Dr Will Collins Killed in Geneva Train Crash
Dr Will Collins formerly of Jefferson township dies in Geneva Indiana after being struck by a train while driving a buggy to see a patient. The horse and buggy were destroyed and his funeral is at Bethlehem church southeast of Carlisle. He was about 40, had built a medical practice in Geneva and recently partnered with Dr Oza Graham from Palmer's Prime.
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Will Collins
Jefferson Township
Geneva
Ind
Collins
Ed Collins
Bethlehem Church
Carlisle
Oza Graham
Palmer
Chicago
Ed Collirs
Iis Hawshers
Rolla
John
Merero
Miss Cors
Collings
Sullivan County
Chicago Medical College
Byat Pase Fey
Evs
Poultry Show Prospects Rise in Sullivan County
The first annual Sullivan County Poultry and Pet Stock Association exhibit comes to the Matrix Turman and Ages building on North Main Street from December 19 to 28. With 128 poultry prizes plus many for corn and pumpkins and 250 dollars in poultry awards, entries close December 10 for poultry and corn and pumpkins by December 10. judge Charles McClare of New London Ohio leads a strong program.
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Sullivan County Poultry and Pet Stork Association
Matrix
Turman
Ges
North Main Street
R. T. Megibbon
Mervin Engle
Charles McClare
New London
Ohio
United States
Association
C. W. Welman
Tilghman Ogle
Chas. A. Beasley
R. T. Mcgibbon
Roy Cowles
Noah Drennon
A. M. McGuire
Stewart Barnes
Pioneer Warden H. Griffith Dies at 87 in Marshall
Warden H Griffith longtime county teacher and civic figure died at his home in Marshall Ills last Wednesday evening He was born March 11 1818 in Bardstown Kentucky and moved to Marshall in 1839 He taught in the county for about forty years and raised a large family His funeral was held at the family residence and burial followed by the Masonic order with Rev O H Denny officiating
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Warden H. Griffith
Marshall
Ills
Clark County Democrat
Huey Bint
Bardstown
Kentucky
Warden
Indiana
Carlisle
Ind
Dean Andrews
Archer Bartlett
Durits LeGore
Burns Archer
McClure
Douglas Township
Sarah Ashmore
Kimbrough
EK. R. E. Kimbrough
Danville
Paris
William Main
Douglas
Harriet Reynolds
J. S. Lucan
Griffith
Marshal
J. W. Lewis
Elizabeth Black
Big Creek
Edward
Thomas J. Griffith
Indianapolis
Lote Gray
Joseph Neibel
Fort Wayne
James Guinnip
This Sty
Charles D
W.D. Geifiith
Denver
Cole
Edward J
Miner Finds Petrified Turtle in Coal at Green Valley Mine
William Houston, a coal miner at the Green Valley mine near Jasonville, discovered a completely petrified turtle embedded in coal. The specimen was perfect in formation and appeared as natural as if alive.
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William Houston
Green Valley
Jasonville
Roosevelt’s Message to Congress Outlines Reform and Defense
President Roosevelt’s message to Congress covers corporations, railroad rates, private car lines, employers liability, and the posterity problem linked to working women. It stresses economy, currency elasticity, election bribery, Hague talks, Monroe Doctrine, Santo Domingo aid, navy growth, merchant marine, statehood for Indian Territory with Oklahoma, plus naturalization criminal laws immigration civil service and the Philippines.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Santo Domingo
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Arizona
Philippines
Panama Canal
Verdigris River Well Produces 100 Barrels Daily
A telegram from Judge D W Henry of Terre Haute reports Verdigris River Land Company No 2 well near Vinita Indian Territory is producing 100 barrels of oil a day. Locals hold stock in the company and express great elation at the development.
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D. W. Henry
Tere Haute
No. 2
Weil
Verdigris River Land Company
Vinita
Indian Territory
Unfortunate Copeland Family Recalled in Sullivan County
A long obituary recounts the life of Mrs Eliza Copeland of New Lebanon and the infamous Copeland family. It traces George Copeland a cattle driver turned landowner and politician whose career and crimes troubled Gill township, his disappearance blamed on outlaws, and the family’s later misfortunes including deaths of relatives and a fatal fire.
