Elected Brigadier General Merrill E Wilson Indiana Brigade
Merrill E Wilson of Indianapolis has been elected brigadier general of the Indiana brigade to succeed Gen Charles R Jones. The vote was canvassed in St Paul and telereceived to Indianapolis. Wilson is chief deputy to the U S marshal and a longtime Pythian leader. Court rules all saloons in Indiana illegal. Noblesville decision holds liquor licenses unconstitutional and saloons as nuisances. Edward L Sopher faces trial as a saloon keeper after the ruling.
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Indianapolis
Merrill E. Wilson
Indiana Brigade
Charlies TR. Jones
Indiana
St. Paul
Wilson
United States
Pythian Order
Grand Lodge
Noblesville
Ira W. Christian
Christian
Edward L. Sopher
Nancy R. Middleton
Sopher
Sepher
State of Indiana
Supreme Court
Nquor
Artman
Fairbanks Helps Align G A R With Lawton Monument Unveiling
Vice President Fairbanks brokered an agreement between the G A R and Lawton monument commission to observe Memorial Day in Indianapolis. The plan calls for a 2:30 PM unveiling speech at the northeast courthouse lawn with the address serving as the memorial tribute at Crown Hill cemetery. Cemetery grave decorations will occur in the fore noon, with Fairbanks noting the arrangement should please the president.
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Fairbanks
Indianapolis
Lawton Monument Commission
Lawton Monument
Crown Hill Cemetery
Elopement by Automobile Led to Divorce Suit
In Mishawaka last May Edward Mayne and Hazel Peters wed after eloping in a car with Rev. Travis officiating. Now Hazel sues for divorce alleging ill treatment and lack of support. Coincidentally Mayne’s brother Alfred was divorced a month earlier in Chicago from a similarly romantic marriage.
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Laporte
Edward Mayne
Elis Michael
Hazel Peters
E. E. Weir
Mishawaka
Mayne
Travis
Alred Mayne
Chicago
Ice company cuts prices amid Laporte ice boom
Laporte Ice Company led by Volney T. Malott of Indianapolis announces price reductions up to 25 percent. The winter harvest yielded the finest Laporte lake ice yet and company houses are full, reflecting strong demand in the retail ice market.
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Lake
Laporte
John Hill
Lake Ice Company
Volney T. Malott
Indianapolis
Laporte Lakes
Auburn hunter Bert Oberlin killed by friend's rifle accident
Bert Oberlin, 26, a Butler county business man, was shot and killed while hunting when he slipped and fell into the line of sight of his companion's rifle. The fatal shot struck Oberlin in the brain as they fired at a mark.
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Auburn
Bert Oberlin
Butler County
Big Hominy Mill Planned for Terre Haute
Terre Haute reports the American Hominy company has a building permit to rebuild the destroyed factory site. The new plant will be the largest hominy mill in the country, signaling a major upgrade in local industry.
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Terre Haute
American Hominy Company
Dying Capt. W R Myers Reported in Renerson
Capt William RL Myers is reported dying in Renerson with scant details available. The brief item notes his service and uncertain condition, offering little additional context.
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W. R. Myers
Renerson
Wiliam RL Myers
Test Case Against Railway Ends In Small 45 Cent Claim
A Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley Interurban case, largest in Indiana, paid 45 cents to George Todd after a ticket dispute over a void ticket. The ruling states the court has no jurisdiction to force a county infirmary superintendent to accept an inmate discharged for insubordination. Edgar Ebersole refused to work and was expelled, with the court ruling against him. It is noted as the first case of its kind in Indiana.
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Wabash
Indiana
Fort Wayne
Edgar Ebersole
Accused Abductors Arrested Near Marion
Samuel Miller 65 and May Middleton 25 were arrested by Alexandria police with Fairmount officers on abduction charges. They inhabited elegant apartments in the city with 16 year old Clara Studley, daughter of a Marion physician, who was returned to her father after the claim of abduction. The trio were jailed in Marion awaiting further proceedings.
