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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1909
Page
3
George Prost of Marion Indiana, 14, poured kerosene onto furnace coal and when he lit a match flames blasted into his face. He suffered severe burns to both hands but clothing did not ignite and his family rescued him.
Garrett Indiana April 24. Martin Shields Altoona man fell from a box car in B&O yards striking his head on a rail. He was knocked senseless, but is recovering after doctors removed two bones from his back. A second operation may be needed. Shields, a single man, works at a local butcher shop. His condition baffles physicians as such injuries are often fatal.
The Brotherhood of Interurban Trainmen will gather at the Delaware hotel in Muncie Indiana for its national convention on May 11 12 and 13.
B E Wallace and the Hagenbeck-Wallace combination bring a show famed for superb horses and ornate wagons. The parade routes through Main Street at 10 o clock on Thursday April 2, weather and rail delays aside.
Mrs. C H Blose of Chicago files a 50000 breach of promise suit against Edwin S Mason of Chicago. She hopes Mrs Maud Hoffman a Marion Soldiers Home nurse will prove that Mason was fickle in love and disappointed Maud Pyles, a Longcliff patient and former attendant, in a history spanning 200 marriage proposals and planned weddings. Mason denied wrongdoing calling the case blackmail and said he will fight to the finish.
Mayor Bookwalter cites Denver as a model of public spending with a $450000 auditorium a $500000 library partly funded by Carnegie and a four and a half million civic center. He notes a bathhouse costing 150000 with 135000 bathers in its first year and a broad boulevard park system as key assets driving growth despite critics.
Nashville Ind April 26 The prospect for a bumper fruit crop in Brown county is excellent with no damage from cold weather. The Freeman orchard near Bear Wallow contains 106000 trees and is in fine condition. The Waltman orchard one mile west of Freeman's holds 75000 trees and ranks as Brown county's second largest.
In Portland Indiana on April 26 the 10 year old son of Mr and Mrs Edward Smiley of New Fitisburg visited his uncle Mack Smiley in Salem when a young colt nipped his left hand catching his finger between its teeth. The finger was bitten off near the end and had to be removed at the first joint.
In Logansport Indiana on April 26 William Dehart found a purse containing 2000 dollars in notes and money. The purse belonged to James C. Davis of New York who sent the finder 163 dollars as a reward and instructed him to forward the notes. Davis described the purse and contents in a letter to Dehart.
Kitty and Mrs Carleigh praise Harry calling him the salt of the earth while Janet questions him as the freshest thing she ever met. May Lippincatt's.
Ali Riza Pasha, Turkey's war minister, was dismissed by mutinous troops in Constantinople after persistent demands. The episode removes a key official amid upheaval in the capital.
Buckingham Bros. Co. moves the designing department from Chicago back to LaPorte Indiana where T W Carshall once headed the team and A M Cafaldi of New York now leads the department as the firm expands its local force.
F W Witte president and general manager of the Mooresville handle factory visited Martinsville to oversee the move of the factory from Mooresville to Martinsville. The company manufactures all kinds of handles and specializes in mop and broom handles.
Elias Frey a rural mail carrier from Pendleton is defendant in a $500 damage suit filed by Mrs Roselle Bernhardt in Anderson Indiana. She alleges Frey assaulted her on June 15 1908 with blows to arms and shoulders. The dispute centers on a rooster Frey sold, claimed full blooded, with Bernhardt later accusing misrepresentation.
Farmers who joined a Cass County game preserve to stock government birds face a rabbit pest. With no hunting permitted, rabbits multiply and threaten crops and pheasants. They seek relief via rabbit hunting dogs as hunters are banned to protect government birds.
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