Roberts Advance Probe Toward Bloemfontein Strategy
Field Marshal Roberts plans a northward push from Colesberg toward Bloemfontein along the railway line. French rests at Colesberg, Gatacre near Stormberg, Methuen entrenched above the Modder river, and Macdonald joins Methuen after moving west to Koedoesberg drift to aid Kimberley or clear a path for Methuen’s Diamond City advance.
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Marshal Roberts
Orange Free State
Colesberg
Bloemfontein
General French
Gatacre
Stormberg
Methuen
Modder
Macdonald
Koedoesberg
Piet River
Kimberley
Diamond City
Roberts
Dancing Sky Pilot Locked Out in Perilous Revival
Peril and spectacle marked a Feb incident in Peru Indiana when church trustees locked out evangelist Miller and his dancers. Miller’s odd worship included a dervish like routine down the aisle and mid sermon trances atop the pulpit. Local notes report a string of disparate events from rail deaths to smallpox fears, factory strikes, and county finances.
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Peru
Ind
North Grove
Reviller
Miller
Maniac With a Bicycle Mania to Be Hospitalized
James Ralya, declared insane, will be moved from Anderson to the Eastern Indiana hospital for the insane in Richmond. He has a bicycle mania that previously kept Anderson dealers busy locating wheels. Fayette county Odd Fellows plan a meeting at Connersville on March 14. The Western roller polo league drops a season schedule, aiming to begin next season with about ten cities in membership.
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Richmond
Ind
James Ralya
Anderson
Eastern Indiana Hospital For
Fayette County
Odd Fellows
Connersville
Western Roller Polo League
Robbery Hits Pennsylvania Ticket Offices Near New Albany
The Pennsylvania suburban ticket offices at Silver Grove and Howard Park near New Albany were robbed Monday night. At Howard Park agent Mrs. Lawrence Jackson lost a watch and bracelets, some tickets and $150. Silver Grove, where Matt McCammon is agent, yielded a quantity of confections, tickets, and small change.
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New Albany
Ind
Pennsylvania
Silver Grove
Howard Park
Here
Jeffersonville
Lawrence Jackson
Matt McCammon
Newport Veteran Robbed After Pension Payout
Clinton Indiana report says William Aggery an elderly Newport veteran drew $72, then went to Clinton for relaxation. He was knocked down on the way home, robbed of $50, and left with a dangerous head wound and critical condition. The attacker fled.
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Clinton, Ind
William Aggery
Newport
Successor to Cherry Chosen in Shelbyville
Shelbyville announces Roe chosen Friday to succeed Commissioner Cherry, who resigned. Roe is not identified with either Democratic faction.
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Cherry
Shelbyville
Ind
Roe
Mishawaka Gets New Post Office and Local Improvements
Indiana inkling reports Mishawaka opening a new post office while Evansville debates water supply filtering. Marion tinner Maurice F. Kegarty Martinsville plans a complete sewer system. Godfrey Fowle near Millhousen reaches 100, and Clinton county captures three foxes in a drive. Muncie police decline to intervene in family quarrels as Kappa Sigma chapter is instituted at a local campus.
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Godfrey Fowle
Muncie
Kappa
Sigma
Small-pox Cases Reported and Crowded Evacuations In Evansville
Two new small-pox cases are noted in Evansville amid a tense evacuation scene as residents rushed to safety when a patient with the disease was reported approaching. A colored man faced public exposure at police headquarters and was forced to stand at the alley’s end. Booker T. Washington drew strong applause in Anderson after addressing Republican clubs, recalling Lincoln and race progress. two banquets and ax grinding followed. A Goshen boy, Clifford Anderson, 13, entertained during a stage show and earned a potential New York education offer from the show's manager with a percentage of future wages.
