Three Express and Freight Trains Daily Schedule
Three Express and Freight trains run daily except Sunday with departures at 7 00 a m 10 15 a m and 5 00 p m. Freight and Express trains arrive at 10 00 a m 4 30 p m and 9 00 p m. South Bend La Porte and Michigan City service includes hourly half[?] intervals and special La Porte only 1 16 p m. CHAS G LOHMAN Gen Supt.
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Elkhart
Mishawaka
South Bend
LaPorte
Michigan City
Chas, G. Lohman
Dutch capture Castro warship and flag hoisted at Willemstad
Dutch cruiser Gelderland captured the Venezuelan coast guardship Alix outside Puerto Cabello. The Alix was towed to Willemstad with Dutch crew. forts at Puerto Cabello did not fire. Reports from Maracaibo note rumors of a revolution in Venezuela's interior and expect further Dutch captures near La Guaira.
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Willemstad
Curacao
Gelderland
Puerto Cabello
Willemstard
Puerto Cabelio
Maracaibo
Venezuela
Jacob van Heemskerk
Friesland
la Guaira
Castro
$8,000,000 Will Contest In Oswego Probate Case
Mrs Charlotte Arnot challenges probate of Peter Cooper Hewitt's will in Oswego New York as the estate valued at about 8 million dollars is partly directed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other institutions after modest bequests to relatives. The contest is set to begin this week and involves Hewitt, a cousin of Senator Thomas C. Platt.
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Oswego
N. Y
Charlotte Arnot
Peter Cooper Hewitt
United States
Thomas C. Platt
Hewtt
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
President's four rifles ordered for Africa trip
President Roosevelt ordered four rifle types for the Africa trip. The first is the most powerful for rhinoceros, hippopotamus and elephants. The second kills lions at 600 to 1,000 yards. The third is best at fifty yards. The fourth is effective up to 800 yards for moderate game. Three thousand rounds of cartridges were ordered.
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New Haven
Conn
Roosevelt
Bread Line Opens for Deserving Men in Bowery Mission
Former Judge E H Gary visited the Bowery mission where about 1,467 to 1,500 indigent men stood in line for a midnight bread line. He noted the lack of work and life prospects, and the visit may spur a movement to transport unemployed Americans to western positions offering jobs.
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New York
Bowery Mission
E. H. Gary
Steel Trust
Judge Gary
Fourteen Die in Bas Obispo Dynamite Blast
The Bas Obispo dynamite blast in the Panama Canal Zone killed fourteen people, including three Americans, and injured about fifty as twenty one tons of dynamite exploded. The blast wrecked a ninety ton steam shovel and devastated a hillside, with hundreds laboring to recover bodies.
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Washington
Bas Obispo
Panama Canal Zone
Panama Canal
United States
Democratic meeting draws Indiana legislators to Denison Hotel
Indianapolis December meeting gathers Democratic senators and representatives plus candidates for all offices from U S senator to doorkeeper. Aspiring senators John W Kern B F Shively L Ert Slack Major G V Menzies and Edward Hoffman expected to attend and seek lawmakers' support.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
House
United States
House of Representatives
Denison
John W. Kern
B. F. Shively
South Bend
L. Ert Slack
Franklin
G. V. Menzies
Mount Vernon
Edward Hoffman
Fort Wayne
Reidy’s Father Shocked by Son’s Panama Death
Michael Reidy aged 72 learns his eldest son John J. Reidy was killed in a Panama explosion. John J. Reidy had worked for the government in Cuba and Panama as a construction foreman after supervising Indiana Union Traction work in Indiana.
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Indianapolis
Michael Reidy
George F. Kirkoff
John J. Reidy
Panama
Cuba
Indiana Union Traction Line
Hanly Buys Home in Indianapolis at Meridian and Twenty-first
Governor J Frank Hanly has purchased the residence at the southwest corner of Meridian and Twenty-first streets in Indianapolis from Solon L Goode. The frame ten room house sits on an ample lot with eighty feet frontage and 162 feet depth. Price paid was 15000 dollars. Possession will be taken January 1 after extensive repairs.
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Indianapolis
J. Frank Hanly
Meridian
Twenty-first Streets
Solon L. Goode
Meridian Street
Hansbrough Resting Quietly After Operation
Minneapolis December 14 Senator H C Hansbrough of North Dakota has not gained strength as quickly as hoped after surgery. Doctors see no new cause for alarm and say he rests easily tonight though he still has a fever. In Wooster Ohio Congressman Grant E Mouser lies in a hospital in critical condition after being removed from a train with uric acid poisoning and kidney congestion.
