World News Roundup of Fire, Flight, and Court Cases
A collage of dispatches reports Dr. W D Bigelow leaving government service after the Wiley years, Gail Borden in seclusion in Boston, and a Mississippi levee at Lake St John forcing 900 square miles to flood. Also noted are a Panamanian flight, deputy warden injuries, Olney on canal terms, hangings in Socorro and Harris in Monroeville, and a San Francisco recall of a judge.
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St. John
Mississippi River
Ferriday
Finger Print System Introduced at Indiana Prison
Indiana reports the state prison adopts fingerprinting to identify inmates, contrasting with Bertillon measurements. Warden Fogarty demonstrates the process by taking prints, while staff prepare to file fingerprints of all convicts as the system expands. In Terre Haute a northbound interurban car hits a buggy, killing Florence Stevenson and injuring Mrs Stevenson and Margaret.
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Michigan City
England
Edward J. Fogarty
Mr. Fogarty
Terre Haute
Interu
Fred Stevenson
Florence Stevenson
Farmer Loses Eye After Dynamite Cap Blast
Washington April 26 Thomas A rays a farmer and coal dealer will hereafter keep his dynamite caps in a separate pocket from his smoking tobacco. He filled his pipe with tobacco and when he was enjoying it most there was a loud explosion. He had placed one of the caps in his pipe. The pipe was blown to pieces and several pieces were imbedded in his face and eyes. He will lose one eye.
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Washington
Thomas A.rays
Nice Family Tree to Climb
Benham April 25 Miss Pearl Hyatt and Harry Tonman were married. The bride is aunt of Mrs. Fred Jacobs of Cross Plains. Fred Jacobs is Mr. Pohlman’s uncle. What relation are Mr. and Mrs. Pohlman. Jacobs have a small son. What relations he to Mr. and Mrs. Pohlman and through them to his father and mother. What relation to he to himself Swallows Two Ounces of Carbolic Acid Munele April 26 Mrs. George Muteh aged eighteen a bride of three months swallowed two ounces of carbolic acid attempting suicide. She is alive though physicians say she cannot recover.
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Benham
George Muteh
Third Child Dies of Pneumonia in Terre Haute
April 25 Terre Haute reports Leslie Newman son of Ray Newman dies from pneumonia contracted after the family was driven from their home by the field. He is the third child to die from the disease.
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Terre Haute
Leslie
Ray Newman
James Tewell Convicted For Blind Tiger Sale
Bedford April 23 James Tewell a bootlegger was found guilty in circuit court fined 200 dollars and sentenced to sixty days in jail for selling illegal liquor now known as a blind tiger.
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Bedford
James Tewell
Grose Installed as DePauw's Eleventh President
George Richmond Grose was installed as DePauw University eleventh president in Greencastle on April 25. The ceremony, before 1,100 attendees, featured Bishops Hughes McConnell Walden and Moore and music by Van Denman Thompson. The scroll listed notable predecessors and the university’s long record of church, civic and professional leaders.
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Greencastle
George Richmond Grose
DePauw University
Matthew Simpson
Lucien W. Berry
Daniel Curry
Thomas Bowman
Reuben Andrus
Alexander Martin
John P. D. John
Hillary Asbury Gobin
Edwin Holt Hughes
Francis J. McConnell
Methodist Episcopal Church
United States
Army
Navy
College of Liberal Arts
Methodist Church
Charles Warren Fairbanks
Francis Joan McConnell
John W. Walden
David Hastings Moore
van Denman Thompson
University
Indiana News In Brief Highlights Local Crime Fires and Debates
Reports from multiple Indiana cities note a barn and outbuildings burned near Brazil owned by Charles Stewart with 1800 dollars loss and no insurance. Plymouth to vote on alcohol sales May 8 continuing wet/dry cycles. Shelbyville arrest for speeding. fine 14.25. Evansville Presbytery meeting ends. next at Vincennes. New Castle clerk Parker Anderson who aided Vernon Wink in liquor-law violations pleads guilty. fined 75. Connersville art exhibit at Carnegie library with local works. Greenfield obituary of Michael Murnan who settled Sugar Creek in 1848. widow aged eighty. Columbus Ben Hur lodge seeks loan repayment from Harry Myers who vanished. books fraud. South Bend divorce suit by 73-year-old husband’s trick caused 70-year-old wife injury. alimony sought 2000. Terre Haute firebasement destruction at Parnoworth mine camp. eight houses and a store burned. Plymouth hosts annual Marshall County Oratorical and Musical Association contest with five schools competing. track events at fairgrounds and contests at night.
