Fort Benjamin Harrison to receive first garrison in 1900
Indianapolis reports from Representative Jesse Overstreet that Fort Benjamin Harrison will host its first U S garrison on July 1 next year with the Tenth Infantry taking possession. The post may be ready for troops by December but no arrival until July 1.
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Indianapolis
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Jesse Overstreet
Washington
Overstreet
War Department
Fort Benjamin Harrison,” Said Mr. Overstreet
Foreign Service
Mr. Overstreet
Indiana
America
Philippines
Fither
Tenth
Bell
Secretary of War
Congress
Department
Indi-anapolis
Quartermaster General
Young Romeo Shot by the Father of His Juliet
Roscoe Douglass 21 was shot by Benjamin Martin a city patrolman in Frankfort Indiana after midnight as he courted Miss Pearl Martin daughter of the officer Douglass said he whispered love beneath the upstairs window before being surprised by the father Martin claims he thought a burglar was fleeing and that he did not intend to kill Douglass Douglass dying in Dr Farmers hospital with no hope of recovery and Miss Pearl Martin unable to comment
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Frankfort
Ind
Romeo
Juliet
Roscoe Douglass
Benjamin Martin
Douglass
Dr. Farmer's Hospital
Young Douglass
Martin
Pearl Martin
Miss Martin
Mothers oppose high school fraternities and morornties
Illinois Mothers congress adopted resolutions at the crossing session in Champaign on October 5 denouncing high school fraternities and morornties. Juvenile Court work was praised and Chicago clubs reported including South Side League of Parents' clubs Englewood High School Parents and Teachers' club and Woodlawn Round Table. Bloomington was chosen for the May meeting.
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Champaign
Ill
Illinois Mothers’ Congress
Chicago
South Side League of Parents’ Clubs
Harrison School Club
Englewood High School
Parents and Teachers’ Club
Englewood Woman’s Club
Woodlawn Round Table Club
Harrison
Bertha Hamilton
Bloomington
Explosion kills new officer in Texas
Owen W. Anderson recently appointed to a U S Army lieutenantcy was killed when a bottle of nitroglycerin exploded as he handled it in his Texas home. The house was wrecked and his mother narrowly escaped. He was preparing to depart for Fort Leavenworth.
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Texas
San Antonio
Owen W. Anderson
United States Army
Fort Leavenworth
Plaza hotel opens after years of planning in New York
The Plaza opens on September 30 with Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt signing the registry and a press dinner recounting its creation. The 753-room hotel will house about 550 residents, supported by hundreds of staff, featuring Louis XVI interiors, Caen Stone, Breche marble floors, and rose dining rooms.
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New York
New Plaza Hotel
Hotel Men’s Association
Press of
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
W. G. Roelker
Alexander H. Revelle
New Plaza
West Fifty-ninth Street
Cash to Old Love’s Daughter Inherits $20,000 Will
Katharine Rittenhouse, once a Nebraska State University student and now at Northwestern in Evanston Illinois, inherits $20,000 from Colonel Isaac Wing. Wing, who never married, left the estate to the daughter he loved but never knew, despite her mother having rejected him in youth.
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Lincoln
Neb
Katherine Rittenhouse
Nebraska State University
Northwestern University
Evanston
Isaac Wing
Wing
Sprinkling Streets in Mexico Learn Ancient Watering Methods
A traveler notes the slow street watering in Mexican cities using a roller and water, with a man ahead pulling the roller and another behind pushing. The process wets the waterer and observers, reflecting longstanding scarcity and a simple broom sweeping each block.
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Mexico
Juror Examination Highlights Cranial Evidence in Embezzlement Case
In Vigo circuit court John Stuart charged with embezzlement asked to present collateral evidence after showing skull fractures to jurors. He conducted his own defense before Judge Piety and was not sworn when Cooper objected to cross-examination. The court said further explanation required swearing.
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Vigo
John Stuart
Stuart
Cooper
War on white slave traffic begins at federal level
Washington reports a national crusade to curb alien women being sold into slavery. Secretary Straus and Commissioner Sargent plan a general roundup of all alien immoral women after revelations of widespread trafficking from Japan, France, Australia, Russia, and Italy.
