03 Apr 1890
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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1890
Page
1
A statehouse interview reveals alleged schemes by a school book trust led to threats of lawsuits and compulsory purchases. Claims include book overproduction, lack of payments, and potential expulsion of students failing to buy prescribed texts, with references to trustees and a looming five year contract cycle.
A committee from the Sons of Veterans visited the soldiers and sailors orphans home at Knightstown on Wednesday. They found the institution in fine order after a thorough inspection focusing on bedding and food. Two new cottages are under construction and more ground has been broken. The children are happy and the older ones help care for the younger ones. A fire in the engine house last Sunday burned the roof but was extinguished by the home fire department run by the boys.
In St Petersburg on April 3, students and police surround college buildings amid unrest. Authorities say the trouble stems from dissatisfaction with illiberal university rules rather than nihilist influence.
Webb C Ball, general time inspector of the Big Four road, visits the Bates house. H C Wills of St Louis stays at the Spanieer house, boasting about a Monday night sleigh ride in St Louis. The Bates house notes a 47 person party en route over the C H D from Dayton. L N Ross of Royal baking powder is at the Grand, described as the smallest traveling man on the road, amid town cartoons and mentions of Prof Charlton of reform m3.
A freight train wreck near Hart Ga on April 3 killed two men and caused damage exceeding $100,000. An axle broke on a forward car, smashing car after car with debris piled as high as 80 feet. The incident ranks among the costliest wrecks in state history.
The article reports Murphy gospel temperance meetings every Friday in April at Sixth Christian church corner Pine and Elm sts. It covers local events: entertaining Danville dignitaries and Dr Hurry lecturing at the hospital, Capitola Sage injuring her ankle and seeking $1,000, contracts for four barns and the horticultural hall at the exposition grounds, grand jury actions over stolen tallow, a lawyer acquittal, veterans laws committee meetings, paving talks, a bank note dispute, a pool room anecdote, and a civil case about a widow’s property dispute with German relatives.
Bates House Pharmacy at 54 West Wash Street will stay open all night from today onward. F Will Pantzer announced the new all night service.
The Passover will be celebrated by Hebrews for seven days with unleavened bread and no salt or leaven. The feast recalls deliverance from Egypt and includes a Seder with the Haggadah and symbolic foods like bitter horseradish and a sweet apple paste. In New York matzos are widely used even by Gentiles, and the Passover relief association distributes alms and supplies to the poor amid crowded conditions at Goodfellow Hall.
William Bond and James Rudolph, society youths, fought a duel three miles east of Wheeling, using blank cartridges loaded by a mutual friend. Bond fired in the air then took Rudolph’s shot, both then returning to the city. Bond’s letters to his mother hinted at fatal intent. The prosecutor has the full facts.
Cleveland April 2 The following conversation between President Frank DeHass Robison of the local league Club and a newspaper reporter reveals no one knows the Indianapolis deal details only two men do The exchange notes Robison’s indirect role in triggering a Cleveland Pittsburgh consolidation story and his apology to Nimick as amends.
In the House on Tuesday, an amendment by Mr. Cheadle Indiana directs a new commission to examine production facilities for high power gun material near the Pacific coast and Rock Island and now extends the inquiry to Indianapolis. Mr. Bynum supports Indianapolis steel competitiveness. The bill totals $4,521,678.
City officials deny cyclone warning after a Wednesday rumor spread from the signal service. Forecasters say only a rain storm is moving in from the gulf toward Nebraska. Norbert Landgraf, a merchant tailor, resides at 81 North Pennsylvania Street.
In Farmington Missouri on April 3 local ladies ended two weeks of prayer meetings by forming a street crusade against alcohol sellers. They halted a beer wagon, emptied 25 kegs, and later emptied 26 more kegs at Delaguana, returning the wagon. A shotgun accompanied the party but no violence occurred.
In Louisville on Thursday a fierce wind storm hurled a 150 pound iron casting into the second story of the Chesapeake Ohio and Southwestern railway building near Union Depot. Tin roofing ripped from barns near Furney's station. A large office clock clung to a wall in a ruined house on West Main Street showing 8 20 p.m. A marble slab over 100 pounds fell in a vacant lot on West Sixth Street. At Brads drug store two bird cages and birds blown through a skylight. Timber and frame work toppled into a cottage east of the factory, trapping a dining room family but causing no injuries.
The liabilities of Rhodes and Jones, Philadelphia cloth manufacturers, are now placed at 400000 dollars with assets nominally 300900 dollars, following their failure on Wednesday.
Reports say Corbett may face Sullivan in a four round sparring bout while Kilrain’s upset win is recalled. Backers push for Jack vs Billy Myer at £10,000 a side. Dempsey posts retirement chatter after 51 wins with little prize money. Hennings track reopens in Washington after ten years. Palo Alto and Stamboul aim to break Axtell’s 2:12 stallion record as Sunol challenges for a top faltering season. Daltons and Grand Avenues duel for firemen’s relief fund at league park Saturday. Peru defeats Jamestown 7–3. Indianapolis Inter State fate uncertain. Cedar Rapids joins Iowa-Illinois league.
The Sun's Voltz Fund remains open for small daily additions as more subscribers join. The latest figures include Louis Belton with 72, a list of names and small amounts, and notes of preferences and syrup costs.
