Officers Killed in Samar Action Corrected Dispatch
Washington reports a corrected cable dispatch shows Company C Ninth Infantry suffered a disaster at Balangiga on September 28 in Southern Samar. Captain Thomas W. Connell First Lieutenant Edward A. Bumpus and Major Surgeon R S Griswold were listed as missing and presumed killed, with relatives seeking confirmation.
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Washington
Ninth Infantry
Samay
Philippine Islands
Thomas W. Connell
Edward A. Bumpus
R. S. Griswold
War Department
Manila
Hughes
Bassey
Samar
United States Infantry
Balangiga
R. 8. Griswold
Ninth Regiment
Connell
New York City
Balangiga disaster reported by General Hughes
General Hughes heads to Samar after the Balangiga engagement in which over forty men from company C Ninth Infantry were fatally hurt by insurgents at Balangiga while at breakfast. Around 400 bolo-wielding attackers caused heavy American casualties. 140 were fatally wounded. Officers believed to have escaped were among the injured. General Hughes plans to assume command at the disaster scene.
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Manila
Hughes
Samar
Markley
Tannan
Balangiga
Ninth Infantry
Taiwan
Katipunan
Tarlac
Marcenloa Marivale
Banonag
Tayabas
Bantagas
Caballos
Insurgent Forces Scatter Across Province After Refusal to Surrender
Formerly under General Cailles command the insurgents refuse surrender and retreat to the mountains. Main forces are scattered in bands across the province and collect rifles when opportunities arise to use them.
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Cailles
A Special Venire Drawn for Dunn Case
Jury commissioners and the county clerk drew eighty jurymen for the Dunn case beyond the regular panel. The list was sealed by court order to remain secret until near the trial to prevent potential talesmen from learning of their selection and disqualifying themselves by public discussion.
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Raan
Harry Bayliss Dies by Chloral Poison in New Haven Cemetery
Lifeless body of Harry Bayliss, about 50, found leaning against his mother’s tomb at the I. O. O. F. cemetery in New Haven. A bottle and revolver nearby, with an envelope and letter seeking burial beside his mother. Bayliss, once a Fort Wayne porter, had long suffered ill health and traveled from Muskegon to New Haven before his death.
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Wew Haven
Harry Bayliss
Bayliss
Fort Wayne
Muskegon
Mich
New Haven
Robert Bell
William Snyder
T. J. Eiler
Minnie
Grace Miller
Schrader
Thomas Hammond
Hoagland Avenue
Home Billiard Hall
J. J. Bayliss
Heistand Case Begins Senate Inquiry In Manila Hemp Charge
The senate sub committee on military affairs opened a public inquiry into Lt Comdr H O S Heistand over alleged misuse of his office in Manila hemp ventures. Major Hawkes filed charges claiming a private business gain scheme with army officers and civil officials to control Philippine hemp output. Heistand attended with attorney Charles W Needham as the investigation commenced.
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Washington
Senate
Committee On
Hawley
Proctor
Burrows
Cockrell
Harris
H. O. S. Heistand
E. L. Hawkes
Heistand
Charles W. Needham
Philippines
Hawkes
Secretary of War
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Wabash Train Wreck Near Council Bluffs
The through passenger train from St Louis to Omaha on the Wabash plunged down an 18 foot embankment seven miles from Council Bluffs. The engine remained on track while cars piled bottomside up. Nearly a hundred passengers were aboard with three fatally or seriously injured and many more hurt. cause appears to be rail spreading on the curve.
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Omaha
Neb
St. Louis
Council Bluffs
Indian Creek
Contractors Submit Bids for Rail Project Components
Contractors will be asked to bid on the complete railroad project as well as separate tasks including grading furnishing poles and ties and wiring. A 72 pound steel rail will be used with rails supplied by the American Steel company. Grading operations are expected to begin this fall.
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American Steel Company
Outing at Camp Reilly Showed Rifle Club Fun
The Hibernian Rifles spent Sunday at Camp Reilly with a guard drill at eight, a football game, and field sports. Edward O'Connor won the 150 yard dash while the Longs beat the Shorts 12 to 2 in baseball. Mike Lordier captured the greased pig to finish.
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Hibernian Rifles
Camp Reilley
Edward O’connor
Mike Lordier
Mystery at West Lawn: McKinley Cemetery Guard Incident
Friends of the late President McKinley's family doubt an attack on the tomb at West Lawn cemetery. They question the guard report of a shot heard, while military authorities plan a thorough inquiry. Captain Biddle later said the sentinel may have been mistaken and found no evidence of a struggle.
