New Officers of Society Elected by Whitewater Presbytery
Special to The Sun from Richmond Indiana reports the Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Whitewater Presbytery elected officers. President Mrs B A Bonner Greensburg vice president home Mrs A A Holmes Rushville vice president foreign Mrs W K Blewart Knightstown secretary home and freedman Mrs N W Wagner Knightstown secretary foreign Miss Amelia Holby Greensburg secretary of young people's work Miss Ella Winchester Richmond recording and literary secretary Mrs L R Gillies New Castle treasurer home and freedman Mrs C A Morris Knightstown foreign Mrs H T Hanna College Corner
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Richmond
Ind
Womy's Home and Foreign Missionary Society
The
Whitewater
Mystery Surrounds Sudden Death of Jerome Ashley
Jerome B. Ashley died suddenly while dining at his Pine Bluff office desk on Tuesday. No autopsy was performed and the body was sent to Chattanooga, Tennessee for burial. Ashley carried $12,000 life and accident insurance, with companies expected to investigate the incident.
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Feripps-DeHue Press Association
Pine. Bluff
Ark
Jerome B. Ashley
Chattanooga
Tenn
Ashley
Fourteen Indictments and Mine No 9 Flooding
Berippe McRae reports from Wellston that Mine No 9 with 480 workers is filling with water as bailers strike over work conditions. In Topeka, fourteen indictments were returned by a federal grand jury, including charges against prominent figures tied to conspiracy to defraud the government in land cases. A furniture ad notes a $7 iron bed special at Home Furniture Company.
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Berippe-McRae Press Association
Wellston
Superior
Topeka
Kas
Federal Grand Jury
Northern Indiana Presbyterians Urge Creed Revision
Forty three northern Indiana Presbyterian churches plan drastic action to attract men into the church. They backed editing the creed to remove eternal punishment and to substitute the term fire and brimstone with a milder phrase as part of broader efforts to win back young men and bolster church membership.
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Chicago
Indiana
A. C. Becker
Presbyterian Church
Valparaiso
Logansport
Becker
Milwaukee
Othe Presbyteries
General Presbytery
Morgan's Tea Parties Begin at 4 O'clock
J P Morgan Jr introduces the English custom of afternoon tea at 4 PM in the Morgan banking firm. Many partners join in the private room for tea and wafers. The practice extends to Wall Street firms including National City Bank where tea is served as well.
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Serippa-metiae Fream Association
New York
J. P. Morgan, Jr
Frm
Wall-st
Traly
Wallest
National City
Governor Hanly to Speak at Cincinnati Commencement
Cincinnati April 12 Governor J Frank Hanly of Indiana will be the principal speaker at the University of Cincinnati commencement. The exercises will be held in Music Hall on Friday morning June 1 with President Charles William Dabney delivering the opening address. About 149 candidates will receive degrees.
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Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati
Musit Hall
Charles William Dabney
University
J. Frank Hunly
Indiana
Dog Alarm Prevents Fire at Baul Property
A dog belonging to Horace Eckman raised the alarm at Mire Saul’s home just after 2am, saving the building from a blaze that started when fire fell from a flue onto the carpet. The incident occurred last evening in Bucyrus.
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Mire
Saul
Horace Eckman
Baul
Funeral Money Stolen in Beane Township
A thief took $3 saved by James Stultz of Beane township Harrison county to cover his own funeral expenses. The loss occurred yesterday as reported from New Albany Indiana with details limited in the fragment.
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Sam
New Albany
Ind
James Stultz
Beane Township
Harrison County
Special in the Sam cashes after 34 years
A money order for 3 dollars issued in Texas was found in New Orleans yesterday and touched by the local post office. It was not with papers three years ago, and authorities report the discovery as a curious historic remnant in the post system.
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Sam
New Orleans
Texas
Mystery Head Found On Track Linked To Medical Student
Evansville dispatch reports a medical student left a human head on a railroad track to avoid alarming his wife, after authorities solved the mystery and identified the responsible party.
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Evansville
Ind
Tae Pow Wee
Deaths at Bedford Ind: Ragsdale and Scott die of pneumonia
William A. Ragsdale a noted horseman dies at his Bedford Indiana home from pneumonia contracted a week earlier. Republican ex representative R. B. Scott dies at his home days later from the same illness.
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Bedford
Suecin
Ind
William A. Ragsdale
R. B. Scott
Pen Memento of Achievement in Race Play Ban
Lexington Ky April 13 The Lexington chapter of Daughters of the Confederacy helped pass a law to bar race dependent plays. They secured the pen used by Gov Beckham to align the Dill and the Uerle instrument, praising it as mightier than the sword and vowing to preserve it as a memento of their battle against plays stirring race prejudice.
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Beckham
Scripps-McHae Prees Association
Lexington
Daughters of the Conefederacy
Mil
Events of Interest to the Public
A Grand hotel banquet by the business men's guild opened the week. church groups hold meetings, a golden wedding celebrated, Good Friday cantata planned, an Easter fair, lectures, and club events announced. diploma ceremonies and Socialist organizer talks noted. church trustees elected and an old-fashioned church supper held for about 200 attendees.
