Senate moves toward peaceful path in Ballinger Pinchot probe
Washington Jan 10 after talks between Senate and House leaders it is decided the Jones resolution will be amended so the House names its own committee on inquiry and not the Speaker this reduces chances of a clash between insurgents and regulars. The plan aims to start the inquiry by week’s end with joint committee reporting soon amid campaign stakes.
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Senate
House
Snator Jones
Bailinger-Pinchot
Committee On Inquiry
Senate Committee On Public Lands
Cannon
Worris
Republican Congressional Committee
Republicans
Dwight
Joint Committee
Leopard mauls trainer in attack at Huber's museum
In New York on Sunday, Clayton the leopard suddenly attacked trainer Mrs Paulin Russell during a rehearsal ride through the cage. Russell was knocked to the floor and severely injured in the throat, with doctors at Bellevue Hospital treating her injuries as serious.
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New York
Clayton
Huber’s Museum
No Chance For Them Chicago Gamblers Blocked
Indiana governor assures Lake county sheriff wages of deputies in the crusade against Chicago gamblers will be paid from the state contingent fund. Deputies will guard Clarke station stockade to prevent any syndicate move to reopen a poolroom. The governor was informed by a Chicago letter of another planned clubhouse occupation.
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Chicago
Indiana
Indianapolis
Grant
Lake County
Clarke Station
A Question of Fame Dividing Hoosiers
Washington reports a split in Indiana over the Lew Wallace statue in statuary hall. Critics blame the statue committee for the portrayal in military dress, arguing Wallace is better known as the author of Ben Hur. Indiana literary figures oppose the uniform, while Civil War comrades defend the regimental tribute amid Grant’s criticisms of Shiloh.
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Washington
Lew Wallace
Indiana
Oliver P. Morton
Wallace
Shiloh
Grant
Wallace statue unveiling party to travel by special car
Indianapolis report says the Wallace statue commission arranges a special car for Indiana attendees to the Washington unveiling next Tuesday. The car departs Sunday at 1 30 p m arriving in Washington Monday morning with Governor and Mrs Marshall James Whitcomb Riley and Henry L Wallace among the travelers.
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Indianapolis
Wallace
Indiana
Washington
Woman Carrying Dead Baby In Revival Carried To Church
In Hammond Indiana on January 10 a farmer's wife Mrs Edward Schoen carried her dead infant girl about six months old on a five mile trip to a Ross revival meeting. The child, wrapped in blankets, cried during the ride and only died when unwrapped upon arrival at a church stove. Authorities believe the infant was smothered.
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Hammond
Ind
Black Oak
Ross
Edward Schoen
Covey Abolishes Golden Rule Police Policy
Evansville Indiana January 8 1930s new chief George L Covey ends Brennecke era policy allowing officers to skip arrests for drunks unless disorderly. From now on all unconscious or intoxicated individuals will be arrested rather than sent home under the old rule.
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Evansville
Ind
George L. Covey
Fred H. Brennecke
Covey
Dry Sunday Upholds City Prohibition in Indianapolis
Indianapolis reports a strict dry Sunday as Mayor Shank, in office a week, ordered arrests of saloonkeepers with open premises. Eighteen saloon keepers were jailed or bonded, marking the first enforcement showing a hard line against liquor in the city.
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Indianapolis
Shank
Glass plant in Muncie destroyed by fire
A large fire at the Muncie Glass company caused about 65000 in losses. The blaze left five hundred workers jobless. The plant had been rebuilt after a previous fire about three years prior. Insurance partly covers the damage.
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Muncie
Ind
Muncie Glass Company
Woman Dies by Self Destruction in Indiana Marriage
Bloomington Ind Jan 8 Mrs Reatha Ragan aged fourteen at marriage and after a year of married life she shot herself with a shotgun. The notes mention a separate item: a big automobile show is in progress at Madison Square Garden New York.
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Bloomington
Ind
Reatha Ragan
Peter Ragan
Madison Square Garden
New York
New York City
Honest Men to the Front. Watterson on Pinchot Firing
In a Courier Journal editorial Henry Watterson denounces President Taft for removing Gifford Pinchot, arguing the president aligns with thieves and marks a shift from licensed robbery to paying party debts from the people's domain. He calls for plain English and asserts the president, though honest, is misled by party interests.
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Louisville
Courier-Journal
Henry Watterson
United States
Gifford Pinchot
Friends
Taft
Chinatown Feud Threat Looms Over San Francisco Tong War
In San Francisco Chinatown on January 10, Hop Sing tong cites a conditional ultimatum to Yee tong, warning of renewed hostilities next Thursday if demands aren’t met. A recent truce among twelve tongs dissolves if provoked, sparking fears of court action and dissolution of highbinder tongs. Yee tong vows to convict feud murderers and expose blackmailing groups after March 1.
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Chinatown
Hop Sing Tong
Aa Hop Sing
Yee
San Jose
Hop Sing
Yees
Yee Tong
Horrid Deed of Negroes
Daniel Matthews of the Central of Georgia railway was tied to a track near Macon Georgia and killed when a passenger train passed over him. Four African American men refused to reveal the switch key. The incident occurred on January 10.
