Easter Fashion Parade Disturbs Sabbath with Colorful Styles
A Sunday fashion display in churches and on city streets featured bold spring outfits. Women in gray sacs and crinolines, flowers, and hats. men in gaudy colors with tight suits and varied hats sparked lively street scenes and debates on vanity.
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Second Presbyterian Church
Paris
Washington
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Washington St
Indiana
Gutther
Mlinois St
Uinois
Pennysylvania
St Ia
Sun liner poetry contest wins announced
The Sun liner contest awards first prize to Ida L Ludlow of Groves Fayette county Indiana for a poem urging faith and sun themed lines. Second prize goes to May Ingraham of 265 N Tennesses St for a musical couplet about investing in THE SUN. About 225 entries, contestants aged 10 to elderly, from Marion county and beyond.
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Ida L. Ludlow
Groves
Fayette County
Ind
May Ingraham
N. Tennesses Sr
Marion County
Indianapolis
Irvington
Madison
Michigan City
Fowler
Union City
Tae Sun
Busy As Bees Push Market and Circle Repairs
Work started Monday on Market and Circle improvements. The street railway removes tracks while water works ties in to avoid pavement disruption. Western paving removes walk and curb around Monument place and will start paving soon. Supt Shearer says vast work ahead and every moment must be used. Company offers 1.75 for ten hours. workers prefer nine hours for 1.50. Alabama contractors threaten US court action to calm unrest, others may copy.
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Street Railway Company
Water Works Company
Western Paving Company
Monument Place
Shearer
Alabama St
United States
Western Paying
Aupply
Nominations Come For Treasury Posts In Cleveland Cabinet
President Cleveland sends to the Senate a slate of officials including William Esmond Curtis named assistant secretary of the treasury, James F. Meline as assistant treasurer, and Charles S. Hamlin as another assistant secretary. Other posts include John D. Brawley auditor for the post office department and James J. Wellie deputy fifth auditor. Curtis resigns a large New York practice to serve. The slate features seasoned treasury experts and prominent lawyers amid party politics.
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Washington
Senate
William Esmond Curtis
New York
the Treasury
Genio M. Lambertson
Chas. S. Ilamlia
Massachusetts
John* Il. Gesy
John Lt. Eckles
James F. Meline
District of Columbia
United States
L. Stobo Farrow
South Carolina
Treasury
John D. Brawley
Pennsylvania
Post Office Department
James J. Wellie
Florida
The
Henry W. Egner
New Jersey
District of Newark
N. J
Budley C. Watson
Michigan
District of Michigan
John Tracy
A. G. Warner
Illinoia
Stephen Oliver
Griggsville
Missy Rebecca Snape
Petersburg
Indiana
Orris T. Dickerson
Spencer
Alett A. May
Cannellon
Kansas
Swank Mapes
Kanaaz City
Henry W. Hugh
Kirkwood
Ohio
William Dalerimple
Nelsonville
Daniel Wyss
New Philadelphia
Chas. KE. Peoples
Pomeroy
West Virginia
F. Heese Reinhart
Sheperdstown
Wisconsin
William A. Hume
Chilton
John Finch
Stevens Point
John Dawe
Edgerton
Wm. E. Curtis
Provisional State Committee
Syracuse
N. Y
Cleveland
Chicago
James II, Meline
Treasury Departments
The Growlers' Congress and Public Works Tales
The Board of Public Works heard complaints as streetcar franchise issues stalled. Se we ver contracts let for sewers while bids for the state ditch sewer were opened. Asphalting of Market Street and Delaware Avenue approved, remonstrances filed on Michigan Street and 22nd Street proposals. Pawpaw and John Street crews seek grading and brick sidewalks. prayers granted and streetcar improvements promised along South Street tracks.
