Next Republican Convention Set in Chicago on June 4
Chicago is the favored site and June 4 the likely date for the Republican national convention, with Chicago expected to win easily over rivals. Committee members from St. Louis and Pittsburgh weigh in, and talks on reducing Southern representation may surface. The East West opposition to Roosevelt looms, while National Secretary plans and Hanna’s candidacy are debated amid Indiana and Arkansas figures.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Chicago
St. Louis
Pittsburg
Payne
Henry C. Payne
Roosevelt
Indiana
East
Platt
Connecticut
Hanna
Allison
Dolliver
Frye
Hale
Harry S. New
Senator Hanna
Perry B. Heath
Cate
New
Senator Beott
West Virginia
Hane
Arkansas
Grange
Empress
Congress
Democrats to Meet on Tuesday January 12 for Convention Time
James K. Jones, chairman of the Democratic national committee, called for a meeting at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington on Tuesday January 12 at noon to fix the time and place of the Democratic national convention for nominating President and Vice President. Edwin Sefton was appointed assistant secretary of the committee.
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Washington
James K. Jones
Democratic National Committee
Shoreham
Shoreham Hotel
Washington City
United States
Jones
Edwin Sefton
Red Light Morality Scheme for Chicago
Dr Walter Dil Scott of Northwestern University proposes changing street lighting in Chicago red light districts to alter morals. He argues red illumination has a demoralizing effect on patrons and suggests a photographic factory example from France as supporting detail.
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Chicago
Walter Dil Scott
Northwestern University
John Quincy Adams
France
Shepherd dog saves life of his master
Lawrenceburg Indiana report describes a three year old shepherd dog that, upon seeing an east bound train approaching a spring wagon, barked and forced the horse to stop within feet of the locomotive, likely saving two men from serious injury or death as they neared Walnut Street crossing.
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Indianapolis Journal
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Harry Hayes
Homestead
Enoch Guard
Walnut Street
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
Hayes
University student dies by own action at Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Ann Arbor and Kansas City reports confirm Russell H. McWilliams a Kansas City native and University of Michigan junior literary student shot himself at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house. Roommate E W Sutton recalls his morose mood. father Henry McWilliams attributes the act to overstudy. McWilliams entered Michigan at age fifteen.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Russell H. McWilliams
Kansas City
University of Michigan
Sigma Alpha
E. W. Sutton
McWilliams
Henry McWillams
Young Man Slashed By Sister's Admirer
In Portland Indiana at Middlepoint Dan Johnson, suitor to Miss Nellie Wright, attacked Frank Wright with a pocketknife in a domestic dispute. Wright refused his entry, Johnson drew a large knife and slashed him across the face and neck, a deep cut from cheek to mouth.
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Indianapolis Journal
Portland
Ind
Dan Johnson
Nellie Wright
Frank Wright
Johnson
Wright
Admiral Gherardi Dying at Stratford Home
Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi U S N retired is dying at his Stratford Conn home from diabetes complicated by nephritis He retired in 1894 and moved here He is seventy one years old From 1889 to 1892 he commanded the North Atlantic station.
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Stratford
Conn
Bancroft Gherardi
Gherardi
North Atlantic
Tilt Between Counsel in Ship Trust Case
A sharp tilt between counsel opened the United States Shipbuilding hearing in New York. Guthrie called Untermeyer statement almost indecent, who fired back. George W. Perkins of J P Morgan and Co resumed testimony. Perkins’s account echoed yesterday’s testimony.
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New York
United States
Guthrie
Untermeyer
George W. Perkins
J. P. Morgan & Co
Morgan, Hargis & Co
Perkins
Liquor Law Enforcement Steps Takedown in Goshen
Goshen Indiana moves to enforce the Nicholson liquor law amid repeated Sunday and after hours violations. The city’s executive department has resisted enforcement despite repeated hearings and warnings, prompting authorities to escalate measures.
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Indianapolis Journal
Goshen
Ind
DePauw inaugurates Edwin Holt Hughes as president
Two central figures Albert J Beveridge and Edwin Holt Hughes led a grand inauguration at DePauw University Greencastle Indiana. Beveridge, a United States senator, and Hughes, a prominent religious leader, addressed a large audience in Meharry Hall, underscoring the alma mater meaning. The day resembled a family reunion with class reunions, memories, and enthusiastic demonstrations marking a turning era for the university. The formal program began with a procession from West College to Hanna Street, featuring students trustees faculty and guests in academic cap and gown.
