Weather forecast for Saturday and Sunday across states
Forecast describes fair to cooler conditions across Indiana Ohio Illinois Kentucky North Dakota Nebraska Kansas Wisconsin Minnesota and other regions. Saturday cooler in southern portions with north winds. Sunday fair and warmer with fresh north or northeast winds. Includes temperature markers and comparative mean temperatures through Aug 23. Blythe Weather Director.
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Noted landscape artist Frederick Olmstead dies at 81
Frederick T. Olmstead, renowned landscape architect and designer of Central Park and Prospect Park, died at Waverly Massachusetts aged 81. Native of Hartford Connecticut he also shaped grounds at Leland Stanford University Capitol Washington and contributed to the Chicago world’s fair advisory roles. He leaves a widow two sons and a daughter. The obituary notes his ill and advanced age as cause of death and lists major projects in New York Brooklyn Montreal Palo Alto and Washington.
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Boston
Frederick T. Olmstead
Waverly
Mass
Mr. Olmstead
Hartford
NEW FORM OF GRAFT IN NORFOLK SAILORS COMPLAIN
United States sailors accuse Norfolk police of mistreatment over a $10 reward for returning sailors who violated shore liberty. They say an imprisoned sailor was kept from overtime and then released to collect the reward, with alleged clubbing and brutal treatment. The Navy Department will investigate the charges.
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Movements of Steamers At New York and Nearby Ports
Arrivals include Philo from Southampton and Cherbourg Lorraine from Havre Lucania from ? Sailed Cyneric to Liverpool Hrowhead passed Cam from New York and Al from Boston to Liverpool Cherbourg Aug 3 Sailed Fuerst Bismarck Hamburg and Southampton to New York 18le Cowight Aug ? Passed Ryn New York to Rotterdam Queenstown Aug ? Sailed Mays from Liverpool to Boston Bluecher York for Hamburg Furnessia Glasgow to New York
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Babies of all degrees at Logansport carnival
Seventy-nine mothers entered the baby show with prizes awarded to Harry Hammond Edna De Moss and Doris Jones. A public wedding on the elephant Lillie followed with Miss Belle Masters and Frank M. Cook, officiated by Mayor Vaughn, attended by about 600. They receive a bedroom suite and depart to start housekeeping on a farm near Komomo.
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Indianapolis Journal
Logansport
Ind
Harry Hammond
Frank Hammond
Edna de Moss
Jesse Jones
Doris Jones
J. C. Jones
Anoka
Frank W. Gaskill
Col. P. J. Mundy
Gaskill-Mundy Carnival Company
Kokomo
Bankruptcy petition filed against Nellie Freygang in Angola
A petition in involuntary bankruptcy was filed in Fort Wayne by Modern Buggy Company of Auburn and Ohio Rake Company of Dayton against Nellie Freygang of Angola. They claim $1,000 in notes and allege she transferred assets to conceal them and gave Ligonier buggy works a preferred claim of $800. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. In Wabash, receiver Haas named appraisers W. E. Wass and W. H. Chase for the plant of Wabash Bridge and Iron Works. The plant will be appraised while operations continue and large contracts are being fulfilled.
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Indianapolis Journal
Fort Wayne
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T. J. Logan
United States Court
Modern Buggy Company
Auburn
Ohio Rake Company
Dayton
Nellie Freygang
Angola
Ligonier Buggy
Nellie Prevences Husband
Kinney Bank
Wabash
Charles S. Haas
Wabash Bridge and Iron Works
W. E. Wass
W. H. Chase
Lafayette
Lafayette Telephone Company
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Hutchinson
District Court
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Effects of cotton corner on Fort Wayne mills
Fort Wayne industries report strain from the cotton corner. Wayne knitting mills hold ample cotton yarns but face shortages on certain threads as idle mills may raise prices when they resume. Local fabric users expect higher costs and scarce supply for shirts and overalls.
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Indianapolis Journal
Fort Wayne
Ind
Terre Haute Express Closes After Fifty Years
The Terre Haute Express ends publication after more than half a century and is replaced by the Star. The note hints at a western Indiana alignment between Vincennes and Crawfordsville, with the Star promoted as a repaper or successor paper.
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Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
Terre
Elwood miners report rich ore prospects in British Columbia
Elwood Tin Workers' Gold Mining Company officers return from British Columbia after a month inspecting claims. They bring back numerous ore specimens rich in minerals and plan to erect a mill at once. Reports from Salem, Decatur, and Portland detail militia changes, a snake plague in Craigville, smallpox quarantines near Baalbec, and the Col Drake Oil sale to Eastern capitalists.
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Charles Lewis
J. R. Bottorf
Andrew Marshall
John Jones Jones
Elwood Tin Workers’ Gold Mining Company
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Death at Lake Maxinkuckee prompts mystery surrounding Culver woman
Mrs. James Castleman of Culver, formerly of this county, drowned herself in Lake Maxinkuckee near Urbana after an illness lasting months. She was seen in a boat nearby claiming she waited for friends, then leapt into shallow water and disappeared, later recovered. She was over fifty.
