Toledo Saloon Killing Prompts Night of Inquiry
Eyewitness accounts describe a fatal shooting at a Fort Wayne saloon linked to John B. Scott. Thornton, a Toledo bartender, died after an altercation over drinks as detectives, prosecutors, and witnesses testified.
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Brondy
Thornton
Toledo
Scotty
Swift
the Randall
Scott
Alpheus Swift
Robison Park
Bond
Racquet
Schatzer
Albert B. Melching
Anne Strausser
Wayne
Thomas
Emrick & Emirick
Strausser
White
GW. Sheets
Huntington
Sheets
Marion
Fort Wayne
Apor
John B. Scott
Joe
Thorp
Phornton
Othe - Undertaking
Aehu.& Melching
Melching
Indiana Senate Debates United States Senator Nomination
The Indiana Senate debated the U S senator nomination with Shively and Hemenway as targets of support. Senators Bowser and Fleming led sessions amid a crowded chamber while bills on primary nominations and court establishment were introduced and debated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tor
Elkhart
Duree
Evansville
Hemenway
Shively
Kistler
Logansport
Fling
Democratic Caucus
Harlan
Indianapolis
Beal
Terre Haute
Grube
Warsaw
Mattingly
Connersville
Senate
United States
House
Stotzenburg
Hall
Moore
Hancock
Rush
Bowser
Chesterton
Gary-Hammond
Gary
Hammond
Garrard
Benz
Kling
Royse
Cox
Hanna
Postmortem gossip on Kern defeat in Indiana senatorial race
Report from Indianapolis on January 15 claims a secret ballot undermined John W. Kern’s bid. Allegations of double crossing and treachery involve John E. Lamb votes, Marion county lawmakers, and Thomas Taggart. Shively and supporters from temperance factions also feature in the factional fallout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
John W. Kern
Kern
John E. Lamb
Lamb
Marion County
Thomas Taggart
Taggart
Shively
Slack
Crawford, Fairbanks
Bodies of American consul and wife recovered at Messina ruins
Sailors from the battleship Illinois located and recovered the bodies of Arthur S. Cheney and his wife from the American consulate ruins in Messina after the earthquake. The pair perished when the consulate building collapsed. Captain Bowyer led the search and the bodies were sent to Naples aboard the Culgoa for shipment to the United States. Cheney had served as consul at Messina since 1907 after a career in the U S consular service.
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Culgoa
Naples
Admiral Sperry
Bowyer
Navy Department
United States
Messina
Malta
Arthur S. Chéney
Illinois
Reichenberg
Germany
Cheney
Connecticut
Dead in Messina 905 Missing After Earthquake
An American estimate places Messina deaths at 905 from the December catastrophe. About 10,000 are believed in the city, with tens of thousands elsewhere in Sicily and the peninsula. Many remain under ruins or scattered, making a census impossible. Eighty two people have been arrested for stealing during the disaster and will be tried by court martial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messina
Stuart K. Lupton
Rome
Lupton
Mesgina
Sicily
Eighly
Italian workers to flee Italy after quake on four month span
New York importers tell the Ways and Means committee that about a quarter million Italian laborers from Sicily and Calabria will depart Italy within four months, mostly to the United States, with the lemon growing region expected to lose nearly 300000 workers due to the earthquake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sicily
Calabria
United States
New York City
House Committee On Ways and Means
Italy
Marshall Began Reform Program in Indiana
Governor Marshall backs a reform bill cutting executive office costs with new salaries for a private secretary, governor's counsel, executive clerk, and stenographer, while eliminating the executive accountant and pardons clerk posts. Senate, House convened. Kling pushes direct senatorial election. Taft invited to Indiana conference. governor signs $115,000 session expense appropriation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Marshall
Faulkner
Board of Pardons
Kling
Senator Kling
Senate
Congress
United States
Committee On the Organization of Courts
Linton
McDowell
Greene and Sullivan
Hawkins
Taft
Indiana
House
Supreme Court Affirms Texas Anti-Trust Ruling Against Waters-Pierce Oil
The US Supreme Court upholds a Texas court decree fining Waters-Pierce Oil 1.623 million dollars and barring it from operating in Texas for alleged anti-trust violations tied to a conspiracy with Standard Oil. The action, dating to 1900, claims daily violations through 1907. Also noted is Moyer’s defeat in a damages suit against Colorado's Peabody over 1904 Telluride riots.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Texas
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
St. Louis
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
United States
Moyer
Supreme Court
Western Federation of Miners
Peabody
Colorado
Telluride
Colo
Steam mistaken for fire at Minuet building on East Washington birthday
Fire department responded to a alarm at the Minuet building on East Washington's birthday Tuesday. Crews found steam rising from uninsulated boilers in the basement rather than smoke, causing a false fire alarm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minuet
East Washington
Fort Wayne Club to Discuss Tariff Commission Talks
Judge R. S. Taylor and S. M. Foster have consented to speak at the Fort Wayne Commercial Club meeting next Thursday on the proposed Tariff Commission to revise national tariff schedules. The event is a prelude to February’s Indianapolis convention where nine club delegates will attend.
