Wreck Near Carbon Kills Two, Injures Two Others
At Braz il, Ind on the Big Four wreck near Carbon at 11 30 this morning killed William Beck and Harry Hays instantly and left Charles Combs and another unnamed man with broken limbs. The axle failure caused ten boxcars to pile up, delaying traffic as rails were spread and repairs started. The wrecking crew moved in but trains were held for hours.
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Indianapolis Journal
Brazil
Ind
Carbon
William Beck
Harry Hays
Charles Combs
Lena
Beck
Hays
Arrest Near Cicero For Forgery Case Sparks Indiana Arrest
Noblesville Indiana June 14 Orlando Shaul alias William Reasoner was arrested by Sheriff Bray at the home of George Williame near Cicero on a forgery charge. He was jailed awaiting tax trial in the Circuit Court. Shaul allegedly presented a $12 bank check payable to William...
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Noblesville
Ind
Orlando Shaul
William Reasoner
Bray
George Williame
Cicero
Tt Te
Shaul
Westfield Bank
William
Reasoner
William O. Horton
Cox
Mr. Horton
Forgery Case and Tragic Local Deaths In Indiana
In Goshen a man Shaul fights a bank irregularity with William O Horton as the alleged signer and a forged check leads to a warrant for Shaul. In Morristown a millinery worker Hulda Culp ingests carbolic acid during a personal crisis, likely death, after her sister Nora failed to intervene. In Shelbyville George Six faces an inquest death of Anna Lockridge, with Six admitting administering the medicine and blaming the mother.
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Indianapolis Journal
Goshen
Ind
Hulda Culp
J. B. Pearce
Pearce
Henry J. Culp
Harrison Township
Nora
Hulda
Morristown
Anna Lockridge
George Six
Shelbyville
Six
Sunday School Convention Nears Record Attendance in Indiana
Special to the Indianapolis Journal from Terre Haute June 16 says the Indiana Sunday School Association convention begins tomorrow afternoon drawing far more attendees than last year’s 7 delegates. Commitees report accommodations for 1000. numbers now rise to 2000. The event runs until Thursday night with E. O. Excell directing music and guests from Illinois Kentucky and New York including C. D. Meigs Mrs. S. B. Lamoreaux Miss Nannie Lee Frayser Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman Marion Lawrence.
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Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
Indiana Sunday School Association
Shelbyville
E. O. Excell
C. D. Meigs
the Evangel
S. 8. Lamoreaux
Illinois
Nannie Lee Frayser
Kentucky
J. Wilbur Chapman
New York
Marion Lawrence
Goshen
Northern Indiana Baptist Association
Northern Association
Woman's Missionary Society
Sunday
Baptist Young People's Union
B. P. Hewitt
Mishawaka
William P. Pearce
First Baptist Church
G. M. Leigh
Uth Bend
Edward H. Emett
Elkhart
Bluffton man in jail for assault on Wells County teen
George Caley, twenty six, is jailed in Bluffton on $1,000 bond for allegedly assaulting Lillie Pinyerd, seventeen, near Wells County. He, a farm hand who attended church with her, fled after the Feb. 16 incident, then returned to demand a compromise and fought Pinyerd with a knife before being captured by the girl’s father and two neighbors. He was first taken to Huntington before Bluffton officers secured him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Portland
Ind
Charles E. Shepherd
Margaret Mallen Shepherd
Redkey
Shepherd
McGriff & Berg- Man
G. W. Shepherd
Harrison Shepherd
Margaret
Smith
Indianapolis Journal
Bluffton
George Caley
Lillie
John Pinyerd
Wells County
Casey
Pinyerd
Huntington
Fireman Alonzo Hill Dies After Heat On Freight Train
Alonzo Hill, a 32 year old Big Four fireman from Shelbyville, died in Thorn Town after heat while on a freight run from Indianapolis to Chicago. He previously served as Shelbyville street commissioner. Also in Indiana reports: Baptist association session in Goshen with Rev. Hewitt and Pearce. Judge Peelle nearing death in Winchester. Saengerbund prizes awarded in Fort Wayne. Tyler Cruthers held for bunking steering scam in Noblesville. Arthur Bancroft’s reported status in LaPorte.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Shelbyville
Ind
Alonzo Hill
Big Four
Indianapolis
Chicago
Colfax
Thorntown
George Hill
Fort Wayne
Saengerbundas
Helvetia Maennerchor
Toledo
Walter Heer
Social Saengerbund
Prof. Gutermann
Marion Maennercher
Marion
E. Troendile
Concordia Singing Society
Alexandria
Professor Damm
Virth
South Bend Maennerchm
Two men declared insane after drink and drug use
Spencer newspaper man and James McCrary, both recently in Indianapolis, are declared insane and sent to the asylum after police took them in for drunkenness. Alcohol and drugs cited as causes. Local authorities note the men’s unknown hometowns.
