Public whipping of Conley before crowd in Delaware yard
In Wilmington a Black man named Charles Conley faced a fifty year prison term and thirty lashes for assault and battery on Mrs Beatrice Frankish and her daughter Miss Gussie Leitch. The whipping, witnessed by nearly five hundred, left welts across his bare back as he remained stoic through the punishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Del
Charles Conley
Beatrice Frankish
Gussie Leitch
New Castle County
Conley
Allen County Sunday school convention promises leading speakers
The Allen county Sunday school convention set for October 27 and 28 at Wayne Street M E church will feature three prominent speakers. Moninger of Cleveland will attend, Mrs. Mary Bryner of Chicago will be present two days, and State Superintendent Rev. E Wesley Halpenny plans to attend both days. Dinner will be provided free to outside delegates on Saturday. A separate note mentions Fort Wayne and Springfield Traction Co plans to extend south from Decatur to Berne if Berne residents subscribe $25,000 in stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen County
Wayne Street
M. E
Moninger
Cleveland
Marion
Mary Bryner
Chicago
United States
E. Wesley Halpenny
Fort Wayne and Springfield Traction Company
Decatur
Berne
Nelson to Leave Fort Wayne for Peoria Railway Post
S. L. Nelson, longtime Fort Wayne transit executive and McKinley syndicate member, will move to Peoria to become vice president and general manager of the Peoria Railway company. He will relocate within two weeks, bringing his managerial experience from Illinois and Kansas to expand Peoria interurban operations amid a $300,000 Illinois River bridge project and about sixty cars over seventy miles of track.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Nelson
Fort Wayne
Southwestern Traction
McKinley Syndicate
Middle West
Nelson
Peoria, I
Peoria
Springfield
Ohio
Townsend, Reed & Co
Southwestern
Huntington
Lafayette
Danville
Marion
Toledo
Wabash
Mllinois
Ilinois
Wabash Valley
Kansas
Wichita
Illinois
Illnois River
East Peoria
Seven Die in Razed Town Explosion at Jellico
Revised toll from the dynamite blast in Jellico Tennessee reaches seven fatalities with additional fatally injured among the five previously reported. Over fifty injured, about twenty severely, and property losses estimated under half a million dollars, possibly higher. Named dead include John Cook Dr. Sellers Walter Ridges Dr. Atkins James Reynolds John Gordin and a Syrian unnamed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jellico
Tenn
John Cook
Sellers
Walter Ridges
Atkins
James Reynolds
John Gordin
President Cassatt Confined With Whooping Cough
Philadelphia Sept 22 President A J Cassatt of the Pennsylvania Rail Road company is confined to his home at Havre Ford suburb suffering from whooping cough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Lines
Philadelphia
A. J. Cassatt
Pennsylvania’ Railroad Company
Havreford
Sadie Mariotte Hands Gun Plot Shown In City Court
Sadie Mariotte wife of Ben Mariotte faced City Court for a revovler stunt at the Arlington hotel after pursuing Marion Brown or Johnson. Judge Skelton fined her five dollars and costs as she claimed wronged wife feelings failed to win mercy. Several others including Jack Detroit Otto Parker Isaac Slater James Riley Jack Davis Frank Spencer and William Smith were fined in separate cases. Patrolmen intervened in a resort incident where George Winkler received a black eye after a confrontation with Captain Reichelderfer. An eighteen year old, Clarence Hines en route to Denver had his gun confiscated and was instructed to continue on foot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sadie Mariotte
Ben. Mariotte
Arlington
Marion Brown
Johnson
Skelton
Dygert
Columbia Street
Paul
Junk
Arlington Hotel
Jack Detroit
Otto Parker
Isaac Slater
James Riley
Jack Davis
Frank Spencer
William Smith
Robert Miller
George Winkler
Reichelderfer
Clarence Hines
Denver
Lafayette Woman Shoots Husband in Saloon Row
In Lafayette Indiana on September 22 Mrs Charles Lawson shot her husband three times with a 32 caliber revolver after a quarrel in Columbia Street saloon. The fatal shot hit his chest near the heart and he died on the way to hospital. police locked her up for murder. A child witnessed the scene and described ongoing abuse by the husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette
Ind
Charles Lawson
Lawson
Columbia Street
Fifth
Smith & Wesson
The
Order of Druids
Boy Hurt At Fair Grounds No Fatality Reported
