Annie Wagner Trial Terms Heated In court clash
The Annie Wagner case spawns sharp exchanges as Prosecutor Holtzman and defense attorney Spaan clash over witness interruptions. Testimony covers poison purchases, arsenic related burial fluids, and character attestations, with Judge Buskirk and others briefly on the stand as proceedings wind toward a likely end by week’s close.
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Annie Wagner
Holtzman
Wetkoake
Spason
Bri. Spaan
Rata
Annie
Mia
Annie Wegner
Borat
Koesters
J. N. Hurty
Wagner
Ome
Spaan
Mr. Duncan
Carl Barnes
Eisenbeiss
Henry
Gustav Frang
Sophia Mingis
Anna Gaum
Geo. Finneman
Clara Koestera
Charles Czinczoll
Buskirk
Cox
Cadi
Frank Koesters
Destitution in the gas belt prompts welfare fears
In Richmond Indiana 400 gas belt establishments once employing about 60 000 men face widespread destitution with about 20 000 out of work and dependent on charity. Commissioners from the affected counties plan a meeting next Thursday and Friday to discuss relief and aid. An alleged embezzler, Wm G Pullen 26, was arrested on a grand jury indictment for 87 dollars in theft from Fitch Co an Indianapolis advertising firm with offices at 938 Joinolist._
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Ind
Emi
Wm. G. Pullen
Fitch & Co
Indianapolis Advertising Company
Joinolist
Queen's Ad herents Expect Orders From Cleveland
Royalist supporters in Honolulu await word from President Cleveland as a steamer arrives with news from the islands. The provisional government tightens control, plans removals, and braces for possible royalist action while awaiting Alameda's December 22 dispatch. Officials dismiss a clerk, and advisory members claim the crisis has passed.
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Honolulu
Cleveland
San Francisco
Australia
Alameda
Willis
Wenderberg
Supreme Court
Blount
Advisory Council
Dole
Gresham
Desperate Escape Attempt by Train Robber Hedgepeth
Marion Hedgepeth, serving 25 years for the Glendale, Missouri train robbery, tried to escape the county jail at 3 a.m. after accomplices supplied a saw and file. He cut the cell bars, slid toward an outside window, but the locked pane thwarted him and guards stopped the attempt. He was recaptured and returned to a new cell. authorities suspect his wife supplied the tools.
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St. Louis
Marion Hedgepeth
San Francisco
Glendale
Hedgepeth
Fle
Great Slaughter as Rebels Fire on Rio Janeiro
A Rio dispatch says rebel ships and fortifications keep firing on the city. Government forces attacked Cobras island, were repulsed, and suffered heavy losses. Foreign ships struck by rebel guns. extensive city damage and public panic. Reports of alleged outrages by Peixoto's troops circulate amid censorship and suppression of free papers.
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London
Rio Janeiro
Cobras Island
Peixoto
Woman Declared Insane After Axe Attack on Husband
Mrs. Oscar Ray, who struck her husband with an axe at their Lafayette Avenue home a few days earlier, was declared insane on Saturday after the alleged attempted killing.
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Oscar Ray
Lafayette At
City News Notes and Society Bits
Dr Bessonies shows improvement and may sit up next week. Julia Marlowe, 26, first appeared on stage 14 years ago in Pinafore. Wallace injured after a fall on Virginia avenue. City hospital report blank forms issued for sanitary investigations detailing house size wells drainage family. Tomlinson hall concert by Indianapolis military band to aid Commercial club relief fund. Chas Layman returns, may take city desk as Seeda shifts to state committee work. Layman previously with Dixon Talbott theater group in Columbus Ohio which burned.
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Bessonies
Julia Marlowe
Wallace
Virginia-ave
Maryland-st
Board of Health
Tomlinson Hall
Indianapolis Military Band
Musicians’ Union
Commercial Club Relief Fund
Chas Layman
Journal
Seeda
Republican State Committee
Layman
Dixon & Talbott
Henrietta
Columbus
Ohio
Perfect pastry flour at Van Pelt's
Patronizes Union Op Laundry for quality one of the finest.
