Precept Issued for Dewey Led Schley Court of Inquiry
Washington special reports a lengthy precept issued to Admiral George Dewey as president of a court of inquiry. The document, ordered by the Navy Department, directs the inquiry into Commodore Schley’s conduct during the Spanish American War and lists the points to examine including movements, orders, and events around the Santiago campaign.
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Admiral Dewey
Washington
Schley Court of Inquiry
Navy Department
George Dewes
Winfield S. Schiex
United States Navy
Lewis A. Kimberly
Andrew FE
WK. Benham
Samuel J. Lemiv
Fudge
Wave Department
Lovelack Poo
Tmaav
Spain
Saintinge
Che Ting
Santheo
Santiago
Commodore Behier
Indiana annual revenue receipts show mixed gains and declines
The report tallies 306 871 668 dollars in revenue for the year, up from the prior period by about 11.6 million. Spirits and taxes contribute variably, with categories like liquors, stamps, and miscellaneous revenues showing increases and declines across the board.
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Washington Sp
Diana
B. c
Bryan May Run Again in Missouri Special
William J. Bryan spoke in Chillicothe on Tuesday and discussed the money question’s role in the next campaign. He warned against Wall Street influence and stressed the Democratic position on the Kansas City platform. He avoided committing to a 1960 or 1961 presidential bid, calling such speculation foolish.
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Chillicothe
William J. Bryan
Democratic Party
Kansas City
Wall Street
Bryan
English swindling scheme sparks lynching cries at meeting
At two creditor and shareholder meetings of Standard Exploration Company the receiver revealed massive losses from Lake Erie and Caledonian Copper speculations. Shareholders demanded action against implicated directors, with calls to lynch and protect assets as anger rose and calmed under the receiver’s assurances.
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London Cable
Standard Exploration Company
Stock Exchange
Lake Erie
Caledonian Copper
Edward Pelham-Clinton
Gough-Calthorpe
Parlliament Warns of Spring Peace Crucial to Europe
London reports a dramatic speech by Gibson Bowles warning that without a peace settlement in South Africa before spring grave complications will face England in Europe. Bowles cited covert mobilizations among German and Russian circles and hinted Kruger and the Boer leadership may seek a peacemaker role with Kaiser Wilhelm backing moves.
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London
England
House of Commons
Gibson Bowles
Bowles
South Africa
Europe
Bawls
de Kasper
Holland
Wilhelmina
Russia
Edmund Robertson
New Town Proposed at Indiana Harbor Harbor Work Soon Begun
The Indiana Harbor Valparaiso area advances a plan to create a new town and harbor on the lakefront. Hauster & Lutz Towing and Dock Company of South Chicago won the contract to build the harbor with Michigan City government work, starting in about two weeks. The project aims to deepen the harbor to accommodate vessels of up to twenty feet of water and connect to East Chicago and Hammond, with completion about a year from November.
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Valparaiso
Indiana
Hauster & Lutz Towing and Dock Company
South
Chicago
Michigan City
Hauster & Toute Company
Latke Michigan Land Company
Michvgar Laend Company
Calumet
Wabash Special Postmaster A L Fox Resigns After Long Tenure
A L Fox, longtime postmaster at Mier a town fifteen miles southwest of Wabash, relinquishes the office after a twenty year struggle. He never sought the role and it was thrust upon him as an honor, ending a notable era in local postal service.
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Wabash
A. L. Fox
Mier
Elwood Swede Carl Liederstrom Catches QT Fish Sunday
Carl Liederstrom, an Elwood Swede, fished White River Sunday using the Swedish method. A jar of minnows lured fish while he sat on the bank and played an accordian, then caught the fish with pole and line.
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Carl Liederstrom
White River
Liederstrom
Interurban Car Collision Tampered Switch West of Muncie
A special interurban electric car on the Union Traction line west of Muncie collided with a passenger car from Indianapolis after a tampered switch. Motorman Willard Etter of Muncie escaped serious injury as vestibules were smashed. The accident, carrying a party from Anderson to a colored social event, injured several passengers lightly.
