Local notes mix of court fines and weather signs
A jumble of items details a judge fining Mrs Carrie Christman for provoking, a plea of guilty in a night ferrying case, incendiaries at a Craig farm building, and a weather forecast style note about wet conditions. The Greensburg paper notes consolidation with the Democrat and local civic events plus multiple small incidents from Carrollton to Madison.
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Court House
Wether
Squire Allen
Carrie Christman
Mattie Spencer
Craig Farm
Monroe Township
Chas. Weber
Charles Phibbs
Wagner
Greensburg
New Era
Theeensburg Democrat
Messrs. Mendenhall & Clark
Pension Fee Alleged Double Billing By Attorney
Jane Cunningham of Harrison county, 72, received a pension via attorney Dab ney C. Parris who charged a $100 fee before surrendering the first voucher. He claimed the money as a present to dodge pension rules. The case, initially compromised, led to a civil suit and then renewed federal scrutiny as the grand jury investigates Parris and related testimony surfaces.
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Jane Cunningham
Harrison County
Blind boy Everett Fox found after being sealed in box car
Everett Fox an 18 year old blind boy from Edinburg Ind was believed deranged and left in a box car. He later surfaced in Jeffersonville and told how he and other youths sealed him inside the car until a train moved it to the city. He traveled to the Institute for the Blind and Wayfarer's Rest before reaching Jeffersonville and returning home with help from Telegraph Company manager Lewis and funds arranged by his mother. Fox said he had been blind from infancy.
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Edinburg
Ind
Everett Fox
Jeffersonville
Fox
Fourteenth Street
Institute For the Blind
Wayfarer’s
Lewis
Western Union Telegraph Company
H. Schell
Bay
Louisville
Multiple Local Events Highlight Indiana Community Life
The Jeffersonville News reports a busy period with funerals, lodge initiations, political candidacies, estate matters, and public incidents. Drowned fishermen near North Vernon. fires in Clark and Jefferson counties. electric line damage in Richmond. a small roof blaze in Madison. and social notices from churches and schools color a day in southern Indiana.
Hanover College Graduates Face Presbyterian General Assembly Roles
Hanover College notes list of graduates serving as commissioners to the Presbyterian General Assembly, including Geo Heckman J M Batchelder W Irwin J A Piper A Moment W McCaughey J Thompson J Baird and Thomas Giboney. Students visit Charlestown Clifty Falls for science and botany while clubs host a reception at Professor Morse residence. Rev S L Hamilton attends and Dr T B Francis lectures on English literature for seniors and freshmen.
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Presbyterian General Assembly
Hanover
Geo
Philadelphia
J. C. Thompson
Macao
China
J. F. Baird
Seymour
Ind
Thomas Giboney
Charlestown
Clifty Falls
Y.M.C. A
Morse
S.L. Hamilton
Louisville
T. BR. Francis
Cincinnati
New Medical Work Promises Patient Cures And Hints
Dr Kaufman publishes a medical volume with practical home remedies and accident care guidance. Readers may obtain a copy by sending three two cent stamps to A P Ordway & Co Boston Mass. The notice notes elegant illustrations and valuable advice for the sick.
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A. P. Ordway& Co
Boston
Mass
Enraged Tigress Attacks Circus Attache in Cage
Lawrence Scott thirty two an attaché of Forepaughs Circus is wounded by a tigress in a parade at Read ing Pa He was inside the tiger cage when the female attacked He was rescued after keepers beat the animal into sensibility Scott is hospitalized with extensive wounds His relatives in Wirt and Plainfield known and his mother lives at Wirt station
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Lawrence Scott
Forepaugh’s Circus
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Reading
Harry Grim
Scott
New York Clipper
James Scott
Wirt
John W. Scott
T. J.charton
Plainfield
Wirt Station
The Line of Lakes Promotion for Wisconsin Central
Wisconsin Central Lines promote summer resorts along Fox Lake Lake Villa Waukesha Mukwonago Cedar Neenah Waupaca Fifield Butternut and Ashland. Lakes offer black bass rock bass pike pickerel perch muskellonge and game such as ducks geese quail snipe. Wisconsin’s scenery and climate praised as peerless drawing crowds from cities to midsummer retreats. Pamphlets available free from D W Janowitz Indianapolis or Jas C Pond Chicago ticket agent.
