Case of Johnson at Logansport Bank Wreck Case Expanded
Federal grand jury in Indianapolis hears John F. Johnson charged with wrecking the State National bank at Logansport. Judge Baker and District Attorney Wishard lead the proceeding as shortages rise toward $500000. Officials fear further indictments and seek expert accounts. Soldiers' homes regulate alcoholism treatment under chief surgeons.
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John F. Johnson
State National Bank
Logansport
United States
Baker
Johnson
Wishard
Indiana
Ind
New York
Caldwell
George H. Kennedy
Cincinnati
Wabash, Ind
National Soldiers’ Homes
Gas Well Opened To Waste 15 Million Feet Daily
Warrants issued for William E. Decker E J Buffington and C H Garvey owners of a gas well near the Carver oil gusher in Anderson Indiana. The well drilled for oil proved the largest gas well in the gas belt and remains open wasting 15 000 000 double feet of gas per day. Bourbon Indiana Mrs Belle Cline found dead with marks of violence and no clear heir to her wealth on a farm.
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Anderson
Ind
Scanlan
Leach
William E. Decker
E. J. Buffington
C. H. Garvey
Carver
Bourbon
Belle Cline
Inmate Attacks Commandant at Lafayette Soldiers Home
May 26 report from Lafayette Indiana details James T Quick inmate from Marion county attacking Commandant James P Megrew with a knife during croquet. Quick lunged as staff intervened Captain Havens used a croquet mallet, during a fight resulting in Havens losing a right ear and multiple head wounds. The post physician treated Megrew and Ravens.
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Lafayette
Ind
James T. Quick
Marion County
James P. Megrew
Megrew
Quick
Captain Havens
Havens
Ravens
Superintendent Colbert Injured By Runaway Horse
Indianapolis police chief Thomas Colbert was thrown from his buggy at New York and West streets. He struck his head and shoulders on asphalt, was unconscious for over an hour, and his doctor has little hope for recovery. August Schrader, a self styled divine healer, rode into Vincennes on a bicycle claiming healing powers. Indiana will elect a successor to the late Representative Holman with August 10 as the election date for the Fourth district covering ten counties.
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Indianapolis
Thomas Colbert
New York
West Streets
Schrader
Vincennes
Ind
August Schrader
Boston
Missouri
Holman
Mount
Mills Blown Up in Caswell, Four Dead in Explosion
Four men killed and several injured when Caswell's mills in Lowelltown explode on Tuesday. Mills reduced to a total wreck with heavy financial losses anticipated.
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Lowelltown
Caswell's
Oil boom in Madison county brings losses and gains
Montpelier residents and Ohio prospectors flocked to the Alexandria area for a recent petroleum episode that cost about 50 000. One fifth funded leases paid to farmers while broader business activity swelled the Madison county area benefits to an estimated 75 000.
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Alexandria
Ind
Montpelier
Ohio
Madison County
Carver
Faithless husband shot by wife in dangerous confrontation
May Campbell a Cincinnati born actress hid in a closet in Maud Deveere's rooms at St Louis. She heard her husband threaten elopement then fired five bullets into him and one into Deveere. Campbell died soon after. Maud Deveere wounded slightly. The wife surrendered and later attempted suicide.
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St. Louis
Campbell
Weather Indications for Indiana Michigan and More
Washington weather bulletin for twenty four hours from yesterday afternoon notes increasing cloudiness and showers in Indiana and Minnesota with warmer temperatures and southerly winds. Michigan is partly cloudy and warmer with southerly winds. Wisconsin shows increasing clouds and showers in the north with warmer weather and southerly winds. Iowa reports increasing cloudiness with showers and slightly warmer conditions with southerly winds.
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Washington
Indiana
Minois
Michigan
Ilowa
Compromise Reaches Settlement in Alexandria Gas Explosion Suits
In Anderson Indiana on May 26 this compromise resolves litigation from the March and September 18 explosion of natural gas in Alexandria that destroyed two blocks, killed two people and injured several. The Alexandria Mining and Exploring Company faced $70,000 in suits. settlements list Harrold family 3700 Hoover family 1450 Heard 3250 Playe 300 Myers 750 Myers 1000 Walters 1750.
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Anderson
Ind
Alexandria
Alexandria Mining and
Harrold
Hoover
Columbus Heard
Willam Playe
Myers
Chris Myers
Cory Walters
Wells Arrested Under New Indiana Medical Law
Charles M. Wells, traveling with the German Medicine company, was arrested in Scottsburg Indiana on a charge of practicing medicine and issuing prescriptions in violation of the new registration law. The affidavit was filed before Justice Charles G. Mitchell and was quashed on motion by the defendant.
