Officials under fire in Shirley Township and Monroe County audit
Examiners Wirley R. Rudd and G. Ray King publish a scathing report on lax financial methods in Monroe County and Shirley Township. Auditor Samuel M. Kerr faces $754.04 in alleged errors to school funds and bonds while Horace Blakely earns nominal praise. The review highlights tax drops, insolvent columns, and missing records, naming several local officials and trustees with substantial misbalances and demanded vouchers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe County
Wirley R. Rudd
G. Ray King
State Board of Accounts
Samuel M. Kerr
Horace Blakely
Iorequist
John WP. Harrell
Andre ¥ Blakely
Shirley Township
Hansweck County
Jesse W. Smith
Frank Gébhart
Ralph Wilson
M. L. Hiatt
R. Y. Hodson
Hodson
William Venstermaker
van Buren Township
Tulaski County
Cholera Case Reported On Hamburg American Liner Moltke
A new cholera case is confirmed in New York a coal passer Rudolph Sellitsch aged 53 aboard the Moltke detained at quarantine. He is recovering in Swinburne Island hospital as the Moltke and steerage passengers await clearance after disinfection. Other ships Blucher Carpathia and Ale stay under quarantine amid measles cases and two deaths on Carpathia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Carpathia
Ale
Dynamiters Arrest Timeline Details LA Times Blast Case
Los Angeles detectives say the Times plant bombing was traced from the purchase of dynamite in Oakland to the blast, with identities and handwriting linked to suspects. The movement of the dynamiters is said to be nearly fully mapped, while questions remain on who authorized the attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Cal
Los Angeles Times
Oakland
Times
William Burns
Argonaut Hotel
Rogers
Biggest Rains In Many Years Deluge State
The ongoing storm drops heavy rain across Indianapolis and beyond for three days with four and a half inches reported locally. Cities like Cairo Cleveland Memphis and Cincinnati felt heavier rainfall while the storm shifts toward New York and Pennsylvania. The frost may end the cold spell though not a severe crop killer, and it could aid corn by halting sap flow and progressing ripening.
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Indianapolis
Colorado
Mississippi
Ohio
Cairo
Cleveland
Memphis
Cincinnati
New York
Pennsylvania
W. H. Church
Unprecedented Rain Strikes Missouri Illinois Indiana
Extreme rainfall sweeps the southern Missouri Illinois Indiana region for sixty hours, halting railroad and interurban traffic. The Weather Bureau notes a ten inch downpour while nearly all railroads into Cairo are submerged two to four feet. Crops and bridges suffer extensive damage from Rockport Indiana to surrounding areas.
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ST. Louis
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Arkansas
Weather Bureau
Ilinois Central
Cairo
Rockport
Ind
Crop Suffers $1,000,000 Loss, Per Estimate
Floods from recent rains damaged the cotton crop in Memphis Tennessee to nearly one million dollars. Efforts to drain plantations continue to curb further damage. In Posey County Indiana continual rain threatens corn and delays wheat sowing as lowland farms along the Wabash and Ohio rivers report flooded traction lines and immobile cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
MT. Vernon
Ind
Posey County
Wabash
Ohio
Vandalia Rails Help Block Flood In West Terre Haute
The Vandalia railroad company rushed three car loads of sacks salted with sand to shore up tracks as flood waters threatened West Terre Haute Indiana on October 6. The improvised barrier checked the rising tide and saved the railway lines from inundation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Terre Haute
Ind
Vandalia Railroad Company
Flooding Hits Columbus After Record Rainfall
Columbus Indiana records the largest flood in twelve years as seven inches of rain fell in 24 hours. The White River overflows its banks, sweeping away fences, damaging small bridges, and harming downstream areas.
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Columbus
Ind
White River
Floodwaters Sweep Shelbyville Farmland
In Shelbyville Indiana on October 6 creeks Conn's and Lewis overflow their banks near Waldron flooding surrounding fields until they resemble lakes with water covering acres of farmland and pastures.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Conn’s Creek
Waldron
Lewis Creek
Dancer Denies Portugal King Affair Amid Paris Tour
A Paris based dancer recounts meeting the Portuguese king as love at first sight and denying claims of a royal mistress role. She asserts a quiet private life, rejects sensational press labels, notes a $25,000 three month engagement, and mentions future plans in Paris.
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Manuel
Paris
Variete Theater
Portugal
Lisbon
Oforto
Royal
Spook letters prompt wife’s suit to break a will
Chicago October report outlines Marion Funk’s alleged spirit letters influencing multimillionaire Robert M. Thompson to disinherit wife Mrs. Robert H. Thompson in a will detailing a $2,000,000 estate divided between sons Lin ton and Robert H. Thompson and granddaughter adopted daughter Marion Funk. The letters, transcribed by Marion Funk, are central to the lawsuit while other references mention a republican plot and Paris cabal in unrelated lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert M. Thompson
Robert H. Thompson
Des Lis attracts Paris society while royal suitors falter
Manuel, a young underworld patriarch, pursued Mie Des Lis as her fame in Paris grew with risqué performances. Her wealth, fashion, and bold acts drew praise and attention, even as Kaiser Wilhelm once favored a royal match with Princess Victoria, which dissolved due to Manuel's excesses.
