Purcell Murder Trial Opens Amid Multiple Cases
Special to the Indianapolis Journal reports George W. Carter a Morristown farmer died by blowing off his head with dynamite after a illness. He left a family and was active in Knights of Pythias and Court of Honor. Separate dispatches note Dick Evans near Elizaville attempted suicide via strychnine but survived after medical care. Maggie Shepherd, wife of Charles Shepherd, died after a shooting at Redkey with inquest held in Portland, no verdict yet and rumors of a jail attempt dismissed.
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Indianapolis Journal
Morristown
Ind
George W. Carter
Carter
Lodge of
Knights of Pythias
Court of Honor
Pythian Lodge
Lebanon
Dick Evans
Elizaville
Evans
Mr. Jackman
Battle Ground
Indianapolie Journal
Redkey
Maggie
Charles Shepherd
Ashley
Portland
Shepherd
Man Guilty of Manslaughter for Killing Wife
The second trial of Frank Purcell in Washington Indiana returned a guilty verdict. He was sentenced to two to twenty-one years for murdering his wife. His son remains imprisoned for a Pike County murder. A separate Franks case in Frankfort involved Pitzer and Clem Pruitt at a January country dance with key witnesses Byron Pruitt and Albert Merrill. Coroner verdict found self defense in Tilberty Kempt’s death and no prosecution for the woman.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Ind
Frank Purcell
Pike County
Purcell
Frankfort
Pitzer
Clem Pruitt
Byron Pruitt
Albert Merrill
McKitterick
Tilberty Kempt
Davis Testifies In Gambling Losses Suit In Vincennes
In Vincennes Indiana March 27 plaintiff Davis testified all day and will finish tomorrow in a suit by his wife Anna V Davis to recover seven dollars and fifty cents lost to Addie Dillard the Washington Indiana gambler. The record shows lax handling of bank funds due to his craps habit with losses reaching one thousand dollars a night in 1900.
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Indianapolis Journal
Vincennes
Ind
Davis
Anna V. Davis
Addie Dillard
Washington
Dillard's
Suit Filed for 10000 Damages Over Muncie Trench Fall
Thomas Sheehan sues the city of Muncie Ware county and the Muncie Electric Light company for 10000 damages after being seriously injured when he fell into a trench dug by the electric light company during city and county work.
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Indianapolis Journal
Allexcre
Ind
Thomas Sheehan
Muncie
Kware
Expectations of a Large Attendance at the Spring Term
TERRE HAUTE IND March 2 The winter term exams end tomorrow and the spring term starts next Monday with an expected record attendance. The list of spring term assistant teachers includes Elmer E Petty William O Lynch Rose M Cox J Elsworth Ewers Pred Mittehler E E Giltner Anna Sankey A mass student and faculty meeting reviewed housing for the expected large body of students and discussed dormitory plans to be built next year. The final basketball game between seniors and sophomores decided the inter class championship with the seniors winning 7 to 0.
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Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
Indiana State Normal School
Elmer E. Petty
William O. Lynch
Rose M. Cox
J. Elsworth Ewers
Pred Mittehler
E. E. Giltner
Anna Sankey
Wes & General
Christian Associations
Township Assessors Transfer Their Unpaid Claims
Special to the Indiansports Journal Richmond Ind March 7 The township assessors and their deputies in Wayne County failed to get the full amount on unpaid claims and proceeded to transfer the remaining balances to new authorities for collection.
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Wayne County Township
Indiansports Journal
Richmond
Ind
Assessor Seeks $1,080 Back From County Officials
In 1909 an attempt to reclaim lost assessing fees failed after mandamus actions. The current suit, filed by James P. Reid, Wayne township assessor, targets the County Commissioners for the full amount including 6 percent interest. The case signals broader similar claims in other counties.
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James P. Reid
Wayne Township
Terre Haute Firm Builds Oil Refinery For Its Own Output
Terre Haute Prox and Brinkman Company has begun constructing an in-house refinery to process oil from its own well on the foundry premises. The well, drilled over a decade ago, has yielded steady profits of several thousand dollars annually. The new refinery will use a 75 by 10 foot building and is designed for easy capacity expansion.
