Alger Reopens Beef Scandal Attacks Miles Defends Eagan
Ex Secretary of War Russell A Alger accuses Gen Miles of grave, scandalous charges about army beef during the Spanish War. He defends Gen Eagan and condemns Miles for statements to the wartime commission and a Cincinnati interview. Miles has not publicly answered and is hunting in Virginia with Dr Daly.
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Miles
Eagan
New York
Russell A. Alger
North American Review
Beef Inquiry Commission
W. H. Daly
War Department
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War
Dodge
Army of the United
Secretary of War For the Protection of the Army
Army
Secretary of War
Cincinnati
Gpon
Charles P. Eagan
Commissary Department
New Yo City
Gen. Miles
Dr. Daly
Washington
Alger
Virginia Mountains
Daly
Pittsburg
Bellevue nurses charged in patient death at Bellevue Hospital
Three Bellevue hospital nurses Jesse R. Davis Edward O. Dean and Clinton L. Marshall are charged after coroner cites witness Minnock who testified Louis Hillyard was choked to death with a twisted sheet. Bail set at five thousand dollars each.
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Bellevue Hospital
Jesse R. Davis
Edward O. Dean
Clinton L. Marshall
Louis Hillyard
Minnock
Hillyard
Davis
McIntyre
Mail Pouch Stolen in Wyandotte Heist
A Wyandotte dispatch reports a mail pouch containing $100,000 in negotiable papers was stolen from the depot Thursday night and recovered a short distance from the station. Detroit reports identify two strong entities: Wyandotte and the depot.
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Detroit
Mich
Wyandotte
Government buys 136 acre island near Guam for coaling station
Washington reports the government has purchased a 136 acre island near Guam for $590. The site will serve as a coaling station for naval operations and supply routes in the Pacific.
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Washington
Guam
Man Hurt When Tank Falls On Him At Work
Michael Fitzgerald of 2618 N Senate Ave is hospitalized with a badly fractured knee after a cylinder head burst at Indianapolis bridge and iron works on Kentucky Ave. The water tank toppled, burying him. rescuers freed him from the debris with difficulty. There was little water in the tank at the time.
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Michael Fitzgerald
Senate-ave
St. Vincent's Hospital
Indianapolis
Kentucky-ave
Beneah
Editor Waller Whipped Over Newspaper Critique
E. E. Waller editor of the Advertiser was horsewhipped by Mrs. John Conner on Friday. The trouble stemmed from an Advertiser article that harshly criticized patrons who refused to take their papers from the post office.
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Ava, NL
E. E. Waller
The
Advertiser
John Conner
Largest photograph claimed of Swit packing offices in Chicago
An 8 by 4 foot hash light photograph, said to be the world’s largest, was taken of the Swit Packing Company offices in Chicago on Saturday. The office spans 46,000 square feet and the photo includes 100 figures.
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Swit Packing Company
Indiana honors seven foot golden eagle and opens Lafontaine hall
Indiana records a seven foot wingspan golden eagle discovery and dedication of a new Odd-fellows hall in Lafontaine with 18 charter members. Other notes include Mills misidentified as burglar in Muncie, a Goshen Christmas tree fire, a pastor gifted sofa, a gas incident in Logansport, a boiler explosion near Dublin, a clairvoyant fined for assault in New Albany, an oil well strike north of Anderson, and changes in Greenfield city offices alongside a missing child update.
Man kills self after divorce rejections in Newberg
George Boyden, 30, of Newberg, Ind., was rejected by a woman he had twice divorced. He then killed himself by jumping into a cistern, authorities reported.
Young Indiana builds miniature street car from wood and battery
Robert Harrold, 15, son of Felix Harrold a colored janitor in Muncie, is an electrical genius who designed a tiny street car. He built the car from wood with a bottom battery, had wheels cast at a foundry, a bent wagon wheel track, and a copper trolley touching the tire.
