Assailant Fails To Wound Judge Cutting In Court Hall
Frank F. Ellerbrock fired at Judge Charles Cutting of the probate court as he entered the criminal court building. The judge overpowered him with a throat grip and a heat driven throw to the floor, with deputy sheriffs aiding. Ellerbrock, claiming a sister’s estate was improperly closed, will be sent to an asylum after indictment for assault with a deadly weapon and attempted murder.
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Chicago
Charles §. Cutting
Probate Court
Frank F. Eilerbrock
California Avenue
Cutting
Criminal Court
Ellerbrock
Judge Cutting
Broderick
Wilson
Elerbrack
Steiner
Chicago Avenue Delice
Kohlsaat
Ellerbrack
Kohlkaat
Probate
Hllerbrock
Father and Son Separated in Michigan City Prison
Marion Indiana reports both George Stillwell and Clifford Stillwell are inmates at the Michigan City prison but barred from speaking or meeting except during mess. George, 41, was delivered yesterday by Deputy Sheriff Nelson. Clifford was jailed months earlier for stealing clothes and the son for burglary.
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Marion
Ind
Michigan City
George Stillwell
Clifford Stillwell
Nelson
Lunatic Escaped Patient Arrested Near Massillon
Jonas Troyer, an escapee from the Massillon state hospital, was captured Friday at McMahen farm west of Massillon by Deputy Sheriffs Hartel and Hughes. He offered no resistance and agreed to return to custody as Ohio authorities are notified.
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Jonas Troyer
State Hospital
Massilon
McMahen Farm
Hartel
Hughes
Ohio
Hiram Congalton
Monroeville
Young fiend who slew five is hanged
Joda Hamilton a 20 year old farmer boy was hanged in Houston Missouri for the Parsons family murders. He killed Barney Parsons his wife and their three children after a dispute over a farm sale. He confessed after arrest and the execution marked the countys first legal hanging.
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Joda Hamilton
Parsons
Missouri
Houston
Barney Parsons
Hamilton
Iowa
Passive Resistance With Vengeance In Austrian Post
A Vienna report notes a passive resistance strike by 25 000 post office workers nationwide. Employed men and women follow strict rules to paralyze mail delivery without violating regulations while negotiations for pay gains resume. Wages currently start near 45 cents daily, rising to about 90 cents after long service.
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Vienna
Austria
Vatican protests French church policy over 1905 law
The Vatican issued a strong note to papal representatives condemning France actions that blocked church communication and expelled Monsignor Montagnini. It argues the 1905 church state separation law harms ecclesiastical rights, affording worship and property control to lay authorities and forcing clergy into unjust conditions.
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Rome
Vatican
Monsignor Montagnini
Paris
Holy Sea
Judge Skelton Orders Chief to Break Up Wheel Device
In a Friday city court session Judge B W Skelton told Police Chief Ankenbruck to destroy a wheel of fortune seized at the Kennedy saloon on Harrison and Columbia streets. He stated statutes require police to destroy gambling devices in custody whether seized by warrant or otherwise. The device is a nonvaluable dial from a nickel in the slot machine costing only a few dollars. Also named: John Schremser fined $6 and costs for drunkenness. Charles Lysher given another chance due to his wife and children. Scott Imhoff fined $1 and costs for drunkenness and passing a bad check. William F Brown arrested in the Redrup saloon raid with $25 fine and $50 bond. Mrs. W S Littler of Markle dead from injuries in the November 21 wind alarm incident.
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B. W. Skelton
Ankenbruck
Wheel of Fortune
Kennedy
Harrison
Columbia Streets
John Schremser
Charles Lysher
Scott Imhoff
Pappert
Redrup
William F. Brown
Man Gives Son Wedding Gift A Peck Of Coin In Hoard
Frankfort Indiana December 21 a former county commissioner Zimri Sheets recalls a remark about his son Walter Sheets now grown as he presented him and his bride with a peck of United States coins. The hoard stored in jars under a tree was blown down and moved to the Sheets home then deposited in Clinton County Bank weighing over seventy five pounds and of varied denominations.
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Sheets
Frankfort
Clinton County
Boy Kills Sheriff in Keensburg Alley Ambush
Mount Carmel December 21. Albert Kellem an 18 year old hid in an alley and fatally shot Sheriff Alexander Compton of Wabash County as the lawman returned with a child to David Kellem the father of Albert following a dispute over custody and a claimed plan to kill the father. Compton attempted to disarm the youth during a confrontation prior to the ambush.
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Mount Carmel
Alexander Compton
Wabash County
Albert Kellem
Keensburg
Compton
Kellem
David Hellem
David
Sheriff Compton
Albert
David Kellem
Kel Jem Homestead
William Kellem
Man fatally stabbed in book bindery clash
In Center street a fight between Abraham Loss and Louis Segal ended with Loss dead from a neck wound. Police arrested Segal after a brawl that began when Henry Lapidus, 15, swept dust. witnesses say Segal attacked, then Loss defended the boy. Dozens of women witnessed the melee.
