Prohibition convention opens amid attacks on Taft and parties
At Atlantic City the eleventh national Prohibition convention begins with a speech denouncing the boss ridden liquor dominated old parties. Taft aide Hilles is named Republican chairman and Reynolds becomes secretary as the party fights for a National Progressive call to Chicago delegates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Atlantic City
N. J
Clinton M. Howard
Rochester
N. Y
Temorary
Charles D. Hilles
Republican National Committee
John B. Reynolds
Massachusetts
National Committee
Canttday Family Reunion In Ga Fatal Food Poisoning
Domestic four persons are dead seven in dying condition and eighteen critically ill after a Cana day family reunion near Garfield Georgia July 4 misidentified meat. Other items: Albert Bohen dies from head injury after being struck by a bat. Seamen gains support from 600 freight handlers on North River. Robbers fail to loot Missouri train No 9 three miles south of Coffeeville Kansas. Young Peoples Christian Union convention opens in Chicago with A Ingham Bicknell presiding. Fire marshals and railroad commissioners meet in Detroit. US scenic films to be shown to Europeans via moving pictures of parks. Clarence Funk alienation suit details surfaced before Chicago grand jury. American Whist League holds sessions in New York Ellsworth Eliot Jr presiding. National Municipal League meets in Los Angeles.
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Canaday
Mack Canaday
Garfield
Beasle Mc Coy Weds Richard Harding Davis in Greenwich
Personal Richard Harding Davis and Misa Elizabeth Genevieve Mc Avoy daughter of Lawrence Mc Avoy known as Beasle Mc Coy the Yama Yama Girl married in Greenwich Connecticut by Justice Wil lam C. Ranges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Harding Davis
Misa Elizabeth Genevieve McAvoy
Lawrence McAvoy
Beasle McCoy
Washington Lawmakers Probe Agriculture and Public Offices
Representatives introduced a resolution asking Secretary Wilson if he is acting as a tool for irrigation firms to aid Jasper Wilson on the Stanley dam project in Colorado. Other items note defense witnesses in Seattle defending Judge Hanford, Taggart recalling campaign tapes, and Clayton’s impeachment recommendations for Archbald. A Bullitt nomination to be solicitor general sails through senate judiciary, while a flag desecration bill targets using the flag for advertising and designates the Grand Army of the Republic as the sole allowed user.
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Akin
New York
House of Representatives
Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson
House
Jasper Wilson
Stanley Dam
Colorado
Thomas Taggart
Democratic National Committee
Senate
Taggart
Norman BE. Mack
Senate Judiciary Committee
Washington
William M Bullitt
Louisville
Lehmann
United States
Coz
Ohio
Grand Army of the Republic
Cocaine Epidemic Warned By Fort Wayne Chief of Police
Fort Wayne Indiana July 12. Chief Dayton F Abbott warns that the cocaine habit causes undisclosed harm and that illicit sales persist despite police efforts. The fight intensifies after druggist H W Niswonger was fined for illegal cocaine sales, aided by Detective Walter Immel and police actions targeting pawnshop theft connected to youths.
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Fort Wayne
Dayton F. Abbott
Abbott
Walter Immel
H. W. Niswonger
Main Street
Slaughter of fish by electricity in Wild Cat Creek
In Lafayette Indiana two picnickers witnessed hundreds of dead fish in Wild Cat creek near the Fort Wayne and Indiana traction line. Two men scooped fish from the water while a third stood on a trestle with an insulated fishing pole connected to a trolley wire. Police were notified but the men fled. Large numbers of fish had been brought to the city from the Wild Cat area and sold cheaply on streets for weeks.
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Lafayette
Wild Cat Creek
Indiana
Fort Wayne & Northern Indiana Traction Line
Wild Cat
Pajama-clad plumber chases burglar in Logansport
Wm Whitehead, a plumber, woke to see a burglar carrying his trousers through a window. In pajamas he chased the thief three blocks before the burglar dropped the trousers. Whitehead celebrated after finding his watch and money intact and ceased pursuit.
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Logansport
Whitehead
First to Cut Wheat in Wabash County
William Bell, a farmer on Sand road, is the first Wabash County farmer to cut wheat this year. He reports a large field with about three fourths harvested and an average yield near twenty bushels per acre.
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Wabash
William Bell
Wabash County
Bell
Auto Wreck on Opening Day Near Veedersburg
Veedersburg resident Webster Drollinger bought an automobile for 600 in cash plus a horse and cow. He attempted to push the stalled car off the track at the C. and E. I. crossing two miles south of town, but a northbound passenger train struck and demolished the vehicle.
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Veedersburg
Webster Drollinger
Here
Train Kills 21 Head of Cattle Near Coatesville
Ernest McHaffie bought cattle in Indianapolis and shipped them to Stilesville via Vandalia road. While driving them home the herd stampeded onto the Vandalia track as the midnight express ran, killing 21 head and crippling seven near Coatesville where cattleguards were left open.
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Coatesville
Ernest McHaffie
National Road
Stilesville
Indianapolis
Vandalia
Woman’s joke ends in broken bridge and hush hush
Daisy Burrell testified that George Kurtis punched her jaw during a joke, breaking her dental bridge. Kurtis paid $10 for repairs and was released by Judge Collins after the incident in Indianapolis on July 10.
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Indianapolis
Daisy Burrell
George Kurtis
Collins
George
Daisy
Farmer John Miller Dies of Alcohol Poisoning
John Miller a 45 year old Liberty township farmer from Newcastle died at Home hospital from alcoholic poisoning. He had recently been defrauded of 200 dollars in a penny matching game in Indianapolis.
