Fort Wayne Dedication Marked by Roosevelt News Delay
A Fort Wayne dedication event for the Allen County Court House was interrupted by a telegram announcing President Roosevelt’s illness and inability to visit. The ceremony featured W. Bourke Cockran and others, with plans for an address canceled and the crowd offered prayers for the President’s quick recovery.
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Allen County Court House
Fort Wayne
Inds
United States
Allen County
W. Bourke Cochran
Court House Square
C. B. Orff
Board of County Commissioners
James M. Barrett
Court House
Charles McCulloch
Robert 8. Robertson
W. Bourke Cockran
Cockran
Foster
Roosevelt
Moffat
First Presbyterian Church
Fountain Head
Enraged Elephant Rampages at Vincennes Show
A large elephant at the Bostock-Ferers exhibit in Vincennes went on a destructive rampage injuring a woman and bruising a child, tearing a dwelling, and forcing the show to flee. A separate incident left Homer Berger fatally wounded near Lewis after a crowd fired into the dark. he claimed knowledge of his shooter but recanted. An engineer thwarted an attempted rail wreck near Newport, and a collision between an electric car and a freight train injured over twenty people at the Soldiers’ Home area.
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Typtasavoris, Inc
Citizens’ Committee
Fort Wayne
Ind
Pittsfield
Mass
Indianapolis
Washington
Vincennes
Churivari
Clarence Duncan
Mra. Duncan
Homer Berger
Lewis
Joe Crist
Berger
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway
Newport
Elsworth B. Buckley
Chicago
Buckley
Union Traction Company
Stralng
I Njuring
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President Roosevelt
Congressional Library
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Little Turtle
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Marion
Cleventh Street
Joseph Neidlinger
Neidlinger
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Rokla V. Claxton
French Lick
Michigan City
Tremo
Gant
Maxwell
Elam White
Keziah Boswell
Richmond
Roman Holthouse
Decatur
Willis O. Tyler
Monroe County
Iowa
Harvard Law School
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Lottie Nichols
Cincinnati
Lordsville
Fair Grounds
GC. T. Sid Bakery
McCormick & Sons