Final Session of Synod Ends After Ten Day Meeting
The Missouri Synod of the Lutheran church adjourned Saturday morning after a ten day congress at Concordia college in Fort Wayne. Delegates praised local members and honored Fort Wayne hospitality while votes supported continued military drills at the college for at least three more years.
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Missouri Synod of the
Lutheran Church
St. Louis
Franz Pieper
Concordia College
Ivers W. Leonard
Fort Waynes
Fort Wayne
Luecke
Missouri Synod Raises Missionary Salaries and Funding
The Missouri synod boosted missionary pay in Brazil by 200 to 600 dollars monthly and added 25 000 yearly for Dakota and Minnesota districts. The plan includes nationwide lectures to fund Brazil work and notes Brazil cost of living and hardships for missionaries. Hawthorne school funds of 40009 dollars were approved to replace the abandoned Lawrence Park college site.
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Missouri Synod
Brazil
Dakota
Minnesota
Canada
United States
Mahler
Hawthorne
Lawrence Park
Home Mission Field Considered by Assembly
The general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States reviewed home mission efforts across labor, immigrants, Indians, and other groups in May Kansas City. It praised college gifts from Rockefeller and Carnegie, noted record receipts, and outlined plans amid field challenges and pending ecclesiastical questions especially in the south and among labor communities.
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Kansas City
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
United States of America
General Assembly
Commission On Colleges
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Presbyterian Colleges
Home Missionary
Board of Home Missions
Women’s Board
Cumberland
Wall of water rises thirty feet amid calm sea
In a Jamaica cruise scene a Norwegian tramp steamer Joseph K. Cuneo faced a sudden thirty foot wall of water near its bow. Captain Aamdt said calm seas gave way to the immense surge and a second wave followed. hundreds of dead fish floated up as the ship remained unharmed. The captain suspected a submarine earthquake caused the phenomenon.
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New York
Joseph K. Cuneo
Port Antonio
Jamaica
Aamdt
Methodist Episcopal Bishops Elected on Fifteenth Ballot
Baltimore May 26 Rev Wilson Lewis and Rev Edwin H Hughes of Indiana were elected bishops on the fifteenth ballot at the general conference. Hughes presides at Depauw University Greencastle Ind. A sixteenth ballot reportedly elected Dr Robert McIntyre of Los Angeles. Vote totals show Hughes 466 Lewis 456 McIntyre 422. Fourteenth ballot produced no choice with Lewis 488 Hughes 486 McIntyre 460. Also reports on union talks with the Methodist Protestant Church and United Brethren cooperation.
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Baltimore
Wilson
Lewis
Edwin H. Hughes
Indiana
Methodist Episcopal Church
General Conference of the Church
Hughes
Depauw University
Greencastle
Ind
West
Robert McIntyre
Los Angeles
Cal
McIntyre
Stuntz
Downey
Bristol
Hingeley
Jennings
Mason
Dorchester
Cooke
Goodell
Thomas H. Lewis
A. L. Reynolds
J. W. Herring
Methodist Protestant General Conference
Pittsburg
M. E. Church
Methodism
United Brethren
Charles W. Smith
Anderson
Nuelson
Quayle
Smith
Merrill
Andrews
Southwest Floods Subside After Severe Dallas Damage
Dallas flooding from the Trinity River caused over one million dollars in damage and at least three deaths. Four thousand residents lost homes. many workers from the Texas and Pacific bridge are unaccounted for as water recedes. Frank Edwards died after being swept into backwater on McKinney Avenue. City funds are raised for the homeless while lights and water remain out and rail service is limited.
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Dallas
Tex
aAfter
Trinity River
Texas and Pacific Railway
Frank Edwards
McKinney Avenue
Floods Keep Death Toll At Eight In Oklahoma
May 26 Guthrie Okla The sun shines as flood waters recede no new deaths reported the death roll stands at eight. Train service remains interrupted on many lines for days while some routes offer partial service. Crop and railroad damage is about 10 million dollars. Passengers are stranded at Shawnee Tulsa Muskogee and other points. In Muskogee the Arkansas river fell today leaving 2 500 gas customers without main. West Guthrie shows signs of normalizing after three hundred houses submerged. Stigler river change makes old railroad bridges useless Ardmore mails sparse with limited wire service.
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Guthrie
Okla
Shawnee
Tulsa
Muskogee
Arkansas
West Guthrie
Stigler
Ardmore
Currency bill stalemate tests Senate House talks
Washington May 26 A formal conference of Senate and House Republican conferees over the currency bill adjourned briefly to reconvene. A compromise outline between the Aldrich and Vreeland plans was discussed offering emergency currency with alternating application under both proposals. House Republican whip Burke urged members to stay in Washington for a vote, stressing the bill’s broad national importance. The conference aimed to press a negotiated path amid continued reluctance to commit.
