South Side News Notes Local Moves and Visits
J M Dickson and family relocate to Andrews on South Calhoun street. Mrs Markey, widow of Lawrence Markey, is ill. Miss Mary Lincoln returns from Decatur Indiana for holidays. Mrs F W Culbertson visits parents in Port Clinton Ohio. Mrs David Creighton and Chicago children visit Mrs A D Guild of Fairfield avenue. Mrs L A Bond invites relatives to a Walnut Place card party on December 27 for Mr and Mrs A D Bond. A local offender near Miner street school is urged to be nabbed. Miss Stella Winters visits from Milwaukee at 38 Home avenue. Mrs W T Bradley and daughter Marie of Owosso Michigan visit Mrs Bradley's mother Mrs Babcock. Herman C Michael, son of ex Councilman Herman Michael, returns home for holidays.
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J.M. Dickson
South Calhoun Street
Andrews
David Creighton
Chicago
A. D. Guild
Fairfield Avenue
L. A. Bond
Walnut Place
A. D. Bond
Rela
Miner Street
Stella Winters
Milwaukee
Home Avenue
W. T. Bradley
Marie
Owosso
Mich
Bradley
Babcock
South Side
Herman C. Michael
Herman Michael
House to Act Fast on Treasury Plan in Bipartisan Fight
Washington dispatch says Republicans will push a bill to the Senate next week to relieve the treasury and protect the gold reserve. The plan rejects gold bonds, favors Reed style debt certificates, and includes tariff shifts plus a wool duty, with two years time limit. Senate fate uncertain amid strong silver opposition and possible holiday adjournment.
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Washington
House
Senate
Treasury
Ways and Means
Capitol
Reed
Congress
Rew
Senate Finances Bill Nearing Final Action in House
The Senate holds the key to the finance bill with hopes for a Tuesday ready date. If ready, it may pass under a special order or suspension of the rules. Speaker Reed and aides push prompt action while the House may stay in session or adjourn daily until the Senate acts.
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Committee On Rules
Reed
House
Senate
Congress
House of the
Dingley to Lead Ways and Means in House Committees
Washington December 23. The house committee lineup names Dingley of Maine as chairman of ways and means the top panel. Other key chairmanships listed include foreign affairs Hul, appropriations Cannon, banking Walker, and naval affairs Boutelle. The group reflects strong protectionist leanings with many Republicans in control and Democrats holding several major posts.
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Washington
Maine
Dingley
Ways and Means
House
McKinley
Payne
New York
Dalzell
Pennsylvania
Hopkins
Illinois
Grosvenor
Ohio
Russell
Connecticut
Dolliver
Town
Steele
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Johnson
North Dakota
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Tawney
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Georgia
McMillin
Tennessee
Turner
Tarsney
Missouri
Wheeler
Alabama
McLaurin
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Hul
Ilinois
Cannon
Walker
Massachusetts
Bartholdt
Milliken
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Boutelle
Hull
Iowa
Hepburn
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Powers
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Loudenslager
New Jersey
Marsh
Reed
Stone
Daniel
Land
California
Lacey
Phillips
Wadeworth
Hermann
Oregon
Mets
Treasury notes policy and silver coinage debate
The session debated paying government obligations in silver, with proposals to redeem greenbacks in silver or gold and to coin bullion in standard dollars. Butler of North Carolina opposed both plans, while Stewart urged payment in silver to halt treasury raids. Dubois warned the president’s recommendations wouldn’t pass the senate, and West’s resolution loomed. Adjournment to Tuesday followed, with Ways and Means to consider relief measures.
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Senate
Reed
Dingley
West
Butler
Treasury
Cockrell
Teller
Dubois
Pritchard
Pettigrew
Baker
Secretary of the Treasury
North Carolina
Platt
Stewart
United States
Ways and
Veatch Dies After Long Public Service in Indiana
General James C. Veatch, born December 19 1819 in Harrison County Indiana, died at his Rockfort home from heart failure. A farmer teacher and lawyer he rose to brigadier by Shiloh and brevet major general after Mobile He played a major role in Indiana politics as adjutant general collector of internal revenue and a leading organizer He was the first Republican nominee for Congress in the First Indiana district and aligned with Lincoln Blaine and Harrison at party conventions.