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Eliza Copeland
New Lebanon
Copeland
Pais
George Coped
Tee Weare
George Copeland
Park Sherman
Gill’s Prairie
California
Sherman
St. Louis
Ornate
Coanell
Dakota
Sullivan County
Bradley Saves Train by Flagging Engine Flare
Evansville Indiana December 1 A newspaper reporter F P Bradley sleeping under the BE and T H bridge over Pigeon Creek awoke to a fleeing horse and driver and warned the Florida flyer. Police boarded a switch engine to reach the scene causing a collision and one officer was injured. Bradley refused a $100 reward but accepted a pass to St Louis and a two dollar bill.
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Evansville
Ind
F. P. Bradley
St. Louis
Bradley
Pigeon Creek
Florida Flyer
Jeffries
Crowders Quaran tined in Guba
Crowder and his mother William TH Crowder of this city have been in Cuba for three weeks and could not leave Havana on December first due to yellow fever quarantine. They returned inland and will stay there until able to go back to the States.
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Edgar
Crowder
Mather
Wiliam TH. Crowder
Cuba
Havanna
Messers. Crowder
Havana
Statess
Sullivan saloon crackdown keeps lid on holidays
Thanksgiving saw strict law enforcement with saloon keepers notified to comply and no violations reported. The lid remained on Sunday as well. Peter Dunham returned to his home at New Lebanon to spend the holiday.
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Sullivan
Peter Dunham
New Lebanon
California Spider Sends Shiver Through Farmersburg
Howard Campbell now living in California mailed his brother Albert a sample of a giant spider. The creature lies under a glass as a paper weight, its legs spanning a three inch diameter. Farmersburg Bee.
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Howard Campbell
California
Albert
Farmersburg
White Owl Killed by Farm ersburg Man Then Identified at Institute
A white owl killed near Blackhawk was found to have a mate and was taken to Rose Polytechnic Institute in Terre Haute. There a man was paid $30 for the bird as found, and the specimen is now mounted among the institute’s collections.
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Chancey Vancleave
Farmersburg
Blackhawk
Rose Polytechnic Institute
Terre Haute
Chaney Named to Pension and Patents Panel in Cannon Era
Congressman John C Chaney of this city and second district wins a seat on the committee on invalid pensions and patents. He plans a service pension bill with graduated payments for Civil War veterans and proposes a $1 a barrel beer tax to fund it. The measure would raise about $15 to $16 million annually, offset by veteran needs as older servicemen age.
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John C. Chaney
Cannon
Chaney
Mary Coulson
Sewell Coulson
Knights of the Grade
Wortig Cs
Ford
Iowa
Nethoas
Chelles
Congress
Louis Ludlow
Washington
The
Terre Taute Star
County Teachers Meet Highlights and Speakers
A large turnout of county teachers attended the annual institute in this city, with Mrs. Maud Baginton Booth delivering a featured address on prison life. Key speakers included Prof. Price, Mr. Bicknell, and Supt Kendall, discussing high school preparation, love in education, and effective teaching. Thanksgiving visits noted.
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Maud Balington Booth
Booth
Association
J. H. Sammis
Price
Orgation
Asd
Prive Ati
Ain Yvesy
Nineten
George Bicknell
Odell
Calvin Kendalf
Indianapolis Seheacs
Associaton
Coe
Dave Cashman
W. H. Grim
Clarence White
Newark
Ohio
United States
Leotard Nattkemper
Terre Haute
Kipling
Mandalay
Riley
Calvin Kendall
Bicknell
EEFA
Lane
George C. Enders
Union Christian College
Kendall
Farmersburg P. D Moves to Kendall Block
The Farmersburg post office will move in a few days to the new Kendall block into the room formerly used by the Presbyterian church as a gospel hall. The gospel hall will relocate to Brown's hall until the new church is finished. Dr and Mrs Ira Larr spent Thanksgiving with Mrs Penrod at Merom.
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Farmersburg
Kendall Block
The
Presbyterian Church
Brown’s Hall
Farmersburg Bee
Ira Larr
Mrs. Larr
Penrod
Merom
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H. Griffith
President Roosevelt
Barril
Gill Township
James Copeland
Imeniy
Copciam
Rey
Phifer
Siebves
Chlowes
George Bates
Guba
Qwl
John G. Chaney
Mrs. Barlington Booth
Mary Johnson
Shelburs
Merom Station
Farmersburg P. D
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