Tommy's New Tack On Sunday Ball Mobilizes Ministers
The mayor’s push to stop Sunday baseball triggers a heated ministers meeting in YY. M. CGA as Rev Roberts and Rev Pounds debate courtesy and duty. Rev Carstensen defends the mayor’s stance while Coffin of the Civic league refuses to explain the league’s Saturday letter. The group agrees to await the mayor’s letter next week and a possible sheriff-led action.
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YY. M. CG. A
Mayor Tageart
Cr. Ee Coffin
Civic League
Supt
D. EK. Goss
Dr. Coulins
Roberts
Pounds
Carstensen
Court House
Coffin
Uillemen
Mr. Roberts
Sentlemen
Board of Safety
Coulins
Brown
Ashcraft
Mr. Carstensen
Taggart
Novelty Grates and Gaslogs Offered at 133 Indiana Ave
Jno. M. Lilly advertises novelty grates and gaslogs, feeding products named Janes' Dustless Cats and Second Water Wells. Frank Butts, located at 133 Indiana Ave, lists Lemon Tonic Laxative bottles at 50 cents, promoting energy, appetite, and a clear brain.
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Jno. M. Lilly
Frank Butts
Indiana-ave
How the Plan Was Worked To Cuba with War Materials
A Philadelphia Sun report based on Capt. Hart describes the Bermuda’s March 14 departure from New York with 261 tons of war material bound for Vera Cruz or other Cuban points. Cubans boarded near Atlantic City and again near Baracoa. ammo was landed at sea and passengers transferred by other vessels before returning via Vera Cruz. The voyage was claimed as a commercial high sea transaction with no on board ammunition on arrival. The Bermuda returned with 1200 bunches of bananas and 6100 Spanish dollars.
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New York
Sun
Philadelphia
Hart
Bermuda
Cuba
Vera Cruz
Mex
Atlantic City
Beruda
Baracoa
Ionduras
Porto Corte
Jaim
Vera Crug
High Seas
Mysterious Millionaire Van Allen Dies in City Hospital
A nameless man known as T. A. Van Allen died of pneumonia at City Hospital after being admitted last Saturday. Once well dressed and claiming wealth from patent sewing machine devices, he lived on hotel charity, moved between the Grand and St Nicholas hotels, and had no known origin or family. He once spoke of a venture with Smith and others but never formed a company. His past remained shrouded as he declined to share details while drifting through Denver and Cincinnati connections were rumored.
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T. A. van Allen
van Allen
Grand Hotel
Tee
Ebouet
Indica
Grind Hotel
Irternder Smith
Smith
Stebbins Hotel
Denver
Cincinnati
Fissing
Puitent
Mer. Taggart
St. Nicholas Hotel
City Hospital
van Alfen
Fife
Clergyman Questions Civic League Letter on Baseball Policy
Rev G A Carstensen of St Pauls Episcopal church did not read the Civic league message to his parishioners on Sunday but voiced sympathy with its aims. He urged signing petitions and cards yet said the language was stronger than needed and defended Mayor Dennys discretion in stopping Sunday baseball under statute.
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G. A. Carstensen
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Civic League
Taggart
Denny
Pook Poison Leads to Brief City Hospital Care
Nina Harrington, a recent North Carolina arrival at 213 West Court Street, ingested morphine Sunday in a despondent state. Dr. Garshwiler struggled to assist with a stomach pump, used emetics, and walked her around until revival. She was sent to City Hospital and discharged Monday cured.
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Nina Harrington
North Carolina
W. Court St
Garshwiler
Ill Senator Ingalls ill at Atchison Kas
Whispers say Senator Ingalls is ill in Atchison Kansas. The article notes A P A opposition to McKinley at the St Louis convention. It mentions the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough planning a Newport summer with the bride’s mother Mrs Belmont. It also reports German emperors and empress enjoying a gay time, entertained by Italian royalty.
