Indiana Sanitary and Water Works meet and officers elected
At Indianapolis a meeting of the Indiana Sanitary and Water Supply association heard Dr Merman G Morgan warn that 86 of every 100 typhoid cases in Indianapolis last summer came from well water. The group elected H A Dill of Richmond as president and rejected affiliating with the American Water Works association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Indiana Sanitary and Water Supply Association
Merman G. Morgan
Sam
Morgan
Buffalo
N. Y
Petredt
Mich
H. A. Dill
Richmond
C. H. Hurd
HH. E. Barnard
R. T., Sackett
Purdue University
W. T. Wyrbin
Evansville
Quince Wallace
Muncie
William F. Ring
W. G. Virich
American Water Works Association
Thomas Duncan
Public Service Commission
Indiana Public Utility Commission
H. F E. Barnard
Federation of Parent-Teacher Associations
James A. Collins
Shortridge High School
Collins
Governor Pardons Two Prisoners in Indiana
Governor Ralston grants clemency to William G. Davis who serves 30 days in Marion county workhouse for loitering and John E. Norton of Huntington who has served 40 days of a 60 day sentence for operating a blind tiger. Norton to be released upon paying a $200 fine. case moved from Huntington to Wabash county for trial and appealed to the governor before final decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralston
William G. Davis
Marion County
John E. Norton
Huntington
Norton
Wabash County
Huntington County
Supreme Court
Taft Opposes Intervention in Mexico Policy Speech
Former President Taft urged the United States not to intervene militarily in Mexico. In a National Geographic Society address he warned of enormous cost in lives and money and the uncertain benefits of forceful action. He described guerrilla warfare and the difficulty of enforcing law and order across Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Taft
National Geographic Society
Mexico
Carranza Defies United States in Benton Case Crisis
Washington reports show Gen. Venustiano Carranza refusing U S requests for information on the killing of William S Benton, a British subject, in Juarez. Carranza favors diplomatic channels and says no direct U S investigation is shown. Officials confirm Benton was unarmed and shot in Villa's office.
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Washington
Venustiano Carranza
United States
Bryan
State Department
Folk
Benton
Benz Long
City of
Mexico
Huerta
Charge O'Shaughnessy
Nogales
Sonora
Carranza
Juarez
William S. Benton
Gustav Bauch
Great Britain
Frederick Simpich
Ysidro Fabela
Waterloo citizens raise funds for Iowa building at Panama Expo
Waterloo Iowa residents report ten thousand five hundred dollars raised for the Iowa building to be erected for the Panama-Pacific exposition in San Francisco. In Spokane a widow Mrs Stella Maries and her two daughters Helen and Gale perished in a house fire while her two sons escaped by jumping from a window. In Des Moines Iowa plans by efficiency engineers would put the governor in charge of every executive department and have the chief justice appoint all state judges if legislated reforms pass.
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Waterloo
Iowa
San Francisco
Spokane
Stella Maries
Helen
Gale
Des Moines
Supreme Court
Legislative Committee On
Lamar accuses rails of rebates to U S Steel
David Lamar testifies before the Interstate Commerce Commission that over six years U S Steel received at least 75 million dollars in rebates from railroads. He names Union Railway and several lines, alleging excess freight charges funded by dividends to steel stockholders.
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Washington
United States Steel Corporation
Harlan
Interstate Commerce Commission
David Lamar
New York
William H. Green
Nebraka
Senate
Commission
Lamar
Steel Corporation
Union Railway
Duluth & Iron Range Railroad
Pittsburgh & Conneaut Dock Company
Bessemer Steamship Company
Duluth, Massaba & Northern
Elgin, Joliet & Eastern
Bomb Kills Betrayer in Sullivan Home
Frederick W. Mennerich was blown to pieces by a bomb mailed from Decatur and delivered Friday. He had a prior counterfeit conviction in 1908, raising small bills to tens. Three others were implicated. Mennerich had served a year in Chester penitentiary. He married Dona Nolen in 1910. they separated in December and she filed for divorce January 16. Mrs. Mennerich was arrested in Springfield but later released.
