Visitors and a welfare case noted in local postings
Mrs James Herline and son Ben from Chicago visit Mrs Campbell on South Webster street. Mrs J Longfield of 67 Charles street notified Defiance relatives about sister illness. Humane Officer Schlaudroff removed a 13 year old girl from Mrs Florence Case’s home amid neighbor concerns of ill treatment. mother denies any mistreatment. Miss Sue Thompson entertained guests for Miss Reed of Jeffersonville with Bertha Maier Grace White Katherine Hattersley and others at the gathering.
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Ben
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Humane
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Florence Case
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Sue Thompson
Miss Reed
Jeffersonville
Bertha Maier
Grace White
Katherine Hattersley
Messrs
Ben Harper
W. Mungen
Fred Smith
Robert Hanna
Mesdames Calvin Rieman
Ed White
Charles Colerick
Free sheet music with $1 purchase at Karn Music Store
The Karn music shop at 9 East Columbia Street will give away 3000 copies of sheet music to customers who spend at least one dollar on goods. Each qualifying buyer receives one copy.
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Grand California Tour by special Pullman train
A limited select party can travel in a special Pullman train to California with dining sleeping drawing room compartment and observation cars. Tickets good returning nine months from sale. For full itinerary call or write G L Harrington Columbus Ohio or W C Rinearson Cincinnati Ohio. Wabash offers round trip excursions to Hot Springs Arkansas 90 days with through sleeping car service and one change in St Louis.
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Deadlock in Senate on tariff bill as House rejects free coinage
Washington February 14 The Senate defeated Morrills motion to take up the tariff bill by 2 to 29 with Democrats Populists and four Republicans voting no The House meanwhile rejected the Senate free coinage amendment to the bond bill 80 to 190 Reported efforts to push relief measures stall as deficit legislation remains unchanged Prompting talk of an international monetary conference and possible action by Ways and Means.
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Germany
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Oriental Goods
Alonzo Stewart
Iowa
Bernard Layton
Ohio
Missouri Democrat Challenges Colleague Over Roll Call
Hall challenged De Armond during a Missouri debate, saying five Missouri Democrats remain in the chamber and vowing to fight for sound money. He criticized public officials as cowardly and predicted strong support from his district for his stance while accusing the other side of silver monometallism.
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de Armond
Killingsgate
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United States
Laclede
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Congress
Hall and De Armond Clash Over Silver Question
Two Missouri Democrats Hall and De Armond clash in a debate on sound money. The exchange turns personal as De Armond criticizes Hall’s language and Hall retorts about threats of corruption and past challenges to discuss the issue publicly.
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Missouri
Hall
de Armond
Benedict Arnold
Judas Iscariot
Washington
DeArmond
Dockery's Plan to Shield Gold Reserve
Dockery introduces a bill to remove New York as the redeeming center for legal tender and shift that role to the City of St. Louis to curb gold depletion. He argues exchanging points would burden exporters and speculators, limiting gold withdrawals to legitimate needs. The day also reports Senate action on the deficiency bill, free coinage debate defeat in the House, and routine committee moves amid a session adjourned to Monday.
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Washington
Dockery
New York
St. Louis
San Francisco
Trial Hearsay Contested as Kellars Face Possible Lynching
In Terre Haute on February 14 the trial over Clara Shanks's murder nears its end as the Kellars risk acquittal. The defense seeks to discharge the jury over alleged improper remarks by state counsel, while prosecutors stress a fatal error in referencing a defendant's failure to testify. The judge allows continued argument with an exception to the record.
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Parke
Kellars
Clara Shanks
Lamb
Simms
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Dan Kellar
George Kellar
John Kellar
Taylor
Supreme Courts
Simons
Kidnap Plot Aimed at Forcing Marriage Unfolds Near Walton
Miss Ida Baker of Walton was abducted after dark while returning home from a friend's house. She was driven five miles, overpowered, left on a roadside, and did not regain consciousness for hours. A detective says the scheme sought to compel a marriage, with the mastermind and mediator from the rural community soon to face arrest.
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Indianapolis
Ida Baker
Walton
Best Citizens Want Lynch Mob For Pearl Bryan Case
Indiana dispatch from Newport Ky quotes a Greencastle letter urging lynching of Jackson Walling and Wood for Pearl Bryan's murder. The writer claims guilt and calls for swift punishment, saying locals and the dead girl's family deserve retribution.
