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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1899
Page
3
A local report notes Tadss Rionmond died after ingesting poison placed as bait for thieves. The death occurred on August 19 and authorities suspect strychnine was used.
Coroner Yarling announced in Peru Indiana that William Quick died after arsenic poisoning confirmed by stomach examination by Dr Hurty. Quick had married a month earlier and fell violently ill, with death soon after. Widow Mrs Quick and his brother Henry were noted in testimony as intimate. Lead dollars are circulating locally.
Mat thew Chance of Kokomo Indiana learns his 73 year old daughter Dottie Chance, missing for twenty years, is alive in Daw son City Alaska. She runs a boarding house bonanza and holds three mining claims, wife of a wealthy Klondiker who struck it rich. The news offers hope for the paralyzed father as she plans to provide for him.
Shelbyville Indiana Aug 19 Deputy Sheriff Henry Kollenberg, 44, unmarried, fell from an upstairs window while asleep, breaking his neck. Richmond Indiana Aug 19 Prof Hugo Thieme of Ann Arbor University and Eva Thurston plan Sept 6 wedding. Other items note Union veteran legion branch drive, opera house contract to Yost Packard, coal price increase, and antique blue and white counterpane made in 1849.
A collection of small town notes from Indiana reports people laying in coal and wood for winter, a Geneva camping trip by eastern Indiana veterans, and a fatal boiling kettle accident in Lawrenceburg. Other items include a city waterboard update, a Bass Lake recluse attorney, and stray reports of floods, floods, and fever disease signals. The region discusses pow wow attendance, a drowning burial in White River, unusual fair attractions, and a rubber shoe controversy.
Indiana deaths list prominent locals with ages from 66 to 96 including Lewis Hiser and Henry Crone. A Paris, Friday incident reports a train collision injuring none but wrecking a farmer Elisha Malone’s wagon. raid at Lake Shore depot prompts mass mobilization and arrests. A Shelbyville editor accuses Judge Hord in a disputed manuscript episode. A Princeton trainmaster misidentified as a fakir at Corydon circus, sparking rural banter.
Ponce Puerto Rico August 19 official casualty figures show 544 dead and 20 seriously injured in the Ponce district alone. The valley from Juana Diaz to Ponce is ruined with debris scattered everywhere. Repairs are underway and stores resume, but telegraph to San Juan remains down. The French railway company has failed and other merchant failures may follow amid rapid relief.
Chicago August 19 Fire destroyed the Bradley and Vrooman paint plant and Standard varnish works causing a 260000 loss. The Olivet colored Baptist church nearby prayed in front of the blaze as nearly 100 congregants joined, blocking the walk briefly. The church itself escaped damage and injury.
A large blaze in Placerville Boise Idaho destroyed the business district and part of a residence. Many families are left homeless and the total loss is described as heavy.
The San Felipe hotel built in 1884 at a cost of 103000 dollars was burned to the ground Friday night in Albuquerque New Mexico Aus. 19. The blaze destroys a historic building once valued for its luxury and era architecture.
President McKinley gave 250 dollars for storm relief in Porto Rico with a like sum from his relative Mr Barber and an equal contribution from Vice President Hobart. Secretary Root added 250 dollars and August Belmont sent 500 dollars.
Gen Juan Isidro Jiminez aspirant to the San Domingo presidency was seized on the Menendez in Cienfuegos as Cuban authorities enforce neutrality laws. He is confined in a Cienfuegos hotel under surveillance while Gov Brooke and Gen Wood coordinate further orders. The move angers local revolutionists and Cubans alike.
Reports from Miami on the island of Andros in the Bahamas indicate Red Bay was swept clean by the recent tropical hurricane. Eye witnesses estimate deaths around 660, with Nassau about 20 miles away. This disaster marks one of the season’s deadliest Atlantic storms.
The Buffalo Express wins a sweeping New York court decision restricting posters and banners to discourage work or patronage. The Sun notes the ruling and observes how printers may heed state law in a massive parade and mass meeting expected to draw fifteen thousand people Saturday night.
