Indiana Senate Holds Short Session and Adjourns
Indiana lawmakers engaged in a brief ratification of the new budget and committee appointments. The House passed a $120,000 appropriation in under a thirty minute session. Senate leaders set plans for a joint committee on Governor Marshall's message. A resumption Monday was advised.
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Indianapolis
House of Representatives
Joe ‘Ravens
Jefferson County
Senate
Levi, P.harlan
House
Marshall
Hall
Harlan
Stotsenburg
Fleming
Wood
Higgins
Netterville
Shively
Kane
Carroll K. McCullough
Anderson
Proctor
Stourton Named Minority's Stenographer in Senate
Hazel Stourton of Evaneville was appointed as the minority's stenographer in the Senate on the recommendation of Senator Edgar Durre of Evansville. The appointment was announced by Senator Adyee of Clay County.
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Hivane
Clay County
Adyee
Hazel. Stourton
Evanevilley
Senate
Electric power house explosion darkens Minneapolis area
Minneapolis suffered a massive blast at the General Electric power plant on Third avenue and Main Street. Eleven workers escaped as flames and blue arcs ripped through the building. two were injured and property damage is estimated at 500000 dollars. Fire followed the explosion and disrupted newsrooms, grain trading, and telegraph service as power failed citywide.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Minneapolis General Electric Company
Third Avenue
Main Street
Wm. Rhoades
St. Croix Falls
Pioneer Days
Grain Exchange
Myers Lost One Shoe On Street On Ice
Charles Myers appeared in city court after a night of drinking and exposure. Patrolman Lauer found him wandering on Smith Street with one shoe missing and a severely cold foot. He was fined five dollars and costs and sentenced to fifteen days in jail. The thermometer neared zero as he was taken into custody.
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Charles Myers
Lauer
Smith Street
Myers
Momond
Pines
Elopements Reported In Fort Wayne Area
Ross Elson and Ethel Brudi obtained a marriage license in Fort Wayne and left immediately to wed, avoiding family notice. Meanwhile Harry Starr and Florence Springer eloped from Decatur to Hillsdale Michigan for a Hillsdale wedding and planned a brief visit before settling in Bluffton with relatives.
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Ross Elson
Fort Wayne
Eson
Detroit
Hillsdale
Harry Starr
Bluffton
Florence Springer
Decatur
Mich
Decatur Elks
Berne
War Education Plan Begins at Stanford by Carnegie Fund
President David Starr Jordan announces the Carnegie peace foundation war upon war plan. The foundation will publicize the costs and frauds of war, investigate its nature, promote international law and courts, and publish new material and reprint classics.
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Stanford University
Cal
David Starr Jordan
Carnegie Peace Foundation
Europe
Jordan
Foundation
Carnegie Fund
Two Murderers Die in Chair at Clinton Prison
Dominick Ferrera and Vincent Leonardo, Italian immigrants from Albany, were executed in Clinton prison after confessing to hiring to kill rent collector Phelps. Leonardo testified just before execution, the pair reportedly acted on orders from the Black Hand and planned by digging a grave and attacking Phelps in his saloon. Ferrera maintained his innocence to the end.
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Danemore
Dominick Ferrera
Vincent Leonardo
Albany
Clinton
Leonardo
Ferrera
Phelps
Two Men Killed by a Live Wire in Ohio Fire
Toledo dispatch reports that John Kreiger and John Hermweer were killed and Harry Kohle seriously hurt when they touched a fallen hive electric light wire while fighting a 2 am blaze in Ottawa Ohio. The fire destroyed John Everett’s blacksmith shop, with nominal loss.
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Toledo
John Kreiger
John Hermweer
Harry Kohle
Ottawa
Ohio
John Everett
Stolen Registered Mail Bags Reported in Bay Area
San Francisco authorities report three bags of registered mail valued at 30,000 dollars stolen in transit or during harbor crossings to Oakland. The sacks held late Christmas shipments plus money orders drafts checks and currency for year end bank settlements. Banks face the heaviest losses.
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San Francisco
Oakland
Cail
Battle on trolley car ends in banishment and fines
A drunken man named Brvin, living at Ko home, fought the trolley car crew from Fort Wayne to Huntington Thursday night. Police banished him and assessed costs totaling 26 dollars after the incident during his Friday morning banishment.
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Huntington
Brvin
Fort Wayne
Michigan
Japan says no conflict with United States in stance aired
Japanese newspapers today rebut claims of tension with the United States. Tokio agency reports editors argue commercial ties to China drive interests, not hostility, and Japan will not seek war with America or Britain or Germany.
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Victoria
B. C
United States
Japan
America
China
Eibun Tsushin
Tokio
Demented Woman Fires at Friends in Ohio Home
Isabel Phelps, 66, living with Mr. and Mrs. Morris Walker in Hamilton shoots Walker in the head and his wife in the shoulder. She surrenders at the county courthouse claiming enemies poison her food and she acted to take the law into her own hands.