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Board of Works
Board of Public Works
Qu Park-svc
Christian-ave
Seventh-st
Gansbury & Honey
East St
St.Cisic
Cherry
William Bossert
Fall Creek
Tallman-ave
Fulmer, Seibert & Co
Pennsylvania-st
Alabama St
Delaware-at
Washington-st
Massachusetta-Ive
Jones
Michigan St
Lincoln Lane
Pawpaw-at
Bloya
Fernway-sts
John St
Lexington-ave
Prospect-st
South-at
Balfour Cheered At Irish Rally On Home Rule
Hon A J Balfour, Conservative leader, arrived to oppose the home rule bill. Crowds cheered as horses were unhitched and he was drawn through the streets. He predicted the bill would be resisted and defeated. Similar reception awaited him at Larne.
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A. J. Balfour
House of Commons
Mor gan boarding house fire claims keeper in Wonton
A Mt. Pleasant and Prospect streets boarding house in Morgan, Massachusetts, burned on Monday morning. Mrs. Morgan, the keeper, was trapped by flames and died from severe burns.
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Wonton
Mass
Morgan
Mt. Pleasant and
Prospect Srs
Labor Field Strikes Spread Across Trades In 1900s Era
Cincinnati painters threaten strike over 38 1/2 cent schedule. Grand Rapids bricklayers seek an eight hour day. Four hundred Chicago painters quit at the world’s fair grounds demanding 40 cents an hour. Engineers and firemen on Ann Arbor line refuse to handle freight despite court rulings. New York waiters organize a multilingual union and demand the right to wear mustaches.
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Cincinnati
Grand Rapides
Mich
Chicago
Ann Arbor
New York
Farewell to John W Hield at New York store
Saturday night John W. Hield severed his connection with the New York store where he had served as floor walker. Managers and employees gave him an onyx clock and silver set. He thanked them briefly and leaves to start his own business.
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John W. Hield
New York
Hield
Weather Forecast for Indiana April 4 1893
Weather outlook for Indiana over the next 86 hours ends at 8 p m on April 4 1893 calls for warmer conditions with local rains Monday night followed by fair weather Tuesday. This update notes warmer trend and intermittent showers affecting portions of the state.
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Indiana
Cut Flowers Floral Emblems at Yeerinane Bros
In place of that sealing Avar's Sarsaparilla, Will will give you strength with Cut Flowers and Floral Emblems. Yeerinane Bros., 87 to 48 Mass. Ave. Tol. 46.
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Avar
Yeerinane Bros
Mass
Ave. Tol
Haughville Fire Ravages Stables In $1500 Loss
A Monday blaze in Haughville destroyed stables owned by Bruce Martin Chas Birch John Weinbrecht Flint Tomlison W YT Vaenfield and Mrs Todd. The shed of Mrs Todd housed the fire origin and Fred Minger lost a horse. Investigators suspect a smoking boy dropped a match. Two chemicals escaped from the city.
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Haughville
Bruce Martin
Chas. Birch
John Weinbrecht
Flint Tomlison W. YT
Vaenfield
Mason's First Strike at New Jersey Street Barn
President Mason of Citizens' street railway calmed a strike by four-change boys at the New Jersey st barn after a new foreman tried sweeping tasks. The boys returned to work next morning, receiving pay for the day they struck. Merchant Police squabble prompted by the Board of Public Safety. two separate officer lists presented, action postponed. Engineer Faulkner charged with drunkenness. William Kloney dismissed for neglect. Charles Floyd replacing him. Fire-chief Webster ordered to buy eight life-saving nets.
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Mason
Citizens’ Street Railway Company
Frenzel
New Jersey St. Barn
Merchant
Board of Public Safety
Thea Merchant Police
Faulkner
No. 6.3 Engine Company
Wm. Kloney
No. Ss Boss Company
Charles Floyd
Webster
Attorney Reardon reports fish net violations at Broad Ripple
Attorney John Reardon, after three days in White River at Broad Ripple, says he caught 13 bass and a bushel of gogele-eyes and alleges local violators use gill nets. He cites hundreds of pounds of fish taken recently and has alerted the grand jury to the violation.
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John Reardon
White River
Broad Ripple
Sun
Grand Jury
Widow Mrs Gerharuing Found Dead at Home
Mrs Gerharuing trust widow aged 358 was found dead in her home at 266 Vandes a t Sunday noon. Coroner Back investigated Monday and ruled death from natural causes. Miss Sadie House testified to the killing of Frankie Swisher on N Illinois street recently and did not blame the street railway company.
