Hastings Anti-Gambling Bill Turbulent Session Ends
Indianapolis March 9 report on Indiana legislature actions. Anti-Gambling and Anti-Trust Insurance measures faced passage and opposition with various bills killed or advanced. Notable events include Gray bill creating state board of pardons and a clash between Warren Sayre and James Statesman over the State Tax Commissioners duties.
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Warren Sayre
James E. Statesman
Wabash
Sayre
Stautesman
Sayer
Indianapolis
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Parks
Lawler
Committee On Public Morals
Walcott Railroad Commission
House
Judge Rasch
Evansville
House of Representatives
Thrall
Watkin
Walcott
Railroad Commission
Tarkington
Indiana Industrial Home
Conference Committee
Miss Gallaher
Bamberger
Kirkpatrick
James F. Statesman
Indiana Juvenile Court
Indiana
Chicago
National Endowment Rank
Knights of Pythias
Vicksburg
Representative Morgan
Marion County
Senate Restores Most Cut Items in Appropriations Bill
The senate, urged by the house, restores most items cut from the appropriations bill now before the governor. A township tax levy bill is substituted for a levy increase bill and passes. Other actions include county supply bids classified, city school bond authority, electric railroad subsidies, and a school city lien on public improvements with proper payment from school revenue.
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Senate
House
Wright
Indianapolis
Public library commission bill becomes law without signature
House Bill 55 passed by constitutional limitation and becomes law increasing librarians travel funding from 5 000 to 7 000 for work of organizers in traveling library program.
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Representative Statesman
Public Library Commission
House
Muirs Pension Bill Signed Governing Police Retirement
The governor signed Muirs bill amending the act on pensioning policemen in cities over 100000. It sets retirement terms from 15 years with trustee control to 30 years at three fifths salary, plus options for early retirement and monthly sums up to 29 dollars. Other signed measures place the state library under the state education board and empower county health boards.
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Muir
State Board of Education
County Boards of Health
Thompson primary bill faces possible death by allies
The current outlook suggests the Thompson primary bill may die for lack of support as lawmakers with influence appear largely opposed to it. Machine interests seem to oppose the measure, shaping the fate in its favor or against it.
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Thompson
Lower house oks railroad bill defeat ends enacting clause
The lower house killed the railroad consolidation bill by striking out the enacting clause in a 48 to 43 vote. Rail lobbyists expressed disappointment after failing to move the Gray bill, while Rep Booth Tarkington sided with the railroads. The house then passed several other measures including the general appropriation bill and a fire insurance rate prevention bill.
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Senate
Fred Joss
Joss
Indianapolis
Booth Tarkington
Tarkington
Stansberry
Indiana Senate Battles Over Gambling Reform And Rail Bill Drift
In Indianapolis on March 3 to 7, the Indiana senate battled over the Hastings anti gambling bill with a recommitment attempt and later passage. The Walcott railroad commission bill stalled, and a battle over a consolidation measure drew rail lobby ire. The house killed the Sunday baseball proposal and debated insurance and fire escape bills as session winds down.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Chicago
Booth Tarkington
Old Line Insurance Companies
Bureau of
Miners' Convention Advances Lower Initiation Fees Plan
At Terre Haute Indiana the Eleventh district United Mine Workers proposed cutting initiation for most miners from fifty to ten dollars with a twenty five dollar rate for non practical miners. John W Purcell was reelected to the national executive board and a higher defense fund and weekly pay resolution were approved. Membership rose from seven thousand five hundred to nine thousand five hundred with locals up from one hundred twenty five to more.
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Terre Haute
Ind
United Mine Workers of America
Indiana
John W. Purcell
National Executive Board
Committee
Kennedy
Edwards sues Luhrig Coal Co for nondelivery of coal
Jas M Edwards a Cleveland? typo? coal dealer sues Luhrig Coal Co Cincinnati alleging breach of two contracts. He says 110 cars ordered 32 delivered and 100 cars ordered 11 delivered. Loss estimated at 6200 and claims nondelivery due to ban by the Indianapolis coal exchange under grand jury scrutiny.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Jas. M. Edwards
Indianapolis Coal Exchange
Grand
Luhrig Coal Co
Cincinnati
Edwards
Ohio river rise floods Evansville with debris drift
Evansville Indiana reports the Ohio river rising to 39.7 feet with extensive drift wood and lumber passing downstream. The crest is expected near Monday at about 42 feet while tributaries like the Wabash White and Green rivers continue to rise. Corn along the Little Wabash is being swept away as flooding marks a historic high.
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Evansville
Ind
Wabash
Temporary restraining order dissolves over school vaccine policy
Terre Haute Indiana March 7 a temporary restraining order from Judge Stinson to bar the health board from excluding unvaccinated children from public schools was dissolved Friday. While effective the order closed all city schools and they will reopen Monday with the vaccination requirement still in force.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Stinson
Health Board
Death of William Swanson in Indianapolis
William Swanson longtime master mechanic for the Pennsylvania Railroad in Indianapolis died at his home in Woodruff Place from uraemia. He was 75 years old.
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William Swanson
Indianapolis
Ind
Pennsylvania Railroad
Woodruff Place
Young Wife Obtains Divorce in Jeffersonville Court
Wil lena McIntyre, aged 13, obtained a divorce in the circuit court from her husband William McIntyre, a 47-year-old farmer, after a marriage of about one year in Jeffersonville Indiana on March 7.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Willena McIntyre
William McIntyre
McIntyre
Indiana post protests Lee monument on Gettysburg battlefield
Sol Mere dith Post G. A. R. of Richmond Indiana forwards a protest to the Pennsylvania legislature against joining Virginia in erecting a Gen. Robert E. Lee monument at Gettysburg.
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Richmond
Ind
Sol Meredith Post
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Robert E. Lee
Gettysburg
Oldest Evansville Night Watchman Dies After Short Illness
Gottlieb Doering aged 72 longtime Evansville night watchman died after a brief illness. A native of Germany he had served nearly 25 years in the city’s night watch. He was the city’s oldest active guard.
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Evansville
Ind
Knapp's First Wife Died in 1892 and Buried Here
Terre Haute Indiana reports Emma Stubbs Knapp first wife of Alfred A Knapp died December 8 1892 and her body was buried in Highland Lawn cemetery.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Emma Stubbs Knapp
Alfred A. Knapp
Highland Lawn
Peruna Promises Permanent Cure for Catarrh
Historic claim citesDr Hartman’s Peruna as a radical cure for catarrh. Letters from users like Rev. E Stubenvoll and J W Fuller are quoted praising results and urging others to request free pamphlets and advice from Dr Hartman at The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio.
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Hartman
The
Peruna Medicine Co
E. Stubenvoll
Pella
Wis
Los Angeles
J. W. Fuller
Jewelers’ Association of
Cal
Peruna
Dr. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
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Zuch
Purdue
Gray Senate
State Board of Pardons
Slack
Adair
Decker
Indiana Senate
Miners’ Convention
Little Wabash River
Fuller
OF the Jewelers’ Association
Indiana Post
Knapp
J. W
Vost Pianos
Vose Piano Company
Boylston Street
Boston
Mass
Wabash Avenue
Ill
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