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Canton
Ohio
Mc Kinley
West Lawn Cemetery
Biddle
Sentinel
Injuries Endanger Life of 13-Year-Old Flagle Family Tragedy
Russel Flagle, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Flagle of 57 East Third street, fell from a tree while gathering hickory nuts on Goshen road. He remained unconscious with internal injuries deemed very grave. no fracture found. He was treated at the Shobe residence by Dr. Stults and later at home, with little hope for recovery.
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Russel Flagle
Milton Flagle
East Third Street
Flagie
Goshen Road
Shobe
Flagle
Stults
Sunday School Convention Highlights In Abolt Township
Large turnout at the Abolt township Sunday school convention featured addresses by A Bowersox J C F McMakin Rev J H Wingate Rev W H Clay and others. Township officers elected include E O Clay president A J Hyatt vice president A Bowersox superintendent of home department and Baker Kennedy secretary treasurer. The Hyatt quartet provided excellent music.
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Abolt Township
A. Bowersox
J. C. F. McMakin
J. H. Wingate
W. H. Clay
E. O. Clay
A. J. Hyatt
Home Department
Baker Kennedy
Hyatt Quartet
Gas Company Receives Large Telephone Instrument Consignment
The Fort Wayne Gas company received this morning a large shipment from the Home Telephone company. The instruments will be installed along the gas company telephone system which is extensive, covering the gas field and reaching every pumping station. The system spans about eighty miles in length.
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Fort Wayne Gas Company
Home Telephone Company
Boers Repulsed After Daylong Portitala Attack
A force of fifteen hundred Boers led by General Botha attacked Portitala on the Zululand border on September 26. The defense suffered heavy losses including one officer and eleven men killed, five officers and thirty-eight men wounded, with sixty-three missing. Boer commandant Opperman and nineteen burghers were reported killed.
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Durban
Natal
Botha
Portitala
Zululand
Opperman
Seventeen Die in BC Mine Fire and Explosion
Victoria BC Oct 1 Seventeen men die in Extension mine No 2 fire and explosion linked to a miner lamp. A rope rider escaped by sprinting up 1000 feet to the mine mouth after signaling others to flee. The fire rages but no flooding expected.
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Victoria
B. C
Wellington Colliery Company
Extension
Dunsmuir
George Southcomb
Timberman
Eugene Griffin
Welsh
Ladysmith
John Patterson
James Watson
Michael Dolan
William Pollock
E. Lynch
John McCallum
XK. Blackley
E. Hazel
Frank Mattisha
Charles Noye
Archibald Reeves
Boyd
Prowl at Vault Footnotes Guard Attack and Escape
Guard De Prend faced two prowlers near a cemetery vault late at night. A masked assailant struck him while a second man attacked with a heavy instrument and a sharp blow knocked the guard down. No trace of the suspects was found as they fled into fields and woods nearby.
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de Prend
Ashbridge
Biddle
McKinley Will Admitted To Probate In Canton
The will of William McKinley was admitted to probate in Canton Ohio today. Judge William R Day and Secretary George B Cortelyou were appointed administrators with a $100000 bond. Appraisers will meet this afternoon to prepare a schedule and assess property values.
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Canton
William McKinley
William R. Day
George B. Cortelyou
Soldiers' Home Burned Near Atlanta
Fire destroyed the Confederate soldiers' home just east of Atlanta on September 30. No lives were lost, but several narrow escapes occurred as about seventy veterans, including invalids, were rescued. Loss estimated at 25000 dollars with 22000 dollars insured. The home opened June 30 for ex Confederate veterans and was built by popular subscription.
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Atlanta
Lost Money Covered by Missing King Funds
Josiah King of 28 Will Street reports $80 in bills vanished Saturday while at the Fruit House and en route to lend funds to a friend. He has received no trace of the missing money after the loss was discovered during purchases.
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Josiah King
Will Street
King
Fruit ‘House
Jubilee Day Observed by Knights of Columbus
The Knights of Columbus marked Pope Leo’s jubilee proclamation with prayers at four Catholic churches. They paraded from their Lau Building hall and visited Cathedral, St. Marys, St. Peters, and St. Patricks, joined by a large crowd of Catholics along the route.
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Knights of Columbus
Pope Leo
St. Mary’s
St. Peter’s
St. Patrick’s
Lau
Open bids for interurban line construction at Cleveland
The directors of the Muncie Hartford City Fort Wayne interurban line will hold a meeting next week in Cleveland to open bids for the construction of the project. The event aims to select contractors and advance regional rail development with plans tied to the corridor.