Insane Man Prevented From Jumping at Opera House Block
Oliver Peckham, staying in the Grand Opera house block, was stopped by two neighbors from jumping from a third story window Sunday night. He told police he was insane and cited domestic trouble as a possible cause. In Italy, a prisoners mutiny at St Michael's prison in Rosiz led to guards being defied, furniture burned, and militia deployment.
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Oliver Peckham
Grand Opera House
Rosiz
Italy
St. Michael’s Prison
Fire damages Newark and Montrase businesses in multiple blazes
A Newark New Jersey plant of the Newark and Orange electric railway company burned Monday with $150,000 loss. Lyman's confectionery, Sayre and Shaffer's hardware, and three other Montrase Pennsylvania buildings burned, logs $60,000. Miss Nellie Vilas, eldest daughter of Senator Vilas, died in Madison Wisconsin Monday as communication with the senator in Florida proved impossible.
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Newark & Orange Electric Railway Company
Newark
N. J
Lyman
Sayre
Living Tomb as Water Bursts Mine Enclosing 30 Men
In Biazieron Pennsylvania on Monday water flooded the Sugarloaf mine sending a cave in that trapped thirty miners in the Laurel Hill mine nearby. Only three were rescued so far but belief runs high that all may be saved.
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Biazieron
Sugarloaf
Laurel Hill
City cleansing and court actions fill a busy week
The city began cleaning operations on Monday. Fall creek crowds fished Sunday and crowds visited Crown Hill cemetery. Governor Matthews absent, others await pleadings. Judges face illnesses. Mary Robinson declared insane. Attorney Beveridge forecasts presidential hopes for Gresham. Public notices include hospital appointments and railroad disputes. Deaths, births, and marriage licenses numbered for the week.
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Fall Creek
Crown Hill Cemetery
Matthews
Indianapolis
U. S
Howard
Women’s Sanitary Association
Louisiana St
Pine
Dillonste
Superior Court
Della Abbott
L. E. & W Railroad
Union Station
Supreme Court
Colored Jubilee Singers
Brirns
John
May White
Milliard
Hattie Cox
Chas
Leona Bargan
Haires
Ephriam Weshey
Joseph D. Thornburgh
Maurice O’brien
Marnack LicrNsEs
John Lindse
America
Fritch
John W. Jeffers
Lida Sterrett
Rov
Janes
Mattie Swing
Ralph M. Wise
Jamie L. Wilson
Wm. C. Ferris
Mary. A. Gillett
Jacob W. Cline
Malinda Coverhill
Charles Larrimore
Rosa Bradburn
James Elliott
Rosa A. Williams
Joseph A. VanHorn
Emma J. Tuttle
Frank O. Toss
Addie May Justis
Fecob
Mitchall
Nomie Meed
Arch Conspirators Refuse Ann Arbor Freight Duties
Judge Ricks holds Haginser Lennon guilty of contempt for defying orders to move freight cars during the Ann Arbor strike. Seven other Lake Shore engineers and firemen are discharged. The ruling supports broad federal relief under inter state commerce law and signals appeals from defense counsel. The case also references a circuit court injunction regarding Chief Arthur on inter change and boycott actions. The Soldiers Monument commission reports progress on the monument site and custodian appointment, with completion expected by May 1 and plans for grounds grading and utilities.
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Tonepo
Ricks
United States
Lake Shore
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Ann Arbor
Haginser Lennon
Brotherhood
Circuit Court
Taft
Ann Arbor Road
Arthur
Court Struggles With Jury Duty And April Indictments
Courts face juror shortages as six of twelve summoned respond for the criminal court panel. Three seek excusal citing farm duties, Judge Cox sets next Monday for excuses and may issue attachments for absentees. April grand jury work begins with expected sensational indictments in ten days. A Chicago strike settlement at the world’s fair grounds pays 45 cents an hour after initial 35 cent offer. painters return to work. Rodxesten miller firm L. M. Godley & Co. collapses with $30,000 bank debt as Merchants' Bank creditor.
