Republican Success Depends On That
New York August 28 The republican state committee chair Timothy L Woodruff warns against any executive meddling in gubernatorial nominations or directing the convention He says sentiment cannot be known before primaries and caucuses The national committee met with Hitchcock to discuss finances and routine matters alongside Ward Brooker Dupont Sheldon Bliss Crane and others
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Taft
Sherman
Republican State Committee
Timothy L. Woodruff
Woodravif
Executive Committee
Calfert
Mn Woodruff
State Committee
William Barnes, Jr
Bryan
Hughes
Frank H. Hitchcock
Republican National Committee
East
W. L. Ward
Charles F. Brooker
T. Coleman Dupont
Delaware
George R. Sheldon
Cornelius N. Bliss
Senatro Crane
Judge Hench Predicts Bryan Gains In East Vote Drift
Judge Samuel M. Hench returned from a three week tour through Pennsylvania and Maryland noting a shift toward William J. Bryan. He predicts Bryan will carry Maryland and Pennsylvania may show weaker Republican majorities. He cites reform sentiment among ministers and a Baltimore Sun defection having little effect. Hench spoke at the Port Royal Hench family reunion with 2,200 attendees and visited Antietam battle sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel M. Hench
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Hench
William J. Bryan
Bryan
Baltimore Sun
Taft
Baltimore
Port Royal
Judge Hench
Judge Henck
Antietam
Eivil
Keenan Signs 10 Year Electric Contract for Anthony Hotel
Hugh J. Keenan, lessee, closes a ten year deal with Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction for hotel lighting at 120000 over term. Monthly 1000. Tungsten-Holophone system to illuminate interior and exterior. Architect Weatherhage reports rapid construction and aims to serve first meals by mid December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh J. Keenan
New Anthony Hotel
Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction Company
Weatherhage
O L Perry Falls From Wagon in Wild West Parade
Col. O L Perry manager of Western Union Telegraph office was thrown from an express wagon during a Friday morning parade. He struck pavement, lost consciousness, revived twenty minutes later, and was taken to his home with a severe concussion but expected to recover in a day or two.
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Col
O. L. Perry
Western Union Telegraph Office
Court House
South
Lafayette Street
Berry Street
Col. Perry
Krull
Western Union
Ban on marriages at state soldiers home shocks veterans
Lafayette Ind August 26 Cupid takes a knockout blow as the board of trustees at the state soldiers home bans marriages of members within the home and between veterans and outsiders. The order is mandatory and likely ends the county clerk issuing licenses to veterans of the home.
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Lafayette
Ind
Cupid
State Soldiers’ Home
Board of Trustees
Orer
Deputy Sharp Finds No Illegal Liquor Sales in Steuben
Revenue Collector L. P. Sharp reports returning from Steuben County and finding no illegal liquor sales in Progress during the year.
Flood Rages Through Georgia and Carolinas Killing and Wrecking
The Augusta area bears the heaviest toll with a million and a half dollars in damages and several deaths. Bridges along the Southern railway wash away as floodwaters inundate Bridge Wells Bottom and Perrys Bottom. Across the region, many houses and business blocks are ruined, and Augusta mills remain shut for weeks while rescue and recovery continue.
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Atlanta
Augusta
South Carolina
Georgia
South
North Carolina
Southern Railway
Bridgewells Bottom
Perrys Bottom
Floods in Georgia and Carolinas Ease, Death Toll Steady
Atlanta reports cooler air and relief for flood survivors as streets dry and repairs accelerate in Augusta. Death toll holds at five while damage hit crops hard. Telegraph service resumes, trains rerouted after bridges washed out in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Georgia
Carolinas
Augusta
Feathered Incendiary Fire Destroys Roof Nest
Lawrenceburg Indiana August 26 fire detected in the roof of former Marshal Richard C Crusies home. Alarm sounded and crews controlled the blaze. Believed caused by an English sparrow carrying twigs and string from the rear yard to its nest in the gable. Children saw the bird make several trips from a burning rubbish heap to its nest before the roof caught fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Richard C. Crusie
Twenty Nine Bodies Taken From The Mine Shaft
McAlester Okla Aug 27 Rescuers completed work at Hailey-Ola coal mine No 1 Haileyville fourteen miles east of here finding twenty nine dead. Last body removed early this morning no others believed in mine. Nineteen dead miners found with five mules at an entrance. Most bodies to be interred today amid rapid decomposition as crowds gathered from miles around.
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McAlester
Okla
Hailey-Ola
Haileyville
Here
Hileyville
Artist Ferdinand Earle accused of wife beating in Goshen
Ferdinand Pinney Earle, noted artist and sonnet writer, reportedly struck his wife and choked her a week after the birth of their child. He was arrested at his Semmering home and jailed as a common wife beater as relatives and an aunt sought protection for Mrs Earle.
