Tragic End for Fireman Plummer in Electric Pole Crash
Fireman Benjamin Plummer, 36, died after his seven wagon struck an electric pole while navigating a turn on Washington Street. Captain McDonald and Captain Murer were uninjured. Plummer’s death followed prior incidents on the same vehicle. Funeral plans and city honors were announced, with his family supported by insurance and fire department resolutions.
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Benjamin Plummer
East and
Pearlsts
Maryland St
Pennsylvania St
Plummer
Capt. McDonald
al. Murer
Washington St
E. Washington Sr
Vance
Capt. Murer
Ben
McDonald
Murer
Dr. Young
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Clark St
Collier & Murphy
Ryan
Kingan
Davis
Gaston
Tun Sun
Webster
Tobin
Capt
Chas
Campbell
Board of Public Safety
Streetcar Life Guard Test by Citizens Company
The Citizen's Company will try a life guard device on streetcars designed by E W Thompson of this city. A heavy iron frame extends in front of the car with a four inch gap to the pavement and a canvas curtain to absorb impacts. President Mason said trials will be offered with cars provided for experiments and that Buffalo guard is favored but not yet secured.
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Street Railway Company
E. W.thompson
Ita
Mason
Buffalo Guard
Runaway Saved Him in Wasasa Indiana Dairy Man Attacked
Jas Blayney of Wasasa Indiana was stopped by highwaymen while driving home from Wabash Monday night. One man seized the horses and another struck Blayney with a coupling pin, breaking the wagon window glass and frightening the horses causing a runaway. Blayney escaped but his nose was broken and he was unconscious on reaching home. No clue to the assailants was found.
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Wasasa
Ind
Jas
Blayney
Wabash
Blsyney
Blackford St
Lieno
Kear
Tireaux
Mefford
Barlow
Fair Creek Bottoms
Avafe
Keer
Clackford
New York Sts
Outcasts of a great city at the Park
The play now running at the Park titled Outcasts of a great city features Dan'l A. Kelly as hero Dennis O'Hara with vigorous portrayal. Edith Hall plays the leading outcast and Josie Barrows earns applause. After seven years will be shown later in the week.
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Fand
Dennis O'Hara
Dan’l A. Kelly
Edith Hall
Josie Barrows
Monument Shaft Glow to Crown Tomlinson Hall Decor
Lumination of the soldiers monument shaft described with red white and blue lights a revolving kaleidoscope wheel and four search lights atop the statue. Decorations spread through Tomlinson hall and Union depot while labor crews from Cincinnati and local custodians prepare sites for a grand G A R encampment spectacle.
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Tomlinson Hall
Tne
Liceyclisia
Edison Decorative Department
Frm Thar
Journal
F. T. Poster
Cincinnati
Poster
Tim Griffin
State House
Coustudian
Tim
Camp Wallace
Camp McGinnis
Dyeing and Cleaning at Smith's Dye Works
Smith's Dye Works located at 67 North Pennsylvania Street offers professional dyeing and cleaning services for fabrics and garments.
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Smith’s Dye Works
N, Pennsylvania-st
Minnesota Farmer Defends Farm From Masked Raid
Elias Goelling of Norrurrep Minnesota, 50, fought off four masked intruders using a pistol and musket after they smashed doors and tried to rope him. A gang member was wounded in the legs, abducted by the attackers, and blood was left as they fled. The incident stems from a two year old school district land dispute. several suspects identified will be arrested.
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Norrurrep
Minn
Elias Goelling
Goetling
Nepairine
Blundering Detention Highlights Police Blunders
Hanover college student Will Cuningham was arrested at the depot by Detectives Doherty and Kaehn amid anti Chicago bias. He claimed arrival from Chicago and stayed with Mr. Chas Meigs on Central Ave while his father preaches nearby. After a brief talk with Chief Splan his name was erased from state records and he was released.
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Will Cunoningham
Hanover College
Doherty
Kaehn
Chicago
Chas. Meigs
Central Ave
Fifth Presbyterian Church
Meies
Splan
Senate Debates Wilson Bill And Voorhees Substitute
The House received the rules committee report on Tuesday and began debate. Senator Teller of Colorado objected to immediate consideration of the Wilson bill, pushing it to Thursday. The Senate finance committee decided to report the Wilson bill with the Voorhees substitute, announced at 12:15.
