Ratified ticket rallies energize Lincoln Nebraska campaign
In Lin on July 11, 1900, about 5000 at the auditorium and 10000 on the capitol grounds heard Bryan Stevenson Towne outline the campaign. Bryan praised Stevenson, Towne defended bimetallism and reform, and Towne warned of wealth influence while urging return to Jeffersonian principles.
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Linon
Neb
Campe
Bryan
Stevenson
Cammel
Partica
Capitol
Towne
Washington
Jefferson
Bryan Introduced as Mr. Bryan of North America at R party meeting
The cent party associates and Republicans heard Mr. Bryan respond to Mr. Davis. He was compelled to speak after arriving and was introduced by J. H. Edmiston as Mr. Bryan of North America, a phrase met with loud applause.
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Cent Party
Mr. Bryan
Mr. Davis
J. H. Edmiston
North America
Arabic weekly planned by New York editor
Shibli N. DaMus, editor of Al-Islah, returned from Toledo after studying for possible relocation. He plans to establish an Arabic weekly in the west and says Toledo offers advantages for the Assyrian paper. DaMus indicates Al-Islah will be the sole Assyrian paper west of the Mississippi.
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Shibli N. DaMus
New York City
Toledo
Ohio
DaMus
al- Islah
America
Fort Wayne
Detroit
Al-Islah
West
East
New York
Philadelphia
Concordia College to Add Swimming Tank and Hospital
At a Concordia college directors meeting plans were approved for a brick 30 by 60 feet swimming tank and a hospital for students. Architect J M He Riedel prepared the designs. contracts to build will be let within two weeks. The tank will hold about 18 640 feet of water with varying depth and heating via a gas warmed reservoir. The facility includes dressing rooms, a skylight, two showers and other amenities. The hospital will have two wards six sick rooms two nurse rooms and bathrooms with furnishings costing about 3 560. Construction starts immediately and aims to finish before the fall term.
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Concordia College
J. M. HE. Riedel
Harrison Refuses to Talk on Campaign in Adirondacks
Ex President Harrison his wife daughter and staff travel with Miss Streude of New York to a Adirondack summer cottage. He says no plans for political speeches or comment on the Kansas City platform and Bryan nomination.
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Bryan
Cim
Nebraska
Kansas City
Chicago
Towne
Illinois
Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
Bloomington
Indianapolis
Harrison
Streude
New York
Adirondacks
Ex-Indiana Commissioner Amos Arrested on Fraud Indictments
Shelbyville July 11 Ex Commissioner William Amos was arrested on three grand jury indictments charging presenting false claims to the county conspiracy in obtaining false claims and knowingly allowing them He had resigned amid malfeasance charges after testimony tied to previous investigations including the Treasurer J Marsh Wilson case Fraud allegedly peaked during his 1899 term.
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Shelbyville
Ind
William Amos
Amos
J. Marsh Wilson
Testimony in Mor rison murder case reveals conflicting claims
Statements from Arthur W. Cooley Fred Meyers E W Scott and Miss May Chase contest Morrison's account of the fire at the hotel Cooley awoke in his night shirt after an explosion Morrison was seen fully dressed Morrison reportedly knew the fire location Scott says Morrison gave the fire location Johnston died after being found in the burning hotel bail for Morrison not yet set.
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Arthur W. Cooley
New York
Fred Meyers
Adrian
Mich
E. W. Scott
Miss May Chase
Cooley
Morrison
John R. Johnston
Genevan Treasurer G W Hamma’s books in doubt
Portland Indiana July 12. Citizens discuss the condition of the books and records of former Treasurer G W Hamma. Entries are missing from May 1899 to May 1900 while Hamma is ill in Ohio. Deficit estimated between 440 and 1300 may reflect clerical errors. Bondsmen named Pile Wells Hartman Haviland Aspy. Hamma long known as honest.
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Portland
Ind
Geneva
G. W. Hamma
Hamma
Ohio
Fred Pile
Morris Wells
George Hartman
C Haviland
M. F. Aspy
Mr. Bamma
Terrific runaway on Ewing Street injures four
Four people were thrown from a surrey on Ewing Street around 9 am. Elery Yocum, a Williamsport store operator, was severely injured with a brain and spinal concussion. Mrs Yocum and a baby survived with minor injuries while Miss Minnie Laffollette was unhurt. The surrey struck a tele phone pole and a water plug before overturning near Klett Lumber. Yocum was taken to St Joseph hospital and remained unconscious initially with improving signs later.
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Surrey
Elery Yocum
Williamsport
Yocum
Babe
Minnie Laffollette
St. Joseph Hospital
Rosenthal
Klett
Main Street
Ewing and
Pearl Streets
Klett Lumber
St. Joseph's Hospital
Maurice Rosenthal
Yoacum
Brindle Cow With A Long Milking Life Dies At Lake Manitou
A brindle cow famed for thirty four year record milk production at Skinner hotel on Lake Manitou died yesterday at Grandma Skinner's home. For most of thirty years she paid guests with rich milk, becoming a beloved feature of the lakeside hospitality. Burial was at the hands of Capt. Al Skinner, eldest son of Mrs. Skinner.
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Peru
Skinner
Lake Manitou
Grandma Skinner
Capt
al Skinner
On Her Sister's Grave
Mary Sheehan twenty died by self harm at a cemetery in Indianapolis after attending her sister's funeral. She had traveled from Chicago for the ceremonies and drank carbolic acid during the procession, dying the next evening after a period of agony.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Mary Sheehan
Chicago
Victim of the Cigarette In Shelbyville
Shelbyville Indiana July 11 Alonzo Perry fifteen year old son of Samuel Perry dropped dead in the street last night of heart failure superinduced by smoking cigarettes.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Alonzo Perry
Samuel Perry
Robbed freight cars trigger Erie theft network arrest spree
Huntington Indiana July 12 Detective J A McCarthy closed a case detailing a theft ring among railroad workers. Three cars were hit before dawn. Crip Harris and Fred Nichols were nabbed with 400 dollars worth of shoes at Gas City. At 8 00 a m Shadduck Clingerman and Ball switchmen were jailed and 2000 dollars in dry goods silverware and valuables recovered. John W Moore a brewer was also arrested.
