Traveling physician faces fugitive charge and license claim
George McDonald Ober, a traveling physician, was arrested by Detectives Kinney and Haley on a fugitive charge. He admits possible medical law violations, cites 20 years’ practice, and explains licensing confusion amid old and new statutes. He says he sold a catarrhal medicine and acted as a sales agent for a doctor in the city. Daughters visited him in custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George McDonald Ober
Kinney
Haley
Ober
Madison
Ind
Union Surety Company
French Lick
Marion County
Murderer in Town Strikes Burke Family in Sleep
A brutal murder shocks the city as Alexander, a six year resident with no known relatives, enters the Burke home and slays Thomas Burke, a 40 year old motorman, while slashing Mrs. Burke. A mob wounded officers during his capture after a swift chase.
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Alexander
Burke
Thomas Burke
Michael Burke
Funeral of Burke Sparks White Temperance Sermon
Special to the Indianapolis Journal Terre Haute Ind September 9 Father Schnell in Burke funeral sermon opposes lynch law calling punishment by injustice. He urges education for the freed black population and notes white responsibility. A crowd chased Sheriff Fasig toward a northern train and some attempted to block it after cuero confusion.
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Indianapolis
Terre Haute
Ind
Burke
Father Schnell
Fasig
Ellsworth
Uncertain jailbreak rumors stir town crowd at jail
A small crowd gathered at the jail amid rumors that the sheriff had removed Alexander from town, countered by reports of a failed boarding on the Big Four train and a successful flagging of the Vandaila.
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Alexander
Serenades Mark Shelbyville Interurban Launch Day
A special car carrying officers and stockholders of the Indianapolis and Shelbyville Traction Company toured Shelbyville and Indianapolis yesterday, serenaded by the Juvenile Band at each stop. Regular service starts tomorrow with two cars, 5:30 from Shelbyville and 6:00 from Indianapolis, travel time about one hour eighteen minutes, 4 cents one way and 7 1/2 cents round trip during fair week.
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Indianapolis
Shelbyville Traction Company
Shelbyville
Traction Company
Ed K. Adams
Bert de Prez
Thomas E. Goodrich
John R. Messick
Edwin Porter
Arthur Thurston
Hamilton Goodrich
J. G. de Prez
Ray
Adams
New Road
Liberati Leads Italian Band in Fair Bank Concerts
Liberati directs his band and four singers in a series of concerts at Fair Bank, with performances every evening this week and Thursday and Saturday afternoons. The program features overtures and arias from Verdi and Donizetti, plus light numbers and cornet solos by Liberati. Not all singers arrived on time, but the set includes Katharine Klarer, Marie Valdes, A Bagetto, and Bernard Begue, and the audience responded warmly despite cool weather.
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Liberati
Fair Bank
Pacific Coast
Edouard Strauss
Strauss
Ponchielli
Giaconda
Tannhauser
Lucia
Rigoletto
Katherine Klarer
A. Bagetto
Marie Valdez
Bernard Begue
Liberat
Tron
Verdi
Miss Re Valdes
Sig. A. Baggetto
de Koven
Kansas City Star
Opera
Il “Sizilietta
van Blen Cornet
Sig
A. Liberati
Philadelphia Patriots
Oberon
Weber
la Mandolinata
Metro
Sue
Donizetti
Missarie Valdes
Sambo
Call for the Committee Meeting Next Week
James P. Goodrich, chairman of the Republican State committee, issues a call for a meeting at state headquarters on Wednesday of next week. A conference of state ticket candidates will follow later in the week as counties conduct a sixty day poll and campaign plans are set to open. Hanna plans in Indiana remain unresolved as Fairbanks had intended to visit but did not go.
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James P. Goodrich
Republican State Committee
State Committee
Goodrich
Hanna
Indiana
Fairbanks
Republican from Denver Predicts Colorado GOP Rise
L. J. Hadley, a Denver Republican visiting Indiana, says Silver Republicanism and Populism are fading in Colorado. He notes past defeats for county posts, hopes for a Republican county slate in the fall, and recalls Bryan’s Colorado margins and a small showing for McKinley in Denver precincts. He was once nominated for sheriff by acclamation.
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Colorado
L. J. Hadley
Denison
Hadley
Denver
Indiana
Golden West
Arapahoe County
Republicas
Bryan
McKinley
Copenhaver in Court for Wife Slaying
Ora E. Copenhaver waived preliminary examination in Police Court and was bound over to the grand jury without bail. Police describe the murder as premeditated and cold blooded. Insanity defense is possible. The slayer knocked a four month old child from its mother's breast before firing fatal shots.