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Washington
Senate
House
Aldrich
Vreeland
Representative Burke
Taft Declines Bryan Crusade for Campaign Finance Bill
Washington reports Secretary Taft received Bryan's invitation to join a push for a law requiring publication of campaign contributions. Taft replied that he supported transparency, citing a April 30 letter to Senator Burrows advocating public disclosure of expenditures and contributions for all national and state politics. He noted his public statements backing passage of the bill.
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Washington
Taft
Wm. J. Bryan
Bryan
Congress
J. Bryan
White House
War Department
W. J. Bryan
Lincoln
Neb
Burrows
Committee On Privileges and Elections of
The
Senate
Esenate
House
Wm. H. Taft
Republican convention delayed until after mid June
The Republican congressional convention set for Auburn on May 28 is postponed to after mid June to ensure both Gilliams and Watson can attend. The Fort Wayne Federation of Labor also disbanded its political committee, opting to handle political matters on federation floor, amid disputes over labor records on candidates.
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Auburn
Gilliams
Watson
Henry
Fort Wayne Federation of Labor
Committed
B. Fleming
Senate
Federation
Sistatn
Harvey letters tie Gunness case to Chicago arrest risk
A man calling himself Samuel Harvey reports meeting Mrs. Gunness in Ogden Utah on May 4 and says he will testify to authorities. He warns he could be jailed as a witness in Laporte Indiana where Mayor Darrow is pursuing the mystery.
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Laporte
Ind
Darrow
Samuel Harvey
Kansas City
Gunness
Ogden
Utah
Mack
Harvey
Chicago
Chester
Homeless Man Killed by Horse in Buffalo Barn
Amos Wright 40, a Buffalo resident, sought shelter at J J Landis 1808 South Harrison St. He was kicked by a family horse and died an hour later at St Joseph's hospital. Coroner Kesler took charge. Wright left behind a Buffalo Marine Firemen's Benevolent Association card and dues paid April 17. The horse was removed and Wright's body held pending further communication from Edward Stack, president of the Benevolent Association.
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J. J. Landis
Harrison Street
Amos Wright
Main Street
Buffalo
N. Y
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Wright
Buffalo Marine Firemen's Benevolent Association
Kesler
Schone Undertaking
Landis
Young Landis
Melita Street
Petgen
Edward Stack
Buffalo Marine Firemen’s Benevolent Asociation
Myers Hosts Newspaper Men at Kosciusko Lake Cottage
Dr W F Myers secretary of the Great Fort Wayne fair entertained a group of newspaper men at his Lake Barbee cottage Kosciusko county over a Saturday night and Sunday outing, described as one of three offerings.
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W. F. Myers
Wayne
Lake Barbee
Kosciusko
Gunness mystery widens as Arkansas letter cited
Laporte Ind May 25 Mayor Darrow and law partner H X Worden for Ray Lamphere charged with Mrs Bella Gunness murder and three children cite a letter from an Arkansas man. He says Mrs Gunness escaped in male disguise and that a letter arrived within days after the fire. He offers to share letters if interviewed. The lawyers claim May O Rilley of Rochester NY was substituted by Gunness in the fire.
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Rochester
N. Y
Lamphere trial prep begins for multiple indictments in Indiana
In Laporte Indiana May 23 active preparations start for Ray Lamphere’s trials on five murder counts. Prosecutors intend to try Lamphere first for the murder of Andrew Helgelein, claiming strong evidence. Defense attorney Worden says alibi is not the sole line of defense. Nearby, Olaf Jensen of Capron Illinois is reported missing after taking funds to marry a wealthy Northern Indiana widow, with some friends linking him to Mrs Gunness’ victims.
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Lamphere
Olaf Jensen
Capron
Inl
Smutzer
Indiana
Chicago
Cars Exceed Speed Limit on Lewis Street by Tests
The city safety board reports interurban cars run on Lewis Street at about one mile in four minutes, roughly over 6,000 feet between Calhoun Street and Walton Avenue, double the state limit of eight miles per hour and city limit of six. Residents complained to President W. C. Schwier and urged action.
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Board of Safety
Lewis Street
Calhoun Street
Walton Avenue
W. C. Schwier
Lightning strikes Lindenwood lodge in cemetery storm
During a Monday thunderstorm the Lindenwood cemetery lodge was struck by lightning, causing extensive damage as a large portion of the slate roof was torn from the building by the electrical current.
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Lindenwood Cemetery
J G Stafford Buys The Citizen Weekly
J G Stafford formerly of Fort Wayne has purchased the Citizen weekly newspaper published in Columbus Texas and will operate it in the future. Stafford has moved to take charge of the paper.
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J. G. Stafford
Fort Wayne
Citizen
Lumbus
Tex
Stafford
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Presbyterians
Church and Labor
Department of Church and Labor
Foud
Marine ‘Corps
M.E Church
Depauw
Temperance Committee
Hanly
Anti-Saloon
Texas
Oklahoma
Burke
James Francis
MA. Harvey
Mrs. Gunness
Amos Wright, Wanderer
DR. Myers
Barbee’ Lake
Arkansas Citizen
Council
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