Sharpsville Killing Sparks Bitter Race Unrest
Special to the Indianapolis Journal reports turmoil in Sharpsville after the killing of "Black Charley No. 2" by 19 year old William Boomershine. Local workers fear retaliation as tensions rise among races over the Union Traction line project. Boomershine was to be released on bond of 1100 dollars amid ongoing disturbance and threats.
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Indianapolis
Kokomo
Ind
Sharpsville
Charley
William Boomershine
Tennessee
Boomershine
Indianapolis Journal
Tipton
Schulenberg
Daniels
Sharpeville
Union Traction
Hnes
James Buren
Ershine
Eue Neato
Seaterdey
Logansport
Oxford
Tippecanoe County Fair plans big Friday race day
Tippecanoe County Agricultural Association directors to open the thirty seventh annual county fair on September 1 with an expanded exhibition. They plan Lafayette day on September 4 when most Lafayette stores will close. Directors approved making Friday the red letter day to fit merchants’ requests as racing and ground privileges are set.
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Indianapolis Journal
Lafayette
Ind
Tippecanoe County Agricultural Association
Cllrents
Busiiness
Protoco
Lafayette ministers urge reopen and investigate Glascock case
A Lafayette Ministers Association at First Christian Church adopted resolutions deploring the acquittal of Prof. James L. Glascock principal of Washington School. They urged reopening the case, challenging US Board investigations, and presented a petition to the School Board.
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Indianapolis
Lafayette
Ind
Lafayette Ministers’ Association
First Christian Church
James L. Glascock
Washington School
W. E
Oscar R. McKay
Johnson
Discrepancy in Clinton Woodmen Camp Accounts
Pearl Sears, high clerk of the Modern Woodmen of America, is $100.05 short in Clinton Camp accounts. The camp is suspended from membership and would forfeit member insurance if death occurs. Discrepancies began July 1, prompting Rock Island head camp to order an audit as the camp’s 160 members faced potential insurance issues.
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Indianapolis Journal
Clinton
Pearl Sears
Modern
Woodmen of America
Sears
Rock Island
Searsavers
One Wife Too Many Michigan City Man in Benton Harbor
Michigan City Aug 2 Governor Durbin may be asked to issue a requisition on Governor Bliss of Michigan for the return of Calvin Richard Parrish of Benton Harbor to face bigamy charges. A domestic tangle centers on Parrish as Mrs Parrish and eight others from Michigan City traveled to Benton Harbor and found him living with a Benton Harbor woman and not yet divorced from Mrs Parrish here. Parrish says he believed his wife was dead and his children were in an orphan's home.
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Indianapolis Journal
Michigan City
Ind
Durbin
Bliss
Michigan
Calvin Richard Parrish
Benton Harbor
Mich
Parrish
Benton
Mr. Parrish
Martinsville
Malinda Baker
Harvey Baker
Wayne County
Kokomo
Lucinda Bassett
Britton Bassett
J. H. Hull
Logansport
William H. Bringhurst
First National Bank
Thomas Bringhurst
Lafayette
Henry Knab
Tippecanoe County
Shadeland
Decatur
Isaac Roe
Adams County
Roe
Washington in Excitement Over Disease Outbreak
Washington Indiana reports a disease scare as a wife flees after her husband dies of smallpox. The incident follows six deaths this week from the illness, while Lafayette notes Ira Malada, a Boswell farmer, found dead in a Benton county fair stall after consuming whisky. The sequence ties to alcohol and fatal conditions among local residents.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Ind
William
Deltz
Eh Sechurr
Crumpacker Eyes Federal Building for Michigan City
Michigan City political notes report Congressman Crumpacker consulting with Governor Durbin about introducing a federal building bill for Michigan City seeking 125000 dollars. The measure hinges on passage of a nationwide building bill in the next session. Other Indiana items note a near-fatal fire at Home Lawn sanitarium, carnival profits in Logansport, a Delaware County teachers’ association meeting, Decatur power plant fundraising, and Richmond street railway improvements.
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Indianapolis Journal
Michigan City
Ind
E. D. Crumpacker
Durbin
Boards of Control of Prison and Reformatory
Crumpacker
Two centenarians dead plan funeral for J Brockenbrough
Obituary notes from Indiana towns record the deaths of centenarians Peter Surprise at 109 in Lowell and Mrs M L Turczynea at 107 near Terre Coupee. Funeral plans for John Champe Brockenbrough set for Lafayette with Trinity Church board preparing resolutions.
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Lafayette
Cass County
Indianapolis Journal
Ind
John Champe Brockenbrough
South Ninth Street
Walter D. Cole
Springvale Cemetery
Trinity Methodist Church
Butler and Miss Marshall Wed on Stage at Opera House
Alton F. Butler of Indianapolis and Maude Marshall of Chicago, members of the Lyman Twins Company, married on the Memorial Opera House stage just before the curtain for the season’s first performance. The drought broke in Madison with a hour long storm bringing hail and heavy rain. tobacco crops leveled. In Kendallville salooners boycott ministers over ice supply, harming households. Marion Conservatory’s George Eitenbaugh signs with The Storks company for the coming season. Howell, Indiana home of Mrs. William Simmons destroyed by fire. no injuries. Frank Antle farm residence near Portland burns from defective flue. loss $1,000, no insurance.