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Washington
Committee On Rules
House
Senate
Teller
Colorado
Wilson
Senate Finance Committee
Voorhees
Cho y wits and trials in a scattered city page
A jumble of short notes reports a removed sign on Maughey avenue near Fairview park, a Bridgeport wheat thief released, pickpocketing of a hospital courier watch, a divorce request, charity secretary change, a state convention chorus, a sane verdict, bank suit filings, arson indictments, and local accidents and deaths.
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Maugheyave
Fairview Park
James Wilson
Bridgeport
Dr. Pritchard
Plummer
Wiley P. Shelton
Nora
Dora Day
Harry
Chas. S. Grout
Charity Society
James Smith
Narrow
Order
Communication Cut Off by Storm and Flood Wrecks Coast
Savanna Aug 29 The quarantine station wrecked by a hurricane. Tybee church steeples toppled. 700 shade trees blown down. Four men clearing tracks drowned. Haral schooner cabin bay and assito drowned. Up to 40 to 50 missing. Reports say cyclone Tannen moved toward New York and Pennsylvania with wires down east of Pittsburgh. Weather offices report severed lines and cool spell across the region.
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Savanna
Tybee
Haral
Caicaco
New York
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Western Union and
Posts
Pittsburg
Montreal
Ohio Valley
Weather Bureau
New Jersey
Asbury Park
Sullivan's Diary Parodies Pepys With Electric Car
A satirical diary piece mocks Pepys and modern transport noting an electric motor with a bib or man catcher causing inspectors to scatter. It jokes about a cadi firing a wife-beater, a camel incident in Cairo, and the camel ride shocking a rider prone to chaos, comparing it to a past large political majority.
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Pepy
Cairo
To & Wan
Domino Poised for $60,000 Futurity at Surernzap Bay
The Puturipy race at Surernzap Bay on August 9 draws top rivals like Domino and Hyderbad from the Keene stable with 130 pound colt aiming to win the 60k futurity. Reyel Santa Anita, favored by Lucky Baldwin, is also in the field as the season closes and bettors eye a dramatic finish.
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Surernzap Bay
Domino
Oxbeston
Himyar
Keenes
Hyderbad
Keene
Baldwin
Reyel Santa Anita
Insurance Hitch Delays City Bond Settlement With NY Life
Officials report a technical irregularity in 600000 defaulted bonds as New York Life declines to accept them. Controller Woolien refuses details and says a focus will come Monday. Also, Northern Pacific agent Thomas L. Shortell was found dead, likely by self-inflicted morphine overdose in St Louis.
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T He Insurance
New York
Mfe Insurance Company
Woolien
Tum Sun
Liss
St. Louis
Thomas L. Shortell
Northern Pacific Railroad
Indiana 36 Hour Weather Forecast for Aug 30 1898
Weather forecast for Indiana for the 36 hours ending 6 pm Wednesday predicts cooler conditions with fair skies on Tuesday and Wednesday and likely fair weather on Thursday. BE Beese, Dentist, 2443 East Octo 81.
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Indiana
E. Beese
East Octo
Secretary Sheerin Visits City On National Committee Tour
Secretary of the Democratic National Committee, Sr. Sheerin, toured the city en route from New York to Logansport. He predicted Congress would repeal the Sherman Act and adopt a reactionary measure, praised the president’s message as sound, and noted nationwide commendations to the party. He planned to stay a couple of weeks at home before returning to New York.
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Sheerin
Sr. Sheerin
Democratic National Committee
New York City
Logansport
Congress
New York
National Committee
Parmsow Mystery In Mnemonic Tragedy
Frederick Wuensch, father of a woman involved in the South Side Mu mauzh tragedy, attended his daughter's funeral from Marion Soldiers' Home. He believed he controlled the G A R campment and felt tasked with cleaning streets for the occasion amid a somber mood following Lopez Mumaugh's fatal attack and his own suicide attempt.
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Frederick Wuensch
Ingana
Mumauzh
Lopez Mumaugh
Aliss Wuensch
Marion
Thief Attempts to Steal Poll Books from Mendrick Club
About 10 o'clock Monday night an unsuccessful intruder tried to steal Democratic poll books from a desk in the rear of Mendrick's club building. A masked figure fled as Secretary Wils. McGinnis saw the culprit vanish through a window. Police have no ID or motive.
