Chenowith Reappointed After Civil Service Scandal
H K Chenowith formerly Nogales revenue collector, removed last April for alleged fraud ties, is reportedly reappointed in the pension department amid civil service scrutiny. The case centers on altered examinations and influence from Washington papers. Chenowith, from Cleveland, faces accusations of political retaliation.
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Washington
H. K. Chenoith
Nogales
Wriz
Peennary
Henowith
Civil Serve Commission
Chenowith
Civil Service Commission
Ets
Cleveland
Poor to Buy Horses for City Health Board
The health board faced high costs renting horses for ambulances and hospital use due to no appropriation for purchases. Dr. Benham pressed the controller and safety board members for relief and extra horses, securing a promise to repurpose worn out fire horses for health needs.
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Board of Health
Dr. Benham
Health Board
Johnson
Seaturday
Roth
Hyde
the Safety Board
Oon
Jans
Ben‘ham
Women’s foreign missionary society convention opens in heat
The annual State convention of the Women’s foreign missionary society began Saturday at the Friends meeting house. Attendance was light due to extreme heat. At close, owners of bread makers who loaned their property to needy borrowers spent about a half hour reclaiming it. It was announced that men may become honorary members. the convention will close Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s ‘Foreign Missionary Society
Friends
Ehuarc
Tragic Caldrons Death Of Chicago Girl
A five year old girl of butcher F Kunz died after falling into a kettle of hot water heated near a window. The father, cleaning l lckens, had heated the water when the child playing on a plank saw-saw through the window lost balance and toppled into the caldron. Local authorities reported the fatal accident occurred Saturday morning.
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Chicago
F. Kunz
Carnegie Steel mortgage sets $41 million bond issue in New Jersey
East Orange, New Jersey, acknowledged a large mortgage Friday involving the Carnegie Steel Company. The $41,000,000 mortgage serves as the basis for issuing bonds, part of a plan by the Carnegie company to convert temporary securities into permanent ones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
East Orange
Carnegie Steel Company
Dill
Carnegie
Pany
Freedman Arrested In Kansas City For Disorderly Conduct
Andrew Freedman president of a New York baseball club and ally of Richard Croker was detained by police in Kansas City for nearly an hour on Friday over an alleged assault on newspaper man Paul Tiemann. After debate and influence, the charge was dropped and Freedman was released.
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Kansas City
Andrew ‘Freedman
New York ‘Baseball Club
Democrat ‘Club
Richard Croker
Paul Tiemann
Breedman
Eedman
Tiemann
Hind
Firebug Buntz Insanity Declared in Barn Fire Confession
Henry Buntz confessed to setting several barns on fire to attract a fire force post. He was declared insane and sent for further examination.
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Henry Buntz
Local Mishap Sketches Fragments of a Wounded Man
The fragment reports Thomas Simms at 3346 Central Avenue moving toward a barn Friday evening when a wrist injury occurred. A gunshot from the west near a cornfield is noted in the sparse text.
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Thomas Simms
Central-ave
Quigley and Roth Clash Over Patrolman Case
Supt Quigley says he reported the Kruger Lawlor affair to Mayor Taggart and Commissioners Roth and Hyde, while Chairman Roth and Clerk Davis deny knowledge of any written report. An inquiry allegedly linked to insubordination after Lawlor and Barmfuhrer were found with a chicken in a saloon room prompts questions. The safety board plans to air the matter despite disputed reports.
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Quigley
Lawlor
Roth
The
Safety Board
Board of Safety
Taggart
Roth and Hyde
Davis
Patrolman Lawlor
Quigsey
Kruger
Barmfuhrer
Democrats and Populists nominate Bryan for president
In Kansas City delegates from Democrats free silver Republicans and Populists nominate William Jennings Bryan for president. Stevenson is named for vice president by Democrats prompting protests as Towne is blocked. A split ticket looms while Bryan Towne talks continue into the night.
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Kansas City
Bryan
Stevenson
Charles A. Towne
Free Silver
Free Silverites
Republican National Committee
Teller
Bryan B
Republic
Towne
Webb McNall
Kansas
Cleveland
Gold Democrats to Oppose Bryan Over Silver Plank
A New York dispatch reports prominent gold Democrats who opposed Bryan in 1896 over the silver plank will oppose him again for the same reason. Named supporters include ex-Mayor Abrams Hewitt Alex E Orr ex-Gov Hoadley Oscar Strauss minister to Turkey and Everett P Wheeler.