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Hamilton
Isabel Phelps
Morris Walker
Walker
Graff
Fort Wayne Fire Remembrance Marks 39th Anniversary
Thirty nine years have passed since the White Fruit House fire on West Berry Street. The blaze, caused by a barrel of oil feeding a gas jet, destroyed the Harmony Lodge building site. The incident remains a historic conflagration in Fort Wayne, with a note that the man involved was still employed on Archer Avenue.
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White Fruit House
Fort Wayne
West Berry
Harmony
Archer Avenue
Witnesses Are Gone After Affidavit Against Dobbs
An affidavit charging John Dobbs with theft of $450 was filed, with Georg Wooster noted among those who attended. The text is fragmentary, but indicates a legal action initiated and witnesses missing.
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John Dobbs
Georg Wooster
Aled Phenren
Veneman Elected Speaker On Second Ballot in Indiana House
Albert J. Veneman of Evansville won the speaker’s chair on the second ballot in the Indiana House, defeating Samuel Artman and others. Charles McCullough was elected chief clerk, Mark Fippen assistant clerk, with Veneman promising to serve the Democratic party and state.
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Cravens
Mark Fippén
Father Francis Gavish
Indianapolis
George’ Sunkel. O
Plundar
William Racer
Vincennes
Delbert J. Foot
Blackhawk
Charles S. Maas
Indianapodlcs
Samuel 4. Gifford
Laurel
Chilton R. Pleasant
Poseyville
Racey
Dhv
Wss and
Means
Veneman
House
Ind
Albert J. Veneman
Evansville
House of Representatives
Couste
Agriculture
State House
Adam E. Wise
Plymouth
Adolph Seidengucker
Joseph M. Cravens
Madison
Michel Thornton
New Albany
Charles McCullough
Brazil
Mark Fippen
Salem
Seidensticker
Véneman
Wise
Thornton
Wiese
Democratic Party
W. S. Racey
Knox
John E. Lamb
Terre: Haute
Vanderburg
Gibson
General Assembly
Vweneman
Indiana University
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity
Boehne
John W. Boehne
Congress
John J. Nolan
Democratic City Committee
Venneman
Joan W. Kern
United States
Senate
John J. Walsh
Docket Shows February Criminal Civil Probate In Columbia Indiana
Deputy Clerk Ray Glasaley lists the February term docket for Whitley County with criminal and civil cases the largest probate docket in 11 years. The criminal count stands at 24, civil at 923, probate 33 with many charges listed and updated summaries.
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Columbia ‘City
Ind
Ray. Glasaley
Whitley
Wool Growers Urge Veto of Payne Aldrich Tariff at Portland Convention
Peter G Johnston of Black Foot Idaho voices belief that the Payne Aldrich tariff would have benefited the wool industry if vetoed. He cites rising production costs, calls for a stronger protection and warns against Pinchot style bureaucratic rules. He urges a united wool growers and manufacturers alliance to defend mutual interests.
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Peter G. Johnston
Black Foot
Idaho
Portland
Ore
Tariff Commission
Theodore Roosevelt
Taft
Roosevelt
Forester Pinchot
Pinchot
Garfield
Interior
Ballinger
Railroad Sues Light Magnate in Justice Court
St Louis reports Pennsylvania Railroad sues Union Electric Light and Power Co president Alten S. Miller for 2.16. Miller claims a Pullman reservation from Philadelphia to Bellmar, NJ, last summer was refused and he would not pay a first class fare he felt was earned by standing the entire trip. He vows to fight up to the United States Supreme Court, budget $50,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Supreme Court
Mr. Miller
Taft Denies Commutation Request in Harlan Peonage Case
President Taft denies a commutation for W. S. Harlan, manager of a large lumber and turpentine firm operating in Florida and Alabama, indicted and convicted of conspiring to violate Florida peonage statutes.
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Washington
Taft
W. S. Harlan
A& Great, Lunther and Turpentine Company
Florida
Alabama
Change at Globe Mills Retires Head Worker
A local note reports a retirement at Globe Mills as William Wis and several others depart from their positions. The item mentions key creators connected to the Globe Mills complex and indicates a shift in management or staffing.
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William Wis
Globe
Nor
Bis
Ng i Et
Hia. Mills
Ae Alpoe Wis
Satiries
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Blatchley
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Dana
Thies
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Herbert’ Johinson
Terre’ Haute
James Bledso
Wilshure
Abe ‘Thomas
Ior
J. C
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Hugh. Shirkie
Terre
H.M.” Ferguson
Clin.e
M. Walford
Linton
Fant
Cook
Homer I. Cook
Marion County
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Marion
Kisner
Man
Wiebke
John B Moisant
John B. Moisant
New Orleans
Moisent
Ethel Brudi
New Haven
Dannemora
Demented
Democrats
Thomas “. Honen
Dam
Emmett F. Branch
Sydney ‘W. Cantwell
Henry W. Marshall
Samuel FR. Artman
Frank Littleton
Henry C. Pettit
Justus C. Adame
James B. Curtis
Mason J. Niblack
Warren G.sayre
Charles L. Jewett
William C. Bynum
William Ridpath
Tee
Whitley County
Marion’ Power
Teddy
Pennsylvania
Miller
Man Reservation
Globe Mills
Wis
Wiles Mannis
Sue- Hitam
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