Indiana Republicans Set April 1 and 2 State Convention in Indianapolis
The Indiana Republican State Committee elected James P. Goodrich as chairman and fixed April 1 and 2 for the state convention at Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis. The gathering will nominate candidates for governor and other state offices and elect national delegates and electors, with 1,467 delegates apportioned by county.
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Indianapolis
Republcans
Indiana
Republican State Committee
Clay- Pool
Hotei
James P. Goodrich
George To Dainwddie
Frankfeet
Wovernor
Secce of State
Auditor
Supreme Court
Snowball trap claims hunter in Utah valley
In a snowbound incident near Utencorf a hunter attempting to shoot while crossing a slope loosened snow. He was swept downhill and buried in a massive snowball that formed around him. Rescue efforts found him alive at first then unable to be freed. his body was recovered from the solid mass.
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Vienna
Deutsches Volksbisit
Utencorf
Haitian Exiles Seize Gonaives in Revolt
Port au Prince reports the first major act of a revolutionary movement against Haiti's government. An exile expedition led by Jean Juneau landed near Gonaives, 65 miles northwest, and occupied the town. Juneau commanded a detachment under Antenor Firmin during the uprising.
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Port-au-Prince
Haiti
Jean Juneau
Gonaives
Here
Antenor Firmin
Federal to invoke Ku Klux law in Colorado murder case
Federal attorneys plan to use the historic Ku Klux law in a probable conspiracy case against William R. Mason and Joseph Vanderweid following their trial for the murder of Secret Service Agent Joseph Walker in Durango Colorado. The action recalls prosecutions under the old measure from forty years earlier.
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Denver
Colo
Kuklux
William R. Mason
Joseph Vanderweid
Secret Service
Joseph Walker
Durango
Meek Seeks Committee to Probe Teacher Certificates
Senator William H. Meek of Dayton waved a sealed envelope he said held a teacher’s affidavit and charged immorality in the traffic of state certificates. The Senate floor erupted as cries of Read Read followed, but Meek said the affidavit would be shown only after a legislative committee is appointed to investigate.
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Columbus
William H. Meek
Dayton
Senate
Meek
Italian star Tettrazzini dazzles at New York debut
Mme Lusa Tettrazzini, hailed after London honors, sang Verdi's La Traviata at the Manhattan Opera House to a packed house. She drew standing ovations twelve times after the first act and received endless calls from boxes and galleries, praised for a wide range and mellifluous timbre.
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New York
Adelina Patti
Christine Nilson
Mme
Lusa Tettrazzini
London
Manhattan Opera House
Mme. Tettrazzini
Indiana Farmer Victim in Confidence Scheme
Rushville Indiana Jonathan S White known as Stamper White a wealthy Rush county farmer was duped into buying spurious money by two trusted neighbors and a gang from Indianapolis. He lost about 20000 with two thirds of the remaining sum to be returned after a compromise. Grand jury expected to probe past cases involving other farmers.
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Rushville
Ind
Jonathan S. White
Glenwood
Stamper White
Rush County
White
Indianapolis
Earl Ruff
Mr. White
Young Ruff
Henry A. Johnson
Richmond
Harness Boat to Big Whale Off Long Beach
Frank Paschall and James Harvey had a frightening sea tale as a whale towed their small skiff for three miles at high speed after they left the wharf to inspect a set line. The line broke and the whale disappeared, leaving the anglers shaken but unharmed.
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Long Beach
Cal
Frank Paschall
James Harvey
Townsfolk Save Boswell From Fire with Snowballs
In Boswell near Johnstown Pennsylvania a huge fire threatened a powder store and the town lacking a fire department saved itself by throwing hundreds of soft snowballs. Water was scarce and the flames had gained headway but the sudden snowball assault confined the blaze to six buildings and prevented an explosion.
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Johnstown
Boswell
Under Water Three Minutes Sets Club Depth Record
Chicago special: Frank Sullivan, swimming director of the Illinois Athletic Club, established a new professional record by remaining under water in the bath for three minutes. The previous mark of 2:20 was held by Finney, an English swimmer.
