort honors Congressman G. W. Steele and expands to Oss, Miami, Wabash, Huntington, and Clay counties, among others, across districts from Cromer to Landis.
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Washington
Indiana
Supt. FF. &. Rathbone
Indiana, Iminaia
Wisconsin
Michigan
Majestic
Indianapolis
Rtathbone
Oss
Miami
Wabash
Huntington
Cuickford
Grant
G. W. Steele
Congress
Adkins
Cromer
Johnson County
Fayette and Union
Lawrence
Warrick
Rathbone
Watson
Womenway
Charles BK. Landis
Robinson
Steuben
Allen
Wells
Jay
Randolph
Wayne
Henry
Montgomery
Fountain
Hancock
Shelby
Franklin
Spencer
Indiana Rural Mail Service Expands Across Counties
The census style maps show 41,997 rural homes housing 216,505 people across fourteen of seventeen counties with detailed road measurements. Madison County stands as the model, serving 22,060 people from 4,412 homes over 500 square miles with 46 carriers daily. Government draftsmen and traveling inspectors push progressive county and state rural delivery in forty two counties while many others gain partial routes, aiming to cover nearly all Indiana farmers by next winter.
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Gilson
Posey
Delaware
Washington
Indianapolis
Madison County
United States
Indiana
Union
Clinton
Vigo
Clay
Morgan
Monroe
Knox
Howard
Floyd Clark
Jennings
Decatur
DelXalb
Kosciuskoa
Marshall
Carroll
Indiana Monuments Dedicated at Shiloh Battlefield
Ten Indiana monuments on the Shiloh field in Kentucky were dedicated Monday honoring the twenty two regiments from Indiana. U S Senator Beveridge and Assistant Secretary of War Sanger delivered addresses while James Whitcomb Riley recited Old Glory. Governor Durbin presented the monuments to the government as Gen Wallace presided.
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Shiloh Battle Field
Shiloh Battlefield
Kentucky
Indiana
Shiloh
United States
Albert J. Leveridge
William Carey Sanger
James Whitcomb Riley
Indianapolis
Lew Wallace
James Wright
Indiana Commission
W. T. Durbin
Sanger
National Commission
Josiah Patterson
Memphis
Tenn
Wrazier
Tennessee
Gordon
March Trade Review Signals Mixed Hope and Labor Strife
The Weekly Trade Review notes robust New York weather and busy freight, with floods affecting the Mississippi but overall improved transportation. Rail earnings rise, while labor disputes temper optimism. wheat and corn exports trend higher and iron steel demand persists amid active spring trade and immigration increases.
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New York
Mississippi
R. G. Dun & Co
Dun
Cleveland
Chicago
Financial
Northwest
Market Quotation Ledger For Major Midwestern Cities
Chicago cattle and hog prices range from three to five plus dollars with shipping grades and hogs at five fifty to seven oh two. Indianapolis reports hogs four to seven thirty five and cattle three to five dollars. St Louis notes cattle four fifty to five twenty five and hogs five to seven eighty. Cincinnati shows cattle four fifty to six dollars and hogs four to seven forty five. Detroit lists cattle three fifty to five and hogs four to seven twenty five. Milwaukee covers wheat No. 2 at seventy four to seventy seven cents and rye No. 2 sixty two to sixty eight cents along with corn oats and barley prices.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
Indiana Harbor prepares canal and docks to spur industrial growth
The Indiana harbor area signs contracts for a 21 foot deep, 800 foot wide canal from the harbor to the Calumet river at a cost of 700000. Chicago investors and eastern trunk lines back the project, with plans for steamship lines and extensive docks. In related notes, Rev M N Lord's heirs dispute estate shares with two wives, and Mrs Elmira Drake faces a murder indictment for poisoning her husband.
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Indiana Harbor
Drake Ta
Calumet River
Chicago
Indiana Syndicate
Potter Palmer
C. W. Hotchkiss
F. R. Babcock
Fredericks. Winston
Albert D. Wiskine
M. N. Lord
Christian Church
Laporte
Henry C. Word
Kansas City
Flint
Mich
Henry C. Lord
Lord No
No. 2
Michigan
Lord
Covington
Elmira Drake
Robbers Steal 2000 From McPhillips Store Safe
Five masked men blasted open the safe at McPhillips store in Judson, taking about $2000 in cash and notes before fleeing in a band car.
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McPhillips
Judson
Indiana News Summary of Disasters and Trials
Multiple Indiana incidents reported. A Wabash freight killed Lu ther Cornelius in Pennsylvania. Indiana Box Co in North Anderson burned, losses around 40000. Fires hit Darmers Store in Owensville with 20000 loss. Judge Simson rules health boards cannot bar unvaccinated children. John Luther killed in a Hope runaway crash. Blood poisoning fatal for Carson Siddles of La Porte following finger injury at South Bend. Attempt to wreck Lake Erie and Western eastbound train near Frankfort. engine struck a track tie. Mrs S I McQuawn robbed of 600 at Marion after bank withdrawal. Tacoma laundry case awards 7800 for scalp loss after machine shaft. Walter McAale killed by falling timber near Shoals. Man crawls on Market Street for a bet, completes in 13 minutes. Benjamin Haynes, 70, and wife of his nephew elope from Napoleon, Ohio. arrested with tensions over his age. Mrs Martha Haynes identified as suspect partner.
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Luther Cornelius
Penn
Indiana Box Company
North Anderson
Tire
Hope
Carson Siddles
la Porte
South Bend
Lake
Josephine Stephens
Tacoma
Indianapolis
Miss Stephens
Walter McHale
McAale Brothers
Shoals
Miami
Wabash Street
Market Street
Wabash
Fred Pampnell
Pampnell
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Saxony
Louise
Linden
M. Giran
Joulse
New Biscuit Concern
United States Biscuit Company
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N. J
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Theodore Leach
Central Railroad
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Charles E. Brooks
Foxy Joseph Coming
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Joseph Choate
America
Miller
Indiana Supreme Court
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Anti-Mormons Missionary Association of the Church of Christ of
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Rural Mail Service
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