Local notices and incidents in town society
Mrs. W H Ninde entertains Mrs Meeks of Sanford Conn. Mrs Wil Griswold leaves for Elizabeth N J. Frank Smock opens a union barber shop at 383 South Lafayette. Alice Worden improves from bronchitis. Mrs Jacob Beaker hosts Congregational church ladies 3 to 5 pm. Frank Schlink injures left foot skating at Reservoir lake. Crance, a Frenchtown youth, arrested for insulting language. Lopshire family narrowly escapes poisoning after beef broth soup illness. Dr J E Miller treats them.
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W. H. Ninde
Meeks
Sanford
Frank Schlink
East Lewis Street
Reservoir Lake
Indiana Supreme Court Reverses State Apportionment Law
The Indiana Supreme Court ruling returns to 1885 for a valid apportionment act and declares the 1895 Republican act and the 1893 Democrat act unconstitutional. It also finds Miners Screen Law inoperative, holds Section 6 cannot convict, and notes coal must be weighed after screening to credit miners, invalidating a Parke County case against Joseph Martin.
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Indianapolis
Supreme Court
Sullivan County
Joseph Martin
Parke County Coal Company
William Cherry
McCabe
Paper Wad Incident Overshadows Clarksburg Revival
In Greensburg on January 31 a disturbance at a Methodist revival in Clarksburg led to William Smith, a deacon, being struck by a paper wad hurled by Charles Higgs. Smith prayed for mercy on Higgs and local youths, then left in protest. Smith filed an assault affidavit. Higgs was fined.
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Greensburg
Clarksburg
Methodist Church
William Smith
Charles Higgs
Smith
Higgs
Patent tire contrivance offers quick road setup
A patent inventor refuses a $10,000 offer as a company plans to manufacture the contrivance promising road use in under ten minutes and easy spoke replacement. In unrelated notes, Kellar trial crowd spots tracks to Clara Shanks case as various testimonies unfold in Terre Haute.
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Olés
Terre Haute
Frederick Shanks
Clara
Daniel Shanks
Lawrence Shanks
Shanks
James Wilder
Kellar
Stock buyer fatally shot in farmyard dispute near Playmourts
John Sweveland, a well known stock buyer, was shot and killed by Samuel Stewart at a machinery safe on the Charles Hisesser farm nine miles northeast of Playmourts yesterday afternoon. The shooting stemmed from an old quarrel.
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Playmourts
John Sweveland
Samuel Stewart
Charles Hisesser
Obituary and arrest report from regional notices
Obituaries note the deaths of Fiorelli in Rome at 70 and James Austin Church in New York at 56, with other brief memorials for Horatio Stone in Rockford Illinois S Faulkner in Middletown New York and Clarence Merritt in Terre Haute Indiana. A fire damages R H Pingree Co. lumber dealers Lewiston Maine causing $200000 in losses. Governor Altgeld seeks surrender of Serf Levy wanted in Bellevue Iowa for fraud against Bank of Bellevue. Levy is under arrest in Chicago.
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Rome
Fiorelli
New York
James Austin Church
Rockford
Illa
Horatio Stone
Middletown
N. Y
S. Faulkner
Terre Haute
Ind
Clarence Merritt
R. H. Pingree & Co
Lewiston
Altgeld
Serf Levy
Bellevue
Bank of Bellevue
Chicago
Financial markets report from New York and Chicago
The Market section shows money on call easy at 4 percent, bankers' bills around 4831 for demand, 4734 for sixty days, and various bond prices. In Chicago grains, Wheat and Corn futures moved with January to May positions, while data on lard and dairy quotes appear alongside commodity figures and stock prices.
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New York
Prime Mercantile
Sterling Exchange
United States
Chicago
Board of Trade
Senate Debates Silver Bond Bill In Capital City Notes
A heated Senate session in Capital City debates the pending silver bond bill and a possible vote. Jones of Arkansas aims to force a vote before recess as Mitchell of Oregon and Perkins of California defend free coinage and bimetallism. A rider to test tariff versus silver is hinted, with California backing the silver amendment despite opposition.
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Capital City
Washington
Jan
Senate Seasion
Jones
Arkansas
Senate
Vilas
Chandler
Carcaatia
Stewart
Buncombe
Senat
Mitchell
Oregon
England
Germany
California
Perkins
Nevada
Miller
Supreme Court
House
Poole
Miss Williard Society Opposes Military Tactics in Schools
Mrs Frances W Leiter of Mansfield Ohio directs a petition to Washington legislators from the National W C T U protesting any measure to introduce military instruction into public schools. The petition argues schools should build citizenship and peace, not warfare, and urges defeat of bills to implement military tactics in curricula.
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Washington
Frances W. Leiter
Mansfield
Department of Physical Culture
W.C. T.U
Hom
Bayard Matter Draws Party Line Clash in House
In Washington on January 31 the House Foreign Affairs Committee debated censuring Ambassador Bayard. Republicans pressed for censure while Democrats staunchly opposed, producing one of the committee’s most heated discussions in years.
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Washington
Bayard
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Prominent Detroit Bridge Hearing Draws State Leaders
A senate commerce hearing focused on a proposed Detroit River bridge to be built by Michigan Central Bridge Co for Vanderbilt rails at about 4 million dollars. Detroit leaders Governor Rich Dickinson Alger Pingree attended with railroad representatives. critics warned river piers would hinder water traffic.
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Washington
Detroit River
Detroit
Senate Committee
Rich
Don M. Dickinson
Alger
Pingree
Railroad and Navigation
Michigan Central Bridge Company
Vanderbilt
Henry Russell
Railroad and Bridge Company
Russell
Lake
Goulder
Lake Carriers’ Association
Bills and deaths flash across Jan senate and city briefs
In Des Monies Jan 31 bills are introduced in the senate on flag display at schools soldier relief and suffrage measures. in St Louis Ephraim Owens a young lawyer dies by self administered poison after a love rejection. reports from New York Transvaal mining concerns and Boers tension. Colorado Springs an express theft confession. Troy New York an express car robbery. a fire in Keokuk destroys dry goods stock.
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St. Louis
Ephraim W. Owens
Southern Hotel
Amy Opel
New York
H. C. Catlin
Robert Catlin
Transvaal
Messrs
Curtis
Hammond
West
Simmer and
Jack
Dunleeps
Troy
West Shore Road
Boston
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Milton
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A. Z. Hoffman
Indiana Mutual Telephone Association
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Rush Illie
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Roxy Atterbury
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