Beavers and secret post office rules questioned
Washington hearing reveals Bristow unable to cite the secret clerk hire schedule guiding fourth class office allowances. McCall presses whether members of Congress knew the rule as Bristow defends his focus on Beavers administration and avoids accusing lawmakers.
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Washington
McCall Committee
Post Office Department
Congress
Hristow
Wynne
Burton
Bristow
Mr. Bristow
Beavers
McCall
Mr. Burton
Post Office Committee
Mr. McCall
McDermott
Mr. Beavers
Mr. McDermott
House honors deceased congressman and sets funeral committee
Washington March 21 The House opened with resolutions of sympathy for the late Hon Charles Winston Thompson of Indiana. A funeral committee was named including Wiley Clayton Bowie Padgett Gaines Littlefield Brown Darragh Williams Hill Scarborough Southard Patterson Houston and Aiken. The House adjourned at 1 20 pm until tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Charles Landis
Indiana
Williams
Wiley
Alabama
Charles Winston Thompson
House
Messrs. Wiley
Clayton
Bowie
Padgett
Tennessee
Gaines
Littlefield
Maine
Brown
Wisconsin
Darragh
Michigan
Tinois
Hill
Connecticut
Scarborough
South Carolina
Southard
Ohio
Patterson
Houston
Delawhine
Aiken
Senatorial Actions On Colonization and Pensions Bill
In the Senate Soneta introduced by request a bill to organize a colonization bureau for settling on public lands, prepared by Salvation Army officers and advised by the late Senator Hanna. It was referred to the committee on public lands. Carmack offered a resolution to probe the legality of a pensions order for Civil War veterans aged sixty two, which was laid over until tomorrow.
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Washington
Soneta
Hoar
Colonization Bureau
Salvation Army
Hanna
Committee On Public Lands
Carmack
Committee On Judiciary
Commissioner of Pensions
Botanic Blood Balm Claimed To Cure Various Blood Diseases
An advertisement touts Botanic Blood Balm as curing cancerous sores on the nose and face, eczema, pimples, ulcers, and other blood conditions. It cites Mrs M L Adams of Fredonia and Mrs B M Guerney of Warrior Stand as examples and promotes samples, pricing, and distributor details in Atlanta and Fort Wayne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. L. Adams
Fredonia
Ann
Blood Balm Co
Atlanta
Theolenndvics
Fort Wayne
Ind
Ranke & Nusbaum
Calhoun Street
Express
Marriage Licenses and Death Notice for DeWitt Twining
Marriage licenses issued to Henry G. Pohlmeyer with Anna Martin Frederick G. Schwartz with Edna E. Spangler Pearl C. Zion with Thurza T. Baker. DeWitt G. Twining, 79, lies near death in Huntington after a fall on ice two weeks ago while alighting from an interurban car. Twining formerly served as town marshal at Ronnoso and was widely known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry G. Pohlmeyer
Anna Martin
Frederick G. Schwartz
Edna E. Spangler
Pearl C. Zion
Thurza T. Baker
DeWitt G. Twining
Huntington
Mr. Twining
Ronnoso
Miners Meet and Sign New Central Scale Agreement
The United Mine Workers and central competitive field operators from Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and western Pennsylvania signed a two year scale at the Claypool hotel in Indianapolis. The plan cuts wages about 5.55 percent with exceptions for drivers who receive a different adjustment. The next joint conference is planned for January 1906, as no meeting is required next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
United Mine Workers of America
Indiana
Ohio
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Claypool
Tive
Frank Z. Robbins
G W. Schlenderberg
Patrick Dolan
William Dodds
H. Winder
J.O. Roby
W. H. Haskins
D. H. Sullivan
W.S. Bogle
James McClelland
George Hargrove
Wiliam Wilson
N. Taylor
W. F. Lukins
Thomas Reynolds
W. D. Ryan
Ilinois
Scala
Second smallpox case in Knowlton family near Aboit Station
A second smallpox case develops in Charles Knowlton’s family near Aboit Station on the interurban road. The patient is his daughter Ethel. She and her brother Offs attended a Brunslin avenue school taught by Miss McGuire, who also contracted the disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Knowlton
Aboit Station
Ethel
Gtel
Offs
Miss McGuire
Brunslin Avenue
Harris Retained to Assist in County Officer Term Extension Case
Ion E. V. Harris the district bankruptcy referee has been retained by Treasurer Funk as an attorney to aid in defending the law extending terms of certain county officers. Harris will confer with other lawyers in Indianapolis on Wednesday regarding the matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ion. E. V. Harris
Bankeruptcy
Funk
Harris
Indianapolis
Agnosticism Diminishing Says Temple Leader in New York
Rabbi Silverman of Temple Emanuel claims atheism and agnosticism are fading in polite society. He argues the Ingersollian outlook has disappeared and religion now signals cultured refinement aiding man’s development. He notes stronger religious press, better endowed theological colleges, and many wealthy men spending Sundays in Bible study. A barber, Theodore Jordan of Wabash, suffered paralysis during a shave and collapsed, unlikely to recover.
