Mishaps To Children In Crawfordsville And More
A series of incidents from Indiana papers reports a five year old burned to death near Mace while playing near smoldering ashes. In Laporte County a boy injured after an older brother struck a shed wall with an ax during a pretend slaughter. Michigan City covers a twelve year old held for trial on alleged train wrecking due to reading novels. Terre Haute notes a large labor demonstration for street railway strikers, with Mother Jones among speakers, amid shootings and tension as miners discuss wage scales and strike conditions.
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Indianapolis Journal
Laporte
Ind
Martin Smith
Beatty's Corners
Laporte County
Michigan City
Herbert Cook
Michigan State Line
Berrien County
Michigan Central
Young Cook
Cook
Crawfordsville
William Beck
Mace
Trial of Benjamin Curtis for criminal assault in Portland
Benjamin Curtis faces trial in Portland for a criminal assault on Minnie Myers then fourteen. Testimony included letters Curtis allegedly wrote while avoiding arrest in which he claimed “touched” a man for 15 dollars and “tapped” a safe for 28, with warnings of a return on a stretcher. Minnie Myers testified clearly, though cross examination was rigorous. Special dispatch reports two items from Fort Wayne about a forged note case and related sentencing.
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Indianapolis Journal
Portland
Ind
Benjamin Curtis
Minnie Myers
Curtis
Fort Wayne
Joseph E. Dickson
Philip Plank
O'Rourke
Muncie minister defense fuels school board probe
In Clay County the school board, facing charges against a local minister, claims a careful, mature review prompted the action amid political tensions. The minister denies wrongdoing and vows to pursue legal remedies rather than resign, while supporters say the board acted to protect students and maintain order. The minister has long served in leading city churches and taught in local schools for seventeen years.
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Monee
Muncie
Jeading
Clay County
Jonal
Resignation Demand Over Alleged Kiss Attempt in Brazil
Special to the Indianapolis Journal reports Brazil's city school board demanding principal Professor Muncie resign after alleged hug and attempted kiss of Miss Ethel Monce fifteen daughter of Benjamin Monce a prominent local citizen. The Rev Mr ______ denies the story stating he placed his hand near her.
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Indianapolis
Brazil
Ind
Muncie
Meridian Street
Ethel Monce
Benjamin Monce
Aeene i
Tis
Advertising for Men Fort Wayne Electric Road Bid
Sol A Wood of Gilbert Berghoff Woods in conference with William E Simpson New York about building an electric road from Ansola to Goshen via Orland LaGrange and other northeastern Indiana towns. Contract let to Flint Jones Co for 100 men and 2 teams to begin grading. Townships vote 80000 subsidy. region anticipates rail link across northern counties with current inconvenient train connections.
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Indianapolis Journal
Fort Wayne
Ind
Sol A. Wood
Gilbert, Berghoff & Woods
Angola
William E. Simpson
Broadstreet
New York
Ansola
Goshen
Orland
Lagrange
Indiana
Woods
Ecoungel
Roby
Flint, Jones & Co
New York City
Evansville Woman To Celebrate One Hundredth Birthday
Mrs Anastasia Simpsohn a longtime Evansville resident will turn 100 tomorrow Born in Goldinger Russia she moved with her parents to Venezuela as a youth later becoming a wife and mother In Evansville she lived with her lone surviving spirit though her husband and daughter have long died She remains weak in the legs and hard of hearing yet maintains a sunny outlook and cries easily at little troubles but soon recovers her cheerfulness
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Indianapolis Journal
Evansville
Ind
Anastasia Simpsohn
Goldinger
Russia
Venezuela
United States
Third Presbyterian Church Hires Pay Rise For Pastor
At the Third Presbyterian Church annual meeting in Fort Wayne the congregation voted to increase Rev. Dr. J. P. McGaw's salary by 100 dollars a year in recognition of his labor during the church's new building phase. The church and organ cost 28 006 dollars, with part unpaid, as growth continues.
