Low Bid On Lin ton Paving With Chapman InfluenceSuspected
The Bloomfield county commissioners opened thirteen bids for the Oscar Fitzpatrick concrete highway through Linton two miles north to south. James M Robertson & Son of Verre Haute offered $71 463 00 the lowest bid though rumors say other considerations than price may affect the letting. The board delayed final decision until Thursday at 10 a m.
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Chapman
Linton
Board of County Commissioners
Bloomfield
Oscar Fitzpatrick
James M. Robertson & Son
Verre Haute
LB. P. Beard & Construction Co
John A. Shepherd
Ernest Berns & Co
Woods McCaine
ATO
Charles M
Rostow
Chicago voters brace for bitter traction election
More than 25 000 special police guard Chicago polls as Mayor Dever seeks 250 million purchase of streetcar and elevated lines to create a municipally owned traction system. Evanston and Oak Park vote on Sunday blue laws amid party realignment and strong civic opposition.
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Chicago
William F. Dever
Dever
Morgan A. Collins
Evanston
Oak Park
Assault Victim Still Unconscious as Court Fight Looms
Indianapolis April 7 reports show Miss Oberholtzer, victim in the Stephenson assault case, in a semi conscious state with poisoning and injuries. D C Stephenson and conspirators Klenck and Gentry face arraignment on a conspiracy count as legal battles over indictments begin.
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International News Service
Indianapolis
D. C
Marl
Klench
Earl Gentry
Stephenson
Mental Status Case for Dorothy Ellison Nears Jury
San Francisco April 7 The case to determine the mental status of 17 year old Dorothy Ellison, accused of killing her mother, is likely to go to the jury Thursday night. The state seeks to prove sanity while presenting police testimony and other evidence challenging claims of insanity.
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San Francisco
Cal
Dorothy Ellingson
Dorothy
Kate Sullivan
Sullivan
Charpee
Cunard Liner Antonia Encounters Fierce Gale
The Cunard liner Antonia arriving from New York reported ten passengers slightly injured during a fierce gale.
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Tierce Gale
Plymouth
England
Cunard
Antonia
New York
Famous Dog Driver Wins Loop the Loop Race
Leonard Seppalla led his dog team to victory in Nome Alaska after delivering serum to combat diphtheria. Ed Rohn finished second while still in the serum dash.
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United Press Dispatch
Nome
Alaska
Leonard Seppalla
Ed Rohn
French People Asked to Make 10 Percent Wealth Loan
Paris April 7 The Chamber of Deputies sent to the finance committee a law by Finance Minister Demonzie to ease France from its perilous finances. The proposal calls for a voluntary patriotic contribution by French subjects equal to 10 percent of their wealth with the government paying a perpetual 8 percent tax on the contribution.
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International News Survice
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Chambers Committee On Finance
Demonzie
France
Man Kills Husband Over Love for Wife in Rochester
Joseph Friia, 31, confessed to killing James Lemardy in his bed after being urged by threats from Margaret Lemardy to elope. The statements followed Mrs. Lemardy recounting Friia's threats to kill her husband unless they ran away together.
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Uinternational
Rochester
N. Y
Joseph Friia
James Lemardy
Lemardy
Margaret
Princeton tornado death toll climbs to twenty four
Princeton Indiana reports Voldi Vanderburg, 70, died from injuries suffered in the March 18 tornado, marking the twenty fourth fatality in the disaster.
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Priess Deleuatc
Princeton
Ind
Voldi Vanderburg
Stephenson seeks to quash Klan case indictments
Indianapolis April 7 David Stephenson former Indiana figure in the Ku Klux Klan conferred with his lawyer to outline a defense strategy aimed at quashing five indictments for mistreating Madge Oberholtzer. He plans to argue the indictments relied on incompetent witnesses and an improperly selected grand jury. Oberholtzer's condition remains unchanged.
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Stephenson
William Remy
Remy
Grain Dragon
Indiana Klan
Inman
Linternational News Service
Indianapolis
David
Indiana
Ku Klux Klan
James Collins
Madge Oberholtzer
Coolidge plans envoy to gauge Europe debt payment ability
President Coolidge will send an American envoy to Europe to assess whether France and other debtors can fund negotiations on seven billion dollars owed to the United States treasury. Gerrard B. Winston, secretary of the foreign debt, leads the mission.
