Mystery in Death Grips Logansport Police
Logansport police probe the death of Joseph B Unkefer found beside railroad ties in Leransport suburb. Parry Grace arrested on Unkefer family charge. Grace denies responsibility with inquiry focused on alcohol fueled events. The coroner and detectives pursue leads as the case unfolds.
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Logansport
Joseph B. Unketer
Shultztown
Leransport
Unkefer
Parry Grace
Unkefers
Nish
Unkhefer
Joseph Ounkefer
Crace
Grace
Cakefer
Sheeran
Bing
Nelige
Biethetingten
Biow
Worne Urketer
Unketer
Perlice
Atul
Spen Yeung Manhefer
Sacrifice for Love Trials and Confession in Court Case
The document recounts an abusive, love driven court case where a man admits love for his wife while facing accusations tied to infidelity and coercive demands. It describes vows, jealousy, and a plea for mercy as the court weighs moral fault and duty. The narrative mentions names and dates as it outlines the alleged coercion and sacrifice within a troubled marriage.
Bull Attacks Farmer in Field. Ring in Nose Used to Escape
Five miles northeast of Tipton farmer Tick Shook fights a desperate battle with a bull that tramples him and leaves severe injuries to ribs and chin. He finally grips the bull by its nose ring to force it away as his wife battles the animal with a pitchfork, sustaining her own injuries. The bull drags Shook for twenty minutes before retreating.
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Tiptor
Farmer
Tipton
Logan
Shook
Shonk
Young Woman Stirs Crowd in Fifth Floor Prize Fight
In Indianapolis a youthful bout on the fifth floor of a former Gem Garment Co location drew spectators. Roy Me Cutcheon and Edward Wodlis fought under Queensherry Harry Thomas as referee, with a bet that the loser would draw public attention to the girl involved. The match ended with Me Cutcheon seen as the more skilled fighter.
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Indianapolis
Teo
Woonan
Gem Carmen
Garment Company
Gem Garment Company
Mayor Bedwalter
Harry Thomas
Dry Holes Persist in Mercbe Parherys Oil Field
The Mercbe Parherys oil region reports many dry wells over the past two weeks with few new productions. Operators fear reduced output and some investors have curtailed activities, hoping for a quicker improvement, as prior dry spells warned of lingering impact unless measures change.
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Dean
Two Girls Fight in Fleetin Decher Church Brawl Over Lovers
In a Decher township church, Emma Teacock Vettie Teacock Pearl Pwirty and Mollie Moore fought over love affairs. Emma and Vettie Teacock and Pearwitty were arrested and fined, released after fathers paid. Mollie Moore fled into a neighboring county to avoid arrest.
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Vincemies
Decher
Mitres Emma
Vettie Teacock
Pearl Pwirty
Molite
Emma
Pearwitty
Charles Fryffe
Mollia Moore
Fiss Moore
Swapped Marriage License in Richmond Ends in Marriage
Earl Burket obtained a license to marry Miss Zilnie Miller but she refused to proceed. He returned the license and obtained a new one to wed Miss Mille Straight, leaving Burket a happily married man despite the initial setback.
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Richmond
Earl Burket
Zilnie Miller
Bald Eagle Attack Forces Boy Responders Home With Bird Wounded
William Bald and Everett Williams aged seventeen and fourteen were traveling toward Hillsboro with a load of wood when a large bald eagle attacked. The youths fought back with a buggy whip and sticks, wounding the bird enough to bring it home alive. The eagle spans seven feet and weighs twenty five pounds.
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Crawfordsville
William Baldwin
Everett Williams
Hillsboro
Independent Packing Company Formed to Challenge Trust
In Kansas City a group of stockmen organized the Independent Packing Company with 5 million dollars in capital. The plan includes two plants in the West, one in the Missouri Valley and another in Texas, with 41 percent held in escrow to keep control by stock interests. Former United States Packing Company ties fade as Pueblo assets may be offered to the new firm.
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Kansas City
Grass Country
Midland
Packers’ Trust
Independent Packing Company
Arizona
Mypon
United States Packing Company
Pueblo, Colo
Foad
Pueblo
Charles F. Martin
National Live Stock Association
Missouri Valley
Texas
Sugar Refining Trust Gains Control of Michigan Factories
The Detroit Free Press reports the American Sugar Refining Company has acquired controlling interests in several Michigan beet sugar factories including Sebewaing Sanilac Peninsula Caro East Tawas Michigan Saginaw Alma Lima Sacsinaw Menominee River. Management will unify under one head after resets.
