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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1899
Page
3
The article describes Indian snake charmers teaching their craft across generations. They bind snakes on linen strips with bamboo sticks, perform dances while waving cloths, and use music to influence the snakes. The snakes are captured in baskets as the performers disappear into the crowd.
An infant skeleton found between weather boarding and inner wall of an old house near Moberly confirms a 23 year old crime. Letters near the bones to the young woman who died indicate betrayal. The writer, once a local youth, is now a professional man in Kokomo.
Dr. B. E. Patton says he is dying from slow poison administered by his wife who sued for divorce three months ago. He summoned the coroner and prosecutor to hear his sworn statement as his wife, a widow valued at about $100,000 at marriage, is his fourth spouse. He requests an autopsy after death.
Calvin Fisher travels from Kokomo Indiana to Montana with $230 raised by neighbors to aid his son who is to be hanged at Lewistown on May 32 or return the body if he dies. Fisher joined William and Thomas Calder who forced him to help kill two sheep herders and steal their flocks.
In North Vernon Indiana on April 24 Frank Robinson and Caroline Musse were wed in a parish parsonage after invitations were sent for Sunday nuptials. The bride’s father, exposed to smallpox, delayed plans and the couple, licensed to marry, were married seated in their buggy under the minister’s supervision.
A minor injury to Nett and only small damage to the building were reported, with low overall loss. The incident caused limited disruption and no further details were given.
A sprawling Indiana clipping reports residents and events across the state. Notable items include Walter Kerr turning 100 in Seymour, prospected industrial school in Wabash, new Delphi fruit prospects, a Shelbyville Democratic paper, and fire at New Lisbon. Crimes, deaths, civic notes, and state projects touch Marion, Evansville, Elkhart, Terre Haute, and more.
Senator Jones improves in Atlantic City while Jennie Jordan of Chicago attempts suicide by drinking ecarbolic acid during church services. A Santa Fe boarding train cook Mrs A Castie falls heir to 50000 from an aunt in Providence Rhode Island. Five story Kingman warehouse in Omaha burns with heavy losses. A woman and a young girl found murdered in Fanning County Texas. Neve Morris held. East locomotive engineers meet in New York to discuss trade issues. Mayor Jones Toledo may enter Ohio gubernatorial race. Cannon Ohio to succeed Reed. Alex Skinner Cleveland drugged robbed and thrown from train near Gibbs Ned unconscious. Wm Roland and Lottie Burnett of Edmonton engaged. Parents object to marriage. couple die from strychnine. Vancouver sees Chicago sawmill syndicate on Dead Man Island guarding harbor entrance leased from Dominion government.
J J Mills president of Earlham College W T Stott president of Franklin College and Enoch G Machan LaGrange county superintendent are named to the State Board of Education under a new law. Machan born 1945 in Ohio studied at Worcester college and favors ending the school controversy. Mills is seen as likely to curb the dispute while Stott remains a quiet participant.
April 24. A clash between the army and navy over credit for the capture of Iloilo fuels public dispute. Capt. G F Wilde protests Col Miller's brigadier general promotion claiming Miller had no role in Iloilo and that Wilde's naval forces deserve the credit with Admiral Dewey backing his claim.
Ellery P. Ingham former United States district attorney was arrested by Secret Service officers in Philadelphia on Monday morning in connection with a major counterfeiting investigation.
In Havana on Sunday a clash between Black residents and police left two Black individuals and a officer wounded. A Spanish grocer named Jose Fernandez was killed during the confrontation. The report notes provocation was denied and both sides used firearms.
Washington reports say Capt. Coghlan of the Raleigh faced sharp German criticism after a Union League Club address. Officials consider relieving him of command if tension with Germany deepens, while Admiral Dewey backs Coghlan’s honesty and warns against punitive actions.
Berlin officials dismiss Capt Coghlan's New York remarks as drunken talk and relay a German semi official account of Manila relations. The note says Dewey misread German sources and the German admiral later found Dewey amiable, correcting the earlier suspicion of German hostility.
Philadelphia April 24 The Times prints a Washington dispatch quoting an unnamed naval officer who asserts that Admiral Dewey instructed Coghlan to tell his story, outlining the authority behind the statement and its implications.
The Globe condemns Capt Coghlan for indelicacy and praises Admiral Dewey for proffering congratulations. The Pall Mall Gazette defends Coghlan as a popular but intoxicated sailor, while British papers weigh the discipline of American ships after Santiago and Manila actions.
New York reports Capt Coghlax smiling through talk of a court martial as he defends truth in stories. Senator Depew warns these may push toward war, while Coghlax expresses readiness to respond.
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