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Washington
Coolidge
France
United States Treasury
Gerrard B. Winston
Great Vice Trust Unearthed in Chicago
Federal agents began inspecting the elaborate records of an alleged booze and vice trust after a raid on its Chicago headquarters. Arrests of top figures and officials were reported as investigators compiled lists of hundreds of wealthy Chicagoans connected to the operation.
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International News Service
Chicago
Vice Trust
Farman Shepherd Typhoid Bacilli Case Heads To Trial
United Press dispatches detail the murder indictment of Dr. Charles Farman and William D. Shepherd over William McClintock. Officials seek proof Shepherd obtained typhoid bacilli from Farman and traces of mercury in McClintock and his mother's bodies. Shepherd appeals bond as Illinois Supreme Court weighs the case.
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International News
Chicago
Charles Farman
William D. Shepherd
William N. McClintock
W. S. Hoerger
City Health Department
Farman
Shepherd
McClintock
United Press Dispatch
Robert E. Crowe
McClintic
Charles C. Farman
Faiman
Herman Bundesen
Bacclli
Health Department
Winfield Scott Hoerger
Hoer
Emma Nelson McClintock
Billy
Oscar Olson
Harry Olson
Olson
Billy McClintock
Illinois Supreme Court
Jacob Hopkins
Criminal Court
Virginia tas cooled off again in Cal aine area
A brief note reports tas cooling off in the mine property area in California, with reference to a Virginia tas event. No further details available.
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Virginia
Cal Aine
Two Union Mines Reopen as Strike Continues in West Virginia
Nonunion mines operate at full force while union mines resume production. A new state police substation was opened at Osage to keep order during the United Mine Workers strike in ten northern counties. Production figures show 771 coal cars from nonunion mines and 185 from union mines after reopening.
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United Prisss Dispatch
Morgantown
W. Va
Osage
United Mine Workers of America
West Virginia
Morgantown Gas Coal Company
Monongahela County
Guard Kokomo jail to prevent release of two bank bandits
In Kokomo Indiana guards swelled around the county jail after detectives uncovered a plan to free Harry Pierpont and Thaddeus Sheer tied to the March 27 South Kokomo State Bank robbery. Saws were found in a cell and a window bar nearly sawed in two as the two awaited preliminary hearing. Alleged plotters boasted of shielding the pair from trial after Detroit arrest.
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Kokomo
Tress
Ind
Harry Pierpont
Thaddeus Skeer
South Kokoma
Detroit
Louise Brunner
Sheer
Garages Burned in Steubenville Loss Tops Two Hundred Thousand
Flames destroyed the Stanton Motor company garage housing eighty five automobiles in Steubenville. Loss valued at $200,000 with incendiary suspicion. Ger id Chapman stole a car from this site, a vehicle central to his Hartford murder trial. owners testified against him.
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Steubenville, CO
Stanton Motor Company
Gerid Chapman
Hartford
Chapman Lawyers Press On To Save Bandit Gerald Chapman
Hartford news reports that Gerald Chapman’s lawyers, led by Nathan Freedman, vow continued appeals to spare him. Freedman says Chapman is innocent and an appeal is being prepared, while Chapman himself shows weariness and blames Shean and Prosecutor Alcorn for his conviction.
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United Press Dispatch
Hartford
Conn
Chapman
Nathan Freedman
Gerald Chapman
Tts
Shean
Bank in Hazle Dell Closes After Safe Theft
The Hazle Dell state bank will discontinue business after stockholders met on a Saturday. A December burglary saw bandits steal the bank safe, netting about $2,000 in cash and Liberty bonds, with insurance not enough to cover the loss.
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Terre Haute
Hazle Dell
Car Building Shops to Be Placed in Brazil Ind
Brazil Ind April 7 The General Equipment Company has leased the G T W north yards and will start large scale car building in Brazil with capacity for 500 cars. Ki T Piercy reports no official word yet but expects workers to arrive soon to commence construction. Steam driven machinery and large boilers will power the shops, creating steady employment.
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Brazil
Ind
General Equipment Company
Ki. T. Piercy
General’ Equipment Company
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