Free silver wing tries to take control of Indiana campaign
Indiana Democrats split as free silver leaders push to run the campaign and demand the resignation of state committee chairman Sterling Holt. A campaign committee from each district forms to steer delegates to Chicago, while gold standard allies seek help from officials and a state committee meeting looms.
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InpDian Apouis
Democratic Party
Sterling
Holt
State Committee
Grand Hotel
Agricultural Hall
State Capitol
Franklin Landers
B. F. Shively
South Bend
Tthe
Free Silver League
Free Silver
Chicago
Matthews
John P. Frenzel
Merchants National Bank
Eckels
Democratic State Committee
Local mishaps and arrests headline brisk city news
Reports include an arm fracture on Smith Street, a car axle break and ditches on the Nickel Plate line causing two hour train delays, a jail confession after Deputy Harrod captures Howard Yocum, and a Nebraska family dispute with court fines plus ongoing legal actions in multiple suits and fraudulent conveyance claims.
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Claypeel-on-the Nickel Plate
Seymour Harrod
Howard Yocum
Alliance
Yocum
Adams Express Company
Clausmeier
Harrod
Calhoun Street
Pittsburg
Turned Out Right John Keller Shoots Wife then Self
John Keller 28 at 1 a m fired at his wife at John Street home in jealousy. He then shot himself in the neck and skull base but was not thought to be fatally wounded. Wife escaped and Keller was taken to Hope Hospital.
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John Keller
John Street
Keller
Hope Hospital
Relief for Sufferers Ends at Aveline Hotel
To chronic sufferers of rupture varicocele piles spinal and other mechanical disturbances a remedy is offered by calling on Dr Ban ning of Cleveland who remains at the Aveline Hotel for a brief period.
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Banning
Cleveland
Aveline
Dapper Drifter Hart Sought In Bigamy Scandal
Fort Wayne residents recall a small-time showman known as Charles T Hart and his partner Read who ran a summer theatre, absconded with funds, and left actors stranded. In Princeton Indiana police pursue Hart on bigamy charges after two wives surface in separate tales of desertion. A Toronto Windsor marriage ties emerge with Ollie Coolige and Hart.
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Fort Wayne
Temple
Jones
Aveline
Charles T. Hart
Read
Luella Goodrich
Hart
Princeton
Ind
Ollie Coolige
Bloomer Girl
Charles T. Robinson
Ollie
Windsor
Can
Homer
Mich
Evansville
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Wife 1 Married Robinson in Scottsburg and meets Wife 2
The wife known as Luvella Goodrich married Robinson in Scottsburg Indiana on July 4 1892. Her parents later moved from Scottsburg to Homer Michigan. She met Charles while with Harry Lacy’s Planter's Wife and today called on wife No 2 for a reportedly unhappy meeting.
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Robinson
Scottsburg
Ind
Luvella Goodrich
Homer, Mich
Charles
Harry Lacy
Planter
Copy of Land and a Living Offer to W C Rinearson
A request to W. C. Rinearson general Pass'r Agent Queen & Crescent Route Cincinnati for a copy of the new book Land and a Living. Mentions cheap farms in the South, no sunstrokes, no blizzards, low railroad rates, and free printed matter.
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W. C. Rinearson
General Pass
Queen & Crescent Route
Cincinnati
South
Victims Identified After Ellice Point Bridge Collapse
Victoria May 27. Identifications proceed as 57 bodies are recovered from the Ellice Point disaster. The car register shows 90 fares but 125 passengers were aboard. 20 known on the bridge are unaccounted for and likely dead. Many carriages went down. about 200 people may have been thrown into the water.
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Victoria
Ellice Point
Fort Wayne to Chicago Nickel Plate Train Daily Fare
A daily service on the Nickel Plate road runs from Fort Wayne to Chicago year round priced at four dollars. The offer covers all days of the year with no stated exceptions.
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Fort Wayne
Chicago
Nickel Plate Road
Handsome Country Villa Transformed Into Reeking Shambles
A country villa suffers severe ruin described as a transformed, dilapidated state. Authorities probe the scene with investigators and local residents reacting to the startling destruction and its grim aftermath.
Baby Escapes as California Tragedy Strikes Campbell
A Campbell murder spree leaves Col. R. P. McGlincy, his wife, their daughter, a son, and two servants dead. Dunham, the alleged killer, fled toward San Jose, leaving a newborn baby as the sole survivor. Domestic troubles cited. McGlincy served as a California commissioner to the Chicago Columbian Exposition.
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San Jose
Cal
California
Campbell
James Dunham
Col
R. P. McGlincy
Dunham
James Wells
Colonel McGlincy
Chicago
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J. A. Graham
Pennsylvania
Express
Nebraska
Justice France
Delia O'Connell
Mary Payton
Alfred Payton
Delia O’connell
Spy Run Avenue
Hines
Charles’ W. Conde
William C. Bainbridge
George Neukamm
John Neukamm
Michael Fuchs
Defendents
Minnie Fuchs
Minnie Neukamm
Fred. Fuchs
Elizabeth
Rosina
Henry Fuchs
Leonard Bros
Bulletin
Tretheway Bros
Calhoun ST
Devil's Butchery
Santa Clara
McGlincy
Wells
Mergentheim
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