At the American entomological society meeting Prof Willis G Johnson of Maryland Agricultural College reported a new pea rouse destroying 3 020 000 worth of peas in Maryland this season and another insect that will check it next year Prof W H Farbush of Massachusetts announced the gypsy moth invading the United States sweeping vegetation including grass Massachusetts is spending thousands to combat the pest.
Tests of the Clarke system of wireless telegraphy continued at Tompkinsville under inventor W J Clarke. Army instruments were on shore while the lighthouse tender Mistletoe carried a simpler set. The Mistletoe steamed 314 miles and the signals were perfectly received.
The document details a divorce from her husband after a remarriage on May 8, 1899 following an 1898 divorce. She alleges his promises to be good were broken as he accused her of unchastity in front of their 10-year-old daughter Florence. Tillie Robinson seeks divorce from Paul, claiming his admission of infidelity.
Births list includes Alfred and Mary Shoobridge a girl Frank and Bertha Wehrel a boy Fred and Annie Smith a girl EB C and Lillie Roberts a boy Jos Stephens Galest a girl Chas and Minnie Thesing a girl Irwin and Katie Carnes a boy Fred and Anna Weimberg a girl Jesse and Minnie Pettet a girl John and Millie Betz a boy Frett and Maggie Hanley a girl Deaths note June Myers months inanition Geo Monninger 26 typhoid fever 809 W Twenty seventh street Marriage Licenses Noble Hinds to Mary Maxwell
On Friday afternoon in Lima Ohio the trolley wire broke above a street car, its loose end wrapping the car. Passengers were shocked by vivid flashes of light. Mrs Anna Bullock was knocked from the car and remained unconscious despite revival efforts. She is not expected to recover.
Big Florida fish dealers form a combine. Steamship Iroquois overdue at Charleston. National stenographers meet in Chicago August 22 24. Chicago reports hint lower beef prices. John W N Irwin of Keokuk Iowa to be minister to Portugal. Mrs J B Page of Cincinnati loses $2000 in diamonds at Atlantic City. Wm A Cox sought in Havana for embezzlement arrested in New Orleans to be extradited. Talk of a 60 mile canal between Syracuse and Newark New York. Six carpenters from Fife yards sail to New York to finish Shamrock. Mrs Geo F E Waring denies husband ashes buried with paupers at Swinburne Island. North Carolina pine association raises yellow pine price to 50 cents to 60 for 3000 feet.
A promotional health notice touts Morrow's Kid-neoids and Liver-Tax as cures for backache nervousness sleeplessness and dizziness. It cites a testimonial from R Vaught of Illinois Street and promotes yellow tablets and red liver pellets in wooden boxes with prices of fifty and twenty three cents respectively. Descriptive booklet available from John Morrow & Co. Springfield Ohio.
St Petersburg reports the czar is again seized by epilepsy and an operation is considered necessary. The illness followed travels with the crown prince of Japan.
A London dispatch says bankers have received private advices that the Russian wheat crop will fail. In San Francisco a man named Abraham Ninadovich is arrested for bigamy, revealing his wife’s pursuit after her husband. She claims their two children starved in Russia and she was put in an insane asylum before he fled to America.
At Monmouth Illinois on August 19 members of the Cameron Christian Church Ladies Aid Society set a world record by sewing for three hours in silence. Three Chicago traveling men had offered a dollar per hour, and after the effort ended they doubled their wager.
Classified notices advertise building coverings over brickwork by H L Shute and free neckbands on shirts from Progress Laundry. Veterinary services by Dr W B Craig, with office at Wood’s stable. Used pianos and organs offered by Wulschner & Son. Nurse for children and Mrs Winslow’s Syrup for teething promoted. Meals and lunches advertised at Ormonde, 16 W Pearl.
Benton Harbor trip with return option priced at 4.00 for Saturday August 19. Tickets for trains from Indianapolis depart 6:35 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. Good returning within ten days. Special low rates for side trips from Benton Harbor. Call H. M. Bronson offices A G PecA.
A local bakery touts its products including Taggart But ters Reception Flakes and Witch Biscuits as the best goods made, arguing against noisy concerns about unnecessary vociferation to the community.
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