Indiana weekly record item summary from Princeton April 7
Indiana notes from Princeton and counties report saloon pranks with skunk intrusion, mastodon discovery near Randolph County, and a Bedford Park 100 yard race won in 12 seconds for a $200 purse. Reports cover school-book agents, forged letters to Gov, rapid population growth in South Kokomo, rail safety efforts, stone industry demand, Garrett and Anderson developments, local crime, and county curiosities amid a broad Indianaweek in 1890s fashion.
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Evansville, Inc
N. Gumberts
Jesse Murphy
New Harmony
Bedford Park
Democrats Sweep Township as Saloon Issue Dominates
Grayville Illinois April 6 vote sees Democrats win all ticket items by margins from 34 to 82 in a political upheaval. Supervisors, collectors, assessors, clerks and justices changed hands amid saloon license battles. Other notes include coal prospecting plans, endowment ranks in K of P, saloon-related incidents, and local civic developments across towns.
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Grayvinis
Ill
J. H. Thompson
W. F. Baldwin
Geo. Mathews
Collector
Frank Melrose
Charley Kuykendall
J. D. Finch
C. L. Rees
J. A. Puntney
B. W. Kenner
Robert Puntney
J.D. Rigall
Monroe McKinnis
J. W. Mosstarger
Burnt Prairie
K. of P. Lodge
Cairo
Olney
Peoria
Bessie Bowman
Grayville
Evansville
Grace Warren
Chicago
Sparta Cannery
Randolph County
Carmi Council
Illinois
Cook County
Nancy
Flora
Harrisburg
Clay County
Remarkable case of a child fed by stomach tube
An eight year old Louisville girl, unable to swallow since July, survived eight months by injecting liquid food via a rubber tube placed through two abdominal incisions. After lye ingestion damaged her esophagus, doctors fashioned a feeding tract, blown warm liquid through the tube, and she gradually recovered, gaining strength to forty pounds. The doctors call the case one of surgery’s most remarkable.
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Louisvile
Louisville
Laura
Kendall
Magazine Street
Rhode Island Governor Vote Sends Legislature Control
The Rhode Island governor race yielded 21 850 for Davis 21 957 for Democrat attorney general and a 48 44 Democrat majority in the legislature with 16 seats remaining. Special elections give Republicans control on joint ballot, though Republicans trailed the governor vote. Other notes include 3000 lady postmasters nationwide and various local curiosities from Alma to St Louis.
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Newport
Davis
Ladd
Rhode Island
Harrison
United States
Alma
Mich
Hanover County
N.C
Dakota
Leavenworth
Kas
Oklahoma
Republican Hopes To Win Next Indiana Legislature
State capital analysis outlines Republican drive to capture 25 senators and 55 representatives, noting near-impossible odds yet nonzero chances. It warns against intra-party rifts, highlights gerrymandering aims, and cites Democratic strongholds in Key districts. Mentions Indiana school-book law enforcement, death tolls in Indianapolis, temperance pledges, and ongoing election-fraud indictments.
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Inpranavotis, Inc
Assembly
Gray and Voorhees
Senate
Posey- Gibgon
Starke- St. Joseph
Lawrence-Jackson
U.S
Dan Voorhees
Indiana
Indianapolis
Murphy
Burglarized post office cited as $12000 missing
The post office was burglarized last Friday morning with $12000 taken from the safe. The thief unlocked the back door and used a hidden safe bay to access the money. Phi Williams, long-time Hugo House employee, was arrested on suspicion the next day in Princeton and escorted to Evansville for Federal examination.
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Phi Williams
Hugo House
Princeton
Evansville
U.S
Marshal Groves
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