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Detroit
Mich
Free Press
American Sugar Refining Company
Michigan
Sebewaing Sugar Renting Company
Sebewaing
Sanilac Sugar Refining Company
Croswell
Peninsula Sugar Company
Caro
Tewas Sugar Company
East Tawas
The
Michigan Sugar Company
Ebay City
Poisoning at Swan Noble county family reunion in Indiana
Nearly 250 people attended a family reunion at Simon Whansetler’s near Swan Noble county Indiana when pressed chicken in tin cans caused illness. Over 24 attendees were at the table before symptoms appeared and many became sick after consuming the meal. Doctors attributed the poisoning to the canned chicken and brass cooking vessels used.
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Goshen
Ind
Simon Whansetler
Swan Noble County
Whansetler
Washington official seeks markets for macaroni wheat
Secretary Wilson asks the commerce and labor department to use consular channels to find suitable markets for macaroni wheat, a hard grain rising in U S prominence. He notes this year’s crop may reach 18 million bushels, up from 2 million last year, with a forecast of 25 million next year.
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Washington
Wilson
Department of Commerce and Labor
Consular Service
United States
Macedonian Revolution Proclaimed in Bulgaria
The Macedonian revolutionaries planned a general insurrection in northern Macedonia marking the Sultan's accession anniversary. The proclamation, issued Tuesday and signed by the insurgent general staff, names leaders General Zente chief and Colonel Jenkoff who was wounded in 1902.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Macedonia
Zentchieff
Macedonian Committee
Jenkoff
Salmon Pack Short in Coast Canneries
Reports from salmon canning districts show the season pack will be 1,000,000 cases smaller than last year and 1,750,000 fewer than two years ago. Orders from Eastern and European dealers are being met by canning firms and dealers pending a general price rise due to the short pack.
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Tacoma
Wash
Consecrates Lives to Lepers by Franciscan Sisters
Sister Reta of Louisville attends the Franciscan convention in Syracuse to join Sister Mary Leonica in preparations for work among lepers in the Sandwich Islands.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Sister Reta
Louisville
Mary Leonica
Sandwich Islands
Tin Star Detective Beaten by Counterfeiter in New Albany
New Albany Indiana special: Charles Marshall of Pego Orange county was beaten by H. C. Lite of Louisville a counterfeiter. They were traveling to trap him when Lite attacked Marshall on a Paoli pike road beating him with a stone. Marshall severely injured but alive awaiting possible recovery or death. Marshall had lent $200 for the operation and the money vanished.
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New Albany
Ind
Charles Marshall
Pego
Orange County
H. C. Lite
Louisville
Marshall
Hite
St. Edward's Hospital
Associated Press
Chicago
Bulgarian Insurgents Rout by Six Turkish Regiments at Smilovo
Salonica dispatches report 1,090 Bulgarians killed as 3 060 held a hill position, stormed by six Turkish battalions commanded by Serbet Pasha. Turkish losses were light. Additional cables note deteriorating Macedonia security, mobilizations, and frontier preparations amid rising insurgent activity near Monastir and Adrianople.
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Salonica
Smilovo
Servet Pasha
Treasury hunts $675000 deposit in Oklahoma land sale
Washington reports a large scare in the treasury department over a missing deposit of about $675,000 from Oklahoma land site sales. The money was not recorded at St Louis sub treasury two years ago until a receipt appeared recently. officials seek the original entry while Interior critics charge failure to report for audit.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Oklahoma
Sub-Treasury
St. Louis
Treasury
Interior Department
Five Beirut arrests linked to shooting of American official
The Porte informs Minister Leishman five arrests were made at Beirut related to the shooting that sparked reports of the murder of William C. Magers sen US vice and deputy consul. Turkish authorities deny an assassination attempt, claiming the event stemmed from a feu de joie at a native marriage. Leishman demands conclusive proof as judicial inquiry proceeds.
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Constantinople
Porte
Leishman
Beirut
William C. Magerssen
United States
Few New Corporations Formed In August In East
New York report shows only a few new corporations with capital of $1,000,000 or more filed papers in August across Eastern states. The final total capitalization reached $72,950,000, the lowest for August since years except 1901 when it was $57,400,000.
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New York
American capitalists to buy entire Brazilian coffee stock
The Journal de Commerce reports via Herald dispatch from Rio Janeiro that a syndicate of American capitalists plans to purchase the full stock of Brazilian coffee, signaling a major market move.