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Alexandria
Samuel Miller
May Middleton
Fairmount
Clara Studley
Marion
Studley
Calverts Slayer Executed In Philippines Murder
Mrs. M H Jackson, mother of Lieut Robert B Calvert, learns from Manila that private William Taylor of the Twenty fourth Infantry was tried and executed for Calverts death on October 16 in the Philippines. Other enlisted men involved faced ten years hard labor.
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Calvert
Kokomo
M. H. Jackson
Robert B. Calvert
Philippines
William Taylor
Twenty-fourth Infantry
Manila
Taylor
Robbers Loot Zanesville Bank
Bandits blew open the Knight Brothers bank safe in Zanesville early in the day. Telephone wires from the town were cut delaying details of the robbery.
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Zanesville Bank
Bluffton
Knight Brothers
Zanesville
Woman Keeps Her Word at Bhiffton Burial Pair
Mrs. John Stuck aged 73 died of gastritis on Saturday. A week earlier her husband, also 73, was buried. At his grave she declared she would join him in a few days.
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Bhiffton
John Stuck
Columbus Society Women Take to Roller Skating Craze
Columbus society women embrace roller skating as preparations for a new rink begin. Walter Nugent plans to convert the city hall into a skating venue. Among the skaters on the sidewalks is Mrs. Overstreet.
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Columbus
Walter Nugent
Overstreet
France Decorates Scot Iron Master Peace Work
The first National Arbitration and Peace congress ended in New York after a three day session with two banquets. Andrew Carnegie was decorated with the Legion of Honor for his peace work and his gift of The Hague palace. Carnegie spoke on congress results, aligning with Roosevelt’s opening day letter ideas. Resolutions urge a permanent Hague conference, open Hague court, a general arbitration treaty, US push to limit armaments, and extending private property at sea immunity from capture.
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New York
National Arbitration and Peace Congress
Hotel Astor
Waldorf-Astoria
Andrew Carnegie
Baron D'Estournelles de Constant
Hague
Carnegie
Car
Negie
Roosevelt
Congress
Hague Court of International Disputes
United States
Root
Great Britain
Ex Treasurers to Return State Funds Sought
Springfield report notes Illinois ex state treasurers and auditors liable for about 238000 dollars stolen from the treasury. Court upholds Gov. Dunne’s view that officials unlawfully drew public money but requires repayment only of the principal since demand was made about a year ago, not interest for earlier periods.
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Springfield
Ill
Supreme
Illinois
Fireworks Factory Explodes in Chihuahua City
An explosion at La Sultana fireworks factory in Chihuahua caused $200,000 in damage. Two workers were fatally injured and the blast shook the city, sparking fear among residents who prayed for safety after a cigarrette stub is blamed.
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Chihuahua
Mex
la Sultana
Oppenheimer Dies at Hebrew Orphan Asylum Meeting
Moses J. Oppenheimer, president of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, collapsed and died during the annual board meeting in Baltimore Maryland. The cause was heart disease, reads as the official report after he finished reading the first page.
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M. J. Oppenheimer
Baltimore
The
Hebrew Orphan ‘Asylum
Moses J. Oppenheimer
Russian Official Assassinated in Rostov on Don
A vice governor of a prison in Rostov on Don was shot dead in an apparent political killing. Authorities launched an investigation as security services tightened surrounding the facility.
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Rostov-on-Don
Russia
Bank chiefs convicted in Chicago bank conspiracy case
Abner Smith former Cook county circuit judge and Gustav F Sorrow vice president of the Bank of America were found guilty of conspiring to defraud stockholders and depositors. Sentences include up to five years in prison and fines of 1000 dollars for Smith and Sorrow, 500 dollars for Jerome V. Pierce. Creelman was acquitted.