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Walling
Pearl Bryan
Wood
Pearl
Prominent Montomery County Figures Prepare for Death
Crawfordsville Indiana February 14 Two leading Montgomery county citizens make final burial preparations Uncle Drake Brookshire father of ex Congress man Brookshire has a solid oak coffin built to ensure best timber quality John Eastlack of Ladoga orders a tombstone inscribed Here lies a Mason and a Democrat He is among Indiana s oldest Masons and staunch Democrat of the old school
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Crawfordsville
Montgomery County
Drake Brookshire
Brookshire
John Eastlack
Ladoga
Indiana
Local man survives throat slash after bet filled spree
Daniel Dempster of Frankfort, after wagering in saloons he would die within an hour, was found in an alley with a deep throat wound. He blames domestic troubles for the act and is expected to recover. A separate note reports Rev. Robert G. Hammond of Am bin receiving an anonymous dynamite threat via mail, prompting police to investigate.
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Frankfort
Daniel Dempster
Robert G. Hammond
M. E
Am* bin
Attemp
Contested Mill Fight Ends in Knockout Victory
In Jeffersonville on February 14 Charles Owen and Don Louis faced off in a hotly contested mill side and gate receipts bout. Owen was knocked out in the third round, Louis declared the winner.
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Jeffersonville
Charles Owen
Don Louis
Cementville
Owen
Louia
Coming Back on the Mayor
Shelbyville reports Gilbert J. Phillips and James Whitcomb, once jailed during the liquor war, sue the mayor and city marshal for 10000 dollars in false imprisonment. In Fower Anna Lewis wins 2000 damages after being ejected from a Lake Erie and Western train for refusing to pay 10 cents extra fare.
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Gilbert J. Phillips
James Whitcomb
Fower
Anna Lewis
Lake Erie and Western
Abbreviated Telegrams Obituary Summary
Obituaries list Ambroise Thomas in Paris age 85 and others across U S towns including Robert Tarr 67 Malden and Samuel L Ross 90 Avon. Notes on Paderowski’s manager Harry von Gorlitz arrested in San Francisco for $251 debt. Abbey elected to British Royal Academy. Niagara river near dry. Also reports on jewelers’ assets, German Reichstag leader remarks, two Chicago aldermen charged with assault, a box-packing father in Shawnee county, merchants association seeking a national manufacturing department, and 109 year old Etienne Chatelain in Cornwall Ontario with 276 descendants.
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France
Ambroise Thomas
Malden
Mass
Robert Tarr
Mariden
Miss
Charles Hall
Evansville
Wis
Wabash
Ind
Asher McCowan
Leavenworth
Kan
William F. Piper
Sterling
John Phillips
Avon
Samuel L. Ross
Virginia
Ills
Harriet McClure
Lebanon
Bloomfield Taylor
Lagro
John Reed
Paderowski
Herr von Gorlitz
San Francisco
Edwin A. Abbey
British Royal Academy
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Schlossers’ Dock
H. M. Smith & Co. Manufacturing Jewelers
New York City
Edward V. Slausen
Hammerstein
National Liberals
Kaiser
Kruger
Transvaal
Chicago
Lammers and Haas
Frank O'Neill
O’neill
Joseph Love
Shawnee County
Love
Guthrie
O. T
Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association
Milwaukee
Department of Manufactures
Etienne Chatelain
Cornwall
Ont
Market Reports Show Mixed Prices Across Commodities
New York financials show money on call at 3 4 4 percent and sterling firm with banker bills around 4 87, 4 83. Chicago board quotes grains slight shifts with February wheat 63 to 64 cents, summer contracts near 66 cents, and pork products steady. Live stock at Chicago Union Stock Yards features hogs around 3 25 to 4 00, cattle and sheep with varied bids, and notable death of pacing stallion Fidel at Cedar Falls.
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United States
Pacific
Chricago
Oasis
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Chicago
Union
Texas
Lease denies quitting politics to join ministry
Mrs. Mary H. Lease the Populist orator has qualified a story that she will enter the ministry. She plans to preach at a Wichita church next Sunday to help pay the church’s indebtedness. She says her political speeches are the ethics of Christ and dismissed the rumor as mischief.
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Kan
Mary H. Lease
Christ
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