Supreme Court Backs Payne Aldrich Tax Provisions
The Supreme Court holds the Payne Aldrich tariff act corporation tax provisions constitutional, ending a long dispute since Taft proposed them. Walter L. Fisher becomes Interior secretary, succeeding Richard A. Ballinger, in a ceremonyless transfer. Nine men including Albert C. Frost are indicted in Chicago for conspiring to defraud the U.S. government of coal lands in Alaska valued at ten million dollars.
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Supreme Court of the United States
Taft
Congress
Department of the Interior
Walter L. Fisher
Chicago
Richard A. Ballinger
Albert C. Frost
Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railroad
Alaska Central Railroad
United States
Alaska
Notable figures in brief health and society notices
Mrs Carrie Nation, the Kansas temperance worker, in a Leavenworth sanitarium, is weakening amid a general breakdown. John B McDonald, veteran engineer, dies in New York City after weeks of illness. Frederick Weyerhaeuser buys a Pasadena home to spend his remaining years. Whitelaw Reid and family attend Ogden Mills Reid’s wedding at Racine College chapel. John Hays Hammond, US special ambassador, to pay 10000 dollars weekly for Burdett-Coutts mansion during London coronation week.
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Carrie Nation
Kansas Temperance Worker
Leavenworth, Kan
John B. McDonald
New York City
Whitelaw Reid
United Tates
England
Ogden Mills Reid
Helen Milels Rogers
Racine
Wis.) College Chapel
John Hays Hammond
United States
Burdett-Coutts
London
Plan for reforms in Mexico fuels revolution end forecast
Report from New York cites Senor Limantour's tentative reform plan as the basis for ending the Mexican revolt. An attack on Juarez barracks detonated nitroglycerin, wounding and capturing two insurgents. Archduchess Stephanie, widow of Crown Prince Rudolph, is seriously ill in Zurich.
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Mexico
Senor Limantour
Ding
Sener Limantour
New York City
Juarez
Stephanie
Longay
Leopold of
Belgium
Rudolph of
Austria
Zurich
Switzerland
Renewals of Liquor Licenses In Indiana Face Turbulent Session
Fifty renewals issued after the Proctor act took effect. Forty nine approved at March term, sixteen new applications for established saloons not considered, three new in new places denied, one applicant failed to appear. Old licenses may transfer to new applicants if renewed next meeting, else expire. New acts promise extensive litigation for lawyers.
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Indianapolis
Sahm
Arthur M. Monda
Shelby Street
Raub
Loni S. McClure
Indiana Avenue
H. A. Walker
Court Street
A. M. Schwab
General Assembly
Indiana
Marion and
Kokomo
Board of County Commissioners
Greathouse Begins Term as State Superintendent
Charles A. Greathouse starts his two year elective term as state superintendent of public instruction after filling the previous unexpired term. Adelaide Baylor named to oversee the Manuscript department will lecture to teachers and inspect schools, earning $2000 yearly, starting about April 15.
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Greathouse
Adelaide Baylor
Wabash
Miss Baylor
Marietta H. Dunn
Aley
Missionary Meetings Arranged Across Indiana Districts
Rev J T Scull Jr leads Connersville district with planned missionary meetings in April across multiple towns including Connerville East Connersville Milton Leuret Milroy Sandusky Clarksville Richland Liberty Browneville Fairfield College Corner Brookville Metamora Manat Carmel Rushville Fal mouth Arlington Morristown and more as part of the Indiana conference missionary convention initiative.
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Indiana Conference Missionary Convention
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Shelbyville
Indiana
J. T. Scull
West Street
Leuret
Milroy
Sandusky
Clarksville
Richland
Liberty
Browneville
Fairfield
College Corner
Brookvile
Metamora
Manat Carmel
Rushville
Falmouth
Arlington
Morristown
Discrepancy Charged to Tirey in State Account Audit
Field examiners of the state charged former Aitch ell clerk and treasurer Tirey with 4 256.48 not counting 2 500 paid by his bondsmen after retirement in August 1907. Harry Orchard, state board of accounts examiner, found about 6 700 discrepancy on the Locks. Nobility of bondsmen allegedly questioned.
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Tirey
Aitchell
Harry Orchard
State Board of Accounts
Indiana Manufacturers to receive legal bulletin on new employe duty law
Indiana manufacturers that belong to the Indiana Manufacturers' Bureau will get bulletins from the bureau's legal department analyzing the new employers' liability law enacted by the recent legislature. The bulletin argues much of the act re enacts existing law and may be struck down by the supreme court on constitutional grounds.
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Indiana
Indiana Manufacturers’ Bureau
Legal Department of the Bureau
Harry Miesse
Supreme Court
Indiana Aids Centennial Effort for State History
Indiana moves to mark the 1976 centennial by creating a state history research fellowship under Professor Woodburn. A graduate student will study Indiana history, dedicating most time through 1916 to prepare a memorial volume for the centennial.
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Indiana University
Indiana
Woodburn
Engraver Senges commits suicide in Indianapolis saloon
Philip H. Senges a 505 East McCarty Street engraver drank carbolic acid in a saloon at 3010 West Washington Street with a beer chaser. He died at the City hospital after paramedics rushed him from the scene. Police were summoned as witnesses described the somber act.
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Philip H. Senges
Washington Street
Indianapolis
McCarty Treet
West
Trimpe
Bernauer
Senges
Plans for Editors' June Democratic editors' visit
Laporte reports plans for hosting the Democratic State Editorial association in June. Warden E J Fogarty of Michigan City prison offers personal hospitality to editors and wives, while President John Cavanaugh of the University of Notre Dame will extend campus hospitality.