A boy was knocked down by a horse near the Art hall at the fair grounds Friday afternoon. He was found uninjured apart from painful bruises after Dr. W. T. Ferguson checked him. A false alarm about a dead man led coroner Stairs and an undertaker’s wagon to respond, stirring crowd fear before police confirmed no fatality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Art Hall
Fair Grounds
W. T. Ferguson
Fair Association
Peltier Undertaking Rooms
Rich man fights vice crusade in Logansport
Logansport Indiana September 22 judge D D Dyke man one of the citys wealthiest men opposes police commissioners John Sheerin and Theodore Sewell over efforts to stamp out vice. Dyke man argues commissioners hold state offices yet are employed by a private corporation the Pennsylvania Railroad. Recent wholesale raids on resort keepers prompted the confrontation amid a tense battle over enforcement and authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logansport
Ind
Ees Board
D. D. Dykeman
John Sheerin
Theodore Sewell
Dykeman
Pennsylvania: Railroad
Fr Realsee
Judge Dykenan
Eve
Indianapolis
Indiana
Commerce Commission
Interstate Commerce Commissioners
Trial of Willard S Wickard postponed to 1907
Indianapolis Sept 22 Judge Fremont Alford announced the postponement of the Willard S Wickard case to the next term of the criminal court which begins January 1 1907 The hearing on the charge of conspiring to commit a felony with former state auditor David E Sherrick was set for the coming Monday morning Claim is made that a special judge could not be secured for the trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Willard S. Wickard
Criminal Court
Fremont Alford
Wickard
David E. Sherrick
Young Men's Institute Delegates Arrive for Supreme Convention
Indianapolis September 22. Arrangements by the district council are complete to entertain delegates to the supreme convention of the Young Men's Institute. A number of delegates are expected to arrive tomorrow with most arriving by Monday afternoon. The first business session will be Tuesday morning in St. Joseph's hall at 615 East North Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Supreme Convention of the Young Men’s Institute
St. Joseph's Hall
East North Street
New Deanship at Depauw Marks Historic Step
Green Castle Ind Sept 22 For the first time in the history of Depauw university a dean for the college of liberal arts has been appointed Professor Edwin Post head of the latin department. He will keep in touch with student scholarship and receive periodic reports from all departments and classes showing the work students are doing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Castle
Ind
Depauw University
College of Liberal Arts
Edwin Post
Indiana WCTU Holds Thirty-Third State Convention
The program for Indiana WCTU's thirty-third annual convention was issued for Portland Ind. with dates October 5 to 9 at the Methodist Episcopal church. Arranged by President Mrs. Culla J Wayhinger of Madison and Secretary Mrs. Josephine Walmer of Bluffton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland Ind
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of
Indiana
Methodist Episcopal
Verdict in Pierce libel suit over Favorite Prescription
The Supreme Court of New York State returned a verdict in favor of Dr. R V Pierce in the libel suit against Ladies' Home Journal publishers over a May 1904 article alleging his Favorite Prescription contained harmful ingredients. The verdict upheld Pierce's damages and refuted the slander amid widespread readership of the defamatory piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. V. Pierce
Ladies’ Home Journal
Dr. Pierce
Bok
Supreme Court
Pierce
Supreme Court of
New York State
Evangelistic Conference Planned at Third Presbyterian Church
Fort Wayne presbytery will hold an evangelistic conference at Third Presbyterian Church on Monday October 1 with a morning session led by Rev Jas W Campbell Rev P E Zartmann Rev Geo Knox D D Rev F N Palmer and E A K Hackett and an afternoon program including a trained personal workers band and church campaign plan Also Rev P E Zartmann of Winona Lake Ind will preside luncheon served by Third Church women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Wayne
Third Presbyterian
Jas. W. Campbell
P. HE. Zartmann
Synod
Geo. Knox
D. D
F. N. Palmer
E. A. K. Hackett
F. M. Fox
P. E. Zartmann
Winona Lake
Ind
Child Dedicated to Labor in Historic Ceremony
