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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1902
Page
3
London reports Wooton was sentenced to two months in prison for poaching in Windsor park and removing two of King Edward's rabbits. He claimed he fell asleep and the rabbits jumped into his pockets, suffocating.
Excitement rises in Westville over Tolton murder case with reports of residents who heard shots the morning a woman disappeared and a letter Tolton allegedly wrote to Mrs Cassie Daike a deaf mute hinting at elopement Daike was captured in Porter county and charged as an accessory. City moves to open Valleyave across the Big Four railroad and send notices of benefits and damages while plans for a subway at the crossing and street improvements await engineer review
Memphis police report Clever Miller a middleweight boxer was ambushed by Horace Graham and Lee Johnson at 2 am Monday as he walked home from a picnic. Miller was beaten, his leg broken and his face and body severely lacerated after forcing Johnson from a refreshment booth.
In Hunt county Texas the liquor sale ban took effect at midnight on August 4. In Greenville Bearl Austin Toby Jackson and Pete Dewey planned a last hour whisky round with large bottles. Austin faintly proclaimed a final drink and died mid pull as the law went into effect.
Births Otis S Hastings and Elizabeth Hastings 308 EB Twenty-fifth st boy Louis E Eckert and Mary Eckert 87 Arbor ave two boys Deaths Daniel Simpson 19 city accidental drowning Mrs Francis A Bernaine 45 409 N New Jersey st intermittent fever Mrs A S Mastin 39 321 Indiana ave starcoma Norman C McCoy 6 months 1511 Union at cholera infantum Hannah J Armstrong 70 1125 Sheffield ave dysentery Infant Parish 8 days 1428 Astor st inanition Cyril McGraver 11 months 43 Blake et inanition George A Miller 23 1647 Chestnut-st peritonitis Anna Birk 53 215 Spring-st pthisis palmornratis Alfred Stepp 20 172 Alvord-st tuber culosis Minnie Palmer 21 213 E South-st appendicitis Marriages James H McConnell Anna B As krew Otto E Yancey Mariyn J Fritts Walter Gates Elia Beamn Eli Moore Ella Crabb Frederick Gold Ethel Gobrech Jasper Coon Flossie Sherrill William Doty Besie Kemspehh
A. Martin of St Paul near Prospect Street adds a frame cottage valued at 950 dollars. Alfred Banker of 813 North California Street enlarges a property at 500 dollars. Lucy H Wheat at 826 Keystone Avenue lists a frame house renovation worth 2000 dollars.
Washington Aug 4 Efforts will be made in the next session of Congress to raise the enlisted strength of the navy from 25 000 to 40 000 McDonald Taylor chief of the bureau of navigation will report that 25 000 is insufficient for ships under construction and those to be authorized Battleships and two armored cruisers require 2 30 000 men for the 18 battleships and under construction 9 85 000 more are needed For battleships crews nearly 11 00 000 will be required to man this type of vessel Additionally ten armored cruisers will need about 7 177 men to crew them The line of battleships must have 17 500 men available Crew needs extend to ten monitors 27 cruisers 47 gunboats 60 torpedo boat destroyers and torpedo boats and other auxiliaries Rear Admiral Taylor’s views align with those of the president and Secretary Moody.
Chicago reports the death of Commodore Joseph Edward Montgomery born 1817 in Carrollton Kentucky. A famed Confederate river fleet commander, he fought from Cairo to Mobile and helped build the Nashville. He was an intimate Davis ally who later tutored a water history while his daughter writes two volumes of his life.
Yee Hing, said to be Cleveland's richest Chinese man, married Ah Shein, described as a bought slave girl from Chicago for 560 dollars. He burned fireworks worth 5000 dollars along Gate Street and feasted with 1000 fowls and other provisions as Chinese guests from several cities attended the ceremony.
A New York special from Atlantic City reports U.S. Senator M S Quay escaped death in a deep sea storm off Brigantine after a fishing outing in the smack M Quay. Quay and his friend Capt Ben Sooy were 20 miles from shore when the gale hit. Sooy guided the craft back to Brigantine where the senator rested Sunday night.
