Bold burglars raid Turnock & Sons store at Elks Temple
Robbers entered through a south basement window at Turnock & Sons finest store in the Elks Temple. They stole two Colt revolvers, fishing reels, steel poles, ammunitions, and $4.15 from the cash register, leaving signs of a hurried exit and chisel marks on doors. Police secured evidence and tracked the tools to blacksmith Jack Warner, who identified the borrowed brace and bit.
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Turnock & Sons
Elks’ Temple
Colt’s
Elks
Richard , Turnock, Jr
Warsaw
Knights Templar
Harman Stultz
Mr. Turnock
Jack” Warner
Lake Shore
Turnocks
Traveling salesman loses sample cases after train stop
A traveling salesman arriving in the city reports the loss of his sample cases valued at 50 dollars after a drunken group of ball players got off the Lake Shore train at White Pigeon and carried away the cases. Three sons named James Whitcomb and Riley arrived at a Delphic home at the same time, with no guarantee they will become literary geniuses.
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Lake Shore
White Pigeon
Delphic
James
Whitcomb
Riley
Rounders Intrude At Wrong Place Arrested By Officer Fonda
William Freeman and Vernon Barrone, both Lake Shore employees, were arrested on Main street after a dispute near South Main street doors led to an alleged assault on Edward McCasty and Charles Hope. They faced assault charges, pleaded guilty, with Barrone fined higher for leading the attack.
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Officer Fonda
Arthur Chapman
Emma Young
Mr. Hope
Edward McCasty
South Main Street
Miss Young
Chapman
Hope
Fonda
Hughes
Barrone
Freeman
Missing 13-year-old girl sought in Warsaw area search
James Bell reports his daughter Margie, thirteen, vanished Tuesday after saying she would leave on an interurban. He searched Go Shen Wednesday night and fears she is in one of the interurban cities. She is large for her age with light complexion blue eyes blond hair and wore a white and red polka dot dress and straw hat.
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James Bell
Warsaw
Goshen
Margie
Miss Jennie Skelley May Be Heir to California Fortune
The Mishawaka resident Miss Jennie Skelley, heir to uncle William Skelley who left the east 71 years ago for the west, is believed sole heir to a Napa County fruit ranch fortune. A carpenter's hammer Matthew Skelley kept may hint at a family agreement, and Jennie’s California inheritance ties to Goshen origins and recent claims.
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Jennie Skelley
Mishawaka
California
Goshen
Big West
Rockies
Pacific Coast
West
Napa County
Calif
Napa
Napa Junction
Matthew Skelley
William Skelley
Matthew Shelley
Local Injuries Reported At City Work and Home
L L Nopper, a machinists apprentice at Lake Shore shops, cut his left thumb when a heavy iron dropped on it Wednesday. A Goshen visit left a three year old Dipert child paralyzed from a spine injury after a fall. he is slowly improving. Samuel Miller of Strubler Computing Scale Works injured by Emery dust in his left eye Wednesday.
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L. L. Nopper
Hickory Street
Lake Shore
Strubler Computing Scale
Toronto meeting called to raise insurance rates for pre 1899 members
Mrs. Melvin Ulrich of Elkhart Indiana sails to Toronto June 16 to attend a supreme session of the Independent Order of Foresters. Delegates from English speaking countries gather to revise rates for members admitted before 1899 as British law pressures conformity.
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Melvin Ulrich
Indiana
Independent Order of Foresters
Toronto
Canada
Continental Fraternal Union
Ulrich
Ranger Hartman
Evansville
W. W. Wilson
Indianapolis
Court Elkhart
Court Samaritan
Women’s Auxiliary
Indiana Delegates Plan To Attend Ninth GFWC Biennial
Mrs. Sarah P. Kinsey of Valparaiso issued a circular to Prospective Visitors detailing Indiana's plans for delegates to the General Federation of Women's Clubs ninth biennial meeting in Boston starting the week of June 22. The Indiana train leaves Chicago June 18 at 10 30 am reaching Valparaiso noon and Fort Wayne at 3 pm with a round trip of 25.35 dollars. Indiana headquarters is in Emerson College of Oratory, Chickering Hall. Further details may be obtained from Mrs Kinsey or John M Fabing, NY CSTL agent, at Valparaiso.