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Valparaiso
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James Castleman
Culver
Maxinkuckee
Seymour Shooting Affray Involving Ex Mayor and Two Officers
In Seymour Indiana ex Mayor A W Mills and Policemen Reddinger and Baughman were wounded in a shooting last night. Mills abdominal wound may avoid intestinal damage, Reddinger faces a dangerous facial wound, Baughman suffered flesh wounds. Mrs Lizzie Bradbury, who took part, was jailed and fined five dollars then left for Indianapolis.
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Indianapolis Journal
Seymour
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A. W. Mills
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Reddinger
Lizzie Bradbury
Indianapolis
Man Charged With Rape of 13 Year Old Near Urbana
Special dispatch from Urbana reports a warrant issued for James Bristow of Sadorus for the rape of Sibyl Eddy, 13, under age consent laws. The girl, now delicate, claims Bristow is responsible, but State's Attorney Miller suspects a relative may be guilty and waits for grand jury action as threats of lynching rise in Sadorus.
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Negro Teamster Killed in Sharpsville Quarrel
In Kokomo Indiana on August 28 a colored man known as Black Charney working as a teamster for the Indianapolis Northern Electric Railway died after a knife threat escalated into a fatal bludgeon blow. William Boomershine the smith halted the attack with a buggy shaft strike and surrendered to authorities at Tipton.
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Charney
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Boomershine
Tipton
Brutal attack near Brazil ends with woman injury
In Brazil Indiana early today William Richey, intoxicated, attacked his wife and five year old child with a club. He struck the wife on the head fracturing her skull and left her in critical condition then knocked the child unconscious. Neighbors heard screams and helped. Richey escaped and remains at large.
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Indianapolis Journal
Brazil
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William Richey
Guaranteed Cure for Piles Item Scrambled
An OCR fragment claims a guaranteed cure for piles with itching bleeding and other symptoms. The text is garbled and lists prices in a deranged format, offering no verifiable details or credible medical information.
Emperor Jacques I Lands in Morocco Empire Plan Fails
Five of Jacques Lebaudy's expedition crew remain in custody as the Galilee reports the governor of Cape Juby refuses to surrender them. Lebaudy, a wealthy French youth who proclaimed himself Emperor Jacques I, had seized Moroccan coast territory and planned a Sahara railway, with Troya as his capital, before fleeing Britain and Spain authorities.
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Indiana News Briefs From All Over Hoosierdom
Summary of snippets from Elwood to Brazil detailing a reopening plan for an Elwood factory, Labor Day speakers in Lafayette, and local incidents across Noble, Vincennes, Wabash, Alexandria, Salem, Elwood, Jeffersonville, Shelbyville, Winchester, Terre Haute, Kempton, Muncie, Decatur, Bluffton, Vera Cruz, and Brazil. Topics include education, crime, industry resumption, public health, and local events with dates, names, and places.
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Noble County Teachers’ Institute
L. M. Sniff
Tri-State Normal College
T. S. Lowden
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Mollie Moore
Miss Moore
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Central Union Telephone Company
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Lee Akers
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M. J. Byrne
Jeffersonville
William Bowyer
Walter Hikes
Charles Paugburn
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Indianapolis, Shelbyville & Southeastern Company
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Washington Township Camp Meeting Association
Albertgon Grove
Lynn
Terre Haute
Albert Coons
Danville
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Maude Webb
Coons
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Decatur
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Richmond Directory Promises City Population
Polk and Co. of Indianapolis released a new Richmond directory. The census estimation based on this directory would set Richmond’s population at about 25 000, with laborers and families attending the fair and a parade led by two bands.
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Polk & Co
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Riot at Demler Shocks McKeesport as Gunfire Flies
In Demler near McKeesport Pennsylvania a riot broke out at the Baltimore and Ohio tunnel. A man was shot and a car of oil burned after a new gang boss John Cassidy faced the Italians. Antonio Basio was wounded as stones flew and chaos followed the violent confrontation.
Masked Bandits Loot Rock Island Depot and Lock Six Men In Car
Six armed masked men roared into McFarland Kansas at 1 am and looted the Rock Island depot and eating house, beating two railroad men. They seized eight watches and about 150 dollars, then trapped six employees in a refrigerator car before fleeing on foot. Sheriff’s posse tipped off. pursuit by horsemen led toward Maple Hill bridge as the bandits vanished.
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Rock Island
Monnehan
Charles Toler
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Volcano eruptions and distant views across Vesuvius report
The AP correspondent recounts a perilous night on Mt. Vesuvius as lava pours from a new fissure, flows toward Ottajano, and clashes with older lava, causing detonations but not threatening the nearby village. Also noted are Kilauea’s rising activity and a New York Sun critique of Salisbury.
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British Blue Books on South African War Evidence Issued
The royal commission's blue books publish 1,700 pages of testimony from Lords Roberts Wolseley and Kitchener and General Buller. They detail strategic errors, War Office shortcomings, plan failures, and issues with training reservists and volunteers.
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Rick
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Prohibition in Kansas A Far Flung Battle Continues
The Kansas prohibition law, in force twenty two years, remains uneven in practice. Local option governs cities. Topeka and Kansas City show lax enforcement, while Atchison Leavenworth Wichita largely ignore the ban. A Topeka joint near the Capitol inflamed Prohibitionists and highlighted ongoing state wide adherence.
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