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van Pelt’s
Mother seeks missing daughter in Indianapolis abduction tale
Mrs Lee Pettijohn of Roanoke Missouri reports her 16 year old daughter Helen ran away after a summer at the World’s Fair and a store job. An alleged letter from Carrie Lafountain demanded 16.75 for expenses. Helen later reappeared and expressed willingness to return home.
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Police
Power
Lee Pettijohn
Roanoke
Helen
Carrie Lafountain
Lafountain
Pettijohn
N. Alabemast
Courtst
Sickness and Poverty in a North Indianapolis Family
A North Indianapolis family of six children and two parents, led by William Saber on Shoemaker Street, faces typhoid fever in two children and extreme destitution. The parents are unemployed and caring for a nursing infant, living in two crowded rooms with no carpets, relying on neighbors for food. Investigator Officer Matlock reports the family is in great need of aid.
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Indianapolis
Board of Health
Wm. Saber
Matlock
Station Agent Held Up at Luzerne Railroad Safe
A highwayman entered the Luzerne station Friday night at 9 o clock and, with a revolver, forced the station agent to surrender cash from railroad and express companies. This is the fifth hold up in three weeks in the area. Westermport, W Va, reports P E Halderman, Franklin coal company supervisor, was robbed of 8060 by three highwaymen at Franklin suburb with no clues to the thieves.
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Belle Plaine
Luzerne
Westermrort
W. Va
P. E. Halderman
Franklin Coal Company
Sengeleas
Franklin
Man Threatens Doctor Barker Near Washington Avenue
Dr. A. B. Barker reports a man attacked him Friday near his office at 4443 W Washington, dragged him inside, locked the door, and mimed murder. The intruder fled after shouting for help, and police found no suspect upon arrival.
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A. B. Barker
Washingtonsr
Detectives Meet Hennessy in Apparent Trap. He Is Taken
In San Francisco on a Friday night Jack Hennessy, a noted crook, sent an unsigned note to Detective William Pinkerton requesting a meeting. Pinkerton, wary of danger, had two plainclothes officers accompany him. At the rendezvous Hennessy drew a revolver but was promptly arrested. investigators believe his aim was to kill Pinkerton, tied to Hennessy’s earlier penitentiary transfer through Pinkerton’s agency.
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San Francisco
Jack Hennessy
Wm. Pinkerton
Pinkerton
Hennessy
Mississippi Penitentiary
Gas Pipe Burst Leaves Wazasi Town Without Fuel
The national gas pipeline in Wazasi Indiana burst Friday night causing fires to be out. Factories halted and buildings heated only by kindling due to no wood or coal. Repair hoped by night.
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Wazasi
Ind
Robson Estate Uncovered Bank Losses and Unsecured Notes
Developments following the failure of W H Robson publisher of the Trade Journal reveal Indianapolis National Bank involvement. Receiver Harkins notes about $2000 owed by Robson to the bank, secured by little more than mortgages on the Trade Journal property. Robson allegedly aided a personal friend, Theodore P Haughey, with unsecured notes.
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Indianapolis National Bank
W. H. Robson
Trade Journal
Drr. Robson
Indianapolis National
Harkins
Robson
Theodore P. Haughey
Was the Milk Watered in City Tests
City chemist Hurty tested milk sold in Indianapolis under Board of Health direction. Two samples from local dealers showed dilution. Putnam County creamery milk judged weak with 35 percent water added. Indianapolis creamery sample reported 80 percent added water. Prosecutor Holtzman prepared warrants in the cases.