New York stock opening shows narrow activity with Amalgamated copper and Reading moving, while steel and coal stocks rise modestly. Kansas City cattle and hog markets report varied receipts and prices, Indianapolis stockyard figures list cattle and hog ranges, with feeders and veal values noted alongside roughs and lambs in stock listings.
The circuit court on Monday dissolved the injunction against Cleveland's city council allowing it to transact business again after about two weeks of tie up.
Norfolk Va August 4 The Hygieia hotel at Old Point Comfort one of the nation’s largest hotels is to be moved eight miles across Hampton Roads to Willoughby Spit. The 400 foot frame building presents a hazardous task requiring careful tide and wind planning before work begins. Willoughby Spit offers fifty thousand dollars for the hotel if delivered intact, though the property is currently nearly valueless despite a $72 000 deed.
The report lists Wheat, Corn, New oats and New hay prices with various No. 2 to No. 4 grades and moisture levels. Inspections tally car counts by grade for Wheat, Corn, Oats, and Hay, noting rejections and merchantable statuses across multiple cars.
Indiana towns report deaths from train strikes threshing accidents and a fatal interurban incident. Vincennes? Noted events include George Way age 21 killed by threshing machine near Arcola. John Gill struck by Vandalia train in Terre Haute. Monroe Cunningham killed by interurban car near Alexandria. and other incidents of crime or distress in towns such as Nashville Fort Wayne Kokomo Tipton and Valparaiso.
New York price list shows Mess pork 18.50 to 19.50 per cwt, lard around 10.95, butter 20.16 to 21.0 cents, creamery butter 21.6 cents, cheese large 9.4 to 10.0 cents, eggs 7 to 20 cents, tallow 7.5 cents, dressed poultry including turkeys 15 to 18 cents, chickens 12 to 22 cents, fowls 13.5 to 14.5 cents, ducks 1.4 to 1.54 cents, geese 15 cents, springs 20 to 22 cents.
Chicago market notes show butter creamery prices for various grades and dairy products, with quotations for cheese varieties and packing stock. At Union Stock Yards on Aug 4, cattle receipts reach 18,000 with prime beeves at 8.50 to 8.75 dollars and lower grades down to 1.50 to 2.50. hogs total 28,000 with prices from 6.90 to 7.85. sheep receipts 2,000 with native and western lambs priced 3.60 to 6.00 dollars.
Cincinnati market reports cattle receipts 118, hogs 1,148, and sheep 2,986. Cattle prices range from 5.00 to 7.29 for shippers and extras up to 7.00 for calves. Hogs sell from 7.35 to 7.70 with good packers at 7.55 to 7.05. Sheep offer extras at 3.75 and lambs at 6.10 to 6.20.
Reid and Mrs. Reid were hosted by President at Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay on Monday aboard Commodore Elbridge T. Grey's yacht Electra. They were joined by Commodore Gerry and Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia for luncheon and discussions on church and the Philippines.
Cattle receipts 190 cars with best steers 7.00 to 8.25 and prime fat cows 4.75 to 5.50. Hogs receipts 70 cars with Yorkers 7.70 to 7.80 and stags 5.75 to 6.25. Sheep and lambs receipts 31 cars with lambs 4.25 to 6.00 and sheep 3.65 to 5.00.
Wheat futures slipped with August at 70 1 2c, September 70 4 69c, December 69 6 c. Corn fell with August 59 6c, September 58 4 7c, December 43 481kc. Oats eased with August 15c, September 33 2 4c, December 30c. Provisions weaker with September pork around 16.80 to 14.72, December 10.50 Me. Standards noted for ribs and other cuts at 10.82 and ?
A dense catalog of prices across meats poultry produce dairy and groceries. It lists turkeys ducks geese bees butter cheese canned goods coffee sugars spices rice and oils alongside flour bran oysters fish and game and various medicines and chemicals with unit prices and package sizes.
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