Evangelical Crusade Plans at Winona Lake Conference
Winona Lake Ind Aug 24 A Presbyterian evangelistic committee met to map nationwide outreach plans. Subcommittees led by Rev Wilbur Chapman and Rev Balcom Shaw prepared evangelist lists and minister conferences for Presbyterian leaflets and presbytery actions. Notable attendees included Rev George Stewart and Rev J Wilbur Nye with sessions continuing in Philadelphia in December.
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Winona Lake
Ind
Winona
New York
Riverdale
George B. Stewart
Auburn Seminary
George T
Phila
Ergan
John H. Converse
Philadelphia
Purvis
J. Wilbur
W. J. Chichester
Palmer
Columbus
George P. Wail
Washington
James J. Buchanan
Fort Wayne
Holt
Chicago
John Willis
Boston
Beck
Albany
Cornelius Brooklyn
James M.y
Methodist Christian To
Moody Building
EB. A. K. Hackett
Fort
Adarie
Warsaw
Winona Assembly
Pennsylvania Company
John McNeil
A. B. Pope
Jameson
Monmouth
Richmond
Queer Railroad Accident Drowning the Furnace Firebox
Special to the Indianapolis Journal reports at Hagerstown Indiana a Panhandle freight engine suffered a rare boiler failure when an eccentric strap tore a hole in the firebox. Steam and hot water escaped, the engine died near the station, traffic was halted, but the machine was not badly damaged overall. Nearby at Valparaiso Indiana a fatal driving accident killed Daniel Dailey as his team was struck on a Baltimore and Ohio track, with injuries proving fatal two hours later.
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Indianapolis Journal
Hagerstown
Ind
Panhandle
Paicuna
Richmond
Valparaiso
Porter County
Daniel Dailey
Baltimore & Ohio
Bank Robbery at Petersburg Bank Doors Blown Open
Special to the Indianapolis Journal Petersburg Indiana two burglars entered Citizens State Bank at 2:20 this morning vault doors blown with nitroglycerin. $239.90 in silver stolen. Entry by skeleton key. Tools from E and I depot workers’ toolhouse. Two shots fired to open vault. Burglars fled with tools, pursued but not captured. Bank president James Shawhan among town leaders. Police to search for offenders. town expects a visiting detective.
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Indianapolis Journal
Petersburg
Ind
Citizens’ State Bank
State Bank
James Shawhan
Pike County
Flemming to Seek Pardon for Grant County Sheriff Killing
Special to the Indianapolis Journal from Kokomo Indiana August 4 Governor Durbin granted ten days to John Flemming a life prisoner sent to Michigan City Prison in December 1885 for the killing of Sheriff Robert L Jones who was attempting to arrest Flemming for horse stealing The plea for clemency argues for a pardon and cites prior persisting issues in the case
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Indianapolis
Kokomo
Ind
Durbin
Johning
Michigan City
Robert L. Jones
Grant County
Flemming
Sipe
Two Prisoners and a Parole Drama in Indiana News
In Valparaiso a prisoner named Walter Reichenmater who had been paroled a month earlier fled after a bank withdrawal and train ride as officers hunted for him. He had been convicted of criminal assault and served about eight years before parole. In a separate note Flemming, twenty, killed a sheriff by mistake at Ida McQuiston’s home while seeking to see his dying father, with talks of a possible pardon for the couple’s romance.
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Flemming
Ida McQuiston
Miss Miston
Indianapolis Journal
Valparaiso
Ind
Shideler
State
Walter Reichenmater
Reichenmater
Reichenmaier
South Bend
Reeves
Vannatta
Muncie Night of Shootings Leaves Several Injured
In Muncie Indiana August 24 three shooting incidents occurred. Edward Kelly forty and his wife argued in public then she returned with a revolver firing four shots. Kelly was shot in the thigh. Peter Abbott and William Isaacs fought in Helminck’s saloon. Isaacs fled to a nearby saloon with a weapon but harmed none. Charles Lamb was shot in the leg during a craps dispute at Thomas’s gambling room. The assailant’s identity could not be learned.
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Indianapolis Journal
Muncie
Ind
Edward Kelly
King's Saloon
Peter Abbott
William Isaacs
Helminck
Thomas
Charles Lamb
Gove’s concerted suicide attempt ends in Montpelier
In Portland Indiana William Gove aged twenty four living at Balbec made a third attempt at self harm. He went to Montpelier intoxicated and bought paris green then lay in a cemetery east of town. Found licking poison from his hands he was rushed to care and treated through the night with uncertain prospects for survival. He had married just two weeks earlier.
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Indianapolis
Portland
Ind
William Gove
Balbec
Montpelier
Gove
Jeffersonville ends Gretna Green era with婚 marriage crackdown
Jeffersonville moves to end twenty years of lax marriage enforcement after an audit shows Justice Eph Keigwin performed over 12 000 marriages and Justices House Nixon and Warder tied hundreds more. Officials say the city will no longer be the nations Gretna Green as licenses are refused and public opinion shifts.
