Apportionment Decision Sparks Senate Crisis and Goals
The February report from Indianapolis notes the Supreme Court decision voiding last assembly’s apportionment and reviving 1895 law, sparking a fight over holdover senators and the path to the U S Senate. Democrats claim two routes exist while Republicans expect losses. both sides seek court guidance or a special session to redraw apportionment and seatholdovers. The ruling directly affects the upcoming legislative election and United States Senate selection.
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Typianapolis
Supreme Court
General Assembly
United States
Bond Bill Passes in Senate With Silver Amendment
Washington February 1 The bond bill with the silver amendment passed the senate this afternoon by a majority of nine votes. Butler amendment to use silver to pay coin obligations was defeated in the senate by 13 ayes to 40 nays.
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Washington
Senate
United States
Railroad Advance Oscar G Murray Named VP Baltimore Ohio
Oscar G Murray resigns as vice president and freight traffic manager of the Big Four and vice president of Chesapeake and Ohio to become vice president in charge of traffic for the Baltimore and Ohio. The change takes effect February 15. The Baltimore and Ohio will be led by Congressman Cowan who is described as difficult to work with.
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Oscar G. Murray
The
Baltimore and Ohio
Cincinnati
Chesapeake Aid
Ohio
Murray
Baltimore
Baltic
Cowan
Window glass plants may not resume as scheduled
Mundiz Indiana February 1 strong probabilities arise that national window glass factories will not reopen in a week. Thomas F. Hart manager of the Western Window Glass Manufacturers association with New York conference and three combines from the east and west held a secret meeting. A source says brokers could not unload stock due to unsettled money markets delaying resumption perhaps two weeks. Hart declined to confirm or deny.
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Mundiz
Ind
Thomas F. Hart
Western Window Glass Manufacturers’ Association
Muncie
New York
Hart
Leniency Ordered to Passengers of the Streetcar Monopoly
The Consolidated Railway company tells conductors to be lenient with transfers and allow passengers to ride to their destination without paying a second fare when a wrong transfer is shown. The policy change follows numerous passenger complaints and signals a shift toward courteous treatment by the transit firm.
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Consolidated Railway Company
Consolidated Company
Woman sues for divorce over forced marriage in Covington
Miss Luin May, 17, vanished from West Indianapolis, later reappearing as the wife of Cyrus L. Knappe. She alleges duress during four days of confinement and her marriage in Covington, Ky, under pressure from Knappe and his sister. The action seeks annulment on grounds of kidnapping and lack of consent.
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IndianaPouts
Ind
Luin May
Indianapolis
Cyrus L. Knappe
Knappe
Covington
Omitted Property Tax Action Demanded From Officials
The Post urges writ of mandamus to force Allen County officials to assess and tax corporate property of the Consolidated Railway, noting unpaid capital stock and franchises. It argues the franchise value exceeds 1.5 million and calls for back taxes from 1892 onward, warning taxpayers will seek compulsion if needed.
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Consolidated Railway Company
Allen County
Board of Review
Recorder’s Office
Court House
Guardian Trust Company
Cleveland
Consolidated Company
Heath
Edsall
Hunter
County Recorder’s Office
Pel'a
Working Girls Union to Host Monday Evening Hop
The Working Girls Union will stage an entertainment and hop at A. O. U. W. hall at the corner of Calhoun and Superior streets Monday evening. A program includes Miss Ada Schuler Mrs Lindsey Myrtle and McVey among others.
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Working Girls’ Union
U.W
Calhoun and
Superior Streets
Ada Schuler
J. Lindsey
Myrtle, McVey
Ada
Brown
New Complication of the Monroe Doctrine and Foreign News
London reports Battenberg funeral arrangements complete with body moved from Madeira to Blenheim and port to Isle of Wight for service at Whippingham church next Wednesday. Paris notes Brazilian border actions near French Guiana while St Petersburg confirms Boris of Hungary’s baptism in the Orthodox church. Madrid mentions US overtures to recognize Cuban insurgents as belligerents failing. Sugar market holds firm with New York prices steady amid ample supply.
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London
Battenberg
Funchal
Madeira
Blonde
Portsmouth
Alberta
Isle of Wight
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Osborn House
Continent
Paris
Polique Colonial
French Guiana
Russia
St. Peterspura
Boris
Hungary
Maprio
United States
New York
New Orleans
Boy Thieves Arrested In Connection With Barn Theft
Police report details theft of valuable tools from a barn at 33 West Williams Street belonging to the late George O Bradley. Four boys including Harry Cook Otto Cook John McKean and a boy named McGuire were arrested and jailed after pawn shop workers identified the stolen carpenter tools. January police report lists arrests for vagrancy intoxication liquor law violations insanity assault larceny and other offenses with numerous tramps lodged and fed.
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Robert A. Bradley
West Williams Street
George O. Bradley
Aiken
E. Schuman
Harry
Otto ‘Cook
John McKean
McGuire
Pers
Dream or hoax of coffin scene at Lindenwood cemetery
William Walda, a young man who claimed to have seen ghouls ex tracting a woman’s body from a coffin in Lindenwood cemetery, faces a prosecutor’s inquiry. Prominent physicians dispute the tale as a fake, noting no illegally obtained bodies and questioning the coffin’s nailed lid while the prosecutor promises a sworn statement from Walda this evening.
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William Walda
Lindenwood
Aiken
Walda
Barnett
Fort Wayne College of Medicine
Ann Arbor University
Chicago College
Fonernl
Methodist Church Plans Major Frontage and Interior Renovation
Wayne Street Methodist Church committee discusses reconstruction to include a new front and corner tower, expanded interior with galleries and 1100 seating, 200 more for Sunday school, a 500 seat classroom, social room and kitchen, steam heating, electric lighting, improved ventilation, toilets, and mother’s room. Extension toward parsonage adds 40 feet with Gothic front and porch. Final plans to be adopted at next official board meeting. Also chicken roast tonight at Wiebke’s board of Trade Calhoun Street.
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Wayne Street
M. BE
Broadway
Suit for Insurance Against Knights of Honor
Gustave Menkhausen of Mascoutah Illinois sues in St. Clair County Court for $1000 life insurance held by his deceased wife of which he was beneficiary. He is serving a life term in southern Illinois penitentiary for wife murder after a poisoning conviction later commuted from hanging. He denies the murder.
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Mascovutag
Gustave Menkhausen
St. Clair County
Grand Lodge Knights of Honor
Menkhausen
Southern Illinois Penitentiary
New American Tailor System Offers Garment Cuts
Advertising promise offers a complete tailoring system that can teach anyone to cut every garment. The program costs five dollars and includes free patterns. Address listed as Mrs. Lona at 77 East Berry Street.
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Lona
East Berry Street
Deaths and Funerals Mary Reitz Shipped to Bryant Ind
The remains of Mrs. Mary Reitz who died at St. Josephs hospital last evening of hip disease were shipped to Bryant Indiana this noon.
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Mary Reitz
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Bryant
Ind
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