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Indianapolis Journal
Fort Wayne
Ind
Third Presbyterian Church
J. P. McGaw
Board of Trustees
R. W. Hunter
Miami University
Harison
Muncie
North Indiana
The
Methodist Church
Eaton
H. W. Bennett
Anderson
C. A. Wade
Fairmount
Fortville
Normal City
Madison Street
Alexandria
Delaware
Madison
Blackford
Quarantine enforcement amid saloon incident reported
In Vincennes Indiana Dr Norman Beckes health officer sought police aid to force the Geranepeenki family into quarantine after a saloon incident that emptied a barrel into Graham's vorwre. Prosecution of Jones to follow once quarantine ends.
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Graham
Indianapolis Journal
Vincen . Ind
Norman E. ‘Kes
Goeranepeenki
C. J. Jones
Beckes
Jones
Nugent Sentenced to Jail for Contempt in Kentucky
W T Nugent of Louisville was committed to jail indefinitely by Judge Evans for contempt after failing to pay over 15 dollars to the late E B Nugent's creditors. The case traces to a 14 000 dollar goods sale and prior reversals by the appellate courts before the Supreme Court sustained the judge.
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Louisville
United States Supreme Court
W. T. Nugent
Evans
E. B. Nugent
Young Nugent
Chilean finances show surplus avoids £3,000,000 loan
Santiago de Chile March 2 official documents indicate Chile’s finances are sound with funds to cover ordinary and extraordinary expenses without needing the £3,000,000 loan authorized by Congress. Europe expenses total £3,000,000 and nitrate duties yield £3,210,000. saltpeter duties £250,000 plus £340,000 remittances from Europe. The government will implement economies and plans to sell saltpeter and guano lands at the Straits of Magellan to negate the loan.
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Santiago DE Chile
Chile
Congress
Europe
Straits of Magellan
Barry torpedo boat destroyer launched at Philadelphia
The Barry third in a series for the U S government was launched at noon with steam up. Miss Charlotte Barnes christened the boat named for Commodore Barry. The 245 foot ship displaces 450 tons with one extra ton and speed reduced to 28 knots. Armament includes five six pounders and two twelve pounder rifles.
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Philadelphia
Barry
United States
Neary & Levy
Charlotte Barnes
Commodore Barry
Delaware River
Mysterious Death of New Jersey Hotelkeeper Near Brunswick
Richard Albrecht proprietor of the Windsor Hotel in New Brunswick, N J, was found dead in five feet of water along the Seaboard Airline Railway near Brunswick Georgia. He had been seen at Thalmann thirty miles away on March 14 and bought a Savannah to Brunswick ticket thinking it went to New Brunswick. A boy who accompanied him is missing and authorities seek his whereabouts.
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Indianapolis Journal
Elkhart
Ind
W. W. van Fleet
Seattle
Roberts Mining Company
Mount St. Elias
van Fleet
Harry Kurtz
E. D. Sawyer
Mr. de Forest
Cleveland
J. A. Roberts
W. H. Roberts
Alaska
Messrs. Roberts
Valdez
Fred Date
Savannah
Richard Albrecht
Windsor
New Brunswick
N. J
Seaboard Airline Railway
Brunswick
Albrecht
Thalman
Thalmann
Celebration planned for Rev Edward Everett Hale on birthday
Boston March 2 a celebration planned for the Rev Dr Edward Everett Hale's eighty ninth birthday on April 3. Senator Hoar will deliver the address, viewed as a longtime friendship and admiration. Dr Hale will reply to the senator. Re readings by President Eliot of Harvard and various musical selections will conclude the program.
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Boston
Edward Everett
Senator Hoar
Hale
Eliot
Harvard
Children drown after ice accident near Lake Minnetonka
Two young children of John Bergue from Mound Lake Lake Minnetonka sank through skim ice today and drowned in Minneapolis area waters.
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Minneapolis
Minn
John Bergue
Mound Lake
Lake Minnetonka
Mullally Diamonds and Jewelry Ad at Monument Place
DB Direct from the cutter. Our guarantee is gilt edge, J. P. Mullally offers diamonds and jewelry at 3 Monument Place with a direct-from-the-cutters promise and a guaranteed quality.
