One Day of Hazing Turmoil In Goshen High School
A rush of about 100 Goshen high school students chased senior class members Tuesday night, smeared several with ink, and rough handling left a student temporarily speechless. President Parker of the senior class was assaulted and others were dragged from homes, partially undressed, and vented upon in a chaotic hazing incident.
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Goshen
Ind
Sps
Parker
Earl
Cissell
M. E. Church
Columbus Teens Arrested for Rioting in Diploma Row
In Columbus Indiana May 29, forty five high school students were arrested after rioting following class day exercises. The dispute involved diplomas for graduates and a dispute between the school board and Superintendent J A Carnagey. Fines and costs were nine dollars each.
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Columbus
Imi
J. A. Carnagey
Carnagey
Mr. Carnagey
Wiliam May
Samuel Wertz
Brock Smith
Representative Cox
P. Button
Mr. May
John Stobo
Prof
Richard Dickey
Josse Sayre
Hazel Springer
Grandville Lee
Gertrude Doty
Blanche Kelble
Grace Kapp
Will Marsh
Harry Sims
Pence Orr
Ralph Roland
Jesse Allrey
Monta Wells
Bert Steinbarger
Monta Hunter
Iva Dunlop
Myrtle Steinbarger
Ora Dunlop
Lizzie Parks
Oscar Hall
Mae Sweeney
Margaret Anderson
Ida Edenburn
Bonnie Davis
Hattie Williamson
Lila Burnett
Lulu Taylor
Maude Hacker
George Mahoney
Ray Payne
Raymond McCormack
Kotihe
Stader
Gas Well Blast Harms Two Workers in Indiana
In Muncie Indiana on May 2 veteran driller William E Kyle and prospector Harry Mount were badly burned when gas escaping from a new well was ignited by a lit pipe. Kyle entered the shed to inspect the struck gas and a matching flame triggered the explosion.
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Muncie
Ind
William E Kyle
Harry Mount
Kyle
Lone Woman Fires At Burglar In Anderson Home
Mrs Charles O Curtiss shot a burglar in her Anderson Indiana home at nine p m Tuesday while alone. She investigated after a kitchen noise, fired on a man in a cellar doorway, he fell to the cellar steps and escaped leaving a trail of blood.
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Anderson,ind
Charles O. Curtiss
Faith-curist is fined in Bedford court ruling
In Bedford Indiana Prof George Parks a magnetic healer was fined 25 dollars in circuit court by Judge Martin for violating the new law prohibiting faith doctors who use the title Dr or M D. An appeal was taken to the supreme court. Richmond Indiana May 29 J W Barnes half owner of the Richmond Evening Item sold out to Partner J B Gordon A stock company will be formed including Gordon W W L Foulke and Chas Crowder to take over management
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Bedford
Ind
George Parks
Martin
Supreme Court
Richmond
J. W. Barnes
Richmond Evening Item
J. B. Gordon
Gordon
WW. L. Foulke
Chas Crowder
The
Marion Tribune
Scholar Prepares Life of Bismarck for Eastern House
Richmond Indiana May 29 Dr Adolph Gerber of the French and German department Earlham college has been engaged by an eastern publishing house to write a life of Otto von Bismarck and is now at work on the project.
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Richmond
Ind
Adolph Gerber
Earlham College
Bismarck
Big Four to Build Smaller Lebanon Station
The Big Four will erect a much smaller passenger station at Lebanon than planned in February. A citizen dispute over location reduced donated ground and funding, cutting cost from about $15,000 to about $5,000 and replacing a brick station with a frame structure.
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Big Four
Lebanon
Man Admits Marriage Denies Bigamy in Indiana
John Woods was arrested in Marion by his former wife Rose Woods for bigamy. The couple separated three years ago and Woods is accused of marrying Lizzie Haines after that separation. He acknowledges the marriage to Miss Haines but pleads not guilty to the bigamy charge.
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Marion
Ind
John Woods
Rose Woods
Anderson
Woods
Lizzie Haines
Misa Haines
Bizamy
Indiana inkling on a new Vincennes glass factory
A new cooperative glass factory is being built at Vincennes. Burton Stewart, a Terre Haute resident, sought to have his wife declared insane.