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Scottsburg
Ind
Charles MM. Wells
German Medicine Company
General Assembly
Justice of the Peace
Charles G. Mitchell
First quart shop act test in Arcadia county
Noblesville Indiana May 26 The first test of the quart shop act in this county was made at Arcadia Roscoe Barnett was indicted for selling one quart of whisky The defense sought to quash the indictment arguing that the act amends sections 5312 5316 and 5318 of the 1881 statutes and that the matter is not fully stated.
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Supreme Court
Barnett
Noblesville
Ind
Arcadia
Roscoe Barnett
The Markets Chicago May 2 Quotes Board of Trade
May wheat opened nominal and closed 7 8 and July 7 0 5 4 c December 6 7 %c. Corn May 24%c, July 24 c, September 25 4 c. Oats May 17 c, July 17 c, September 11 c. Park May 5 1714 dollars, July 5 29 dollars. Lard May 3 67 4 dollars, July 3 72 dollars. Butter 14 c lb Extra creamery. Eggs 10 c dozen. Turkeys 7 c lb, chickens 7 c, ducks 7 c. Potatoes 21 26 c bu. Honey 11 12 c lb. Apples 1 50 to 3 00 per bbl. Live stock: Hogs 28,000 receipts, various bids. Cattle 2,000 receipts with ranges up to 5 45. Sheep 11,000 with Westerns 3 50 4 80. Milwaukee grain: Wheat No 2 spring 7 4 c, No 1 northern 7 14 c, Corn 24 c, Oats 21 22 c, Barley 32 c, Rye 36 c.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Burbanks
Texas
Milwaukee
Senate Opens Tariff Debate with Major Moderating Amendments
The Senate began consideration of the tariff bill with Aldrich leading the opening speech and West and Cannon proposing a farm protection bounty plan. The debate highlighted opposition to higher duties and a push to extend subsidies for wheat corn cotton and tobacco exports. Morgan ridiculed the need for political consultation while Mallory was sworn in and a Cuba relief resolution advanced.
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Secretary of the Treasury
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Mallory
Florida
Perkins
California
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Adolph Kutner
Interstate Commerce Commission Faces Congressional Limits
Washington May 26 The interstate commerce commission has no fear of new legislation limiting its powers but faces a curtailment as the Supreme Court rules Congress lacks current authority to fix and enforce transportation rates. The decision removes the commission’s last vitality from prior rulings, indicating Congress must act.
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Supreme Court
Commission
Congress
Washington
Interstate Ecommerce Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Brice seeks another test for gold making claim
Washington May 26 E D Brice seeks a patent office test of his process to transmute antimony sulfur and iron into gold and silver. He alleges mint experts used hostile materials and ignored his directions claiming unfair testing and injustice. He notes he produced gold from pure materials after the commission failed with the same substances and objects to alkali use.
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Brice
Commissioner of Patents
Preston
Mint
Price
Edwin H. Conger Named Minister to Brazil
Edwin H. Conger of Iowa is appointed by the president as minister to Brazil. A Illinois native, he served from private to captain in the war, was a lawyer in Iowa, and held three terms in Congress. As chairman of the Agriculture Committee in the Fifty-first Congress he championed the Conger lard bill, which failed in the Senate.
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Edwin H. Conger
Iowa
Brazil
Illinois
Congress
McKinley
Senate
Harrison
Fifty-first Congress
Wisconsin ex-representative McCord mayorship fight in Arizona
Washington May 26. A bitter fight grows over the confirmation of former Representative McCord of Wisconsin for governor of Arizona. Officials claim charges have been filed and more evidence will be submitted to the senate to delay or defeat his confirmation. agemeyer trial begins amid delay claims. In Nashville, over fifty representatives depart for the Tennessee Centennial exposition with families in a special train.
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Representative McCord
Wisconsin
Arizona
Senate
Nashville
House of Representatives
Secretary Gage Heads to Cincinnati Trade Boards Meeting
Secretary Gage left here today for Cincinnati to attend a gathering of the boards of trade from Boston Chicago St Louis and Cincinnati.
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Gage
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Boards of Trade of
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St. Louis
Death of Clark in Milwaukee Stirs Inaccurate Revelations
A Milwaukee lumberman Clark was found dead after a disputed report of a prior sighting. A detective questioned his husband who claimed to be home Friday night playing cards with his wife and a boarder. Neither he nor the wife or a motorman have been seen since.
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Milwaukee
Clark
Meirmen
Boys Quarrel Over Bird Ends in Fatal Stabbing
In Mingo Newton Iowa Albert Neale 13 is killed by his brother Perry 11 after a quarrel over a pet bird. Perry used a blunt object striking the older boy in the side. He wiped the blood and left. The murderer confessed about midnight. Elsewhere in San Francisco Salter Worden on death row attempted suicide by slashing his wrist with glass.
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Albert
Perry Neale
Mingo
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