Alleged Conspirators Arrested in Assault Case Near Jail
Miss Lettie Puckett, assaulted Sunday two miles east of town, identified five men Henry Englebert Arthur Shepp William Sharp Charles Smith and James McCarty as attackers. McCarty posed as a policeman and threatened her. Five suspects jailed, one engaged in the ruse. Puckett in severe condition.
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Tharp
McCarty
Henry Englebert
Arthur Shepp
William Sharp
Charles Smith
James McCarty
Miss Puckett
Reunion by picture brings Ed Martin home after 20 years
In Muncie Indiana Edward Martin a barber and jockey reunites with his parents after a Cincinnati newspaper photo of his sister prompts letters. He had run away at age 12 to become a jockey then worked as a barber in Muncie believing his parents were dead. The discovery follows a wife finding the sister’s photo and a letter exchange confirms the long-lost family link.
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John Martin
Chillicothe
Martin
Muncie
Cincinnati
Yas
Cities Should Own Saloon Proposal Draws Support
Terre Haute Indiana June 24 James Riley Weaver professor of political economy at DePauw University urged municipal ownership and control of liquor business citing dispensaries in southern states He urged sovereign power of the state to meet the power of organized rum and argued private interest blocks reform with local option and state prohibition as progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Ind
James Riley Weaver
DePauw University
Centenary Church
Hev. W. M. Tippy
Weaver
Hell
Hawkins Blazes The Way In Railroad Suit
Hawkins opens a circuit court case in Knox Indiana against the Indiana Illinois and Town Railroad for 200000 alleging prior bond ownership and no compensation. The suit, begun Monday, is expected to be hotly contested with potential additional suits if Hawkins prevails.
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Hawkins
Implicated by a Girl's Dying Statement In Richmond
Richmond Ind June 21 Joseph Seifert an 18 year old prominent young man is under arrest accused of complicity in the death of Miss Letta Dwiggins who died after a criminal operation The girl's dying statement implicates Seifert Miss Dwiggins died in a hospital Sunday evening Seifert was arrested soon afterward on the prosecutors order
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Richmond
Ind
Joseph Seifert
Letta Dwiggins
Seifert
Obituary Notes From Regions of Indiana Preservation
Union City lists Archibald Armstrong 70 pioneer Frankton notes John Wuse Perkinsville y4 a pioneer Martinsville records N L Dixon age old age and heart trouble Waterloo reports G L Thomas 65 dropped dead Prominent in G A R Edinburg Francis Myers old soldier member of G A R Salem Joseph Trueblood one of the oldest native citizens of Washington county
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Waterloo
G. L. Thomas
Convicts in new cellhouse and other Indiana notes
All the Jeffersonville convicts are housed under one roof in the new cellhouse. Mrs. William Granger, shot by Albert Towne, is dead. Union City plans a large gasoline automobile factory with A. L. Limppert of Anderson to run it. John S. Bays of Sullivan says the coal combine would violate no trust-law features. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Barnett near Rockport celebrate their 63rd wedding anniversary. Leroy Kirk, 24, took carbolic acid at Manila. his father did the same two years earlier. Eight suspected Cuban witch cases in Sweetser turn out smallpox with widespread exposure. Labor union opposition persists.
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Jeffersonville
William Granger
Franklin
Albert Towne
Leroy Kirk
Manila
Magistrate summons Evening Sun for fraud over Botha surrender claim
A district magistrate on Monday issued a summons against the Evening Sun for publishing a fraud claim that Gen. Botha, commander in chief of the Moors, had surrendered. The complaint came from a deluded newspaper purchaser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trate
Evening Sun
Gen. Botha
Gov Nash Likely Renominated by Acclamation
Columbus Ohio June 24 The Republican state convention met in Columbus Monday afternoon and Gov Nash appears certain to be renominated by acclamation with strong party support and unity reported from the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Nash
Court dismissals drag as summer closes docket
Court business is sparse this summer with judges set to stay until about July 17 and reopen in the second or third week of September. If Judge Alford vacates, a criminal judge pro tem may hear cases in his absence.
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Alford
U R K of P Meeting At Denison Tuesday
The supreme assembly of the U R K of P meets at Denison Tuesday with several members already arrived. Committees met Monday to craft recommendations for the assembly. Carnahan will propose selecting the major-general by the supreme lodge on the assembly's recommendation rather than the chancellor's.
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Supreme Assembly
Denison
Market Prices and Commodities In City Trade Ledger
A dense listing of livestock, produce, meats, groceries, coal, and drugs with quoted prices. Notable entries include sheep and lamb quotations, cabbage, celery, onions, lemons, oranges, cherries, pineapples, peaches, and strawberries. Also listed are coke, coal, cigars, indigo, morphine, quinine, and other drugstore items with per unit or per ton prices. Figures reflect regional market activity and supplier names appear sporadically within the long itemized ledger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
New Orleans
Valencia
California
Levy couple at Fairview Park delight crowds
The opening performance of Jules Levy the cornetist and Stella Costa Levy the vocalist at Fairview park Sunday drew larger crowds than the previous Sunday. Mrs Levy’s rich soprano captivated audiences while Mr Levy played a gold engraved cornet. They, with the Indianapolis military band, will give concerts at Fairview park each afternoon and evening for two weeks.