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Indianapolis Journal
Jeffersonville
Ind
Eph Keigwin
Justice House
Justice Nixon
L. F. Warder
Carr
South Bend Seeks 1903 American Pharmaceutical Meeting
South Bend, Ind., Aug 24, aims to host the 1903 meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association. The 49th annual session will be in St. Louis Sept 16 to 21, with South Bend highlighting its hotels, rail connections, central location, and industrial attractions as reasons to select the city for the next gathering. An invitation will be presented at the St. Louis event detailing these advantages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
South Bend
Ind
American Pharmaceutical Association
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Pew
United States
Bicycle License War in Elkhart Town
In Elkhart Indiana a long running bicycle license fight pits city rules against state law banning vehicle use on sidewalks. Arrests involve unlicensed and unlighted wheels with fines paid and appeals pending. City hopes to win on a technical point excluding concrete walks from the prohibition.
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Indianapolis Journal
Elkhart
Ind
Commodore Klinger
A. B.B. Miller
Miller
Brumbaugh
Charles de Frees
Lambert
de Frees
Rush County Fair opens with four day run in Rushville
Special to the Indianapolis Journal from Rushville Indiana Aug 24 The Rush County Fair Association annual fair will begin Tuesday and run four days Officials expect one of the most successful meetings in the organization history Exhibits are planned to be strong across categories with broad community participation
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Indianapolis Journal
Rushville
Ind
Rush County Fair Association
Fair racing program and entries praised by local society
The department of the fair promises a high class program with field and misc sports and a musical lineup. Races run daily under American Trotting Association rules feature large purses. Local news includes sheriff appointment in Rushville, Beery sisters’ elopement tale in Bluffton, a giant bee tree near Kokomo, and bids opened for the Wabash bridge project at Terre Haute.
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Middle West
American Trotting Association
Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
Wabash
American Bridge Company
Jefferonville Woman Learns of San Francisco Wedding
Mrs. Laura Barrett of Jeffersonville received a telegram announcing the wedding of her son J Ross Ferguson to Miss Bertha Ferrier in San Francisco last evening. The ceremony was performed by Reverend Bush. Ferguson had traveled to San Francisco two months earlier for health reasons. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs James Ferrier, had lived in Chicago and arrived in San Francisco yesterday to join her fiancé.
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Indianapolis Journal
Jeffersonville
Ind
Laura Barrett
J. Ross Ferguson
Bertha Ferrier
San Francisco
Bush
Ferguson
James Ferrier
Chicago
Andrews citizens plan new bank in Wabash Indiana
Wabash citizens will establish a new bank with capital from 10100 to 20000. They plan to purchase the Key Bank furniture from Capital National Bank of Indianapolis and install it in the new house. Outside funds will cover any shortfall as negotiations proceed for the bank's setup.
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Indianapolis Journal
Wabash
Ind
Andrews
New trustees file incorporation papers for Margaret Smith Home
Richmond Ind August 4 The new trustees M C Price W H Bradbury and Benjamin Starr filed the articles of incorporation The move enables the release of a $2000 contribution from William B Leeds of New York to support the Margaret Smith Home and its operations
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Indianapolis Journal
Richmond
Ind
Margaret Smith
M. C. Price
W. H. Bradbury
Benjamin Starr
William B. Leeds
New York
Indiana towns record multiple deaths in a single report
Aug 4 notices from Wabash Portland Jeffersonville Valparaiso Brazil and Richmond report sudden deaths and funerals. Thomas Wibel aged 60 died feeding horses from heart dilatation near Erie. Mrs Louis Osborn aged 70 died of old age in Rich Valley. David S Haffner aged 78 pioneer resident of Jay county died at home east of Bryant. Letitia McCampbell funeral set for Monday at 2 pm with reverends Hawk and Closkey. Cornelius Tyson Baltimore graduate of Valparaiso College died after appendicitis operation. Charles Hreyfogle aged 80 died from bee sting effects. J N Dilley aged 58 civil war veteran died suddenly. Charles L Mote died from paralytic stroke. son of ex councilman L A Mote. Prairie district reports from state geologist noted in mineral resources summary.
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Wabash
Ind
Thomas Wibel
Erie
Rich Valley
Louis Osborn
Wabash County
Portland
David
Haffner
Jay County
Bryant
Virginia
Jeffersonville
Letitia McCampbell
J. 3. Hawk
Joseph W. Closkey
New Albany
Cave Hill Cemetery
Louisville
Valparaiso
Cornelius Tyson
Baltimore
Valperaiso College
Charlies Hreyfogle
Brazil
J. N. Dilley
Ihs
Richmond
Charles L. Mote
L. A. Mote
Here to Please by Respectful Service Pledge
A business pledges customer satisfaction with the aim that every patron receives exactly what is wanted and is treated well. The message asserts that confidence builds further trust and that everyone must be pleased to encourage return visits.
