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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1901
Page
8
Major Baylor vents anger at white riders and wins with steady wriggle through tight spots. He overcomes pocketing in the ten mile race, finishing just ahead of Cooper with a strong finish in the mile handicap heat. Finale set for Saturday amid anxious crowd and race day hype.
A fragmented page lists teams and players with battery pairings and city results. Entries include Washington Detroit Evansville Cedar Rapids Decatur Terre Haute Rock Island Rockford Bloomington Davenport with score-like notations and initials indicating rounds or games.
Milwaukee signs pitcher Elliott and outfielder Jones from Rockford Illinois. Dibby Flynn visited town. Baltimore Cleveland game described as errorless. Indiana reserves face K Y M at Brigton Beach Sunday at 3 p m with listed lineup and players.
In Kokomo Wayne Ning wins the $300 2:30 pace taking heats 2 4 and 5 while Harry L claims heats 1 and 3. New Castle Bry Wilkes takes the $200 2:25 pace after Bugle Cali wins heat one. Nellie Simmons wins the gentlemen's road race prize of $05 in straight heats. Madison sees 6:06 trot won in straight heats by Lee Banning and Terra Firma takes the 3:00 pace in straight heats. Brighton Beach bets show 2:18 trot with $1,600 prize and John H. Shultz offers $2,000 trot purse for yearlings. Martha Marshall and Dan Patch split heats in a 2:08 pace with unfinished $500. George Ketcham hails Crescens as the greatest horse, noting he has not yet reached his limit. Worth track in Chicago plans fall dates, a track war is averted.
Big Mackey stopped Tommy Wilson in Findlay in two minutes. Ruhlin and Madden plan to sign for articles in Frisco to meet Jeffries. Campbell denies a czar horse training offer of 10000 a year. Kekomo track record trimmed by GC, AL Rarry O. to 2 10te. Waddell may miss Harlem stakes due to a bad leg. Young Cor Bett won over George Dixon in Denver. Northwestern reunion opened with a junior fours capsize. Lawson paid 10000 to Parrish for Mary P Leyburn, winner of Kentucky futurity heat in 2 21.
Two invoices of Japanese silks were seized by Collector Bidwell of the port in New York due to alleged frauds. The law allows seizure when value exceeds the invoice price by 50 percent or more.
Miss Maud Donnell plans a month at Bennethy cottage Bass lake Winona. Mrs Louisa Belch 87 buried Saturday from Reformed Emanuel church. Brightwood station church split. new church to be organized Sunday. Indiana association of deaf and dumb to hold fifth triennial reunion Aug 23 to 25 at the deaf mute institute. Mrs L D Ennes 1482 E Washington sr has letter from husband claiming he built first house in the Oklahoma district. W F Freeman forestry board secretary spoke to Grant county alumni association at Marion on Forestry as an education. James Miller escapee from stables last spring fined 5 dollars and costs. he attempted another escape before jail.
In Fall River Massachusetts August 17 the strike crisis eases as independent maker Mathew C D Borden exposes a scheme by cotton manufacturers. Executives rush to meet while operatives gain cheer, and plans to shut mills or cut to four days weekly loom as likely outcomes.
Confidential reports flag potential pooling of St Paul Chicago Northwestern Atchison and Rock Island with the enlarged Union Pacific as Southern Pacific shifts to a 4 percent basis. Morgan interests bullish on General Electric amid a heavy exchange market and cautious opening.
Arizona Senator Clark shuts down the Verde copper mine earning 12 million yearly to deny miners eight hour day demands. He questions eight hour moves in coal and copper and waits steel strike outcome to decide when to restart. The lockout costs him about one million dollars monthly.
New York Aug 11 Edna Wallace Hopper won thousands of dollars on her 2 years old Geral dyn taking first in the fourth race at Saratoga Friday. Betting opened at 105 to 1 and she pressed the horse to bring the odds down to 10 to 1. Geral dyn had been bought at a Sheepshead Bay sale a year earlier for Mrs Hopper.
Thomas McKenzie treasurer of the barbers union was found not guilty after an $10 accounting error triggered his arrest by fellow unionists. The court cleared him of embezzlement charges despite the earlier filing and proceedings.
From Carbondale Illinois a teacher’s letter describes 30 couples among 300 male and 100 female teachers aboard the transport Thomas bound for the Philippines uniting in marriage at Honolulu after being refused aboard by Captain Buford. The weddings followed friendships formed after sailing from San Francisco. Prior to sailing, several other cases were reported.
A jumble of basement items mentions towels, weights, collar buttons, and bleached toweling with fast edges. Also notes a dozen items priced in cents and a reference to Santa Claus laundry soap, all described in terse catalog fragments.
The Navy Department ordered the battleship Iowa to depart immediately from San Francisco to Panama. The ship carries 455 sailors 60 marines and 15 officers.
The Marconi wireless system connected the Siasconset station on Nantucket with the liner Lucania for over four hours. Messages were relayed via the lightship 40 miles from Siasconset. Captain McKay reported the ship 287 miles from Sandy Hook with clear weather and expected arrival in New York harbor by Saturday.
A board was sent by Secretary Root to study an army college to match the Newport naval college. He will seek congressional approval to establish the school in Washington. An army school at Fort Leavenworth will be opened to National Guard officers with picked officers from the states to attend.
Time card notes trains with designations for daily service sleepers parlor cars chairs dining cars and Sunday exceptions using symbols to mark each service type.
A dense OCR of ticket office and train leg times shows routes between Baltimore Washington Philadelphia Pittsburgh Columbus Martinsville Logansport and St Louis with multiple connections. Schedules include daytime and overnight times for Dayton Xenia Piqua Seymour Knightstown Richmond Louisville and other hubs.
Mrs N A Pollard of 930 Whittieri Street must appear before Squire Smock Monday afternoon on a charge of assault and battery against her husband and ex Judge McCray. Report says Pollard went to McCray's office to file divorce proceedings and struck McCray and a colored porter with an umbrella when interference occurred.
The State voting machine commission meets in the state house on Wednesday to inspect a Petersburg Indiana made device. The machine features a button that rings a bell as voters leave the booth if they have left any offices unvoted.
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