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Sarah P. Kinsey
Valparaiso
Indiana State Federation of Clubs
Elkhart
Indiana
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Boston
Chicago
Fort Wayne
Emerson College of Oratory
Chickering Hall
Graves Decoration Invite From Indiana L O T M
Indiana Hive of the L O T M accepts an invitation from Wilkh art Tent to join in decorating graves next Sunday forenoon. Women meet at the Knights hall before 9 30 a m Sunday with conveyance to the cemetery arranged.
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Indiana
Wilkhart
Knights’ Hall
Organ for Swedish Lutheran Church Headed from Alliance
The Swedish Lutheran church plans a pipe organ built by an Alliance Ohio firm. The organ will be shipped late this week and installed by July first in an alcove on the west side of the pulpit. Dedication recital by Mr Grant L Waldsmith of South Bend will follow installation.
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Swedish Lutheran Church
Alliance
Sensational robbery and other late headlines
Sensational robbery of Turnock and Sons store reported. Two railroad men face trouble after departing from lawful conduct. Swedish church to be fitted with pipe organ. Rates for older Independent Foresters members to rise. Public reaction to Plymouth convention noted. Mysterious drowning of LaPorte woman reveals four affected children. Bucklen Theatre lobby to be remodeled. Inmates at Longcliff feared as visiting editors. Indiana records fewer children of school age. James Atkinson pleads guilty to gambling rather than trial. Gov Hughes wins anti race track gambling fight. Taft on track for nomination on first ballot. Oklahoma searches for three murder slayers. St Louis faces flood losses. Early Chicago convention contests move forward. Wat terson visits Bryan. Bridegroom Joe Leiter destroys camera. New cruiser Salem tests at 25.24 knots. Major mail porch robbery shocks the West. Milwaukee Brewers pledge to curb immoral saloons. Oklahoma governor vetoes child labor bill. Actor Hitchcock acquitted on serious charge. Tunica matron nineteen defends against slayer of father. New York senator votes against anti race track bill. North Carolinian bride allegedly stolen by bandits. Greenfield real estate men in financial trouble. Indiana baseball scores and market reports.
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Turnock & Sons
Plymouth
LaPorte
Bucklen
Longcliff
Indiana
James Atkinson
Hughes
Taft
Oklahoma
St. Louis
Chicago
National Committee
Watterson
Bryan
Joe Leiter
Salem
West
Milwaukee
Hitchcock
Tunica
Miss
New York
Leaves
Weather forecast for tonight and Friday
Government forecast shows fair weather tonight with likely Friday sunshine and slowly rising temperatures. Maximum temperature 173 degrees is noted, minimum not specified. Light winds around 12 mph with partly cloudy conditions.
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Miles Medical Co
Mysterious drowning in Clearlake stuns Indiana town
Mrs. Joseph Barker twenty eight drowned Tuesday night in Clearlake LaPorte county. Her four children found alone in the Barker home at midnight after a boat accident in which Mrs. Barker fell overboard. Dettman, a boarder, hurried to report the death and Barker defended him when questioned. Child guardians begin an inquiry into the father’s ability to care for the youngsters. Benjamin Girard declared sane after reevaluation and released from jail.
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Joseph Barker
Clearlake
LaPorte
Barker
Dettman
The
Herald
Board of Children’s Guardians
Ligonier Man Back at Work After Bank Shooting Incident
Ernest Franks of Ligonier returns to duties at Citizens' Bank following a shooting where Pattison shot Franks in one thigh just before Pattison's own career ended by Albert Erwin.
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Ernest Franks
Ligonier
W. W. Pattison
Pattison
Albert Erwin
Citizens’ Bank
CITY FACES BIG LOSS AS LEVEE RISES THREATENS BUILDINGS
Water covers lower levee areas in St Louis as the Mississippi rises and the Kaw and Missouri rivers approach. Terminals and nearby structures face enor m ous potential damage while delays and evacuations loom amid the rising flood.
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St. Louis
Mississippi
Kaw
Missouri
Terminal Railroad
Billick Sentenced to Death After Rehearing Denied
Herman Billick prepares for execution for the murder of the Vraal family in Chicago. The Supreme Court denied a rehearing, and Billick told his mother goodbye by long distance from Cleveland, stating he would face the scaffold bravely.
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Chicago
Herman Billick
Vraal
Supreme Court
Billick
Cleveland
Ohio
Murderer hunted after double killing in Wilburton
Posses scour the country around Wilburton Oklahoma after R H Johnson killed two men and wounded a woman in a running fight last night. Authorities fear lynching if he is captured and the search covers the surrounding region.
