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Newspaper

Indianapolis Sun

Location

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Aug 10, 1908

Page

12

Night Shows At Indiana State Fair Pavilions Feature Horse Gallop

The Indiana state fair announces 8 15 p m night performances in the livestock pavilion seating 14 000. Highlights include prize horses and cattle parades, hippodrome races with 26 thoroughbreds, acrobats, the Heras family, Madam Sehuman and her performers, Bard brothers, diavlo high dive, Weber family of Cincinnati concerts, and other special acts. Visitors paying morning admission may stay for the day and night shows at no extra cost.

Heras Madam Sehuman Bard Brothers Dlivers Diavlo Weber Bani Cincinnati

SINGER AND HARPIST ON ENGLISH PROGRAM AT OPERA HOUSE

Manager Overpack offers a season’s best program at the English opera house this week with moving pictures and two special features Sig Giuseppe Marone harp soloist and J Walter Wilson basso. The two films The Man in the Overalls and Engaged Against His Will accompany the show, a dollar and a half value. Overpack wins favor in Indianapolis with courteous service and strong programs.

Overpack Moving Pictures Sig Giuseppe Marone J. Walter Wilson Indianapolis

New Records Hit In New York Stock Market

Trading in the New York stock market surged with new high records across sectors. Traction shares, metal stocks, and railroads led gains with notable moves in Brooklyn Rapid Transit and Third Avenue. Reading and St. Paul topped rail issues while Amalgamated and Anaconda showed strength before profit taking edged some prices lower.

New York Interborough Metropolitan Third Avenue Brooklyn Rapids Transit Brooklyn Standard Railroad Reading St. Paul Inion Pacific Hill Ontario & Western Delaware & Hudson Amalgamated Anaconda Adly Jacob Field James Manning London

Hog and cattle market report from Indianapolis

Receipts totaled 1800 hogs 250 cattle and 200 sheep with few fresh hog arrivals. Prices rose with top hogs at 6 90 and most hog sales around 4 50 UTA. Cattle trading remained quiet but firm to higher than last week while sheep and lambs sold steady with lambs from 5 00 and sheep from 4 95.

Indianapolis Severus UTA

Market Basket Prices and Farm Market Ledger

Home grown beets five cents for two bunches and cucumbers five cents each. New potatoes six cents a quarter peck and butter at twenty six to thirty eight cents per pound. Eggs strictly fresh two cents a dozen. Chicago grain notes wheat and corn prices with September futures and closing bids.

California

Two Boys Die in Bridge Tragedy Over River

Hubert Staley aged 17 and John Weston 19 were killed Sunday afternoon when a Monon passenger train struck them on the Monon bridge over White River at Broad Ripple. Companion Herbert Jenkins 18 escaped by leaping from the bridge. Both youths worked in Lake Erie & Western railroad offices. Staley lived with his parents at 723 North East Street. Weston’s mother was visiting in Canada.

Hubert Staley John Weston Monon White River Broad Ripple Herbert Jenkins Staley Weston Lake Erie & Western Railroad Charles P. Staley East Street Canada

Bingham Heads North for Rest at Detroit Area Cottage

Attorney General Bingham travels to his summer cottage near Detroit for a two week rest. He aims to break any fishing records set by other state officials, whether real or imagined, during the vacation period.

Bingham Detroit

Son Philip Rice Named Executor of Martin H. Rice Estate

John W. Rice, son of Regina C. Rice, has qualified as executor of the estate of the late Martin H. Rice. Regina C. Rice waives her right to administer and asks that her son be made administrator. The late Rice was a prominent sledge man and died suddenly in Tipton Indiana several weeks ago.

John W. Rice Regina C. Rice Martin H. Rice Tipton Ind

Notable visits and relocations of several couples

Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Coyner are visiting friends in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Vrank Hervey Pettingell of Colorado Springs are staying a few days at the Claypool as they plan Indianapolis as their future home. Flora Hoss leaves Tuesday for Chicago to visit her daughter Miss Lula at Chicago University.

Mrs. W. F. Coyner Chicago Flora Hoss Miss Lula Chicago University

Chicago Live Stock Prices at Union Stock Yards

Hogs receipts about 30 000 with prices up to 6.95 to 6.70 for hogs and mixed 6.13 to 6.90. Cattle receipts 19 000, steers Texas 5.20, western 5.40 to 6.00, cows and heifers 1.50 to 5.50, calves 4.50 to 6.35. Sheep receipts 25 080 natives 2.40 to 4.74, yearlings 4.25 to 5.00, lambs 3.50 to 6.35.

Chicago Union Stockyards Reeves Texas Western

Pillsbury Co Files for Receivership in Indiana Court

Pillsbury-Washburn Millings of Minneapolis seeks a receivership to protect assets valued at 21 242000 dollars. Receivers named are Albert S. Loring, Charles S. Pillsbury, and Albert C. Cobb. Complainants include Second National Bank St Paul, Northwestern National Bank Minneapolis, First National Bank Minneapolis, Security National Bank Minneapolis, Swedish American National Bank, and John J Pillsbury.

