Money sought from Fort Wayne Gas over Brookside fire
Insurance firms seek 125000 from Fort Wayne Gas Company and Laura H Bass with Imperial Insurance London for Brookside farm losses after a 1902 fire. Suit claims gas regulator overpressure caused the blaze. Mrs Bass named to compel action under policy terms. Several underwriters listed, damages break down as 75000 for building and 50000 for contents. suit filed in superior court after federal action failed.
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Superior Court
Brookside Farm
Fort Wayne Gas Company
Laura H. Bass
Imperial Insurance Company, Limited
London
England
Brookside
Indianapolis
Gilbert, Wood and Townsend
Death of Edgerton Morris In Fort Logan Accident
Edger ton Morris died at Fort Logan Colorado March 26 from injuries after being thrown from a horse. His neck was dis located by the fall and death followed shortly. He was the son of Major and Mrs E R Morris and grandson of the late Hon J K Edgerton.
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Colorado
Edgerton Morris
Fort Logan
Col
E. R. Morris
J. K. Edgerton
Model Gas Engine Works bids for U.S. river engines
President Max B. Fisher of Model Gas Engine Works Auburn has sent bids to supply eight large gas engines to the United States government for river improvements on the upper Ohio near Pittsburgh. Fisher hopes to win the contract.
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Max B. Fisher
Model Gas Engine Works
Auburn
United States
Ohio River
Pittsburg
Fisher
One fashion out of date
A South Bend Times excerpt notes that talk of transferring Kosciusko county to the Twelfth district is unfounded. It argues apportionment cannot be done to suit political interests and that current practice no longer allows such piecemeal shifts.
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Kosciusko County
Fort Wayne
Bankrupt Edgar Hallett Davis Files Petition
Hallett Davis, a laborer from Angola, filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in the federal court. Reported assets total 742.68 dollars with no exempt claims noted.
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Hallett Davis
Angola
Hut No
Tadde
Yrua’ Rhey
Roosevelt Centered in House Hearing on Lacey Gun Bill
In Washington on March 29 the House committee on territories heard both sides in the Lacey bill to ban automatic shotguns in U S territories. President Roosevelt was urged to sides with the campaign against repeating guns. A letter from the president, dated January 22, 1906, supported the view claimed by sportsmen.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Storm
House Committee On Territories
United States
G. O. Shields
League of American Sportsmen
Shields
House act on consular reform report adopted
In Washington on March 29 the House adopted the conference report on the consular reform bill after Mr. Adams of Pennsylvania explained it. Mr. Hepburn of Iowa sought a time agreement for the pure food bill but was blocked and said he would present it later. The Speaker announced the Kiowa and Comanche country bill open before the House and Senate.
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Washington
House
Adams
Pennsylvania
Hepburn
Iowa
Senate
Railroad rate bill urged by Texas cattle association petition
In the Senate today Culbertson read a memorial from the Texas Cattle Raisers Association urging passage of the railroad rate bill as in the House. Attorney H. Cowan stated railroads raised cattle shipments by $18 per car over six years, costing $10 million above old prices, a charge affecting range states. The petition urged resisting amendments seen as subterfuge. The Senate adjourned to Monday as Lodge presented the consular reorganization conference report. Clay addressed the chamber on the bill.
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Washington
Senate
Culbertson
Cattle Raisers Association of Texas
House
H. Cowan
Lodge
Clay
Boundary dispute between Texas and Mexico to be studied
Senate foreign relations panel will review the 1905 convention to eliminate Bancos islands from the Rio Grande boundary. The pact, drafted with Mexico and the United States maps, defines a deepest channel line as perpetual boundary, with Bancos islands assigned to Mexico or the United States.
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Washington
Texas
Mexico
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Culbertson
Bailey
Rio Grande
United States
Senor de Azpiroz
Alvey A. Adee
Senate
Senor Don Casasus
Beni Pass
Tha
Room Worker Hits Conductor's Coin Heist
Police hunt for a suave suspected thief who rented rooms at 330 Montgomery and later Baker and Webster streets. He rummaged a trunk owned by Ed Felger, a street car conductor, and escaped with 31 dollars while landladies grew suspicious. A detailed description is with authorities.
