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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1904
Page
3
A Chicago street riot unfolds from a meat wagon signal to a crowd of thousands. Unions strike as hecklers toss objects, police clash with marchers, and a stampede erupts with rocks, tomatos and fear. Jacob Waldeck reports a lively, chaotic scene of urban unrest.
Summary of scattered G. A. R. business in Boton and national items with Roosevelt heading to Oyster Bay. Notes on Panama Canal progress, incidents in Fergus Falls La Porte Grand Forks New York Charleston Asbury Park Saybrook Statesboro and race tensions in Georgia, depicting lynchings and cotton crop labor concerns.
Washington reports a simple process to age eggs by salt flotation. An egg placed in saturated salt solution floats at a tilt that changes with age, from vertical to increasing degrees as days pass. Fresh eggs lie horizontal. a month-old egg sinks upright. Knights of Pythias officers elected in Louisville for two years include Supreme Chancellor Charles Shively and others across Indiana Illinois Utah and North Carolina. Chicago reports an unidentified woman killed in a grade-rousing accident with no identification yet.
Vast fires tear through Vancouver’s vicinity as flames rage out of control. Timber is destroyed in the millions, Wellington menaced, locomotives haul water, railway workers fight to protect the Esquimalt and Northern terminus, and US troops from Vancouver barracks assist lumbermen and farmers against the blaze.
LOOGOOTES Indiana August reports a saloonkeeper John P Davis fired at Martin Patterson. the shot wounded, killing John Denigan. In Sparta Tennessee a note on mail routes illustrates long delays. at Anderson Indiana a young woman Anna Geers says she was abducted from Indianapolis to Marion by two men and a woman helped return her to Indianapolis.
In Chicago on August 19, a steer hunt sparked by 11 runaway steers from the Nelson Morris plant led to a two hour riot near the stockyards. Four thousand people, many women, clashed with 150 policemen at the west entrance as fifty shots rang out and three men were injured before six arrests.
Gen R A Chatte and staff from the United States Army visited Fort Benjamin Harrison with George McCulloch aboard an interurban car. A Christian identity convention discussed runaways and a testifying incident involved Florence Fuller. Buffalo fire destroyed Fort Erie race track stables, with casualties averted. Births and marriages listed. building permits issued. bank in Swanton, Ohio closed by the Comptroller.
Markets show steady to higher cattle and hog activity in Indianapolis and Chicago. Cattle receipts around 4,000 with primes varying from 5.30 to 6.10. hogs mixed to 5.65. cattle and hog prices indicate overall strength, with sheep and lambs steady to higher and grain and produce notes in livestock markets.
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