Tom Johnson Proposes Three-Cent Fare in Columbus
Columbus February report says Tom Johnson will return Friday to urge council to buy out the street railway, implement a three-cent fare, inject a city bookkeeper, and surrender earnings above six percent to the city. He aims to pressure a 20-year renewal by the current company. Johnson works with the Citizens' committee.
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Columbus
John-sen
Council
Johnson
Citizens’ ‘Committee
Army reorganization bill clears Senate with party split vote
The Army reorganization bill passed the Senate by 33 to 25 after a two month review. Conference report now awaits the president’s signature. Notable party split included Republicans Aldrich Allisor Bars Clapp Culom Deboe Depew Dillingham Dolliver Elkins Fairbanks Foraker Foster Frye Hanna Hawley Kean Kyle Lindsay Lodge McEnery Morgan Nelson Perkins Platt Proctor Quakes Sewell Shoup Simon Stewart Thurston Wetmore in favor. Nays included Allen Bacer Bate Berry Butler Chandler Chilton Clay Cockrell Culbertson Gallinger Hale Hoar Jones Kansaa Kenney McComas McCumber Mallory Martin Penrose Pettus Pettus Rawlins Teller West.
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Yeas
Aldrich
Allisor
Bars
Clapp
Cullom
Deboe
Depew
Dillingham
Dolliver
Elkins
Fairbanks
Foraker
Foster
Frye
Shoup
Simon
Stewart
Thurston
Wetmore
Nays
Allen
Bacer
Bate
Berry
Butler
Chandler
Chilton
Clay
Cockrell
Culbert Son
Gallinger
Hale
Hoar
Jones
Arkansa
Kenney
McComas
McCumber
Mallory
Martin
Penrose
Pettigrew
Pettus
Rawlins
Teller
West
Kaiser to Mediate Between Britain and Boer Republics
London February 1 The Berlin Daily News correspondent cites a rumor that Emperor William may offer mediation between Great Britain and the South African republics. It notes Germany previously refused mediation unless Britain and the Boers asked, and suggests a shift in Britain’s stance if true.
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London
Berlin
The
Daily News
William
Great Britain
Germany
Death Claims Balked Yet Bold Laborer at Bedford Mill
Adam Garlick a 66 year old union veteran and saw mill operator died after a railroad crossing accident in Tategville. The man endured a long history of injuries including finger loss jaw fractures bitten by a rattlesnake and severe blows from accidents and machinery throughout his life.
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Bedford
Adam Garlick
Tategville
Garrick
Ragalez
They Defy Dowie By Smoking In Zion
Chicago February 1 The Zion city project led by Dr Dowie faces a challenge as British lace makers refuse tobacco prohibition and declare Zion or no Zion they will smoke. A lace factory is nearing completion north of Waukegan.
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Chicago
Dowie
Zion
England
Waukegan
Woman Dies in Dental Chair After Tooth Extraction
Mrs. Clemens Hagar of Hamlin Wyoming aged 38 died suddenly in Griffithsville while undergoing a tooth extraction. After weeks of severe pain she refused to have the tooth pulled but finally visited a dentist. Twenty minutes after the procedure she was found dead, the reported cause presumed to be complications from the extraction.
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Hamlin
Wyo
Clemens Hagar
Griffithsville
Croker’s Great Income Tax Facts
Richard Croker paid taxes on yearly receipts of about 100000 dollars as reported in London during February. The article notes Croker’s declared income and tax payments tied to his finances and Gates era mentions.
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London
Richard Croker
Incom Gates
Wedding That Wasn't Pulled Off Sparks Inquiry
In Muncie Indiana on February 1 Bessie Farr sixteen of Cammack station and Thomas Griffin of Indianapolis attempted to wed. Griffin says she urged him to obtain a license and left with an old man claimed as her step grandfather while she spoke to a friend. The girl disappeared southward and officials expect a marriage despite a fifty year age gap.
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Griffin
Troop Reinforcements Headed to the Philippines
Washington announces two more regiments to join eight already bound for the Philippines as Taft commission findings and expiring volunteer terms prompt emergency transfers. Transports at San Francisco await Congress action, with two ships likely for the Tenth Infantry and others to sail soon.
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Washington
Tenth Infantry
Cuba
Madison Barracks
Philippines
Taft Commission
Eleventh Infantry
Washington Barracks
Fifth Cavalry
Ft. Meyer
San Francisco
Congress
Engines Wrecked in Brazil Freight Yard Collision
In Brazil Indiana a switch engine crashed into an oncoming freight at the Chicago and Eastern Illinois yards. Both engines wrecked and several cars damaged. Trainmen jumped clear with no serious injuries. The cause of the crash is not known.
