Subpoena Issued Over Mormon Church Ties To Sugar Trust
Washington committee issues a subpoena for Joseph F. Smith president of the Mormon church to disclose affiliations with the sugar trust. Senate investigators name John Marble and John J. Healy as counsel in the Lorimer bribery case. Democratic caucus fails to extend the legislative program, focusing on tariffs. Berger opposes tariffs while resisting immediate abolition. Knox defends past administration scandals as not his responsibility. International Paper refuses to provide pricing and funding details to Senator Penrose. Havemeyer cited as exercising control with limited stock. Senate passes a resolution for nationwide popular election of senators 64 to 24, with Bristow amendment on federal controls failing 44 to 44. Sherman casts deciding vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hardwick Sugar Investigating Committee
Washington
Joseph F. Smith
Mormon Church
The
Sugar Trust
United States Senate
United States
Bristow
Sherman
Embezzling Trial Leads to Daughter’s Birth Claim
In Cincinnati, Mrs Jeannette Stewart Ford sobs under cross examination as Edgar Cooke accused of embezzling 24600 from the Big Four railroad faces testimony linking Cooke to the child born out of wedlock. The case unfolds amid a wave of other national updates from the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeannette Stewart-Ford
Cincinnati
Edgar
Cooke
Big Four Railroad
Charles W. Baker
Edgar §. Cooke
Chicago
Local Notables Die As Harold J. Matthews and Denmead Pass
George Jey Matthews president of J N Matthews publishers of the Ayr Express dies at Feltonwood Grand Island N Y aged 56. David T Denmead president of First National Bank Marshalltown Ia dies of heart disease in Cincinnati while attending a relative’s funeral. Mrs Harrison A Allyn gifts a large tract to the Connecticut College for Women the deed dated June 12 and drawn June 13 for the $2 000 000 institution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Jey Matthews
J.N. Matthews Company
Ayia Express
Feltonwood
Grand Island
N. Y
David T. Denmead
First National Bank of
Marshalltown
Cincinnati
Harrison A. Allyn
Connecticut College For Women
Adriatic hurricane hits Trieste. twenty victims recovered
A strong Adriatic hurricane damaged shipping and left twenty victims recovered at Trieste, Austria, as the storm battered coastal areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trieste
Austria
Adriatic Ocean
Four Corner Fight for 1912 Indiana Sunday School Meet
The Indiana Sunday School association wrapped its Ft Wayne convention with officers elected led by President W C Hall Indianapolis and Vice President HE Felt Greenfield. Richmond delegates urged momentum with white ribbon badges and a push to gain the 1912 gathering, while reports showed growth in Sunday school work across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana State Sunday School Association
Ft. Wayne
W. C. Hall
HE. W. Felt
Greenfield
C. S. Dearborn
H. F. King
King
T. G. Pierson
Spencer
W. N. Dressell
Evansville
E. F. Yarnelle
Fr. Wayne
L. A. Ertzinger
Huntington
Karl Bosworth
Vincennes
Richmond
Terre Haute
Crawfordsville
Hall
Jesse Roop
Adams County
J. S. Harris
Wayne
W. H. Baer
Vigo
J. S. Morrison
Vermilion
E. W. Kenneman
Vanderburg
Ernest P. Maye
Union
E. Hungerford
Rush
J. H. Seeman
Putnam
J. H. Branson
Hamilton
D. K. Shannon
Blackford
Ollie E. Liggett
Brown
H. D. Rees
DeKalb
Hattie Gates
Tipton
Indiana
Temperance Department
Laura A. Carraway
Warsaw
Says Law Means Economy in Township Poor Relief
Amos W. Butler announces in the board of state charities quarterly report that township poor relief taxation shows the present law as economical. Taxable townships rose from 64 in 1898 to 361 in 1919 with peak levies shifting from over five cents in 1898 to 64 townships in 1919. Salt Creek township Martin county reached 15 cents per township, with earlier highs near 30 cents when the law began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amos W. Butler
Board of State Charities
Butler
Salt Creek
Martin County
Indiana Accounting Law Praised by 24 State Officials
Accounting officers from 24 states at the National Association of Controllers and Accountants convention in Washington City unanimously lauded Indiana's accounting law as the best in the United States. W A Deharity and Millard F Cox will report the praise to Governor Marshall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