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Minneapolis
Minn
H. C. Hansbrough
North Dakota
Wooster
Grant E. Mouser
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Judge Baldwin Dead in Logansport
Judge Daniel P. Baldwin former Indiana attorney general and Wa bash college trustee died suddenly at his Logansport home reportedly from apoplexy. He was 71 and long active in Republican politics with banking interests in several Indiana towns. His later years saw bank closures and indictments dimming his career.
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Logansport
Ind
Daniel P. Baldwin
Indiana
Wabash College
Husband Kills Bride Then Kills Elevator Agent
William Barnhart a railroad switchman shot and killed his bride of three months at a hotel then killed Carl Clapp an elevator agent. He surrendered afterward. Clapp was married with three children. the motive remains unknown. Roadhouse Illinois dispatches report the incident on December 14.
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Roadhouse
Wic
William Barnhart
Chicago and Alton
Carl Clapp
Clapp
Barnhart
Negro Health Congress Opens in Tuskegee for Black Tuberculosis Fight
For six days starting today Tuskegee Alabama hosts a health exhibition aimed at fighting tuberculosis among Negroes. Booker T. Washington welcomes visitors as the event marks a likely world first in targeted public health outreach for the colored community. The notice lists exhibitors and local undertakers Smith Clark Co Home Outfitters and Funeral Directors and Geo W Herr as manager of the undertaking department.
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Tuskegee
Ala
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
The
Smith-Clark Co
Geo. W. Herr
Mrs A A Gates Dies at 87 in Port Arthur
Mrs A A Gates mother of John W Gates died today in Port Arthur Texas from diabetes at age eighty seven. The body will be sent to St Charles Illinois on a special train held at Port Arthur for a week.
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Texas
Port Arubr
Tex
A. A. Gates
John W. Gates
St. Charles Til
Port Arthur
Prize for Indiana at Omaha corn show drew wide state honors
In Omaha on Governors Day at the national corn show the largest and best ear prize went to George Stambrook of Franklin Indiana. Harry Tilson of Franklin Indiana took second and Harry Seitz of Des Moines Nebraska third. Governors from Iowa Wyoming and Nebraska participated in exercises with speeches by each.
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Franklin
Ind
Omaha
George Stambrok
Franklin, Ind
Harry Tilson
Harry Seitz
Desoia
Neb
Iowa
Wyoming
Nebraska
Fire Chief Belt Dead in Washington D C Death
Washington report says Chief William T. Belt of the Washington fire department died suddenly from heart disease. Grief over the drowning of his favorite son a few weeks earlier is blamed by the family for hastening his death. In Brunswick Vermont a mother and her two year old daughter were burned to death.
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Washington
William T. Belt
Washington Fire Department
Brunswick
Laura Smith
Sexton Dies at Work in Paoli Grave Digging
Jasper Indiana December 14 David Clancy fifty eight years old fell into an open grave while digging a burial for the body of Rev Cyrus Jones a respected local minister and died shortly after the accident in Orange county authorities investigate the incident at Paoli cemetery
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Sexton
Jasper
Ind
David Clancy
Paoli
Orange County
Clancy
Cyrus. Jones
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Uneeda Biscuit
National Biscuit Company
F. Thiers
D. Mather
Middlebury
J. Roth
Hoover
Levi Bontrager
Edson Conrad
Eli Hershberger
Wiliam Doll
Lima
Frank Conrad
Millersburg
Geo. Leming
Ligonier
Benj. Conrad
Columbia City
John W. Troyer
Goshen
Fred Balyeat
Middleton
Mich
J. W. Balyeat
S. 7Th St
Tme
Irwin Higher Opera House
Tues
Paris
Trih
Northern
C.K. Runyan
Lexington Ave
Chichester 'S
Bat Everywhere
Miss Shaffer
Hawks Electric Co
Hawks Gartner Building
Holland
Arnot
Judge
Gary
BREAD
Canal
TOGA
Kern
Reidy
Hanly
Hansbrough
Judge Baldwin
Negro Health Congress
Clyde
Franklin Man
Belt
Newell Bros
Jefferson
Latimore & Leigh Company
Miss Mae Laporte
Potts & Potts
Lena Rivers
Jenner
Jenner's Drug Store
George P. Rowel
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