Gray murder trial evidence closes as defense claims insanity
In Bloomfield Indiana on May 12 the prosecution rested with witnesses including Burley Upland who testified Gray threatened to kill the Skinner woman and stabbed her. Luther Martin said Gray admitted the murder while on the wagon. Frank Pate recalled Gray urging haste to avoid lynching. The jury saw the victim's bloody clothing. The defense contends insanity.
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Bloomfield
Ind
Gray
Burley
Upland
Luther Martin
Frank Pate
A Menace to Drug Stores in Danville Liquor Bid
Rufus M. Phillips has applied for a liquor license in Danville Indiana. He plans to appeal to the highest courts if needed. The city has not hosted a licensed saloon in over forty years and a mass meeting to oppose the bid has been called. Danville with five drug stores ships more beer and liquor than any town its size within thirty miles of Indianapolis.
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Danville
Ind
Rufus M. Phillips
Indianapolis
Daffy Mary Shaw Prompts Quick Wedding In Indiana
Mary Shaw of near Shelbyville Indiana gave a note for twenty dollars dated June tenth 1897 to Richard Evans a huckster while she reded alore on her farm and intended to secure a husband. She met William Downard in a law office and was married twenty minutes later. Evans sold the note to James Huntington who sues to collect it. Mrs Downard claims she was mentally unbalanced when the note was given.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Richard Evans
Mary Shaw
Here
William Downard
Downareé
Evans
James Huntington
Lawyer among them in Corydon poker bust
Corydon Indiana May 12 a prominent lawyer and politician was indicted along with a dozen other citizens by Prosecutor Fleshman in a bid to break up poker and crap games at the Dove's nest.
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Corydon, Ind
Fleshman
Local notes and oddities from Washington county and beyond
A ragbag of items including a one armed tramp seeking coffee and a hand-out in Washington county. Vatsonia graduates debating topics like Lend a hand and rural art. strikes at Marietta glass works with threats of machine replacement. Rev. Luther Logansport fills pulpit during a pastor's absence. Vigo county discusses electric railway right of way amid farmer concerns. obituaries list deaths in various Indiana towns and a Manila voyage. Reports include a purported trap against a public figure, a sheriff alert about a missing tall woman, and peculiar anecdotes such as a man arming himself after reading yellow literature and a surge of husband desertion cases in Terre Haute.
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Washington’ County
Vatsonia School
Marietta
Red Key
Martin Luther
Logansport
W. E. Beiderwell
161St
Indiana
John Waldron
I. Milton
Bloomington
William M. Bell
Evansville
Charles Eaton
Sullivan
George Delvin
Manila
Luther Mitchell
Brazil
Vigo County
Stackhouse
Wapella
William Gray
iViltie
Renewed search for Paul Jones passengers continues
A New Orleans dispatch reports Mr and Mrs Teen and their daughter Lucy among Gulf islands as investigators seek any trace of the Paul Jones passengers. Mayor Taggart notes the main aim is to prove coast safety. a body of a girl was found at Andelear Island but details remain unclear.
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New Orleans
Teen
Lucy
Gulf
Tiible
Paul Jones
Alpe Fehl Cageart
Taggart
S. Taggart
Stey
Andelear Island
Yocum
Trust Conference in Chicago Plans Notable Assembly of Officials
May 12 report from the Civic Federation in Chicago states invitations went to the governor attorney-general and labor commissioner of every state and a two member delegates at large from each state will be named. A committee of arrangements will plan festivities for what officials and commercial leaders anticipate as a major legislative and trust gathering. Representatives of trusts will also be invited.
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Chicago
The
Civic Federation the Trust
Chi
Jonecage
Red-Ration
Notaba
Whitsitt Resigns as Baptist Seminary President
Louisville May 12 The board of trustees accepted the resignation of W H B Whitsitt as president by a 22 to 20 vote. Whitsitt, a professor, held that Baptists in England did not immerse before 1641 after researching in the British Museum and was accused of heresy.
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Louisville
The
Baptist Theological Seminary
W. HB. Whitsitt
Seminisy
Whitsitt
Woking
British Museum
England
Man Held After Inquest On Possible Sanity Question
Charles Freeminn, a resident of Grightwood, was taken to the station Thursday awaiting an inquest on his sanity. He is described as dangerous and under police watch pending further proceedings.
