Royals Seek Safety as Spain Faces Unrest
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria flee to England amid clerical hostility in Spain. Governor Mann of Virginia appoints ex Governor Claude A. Swanson to the U S Senate for the unexpired term ending March 3. Roosevelt tours Wyoming Valley mining towns, meeting workers and society figures, assessing coal-field conditions with Lawrence Abbott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfonso
Victoria
Spain
England
Mann
Virginia
Claude A. Swanson
Chatham
John W. Daniel
United States Senate
Roosevelt
Wyoming Valley
Pennsylvania
Glen Summit Springs
Wilkesbarre
Theodore Roosevelt
Lawrence Abbott
Lyman Abbott
Outlook
New York
Columbus calls 1000 special policemen for streetcar strike
With half the National Guard on riot duty Mayor Marshall asks Columbus for 1000 special policemen to police during the ongoing street car strike as nationwide unrest unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Guard
Marshall
Columbus
Taft
Provincetown
Mass
Charles W. Eliot
Brice
Netherlands
Jacob Hammon
National Republican
Navarre
Spanish Honduras Republic
Portland
Ore
John Devine
Canon City
Col
Devine
West Hoboken
N. J
Louis Brassetti
Paul
John
Rheims
France
New York City
New York
Col. C. C. Wilson
United Wireless Telegraph Company
Stella Lewis
Henry Yamaguchi
Sonoma County
Enoch Kendal
Ara Kendall
Canyon
Santa Rosa
Cal
Tariff debate and political shifts ripple across the nation
News items report Benjamin Ide Wheeler warning that tariff protection threatens a U S crisis, Ohio legislators gathering at Cedar Point for a reunion, Browne's bribery trial, and Iowa Republicans opposing Taft reforms. Other notices cover lynching in Florida, public cigarette abstinence in Nebraska, Kansas insurgent wins, Oklahoma bribery probes, mutinies on the Douglas Houghton, and various international and local incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Benjamin Ide Wheeler
University of California
New York
Germany
Ohio
Cedar Point
Lee O'Neil Browne
Charles A. White
Lorimer
Kersten
Chicago
Browne
Iowa
Des Moines
Taft
Cady
Fla
Bessie Morrison
Christian Endeavor Societies
Fairbury, Neb
Nicholas Longworth
Post Office Promotions Lead Indiana List
Indianapolis reports the post office department announced promotions for Indiana letter carriers across towns including Connersville Decatur Elkhart Frankfort Gary Hammond Indianapolis Lafayette Logansport Madison Martinsville Michigan City New Albany Terre Haute and Yamaraiso. Also Jasonville seeks postal savings bank status with local banks.
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Indianapolis
Post Office Department
Indiana
Connersville
Decatur
Elkhart
Frankfort
Gary
Hammond
Fivo
Lafayette
Logansport
Madison
Martinsville
Michigan City
New Albany
Terre Haute
Yamaraiso
Jasonville
Postal Savings Bank
First National Bank
Farmers
Nationals Bank of Wabash
Supervising Architect
The
Treasury
Huntington
Mishawaka
Mount Vernon
Newcastle
Portland
Seymour
Washington
Adams Express to Contest 1909 1910 Assessments
After a conference by telephone, Adams Express and State Auditor Billheimer agreed to challenge the 1909 and 1910 assessments in federal court. The 1909 evaluation set 151,844 miles at 939.50 per mile totaling 363,666 dollars, while 152,134 miles at 299 per mile for 455,000 dollars in 1910.
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Adams Express Company
John C. Billheimer
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Express Company
Indiana
State homes for needy persons count and finances
The second annual report by J. L. Peets shows 19 private homes for needy persons in the state last year costing 49 145 91. At year end 544 inmates, mainly aged, occupied these homes, an increase of 51. Total real estate value of the homes reached 566 346 with breakdowns by type including homes for friendless old ladies rescue of fallen girls aged care and orphans and homes for fallen women and aged ministers widows and orphans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. Peets
Probes Railroad Tax Dodging In Indiana
State Auditor John Bilheimer will lead a personal investigation in Hammond into alleged railroad tax dodging after a state board complaint. The New York Central and Chicago, Lake Shore & Eastern are named as principal offenders. Governor Marshall backs off the probe, with findings to shape tax legislation for the upcoming Indiana legislature session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bilheimer
Indiana
Hammond
State Board of Tax Commissioners
New York Central
Chicago, Lake Shore & Eastern
Marshall
Officials disagree on who brings charges under state accounting law
State officials charged with enforcing the accounting law agree criminal charges by field examiners must be filed by the prosecuting attorney in the jurisdiction where the offense occurred. The belief that the attorney general or governor’s agent brings suits is not supported by the accounting law.