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New York
London
Rabb Silverman
Temple Emanuel
Ingersollian
Tyne
Lelief
Minsters
Raid on gambling room at 1520 South Calhoun Street
Eugene Jameson pleaded guilty in Yo Hee court for keeping a gambling room above Single ton's saloon at 1520 South Calhoun. Fines varied from 5 to 25 dollars plus costs. several co-defendants were fined for frequenting gambling houses and failing to appear. Raid conducted Saturday night by Sgt Harkenrider and officers Elliott, Kreukeberg, Rohrer.
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Eugene. Jameson
Singleton
South
Calhoun Street
Yo- Hee
Thomas Williams
Thomas Galt
Harry Drake
Joe Cassidy
L. Morris
Lieutenant Lapp
Ned White
C. Harris W
Willian Tunner
Henry Smith
West Berry Street
Harry Taylor
John Jones
Harkenrider
Elliott
Kreukeberg
Rohrer
Dimeson
Frmu
Death of Tom Hand in Warsaw and local incidents
In northern Indiana Tom Hand who weighed nearly 400 pounds is dead at his Warsaw home after a two year illness. A fire damaged the Kichler flouring mill at Chum busco with the value of the loss around two thousand dollars insured at sixteen hundred. The Huntington city directory reports a population of eleven thousand five hundred seventeen in the city proper and fourteen forty three in the suburbs. In Middlebury Elishart county Mr and Mrs Cripe are parents of four sets of twins and one not nun twin with oldest Clay and Glara Clyde and Clayton ten Floyd is sixteen Noble and Nona thirteen Gladys and Glen five. James H Walters dies of apoplexy while recounting an accident three years earlier to his physician in Logansport. DeKalb county prohibitionists nominate Emilus Case for representative and John Widney for clerk among others. Bert A Comstock jailed in Huntington for forgery. Eight Adams county prisoners in Decatur attempt to escape by dropping dishes as deputy sheriff leaves with breakfast dishes. escape thwarted and prisoners sentenced to bread and water.
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Tom Hand
Warsaw
Kichler
Chumbusco
Huntington
Cripe
Middlebury
Elishart County
DeKalb
McCarty
Jacksonville
Fla
Indiana
Comstock
Adams County
Decatur
Reverend Colin Campbell Tate Dies in Blue Earth
The Rev Colin Campbell Tate former pastor of Trinity Episcopal in this city died at his Blue Earth Minnesota home on Friday March 4 from pneumonia. He graduated Racine College 1863 Nashotah 1866 and held several rector posts including St Pauls Columbus Fort Wayne Niles Chicago before moving to Minnesota in 1901. Interment will be at Nashotah.