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Charles Stewart
Plymouth
Shelbyville
Harry Lang
Indianapolis
Evansville
Indiana Presbytery
Vincennes
Newcastie
Parker Anderson
Vernon Wink
Connersville
Indiana Artists
Carnegie Library
Greenfield
Michael Murnan
Sugar Creek Township
Columbus
Lodge
Ben-Hur
United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company
Harry L. Myers
Myers
South Bend
Herman Quass
Parnaworth
Marshall County Oratorical and Musical Association
Argos
Bourbon
Bremen
Culver
Fair Ground
Hoard Ag
Ottgped
Mberal L_Prigey
California May Bar Orientals from Land Ownership
Gov. Johnson and Secretary Bryan clash over a proposed California bill to bar aliens ineligible for citizenship from owning land. Bryan says the measure may violate national wishes while Johnson argues California may act in its rights, urging restraint to avoid offending Japan.
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Union News Service
Sacramento
Cal
Gov. Johnson
California
Washington
Arizona
William Jennings Bryan
Gov
Johnson
Wallace
Forty years at hard labor in Sing Sing for jewelry robber
James Cassidy, 34, was sentenced to forty years at hard labor in Sing Sing by Judge Fawcett in Kings county court Brooklyn for robbing Louis Price’s jewelry store at 1307 Broadway on February 15 1912. Only one prior case in Brooklyn courts matched such a harsh sentence. Cassidy accepted the verdict with a smile and returned to his cell.
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New York
Sing Sing
James Cassidy
Fawcett
Kings County Court
Brooklyn
Cassidy
Louis Price
Broadway
Explosion at Cripple Creek Home Kills Mrs Bacon and Child
In Cripple Creek Colorado a miner and former legislator James T. Bacon's home was dynamited. Mrs. Bacon and their five year old daughter were killed while Bacon survived unconscious. No suspect identified.
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Cripple Creek, Col
James T. Bacon
Colorado
Bavarian Aviator Dies After Plane Hits Tree
Lieut. Von Germershheim of the Bavarian flying corps died from injuries after his aircraft collided with a tree on April 23. He never regained consciousness.
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Munich
Bavaria
Lieut. von Germershheim
Bavarian
Amy Flying Corps
Cincinnati Market Prices for Grains Livestock and Poultry
Market shorthand lists current bids for corn, oats, wheat, timothy hay, clover, mixtures, and white, yellow, mixed ears with per bushel or per ton quotes. Included are eggs, poultry, cattle and hogs price ranges, calves, bulls, sheep, lambs, and wool with varied grade terms and weight notes.
Former Pittsburg Chief and partner fined in raid
Buck Wallace former police chief under Hays administration and James M McCluckey were fined 50 each by Magistrate Saam in Central police court for running a disorderly house after a raid on a resort. Thirty seven visitors were arrested and each faced 55 or five days jail. Police blotter lists Wallace as Bana Wilson amid the gambling devices card tables poker chips observed in the raid.
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Pittsburg
Buck” Wallace
Hays
James M. McCluckey
Saam
Central Police Court
Wallace
Bana Wilson
Woman Recovers From Severe Facial Eruption With Cuticura
Miss Elsie Nielgen of Atchison Kansas details a years long facial eruption. Four months of nightly Cuticura Ointment and daily Cuticura Soap cleared her pimples and redness. She continues using the soap and references free samples and literature.
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Atchison, Kan
Elsie Nielgen
Cuticure
Dept. L
Boston
Atlas Ethel After You Refused Jack Proposal Again
Maud confirms that after Ethel refused Jack he proposed again but to another girl. The dialogue reveals social expectations around marriage proposals and multiple suitors.
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Atlas
Ethel
Jack
Maud
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