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Greenaby
Thomas M. Walk
Morahiall
Plymouth
Johanna Haskett
Straughn
Rachael Jones
New Albany
Evansville
John
Davis
Booker T. Washington
Anderson
Lincoln
Virginia
Clifford Anderson
Goshen
Den of counterfeiters raided in Vincennes Indiana
A counterfeiters den was raided Monday night. Frank Long and Mike Wilson alias John Hoffman alias John Hunter alias Irish Mike were arrested with about 75 dollars in spurious coins. An informer named Charles Edmondson helped officers trap the gang triggering the raid at 10 p.m. The seizure included coins moulds and metal. Deputy U S marshal Peck Evansville took charge of the prisoners. The group boasted of killing officers in Kentucky where they had operated before.
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Vincennes
Ind
Prince
Frank Long
Mike Wilson
John Hoffman
John Hunter
Mike
Charles ‘Edmondson
Long
Wilson
U.S
Peck
Evansville
Kentucky
Belle Payne Fires Blank Cartridges at Saloon
In Shelbyville Indiana Belle Payne an inmate at Gay Gaylor's resort fired three blank cartridges from an eight caliber revolver at bartender Edward Weber who fled the saloon. Mayor Frank Roth and Houk disarmed her she posted fifty dollar bond for arraignment and vowed to kill Weber claiming he mistreated her niece Frankie Payne.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Belle Payne
Payne
Weber
Frankie Payne
Put Off Again The Site Question Held Open By Directors Absence
The Merron art museum site question remains unsettled as directors miss a meeting due to key members away. Talbott place and Fairbank Nissel groups report they have funds for extra ground and supporters ready. Meridian street lots between Vermont and Michigan sit poised for $60 000, with an alley vacation likely. Ernest R Keith drafts a petition for Ceram street vacation if that site chosen.
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Merron Art Museum
A. P. Stanton
Hola
Hanna
Morss
Talbott Place
Fairbank- Nissel
Meridian St
Vermont
Michigan
Ernest R. Keith
Board of Works
Ceram St
Roland Reed Leaves Hospital After Operation
New York February 12 Roland Reed actor left St Luke's Hospital for the first time since an operation to remove a tumor six weeks ago He went driving in Central Park and will undergo another operation in two or three days to complete his recovery doctors say He then returned to the hospital.
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Roland Reed
New York
St Luke's
Keep
Central Park
Shepital
Steamer Gate City Aboard Near Meriches in Gale
The Gate City went ashore at Miriches L I last week and is breaking up amid a fresh gale. The crew and officers were removed Tuesday morning as the ship lay broadside on the reach and faces likely total loss if the gale persists.
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Miriches
L. I
Gate City
Not Dead, as Reported in War Department Cablegram
The war department received a corrected cablegram from Gen Otis stating Herman Fritch of Company K Twenty third Infantry was not killed as reported. He escaped insurgents and is now with his company. Fritch's home is at Oskaloosa Kansas.
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Washington
War Department
Otis
Herman Fritch
Twentythird Infantry
Samoa treaty adopted by Reichstag in unanimous vote
Berlin Feb 12 The Samoa treaty was adopted in the Reichstag Tuesday by an unanimous vote and without discussion. The decision closes a long debate over the pact and its terms. The measure now goes to the president for signature and formal approval.
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Berlin
Samoa
Reichstag
A. Uinanimous
Smallpox Cases Persist in Washington County area
Health officer Dr Mayfield reports no decline in smallpox cases as ten cases emerge from a Bedford area family. Clay county shows improvement with only three infected townships Harrison Lewis and Sugar Ridge under quarantine. Goodland Newton county closes its school for three diphtheria cases awaiting disinfecting and exams.
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Washington County
Mayfield
Bedford
Clay County
Harrison Township
Lewis Township
Sugar Ridge
Goodland
Newton County
Private ownership favored for proposed Pacific cable
The Washington house committee on interstate and foreign commerce voted eight to five to back private ownership with a government subsidy. Members voting for government ownership and private ownership are listed. After routine business the death of Representative Chickering was announced and resolutions of regret offered, followed by adjournment.
