Roosevelt Rumor Spreads About White House Return
Washington April 5 There is gossip that Theodore Roosevelt has contacted the White House and may rejoin the Taft administration. Officials report no denial or confirmation while President Taft hints Roosevelt is not far in spirit from administration councils. A rumor that Roosevelt asked Senator Root to go to Europe for a conference was not discussed by Root.
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Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
White House
Roosevelt
Taft
Europe
Root
Auto Posse Rounds Up Horse Thieves
In Kansas motor cars replace horses in chasing thieves. Last week 17 autos left Hiawatha to help round up a gang west of the Missouri River with posse members from Troy Atchison White Cloud Rule and Falls City Neb. The Anti-Horsetheif associations use fast motors and rural phones to coordinate arrests of raiders taking two to a dozen horses.
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Topera
Kas
Kansas
Hiawatha
Missouri River
Troy
Atchison
White Cloud
Rule
Falls City
Neb
Anti-Horsethief
City Briefs Chronicle Local Happenings And Incidents
A series of brief items reports a Polish priest freed in a police court after false pretenses charges, a man surviving morphine ingestion, a ward political rally with Charles Orbison as speaker, a woman dying on the street from heart failure, a pedestrian struck by a car with no fault found, a clerical post office worker leaving Indiana for farming, a boy accidentally shot at night, a trolley pole incident with damages assessed, and a receiver bond arrangement involving the German National Bank.
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Center Township
Marion County
Indiana
Board of Commissioners
Geisendorfft Street
Outhor
Landers’ Addition
Indianapolis
Marin County
Cetsendorf
Vv. J. Glenn
Senate Avenue
Fifteenth Street
Wright
Drake's Add
North
Northern Indiana Conference Opens in Bluffton
Bishop Earl Cranston arrived to assume charge of the Northern Indiana M E Conference in Bluffton on April 5. He will convene his cabinet of 51 district superintendents and announce several superintendent appointments, notably in the Muncie and Fort Wayne districts. The Methodist Brotherhood anniversary will be observed with a lecture by Alfred Fraig of Columbus, Ohio.
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Earl Cranston
North Indiaana M. E. Conference
Bishop Cranston
Muncie
J. L. Naftzger
Fort Wayne
C. A. Wade
Methodist Brotherhood
Alfred Fraig
Columbus
Goins Pleads Guilty to 10 Counts of Involuntary Manslaughter
Bert Goins pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter before Judge Pritchard in the criminal court on Tuesday morning and received a 2 to 14 year sentence in the Indiana reformatory for the killing of Charlies Davia on January 1.
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Pritchard
Criminal Court
Indiana Reformatory
Goins
Charlies Davia
Census Enumerators to Receive Final Instructions Next Week
Census enumerators in the district will receive final instructions next Wednesday and start census work on April 15. The county has 268 enumerators who will be allowed two weeks in the city and one month in the country to complete reports.
Chicago and Northwestern declares Sunday rest for workers
The Chicago and Northwestern railroad will suspend non essential work on Sundays, granting employees a day of rest. A similar plan was announced last week by United States Steel Corporation.
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Chicago
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
United States Steel Corporation
Rejected suitor fatally shoots woman in San Francisco
In San Francisco on April 5 Misa Freda Norrence was shot and killed by Nathan Pollock a rejected suitor. Pollock first fired at Samuel Goldberg twice without effect before turning the gun on Norrence on a crowded street corner causing her death as she ran away in terror. Goldberg witnessed the crime.
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San Francisco
Cal
Misa Freda Norrence
Nathan Pollock
Samuel Goldberg
Goldberg
Pollock
Blood Purifiers and Tonics on Third-Price Sale at Hang Stores
Spring sale offers popular blood purifiers and tonics at three for 2.00. Items include Hood s Sarsaparilla Ayers Sarsaparilla Pinkham s Blood Purifier and many others. Doctors increasingly prescribe Harne s Liver Pills as a top purifier and tonic. 25c boxes last three weeks, $1 boxes last two to three months. Sold by druggists everywhere.
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Hall
Scott
Hagee
Wheeler
Warner
Haxne
Rescuer Opposed After Nonunion Labor Cleared Rail Line
In Evansville Indiana on April 5 sixty striking trackmen plan a petition to Marshal Petit demanding the removal of Deputy U S Marshal Jesse Peck. Peck mobilized nonunion workers to clear a wrecked Southern railroad line at Lincoln City Junction. Three hundred passengers were forced to camp out all night due to the strike.
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the Sun
Evansville
Ind
United States
Marshall Jesse Peck
Petit
Peck
Old age no bar as Dunkards wed in Peru
Peru Ind April 5 Old age was no bar to the marriage of Aaron Brubaker and Catherine Costing both of this county The groom is past 82 and the bride 72 They are affluent Rev Frank Fisher of the Dunkard church officiated
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Peru
Ind
Aaron Brubaker
Catherine Costing
Frank Fisher
Dunkard Church
Franklin sets April 25 for special option election
Franklin county commissioners name April 25 as the date for a special option election. Johnson county likely remains dry by remonstrance for two years. Elkhart reports Indiana Buggy company sale to Wabash capitalists for 100000 dollars to convert its factory to a paper plant with 50 initial workers.
