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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1913
Page
4
Indianapolis reports Capt Horace Woolford of Madison is expected to become the next Adjutant General of the State. The announcement is not official, but Capt Woolford is widely understood to fill the post alongside Capt Fearl Davis as Quartermaster General.
Officers landed at the local Union store in Calumet on December 12 and seized a large quantity of ammunition and a stock of modern army rifles. The State Supreme Court ordered parades suppressed and the strikers were prevented from marching.
Four of the citys largest mills were destroyed with a loss of half a million and about 14000 people left unemployed after a fire began early today in Parsons mines. The blaze continues to burn through the day.
Senators Simmons Jones and Johnson of Maine back a government ownership plan for tele graph lines in Washington on December 12.
An assassination attempt occurred in Portsmouth as a gunman fired at Major George Thrope, commander of the naval prison at Kittery Maine. The shot missed and Frederick Richard, recently dishonorably discharged from the Navy, was arrested.
The Inter state Commerce Commission ordered a sweeping investigation of live stock shipping rates on western railroads. In Kokomo Indiana twenty one tents joined a celebration by northern Indiana Maccabees. Port Huron Michigan resident D C Markey, supreme commander, attended. In Huntington a baby fell from a cab and split its tongue. surgeons call the injury not serious though unusual.
The board accepted and appointed Mona Rhoades as superintendent of the State Woman's Prison in Indianapolis. A temporary change was placed while investigations continued. A settlement of 1000 was announced with the State over claims tied to the poultry plant at the station.
A fire at the Lasalle hotel in St Louis early today trapped and endangered guests. Flames caused panic as people fled from upper floors and down fire escapes, with reports of numerous injuries and possible fatalities amid heavy smoke and rapid emergency response.
AMCAUMEAT Waghippton committee discusses proposed amendment to migration bill. Proposed changes aim to solidify exclusions from certain sectors and address member alignment with broader goals. The debate touches enforcement, ingress controls, and national implications.
A bizarre incident in New York involving a delivered device caused a deadly explosion. An expressman delivered the contraption to a home where it injured a girl and nearly blew her apart. authorities investigate the origin and purpose of the infernal machine.
Federal Judge Landis dismissed Elgie DeWolfe's suit against Continental and Commercial National Bank over an income tax payment. He ruled the case unsuitable for district court action.
Reported gunmen in a gray automobile who allegedly fired at a Brightwood street car yesterday are identified as a group of youthful joy riders. They deny any shooting or revolver possession, claiming the motorman and his companion on the front of the car fired.
Mike Reiley a mason plans a wedding with Nora Poole but vanishes for work. Kathleen mistakes a dead man for him, stirring a dramatic chain of imagined events. Mike returns alive, the coffin scare becomes a hurried wedding in a single evening.
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