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New York
Bryan
McKinley
Abrams. Hewitt
Alex E. Orr
Hoadley
Ohio
Oscar Strauss
Turkey
Everett P.wheeler
Tired Tammany Tigers Reach Home From Kansas City
The tired Tammany Tigers traveling from the Kansas City convention passed through Indianapolis on Saturday morning. Perry Belmont, a prospective vice presidential candidate, was in the group. Belmont claimed no man better than Stevenson could have secured the nomination and predicted unified backing from New York with no dissent.
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Tammany Tigers
Kansas City
Indianapolis
Perry Belmont
Belmont
Stevenson
Flo
United
New York
Mr. Belmont
Pyatt Refutes Insanity Claim in Court Fight
William J. Pyatt, declared insane, says he will resist incarceration and alleges a family conspiracy to cut him off from his father’s support. Witnesses include his wife Effie M. Pyatt and Drs Eastman and Kahn who testified to morphine use and mental health concerns. Pyatt, 1232 W. Washington St., owned a grocer shop on July 4 and denies being insane despite the inquest findings.
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William J. Pyatt
Pyatt
SUN
Satur Day
Effie M. Pyatt
Kahn
Washington St
F. M
Bray
Losh
Martin
Danville, Ky., Theological Seminary
Alabama St
W. A. Martin
Imperial University
Pekin
China
Josepha Franklin
Indiana
Famine
India
Third Christian Church
Washington Cubert
Wolf After Eight Hours Holds Family In Chicago
In Galewood Chicago Mrs. C H Owens and her two children were confined for eight hours by a wolf dog hybrid in the city limits. The animal from the adjacent woods was killed when the husband arrived home. Its head was presented at the county treasurer for a wolf bounty.
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Chicago
C. H. Owens
Owens
Galewood
Filipinos propose terms to end war with United States
Ottawa dispatch notes a local Filipino agent’s resume of conditions to end the war. The plan includes repaying $20,000,000 to the United States, granting coaling stations, banning monopolies, and respecting Filipino individual and political liberties and national integrity.
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Ottawa
Ont
United States
Archipelago
Pettit Acquitted by General Court Martial
Gen. MacArthur cabled that Col. James S. Pettit of the Thirty second Infantry was acquitted on a general court martial charge. Pettit was accused of handing over Filipino prisoners to a village president who had them killed.
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James S. Pettit
Thirty-second Infantry
Col. Pettit
Captain Huston Dead From Typhoid in Manila
Gen. MacArthur reports Capt. Robert B. Huston Forty-seventh volunteers died of typhoid fever in Manila. Born January 25 1864 in Hamilton Ohio he joined the volunteer army from Guthrie Territory on May 4 1898 and served with the Rough Riders.
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Washington
MacArthur
Manila
Robert B. Huston
Huston
Hamilton
Guthrie
O. T
The
Rough Riders
Assistant Ernest Hurt Incident at Ohio and Meridian Streets
Assistant Fré-chief Ernest was thrown from his buggy at Ohio and Meridian streets Saturday morning. He sustained a fracture to two fingers on his right hand. Dr. Oliver treated him and he was taken home.
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Ernest
Ohio and
Meridian Sts
Oliver
Glasses Mandate Reforms Attendants at Illinois Hospital
Supt Corbne called forty male attendants at the eastern Illinois insane hospital and ordered dismissal for those required to wear glasses while at work among patients. A similar action is expected for female attendants. The doctor cites danger from attack as the reason.
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Kankaker
Eastern Illinois Insane Hospital
Corbne
Hendricks County Racing Association Set for August Meet
The Hendricks County racing association will hold its annual meeting August 7 8 and 9 with three races each day. Many crack horses already entered and several Indianapolis horses will participate. Co F Bowen Danville is secretary.
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Danville
Ind
Henedricks County Racing Association
Indianapolis
Co. F. Bowen
Changes in Mail Delivery Schedule Announced
During July and August the last mail delivery at 4 p m will be omitted on Saturday afternoons. Most business houses are closed, says Acting Postmaster Shideler, and the delivery is of little benefit.