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Jules Levy
Stella Costa Levy
Fairview Park
Levy
C. G. Conn
Mikhart
Chicago
Indianapolis
Eight Hour Law Takes Effect In Mail Delivery
Postmaster received notice from W M Johnson that the assistant attorney general has decided the 48 hour law ends in June and the eight hour law of 1888 will start. Johnson orders no carrier to work over eight hours daily and to return mail if not deliverable in time. Additional carriers may be hired as routes change and Monday’s heavy mail follows Sunday accumulations.
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W. M. Johnson
United States
Johnson
Shideler
Murder suicide and wife killed at market street store
Louisville Ky June 24 H S Church 55 killed himself at his grocery and home 1215 West Market Street early Sunday. Police found Mrs Willy Stuart 50 murdered with her body in a closet. She had been choked with apron strings and suffered head and facial wounds. Doctors say she was dead at least two days. She had recently bought an interest in the store.
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Church
W. Market St
Willy Stuart
Best Families Wink Out as Sterility Rise Noted
A leading Indiana physician cited a St Paul convention paper by Dr George Engleman showing sterility rising from 2 percent in the eighteenth century to 20 percent in many states and up to 25 percent in some. He linked sterility to divorce and warned reform has altered family lines, with future elites likely drawn from rural parts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George J. Engleman
Boston
France
Canada
United States
Rhode Island
A Lover Laid Low
A Sunday night shooting near Dalton, involving Ross Kiser and John Cook, left Cook fatally wounded after a struggle over Kiser’s daughter. Kiser claimed the weapon discharged during the struggle. he offered to surrender but was not arrested as public sentiment favored him.
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Dalton
Ross Kiser
John Cook
Cook
Kiser
Needle Found in Baby's Stomach Before Birth
In New York on June 24 a 15 month old girl Mary Lang died and an X ray revealed a needle in her stomach. Dr Frank Delvin extracted it without incision and believes the needle was present before birth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mary Lang
Frank Delvin
Murder in Ladner Chinese Gardeners Slain
Four Chinese gardeners were murdered with an ax at Ladner near Vancouver on Saturday by an insane fellow countryman. One other man was possibly fatally wounded in the attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
B. C
Ladner
Outlaw Stricken Gest Escapes From Butte Jail
Bill Stricken gest, a noted outlaw, fled the county jail in Butte Montana on Sunday aided by Peter Dempsey under death sentence for wife murder and Pat Healey a burglar. Dempsey blinded Jailer Grant with pepper, gaining access to the corridor and keys. Joe Shafer, also under death sentence, barred the escape by locking the jail doors and tossing the keys into the yard.
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Butte
Mont
Bill Strickengest
Peter Dempsey
Pat Healey
Grant
Dempsey
Joe Shafer
Missing Sister-in-Law Reported by Webb Smith
Webb Smith of 342 West Merrill Avenue reports his sister in law Nellie Austin 20 years old weighing 275 pounds came from Dupont Jefferson county to visit Sunday and has not appeared since Monday authorities notified.
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Webb Smith
W. Merrill Jr
Nellie Austin
Dupont
Jefferson County
Fourth of July at Garfield Park Planned by G A R
The G A R announces a July 4 celebration at Garfield Park with loud noises lively speaking and fireworks. Daylight fireworks start at 1 30 with possible night displays. Exercises begin at 1 80. P C Jordan arrived from Boston to oversee finances. Citizens urged to come early and use the Shelby street line as other routes will be used by the military most of the day.
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Garfield Park
P. C. Jordan
Boston
Park
Shelby St
Fifth Goshen Death In Month Stirs Local Alarm
In Goshen Indiana on Monday at 8 a m Milton Kaufman age 25 was found dead by hanging in the elevator of Jacob Bros clothing store in Ligonier The suicide marks the fifth such death in the city in a month with no explanation forthcoming authorities report a troubling pattern amid the epidemic of personal crisis reports.
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Goshen
Ind
Milton Kaufman
Jacob Bros
Ligonier
Blood and Thunder Deaths Across the West and Midwest
Traveling man R H Sherk killed Mrs Laura Hall in Charlestown West Virginia then took his own life. An Indian at Kingman New Mexico shot burned and killed his wife then died by suicide. John B Lewis of Cincinnati formerly studying for the ministry now in the saloon business shot cabman R Cunningham. Venturia Iowa residents captured two burglars one wounded. Mrs Adam Rothkopf of St Louis burned seriously with gasoline while cleaning a bed. three children injured.