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Charles Freeminn
Grightwood
Admiral Dewey gifts cannons to national museum
May 12 report notes Admiral Dewey presented two cannon captured at Cavite to the national museum. One carries shells and grave shot likely placed by Spaniards. Also mentions Indiana carrier Samuel F. Borird and Treasury denial of counterfeit plates. Senator Fairbanks plans Alaska trip.
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Washington
Admiral Dewey
Cavite
Te National Museum
Faith in New York Court Over Molineux Case
Bartow Weeks prepares a writ to compel the district attorney to present the Molineux assault charge to the grand jury for the killing of Kate Adams by poison. Critics blame District Attorney Gardiner for failing to indict, with a judge saying faith in his judgment is lost and no grand jury will indict on weak testimony.
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NEW Yok
Roland B. Molineux
Bartow S. Weeks
Supreme Court
Madamus
Molineux
Harry Cornish
Kate J. Adams
Gardiner
Will Dr Briggs Sign Bishop Vin cent interview
Bishop Vincent of the Southern Old Catholic diocese said in Cincinnati that if Dr Briggs subscribes to the common declaration of faith there is no valid reason why Bishop Potter should not ordain him. The pledge declares belief in the scriptures as the word of God and commitment to Protestant Episcopal doctrines and worship.
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Cincinnati, O
Vincent
Briggs
Potter
Protestant Episcopal Church
United States
FAT FOR THE LAWYERS IN MERRILL ESTATE FIGHT
Ezra I. Merrill roller coaster owner of Coney Island died Monday and was buried midweek. A contest for his 750000 estate has begun with two Vermont men claiming they are his illegitimate sons and the widow their mother. Merrill faced breaches of promise suits, but only Jessie Curry the bookkeeper recovered 1500. His marital entanglements promise more legal trouble.
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New York
Ezra I. Merrill
Coney Island
Vermont
Merrill
Regent
Jessie Curry
Cook county marching club denies aiding Duckworth on Bryan race
May 12 in Chicago prominent Cook county marching club members deny reports they will aid the Duckworth club of Cincinnati to influence Ohio sentiment against Bryan. They say their Ohio trip targets state office candidates while not neglecting the presidential question, and Bryan will be doomed. The denial contradicts a prior story that the marchers would proselytize for Chicago's mayor.
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Chicago
Cook County
A Home for Dewey Should Be Purchased
Rear admiral Upsher urges Dewey receive a house in the national capital from his friends and admirers as a popular token of public gratitude. He argues this would surpass dinners swords or loving cups and The Eagle editorial supports the idea for public consideration.
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Upsher
New York
U.S. N
Brooklyn Tagle
National Capital
Admiral Dewey
The
Eagle
Police chiefs plan meeting in Cincinnati next year
A string of brief items notes events including Cincinnati hosting police chiefs next year, Manila forming a peace advocating Democracia and a deadly boiler explosion in Antioch California with $40000 property loss. Other items report political moves, crimes, memorials, and social notes from across the nation.
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Cincinnati
Manila
Democracia
Antioch
Cal
Washington
Bertha Newcomb
Woburn
Mass
John A. Hartshorn
Col. Egbert
Arlington Cemetery
Lawrence Engeln
Chicago
W. C. Wetmore
St. Louis
Industrial Commission
Tobacco Trust
Maine
Cc. E. Littlefield
Congress
London
Tod Sloane
Prince of Wales
Sin
Newmarket
Elijah C. Harvey
New York
Yerkes
City Markets In Indianapolis May 12 Prices and Provisions
Richmond style price sheet lists vegetables fruits meats and groceries with detailed per unit costs. Hams and bacon values vary by cut while fresh pork butter and sausage prices appear alongside beans potatoes lettuce strawberries bananas oranges and lemons. Canned vegetables dried fruits and seeds are priced, and notes list flour, oats, meal, oils, drugs, and salt at multiple market rates.
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California
Hamlets
Indiana
F.c
T.emons
Messina
Ridgewood
Phoenix
Lion
Jersey
Marion Club
Johnson
W. m
New York
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Michigan
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