Fire in Sheriff Sauley’s Jail Residence Sparks Minor Blaze
A gasoline stove exploded in the residence of Sheriff Eugene Sauley adjoining the county jail at 8 Alabama Street around 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Katie Mitchell sustained a minor burn to her arm and dress. James Hess, a prisoner, suffered a slight facial scorching. The room was extinguished by the fire department with about 25 loss.
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James Hess
Katie Mitchell
Eugene Sauley
Alabama St
Judge Hanecy declares winds antitrust law unconstitutional
Chicago June 21 Judge Hanecy declared as unconstitutional all that is left of Illinois antitrust legislation sustaining the defending corporations in suits totaling $10,000,000. The suits, begun by the attorney general, sought fines for violation of the state law requiring affidavits that corporations are not part of pools or trusts.
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Hanecy
Chicago
Illinois
Attorney-General
United States Italian dispute over naval inquiry findings
Washington reports say Admiral Crowinshield released court of inquiry findings on U S officers in Venetian arrest. Ambassador Mayor Des Planches demands public disclosure and punishment of Crowinshield, insisting no revolting indignities occurred. Roosevelt may seek recall of the Italian envoy to restore good relations.
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Washington
Admiral Crowinshield
United States
Ambassador Mayor Des Planches
Crowinshield
Signor Mayor Des Planches
Italy
Roosevelt
Weather Observation From Denison Porters Quip
A traveling man asks the porter about today's relative humidity at Denison on a rainy Friday evening. The porter notes water dripping from umbrellas and adds a local quip that rain will help the hay if agreed upon.
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the Denison
Bluffton Sunday schools plan Indianapolis excursion
Bluffton Indiana expects an excursion to Indianapolis around mid July with Sunday schools organizing the trip for members and families.
Smoked Half a Million Cigarettes by Nervous Man
William Rosemier, a Nervous and Mental Wreck from the Cigarette Habit, claims he could smoke another half million if makings were available. Locked up by bicycle police after a Baltimore trip, he says he started smoking 15 years ago and has since smoked over 2.5 hundred thousand cigarettes. He jokes of being “clean plum nutty” while his mind wanders but he speaks rationally at times.
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William Rosemier
Baltimore
Rosemier
Streator
Capital Is Cyclone Proof Capitol Debates Canal Bill
Washington reports a Senate battle over the inter oceanic canal bill with 430000 words in the Congressional Record. Senator Morgan of Alabama led with 172000 words over eight speeches on his pet hobby, while Hanna supported the Panama route with 62000 words and Mitchell of Oregon countered with 13000 words. Senator Spooner and Fairbanks spoke at 1300 and 15000 words respectively, and Senator Clark of Montana delivered the shortest speech at 2000 words.
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Washington
Senate
Morgan
Alabama
Hanna
Panama
Mitchell
Oregon
Spooner
Fairbanks
Clark
Montana
Third attempt successful ends Lettie Clune life
Lettie Clune, 52, of 603 Bates gilley, took morphine Friday afternoon and died Saturday morning. It was her third suicide attempt within a year, with despondency given as the cause. She had been drinking and left five children.
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Lettie Clune
Bates Girley
Chicago's Great Derby at Washington Park
Chicago prepares for the fifteenth great derby at Washington Park with a $20,000 stake. Heavy track conditions linger from rain but sun and a drying north wind bring optimism. About 60,000 spectators expected. top contenders include Heno Pentecost Arsenal with Crusades a doubtful starter.
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Chicago
Washington Park
Heno
Bullman
Arsenal
O’connor
Redfern
Otis Lo
Bingleton
Aladdin
Coburn
Prowl
Otis
Corrigan
Womanknows the law in tense courtroom exchange
Justice Harvey Stout delivers wary advice after a judgment in tort against Anna Heinen for lace curtains and a lamp bought on installments. He warns the single woman that the constable may seize her belongings to satisfy the debt, while she insists she has paid in full and understands the law. The conversation ends with a joking remark about being kept by the police.
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Justice Harvey Stout
Miss Heinen
Stout
Policeman Kicked, Market Row Leaves Clerk With Shiner
Clifton E. Cook, 20, a pensioned policeman and grocer, says Napoleon Price kicked him around the market after a vegetable dispute. Price was arrested for interfering with an officer. Cook washed up at the station and reported the incident. Price posted a $35 bond and was released.
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Clifton E. Cook
Napoleon Price
Cook
W. Thirtiethst
Price
Couk
Bauer
George Mills
Wife Outwitted Mr Jennison in Connecticut Divorce Suits
New York reports a sensational Greenwich incident with Alice Jennison, 4, causing a quarrel that led to the Jennisons living apart. Mrs Jennison and three accomplices seized the child and husband during a Greenwich street ambush, then fled toward New York. Both sue for separation. he declares income about 25,000 a year and they previously lived on 10,000 annually.