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Hurty
Board of Health
Putnam County Creamery
Indianapolis
Holtzman
Wreck on New York & Pennsylvania Line Kills Seven
A bridge failure on the NY & Pennsylvania line six miles north of Dunning New York caused a wreck Friday night. Five passengers and two crew members, including conductor Harry Hodge, were killed. Mrs Porter and her son Oscar of Brockton were among the dead. The train's baggage smoker and day coach plunged into the creek as other cars piled below. Bodies remained in wreckage Saturday morning with gruesome remains exposed.
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Dunning
N. Y
New York & Pennsylvania
Here
Hodge
City council debates refunding Southern park bonds
Twenty councilmen braved the rain to review offers to refund $100,500 Southern park bonds. N W Harris proposes 4 percent, Jobo P Frenzel of Indiana Trust likewise at 4 percent with a premium. Lamprecht Bros. & Co. of Cleveland offers two terms 20 or 60 years with a 1 percent premium. The finance committee split, majority backing Harris, minority Lamprecht.
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Aifarsa
Southern Park
N. W. Harris
Jobo PP. Frenzel
Indiana Trust Company
Frenzel
Lamprecht Bros. & Co
Cleveland
Harris
Trusler
Finance
Lamprecht & Co
Supt Powell Signals Crackdown On City Gambling
Sup t Powell says inside information shows gambling among youths, prompts officers to stop it. He notes little open gambling but cites several small rebotes and pledges special efforts to save boys from becoming gamblers.
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Powell
Veillaint Fevers After Bomb Incident in Chamber
Paris December 16 Veillaint who threw the bomb in the chamber of deputies suffers fever from nail extraction in the bomb wound. He is not seriously ill.
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Hoigt
Paris
Veillaint
Chamber of Deputies
Hurricane of Protests Over Five Thousand Dollar Club Pay
A wave of resignations in Indianapolis Grand Army circles targets Fortune for a $5,009 encampment payment. Col Lilly and others face pressure to resign as critics denounce the sum as excessive. Fortune defends the decision citing saved city costs and recent Washington meetings.
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Grand Army
Fortune
Commercial Club
Tucker
Tucker & Dorsey
W. I.’. Keay
Mr. Fortune
Col. Lilly
Kickers
Col
I. N. Walker
Order
R. M. Smock
Indiana
Fortuna
Indianapolis
O. .i. Weaver
Capt. Armstrong
Geo. H. Thomas Post
Chicago
Windy City
Washington
Sun
Allan Hendricks
Executive Committee
Geo. H. Chapman
Lorraine Hall
Powell Stopped the Show at School Visit
Two well dressed men visited schools advertising a show at Mannerchor hall on Saturday afternoon. Admission was five cents with a present for each child. Several hundred children gathered before Supt Powell, who deemed it a fake and ordered the event halted, forcing the projectors to refund the children.
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Powell
Mannerchor Hall
Supt
Injured Machinist W. H. Shipley Lingers After Boiler Accident
W. H. Shipley, a machinist, was severely scalded while repairing a leak inside a boiler at the Indianapolis power plant last week. His condition is critical with neck burns and possible jugular injury, and doctors fear for his life.
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W. H. Shipley
Indianapolis
DePauw Vice-President Dr Alexander Martin Dies
Dr Alexander Martin vice president of DePauw University died early Saturday morning from pluero pneumonia after a six day illness. University exercises are suspended until after his funeral scheduled for Monday afternoon.
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Greencastle
Ind
Sps
Alexander Martin
DePauw
Trying to Prove Insanity in Prendergast Murder Trial
Chicago December 16 in the Prendergast murder trial Brother Adjutior an instructor at La Salle Academy testified he had been the prisoner's teacher and had often noticed signs of his being demented.
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Chcaco
Prendergrast
Adjutor
Lasalle Academy
Judge Winters to Rule on Iron Hall Warrant Dividends
Breckenridge Jones the Missouri receiver has signaled willingness to surrender funds. Judge Winters plans to issue an order Monday to accelerate dividends, with attorney Joss Hawkins traveling to negotiate transfer of money for Missouri members. About $100,000 will be added to receiver assets and claims must be filed within four days.