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Shideler
Woman Killed as Barn Struck by Lightning
In Columbus Indiana on Friday evening Mrs. Fred Decamp and her daughter sheltered from a thunderstorm in Henry Meyers barn south of the city. The barn was struck by lightning and the woman was killed. The daughter and the mule they were driving were also killed.
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Columbus
Ind
Fred Decamp
Henry Meyers
Here
Ex Gov George Hoadley Injured in Fall
Ex Gov George Hoadley of Hoadley Lauterbach Johnson is confined to his Staten Island home after a Friday fall. Authorities say the injury is not serious and he is resting at home.
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New York
George Hoadley
Hoadley, Lauterbach &Johnson
Staten Island
Yankees Win the Big Contest at Stamford Bridge
The international amateur championships at Stamford Bridge drew 10 000 spectators. American athletes from Penn, Georgetown, Princeton and New York clubs led in sprinting, hurdles and jumping events, with Kraenzenlin and Duffy among top winners as the Americans claimed eight of 13 events.
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Stamford Bridge
Eng
United States
Canada
India
Australia
Walter Tewkesbury
University of Pennsylvania
A. F. Duffy
Georgetown University
Rowley
Jarvis
Princeton
Burroughs
Duffy
Tewkesbury
Bennett
Gazely
Fope
A. E. Tysoe
Bray
Williams
Hall
Pritchard
Kraenzenlin
Pennsylvania
Baxter
Henderson
O'Connor
Carroll
Trafford
R. H. Sheldon
New York Athletic Club
John Creagan
Pride-Jones
Welsh
Long
Columbia
Maloney
Chicago University
Davidson
Bascomb Johnson
Johnson
Wulschner Room Honors Emil Wulschner at Bertha Ballard Home
The Emil Wulschner memorial music room at the Bertha Ballard residence honors her husband. It adjoins Roberts Park Church where Wulschner served as trustee and choir director. Furnishings include oak pillars, a Persian rug, library chair, heirloom rocker from John Tomlinson lineage, and portraits by Photographer Clark with a landscape by T. Steele over the piano.
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Emil Wulschner
Bertha Ballard
Wulschner
Roberts Park Church
Tilton Ruy
John Tomlinson
Berks County
Pennsylvania
Stewart
George R. Sullivan
FE. G. Cornelius
Clark
T. Steele
City Charter Case Seeks Quick Supreme Court Decision
A Marion county appeal over Indianapolis charter sections applying the Barrett law faces a possible swift ruling. The court may issue a decision next week if one judge has an opinion ready and the others concur. otherwise the case may be postponed to fall.
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Supreme Court
Marion County
Indianapolis
Bowser Seeks Whirlpool Rapids Expedition
Niagara Falls July 7 F M Bowser says he is doing all he can for his planned trip through the whirlpool rapids. He has removed his boat from the car where it was stored and hidden it in a riverside building. No date is given but he hints the venture will come before Sunday night.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
F. M. Bowser
Man Arrested After Attempted Assault Near Knightstown
Attacked a woman near Knightstown Indiana. Andy O Hooton a chicken buyer was arrested Saturday and taken to Rushville jail for an attempt to criminally assault Mrs James Breckenridge a farmer's wife near this place.
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Knightstown
Ind
Andy O. Hooton
Rushville
James Breckenridge
Perry Wagoner hanged for murder in Texas
Perry Wagoner, a Black man from Pusk, Texas, was hanged Friday for murder. The bulletin mentions other scattered items including Chicago figures, a cost estimate of 4 million dollars, and references to sanitary actions and personal crises, but only Wagoner’s execution is clearly defined.
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Perry Wagoner
Pusk
Tex
Adolph “Ruth
Chicago
Board of
Dynamite Used to Clear Wrecked Piers After Fire
Dynamite is employed to blast wrecked North German Lloyd piers after a Saturday fire. Many bodies lie in ruins and a strong stench reaches blocks away. Epidemic risk prompts calls to explosion to surface remains. Two bodies surfaced after a thunderstorm Friday. Wreckers on the Saale Bremen and Main prepare to recover more bodies. Captain Mirow of the Saale was cremated. his ashes to Bremen.