United States
Washington City
National Association of Controllers and Accountants
W. A. Deharity
Indiana Accounting Bureau
Millard F. Cox
Marshall
County School Heads Named
The state superintendent of public instruction issued a list of Indiana county superintendents. Elections were held June 5 with four year terms. New officials elected in Boone, Brown, Cass, DeKalb, Delaware, Floyd, Fulton, Gibson, Grant, Green, Hancock, Harrison, Hendricks, Huntington, Jefferson, Jennings, LaGrange, Lawrence, Martin, Pike, Putnam, Ripley, Scott, Spencer, Starke, Steuben, Switzerland, Union and Vigo counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Boone
Brown
Cass
DeKalb
Delaware
Floyd
Fulton
Gibson
Grant
Green
Hancock
Harrison
Hendricks
Huntington
Jefferson
Jennings
Lagrange
Lawrence
Martin
Pike
Putnam
Ripley
Scott
Spencer
Starke
Steuben
Switzerland
Union
Vigo
Wheat stem maggot infestation prompts late wheat planting
BR Douglass reports wheat heads failing to fill due to larvae of Meromiza Americana, a pest affecting multiple grasses. Adults lay eggs on native grasses, so late fall wheat planting reduces injury. A trap crop of early planted wheat may be burned or plowed under to destroy eggs. The piece also notes plans for more game preserves and bass fingerling distribution from hatcheries to northern counties.
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BR. W. Douglass
Douglass
George W. Miles
Fish and Game
Preston H. Miles
Miles
Allisonville
Riverside
Johnson, Morgan, Henry
Rush
License Clerk Appointment Discussed in Indiana
E R Hooton of the state bureau of inspection will meet Governor Marshall in Indianapolis upon his return from Crawfordsville to discuss appointing a license clerk for the new bureau. Edward Bond of Marion is among the candidates and has strong labor union backing. The conference will also set the start dates for other department officials.
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E R. Hooton
State Bureau of Inspection
Marshall
Indianapolis
Crawfordsville
Edward Bond
Marion
Donahue Identifies Brother’s Body From 30 Year Photo
Michigan City man Thomas Donahue, a Chicago mail carrier, recognizes the drowned barge victim as his brother Martin R. Donahue after finding letters and using a 30 year old photograph. He had not seen his sibling in 25 years and learns of a marriage and two children.
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Thomas Donahue
Chicago
Michigan City
Martin R. Donahue
B. D. Marshall
Loss of Job Drives Man to Suicide at Lansdown
Alva B. Putnam sixty one born in Plymouth Indiana longtime South Bend resident shot himself beside an unfinished tombstone in Lansdown Pennsylvania Despondency over losing his post as doorkeeper in the U S House of Representatives appointed by the late Representative A L Brick is given as the motive He died June 17 amid private sorrow and local reports indicate his long ties to Indiana and Washington work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
South Bend
House of Representatives
Washington
A. L. Brick
Lansdown
Alva B. Putnam
Putnam
Plymouth
Indiana
Fire Wrecks Peru Stores Causing Fifty Thousand Loss
A fire caused by spontaneous combustion in a paint stock destroyed the Mec Caffrey & Co department store and the Peru Furniture company building. An explosion preceded the blaze, which spread before authorities could contain it. Insurance covers the loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peru
MecCaffrey & Co
Peru Furniture Company
Death on railroad near Greensburg
The body of Cleo Kahouse, a young farm hand from near St Paul, was found near the Dig Four tracks in Greensburg. An early east bound train engineer discovered the remains. Kahouse reportedly was drinking. skull crushed and body bruised from hips to neck. Only matches and cigarette papers were found in his pockets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensburg
Cleo Kahouse
St. Paul
Kahouse
Eva Weill Leaves Estate to Charity in Death
Fowler resident Miss Eva Weill who died of tuberculosis at St Elizabeth hospital leaves 12000 to charity. Four thousand supports St Elizabeth hospital for consumptive addition. Four thousand goes to St Joseph Orphan asylum and a further four thousand to a Catholic bishop in New Mexico for church work.
