Indiana House Sees Competing Slates as Legislature Opens
January 4 report from Iaifnapatis notes party caucuses set to begin tonight for the Indiana legislature with two house slates led by Charles Hurst and T J Drisgol for clerk roles. Senate candidates include Julian D Hogate for secretary and Charles Gray for assistant. The plunder committee, under Lyons Kittengerland Farber, meets to allocate scarce payed positions.
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Charles ‘Hurst
Princis
George Hellman
Evansville
Lewis ‘Sharpp
Ft. Wayne
Horst
T. J. Drisgol
Muncie
Milton
Senate
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Kittingerland
Farber
Sidney
Cantwell
Hartford ‘City
House
Elections Committee
Joe Cravens
Samuel Wallace
Jefferson County
Republic
Zack Selters Balem
Secretary of
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Indianapolis Rail and political shifts in state session
Senator-to-be Hemenway plans to appoint a private secretary and travels to Washington with him next winter. George A. Cunningham of Evansville seeks to succeed Hemenway in Congress as talks with party leaders continue. Shippers push a railway commission bill. opponents split over enforcement powers. Local members discuss insane and epileptic care and hospital funding, with some wary of high costs. Rochester grants Carnegie library funding contingent on maintenance, while a towboat explosion near Huntington leaves casualties.
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Indianapolis
Herenway
Cready
Thuman P. Tilimda
Warrick County
Washington
Hedenway
Hemenway
Feirbanks
J. Frank
Harry
Jane
George A. Cunningham
Evansville
State Committee
T. Edwin Bell
Hammond
Bell
E. A. Dausman
Goshen
Warren G. Sayre
Question of Honor Shapes War News From Port Arthur
Reports from St Petersburg and Tokyo describe Russia’s refusal to cease hostilities until honor is vindicated at Port Arthur. Sailors and civilians suffer under siege conditions with shortages and scurvy as defense collapses. Tokyo celebrates Port Arthur’s fall with a lantern procession and thanks to General Nogi.
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Port Arthur
Russia
Arthur
Endral Stoessel
Tokio
Yan
Nogi
Third Army
St. Chefoo
Kuropatkin
Stoegsel
Kuroki
Fusan
Fort Arthur
Coroner Tutewiler Reports City Fatalities and Drownings
In Indianapolis the annual coroner report lists crossing accidents causing sixteen deaths, ten by streetcars and four by interurban cars, plus twenty-one drowning cases in Mallon County and five in City during bathing season. It records 495 investigations, twenty-eight suicides, seventeen murders, and six fatal elevator incidents. Interesting Struggle Threatened in Bottle Trade With Ball and Owens glass bottle makers, aiming for market control could lower prices.
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Tutewiler
Tutevileri
Mallon
Anit
Muncie
Ind
Ball
Owens m Ching
Reek
Texans Question Right To Burn One's Own Farm Produce
A distorted report describes a Texas law dispute over destroying one’s own crops. It cites prior cases where farmers were fined for burning grain and notes amendments aimed at clarifying property rights for burning or disposing farm products.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Local Note From Evansville Prompts Readership
Fragmentary text from Evansville Indiana shows a local note naming H Hitemam and A. Evans in obscured context. The snippet mentions ages and a washis term but provides no full action or outcome.
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