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Rockfort
James C. Veatch
Harrison County
Ind
New Albany
Twenty-fifth Indiana
Shiloh
Mobile
Hatchie River
Veatch
Congress
Indiana
Lincoln
Blaine
Harrison
Miss Campbell Loses Suit In Crawfordsville
In Crawfordsville on December 23 a jury returned verdict for the defendants in Edna Campbell v. Mrs. Irwin and her son and daughter. Campbell had sued for $10,000 for damages and slander after an incident at Dr. S G Irwin's office where Campbell, a bookkeeper, was allegedly ejected from the back room following a confrontation with the Irwin family injuring her hip. The defense argued the ejectment was warranted. the jury agreed.
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Crawfordsville
Edna Campbell
S. G. Irwin
Miss Campbell
Irwin
Miscreant murder of a widow in Lafayette
Aged widow Hester Curtis was found dead in her Oakland Hill home with a crushed skull and a blood spattered bank book in her hand. The motive appeared to be robbery with no clue to the assailants. Nearby, crime items note mine flood rescues and a couple driven insane by religion, with resignation from the Pythian Knights reported from Indianapolis.
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Lafayette
Hester Curtis
Oakland Hill
Heir to German Estate Noted in Bristol Dispatch
Mrs. Samuel Smith of Goshen, born German with maiden name Peoples, learns she is an heir to a German estate valued at about five million dollars. Other items report a tax ruling on express companies in Indiana, Miss Carolina Hendricks becoming Marion county’s first woman lawyer, a Scatterfield gang case, Seventh Day Adventist Christmas offering, a Yorktown swindle, and Flint glass works shutdowns due to a trust.
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Bristol
Samuel Smith
Goshen
Germany
Indianapolis
Carolina B. Hendricks
A. W. Hendricks
Thomas A. Hendricks
Seventh Day Adventists
Flint Glass Houses
Anderson
Flint Glass
United States
Flint Glass Trust
Kingan & Co. absorbs Moore Packing firm in Indianapolis
In Indianapolis Kingan & Co. has absorbed Moore Packing, gaining near total control of Union stock yards. The move follows a year of consolidation in the area and leaves Kingan with a dominant market position and few rivals locally. Separately, Deputy Sheriff T. Dean captured Wiley Barr near Lapel, Indiana, bringing him to Marion jail for forging a $128 note on his 80 year old grandmother.
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Indianapolis
Kingan & Co
Moore Packing Company
Union
Elwoople
Dean
Wiley Barr
Marion
Ind
Lapel
Barr
Slanterbach
John Ford Sentenced After Razor Theft Arrest
In Muncie on December 28 John Ford was arrested for stealing razors and an hour later Judge Koons sentenced him to one year in state prison. The rapidity of the proceedings marks the speediest justice in Delaware county history.
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Anderson
Herron Richard
Scatterfield Whitecap Gang
Richardson
Scatterfield Gang
Stimson
Davis
Scanlan
Ellison
Campbell
Muncie
John Ford
Koons
Ford
Delaware County
Sleepless for Forty Five Days, Sleepless Wonder
Eiwoop Dec 23 reported David Jones, famed for extreme sleepless spells, has not slept for forty five days following earlier record runs of ninety and one hundred forty one days. The article notes his ongoing malady and mentions prior feats of sleepless endurance.
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Eiwoop
David Jones
Strike Flare Reignites as Philadelphia Strike Deepens
President Welsh rejects a truce as 1,000 hirelings stand ready to replace strikers. Rioting erupts in about twenty locations with bricks thrown and injuries reported. Police move fast to disperse mobs while the Dec 18 notice allows individual reapplication before noon.
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Philadelphia
Dolan
Welsh
Utah to become state by proclamation and Cuban rebels visit
The president and the department of justice confirmed Utah’s path to statehood by proclamation. Cuban rebel representatives called on Secretary Olney, calling it courtesy only. Three masked burglars shot John Zigler and his wife near Zoar Station, with Zigler wounded and May Zigler mortally hurt. burglars fled without stealing.
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Department of Justice
Utah
Olney
House of John
Zigler
Zoar Station
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Solomon Duncan
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Agenta
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