Indiana Railroads Promised to Obey Interurban Crossing Laws
Indianapolis July 26. A conference between Indiana railroads and the railroad commission led to a pledge to comply strictly with laws requiring trains to stop at interurban crossings unless protected by locking devices guards or other means. The commission ordered all railroads to observe the stopping laws following numerous recent accidents.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Indiana Railroad Commission
Worden Refuses Intercession in Court over Case
William Worden a Calhoun Street shoe shiner and general laborer refused a colleague’s suggestion to delay his trespass case to Friday and hire a lawyer. He cited Almighty God as his attorney, smiling as witnesses testified to his character and the case was continued. Also, Mourning fined for fighting his wife, and Morrow McCormick Bingaman and others fined for drunkenness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Worden
Harry W. Ninde
Worden
Calhoun Street
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania
Lafayette Street
Providence
John Mourning
Arthur Morrow
William McCormick
Martin Bingaman
John Kline
William Jones
Welcoming Reception for Dr and Mrs Stemen by Shiloh Chapter
A welcoming reception for Dr C B Stemen and his wife was hosted by Shiloh chapter No 141 Order of the Eastern Star with Knights Templar help after a chapter meeting. Speakers included A S Coverdale and Judge Edward O'Rourke, with music and bouquets presented by Mrs Margaret Keck. The couple had recently returned from Kansas City where they had lived for a year.
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C. B. Stemen
Shiloh
Order of the Wbhastern Star
Knights Templar
Siemen
Kansas City
Margaret Keck
Coverdale
Edward O’rourke
Mattie Wolford
Mabel Carter
Lillie Bauer
Adam Lamar
Ella Magner
Men Ride Top of Train to Chicago Aboard Twentieth Century Limited
Cleveland officials report hotel clerk E. R. Buckley and New York actor George Elliott rode atop a Lake Shore Limited sleeper from Buffalo to Cleveland. They clung to a guard rail as speed and roar intensified, fainted, were rescued by a Lake Shore employee, and later arrested for vagrancy while claiming they were broke and seeking passage to Chicago.
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Cleveland, O
E. R. Buckley
George Elliott
New York City
Cleveland
Buffalo
Lake Shore
Ney
Chicago
Elijah Hays eccentric Warsaw man dies at 78
Elijah Hays a pioneer of Kosciusko county died after a long decline in Warsaw Indiana. He arrived in 1843 from Ohio, worked as a blacksmith and later in dry goods and farming before building a substantial real estate portfolio. He donated much of his estate to Methodist missions including education at Mercedes Argentina and left annuities that funded his later years. Local Methodists provided care in his final months. guardians managed his affairs as his health failed. The funeral is set for Saturday at 10 AM from the Methodist church.
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Warsaw
Ind
Elijah Hays
Kosciusko County
C. J. Reed
Leesburg
Ohio
Fleming
Hays
Joseph A. Funk
Franklin Township
Andrew Poe
Methodist Missionary Society
Bishop McCabe
Missionary Society
Nicholson Law Institute
Mercedes
Argentina
South America
McCabe
Edgewater
Inl
James A. Cook
Man End Takes Own Life At Home In Fort Wayne
Samuel Ruch fifty six years old and a night watchman at Boss Manufacturing in Fort Wayne committed suicide Friday at his home 1307 West Main Street by swallowing five cents worth of strychnine. He died about noon after convulsions lasting nearly three hours. He left a son fifteen. The widow runs a millinery store. Neighbors and Drs. Siemen Calvin and Drayer attended but could not halt death. Ruch had no known despondency and was praised as temperate and diligent by employer L I Scott. Coroner J E Stults found no paper or reason for suicide.
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Samuel Ruch
Boss Manufacturing Company
Superior and
Calhoun Streets
Main Street
G. B. Siemen
C. H. Calvin
L. P. Drayer
Ruch
Pennsylvania Company
Fort Wayne
S & Os
H. B. Blair
L. I. Scott
J. E. Stults
Directors Add Seating Capacity To Fort Wayne Park
The Driving Park grand stand will gain 300 feet to the west end to handle larger crowds at the Great Fort Wayne fair. Completion expected when the exhibition opens September 17. Dr. W F Myers cites $1500 more for purses and stronger entries. Concessions and pike attractions are filling fast with an enlarged premium list drawing favorable interest.
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Fort Wayne
W. F. Myers
Association
Women Leaders In Plot Against The Czar
St Petersburg July 26 authorities near indictments in the plot against Emperor Nicholas II. Leading roles were played by women including Madame Feodossier, a lawyer’s wife, and Comrade Nina alias Petrova who escaped abroad. Also involved were Boris Nikitenko Naounoff Emme three lawyers Brushoff Chiabroff Levadsky and an aide Klossovsky chosen to kill the emperor. Espionage used milk maids to obtain details of the emperor’s habits and movements.
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St. Petersburg
Nicholas II
Madame Feodossieff
Nina
Naounoff
Emme
Imperial Lyceum
Brushoff
Chiabroff
Levadsky
Klossovsky
Woman in Arkansas tragedy over store savings dispute
In Little Rock on July 25, Anna Lowe, angered that her husband did not praise her for saving money on store purchases and sales, poured coal oil on herself, set a fire, and burned to death in view of her daughter and relatives. Lowe and her husband ran a store while he worked.