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Chicago
Frank Sullivan
Ilinois Athletic Club
Finney
Col James Ryder Randall Dies in Augusta
The Augusta Georgia special reports Col James Ryder Randall author of Maryland My Maryland is dead at his home in the city.
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Maryland
Augusta, Ga
Col
James Ryder Randall
Thaw insanity defense sought to spare Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
New York special reports the Thaw murder case defense aiming to prove Martin W Littleton can secure an insanity or incompetence finding for Evelyn Nesbit Thaw at the time of Thaw's marriage. If successful, Thaw could be committed to an asylum, potentially nullifying the marriage and shielding the Thaw family fortune.
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New York
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Thaw
Martin W. Littleton
Evelyn Thaw
Littleton
Justice Dowling
White
Evelyn
Walsh Found Guilty In Bank Embezzlement Trial
John R. Walsh, president of the defunct Chicago National Bank, found guilty on fifty four counts for misappropriating bank funds. The trial lasted nine weeks with a 48 hour jury verdict. Walsh faces at least five years in prison and no fines option. Born in Ireland seventy years ago, he came to Chicago in 1849.
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Chicago
John R. Walsh
Chicago National Bank
Walsh
Home Savings Bank
Equitable Trust Company
Ireland
Mrs Lydia K Bradley Dies at 92 Noted Illinois Philanthropist
Mrs Lydia K Bradley longtime Illinois philanthropist dies aged 92. Born in Switzerland county Indiana she built a fortune estimated at four million dollars and became a well known benefactor in Peoria Illinois community affairs.
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Peoria
Ill
Lydia K. Bradley
Ilinois
Rumor of Connecticut’s Destruction Unfounded
Rumor circulated that the battleship Connecticut flagship of Admiral Evans was blown up in Rio de Janeiro harbor. No dispatches or official confirmation reached the Navy Department.
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Washington, Special
Connecticut
Evans
Rio de Janeiro
Navy Department
New York Clearing House Reports $97 Million Loan Certificates
The New York clearing house issued loan certificates totaling $97,000,000 during the financial stringency, with $74,000,000 put into actual use. President Alexander Gilbert of the Clearing House Association prepared the statement. The retirement movement began after the crisis and has progressed rapidly since.
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New York
Special
New York Clearing House
Alexander Gilbert
Clearing House Association
Green Bug In the Wheat
The modern crop outlook bulletin reports the green bug, formerly destructive in Texas Oklahoma and southern Kansas, found in two Kansas counties in destructive numbers. State authorities with Kansas millers will start a campaign and seek a $10000 appropriation to combat the pest. Hessian fly damage persists in southern Kansas with new complaints of weak winter wheat from eastern sections.
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St. Louis
Miller’s Crop Outlook
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Roosevelt Life Policy Insurance Figures Revealed
Special reports indicate President Roosevelt has insured his life for 85000 dollars. The Spectator Company plans to publish a list of more than 5500 policyholders with life coverage from 50000 to 4000000 dollars for insurance officials.
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Roosevelt
New York
Spectator Company
Conspirators Driven Inland in Rio Anarchist Plot
Chief of Police in Rio de Janeiro declares an anarchist conspiracy aimed at the American fleet harbor and says plotters centered in Rio and Petropolis have fled inland to evade capture. Police in Sao Paulo and Minas Geraes are pursuing arch conspirator Jean Fedder and others tied to foreign anarchists.
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Rio Janeiro
Petropolis
Sao Paulo
Minas Geraes
Jean Fedder
Fedder
Branciian
Washington
Paris
France
Germany
United States
Charles Emory Smith Dies at 65 in Philadelphia
Charles Emory Smith editor of the Press and former minister to Russia and Postmaster General died suddenly at his Philadelphia home aged 65. He held the Postmaster General post during the McKinley administration and through the Spanish American War.
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Philadelphia
Charles Emory Smith
the Press
Russia
Smith
McKinley
Roosevelt
Man Receives $10,000 for Narrow Escape in Train Rescue
Des Moines reports telegraph operator W E Gearhart of Madrid Iowa will receive $10,000 from the estate of Chicago magnate C C Thompson. Gearhart, then with the Milwaukee Road in Melbourne in 1889, saved Mrs Thompson and her daughter from being run over by a freight train.
