Lafayette Seeks Next Convention After Y M C A Session
Indianapolis dispatch reports the annual Indiana Y M C A convention in Fort Wayne with talks by Prof. John of Chicago and Charles S. Hayes. C B Kessinger of Vincennes was reelected president. other officers retained. Lafayette seeks to host next year. Also notes fires from gasoline explosions, Durbin death at Michigan City prison, and Indianapolis to host florists society meetings and chrysanthemum show.
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Indianapolis
First Baptist Church
Pt. Wayne
John of. Coster
University of Chicago
Charles S. Hayes
Hillsdale
Mich
Young Men’s Christian Association
C. B. Kessinger
Vincennes
Frank E. Smith
Elkhart
Thomas C. Howe
Irvington
B. M. Haas
Richmond
C. L. Surprise
Hammond
Marie N. Doodnow
Chicago
John F. Wallick
G. A. Trimble
Evansville
Sharon EB. Jones
O. M. Gregg
Crawfordsville
C.S. Rhoades
John C. Haswell
Marion
C. D. Emmons
South Bend
J. W. Landrum
Terre Haute
H. M. Dowling
B. A. Hanley
Franklin
Lafayette
State Association
David S. Durbin
Winfield T. Durbin
Michigan City
Mr. Durbin
Lawrenceburg
Ind
New Albany
Thirteenth
Indiana Infantry
Charles Harley
George Durbin
Robert
Sherwood Durbin
Indiana Florists’ ‘Society
Widde
G. Hill
Society
Madiane
Hifi
New York
Indiana Beekeepers Report Mixed Honey Crop Outcomes
At the Indiana Beekeepers Association annual meeting in the state house, reports show a generally good honey crop statewide with southern counties hit hard by drought reducing nectar and clover yields. Northern counties fared better, while inspectors noted foul brood and other diseases in several apiaries and burned 12 hives.
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Indiana
Indiana ‘ Beekeepers’ Association
State House
State
Mason J. Niblack
Vincennes
Association
Charles H. Baldwin
State Department
B. F. Kindig
D. W. Erbaugh
Niblack
Baldwin
Indiana Farmers Sweep Prizes at Chicago Livestock Show
Indiana stock raisers win major ribbons at the International Live Stock exhibition in Chicago. J. Crouch & Son of Lafayette claim firsts with Percherons while Warren T. McCray of Kentland wins multiple prizes with Herefords. McCray’s Perfection Lass takes first in Hereford cows. Farm er the imported bull loses to Beau Fairfax. B. F. Reed of Veedersburg and others win in hog and swine classes.
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Indiana
Chicago
J. Crouch & Son
Lafayette
Warren T. McCray
Kentland
Mr. McCray
Amy Folly
J. H
J. W. Vannatta
McCray
Beau Fairfax
Point Comfort
W. J. Davis
Jackson
Miss
Letham Fairfax
B. F. Reed
Veedersburg
Poland
J. W. Brendel
Zionsville
Thomas Kent
Walnut
Chester White
Manuscripts Tested for Licenses Surveyed by State Office
The manuscript department under Charles A. Greathouse received 12,259 manuscripts from teachers seeking licenses during the year ending September 31. Of these, 5,858 or 47.7 percent were successful, with 2,728 high school and 1,980 successful for high school positions. Common school manuscripts totaled 7,890, supervisor manuscripts 1,641, and 12 month license passers 1,793 with 1,113 supervisors’ manuscripts successful. Twenty four months common school licenses had 664 successes, and primary manuscripts 204 with 36 month licenses totaling 104 successes. total receipts and expenditures noted as well.
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Charles A. Greathouse
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Turmoil on Mexican Front as Huerta Forces Routed
Reports from Presidio and Ojinaga detail the rout of Huerta’s army in northern Mexico. Civilians and deserters, including women and children, fled 185 miles across the desert to safety. A huge bullion train carrying 2 million ounces of silver reached the border. In San Luis Potosi region federals executed a rebel with dynamite after a court martial for troops train destruction.
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Presidio
Tex
Huerta
Mexico
Ojinaga
Chihuahua
Parral
Mexico City
San Luis Potosi
Carneros
Ricardo Cordero
de la Pena
Cordero
Two Slain in Mine Strike at Painesdale Calumet
In Calumet Michigan two copper miners Arthur James twenty one Toronto Ontario and Harry James twenty four Toronto Ontario were killed in a gun attack on a nonunion boarding house. Thomas Dailey forty one and Mary Nicholson fourteen were wounded. Six suspects are held as authorities investigate the shootout that left a young girl among the victims.