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Vincennes
Burton Stewart
Terre Haute
Oldest Meridian St. M. E. Church member dies at 90
Mrs. Mary Ferguson 90 widow of Rezin Ferguson died Tuesday midnight at her daughter Eleanor Coffay 3225 Wigneis St Indianapolis home after heart trouble Survived by children Mrs W L Saltmarsh Indianapolis Mrs Albert Yohn New York and Mrs John Haanstone Brooklyn The funeral will be at 4 p m Thursday at the home and burial in Piqua Ohio Friday
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Mary Ferguson
Rezin Ferguson
Eleanor Cof
Bright
Indianapolis
Meridian St. M. E. Church
Piqua
W.L. Saltmarsh
Albert Yohn
New York
John Hahnestone
Brooklyn
N. Y
Confederate Navy Official Dies in Milford At 82
Col. James G. Miner, 82, once fiscal secretary of the Confederate Navy, died at his Milford home on Tuesday. A trunk found at the home contained Confederate bonds totaling $1,060,800 in face value.
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Milford
Terre Haute Police Board Names Appointments
Gov. Durbin appointed J. Smith Talley and Josiah T. Walker to the Terre Haute police board. Judge Sidney Iravis will serve as the Democratic member for the present. The move ends a lengthy local squabble with distillers and the anti-saloon league taking sides.
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Durbin
Terre Haute
Talley
Sidney Iravis
Gov. Mount
Culstus
Distillers
Anti-Saloon League
President McKinley greets crowd in Fort Wayne Indiana
President McKinley arose early to shake hands with a crowd at Fort Wayne Indiana station. An impromptu reception was held at the Olympia car rear. Mrs McKinley slept through the journey beyond Chicago and took a prior nap.
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Fort Wayne
Wayne, Ind
Olympia
Union City votes half cent tax for new industries
Union City voters approve a one half cent tax to attract new industries. Hartford City may gain a ten inch bar mill to be built in the gas belt by Munche people and operate against the trust. Grand jury in Terre Haute to probe bribery allegations involving police board and city councilmen over Indiana Southern franchise. Bad money circulated in South Bend traced to theft from the South Bend national bank. An impostor posing as a priest solicited funds for St. Anthony's orphans' home in Marion. Mrs. Anna M. M. Biddle settling dispute over Judge Horace P. Biddle will, taking a valued library. New Albany strawberry shipments delayed by cold. up to Sunday night about 700 cases totaling 4200 gallons shipped. Rev D. Tillotson of Lebanon delivered a memorial sermon at the Methodist church. Independent Glass Company plans to resume operations Sept 15. orders for 1900 boxes of glass for next year. Electric line project from Indianapolis to Rushville near completion with a right of way in Rushville. Route extends through New Salem and Andersonville.
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Leopold Mambourg
Muncia
Co-Operative Window Glass Company
Indianapolis
Rushville
Brookville
Cincinnati
New Salem
Andersonville
Poison Examination of Punch Remains Yields No Clear Result
Dr Marlatt completed analysis on the Punch remains from last Thursday night. Alcohol hindered testing and definite conclusions are unlikely. Names of the 19 Order of X members remain undisclosed though it is said all have recovered.
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Order of X
Marlatt
Fire causes $20000 loss at Kokomo dry goods store
A Kokomo dry goods company suffered a $20,000 fire loss after a perfume bottle exploded Tuesday night. Fireman Draper was injured by glass from a falling skylight. Strickland & Co clothing store also sustained damage.
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Kokomo, Ind
Kokomo Dry Goods Company
Draper
Strickland & Co
Bargains on Slightly Used Upright Pianos
Baldwin's music store advertises this week only bargains on slightly used upright pianos.
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Baldwin's Music Store
Pennsylvania Vandalia Lines Decoration Day Rates
Low fare excursion tickets on sale May 15 and 30 to points within 159 miles of the selling station. Call ticket agents or address W. W. Richardson, D. P. A.
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W. W. Richardson
Decoration Day Rates On Via C H D Lines
Rates for a 150 mile radius set at one and one third fare for round trip. Tickets offered May 29 and 30 with return valid through May 31. Travel limited to specified dates and radius.
Porto Rico Hopes For Free Trade And Citizenship
San Juan May 2 Great disappointment over the supreme court decision on Porto Rican cases. Island may convene extra session to declare self sustaining without customs collections. Yearly budget two million dollars with property tax excise and customs revenues totaling about one eighty million. Free trade to start when insular taxation system is in place and McKinley proclaims it.
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Porto Rico
United States
Island
McKinley
Cubans Accept the Platt Amendment in Convention Vote
Havana May 29 The Cuban constitutional convention passed the Platt amendment by 15 to 1 with bitter rebuke from radicals Gomez and Tamayo toward conservatives. The body moves to an election law, while U S forces begin packing as independence is anticipated under a Monroe Doctrine extension.
Bullets That Sang Tuesday Night in Peru
Adam Metzler saloonist at 26 S. Me sourist shot at Joseph Fair after Fair mocked the free lunch. Metzler released on 500 dollars bail. Fair fined for malicious trespass drunkenness and assault, while Metzler paid five dollars for shooting in city limits. Also Shambaugh Rampage: drunk man chased his daughter near West New York Street. arrested after a scuffle. His case postponed to Thursday.