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Des Moines
W. E. Gearhart
Madrid
Iowa
Milwaukee Road
C. C. Thompson
Chicago
Gearhart
Great Western
Melbourne
Fine hits IH for anti trust violations in Kansas
Judge Dana of Shawnee County District Court in Topeka fined International Harvester Company 12600 dollars after finding the firm guilty on forty three counts of violating the Kansas anti trust law.
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Topeka
Kan
Dana
Shawnee County
International Harvester Company
Two Die In Baltimore Auto Crash
George L. Billups, owner of Billups Hotel, and his wife were killed when their car skidded and overturned while taking a curve at high speed near Baltimore Maryland.
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Baltimore
George L. Billups
Billups Hotel
Alarming rumors on Pope Pius health in Rome
Rumors circulating in Rome claim Pope Pius may have suffered a stroke or fainting spell and that his heart disease has worsened. The reports are unverified and spread amid anxious public concern.
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Rome
Pope Pius
Boston Heiress Leaps From Hotel Window
Mrs. Herbert M. Sears of a wealthy Boston family, guest at the Hotel St. Regis, commits suicide by jumping from a thirteenth story window in New York.
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New York
Herbert M. Sears
Boston
St. Regis
Bryan Would Not Enter Nomination Without Unanimous Support
William J. Bryan will not allow his name to go before the national Democratic convention in Denver unless he is assured of substantial unaminous support. He reportedly objects to a split party and says he would back another candidate such as Governors Smith or Johnson or Senator Culberson if the party remains undivided.
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Washington
William J. Bryan
Denver
Bryan
Congress
House
Parker
Smith
Georgia
Johnson
Minnesota
Culberson
Texas
Ban on Tights at Evansville Theater Causes City Fuss
Following police censorship of "The Nightingales" at People's, Mayor Boehne ordered a tights ban and abbreviated costumes. Chief Brennecke instructed to halt any show and arrest any actress or troupe manager, and the theater manager, if a woman appears in tights or shows legs above the ankle.
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Evansville
Ind
the Nightingales
People’s
Boehne
Brennecke
Schoolboy dies in hazing incident at Eugene Field School
Chicago special report Raymond Taylor a sixteen year old pupil at Eugene Field School Rogers Park died early Saturday from hazing described as the royal bumps. Two classmates grabbed his head and feet pinned his arms and bumped him on the brick schoolyard pavement.
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Chicago
Ill
Raymond Taylor
Eugene Field School
Rogers Park
Taylor
Son Killed by Auto in Indianapolis Murder Charge
John Cochran was run down and killed by an automobile driven by Frank B. Hill in Indianapolis. Hill was arrested on the charge of murder as Cochran's father witnessed the accident but could not identify his son at the scene.
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Indianapolis
Ind
John Cochran
Frank B. Hill
Cochran
Hill
Du Ponts Enlarging Mills Near Coalmont Indiana
Du Pont Powder Company plans to increase output at its mills near Coalmont three miles north of Jasonville Indiana to 18000 kegs daily. The expansion will employ about fifty more men as new machinery is installed on site.
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Jasonville
Ind
The
du Pont Powder Company
Coalmont
No Diamond Price Reduction Maintained by Diamond Importers
New York reports a major diamond house announces policy to keep diamond prices steady. The London diamond syndicate, controlling 95 percent of world output, has instructed importers to maintain prices despite a recent drop in sales.
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New York
London
Break in Jap Cabinet A Crisis Rattles Tokyo
In Tokyo a cabinet crisis unfolds as Finance Minister Y Shino Sakatani and Communications Minister Isabura Yamagata resign. their moves are accepted while Prime Minister Marquis Saionja’s resignation is refused. Rumors suggest further cabinet departures over budget differences.
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Tokio
Y-Shino Sakatani
Isabura Yamagata
Marquis Saionja
Shaw May Enter Presidential Race
Ex Secretary Leslie M Shaw confers with friends about running for president and believes he could win a majority of Iowa's delegation. Washington report notes possible entry in the presidential contest.