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Laporte
Democratic State Editorial Association
E. J. Fogarty
Michigan City
Harry RB. Darling
John Cavanaugh
University of Notre Dame
South Bend
War on Decollettes in Columbus Cold Weather
Local physicians and health officers protest the fashion of very low necklines worn by young girls in frigid weather. They link several recent deaths to colds contracted from exposure of throats and necks on the streets.
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Columbus
Soecal
Bat Ends Love Argument In Indianapolis Saloon Fight
In a Shelby Street saloon a baseball bat swung by S P Loyd against Alfred Whalen of Louisville after a dispute over a young woman. Whalen suffered serious injuries and was treated at police headquarters after both men were arrested for assault and battery.
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Indianapolis
S. P. Loyd
Alfred Whalen
Louisville
Shelby Street
Whalen
Indiana corn wins fame as Hope growers ship 25 bushels
Louis A. Vogler & Son of Hope ship 25 bushels of Indiana corn to Pretoria, South Africa, on a Transvaal agricultural department order for experimental use.
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Indiana
Columbus
Louis A. Vogler & Son
Corn Growers of Hope
Pretoria
Agricultural Department of the
Transvaal
South Africa
Firebugs Work in Gary Strikes Five Fires in Half Hour
In Gary on March 18 five fires of apparently incendiary origin broke out within half an hour. The Gary fire department with three companies could not cope, prompting citizens to assist and calls for help to East Chicago and neighboring cities.
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Gary
Trap Catches Gray Eagle in Quincy
Quincy news reports C RB Summers captured a seven foot wingtowing gray eagle in a steel trap here days ago. The bird’s large appetite makes it desirable for Summers to dispose of it at once.
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Quincy
State to retry Hunt in Willow River death case
Laporte March 18 State's Attorney Smith announced a retry of William J. Hunt of Wabash who is indicted for murder. Hunt, a Lake Shore employee, is accused of hurling Joseph Tarnowski of Willow River Michigan to his death.
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Laporte
Smith
William J. Hunt
Wabash
Hunt
Lake Shore
Joseph Tarnowski
Willow River
Mian
Family Stricken by Measles Referred to Trustee
Grant Keith, township trustee, was asked to aid the Emmons family of this city after the father mother and two children were stricken with measles and bedridden.
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St. Washington
Eadh
Grant Keith
Jacob M. Emmons
Robs Girl Gets Sentence in Circuit Court
Fort Wayne reports Charles Zickgrat was sentenced to five to fourteen years in the penitentiary after a circuit court case involving a theft from a girl named Amanda Misner eight years old. The incident occurred in March.
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Fort Wayne
Amanda Misner
Charles Zickgrat
Car Crash Kills Farmer in Michigan City
Joseph Wagener, a farmer, was killed and Frank Sitkowski, 35, was fatally injured when their wagon was struck by a city street car in Michigan City on March 18.
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Farmer
Michigan City
Joseph Wagener
Frank Sitkowski
Saloon Men Under Arrest in Lafayette
United States Deputy Marshal David Rankin arrested seven Lafayette saloon keepers on March 18 for excise law violations.
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Lafayette
United States
David Rankin
REVIVE EXPRESS WAR IN NEW YORK AREA
Five thousand union drivers in New York and Jersey City vote for a general strike after a stinging session. Adams United States and Wells Fargo express workers quit in solidarity citing discrimination from companies. Delegates in Jersey City extend the walkout to drivers and helpers across the three firms despite prior settlement hopes.
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Adams Express Company
New York
Gaynor
Jersey City
Adams
United States
Wells-Fargo Express
Adams Company
Oil aids mail transfer between ships in Pacific
In mid Pacific the Minnesota and Sado Maru transferred mail after the Minnesota broke its starboard thrust shaft five days from Yokohama. Oil was used to smooth seas as two boats loaded with 202 mail bags were brought alongside. An assistant purser, Ford, suffered a crushed ankle but no other injuries occurred. Passengers were returned to Japan after a risk assessment.
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Victoria
B. C
Great Northern
Minnesota
Yokohama
Pacific
Purser
Ford
Japan
Rare coins redated in Cincinnati swindle scheme
Detectives in Cincinnati report a scheme using old and rare coins altered to new dates. Federal inspectors trace a suspected gang that mutilates coins to boost values and sell them to collectors, with pawnbrokers approached about 50 cent pieces dated 1853 and 1804.
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Cincinnati
Littleton backs Doctor Taft for U S Senate
Congress man Martin W. Littleton, a leading Democratic candidate for New York's U S Senate, returns to New York praising Doctor Taft of Augusta Georgia. He had feared a spinal abscess would hospitalize him but played golf with Taft, losing two up with one to play, and reports improved health.
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New York
Martin W. Littleton
United States
New York State
Taft
Augusta
Banker Commits Suicide at Lombard Street Bank
London reports the death by self inflicted shooting of R. F. Carnegie, manager of the Lombard Street branch of Farr's Bank Limited, at his home. Bank affairs described as in perfect order.
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London
England
R. F. Carnegie
Lombard Street Rch
Farr’s Bank, Limited
Sealing Fleet Faces Heavy Ice Pack Off New Jersey
Unfavorable wireless message from the sealing fleet reports heavy ice off St John s New Jersey and port departure on Monday. If milder conditions do not arrive soon the season's sealing success may be in doubt.
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St. John's
Njfl
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