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Wilburton
Oklo
R. H. Johnson
Johnson
Attorney J T Lowe shot by young widow in Tunica street
In Tunica Mississippi on June 11 attorney J T Lowe was shot in the street and seriously wounded by nineteen year old Mrs Jacob Weinstein. She had married a Charleston merchant last February. Lowe previously killed Perry M Houston on March 31 in a street clash over Houston’s Yazoo levee board secretary post.
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Tunica, Miss
J. T. Lowe
Jacob Weinstein
Albany battle over gambling bills unsettles senators ailing Foelker
In Albany an extraordinary senate scene unfolds as Governor Hughes renews a push to end legal discrimination that shields public track gambling. Brooklyn Senator Foelker arrives with physician Dr Murphy, collapses on arrival, and is described as suffering nervous shock. Also listed are deaths at South Bend: Herman Esch aged 59 and John Kempe aged 69.
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Albany
N. Y
Senate
Hughes
Foelker
Brooklyn
Murphy
South Bend
Herman Esch
John Kempe
Gov Hughes Wins Narrow Race Track Gambling Bill
Albany June 11 Gov Hughes secures passage of the penal code race track bill by a 26 to 25 senate vote. The measure makes gambling on race tracks a penitentiary offense and the governor plans to sign later today, after a costly fight. Earlier, test votes on amendments also failed 26 to 25.
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Gov. Hughes
Albany
N. Y
Senate
Brewers club adopts temperance platform and forms national association
Milwaukee June 11 The United States Brewers association closes with a platform calling for abolition of immoral saloons and broader temperance aims. Joseph Uihlein argues resolutions should be stronger and a new national body the United States Manufacturers and Merchants association is formed to aid brewers in opposing prohibition. George Oberman of New York is elected president and Cooper Lion of Chicago secretary.
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Milwaukee
United States Brewers’ Association
Joseph Uihlein
United States Manufacturers’ and Merchants’ Association
George Oberman
New York
Cooper Lion
Chicago
Night riders clash with soldiers near Ephraham Martin farm
Cincinnati reports a detachment of soldiers surprised fifteen night riders destroying tobacco beds on Ephraham Martin’s farm near Hiett. A pitched battle followed and the riders fled on horseback.
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Cincinnati
Fara
Ephraham Martin
Hiett
Despairing Arrest Leads Essex Pair to Poison
Despondent over their arrest for adultery George Alden Gorton a well to do farmer and Edith A Bowe wife of Thomas Bowe both of Essex Mass ended their lives by taking poison in their home on June 11 authorities said.
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Essex
Mass
George Alden Gorton
Edith A. Bowe
Thomas Bowe
Hitchcock Bail Granted After Acquittal
Raymond Hitchcock left the Tombs on $7,000 bail amid belief a second vindication will prevent further trial on charges from which he was just acquitted.
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Hitchcock
New York
Raymond Hitchcock
Uncanny Post Office Pouch Loss Sparks Nationwide Hunt
Los Angeles officials reveal a missing registered mail pouch valued at about 50 000 dollars with a large cash and valuables payload. Posts inspectors and Washington concede the loss while Kansas City and Los Angeles offices probe the delivery lapse and bank shipment origin to New York.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Post Office
Kansas City Cro. Postoffice
Postoffice Department
Am Ammount
New York
Washington
M. HH
Flint
W. J. Vickery
Kansas City
Taft Gains Votes as National Committee Sees Contests
The Republican national committee adds 117 Taft delegates to a total of 304 on the temporary roll, with 33 full and two half votes, and 2.5 for Foraker. Ohio contests dominate, seating Taft in the Third, Tenth, Thirteenth districts and sharing Sixth. Other cases move through Missouri and North and South Carolina.
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Chicago
Coliseum
National Republican Committee
Burke
Knox
National Committee
Taft
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Republican National Committee
Senator Foraker
Ohio
Tirteenth
Foraker
Senator Lodge
Missouri
North Carolina
National Committee Eyes Finish and Credentials Chair
The national committee aims to finish by tomorrow night with hearings on sat and sun to finish work. Harry M Daugherty of Columbus Ohio may be chosen chair of the credentials committee next Tuesday. Daugherty says the report should be ready Thursday morning and opposes all night sessions.
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National Committee
Harry M. Daugherty
Columbus
Daugherty
Frank H. Hitchcock
Taft
Dolliver
Cortelyou
Lafayette Young
Senate
Low
Guild
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International Council OF Foresters
Winona
Toledo
Committee On the
the Daily Review
Benjamin Girard
Uncle Sam
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