Prisoner Held for Involuntary Manslaughter in Incefer Case
Coroner Neff holds McClack for the grand jury after evidence shows he struck his brother in law Ancefer with a rock and then stomped his ribs. Testimony from Lyman Hill and Mrs Moore portrays McClack as aggressor in a dispute over clothing and property. The verdict is expected tonight or tomorrow morning as the case waits for grand jury action.
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Neff
McClack
Ancefer
McClaeb
Uncefer
Ancefers
Hill
McCrack
Logansport
Walter Moore
Pay for Militia Encampment Salaries Totals 17241
Captain Fitch paid militia members for encampment time totaling 17 241 55 dollars in salaries. Hospital corps of ninety men received 685 55 dollars the largest single grant. Captain Harry A Kepner of Company A second regiment earned 565 50. Other units between 300 and 400. Privates received one dollar per day corporals 71 05 sergeants 1 10 and first lieutenants 1 15.
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Fitch
Hospital Corps
Harry A. Kepner
Meet of $100000 and $200000 Clubs at Lake Manitou
The American Central Life Insurance clubs will gather next week at Lake Manitou with fifty members from across the nation and their families. They will meet in Indianapolis on Monday August 21 and travel to Rochester by special Lake Erie & Western train, remaining all week for a banquet gun shoot fishing and athletic contests.
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American Central Life Insurance Company
Lake Manitou
United States
Indianapolis
Rochester
Lake Erie & Western Railroad
Mishawaka Grants Franchised Traction Franchise
Mishawaka grants the Indianapolis Logansport South Bend Traction Company a thirty five year franchise with a December 30 1907 completion deadline from Logansport to Mishawaka southern limits. The line must be in operation before privileges begin.
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Mishawaka
Logansport Line
Indianapolis
Logansport
Taken to asylum for mental illness in county records
Deputy Sheriff Emry took Mrs. Julia Hazel to Longcliff after she was declared insane amid grief over a child’s death. Her delusions include neighbors poisoning her. Tomorrow, Clarence Shorb will be taken to the same institution for confining himself and damaging furniture.
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Emry
Julia Hazel
Longcliff
Clarence Shorb
Shorb
Mrs Norah Fry and Grace Bird Visit Relatives
Mrs Norah Fry and Miss Grace Bird of White County visited relatives here on Monday.
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Norah Fry
Grace Bird
White County
Alfalfa crop proves 6000 yield potential for farmers
Cass county farmers discover alfalfa can yield three to five cuts per year with high protein feed. One farm notes thirty tons of hay stored after a winter without purchased hay, and comparisons show four tons per acre possible, saving $800 in feed costs versus bran.
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New York
More Room at Longcliff Hospital expands beds
The Longcliff hospital relieves congestion with two new buildings funded. The additions will begin soon, increasing capacity so incoming patients can be accommodated.
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Longcliff
Benning breaks world record in Y M C A growth at Two Harbors
Nelson W. Benning, formerly secretary of the local Y M C A, took charge of the Two Harbors, Minnesota office on March 15 1905. In five months the paid membership rose from 200 to 705 an increase over 250 percent. Jim Burwick, famed railroad evangelist, aids Benning in the territory as his wife Minnie Tucker Benning assists with music.
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Two Harbors
Minn
Benning
Jim Burwick
Logansport Panhandle
International Y. M. C. A
Burwick
Minnie Tucker
Henry Tucker
Fulton Farmer Killed in Peculiar Tragedy
Sam Horn aged 23 of Fulton county died near Rochester on the Michigan road while driving a log wagon. The horse team stalled and the wagon tilted. While inspecting, the coupling pole broke and the horses lifted the back of the wagon choking him.
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Sam Horn
Fulton County
Rochester
Michigan
Horn
Imperial Palace Ritual Vote Fails at Detroit Meeting
The Imperial Palace supreme lodge in Detroit considered a new ritual draft by a special committee but failed to reach the four fifths required for adoption. A new five member committee was appointed to revise the proposal with aims to cut objectionable features and stabilise the order for a future biennial vote.