Local business and civic notices from Indiana towns
Reports announce Creek Lime Stone and Coal Company with $100000 capital to exploit local minerals and a Wabash to Huntington trolley line planned for winter. Other notes cover the Lontz family reunion in Richland, Miss Mills teaching at Fairmount Academy, drought relief turning to rain prospects, Jackson County veterans’ reunion, Furnessville church dedication, rural mail expansion, DePauw chemist illness, and the drowning of Claude Bradway in Warsaw.
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Huntington
Fort Wayne & Southwestern Traction Company
Richmond
Lontz
Hagerstown Fair
Gertrude Mills
President Mills
Earlham College
Fairmount Academy
Dublin
Wayne County
Brownstown
Jackson County
Association
Gilbert
Garrigus
Valparaiso
E. D. Curtis
Indianapolis
Congregational
Furnessville
Porter County
Crumpacker
Hobart
Greencastle
Baker
de Pauw University
Asheville
N. C
Gates
Cne
Warsaw
Claude Bradway
Menefee Injured by Falling Oak Near Bluffton
Edward P. Menefee, a Decatur timber buyer and son of a Warsaw businessman W. P. Bradway, was struck by a falling oak near Bluffton on Friday. He suffered severe injuries including a broken arm and torn shoulder tendons.
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Warsaw
W. P. Bradway
Bluffton
Edward P. Menefee
Decatur
Here
Alleged Treacherous Business Transactions Spark Trouble
Report notes trouble arose over alleged treacherous business transactions. The fragment implies disputes and possible legal or enforcement actions, with limited readable specifics about parties or dates. Further context is unavailable from the fragment.
Deaths in Alps and Kansas City Runaway Crash
A cablegram from New York confirms the death of Mrs Ella Smith a Brooklyn society woman due to an ice fall in the Alps Switzerland The message comes from her husband William Wickham Smith a member of a New York law firm In Kansas City Missouri Mrs S N Lee twenty three sister in law of Colorado magnate Thomas Walsh dies in a runaway crash She and her seven year old son leaped from the carriage she fractured her skull the boy survived.
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New York
Ella Smith
Brooklyn
Alps
Switzerland
William Wickham Smith
Kansas City
N. Lee
Thomas Walsh
Mental scientists in Daytona bonded on mail fraud charges
Colonel and Mrs. C Post alias Helen Tilmans and Charles H Burgman, mental scientists, were arrested at Sea Breeze and charged with using the mails for fraudulent purposes. They waived examination and posted $5,000 bonds each, with Dr E M Sanderson and J M Schumaker as sureties. The case, after preliminary trial in Jacksonville, will go before Judge Locke in December.
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Daytona
Fla
C. ©. Post
Helen Tilmans
Charles H. Burgman
Sea Breeze
Jacksonville
United States
William A. Archibald
E. M. Sanderson
J. M. Schumaker
First National Bank of
Frank Sams
New Smyrna, Fla
H. L. Kocherspeyer
Chicago
Locke
United States District Court
Eight Men Injured in Panhandle Wreck Clearance
Steubenville Aug 24 Eight men were injured when a derrick car toppled during wreck clearance at Gouk's tunnel end on the Panhandle. The worst injuries were to C B Beuts Peter Norl and J B Laudber caused by the crew failing to clamp the derrick to the track.
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Steubenville, V
Panhandle
Gouk
C. B. Beuts
Peter Norl
J. B. Laudber
Lynchers Charged with Murder in Alabama Case
Wetumpka August 4 The bailiffs Bryant Natis 8 F A Pittman and Clop Tanton remanded to jail for refusing to testify before the grand jury in the Robert White lynching case. They are admitted to bail of 100 dollars each on promise to appear and testify. Oward Thomas and Martin alleged mob members are jailed and charged with the murder of the negro as the special grand jury continues its inquiry.
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Wetumpra
Ala
Bryant Natis
F. A. Pittman
Clop Tanton
Robert White
Oward
Thomas
Martin
Pistol Duel Near Middlesboro Leaves One Dead
In Middlesboro Kentucky on August 4 a pistol duel occurred on Little Bird creek between Thomas Little aged seventy and William Strong aged about forty. Strong was killed and Little eur-
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Middlesboro
Little Bird Creek
Here
Thomas Little
William ?Rong
Strong
Verdict Finds Killing of Sam Strong Unpremeditated
The coroner's jury in Cripple Creek reports Sam Strong the millionaire mine owner was killed by Grant Crumiey without premeditation.
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Cripple Creek
Col
Sam Strong
Grant Crumiey
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