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Ora E. Copenhaver
Copenhaver
School Board hears union plea on fair broom contracts
A Broom Makers Union committee urged the School Board to award future broom contracts to fair and Indianapolis firms if possible. Board members said contracts must go to the lowest bidder, noting a prior Evansville supplier. The meeting also covered Miss Browning’s library stats, staffing appointments, resignations, leaves, truancy staff picks, and a balance of $86,687.99.
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Broom Makers’ Union
Indianapolis
Evansville
Miss Browning
Rose Kelley
Day Force
Edith Adams
J. T. McElhennen
Kate Vv. Branham
Jessie Allen
Florence Newcomb
Ae Dye
Ella Saltmarsh
Clara Dippel
Elsie Applegate
Myra Kellogg
Agnes Finch
Charlotte Ketcham
Violet Everett
Helen D. Lowes
Anna Cochrane
Rhoda Shepard
Sara Messing
Andrea Ferguson
Patrick Mangan
Page
Otis Harlan
Guy Killie
Frank White
Warren Newcomb
C. H. Jones
M. J. Dobson
Benjamin B. Jenkins
H. Manning
F. Elliott
Alma Wilson
C. W. Meredith
Gertrude Hilligoss
Flora Shinn
H. Swain
G. C. Joss
Cleland
Ralph K. Smith
Alfred E. Cook
Kendall
Rank Bronson
Melda Morgan
Sophia Schulz
P. T. Miller
Martha Aligire
Adele Storck
Eleanor Williams
Alice M. Hull
Washington
Bessie Hill
Mary Denny
Grace Brown
Anna Hamilton
Camilla Ryan
W. H. Huffmann
Adah Conner
G. Henry Hibler
Augusta Stevenson
Irving School
Marianna Sielkan
P. N. Hiser
Joseph Bristow
John W. Bailey
James F. Wright
Ella McCoy
Politician Circuit at Indiana Montgomery County Fair
Representative Charles B. Landis and Democratic challenger L. J. Kirkpatrick attend the Montgomery county fair in Crawfordsville with Mr. Wilson delivering an agricultural address. Wayne county Republican chairman William E. Wineburg plans campaign events including Senator Fairbanks opening in Richmond. Col. M. D. Tackett notes low early political interest as Watson schedules speeches in Flora Crawfordsville and Iowa Falls. Senator Fairbanks to Portland tonight for Carnegie library dedication.
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Charles B. Landis
Indianapolis
Crawfordsville
Montgomery County Fair
Wilson
Landis
L. J. Kirkpatrick
Kokomo
James E. Watson
Cannon
Illinois
Watson
Illinois Statesman
Richmond
Flora
Henderson
Iowa
Iowa Falls
Hemenway
Senator Fairbanks
Portland
Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Fairbanks
Frugality and thrift mark the American nation
The text lauds The Life Insurance Company of New York for its frugality and leadership in policy payouts and assets. It then shifts to a courtroom note about Stubbs acting for Baumfuhrer’s aged mother, who appealed to the judge against sensational reports she claimed were manufactured by a reporter, leading to a release.
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United States
Life Insurance Company
New York
Mutual Life Insurance Company OF New York
Richard A. McCarney
Stubbs
Baumfuhrer
Handbook of Indianapolis offers rich illustrations and history
The Journal presents its Handbook of Indianapolis now ready for distribution. It promises a comprehensive manual of the city's history growth and commerce with over three hundred half tone illustrations. A paper bound edition costs 50 cents plus 8 cents mail, available at booksellers, newsdealers and the Journal counting room. Also notices trips to Lake Maxinkuckee and Yellowstone Park with dates and prices offered by W B Kniskern.
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Journal
Handbook of
Indianapolis
Chicago and Return and Pacific Coast Rail Offers
Two travel deals announced: a Chicago and return route via Lake Erie and Lake Shore Roads leaving Indianapolis at 10:00 p m with berths chairs and full details available from A H Sellars C P A 28 South Illinois street and a Pacific Coast trip via Chicago and the Chicago and North Western Railway with sleeping car fare double berth from Chicago in Pullman tourist cars priced at $6 00 daily in September and October. inquire through ticket agents or W B Kniskern Passenger Traffic Manager.