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Little Rock
Ark
Anna Lowe
Milk Ordinance 10 Faces Rework Before Passage
Objections from dairymen at a committee meeting push to amend milk ordinance 10 fearing price hikes. council aims to draft a broader inspector role covering foodstuffs while studying best practices from other cities. Health advocates cite impure milk as a death cause, urging stronger standards.
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Wilmer Leonard
A. P. Buchman
Leonard
Miles F. Porter
H. O. Brueggeman
Death by Own Action Shocks Adams Express Office
Frank Young a 40 year old Adams Express messenger at West Wayne street drank two ounces of carbolic acid after bidding his wife goodbye by phone. He lapsed into unconsciousness and died at 8:06 pm after hours of medical effort. No motive is established though relatives note possible heat-related mental strain. He lived in this city since boyhood and ran routes between Fort Wayne and Pittsburgh. He left a note to his wife read Dear Old Darling take care of Josephine. Coroner investigation found no new motive.
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Frank Young
Adams Express Company
Spy Run Avenue
West Wayne Street
Young
Express Company
George E. Becker
Express Office
Mr. Becker
Goodby
Heckers
Becker
Express
Josephine Latham
Washington
Fred Stier
Force Street
Adrian
Mich
John B. Young
St. Mary’s School
Druhot
Washington Township
Stults
Darling
Josephine
Masonic Temple
Fatal Sting of Black Flies at Algonquin Park
John Griffin reports six deaths from blood poisoning after stings by black flies near his Algonquin park camp in Canada. The veteran hunter, returning home from a weeklong trip, says the pests were the most numerous and deadly he has ever seen in the region.
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East Aurora
N. Y
John Griffin
Algonquin Park
Canada
Griffin
Dominion
Suspect in Murder Affair Held at Muncie
Suspect Arnold Crouse alias Edward Graff, 23, arrested in Muncie by Sheriff Perdue and Marshal Mitchell as a possible accomplice in the Speer poisoning case at Lima Ohio. He was a Speer boarder and was detained after Mrs Speer’s husband’s poisoning was suspected. A letter to Mrs Speer found at the police station advised her to flee Lima and sell property.
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Muncie
Ind
Perdue
Marshal Mitchell
Eaton
Arnold Crouse
Edward Graff
Speer
Lima
Ohio
Crouse
Selma
Speer in jail over husband poisoning case at Lima
Mrs Emma Speer bound over to the common pleas on a charge she poisoned her husband. She protests innocence since arrest at Sidney on the funeral day. Arsenic in Speer’s stomach is the only damaging evidence so far. Deputy Baxter to bring Crouse from Muncie to Lima for expected developments.
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Lima
Emma Speer
Court of Common Pleas
Sidney
Ohio
Speer
Crouse
Baxter
Muncie
Japan Firms Grip on Korean Affairs
Tokio July 25. The new convention between Japan and Korea was signed at 1 p m after opposition by the Korean court. It provides that Korea be guided by a Japanese resident general and that all laws, appointments, and state affairs receive his approval. Foreigners to be employed only with his consent, and the August 22 1904 clause for a financial adviser is annulled. The convention will be submitted to Japan's privy council and published this evening.
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Tokio
Japan
Korea
Privy Council of Japan
Franco Japanese Entente Honored Guests in Paris
Paris hosts Vice Admiral Sir Gero Truin and Japanese officers in elaborate entertainments after arriving from Brest. President Fallieres greets them at the Elysee with luncheon, city tours, and gala opera, with further official meals planned at the Bois de Boulogne and the Japanese embassy. Also Dieterich Murdock syndicate wins a fifty year streetcar franchise.
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Paris
Gero Truin
Brest
Washington
Tennessee
M. Kurino
Elysee Palace
Fallieres
Marine Thompson
Mme. Gavalieri
Juin
Thompson
Navy Department
Bois de Boulogne
Edison Sues Over Unauthorized Use of Portrait
In Newark New Jersey Vice Chancellor Stevens holds a man’s picture and name are his property and cannot be used without consent. Edison sought an injunction against a neuralgia cure firm for using his photo with a fake recommendation. The injunction was granted.
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New York
Stevens
New Jersey
Newark
Thomas A. Edison
Edison
Denatured Alcohol Regs Expanded to Central Warehouses
Washington issued amended denatured alcohol regulations effective September 1 under the act. Regulations permit central denaturing warehouses and transfer of alcohol by tanks to consumers. Farm and industrial distilleries face new class rules, record allowances, and denaturant access from central depots or established distilleries.
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Washington
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Townsend Says He Was Flimmed Out Of $5000
Col Dick Townsend formerly Fort Wayne hotel man now managing the National hotel at Peoria Illinois has caused the arrest of F L Monroe of Chicago for a $5000 confidence game claim. Townsend says Monroe advertised for sale stock in Marinette Gas Engine Co Chicago Heights and promised him a branch office manager post if he bought the stock. He later tried to sell the stock back but the company refused to repurchase.
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Chicago Heights
Townsend
Monroe
Marinette Company
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Eastern Star
Sam Ruch
John Swaidner
International Harvester Company
Claypool
Jetter
Express Messenger
Columbia’ City
Dieterich-Murdock
Owrer
Thomas Edison
Commissioner of
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Dick Townsend
Neleona
Hunter
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