Pillsbury-Washburn Millings Company Minneapolis District Court of Indiana Albert S. Loring Charles S. Pillsbury Albert C. Cobb

Local Marriages Include Isaac Bigelow and Fannie McDougal

Marriage notices report Isaac Bigelow wed Fannie McDougal and William A. Lout married Hattie M. Breed in separate ceremonies.

Isaac Bigelow Fannie McDougal William A. Lout Hattie M. Breedlove

The Sun Promotes Short Newspaper Ads in Columns

The Sun invites readers to use its free want columns for vacancies and rooms for rent. Readers can place ten word advertisements including a barge rental offer for three days as a sample.

the Sun Sun

Grain Inspections and Pricing Listings for Wheat Corn and Hay

The report records inspection statuses and billing lines for Wheat No. 2 red and red varieties, Coryn Steady whites, mixed and yellow grades, and No. 2 white timothy hay. It details car counts, rejections, through billing amounts, and tied or rejected lots, with totals across Wheat, Corn, and Hay categories and notes on rye and oats.

Me. Coryn Timothy Ryre Hay

East Buffalo Live Stock Market Report

East Buffalo New York August 10 cattle receipts about 4000 with prime steers 6.25 to 6.75 and shipping steers 5.50 to 6.00 heifers 4.50 to 5.35 feeders 4.20 to 4.50 yearlings 5.00 to 7.75 sheep and lambs receipts 7200 about c lower spring lambs 4.50 to 6.50 yearlings 5.00 to 5.25 wrs 4.25 to 4.50 ewes 4.25 to 4.50 hogs receipts 15980 about lower Yorkers 6.25 to 5.90 pigs 5.75 to 6.00 mixed heavies 6.75 to 6.90 roughs 5.25 to 5.66

East Buffalo N. Y

Pittsburg Live Stock Cattle and Hog Prices Rise at Market

Pittsburg Pa August 10 Cattle receipts light with higher prices. Prices range for cows and calves from 3.50 to 5.00 per hundredweight with fresh cows and springers around 16.00 to 55.00. Hog receipts none to light with steady to firm values and heavy to yorker hogs from 6.40 to 6.90. Sheep and lambs show activity with good mixed wethers around 4.10 to 4.35 and lambs near 5. Db

Pittsburg

City Public Works notices assessment for West Street Keystone Avenue

Indianapolis Board of Public Works announces August 1 1908 as the remonstrance date on prima facie assessments for public improvements on West Street from Bay to Morris and Keystone Avenue from Inglish to C H D R R Right of Way. The roll lists owners and property. viewable at the Public Works office. Joseph T. Elliott Preston C. Trusler Fred J. Mack.

Department OF Public Works Board Majestic Indianapolis Ind Board of Public Works City of Indiana West Street West Side Bay Street Morris Street Keystone Avenue East Side Inglish Avenue Sgi Board of Public Wocka Joseph T. Elliott Preston C. Trusler Fred J. Mack

George J Marott Dragged By Runaway Horse

George J. Marott, prominent merchant, sustained multiple cuts and bruises after being dragged five squares by a frightened horse on N Meridian near Mapleton. He was thrown from the buggy but held on until the horse stopped and was taken to Methodist Hospital with non fatal injuries.

Maroett Marott Methodist Hospital Mr. Marott Samuel Kingsbury N. Meridian Street Mapleton Mr. Marett Mr. Wingsbury

Woman Takes Possession Of A Hotel Room

Catherine Walton, stylishly dressed, was found intoxicated in a second floor room at the Hazeal English hotel. Police arrested her after a bell boy alerted them. Walton, once a schoolteacher, claims Chicago as home and has prior run ins with authorities. Guests are puzzled by how she entered unseen and made herself at home.

Catherine Walton Hazeal English Morzide Tne Stewart Mullin Walton Wade Pogue S. West Street Imperial Hotel Chicago

Indiana Lightning Company Incorporation in Northern Indiana

The Indiana Lightning company with a 4.5 million dollar capitalization filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State. It is based in Kafasotty and lists directors Franklin L. Babcock Anthony W. Brady Charles F. Dietrich Frank S. Hastings James P. Lee Samuel T. Murdock Henry C. Paul Albert Tay and James N. Wallace. Authorized to furnish light heat and power to cities in northern Indiana and Ohio under the Reemler general utilities law.

Indiana Lightning Company Kafasotty Franklin l. Babcock Anthony W. Brady Charles F. Dietrich Frank S. Hastings James P. Lee Samuel T. Murdock Henry C. Paul Albert Tay James N. Wallace Indiana Ohio Reemler General Utilities General Assembly

Priest Killed in Toledo Automobile Plunge Near Sylvania

In Toledo Ohio on August 9 a car plunged over a steep embankment near Sylvania killing Charles W. Pohlman a Cleveland importer merchant tailor and Father George Vahey pastor of St. Columbus parish Cleveland instantly. Mrs Pohlman daughter Florence and F C Dietzel Cleveland dentist survived due to the car’s high back seat.

Toledo. O Sylvania Charles W. Pohlman Cleveland George Vahey St. Columbus’s Charles Pohlman Florence F. C. Dietzel

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