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Indianapolis
A. H. Sellars
South Illinois Street
Chicago
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
W. B. Kniskern
Big Four Excursions Sunday to Cincinnati and Terre Haute
Special train leaves Indianapolis Union Station at 7 a.m. for Cincinnati and Terre Haute routes. Round trip fares shown with $1.25 to Cincinnati and corresponding rates to intermediate points. Return from Cincinnati at 1 a.m. and Terre Haute at 7 p.m. with no stops for passengers in either direction.
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Indianapolis Union Station
Cincinnati
M. Terre Haute
Greencastle
Terre Haute
Gannon led raid at Kingston saloon gambling den
Henry F Gannon and six others were arrested at the Kingston saloon on North Illinois street for visiting a crap table amid a police raid at 10 30 pm. Officers seized the table cash drawer and 1000 in chips. Gannon warned bailes to appear in Police Court and face contempt if they failed to show.
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Armitage Brothers
Henry F. Gannon
Kingston
North
Illinois Street
Gannon
Dan Lynch
Schroeder
Warren
Pope
Slate
Primaries Likely Called for Center Township Officials
Chairman Elliott will probably issue the call for new primaries to select candidates for justice of the peace and constable in Center township tomorrow. All justice of the peace nominees from the former primaries have filed petitions to be listed again on the ballots. Warren Bigler of Wabash, former Republican state committee secretary and now on Chairman Goodrich's executive committee, was seen at the Hotel English last night after a trip to California.
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Elliott
Justice of the Peace
Constable
Center Township
Warren Bigler
Wabash
Republican State Committee
Goodrich
English
California
Superintendent Hert in Town Visit
Superintendent Hert of the Indiana Reformatory was in Jeffersonville last night. Just before leaving the city he saw the physician who performed the operation on Frank B. Burke. The physician reported there were no unfavorable symptoms in Burke’s case.
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Hert
Indiana Reformatory
Jeffersonville
Frank B. Burke
Burke
Republican Editorial Association Holds Monthly Committee Meeting
The executive committee of the Republican Editorial Association met at state committee headquarters last night and transacted routine business. Henry C. Starr of Richmond, a member of the executive committee, attended the Columbia Club gathering.
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Republican Editorial Association
State Committee
Republican
Henry C. Starr
Columbia Club
Henry ¢. Starr
Richmond
Republican State Committee
Return limit Oct 15 for Sovereign Grand Lodge meeting tickets
Tickets go on sale Sept 12 to 15 for the Sovereign Grand Lodge meeting. Return limit Oct 15. Correspondingly low rates from other points. For particulars contact agents or W W Richardson D P A. Insurance offered by German Fire Insurance of Indiana with general offices at 2 South Delaware Street. Fire tornado and explosion coverage available.
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Sovereign Grand Lodge Meeting
I. 0
C. F
W. W. Richardson
Indiana
South
Delaware Street
Sovereign Grand Lodge
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Des Moines
Stenographer Injured After Staircase Fall in Pem broke Arcade
Miss Hazel Troutwine, a stenographer for Robert Robertson in the Pem broke Arcade, was seriously injured yesterday afternoon at 5 40 by slipping on the first step of a long flight. She fell badly bruised about the body and was taken from the scene for medical care.
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Hazel Troutwine
Robert Robertson
Pembroke Arcade
Real Estate Deal In Putnam County Trades Farms and Lots
Arthur V. Brown sold 198 acres in Putnam county to Albert Cline and Cline deeded properties at 239 State street 2317 Ashland avenue and Lot on North Meridian street. Brown traded twenty South Meridian lots to John Moore and John Atkinson for North Meridian street Dawson street West Indianapolis properties and a two story dwelling on West Washington street. The deeded property to Brown was transferred to Edward R. Blander for a 6 acre farm adjoining Spencer Indiana. Consideration was 40100 dollars.
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Arthur V. Brown
Putnam County
Albert Cline
Cline
Mr. Brown
State Street
Ashland Avenue
North Meridian Street
South Meridian Street
John Moore
John Atkinson
North Merdian Street
Dawson Street
Indianapolis
Washington Street
Mr. Iown
Edward R. Blander
Spencer, Ind
John Barmfuhrer Released from Jail by Judge
John Barmfuhrer, a gambler, was released yesterday from jail on the order of a judge. The brief notice notes the judicial action but provides no further details on the case or conditions of release.
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John Barmfuhrer
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