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New York
the Journal de Commerce
Rio Janeiro
Kingan & Co. Tax Assessed for Oleo Coloring
The commissioner of internal revenue levies 14000 dollars on Kingan & Co in the Sixth Indiana district for oleo margarine colored to imitate butter, returned uncolored. The assessment reflects the tax difference between uncolored at one fourth of 2 cents per pound and colored at 10 cents, plus a 1000 dollar penalty for the violation, deemed unintentional and hence lenient.
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Washington
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Kingan & Co
Indiana
Arkansas Judge Violently Douses Davis Event in Bismarck
Judge Carroll L. Wood of the Arkansas Supreme Court knocked Governor Davis from a speaking stand at a political meeting in Bismarck, four feet to the ground. Davis escaped injury as onlookers separated them and Wood was arrested for assault and battery.
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Little Rock
Ark
Carrol L. Wood
Arkansas Supreme Court
Davis
Bismarck
Wood
Coal firm extends 25 cent ton reduction in September
Pottsville special reports the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company continues a 25 cent per ton reduction on pea and buckwheat coal contracts for September. The price at the mines remains $1.75 per ton, the August level. Owing to overproduction of anthracite several large collieries have been closed indefinitely.
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Pottsville
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Walking Delegate Sent Up for Extortion
Samuel Parks, business agent for the Housesmiths and Bridgemen Union, has been sentenced to two years six months to three years six months in Sing Sing for extortion. He was convicted of taking 200 from Josephus Plenty, a Hoboken contractor, to call off a strike. Three other indictments on similar charges are pending. Parks also faces a prior assault conviction of a rival labor leader, for which sentence is not yet given.
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New York
Samuel Parks
Housesmiths’ and
Bridgemen’s Union
Sing Sing
Parks
Josephus Plenty
Hoboken
Boy Rescue Aboard French Bark After Shanghai Claim
New York report says 16-year-old Hugh Thompson was taken from the Marechal De Gontaut by Collector Stranahan and a revenue cutter after an all night search four miles east of the Sandy Hook light, with officials debating legality and the ship’s fate.
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New York
Port Stranahan
Gresham
Sandy Hook
Hugh Thompson
Bangor
Young Thompson
Marechal de Gontaut
Yokohama
Stranahan
Castro Velten
Washington
Thompson
Silver Service Plan For Sir Thomas Lipton Tribute
A New York committee, with Western National Bank as treasurer, organizes a popular subscription to finance a testimonial for Sir Thomas Lipton. A silver service for the Erin is suggested and all letters with subscriptions would be bound and presented with the testimonial. The plan calls for small donations to foster a broad, popular movement.
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New York
Western National Bank of
New York City
Thomas Lipton
Erin
Every Vessel Destroyed in Army Navy War Game
Portland Maine special reports a simulated war game where the army secures a decisive win after two night attacks and a day assault in which all seventeen ships in the fleet are theoretically destroyed or captured. The account notes the fleet included battleships cruisers gunboats and destroyers.
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Portland
Army
Navy
The Sunday School Death of Saul and Jonathan
A lesson recounts Saul and his sons dying in battle at Mount Gilboa after the Philistines defeat Israel. The Philistines desecrate Saul’s body, Jaresh-gilead men recover and bury the remains, and a royal tribute to Saul and Jonathan is noted along with moral applications for faith and obedience.
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Saul
Jonathan
Israel
Mount Gilbes
Abinadab
Melchishua
Jordan
Mount Gilboa
Ashtaroth
Bethshan
Jabeshzilad
Jabesh
Jabesh- Gilead
Betheshan
David
Jabesh-gilead
Palestine
Jalbesh-gilead
Hat Buyer Debates Panama Fashion in Casual Exchange
A man who bought a straight-brimmed straw hat says he is as much in the swim as others while noting Panamas may be out of fashion. A plain man counters that the old-fashioned night shirt is still good enough, reflecting casual social banter.
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Philadelphia Press
Fortune Told By Mercantile Agency Ends Engagement
In Chicago News style dialogue, Tom recounts that his fiancée ended their engagement after fortune telling by a mercantile agency. Jack questions belief in such matters as Tom insists the agency forewarned the breakup.
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Tom
Jack
Chicago News
Resignation in turbulent family moment cited by Atlas Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution reports a family scene where a patriarch laments, “Who'd have thought we'd live to set our boy in the Legislature?” and a matriarch responds with faith, “But the Lord's will be done,” signaling a political turn under divine will.
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Atlanta Constitution
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