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Des Lis
Portugal
Roral
Lisbon
Manuel
Underworld
Gaby Des Lis
Paris
Mie. Des Lis
Europe
Boise de Boulogne
Kaiser Wilhelm
Victoria
King George Alarmed Over Portugal’s Overthrow
London reports King George and Queen at Balmoral reacting with mixed excitement and anxiety to the Portuguese monarchy’s overthrow. He ordered foreign dispatches sent promptly as King Manuel faces exile and possible marriage plans with Princess Patricia of Fife amid republican seizure. Manuel’s fortune and exile prospects loom in royal interest as Newcastle hastens from Gibraltar to Lisbon.
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London
George
Balmoral
Manuel
Newcastle
Gibraltar
Lisbon
Republic of
Portugal
England
France
Patricia
Fife
Washington Gets Report on Portuguese Revolt
Washington reports the first official advices since Portugal’s revolt. Gage’s wireless from Lisbon dated Wednesday says fighting raged near the legation, royals surrendered, forts and public buildings flew the republic flag, and Portuguese king reportedly boarded a Brazilian warship. Spanish minister’s Lisbon call noted but seen as non binding.
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Portugal
State Department
United States
Gage
Lisbon
Legation
All Quiet, Portugal Government Control Reported
Liverpool dispatch reports Lisbon telegram stating all quiet in the capital and that Republicans have complete control. The new government under President Braga is in hand and no further trouble is expected.
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Liverpool
Lisbon
Braga
Yzabal Dies at Sea on Voyage From Havre
Wireless dispatch from the steamer La Savoie bound for Havre reports former Sonora Governor Rafael Yzabal dead at sea age 61 from cerebral congestion. He had been abroad several months seeking European health resorts and was returning home.
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New “York
la Savoie
Havre
Rafael Yarbal
Sonora
Mexico
Senor Yzabal
Fleming and Fleming Influence in Allen County Race
A detailed examination of political forces in Indiana’s Twelfth District centers on Stephen R. Fleming, Fort Wayne brewer and Democratic boss. It analyzes his leverage to sway voters, the clash with dry and wet factions, and how his expected tradeoffs could affect Beveridge’s reelection bid and the Republican ticket led by Heaton. The Kendallville Boyer Opera House crowd heard Senator Fleming speak, with large expected turnouts in Angola and Lagrange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beveridge
Stephen B. Fleming
Ft. Wayne
Mr. Fleming
Stephen R. Fleming
Ian
Fleming
Partnes
Allen County
Whitley
Huntington
State Senate
Dekalb County
Flenmiue
Marshall
Kern
Judge Henton
Congress
Heaton
Cline
Line
Boyer Opera House
Kendallville
Angola
Lagrange
Civil War Veteran America Duke Dies at 90 in Indiana
Mrs America Duke, age 90, died Wednesday in Rushville Indiana leaving a son and two daughters. J W Williams of Arlington also died Wednesday and was identified as a Civil War veteran.
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Rushville
Ind
America Duke
J. W. Williams
Arlington
Acton School Case Studied by Court
Judge Vinson Carter took the Franklin township school case under advisement Wednesday evening. The court is expected to decide in a few days after arguments in superior court all week. The Acton faction seeks a restraining order against Trustee William Brown to stop his construction of the New Bethel school now under construction.
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Carter
Franklin Township
Vinson Carter
Acton
William Brown
Bethel School
Lone Survivor of Kingsland Crash Exposed as Imposter
Bluffton Indiana October 6 The man who claimed to have stepped from the racing car to escape injury in the Kingsland wreck has been branded an imposter He admitted his tale was a cock and bull frame up and disappeared after the wreck He was later pointed out as a passenger in a contraction car and faced questioning before confessing the story was false The crowd jeered him as his fabrication unraveled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluffton
Ind
John Bord
Kingsland
Boyd
Home Wrecker Sentenced in Juvenile Court
Carrie Feaster testified about her relationship with Charles Feaster and Mrs Jennie Boyd, begging for a fresh start in Ft Wayne. The court suspended Charles Feaster’s 100 dollar sentence and 90 days in the workhouse, while fining Mrs Feaster 25 dollars and six months in a women’s prison and sending Charles Blanchard to the workhouse for 30 days and a 25 dollar fine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie Feaster
Spruce Street
Charles J. Feaster
Charles
Feaster
Jennie Boyd
West
Washington Street
Ft. Wayne
Cros Named Progressive Republican Nominee in Oneida District
Rome New York October 6 James T Cros progressive Republican was nominated Thursday for the assembly in the Third Oneida district.
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Rome
N. Y
James T. Cros
Assembly
Oneida
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