Randazzo Electrocuted in Auburn Prison
Salva Randazzio, convicted April 3, 1908 for the murder of his cousin Pietro Randazzio near West Salamanca, was electrocuted in Auburn prison this morning. The article also reports on Indiana and Peru veto votes, wet and dry majorities by township and city, mob prevention efforts, arrests for illegal voting, and an evening prayer service turning into thanks.
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Tore Randazzio
Pietro Randazzio
West Salamanca
Peru
Converse
Pipe Creek
Bunker Hill
Washington
Butler Township
Wallace Circus
Indiana City
Walter Shaffer
Ft. Wayne
Gallion
Bearrs
Roosevelt writing pieces and Africa trip plans persist
Ex president Theodore Roosevelt writes articles for publication while preparing for an African hunting expedition. Richard Tjader, leaving New York for Europe, will work with the American Museum of Natural History in Africa for six months collecting specimens. Roosevelt hosts a Masons meeting at Sagamore Hill and plans a reception for Nassau county delegates who attended Washington’s inauguration.
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Roosevelt Smithsonian
Mr. Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Matinecock Lodge of Masons
Washington
Nassau County
Oyster Bay
Theodore Roosevelt
Cravenette
Enoch Arden Act Recalls Bates Family After 29 Years
Mitchell Indiana report of John T Bates returning home after 29 years away and presumed dead. He finds his wife remarried and children grown. Bates 70, with a second wife and a son by that marriage. He has been in Rushville 19 years and will return tomorrow after visiting friends and first family.
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Associated Press
Mitchell, Ind
John T. Bates
Bates
Rushville
Ind
Tobacco Men Caucus in Winchester Weighs Society Future
Winchester Kentucky March 16. The executive board of the Burley Tobacco Society representing 20 000 growers in Kentucky Ohio West Virginia and Indiana meet to decide whether to continue the society If 80 per cent of the growers don t enter the vote will determine the society s fate and future actions.
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Associated Press
Winchester
The
Burley Tobacco Society
Kentucky
Ohio
West Virginia
Indiana
Girl Seeks Marriage. 14-Year-Old Ruth Friend Arrested
In Warsaw Indiana on March 16 Ruth Friend 14 of Silver Lake was stopped with cash ready to board a tram to Elkhart to marry Charles Smith who allegedly promised to wed her. Smith had been denied a license by County Clerk Edwin Stout. Mrs Friend sought placement in a reformatory and police hunt for Smith continues.
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Edwin Stout
Silver Lake
Warsaw
Bowser
Smith
Unarmed New York Detective Petrosino Slain in Palermo
Rome reports the New York police lieutenant Joseph Petrosino was killed in Palermo Friday night. An unloaded revolver found in his hotel casts doubt on self defense. Italian authorities note Mafia aid from New Orleans and Sicily. Many arrests have been made as the case unfolds.
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Italy
New Orleans
Sicily
New York
Petrosino
Farrelly Named Bishop of Cleveland by Pope
The pope appointed Monsignor John Farrelly, currently spiritual director of the American college in Rome, as bishop of Cleveland Ohio succeeding the late Bishop Horstman. The decision followed a recent consistory under Cardinal de Lai.
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Associated Press
Rore
John Farrelly
American College At
Rome
Cleveland, O
Horstman
Consistorial
Cardinal de Lai
Tafts Message Drives Tariff Revision Debate in Congress
Washington March 16 The Presidents tariff revision message was the main business in the Senate with careful attention and a brief adjournment to Friday. The House session, calmer than opening day, greeted Taft by applause as expectations build for the tariff measure due tomorrow.
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Taft
Deep Water Way Talks Move to Legislation
Representatives of the Indiana and Illinois Deep Water Way Association passed resolutions urging state legislatures to deepen the Kankakee River from South Bend to the Illinois River. They also named a committee to confer with the congressional committee on rivers and harbors.
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Associated Press
Kankakee, Ill
Indiana and Illinois Deep Water Way Association
Kankakee River
South Bend
Ind
Illinois River
Congressional Committee On
Rivers and Harbors
Indiana mine to close says notice posted
An Associated Press report from Oakland on March 16 notes notices have been posted that the mine will close in four miles near Ayreshire. The fragmentary text confirms a closing action but lacks full details.