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Wisconsion Central
Fox Lake
Lake Villa
Waukesha
Mukwonago
Cedar Lake
Neenah
Waupaca
Fifield
Butternut
Ashland
Wis
Wisconsin
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic
D. W. Janowitz
Indianapolis
Jas. C. Pond
Gen
Chicago
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Chiraigio
the Sun
Carrollton, Ky
Lewis Darling
Hooed
Phi Gamma Delta
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Bellaire
Professor Hollis
Carrollton
Dremon Springs
Kentucky Pharmaceutical Association
Shelbyville
Franklin Star
Cairo
Henderson
Concord
Caseyville Bar
Evansville
Charles Hamilton
Smithwick
George Heflin
German Township
Bartholomew County
Elizabethtown
Hope Creamery
M. A. St. John
Harvey’s Corner
Rile
Clark
Joe F. Shea
Scottsburg
Scott, Jennings
Ripley
Front
James Daily
Columbus
Isaac Short
Connecticut Life Insurance Company
Fred Thornton
Sam Duncan
Carmel
Trimble County
Cemetery
Oak Streets
Third
East Streets
Mr. Smith
Hope
Vevay Baptist Church
James Coombs
East Second Street
North Madison Catholic Cemetery
Holly Austin
North Madison
Colonel Jenkins
Lotz Bros
Richard Foley
Carrollton Democrat
H.D. Eggers
J. B. Oakey
Colorado
Col. Jenkins
John Walton
Crawfordsville
Walton
M . John E. Bennett
North Walnut Street
Bennett
Vevay High School
Nellie Taylor
Mia Dow
Annie Rogers
Nora
Annie Scott
Mattie Barnard
F.C. Hennessy
James Taylor
Wallace Tibbets
Hampton Luckett
Frank White
John Adams
New York
Etrura
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England
France
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Ireland
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Germany
Uncle Sam
Vail
Scottsburg Lodge
R. of P
Crothersville Lodge
Marcus R
al Roberts
Victor Officer
Marion Jaynes
Port Fulton
Jeffersonville News
A. P. Schenck, Jr
Madison Gas Company
John Dixon
Lizzie Benson
St. Mary's
Kate Clark
Woodsdale Island
Lawrenceburg
Sellersburg
Clark County
Elias McNally
Christopher Columbus
Squire Cravens
Wmn
Cardwill
Guilby
New Albany
John Gaumer
Madison Hotel
Cas Holtzhauer
Mr. Gaumer
Bethlehem
Richmond
Effie Christy
Luke Kilcommins
Sunshine
Terra Firma
J. B. Safford
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Railroad
Columbus Times
North Vernon
Thomas Dawson
Sherman Clarkson
Muscatatuck
Randal
Wayland
Dawson
Clarkson
George Trapp
Grant Hendricks
John Dawson
Show
Charles King
Temple Street
Lane
Ian
Harrison Spencer
Vernon
Borden
New Providence
Borden University
Tinsley
Trinity
Dolph
Omaha
Franklin
Beach
Hanover College
Ayer
Honduras
Joseph Wood
West Plattsburgh
N. Y
J. W. Shields
Smithville
Tenn
James Petsy
Dr. J. GC
Ayer & Co
Lowell
Mase
All Druggieta
Aix
United States
A. Karpen & CO
Quincy Street
Chicago, Ml
Phaetons
Seymore, Ind
Seymore
Ohio
Mississippi Ry
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C. G. Jones
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