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R. H. Sherk
Laura Hall
Charlestown
W. Va
Kingman
N. M
John B. Lewis
Cincinnati
R. Cunningham
Venturia
Adam Rothkopf
St. Louis
Wholesome Advice on Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets
Dr Harlandson endorses Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets for indigestion loss of appetite sour stomach belching headaches and nervous exhaustion. He claims the tablets speed digestion by dissolving with meals and contain pepsin vegetable essences and Golden Seal. A fifty cent package is widely available and safe for stomach troubles except stomach cancer.
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Stuart
Market quotes for wheat corn oats and inspections
Grain prices listed for Wheat No 2 red No 3 red No 2 white No 3 white and No 4 white No 2 yellow mixed and others with cents per bushel. Inspections show car counts by grade and total cars for Wheat Corn and Hay including rejected samples and sample cars.
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Hay
Timothy
Allied Villagers Rise Amid Boxer Revival in Pekin
Authorities in Pekin report a renewed Boxer movement under the name Allied villagers. They claim mutual protection, but the aim appears anti foreign. The villagers are especially active near Tien-Tsin, stirring concern among officials.
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Pekin
Vilager
Tien-Tsin
Body Recovered From River After Floating Downstream
At 12 50 the body surfaced and drifted downstream a few feet before sinking again. John Hugsgiler of East Ninth Street recovered it. A grieving widow witnessed the event as the body was brought ashore and taken to the city morgue.
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John Hugsgiler
E. ‘Enth St
Market closes mix on Chicago grain and animal products
Chicago quotes show July wheat at 67 66 1/2 cents, July corn 44 43 1/2 cents, oats July 27 1/2 cents, September pork at 15.07 per barrel, lard 8.90, ribs 8.25, eggs 10 1/4 cents, butter varied by grade, cheese prices for several varieties, live poultry prices listed for chickens ducks turkeys and geese per dozen.
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Chicago
Hogs at Interstate Stock Yards Indianapolis June 24
At the Interstate Stock Yards Indianapolis hog market for June 24 reports 300 head shipments with prices and grades ranging from good to choice. Yard notes indicate mixed lots of medium and heavy hogs and a mix of common to good light pigs, with overall activity and prices pending.
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Union Stock
Union Stockyards
Indianapoolis
Paine Co
Interstate Stock Yards
Indianapolis
Jobbing trade prices for poultry produce and groceries
Prices paid by shippers list poultry across categories with per pound rates for turkey hens and young birds, spring chickens, ducks, geese, and cocks, plus cheese, butter, eggs, hides, tallow, candies, nuts, coffee, sugars, salt, flour, spices, and beans. Multiple firms and packed goods are cited with unit prices and ranges.
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New ‘York
Brazil
Sun Brand
Java
Golden Rio
Bourbon Santos
Golden Santos
Prime Santos
Ariosa
Lion
Jersey
Caracas
Dulsworth's
Mold
Confectioners A
Columbia A
Winesore A
Ridgewood A
Phoenix A
Empire A
Ideal Golden
Windsor
Ridgewood
New Orleans
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William Tharp
Carnegie
St. Paul’s M. E. Church
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Sundey
Charles Meek
Albert E. Humpke
Vincennes
James Godfrey
Fairbanks
C. A. Bookwalter
Landis and Robinson
Sons of Veterans
George Waldron
Doc’ White
Wabash
Ronda Talbert
Morristown
Edinburg
Gus Cfeninos
R. M. Isherwood
Delphi
The
Nobleshille Democrat
G. B. Gilbert
A. N. van Doren
A. S McBride
James Green
Freedom
Green
Angelo Godio
Borga Trimmer
Beal
Godie
Trimmer
C. L. Harry
Kokomo
Davis
Greensburg
Shelbyville
Prof. Edwards
Birmingham
Ala
Edwards
Mw& Boots
Prof. Weaver
Indiana
Union City
Archibald Armstrong
Pioneer
Frankton
John Wuse
Perkinsville
Martinsville
N. L. Dixon
Indiana Inklings
A. L. Limppert
Anderson
Bays
Sullivan
J. M. Barnett
Near
Rockport
Sweetser
London
GOV
Ohio Republicans
U. R. K. of P. Meeting
By the
Way
Uneeda
Jinjer
Waufer
National Biscuit Company
Baker's
Silver Leaf
Minnesota
Great Stores
W. Wash
Mass. Ave
Storr
Chill
Hannar E
Thomas M. Chill
Rice
Louisiana
Cal
Coal and Coke
Jackson
Eccce
Conceee
Green County
Castile
Kingan & Co
Oysters, Fish and Game
E. F
F. Brand
O. K
MR. and Mrs. Levy
Fairview
Attrac
H. S. Church
Louisville
St. Paul Medical Convention
Eddy-st
Fall Creek
Meridian-st
City Grain Market
China
George Lock
Stout
Massachusetts
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