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Calumet
Mich
Painesdale
Arthur James
Toronto
Harry James
Thomas Dailey
Mary Nicholson
Mrs Pankhurst Released From Jail After Hunger Strike
Mrs Pankhurst has been released from Hixeter jail after a three day hunger and throat strike. A medical certificate says she is suffering from pleurisy and she has been taken to a hospital for treatment.
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London
Hixeter
Dynamiter Davis Reveals Union Ties to Outrage Plot
George E. Davis testifies about a wide scheme of dynamite outrages linked to officers and members of the International Bridge and Structural Ironworkers' Association. He details payments of ten to thirty dollars, travel with explosives, and the role of union officials in directing acts as authorities pursue indictments and further charges.
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New York
George E. Davis
Graud-Fory
Indianapolis
International Bridge and Structural Ironworkers’ Association
David
Harry Jones
Davis
Davia
Ironworkers’ Union
Ortia McManigal
Robert J. Foster
Lewisville
National Erectors’ Association
Union
Frank C. Webb
MISS PHOEBE COUZINS DIES IN ST LOUIS
Miss Phoebe Couzins died in St Louis on Saturday at age seventy three after a prolonged illness. She was the first woman lawyer in the United States and the only woman to serve as deputy United States marshal. Once a voice for women's rights she later opposed suffrage.
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St. Louis
Dec
Phoebe Couzing
United States
Couzina
Woman Forty A Mother Of Twenty One In Emporia
Emporia Kansas December 8 reports a remarkable event a woman aged forty has given birth to her twenty first child a son. The father is not clearly identified but references Mr and Mrs Moslander of the city. The note confirms the mother is forty years old and has a large family.
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Emporia
Kan
and ‘Mert
Apnea FP
Moslander
Fire on Rio Grande prompts daring sea rescue
In a dramatic early morning off Diamond Shoals 199 passengers were saved from the burning steamer Rio Grande by the British Swanmore after the Rio Grande’s crew failed to quell the fire. The Swanmore reached the scene at dawn and evacuated the passengers amid rough seas and a southwest wind.
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Norfolk
Liverpool
Baltimore
Diamond Shoals
Rio Grande
Swanmore
Baker bill passes Senate authorizing San Francisco water and power rights
Washington reports the Baker bill granting San Francisco water supply and power rights in the Hetch Hetchy valley of the Toulumme river Yosemite national park passed the Senate by 48 to 25. Paris notes Longwood house in St. Helena, Napoleon’s death site, deteriorating due to lack of repairs. deputies consider increasing foreign office funds by 4000 dollars. Brussels reports a Catholic priest was shot by a socialist during a funeral where the red flag was carried.
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Washington
Baker
San Francisco
Hetch Hetchy
Toulumme
Yosemite National Park
Senate
Paris
France
Longwood House
St. Helena
Napoleon
Foreign Office
Brussels
Prohibit Arms to Ulster and Ireland Pacification Nears
The British cabinet issued a royal proclamation banning arms and ammunition imports into Ireland. Prime Minister Asquith accepted terms from Sir Edward Carson in Manchester that would pacify Ulster, signaling near realization of home rule with Ulster included.
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London
Ireland
Ulster
Asquith
Edward Carson
Manchester
President Refuses Message to Congress on Suffrage Issue
President tells National American Woman Suffrage Association delegation he supports a standing House committee on suffrage but will not urge legislation or send a special message. He notes his role as spokesman for a party and must refrain from private views, while inviting consultation from lawmakers. Dr Anna Shaw calls the interview satisfactory and encouraging.
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Washington
National American Woman's Suffrage Association
House of Representatives
Congress
Anna Howard Shaw
Association
House
New Jersey
Rules Committee
Senate
Doctor Shaw
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W. E. Longtey
Longley
The
Atlantic
Matthew A. Batson
Savannah
Atlantic Ocean
Stain
Mrs. Pankhurst
Stir J
M’manigal
Iron Workers’ Organization
Phoebe Couzins
House Committee
Dapan Adde Threg’ Crubeere
To. Navy
Toklo
Nava Be-Roy
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