Penrose Visits White House Amid Conspiracy Talk
Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania, linked to the dinner gossip about a conspiracy against President Roosevelt, met with Roosevelt and Secretary Loeb at the White House. He refused to discuss the matter, calling his visit purely social. Senator Bourne of Oregon also met the president, denying any joint conference. President Roosevelt spoke with Harry S. New, Republican National Committee acting chairman, about party business and convention sites for December. Representative Burton of Ohio discussed inland waterways with the president.
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Washington
Senator Penrose
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
White House
Loeb
Pennsylvania Avenue
Bourne
Penrose
Jonathan Bourne
Oregon
Senator Bourne
New
Republican National Committee
Harry S. New
Republican Party
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Seattle
National Committee
Representative Burton
Ohio
Taft
Panama Canal
West Indies
Burton
Inland Waterways Commission
Tragedy in Oil City Ends in Double Suicide and Wedding Shock
In Oil City Pennsylvania Thaddeus Stevens Ross was shot three times and killed in Dr George W Magees office by Miss Belle Stroup who then shot herself. Ross was to be married that night to Drusilla Sampsell. Both victims were from prominent families. The motive remains unclear with no witnesses.
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Oil City
Thaddeus Stevens Ross
Belle Stroup
George W. Magee
Ross
Drusilla Sampsell
Miss Stroup
Bradford
Dr. Magee
Coal Hill
J. D. Ross
Local Veteran of Spanish American War Dies
Thirty-five years old, he was employed at the post office here and a veteran who served in the Philippines with the regular army to its close. Miss Sampsell, his fiancée, is prostrated.
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Philippines
Miss Sampsell
Jilted Woman Seeks Revenge in Oil City Killing
Bradford, April 25 Miss Hala Belle Stroup, once ill in bed, traveled from Bradford to Oil City and killed Thaddeus Ross amid a love triangle. Ross had promised marriage and a July wedding to another woman. Stroup said to have been distraught over the news and not an hospital attache as some reports claimed.
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Bradford
Hala Belle Stroup
Oil City
Thaddeus Ross
Ross
Miss Stroup
Williams Held Over In City Court For Unchecked Brass
Arthur Williams faced a city court, claiming he acquired railroad brass from a fire ruin in Decatur. He dodged prosecutor questions, sentences of fifteen days with a five dollar fine were imposed, and the court ordered his record to be checked.
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Arthur Williams
Toledo
Decatur
Frank Perrin
George Jansen
Dumont Martin
Wayne Hotel
August Hummel
Humane
17 year old Hazel Buescher foils elopement plan
In Elkhart Indiana Hazel Buescher 17 and vaudeville pianist Charles Wiley past 30 faced her father F August Buescher prominent local manufacturer and band instrument company president who halted the attempted elopement and persuaded his daughter to return home after she met Wiley at the vaudeville venue and planned to wed in Goshen.
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Elkhart
Ind
Charles Wiley
Hazel Buescher
F. August Buescher
Buescher
Wiley
Goshen
Electric line plan links Terre Haute to Kokomo via Crawfordsville
Indianapolis reports outline a proposed 4 million dollar electric railroad from Terre Haute to Kokomo through Crawfordsville and Frankfort to support coal and freight traffic. The project aims to connect with the Kokomo Marion line, with rivals emerging from Lafayette Crawfordsville to Green Castle. Kokomo power plant upgrades indicate expanded service, including streetcar operations and turbine installations.
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Terre Haute
Kokomo
Crawfordsville
Indianapolis
Frankfort
Marion
Kokomo-Marion
Lafayette
Greencastle
Fort Wayne
Lima
Reunions Planned by Regiments at Fort Wayne Encampment
Fort Wayne will host reunions of many Indiana regiments during the Grand Army of the Republic encampment next month. De Kalb county veterans will use courthouse space for gatherings, and Eleventh battery and Ninth volunteers are expected to join in May. Waterloo and Bluffton contingents promise large turnouts, with Amos R. Walter named chief marshal for the parade and a Market square reviewing stand planned. Department Commander Brown expects to attend as health improves.
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Fort Wayne
Grand Army of the Republic
Indiana
J. D. Leighty
Court House
DeKalb County
County Board of Health
Eleventh Battery
Ninth Regiment of Volunteers
Waterloo
Bluffton
A. R. Walter
Amos R. Walter
Fort Wayne Woman Named Officer of Eastern Star
Indianapolis April 25 The newly elected grand matron Mrs Goodbar announced appointments for the Order of the Eastern Star Grand chaplain Otho G George Indianapolis grand marshal W B Hale Geneva grand Adah Maude M Biddle Evansville grand Ruth Louise Klinger Brazil grand Esther Dora Gleason Tipton grand Martha Harriet Ste man Macbeth Fort Wayne grand Electa Carrie V Halbruge Rock port grand warden Mary Omara Terre Haute grand sentinel Sarah W Burns Indianapolis grand organist Virginia C Schntz South Bend Also the Episcopalian conference of the Michigan City diocese will meet at Logansport the first week in May.