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New York
Lloyd Piers
Saale
Bremen
Main
Mirow
Germany
Two Girls to Face Trial for Silk Theft
Marie Mobley aged nine and Elva Fats aged sixteen are to be tried Thursday on charges of stealing and receiving twenty five yards of silk from Ike Elver son’s store. The younger Mobley reportedly said they planned to take silk dresses for the stage.
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Marie Mobley
Elva Fats
Ike Elverson
Eittle Mobley
Town Talk items include board meeting and militia reorganization
The State medical board will meet next Tuesday for examinations. The 8 month old son of Fred Heir died at 10 am Saturday. Various local events follow from funerals to fund concerts and court proceedings. Labor disputes, legal actions, and minor accidents fill the town record with updates on people and places.
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State Medical Board
Fred Heir
New Jersey St
Nursery Fund
Propylaeum
Hope Circle
King’s Daughters
Indiana Volunteers
Criminal Court
California gentleman finds cure for dyspepsia with Grape-Nuts and Postum
Henry Pockman of Oak Park claims old dyspepsia vanished after starting Grape-Nuts breakfast food and substituting Postum Coffee for coffee. He advises others to change diet and omit coffee, saying the cereal rebuilds nerve energy and restore vigor. Grape-Nuts is fully cooked and available at first class grocers.
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Oak Park
Cal
Henry Pockman
Bungaloo Gang Members Fined and Jailed
Harvey Large was fined five dollars and two days in jail. Art Martinbart, Roy Wiltes, Jesse Blake, and Harry Lord plus Elicia Gray were fined five dollars each, with Jesse Blake fined ten. The youths, members of the Bungaloo gang, threw stones at William Cotty, a colored man. Large’s mother, Mrs. Larmore, fainted and remained in a serious condition for hours after hearing her son’s sentence.
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Harvey Large
Art Martinbart
Roy Wiltes
Jesse Blake
Harry Lord
Elicia Gray
Lightning kills A J Tomlinson in Archdale incident
A dispatch from Archdale North Carolina reports the death by lightning of A J Tomlinson son a well known Marion county figure with relatives there. The lightning struck a tree near where he walked and the umbrella’s steel ribs are blamed for attracting the bolt.
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Archdale
N. C
A.J. Tomlinson
Marion County
Bitter habeas corpus case over child custody
Nathaniel E. Yeager seeks custody of his daughter Lola from his mother in law Nel lie Dauer and Frederick and Lillie Floerke. Judge Leathers heard that both sides claim the other lacks a moral atmosphere for the child. The judge left the child with the grandmother after testimony was bitter and contested.
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Nathaniel E. Yeager
Lola
Nellie
Dauer
Frederick
Lillie Floerke
Leathers
Sturday
Railway magnate Mamoutoff pleads guilty to embezzling
St Petersburg July 7 M Mamoutoff a noted railway magnate pleaded guilty to embezzling state and private funds totaling five million dollars. Five co-defendants are contesting the case as the proceedings unfold in Moscow.
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ST Petersburg
M. Mamoutoff
Moscow
Mamoutoff
Recruitment Order Stops Manila Assignments at Presidio
An order directs that no new recruits at the Presidio be sent to Manila regiments and inquiries are sought about numbers of white recruits assigned and unassigned at the reservation. The Fifteenth Infantry and other regular regiments bound for China will be recruited to war strength and available recruits otherwise destined for the Philippines will be tied to China regiments.
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San Francisco
Presidio
Manila
Fifteenth Infantry
China
Philippines
Appellate Case Struck From Docket In Political Fight
The Edwin Taylor and C. J. Kollmeyer suit against Gov. Mount and others was stricken from the circuit court docket. The supreme court ruled for Democrats, ordering an appellate judge election. Republican judges won, while complainants were Democratic appellate candidates.