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Chicago
Abner Smith
Cook County
Bank of America
Gustav F. Sorrow
Smith
Jerome V. Pierce
F. E. Creelman
Twenty Five Die As Archangelsk Founders on Neva
In St. Petersburg twenty five persons are believed drowned after the river steamer Archangelsk foundered while crossing the Neva near Trinovka. The wreck occurred during a snowstorm when the vessel struck an ice floe, with many ice floes still on the river late in the season.
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St. Petersburg
Archangelsk
Neva
Trinovka
Son of Rich Man Kills Self in Kentucky Train Tragedy
James Gilbert, the 2 son of William Gilbert a wealthy Murray tobacco man, killed himself aboard a train en route from Memphis late Sunday by swallowing bromidia. He had considerable money but only five dollars was found on his body. No motive is stated beyond possible loss of wealth.
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Fulton
James Gilbert
William
Gilbert
Murray
Memphis
Johnston Dies Suddenly at Phone in Columbus Home
John Orson Johnston president and general manager of the Columbus Gas and Fuel Company died suddenly Sunday at the telephone in his residence after finishing a conversation with his family. He was 52 and a physician attended.
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Columbus
John
Orson Johnston
Columbus Gas & Fuel Company
Colorado Fruit Meets Sharp Races in Denver
A fragmented Denver notice mentions sharp races and fruit in Colorado. The readable text hints at a local event or competition but lacks full details.
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Colorado
Denver
Col
Indictments Hit Toledo Contractors in Grand Jury Probe
Toledo grand jury returns 245 indictments against 93 businessmen and firms including Toledo Mastery Plumbers Association Toledo Brick Supply Company and Toledo Lumbermen's Credit Association charging conspiracy in restraint of trade. Prosecution alleges local lumber and brick trusts dominated pricing and profits raising costs for contractors and tenants.
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Toledo, O
Toledo
Toledo Mastery Plumbers’ Association
Toledo Brick Supply Company
Toledo Lumberman’s Bureau of Credit
National Supply Company
Toledo Supply Company
Theice Trust
Lumber Trust
Toledoo Lumbermen’s Credit “Association
Spitzer
Wachenheimer
Iloilo Wiped Out by Fire in Panay Island
Fire swept Noilo on Panay Island Friday morning, destroying the town and leaving about 20 000 people homeless. Wind kept the blaze burning as civil and military authorities fought to control it, with communication severely disrupted and damage estimates unavailable.
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Manila
P. I
Noilo
Panay
Iloilo
Yoilo
Philippines
Manilla
Two Killed in Collision at Woodlawn Junction Alabama
Two dead and 12 injured after a Southern Railway collision at Woodlawn Junction Birmingham. A southbound freight stalled on the main line, a later passenger train reared the standing freight, and a wrecking train responding to a prior wreck struck the Woodlawn Junction site.
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Birmingham
Ala
Southern Railway
Woodlawn Junction
Rumor of 400000 Shortage at University of Wisconsin
A report circulated at the capitol claimed a $400,000 discrepancy in University of Wisconsin accounts. President Van Hise denied misappropriation but admitted funds were not properly charged to correct investment accounts.
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U. of
New Swedish Minister Arrives in Washington
New Swedish minister M. De Lagercrantz arrived in Washington with his wife aboard the Hamburg American liner Amerika. He is the first Swedish envoy to the capital since the Norway Sweden separation.
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New York
M. de Lagercrantz
Washington
Norway
Sweden
Volcano Devastates Chile as Craters Open and Panic Spreads
The Puyehue volcano in Valgiva Province Chile erupts violently with new craters forming and fires lighting six miles of landscape. Ash showers, underground explosions, and earthquakes disrupt life. cattle perish near Lake Ranco and local water sources dry up.