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Associated Press
Oakland
City
Ayreshire
Henry Clay Cullom Dies in Peoria at Age
Peoria Ill March 16 Henry Clay Cullom brother of United States Senator Cullom is reported dead at the age of in this late city brief death notice with limited details provided.
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Associated Press
Peoria
Ill
Henry Clay Cullom
United — States
Cullom
Miami County Op Election Results Reported Amid Mixed Calls
The Tribune notes 180 telephone calls as election results from the Peru offices trickled in, with returns in Miami County arriving fast at headquarters. Signals of information clogging from other sources are mentioned as officials track the outcome from Peru and nearby areas.
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Miami County
Logansport
Tribune
Peru
the Tribune
Uprising Suppressed in New Cuban Republic at Vuelta
The first armed uprising against President Gomez’s new Cuban republic broke out at Vuelta last night. A substantial troop movement was dispatched, and Gomez vowed to instantly suppress the revolt and make an example of all involved.
Zeppelin Makes Flight Over Lake Constance
Count von Zeppelin's new model airship with the inventor and four others on board descended successfully on shore near Friedrichshafen today. It proved landing on ground possible without a special platform, then rose again and returned to the lake’s balloon shed. One steering plane was damaged when touching a tree but repaired on the spot.
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Associated Press
Freidrichshafen
Count von Zeppelin
Lake of Constance
Death of Cicero farmer Lewis Chen in Indiana
Special to The Tribune reports the death of Lewis Chen, a retired farmer from Cicero, Indiana, from cancer. The death date is noted as March 16.
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Cicero
Ind
Lewis Chen
Fleming Brothers Ambushed in West Virginia Feud
In Hart's Creek Lincoln county John and Frank Fleming, accused feud members, were shot by ambush. Frank died, John wounded and later released from prison where he served two years for conspiracy. He returned home to find his wife remarried to rival John McCoy. The ambush occurred while heading to McCoy's home near Atonville.
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Associated Press
Huntington
W. Va
John
Frank Fleming
Hart’s Creek
Lincoln County
John McCoy
McCoy
Atonville
Striking Telegraph and Postal Workers Extend Action in Paris
Paris March 16 The general strike by telegraph telephone and postal workers spreads with shifts reporting for duty yet services crippled. Police guards guard railroad stations as workers occupy posts but do little, while meetings aim to boost resistance and mail trains face delays and abandonment. Telegraphic links to Vienna Geneva Frankfort Berlin Marseilles Milan interrupted. London remains mostly connected.
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Geneva
Frankfort
Berlin
Marseilles
Milan
London
Wonderful feat in surgery performed
Washington March 16. A brain operation on Russell Dulin aged 11 at Georgetown Hospital is described as a wonderful surgical feat. The boy suffered paralysis from a tumorous growth in the brain’s right lobe and a stroke on the left side. Surgeons removed the growth by scalp incision and drilled bone to access it, with hope the brain will regain function.
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Associated Press
Washington
Russell Dulin
Georgetown Hospital
Progress of State Suffrage Convention in Universalist Church
The Indiana state convention of the Woman's Suffrage Association opened with delegates from several towns. Miss Pearl Penfield, a National secretary, and Miss Harriet Noble of Vincennes spoke on English suffragists. Mrs. Ella S. Stewart of Chicago addressed the crowd on the function of women in government.
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State Association
National Association
Pearl Penfield
Harriet Noble
Vincennes
London
Smith
van Buskirk
F. B Perkins
Miss Tobin
Star City
Mary Leiter
Cora A. Brocway
Susan E. Collier
Julia Lando
Anna W. Westing
Indianapolis
E.M. Wood
Kokomo
Anna Field
International Woman's Union Label League
Elwood
Ind
Fannie M. Carter
Bessie Hughes
Dora Smith
Woman's Union Label League
Anna Noland
Miss Penfield
Ella S. Stewart
Chicago
George McKee
Stewart
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Fought to Draw
Less readable line notes a disputed match described as fought to draw. The brief references Associated Press coverage and indicates a tied result without specifying competitors or scores.
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