Mr Ball arrives to install at Shover and Dickson on E Market Street as talk turns to ice costs. Lower Michigan Indiana Ohio and Kentucky may hold about 55000 cans of natural ice with Indianapolis using much. Wisconsin ice could not be laid for under 6.35 a ton and waste and stock concerns push rates higher. Proposals to beat usury call for low rates, referencing Cincinnati traders and regional dealers. Rates for ice for various weights and users follow a tiered scheme with per hundred and per pound charges and a remark that small chunks of cooler ice for saloon keepers will be abolished.
About 1,000 feet along Oniost from Tennesse to flast ats.ie was slated for asphalt pavement. Mayor Sullivan Mrs. Ritzinger Drs Toralinsoo and Thompson Chris Hilgenbarz and others signed a remonstrance opposing the project. Judge Martindall Stouptond Fletcher and supporters urge the pavement as an absolute necessity.
P J McGuire cautions carpenters union about an impersonator seeking pecuniary aid. A man named Geschbad attempted to exploit Ingalls and claimed to be E W Mitchell, later arrested by Officer Shaffer and held in police court. Injured firemen at Bowen Merrill fire recovering, with Sam Meal progressing but confined. Flood reports downriver suggest limited life danger. crops likely fine. Cincinnati water famine worsens as reservoir drops and pumps submerge. Weather eyeIndiana expects rain and warmer then colder conditions. Indianapolis forecast warm, cloudy, with rain and a Friday cold snap.
Splashed reports from Vicksburg warn 40,000 Delta residents face danger with many drownings and large areas abandoned. In New York new stories claim leaders conspire to defeat prohibition in Pennsylvania spending 200000 dollars. Washington reports no knowledge of Russian disturbances. Portland notes a 10 percent wage boost ends the U P strike.
The Sun report recounts Marshall Locke alleging a 1900s baseball league plot in Indianapolis. Brush is said to have manipulated Glasscock, Denny, Boyle, and Bassett for large sums to move players to New York while denying a local club. The piece notes contracts and profits, with figures cited for several players and a claim that Brotherhood members would still play for parity rather than join the league.
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania an explosion of gas in shaft No at Nanti coke Wednesday morning killed four miners and likely a fifth, while a separate item notes Joe Casey’s suicide attempt in Colusa California after murder charges and a discussion of an Evangeline hospital asylum effort in Franksville with local officials touring the state house.
Wabash Ind April 3 Thorne Teague a deaf and dumb man was struck by a yard engine on the Cincinnati Wabash Michigan road at Novelty wood works yard. His left arm was severed and his body severely crushed in the accident.
Johnny Prindle’s company in Reuben Glue draws crowded houses while Frank Tresen loses his voice prompting a stand in. Ennite Goodrich debuts as a Chicago star in Bobolink at Park with further turns by Geo C. Staley in A royal pasa and Evens and Hoey in A parlor satoh. A benefit of firemen’s relief at English’s showcased The Pearl of Savoy with a lengthy amateur professional cast. Also notices on wall papers by Carl Moller and home decor items.
Thursday delegates travel from Keokuk Franklin Attica and Dayton to view the pavement exposition. Exhibitors support a permanent exposition on grounds and will move current displays and show larger samples. Benjamin F Hegler shows Hegler clay from Fountain Vermillion counties praised after Purdue tests. experts say the clay yields terra cotta like flint and cuts glaze like a diamond.
Neighbors enter Mrs Laurea Bakers Bank Street apartment to find the body of the well regarded woman. A bloody cut on her hand suggests foul play but starvation is deemed the cause. Cats guard the bed making entry perilous. Fine silverware preserved, only one egg found, husband missing since losing position.
In Louisville on April 3 a water famine was feared as pumps at the wrecked waterworks restarted at 2 pm and the reservoir began refilling. With a three day supply and a shattered stand pipe, Engineer Hermany used air to substitute fluid to operate the machinery, a first time experimental achievement praised as engineering marvel. Mayor Jacob sets next Friday for fasting and prayer amid ongoing injuries and expected deaths. A search is under way for Alex C. Smith, a Cincinnati drummer possibly buried in the Louisville hotel annex ruins.
A Greenfield lawyer, William F. McBane, went on trial in criminal court Thursday charged with obtaining money under false pretenses. Last June he had two checks cashed by Joan C. Dalton the hatter and Henry V. Powers the saloon-keeper, though he had no money on deposit. A New Concern. The Burris-Herzech book and stationery company with $00,000 capital stock was incorporated Wednesday. The firm includes Will M. Cronyn W. E. Burris Lynn A. Morrison and Marshal Moore late of the Bowen-Merrill company, located on S. Meridian St. in Dead Wirmingrox Del April 3 Chas Moore ship-builder and leading prohibitionist is dead. Baked Cincinnati April 3 F. W. Fuelling baker failed for $25,000.
Pittsburg carpenters reject eighthour unionization efforts while Joliet Illinois quarries idle as 1000 workers strike. Chicago plumbers concede some demands. Irwin miners 3000 seek 15 cent wage advance. Portland switchmen and brakemen strike for 10 percent. Mt Carmel miners idle since Jan 1 resume. Shoe workers at Boyd's Marlboro strike over wages. 500 New York artificial stone workers strike for eight hours and higher pay amid employer talks.
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