New Hospital for the Insane Commission Holds Meeting
Governor Marshall accepts the Southeastern Hospital for the Insane at Madison and commissions the board of trustees. The district expands to include Decatur county with a 601 patient capacity. 528 in state hospitals, 58 in county poor asylums, and 7 in county jails.
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Indianapolis
Marshall
Southeastern Hospital For the
Madison
B. Sweet
Ephenman
Washington
Charles Cravens
George F. Pleasants
Vevay
G. A. H. Shideler
Marion
Alr. Inman
PD. D. Jacobs
Lafaverice
W. H. Lew Pendleton
Eddward Busse
Myansville
Decatur County
Southeastern
Monroe
Brown
Bartholomew
Lawrence
Jackson
Jennings
Ripley
Dearborn
Ohio
Switzerland
Jefferson
Scot
Clark
Floyd
Decatur
State News Briefs Spark Various Local Incidents Across Indiana
Richmond sees a forged check foiled by bank signature checks as Homer Staley, 20, is caught attempting a $6.50 fraud. Zionsville marks William N Lemon and wife’s golden anniversary with gifts including $104 in gold. Indianapolis hosts a meeting of the Marion County Agricultural Institute with papers on farming errors. Wabash reports a derailment in Michigan division blamed on a tramp ejecting from a freight train. Petersburg convicts Frank Briggs of first degree murder and sentences life imprisonment for killing Thomas Miller at Ayrshire. Evansville reports Eva Bivens charged with illegal liquor sales. Terre Haute notes a railway station safe robbery attempt using nitroglycerine at Washington station. robbers fled before capture.
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Richmond
Homer Staley
First National Bank
Staley
Zionsville
William N. Lemon
Lemon
Indianapolis
Marion County Agricultural, Horticultural and Farmers’ Institute Association
Indiana
J. C. Schiesser
E. H. Collins
Fair Grounds
Theodore M. Kingsbury
Wabash
Louis Anson
Michigan
Niles
Mich
Petersburg
Frank Briggs
Pike
Briggs
Thomas Miller
Ayrshire
Evansville
Eva Bivens
Fred Walton
Terre Hauté
Evansville & Indianapolis Railroad
Washington
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Kansas
T. P. Gore
House of Representatives
Oklahoma
Ainskogee
Ind
Douglas Houghton
John F. Parke
House Or Lords
House of Commons
Northwestern Railroad
Chadron
Neu
Italy
Porter Charlton
State Department
Oakland
Frank Rowland
Southern Pacific Railroad
Rowland
Joe Henson
Wood
N. M
W. R. Wright
Alamogordo
Stubbs
Vigo
Vatican
Capucines
Fairbury
Neb
M. Lee Hagle
Lapier
Hawley H. Crippen
London
Belle Elmore
Quebec
Security Investment Company
George Westinghouse
Great Electrical Works
Delaware & Hudson
Schenectady
N. Y
Frederick Schermerhorn
Traun
Munich
Qur
Farmers’ and Merchants’ National Bank of Wabash
State Board of Accounts
Jackson County
Jerry McOsker
McOsker
Richards
Public Library Commission
Earlham College
Whiting
Rensselaer
Kokomo
Montpelier
Union City
Linton
Princeton
Sullivan
Fowler
Hanover
Goshen
J. L. Rader
University of Oklahoma
Doddridge
Leadville
Craig
Indiana Swine Breeders
Milbert Sayler
New Market
Albert Harlan
Amo
Thomas Lindley
Russiaville
W. F. Farquhar
Modoc
Earl Buzzard
Hospital Law Beneficial
Board of State Charities
Board of State Charites
Commission
Carter
Fay
Piedmont Medicine Company
Statesville
N.C
Thompson
David Starr Jordan
RED Cross
Groce
Stanford University
Benham
Norway
Lord Ellenborough
Postum Cobbral CO
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