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Eix
Ingalls
Atchison, Kas
McKinley
St. Louis
Duke
Duchess of Marlborough
Newport
Belmont
Germany
Italy
Measles Fraud Quelled in Quick Time in Washington
Washington April 13 The day in Congress yielded little notable action as the conference report on the appropriation bill was sent to the Senate and the Dupont election case was taken up The House discussed District of Columbia matters and Postmaster General Wilson announced the FBI scandal involving a slaveholders registry is a fraud The Thurbers rejoice at the birth of a son and the president may resume bachelor quarters at the White House
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House of Congress
Senate
Dupont
Call
Great Brita
Manybrick
Judiciary Committee
Horny
Marsall
District of Columbia
Wilson
Afonday
United States
Saannah
Congress
Otice
Ievest
Thurber
Mendas
Dojuss Waelf
Ruth
Esther Clevelamsd
Muorder
Brchelor Hall
White House
State Board of Charities Report Critiques Indiana Prisons
The sixth annual report to the governor criticizes partisan prison administration as harmful to welfare. It notes shifts in northern and southern prison populations, funding shortfalls, and urges increased appropriations. Recommendations include railfare and clothing for released prisoners, female physicians in insane hospitals, and a state school for dependent children, with attention to reform schools and dependent-child care. Jno M Lilly.
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State Board of Charities
Central Hospital
Indiana
City boards clash over lighting ordinance stalemate
Monday’s tug of war pits the Board of Works against the city finance committee over an 820,000 lighting ordinance. After failed attempts at compromise, the Board vows to order more lights while council members blame the committee for hurried action and lack of consultation.
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Board of Works
Satay
Dmavy
Tagrart
Johnson
cCouncilmen Wolcott
Clai
Wirkhoft
Anl Dr. Johnson
Wes
Board of War
Downing
Finance Committee
Sanitary Concerns, Illness Climb at Prison South
Dr J Ny Flour ty reports poor cell ventilation and foul corridor air at Prison South. Several inmates suffer from typhoid fever and consumption likely tied to contaminated water. Air supply through barred corridors is insufficient. The State Board of Health secretary Dr Hurty will issue orders to improve conditions.
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J. Ny Flourty
Burt
The
State Board of Health
Hurty
Sunday fire and burglars ledger in Evansville items
Saloons did a land office business Sunday. A tramp exploded and set fire to T. A. Moore's home at 145 Rural Street. Burglars ransacked the residence of G. Jr. Adams on New York Street and took two gold watches rings and a diamond. Mary Wood Allen to lecture at First Baptist church next Friday at 8. Marshal Miller secured a warrant against Mrs Isaac Kinebrough for operating a saloon without a license. Engagement announced between Dr W W Wishard and Miss Frances Scoville, wedding June 1. Bicyclists attract Sunday crowds. a crash on Washington and Illinois. St Johns church mission begins and runs to April 26 with sermons by Fathers Moeller and Finnegan. Births and deaths listed. marriages licenses issued. Also advertisements for laxatives and tonics.
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T. A. Moore
G. Jr. Adams
HSTE
New York St
Mary Wood Allen
First Baptist Church
Marshal Miller
Brightwood
St. John’s Church
Father Moeller
Mercy of
Christ
Father Finnegan
Nick Tong
Samuel Grove
Wm. Bristow
Richard Durett
Paul Elliott
Marnest Oliver
Alonzo Stephenson
John Wilde
Charles’ Mitchell
Hubert Raleston
John Folger
Mattie Marrow
Martindale-ave
Geo. Richardson
Adell-st
Samuel Moore
Hoyt-ave
Rosana Kistner
Wm. Coughlen
Capitol-ave
Man-St
Tom McLacely
Lancaster-ave
Sound money can win at the national convention plan
William F Tarrity, chairman of the national Democratic committee, returns from Chicago where the arrangements committee pressed for a fiscally solid convention. The Coliseum may seat 15000 and plans aim for a premier gathering with a strong currency plank. Tarrity says sound money supporters could win the platform fight if energized. In Illinois, legislature adjourns as Gov Drake says he will call an end-session to codify laws on the second Tuesday in January.
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Philadelphia
U. P
William EF. Tarrity
National Democratic Committee
Chisago
Harvity
Coliseum
Barrity
Sound Money
Orease
DES Soda
Gov. Drake
Marseille regatta abandoned due to mistral winds
Gale continues to whip Marseille causing the regatta to be abandoned. The Aflea Laetantia and Britannia retire from the race and return home.
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Alarseilles
Marseilles
Aflea
Laetantia
Britannia
Morera for ile t for Indian mesis and vicinity
April 1 forecast for Indian mesis and vicinity calls for windy conditions with occasional veins. weather update notes evening and overnight periods and mentions Monday night into Tuesday for possible changes in wind and temperature.
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Morera
Cashes
Grand Opera House to Feature Ward and Vokes Cast
Ward and Vokes headline a 22 bright lights company with "Little Christopher" at Grand Opera House next Thursday and Friday. The show includes Johnny Page as Liowleges and a lyric sketch by T W Eckert and Miss Emma Berg. Ida Van Cortland also opens a week at Park. Reilly & Woods big show begins Monday afternoon at the Empire with a large troupe and special prizes. Lemon Tonic Laxative advert closes the page.
