Happenings of a Week Highlights and Tragedies Across U S
Edwin Walker longtime Chicago bar dean and conspiracy case adviser to Debs dies at Wequetping, Ill. Rockefeller family illness update. Civil War veteran Daniel Sheehan jailed for forged check erasure. companion confesses. Tucker family tragedy in Wisconsin. governor race tie. Curtiss sets water flight record 60 miles. Taft and Fairbanks appear in war veterans gathering. Crippen case advances with poison findings. Chilean vice president dies. Public notices include police dismissals and lynchings. Local incidents span many cities and national events.
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Edwin Walker
Chicago
Wequetensing
Mick
United States
Eugene Debs
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil
Rockefeller
Daniel Sheehan
Alameda
Cal
Frank T. Tucker
Wisconsin
Oshkosh
Wis
Tucker
Lord Kilmarnock
King George's
Balmoral
Glenn H. Curtiss
Euclid Beach
Cleveland
Lake Erie
Cedar Point
Fred Minor
Ashtabula
Lake Shore
Biuer Bryson
Aston
Ray Holt
Pana
Mississippi River
Alton
Ill
John PD. Rockefeller
Eddie Hearne
Elgin
Motor Speedway
Indianapolis
Speedway
Wisconsin and Michigan Republicans renominate and defeat foes
In Wisconsin La Follette is renominated for U S senator over S C Cook by two to one. Burrows loses renomination to Townsend in Michigan. Osborn wins governor nomination by a large margin. Illinois delegates seek new credentials chair after Hines amid Lorimer scandal. Vermont Republicans win state election though with reduced plurality. Rain dampens turnout amid lack of local issues and GOP gubernatorial unity.
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Haker
Howard Hines
Chicago
Congress
Hines
William Lorimer
Vermont
Loganport Mcckee to enter Marion Soldiers Home
George P. McKee a longtime Logansport mayor and popular Republican, leaves office after thirteen years and will move to the Marion soldiers' home. His family remains in Logansport while he plans the departure from public life, his honesty and friendship hailed by thousands of Cass County residents.
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Logansport
George P. McKee
Marion
MecKee
McKee
Johnson Hotel
Mayor McKee
Cass County
Simple Life Simplified in Green Township Couple
Samuel Turnor and his wife Elizabeth of Green township near Portland claim they have led a simple life with no theatrical shows circuses or county fairs in their six decades in Jay county. He came to the area as a child and they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on June 7 this year. Both are in good health for their ages.
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Portland
Samuel Turnor
Elizabeth Turnor
Green Township
Turnor
Jay County
Explosion fatality at Williamstown kiln strikes Greensburg
Bowman 28, night watchman for Milroy Drain Tile, died after a gas explosion while attempting to relight a kiln fire nine miles north of Greensburg. The blast destroyed the entire kiln and crushed his skull. A widow and one child survive. He had previously survived a similar gas explosion at the same plant with severe burns.
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Greensburg
Bowman
Williamstown
Milroy Drain Tile Company
Million Bugs Darken Shelbyville Sky Over Kinsley Neighborhood
A swarm of millions of black insects, about one and a half inches long, covered the Kinsley area north of Shelbyville. The cloud stretched roughly a mile and caused horses in nearby fields to become flighty before vanishing as suddenly as it appeared.
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Shelbyville
Kinsley
Horse Moves Fountain in Washington Street
A horse owned by grocer Howard J. Tooley pulled a drinking fountain from its base on Washington street and dragged it across the road to set it upright on the opposite sidewalk. The owner described the feat as moving the fountain like a person would.
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Columbus
Howard J. Tooley
Washington Street
Skunk farming begins in Shelby County by Lisher duo
In Van Buren township W. S. Lisher and his son form a partnership to raise skunks for their skins. They enclosed three acres and began with about ten animals as the new venture starts to develop.
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Shelby County
Shelbyville
W. S. Lisher
van Buren Township
Warden Reid Drops Dead During Indiana Prison Fire
Warden James D. Reid collapsed and died of heart trouble amid a fire at the Indiana state prison in Michigan City. The blaze began in the store room among rags and was controlled with help from city firefighters and prison officials. Reid, 52, had led the institution since November 1, 1901, after moving from South Bend.
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Michigan City
Ind
Indiana State Prison
James .D. Reid
City Fire Department
City
Reid
South Bend
Paragon Couple Celebrates Sixty Fifth Wedding Anniversary
A reunion of Ephraim Hodges and his wife marked their sixty fifth wedding anniversary at their home one mile west of Paragon. They have lived there since marriage, and for the first time in thirty eight years all their children gathered with them. Hodges, age ninety, is a large landowner who has remained conservative and never speculated. He now walks daily from his farm to Paragon.
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Paragon
Ephraim Hodges
One Blow After Another at Columbus Canning Plant
Boeschen Washington Smith Schaefer leased husk privilege from Columbus Canning for five years and built a 38 foot high 18 foot diameter silo. A blower blew off injuring a deputy inspector’s legs, then damaged the plant and coal bin. The blower finally exploded, forcing shutdown until a new unit is installed.