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New York
Jennison
Greenwich
Conn
Dead at 100 She Was Gilad She Had Lived Her 100 Years
Mrs. Elizabeth Osmoore aged 100 died at 1 am Saturday after moving to 203 Alabama Street a week earlier. Born in Northampton County North Carolina she moved to Indianapolis 28 years ago. She left one child Virginia Moore 54 and 14 grandchildren. An invalid nine years she was cheerful sharp minded and fond of recalling the past. She expressed willingness to die when summoned by the Lord.
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Gilad
Alabama
Osmoore
Virginia Moore
Northampton County
North Carolina
Indianapolis
McGill St
Alabamast
Ormoore
Mob turmoil ends as three Italians moved for safety
In Pittsburg area on Friday night 2,009 miners and others overwhelmed a jail at New Kensington seeking lynch justice for Frank James fatally wounded by Italians Tony Madrid Louis Mariana and Dominick Sandolf. Police quickly transported the trio to Greensburg avoiding a lynching.
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Pittsburg
Frank James
New Kensington
Greensburg
Young James
John Arb
Allegheny Valley Station
Tunnel Cleared Promise From City Official
Street Commissioner Evans pledged the Union station tunnel would be kept clean. Joseph F Finley of the street department was assigned to sweep and maintain the tunnel twice daily and deter nuisances, replacing prior intermittent cleaning by a gang.
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Street Department
Evans
Joseph F. Finley
Desperate New Mexico battles end in lone youths and outlaws
El Paso dispatches recount two clashes. A 12 year old boy Thomas Page, hiding behind rocks, killed six attacking Indians after his father was slain. the lad was taken to the reservation. Near Springs, Bud Lee and an 80 year old ally fought eight ambushing cowboys. Lee killed five cowboys, three fled, and he surrendered to the sheriff.
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EL Paso
Tex
New Mexico
Springs
Bud” Lee
Virginia Lees
Lee
22 Soldiers Die of Cholera in the Philippines
War department reports 22 enlisted men died of cholera in the two weeks from April 23 to May 6, signaling growing concern over the disease's spread beyond natives. Three deaths were self-inflicted or ordered, with 47 other deaths from different causes in the same period.
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Sergt
Wm. Logan
Twenty-eighth Infantry
Fifteenth Infantry
Nathan Bell Meyer
Twenty
Frank Ignasiak
Infantry
Civic alliance remonstrance signers in Ward 4 trial continues
In circuit court the Schaffer Squaricense case enters its third day as T P Kiser of the Civic alliance testifies and reveals about 1000 names signed to a remonstrance seeking to bar saloons. The defense argues signers need not prove residency at filing, only that they were Ward 4 voters when they signed. If tactics persist, hundreds may be summoned to identify signatures. Trial resumes Monday.
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Schaffer
T. P. Kiser
Civic Alliance
Kiser
Northland express service to northern Michigan resorts opens
The Northland express begins Sunday night running Indianapolis to Mackinac bound routes with sleepers from St Louis and Louisville and a Detroit sleeper via Indianapolis Logansport La Porte and Kalamazoo. A diner runs via Logansport. northbound departs 7 20 p m southbound arrives 6 30 p m. A second sleeper service Indianapolis to New York starts Saturday night. The reporting agent highlights electric hair curlers in the ladies drawing room as a notable feature.
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Pennsylvania Road
Indianapolis
Northern Michigan
Richmond
Ind
Cincinnati
Mackinac
St. Louis
Louisville
Detroit
Logansport
la Otte
Kalamazoo
New York
W. W. Richardson
Pennsylvania
Boy Raised Most Pitiful Howl In Reform Court
In a criminal court session Mary 15 and Robert 13 Taylor were ordered to the reform school for incorrigibility at their grandmother Charlotte Jones’s request. The girl accepted sentence calmly while the boy wailed loudly, pleading not to be sent away to live with their grandmother, who has cared for them after deceased parents.
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Mary
Robert Taylor
Reform School
Charlotte Jones
Weather Forecast for Indianapolis and Vicinity
Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the 36 hours ending at 8 p m June 22 fair Saturday night and Sunday slightly warmer Sunday afternoon temperature at 7 am 56 at noon 64 2 pm 66 fair in Indiana and adjacent states northwest winds
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Bank Clearings and Balances in Indianapolis Up From Year Ago
Clearings in Indianapolis banks the past week totaled 11,027,220.90 with balances at 1,627,513.06. For the same week last year clearings were 8,032,149.16 and balances 815,453.04, showing increases in both metrics year over year.
