St. Petersburg Rebels Steal Gun, Police Hunt Thief
The St. Petersburg revolutionists stole a fast model machine gun and a large cartridge stock. Police prefect orders recapture. Schekter, who bombed Police Captain Samsonoff, convicted of ten years hard labor, confessed spying for police before joining revolutionaries. Degdieff’s betrayal echoes a historic case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Schekter
Samsonoff
Bialystok
Degdieff
Alexander II
Suderkin
Masonic Temple Fire Delays Scottish Rite Convocation
Fire at the Masonic Temple caused about 5000 dollars in damage, mainly to equipment and cellar theater areas, due to water from extinguishing efforts. Prompt discovery by a Barnett Transfer driver limited damage, and the Scottish Rite convocation is postponed to December 11 and 12. Insurance covers building and contents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masonic Temple
Charles McGrady
Barnett
Stouder
C. B. Fitch
A. J. Markey
J. K. McCracken
Fort Wayne
Scottish Rite
Perils of Socialism Warned by Archbishop Ireland
Archbishop Ireland warned social restlessness and socialism threaten American institutions at the thirty sixth reunion of the Society of the Army of Tennessee in Council Bluffs Iowa. He defended private property, rejected utopian schemes, and urged protecting wealth while opposing attacks on liberty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Society of the Army of Tennessee
Ireland
New York
America
Missionaries to India Depart Next Week
Mr and Mrs Peter L Eicher and Miss Barbara Eicher of this city plan to leave for New York this week and sail December 4 aboard Inca to serve as missionaries in a inland Indian settlement. The three, all young, were appointed at the September conference of the Missionary Church association which runs the Bible Training school in South Wayne Berne. Special farewell services are set for tomorrow at 3 o clock at the school as students bid farewell. The association has already sent several missionaries from this city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. L. Eicher
Barbara Eicher
Peter L. Eicher
New York
Missionary Church Association
Bible Training
South Wayne
Berne
German Cobbler a Continental Hero in Koepenick Coup
Berlin reports Wilhelm Voigt a former Cobbler hailed as a hero across Germany for his Koepenick town hall coup and theft of the municipal treasury. He studied officers wore a uniform to command soldiers and police and feigned Kaiser's orders to arrest citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Wilhelm Voigt
Koepenick
Germany
Voigt
Koepenick Police
Gilbert
Joseph A Biemer Claimed By Death in City News
Joseph A. Biemer former secretary of the water works board and a notable young city man died at St. Josephs hospital after a brief illness described as a brain affliction. The death followed a period of critical condition from onset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph A. Biemer
Waterworks Board
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Great Docks Burn in Chicago Blaze Destroys Coal Pile
The Lehigh Valley Coal docks at One Hundredth Street and Commercial Avenue in Chicago were destroyed by fire. Estimated damage is $757,000, with $200,000 in hoisting machinery losses included. The blaze started in the engine room of a coal house storing 50,000 tons of coal. Firemen report no word to downtown offices and expect several days to extinguish remaining flames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Commercial Avenue
Mothers Seek Soothing Syrup Remedy For Teething
Fragmentary text praises Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a top remedy for teething children. The passage appears as an old advertisement or endorsement with fragmented quotes.
Huntington Church Calls Rev Robert Rutledge from Chicago
The Baptist church in Huntington extended a call to Rev. Robert Rutledge of Chicago. Superintendent W A Wirt of Bluffton schools resigns to become Gary superintendent with a 2500 annual salary starting next spring. Oscar Fuller, 14, Plymouth newsboy, died after falling from a switch engine. Huntington plans six drilled wells and electric pumps to ease water supply costs.
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Baptist Church
Huntington
Robert Rutledge
Chicago
W. A. Wirt
Bluffton Schools
Gary
Oscar Fuller
Plymouth
Funeral details for Fort Wayne man Biemer
Aged 29, James Biemer died after paralysis and brain complications following hospitalization and surgery. He lived at 708 Clay street, spent his life in Fort Wayne, worked 13 years in the waterworks. survived by parents and four brothers. member of Cathedral congregation Elks and Knights of Columbus. funeral arrangements to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenner
Biemer
George Biemer
Clay Street
Fort Wayne
Brothers’ School
Cathedral
P. J. McDonald
F. W. Urbahns
Julian Biemer
Francis A. Biemer
Majestic Theater
Martin Biemer
Indianapolis
Rosenow Settles Differences and Is Released
R F Rosenow, who sold a bed spring patent right to Matthew Wambach and faced arrest for obtaining money under false pretenses, was released from county jail on an indefinite continuance after settling by returning the stolen funds. He claimed he worked for the repudiated contracting firm and drinking delayed the settlement. James A Kennedy was discharged with orders to avoid the transfer corner and Archie Mathewson of Plymouth, arrested for loitering after a Temple theater fire, was told to leave the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. F. Rosenow
Matthew Wambach
James A. Kennedy
Archie Mathewson
Plymouth
Temple Theater
Prisoner in Abandoned Cistern Rescued by Husband
Mrs Lyman Myers of near Clear Creek Huntington County was trapped for hours Thursday morning when a weakened board over a cistern gave way. She fell through a small opening and could not free herself until her husband located and released her.