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Washington
National
Commerce and Labor
Straus
Frank P. Sargent
Northwestern
Pacific Coast
France
Australia
Russia
Italy
Illegally Brought Here to Face Deportation Under Trafficking Probe
Government officials believe an organized band has been plying illegal immigration on the western coast. Those brought here will be arrested and deported, and compelled to testify against traffickers. Prosecutions will follow against those responsible for the traffic. A similar band was driven from New York, possibly moving west.
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Department
New York
President Roosevelt suspends Hartweg captain's license after Mississippi race
President Roosevelt telegraphed Evansville inspector to suspend the master of the Fred Hartweg for ninety days amid a speed race on the Mississippi with the Alton. The Hartweg crossed the stream past the presidential party in Memphis, prompting official concerns over safety and potential mishap to other boats. The Hartweg, home port Cairo, was inspected at Evansville.
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Evansville
Ind
Roosevelt
United States
Williams
Fred Hartweg
Pittsburg
Mississippi
Memphis
Hartweg
U. S
Sears
Theodore Roosevelt
Alton
Business Men’s League
St. Louis
Dick Fowler
Colonel Sears
Cairo
Murderer Gibbons Found Guilty of Manslaughter
In Terre Haute Indiana on October 5 the jury convicted Matthew Gibbons of manslaughter for the killing of Romanian porter Ispas Bekis in a rooming house last April. Judge Piety sentenced him to a term of from two to twenty-one years and admonished him on the gravity of taking a life and his roving habits and liquor use.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Matthew Gibbons
Piety
Gibbons
Ispas Bekis
Bekis
Ancient Indian War Canoe Found Near Petersburg
J M Seay discovered a submerged 22.5 foot canoe in the Appomattox near Mattoaca, claiming it may be Powhatan era and used by Nottoways. The relic, recovered April 1907, is to be sent to the Jamestown Exposition for preservation and study.
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Petersburg
Pocahontas
Powhattan
John Smith
Appomattox
J.M. Seay
Mr. Seay
Tergbure
Mattoatter Poccahontas
Matos
Seay
Mattoaca
Shay
Jamestown Exposition
Pie Duel at Martin's Bakery in Indiana Harbor
In Chicago on Oct 5 two men Thomas Duggan and R C Oxley from Indiana Harbor fought with seventy five pies in a Martin's bakery. They lobbed apple and berry pies at each other and even smeared the police as they restrained them after the bakery emptied.
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Chicago
Rockefeller
Thomas Duggan
R. C. Oxley
Indiana Harbor
Martin
Duggan
Oxley
Local visitors share Sunday with Mercer and Shookman households
Special Correspondence reports Mr. and Mrs. John Essig visited Mrs. Judson Emerick Sunday. Verba Mercer stays with her brother Dr. D. J. Mercer. The Lohrman family visited George Emrick. James Essig entertained Fort Wayne guests Colon Shookman and Mrs. George Shookman. Mrs. Robert Mercer returned from Fort Wayne visit. Sweat family sent to Philadelphia for funeral of worker who died in California on a fifth story fall. Frank and Mrs. Mercer of Fort Wayne joined Robert Mercer’s family for Sunday.
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Senemel
John Essig
Judson Emerick
Verba Mercer
D. J. Mercer
William Lohrman
Ida
Elsie
George Emrick
James Essig
Colon Shookman
Fort Wayne
George Shookman
Ellis
Robert Mercer
Russell Shearer
Sweat
Philadelphia
Mr. Sweat
California
Frank Mercer
Mercer
Perjury hinted in disbarment case against Kurtz
South Bend Indiana October 5 The disbarment proceedings against ex Prosecuting Attorney Kurtz raised a major development as the prosecution asked Judge Vail to hold City Judge George G Feldman in custody for possible perjury while on the stand Judge Vail declined the request and witness examination continued
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South Bend
Ind
Kurtz
Vail
George G. Feldman
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