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Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
Prox & Brinkman Company
Indiana Miners and Operators Fail to Reach Agreement
A committee of miners and operators had hoped to report an agreement to the joint conference this evening and sign the wages contract tonight. Disagreement persists over the powder question and the minimum thickness of coal veins to be mined at the interstate price for Indiana. The full conference will be held tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
Indiana
North Indiana Methodist Episcopal Conference Programme
Marion Indiana March 27 The official programme for the North Indiana Methodist Episcopal Conference to be held the week of April through April 15 includes Bishop Isaac W Joyce presiding and speakers from New York Cincinnati Philadelphia Tokyo and Indianapolis with Mrs Delta Lathrop Williams and others. Franklin Indiana March 27 The Johnson County Bar Association received portraits of G M Overstreet and A B Hunter for the courthouse frame. speeches followed by Representative Overstreet as the firm Overstreet and Hunter long active in the State
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Indianapolis Journal
Marion
Ind
North Indiana Methodist Episcopal Conference
Isaac W. Joyce
T. B. Neely
New York
John Pearson
Cincinnati
J. M. King
Philadelphia
W. H. Bennett
Harriet
Franklin
Johnson County Bar Association
Citiens
G. M. Overstreet
A. B. Hunter
Overstreet & Hunter
Overstreet
Indianapolis
Counterfeit, bogus money cases and elderly couple’s anniversary
William H Ramsey John Springer and Arthur Whittaker waived examination and await grand jury action in May. Whittaker admitted false identity. In Muncie Obadiah Scudder and wife celebrate sixty first anniversary with family notes of children grandchildren and great grandchildren. A Muncie man explains Spanish prison fines set at 20 cents daily implying a 786 year sentence to pay 96701 dollars plus ten year term. total 2905 days, absurdly long.
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Indianapolis
New Albany
Ind
William H. Ramsey
John Springer
Arthur Whittaker
Internal Revenue
United States
Cardwill
United State Grand Jury
Whittaker
Indianapolis Journal
Muncie
Obadiah Scudder
Riverside
W. H. Scudder
Washington, D. C
John Sanders
Scudder
Cuba
Charles F. W. Neely
Ninth District Trustees Form Permanent Association
Sixty five town ship trustees of the Ninth district met in Frankfort to organize as the Ninth District Trustees' Association CC. W. Reynolds of Howard county was elected president and Frank Sims of Frankfort secretary. They condemned the present poor law and planned duties for trustees. Richmond ind construction line contract set to Falke Company Milwaukee over a million dollars work to begin within days with power house at Eaton and barns at Eaton as central point.
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Indianapolis Journal
Frankfort
Ind
Ninth District
Ninth District Trustees’ Association
CC. W. Reynolds
Howard County
Frank Sims
Richmond
Hamilton
Deaths mark day across Indiana towns
In Thorntown Robert Slocum died at his home after a year with complications from dropsy leaving a widow and large estate. Mrs Francis Hollingsworth aged eighty three died from apoplexy after a stroke earlier in the day, born in Kentucky in 1818. Sarah Barnett an old resident of Sullivan County died at her Jackson Township home as six sons served as pallbearers. Thomas George Barcus, a Jackson Township farmer, was found dead of heart failure, uncle to Terre Haute resident James S Barcus. A letter from Scotland Green County announced Rev Mr Ingalls a longtime United Presbyterian preacher. Hannah Lewis, eastern Indiana’s likely oldest woman, died today in Portland.
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Thorntown
Ind
Robert Slocum
Francis Hollingsworth
Hollingsworth
Kentucky
Wm. Alexander
Jefferson Township
Sullivan
Sarah Barnett
Jackson Township
Thomas George Barcus
James 8. Barcus
Terre Haute
Bloomington
Scotland
Green County
Ingalls
United Presbyterian Church
Portland
Hannah Lewis
Indiana
Indiana Local Briefs Highlight Prominent Village Purchase
Valparaiso notes K Warren, a leading farmer owning much of Three Oaks, has bought land along the Lake Michigan shore between Michigan City and New Buffalo to create a summer resort run on temperance principles. Elkhart reports Castle United Brethren Church plans special services as mortgage burning marks completion of the $10,400 project. Other items cover Lafontaine High School graduates, St Charles Catholic heating contract, Grand Central handicap shooter heads to Kansas City, and smallpox quarantine at New Albany.
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Valparaiso
K. Warren
Three Oaks
Michigan City
New Buffalo
Warren
Elkhart—Castle
W. M. Bell
Dayton
Wabash
Lafontaine High School
Christian Church
Fay McNiel
Fred Bloomer
Clarence Mason
Georgia Harper
Lawrence Neff
W. W. Parsons
State Normal
Terre Haute
Peru
Charles
J. L. Head
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Plainfield
Harry Crawford
Adam Record
Arthur Hadley
Harrisville
Indiana
Richmond
Frankfort
Clinton County
Samuel Paul
Hillisburg
Homer Wertz
Vincennes
Elizabeth Kelly
Levi Murphy
Moore's
Journal
Miss Snyder
Miss Jackson
Madison
Madison Ladies
A. M. Graham
Hanover
College Athletic Association
Three Men Convicted in Reading Shirtwaist Fire Conspiracy
In Reading Pa jurors found N S Wertheimer Sylvan Friedlander and Daniel Roger guilty of conspiring to burn Wertheimer's Reading shirt factory on Sept 15 1900 to claim 4000 in insurance from 32 companies. Prosecution alleged over 30000 new policies were taken out just before the fire and stock was emptied before arson. Other indicted defendants Leon Wertheimer Carrie Friedlander and Chasket Neberashal were not tried this term.