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Grand Opera House
Ward
Vokes
Percy
Harold
Johnny Page
Liowleges
al Bellman
Nate Shaver
Joe Kelles
Tony Williamis
Arthur Dergan
Donnelly
Girard
T. W. Eckert
Emma Berg
Gilberti Leareck
Neara Mann
Lettie Moore
Miss Moore
Hoyts VA
Otis Hallan
Carlotta
Inez Rae
Lilian Maynard
Eihe EkKamman
Mabel Puller
Ook
Rice
Little Christopher
New York
Garden Theater
Willie Collier
Alexander Clark
John Wilson
Theresa Vaughn
Harry Macdonough
Pauline Train
Bertha Waring
Henry Leoni
Louise
Ida van Cortland
Indianapolis
the Park
Miss van Cortland
Reilly & Woods
the Empire
Ida Howell
London
Paris
Dixon
Bowers
Harrigan
Billy Eldridge
Three Sisters Lane
Baker and
Lynn
Pat
Reilly
Bomb mailed to Roosevelt found harmless hoax
A five ounce red wrapped package addressed to Theodore Roosevelt at police HQ was opened after soaking. Inside lay a pasteboard tube, a Roman candle fuse and black powder. The incident, labeled medicine, was deemed a hoax as Roosevelt attends his cousin’s funeral.
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New York
U. P
Meaks
General Post Office
Roosevelt
Conlin
Theodore Roosevelt
Capt. O'Brien
Capt. O’brien
Roundsman Sweeney
Headquarters
James West Roosevelt
Robbery-linked Yonkers bonds surface in Wall Street loan bid
New York on April 12. Capt. O'Brien of the detective bureau pursued a man who visited a Wall Street bank seeking a $4,400 loan on collateral bonds of Yonkers. The bonds, part of the 1878 Manhattan Bank burglary loot, included 187 percent bonds of $1,000 each and were identified by Yonkers city clerk Hurlbert.
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New York
U. P
O'Brien
Detective Bureau
Wall St
City of Yonkers
Manhattan Bank
Hurlbert
Yonkers
Five Men Die In Bedford Trestle Accident
Five men were killed and two others fatally wounded when a belt road engine and a flat car crashed through a trestle at Bedford Indiana at about 9:30 Monday morning. The dead include conductor Charles Oregen and fireman Sherman Carpenter. Injured are engineer Davis and Menzer, with Warren Teermond of Walton Kentucky among the deceased.
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Bedford
Ind
Charles Oregen
Sherman Carpenter
Warren Teermond
Walton, Kyr
Masterson
Bevins
Astrologist predicts political and weather upheaval
Indianapolis astrologist Mrs. Fllis foresees General Harrison's marriage woes and a McKinley nomination if loyalists back him. She claims Pearl Bryan case killers include Scott Jackson and others with one death by suicide, others imprisoned or escaping. Destructive midyear storms, heat, widespread illness, poor crops, and fires loom in Indianapolis, New York, Boston, and Philadelphia.
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Jackson
Wood
Indianapolis
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
General Lee Named U S Consul General in Havana Cuba
Washington April 13 The president sent to the senate nominations for Fitzhugh Lee of Virginia to be consul general at Havana Cuba replacing Ramon O Williams who resigned. Also nominated are J R Morris of Missouri and Chester Wells of Pennsylvania as assistant engineers in the navy.
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Gen. Lee
Cuba
Washington
U. FP
Senate
Fitzhugh Lee
Virginia
United States
Havana
Ramon O. Williams
Navy
J R. Morris
Missouri
Chester Wells
Pennsylvania
British Ship Carnavonshire Ashore Near Castle Town
London dispatch reports the British ship Carnavonshire, Captain Hughes, en route from San Francisco to Queenstown, ashore on Yokane Point near Castle Town. The crew were saved but the vessel will likely be a total loss.
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London
U. P
Carnavonshire
Hughes
San Francisco
Queenstown
Yokane Point
Castle Townsend
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Janes
Capt. Hart
Wirh
Bronday
Eardwood
Grates
Jno
Lilly
WORLS
Council
Harriyy
ETS
Eowe
Arosenees
Opera House
Teddy
Kingdom Come
Posteffice
Perribie
Dane Roblery
Louisville
U. P.j
Davis
Menzer
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