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Newcastle
Ind
John Miller
Liberty Township
Indianapolis
Warren Hill Dry Foods Deal Falls to Detroit Buyers
Elkhart July 12. The largest commercial deal in a decade for this region is announced as the Warren Hill dry foods business sells for $160,000 to Herbert F. Reynolds William H. Reynolds and I W Jewett of Detroit Michigan.
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Elkhart
Warren Hill ‘Dry Foods
Herbert F. Reynolds
William H. Reynolds
I W. Jewett
Detroit
Mich
Lineman Killed by Live Wire in Terre Haute
Clifton Ketner, 24, a lineman for the Citizen Telephone Company, was killed while working atop a pole after contact with a live wire in Terre Haute on July 12.
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Terre Haute
Clifton Ketner
Citizen” Telephone Company
Montana Man Commits Death by His Own Action
John E. Turner 44 arrived from Bozeman Montana for a visit to his mother in Fort Wayne. He died by his own hand yesterday at his mother’s home, shooting himself through the brain.
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Montana
Fort Wayne
John E. Turner
Bozeman
Mont
Indiana News In Brief From Bedford To Elwood
Bedford Willams Stout 26 drowned near Willams ten miles west of here. Plymouth engine fall injuries kill Fort Wayne 20 year old Charles Honeck. Henry Quick 64 fined 500 dollars jailed for six months for attempted assault on a seven year old girl. Kalamazoo job for Crawfordsville Y M C A secretary Lyle Alison. Tolleston lightning injures Glen Field 19 deaf Frank Kurtz 21 unconscious. Lawrenceburg Mrs George W Brill 56 bitten thrice by rabid French poodle. dog shot. Shelbyville Virinda Talbert leaves estate 45,000 to siblings minus 600 to Anderson Talbert. Lafayette heat exposure kills J H Shank 67 in Chalmers. Terre Haute Morris Brown arrested with balling keeper Johnson for 2000 gold bars. Elwood Fourth of July powder accident may kill Roscoe Laughlin 14.
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Bedford
Wess Stout
Willams
Fort Wayne
Charles C. Honeck
Plymouth
Henry Quick
Mungovan
Crawfordsville
Lyle Alison
Wabash College
Association
Kalamazoo
Mich
Gary—Glen Field
Frank Kurtz
Tolleston
Lawrenceburg
George W. Brill
Shelbyville
Virinda Talbert
Anderson Talbert
Lafayette
J. H. Shank
Chalmers
Here
Shank
Terre Haute
Morris Brown
Morris Gorgenski
Harry Jotneon
Johnson
Brown
Elwood
Roscoe
Jerry Laughlin
National Educators Favor Woman Suffrage in 1911 Race
The National Educational association with over 16 000 members backed woman suffrage noting teachers see citizenship duties. T Fairchild of Topeka Kan won the presidential nomination after a contentious Chicago New York clash over Miss Grace C Strachan Brooklyn district superintendent opposing him.
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Chicago, II
T. ©. Fairchild
Topeka
Kan
Chicago
New York
National Educational Association
Misa Grace C. Strachan
Brooklyn
N. Y
Fairchild
Mike Strachan
Miss Strachan
Boston
Ella Flagg Young
Gaynor
Harrison
Royalists suffer heavy losses at Cheves battle
Advices from the frontier report Portuguese royalists lost fifty killed and two hundred wounded in a Cheves battle near Lisbon. Republican losses are not stated. A Portuguese officer who urged troops to switch sides was shot by his own men.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Cheves
Man Dies After Eating Torpedo Mistook Candy
Andrew Hoffman of Appleton Wisconsin died after chewing a torpedo candy he mistook for candy. He had caramels and torpedoes in the same pocket and bit into a torpedo causing fatal injuries.
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Appleton
Wis
Andrew Hoffman
Train Hits Automobile in Cleveland Killing Mother Daughter
In Cleveland on July 9 Miss Cora Billenstein age 18 died after her father W F Billenstein president of the National Tran and Wire company was struck when crossing the tracks by a Lake Shore freight train in their automobile.
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Cleveland
Cora Billenstein
W. F. Billenstein
National Tran and Wire Company
Lake Shore
Prohibition Convention Elects Hinshaw National Chairman
After a day of wrangling at the national prohibition convention Virgil G. Hinshaw of Portland Oregon was elected as national chairman. The vote settled leadership for the Prohibition Party in Atlantic City New Jersey on July 13.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Virgil G. Hinshaw
Portland
Ore
Amateur balloonist Thibe deau perishes in Ohio drop
Cleveland July 9 18 year old amateur balloonist Robert Thibe deau drowned in Fairmount reservoir after landing from a 1 000 foot parachute ascent. It was his second ascension.
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Cleveland
Robert Thibedeau
Fairmount Reservoir
Thibedeau
Girl Dies After Forty Wounds Found on Body
Giovanni Greet owner of a coal and wood cellar near a vacant lot where 12 year old Julia Connors was found yesterday dying with forty stab wounds. He was arrested on homicide charges.
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New York
Giovanni’ Greet
Julia Connors
Senate Consideration After House Vote on Articles
The article notes the House adoption of articles by a 222 to 1 vote, naming Judge Robert Arch Bald of the U S Commerce Court as a penchmen against the measure and indicating the case moves to the Senate.
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Senate
Washington
House ‘of Representatives
Robert
Archbald
U. S, ‘Commerce. Court
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