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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1903
Page
2
On April 3 Mrs Ida McKinley traveling with nurse Miss Gertrude Healey faced a runaway team of blacks driven by Coachman John Bederman. The horses bolted near a streetcar before calming. Mrs McKinley suffered shock but no serious injury and was cared for at home by Dr E O Portman while en route to Westlawn to lay a wreath on the late president.
Indianapolis post office earned 617400 in the past year while Louisville posted 810000. Indianapolis shows an increase of 80000 over the previous year and postmasters in both cities will receive 6000 annual salaries. The revenue gap leaves Louisville behind Chicago San Francisco Philadelphia New York and other large cities. Additional clerks and carriers will be announced soon with July changes expected.
Poor consumptives in New York City are to have sanitariums on a 90 acre Orange County farm as a municipal TB project. Plans from the charity organization society call for a village of houses and a tent camp, with a central administration and recreation complex, separated men and women facilities, and tents for two patients per unit. The layout includes a lab, morgue, solar glass corridors, and a safeguarding plan to shelter patients with a sun exposed plateau and gardens for stronger cases.
In Monterey on April 2 a riot erupted after a parade honoring Diaz victory. About 15,000 protesters attacked Francisco Reyes supporters and shot eruptions left two policemen and two citizens dead with many more injured as police restored order.
In Brazil Indiana a liquor case from Sullivan county titled Dudley Honor is unfolding with more than 100 remonstrators testifying at four per day. When the defense resumes Dudley will call over 500 witnesses to verify the genuineness of the sera mature. At current pace about 60 witnesses will take roughly one year to conclude.
Martha M. Judson, 77, sister of Indiana poetess Sarah Alten known for Puddle your own canoe, died at the Home for the Friendless. Once lived in a mansion east of Indianapolis on the old National Road. Funeral held Friday at the Home for the Friendless conducted by Rev. Bacon. Two nephews and a niece survive. Also notes Joan F. Edgington, ex Indianapolis resident, died in Boulder Colorado. burial Saturday in Boulder.
Three weeks after a teacher shot and killed a pupil who resisted punishment in Spartanport county, J F Tarper, principal of the Lowndersville academy, was shot twice Thursday by pupil James Latimer 17 son of the town merchant and nephew of U S Senator Latimer who succeeded McLaurin. A button and a rib saved the principal Harper.
AN ORIGINAL DAUGHTER. Mrs. Lucinda McMullen of New Market, 70, to be initiated into the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her father John Michael Joreph Hardee, born in Virginia, joined the revolutionary army at 15, then settled in Indiana and later Montgomery county.
Smith Mann announces his return to Indianapolis after a two year absence to join the National Furniture Co. He invites friends to visit as the store offers complete stock of carpets, toys, furniture, stoves and other items with updated goods and higher district prices stopped to assure lower downtown prices, and notes a 2 percent easing over rivals. A call will be considered a favor.
A vintage ad promotes Queen Quality oxfords priced at $2.50. The layout features Grover comfort shoes on one side and novelty party slippers on the other, claiming a perfect assortment. Also mentions Byucher Oxford and Watthers styles with varied designs and colors.
Special sale features belts belt pins and related accessories at deep discounts. Nearly forty satin belts and oxidized silver belt pins, plus women's underwear hosiery and nightwear priced below typical retail. Narrow assortment highlights include silk umbrellas rayon stockings bed spreads and crochet spreads all offered at unusually low Saturday prices to clear stock.
Germany has announced broad prohibitions on American products including fruits vegetables nuts and plant materials due to San Jose scale concerns. Imports of canned meats other than select items are restricted and meat from diseased or potentially tuberculous animals is banned. Only shipments with official sanitary certificates from origin will be allowed.
Terre Haute Ind April 4 It is believed Indiana bituminous miners and operators will sign a wage scale on Friday The scale committee met Thursday night and the sub committee met Friday morning All the miners in the bituminous field are idle pending a settlement.
Washington Short-Cuts Alabama reports Winslow of Indiana named secretary at the United States legation in Guatemala City. Postmasters named include John Mettert Fleming Ellen Cochran W. E. Mathers and Wadesboro. Rural free delivery established in Cambridge City Colfax and Mount Comfort Indiana.
Fragmentary listing includes ages and towns: Dr. T. and Jones of Shelbyville aged 6, Mrs. Mary A Sithet 75 Shelby county Washington Chapman 78 Shelbyville, Mrs. Lydia Judah 03 Osgood pene, Arn Marth ort ak cag.
An Indiana athlete recounts how a sickly college life was transformed by Grape-Nuts. He credits regular meals and the cereal’s nourishment for renewed vigor, noting a trip to California and a Chicago grower's recommendation as pivotal in his recovery.
The Hoogier State announces that Regular Editors disown responsibility for the next edition. Ladies will have complete control and produce all copy. The Hoosier Falters will rest for a week, not responsible for any article appearing in that issue. Includes note from editor James Rowling about strawberries in bloom dates.
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