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Joss Hawkins
St. Louis
Missouri
The Substitute and Sheridan Plays Sweep Christmas Stages
Ezra Kendall presents The Substitute at English's on Christmas. Sothern revives The Comedy of Errors at the Grand. Miss Marlowe draws large crowds in Much Ado About Nothing. Lottie Davenport troupe tours from Palmyra with Mary Ward found wandering. Bir EB Sothern to perform Sheridan or the Maid of Bath at the Grand next week with a new elaborate production unchanged from New York. The Diamond Breaker advance man describes a coal breaker scene in dramatic detail. H Hopkins consolidates vaudeville shows into a strong Howard Atheneum group with Danish acrobats, Lars-Largen family, and a cast including Kara, Melville and Stetson, Dixon brothers, Will Fox, Ada Melrose, and Eddie Evans troupe.
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Sothern
Stuart Robson
N.C. Goodwin
Mizzoura
Frederic Bryton
Julia Marlowe
Shakespere
Palmyra
Mary Ward
Ittsburg
EB. H. Sothern
Sheridan
Lyceum Theater
New York
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
School For Scandal
Mr. Sothern
Paul M. Porter
Diamond Breaker” Company
Hopkins
Howard Atheneum
Trangsoveanic Company
Tey
Acrobata
Lars-Largen
Kara
Melville
Stetson
Dixon
Will H. Fox
Prof. DeBerseell
Ada Melrose
Eddie
Josie Evans
Clayton
Jemkina
Jaeper
Republicans Consider Next Indiana Party Leaders
The Indiana Republican State Committee reconvenes in January with bets on chair and secretary. Capt. Jack Gowdy may retain the chair while Sen. Theodore Shockney touts his boom, seeing the post as leverage for a gubernatorial bid. Charles Landis and Russell Leeds contend for secretary, while Gen. Jasper N. Packard and Jas. E. Watson seek state posts. Democrats weigh Dan Voorhees for president with Tom Taggart backing Voorhees if a nomination chances arise.
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Republican State Committee
Jack Gowdy
Theodore Shockney
Shockney
Sun
Gowdy
Charles Landis
Delphi Journal
Russell Leeds
Jasper N. Packard
New Albany
Jas. E. Watson
Rushville
R. A. Black
Greenfield
Supreme Court
Smiley N. Chambers
Indianapolis
Senator Shockney
Union City
Geo. W. Steele
Marion
Jas. T. Johnston
Rockville
Bridge Disaster Over Ohio Claims Dozens
December report from Lowvisvituyu states a bridge collapse over the Ohio river left up to 25 dead and about 30 injured or missing. After a second fall 20 minutes later, workers fled as the structure sank, with J W Baird recalling his role as planner amid a troubled project benefiting three railroads.
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Ohio
J. W. Baird
Jacob F. Kreiger
Masonic Bank
Lengtt
Gambling House Gambler Loses 700 in Fe Street Game
In a Washington Street saloon on Friday night two strangers challenged Gus Rahke’s pool table gambling. One man called for a dollar throw and later stakes rose to ten dollars. The pair won repeatedly and Rahke ended $700 poorer, unsure of the intruders’ identities.
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Gus
Northern Ohio blanket mills to start up January 2
In Cleveland on December 16 the Northern Ohio blanket mills announce a January 2 restart. The plant employs 250 men and the manager expects better times ahead with uninterrupted operation.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Hood's Sarsa parilia Promoted as Dyspepsia Cure
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsa parilia as a cure for dyspepsia. It claims relief from distress after eating heartburn and occasional headaches, presenting Hood's Pills as the best family medicine for the liver and stomach.
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Hood
Sara
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Ezra [Kendall
Theodors Shockney
Republican Committee
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Landis
Voorhees
Bonnet
Dan Voorhees
Indiana ¢S Legation
Tea Sun
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