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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1908
Page
1
The National Rendering Company plant at Globe station near Hammond Ind burned completely. Loss pegged at 250000. About 200 workers lost jobs. Night watchman James McKee, 55, of Hegewisch, perished. Cause under investigation to determine incendiary origin. village lacks fire protection.
Michael Buyalky, who claimed a hip wound from a highwayman, was arrested Saturday night and charged with car breaking by Special Officer Simpson. The officer says the hip wound came from his revolver during a car breach. Buyalky’s hat was found near the car and he has confessed.
Richard Frederick of Chicago renewed his search for Rose Ford his fiancee spirited away by her disapproving father Frank Skoreki and mother. A sister said Rose was taken to hide her until she ceased to care for Frederick.
John Mitchel former UMW president and new mediator of the National Civic Federation may be asked to act as mediator in efforts to settle the trouble threatening a strike by Lackawanna railroad switchmen in New York on August 3.
Mrs. Charles Maines of 520 Bright Street woke at 3 AM Monday to a flash of light as a burglar forced himself through a window. She startled him, and he fled on foot, escaping unseen from the residence.
Willard Douglass, accused of attacking Helen Dungan, 13, daughter of Polk Dairy manager Samuel O. Dungan, evaded police as she walked to her father’s summer home north of Broad Ripple. A description-matching man left a stolen horse and buggy in a W Washington Street livery barn. detectives and lodging-house searches found no trace.
George Anecker, 44, hanged himself at his home on Nordyvke avenue Monday morning. Mrs. Anecker, calling him for breakfast at 6, found him in the attic with a rope tied to a rafter and a keg removed, the body about a foot from the floor. An employee of the C. H. D. railroad, he suffered repeated head injuries from a past accident and left a wife and four children.
Gov Folk ordered the national guard to assemble the first regiment in St. Louis county next Saturday and Sunday to enforce Sunday liquor laws and maintain order after declaring plans to send troops into the area. The move follows his warning issued yesterday.
Miss Lillie Dennicke was struck while waiting for a street car in front of 824 Lexington Avenue. The motorcycle rider, T. E. Hammond of 612 Virginia Avenue, was arrested on an assault and battery charge after the incident on Monday morning.
Police Judge Thomas C Whalton discharged August Erbrick of 305 Massachusetts avenue after ruling Tonica is not an intoxicating drink. Chemists and others cited the decision in the Monday session regarding tonigary U.
Testimony in the John McGregor bribery case centers on his $800 Marion Trust deposit and $875 payment from Emmett Huggins. Witnesses James Barrett and Cyrus Clark recount loans and informal transfers with no notes or records, while Thomas Spafford denies Huggins's bribery story.
Paris faced a citywide strike with as many as 100000 workers affected and threats of riots. Authorities bolstered police, 2000 troops guarded transit lines, and daily papers halted publication as labor leaders protested government actions at Villeneuve St George last week.
Mrs. Meyer Finkel, 28, was found dead in bed at 308 N Capitol Ave. Cause of death listed as chloroform. Her husband was detained for questioning but police found no evidence to arrest him. He says they argued Saturday and slept apart. Sunday he found her dead and wrote a note claiming she had used chloroform.
Boston Mass August 3 Between 73 000 and 4 000 visitors attend the twenty fifth convention of the Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias opening today. Seven thousand knights are camped on Franklin field. Delegations from Indianapolis and Indian arrived last night.
New York August 3 Abe Hummel the disgraced lawyer who served a year on Blackwell Island is in Paris enjoying the boulevards and a good time He is well and plans to return to New York in the spring Dr Phillip B Matz on Blackwell Island reported the tale today
A gas explosion in the Knickerbocker mine at Mahoney City Pennsylvania entombed 32 miners. Two badly injured workers were recovered, while rescuers cannot reach the remaining 20 as of report time. Other items note a strike idleing the Niagara Falls paper plant, potential tailors strike in New York, and other international and national updates.
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