Repulsive decline of Ephraim Goss in Gosport
Ephraim Goss, 62, lies near the Rogers house in Gosport Indiana in a deteriorating state. An abscess spread Oct. 9 and he has endured rotting flesh with maggots while a nurse cannot be employed. Dr. Fred V. Stucky and Mrs. Rogers assist daily as sons David K. Goss and Joseph H. Goss refuse aid.
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Gosport
Ind
Spi
Ephraim Goss
Fred V. Stucky
Rogers
Nathan Gray
Stucky
David K. Goss
Indianapolis
Joseph H. Goss
Martinsville
Goss
Wiliam Lyons
Joseph’ Goss
Silent Refusal Repeats Plea for Excuse
A quoted figure repeats a terse request for excuse, saying I can't explain this matter to you and you must excuse me two times as the matter remains unresolved. The terse remark underscores a mood of deflection and withholding information.
Farm dispute ends with shooting and arrests in Kokomo
In Kokomo Indiana on Monday Owen Spunger and Fred Smith hunted on Capt Busby's farm. William Busby ordered them off and a quarrel followed. Busby shot Spunger dead instantly. Smith, Spunger's brother in law, shot Busby in the shoulder. Both Smith and Busby were arrested.
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Kokomo
Ind
Owen Spunger
Fred Smith
Capt
Busby
Wm. Busby
Spunger
Smith
Iron Workers Seek Wages Increase After Secret Convention
Indiana iron steel and tin plate workers of the Amalgamated association held a secret convention in Anderson on Sunday. They plan to demand an investigation of manufacturers' books in the district. A sliding scale signed last summer would raise wages 4 to 10 percent as business warrants.
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Anderson
Ind
Indiana Iron, Steel and Tin Plate Workers
Amalgamated Association
Youngstown
Football practice injury leaves Roy Cumberworth paralyzed
Plainfield reports Roy Cumberworth, 22, was struck on the back of the head during a Saturday practice game and is partially paralyzed but expected to recover. The incident occurred during a routine drill in Plainfield.
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Plainfield
Roy Cumberworth
Indiana News Briefs Show Glanders Diphtheria Fires and Trials
Short statewide clippings report Glanders in Clay county and rising diphtheria in Marion. Fort Wayne garbage crematory burned Sunday. Inventions cut six workers’ time in Muncie bottle factory. Wayne county farmers warned on mail boxes. Missionary Rufus Morrison heads to South Africa. Quadruplets Roy to Mary Childress mark sixth birthday in Anderson. Glass factories delay in Anderson to December. A crippled tramp disrupted Princeton church services during collection. Fort Wayne Sabbath incident with knife injuries. Lebanon chicken house workers strike over extra water buckets. Veteran Seymour reporter Daniel Helper Brown turns 75. Loogootee gas wells show high rock pressure and rising output. Spencer jail inmate attempts self-strangulation. Noblesville widower marries fifth wife in Clarksville. lived within blocks of three wives. Amatia Kussner amid Kimberley siege. Greencastle note.
Indirect notes on legal, labor, and oddities from Indiana items
The report cites Judge Dudley H. Chase upholding the Barrett law as constitutional and defining hearings for property assessments. It mentions Clem Winslow’s theft incident in Kokomo, a planned American flint glassworkers plant in Marion, and union support against non union plans. It also recounts Rev. E. R. Johnson’s near death experience and a Pittsburgh meeting of window glass manufacturers planning a fight against trust control.
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Dudley H. Chase
Cass Circuit Court
Chase
Common Council
American Flintt Glassworkers
Maron
E. R. Johnson
Mulberry
Johnson
Mississippi shooting spree ends in double homicide
In Round Lake Mississippi on Sunday evening a man identified as Dick Dickerson a crazed Black man fired through a window killing N R Graves. Ten minutes later he shot and killed Arthur Maxwell as he moved through a crowd chasing him. Bloodhounds pursue him.