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Greencastle
Ind
de Pauw
University
Albert J. Beveridge
United States
Edwin Holt Hughes
Indiana
Meharry Hall
Methodist Episcopal Church
Alma Mater
West College
Minshall Laboratory
Les
College Avenue
Hanna Street
Murder Suspect Under Surveillance in Rising Sun Killing
In Rising Sun Indiana Miss Elizabeth Gillespie was shot in her home last evening. The gun was fired through a window pane while she stood nearby. Powder stains and glass fragments marked the room as investigators seek the suspect, with an arrest expected tomorrow.
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Indianapolis Journal
Rising Sun
Ind
Elizabeth Gillespie
Gillespie
Ladies’ Literary Club
Struck Bottomless Underground Lake Near Cheyenne
In sinking an artesian well on a ranch six miles west of Cheyenne, Wyoming, the drill reached 265 feet and found a lake or stream. A column of water about inches in diameter spouted out as high as forty feet, while soundings failed to locate the bottom. The discovery was noted amid local needs of the city.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Here
Fire victims carried from burning home on cot
William Addison, ill and bedridden, was carried from his burning home at 1829 North Alabama Street by two firemen to a neighbor’s house. The rear of the residence was engulfed, the total loss estimated at roughly 5000, with insurance coverage. Addison watched the blaze calmly, with his family removed from danger and no serious injury reported.
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William Addison
North
Alabama Street
Addison
Tony
Dire Prediction Of A Plow Manufacturer
W B Brinton president of Peru Plow Company warned, at a six hundred strong Illinois Manufacturers Association banquet in Chicago, that continuing the closed shop would lead to bloodshed. He argued open hiring rights protect individualism and warned the Chicago City Railway victory to hire its own workers shows the trend toward employer hiring prerogatives.
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Chicago
W. B. Brinton
Peru Plow Company
Snessee
Clinois Manufacturers’ Association
Verdict of conviction overturned on appeal
The Missouri Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling in Col Edward Butler of St. Louis who was convicted in 1902 of attempted bribery. He was discharged after the board of health lacked authority to award the garbage contract, a power belonging to the Board of Public Improvements. Indictments over bribery in the St. Louis lighting bill case remain pending.
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Jefferson City
Supreme Court
Col
Edward Butler
St. Louis
Columbia
Col. Butler
Henry M. Chapman
St. Louis Board of Health
Chapman
St. Louis Sanitary Company
Butler
State Penitentiary
Calloway
Fulton
Fox
Board of Health
Board of Public Improvements
Validity of Two Contracts Affected by the Decision
Supreme Court ruling discharges Butler and raises questions on the St. Louis Sanitary Company contract for garbage reduction worth 130000. Mayor Wells will seek City Counselor Bates advice to consider annulment as the eight month remaining on the contract runs. Excelsior Hauling Company holds the removal contract and payments have been regular.
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ST. Louis
Supreme Court
Butler
Terrell Family Testifies in Defense at Murder Trial
In Bluffton Indiana Mrs. John Terrell and her four children testified for Terrell as he stands trial for the murder of son in law Melvin Wolfe. Daughters described alleged unsound mind moments and a night fire incident while Jacob and Mrs Schott recalled revolver threats.
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Indianapolis Journal
Bluffton
Ind
John Terrell
Melvin Wolfe
Lucy Terrell Wolfe
Lucy Wolfe
Sally Schott
Lucinda Books
Jacob Terrell
Jacob
Wolfe
Melvin
Terrell
Honeymoon Ends in Death From Smallpox
Philadelphia, Dec. 9. Frank Thistle of Orange New Jersey died at Municipal Hospital after contracting smallpox on his honeymoon. He married in New York a week earlier and fell ill upon arriving in Philadelphia. He was a grandson of H. O'Neill, the late New York merchant.
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Philadelphia
Frank Thistle
Orange
N. J
Municipal Hospital
New York
H. O'Neill
MAKE LIST OF LADS WHO HAVE CIGARETTE HABIT
Probation officers in Indianapolis seek school reports to identify boys using tobacco and test links to youthful misdeeds. They need a well organized influential group to enforce stricter cigarette laws, with the Charity Organization Society ready to assist in the anti cigarette effort.