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Brazil
Ind
Chicago & Eastern Minois
Local Briefs Pull Into Indiana News Ledger
A collage of short notes from Indiana events: deaths including Mrs Lillie Phillips and Caleb Harvey. a $15000 temple project. a panic in Lafayette and Muncie markets. postmaster Daniel Surface named in Richmond. Arcade fireworks in Anderson. factory and mine incidents with fatalities. reformatory inmate count. curious potato finding. cremation of horses in Muncie. jury updates in Shelbyville. street railway expansion talks Aurora to Rising Sun. grandma Cauble at 99. train tragedy near Alexandria. law enforcement curfews and church mischief in Vincennes. consolidation talks Vernon and North Vernon. new Marion newspaper The Tribune. wedding plans foregone in Lima and Muncie. Frank Merton’s marriage.
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Simeate
Lafayette
Muncie
Crawfordsville
Greene
Caleb Harvey
Noblesville
Daniel Surface
The
Palladium
Richmond
Arcade Fireworks
Anderson
Conrad Mapel
Nevada
William Musgrave
Evansville
Jeffersonville Reformatory
Austin Ward
Wabash
W. H. Wagner
George M. Ray
Shelbyville
Peru
J. R. Nation
Howard County
Kansas
Cincinnati
Lawrenceburg
Vincennes
Cumberland
Presbyterian
Columbus
Vernon
North Vernon
Court House
Joseph Keith
Nora Kifer
Princeton
Keith
Marion
the Tribune
Associated Press
John Cunningham
Lima
Mayme Dolan
Cunningham
Dolan
Frank Merton
City Engineer Reports Ten Years of Street Improvements
Indianapolis completed 83 miles of paving over ten years with 31.61 miles of conduits and 98.69 miles of sewers while paving costs totaled 7 660 136 98 The 1900 year saw 0 72 miles of asphalt 1 24 miles brick and 9 2 miles wooden block He urges charter amendments to base assessments on benefit and territory units and proposes sewer construction on Michigan Street
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Jeup
Indianapolis
Michigan-st
Jealous wife brandishes pistol at mill workers
In Winsted Connecticut Mrs G Jessie Merrill seized Miss Iva M Phillips by the hair and threatened her with a pistol after accusing the mill girl of stealing her husband. Edward B Taylor of Winsted Hosiery tried to intervene as a crowd expelled Merrill and police escorted her from town. Phillips fainted after a fall at a spindle.
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Winsted, Conn
Winsted Hosiery
Iva M. Phillips
Winsted
G. Jessie Merrill
Torrington
Mrs. Merrill
Edward B. Taylor
Merrill
Paxton Sues O Neals for 10000 Over Mule Incident
Annie Paxton of Jeffersonville files a $10,000 damages suit against Thomas and Martin O Neal alleging a mule intrusion at a wedding night caused shock that harmed her unborn child. The suit ties to the marriage of Thomas O Neal Jr., 74, to Lizzie Whallen of Louisville, and describes the men beating the mule with fence pickets at the Paxtons' home.
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O'Neal
Thomas O'Neal, Jr
Lizzie Whallen
Louisville
Thomas Paxton
Thos
Martin O’neal
Paxton
McCormack Burglary Husband Faces Long Prison Term
Mrs William McCormack lies dying from paralysis as her husband sits in county jail awaiting transfer to a penitentiary for burglary. He had broken into Shuman's grocery to feed himself and his ailing wife, spending the last money on morphine to ease her pain.
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Muncie
Ind
William McCormack
McCormack
Shuman
Ex-Society Leader Dons Man's Suit in Poverty Search
Mrs George Dick once prominent in Chippewa Falls society cut her hair and wore a man's suit to seek work after her husband’s illness left the family destitute. She found employment in the woods using an ax and saw, but her brother later brought her home where she remained prostrated.
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Chippewa Falls
Wis
George Dick
Evansville Foreclosure Bill Passes Over Tax Delinquency
Lawmaker criticizes police response as eight precedents shift, while the senate approves a bill allowing Evansville to foreclose tax liens on property with three years of delinquency.
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Senate
Evansville
Charter Amendment Debate Delays Indianapolis Streets
The senate committee on Indianapolis affairs held an open meeting Thursday afternoon where City Attorney Kern and others discussed proposed charter amendments. The measure would give citizens opposing street improvements the right of appeal to the circuit court, but Kern warned it could stall projects for two years awaiting supreme court rulings.
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Senate Committee On
Indianapolis
Kern
Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Legislative Gabble in Indiana Reflects Property and Transport Debates
In Indianapolis, inn managers fear state sale of their ground and other city property as a $200 yearly rental to the state stands. Opposition grows to two cent fare railroad bills, seen as cutting employee salaries. Gov. Durbin appoints Wm. W. Ross of Evansville to replace Charles E. Hough as trustee of the deaf and dumb institute, making the board Republican for the first time.
