Bristow Seen More Culpable Than Rathbone in Cuban Posts Case
Havana dispatch reports Rathbone’s former director general of posts jailed on bail. Defenders seek indictment and extradition of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Joseph L. Bristow. Bristow allegedly allowed salaries for Rathbone’s Cuban treasury staff through May, after urging Rathbone’s prosecution. Indication Rathbone will resist administration efforts.
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New York
Havana
Evening Post
Ote
Estes G. Rathbone
Posts
Joseph L. Bristow
Rathbone
Bristow dismisses Havana indictment talk in Washington
Washington on September 22 Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow laughed at a Havana dispatch claiming Rathbone's lawyers sought his indictment and extradition. He noted he moved quickly to remove Rathbone's private employees from the Havana post office rolls and said no decision on reimbursing salaries rests with him. He said he did not request Rathbone's prosecution until after returning home and filing his report.
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Washington
Bristow
Havana
Forme
Post
Rathbone
Cubha
Post Ofice
Cuban Postal Service
Rolla
Looted express car on the St Louis Portland flyer near Woodlawn Lincoln
Four masked men halted the express car on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy line near Woodlawn village, northwest of Lincoln, early today. They forced the messenger to open the locker safe and looted it. A small sum was left as reward.
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Lincoln, Neb
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Woodlawn
Lincoln
German editor Karl Reuter Berger writes new play
Freie Presse editor and noted German American author Karl Reuter Berger wrote a play titled Hilf Dir Leibst. It has been taken up by Theodore Bollman, head of the German theater in Detroit, for production in the season's early part.
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Karl Reuter Berger
Freie Presse
Theodore Bollman
Detroit
Mich
Fatally Injured at Play at Washington and Wabash
A small child, Catherine Toulsa Vevia, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Vevia of 88 Grant Avenue, died Friday evening after a heavy saloon bar toppled over while she and companions played in a yard with stored fixtures at the corner of Washington Street and Wabash Avenue.
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Catherine Toulsa Vevia
George Vevia
Grant Avenue
Washington Street
Wabash Avenue
Counterfeit Currency Arrests In Allen County
Henry Bredemeyer and Charles Sheets, both of the city, were jailed after noon Saturday by Deputy U S Marshal B C Rose and Secret Service agents B Halls on $500 bond each. A $10 counterfeit silver certificate and a counterfeited U S obligation are cited in affidavits. A two year seven month old girl died from severe injuries after a sheltering incident. her parents mourn the tragedy. Sheets, a Harrison Street tailor, and Bredemeyer, formerly a Hamilton National Bank watchman, were arrested as they dined. Sheets allegedly tried to pass the bill at saloons. the stamp declaring counterfeit was erased. Sheets’ hearing set for next Wednesday evening before Commissioner Loray. Bredemeyer’s for the following morning.
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Henry Bredemeyer
Charles Sheets
United States
B. C. Rose
W. @. Halls
United States Secret Service
Allen County
Logan
Bredemeyer
Sheets
William Miller
Frank Belchin
Hamilton National Bank
Harrison Street
Secret Service
Halls
Hamilton Bank
Lo Ray
Cap'n Drew
Rose
Owal
Doane
Ellen
Eien
Williston
Sheelon
Cap
Drew
Rez
Cap’n Drew
Noli
Hobb
Josie
Boston Transcript
Bethany
God
Jesus
Christ
Heavenly Kingdom
Officers Elected by Allen County W C T U at Plymouth
The Allen County WCTU convention at Plymouth church elected new officers: President Mrs. Emily Mellutosh Hoagland Recording Secretary Mrs. Tir Omo Maysville Corresponding Secretary Miss Belle Grassley Hoagland Treasurer Mrs 3B Banning Fort Wayne Mrs Drake superintendent Anti Cigarette League and Mrs Nettie Hubler in charge of Sunday school. Resolutions reaffirmed opposition to liquor traffic, support for anti-cigarette work, equal suffrage, and reform of church gatherings. Delegates instructed to push state funding reductions at the Frankfort convention.
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Emily MelLutosh
Hoagland
Tir
Omo
Maysville
Belle Grassley
Banning
Fort, Wayne
Drake
Anti-Cigarette League
Nettie Hubler
Exch
Cowdrey
Rose McIntosh
Ida Simmons
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
United States
Loyal Temperance Legion
Frankfort
Allen County
Bert Cowdrey
Councyl
Union
West Tefferson Street
Clambake Tale From Enoch Walker's Visit
Boston Transcript recounts Enoch Walker's tale of his daughter Ben's Plymouth marriage and a summer clambake in Plymouth that ends with a sea voyage, a daring rescue, and a dinner of steamed clams. Cap'n Drew and Winslow figure as bold organizers, with humor and local maritime color throughout. The narrator wins praise for surviving his first out-of-state voyage and tasting clams for the first time.
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Enoch Walker
Ben
Plymouth
Mass
Enoch
Vernant
Josiah Pottifield
Boston
Bunker Will Monument
Plymouth Rock
Taxes Accepted at New Court House Hours in Bluffton
Taxpayers line up daily at the old Saengerbund building to settle with the county treasurer. The treasurer’s office has moved to the new court house, and County Treasurer Rohan urges taxpayers to pay there. Charles E. Schoenlein spent time in Bluffton this week visiting his son Max.
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Saengerbund
Court House
Rohan
the Sentinel
Charles
Schoenlein
Bluffton
Max
Sunday School Lessons Emphasize Question and Answer Method
A Chicago Record summary of John Lindsay Withrow's Sunday lessons from 1900 stresses catechism use in religious instruction as an ancient, revived method. It outlines lesson explorations on Jesus’ baptism and miracles, faith, humility, and the Transfiguration, highlighting belief in Christ’s deity and child-focused teachings.
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John Lindsay Withrow
Park Street Church
Boston
Chicago
Our Fathers
Germany
Jesus
Mimele
Tairvus
God
Christ
Matthew
Peter
Mail Wagon Driver Held in Mail Theft Case
Arthur Trenary, a United States mail wagon driver between Fork Wayne and city depots, is held on $500 bond to await Indianapolis grand jury action in November. Charged with abstracting a half dollar from a letter to the State Medical Institute, the decoy coin marked by C. F. Kettler was found in his possession. Preliminary exam before Commissioner T. J. Logan, with J. M. LaFollette assisting, resulted in the plea of guilty and bond setting. Trenary plans to post bond this afternoon.
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Arthur Trenary
United States
Fork Wayne
United States Grand Jury
Indianapolis
Wrennrg
State Medical Institute
C. F. Kettler
Wayne Post
Trenary
T. J. Logan
J. M. LaFollette
Attormey Wilmer Leonard
Logan
When John Was England's King Burlesques Ivanhoe
A London publishing prank sends a typewritten Ivanhoe burlesque titled When John Was England's King to several houses. Rejections mock the original authorial voice while noting similarities to Scott and Macmillan works and suggesting alternate naming choices for the hero.
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Scott
London
John
England
Chicago Chronicle
London Academy
Messrs
Macmillan
Messrs, Macmillan & Co
Messrs. Macmillan
John Murray
Walter Scott
Warsaw to Get Free Mail Delivery November 1
The city will begin free mail delivery on November 1. This morning W. J. Hess of the local civil service board was ordered to go to Warsaw on October 6 to organize a board there and conduct the first examinations for clerks and mail carriers.
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Warsaw
W. J. Hess
Civil Service Board
Clark
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