Notable Figure Deaths And Resignations Stir Headlines
Dr Frederick L Graves eminent physician of Bridgeport Conn commits suicide by poison. George Westinghouse resigns claiming he is frozen out. Richard Sprague Wyandotte lawyer seeks identity aid in Cincinnati. Toledo Mayor Brand Whitlock and party briefly detained in Sandusky over speed accusations. Rear Admiral James A Hawke dies in Washington at 69. Nicaragua commissioners Barriog and Salivas seek resumption of ties. Maj Gen Grant in New York questions Krupp gun impact theory.
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Frederick L. Graves
Thridgeport
Conn
George Westinghouse
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Richard Sprague
Wyandotte, Mich
Central Police Station
Cincinnati
Connecticut
Bridgeport
Doctor Graves
Brand Whitlock
Toledo
Sandusky
James Albert Hawke
Bristol
Navy
Naval Medical School Hospital
Washington
Modesto Barriog
Sebastian Salivas
Madriz
Nicaragua
United States
Grant
New York
Multiple crimes and political moves shape midweek news
Oliver Sullivan and Frank Hornung, both Chicago residents, were arrested in Albion, Michigan, accused of daylight robbery at a Kalama zoo jewelry store. In Arkansas, B. V. Barger was shot by C. M. Gaynon, who was later killed by Barger, with Mrs. Gaynon claiming Barger crawled through her window. Nationally, Warren G. Harding won the Ohio Republican nomination for governor on the third ballot. F. W. Treadway and Granville W. Mooney were renominated for lieutenant governor and secretary of state, respectively. A New York roof garden for cats opens at the Bide n-Wee Home. Aurora Illinois orders residents to bathe weekly or face penalties. Secret Service notes coins shaken in Maiden Lane to harvest fine particles. Strikes fuel derailing of a Grand Trunk freight train at Kingsley, Indiana. Carl Loose and Giuseppe Gambaro were electrocuted at Sing Sing for murders in New York City. Two soldiers drown and another dies from exposure after a bay boat capsized near San Francisco. New York reports millions of hatpins with artificial eyes to gain duty-free status. Bread pudding poisons 50 old soldiers in a Bristol Virginia home. two die, others succumb to unrelated causes.
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Oliver Sullivan
Frank Hornung
Chicago
Albion
Mich
Kalamazoo
B. V. Barger
Memphis
Tenn
Little Rock
Ark
C. M. Gaynon
Barger
Gaynon
Garfield
Administration
Warren G. Harding
Ohio Republicans
Columbus
F. W. Treadway
Cleveland
Granville W. Mooney
New York
Aurora
Ill
Secret Service
Maiden Lane
New York City
Grand Trunk
Kingsley
Ind
Carl Loose
Giuseppe Gambaro
Sing Sing
Ossining
San Francisco
Bristol
Train wreck near Cleveland leaves many injured
Thirty passengers on a St. Clair avenue car were near death when the Pittsburg flyer struck the streetcar at a grade crossing in Cleveland. Twenty were injured and several fatally. Pinkerton detectives concluded the Winnetka death of Ira G. Rawn was by own action, not murder, at the coroner's inquest.
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St. Clair Avenue
Pittsburg Flyer
Pennsylvania Railroad
Cleveland
Pinkerton
Ira G. Rawn
Monon Railroad
Winnetka
Nebraska
W. J. Bryan
Bryan
West
W. C Brown
New York Central Railroad
Iowa
Minnesota
Dakotas
Kanezas
Resolutions Committee
Chicago Building Trades Council
Miller
Tampico
Mexico
State Department
Washington
Madawaska
Greenwich West
Gome
D. C
Hankow
Papeb Province
China
Republican Party of
Lincoln
Taft
Congress
New York City
Gaynor
Steward
Jeffries Johnson
Chicago
Florence Willis Rawn
I. G. Rawn
Ill
Grand Trunk
South Bend
Ind
National Retail Jewelers’ Association
Detroit
Mich
Moody Bible Institute
England
Board of Army Engineers
Fortress Monroe
Voice Builder James Black Dies at Ninety-One in Indianapolis
James S. Black a professor of vocal music known as the voice builder died at 848 North Delaware Street Indianapolis aged ninety one after a long career spanning New York Rochester and Indianapolis He was born July 7 1819 in Putney Vermont and mentored famed Italian teachers He directed choirs in New York and Indiana organized the first state choral society and staged notable oratorios including Creation and Elijah His two sons Charles Holman Black Paris and Wallace Black Richmond survived him with his wife having died ten years earlier He remained mentally sharp to the end and had last performed publicly at eighty four.