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Muncie
Hartford City
Fort Wayne
Cleveland
Lions battle ends with tamer injured at Indiana carnival
Steve Lawrence a lion tamer for the Boston Ferari show narrowly escaped death in Lafayette Indiana after slipping as he left the cage. Wallace the untamed lion leapt at him. attendants with iron bars drove the animal away. Lawrence sustained injuries but will recover.
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Lafayette
Ind
Steve Lawrence
Wallace
Prof. Lawrence
Editors Elect Officers of Northern Indiana Editorial Association
In Elkhart Indiana on September 28 the Northern Indiana Editorial Association chose officers for the coming year with E A Jernegan Mishawaka as president and J S Conlogue Kendallville as secretary and treasurer. The executive committee was named along with delegates and alternates to the National Editorial Association meeting set for Hot Springs Arkansas in 1902 with South Bend as the next meeting site.
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Elkhart
Ind
Northern
J. E. McDonald
C. W. Metsger
F. D. Haimbaugh
Muncie
J. A. Kautz
Kokomo
National Editorial Association
Hot Springs
Ark
Bayard Gray
Frankfort
Dale Crittenberger
Anderson
C. B. Unger
Middletown
J. B. Stoll
A. P. Kent
J. A. Barnes
C. D. Tillo
J. W. Barnes
Gordon Murray
S. B. McManus
Bent Wilson
Lafayette
H. S. K. Bartholomew
Warsaw
Charles Haas
Wabash
South Bend
Trains Collide Near Bridgeport, Three Dead
A head on collision on the Berkshire division of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad at Long Hill today left three men dead Engineer E Burns Fireman Gustafson Brakeman Nally and two others seriously injured Engineer Holt Fireman Pitcher. Both engines and many cars piled up blocking all traffic.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Berkshire
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Long Hill
E. Burns
Gustafson
Nally
Holt
Pitcher
Goebel seeks return of Taylor and Finley in Indiana
Indianapolis Kentucky figure Arthur Goebel and his attorneys revisited Governor Durbin in the Indiana capital on Sept 30 seeking the return of W S Taylor and Charles Finley. The governor was asked to reply this afternoon but his secretary said no formal answer was likely today.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Arthur Goebel
Kentucky
Durbin
W. S. Taylor
Charles Finley
Butt
Bond Family Visit From Fort Wayne
Mr and Mrs E Bond and their son and daughter of Fort Wayne spent Sunday at Hotel Huntington after driving down Saturday afternoon.
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Huntington
Democrat
Veterans Reunion for Indiana Regiment in Fort Wayne
The thirty third annual reunion of the One Hundred twenty ninth Indiana regiment led by Colonel Zollinger will be held in Fort Wayne this Thursday. Registration at 9 30 a m in the court house assembly room. dinner at 12 30 p m served by the Womens Relief corps. evening program at Saengerbund hall includes song by Apollo quartet prayers by the chaplain an address by Mayor H C Berghoff and other speakers. Ex soldiers are urged to attend and participate in speeches songs or dances.
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One Hundred and Twenty-ninth
Indiana Regiment
Zollinger
Court House
Women’s Relief Corps
Elektron
Saengerbund Hall
Dennis Monahan
Apollo Quartet
H. C. Berghoff
Fort Wayne
E. G. Melendy
Dr Burroughs Affliction Shrinks Hope For Ex President
Crawfordsville Indiana October 1 Distressing word has been received about Dr George S Burroughs ex president of Wabash College He had an arm amputated last spring after a fall and in August his remaining arm was broken at a New York railway station Now word comes that arm must also be amputated due to bone disease making him a helpless cripple The bones are soft and brittle and the disease worsens his condition
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawfordsville
Ind
George S. Burroughs
Wabash College
New York
Aged veteran found dead in Indiana ravine
The decomposed body of Horace Cutterton, eighty four, hermit veteran of the Seminole, Mexican and Civil Wars, was found in Spring branch woods near Lafayette Indiana after a log bridge broke while he crossed. Deputy Recorder J W Gillette, with his mother and cousin, left for Buffalo.
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Lafayette
Ind
Horace Cutterton
Indian Hill
Spring Branch
Catterton
J.W. Gillette
C. M. Gillette
Winnie ‘Spaulding
Buffalo
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M’kinley
Taylor
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