Troops Held Ready as Grand Trunk Strike Turmoil Roils South Bend
Gov Marshall ordered Captain Calvert to hold troops at a moment's notice amid sporadic riots by strikers in the Grand Trunk yards. Passenger service was canceled in South Bend while a derail attempt on No 8 was thwarted by an alert engineer. J Freel wounded by a Battle Creek detective. two cabooses burned and freight cars damaged as police and fire crews intervene.
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South Bend
Ind
Marshall
Charles B. Calvert
Third Infantry
Grand- Trunk
Grand Trunk
John Peck
Battle Creek
Mich
Eldridge Graham
William McReynolds
Freel
Epworth Hospital
Montreal
Que
James Murdoch
Central Vermont
Ottawa
King
Way
Portland
Gorham
N. H
Toronto
John McMann
Donovan
Lansing
Ehrke
Street Railway Commission
Glasgow
Warner
Upper Peninsula
Bond theft shocks American agency of Ru 30 banking group
About $80 000 in bonds and other securities were reported stolen from the American agency of the Ru 30 China bank. The par value is $66 000 with market value around $80 500 as investigators pursue clues in the mystery theft.
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New ‘York
China Bank
Washington reports on fortress gun explosion tragedy
Reports from General Wood and war department officials recount heroism at Fortress Monroe after a big gun exploded during battle practice causing eleven deaths. Lieut Hawes aided by fighting fire with bare hands. Lt Van Deusen endured injury while keeping time. Army telegrams pledge sympathy and praise, while investigators seek the cause and accountability.
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Washington
Wood
Army
Fortress Mamree
C. P. Townsley
Coast Artillery Corps
Hawes
Attenton
van Deusen
Fortress Monroe
War Department
Forest Fires Hem In 700 In Merrill Bloomville Area
Wildfires trap 700 residents from Bloomville and Heinemann near Merrill Wisconsin. Rail lines burned cutting escape routes. Bloomville’s 550 residents cut off on all sides. Fire isolates Gleason and destroys $200000 in buildings with many families missing. Feeding the homeless becomes a critical issue as flights continue.
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Merrill
Wis
Bloomville
Heinemann
Gleason
Airship Hit by Lightning Over Barcelona
Aviator Ehrmann's plane was struck by lightning during a cross country flight and crashed in flames. He escaped unharmed, an almost miraculous survival witnessed by onlookers who saw the burned airframe and his descent to the ground.
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Barcelona
Ehrmann
French Woman Aviator Plans Chicago to New York Flight
A French woman, among a small group of women in aviation, intends to travel to America soon to attempt a Chicago to New York flight for the prize recently offered. The note comes from a British journalist.
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New York
Don Rions
Aviation
Sudha
America
Chicago
Mim ‘Mathilde
Frank
Wif
Paint Spottings Overturned in Rawn Murder Case
Chicago reports that blood stains near Ira G. Rawn's Monon railroad home were paint, not blood, as Ernest Stevens is released. A $5,000 reward is offered for the arrest of the burglar. A theory of accidental death emerges but is met with family opposition as investigators drop pursuit of a murderer.
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Chicago
Ira G. Rawn
Monon Railroad
Rawn
Ernest Stevens
Charles L. Schaeffer
Schaeffer
Schaettler
Wood
Gov Carroll Indicted on Criminal Libel Charges
Des Moines reports Governor B Carroll was indicted by the Pelk county grand jury on criminal libel arising from affidavits by John Downie former state board of control member and from alleged misconduct at Mitchellville Girls Reform School. Carroll released on own recognizance and seeks trial to prove truth and justification. Penalty under the Town statute is up to one year in prison or a $1000 fine.
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Des Moines
Carroll
Pelk County Grand Jury
John Cownie
State Board of Control
Girls’ Reform School
Mitchellville
Downie
Cairo Citizens Not Guilty Twelve Men Cleared by Jury
Verdicts of not guilty returned in Cairo cases involving 12 men charged with aiding in a Negro lynching. The jury acquitted all defendants, ending the indictments against local leaders tied to the incident.