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Colin Campbell Tate
Trinity Episcopal Church
Cty
Blue Earth
Minn
Church of the Good Shepherd
Tate
Racine College
Nashotah House
Kemper
J. C. Talbot
Christchurch
Indianapolis
St. Paul's Church
Columbus
Ohio
Trinity
Reapportionment Plan Proposed for Indiana Methodist Conferences
Rev Asher Preston of Wayne Street M E Church proposes dividing Indiana into three equal conference regions to reduce travel and boost church interest. The plan, to be presented at the North Indiana conference in Muncie on April 6, aims for state wide reallocation before a potential Los Angeles general conference vote. The North, Northwest, and Indiana conferences would be reshaped with lines near Indianapolis, and Port Wayne Methodists anticipate impact on leadership for upcoming elections.
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Methodist Episcopal Conferences of
Indiana
Asher
Preston
Wayne Street M
North Indiana
Muncie
Los Angeles
Indianapolis
Laporte
St. Joseph
Tey
North
Northwest
Port. Wayne
Fork Wayne
William A Grace Dies in New York at 71
Former New York mayor William R Grace died of pneumonia at his residence in New York on March 21 in his 72nd year. He served as mayor from 1880 and 1884, noted for philanthropy including famine relief in Ireland. Born in Queenstown, Grace led W R Grace & Co which helped settle a Parvyian debt of 40 million in 1890, and he sat as director of several banks, steamship and canal enterprises.
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New York
William R. Grace
Ireland
Myr. Grace
Queenstown
W. R. Grace & Co
New Carriage Store Opens in City at 220 East Columbia
G. W. Maxwell & Son and John A. Maxwell announce a new carriage store at 220 East Columbia Street now occupied by Bradley Manufacturing. The firm will run wholesale and retail carriage sales with farm implement business in connection. The senior Maxwell has been a sales agent for Ligonier Carriage Co. and his son has road experience with the same firm.
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G. W. Maxwell
William J Herman Held on Fraud Charge in Auburn Jail
William Joseph Herman was arrested at Butler and charged with defrauding members of the Mastaie fraternity of various sums. He claims New York as his home but is now jailed in Auburn awaiting circuit court trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Joseph Herman
Butler
Mastaie
New York
Auburn
Supreme Court Reverses Indiana Tax Ruling on American Express
The U S Supreme Court voids state tax assessments on the American Express Company for 1698 to 1901 by the Indiana state tax board. Justice Holmes writes the decision, with Chief Justice and Justices Brewer and Day dissenting. The ruling remands to federal court and threatens similar assessments on other express firms, citing interference with interstate commerce.
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Indianapolis
Washington
American Xpress Company
Indiana
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Supreme Court
United States District Court
Holmes
Brewer
Day
Express Company
Tax Board
American ‘Express Company
State Tax Board
Jusice Holmes
Brews
Errand Day
Henderson Heads Hearst Boom in Indiana Activists
J Oscar Henderson former state auditor will lead Hearst forces in Indiana with C F Neal of Lebanon assisting. Headquarters likely at Claypool Hotel as Secretary Walsh of the national committees notes plans aren’t finalized. Henderson says he will be among Hearst boom organizers as inroads into the Indiana delegation grow.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Mare
J. Oscar Henderson
Nenad
Hearst Forces 1Ndians
C. F. Neal
Lebanon
Hearat
Claypool Hotel
Walsh
National Democratic Committees
Hearst Organiza
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Bry. McDermott
Senate
Sander
Tedtanomatin
WU Iola
MR. Harris
Theodore Jordan
Wabash
Eugene Jameson
Linnal
Pastor Hei
AS Preston
City
William A. Grace
United States Supreme Court
Henderson
Hearst
Catarre
Eypera
Ely
Rogaine
Miafl
ELY Brothers
Warren St
Ono
Citizens’ Trust CO
Clinnton and Berry
Saver Orcs
Aanard & Mille Long
Distanen
Beauavetaw Price Phono
Chicauo
Wren
Harry Bearman
New Place
Undertakers
Klaewn & Melching
West Manin Street
P.M. Smith , CO
F. MM. Smith & 68
Fort Wayne, Ind
RUSAL
Bank OF Wayne
Sol Her Gb
Seargie
Sessure
Grip Peins
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