Receivers named for Chicago Cincinnati and Louisville RR
Indianapolis report states George A. Fernald & Co. placed the Chicago Cincinnati Louisville Railroad Co. in receivership. James P. Goodrich named receiver with a $40 200 bond. The company owes substantial bonds and collateral, a floating debt of 1 750 000, and mortgages totaling 7 500 000 amid overdue claims and potential suits threatening interstate operations.
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Indianapolis
Ind
George A. Fernald
Theft of Telltale Records Guards at Auditor Office
Police guard the county courthouse auditor’s office amid fears of a safe robbery to seize forged warrants linked to missing county treasury funds. Authorities estimate the sum involved could reach 25 000 to 30 000 dollars as the investigation continues.
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Indianapollis
Ind
Game Warden Indicted in South Bend
William Weber a South Bend game warden was indicted by the grand jury on a blackmail charge. He allegedly threatened to arrest Henry Henson unless paid a sum of money. Prohibition Hold Convention in Clark County Indiana nominates a full county ticket. The meeting was addressed by Michael J Fanning. Found Woman's Hand Evansville Indiana police investigate. Barred From Practice Nurses board rejects diplomas from correspondence schools not hospital affiliated. Carnegie Gift Evanville Indiana Bethel Evangelist church trustees report a letter from Andrew Carnegie offering to buy a large pipe organ for the church. It will be accepted.
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Terre Thiute
Ind
Sam WW
Itarris, Chienga
Lenora Brown
Evansville
Norris Ia
Out
South Bend
William Weber
Henry Henson
Prohibs
Jeffersonville
Prohibition
Clark County
Michael J. Fanning
Indianapolis
Indiana State Board of Registration and Examination of
Carnegie
Evanaville
Bethel Evangeliat Church
Andrew Carnegle
Books Disappear In County Warrants Irregularities
Indianapolis officials probe irregularities in warrants issued before Albert Salm took office. Five warrant stubs vanished from the county auditor’s vault. Huggins admits some responsibility while denying full knowledge. The case centers on two warrants to Flannery and Schnon, with forged signatures alleged. Grand jury summons expected to broaden the probe beyond two questioned warrants.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Albert Salm
McGregor
Mendenhall and Roberts
Hooton
Emmett & Huggins
Commissioners’ Court
Huggins
Wm. Flannery
Edward Schnon
Woolen & Callan
Flannery
Sohmoc
Verdict not guilty in Rivy vs Martin case shocks Frankfort crowd
In Frankfort Indiana the Rivy in the state case against Police Officer Ben Martin returned a not guilty verdict after about an hour. Family and a crowd surged to the courthouse as the verdict was announced, with many people pressing forward and the scene nearly turning chaotic. Meanwhile in Richmond Indiana former U S civil service commissioner William Bidfle y Foulke clashed with Reverend Tilman Hobson over popular amusements during a revival. Foulke called Hobson vaudeville and urged him to leave the city. Also in Richmond the Bell Telephone Co won a dispute over a city ordinance requiring pole and wire removal on Main Street and burying lines after Mayor Schillinger signed the measure without concessions.
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Frankfort
Ben Martin
Roscoe Douglass
Richmond
William Bidftey Foulke
United States Civil Service
Tilman Hobson
Grace Whethodis
Hobson
Wr. Foulke
Ind
City of
Bell Telephone Co
Telephone Company
Main Street
Richard Schillinger
Resigns Under Fire In Indiana Charity Board
Terre Haute, Ind. L. H. Guan Bas resigned as superintendent of the poor farm after an investigators demand to leave by March 1 to avoid grand jury action. Officials from W. Ball and Judge S. B. Davis led the inquiry for the board of charities. New Albany, Ind. State Game Commissioner Z. T. Sweeney spent 6000 dollars to stock counties with Hungarian partridges and Mongolian pheasants and offers a 100 dollar reward for killing three birds. New Albany also notes road bond issues requiring contractor defense before county commissioners. Governor’s widow Eliza Gray, Helped by Pierre Gray’s widow, dies of pneumonia. Jeffersonville, Ind. William Golden pleads guilty to stealing a cow and is sentenced to Michigan City prison for six to fourteen years. Greensburg, Ind. Floods cause great damage. streams rage, bridges swept away, and a sixty-foot section of a new pike is wrecked.