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Washington
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Pacific Cable
Fletcher
Minnesota
Corliss
Michigan
Mann
Iineis
McAleer
Pennsylvania
Davis
Meridia
Sherman
New York
Wanger
Joy
Missouri
Bar- Yam
California
Hawley
Texas
Lovering
Mississippi
Davey
Frouisiana
Adamson
Georgia
House
Payne
Chickering
Twins Wed Twins in Maplewood Ceremony
In Wheeling West Virginia on Monday evening at Maplewood Jerry Tyre’s home ex legislator Tom Tyre hosted a twin wedding. Will and Wesley Thomas the twins wed Tyre’s twin daughters. All four were born June 21 1878 and the brothers are five hours older. The four have lived nearby their entire lives.
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Maplewood
Jerry Tyre
Will
Wesley Thomas
Tyre
Police Resignations Stir Indianapolis Board Controversy
Terrence Moore resigns amid a board push to file charges and discharge officers. Officials report the board intends a public trial while some officers plan to ignore orders to appear. Attorneys vow to defend, aiming to prove innocence and question the moral character of fellow police.
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Terrence Moore
Delice Force
Indianapolis
Moore
Davis
Supt
Quigley
Smith, Duncan, Hornbrook, & Smith
Congressman's Fall Death Shocks Copenhagen Leader
Charles A. Chickering a longtime New York state assembly clerk and congressman from district 24 died after plunging from a fourth floor window at the Grand Union hotel in New York. A milkman found the body at about 5 o'clock with the skull crushed and clothing soaked by rain. Chickering recently arrived in the city saying he felt unwell and rheumatic. The incident is treated as a possible deliberate act or act of insanity. He was born in Harrisburg NY in 186? and served in the fifty-third to fifty-sixth congresses.
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New York
Charles A. Chickering
Copenhagen
N. Y
State Assembly
Grand Union Hotel
Chickering
Harrisburg
Lewis County
Two Thomas O Briens on Trial for Pension Fraud
Thomas O'Brien of Vevay charges in federal court with fraudulently obtaining a pension. A second man named Thomas O'Brien claims Civil War service in Company D Fourth Lincoln Cavalry from New York, but company records list only one. Jury selection and the trial opened Tuesday with confusion over identity, as another O’Brien resides in Torgus Maine.
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Thomas O’brien
Vevay
O’brien
Fourth
Lincoln Cavalry
New York
O'Brien
Torgus
She Wants Her Boy Eliza Howard Files Child Custody Action
Eliza Howard Iris begins habeas corpus proceedings to recover her 10 year old son Joseph Moore. She alleges her husband died in February 1896 and after her illness Sarah Peck, his sister, persuaded her to let Peck care for the child. She says she has supplied clothes and repeatedly asked for custody, but Peck refuses to return him.
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Eliza Howard Iris
Joseph Moore
Sarah Peck
Representative Chickering Drops Sickness Cause Death Noted
Washington February report says Representative Chickering suffered typhoid fever last year and now has nervous prostration. He traveled to New York to see his doctor who believes death was accidental. He leaves a widow with no children.
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Washington
Chickering
New York
New Cabinet Office Under Way
Washington February 13 The house committee on mines and mining ordered favorable reports on a bill to establish a department of mines under a cabinet officer and on a measure to create mining experiment stations similar to agricultural stations.
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Washington
House Committee On Mines and Mining
Two Men Shot Dead in Virginia Encounter
In Swordcreek Virginia Detective Z F Feits of Bluefield West Virginia was shot and killed by William Lee who was then shot and killed by Deputy Marshal Baldwin of Bluefield. Lee had been convicted of murder and recently escaped from Moundsville prison.