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Minnie
Union Traction Company
Muncie
Indianapolis
Willard Etter
Munete
Andersen
Eagle
Coroner verdict on Woalosh passenger train wreck
Coroner Charles D. Sans of Tess County rendered a verdict on the wreck of the Woalosh passenger train at Uss Station in June. He blamed the railway company for the accident caused by a culvert collapse and embankment failure, with six deaths reported.
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Bere -Peeuall
Charles D. Sans
Tess County
Uss Station
Wradloand Company
Fragmented OCR reads like garbled local notice
The readable fragments hint at a disrupted text referencing a place near Columbus and a person named Ries. Content is unclear, with many broken words and no coherent event or action to summarize.
Mourning for Grace Sex and Worthy Family Ties
A tangled obituary fragment notes Grace Sex, daughter of BL Sesaner, who disappeared from a site Thursday and was later detained by authorities. The piece references her father, a solicitor, and mentions family connections across Wisner, North Poketa, and nearby regions.
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Whatiterd
Grace Sexcer
Epder
Sesaner
Guthori- Cos
Trots
Mies Tiouce
Hutoene
Pete
Former Nevada pastor found in Honolulu after disappearance
Nev Miacien Gauuse once led Frinds' Church at Stillwell and vanished in San Francisco amid suicide rumors. He was located in Honolulu. His wife had earlier claimed a trance vision of heaven, a detail that reportedly weighed on him.
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Nev
Miacien Gauuse
Frinds
Stillwell
San Francisco
Honolulu
Rev. Gause
Temp on tin roof in Greensburg as 14 degrees reads low
Sunday in Greensburg shows a thermometer on a tin roof at 14 amid warm news of a Huntington to Lanesville railway line plan by United States Telephone Company. Lafayette water works reports a Sunday supply of IV gallons per inhabitant as Shelbyville citizens form a vigilance committee to oust undesirable persons. Smallpox fear prompts Columbus children to vaccinate, while White Mormons preach in Washington. Hoodlums place torpedoes on streetcar tracks and two explosions disrupt a meeting.
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Greensburg
United States Telephone Company
Huntington
Lanesville
Lafayette Water Works
Shelbyville
Columbus
Washington
Indians on the Ground Preemption in the Reserve
Report notes an effort under an old law to preempt and claim tracts within a reservation. Federal statute aims to grant entry rights to homesteads, sparking disputes with Fox and other tribes over possession and registration processes. Attorneys warn of strategic filings to secure claims before registrars act.
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Tage
Rene
liNaet
Hagal Cabgeitingg
United States
Sehio
Enigmatic Moroccan envoy detained in Mazagan
A Tangier dispatch to the Morning Post says Eli Menebhi, trusted envoy of the Sultan of Morocco, was arrested at Mazagan after the Sultan repudiated a concession he secured in England and because of expenditure totaling £2,000,000 in London and Berlin.
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Eli Menebhi
London
Berlin
Morocco
Mazagan
Tangier
Morning Post
England
State Board urged to inspect Indiana insane hospitals
Attorney General Taylor urges immediate inspection of Indiana insane hospitals by the State board of charities to identify sane persons wrongly detained amid lax insanity laws. He cites hospital discharge rates and calls for a thorough statewide inquiry including examinations by the board.
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Taylor
State Board of Charities
Indiana
Esieral
Cassius A. Hadley
Indianapolis
Bord of Public Health and Charities
State Board of Char Vuies
Wtt
Utter
Marien
Fearanme
Law change urged to extend banks charters before July
Washington special reports Controller of the Currency Dawes warned that without new congressional action by July 12 next year many national banks would lose legal existence as charters expire on dates after July 12. He notes 73s national banks face expiration and that only a law can extend charters for twenty more years beyond the current allowance.
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Washington
Dawes
Congress
IWS
Population of Indiana survey bulletin details age groups
Census bulletin lists school age children and militia and voting populations. It reports 43,883 school age children with 16,188 foreign born and 18,491 colored, plus 425 males and 418,719 females. Militia age males 570,016 with 31,722 foreign born and 11.36 colored. Voting age males 720,206 with 73,317 foreign born. Tables indicate 5.6 percent of Indians.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Indiana
Indelana Feud Ends in Beasley Death at Reed Station
John Beasley was shot and killed during a family feud near Reed Station after a clash with Nelson Fritz and the Fritz group. Fritz fled. a sheriff’s posse pursues him as the feud between Beasley and Fritz families intensifies amid prior local violence.