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Woman's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church
Jane Hart
Portland
Fisher & Buchanan
Young Women's Missionary Society of the
Second Presbyterian Church
Fred B. Harriis
St. Joest
Scripps-Meno Effete
Henry Ostendorf
W. New York
Ostendorf
Christ
Dubois
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Ladies' Aid Society
Brightwood M. E. Church
Brightwood Hall
Church of the Haly Angels
Northwestern-ave
A. E. Uthich
Louisville
Young Ladies’ Sodality
Philomathean Club
Columbie Club
Jacob P. Dunn
Ruby PF. Dane
Margaret Johnson
Marleon
George H
Scribner
Physiq-Medical College of Indiana
English
Opera House
M.T. H. Rimmelin
Germany
M. Jda Smith
Indianapolis
W. E. Schrantz
Martinsburg
W. EB. Catterson
Weetfell
Ind
Irving
Ol' Sen
Buffalo
N. Y
First Presbyterian Church
James W. Lity
Harry J. Mitten
Thompson
George E. Gay
Jona D. Baker
S. A. Johnston
Jamies W. Lilly
HL Ih. Hanna. Sr
Samuel Townsend
Frank L
Public meeting on Chicago Indianapolis and Evansville franchise
Council committee on contracts and franchises plans a meeting to consider the amended Chicago Indianapolis and Evansville franchise. W J Neukom will set a date after consulting colleagues. Some property owners and Star Store representative urge careful review and oppose the current terms, especially the proposed passenger station location.
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Council
Chicago
Indianapolis
Evansville
Board of Pantie Works
W. J. Neukom
Frederick Eppert
Martin Hugg
G. A. Efroymson
Star Store
Weat-ut
Landis Romance Sparks Postmaster Pick in Warren
Marion Ind April 13 Congressman Frederick Landis names a Warren postmaster who does not live in Warren County. The decision stirs comment in Republican ranks and is linked to a romance with Miss Crevis ton, a Marion school teacher connected to the Crevistons. Landis reportedly spent Sundays on the Crevis ton farm while campaigning and later offered the Warren post to Henry Crevis ton.
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Sam
Marion
Ind
Frederick Landis
Warren
Landis
van Buren
Creviston
Henry Creviston
Glass Eater King Edward Receives Nine Day Sentence
A local man known as King Edward the Slick faces nine days in Marion county work house after being arrested for loitering near the hay market. The well known glass eater has a prior reputation and was also fined and ordered to pay costs. Police kept watch over the electric gloves at the station to prevent any further appetite for glass.
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King Edward the Slick
Marion County
King Edward
Edward
City News Mixed reports on crime, politics and city issues
A 32 ton door for the American National bank site, racial tension incidents, mayoral actions on smoke, sewer cost estimates, and multiple local cases are noted. Accusations of theft, judgments, divorce errors, wrongful detention, and property disputes appear alongside civic debates on annexation and street cleanliness.
Burglars Target Pawnshop Jewelry and Rings
Burglars broke the front window of Stang & Lux pawnshop Thursday night and stole jewelry valued at 325 dollars. Fourteen items including rings and opera glasses were taken. the theft was discovered Friday. Police await leads as victims are identified and potential suspects linked to the scene.
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Stang & Lux
William Wood
Pensioned Women at Rail Line Earns Notable First
Mrs Mary L Bourds of Cincinnati Ohio receives the Baltimore and Ohio railroad pension after more than 27 years as a car cleaner at Wheeling She began work October 2 1888 and cleaned thousands of cars never took a trip for pleasure only five visits to Weston for her ailing husband she is the first and only woman pensioner on the line with Mia Rounds and Hyde previously noted.
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Jerippe-MecRee
Weston
Wheeling
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Pension
Mia Rounds
Hyde
Delegates watch robbery reported by Henry Mann
Henry Mann a Knox county delegate to the Republican state convention told police he was robbed near Kentucky Ave and the Big Four railroad tracks shortly after 3 am Friday. Two men stepped from darkness, demanded his hands, and took $10 and a valuable gold watch before fleeing west along the railroad tracks.
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Henry Mann
Knox County
Mann
Kentucky Aye
Love Drives Electrician to Bellevue for Maude Adams
New York April 13 Gotten an electrician madly in love with Maude Adams. He watched her Peter Pan performances from the Empire theater wings for seventeen weeks. Fearing harm to the actress he sought treatment for vanity at Bellevue hospital and was committed after a Yorkville court appearance.
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Specia
New York
Alarris Gotten
Maude Adams
Bellevue Hospital
Empire Theater
Barrie
Peter Pan
Gottlien
Peter Pat
Morris
M. 5
Gregory
Gottlieb
Walter Gay estate case verdict against Traveters Ins Co
Special to Vic. um. Lafayette Ind. Ageil reports the Walter Gay estate sued Traveters Insurance Co. and the jury brought in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for 0? This brief note notes a policy held by Gay at the time of his death.
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Vic. Um. Lafayette
Ind
Ageil
Walter Gay
Traveters’ Insuranee Company
Welweht
Gay
Jury unable to reach verdict in Seeger will case
Special to The Som Greensburg Indiana April jurors failed to agree and were discharged. No malice was shown for a new trial but a motion for a change of venue will likely be added.
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Greensburg
Ind
Seeger Will
Injured man dies after leap from window in New Albany
Homer Toolintl, 23, who was delirious with fever, leaped from a second story window and died at midnight in New Albany. The incident occurred on April 13 as he lay in the hospital following illness. The case is being investigated.
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New Albany
Ind
Apell
Homer Toolintl
Evansville Woman Sues for Divorce in Cruelty Case
Special to the Sum reports Mrs. Anna E K McKinney of Evansville Indiana has filed for divorce from her husband alleging cruelty. Attorney Charles W McKinney represents the plaintiff in the action filed April 13 in local court.
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Evansville
Ind
Anna EK
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