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Mississippi
Round Lake
Miss
Dick Dickerson
N. R. Graves
Arthur Maxwell
Dickerson
Maxwell
Indignation Over Susan Halverson Weeding in Canton Missionary Circles
A Hong Kong cable reports urged concern in Canton missionary circles as an American missionary doctor, Susan Halverson, prepares to wed a Chinese former cook. The story notes reputational tensions and cross cultural implications surrounding the match.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Hong Kong
Canton
Susan Halverson
Board approves bond for Meridian Street bridge project
The Board of Works approved a 27000 bond by Shover and Austin to guarantee the Meridian Street bridge over Fall Creek. Removal of the old bridge can not start soon due to material shortages. J Harry Roberts won a contract to construct cement walks and curbing on New York Street from Agnes Street to 120 feet west of Lansing Street at 1.43 per unit.
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Board of Works
Shover & Austin
Meridian St
Fall Creek
J. Harry Roberts
New York St
Agnes-st
Lansing-st
Cleaning the loafers out at Union station crowd
Frosty November crowds fill the Union station waiting rooms as couples pair off and others linger on benches. Policeman Polen begins a campaign to disperse the gatherings, tearing apart those who are fond and prompting evacuation of nearby seats.
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Union Station
Polen
Local Public Utility Caps and Branches Listed
Incorporated entities include American Paint Company of Cincinnati with Aurora Indiana branch capital ten thousand dollars. White County long distance Telephone Company capital thirty five thousand. Vincennes Municipal Gas Company capital twenty five thousand six hundred.
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American Paint Company
Cincinnati
Aurora
Ind
White County
Vincennes Municipal Gas Company
Revolution ends in Venezuela with Porto Cabello taken
Dispatch from Caracas dated Sunday reports eight hours of fighting as Castro’s army captured Porto Cabello. Killed and wounded total about 30. Surgeons and hospital corps from foreign cruisers treated the injured. Castro controls all ports and economic centers in Venezuela.
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Leomis
Caracas
Castro
Porto Cabello
Grim Reaper Claims Several Lives in Weekend Incidents
A string of fatal events reported Sunday includes Jennie Coleman of New York who took carbolic acid, Clarence Penningwill of Dayton Ohio beheaded by an elevator, and James Meadon aged 22 of Titusville Pennsylvania who dragged his gun over a log. Additional deaths involve Philip Holzinger and Catherine Stalhut of Tolano NL killed by a train, Gluford Kennett of Bradfordsville Kentucky shot, and the body of Charles McCready found in New York after a ferrywreck passenger ordeal.
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Jennie Coleman
New York
Clarence Penningwill
Dayton
James ‘Meadon
Titusville
Philip Holzinger
Catherine Stalhut
Tolano
Amosarrison
Kitled -Gluford Kennett
Bradforisville
Charles’ McCready
E. i, New York
Chicago
A Letter To Arthur and the Mail Through Many Hands
A playful essay traces the journey of a maiden’s letter from Indianapolis to a destination city and finally to Arthur. It follows post office steps from collector to cancellor to poucher to wagon handoffs, noting sixteen hands in the larger city and multiple handlings in smaller towns before the letter reaches Arthur or his box.
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Arthur
Uncle Sam
Indianapolis
Union Station
Longest pendulum tested in Chicago at 297 feet
A 297 foot pendulum, the longest ever hung, was suspended Sunday from a 19 story Mason temple roof in Chicago. Scientists under Prof Bevis of Northwestern watched to verify latitude related deviations. test hindered by setup and crowd movement and will be repeated next Sunday. The previous record pendulum stood 220 feet from the Pantheon in Paris.
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Chicago
Masonic Temple
Bevis
Northwestern University
Pantheon
Paris
Son Kills Father in New York Quarrel Over Money
George J. Schan a 58 year old officer for the supreme court was shot and killed Monday by his son George W. Schan in New York in a dispute over money. The incident occurred during a family quarrel.
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New York
George J. Schan
Supreme Court
George W. Schan
Famine in China Affects Christians in Central Province
The steamer St Irene reports thousands of native Christians in a Chinese province face famine after floods last summer ruined homes and wiped out the cotton crop. The Central China Presbyterian Mission appeals for aid from friends worldwide.