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Macon
Daniel Matthews
Central of Georgia Railway
Matthews
Big Aviation Meet Aims at Los Angeles January 10 20
Eighty thousand dollars in prizes to contestants at the first international aviation meet in the United States. Prominent backers include Henry Huntington Franklin K Lane and Dick Ferris. Balloons will be tested near central Los Angeles with airships from France and Curtiss machines featured.
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Los Angeles
Santa Anita
Cal
United States
Pacific Slope
Henry Huntington
Collis P. Huntington
Franklin K. Lane
Interstate Commerce Commission
Dick Ferris
Broadway
New York
America
Baldwin Ranch
Curtiss
Willard
Bleriot
Farman
France
Culler
Masson
Miscard
Paulhan
Plant Expedition to Seek Drought Resistant Palestine Wheat
An American company capitalized at 70000 dollars is forming in Washington under Dr Aaron Aaronsohn to search ancient Palestine for drought resistant plants. He reports discovering wild wheat on Mount Hebron as a prototype for a hardy variety. Turkey and the United States will collaborate via Haifa Jewish experiment station, exchanging plant industry and meteorological data.
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Palestine
United States
Washington
Aaron Aaronsohn
Aaronsohn
Department of Agriculture
Mount Hebron
Turkey
Haifa
Odd fountain plan aims to model birds at St Louis schools
Superintendent Ben Blewett plans unusual drinking fountains for public schools in St Louis. Children would mimic birds with mouths open as water streams trickle down their throats from high faucets. The slow flow is meant to reduce choking and overflow risks.
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St. Louis
Ben Blewett
Blewett
Microbes In Apples Spark New Food Safety Alarm
The Pasteur Institute’s Professor Metchnikoff warns a deadly microbe in apples and greens, linked to gastro enteritis, killing 10,000 French children yearly. He urges washing fruit with warm soap before eating to avoid infection.
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Metchnikoff
Pasteur Institute
Paris
France
Farm Boys Learn to Drive as Chauffeurs in Kansas
Farmers in Kansas adopt auto education as eight rural youths enroll in a motor driving course in Abilene. Tuition and expenses exceed 100 dollars each as they study car mechanics by taking cars apart. One student, a $16,000 farmer, seeks knowledge of machine operation despite not owning a car.
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Kansas
Abilene
Kan
Land in Laporte County Deeded Land Lies in Lake Michigan
An affidavit filed in Laporte Indiana claims a section of land in Michigan township is mostly lake bottom. Dr James Park of Chicago asserts his 1907 deed to William L Lathridge is forged and notes 640 acres shown but only about four and a half acres are land waste. The property changed hands multiple times with a $5000 mortgage recorded against it.
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Leporte
Ind
Michigan Township
Laporte County
County Recorder’s
James Park
Chicago
William L. Lathridge
Lake Michigan
Sherwoods Charged in Blackmail Case In Indiana
Indicted on blackmail charges for allegedly extorting money from two men by threatening to expose an attack on their thirteen year old daughter Cora Sherwood. James Catterlin of New Carlisle arrested after confessing he paid 150 dollars. both parents jailed as bonds set at 2500 dollars.
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Laporte
Ind
Carlos Sherwood
Hudson Township
Mary Sherwood
Sherwood
Cora Sherwood
James Catterlin
New Carlisle
Catterlin
Sherwoods
Sought to Save Money Ends in Fatal House Fire
Eugene Griswold, a 57 year old farmer from five miles south of Kokomo Indiana, died after reentering his burning home to retrieve money. He escaped the initial blaze but his clothes burned away and his flesh scorched as neighbors saved him from the cold snow outside. He perished from burns sustained in the fire that consumed his residence and all contents.
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Kokomo
Ind
Eugene Griswold
Griswold
He Wouldn't Give Up A Recluse Found Starving In Evansville
Marshall McMurran, a miserly recluse living in a dilapidated shack near Evansville Indiana, was found starving and exposed. A constable brought him to town where a commission examined his sanity. His clothes revealed $22,000 concealed on his person. Twenty thousand dollars in greenbacks and two thousand in gold certificates were found hidden in his pockets and lining.
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Evansville
Ind
Marshall McMurran
Jackson Re-Elected Chairman of Democratic State Committee
In Indianapolis on Saturday January 10 0 5 Jackson of Greenfield was re elected chairman by acclamation. Fabius Gwynn of Shoals was elected vice chairman and William F Moore the Indianapolis city chairman is said to be slated for the secretary post.
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Jackson
Indianapolis
Greenfield
Democratic State Committee
Fabius Gwynn
Shoals
William F. Moore
Crawfordsville Man Elected Supreme Chief of Tribe of Ben Hur
Dr. Royal H. Gerard of Crawfordsville Ind has been elected supreme chief of the Tribe of Ben Hur succeeding his father the late David W. Gerard who died on Monday The election was made by the executive committee.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Royal H. Gerard
Tribe of
Parr Found Guilty in Saloon Slaying
William Parr, charged with murdering his son in law Alonzo Geer in a Terre Haute saloon on November 14, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to two to fourteen years in the penitentiary.
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Parr
Terre Haute
Ind
William Parr
Alonzo Geer
Woman dies saving child from open grate fire
Evonseville Indiana January 6. Mrs Hallie Hawkins perished in flames while attempting to rescue her daughter from a fire in an open grate.
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Evonseville
Ind
Hallie Hawkins
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