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Taylor
S. M. Foster
Tariff Commission
R. S. Taylor
Fort Wayne Commercial Club
Indianapolis
Fort Wayne Organization
Senator Fleming Sparks Victory in Indiana Senate Race
In the South Bend Times page a note celebrates Senator Stephen B. Fleming of Fort Wayne for a decisive win over the Indianapolis candidate. The piece notes his vow from the start to defeat the opponent and to run without his own candidate backers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fleming
South Bend Times
Stephen B. Fleming
Fort Wayne
Steve
Indianapolis
Willett Attacks Roosevelt in Heated House Debate
In Washington on January 18, Mr. Willett of New York delivered a bitter attack on President Roosevelt, labeling him a gargoyle and a courtly figure. The House interrupted and ultimately voted 116 to 78 to deny further hearing as the debate grew chaotic and partisan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Alexander Hamilton
Willett
New York
House
Mr. Willett
Noah Webster
Secretary Long
Cuba
San Juan Hill
Harriman
Louis
Robert Toombs
Jefferson Davis
Miner Morris
Jefferson
Monroe
Jackson
Tyler
Pierce
John Paul Jones
Napoleon the Great
New England
Wendell Phillips
Thomas Paine
Ananias Club
Tedder
Ma ‘Nila
Sehiley
Santiago Bay
Miles
Santiago
Gail
Wormwood
Castro
Stewart
Russia
Nero
Rome
Vespasian
Willetts
Hughes
West Virginia
Mr. Hughes
Butler
Pennsylvania
Admiral Schley
Gardner
Massachusetts
Messrs. Hepburn
Iowa
Mann
Illinois
Hepburn
Messrs
Chandler
Mississippi
Country Card Parties At White Home And Amelia Trier Event
A Saturday card party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. A White near the city featured Pedro as the game with supper later. Guests included numerous Rowleys Huguenards and Khahns, the Trier cousins from Nebraska, and a large party of local families. Amelia Trier hosted a recent party in honor of G F Akischwede with a long list of attendees and Musik by Trier's orchestra followed by supper.
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A. White
Pedro
W. Sunderland
Huguenard
F. Kahn
Frankie
Georgia Rowley
Adaline
Laura H Huguenard
Ethel
Agnes Kahn
May White
Meégers
Felix
August Poirson
Hubert Barrands
Clement
Jules Huguenard
George, Golden
George Kahr
Herschel Rowley
Herbert
Ernest Sunderland
Eugene Huguenard
Albert
Clarence
Frank White
Amelia Trier
G. F. Akischwede
Nebraska
Sophie Wietfeldt
Eva Salzbrenner
Clara Heine
Amelia Heine
Amelia Hockemeyer
Anna Heine
Mary Hockemeyer
Edward
Theodore Heine
Fred Hanefeld
Otto Bultemeyer
Henry Kiess
Lawrence Zwick
Henry Korte
Mv. C.meyer
Winchester Road
Emma Meyer
Trier
Emilia Rodewald
Amelia Schroeder
Dorothea Schroeder
Amelia Holman
Regina Hockemeyer
Clara Reinkingmeier
Amelia Pohler
Mare Lange
Esther Deuter
Edith Dickmeyer
Emma Pohler
Ella Halfeldt
Emma Rodewald
Virginia Israel
Ruth Maitland
Lady Moellering
Louise Hobrock
Lena Oetting
Matilda Mayer
Minnie Oetting
Fred Schroeder
Albert Horman
Conrad Frosh
August Hockemeyer
Paul Trier
Charles Frosh
Paul Holman
Fred Dickmeyer
Martin Bleke
John Lange
Martin Pohler
James Moellering
August Freese
Arthur Trier
Isadore Rodewald
Oscar Foellinger
Didrich Hormann
Herman Gerke
Henry Po
Wilkinson v Byrer verdict awarded damages in Leesburg case
The Warsaw jury returned a verdict in favor of Miss Gertrude Wilkinson against Paul Byrer of Leesburg. Wilkinson sought twenty thousand dollars claiming permanent injuries from a fall near the young man's property.
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Warsaw
Gertrude
Wilkinson
Paul Byrer
Leesburg
Miss Wilkinson
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Lenz
Soliday
Harry Hilgeman
W. D. Calvin
E. V. Emrick
Honor Shively
Hulk Hemenway
Hoffman
Louisiana
Virginia
Arthur S.cheney
Arthur S .Cheney
Stusice
Ames
Uins
Bill
Columbia
Lone Star State
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