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Mendrick’s
Wils. McGinnis
Advertised as a murderer in Nebraska tragedy
James Paine, accused of murdering his wife Luella by burning her with a lamp, was discharged after claiming accident. Her father, a wealthy Oklahoma resident, had a granite shaft erected with the inscription Murdered by her husband James Paine. Paine then filed a $10,000 libel suit against the father and sought removal of the stone.
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Lixcotn
Neb
James Paine
Luella
Oklahoma
Paine
F. Kelly
Aske
Labor union probe flags Stoll unworthy for new labor organ
A committee found Geo. C. Stoll unworthy of union trust for managing a new labor organ under the Carpenter's union. The Central Labor Union heard the report Monday night amid wrangling over a delegates seal for Simeon Schmalhorl. A labor day circular urged unions to boost the parade, while county officials opened bids for a Whiteriver bridge over Kentucky avenue. Bidders included Fife, Hege, Kegs & Fritz, several bridge firms, with plans by the wrought iron bridge company. Estimated cost tops $60,000 to $70,000 and completion will take several days.
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Geo. C. Stoll
Carpenter's Union
Central Labor Union
Stoll
Simeon Schmalhorl
Labor Day Committee
Kentucky
Whiteriver
Kentucky Ave
Wm. Fife
Epps Hege
Kegs & Fritz
Variety Iron Works
Morris Defrees, Cummings & Co
Pittsburg Bridge Company
Massillon Bridge Company
Wrought Iron Bridge Company
Meady
Twelve Convicts Break From Guards Near Bismanen
A group of twelve of twenty two convicts escaping while being returned from a brick yard near Bismanen North Dakota broke into the timber two miles from the penitentiary Monday night. Six were recaptured by midnight. armed pursuit continued. Also: Cleveland bicycle races opened under poor conditions with rain and wind threatening postponement after a rough track. In San Ancero Texas a man killed his rival and then shot himself after discovering an affair with a Mexican woman.
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Bismanen
N. D
Cleveland
Fires and price shifts hit midwest and markets
Moberly Missouri suffered a $50,000 fire Monday night while the Lake Shore round house in Fort Wayne Indiana burned on Tuesday causing a $10,000 loss. The Catholic Foresters of America met in Chicago with 878 delegates. Repeal of Sherman law sparked a broad rise in prices on the New York market Tuesday. French pressure threatens Sisamesa terms and gunboat recall remains in play.
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Moberly
Columbus Trade and Labor Assembly
Gov. Waite
Colorado
Labor
A Bad Place Cleaned Out
A crowd of men and boys attacked the residence of Jane Yates and her four daughters alleging a house of ill repute. They battered doors and burned furniture in the street and ordered the occupants to leave Vrastmneron Indiana. New hat racks at Win L Hider's.
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Vrastmneron
Ind
Jane Yates
Final bid set as court action looms over tunnel dispute
A special meeting of the State Board of Agriculture executive committee is called for Wednesday to settle the tunnel funding dispute with 12 guarantors for the Monon Fairroad tunnel near the state fair grounds. Guarantors seek no more than 1100 while the board demands full cost coverage, risking litigation after talks fail.
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State Board of Agriculture
State Agricultural Board
Monon Fairroad
Kennedy
The
Agricultural Board
Executive Committee
Frank Johnson
Johnson
C. VW. Bookwalter
Beheld on the Charge A Young Man Convicted in Counterfeit Case
J E Murphy a young bookkeeper at Ryders wholesale liquor venerates appeared before Commissioner Van Buren on charges of passing a counterfeit dollar to Harry Barrett an employee of the Western Union telegraph office. Despite an excellent reputation Murphy faced direct facts. he and his father had earlier gone to the office to send telegrams and the silver dollar was tendered. He denied the claim and was released on recognizance after surrendering. The case was held under advisement before Murphy was bound over on a $200 bond signed by him and his father.
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U. S
J. E. Murphy
Ryders Wholesale
W. Washington Sr
Commissioner van Buren
Harry Barrett
Western Union Telegraph Company
Young Murphy
Young Barrett
Murphy
Rock Island workers reject 10 percent wage cut
Across multiple reports dated Aug 29, Rock Island line employees refuse the 10 per cent wage cut while committees prepare formal reports. Unofficial word says management may impose cuts and trigger a strike. Also noted are a Louisville & Nashville machinists strike from Cincinnati to New Orleans over the same wage cut, Rockaway Beach fire losses, lodging house fire at Canal Street, and unemployed rallies in Chicago with police guard.
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Crrcaco
Rock Island
Nashville
Tenn
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Chicago
Canal St
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