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Huntington
Ind
Chicago
Evie
J. A. McCarthy
Crip Harris
Fred Nichols
Penitentiary
Gas City
Charles Shadduck
J. F. Clingerman
Louis Ball
Murder at New Albany over bar bill ends in tragedy
In New Albany Indiana on July 11 Peter Carnes fifty four was shot and killed by Archie Dye a local forge worker during a dispute about a saloon bar bill. Dye surrendered claiming self defense as Carnes advanced with a knife. Carnes previously faced a murder charge from thirty years earlier and was jailed during the Reno brothers lynching incident.
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New Albany
Ind
Peter Carnes
Archie Dye
Carnes
East Sixth
Water Streets
Dye
Cincinnati
Louis Barker
Adams
Robert Finley
Jeffersonville
Reno Brothers
Charles Anderson
Death of Capt. Daniel Webster in Alaska
News from San Francisco reports the death of Capt Daniel Webster in Alaska on June 18. A well known seaman from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, he spent years in the eastern whaling trade from New London and New Bedford before joining Alaska Commercial Company with Captain Morgan and taking an important post in Alaska.
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San Francisco
Alaska
Daniel Webster
Dan
Atlantic
Pacific
New London
Lesson From Firecracker Incident in Elkhart
Will Morgan, arrested July 4 for throwing a giant fire cracker between the feet of W. Bender, a farmer's boy, causing serious injury in Elkhart Indiana, was released on 300 bond posted by his father, a Decatur Illinois merchant, after a brief jail detention to teach the boy a lesson.
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Elkhart
Ind
Will Morgan
W. Bender
Decatur
Ill
Electric road extension planned in Indiana to Michigan
Elkhart Indiana July 12 The Indiana railway company operating an electric line from Goshen to South Bend will extend the line to Niles Michigan from South Bend It is also ready to build a line from South Bend to Laporte and from Laporte to Michigan City but other parties hold franchises demanding high sums The Indiana company guarantees operation before winter
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Elkhart
Ind
Indiana Railway Company
Goshen
South Bend
Niles
Mich
Laporte
Michigan City
Indiana Company
Must Face Murder Charge In Hotel Morrison Fire
South Bend Indiana July 12 J W Morrison held to the grand jury in 5000 bond after a preliminary hearing on the Hotel Morrison blaze that killed three and injured six. Morrison aged seventy three sat behind his lawyer and showed calm while witnesses contradicted his defenses.
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South Bend
Ind
J. W. Morrison
Morrison
Man Badly Burned Cleaning Furnace Fire
William Carter of Carter & Son suffered severe facial and hand burns when benzine he was using for furnace cleaning ignited and exploded. Dr. G B Stemen treated the injuries.
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William Carter
Carter & Son
Gb.stemen
Tragic Farm Accident From Huntington Grass Mower
James Work, a farm rider near Huntington Indiana, was thrown from a grass mowing machine when the horses started suddenly. He died instantly from a broken neck. In a hurried attempt to free weight, Horace Dwinnell severed one of his own fingers.
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Huntington
Ind
James Work
Horace Dwinnell
Boy nearly bleeds to death from severed artery injury
Aloyssius Woenker, about ten, on Erie street, stepped on a broken bottle while playing Wednesday evening and cut his foot severely. The artery was severed and he nearly bled to death before Dr. Carl Schilling could treat the wound. No serious results are anticipated.
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Aloyssius Woenker
Erie Street
Carl Schilling
On to Pekin Policy Drives U S Actions
Washington July 12 Our government adopts an On to Pekin stance to protect American interests and pursue the responsible parties for past outrages. Officials see the Chinese note as a step toward ending the Boxer uprising and the Pekin related conflict as allied forces report tense relations at Tien Tsin.
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Washington
Pekin
Conger
Hay
Tien Tsin
Shang Tung
War Department
Oestermeier Daker Tie The Knot At Home Wedding
Charles Oestermeier and Minnie Draker were married Wednesday at 3 PM in the bride’s parents home at 134 West Third Street. Rev. J W Lake officiated. The couple plans to reside at 52 East Leith Street after July 20. Oestermeier is a clerk for Rhinehart, a south side grocer.
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Charles Oestermeier
Minnie Draker
J. W. Lake
West Third Street
Oestermeier
East Leith Street
Tragic Toy Cartrigde Incident Ends in Boy's Death
Young Christ Schlie, 14, dies from tetanus after a blank cartridge fired from a toy pistol at Robison park on July 4. The injury appeared healing until Tuesday when stiffness and severe spasms began. He worked at Clapsattle & Felts drug store. his father is a Wabash railway car inspector.
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Christ. Schlie
Savilla Avenue
Young Schlie
Robison Park
B. von Sweringen
Clapsattle & Felts
South Broadway
Wabash Railway
Couple Marry After Secret Kinship Reveal
Squire Bullerman joined Charles Miller and Bessie Miller in a Friday morning ceremony. The bride lived with the groom’s uncle George Miller and many believed she was his daughter. It emerged she was a waif left on the doorstep years ago, and both families knew nothing of her parentage. Indiana law forbids marriage of cousins, so the truth was disclosed before the vows.
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Squire Builerman
Chas. Miller
Bessie Miller
Squire
George Miller
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