Global Happenings Brief Signals Tariff Bill Timeline
Senate Finance Chairman Simmons predicts the tariff bill could pass by September 5 and be finished by the conference committee for presidential signature by September 16. Administration forces defend the currency bill in the House, with backing from Secretary Bryan and opposition to interlocking directorates.
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Washington
Simmons
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Conference Committee
Wilson
Chicago
House
Bryan
Paralyzed Mrs Harris Threatened as Fire Reaches Sanitarium
Mrs Sarah Harris of New York, known for urging the state to allow her death, faced a death threat when flames from a nearby fire cracked her sanitarium window. Two attendants restrained her as she pleaded not to be removed, saying this was her first chance to die.
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Sarah Harris
New York
Boy Known as Blue Sky Ben Sparks Runaway Wave
In Connersville Indiana a sun-tanned boy nicknamed Blue Sky Ben has lured about fifteen local children away from home over three weeks. At an indignation meeting no adult spoke with the boy, who calls himself living "Jist anywhere" and leads youngsters to river bottoms for pleasant times.
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Connersville
Ind
Brin
Timothy Armicost
Blue Sky
Ben
Maplewood
Rooster Killed on Police Order After Attacks
In Logansport Casiner Jablonski’s rooster, deemed too dangerous after attacking multiple people including a neighbor’s child, was ordered killed by police. The incident escalated when the bird gouged neck wounds before Dr J P Hetherington treated the injuries. Patrolman Liming directed Mrs Jablonski to kill the rooster, and she faced abuse before carrying out the order.
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Logansport
Casiner Jablonski
James Palumbo
Resler sues railroad for damages over child incident
Bloomfield Aug 18 Ralph Resler aged nine suing for 16 000 damages through his mother Mary E Resler next friend against the Chicago and Southeastern railroad. Rochester Aug 20 George Myers age fifteen drowned in Tippecanoe river west of the city. body recovered within an hour in seven feet of water.
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Petersburg
John Alford
White River
Garry Callahan
Bloomfield
Ralph Resler
Mary E. Resler
Sait
Chicago & Southeastern Railroad
Tippecanoe River
Rochester
George Myers
Thin City
Here
Struck by Ball May Die In Baseball Fatal
Melvin Goff, 22, Hillisburg player, was struck in the head by a pitched ball Sunday in Frankfort and rendered unconscious. Doctors hold little hope for his recovery.
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Frankfort
Melvin Goff
Hillisburg
Bootlegger Fined for Illegal Whisky Sale at County Fair
Charley known as Chiney Gray was fined 600 in the city court after pleading guilty to illegally selling whisky at the county fair and was jailed. Gray claims residence in Kansas City.
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Lebanon
Charley
Chiney Gray
Gray
Kaneas City
Child Bride Marital Arrests Rock Local Court
In Lawrenceburg a 13 year old girl married a 36 year old carpenter. Landran, Gray, and Spencer are jailed on charges of assault, subornation and perjury after a rushed ceremony and alleged coercion. Police and relatives describe a forced union and flight from the home.
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Lawrenceburg
Henrietta C. Bachelor
Claude E. Landran
Martha Carter Gray
David C. Gray
T. Spencer
Landran
Spencer
Indiana News in Brief Old Settlers Meet and Local Events
A digest of Indiana items reports the old settlers meeting set for Bowling Green on September 6 and a slate of incidents across cities. Mines, drownings, arrests, disasters, and prosecutions are noted in Linton Terre Haute Madison Muncie Jeffersonville Elwood Marion South Bend Vincennes Boonville and Shelbyville reports with brief outcomes and dates.
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Brazil
Old Settlers
Bowling Green
Linton
Templeton
Terre Haute
Harold Crouch
Forest Park
Shelbyville
Garfield Poe
Frank Cherry
Anderson
Adair
Central Christian Sunday School
Middletown
Keesling
Kisling
Fairgrounds
Jasper N. Keesling
Madison
John Dondan
North Vernon
King’s Daughters’ Hospital
George Reynolds
Jeffersonville
Indiana Reformatory
Board of Trustees
Elwood
Mentor
Dan Martin
Marion
Grant County
Octogenarian Club
Matter Park
South Bend
Steve Powocki
Vincennes
Martin W.farris
Mable
Princeton
Indianapolis
Bouonville
Robert Harger
Noah Osborn
John Hogan
Chicago
G. A. Farnbaugh
Fred Nimmer
Bertha Satterly
Nimmer
lFond Dy Lao
Wis
Three More Escape From Ohio Penitentiary Honor Squads
The Ohio State Penitentiary reports three additional escapes from honor squads. Lawrence Kentham, 32, serving five years for horse stealing from Allen county, fled the Athens prison farm. his term ends April 2, 1914. Charles Chester, two years into a sentence for shooting to wound from Lucas county, escaped the Orient prison farm. term ends August 27, 1914. Mark Stepic, 28, a fe prisoner and former honor squad member, escaped a Dayton State hospital squad after 14 months.
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Western
Union News Service
Columbus
Edward-Payson- Weston
Ohio Penitentiary
Lawrence Kentham
Allen County
Athens
Charles Chester
Lucas County
Orient
Mark Stepic
Dayton State Hospital
Deputy Sheriff Enforces Bond On Detroit Streetcar
A Detroit Myrtle Street car was halted downtown when a burly deputy sheriff boarded and served a writ of execution. The street railway company paid $300 after the company attorney arrived and traffic resumed. The action was to collect an unpaid burial bill from a street railway employee.
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Detroit
Mich
Detroit United Railway
Frank found guilty in Mary Phagan murder case
Leon M. Frank, superintendent of the National Pencil Co. factory, was found guilty of the April murder of 14 year old Mary Phagan. Spectators were excluded from the courtroom but a large crowd outside reacted with demonstrations as Frank was informed of the verdict. His wife fainted and he remained unmoved.
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Atlanta
Leon M. Frank
Mary Phagan
National Pencil Co
Frank
Court House
Cincinnati Market Prices for Grains Livestock and Poultry
Market listings show corn white and yellow by grade with cents per bushel, oats and wheat by grade, hay timothy and clover mixed prices, eggs firsts and seconds, poultry by size and type, cattle shippers and butcher categories with price ranges, calves hogs sheep and lambs with various grades and weights, and general stock values. The table enumerates bid prices for hogs, cattle, calves, and sheep across multiple grades, reflecting market fluctuations and typical regional pricing.
Mother Fatally Gored While Saving Son
Mrs. Henry Motz and Mr. Vernon Motz suffered injuries when a bull rampaged in a field near their home. The bull knocked the boy down, prompting the mother to rescue him. She was gored about the body and her skull fractured. She died shortly after.
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Mr. Vernon
Henry Motz
Weird Work and a Cave of Broken Hearts
A fragmentary note describes a girl’s severed hearsts and pieces caving, mentioning a volcanic action and a town on fire as unlikely, and a still life painted with a huckleberry pie by two cubists.
Let me write the songs of a nation says ready made philosopher
A mock dialogue features a slick philosopher claiming control over national ideals while Senator Sorghum counters with a lighter claim to writing amendments and indifferent to who drafts bills. The exchange satirizes influence over lawmaking and the power of ideas versus political drafting.
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Sorghum
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