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Muncie
Ind
Robert
Felix Harrold
Major collision near Charlestown injures Big Four fireman
In Jeffersonville Indiana a head on crash at 6 am Saturday between a Big Four mail line freight and a B&O 5 W local freight demolished several cars and disabled the B&O engine. A Big Four fireman suffered severe bruises with no other injuries reported.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Charlestown
Big Four
Horses consigned for Lackey sale in Cambridge City
Richmond report says over four horses have been consigned for the Lackey sale at Cambridge City in March. Notable entries include Lady Pipes 2:09 24 and Belle If 2:18 14. Ira Hunt, once mascot of the 61st Indiana, has been bought from the Jeffersonville reformatory to his Carterville home while seriously sick.
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Richmond
Ind
Cambridge City
Ira Hunt
Jeffersonville Reformatory
Carterville
Hunt
61St Indiana Regiment
Parsonage Burglary and Robberies Hit Chesterton Area
Thieves burglarized the Catholic parsonage on Thursday night taking 00 worth of gold and silver altar vessels. A dozen or more houses were robbed, and a well organized gang carried out several small robberies in Valparaiso.
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Chesterton
Ind
Valparaiso
Arrest of Claud Hunt Sparks Lynch Fear in Lafayette
Authorities suppressed news of Claud J Hunt a Black assailant after he seized Miss Blanche McGinley in an alley but bystander alarm drew attention. Officials feared lynching. Hunt’s arrest followed the incident.
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Lafayette
Ind
Claud J Hunt
Blanche McGinley
Hunt
Widow Bertha Arthur and Walter Richey Wed in Jail
In Muncie Indiana Mrs Bertha Arthur an Anderson widow and Walter Richey were married behind bars on Friday before about 30 prisoners. Richey who was jailed for till tapping and caught robbing Bowles drug store faces prison.
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Muncie
Ind
Bertha Arthur
Anderson
Walter Richey
Richey
Bowles
Indiana Deaths in Wabash and Worthington
In Wabash, Mrs. Elizabeth Caldwell, 4, listed as the oldest inhabitant and resident, married at 14 to Gen. Wm. Caldwell of the Union Army and has lived alone in Wabash since 1846. In Worthington, Alvis N. Newsom, a prominent Greene County citizen, is noted.
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Wabash
Elizabeth Caldwell
Wm. Caldwell
Union Army
Worthington
Alvis N. Newsom
Greene County
Local notes and incidents from Indiana towns
The sample notes report varied items including a porch climber abroad in Marion, a dress update for the Elkhart Review, plans for a $60,000 auditorium by Fort Wayne businessmen, and Terre Haute expecting two more glass factories. Also listed are a fatal horse incident near Evansville, an electric road project between Greensburg and Versailles, a $25,000 M E church dedication at Winchester, a new gas well at Matthews, Marion’s electric plant capacity increase to 12 500 nights, a fatal fall of farmer Charles Reiser near Deep River, and farmer John Grifin near Angola.
Cold in the Head Sextative Breme Quinine Tablets
An note on a medicinal tablet line titled Cold in the Head Sextative Breme Quinine Tablets. The item lists a prominent brown bottle form with directions and dosage hints and a brief catalog entry style description.
McDonald Death Follows Cleveland Auditor Slaying
Sam McDonald of Steubenville Ohio, killer of Frank H. Morris auditor of the war department, died at Emergency hospital after shooting Morris last Saturday then shooting himself and slashing his throat.
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Washington
Sam McDonald
Steubenville
Frank H. Morris
Cleveland
War Department
Morris
Indiana jails described as worst in the nation report
Secretary Butler of the State board of charities says Indiana jails are in worse condition than those in other states. He cites immorality, vice, and sheriff ignorance in jail management as key factors and faults local officials for neglect.
