Mrs Dixon on Stand in Dixon Murder Trial
In Camelton Aug 21 Mrs I Martha Dixon testified in the murder trial of her husband Napoleon Dixon saying she was innocent and that a witness Eads contradicted earlier statements about death by arsenic. The scene grew tense as Dixon broke down while insisting the motive was not to harm but to assist a minister.
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Camelton, Inc
I Martha Dixon
Napoleon Dixon
Eads
Dixon
Mra
Deishani
Mea
Branson
Sub Stations Delayed For A Year In City Budget Talks
Police stations cannot be expanded for at least a year as the Board of Safety and City Controller Breunig meet to discuss tax levies. Breunig indicates a 2 percent tax increase may be needed to fund fire department salaries while aiming to lower the levy if possible. The police department will be broadened within a budget plan, with the controller preparing to estimate annual spending for next year. Chief Conte and Safety Board Chair Keller discuss fire department needs and costs, while the Board of Works has not yet estimated next year’s request.
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Board of Safety
Breunig
Raurbier
Conte
Keller
Fire Department
Coats
Board of Works
Local men jailed after alleged gunpoint assault case
In Granbury Texas on August twenty first, Charles and John Bostick were arrested on charges of forcing F. O. Marshall at gunpoint to kneel and eat gravel and weeds. Bonds set at seventy eight dollars reflect the severity of the alleged crime.
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Granbury
Tex
F. O. Marshall
Charles
John Bostick
Stort
Costicks
Trehail
Mothers Love for Children in Police Station Scene
A contrite scene at a police station near the police court involves Belle Brinson, her husband Lewis, and three children from Montezuma Indiana. Belle lured by a friend to Indianapolis left home and kept city life, until her husband pleaded for the children and the family reunion.
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Police Court
Belle Brinson
Lewis
Montezuma
Ind
Indianapolis
Xeltie Athen
Elsa of
Sergt. Leet
Arf
Bogardus Calls For Higher City Tax Rate
William Bogardus assistant city controller argues Indianapolis must raise the city tax rate to fund needed improvements. He says other cities levy higher rates, enabling greater public works, while Indianapolis has about 37 cents in the exchequer and faces conflicting pleas for economy versus progress. He cites Chicago’s taxes over $1.70 and notes other cities tax bakers grocers druggists and pawnshops. He urges a larger tax base with more money for improvements.
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Indianapolis
William Bogardus
Chicago
Tudisnapolis
Indianapalla
Giant Nasturtium Leaves Spawn City Garden Talk
Chicago papers tout enormous nasturtium leaves found in Mrs. C F Aly ward’s garden at 283 Watlaye and in Beville Avenue flowerbeds. Leaves reportedly stretch inches across, claimed as the largest in the region. florists Bettermann Bros note leaves seldom break as they grow large. Local observer W M Burns brought a leaf to The Sun, confirming widespread oversized foliage.
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Chicago
C.F. Alyward
Watlaye
Indianapolis
Burns
Beville-ave
SUN
Bettermann Brog
Lord Salisbury Near Death in London Aug 11
Lord Salisbury remains critically ill with little hope of recovery. Telegrams sent to King, queen, and Prince of Wales update them on the ex-premier’s condition. Viscount Cranborne clarifies a mistaken death rumor from a fall. Lord Salisbury born at Hatfield in 1820 and served long in Parliament and four cabinets.
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London
Lord Salisbury
Prince of Wales
Viscount Cranborne
Lord Sallahury
Ord Sethbury
Lord Baltbury
Bright
Edward
Hatfield
Europe
Fareign
Lord Eneehery
Lor Salisbory
Venezelan
Presi-dent Cleveland
Vhs Halanen
Londaulsburgens
Act Nwly
United States
State Fair Grounds to Double Stable Capacity
State board of agriculture met on Thursday to finalize fair preparations. Plans include enlarging the present stables at the fair grounds to accommodate about twenty more horses and expanding stalls. The board notes this year's horse exhibit will be the greatest yet at the state fair. Chariot races were considered impractical and a cent was cut. Preparations are underway for the Susannah Hart concerts at the fair grounds on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons and Tomithean Hall that evening, with drive prices at 2 and 73 cents.
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State Board of Agriculture
Tomithean Hall
Peter Brady Seeks to Join a Club in Odd Letter
A city police officer reports receiving a singular letter from Peter Brady that requests admission to a club named Daciif. The missive, sent from Indiana and bearing a muddled plea for action, shows Brady asking “what you pay and all about it,” with a closing plea to contact the post office.
Frazeur Sues City Over Hole in Morris Street
Frazeur sues the City of Indianapolis for ten dollars damages claiming injuries from a hole in Morris street between Kentucky avenue and York street. The wagon.s crash reportedly threw him between the wagon box and front wheels causing serious injury.
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Frazeur
Winfield
Indianapolis
Morris St
Kentucky-ave
York At
Canary pet of local barber buried in ceremony
A canary that had been the barber shop’s pet for several years died this week. The body was turned over to an undertaker who embalmed it and the bird was buried in a specially prepared casket with proper ceremony.
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Richmary, Inc
AUK A
Stable Boy Becomes City Lodger After Uncle's Will
In Omaha a stable boy named Kelley, once a stable groom and a First New Dakota volunteer twice wounded in the Philippines, now occupies a swell city hotel after attorneys for his late uncle John Kelley of Rock Island Ill. offer $50,000 on proof of identity. Post report from Tiverfool notes Dr Mamorek of the Panteur nalitute plans to announce a new curative treatment for consumption after six years of testing.
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Omaha
Neb
Jack Kelley
John Kelley
Rock Island
Kir
Kelley
New Dlaska
Philippines
Mamorek
Nalitute
Alfred Owen Arrested for Impersonation in New York
Alfred Creapy Owen, a former U S navy lieutenant, is jailed at Potter headquarters charged with forging Senator Elkins son Stephen Elkins Jr.’s name to a $50 check drawn on the Elkins National Bank. Posing as S A Elkins Jr he checked into the Waldorf and briefly spent time at the hotel. Senator Elkins and his son may come to New York to prosecute, Owen denying the accusation as a mistaken identity. He is noted as a grandson of a late rear admiral and a son of a physician who died of yellow fever.
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New York
Alfred Creapy Owen
United States Navy
Potter Headquarters
Stephen Elking
Senator Elkins
West Virginia
Oten
Young Bikins
Owen
Waldorf
S. B. Biking, Jr
Elkins
Elkins National Bank
Filkins
W. Va
S. A. Ins, Jr
House
Fentity
Queen
Pensacola
Fla
Washington
Metropolitan
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