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Indianapolis
Justice Committee
Charity Organization Society
Grout
Eoctery
Sawmill Boiler Explosion Kills Operator at Poneto
In Bluffton area, Elmer Betts died from injuries after the portable sawmill boiler exploded this forenoon. Betts, fatally scalded with a crushed head, died at 8 pm. The old boiler, rated for sixty pounds, failed in the incident.
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Indianapolis Journal
Bluffton
Ind
Elmer Betts
Poneto
Betts
M . Bruns
Warrants Issued Over Schoolgirl Drowning Prank in Indiana
Miss Erlene Sinclair, a 19 year old Cass County teacher, was tied to a hog trough and submerged in an icy pond by pupils Floyd Deckard Ina Deckard Pearl Parks Katherine Parks Jessie McClellan and Gertrude McClellan. She swore assault and battery warrants against the children and riot charges against them as a group. The incident caused serious nervous strain but she has recovered physically.
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Indianapolis Journal
Sullivan
Ind
Erlene Sinclair
Parks
Cass Township
Floyd Deckard
Ina Deckard
Pearl Parks
Katherine Parks
Jessie McClellan
Gertrue McClellan
Pare Deckard
Miss
Looted the Closets of Harvard Students
Boston December 9 Clarence Lee a black man arrested at Brockton admitted to stealing goods valued near 2500 from Harvard students and express companies. He pried closets with a jimmy and says he is the son of a former South Carolina congressman. He left after a few months due to his father's death and says he roams college grounds daily to collect items.
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Boston
Clarence Lee
Brockton
Cambridge
Harvard
Jimmy
Lee
South Carolina
Relics of murderers placed under a ban
Chicago dispatch reports city officials acting under a 1898 statute to ban displaying relics tied to the capture of car barn murderers in Indiana. Mayor Harrison ordered Clark Street museum managers to halt exhibitions after protests over the display.
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Chicago
Harrison
Clark Street
Indiana
Kellogg Ordered to Serve 18 Months at Sing Sing
In Sing Sing New York on December 3 Judge Thomas of the U S Circuit Court signed an order requiring James B Kellogg to serve an eighteen month sentence. Kellogg was convicted in May 191 and with Myron L Bernard of using the mails for fraud tied to E S Dean & Co whose pool took over 3000 dollars from speculators nationwide. An appeal process followed and Kellogg stood under a fifteen thousand dollar cash bail while Bernard served time at Sing Sing.
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New York
Thomas
United States Circuit Court
James B. Kellogg
Sing Sing
Kellogg
Myron L. Bernard
E.S. Dean & Co
Bernard
Crooks Arrested in Mobile Safe-Breaking Pair
Mobile police with Jacksonville detectives arrested Albert Criswold alias Duncan and J E Russell alias Clark as two dangerous safe blowers. They are wanted in Jacksonville for a December 5 Cohen Bros. safe robbery and face additional Bavarian Ga. charges. Police recovered more than 1000 dollars in burglars tools and jackets.
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Mobile
Ala
Albert Criswold
Duncan
J. E. Russell
Clark
Jacksonville
Fla
Criswold
Cohen Bros
Breird
Uncle Sam Will Fight Colombia to Protect Isthmus
U S officials vow to deter any Colombian invasion of Panama with land and sea force. Reports from Laguayra claim 1100 Colombian troops landed near the Atrato River. Washington says warnings have been issued and readiness to move Marines and regulars remains. Navy and Army plan to prevent crossings and defend Panama's independence.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Colombia
Panama
United States
Empire
Laguayra
Venesuecia
Versailles
Savaenilla
Cartagena
Atrato River
Gulf of Darien
Darien
Department of Cauca
Reyes
Dr. Herran
Congress
Republic of Panama
United States Senate
Jiminez
Blanco
Cartanon
Navy Department
Department
Canal Strip
Senate
Young
War Department
Joint and Navy Board
Army
Navy
Colon
Guantanamo
Atlanta Cruiser Patrolling San Blas Coast Over Colombian Landing Fear
The United States cruiser Atlanta remains at the eastern San Blas shore, watching for possible Colombian troop landings on the Isthmus. Coast patrol continues with vigilant outlook as authorities monitor any landing attempt.
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Colon
United States
Atlanta
San Blas
Fage & Colei
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A. J. Beveridge
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DR. Bashford
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Sullivan County
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