Fort Wayne and surrounding cities league scoring report
The record lists city abbreviations and numeric codes for teams including Fort Wayne Marion Columbus Toledo Grand Rapids Wheeling and Dayton with multiple figures indicating wins losses and percentages. The fragment shows standings style data with abbreviations for stations and labels such as RHE H E F and columnal entries for several cities.
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Merion
Columbus
Toledo
Grand Rapids
Wheeling
Matthews
Fort Wayne
Dayton
Cedar Rapids and Rock Island Matchup Summary
Cedar Rapids hosts Rock Island in a mixed schedule of races and relays. Event features H 6, E 7 from Cedar Rapids and H 2, E 2 from Rock Island with R 2 and R 1 placements noted.
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Cedar Rapids
Rock Island
Eleata wins Merchants and Manufacturers stakes in Detroit
Eleata takes the $10 000 Merchants and Manufacturers stakes in Detroit on Tuesday in straight heats. Abe Frank posts a Chicago showing Tuesday after last Thursday's accident. Simon Glover leads New York at Interstate Park shoot with 167 of 175. Crosby second. Sullivan hosts gold medal shoot with 65 shooters. Carlisle Indiana gun club wins the medal. Collett disqualified in New Haven bicycle races Tuesday night. Frank Kramer injured and sidelined for several days.
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Eleata
Merchants’ and Manufacturers
Detroit
Abe Frank
Chicago
Interstate Park
New York
Simon Glover
Crosby
Sullivan
Carlisle
Ind
Collett
New Haven
Frank Kramer
Baseball news and club notices from The Sun era
Rochester defeats Crawfordsville 1 to 0 while Indianapolis Marotts top Plainfield 10 to 5. Americans will teach Frenchmen base ball. Remnants payroll lists 12 men. Bey injures shoulder in Cincinnati and won’t play for days. Umpire Manassay pummeled by cushions in Cleveland. Muncie forms a team led by Amos Rusie. Comiskey says Bostons advance. if they fall, his team will surge. The C. C. C. club seeks a game with The Sun Liners. contact Orvel Coyle. Sun Liners seek Crescent Stars game for Sunday. contact Gallagher.
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Manassay
Cleveland
Muncie
Amos Rusie
Wounded Negro Strung Up In Louisiana Lynching
MEMPHIS Tenn July 17 A negro who murdered a white man and was perhaps fatally wounded was taken from his bed and lynched in Louisiana Tuesday night.
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Mempihus
Tenn
Louisiana
Fire destroys Broad Ripple canning factory
Incendiary fire totally burned the Broad Ripple canning factory Tuesday night at 10 30. Firemen saved surrounding buildings. The plant owned by H C Poindexter Johnson Purcell and James A King. Poindexter fainted from heat and was taken home. He recovered by Wednesday morning. The building and machinery valued at 10000. Some believe a spark from Tuesday morning's Broad Ripple tour started the blaze.
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Broad Ripple
H. C. Poindexter
Johnson Purcell
James A. King
Poindexter
Light
Chicago Orders 20 Percent Pay Cut for City Workers
Mayor Harrison in Chicago on July 17 ordered a 20 percent wage reduction across all city departments including police and fire. Comptroller McGann notes the Board of Review cannot raise assessed valuation beyond 3400,900,090, making the saving from the cut about 500,000.
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Harrison
Board of Review
McGann
Insanity Trust Spreads as Ohio Salesman Is Freed
Oliver J. Parr traveling salesman and his wife argued for months. A lunacy warrant led to his arrest and confinement in an asylum after physicians deemed him insane. Judge Galloway paused the warrant and, on Drs Deuschle and Carpenter testimony, Parr was found sane and released. He may sue for damages.
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Daffy
Parr
Galloway
Deuschle
Carpenter
Lightning Deaths Hit Four In Separate States
Benton M Rowland a Freeport Ohio school teacher died Tuesday evening after seeking shelter in a barn. Martin Harding a Mt Vernon Ohio boy was struck while working in a hay field. In Georgia two Wheeler family members, including a son and a niece, died on their Cartersville farm with another victim not expected to recover.
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Benton M. Rowland
Freeport, O
Martin Harding
Mt. Vernon
Gambier
W. W. Wheeler
Cartersville
Wheeler
Neely and Rathbone Postal Fund Cases Move Toward Trial
From Havana comes word that Charles F. W. Neely of Indiana faces trial for misappropriation of postal funds and will begin about August 1, with Estes G. Rathbone to follow shortly after. Neely has been jailed in Havana since January while Rathbone is free on bail but cannot leave Cuba. War department officials blame delays on witnesses’ reluctance to travel and Spain's legal procedures amid U S red tape.