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Durbin
Wm. W. Ross
Evansville
Charles E. Hough
Deaf and Dumb Institute
Coast Survey Probes Pacific Shoreline Sinkage
Tacoma reports a U S coast and geodetic surveys crew studies the Pacific shoreline to determine if the coast is subsiding. Early findings suggest the shoreline has dropped several inches over the last century and now sinks faster than the Atlantic coast.
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Tacoma
Wash
United States Coast and Geodetic Surveys Department
Corps of Engineers
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic
Divorce Granted After Wife Locked In Chicken Coop
Albertina Groebner was granted a divorce from Otto Groebner in Judge Ford's court after a cross petition. The suit was started by the husband, and the decree cites she was locked in the chicken coop all night when he returned home late and threw her and her clothes outside.
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Cleveland
Albertina Groebner
Otto Groebner
Ford
Kirkman Bill on Hunting Probed in House Debate
Kirkman proposed a season prohibiting hunting with gun and dog from November 10 to January 1. Jackman stirred farmers opposing all hunting. A motion to extend the ban failed by a narrow vote, and the bill was recommitted to a committee.
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Kirkman
Jackman
Legislators Push Removal of Deaf and Blind Institutes
A legislative commission favors moving the deaf and dumb and blind institutes outside city limits. A bill to create a commission to sell their land will be introduced. Some land will remain in St Clair park for the governor's residence.
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Legislative Commission
Deaf and Dumb and
Blind
St. Clair Park
County to Build Raymond Street Bridge Over White River
County commissioners approve Raymond street bridge over White river with Mayor Taggart S E Rauh and other property owners funding approaches and fill on both sides.
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Raymond-st. Bridge
White River
Taggart
S. E. Rauh
Long will leaves estate to widow, children, college fund
Henry C. Long's will, opened Thursday, bequeaths a $750,000 estate to his widow and two children. After their deaths the inheritance funds a college for girls in Indianapolis. The Presbyterian Board of Home Missions receives $15,000 and Indianapolis city $10,000 for a Lincoln monument at University Park's southeast corner.
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Henry C. Long
Indianapolis
Board of Home Missions
The
Presbyterian Church
City of
Abraham Lincoln
University Park
Detective Desmond Tries Suicide After Bath Beach Murder
New York police detective Timothy Desmond who killed James Mullen of Bath Beach six weeks earlier attempted suicide at Raymond Street Jail Brooklyn by leaping from a second balcony to the stone floor. He survived but is seriously injured doctors hope to save him.
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New York
Timothy Desmond
Jas. Mullen
Bath Beach
Raymond St
Brooklyn
Fake ad trick leads to purse recovered in Bath
Mrs. B. F. Young of Bath, New York, lost a purse containing call ing cards and $25. A counterfeit ad promised no prosecution if returned. A veiled woman hired a boy to deliver a package to Attorney J. F. Little. inside, the purse and money were found though not in the original denominations.
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Bath
N. Y
B. F. Young
J. F. Little
Faucett
Helen Gould Gives 400000 for Naval Y M C A Home
Miss Helen Gould has donated $400,000 to fund land building and equipment for a home serving the naval branch of the Y M C A in New York. The gift aims to support sailors and YMCA activities at sea and in port facilities.
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New York
Helen Gould
Naval Branch
Four murderers moved to Trenton prison after verdict
Four men convicted of the murder of Jennie Boss chieter arrived at Trenton on Friday. They walked from the station to the prison, followed by a large crowd.
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Trenton
N. J
Jennie Bosschieter
No New Trial Denied for John Banks in Bribery Case
Judge Alford of the criminal court refused a new trial for John Banks who sought to bribe an election officer. Banks is sentenced to two to 14 years at Michigan City. The report notes his composure during sentencing. Northwestern University coeds threaten a mutiny over strict social rules and late curfews. Dean Crowe reprimands follow. Freshman party access denied.
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Alford
Criminal Court
John Banks
Michigan City
Chicago
Northwestern University
Dean Crowe
Wedding at Bethesda by the Sea In Palm Beach
The Wor den Cutting wedding took place Thursday at Bethesda-by-the-Sea church in Palm Beach Florida, with the wedding party arriving in wheelchairs.
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Palm
Beach
Fla
Bethesda-by-the-sea
Missing wife with large sum of money in early 1900s report
New York dispatch says Timothy Brennan reports his wife traveled to Philadelphia in December to cash a 150000 dollar draft. He last saw her leaving the bank with 60000 dollars in cash or a Havana draft for 90000. They had just married and planned a Havana wedding tour.
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New York
Timothy Brennan
Philadelphia
Havana
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Jeffersonville, Ind
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