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Goshen
N. Y
Ferdinand Pinney Earle
Semmering
Monroe
Julius Kuttner Earle
Orange County
Earle
Hothouse
Emily Fishbacher Earle
Julia Kuttner
Inez Barry
Noted Democrat Vilas Dies in Madison at 65
Madison Wisconsin Aug 27 Col William Freeman Vilas a noted Democrat of Wisconsin died at 10 45 this morning after five weeks of illness He was born July 9 1840 in Chelsea Vermont and moved to Madison in 1851 An Army officer in the Civil War he later served in the Wisconsin legislature was chairman of the 1884 Democratic national convention and held posts including postmaster general and secretary of war Vilas served in the U S Senate beginning in 1891 and left public life after his term ended.
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Madison
Wis
Wm. F. Vilas
Philip Fox
Vilas
Fox
William Freeman Vilas
Chelsea
Wisconsin State University
Albany, N. Y
Cleveland
United States Senate
Wisconsin
Senator Spooner
Quiet for Caulfield in Belleville Jail Case
East St. Louis August 26 probable climax of the Caulfield case. Robert Caulfield a boilermaker suffers clamormania a passion for noise. He swallowed two ounces of iodoform in Belleville jail after a struggle with a policeman on a street car. He is in county hospital with slim chances of recovery.
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East St. Louis
Robert Caulfield
Belleville
Caulfield
Broadway
St. Mary's Hospital
Sixth Ward to test city voting machines
The county board tests three of five rented voting machines in Sixth Ward for the November election. Machines in the country will be used at Monroeville and other sites. The board says Sixth Ward can be covered by three units and voters may inspect them to vote intelligently. If tests prove reliable, future appropriations may fund purchases.
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Monroeville
T.co
Board of County Commissioners
Arkansas
Tare
Belk Haute
Aged and Wealthy Indiana Farmer Ends Life in Attica
Lafayette Ind Aug 28 John Henry Briggs a millionaire cattle raiser aged 65 shot himself at his Attica home. Briggs owned 2000 acres in Warren county and had long lived in the area. Despondency from ill health was given as the cause. He served in the Civil War with the 135th Indiana volunteers. His wife found the body after the shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette
Ind
John Henry Briggs
Attica
Warren County
Briggs
135Th Indiana Volunteers
Baltes Inn to Open as European Hotel in West Berry Block
Michael Baltes sells ten year lease of the southeast corner property to William Knapp and Charles Moreland for 20 000 in fireproofing and 12 000 in furnishings. The Baltes Inn will be a fifty room modern European hotel with baths, steel concrete stairways, electric elevators, a Berry street cafe entrance, and a top line grill room.
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Michael Baltes
West Berry and
Harrison Streets
Kidd Medical Company
William Knapp
Charles Moreland
Baltes
Knapp
Moreland
Randall Bar
Spaniard to be sent back to Spain under law
Manuel De Mandida, who killed an Italian and wounded two others on a Wabash train here, will be delivered to a steamship company in New York and sent back to Spain at the company’s expense. Immigration inspector Daniel D. Davies placed him under arrest, placing the case with federal authorities for future handling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manuel de Mandida
New York
Spain
Daniel D. Davies
Chicago
City
Lock Up Woman Then Set House On Fire
Two unidentified black men entered Virgil Bassett's home in St. Louis while he was away, choked his wife Mrs. Bassett, locked her in a pantry, ransacked the house, and set it on fire. Neighbors were alerted by flames, Mrs. Bassett was rescued, and the house suffered heavy damage. The attackers fled with Mrs. Bassett's gold watch, jewelry, and $5. Police have no leads.
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St. Louis
Virgil Bassett
Arrest follows years of neglect says officer
Charles Biemer faced city court on neglect charges for his six children. Humane Officer Schlaudroff, the complainant, asked for continued proceedings. Biemer kept one child, three went to reform school, and others found homes. the kept child later became homeless and was injured, leading to a pledge of $5 monthly support, of which only $1 has been paid since January. Potterfield held on theft charges after release for stealing from Helen I. Duell. earlier sentence was for stealing his father's watch.
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Charles Biemer
Schlaudroff
Bremer
Allen County
Potterfield
Ralph Potterfield
Helen I. Duell
Local man buys Reading Michigan hotel
H L James formerly of this city has purchased the sole hotel in Reading Michigan, located north of here on the Fort Wayne branch of the Lake Shore railroad. He has taken possession, after years at Indiana Road Machine. He left for Oklahoma but returned recently, dissatisfied with the Southwest.
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H. L. James
Reading
Mich
Fort Wayne
Lake Shore Railroad
James
Indiana Road Machine Company
Oklahoma
Southwest
Pfeiffer Money To Loan Ad Real Estate Security
Money to loan on real estate or personal security. J. E. Pfeiffer rooms 6 7 Bass Block.
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J. E. Pfeiffer
Bass Block
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Wiil
Harry Carr
Nixon
Robert Belcher
Horace Wingard
Pfeiffer’ & Son
Columbia St
Affinity
Forty-fourth
Indianavestmental Association
Kendallville
Lagrange
Rich Acah
William F. Vilas
Boilermaker
Sixth Ward
Cedar Creek
Indiana
John H. Briggs
Baltesna
Messrs
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Reading, Mich
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