In Chicago on September 22 a nineteen month old child, son of L. G. Creel, was formally dedicated to organized labor at St James Methodist Episcopal church. Speakers included Miss Jane Adams Miss Mary McDowell Miss Eva Marshall Shonts and L P Straube of the Allied Printing Trades council. The rite was conducted by Rev D C Miller representing the Presbyterian church department of labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Organized Labor
St. James Methodist Episcopal Church
Forty-sixth Street
Ellis Avenue
L. G. Creel
Jane Adams
Mary McDowell
Eva Marshall Shonts
L. P. Straube
Allied Printing Trades Council
Additions to assessments listed by county assessor
County Assessor William Eggemann shows over four years he placed 3,176,560 on tax duplicates with taxes collected totaling 58,359.86. The tabulated figures include yearly values and taxes from 1900 to 1906, plus totals: total value 3,176,560 and taxes 68,359.86.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Eggemann
Proportional Electoral Reform Urged by Russian Nobles
In St Petersburg on September 22 the permanent bureau of the congress of nobles urged a shift to proportional representation after the first election stage to allow conservative minority representation. The move sparked liberal alarm over potential radical shifts, while police resignations grew amid rumors of terrorist threats and currency notes debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Congress of Nobles
Obiednieni
Rech
Russia
Plot at Peterhof Not Aimed at Imperial Family
Vienna dispatch says two members of the Russian revolutionary committee escaped St. Petersburg and claim the Peterhof plot targeted Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaievitch and Grand Duke Vladimir. Gen. De Doulin searched Peterhof. guards pursued a group, arresting three men including two Grand Duke Nicholas footmen and a palace gardener with a full plan of Peterhof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Vienna
Daily Telegraph
Russian Revolutionary Committee
St. Petersburg
Peterhof
Emperor Nicholas
Nicholas Nicholaevitch
Vladimir
Russia
Nicholas
de Doulin
Revolutionary Committee
St. Peter and St. Paul
Marked Russians for Death Terror plots target czar
St Petersburg officials report widespread terrorist plots as Reds claim a campaign of slaughter will extend from Warsaw to St Petersburg. Premier Stolypin is named for assassination while guards around the palace are to be strengthened. A recent Narva gate blast near Peterhof ties to the Tropoff funeral plot, hinting at a wider anti imperial conspiracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Warsaw
Stolypin
Imperial Palace
Finnish
Nicholas
Narva
Tropoff
Peterhof
Trepoff
Troops Leave Laporte for Michigan City Target Practice
The Tenth battalion United States field artillery comprising the Fourteenth and Twenty-first batteries broke camp today and began its final day march to Michigan City for target practice. The two hundred mile route from Indianapolis has been without incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laporte
Ind
United States Field Artillery
Michigan City
Indianapolis
Hugh Wampler Whipped by Masked Men in Smithville
Early today in Bloomington Indiana a dozen masked assailants abducted Hugh Wampler from his home in Brown county and severely whipped him with switches. Neighbors claim he had not been supporting his family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington
Ind
Hugh Wampler
Smithville
Brown County
Class Scrap At Purdue Ends with Freshmen Chained
Indianapolis, Sept 22. Sophomores defeated the freshmen of the Purdue medical college in a class scrap that occurred last night and today. The losing freshmen were chained and paraded through the streets as a result of the contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Medical College
Purdue University
Woman Dies in Runaway Outside Hartford City
Miss Jessie Rickets aged 28 daughter of a farmer living six miles north was killed in a runaway accident last night while returning from a wedding with her brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford City
Jessie Rickets
Publicizing Absences Aims To Boost Attendance
Logansport Indiana school board approved advertising in the local newspaper the names of all high school pupils absent without excuse and the length of their absence. Parents can question pupils on return. The move follows a comic opera company appearance that drew many volunteers for supernumeraries, prompting attendance concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logansport
Ind
Miss Annabel Mygrant Elopes to Kentucky for Marriage
Miss Annabel Mygrant aged 16, daughter of Rev W H Mygrant of Portland, eloped with William Wheatfall a Kentucky farmer. They started for Kentucky aiming to marry, but the report ends amid details of the plan and circumstances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annabel Mygrant