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Spencer
Indianapolis
James McCrary
Ten patrons claim clairvoyant roct swindle in Elkhart
Ten patrons of Professor Roct confess he extorted 26 dollars from them during a two week stay. A Boston theft match is described, with a man matching Roct’s defective eye as the suspect. Fort Wayne reports bank reorganization with new officers. Montpelier and Cleveland oil buyers close a 75100 deal. Fairmount notes Big Four timetable changes cripple rural mail. Madison records a Kentucky divorce and a lightning death near Elizabeth. Fort Wayne plumbers strike for 5-cent wage and union recognition. Elwood Knights of Pythias Uniform Bank branch mentioned.
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Indianapolis Journal
Elkhart
Ind
Roct
Boston
Detroit entrant seeks world title after winning class prize
At the Detroit conclave last year a team won its class and now plans to compete for the world championship in San Francisco in August. A special train was chartered but doubts lingered until a Sunday meeting when enough drilled men pledged to go to guarantee attendance.
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Detroit
San Francisco
Salem
Indiana National Guard
Albert C. Williams
Company C
Indiana
Logansport
Emma Eisele
Paul Eisele
St. Joseph Hospital
New Albany
Paul Reising
Muncie
Odd Fellows of
Odd Fellows
Rebekah
Beech Grove Cemetery
J. F. Burnett
First Christian Church
Tipton
Central Traction Company
Coates
Austin
Rebekahs
J. A. Sweveland
Jasper
Jasper College
John Wissing
John Feder
Joseph Kiefer
Martin McFall
Henry Leng
Alphonse Sermersheim
Edward Schellhase
Crawfordsville
Thomas Clark
Tom Mason
O. M. Mason
Linden
Sullivan
Hymera
Portland
Jacob
Doty
Obituary notes from across the country including Larned
Obituary notices report James Edgarton Larned longtime New York Evening Post editor and writer dead at 64 in New York after a career in cork and journalism and later general literary work. Separate dispatches note Morris M Estee a Honolulu judge mourns a former wife in Brooklyn and other deaths including Willis C Dewey in New York and Robert J Vance in New Britain Conn.
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James Edgarton Larned
New York Evening Post
New York
New London
Conn
Larned
Cork
The
Evening Post
the Tribune
San Francisco
Morris M. Estee
Honolulu
Brooklyn
Logansport Elks Carnival Opens With Crowds and Parade
Logansport Ind June 16 crowds swarm the Elks carnival tied to the state meeting and monument unveiling. Delegations from South Bend and Anderson arrive for next year’s state meeting. A parade featuring visiting Elks and the South Bend band kicks off the festivities. Midway attractions report strong business on opening night with over three thousand paid admissions. Madison Elks street carnival opens in fair weather with a big crowd for a week of festivities.