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Sourist
Joseph Fair
Peru
Shambaugh
Samuel Shambaugh
New York St
Streit
Losh
Shambauz
Gorman Faces Trial After Family Dispute Over Drink
John Gorman of 230 Walcott Street resisted his father's attempt to stop a second drink. His sister interceded and he fired at her, missing narrowly. Police report, trial set for June 5.
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John Gorman
Walcott Sr
Chicago’s gullible city tale on Zion church growth
Dr Daniel R Brower criticizes Chicago as the most gullible city, filled with new movements and cults. He notes converts at rallies for John Alexander Dowie s church of Zion and jokes about horses fed before city hall as proof of the city’s novelty mindset.
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Daniel R. Brower
Chicago
John Alexander Dowie
Christian Catholic Church of Zion
Two Husbands Claim to Be Alice Rygaard Husband
In Chicago on May 2 J B Kearsley and A C Ricard each say they married Alice Cordella Rygaard of Hammond Ind. They only learned of the situation after meeting in a restaurant Tuesday night. They have Had her arrested. She says her first husband is dead a month.
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Chicago
J. B. Kearsley
A. C. Ricard
Alice Cordella Rygaard
Hammond
Ind
China Ready to Pay Indemnity But Objects to Interest
Pe kin May 29 Chinese envoys told foreign ministers that the royal court is willing to pay the 450,000,000 taels indemnity but objects to a 4 percent interest charge on the sum.
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Pekin
I Ts
Platt Amendment Outlines Cuban Treaty Provisions
Washington May 29 synopsis of the Platt amendment accepted by Cuba limits Cuba on foreign treaties and debts, allows U S intervention to defend independence, ratifies military occupation acts, and sets treaty terms for Isle of Pines disposition and land leases for naval stations. Senator Platt of Connecticut authored the amendment and upon Cuba's acceptance the president may withdraw forces and leave island governance to Cubans.
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Havana
United States Supreme Court
Capote
United States
Man
Cuba
Isle of Pines
Orville H. Platt
Connecticut
Fort Wayne trustees at Purdue spark Fort Wayne doubt
Gov Durbin appoints Dr Christian V Siemen of Fort Wayne as Purdue trustee replacing ex President Harrison raising fears Fort Wayne’s J M Barrett may be dropped though Barrett’s term remains until 195. Barrett Stuart and Gen Harrison formed the committee that chose Winthrop E Stone as Purdue president.
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Christian V. Siemen
Fort Wayne
Durbin
Purdue University
Harrison
J. M. Barrett
Lkely
Offic Barrett
Lafayette
Harrett
Barrett
William V. Stuart
Gen. Harrison
Winthrop E. Stone
Purdue
Peruna Claims Kidney Catarrh Cure With Patient Endorsements
Testimonial letters from John Vance of Hartford City Indiana and J Brake of Petrolea Ontario claim Peruna cures catarrh of the kidneys and Bright's disease symptoms. The ad asserts Peruna removes kidney poisons, improves heart and digestion, and offers free medical advice from Dr. Hartman of The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio.
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John Vance
Hartford City
Ind
Peruna
Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Ohio
East Ties Aim for Presidency Followed by Barret and Stuart
After the president’s death, Gen. Harrison reportedly preferred selecting a leader from the east for president, but the wishes of Stuart and Barrett prevailed.
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Smart
Gen
Harrison
Stuart
Barrett
Weller Shaffer Dead at 52 in City Home
Weller Shaffer aged 52 of 115 North Liberty street died Wednesday at 2 a.m. after seven weeks of illness described as dropsy. He leaves a 10 year old son and was known for owning a Virginia Avenue cigar store before joining Col. Shaw in the state treasurer’s office. He later served in public offices, most recently in the city clerk’s office.
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Shaffer
Virginia Ave
Col. Shaw
Will Stick to Glass Prices in Flint-Glass Trade
About 35 flint glass makers met at Denison on Tuesday afternoon and agreed to adhere to a price scale to be arranged at a June meeting in Pittsburg. R. E. Breed of the Marion Flint-Glass Company cites market demoralization with many plants operating at little or no profit or loss. The group seeks to shield manufacturers from worker demands.
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Denison
Pittsburg
R. E. Breed
Marlon Flint-Glass
Scholz Faces Divorce Suit Over Alimony Claim
Ame lia Scholz sues Frederick J. Scholz for fifty thousand dollars alimony amid a divorce filing. No appearance yet entered for Scholz, but it is expected he will contest the suit, given his former role as state treasurer.
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Frederick J. Scholz
Amelia
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