Dray team collision with streetcar leaves minor injuries
A dray team belonging to Alf Spencer carrying meat ran away from Spear and Twelfth, smashed into a street car at Tenth and High, scattering beef and piling the dray on the tracks. No one hurt, horse injured but treated, drag and car lightly damaged.
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Tenth and High Streets
Drayman Spencer
James R. Hazeltine
Panhandle
John Ahern
Spear and
Twelfth Streets
Twelfth Street
Broadway
Twelfth
North Street
Tenth
North Streets
High Street
Ubero fraud case tied to Owen absence abroad
The Boston Traveler reports Billy Owens whereabouts uncertain as Ubero Plantations stock scheme collapses. Frederick Hood and W D Owen relatives calm investors while Stedman, Hood learn Ubero fraud order by post office. federal receivers take control. Hood distraught, refuses comment. detectives stir rumors without warrants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick C. Hood
Ubero Plantations Company
W. D. Owen
Indiana
Ferdinand E. Borges
Joliet
Arthur W. Stedman
Mr. Stedman
Ivernia
Mr. Hood
Country Club
Owen
Stedman
Hood
Post Office Department
Elopement Drama Ends in Reunion in Elville
Mrs Charles Gibson of Connersville Ind elopes with her former sweetheart Tom Hamilton a Kentuckian. Gibson pursues to Chicago finds couple headed toward Omaha but they have not left. after a stormy midnight scene the couple reconcile and return with Mrs Gibson bringing back most of his money.
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Charles Gibson
Connersville
Ind
Tom’’ Hamilton
Tommy
Hamilton
Mrs. Gibson
Elanville
Judge Paulus Rules Panhandle Violated City Crossing Lights
Judge Paulus of Marion decision for Hartford City in four cases against Panhandle Railroad for disobeying street crossing lighting ordinance. City wins with $10 fine and costs in each case. sixteen more cases appealed to circuit court with bonds filed Friday.
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Paulus
Marion
Hartford City
Panhandle Railroad Company
Henry Byars
Lucas
Panhandle
Grant County
Circuit Court
200 Indictments Sought Against Express Company in Wabash
Prosecutor Brower of Wabash County plans to press 200 indictments against American Express for violating Indiana law by failing to deliver consignments within cities outside the business center. Since the supreme court ruling the firm has refused to deliver within corporate limits remote from its center, and evidence has been gathered for the grand jury meeting this week.
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Supreme Court
Brower
Wabash Country
American Express Company
Wabash
Indiana
Grand
Man Struck by Automobile in Indianapolis
John Kern of 46 North Wall Street was struck and run over by a car Saturday in Indianapolis. The driver fled the scene. Kern suffered a fractured arm and painful bruises.
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John Kern
No. 46
North Wall Street
Indianapolis
Kern
Skeletons Found in Logansport Sewer Trench
Workmen uncover two skeletons while digging the West side sewer from Front Street to the railway. Old residents say remains date near a century, with skulls intact and teeth in one corpse, suggesting burial before Logansport’s trading post era.
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Front Street
Logansport
Ceman Eo
Bondsmen Face Settlement Over Unpaid Fine
The state fish commissioner has written Delphi about a $20 fine that late Justice J. C. Han nam secured in a fish case and did not remit to authorities. Bondsmen may be required to settle the matter, with the attorney general's office reportedly reviewing the major's affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delphi
J. C. Hannam
James Elder and Family Visiting Bloomingdale Hosts
Mr and Mrs James Elder of Bloomingdale are guests of Mrs H B Hill, the latter’s sister, during their visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Elder
Bloomingdale
H. B. Hill
Memorial Day Arrangements and Union Meetings Planned
The Trades and Labor assembly met at Labor hall to set Memorial Day events with O. P. Smith as a speaker and Ed Truax as marshal. Invites went to Rev. Crum and Father Connelly, with efforts to gain railway union co operation. Unions urged to join in the observance and a card party is planned for May 24 at G A R hall. A San Francisco council request on Panama Canal labor was filed without action. All unions report good trade.