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Knights of Pythias
Imperial Palace
Order
Detroit
Committee of Five
Instituton
Knights of Khorassan
Broken Arm Sends Fay Bending to Chicago for Care
Mr and Mrs George Bending took their daughter Fay to Chicago Sunday after a fracture of her arm occurred when she was thrown from a buggy over a week ago in Georgetown The doctor at first deemed the injury non surgical but later specialist care was sought at Logansport and then Chicago for proper treatment.
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McClaeb
Ancefer
Uncefer
Mrs. Stewart
McClack
George Bending
Fay
Chicago
Monticello Herald
Georgetown
Me‘Cann
Logansport
Fractured Humerus Treated After Chicago Care
An X ray showed a humerus fracture near the shoulder. The patient was taken to Chicago for premier treatment then returned Monday with her arm in a sling. Dr Farnhan of Chicago set the fracture and believes the injury is limited to the arm.
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Chicago
Farnhan
Brothers plan fifty year reunion journey after visit
Solomon Rice and John Rice of four miles south of town left today for North Hampden Pennsylvania to visit Solomon’s brother unseen for fifty years. They will tour Atlantic City and the Blue Mountains before returning.
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Solomon Rice
John Rice
North Hampden
Atlantic City
Blue Mountains
Illicit Doctors Fight Indiana License Case
Dr John Milton Rhodes sues the Indiana State Board of Medical Registration seeking an injunction to stop license revocation and board hearings. The suit accuses the board of conspiring with Eva Boykin and Walter McClellan to induce illegal operations and file affidavits to revoke physicians licenses. The board refused to discuss the case.
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State Board of Medical Registration and Examination
John Milton Rhodes
General Assembly
State Board of Medical Examiners
State Board
Eva Boykin
Walter McClellan
Dr. Rhodes
Daniel Brown
Rhodes
Eva Boykin and
McClellan
Indianapolis
Boykin
William McClellan
State House
Public Works Assesses Sixth Street Property
The board of public works is busy assessing property on Sixth Street and expects several days to finish. The Independent Coal company contract for about 10 000 tons of coal for the power house next year was approved. Minor matters were transacted.
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Board of Public Works
Sixth Street
Independent Coal Company
Panhandle Moves Mail Office to New Building
The Panhandle shifts the railway mail service to a newly purchased building from Earl Stewart. Transfer clerk Thomas F. Millican will move in, with front rooms fitted as a government transfer office. A mail reception space will be at the west entrance for timely handling before post office delivery.
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Panhandle
Earl Stewart
Thomas F. Millican
United States Railway Mail Service
Fourth Street
Milliran
Panhandle plans move to Stewart building and yard expansion
Several Panhandle departments will relocate from the old brick building southeast of the station to the second floor of the Stewart building. The vacated site will store telegraph linemen gear, with possible Adams Express relocation furnishing the rear first floor rooms. The moves aim to clear space for more tracks and a city spanning yard system.
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Panhandle
Stewart
J. M. Winger
Pat Clary
R. C. Ankefer
J. C. Finch
J. H. Barnes
Captain Stoltz
Logansport
Tousley
Adams Express Company
Fourth Street
Gas leak tale at Sixth street store stirs doubt
A report claims Green and Barr of Logansport & Wabash Valley Gas were fixing a leak at D. M. Watts Sixth street implement store when both fainted from gas. Watts denies the event while Watts’s interview supports it, leaving readers to judge the conflicting accounts.
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Sixth Street
Messrs. Green and
Barr
Logansport & Wabash Valley Gas Company
D. M. Watts
Messrs. Green
Watts
Messrs
Green
Gas Company
Waits
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Claeb
Lyman Hill
Walton
Grand Jury
William McClack
Anee
George W. Bolen
Aneeter
Bolen
Manitou
Cass County
Nelson W. Benning
Secre
Tary
Fulton
Kheder Khan Temple
Khorassan
Brother
Pennsylvania
Indications State Board
State
Milliron
Panhandle Company
Eel River
Seventeenth Street
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