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Sullivan
Ill
Frederick W. Mennerich
Decatur
Mennerich
Chester
Dona Nolen
Edward Nolen
Windsor, ii
Springfield
Agriculture Department to Exhibit at Chicago Forestry Exposition
Washington March 3. The house passed a resolution authorizing Secretary of Agriculture to send a government forestry exhibit to the Exposition of Forest Products in Chicago from April 30 to May 9. Ten thousand dollars is appropriated for the exhibit. The exposition is funded by the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association.
Woman Guilty of Murder in First Degree
Mrs. Cynthia Buffum was found guilty of the murder in the first degree of her husband and daughter in Little Valley New York. The jury was out five hours and twenty minutes causing astonishment in the courtroom.
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Little Valley
N. Y
Cynthia. Buffum
Blizzard Paralyzes East as Ships Sink and Milk Famine Looms
An epic blizzard sweeps the Atlantic coast halting rail and street traffic from New York to Philadelphia. Fifteen dead, scores injured, hundreds in peril on land and sea. Fourteen inches of snow paralyzes transit. ships wrecked off New England. milk supply threatened as trains fail to deliver.
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New York
Atlantic Seaboard
New England
Congressional Limited
Pennsylvania
Washington
Trenton
New York Central
Erie
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Delaware & Hudson
Lackawanna
Albany
Fire Island
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Allegheny Mountains
Reading
New Brunswick
N. J
Marshall
Cleveland
United States Express to Quit Amid Parcel Post Rivals
Rumors in New York state the United States Express company plans to liquidate due to parcel post competition. Industry chatter on Wall Street and in the financial district says a merger is being considered as a path to a quick exit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Parcel Post
United States Express Company
Financial District
New York Stock Exchange
Stone Named Senate Foreign Relations Chairman
Senator William J. Stone of Missouri was chosen by party leaders to chair the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The move follows swift approval of a resolution introduced by Senator Kern of Indiana on Monday.
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Senate Selecte Missourian
Foreign Relations Committee
Washington
William J. Stone
Missouri
Senate
Kern 7Tiana
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DR. Morgan
Indiana Water Association
Bell
H. G. Dill
State House
Louis A. Fisher
Bureau of Standards
Fred ©. Albrecht
Bureau of Standards of
Ohio
H. E. Barnard
John T. Willett
Duncan
Isidor Wulfson
Wulfson
W. W. Spencer
William H. Lagle
Anderson
John C. Connors
Cambridge
Mass
Frank J. O'Rourke
Indiana Ranch of the World’s Peace Foundation
O. D. Odell
Meredith Nicholson
Joseph Chartrand
John J. Elam
C. Wicks
Urlton A. Brown
Amos W. Butler
Thomas C. Howe
Ernest Jose
Willard O. Trueblood
Indianaupolis
W. W. Parsons
Terre Haute
Indiana Retail Shoe Association
Indiana
Indiana Retail Shop Association
E. S. Kinnear
Marion
T. S. Palfrey
Vincennes
Adam Ehrensperger
A. B. Weyl
Franklin
C. I Slipher
Adam Ehliensperger
Simon Pink
William Hart
C. I. Slipher
Collins Lands
Northeastern
Indiana Christian Ministerial Association
Kendallville
W. D. Trumbull
O. F. Tomes
Fort Wayne
F. L. Taylor
C. W. Machin
Auburn
M. L. Buckley
Lake James
J. O. Rose
Angola
John R. Golden
Atlantic Coast
Wellfleet
Atlantic
Boston
Wilson
Rebel
Villa
U. S. Steel
Cynthia Buffum
Little Valley, N. Y
Husband
Babe
U. S. Express
Stone
Bacon
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