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Franklin
Johnson County
Elkhart
Wabash, Ind
Indiana Buggy Company
H. D. Bucklin
Anti-Option Bill Restricts Cotton Futures
Washington April 5 The house committee on agriculture approves an anti-option bill confined to cotton futures only. Grain dealings remain unaffected and the measure will be reported tomorrow with likely passage within the month.
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Washington
House Committee On Agriculture
Shoe Buttoner in Throat Causes Boy's Death
In Bloomington Indiana a six year old boy, Glanford Eads, son of Curtis Eads, died after attempting to swallow a shoe buttoner five days earlier. The steel piece lodged in his throat, caused laceration and blood poisoning during removal efforts.
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Bloomington
Ind
Glanford
Curtis Eads
Richmond Men Charged With Infant Murder In Milwaukee
In Milwaukee district court Frances Hichhorn of Richmond Indiana and George Hurst face murder charges over the death of an infant at a ycamore street hotel. Dr. Wilhelm Tecker testified the baby lived three or four hours after birth before being strangled. Autopsy findings and further expert testimony are scheduled for tomorrow.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Frances Hichhorn
Richmond
Ind
George Hurst
Ycamore Street
Wilhelm Tecker
Bureau
Giant St Bernard Attacks Girl Wounding Her in Evansville
Jealous St Bernard leaped on 12 year old Emma Schneicer as she fondled a poodle. The dog bit into her face piercing a hole in the cheek and tongue end. Dr Porter Limbicum advised transporting her to Indianapolis for treatment.
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Porter Limbincum
Indianapolis
Funds Missing Prompt Arrest of Theater Manager In Wabash
In Wabash Indiana on April 5 Sheriff Freeman served an attachment on Floyd Smalzried property in a $599 money demand by Andrew J. Deardorff. Deardorff accuses Smalzried of misappropriating theater funds while manager of the Family theater a five cent moving picture house. Smalzried also faces embezzlement charges for $500. Smalzried denies guilt.
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Wabash
Ind
Freeman
Floyd Smalzried
Andrew J. Deardorff
Smalzried
Newcastle Masher Rebuked by Blow
A young society woman in Newcastle whacked a street masher with her hand bag after he insulted her in the business district. Police approved her quick actions and she continued on her way.
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Newcastle
Alex Tyer Stricken With Heart Disease
Wabash Ind April 5 Alex Tyer longtime deputy postmaster and deputy county recorder and a prominent wealthy citizen and 70 year resident died suddenly today of heart disease
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Wabash, Ind
Alex Tyer
Wabash
Like Father Like Son in Indiana Tragedy
In Wabash Indiana on April 5 a widow reports her son Arthur aged 15 died this morning after being in excellent health. The coroner cites angina pectoris as the cause, noting the father Jerome Spohr died at work five years earlier in exactly the same manner.
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Wabash, Inod
Jerome Spohr
Big Four
Arthur
Iron on Track Part of Wreck Plot Near Straughn
Newcastle Indiana authorities learned yesterday of an attempt to wreck a night car on the T H L E Saturday near Straughn. The car struck iron forms and crates but was not derailed. Passengers were shaken. police seek perpetrators.
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Straughn
Bread War 15 Due Bakers In Revolt
News from South Bend Indiana reports a bread price war brewing as Chicago bakers enter northern Indiana markets. Laporte leads with underbid threats, claiming Chicago shipments arrive daily but inferior to local Laporte bread.
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Chicago
Laporte
Boy, 14, Fractures Vertebrae in School Trapeze Fall
Evansville Indiana April 5 Carl Rough aged 14 attempted a trapeze hang by his toes at Baker avenue school and plunged onto his neck fracturing a vertebrae. Principal J W Odel carried him 14 blocks to aid while physicians say there is no hope for recovery.
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Ing
Carl Rough
Baker Avenue
J. W. Odel
Kidnapped Girl Sparks Five-Way Scramble at Station
Regina Woodka an 11 year old girl was recovered from a Lake Shore train in South Bend after a five corner fight involving police juvenile officers and parents. The girl had been kidnapped by her mother Laura Karashewitz from a Toledo school as the parents, now divorced, argued over taking the child to a new Chicago home.
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South Bend
Ind
Regina Woodka
Laura Karashewitz
Toledo
Lake Shore
Chicago
Beer Drouth Threat Looms as Rochester Brewers Strike
Rochester faces a beer shortage as brewers strike. Saloons are going dry and deliveries are slow, with the city threatened by reduced beer availability.
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Rochester
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