Entering Guilty Plea Ends Rushville Manslaughter Trial
Rolla Clingman pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Rushville, receiving a sentence of two to twenty-one years at Michigan City Prison. Judge Hord stated the law's majesty was upheld as the act of pleading guilty surprised many. Clingman, years old, was taken to Michigan City by deputy sheriff. Three men previously detained near Edgerton, O., in the Reynolds murder case were released after authorities determined they were not the suspects.
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Indianapolis Journal
Rushville
Ind
Rolla Clingman
Hord
Michigan City
Clingman
Laporte
Edgerton
Wesley Reynolds
Westville Bank
Sensation in Clay County election case over ballot tampering
Reports from Brazil and Rushville Indiana detail a county treasurer election challenge led by Guy Bush and Smith Auld with fraud allegations claiming ballots were altered after possession by the county clerk. Attorneys for the plaintiff resist evidence, while other notices cover a breach of promise suit by Miss Mida Bundy against Earl Payne and a pie divorce settlement in Missouri.
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Indianapolis Journal
Brazil
Ind
Guy Bush
Smith Auld
Election Board
Lal
Rushville
Mida Bundy
Earl Payne
Brakeman Survives Roof Ride on Box Car in Wind
John Reed a Madison division brakeman on the Pennsylvania Railroad was blown from the roof of a box car near Rider factory in Columbus Indiana. He landed upside down in mud and was later found and treated with only minor injuries. In Greencastle wind toppled three of Juniata steel stacks delaying tin plate production and damaging buildings, with completion of the plant delayed by several days.
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Indianapolis Journal
Columbus
Ind
John Reed
Madison
Pennsylvania Railroad
Rider Canning Factory
Reed
Greencastle
Juniata Steel
Jonathan McCliure Dies After Fifty Years at Madison Courier
Indiana obituary noting Jonathan McCliure aged eighty four, longtime foreman of the Madison Courier news room, died at home in Madison. Native of Pennsylvania, he came to Vevey then Madison, married Miss Child, and left a son and four daughters. He retired twelve years ago and was found dead at dawn after breakfast with family.
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Madison Courier
Indianapolis Journal
Madison
Ind
Jonathan McCliure
Pennsylvania
Vevey
Switzerland County
Longtime North Carolinian Passes Away in 1797 Lineage
Necrology notices from NEW ALBANY INDIANA RUSHVILLE INDIANA and PORTLAND INDIANA report several deaths. Daniel K Starr aged eighty seven died at his Georgetown home where he was born. Thomas M McMillin seventy seven from Rush county died after a long illness. Samuel Ranck a Bryant pioneer collapsed and died at home. John Renner a veteran of the One Hundred Forty Third Indiana Volunteer Infantry died at his residence.
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New Albany
Ind
Daniel K. Starr
Georgetown
Yellow Jackets
Eighty-first
Indiana Volunteers
Rushville
Thomas M. McMillin
Ging
Rush County
Union Township
Portland
Samuel Ranck
Bryant
Ranck
Jasper
John Renner
Indiana Volunteer Infantry
Large Candidate List for DePauw Oratorical Contest
GREENCASTLE Ind Dec 3 large number of candidates announced for DePauw University primary oratorical contest indicating a good speaker will be chosen for the state contest next spring Judges for the primary include L C Bentley Brazil Worth M Tippy Indianapolis Joshua Stansfield Indianapolis Delivery Rev C W Cole Lafayette C Tinsley Terre Haute H W Bennett Anderson J Jesse Brumbaugh leaves for Philadelphia for appendicitis operation Track work under Professor Sartain to begin Saturday with an across country run TERRE HAUTE Ind Dec 3 Indiana Normal basketball season starts Friday with a game against Hymera Ind Normal lineup Pope center Wellman right guard Vawter left guard Peele right forward Mangle left forward subs Harris Spencer Rushing Stopher Eight games scheduled including two with Wabash two with Purdue two with Indianapolis Manual Training School one with Paris High School and one with Crawfordsville High School TERRE HAUTE Ind Dec 3 Legislative committee inspecting State institutions at Indiana Normal no formal program but officials review books classrooms and equipment Trustees seek 7000 for new building or manual training school and 5000 to purchase a campus Committee unsure on spare enamel project but an evening paper notes opposition to a second school.
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Indianapolis Journal
Greencastle
Ind
de Pauw University
L. C. Bentley
Brazil
Worth M. Tippy
Indianapolis
Joshua Stansfield
C. W. Cole
Lafayette
C . Tinsley
Terre Haute
H. W. Bennett
Anderson
J. Jesse Brumbaugh
Department of Century and Rhetoric
Philadelph
Sartain
Indiana Normal
Hymera
Pope
Wellman
Vawter
Peele
Mangle
Harris
Spencer
Rushing
Stopher
Wabash
Crawfordsville
Purdue
Indianapolis Manual Training School
Paris,l
Crawfordsville Business College
Goodwine
Marshall
Cravens
Town football title decision ends in 6 to 6 draw
In Fairmount Indiana on December 3 a Thanksgiving rivalry game was played to settle the town championship between the High School and the Academy. The crowd set a record and the teams, nearly evenly matched, produced a fast, fair contest ending tied at six. Notre Dame's season record closes with: blank spots followed by a 92 point win over American Physicians and Surgeons and a 6 to 6 tie with Purdue among other results.