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Reading
N. S. Wertheimer
New York
Sylvan Friedlander
Newark
N. J
Daniel Roger
Wertheimer
Leon Wertheimer
Kansas City
Carrie Friedlander
Chasket Neberashal
Court Martial Sentences Williams for Theft at Fort Snelling
Sergeant Major Charles F Williams of Company E Fourteenth United States Infantry is dishonorably discharged forfeiting all pay and allowances and confined at hard labor for six months. Williams fled with funds collected for Motorman Welch who lost an eye due to a drunken soldier. After his disappearance soldiers raised a second relief fund for the wounded man.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Fort Snelling
Charles F. Willams
Fourteenth United States Infantry
Otis
Williams
United States
Welch
Bombs to Kill Turks Allegations In Macedonia Crisis
Vienna dispatch reports that Turkey declares the Macedonian committee made dynamite bombs at Loestandil and Sutheta for export to Macedonia. It claims imported Turkish military uniforms to disguise Bulgarian bands as Turks to massacre Macedonian Christians to provoke reprisals. The Porte allegedly orders regular troops against Bulgarian bands, not bagshi-bazouks.
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Vienna
Neue Freie Presse
Turkey
Loestandil
Sutheta
Macedonia
Neue Frete Presse
Porte
Justice Anderson Frees 12 Year Old In Carrie Corbin Case
In Washington on March 27 Justice Anderson directed the jury in the District Criminal Court to find Hezekish Coates not guilty of the murder of eight year old Carrie Corbin last December. The court ruled that a child aged seven to fourteen is presumed not to have criminal intent and the government failed to overcome that presumption, leading to the boy's discharge.
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Washington
Justice Anderson
District Criminal Court
Hezekish Coates
Carrie Corbin
Jury Acquits Joseph Cox in Murder Case at Country Church
In M Arthur on March 27 a jury acquitted Joseph Cox of first degree murder for killing Raymond Ratcliffe at a country church on January 26. Both men were school teachers and Ratcliffe's wife was Cox's sister. Prosecution aided by Congressman Charles H. Grosvenor drew wide attention.
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M Arthur
Joseph Cox
Cox
Raymond Ratcliffe
Ratcliffe
Charles H. Grosvenor
Man Confesses Killing Brother-In-Law in Arkansas
James Hollis, a 27 year old Black man jailed in Paris Illinois, admits killing William Lewis at Laconia Arkansas in what he says was self defense after initial arrest on another charge. He fled to Cairo then Paris as Arkansas authorities are notified.
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Mattoon
Ill
James Hollis
Paris
William Lewis
Laconia
Ark
Hollis
Lewis
Cairo
Cotton
Arkansas
Testimony in Waller court martial cites native plot
At the Samar court martial of Maj L W T Waller a native scout named Smoke testified of a plot by Waller expedition natives to murder Major Waller and Lt Williams. General Smith met with insurgent Gen Guevarra who signaled surrender with 250 rifles, 125 Krag Jorgensens, to be handed over. Cholera cases decline as outbreak remains confined to natives and Chinese. Henry C Ide of the Philippine Commission to leave Japan for Manila April 2.
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Manila
L. W. T. Waller
Marine Corps
Samar Island
Smoke
Waller
Williams
General Smith
Samar
Guevarra
Lukban
Smith
Henry C. Ide
United States Philippine Commission
Japan
Ide
Friar Land Question Presses Philippine Settlement Debate
Archbishop Sbarretti and Secretary Mer. Broderick met with Secretary Root at the War Department to discuss whether Philippine friar land issues should be settled in Manila or at Rome. Possible Vatican involvement would place Taft in Rome, with Irish and O Gorman supporting the plan. The White House plans a decision before Sbarretti leaves Washington. he later paid respects to the President.
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Washington
Sbarretti
Mer. Broderick
War Department
Root
Philippines
Manila
Rome
Philippine Commission
White House
Vatican
Sharrett
United States
Taft
Ireland
O'Gorman
Mar. Sbarretti
Senate panel backs unchanged silver standard in Philippines
Washington notes that Republican Senators on the Philippines committee favor preserving the current silver currency in the islands. A subcommittee has not yet reported but plans a substitute bill replacing the Mexican dollar with a silver dollar of 416 grain weight and .900 fineness, issued by the government for island needs. Senator Allison chairs the subcommittee drafting the proposal.
