Local Brevities Highlight Community Notes and Visits
W S Bull opened High school exercises. Mrs Braden travels to Maringo Ohio to visit relatives. Sadie Hayes hosts Amica Club. Hoy attends Indiana retail hardware meeting in Indianapolis. Doctors promote remedies from DeWitts and Shoops among local stores. Community announcements cover visits, illnesses, travel, and school activities with emphasis on local figures and shops.
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W. G. Braden
Maringo
Sadie Hayes
Amica Club
East High Street
DeWitt
Pioneer Drug Store
Lent Hoy
Indianapolis
Defense Contends Sanderson Overcharged For Senate Furnishings
Harrisburg Feb 18 The defense in the state capitol conspiracy suit against Contractor Sanderson and ex state officers presented expert testimony claiming Sanderson charged for furniture in the senate and house chambers at rates implying 1 002 square feet more than actual. Measurements totaled 45 108 square feet while the bill covered 44 016. The defense argues other items were billed under actual measurements, yielding a 1 092 square foot net gain for Sanderson.
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Harrisburg
State Capitol
Sanderson
Dauphin County
Senate
House
Commonwealth
Charles H. Pergner
Schumaker
Huston
Bergner
Stanford B. Lewis
Snyder
Mathues
No Call for Troops in Fairbanks Crisis
Washington reported to the war department that Fairbanks Alaska remains quiet as the Western Federation of Miners allegedly deport non union men. Saloons reopened and no troops have been sent. the Ft Gibson order directs liaison with the Fairbanks marshal and possible troop use only to preserve order.
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Washington
Fairbanks
Alaska
Western Federation of Miners
War Department
Department of the Columbia
Ft. Gibson
Police Seek Snow After Grand Larceny Indictment
Brooklyn police prepared to dispatch a nationwide alert to arrest Henry S. Snow former treasurer of the New York and New Jersey Telephone Company indicted on grand larceny for allegedly borrowing 120000 in company stock and failing to repay while securities in his custody disappeared Snow has been missing from his Brooklyn home since Thursday
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New York
Brooklyn Polie
Henry S. Snow
New York and
New Jersey Telephone Company
Snow
Brooklyn
Farmer Hangs From Bridge In Matthews Misery
Marion Indiana February 18 Ben Newhberger a wealthy Grant county resident walked to the middle of a covered bridge over the Mississinewa river at Matthews and hanged himself using a rope attached to an iron beam. The death by his own hand is believed to be due to ill health and depression. He was fifty eight and unmarried.
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Hollister
Rocky Mountain
Pioneer Drug Store
Grippe
Chas. H. Good
Warren
Congress
Montpelier
Blakford County
United
FE. C. Shull
St. Louis
Bright
Wabash
Charley
Will Osenbaugh
James Osenbaugh
Franklin Street
Harry Ward
Hartford City Times-Gazette
Marion
Ind
Ben Newberger
Grant County
Mississinewa River
Matthews
Newhberger
Georgia Negro Shot After Attempted Assault Near Statesboro
Mrs. Matthew Howard screamed for help three miles from Statesboro prompting a sheriff posse pursuit. J. D. Smith shot and wounded one suspect twice then restrained him in a wagon and delivered him to the Statesboro jail. The other man was fatally wounded and faces likely lynching if captured.
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Georgia Darkey
Statesboro
Matthew Howard
Miss Alving Laduster Weds Julius Ber yham After Suit
Merinette Wisconsin February 18. Miss Alving Laduster married yesterday in Menominee Michigan to Julius Beryham after she had sued for ten thousand dollars prior to the wedding. The action and the nuptials mark a swift turn in the sequence of affairs as reported.
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Merinette
Wis
Alving Laduster
Menominee, Mich
Julius Beryham
Selfishness at Bottom by Bishop Gailor
The Right Rev. Thomas F. Gailor preached at Calvary Church arguing that strong individualism has eroded reverence for government and law. He blamed late financial distress on selfish sectional isolation and warned that future woes follow if remedial legislation is not adopted.
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New York
Thomas F. Gailor
Tennessee
Calvary Church
Gallor
Fourteen Slavs Charged in Slavic Camp Killings
Deputy Sheriff Cox arrived with fourteen Slavs accused of murdering a fellow countryman at a railroad camp quarrel. The group seized the cook, tied him, and shot him to death in a nearby forest, according to officers.
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Marion
N. C
Cox
Constitutional amendment to disenfranchise colored voters passes senate
Annapolis Maryland February 17 The constitutional amendment aiming to disfranchise Black voters has passed the senate and will go to voters at November 1909 general election. The measure received a strict party vote with Democrats holding the majority above three fifths and provides for an educational or property qualification.
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Annapolis
Senate
Last girder set for Sheperds Bush stadium progress
The final steel girder was placed completing the 70,000 seat stadium at Shepherds Bush. The arena will house competitors officials and public with extensive space for exhibits of sporting implements.
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London
Sheperds Bush
Fatal freshet claims two in Sandusky river flood
In Upper Sandusky on February 18 a freshet on the Sandusky river swept a car and its occupants into the flood. John Miller and the horse drowned, Charles Nutter was rescued after swimming to a tree. Miller's body was later recovered.