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Indianapolis Journal
Fairmount
Ind
South Bend
Notre Dame
Michigan Agricultural College
Lake Forest
Michigan
Indiana
Ohio Medics
Knox College
American Physicians and Surgeons
de Pauw
Purdue
Kidnapped Little Girl Recovered In Indiana Case
Gladys Eisenhart, nine, daughter of Mrs. Philip Eisenhart of Sweetser, was grabbed by a woman in Marion and found later in Wabash. Eight years earlier the father was killed, the mother left with no support, and the child was given to Abraham Garner and his wife of Wabash. Garner demanded $0 for return. the mother paid and kept the child at school. A woman identified as Mrs Garner took the girl from the school this afternoon. no arrests yet. The mother will seek legal custody tomorrow.
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Indianapolis Journal
Marion
Ind
Gladys
Philip Eisenhart
Sweetser
Wabash
Abraham Garner
City council votes on union label for city printing
In Terre Haute Indiana the Democratic majority finally resolved the issue of using union labor for city printing. The council approved putting the question to a popular vote in the spring election after days of dodging. A two thirds affirmative was recorded, but the vote ended in a tie with the mayor lacking a casting vote.
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Indianapolis
Terre Haute
Ind
Pate
Gazette
Elwood bankers form Citizens Heating and Lighting Co
Elwood banker meeting in Cincinnati led to formation of Citizens Heating and Lighting Company with $200,000 capital. Directors include Elwood’s Jacob Loomis and Herbert P. Carpenter and Chicago’s William Mason Edward Lewis and John Watson. Loomis said artificial gas work would start within sixty days.
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Indianapolis Journal
Elwood
Ind
G. R. Call
Cincinnati
Chicago
Boston
Citizens’ Heating and Lighting Company
Recorder
Madison County
Jacob Loomis
Herbert P. Carpenter
Wiliam B. Mason
Edward Lewis
John Watson
Officials warn of body left at bottom of Lake Michigan
Officials of a sewing machine company informed Hammond police they received a letter from Stevens stating he would be found dead at the bottom of Lake Michigan. The report lists ongoing local incidents from Elkhart to Covington, including deaths, suicides, legal actions, and civic notices across Indiana towns.
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Sewing Machine Company
Hammond
Stevens
Lake Michigan
Levee Break Threatens Belcher Area Inundation
A Belcher Louisiana report notes a levee breach ten miles above Shreveport at 30 minutes past midnight. The gap widened from sixty to about 100 feet by 10 am with no closure planned for tonight. Fears grow that the district above Belcher could flood.
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Shreveport
Times
Belcher
Packing plants power in Missouri and Kansas livestock trade
Testimony at the packers ouster case emphasized the livestock industry's size in Missouri and Kansas. Records show Missouri ranks second to Kansas for cattle and sheep marketed at Kansas City, with local plants slaughtering stock in 1901 and providing meat for about 10 000 people beyond company force.
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Kansas City
Packers’ Combine
Missouri
Kansas
Sia
Notables to See President on Indiana District Judgeship
James F. Statesman of Peru and George P. Haywood of Lafayette arrive in Washington with Finley P. Mount of Crawfordsville to discuss Indiana district judgeship with the President in support of A. B. Anderson. Pension bills loom as Congress opens with Indiana veterans in focus and Indiana lawmakers pledge action.
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Mount
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Washington
James F. Statesman
Peru
George P. Haywood
Lafayette
Finley P. Mount
Crawfordsville
White House
Indiana
A. B. Anderson
Trade and finance notes in early 20th century markets
A digest of quotes and actions across markets and industry: silver prices dip on Eastern telegrams and American selling. National Reciprocity League pursues Detroit meeting attendance. Toledo steamer faces wintering in Montreal due to canal buoy removal. Vandergrift builds water power franchise for Puerto Rico with bonds due later. NYSE listing request for Chicago and Eastern Illinois rail securities. currency shipments from New York to West and Southwest show year-to-date totals. imports detained for weight discrepancies. Chicago Board of Trade fights Open Board with quotations severed. Cable and Tobacco firms plan Pacific cable and tobacco arrangements. American Warehousemen's Association holds convention. Northwestern Beekeepers seek anti mislabeling and foul brood legislation. Cincinnati brewery dispute ends with AFL mediation. banker George Cook involved in Mexico gold standard talks. London Times correspondents warn of silver-driven trade paralysis in Shanghai and Hong Kong. Toledo Detroit Shore Line sale ratified to Grand Trunk and Clover Leaf.