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Washington
Senate Committee On the
Philippines
Philippine Islands
Allison
Transport Egbert Arrives With 28th Infantry Battalion
SAN FRANCISCO March 27 Transport Egbert arrived today from Manila bringing a battalion of the Twenty-eighth Infantry and 8% discharged men from the Philippines.
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San Francisco
Egbert
Manila
Twenty-eighth Infantry
Philippines
Congress of the Disciples of Christ closes in Cleveland
The closing session of the Congress of the Disciples of Christ was held at Cleveland. Officers elected include President James Hall of Butler College Indianapolis and Vice President Clinton Lockwood of Drake University. General committee members named were Rev BL Powell Louisville Rev G B Van Arsdale Peoria and Rev W J Shannon Columbia. Next congress set for Des Moines Iowa next year.
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Cleveland
Congress of the Disciples of Christ
James Hall
Butler College
Indianapolis
Clinton Lockwood
Drake University
BL. Powell
Louisville
G. B. van Arsdale
Peoria
Ill
W. J. Shannon
Columbia
Des Moines
Mexican Bonds Awarded to U.S. Firms in New York
The Mexican government awarded redeemable 5 percent bonds of the fourth series to Geo. D. Cook Company and Matson & Wis Company. The principal and semiannual interest will be payable in New York City, replacing London and Amsterdam as previously.
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New York
Geo. D. Cook Company
Matson & Wis Company
London
Amsterdam
First vacant lots on North Delaware and Alabama streets offered
The Indiana Trust Company offers the first vacant lots on North Delaware and Alabama between Twenty third and Twenty fifth streets away this side of Fall Creek for sale on payments of ten dollars per month with an unknown percent interest per year. Call for plats and payment details from Robert Martindale at the Indiana Trust Company office.
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Delaware
Alabama
Fall Creek
Indiana Trust Company
Robert Martindale
Ice over Mackinac Straits melts opening Lake Michigan shipping
Detroit weather observer Norman D. Conger reports by wire that the ice has gone out of the Straits of Mackinac last night, opening navigation through the straits into Lake Michigan.
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Detroit
Mich
Norman D. Conger
Straits of Mackinac
Lake Michigan
Illinois Republican Convention Date Revealed
SPRINGFIELD IL March 27 At the meeting of the Republican state central committee held here today one was chosen as the place for how the Illinois convention date and location were decided.
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Springfield
Republican State Central Committee
Republican state convention resolves on McKinley and Tanner deaths
Thursday's meeting fixed the time and authorized Chairman Fred W. Rose of Jacksonville to appoint a three member committee to draft resolutions. The resolutions will address the deaths of William McKinley and John R. Tanner and be presented at the convention.
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Fred W. Rose
Jacksonville
William McKinley
John R. Tanner
Convicted of Bribery in Suburban Franchise Case
Emil A. Meysenburg, a Maryland House of Delegates member, was found guilty of bribery in a four day trial over suburban street railway franchise legislation. He faces three years in the penitentiary with a new bond set at $5,000 pending a motion for a new trial. Meysenburg protested his innocence despite the verdict.
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ST. Louis
Emil A. Meysenburg
House of Delegates
Douglas
Meysenburg
Wiley Shows Food Adulteration Evidence Before House Panel
Dr. H W Wiley chief of the Bureau of Chemistry testifies on food adulteration before the House Commerce Committee and presents samples including dyed fruit, glucose, and counterfeit syrups. He asserts staple products like flour and sugar are not adulterated and pushes the Bronis Hepburn bill while detailing methods and firm cases.
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Washington Star
House Committee On Commerce
H. W. Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
Wiley
Hepburn
Dr. Wiley
Ohio
Europe
The Easter hare myth and its lunar connection explained
A playful essay traces the Easter hare to German and Egyptian traditions, contrasting the hare with the rabbit. It links the moon, eggs, and open-eyed imagery across cultures, noting the hare as a symbol of periodicity and year opening, with Swabia's Kinderkinds and related customs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osiris
Isis
Germany
Ev Ovenie
Swabia
Mannhardt
Longing for One in a Chicago Tribune excerpt
A fragment from a Chicago Tribune piece depicts a mysterious exchange where a man asks how to dress for a role in a charade and a woman responds there is no such person, underscored by a despairing clock glance. The dialogue suggests tension and misunderstanding between the characters.
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Chicago Tribune
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