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Lima
Puyehue
Valgiva
Chili
Lake
Ranco
Manila
P. I
Luzon
Nueva Caceres
Camarines Province
Tayvabas
Charleston
S. C
Summerville
Next friends accused of bad faith in Eddy suit
In Merrimack county New Hampshire defendants in the Mary Baker G. Eddy case filed an answer charging the so called next friends with bad faith. They claim the next friends used names for the suit at the expense of evil minded persons unrelated to Eddy or her estate. The answer denies all complainants’ allegations in the original action brought March 1 by George W. Glover Mary Baker Glover and George W. Baker.
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Concord
N. H
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Merrimack County
Next Friends
George W. Glover
Mary Baker Glover
George W. Baker
Nephew of Marvin denies boy is kidnapped Marvin heir returns
Myles Standish of Dover, Delaware, nephew of Dr. H. M. Marvin, arrived in Gloversville to see the child held as a suspect in the Marvin kidnapping. After examining the boy he declared he did not believe the lad was Horace Marvin Jr., and informed Chief Smith.
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Gloversville
N. Y
Myles Standish
H. M. Marvin
Dover
Del
Horace Marvin, Jr
Marvin
Standish
al H. Allen
Horace Marvin
Chief Smith
Mrs Donald McLean Re elected D A R President General
The continental congress of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution announced that Mrs Donald McLean of New York was reelected president general for two years. She received 511 votes while her opponent Mrs Eleanor Washington Howard of Alexandria, Va., had 152.
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McLean
D. A. R. Washington
Continental Congress
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Donald McLean
New York
Eleanor Washington Howard
Alexandria
Bank Wreck Near Weston Blown by Dynamite
A bank in Weston, about 50 miles east of Peoria, was wrecked early Friday by three dynamite blasts. About $2000 was recovered and the robbers fled the scene.
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Peoria
Bank of
Weston
Grain Yields in Saltcoats Reflect Canadian West Promise
Letter from O. B. Olson details four and a half years in Saltcoats Saskatchewan area showing 25 bushels wheat and 45 bushels oats per acre in 1906 on 175 acres after earlier crops. Olson urges hardworking settlers to move north and contact government agents for literature and details.
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Saltcoats
Baldwin
St. Croix County
Wisconsin
Bret Harte Poem Born From Sudden Inspiration
War correspondent Frederic Villiers records Bret Harte recounting how he resisted early editorials on Dickens in Camp. Harte describes drafts torn up, a late press deadline, and a sudden surge of creativity that produced the now admired poem.
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Bret Harte
Frederic Villiers
Dickens
States
Harte
Mr. Villiers
Skin Sore Eight Years Cured by Cuticura Remedies
Fritz Hirschlaff of New York reports eight years of skin sores finally healed in seven days using Cuticura Remedies after trying many doctors and spending about three hundred dollars. The testimonial notes complete recovery and return to work, dated March 29 and April 6, 1906.
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Fritz Hirschlaff
Columbus Ave
New York
N. Y
Queen of Portugal Honored For Courage In Lisbon Rescue
Queen Amelia, sister of the Duch ess d Aosta, is pictured as a royal favorite born at York House Twickenham. She was among the first women to qualify as a medical doctor and jokes that her hardest patient is King Carlos as she toils to diet him for too solid flesh.
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Portugal
British Humane Society
Lisbon
d’Aosta
York House
Twickenham
Amelia
Carlos
Free Dr Coffee book offers cure method for eye and hearing ills
A reader offer promises a free copy of Dr Coffee’s book detailing a home cure method for Deafness Head Noises Sore Eyes Failing Sight and related conditions. The ad instructs to email and write to Dr W O Coffee at 360 Century Building Moines Ja for the guidance.
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Dr. Coffee
W.O. Coffee
Moines
Wesley Brotherhood General Convention Planned for October 1907
Executive board of the Wesleyan Brotherhood notes resolutions from the Brotherhood of St Paul requesting a joint committee to discuss unification of Methodist brotherhoods. Garfield Tea is advertised as a remedy for headaches and fatigue.
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Wesley. Brotherhood
Brotherhood of St. Paul
St. Brotherhood
Methodist
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