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National
Atlantic
Vandergrift Construction Company
Philadelphia
Porto Rican Executive Council
San Juan
Ponce
New York Stock Exchange
St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Road
New York
Pacific Coast
Stranahan
M. E. Mendelsohn & Co
Green Street
Cc. H. Mackay
George G. Ward
Commercial Cable Company
W. H. Baker
E. 8. Bradley
Postal Telegraph Company
San Francisco
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Philippine Islands
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Great Britain and Ireland
Richmond
Big British Trust
American Tobacco Company
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Washington, D. C
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Chicago
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Illinois
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Missouri
Iowa
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Covington
Newport
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American Federation of Labor
Joseph Valentine
George D. Cook
Mexico
London Times
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Hkin
Toledo-Detroit
Toledo- Detroit
Gompers Defends Labor in Faneuil Hall Speech
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, attacked President Eliot's criticisms of unions at the Twenty Century Club in Boston. He argued against the idea that strike breakers are heroes and warned that labeling them as such would undermine social and industrial liberty. The report also covers British and U S legal and trade notes, including a New York Circuit Court ruling on bonded sugar duties.
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American Federation of Labor
Twentieth Century Club
Faneuil Hall
Boston
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Gompers
Benedict Arnold
Judas Iscariot
House of Commons
Sanborn
Russia
New York
United States Circuit Court
Wallace
United States Supreme Court
Foreign Happenings Across World From Fire to Marriage
The Times reports a string of international items: Isla De Luzon returns to the U S via Palermo. a severe bakery fire in Bochum kills ten and wounds others. First Secretary Dodge named charge d affaires at Berlin with interview at the Foreign Office. Carnegie and wife sail Liverpool to New York aboard Oceanic. Gale and cold sweep Great Britain. storms, snow, and casualties noted. Periz Pulgar arrested in Spain with alleged anarchist aims. Deschamps sails from Puerto Rico to New York for Santo Domingo plans. Ambassador White receives a porcelain vase from Emperor William. Marseilles sailors strike easing after Admiral Rouvier talks. London City Temple vacancy contested by Campbell and Gunsaulus, Parker bier viewed by thousands. Kursk Kharkoff rail lines blocked by water shortage. snow water to be drawn at cost. Boxer Tung Fuh Siang claims pay demands as Walling policy tightens. Britain passes educational bill. Lords read it. Peking reports Russian frontier customs plans. Germans may mirror at Kino-Chow. Mekinez peace talks loom with Moorish terms heavy fines and hostages. London Anglo American wedding between Alice Ward and Capt. Blackburn Tew excites society. Ward family ties noted at Hyde.
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Philippines
Palermo
Italy
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Prussia
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Berlin
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Liverpool
New York
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Port Plata
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San Juan
Porto Rico
Caracas
Santo Domingo
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Schloss Berlin
Marseilles
Rouvier
Parker
City Temple
London
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Brighton
Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus
Chicago
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Russia
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Samarara
Peking
Tung Fuh Siang
Hochentze
Kansu
Enene
House of Commons
Balfour
House of Lords
Morocco
Mekinez
New York Times
Alice Constans Ward
Andrew Henshaw Ward
Boston
Maass
Blackburn Tew
West Yorkshire Regiment
Reginald Ward
Tew
Ward
Hyde
Royal marriage costs Grand Duke his army post and honors
At a ceremony with nearly a thousand guests including nobility, the Russian Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovitch was dismissed from the honorary colonelcy of a German cuirassier regiment and from the Russian army after marrying Baroness Pistolkoff who divorced to wed him. The Czar telegraphed approval of William’s successor choice if Dr. Von Holleben retires. Prince Henry of Pless hopes for the Washington ambassadorship, seen as vital to German hospitality abroad, following his 1871 marriage to Daisy Cornwallis West.
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Paul Alexandrovitch
William
Brandenburg
Pistolkoff
Dr. von Holleben
Washington
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Prince Henry of
Pless
United States
New York Chamber of Commerce
Themperor
Princess of
Daisy Cornwallis West
Cornwallis West
Manifest Destiny reshapes Canada with American land grab
The Minneapolis Journal argues a 2,000,000 acre Ontario purchase by an American syndicate accelerates American settlement across Canada. It predicts the Canadian west will remain dominated by American population and capital, while eastern Canada struggles to attract British migration. The piece asserts most new western settlers will be American, transforming demographics and ownership across the region.
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Minneapolis Journal
Ontario
Minnesota
Canada
Dominion
United States
American West
Western
Bishop Partridge's Exact Transcontinental Voyage
The Philadelphia Ledger notes an extraordinary proof of modern transport as Bishop Partridge of Japan arrives in New York with a precise itinerary. He sailed from Japan, stopped in Vancouver, rode the Canadian Pacific, and reached Grand Central Station exactly on the minute, illustrating near perfect timing.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Partridge
Japan
New York
Protestant Episcopal Church
Brooklyn
Vancouver
Canadian Pacific
Grand Central Station
Democratic oracles must specify policies to win voters
The article argues that Democratic leaders should focus on concrete details and specifications rather than slogans. It claims they have defeated Populism and Socialism, and toppled Bryanism, and must present tariff revision and trust regulation in clear terms to avoid alienating supporters.
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Brooklyn Eagle
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Freestryver
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