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Terre Vauty
Ind
W. ©. Ball
S. B. Davis
New Albany
Finh
Z. T. Sweeney
Columbus
Troops Ordered to Alaska to Quell Mining Strike
Acting Secretary orders Fort Gibbon infantry to Fairbanks, Alaska to preserve order amid mining strike. Justice Department reports open air mass meetings and threats of violence. U S Marshal directs force to arrest law-breakers, protect arrivals, and disperse rioters. 250 special deputies sworn in to guard life and property. Saloons closed.
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Washington
Oliver Thursday
Fort Gibbon
Alaska
Fairbanks
United States Court
United States
Perry
The Real Jesus by Rev A C Dixon analysis
A preacher argues for Jesus as divine and the resurrection as fact. He cites West and Littleton affirming Christianity through rational investigation. The piece defends Christ’s unique claim, mission, and the reality of his atonement and kingdom.
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Gilbert West
Lord Littleton
Jesus
Paul
West
Christ
Littleton
Chicago
Christ Paul
Damascus Road
Alex
Bor
God
Earth
Napoleon
Washington
Vireece
Rome
Egypt
Jerusaleem
Waterloo
Calvary
Night riders whip Eddyville men in early hours
About 300 night riders roamed Eddyville Kentucky at 1 AM Sunday beating ten men including Police Judge C W Rucker Lesel Woods former city marshal Press Fralick and Grace Robertson a saloon porter. The attack left a young woman with a grazed face from a stray bullet and over a thousand shots were fired with no other reported casualties.
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Eddyville
C. W. Rucker
Lesel Woods
Press Fralick
Grace Robertson
Kentucky
New American Ski Record Set At Chester Creek
John E. Venson soared 116 feet off the mammoth slide on Chester Creek Hill to win a special prize for beating 110 feet, after a day of postponement due to soft weather at the National Ski Association of America meet in Duluth Minnesota.
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Duluth
Minn
National Ski Association of America
Chester Creek
John Wannabe
John E. Venson
Fire damages Kings County courthouse in Brooklyn
A Friday blaze swept the upper part of the Kings County courthouse in Brooklyn causing likely forty five to seventy five thousand dollars in damage. Oil paintings of judges who served in Brooklyn over the past fifty years were water soaked and valuable records narrowly escaped destruction.
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Brooklyn
New York
Kings County
Indictments Return Against Former New Jersey Governor
Indictments charging perjury were returned Thursday against former New Jersey governor M. Voorhees and Frank H. Cambes after a grand jury inquiry into their acts while officials of the Lankers Life Insurance company. American car leads Buffalo transit in the New York Paris race. Montagne Roberts arrives at 2 15 Sunday followed by C Bourcier St Chaffray two hours later.
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New York
New Jersey
Faster M. Voorhees
Frank H. Cambes
Lankers’ Life Insurance Company
Buffalo
N. Y
Montagne Roberts
C. Bourcier St. Chaffray
New Illinois Congressman Elected to Fill Vacancy
Cairo Captain N B Thistlewood of Cairo, Republican candidate for Congress in the Twenty-fifth Illinois district, was elected Saturday to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George W Smith last November.
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New Illnois
Cairo
N. B. Thistlewood
Ulnols
George W. Smith
Pacific coast extension reaches Terry Montana
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway extended Sunday service to Terry Montana. The new Pacific coast extension line crosses the Yellowstone River at Terry for the first time, marking a notable expansion of regional rail access.
Fraunces Tavern Restored as Washington Farewell Site
The Fraunces Tavern restoration, completed in 1907, preserves the Long Room and exterior tablets marking Washingtons farewell to his officers. Fraunces, dating to 1719, is rebuilt with original brickwork, guided by 1775 sale ads, a 1835 fire, and Tallmadge’s bequest, now housing the Sons of the Revolution.
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Washington
Broad Street
New York
Franklin
Frannces’ Tavern
New York City
Sons of the Revolution
Chamber of Commerce
W. H. Mersereau
Fraunces' Tavern
Fraunces
Pearl Street
Washington the Friend of Peace Quote
Washington expresses ardent desire for universal peace and the end of war. He hopes humanity rejects warfare and its tools, preferring benign amusements for all children and adults, with warlike devices abolished worldwide.
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Isaac P Gray
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Earl Grayson
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Decator County
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A. C. Dixon
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