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J. P. Mullally
Monument Place
Rioting at Norfolk street cars seized by striking sympathizers
Norfolk Virginia March 22 strike sympathizers seized the street car line after 1139 tonight. In Atlantic City a car with fourteen aboard was driven off by eight men who beat crew and passengers, severed the trolley pole, and left the dismantled car as others were chased and attacked. Police arrested two suspects. more trouble was seen. In Alliance Ohio Morgan Engineering Company labor strife deepened with nonunion workers housed inside the plant. Judge Harter granted an injunction preventing machinists from interfering with nonunion workers.
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Norfolk
Atlantic City
Labor mediation talks in New York over paper mill hours
Representatives of manufacturers and unions met in New York to avert a threatened strike. A proposed eight hour day with seven days of work was discussed, with unions opposing Sunday work. A May meeting will decide on a uniform schedule. In Wisconsin a broader strike looms as 41 mills face changes. six nonunion, 19 on off long hours, 15 on new three month trial.
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New York
Erasley
National Civic Federation
Oscar S. Straus
Fred H. Parks
International Paper Company
Garrett Schenck
Appleton
Wis
United Brotherhood of Paper Makers of America
Brotherhood
George A. Whiting
Menasha
National Pulp and Paper Manufacturers’ Association
Boston
May Stop Work May 1 on New York Bridges
Reports from New York indicate a potential work stoppage on May 1 as the Housesmiths and Bridgesmiths Union pushes for a 40 cent per hour wage increase. If refused, construction on the Eastern District bridge, new Manhattan structures, and related steel and iron work may halt nationwide. In Pittsburgh, four thousand tinhousemen at the American Tin-Plate Company are mentioned in related industrial actions.
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New York
New York City
Brooklyn Eagle
Housesmiths’ and Bridgesmiths’ Union
Custom House
Manhattan
Eastern District
Pennsylvania Steel Company
American Bridge Company
Pencoyd
D. F. McIntyre
Pittsburg
Tin Plate Company lease vote to go to referendum
The Tin Workers International Protective Association executive committee in Pittsburg considered extending a lease with the American Tin-Plate Company for another year starting July 15. The decision was to submit to a referendum, with results announced at the New Castle annual meeting the first Tuesday in May. The firm plans to close key contracts with canners and builders for summer production and cites risk to lose contracts with a strike clause.
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Tin Workers’ International Protective Association
Pittsburg
American Tin-plate Company
New Castle
Canning
Columbus bricklayers settle strike at old wage scale
In Columbus Ohio on March 22 200 union bricklayers ended a two week lockout by accepting the old wage scale of W cents per hour. The settlement ends a city wide work stoppage affecting construction projects and clears the job sites for resumed activity.
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Columbus
Manley declines first assistant postmaster general post
Joseph H. Manley announced March 22 in Augusta Maine that he would not accept the job of first assistant postmaster general, citing business and personal reasons for declining the tender from Postmaster General Payne.
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Augusta
Joseph H. Manley
Payne
Sargent Denies Immigration Offer But Says He Would Accept
Peoria reports Frank P. Sargent denied earlier interviews as fabrications and said he had not been offered the immigration commissioner post. He revealed he was approached by a Roosevelt friend and would accept the position if offered.
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Peoria
Frank P. Sargent J
St. Louis
Hopkins Dead After Shootout Over Bank Job
Joseph Hopkins died in Chicago after being shot by Dan Ripley in a Thursday encounter. A bedside reporter captured his ravings in hopes of providing clues to a post office heist of last summer that yielded 74000 dollars in stamps. Ripley and Diamond Lill faced a magistrate with bonds set at 10000 and 0 percent respectively. new warrants followed Hopkins death.
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Chicago
Joseph Hopkins
Dan” Ripley
Ripley
Diamond Lill
Hopkins
Kipley
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