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Butler
State Board of Charities
Indiana
Local Births and Deaths and Two Marriages Listed
Charles and Ollie Willis East street newborn girl. Gibson and Hannah Evans 2520 4 Eleventh Street boy. George Reid 418 N New Jersey Street girl. George Whern 58 English Ave girl. Anthony Tiltz 549 W Morrison Street girl. Fred Wegehoff 2302 S Meridian Street girl. Duncan Street Philip and Caito boy. Lorenzo Fay 122 Miley Ave boy. George W Stevens 431 S Haugh Street boy. Edward Treat 1737 N Me Benjamin Bush 410 E Merrill Street boy. Otto Ranje 718 Fluron Street girl. William Shuffiebarger 1506 Woodlawn Ave boy. Alfred Janke 1865 Bradshaw Street asphyxia. Edna Wegehoff four days hemorrhage bowels. Rachel Divine 34 6 Hamilton Ave tuberculosis. John Ambrose Wutter 92 2537 N Delaware St pulmonalis. Joseph W Smith months at colored orphans home inanition. John W White and Margaret McConaha George A Metzger and Mary B Gibson.
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Gibson and
Hannah Evans
Eleventh
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New Jersey
Emma Whern
English Ave
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W. Morris
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Miley-ave
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Nellie Shuffiebarger
Woodlawn-ave
Alfred Janke
Bradshaw-st
Edna Weghoft
S. Meridian St
Rachel Divine
Hamilton-ave
John Ambrose Wutter
Delaware St
Joseph W. Smith
Pullman stock rises after G M Pullman death
In Chicago on December 29 the Pullman company stock has increased by 6 million dollars since the death of palace car magnate G M Pullman three years ago. The estate is now valued at 15 million dollars.
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Chicago
G. M. Pullman
Palace Car
Pullman Company
Evangelist William Day Found Former Thief Turned Preacher
Chicago report notes William Day once a thief drunkard and drug habit victim was consecrated as an evangelist at the Strangers' tabernacle on Friday night.
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Chicago
Wm. Day
Strangers’ Tabernacle
Boers Drive 3000-Strong In Natal Invasion Report
Lord Kitchener reports a British column attacked at Grayungstad with two captains wounded eight men killed twenty missing. A Boer commando of 3000 men is said to have invaded Natal amid multiple skirmishes at several points.
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Natal
Renj Bridge Returns After Nine Years With Australian Savages
Renj Bridge an American, nine years a captive of Australian savages, arrived in Vancouver on the Miowera. He left New York twelve years ago and, after a long hunting trip at age 29, was captured. He spoke his native language with difficulty after years among wild men and claimed every woman in the tribe offered to marry him. He escaped during a tribal battle.
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Vancouver
B. C
Renj
Bridge
Australia
New York
Starving American Student Found in Paris Latin Quarter
A young American art student, Alice Worthington, was found starving and exhausted in a small roof room of an obscure Paris hotel in the Latin quarter. Two American girls who met her in the Luxemburg copied pictures report she gave Rochester or Buffalo as her home. The hotel proprietor alerted the two friends, who are nursing her as they hope for recovery. Worthington arrived in February to study in Paris.
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Paris
Alice Worthington
Latin Quarter
Worthington
Luxemburg
Rochester
Buffalo
Miss Worthington
Four firms suspend amid London and Globe slump
London and Globe investment company, a West Australian mines broker with 10 million capital, sees its shares fall. Four brokerage firms suspend trading as the group faces stress. The firm backed the Baker Street and Waterloo railway, a major underground project with 34 million invested and still unfinished. Lord Dufferin serves as chairman.
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Globe Investment Company
London and Globe Company
Bakerst
Waterloo
London
Doan's Kidney Pills Prove Worth in Ind Residents Testimony
Indianapolis residents attest to dramatic relief from kidney and back pain after using Doan's Kidney Pills. E V Stein of 1222 N Senate Ave reports heavy bearing down and aching pains lasting over a year, with relief and cure after a box from Henry J Huder's drug store. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y sole agents. Remember the name Doan's.
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E. V. Stein
N. Senate Ave
Dean
Henry J. Huder
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
United States
Doan
City Markets Provisions Prices Across Meat and Grocery
A detailed listing of city markets pricing for smoked meats bacon sausage lard and pickled goods, plus vegetables fruits nuts and canned goods. Includes prices for hams bacon pork lards beans onions cabbage celery apples citrus and berries with varied weights and regional origins. Also covers fish oysters poultry and staples like flour tea coffee and oils.
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California
Indiana
Tierces
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