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Lafayette
Eva Weill
Fowler
St. Elizabeth Hospital
St. Joseph Orphan Asylum
New Mexico
Heiress for education share seeks charity division
Catherine Barker a twelve year old heiress of Laporte seeks court approval to divert part of her annual income from her trust to charitable institutions in Laporte and Michigan City. Her father’s will provided nine thousand dollars yearly for her education and support from a large estate valued at about thirty million dollars held in trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bountiful
Laporte
Catherine Barker
Circuit Court
Michigan City
Fraud in Pike County Superintendent Election Sparks Sworn Affidavits
Five of six Republican trustees sworn affidavits claim they voted for Republicans in the county superintendent race rather than the Socialist candidate Andrew Jewell, who was declared the winner after the first Monday of the month in Petersburg.
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Charoe
Petersburg
Pike County
Repubican
Republcans
Andrew Jewell
Purdue Trustees Appoint New Engineering Heads
Purdue university trustees at their annual meeting appointed H. C. Peffer from Pennsylvania State College as head of the new department of chemical engineering. Prof. C. G. Woodbury becomes head of horticulture. L. D. Rowell of Case and A. D. Du Boise of Cornell are named professors of electrical engineering.
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Purdue
Lafayette
Purdue University
H. C. Peffer
Pennsylvania State College
C. G. Woodbury
L. D. Rowell
Case School
A. D. du Boise
Cornell
Two Thousand Bass Liberated in Indiana Streams
Jacob Sottong Southern District fish and game commissioner released 2000 small mouth bass from the Indianapolis hatchery. One thousand were placed in Flatrock creek near Lewisville and another thousand east of Newcastle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newcastle
Jacob Sottong
Southern District
Indiana
Indianapolis
Flatrock Creek
Lewisville
Gary Officers Acquitted in Election Day Riot Case
Gary officials White Price and Mulcahey were found not guilty of riot charges after a four minute jury deliberation. Mayor Knotts and fifteen Gary officials charged with conspiracy will be tried next week.
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Gary
Valparaiso
White, Price and Mulcahey
Knotts
Actress offered private divorce deal amid publicity clash
In a scene reflecting gossip, Peggy asks the lawyer if he knew she was an actress and Kitty explains he proposed a private divorce arrangement without publicity. The exchange hints at secrecy and media attention around the proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peggy
Kitty
Man Bailed on Kiss of Wife Charge in New Jersey
A New Jersey man faced a peace breach charge after kissing his wife against her will. He was bondRequired to stay away and warned by the court not to kiss without consent in the future. The judge set bail at 100 dollars to keep the peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Jersey
Benedict
Washington Herald
Munyon's Paw Paw Pills Promoted For Liver Health
A historic advertisement touts Munyon's Paw Paw Pills as a gentle laxative that stimulates liver secretions without scouring or weakening the bowels. It claims constipation causes many ailments, criticizes harsher cathartics, and advertises a 45 pill bottle for 25 cents from Munyon's Laboratory in Philadelphia.
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Munron
Munyon’s Laboratory
Jefferson Stu
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Washington, D. C
John J. Healy
Lorimer
House
Victor L. Berger
Wisconsin
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Haulin Committee
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Elihu Root
Rosenthal
John Hay
International Paper Company
Penrose
United States Senate Finance Committee
International Company
H. O. Havemeyer
American Sugar Refining Company
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Maine
Cathedral of
St. John the Divine
New York
Russell Sage
Bishop Potter
W. FE. D. Stokes
Ansonia Hotel
Lang Branch
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Ferris
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Mexico
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General Baking Company
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Savannah
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Taft
North Dakota
E. H. Stokes
E. C. Stokes
Millville
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Mishawaka
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J. P. O'Mahoney
Indiana Catholic
Leon Knoezier
Hammond
Louis H. Busha
Joseph Kress
E. P. Honan
Rensselaer
John J. Molloy
Edward J. Vianco
D. J. Paskwietz
Whiting
William H. Wilber
Foresters
St. Anthony's Hall
War- Inan Avenue
Joseph IF. Byrne
St. Anthony's Church
E. P. Horan
Louis H. Pasha
Libby
McNeill
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Professor Munyon
58D
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