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Columbus
Boeschen
Washington
Smith & Schaefer
Columbus Canning Company
Deaths of Elsie Knowland From Rare Disease
Jeffersonville note: Elsie Knowland daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles W Knowland died four days after her fourteenth birthday due to purpura hemorrhagica a rare disease causing bleeding under the skin and purple patches. She lived east of the city.
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Jeffersonville
Elsie Knowland
Charles W. Knowland
Woman in sleep injures herself in Greencastle
Mrs. Mary Wheelan of Greencastle, visiting George Clark’s family east of the city, walked in her sleep and fell down stairs. She sustained three broken ribs a severe head bruise and a severed artery nearly resulting in loss of blood.
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Brazil
Mary Wheelan
Greencastle
George Clark
Seymour Girl Kills Herself After Note Found
Sixteen year old Elizabeth Murdock daughter of H D Murdock manager of the Indianapolis and Louisville Traction company killed herself by drinking carbolic acid at an acquaintance’s home in Farmington. A note left at her house explained the intended suicide.
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Seymour
Elizabeth Murdock
H. D. Murdock
Indianapolis and Louisville Traction Company
Farmington
Jealousy Tragedy in Indianapolis Leaves Three Dead
In Indianapolis laborer Jap Palmer driven by jealousy fatally wounded his mother-in-law Mrs George Smith at her home 1310 Vigo Street and then killed himself.
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Indianapolis
Palmer
George Smith
Vigo Street
Indiana News in Brief
Portland Hood proprietor of a South Wayne street canning factory was arrested for violating child labor law. Ruth Groman, twelve, worked there. Hood pled guilty and paid a $10.30 fine. Shelbyville dedicates the Young Men’s Institute building, two and a half miles east, with Congressman Korbly delivering the dedicatory address. The two story brick hall cost $5,000 and stands near St. Vincent Catholic church.
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Portland
W. . Hood
South Wayne Street
John Fitzgibbon
Ruth Groman
Shelbyville
Young Men's Institute
Here
Charles Korbly
Indianapolis
St. Vincent. Catholic Church
Sociologist Painter Nichols Killed in Colorado Fall
Frank Nichol of Momence Illinois, a painter with Burlington roundhouse crew at Sterling Colorado, was found dead after a ladder fall. A search of his effects revealed deeds to Chicago real estate mining property in the Dakotas and railroad stocks valued over 100000 dollars. The body will be sent to relatives in Momence Illinois.
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Sterling
Colo
Frank Nichol
Momence
Burlington Roundhouse
Chicago
Dakotas
Nichols
Trolley Wreck in Ohio Injures Twenty Six on Lake Shore Line
A head on collision between an eastbound limited and a westbound local on the Lake Shore Electric near Allen's Corners two miles east of Norwalk injures 26 people, nine seriously. Motorman J. Bebce of Norwalk took blame, saying he should have waited for the local train. Names of the seriously injured include Frank Hawkins Norwalk and several others from Chicago Junction Fremont Havana Toledo Cleveland and Beach Park.
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Sandusky
Ohio
Lake Shore Electric Railway
Allen’s Corners
Norwalk
Frank Hawkins
O. B. Mahon
Chicago Junction
J. K. Martin
E. C. Jackson
Fremont
Louis Krouse
Havana
Lavina Miller
Toledo
George H. Kerruish
Leonard Knable
Cleveland
August Jacobs
Beach Park
N. Bebce
L. K. Burge
Lake Shore Electric
Allen's
Post Injunction Denied in Open Shop Debate
Judge McPherson ruled against C. W. Post of Battle Creek Michigan in his bid for an injunction to block a closed shop agreement by American Federation of Labor officials and Bucks Steve and Range company of St. Louis. The decision, issued in chambers at the judge’s Red Oak Iowa home, preserves an employer’s right to choose an open or closed shop.
Mormons Plan Exodus to Mexico From Utah
Hamilton Smith a Mormon priest claims President Diaz will permit polygamy and church practices in Mexico. Smith says Mormons will abandon Utah soon to settle in Mexico where they are free from religious persecution. The group already owns 65 000 acres and a colony near 60 000 acres recently acquired.
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Utah
Galveston
Texas
Hamilton Smith
Mormon Church
Coahuila
Mexico
Diaz
Church
Smith
Painter Hunt Dies in London at 80
William Holman Hunt, founder of the pre-Raphaelite movement with Rossetti and Millais, died in London. Born in 1827, he first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1846 after years of frail health, with death not unexpected.
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Painter Hunt
London
Eng
William Holman Hunt
Rossetti
Millais
Royal Academy
Wreck Fatalities Rise as Burlington Train Crashes East of Kalispell
In Coram Montana a Burlington train en route from Seattle to Kansas City collided on the Great Northern line. Two killed and fifteen seriously injured with five perhaps fatally and twenty others hurt.
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Kalispell
Mont
Burlington
Great Northern
Coram
Seattle
Kansas City
Floods Threaten Osaka and Kobe in Honshu
Flooding sweeps across Honshu as Osaka and Kobe face rising waters and collapsing river banks. Authorities warn of extensive damage in northern regions and along the main island as rivers rise higher than normal.
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Japan
Tokio
Osaka
Kobe
Hondo
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