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Montgomery Street
Ed Felger
Felger
Baker and Webster Streets
Self Complacency and Its Effects on Women
An essay on self complacency describes it as persistent calm self-satisfaction that blinds others and stifles tolerance. It argues women with this trait lack understanding of unfamiliar views, resist new ideas, and justify judgment without openness.
Window Posing as a Profession
A St Louis man supports a window posing act he performs with his wife and seven year old daughter. The family works daily from ten to four in a clothing store window posing in varied attitudes drawing curious crowds and tests of realism. The man says concentration keeps him from laughing as onlookers tap the glass and question if he is real.
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St. Louis
Vsz
Elock
Satay
Acme
Immortal J N Free Declared Insane in Ohio
Upper Sandusky March 25 The Immortal J N Free known across the Middle West as a man who sought to lift the veil and put on the pressure was adjudged insane today and sent to the Toledo state hospital. He is 78, frail in health, and has traveled nationwide without paying rail fare.
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Upper
Sandusky, O
J. N.” Free
Toledo
Immortal J N Free Ends Wandering Life in Ohio Home
Indianapolis correspondent recalls Jacob Newman Free known as Immortal J N who has settled with sister Mrs. John Cooley in McCutchenville Ohio after a lifetime of free rail travel and erratic speaking tours. Born 1826 Mansfield, he once studied law with Edwin M. Stanton and lectured nationwide lifting a fictitious veil, never delivering on dates yet collecting collections and maintaining a dramatic but incoherent oration.
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Indianapolis
Jacob Newman Free
J. x
John Cooley
McCutchenville
Tiffin
Free
United States
Central States
Ohio
California
Mansfield
Edwin M. Stanton
J. N
Indiana
Middle West
Huntington
Ind
Heaven
Angola Line to Start Electric Streetcar Service Next Month
Foster and Wood of the Angola Railway and Power Company toured Angola to inspect properties and discuss improvements including extending tracks into the city center. The electric line will connect Angola with Lake James and streetcars begin on schedule this month pending Kemson opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foster
Wood
Traction Affaire
Angola
M. Foster
Bddi
Angola Railway and Power Mumpatr
Ander Wats Améng
Lake Jamez
Cara
Kemson
Losses and wrecks mount from New England seas
A winter of severe storms left eighty five sailors dead and fifty four ships wrecked along New England and maritime provinces. British flagged vessels predominate with twenty seven losses. Norwegian, German and Swedish ships appear. The British King foundered near Sable Island with eighteen to twenty six lives lost. Turbin and Lunenberg disasters marked a string of wrecks as weeks passed without days free from disaster.
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Boston
New England
Maritime
Sable Island
Turbin
Clarks’ Harbor
Nova Scotia
Lunenberg
Amherst Harbor
Magdalen Islands
Longtime Peru Resident James Henton Dies
James T. Henton, a 69year resident of Peru, died Tuesday. Other brief items include no jury trials in the Noble circuit court at Albion, a South Bend school addition of manual training, and local notes on gas drilling plans, hunting licenses, temperance efforts, and a DeKalb post office name change from St Joe Station to St Joe.
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James T. Henton
Peru
Noble
Albion
South Bend
Luke Miller
Will Gamble
Will Miller
Wabash
Barnum
Henry R. Cornell
Ligonier
Bluffton and
Montpelier
Fort Wayne Gas Company
Hartford City
Jacob Souers
Huntington
Indiana
Angola
St. Joe Station
DeKalb County
St. Joe
Post Office Department
Warren Bills
Richland Township
Whitley County
Michigan
Newton
Marshall
Fort Wayne Rolling Mills to Add Two Waste-Heat Boilers
General Manager H C Rockhill announced Thursday a order with Bass Foundry and Machine for two 125-hp waste-heat boilers. These, with other improvements, will lift muck-mill output by about twenty tons daily. One boiler goes into a sand-bottom furnace. the other outfits a second furnace. Business is satisfactory and the plant aims to run at full capacity through the season.
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H. C. Rockhill
Fort Wayne Rolling Mills
Bass Founty and Machine Company
Reargument of Hearst Case Opens Before I C C
The interstate commerce commission began reargument today in Washington on William Randolph Hearst of New York v anthracite coal roads. Hearst challenges coal rates from mines to dewatst the interstate commission seeks more information, noting related federal railroad cases and questioning carriers' transport practices.