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Indianapolis
James S. Black
North
Delaware Street
Catherine B. Johnston
Charles Holman-Black
Paris
France
Wallace Black
Richmond
New York City
de Degnis
Pereili
America
Lafayette Place
Mary Culver
Max Leckner
St. Ann’s Episcopal Church
Brooklyn
New York Musical Times
First Baptist Church
Rochester
N. Y
Third Presbyterian
Meridian Street M. Ee
Judas Maccabeus
Elijah
Galveston
Tex
Kansas City
Johns Reunion Picnic At Riverside Park August 11
The fourth annual Johns picnic and reunion will be at Riverside park Eaton on August 11. Congressman John A. M. Adair is among speakers. Last year two women named John attended. A parade of the Johns will march along Baton street principal routes.
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Johns
Munete
John
Riverside Park
Eaton
John A. M. Adair
Baton
Moslem Funeral Held at Tolleston for Gary Steel Plant Victim
The first Moslem funeral in the area was held in Tolleston last week for Gim Ali killed at the Gary steel plant. Moslem priest Reisel Tarif led a hundred followers in the unusual burial services. Ali leaves a widow and children in Constantinople.
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Tolleston
Hammond
Gim Ali
Gary
Reisel Tarif
Ali
Constantinople
Wounded While Squirrel Hunting at Fairmount
Bernard Dickey age twenty son of Cassius Dickey shot himself through the right hand and arm with a rifle while hunting. He was waiting for a squirrel to appear in a tree when the gun discharged accidentally. His condition is serious.
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Fairmount
Bernard Dickey
Cassius Dickey
Fort Wayne Editor Bresnahan Dies in Plymouth Sanatorium
Thomas F. Bresnahan, 39, longtime city editor of the Fort Wayne Journal and Journal-Gazette, died at a Plymouth sanatorium after long illness. Born in Columbia City, educated locally, he was a scholar and linguist. Survived by a widow and five children. Governor Marshall had planned to appoint him deputy inspector from the district next December.
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Fort Wayne
Thomas F. Bresnahan
Fort Wayne Journal- Gazete
Plymouth
Journal and Journal-Gazette
Bresnehan
Columbia City
Fond du Lac
Wis
Bresnahan
Marshall
Pigeon Nests in Foliage Near Hartsville
Indiana state geologist W H Blatchley was alerted by J H Morrison to a common pigeon nest built in pine tree foliage near Morrison's home. Blatchley, with forty years studying Indiana birds, notes this is the first reported instance of pigeons nesting in tree foliage rather than building caves or prepared sites.
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Indianapolis
W. H. Blatchley
J. H. Morrison
Hartsville
Morrison
Law Is His Side Line, Columbus
Dave Ogden of Columbus has become a lawyer as a side line while continuing the automobile business. He recently sued Warry Chambers and William Pedrick for $88, conducted his own case in court, and earned a verdict for the full amount.
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Columbus
Dave Ogden
Warry Chambers
William Pedrick
Novel Corn Stalk and Remarkable Hen Reported
In Columbus William E Dinkins former county sheriff owns a corn stalk with five ears, beating a county record by two. Dr E G Regenas of Hope owns a hen that laid six eggs in one day last week, all soft shelled though well formed. Hope is noted for fancy fowls, including a $5000 Fischel hen, yet Regenas argues his hen outdid those records.
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Columbus
William E. Dinkins
E. G. Rewennas
Hope
Regennas
Honey Harvest at Carmel Shows Abundant Bee Trees
The Carmel area reports a rich honey harvest from bee trees in the woods. Several trees yield from a few pounds to nearly a hundred pounds, with one on a local farm said to store honey for fifteen years. The larger the drove grows, prompting speculation on the total yield and the bees’ ability to endure winter if harvested now.