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New York
Abraham Loss
Louis Segal
Loss
Segal
Henry Lapidus
T 18
Woman Clerk Is On His Paper For $30,000
Chicago December 21 the Lincoln Bank of Morton Park failed early this week. An attorney for the receiver said notes totaling thirty thousand dollars signed "El Armstrong" showed handwriting like a child. Atkinson claimed Armstrong was a stenographer in Pittsburg, later saying Armstrong was a woman. Bonds and signatures confuse the case as bank books show no records since November 26.
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Chicago
Lincoln Bank
Morton Park
Atkinson
Landis
United States District Court
EL. Armatrong
Armstrong
Bessemer
Pittsburg
Addickson
Dr. Thomas Emmett Named Knight Commander of St Gregory
In New York on December 21 Archbishop Farley announced, by instructions from Pope Pius X, that Dr. Thomas A. Emmett of the city has been made a knight commander of the order of St. Gregory the Great. Born at the University of Virginia, his father Patton Emmett taught chemistry and materia medica. The honor confers the title of count and allows him to accompany the pope at public events.
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New York
Pius KX
Farley
Thomas A. Emmett
Emmett
University of Virginia
Patton Emmett
Indiana Trustees Elect Form Policy for Legislature
Indiana township trustees finalized a legislative program for the next General Assembly. Key bills seek to raise township trustee salaries in towns under 10 000 population to three dollars a day and to permit trustees to seek re election. The association re elected officers and named standing and legislative committees.
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Indianapolis
General Assembly
State Association
C. Miller
Sidney
Wm. A. Thornton
Terre Haute
A. F. Dalton
Bedford
Charles I. Potter
Richmond
Miller
Reichard Schaff
Hammond
Perry F. Smith
Lexington
O. C. Puterbaugh
Elkhart
C. E. Lambert
Muncie
P. R. McCarthy
Vincennes
J. P. Duffy
Sullivan
W. B. West
H. C. Cushman
Logansport
Another Bank Projected for New Haven
A meeting of New Haven prominent citizens and C W Sperry of Fort Wayne proposed a new bank for the city. They plan to raise capital without outside aid, relying on local farmers and property owners to take stock. The bank is anticipated to start before spring. New Haven attendees included Henry F Schnelker Dr L S Null Balser Federspeild and A R Schnitkar.
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New Haven
C. W. Sperry
Fort Wayne
Henry F. Schnelker
Dr. L. S. Null
Balser Federspeild
R. Schnitkar
Jailors surrender without a fight lynch Davis in Annapolis
Henry Davis also known as Henry Chambers a colored man who confessed to raping Mrs. John Reid white woman near Brownsville was seized from the Calvert street jail by about sixty masked men and lynched after being taken to Brickyard hill. The mob used a whipping post and rifles as they killed him then dispersed. the coroner’s jury ruled death by mob unknown. Mrs Reid remains seriously injured.
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Annapolis
Henry Davis
Henry Chambers
John Reid
Brownsville
Calvert Street
Reuben I. Smallwood
Smallwood
Brickyard Hill
Annapolis, Baltimore and Washington
Reid
Davis
St. Johns College
Tylehart’s
Chambers
Green
Linthicum
Conspiracy Claim In Box Board Case Seeks Injunction
Sidney Mitchell files in circuit court to stop dividends of United Box Board and Paper company and to compel an accounting. He alleges a directors conspiracy to wreck the corporation, which is valued at 14 million dollars, and seeks return of Uneas Paper stock from Norwich to the United Box Board and Paper company. He notes American Strawboard’s large holdings and prior earnings and surplus, arguing funds could have been distributed as dividends.
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Chicago
Sidney Mitchell
United Box Board and Paper Company
Box Board Company
Mitchell
New Jersey
Uneas Paper Company
Norwich
Conn
American Strawboard Company
Box Pists Company
Strawboard Company
Indictments Quashed Motions Filed In Bridge Trust Case
Lima Ohio December 21 A group led by I A Hirshey W N Cleveland and R W Houston moves to quash indictments accusing them as bridge trust agents alleging defects under the fourteenth amendment and Ohio constitution Trials are slated for December 26 before Judge Quail. Harry G Hammond formerly of Toledo was convicted and fined 400. Dr W C Smith of Hongland was in the city yesterday.
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Lima
Ohio
I. A. Hirshey
W. N. Cleveland
R. W. Houston
Quail
Harry G. Hammond
Toledo
Firse
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Holy See
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Judge Skelton
W. 5S. Littler
Markle
Peck
Indiana
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Sheriff
Ill
Lincoln
Thomas Emmett
New Yorker
Indiana Trustees Elect
White House
National Naval Academy
Earl McCaughey
Huntington
United Boxboard
W. C. Smith
Hongland
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