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Washington
William Randolph Hearst
New York
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hearst
Commerce
Commission
United States
New Haven
Hartford
Chesapeake
Ohio
Railroad
Eliey
Russia braces for trouble as police and guards reinforced
In St Petersburg a special commission under Premier Witte coordinates troops and police to curb revolutionary and agrarian unrest. Police strength rises with 100 more officers and 1,300 guards, costing 404000 dollars. In Poltava district peasants clash near Cantacuzene estate. The princess, mother of Prince Cantacuzene who married General Grant’s daughter, features in the report.
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St. Petersburg
Witte
Reaiiiews
Nicholas
Poltava
Russia
Bouromkat
Cantacuzene
Grant
U.S. A
Bodies sunk at sea after mutiny sentence Otchakoff
Odessa reports that Lieutenant Schmidt and three comrades shot March 19 for mutiny were executed under Vice Admiral Chouknin. Their bodies were taken to the open sea and sunk. Officials order no visits or wreaths at the burial site.
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Odessa
Chouknin
Black Sea
Schmidt
Otchakoff
Atchakoff
Greatly Needed Relief Nurses Sought in Fort Wayne
The Visiting Nurse League says its four nurses are worn out by rising calls to care for the sick poor. General Secretary O E Mohler of Associated Charities appeals for experienced nurses willing to work for modest pay, even for a few hours, to alleviate overtaxed staff.
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Visiting Nurse League
Fort Wayne
O. E. Mohler
Associated Charities
Mr. Mohler
Austrian family dies as gas fixture traps siblings
In Philadelphia on March 29 a tenement gas accident due to unknown fixture mechanism left Immigrant family members incapacitated. Head of the family Shaye Weissstein died, while wife Rose and daughters Celia 22 Sarah 19 and Anna 14 were critically ill.
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Philadelphia
Shaye Weisstein
Rose
Celia
Sarah
Anna
Landis Renominated by Acclaimation in Indiana Third District
Fred Landis wins renomination at a rousing Eleventh district convention held in Logansport Indiana. Delegates from Blackford Cass Grant Huntington Miami and Wabash counties back Landis with all 153 votes while resolutions praise the president and Governor Hanly and urge Charles W Fairbanks for the presidency.
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Wabash
Ind
Fred Landis
Marion Evans
George McKee
Logansport
Milton Krauss
Edward McConnell
Landis
Murphy
Blackford County
Cass
Grant
Huntington
Miami
Hanly
Fairbanks
Indiana
United States
Charles W. Fair’ Banks
Kings Daughters and Sons Hold Indiana Convention
Logansport Ind March 29 The second annual convention of the Indiana branch of the Kings Daughters and Sons with over 100 delegates in session. Devotional services opened the day with Mrs Frank Wall of Logansport delivering the welcome and Mrs Robert Harding of Fort Wayne replying. Business included committee appointments and reading of reports. Miss Clara Morehouse of the Central council Chicago spoke on The Educational Side of the Order.
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Logansport
Ind
Indiana
We International Order of the Kings Daughters and Sons
Frank Wall
Robert Harding
Fort Wayne
Clara Morehouse
Central Council
Chicago
Mine Fire Reported at Clover Leaf Mine West of Linton
Linton Indiana March 29 Clover Leaf mine seven miles west of the city was found on fire this morning. Local fire department responded and miners were removed in time with no injuries reported.
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Linton
Ind
Clover Leaf
President nominates Indiana postmasters in senate review
Washington March 29. The president today sent to the senate nominations of Indiana postmasters. M. K. Moffett is named for Connersville and W. A. Fordyce for Shelburn.
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Washington
Senate
Indiana
M. K. Moffett
Connersville
W. A. Fordyce
Shetburn
Cox Ranked Sole Name On Primary Ballots
New Albany Ind March 20 Zenor failed to pay the primary assessment due for the Democratic state central committee election next Wednesday. W E Cox paid his share to District Chairman Mark S Toren leaving Cox as the only name on ballots for the congressional primary.
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New Albany
Ind
Zenor
Democratic State Central Committee
W. E. Cox
Mark S. Toren
Burglars Loot Michigan City Public Library
Robbers last night stole 15 dollars from the Robsed Public Library in Michigan City Ind and damaged the building by throwing bricks through cathedral windows causing 506 dollars in damage.
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Michigan City
Ind
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South Bend Times
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