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Lyman Myers
Clear Creek
Huntington County
Winklebeck
Levi Thatcher
Turkey Lake
Stroh
Lagrange County
Ehack
Wife of local farmer burned to death in kerosene fire
Mrs John Sinclair wife of a well known farmer living five miles southeast of Wabash upset a kerosene can on a stove Thursday evening. The oil flowed onto the stove and her dress ignited instantly enveloping her in flames. She died in the fire.
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John Sinclair
Wabash
Hinshaw Taken Back to Prison for Murder Conviction
William E. Hinshaw was returned to Indiana’s Michigan City prison to serve the remainder of a life sentence for the 1895 murder of his wife after Governor Hanly revoked his parole. Hinshaw, saying he had little hope for the future, refused to admit guilt and expressed desire to die rather than return to prison, though he pledged to serve the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
William E. Hinshaw
Indiana
Michigan City
Hanly
Harvey
Hinshaw
L. J. Frank Hanly
Lake Erie and Western
Robbers Enter Train Car At Peru Station
At Peru Indiana at midnight two men boarded a standing day coach of the Washington railroad express No 3 as it stood at the station and held a loaded revolver to the head of a foreigner near the door taking his watch and 30 dollars. The pair escaped.
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Peru
Ind
Wabash Railroad
Indiana National Guard unit mustered out at Logansport
Logansport Indiana November 10 1918 Company K second regiment of the Indiana National Guard was mustered out last night sixty men and non commissioned officers were in the company The removal of Captain Fitch and Lieutenant Huckleberry from the state and failure to secure other officers led to the mustering out.
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Logansport
Ind
Indiana National Guard
Fitch
Huckleberry
Hicksville Line Abandoned By Toledo and Indiana
F B Perkins chief engineer of the Toledo and Indiana line states the Hicksville Maysville extension is abandoned while Bryan to Butler will be built next spring to connect with the Toledo and Chicago line for Fort Wayne. A party of Noble and Kendall counties guests toured the Kendallville power plant and line route.
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F. B. Perkins
Toledo and
Chicago
Maysville
Auburn
Rome City
Waterloo
Butler
Albion
Goshen
Kendallville
Perkins
Indiana Line
Perking
A. D. Shepard
Cleveland
Frank Welsheimer
C. Barnum
Thomas Budd
K. Rosenberry
Noble County
T. A. Redmond
L. W. Welker
W. H. Reinbolt
C. E. Baker
Weingard
Mr. Lyons
Ely's Dream Balm Promises Scent and Taste Revival
An advertisement extols Ely's Dream Balm as restoring taste and smell impaired by nasal catarrh. The copy claims immediate healing when applied directly to affected passages and urges readers to try it today.
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Ely
Defective rail blamed for deadly Ohio wreck
A Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern line wreck west of Blanchester Ohio kills one brakeman and injures at least eighteen others including a long list of passengers and crew. The cause cited is a defective rail. five coaches plunged down an embankment as the engine and service cars escaped. Mrs Charles Bennett is believed fatally injured on her wedding trip.
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Blanchester
Baltimore and Ohio
Here
William Billings
Chillicothe
Mary Silberstein
Cincinnati
Charles Taylor
Arthur Francis
Newport
Washington County
Ohio
Lorenzo Puerk
Jerome Washington
New Richmond
O. Cook
Church Cole
Paula Sioffsky
Solomon Sioffsky
Ethel Joy
Albert Joy
Montgomery County
Germantown
Charles Bennett
Odin
J. C. Wolf
Greenville
James G. Rabb
Gladys
W. Va
E. M. Myers
George Curtis
Jersey City
N. J
Pullman
R. G. Rannan
Train wreck cripples Nashville special at Buckley Illinois
The Nashville special on the Illinois Central northbound derailed at Buckley near Bloomington. Fifteen people were injured, none fatally, with the baggageman badly bruised and a cook burned. Cause cited is a broken rail. delay lasted about three hours as injured were taken to Chicago.
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Bloomington
Ill
Nashville
Ilinois Central Road
Buckley
Paxton
Oldest Fort Wayne liquor house to retire after thirty years
Julius Nathan & Co the oldest wholesale liquor house in Fort Wayne plans to close by January 1 after thirty plus years in business established May 1875 by Julius and Herman Nathan. Nathan cites increasing personal demands and a confining business as reasons for retirement.
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Julius Nathan & Co
Fort Wayne
Vincennes
Main Street
Calhoun
Columbia Street
Nathan
UL. Falk
Lentz
New Arctic Tribe Found Near Prince Albert Land
Officer of the revenue cutter Thetis recounts locating a previously unseen Arctic group on Prince Albert Land. Captain Klinkinberg and an Eskimo companion traveled 250 miles inland, meeting about 600 natives who dress in tanned skins and use bone and native copper tools. They showed curiosity and formed friendly signs after a rifle was lowered.
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Victoria
B. C
Prince Albert Land
Arctic
Thetis
Klinkinberg
Olga
Prince William Land
Eskimos
Greenland
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WAR Office
Ordnance Department
India
Europe
Kaiser
Northern
Joseph A. Bisemer
Rosenow
Logansport Company
Hicksville
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
Illinois Central
Pierce
Jalhoun Street
Hone
Fruit House
Knox Ten Cent
National Railway Training School, Inc
Boston
Minneapolis, Minn
North
Jesse ‘Thompson
Kosciusko County
Leesburg
Thor Ye
Régeciusko County
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