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Indianapolis Journal
Logansport
Ind
Elks
South Bend
Anderson
Madison
Muncie
Order of
Red Men
Sachem
L. W. Otto
Sagamore Hicks
Thomas G. Harrison
Hartford City
Trades’ Council
Retail Clerks’ Union
Council
Clerks’ Union
KOKOMO Pythian Carnival Opens Ahead Of Schedule
Kokomo Indiana June 16 crowds fill tents and banners as the Pythian carnival opens a day early. Miss Minnie Ellis crowned carnival queen at the Sipe Theater amid large attendance. Weeklong events include grotesque parade flower day floral parade Knights of Khorassan demonstration and military parade.
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Indianapolis Journal
Kokomo
Ind
Courthouse Square
Minnie Ellis
Sipe Theater
Knights of Khorassan
Land for Homesteaders Bonesteel Nebraska June opening planned
The Northwestern line extension to Bonesteel Nebraska recalls a recent Sioux treaty opening part of the Rosebud reservation to settlement. Land lies between the Missouri and Niobrara rivers with fertile soil and good water, farm lands selling at 320 to 36 per acre, grazing at 6 to 15. A lottery may open the lands to about fifty thousand applicants. entrants must be head of family, 21, US citizen or intent, and reside five years to gain title. A huge influx of homesteaders is expected once a proclamation sets opening date.
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Bonesteel
Rosebud
Missouri
Niobrara
Iast
Oklahoma
United States
Verdigre
Nebraska
Saloon keeper in New Mexico kills man in quarrel
W T Atchison of Cerrillos shot and killed James O Meara and wounded William Thayer after a dispute in Atchison s San Pedro saloon. O Meara, Santa Fe Gold and Copper Mining Co. bookkeeper, was a New York native with ties to Des Moines Iowa. His body will be sent home.
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Cerrielos
N. M
W. T. Atchison
James O'Meara
William Thayer
Atchison
San Pedro
O'Meara
Santa Fe Gold and Copper Mining Company
New York
Des Moines
Cape Horn Pigeon Case Returns for Expert Evidence
NEW BEDFORD MASS June 16 The Cape Horn Pigeon case between the United States and Russia is revisited as arbitrator M C Asser asks for further expert testimony before a preliminary decision. Capt George O Baker of New Bedford was chosen as expert and sailed to Holland on Saturday. In 1893 the Cape Horn Pigeon, a sailing vessel, was seized by a Russian vessel in Bering Sea, with the firm seeking 45000 in damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bedford
Mass
United States
Russia
M. C. Asser
Holland
George O. Baker
Bering Sea
Death of Judge William H. Martin at Greenfield Indiana
Greenfield Indiana June 16 Judge William H. Martin, aged 58, died at his home from kidney and malarial trouble after months of ill health. He served as Hancock and Henry counties Circuit judge and left a legacy as a skilled, high minded jurist. He leaves a widow and son Robert M. Martin, elected city clerk.
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Indianapelis Journal
New Albany
Tony Richmer
Elizabeth
Indianapolis Journal
Greenfield
Ind
William H. Martin
Northwest
W. H. Martin
William Martin
Rushville
Samuel Martin
Indiana University
Indiana
Rensselaer
Kentland
Cullen, Martin & Magee
Cullen
Martin, Watson & Magee
Martin
Charles Offutt
Robert M. Martin
Peeneien
Death notices from Indiana clergy and locals June reports
Fort Wayne Retired minister Rev Henry Fry D D who served as chaplain in the Eighty eighth Ohio Regiment and taught Latin and Greek at Taylor University died today. Shelbyville Mrs Mc Queen wife of Rev Joseph McQueen died at her parents home after typhoid fever leaving a husband and four children. Fairmount Eli Schmuck eighty one died Sunday morning after six years of illness, an early county pioneer who lived southwest of the city and was bedridden for the last two years.