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Indianapolis Journal
Valparaiso
Ind
Alton F. Butler
Indianapolis
Maude Marshall
Chicago
Lyman Twins
Memorial Opera House
Marion
George Eitenbaugh
Marion Conservatory of Music
Oers 1
the Storks
Evansville
Howell
William Simmons
Portland
Frank Antle
Crushed by dog wheels. young man dies in gravel pit
Ora Turner, twenty, at the New Bedford gravel pit of C., Co. & L. Railroad north of Muncie, was fatally injured when his clothing caught in cog wheels. He died hours after admission to Whitney Hospital. Albert Claypool, worker at Empire and American Nitroglycerin Co. plant near Hartford City, burned after nitric acid sprayed over him during an incident involving two green workers. His burns are severe and sight loss is feared.
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Indianapolis Journal
Muncie
Ind
Ora Turner
New Bedford
Turner
Whitney Hospital
William Turner
Hartford City
Albert Claypool
Empire and American Nitroglycerin Company
Claypool
Obituary: Brig. Gen. William H. Penrose Dies in Salt Lake
Brig. Gen. William H. Penrose U S A retired dies of typhoid at his Salt Lake home. Commissioned from Michigan as second lieutenant in 1881, he led the Fifteenth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry in 1883 and ended the Civil War as a brigadier general of volunteers. He re entered the regular service in 1866 and retired as colonel of the Sixteenth Regiment in 1886. Captain Charles W. Penrose of Michigan is his son.
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Salt Lake
Utah
William H. Penrose
U. 8
S. A
Penrose
Michigan
Fifteenth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
Charles W. Penrose
Greeley Returns From Berlin With Wireless Congress Report
Gen. A W Greeley arrived in New York from Berlin aboard the Moltke carrying the American delegates report on the international wireless congress. The proceedings are expected to be published simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic soon.
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New York
A. W. Greely
Berlin
Moltke
International Wireless Congress
Atlantic
Booth Visits Roosevelt at Oyster Bay in 1906 Evening
Mrs Ballington Booth called on President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay New York during the day only visitor received by the President.
London Gunpowder Explosion Report From 160 Year Old Chronicle
A Chicago chronicler recalls a 160 year old London explosion on a January evening. Gunpowder in a chandler’s shop ignited and razed surrounding houses, with many bodies found in the wreckage. A Rose tavern patron and a cradle child were preserved by fallen timbers.
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Chicago
London
Rose Tavern
Barking
Three Men Hurt in Indiana Train Collision
A rear end collision on the J. M. and I. R. BR near Flatrock, Shelbyville, Indiana, today may fatally injure three crew members. Conductor Ed Luker, brake man Bert Greenlee, and fireman Roy Smith were badly injured. all are from Columbus.
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Indianapolis Journal
Shelbyville
Ind
Flatrock
ED Luker
Columbus
Bert Greenlee
Roy Smith
Laker
Greenlee
Vattle
Marihode
Woman and child killed by freight train in Warren Ohio visit
Mrs James Foster and her two year old daughter Inez of Warren Indiana were killed crossing B and O railroad tracks on the lake division while visiting sister Mrs Edward Parks. Foster was en route to her sister’s home when the fatal crossing occurred.
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Indianapolis Journal
Warren, CO
James Foster
Inez
Warren, Ind
Lake Division
Foster
Edward Parks
Blacksmith Injury and Two Indiana Accidents Reported
In Lafayette a blacksmith in Stockwell, Lewis Rob inson, lost an eye and nearly died after a piece of metal pierced his eye and brain while sharpening a plow. He is at St Eliza beth's Hospital and expected to recover after eye removal. In Danville, Brakeman Robert Steely was killed in a Chicago to E I Railway collision, with Engineer C D Smith and Fireman C L Estey seriously injured. In Sims, Claude Allen, eighteen, was wounded when a gun being loaded by Mrs John Reeder discharged, the ball hitting his lower abdomen.
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Indianapolis Journal
Lafayette
Ind
Lewis Robinson
Stockwell
Here
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Danville
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway
Ailesburg
Robert Steely
H. M. Steely
C. D. Smith
C. L. Estey
Steely
Marion
Claude Allen
Sims
Grant County
John Reeder
New Chair Firm in Martinsville Formed
Articles of incorporation filed here establish the Morris Parlor Reclining Chair Company with $10,000 capital. Officers include Max Shireman president and Karl I. Nutter vice president. The firm, branching from Old Hickory Chair, will operate independently in Martinsville Indiana.
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Morris Parlor
Max Shireman
Karl I. Nutter
Edmund L. Brown
E. C. Shireman
W. A. Shireman
W. A. Wiley
Old Hickory Chair Company
Franklin
John N. Hunter
St. Louis
Martin
Oscar I. Jones
Hunter
Jones
Jeffersonville
Carnegie Library
W. E. English
Indianapolis
Warder Park
Elwood
Madison County
Frazier
Laporte
Laporte County
William Slight
Charles A. Jamison
Kankakee Valley
J. C. van Natta
Bank of Brookston
Bank
Richmond
St. Andrew's Catholic Parish
Joseph Richter
Sisters of St. Francis
J. R. Meek
Chicago
Wayne County
Greensburg
Shelbyville
W. W. Parsons
State Normal School
Terre Haute
Ames
Chicago University
Shelby County Teachers’ Institute
Alley
Alexandria
Lippincott Chimney Company
George W. Faris
Charles Dick
Ohio
Faris
Muncie
Munecle
Hagerstown
Jefferson Township
Sullivan
Isaac Bennett
A. J. Rich
Rich
Bennett
Redeeming a Towns From Dry Times Inspiring Story
Rev Willard Scott of Worcester tells how a drying village was revived by a minister with a large family who stayed and taught. His long sermons built a church center. a dedicated winter teacher then educated twenty years, forging a new generation.
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Willard Scott
Worcester
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