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Indianapolis
Pacing mare Arget ta breaks leg and is euthanized
Noblesville Indiana reports Arget ta a $12000 pacing mare belonging to Mark Hare collapsed Thursday breaking a leg and had to be killed.
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Noblesville
Ind
Argetta
Mark Hare
Indiana Miners Threaten Strike Over Coal Car Confiscations
A Terre Haute telegram reports Indiana miners threaten a strike if railroads continue confiscating coal cars bound for various markets and sent to division points. Secretary Wilson of the United Mine Workers says railroads taking coal harms manufacturers, and miners do not care who gets the coal.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Wilson
United Mine Workers
Wayne County Association Meets On Sylvester Johnsons Lawn
The Wayne county association meets next Saturday afternoon on Sylvester Johnsons lawn in Irvington. Dr C S Fletcher will give an illustrated lecture on Martinieue and St Pierre at Winona before the state photographers association Thursday night. Or P Morton club will celebrate its sixth anniversary Wednesday evening at its quarters Shelbyst and Cottage are. Judge Comstock of the appellate court and Hon J M LaFollette will speak. The list of 600 or more school teachers to serve next year was announced at a special school board meeting Friday night. The successor to Prof George W Hufford as principal of Shortridge high school has not yet been announced.
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Wayne County Association
Sylvester Johnson
Irvington
C. S. Fletcher
Martinieue
St. Pierre
Winona
State Photographers’ Association
Or. P. Morton
Shelbyst
Judge Comstock
Appellate Court
J. M. LaFollette
George W. Hufford
Shortridge High School
Prisoners Escape Report From Local Run Police Action
A brief note records an escape incident labeled as a prison break. The message references a person or place named Borden and a Saturday event, with minimal details about authorities or outcomes. No clear dates, locations, or names beyond the fragments are provided.
Questioned Strike Rule Conflicts With Miners Pact
Secretary Wilson declined comment on whether a sympathetic strike by bituminous miners to aid anthracite workers would violate the miners’ agreement with operators. Debate centers on whether the scale binds only against wage increases or forbids any strike during the year, with Section 10 directing grievance adjustments to state or district authorities. A stray line mentions "Feed your horse" and an unrelated dental notice appears at the end.
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Wilson
Strikers In Wilkes Barre Discuss Boycott Tactics
Three anthracite district presidents Duffy Shea and Nichols meet in Wilkes Barre to review the general strike situation. Citizens and merchants oppose the boycott, with about 1000 people at the armory urging action. Nonunion workers and families face hardships as merchants avoid supplying them.
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Wilkesbarre
Duffy
Shea
Nichols
Law and Order Society
Davison's rise from errand boy to bank vice president
New York June 21 Henry P Davison, age 34, has been named vice president of the First national bank, rising from an 1888 start in Troy Florida as an errand boy to teller then president of Liberty national bank before joining the First national board. The bank has grown its capital from 500 000 to 10 million and recently declared a 1900 percent dividend, the largest on Wall Street.
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New York
Henry P. Davison
First National Bank
Davison
Troy
Fla
Bridgeport
Conn
Astor Place Bank
Liberty National Bank
First National
Hoosier Family Drowns in Tennessee River
A Hoosier family from Wanatah Indiana, the Reynolds clan, perished in Tennessee when a bridge they crossed was swept away by a flood. Nelson N Reynolds. wife and three children died, a daughter survived. The family was visiting Tennessee at the time.
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Wanatah
Ind
Nelson N. Reynolds
Tennessee
Tne
Reynolds
Man Takes Morphine To Sleep In City Hospital Escape
George Snyder, 28, of 4388 East Washington Street, took ten cents worth of morphine on Friday afternoon to sleep after three weeks of suffering. He was revived after several doctors treated him and left City hospital on Saturday morning.
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George Snyder
E. Washington Sr
City Hospital
Prolonged Secret Conference Between Mayor and Board of Works
A Saturday forenoon meeting saw the mayor and the Board of Works in a locked, informal discussion lasting several hours. Clarence Kenyon of Hoosier Construction spoke of his travels while board members and the mayor claimed no formal conference occurred, noting talks about Paris, street paving, and other topics without specifics.
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Board OF Works
Paris
Holland
Rome
London
Atlantic
Asphalt Lake
Charles Maguire
Kenyon
Ed Logsdon
Council
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Wyeth
Anna Heinen
Napoteon Price
MR. Jennison
Connecticut
New York City
Elizabeth Ozmoore
Alabama-st
Union Station
Little Boy
Old Man
West
Harold
Thomas Page
Philippine Islands
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The
Phil
NEW Northern Service
Crim
City Life
Borden
Sacapea
Wulechnere
Janes' Mustress Cata
Joseph’. Sr. Goode
Newton Claypool
NEW York Bank
Tennesse
Clarence Kenyon
Hoosier
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