One Is Killed In Circus Tent Nightmare
A 40 mile gale wrecked Frank A. Robinson circus tents in Jersey City New Jersey. One trainer Mike Reardon was crushed under a lion cage and died. another trainer South Carolina was mortally injured with multiple fractures. Dozens injured as animals escaped and horses fled. Police and fire crews helped raise the fallen canvas amid a torrential downpour.
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Jersey City
N. J
Frank A. Robinson
Mike Reardon
South Carolina
Paddy” Moran
Texas
English Stirred by Immigration Rule Protests Rise
A London protest movement grows over Canada’s new immigration rule that requires assisted immigrants to guarantee farm work. London emigration leaders threaten an appeal to the colonial office and urge Parliament to act.
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London
Great Britain
Colonial Office
Merchants Reject McMurray Plan to Increase Fire Force
Merchants meeting with Mayor Shank rejects T. 8. McMurray's proposal to boost Indianapolis firefighting capacity and considers a suit against city insurance firms to recover about 200000 dollars in five year 5 cent overcharges. McMurray will meet officials at 2 o'clock Tuesday to press for removal of the surcharge while insurers cite water mains limits as justification.
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T. 8. McMurray
Indianapolis
Shank
Merchants’ Association
McMurray
Rebuilding Planned For Burned Kuhn Building
The Kuhn building at 8S Meridian Street that burned Monday morning will be rebuilt soon. Occupying firms will return to their former rooms after completion. W. A. Kuhn estimates a loss of 25,000 dollars. wholesale firms have not yet completed stock inventories to determine losses.
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Kuhn
Meridian Street
W. A. Kuhn
Indiana Faces Need for New Insane Hospital Network
Indiana weighs redistricting for mental health care as it plans a southern hospital near Madison and contemplates a northern facility in Logansport. The aim is to relieve overcrowding, place a new northern district around Fort Wayne and Allen County, and balance access via rail lines while considering cities like South Bend, Fort Wayne, Richmond, and Indianapolis in potential district realignments.
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St. Joseph and
Lake
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Allen County
Fort Wayne
Easthaven
Eastern Hospital For the Insane
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Astern Hospital
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Wells
Adams
Huntington
Wabash
Miami
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Dekalb
Steuben
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Elkhart
Kosciusko
St. Joseph
South Bend
State Hospital
Central Hospital For the Insane
Indianapolis
Shelby
Hancock
Howard
Tipton
Hamilton
Decatur
Franklin
Wayne County
Easthven
Greensburg
Brookville
Madison
Whitley
Lagrange
Noble
Atlrendy
Gary
State Officer Finds Seymour Rates High
Special to The Law. Seymour Indiana April 26 George F. Bingham traveling deputy attorney general on a fact finding mission in Seymour investigating fire insurance rates. He reports rates here are higher than ten years ago despite better fire fighting conditions and will use evidence in the attorney general case against the alleged insurance trust.
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Seymour, Ind
George F. Bingham
Bingham
Works Board and Council Unite in Secret Talks
After a three hour conference in Corporation Counsel Kealing’s office, the city’s board of public works and the city council reached a peace. They plan further joint meetings to prevent misunderstandings while keeping details undisclosed. Kealing said the accord bridges trivial differences and is fair to both sides.
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Board of Public Works
City Council
Corporation
Joseph B. Kealing
Mr. Kealing
Board of Works
H. W. Klausmann
James E. Troy
Frank KE. McCarty
Scientist Marion Stephens Ends Life in New York
New York on April 26 Miss Marion Stephens longtime reader in the Christian Science church here killed herself by inhaling gas. She had informed about Mrs Stetson when the latter was deposed.
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New York
Marion Stephens
Christian Science Church
Daisy Barr Leaves Fairmount for Muncie Pastorship
Mrs. Daisy Barr, longtime pastor of the Fairmount Friends church, announced at services in Fairmount and Muncie that she will lead the Muncie church. After 40 years in Fairmount, she remains popular as members and even the children urged her to stay.
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Muncie
Nurse Testimony Prolongs Hyde Murder Trial in Swope Case
In Kansas City on April 26, counsel for Dr. B Clarke Hyde questioned nurse Elizabeth Gordon under cross examination over whether a syringe administered poison to Margaret Swope. Miss Swope had earlier hinted the physician inflicted illness, while Mrs Hyde sat near her elderly mother, Logan Swope, both bearing deep lines of distress. Margaret Swope, sister of Mrs Hyde, attended as the case continued.
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Kansas City, Mo
B. Clarke Hyde
Thomas Swope
Elizabeth Gordon
Margaret Swope
Miss Swope
Fire Breaks Afresh In Burdsal Plant
A new blaze broke out Monday night in the Burdsal Paint company ruins in the Kuhn building at 102 and 108 S Meridian Street. Firemen from Maryland Street Station fought the second floor annex fire for about an hour, spraying water while fearing renewed headway despite prior efforts.
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Burdsal Paint Company
Kuhn
S. Meridian Street
Maryland Street
Water Filter Sought as Typhoid Epidemic Threat Looms
In Columbus Indiana on April 26 Dr. George T. McCoy president of the State Board of Health and Dr. J Hurry secretary met with the City Board of Health and the city council with state officers proposing a water filter. The impure water condition was said to threaten an epidemic of typhoid fever.
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Columbus
Ind
George T. McCoy
This Place
State Board of Health
J. Hurry
Indianapolis
City Board of Health
Thief steals over three thousand from express truck
In Deepwater West Virginia on April 26 a thief robbed an express truck on the C and O line as the agent signed the receipt. More than 3500 dollars, meant for a Beckley bank, vanished during the theft.
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Deepwater
W. Va
Quinnimont
Beckley
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