Lorimer Busy in Washington as Chicago bribery probe looms
Senator Lorimer lands in Washington amid calls for a senate investigation into his Illinois election. He holds conferences with friends and Speaker Cannon and may issue a public statement this week. His son and daughter in law on honeymoon accompany him at the Raleigh hotel.
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Senate
Illinois
Chicago
William Lorimer, Jr
Raleigh
Lorimer
House
Mlinois
Cannon
Geen
Senator Crom
Would Learn 0 Be Bareback Rider
In Logansport Indiana on May 23 17 year old Maggie Baker said a man with a waxed moustache enticed her into joining a circus as a bareback rider. He claimed she could ride and asked her to report with her baggage at 8. She cried as she gathered her bag beside the track.
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Maggie Baker
Man of
Logansport
Ind
Maggie
Miss
Reward Awaited For Robber Pending Post Office Charge
Brazil Ind May 23 Arthur Green was sentenced for robbing Miller and Sons store instead of the post office robbery. Patrolman Robert Gabbart must wait eight years for the $200 reward offered for Green s capture and conviction. Reward payable only after Green completes his present sentence and is arraigned on the post office charge.
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Brazil
Ind
Arthur Green
Miller & Sons
Robert Gabbart
Green
Golden wedding day for Heosier Monday
Harmon and Mary Pemberton married May 23 1860 at the old Mississinewa school building south of Marion Ind will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary in Marshalltown Ia Monday Local relatives Mr and Mrs Barnaby Bogue Mrs Jessie Bogue and Mr and Mrs Newton Harris and Eli Cogshall left Marion for the event Sunday
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Marion
Ind
Harmon
Mary Pemberton
Mississinewa
Here
Marshalltown
Jessie Bogue
Barnaby Bogue
Fairmount
Newton Harris
Eli Cog‘shall
Woman once host to Lincoln's wife dies
Mrs. Mary A. Crosson, 90, died at her daughter’s home in Kokomo Indiana on Saturday evening. She and her first husband Peter Rouch kept a hotel in Peru where Mrs. Abraham Lincoln was a guest while en route to Washington for the inauguration. She belonged to the local chapter D A B.
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Kokomo
Ind
Mary A. Crosson
Pat Fritz
Crosson
Peter Rouch
Peru
Abraham Lincoln
Washington City
Loral
Mississippi Valley History Meeting Set in Iowa City This Week
Prominent men discuss Mississippi Valley incidents as the Mississippi Valley Historical association holds its semi annual meeting in Iowa City May 26 27. The group drew members from 71 colleges universities and normal schools 67 public libraries and 44 historical societies with rich records of early settlers and foreign manuscripts guiding research.
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Iowa City
Mississippi Valley
Mississippi Valley Historical Association
Association
Augustus Caesar Dodge
Milwaukee
England
France
Spain
Cuba
North American
United States
Carnegie Institution
Washington, D. C
Gulf
Great Lakes
State Historical Society of Iowa
Euclid Sanders
Benj. F. Shambaugh
William C. Wilcox
University
Congress poised to send Taft railroad bill to conference
Senate Republicans plan to push Taft railroad legislation to conference this week. A lengthy clash looms over the long and short haul clause, with House conferees pressing to keep it and Senate counterparts seeking changes. A compromise would let current law stand until ICC reports on advisability are received.
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Washington
Senate
Taft
Senae
House
Interstate Commerce Commission
Prison labor bids set for June in Michigan City
Michigan City Ind May 23 The prison board of trustees will accept proposals on June 1 for employing 250 convicts for ten years after Oct 1 1910. No more than 100 men may be hired by a single contractor in any one trade unless the trade does not interfere with outside state labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan City
Ind
Prison Board of Trustees
Violent Earthquake Shakes Laibach Observatory
A powerful earthquake, one of the most violent recorded, shook the Laibach observatory area. Seismograph readings indicate the epicenter was over 65,000 miles away, with shocks lasting two hours and twenty four minutes.
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London
Laibach Observatory
Man exhumed leg for second time in Indiana
Loganport May 23 Charles Fagley disinterred his amputated leg for a second time after weeks of toe pain. He returned to Mount Hope Cemetery where the toes were found buried cramped. Late last week he again felt severe instep pains in the limb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logansport
Ind
Charles Fagley
Fagley
Mount Hope
Foot pain prompts third burial amid disinterments
The report describes a sequence of disinterments, noting the putated foot caused the second dig and the pain in the instep subsided, guiding Fagley to arrange a third burial for the Jeg. No fault found with the burial method. the instep pain ending was the desired outcome.
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Fagley
Woman Tries Twice to End Her Life in Anderson
Mrs Sadie Turner attempted suicide twice in Anderson on Sunday. She first bound a hair ribbon around her neck in a patrol wagon and tore her jacket for a strip to choke herself. Officers thwarted both efforts. Found intoxicated at Myers' lumber yard she was strapped to a cot at the county jail to prevent further attempts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson, Ind
Sadie Turner
Turner
Myers
Girl Seeks Return to Hospital After Poison Confession
Miss Mary Kearney, 17, told doctors at a Boston hospital she took poison to secure a return to the ward she fled. The youth, already on a cot, confessed the act was driven by a wish to again witness scenes among the sick.
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Boston
Mary Kearney
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Joe Cannon
Wm. Lorimer
Gage
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Awaist
Heosier
Lincoln
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G. E. MacLean
Orin G. Libby
State University of North Dakota
Frank L. McVey
Grand Forks
N. D
University of North Dakota
Eee
State Historical Society, of
Clarence S. Paine
Paine
Neb
Nebraska State Historical Society
Benjamin F. Shambaugh
University of Iowa
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Noth
Exress
Atlanta
Indianapolis
Weber Drug CO
Gregg
Robt.e. Gregg & CO
Knox the
OKC
French Steam
Garment Cleaners
Walter Ehlers
South Minois
Stephens Photo Supply CO
Dressel’s Place
West Market Street
White’s
Circle Hotel
Business Men
N. Meridian
UNION
U. S
East Market
Tungstoker
Indianapolis Light & Heat CO
Kingston
Iam
Carl L. Rost
N. Illinois St
The
Claypool Hotel
R. B. Kramer
Kramer
Nul
Victor Falking
Walschner-Gyewart Music CO
North Penneyylvanta Street
Michael J. Shea
Underwood
Underwood Typewriter Company Incorporated
East Market Street
Ohio St
the Sun Building
Columbus
Compton Paragon
Indianapolis Sun
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