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Tacoma
Wash
St. Irene
From Court to the Altar Courtroom Romance in Parkersburg
A $16 000 breach of promise suit between Rosa Conner and Eze kiel Sheppard ended when they married during the trial. The ceremony occurred within two minutes of the proceedings starting in Parkersburg West Virginia with around 200 onlookers.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Ezekiel Sheppard
Rosa Conner
New Cincinnati to Connersville Rail Line Planned
A new railroad is proposed to run from Cincinnati to Connersville to connect with the Lake Erie & Western at Connersville. The company controls the old Airline line 12 miles from Cincinnati and has completed a preliminary survey to Connersville. If built, a line may extend from Billingsville to Richmond, with the matter kept quiet. A new company is expected to buy and reopen the Sedgwick wire fence works.
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Richmond
Ind
Cincinnati
Connersville
Lake Erie & Western
Billingsville
Sedgwick
Two Boys Fined for Assault on Old Man and Chicken Feathers
Edward Moran of Southwestern Ave and Howard Patton of 372 S Peari St were fined in police court for assaulting an old man named Hudson in Southport. Moran paid $3 and Patton $1 after dragging the man, pulling his beard, and plucking the feathers from a chicken’s tail carried by the victim.
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Edward Moran
Southwestern Ave
Howard Patton
S. Peari St
Hudson
Southport
Monaday
A Vision of 1903 in a Local Sect Sermon
Mrs. M. A. Willits, pastor of the Sur name Israelites chapel at 823 Blake street, preached to 12 parishioners on the second visitation of John Wroe. She asserts a six hours trance brought a revelation and that by 1903 the elect will gather, the millennium will begin, and the kingdom of God will be established on earth with the righteous reigning like Adam and Eve.
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M. A. Willits
Blake St
John Wroe
Earth
Eden
Capt Black Writes From Philippines Letter
Capt Wm Black former Indianapolis recruiting officer now in the Philippines reports in a letter that Luzon mountain tribes are unaware of the present war and contend with local feuds in the foothills. He says island leaders are more bitter toward the United States than toward Spain.
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Black
Wm. Black
Indianapolis
Philippines
Luzon
United States
Spain
Big Railway Combine Roils Chicago Finance Scene
Chicago financiers lead a colossal railroad reorganization scheme. The plan unites the big four steel and wire magnates John W. Gates Win Endenborn Isaac L Elwood and John Lambert with E J Harriman and the Harriman Gould syndicate to consolidate leading U S trunk railways.
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Chicago
Eastern
American Steel and Wire
John W. Gates
Win. Endenborn
Isaac L. Elwood
John Lambert
E. J. Harriman
Harriman Gould Syndicate
United States
Eloped from Knoxville Poorhouse with Five Women
Rev. S. Sharrett, 91, an inmate at the Knoxville poorhouse, eloped on Saturday night with five women. They plan to walk to Utah to practice their new faith in peace.
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Knoxville
Tenn
National postmasters meet in Washington and other brief items
National postmasters association meets in Washington on Tuesday. Actress Mrs. Leslie Carter suffers from tonsillitis in Columbus. Trial of Molineux for killing Mrs. Adams begins Tuesday. Sunshine Cloak Company in Cleveland damaged $100000 by fire Sunday. George Hite in Louisville received carbolic acid instead of whisky and may die. Congressman McRae of Arizona gravely ill in Washington from nervous prostration. In a Mexicans vs Yaqui fight four Mexicans were killed, Indian losses heavy. Chicago Bohemians mourn five anarchists executed in 1887. Secretary Root and Adjutant Sen Corbin to attend memorial at Chickamauga park November 23 for Illinois monuments dedication. President Harper seeks $3000 for an astronomical expedition to observe a total solar eclipse. May 28, 1900. Methodist mission ary committee meets in Washington to allot $1250000 for home and foreign work.
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National Postmasters’ Association
Washington
Leslie Carter
Columbus
Molineux
New York
Adams
Sunshine Cloak Company
Cleveland
George Hite
Louisville
Congressman McRae
Arizona
Chicago
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