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Bluefield
W. Va
Swordcreek
Z. F. Feits
Wm. Lee
Baldwin
Lee
Moundsville
Auditor Smith Summoned Over County Funds for the Poor
The county auditor is required to appear before Jorge Carter on Wednesday to explain warrants issued by the county commissioners for services for the poor. This follows the ongoing suit to clarify parts of the county reform law.
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Jorge Carter
Madison bicycle club dance shut down by police at Zellener's hall
New York report says Captain Wiegand and 30 policemen raided Zellener's Morris Park Hall during Tillie Curtin's dance with about 1,000 attendees. Lights were turned off and the performer was removed as the crowd dispersed.
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New York
Madison Bicycle Club
Zellener
Morris Park ‘Hall
Wiegand
Tillie Curtin
Franchises Discussed for Interurban Rail Entry
The Board of Works and the city attorney conferred with petitioners for franchises to permit interurban electric railroads to enter Indianapolis. The session Tuesday afternoon did not finalize the franchises at that meeting.
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Board of Works
Indianapolis
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers Plan Indianapolis Convention
The Central labor union on Monday night appointed committees to arrange the National association of iron, steel and tin workers convention in Indianapolis. May 14 the Commercial club will select a committee to cooperate with the union in entertaining delegates. Several thousand operatives are expected. The grievance committee will investigate reports that Frederick Riebel of Chandler & Taylor and the master horseshoers hire nonunion workers. The boycott against Metropolitan Life Insurance Company has been lifted as the firm agrees to allow union agents.
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Central Labor Union
National Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Indianapolis
Commercial Club
Frederick Riebel, Chandler & Taylor
Quarantine Clash in Fairland Ends With Armed Defiance
Feb 12 report from Vinita Oklahoma notes several smallpox cases in Fairland. Lt Dr Fortner, national health head, tried to enforce quarantine but residents resisted. U.S. Indian police were called in to aid, yet patient groups with rifles defied both doctor and police.
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Vinita
I. T
Fairland
Fortner
National Board of Health
United States Indian
Forther
Light question revisited for Tomlingen hall and police station
The Board of Works will confer with the county commissioners Thursday afternoon on securing electricity for lighting Tomlingen hall and the police station from the plant the commissioners contemplate constructing.
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Board of Works
County Commissioners
Tomlingen Hall
Merchants Land, 250 Union Station Restaurant
A fragment mentions merchants land and a 250 Union Station restaurant project. Details are scarce in the readable OCR segment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Station
City markets in Indianapolis price list for February
A detailed Indianapolis market page lists smoked meats, lard, bacon, sausage, pickled goods, fresh pork, fruits and vegetables, nuts, canned goods, teas and spices, canned fruits and vegetables, fish and game, oysters, seeds and grasses, hides and leather, tallow, oats, flour and feed, drugs, butter, live poultry, and coal with wholesale and retail price quotes. Numerous items specify weights such as 50 Ibs, 200 Ib barrels, and per bushel pricing, with regional brands and manufacturers named.
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Indianapolis
California
Hamlets
Link
Weiner
Indiana
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Posey County
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Chesterton
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Wiliam Pratt, Laporte
Chicago
Pasteur
National
Window-Glass Workers’ Association
The
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Allen County
Jacob Miller
H’m
Willie Fox
EE Clampitt
Lebanon
Philippines
J. W. Baird
Shaft House
Kellyville
Shaft No. 2
Danville
James Riley
Ethical Society At
Adams County
Smeath Glass Compay
Hartford City
B. LeFavor
Herald
W. R. Jones
American Window-Glass Company
Martford City
John Hunt
Crown Point
Carl Struck
A. A. Walker
Dochettes
Hammond
John Vantentz
Franklin
Mary O'Donnell
Kitling
Frank Whitesell
Freeman Hetser
Indiana Inklings
Mishawaka
Ebvanaville
Maurice F. Kegarty
Marion ‘Tinner
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Thomas O’briens
Auditor Smith
Tillie
Eiverett
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
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