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Edwin Taylor
C. J. Kollmeyer
James A. Mount
Jefferson Claypool
A. G. Smith
Supreme Court
Multiple World News Items Trace 19th Century Headlines
A collage of brief notices reports a series of events including Governor Allen arriving in New York, a Chicago homicide, Illinois National Guard camp at Springfield, Rockefeller recovering from surgery, a train suicide near Joliet, political ticket reactions, Hoboken disaster recovery figures, teen runaways in Minneapolis, Mrs. George Gould possibly building a Newport mansion, General Wood recalling regiments from Havana, stock farm purchase in Stony Fork, a Wisconsin murder, and a Rothschild Rockefeller copper amalgamation rumor in London.
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Gov. Allen
Porto Rico
New York
Charles Sinkiewicz
Chicago
Illinois National Guard
Springfield
Wm. Rockefeller
C. H. Leroy
Fullerton
Cal
Joliet
Speaker Henderson
Bryan-Stevenson
Hoboken
N. J
Hazel Minter
Ethel Atherton
Minneapolis
George Gould
Newport
Marble Palace
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Wood
Havana
China
W. ©. Whitney
Navy
Backman Stock Farm
Stony Fork
Middleton
Mrs Staub Fined in City Shooting Case
Mrs Fannie Staub of E Washington Sr was fined for shooting Maggie Marion in the city limits on July 4. The police court assessed a monetary fine plus costs for the incident and violation of city limits.
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Fannie Staub
E. Washington Sr
Maggie Marion
Indianapolis Union Stock Yards Cattle and Hogs Receipts
At the Indianapolis Union Stock Yards for Saturday receipts show light cattle with varied weights and prices across grades from prime to common. Hogs receipts reach about 5,500 with quotes for good to choice weights, while sheep receipts total around 300 with ranges for spring lambs yearlings and sheep.
Interstate Live Stock Market Prices at Interstate Stock Yards
On Saturday July 7 cattle receipts reached 73 head with shipments of 53. Prices quoted include good to prime export steers 1,350 to 1,500 lbs averaging 5.40 to 5.65. fair to medium export steers 1,200 to 1,400 lbs at 5.25 to 5.10. good to prime butcher steers 1,000 to 1,250 lbs. fair to good feeders 900 to 1,100 lbs. Hog receipts 1,00? with Saturday shipments of 860. Light to good weights quoted 5.40 to 5.45. light stockers around 3.00. prime to fancy export cows 4.25 to 4.39. common to medium cows 2.50 to 3.25. Veals, bulls, and calves priced with varied ranges. sheep notes include spring lambs at 4.50 to 5.23, yearlings at 4.20 to 4.50, and sheep at 3.25 to 3.73. Bucks per head listed around 3.00 to 4.00.
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CPS
Interstate
Interstate Stock Yards
Avetabc
City Grain Market Report Shows Mixed Wheat and Corn Prices
Wheat firm with No 2 red quoted at 194c on milling freight and July at 80c. corn steady with multiple white and mixed grades around 43–44c. oats weak with No 2 white 28c. hay steady with No 1 timothy 12.50–13.00. Inspections list various station car totals for wheat corn and hay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timothy
Hay
Chicago grain and livestock prices mixed on Saturday market
Chicago notes wheat and corn slips with September futures around 1.25 and 1.44 dollars per bushel, oats easing to about 2.4 cents, and provisions close to lard at 6.95 dollars. Dairy goods show varied butter and cheese quotes while poultry and eggs leave mixed bids across hens, springs, geese, ducks, and turkeys.
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Chicago
Western Twins
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City Hospital
Andy Freedman
Firebug Buntz
Gold Democrats
Steenth
MacAr
War Department
Cuba
Ernest Hurt
Yankees
England
Bowser
Peter S. Cook
Fletcher Sanatorium
Mike Cavanaugh
Kingan’s
Evansville
A. E. Dickey
Reserve Saving and Loan Association
Dana
Josephine Aton
Thomas Aton
Andrew Miller
Greenwood
Butler Ave
Rockville Road
Irvington
James Wilson
Laura Harper
Wilson
Ed Hamer
Spruce St
Budenbaum Lumber Yards
Pine and
Bungaloo Gang
Ond
A. J. Tomlinson
Ada Arlington
West Superior
Wis
John Rosburg
London
Rothschilds
Mr. Rockefeller
Europe
America
Rambler and Ideal Bicycles
Virginia Ave
D. Koehring & Bro
Hood
Union Stock Yards
City Grain Market
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