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Upper
Sandusky
Here
John Miller
Charles Nutter
Miller
Nutter
Four Mast Schooner Sunk Off Cape Lookout Sighted
Captain Howlett of the Nacoochee reports spotting a four masted schooner sunk in twenty fathoms of water, nineteen miles south of Cape Lookout light ship in the direct line of navigation. The vessel’s identity remains unknown.
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Savannah
Cape Lookout
Howlett
Ocean Steamship Company
Nacoochee
Boston
Flood Fails Cinder Bank at Mingo Junction
In Steubenville Ohio on February 18 two hundred residents fled rising waters after a thirty foot cinder bank built by Carnegie Steel gave way under backwater. Fifty houses in the river bottoms were inundated with many narrowly escaped drownings.
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Steubenville, O
Mingo Junction
Carnegie Steel Company
Rogers Locomotive Works Likely to Shut March First
Paterson N J Feb 18 The Rogers Locomotive Works a branch of the American Locomotive company will probably shut down March 1 The plant is finishing the last order on the shop list ten locomotives for the Southern Indiana Railroad company Eight completed and there is little new business in sight.
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Paterson
N. J
Rogers Locomotive Works
American Locomotive Company
Southern Indiana Railroad
Sweden Russia Relations Strained Over Finland Shore Fortifications
Stockholm February 18 Sweden and Russia relations are strained as Russia demands release from the agreement singling out Finland. Sweden had surrendered Finland with a prohibition on naval stations or fortifications along the Finnish coast near Sweden.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Russia
Finland
Four Prisoners Escape From Marion County Jail
Four inmates escaped from the Marion county jail in Fairmont West Virginia on February 18 and remain at large. They slipped through a broken iron rail and loosened window bars after being jailed on theft charges. Bloodhounds were sent to track them.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Marion County
Assignment of Big Lumber Firm
Murfreesboro Tennessee February 18 The firm of W B Earthman & Co extensive lumber dealers has designed. The liabilities it is said will approximate 700000 with assets between 500000 and 600000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murfreesboro
Tenn
W. B. Earthman & Co
Russia Faces War Scare Amid Turko-Russian Tensions
Moscow desk reports a growing war scare as Duma figures plan to raise readiness questions. Diplomats see bluff in Turkish Asia Minor mobilizations, while Austro-Russian Balkans friction looms. Military staff monitor troop movements toward Trans-Caspian and Turkestan for potential front deployment.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Turkey
M. Guchekoff
Duma
Commission of National Defense
Tilis
Asia Minor
Balkans
Siberia
Trans-Caspian
Turkestan
OMINOUS SIGNS OF WAR TENSIONS IN ASIA MINOR
Reports from Armenia on February 18 indicate Turkish army reserves from Van Mush and surrounding vilayets are being mobilized toward the frontier. Revolutionary parties amplify agitation as proclamations urge popular resistance to Sultan’s plans. Russian authorities order horse registration for military use. Titus doctors volunteer their services in case of war.
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Armenia
Redias
Van
Mush
Vilayets
Asia Minor
Fo Ayers
Asia
Canez
Doctors of Titus
Congressional Doings in Washington
The house passed the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill totaling $32,336,573 after days of debate. The senate held an executive session on the Wetherspoon nomination, then agreed to take up the ocean mail subsidy bill on Wednesday.
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Washington
House
Senate
Wetherspoon
American war vessel passes Canadian canals to reach Great Lakes
Ottawa announces the Canadian government grants the US request for transit of a ninth ship, the Nashville, an 1800 ton cruiser, through Canadian canals for training the Michigan naval reserves on the Great Lakes.
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Ottawa
Ont
United States
Great Lakes
Lakes
Nashville
Michigan
Christmas Napkins and Night Shirts Swap Droll Gaffe
A thrifty wife buys a dozen napkins for her husband as a house use gift. He returns a birthday present with two night shirts, leaving both using each other’s gifts. Purman Johnston & Co. adds new suit racks and mobile tables to improve display. A Georgia peach joke hints at a fortune for furred fruit. Dile-
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Purman Johnston & Co
Georgia
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Cabel
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Lima
Indiana
Somerset
W. S. Bull
Bruce Barr
Wm. Barr
Homeward
Elwood
C. H. Brown
Anderson
Church of Christ
Francis Willard
E. Taylor
Hartford City
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H.C. Arnold
Bluffton
Shovel Works
Eva Shidler
Fawley and McCray
Elmer Gove
Smith Street
Andy Rhine
Judge Noble
Greer
Cincinnati
Glen Ayers
Miss Byron
Hope Hospital
Ft. Wayne
Bert Barber
Elton
Rocky Mountain Tea
Pharmacy
Andy Scharf
John Kellar
Cleveland Provision Co
Cleveland
Prof. Gooding
Dr. Marsland
Detroit
Ontario
Herald
Cook Riddle
Shoop
Sell Farms
Michigan Lands
Chas. L. Smith
Montpelier, Ind
Lu, T. S.stem
Muncie
Hartford
Ft Wayne IN Effect
Horth
rMuncie
A. O. T. Limited
Ancerson
Meate Points
C. L. Sstrin
Hollister's
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Jet
Cone Sf Center
Livvre 'Me Cagrine
Madigan
Reece Carte
SWIFT
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