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John Beastey
Reed
Reeds Station
Lis
Imurderer
Nelson Rita
Hetin
Sons of Beasts
Nelson Fritz
Youngs Beasley
Pritg
Deasley
Beasley
Fritz
Fritzes
Beasleys
Frit
Nelson Hatfield
Cuban Electorate Expected. Literacy and Native Birth Rules Tie to Office
Havana reports a constitutional convention draft setting universal suffrage with literacy tests for office holders. Governors and provincial legislators must be Cuban by birth or eight years naturalized. ages range from 25 for lawmakers to 40 for the President. Senators and electors have birth or long naturalization requirements. The plan envisions two elections with presidential electors meeting in Santa Clara after the second vote.
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Havana
Mondas
Electoral Commission
Twve Yeats
Thuy
Provinciab
Haven
Santa Clara
Thirsty threshers riot in Colwich Kansas
Eight threshing machine crews arrived in Colwich Wichita County Sunday to drink due to the Sunday law. They smashed five saloons and wrecked pumps. Citizens organized to arrest them but were forced to withdraw. Riot resumed and the sheriff was urged to intervene immediately.
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Wichita Kan
Colwich
CORNPOOL SWINDLE CLAIMS ALARMING CIRCULARS SIGNALED
A report to authorities describes a wide swindle scheme circulating from New York by Philips Co. urging subscriptions to a pool promising large profits. The NY address at Wall Street is cited and subscribers are asked to mail drafts to the New York office while keeping plans secret.
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Greorge H. Pug Byes
Corm
Qwestal
Phillips
Stuart
New York
Philips& Co
Wall Street
Philips
Stici
Wheat From Russia Heads to Kansas City Seed Stock
Fifteen carloads of Russian hard wheat from Odessa arrive in Kansas City and are stored for seed use in Kansas and Oklahoma. Four more carloads expected, totaling 14 446 bushels. Government distribution via Rock Island and Santa Fe railways to seed points. Cost to lay down in Kansas City was 2.23 dollars per bushel.
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Watson City
Odessa
Russia
Kansas City
Kansas
Oklahoma
Rock Island
Santa Fe
Hard fought engagement near Nauta on July 2
Details from Lord Kitchener report a daylong clash with Boer commando near Nauta in Natal. Four hundred Boers attacked the British position. Major Edwards and Gunner Carpenter were killed, a gun from the Sixty seventh Battery was captured and retaken in a gallop under heavy fire. Five British dead and thirty-five wounded. dispatches describe pursuit of Viljoen's force and capture of wagons and prisoners.
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Natal
Nauta
Edwards
Carpenter
Lord Kitchener
Len
Flow
Kitchener
Viljoen
Wei
Toon
Hetd
Daily Mail
Leurenze Marques
Amesterdsm
Choate Said to Visit Scotland for Mediation Effort
The Daily Express notes rumors that United States Ambassador Choate left London for Scotland at Kruger's invitation to mediate an end to the conflict. It adds Leyds may have traveled to Brussels, but the paper dismisses the tale as a facetious “South African gooseberry.”
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Loman
United States
Choate
London
Piotland
Daily Express
Unlabeled gunpowder case ends with self-fine
Dairy official Lispecter Chappell reports in WHEKins county that a constable in Childs carried unlabeled gunpowder. The justice fined the constable 25 and costs, but Chappell found no real stock of illegal goods. The inspector fined himself four pounds after pleading guilty.
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Sy Pavat
Lispecter Chappell
Dairy Food Department
Childs
Whekins County
Mrr
Chappell
Rune
Chilas
Bank Wrecker Johnson Pardoned by the President
The President granted a pardon to John B. Johnson known as the bank wrecker from the Ohio penitentiaries. Johnson began a ten year term May 18 18ST. The pardon application bore signatures from nearly all business men of Louisville.
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Washington
John B. Johnson
Ohio
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