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Washington
Havana
Charles F. W. Neely
Indiana
Estes G. Rathbone
Neely
Rathbone
Cuba
War Department
America
United States
Count Volstoi Gravely Ill in England
London July 17. Dispatch from Mr Tiehertkeff, Volstoi's English representative, says the count is ill with fever and in dangerous condition.
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London
The
Daily News
Tiehertkeff
Count Volstoi
England
Family of John Shea Dies After Trackside Incident
The family of John Shea of Batesville reports foul play suspected after he was found nearly dead at the Big Four trackside. He left Monday with two men. a tramp found him unconscious and he died Tuesday night at City hospital. He leaves a wife and child. funeral is Friday.
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John Shea
Bates
Were
Tragic Triple Drowning At Wolforths Swimming School
In Gloversville New York on Tuesday night three 17 year old boys Harry G Herman Calvin Mills and Fred Vine from prominent families drowned at Wolforths swimming school after a crowded swim left 40 bathers in the water. One body was found when a swimmer stepped on Vines corpse. The cause remains a mystery with a cramps theory suggesting a chain of submerged deaths.
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Gloversville
N. Y
Harry G. Herman
Calvin Mills
Fred Vine
Wolforth
Vine
Dr J W Sawyer Dies At Home In Indianapolis
Dr J W Sawyer died at his residence 1256 Bellefontaine street at 3 am Wednesday. He had lived in Indianapolis about 27 years and leaves a wife. He was brother to District Judge J D Sawyer of San Francisco and was described as a man of considerable wealth.
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J. W. Sawyer
Bellefontaine St
Indianapolis
J. D. Sawyer
San Francisco
Fireman Hides Body in Locomotive Firebox After Fatal Crash
An American train crew on the Mexican Central rail road fled to El Paso after accidentally killing a Mexican and concealing the death by placing the body in the locomotive firebox. Relatives pressed inquiries, crew members resigned and fled, knowing in Mexico such death is treated as murder.
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EL Paso
Tex
Mexican Central Railroad
Republic
Mexico
Funeral Planned for Capt Orison P Lee U S Volunteer
The body of Capt Orison P Lee late of Company B Forty-fifth United States volunteers arrives midweek or Thursday. Funeral at widow’s home 1181 W Thirteenth St Sunday at 10 am. He drowned in the China Sea in June 1900.
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Orison P. Lee
United States Volunteers
Thirteenth St
China Sea
Largest batch of Philippine prisoners arrives in San Francisco
The transport Indiana, 26 days from Manila, arrives with 188 prisoners, 101 cabin passengers, 231 discharged soldiers, 15 discharged seamen, five soldiers to retire and five on furlough. Four murderers are aboard, all sentenced to life. Names are Edwin M. Brodie, Jas E B. Coffey, John H. Schmidt, and Frank Mc Rae. Fifty-one already finished sentences. others face 1 to 380 years.
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San Francisco
Indiana
Manila
Philippines
Edwin M. Brodie
Jas E B. Coffey
John H. Schmidt
Frank McRae
Home seekers flood El Reno with registrations
In El Reno Oklahoma on July 17 it is believed 150000 home seekers will register as the rush grows. Nearly 9000 registered Tuesday and the total to date reaches forty thousand with continued interest. Mrs Rebecca Livingston aged 71 arrived from Michigan seeking a home.
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EL Reno
Rebecca Livingston
Michigan
Lamp explosion wipes out 27 tenements at Pinners Point
Norfolk New Jersey July 17 A lamp explosion caused a fire that destroyed 27 tenements at Pinners Point. The buildings were predominantly occupied by black families, leaving many homeless.
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Norfolk
N. J
Pinners’ Point
Oil strikes, Missouri candidate, and factory issues hit wires
Oil struck at Merwin Missouri. Bix-Gov Stephens may run for Congress. Philadelphia firms to unite on upholstery fabrics. A sheet mill project in Wellsville Ohio failed. Jail escape in Springfield Ohio. twelve prisoners sawed out. Broom corn price at 125 dollars per ton with trust push to 250. Green Bay city firemen resign over pay. A 15 year old boy from Rockwood Pennsylvania dies after a dynamite blast from a smoking story. Ida and Edith Yolanda sisters commit suicide in London over failed engagements. Chicago board of trade clears Phillips of fraud in May corn deal.