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Trades and Labor Assembly
Labor Hall
O. P. Smith
Crum
Universalist Church
Father Connelly
St. Bridget’s
Ed Truax
Trades and Labor Council of
San Francisco
Cal
Washington
Panama
Butchers’ Union
G. A. R. Hall
Allegro Music Class Holds First Recital of Year
At Mrs Hayes home 616 Linden Avenue the Allegro music class presented its first recital of the year in a successful afternoon program. Participants included Eva Stuart Fern Garver Frane Hayes Gertrude Wertheim Mrs Hubbs Hazel Geppinger Bertha Rush Irene Neher Anna Parson Alta Davis Helena Sherron Bessie Livingston Alta Guthrie Martha Strong and Juadys Strart.
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Hayes
Linden Avenue
Allegro
Aff
Eva Stuart
Fern Garver
Frane Hayes
Gertrude Wertheim
Hubbs
Hazel Geppinger
Bertha Rush
Irene Neher
Anna Parson
Alta Davis
Helena Sherron
Bessie Livingston
Alta Guthrie
Martha Strong
Juadys Strart
Mushroom hunt gone wrong near Royal Center
Knute Underhay and Joe Latz set out to gather mushrooms in the countryside. Underhay lost his bearings while wandering the woods and returned to find the rig and Latz missing. He walked twelve miles to Logansport before learning Latz was last seen toward College Hill Kenneth and the pair faced a standstill.
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Knute Underhay
Joe Latz
Royal Center
Underhay
Latz
Logansport
Broadway
Third
College Hill
Gas line repair work underway between Peru and Converse
Thomas Wishard of Lafayette, general superintendent, oversees repairs on the Logansport and Wabash Valley Gas Co line. Four miles of main near Santa Fe and Amboy to be taken up and replaced with new pipes from Peru toward the pumping station at Converse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Wishard
Lafayette
Logansport & Wabash Valley Gas Company
Peru
Converse
Santa Fe
Amboy
Smoker Flees City in Cigarette Law Case
Police arrest Robert Robinson for alleged cigarette law violation. His wife posts bond and searches city as he vanishes to avoid prosecution. Prosecutor delayed by other business. affidavit filed after noon.
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Gilmand
Logansport
Robert Robinson
Great Railroad Tunnell Shields Nearing Completion
Four shields for the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel project between the Hudson and East rivers are nearly finished at Riter Conley’s Tedsdale works. Each 24 foot diameter cylinder weighs 150 tons with a heavy cutting edge. engines and diaphragms are inside. The units will be assembled in Pittsburg before shipment to New York.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Hudson
East Rivers
New York
Ccity
Tedsdale
Riter-Conley Manufacturing Comany
Acse
Mon Hhs
Specisl Am-Desen
Pittsburg
Circus Comes Tomorrow In Logansport
The Sells-Downs circus arrives in Logansport with tents set to rise on the Cromer grounds near Wilkinson Street. John R. Kennedy says he was not approached and that Cromer told him the show rented the ground.
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Cromer
Sells-Downs
Logansport
Wilkinson Street
John R. Kennedy
Car strikes buggy on West Market Street injures none
A West Market street car struck a buggy carrying William Schweder near the Market street fridge Saturday evening. The buggy's rear wheels tore off but the occupant and horses escaped uninjured.
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West Market Street
Death at Miller's Island near Lewisburg may be murder
The body of Monroe Shively, a Peru carpenter, was found decomposed on Miller's Island in the Wabash near Lewisburg. Coroner Neff investigates whether death was foul play or self-inflicted, with clues including a letter envelope addressed to Mrs Monroe Shively and a Chicago medical institute letter.
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Monroe Shively
Peru
Ket
Neff
Carly Flory
George Gillen
Cass-Miami County
Nead
Miller’s Island
Miami County
Walf & Tucker
Ind
John Gately Co
State Street
Chicago
The
Peru Journal
East Canal Street
Shively
Chicago Medical Institute
Wolf & Tucker
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Billy Owen
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Guardian
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After Express Company
Teddy
Castro
Santo Domingo
Beef Trust
Hannum
Trades Assembly
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Allegro Musical Class
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Companion
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Great Railroad Tunnll
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