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Indianapolis Journal
Moore's Hill
Ind
C. W. Gulette
Grace Methodist Church
Dayton
Dillsboro
Moore's Hill College
Kansas
Indiana
Cincinnati
Charles Mapes
Bishop Moore
Grace Church
J. H. Martin
R. F. Brewington
C. H. Lewis
M. B. Hyde
M. Wayhinger
A. J. Bighey
Methodist Church
J. W. Dashiel
Fort Wayne
Henry Fry
Fort Wayne Presbytery
Ohio Regiment
Taylor University
Upland
Shelbyville
Fairmount
Suffrage Festival Dinner Voices Support In City Hall Event
At a Faneuil Hall suffrage festival in New York Evening Post coverage about four hundred attendees heard Rev Anna Garlin Spencer of Rhode Island preside. Dr Ecob, now in Philadelphia, argued equal suffrage raised serious-minded citizenship and noted easy voting with his wife. John Graham Brooks spoke for industrial gain, while Ida C Hultin cited Idaho mining town petitions and gambling license requests as examples of civic petitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Evening Post
Faneuil Hall
Anna Garlin Spencer
Rhode Island
Ecob
Philadelphia
Colorado
Dr. Ecob
John Graham Brooks
Ida C. Hultin
Idaho
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Shepherd Case
Trowbridge
Stevens
James Lacey
Mariona
Elkhart County
State Sunday School
Big Four Freight
Trowbridge and
William Trowbridge
Arthur Stevens
James Lacy
Harrold
Irowbridge
Terre Hauth
Irwin Greer
Oliver Graham
Graham
Een
Greensburg
Lowell Hubbard
Morris Whalen
Sardinia
Whalen
Hubbard
Eilwart Whalen
Dataiment
B. Vaughn
Evansville
Iod
Olga Ruth
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Haute
Northern Baptist Association
William A. Peelle
Winchester
Centerville
Common Pleas Court
Stanton J. Peelle
Court of Claims
Washington
C. C
Peelle
Thomas M. Brown
Oliver H. Smith
Oliver P. Morton
Suengerfest Prises
Cruthers
Tyler Cruthers
Lucius Stout
Matthews
Circuit Court
Laporte
Arthur Bancroft
Royal IL. Bancroft
Eleks
Logansport, Ind
Elwood
American Window Glass Company
W. S. Robinson
Berry
Pendleton
Alice M. Cullen
Thomas J. Berry
Ace
William Hubbard
J. D. Steele
W. L. Skinner
J. D. Fitzpatrick
Mills
First National Bank
J. Harry Orr
Henry R. Freeman
E. N. Detzer
E. F. Scheumann
John H. Bass
Charles H. Worden
Zollarg & Worden
Montpelier
H. P. Malone
L. H. Malone
Cleveland
Fort Orange Oil Company
Mr. Barnes
Malones
Michigan
Big Four Railway
Union Traction Company Lines
Mayme Morris Detchmendy
Milton, Ky
Trimble
George Detchmendy
Funston
Aguinaldo
Steuck
Indiana Spolts Journal
Noll, Franke, Martin and Spice Firms
Indiana Notes
Elwood Company of the
Uniform Bank, Knights of Pythias, Which
American Board
Willis C. Dewey
D. D
Dewey
Turkey
Mardin
Mesopotamia
Canton
Lil
Beloit College
Chicago Theological Seminary
N.7
New Britain
Robert J. Vance
New Britain Herald
Monterat
N. C
Randolph W. Townsend
Board of Education
Madison Elks’ Carnival
Miss Minnie
Ellis
District Red Men's Meeting
Rosebud Indian Reservation
Upencaror
Cape Horn
Anheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass'n
St. Louis
Michelob
J. L. Bieler
Ata
David Mayer
Lawton Ave
W. W. Market
N. Y
Ron Twee
Smes
Sree
Hygienic Foon Ce CO
Limite Serle Creek
Mick, Ug 4
Hygienic Food Co., Limited
Battle Creek
Mich
U.S. A
Indianapolis GasCo Majestic
Orsiat Huder
Pennsylvania
H. T. Hearsey Vehicle CO
National Electric Automobiles
Kasy Terma
Pearson’s Piano House
Indianapolis, Ind
Hartford
Sentinel Printing Company
Lodlana
West Market Street
Wes
T. W Higginson
Wendell Phillips
Fancy Hall
Wendell
Washington Star
Congressional
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