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Cairo
Taft Strains Ankle During Bar Harbor Golf Play
President Taft injures his ankle while golfing at Bar Harbor's Kabo Valley club. Surgeons report a bad tendon strain but no general sprain as he continues a scheduled cruise aboard the Mayflower toward Penobscot Bay and Beverly with a notable pain response.
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Bar Harbor
Taft
Penobscot
Casco Bay
Beverly
Kabo Valley Club
Bangor
Ellworth
Grayson
Negro burned at stake in Belton Texas mob justice
Henry Gentry, eighteen, convicted of murder and attempted assault, was burned at the stake after a posse tracked him down. His brother and a companion were spared due to Sheriff Burke and citizen pleas. Gentry had tried to force entry on Mrs. Lamb’s home. later he fired on the pursuing posse and was killed during capture. Thousands watched as he was dragged behind an automobile to Belton.
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Gentry
Belton
Indiana Tax Board Hears Franchises Valuation Disputes
A state tax board hearing in Indianapolis examined disputed valuations from the Ohio Hydraulic Co of Jeffersonville over a riverfront water power franchise said to be unused. Other cases included Indiana Lumbermen Mutual Insurance seeking mortgage note assessments at 70 percent, and the Indiana Bridge Co of Delaware County contesting a higher county assessment.
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Indianapolis
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Ohio Hydraulic Company of
Jeffersonville
Clark County
Indiana Lumbermen’s Mutual Insurance Company
C. M. Kimbrough
Muncie
Indiana’ Bridge Company
Delaware County Board of Review
State Board
FB. J Shoobridge
Indianapolis Water Company
J. T. Moorman
Winchester
Jeffersonville Water,Light & Power Company
Clark County Board of Review
Moorman
Clark County Board
Simon P. Thompson
Thompson
Jasper County
Simon P.thompson
Five suits filed over Indiana railroad safety laws in Delaware court
The Indiana railroad commission through Attorney General James Bing ham filed five suits in Delaware circuit court alleging violations of railroad safety laws. Three suits name James P. Goodrich as receiver for the Chicago Cincinnati Louisville Railroad Company, with others named against the Lake Erie Western Railroad and related entities.
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Indiana
Delaware
Railroad Commission
James" ‘Bingham
James
P. Goodrich
Chicago, Cincinnati’ & Louisville Railroad
Lake Iia & Western: Railroad ‘ Company
Bond and school board clash delays town school projects
Attorneys for bond buyers and for town corporations dispute authority to issue bonds for joint town township school construction. The state superintendent notes delays in multiple incorporated towns and suggests a court adjustment as centralization of schools increases.
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Robert J. Aley
Board of
Cox
Government Land Sales Near Salem and Bloomington
Capt W H Olive of the Indiana land department returned from Washington county reporting three government land tracts sold. John C Schafer bought two tracts and Abraham Fleener bought one for 71 25, totaling ten acres along the Muscatucuck river near Salem Seven. Remaining tracts were not sold as buyers were absent. The area between Bloomington and Salem is flooded with hundreds of acres of oats and corn unharvestable due to continued rains causing significant damage.
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W. H. Olive
Indiana Land Department
Washington County
John C. ‘Schafer
Abraham Fleener
Muscatucuck River
Salem
Bloomington
Olive
School Tax Ruling Asks Attorney General
Fragmentary text shows a request involving a school tax ruling directed to the attorney general. The readable words suggest legal action or advisory inquiry related to tax policy affecting a school district. Further specifics are not clear from the fragment.
Woman in Lafayette Tries to Kill Lover and Self
Miss Nevada Griffin twenty two years old attempted to shoot her sweetheart Edgar Hi Bastian after a quarrel. She telephoned him to meet on a downtown street carrying a loaded revolver wrapped in a coat. Bastian restrained her took the gun from her and she swallowed bichloride mercuric tablets before being taken to a doctor for treatment. She remains very sick but is expected to recover.
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Lafayette
Edgar
Bastian
Indiana Probes Strike Tied to Grand Trunk Freight Tie Up
Indiana authorities opened an inquiry into a rail strike affecting Grand Trunk operations from Granger in St. Joseph County to beyond Maynard Lake in Lake County. Officials seek to identify whether the company collected experienced men to man freight trains tied up by the walkout.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Railroad - Commission
Bend
Grand
Diana
Grangerseph County
Maynard Lake County
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