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Hoosier Happenings: Fatal and Miscellaneous Local Incidents
Indiana news briefs report numerous deaths and injuries across counties. Killed by a coal train near Switz City was Merritt C. Osborne, 35. Others crushed, burned, or found dead include Norman Shaner, N. C. Little, and a man found in a Terre Haute ravine. The Maring Hart bottle factory at Dunirk resumes with 800 workers. fire destroys Nathaniel Stultz’s home in Oolitic. A boy loses an arm at a South Bend brickyard. safe robbery at Clayton. a crossing was removed near Winchester. several arrests for perjury and other crimes follow. The piece closes with notes on gems' composition and diamond price history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merritt C. Osborne
Linton
Monon
Switz City
Thomas Colvin
Southern Railroad
Princeton
Norman Shaner
Edward Shaner
Geneva
Grand Rapids & Indiana
N. C. Little
Terre Haute
Richard Pride
Orwell
Maring-Hart
Dunkirk
Nathaniel Stultz
Oolitic
Tony Nocei
South Bend
John J. Harrison
Clayton
Dayton and
Muncie
Winchester
W. A. Beasley
Robert Knuckles
Salem
Marius Criswell
Nettie Shaddy
Frank Shaddy
Hicks
Jefferson County
Philip Riseman
New Albany
Henry Sperger
Daniel J. Kinney
Angola
Michigan City
Knight Bros. Creamery
Zanesville
Carl
Thomas Rodgers
Noblesville
Abe Mack
Bloomfield
Indiana Reformatory
Jeffersonville
Ben McLaughlin
Ellsworth Perdue
Winslow
Thrace Meyers
Madison Parish
Pest House
Marion
Meyers
D. E. Meyers
J. R. Bennett
Koleen
Green County
White River
W.H. Hawkins
Indianapolis
United States
District of Indiana
Anderson