W. H. Mygrant
Portland
Kentucky
W. H
Fraudulent Marvin Kuhns Impersonator Tracked Near Hartford City
A man posing as the former desperado Marvin Kuhns travels as a supposed supey near Hartford City while the genuine Marvin Kuhns leads an upright life in Noble County. The Hartford area traveler, going by Bod Bennett, is identified as a fraud and connected to Bhiffton in the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin Kuhns
Hartford City
Marvin
Noble
Bod
Bennett
Bhiffton
Becker announces engagement of Emma Marie Becker to Ernest Gerke
Mr and Mrs A C Becker announce the engagement of their daughter Emma Marie to Ernest C Gerke. The wedding will be Oct 31 at the bride’s home 426 West Williams Street. Miss Becker is described as popular and attractive while Mr Gerke is a prosperous young business man and a member of a well known fire and et contractors group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Becker
Emma Marie
Ernest C.gerke
Weat Williams Street
Miss Becker
Mr. Gerke
Foe
Treieres
Denier
Saloon License Revoked for Fort Wayne Owner
Mayor Hosey permanently closes John Kennedy Sr.s Lafay ette and Wallace street saloon after finding him guilty on two counts for selling liquor to miners and to intoxicated patrons. The action ends Kennedy’s retail liquor business in Fort Wayne. the license would not have expired until November. The case followed the assault and death of Samuel Augsberger after he was left injured at the saloon yard. Charges were lodged by Chief Ankenbruck and cited five counts. The mayor relied on two counts to revoke the license.
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Hosey
John Kennedy
Kennedy
Lafayette
Wallace
Fort Wayne
Samuel Augsberger
Ankenbruck
Pioneer James R. Smith Dies in Decatur Indiana
Northern Indiana obituaries report Adams county pioneer James R. Smith died Thursday evening at his Decatur home. Other notices include 12 year old Will Fox fracturing an arm in Laporte during a circus act. Dr. B A Houser’s residence burgled for over $200 in valuables. Robert McGee of Elkhart, once injured and later committed to Longcliff asylum. Whitley county pioneer Robert Hanna dies at 80 in Coesse, Civil War veteran member of Company K, Eighty-Eighth Indiana. Also disclosed is Jimmy Turner alias James Burley of Norwalk Ohio, buried in Goshen after years living under a false name with a wife and two sons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James R. Smith
Adams County
Decatur
Will Fox
B. A. Houser
Wabash
Robert McGee
Elkhart
Lake Shore
Hospital For
Longcliff
Robert Hanna
Whitley County
Coesse
Eighty-Eighth
Indiana Regiment
John Ponticus
Fort Wayne
Jimmy” Turner
Goshen
James Burley
Norwalk, D
Ohio
Thaw Submits to Expert Alienist Sanity Exam
Harry K Thaw, awaiting trial for the murder of Stanford White, submitted to a sanity examination by three alienists at the Tombs prison. The doctors, Dr D B Evans Dr Christopher C Bealing and Dr Charles D Wagner, were retained by Thaws counsel and had previously observed him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harry 4. Thaw
Stanford White
Tombs Prison
Thaw
W. T. Thaw
D. B. Evans
New Jersey State Hospital For
Morristown
Christopher C. Bealing
Evans
Charles D. Wagner
New York State Hospital For
Binghamton
Clifford W. Hartridge
Hitt's Remains Leave Narragansett Pier for Illinois
The body of Congressman Robert R. Hitt, escorted by Mrs. Hitt and her son, departed Narragansett Pier R1 today in a private car toward the Hitt home in Mount Morris Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Narragansett Pier
R. 1
Robert R. Hitt
Judge Ambler Dead in Canton at 77
Youngstown Ohio September 23 Judge Jacob A Ambler died last night at his son Judge R S Ambler's Canton home. He was 77 and had been ill a few days with pneumonia. He served as a member of the new congress from the 17th Ohio district. A Yorkshire birth custom is also noted, describing a regional practice in West Riding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ambler
Youngstown
Jacob A. Ambler
Canton
New Congress
Ohio
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New Castle
Zimmerman
St. Port Waynes
Cassatt III
Vice Crusade
Oyster Suit
Indiana Traction Men
Commerce Commission To
Hoosier State
Young Men’s Institute
Depauw
Evangelistic Conference
Methodist Church
Eggemann
Czar
Nicholaevitch
Purdue
John Kennedy, Sr
Sam Augsberger
Hitt
Yorkshire
West
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