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Shaw
Washington
Leslie M. Shaw
Iowa
French Bombs for U S Fleet in Rio De Janeiro
Paris police warn Rio de Janeiro authorities that French anarchists have arrived with plans to attack and destroy American battleships anchored off the Brazilian coast.
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U. S
Rio Janeiro
Brazil
Paris
Unlucky with Fiances in Pittsburg
Miss Mary C. Trimble daughter of Justice John Trimble followed her fiance Frank D. Creese to the grave in Aspinwall just before an expected wedding next week. This marks a second heartbreak after her prior betrothal to Walter McKee ended when he died of pneumonia two years earlier.
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Pittsburg
Mary C. Trimble
John Trimble
Frank D. Creese
Aspinwall
Miss Trimble
Walter McKee
Sybilla
McKee
Creese
Darling Naming Contest Chooses Newborn in New York
Oscar L. Darling of Amityville L I advertises to name the newest, twenty seventh darling. The exhausted mother offers Darling Darling as a name, but the infant emits a howl at the suggestion.
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New York
Oscar L. Darling
Amityville, L. 1
Darling
Darling Darling
Crossed the Line Murder in Davidson County
Ezekiel Gregory, a 66 plus year old farmer, was killed by his son Dave with an ax after an argument over arising. The son drew a line with the ax in the earth and challenged his father to cross it. The father crossed the line and collapsed as the daughter rushed out.
Mayor orders closing of motion picture theaters in Mobile
Mobile Alabama officials led by Mayor P J Lyons ordered all moving picture shows closed after fire department building inspector and city electrician found dangerous fire exits. Some theaters must close permanently pending safety fixes.
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Mobile
Ala
P. J. Lyons
City Electrician
Evansville Man Convicted of Manslaughter in Court
John Klaser, charged with the murder of Thomas Flagler, was convicted of manslaughter by a jury in Circuit Court. The crowded courtroom heard a desperate defense by the defendant, a local business man, whose wife and baby have died since his arrest.
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Evansville
Ind
John Klaser
Thomas Flagler
Klaser
Hatfield Believed Lost With About Thirty Aboard
The British ship Hatfield en route from Liverpool to Seattle is thought to have gone down off Vancouver Island with all hands. Captain A. S. Anderson and possibly his wife and family were aboard, among roughly thirty people on the vessel.
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Seattle
Wash
Hatfield
Liverpool
Vancouver Island
A. S. Anderson
Glass Tank With Goldfish Found in Parker Building Ruins
Special searchers work in the Parker Building ruins after the Friday fire that caused losses over 5 million dollars. Amid the debris they discover a glass tank containing three live goldfish, which seem unhurt by the ordeal.
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New York
Parker Building
Dog Hero Saves Boy From Mississippi River
In Columbus Kentucky a three year old Newfoundland named Paul rescued seven year old Paul Doug from drowning in the Mississippi River. The dog named after the boy plunged in to save him and is celebrated as a hero.
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Columbus
Paul
Paul Doug
Henry Farman Wins Circle Flight Prize in Paris
French aeronaut Henry Farman wins the Deutsche Archdeacon prize of $10,000 for a circular kilometer flight in a heavier than air airship in Paris. The official Aero Club committee witnessed the test and recorded a time of 1 25.
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Paris
Henry Farman
The
Aero Club
Visual proof of Earth's orbit at Columbia University
Special report notes a February demonstration at Columbia University to prove the earth revolves using the Fou cault method from Paris 1851. Profs Harcli Jacoby and S A Mitchell are named planners.
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New York
Columbia University
Pipe Smokers Dominate U S Tobacco Production
Vice President Harris of the American Tobacco Company testified in the Government suit that pipe smokers consume more than half of all tobacco grown in the United States. The statement highlights the influence of pipe tobacco users in national production.
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New York
United States
Harris
American Tobacco Company
Great Fire in El Oro Mining Camp
Telegram from Mexico City reports El Oro gold mining camp in the republic destroyed by a large fire. The camp was among the Republic’s largest mining centers and its loss is a major setback for the industry.
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Mexico City
el Oro
The
Republic
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