Local News Roundup of Accidents, Deaths and Developments
The report covers a fatal railroad accident near Emison, business downturn at Tell City woolen mills, population growth in Batesville, a drowning in Rock Run Creek, an West outbreak near Hagerstown with seven deaths, and injuries from shotgun blast near Sullivan. It also notes Bloomington residents seeking Carnegie library funds, quarry and forge accidents south of Bloomington, sugar sap shortages around Kokomo, Parke County canning grounds for Bloomingdale, quarantine in Ohio County over a disease like smallpox, a fatal electric shock in Sullivan, temperance patrols in Washington, and a blasting powder accident near Brazil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiurios Norman
Emison
Tell City
Batesville
Floyd
James Hughes
Sullivan
Bloomington
Andrew Carnegie
Davies Ridge
Oolitle
Jones Lowell
Port Fire
Kokomo
van Camp Canning Company
Indianapolis
Parke County
Bloomingdale
Ohio County
Patriot
Florence
Bear Branch
Sanford Burkhardt
Citizens’ Light and Power Company
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Washington
Alfred Reffett
Albert Harris
Eph Harris
Thomas Harris
Keller, McClellan & Co
Brazil
Free library site bid and local fire tragedy in Indiana
Wabash property owner offers 800000 investment and 3500 barrel plant capacity for a Carnegie library site with city council to appoint a fair counter offer committee. A 74 year old woman burned to death when her lamp ignited her clothing, her mother injured, and the son burned trying to help. Several Indiana patent grants issued to residents follow. Benjamin Harrison will and estate details revealed, including widow’s substantial legacy and divisions among heirs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C.E. Cowgill
Wabash
Carnegie Free Library
Tis
Mary B. Ford
Logansport
Studebaker
Charles Garver
Fort Wayne
George P. Heilman
Evansville
Johann A. Dreana
South Bend
Charles £. Evermyer
Upland
Robert O. Rupert
Indianapolis
Eugene P. Schmitt
New Albany
Wales E. van Ame
David N. Weathers
Marengo
Henry C. Williams
H. Pries
J. W. Meyer
Michigan City
Guiding Brachar
Benjamin Harrison
Russell B. Harrison
Erklmer County
New York
Dimnick
Russell
Mary Harrison Melee
Elizabeth
W. T L. H. Miller
Harry S. Milligan
Howard Cale
Union Trust Company
Benjamin Harrison McKee
Mary Lodge McKee
Marthena Harrison
William Henry Harrison
Blizzard Sweeps Western States with Heavy Snow
A fierce blizzard swept the upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys and the Great Lakes basin Tuesday and Wednesday. The storm centered over Lake Michigan with a terrific gale in Michigan causing railroads to shut down and vessels to face ice and high waves. Nebraska Iowa the Lakotas Wyoming and Kansas saw blocked streets and disrupted railroad traffic. Chicago reported unroofed houses and damaged telegraph lines as freezings extended south to Arkansas and Texas.
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Mississippi
Missouri
Great Lakes
Lake Michigan
Michigan
Nebraska
Iowa
Lakotas
Wyoming
Kansnas
West
Ilinois
Arkansas
Texas
Chicago
Wisconsin
Omaha
Neb
Trafic
Japan Eager to Fight Amid Manchurian Strain
The article notes rising tension between Russia and Japan over Manchuria with Britain and Germany opposing Russian expansion. It cites parliamentary deadlock in Tokyo over military funding, and suggests Count Ito may seek dissolution of the Diet to force a war‑funding vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Japan
Ruvala
Mikado
House of
Navy
United Kingdom
United States
Washington
Great Britain
Germany
Pekin
Manchuria
Ito
Peace Terms Rejected by Botha and War to Endure
Gen. Botha rejected the peace terms offered by Gen. Kitchener as conveyed by his son to the British government. Joseph Chamberlain said Botha would not recommend the terms and his government backed his stance. Chamberlain noted continued guerilla warfare is the duty of Botha and his advisers, signaling protracted conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Chamberlain
House of Commons
Gen. Botha
Botha
Chamberlain
Kitchener
London
Holland
Gen. Batha
Foreign Office
Southern tale of love and tragedy ends in disappearance
A South ern story centers on Hamilton, an Atlanta Ga pharmacy student, and Mrs Wilson a charming widow who loved and was rejected by him. Both disappear and their bodies were later found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
Atlanta. Ga
Wilson
Fatal double tragedy linked to woods near Atlanta
Reported item says Ms Wilson and her lover William Hamilton were found after a shooting in the woods near Atlanta. Hamilton allegedly killed the woman, set fire to the area, and then took his own life. Both bodies were partially burned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
The Newsboy Lesson and Speculation Tales
A young well dressed boy muses on earning money from selling papers while ragged newsboys mock his idle life. The piece then shifts to a statistician’s view that public sector workers more often end in theft due to speculation, noting many thieves confess money taken from public funds stemmed from speculative activity. It closes with an advertising line about Mrs. Austin's pancake mix and a stray line about a poor player.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Persimmon
Prentice
London
Lombroso
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Indiana News
Harrison
Vald
Chen
Judge
Dimmick
Col. Harrison
Mckee
Sk A
Wilsox
WM. Hamilton
Manila
Suez
New Steel Trust
Turkey
W. C. Clark
Denver
Colo
Monthina
Ehiall
Kentucky
Bankra
Louise Gibbons
Springfield
Ohio
Ji Wing
Lydia E. Pinkham
EB. M. Knapp
Kinnickinnic Avenue
Milwaukee
Wis
Nol City Bank
Mass
Lypia E. Proenam Machine Co
Trey
Jome Supply Company
Detroit
Mich
Mrs. Austin
Fidur
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