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Green Bay
Wis
Harry Hoover
Rockwood
Harry
Chicago Board of Trade
Phillips
Ida
Edith Yooland
London
Three Die in Premature Explosion Near Wapanucka
Ardmore Oklahoma July 17 three men killed and four mortally injured by a premature explosion on the Choc taw reservation near Wapanucka Tuesday in a mining or blasting accident.
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Ardmore
I. T
Choctaw
Wapanucka
Jew baiter stabbed in Algiers riot suppression
In Algiers on Tuesday evening Max Regis known for anti Jewish rhetoric was stabbed in the neck by a man angered by his inflammatory talk. The riot following the incident was suppressed with difficulty and the assailant along with three others were arrested.
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Algiers
Max Regis
Why McGinnis Smiled Over Sun Question Card
The New York Sun’s Questions and Answers column briefly recaps Postmaster McGinnis civil war service stating Fort Donelson and a brigadier general rank, then notes he faded from public record after 1865. McGinnis says C A Dana knew him at Vicksburg. Dana’s war correspondence allegedly prompted the war department to omit his letters.
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New York Sun
McGinnis
Fort Donelson
Indiana
C. A. Dana
the Sun
Vicksburg
Dana
War Department
Department
Contract Let for Indianapolis Morristown Rushville Railway
The contract was let for an electric railway from Indianapolis to Rushville with bids for materials to be received over ten days. Promoters expect work to start in 36 days and plan to connect with the Cincinnati to Columbus line, route via Metamora or Laurel undetermined. Path to Rushville passes through Julietta New Palestine Morris town and Arlington.
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Indianapolis, Morristown
Rushville
Electric Railway
Julietta
New Palestine
Morristown
Arlington
Towne Promotes Texas Oil Company in New York
Chas A Towne arrival in New York to organize a $2,000,000 Texas oil venture. He concedes the silver cause is dead and that Bryan is out of the race, while insisting he is not discussing politics.
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Towne
Bryan
Missing Woman Florence Ely Sought by Evanston
Chicago July 17 authorities report no word from a detective sent to Wisconsin to locate Miss Florence Ely who vanished Saturday with her 13 year old nephew Frank Rogers. The pair were believed hidden in a Wisconsin summer resort with hypnotism highlighted as a new lead amid the mystery.
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Wisconsin
Evanston
Florence Ely
Frank Rogers
Pettit Reaches Eight Decades In Strong Man Style
Cornelius B Pettit of 03 Harrison sr is set to turn 80 this August. A brick mason by trade he worked all last week and the week before in the hot sun atop a wall. He says I don't feel as good as I used to but I get there just the same.
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Cornelius B. Pettit
Harrison Sr
Judge Leathers' Sweat a Few
Judge Leathers, during the term just ended, tried 101 damage suits, 165 divorce suits, 11 habeas corpus suits, nine in junction suits, 13 support suits, 38 fore closure suits, 40 mechanics' lien suits and 4% suits on account.
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H. H. Lee
Western Association
Fort Wayne Veviewe
Marion Sehege Debts Ate Gba
Columbus Absknee
Bloomington
Terre Haute
Davenport
Rockford
Evansville
Decatur
National League
Pittsburg
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Boston
Cincinnati
Drvvereeeeeeessenka
Boston Wreck Payee
Baltimore St
Beeenaee Nee
Philadelphia Bem
Sae
Wens - Seeeeene
RHE
Detroite
Ties
Indianapolis Fire Insurance Company
John H. Holliday
John. M. Spann
Market St
Leo Jando
Pennse
Pennsylvania Street
Denison
Stewart Soap Company
Clacloaati
Ohio
Rochester
Crawfordsville
Marotts
Plainfield
Bey
Comiskey
Bostons
SUN Liners
Orvel Coyle
W. Twenty-eighth-st
Crescent Stars
Gallagher
Meek-st
Wasson
Ieee
the Maddock’s
Trupsaay
Eeceeeee Ceneneuwesseessees
H. P. Wasson & Co
Oliver J
C. D. Saviers
Neely Case
Tolstgi
Willi Fever
Batesville
Dr. Sawyer
Lee
Merwin, Mo
Bix
Stephens
Missouri
Wrellesville
Springfield
M’ginnis
Conrad’ S
Mass. Ave
Metamora
Laurel
Chas. A. Towne
Judge Leathers
Court House Grocery Co
Minnesota
Great Stores
G. Wash.st
W. Wash. St
Virginia Ave
Alabama St
W. Wash, St
L. S. Ayers & Co
Washington ST
Vonnegut’s
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