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Indianapolis
Goodbar
Order of the Eastern Star
Otho G. George
W. B. Hale
Geneva
Adah
Maude M. Biddle
Evansville
Ruth
Louise Klinger
Brazil
Esther
Dora Gleason
Tipton
Martha
Harriet Steman Macbeth
Fort Wayne
Electa
Carrie V. Halbruge
Rockport
Mary Omara
Terre Haute
Grand Sentinel
Sarah W. Burns
Virginia C. Schntz
South Bend
Spectacular blaze at Pittsburg packing plant spreads fatally
A massive fire at the William Zoeller Packing Company on Spring Garden Avenue Allegheny Pittsburg destroyed a 600000 pound lard warehouse after an initial containment. Ammonia tanks exploded as thousands watched. No deaths. 3000000 loss estimated. plant to be rebuilt.
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Pittsburg
William Zoeller Packing Company
Spring Garden Avenue
Allegheny
William Graham
Fire engulfs five-story flat at 735 E 156th St
Incendiary fire in a five-story flat at 735 East One Hundred Fifty-sixth Street imperiled twenty families and damaged the building early today. Two policemen evacuated occupants and rescued about a dozen from windows as stairways were blocked. Police seek two men seen leaving the hallway before discovery.
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New York
East One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Street
Secretary Loeb to quit White House at year’s end
Washington April 25 A circulating rumor gains definition that William Loeb Jr secretary to the president will resign to head the Washington Railway and Electric Co A controlling interest has been secured by local capitalists who say Loeb will represent their interests The change is not expected until January when a company reorganization occurs Loeb left today aboard the Mayflower with the president for the Jamestown exposition and could not be reached for comment The road currently is led by Representative McDermott of New Jersey
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Washington
William Loeb, Jr
Washington Railway and Electric Company
Loeb
Mr. Loeb
Representative McDermott
New Jersey
Blunt Marriage License Secret Revealed at Station
Captain Boltz helps Fort Wayne man John Draker obtain a marriage license at Bluffton after Draker, a widower past sixty, chooses to wed a Pennsylvania maiden to avoid public scrutiny in Allen county. The couple's paperwork is completed with Boltz signing as witness.
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Bluffton Banner
John
F. F. Boltz
John Draker
Fort Wayne
Allen County
Draker
Pennsylvania
Boltz
McGowan Named Second Vice President Of Fort Wayne Traction
Hugh J. McGowan of Indianapolis was added to the board of directors and chosen second vice president of the Ft. Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction company at the annual meeting. Other officers were re-elected and the group discussed progress on the Logansport Lafayette extension and the Spy Run power plant, with no immediate plans for city line extensions but anticipation of future growth.
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Hugh J. McGowan
Indianapolis
Ft. Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction Company
W. Kesley Schoepf
Cincinnati
J. Levering Jones
Philadelphia
Charles Murdock
Lafayette
S. B. Fleming
Fort Wayne
H. C. Paul
James Murdock
Randall Morgan
H. H. Kingston
Bayard Henry
Schoepf
Fort Wayne Company
Jones
James
B. Fleming
C. D. Simons
J. M. Barrett
Spy Run Avenue
The
Sentinel
Logansport-Lafayette
Mr. Jones
R Marshall as orator at Lindenwood cemetery ceremony
Hon. Thomas R. Marshall will deliver the principal address at Lindenwood cemetery on Decoration Day with Mayor Hosesy presiding. Memorial Sunday services are planned at Westminster church and Majestic theater with ministers Wilson and Rowand giving sermons and remarks. School children will join veterans in the Decoration Day parade.
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Thomas R. Marshall
Columbia City
Lindenwood Cemetery
Hosey
Commercial Club Rooms
Westminster Presbyterian Church
William H. Wilson
Majestic Theater
Charles A. Rowand
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Australian Leaf offered as relief for women's ailments
Promotional notice for Mother Gray's Australian Leaf claiming to regulate the menstrual cycle and cure female weaknesses including inflammation and ulcerations. The product is sold by druggists or mailed for 50 cents with a free sample and is attributed to The Mother Gray Co. in LeRoy, N Y.
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Mother Gray
Mother Gray Co
LeRoy, N
A Desperate Fight Against Death on Gibbet
Guntersville Alabama April 25 Bob Watts a young white man was hanged in the jail yard after resisting with a knife ammonia was flung into his cell and he was dragged to the scaffold coughing and moaning Watts was hanged for the 1904 murder of Perd Winkles an old Confederate soldier who had drawn thirty dollars in pension money.
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Guntersville
Ala
Bob Watts
Watts
Perd Winkles
Winkles
Good Citizens League names standing committees
The Fort Wayne movement to enforce the law advances with standing committees on literature printing finance inspection and publicity. The president leads publicity, the secretary printing, and the treasurer finance. Dr M A Mason heads literature. inspection personnel remain private. A mass meeting planned for late May will urge public cooperation and report law enforcement progress.
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Fort Wayne
M. A. Mason
First Presbyterian
Wayne Street Methodist
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