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Carmel
Prison Twine Orders Grow in Indiana Prison
James D. Reid, warden of the Indiana State prison, says daily orders for binder twine are increasing and overtime may be needed. Currently 65 prisoners are employed with a 8,000 pound daily output, supplying mostly to Indiana dealers.
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Michigan City
James D. Reid
Indiana State Prison
Indiana
Cholera Epidemic Widespread Across 42 Provinces in Europe Russia
Government figures show 37,652 cases and 16,651 deaths since last May. In the week ending July 23 there were 13,374 cases with 5,979 deaths. In St Petersburg daily averages ran forty cases and twelve deaths as 514 suspects, including 38 children, crowd local hospitals.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Gratutary Commission
Capitol
Three Die in Crossing Horror at Etna Green
A Pennsylvania train struck an automobile carrying Ohio pleasure-seekers at a grade crossing near Etna Green Indiana. The dead are Melville Brooks of Lima Ohio and Mrs Charles Thoring of St Marys Ohio. Brooks died after being found badly injured, Thoring died hours later. Charles Thoring survived. Investigators believe the party failed to notice the approaching engine due to level terrain and unobstructed view.
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Etna Green
Ind
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West
Melville Brooks
Lima
Charles Thoring
St. Marys
Brooks
Boat Upset Drowns Two Brothers in Erie Harbor
In Erie Pennsylvania Harry and Alvin Winfield brothers well known young men were drowned when their sailboat capsized during a return trip from a picnic across to the peninsula. A gust of wind toppled the craft and Alvin Winfield’s sweetheart was among several girls who witnessed the tragedy from shore.
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Erie
Harry
Alvin Winfield
Erie Harbor
Peninsula
Soldier of Fortune Killed by Elephant in Rhodesia
Frank N. Tilden, a Sacramento and Carson City adventurer, was killed by an elephant he had wounded near Fort Jamison in Rhodesia on May 28. He had made a fortune in Africa and Alaska gold fields and owned a large rubber plantation at his death.
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Sacramento
Cal
Frank N. Tilden
M. C. Tilden
Carson City
Nev
Fort Jamison
Rhodesia
South Africa
Tilden
Africa
Alaska
Lincoln Statue Planned for Kentucky Capitol Rotunda
A $15,000 heroic size statue of President Lincoln will be placed in the rotunda of the Kentucky Capitol. J. B. Speed of Louisville funds the gift and a contract with the sculptor of the Lincoln statue at Hadgenville is already in place.
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Lincoln
Frankfort
May
President Lincoln
Rotuimla
Capitol
J. B. Speed
Louisville
Hadgenville
Pensions Fraud Targeting Ex-Slaves Reported in Alexandria
Promised ex slaves were defrauded in the last ten days by a white man who charged each victim one dollar as a fee to enroll their names for pensions. Authorities have not apprehended the swindler.
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Alexandria
Iua
Admirals Grinnell and Roche Unite in Boston Nuptials
Boston records the marriage of Henry Walton Grinnell seventy four, an American admiral with ties to Japan, to Miss Florence Mary Roche twenty five, daughter of the late author James Jeffrey Roche. The groom is a close friend of the bride’s father.
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Boston
Mass
Japan
Henry Walton Grinnell
Florence Mary Roche
James Jeffrey Roche
Admiral Grinnell
Debs Undergoes Surgery in Rochester Minn
Eugene V. Debs of Terre Haute Indiana the Socialist leader was operated on for obstruction of the intestines at St Marys hospital Rochester by Dr Will Mayo. The operation was successful and his condition is not alarming.
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E. V. Debs
Rochester
Minn
Eugene V. Debs
Terre Haute
Ind
St. Marys Hospital
Will Mayo
Debs
Explosion Kills Eleven Workmen on Quebec Railway
Eleven workmen were killed in an explosion during blasting near a tunnel on the Transcontinental railway about 125 miles west of La Tuque in Quebec. The accident occurred during construction work when the blast went off in the vicinity of the tunnel.
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Quebec
la Tuque
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