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Cox
Chicago
World’s Fair Grounds
Allen
Genessee
Rodxesten
N. Y
L. M. Godley & Co
Scottsville Millers
Merchants’ Bank
Easter Ice Creams and Puddings Offerings by Burnham Co
The Tinest Ice Creams Ices And frozen puddings ever offered to the public for easter can be had at Geo W Burnham Co s Telephone 842 Prompt delivery Try Nesselrode for Sunday Order of Burnham.
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Geo. W. Burnham & Co
Order of Burnham
Easter Services Resume of the Exercices at Churches
Easter services filled numerous churches with musical programs and sermons. St Pauls featured a large choir and notes on the resurrection as atonement and belief. Other churches like Central Christian Plymouth Meridian St Marys and St Johns offered sermons and musical events with choirs and lectures.
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St. Paul's Church
Carstensen
Frank H. Steir
Lucas
Plymouth Church
Dewhurst
Davey
Second Presbyterian Church
Milburn
Meridianst. M. EH
Cleveland
First Baptist Church
Schliewen
Emme Schelishmidt
St. John’s Church
Francis Chatard
Vincennes
Weber
Roeder
Chartrand
Gauley
Gavish
Chatard
St. Patrick’s
Dennis O'Donoghue
Bishop’s Chapel
St. Mary’s
St. Joseph's
A Chicago FaIe. A Novel Scheme For Wealth
A Chicago tale reports a gullible scheme using the Columbian postage stamp. Circulation of a circular offers a steel engraving of Columbus upon receipt of $1, and return mail of a two cent stamp. Promoters reap a harvest as these engravings serve as the enticement. The McClure Murder Trial closes with Attorney Spaan’s final argument. He claims success depends on his speech if MecChire is acquitted.
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McClure
Spaan
MecChire
Austria protests over Judd as minister due to religion
The article notes Austria’s objection to Max Judd becoming U.S. minister, citing his Jewish faith. It reports protests against Burke’s appointment reached the president only after confirmation and details disputes over the Sons of Liberty ties for Itslay and comments by Gresham. Voorhees denies aiding Shanklin’s public printer bid, while a Republican mockingly recalls a Parisian-style cabinet chatter about Indiana office lists.
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Austria
Max Judd
U.S
Burke
Itslay
Sons of Liberty
Terre Haute
Gresham
Voorhees
Shanklin
Sycamore
Evanavillian
Indiana
Dyeing and Cleaning Smiters Gye Works
A brief item notes Dyeing and Cleaning operations at 67 N. Pennsylvania Blvd. Details on services and hours are limited in the readable text. The notice identifies the business location and trade but lacks further specifics or dates.
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Smiters Gye Works
Pennsylvania
Death by Electric Chair for James W Hamilton
James W Hamilton, a former African Methodist preacher and wife killer, was executed by electric chair at the state prison after a 1740 volt blast. He confessed faith in his final prayers, and witnesses and officials described the procedure as a notably effective execution. Hamilton’s crime involved the murder of Annie Brooks near Winfield last May, with motive tied to jealousy and conflict with other women.
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James W. Hamilton
State Prison
Carl Blarris
Tanminiton
Father Creeden
Hamilton
Ha G
Wallace
Davis
Willie
Creeden
M. E
Flushing
L. F
Annie Brooks
Winfield
Mira
The Praye Breviw and Sensational Theatre Notes
A review notes The Pray Breviw is mischaracterized as war drama. It tours Grand for two weeks, praised by Col Ingeraol as beautiful and well constructed though unlikely humane. Davis touts lavish costs for Eliza scenes and a gilded troupe exit, while Hagle's Nest at Park draws crowds with Edwin Arden’s athletic heroics and a mountain drama ideal.
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New South
Col. Ingeraol
Edwin Arden
Marion Elmore
Frank Losee
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Meadville
Harrity
the Growlers' Congress
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Arthur Ein
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument Commission
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J. H. Mahoney
Langsdale
LIVE
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Ieke Bros
Murderer Hamilton
Carl Harris
Cadi
Lyle Justice
Oliver
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Justice
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