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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1901
Page
8
Five masked men assaulted Philip and Mrs Stiles and bound six including four children in their Findlay area home. They demanded 130 dollars and torched feet with matches while threatening to burn a 3 month old child. They escaped with 69 dollars. no arrests yet.
Indianapolis music lovers may attend concerts Sunday afternoon and evening at Broad Ripple and Fairview. A Philharmonic club quartet led by Frank Taylor and Homer Van Wie joins Mon tani Bros full orchestra for special works. The Indianapolis military band will perform with Venetian night on Wednesday and repeat descriptive pieces including From fireside to Wittlefiea.
The notice lists multiple churches with pastors and Sunday service times including First Baptist Rev. John C Carman Plymouth Congregational Rev H C Meserve Central Ave M E Rev C C Lasby Roberts Park M E Rev A A Trever Tabernacle Presbyterian Rev J Cumming Smith Mayer Chapel Rev Clifford McBride and times 10 45 11 7 50 11 7 45. The Detroit Free Press quote mentions the Morganization plan and the American merchant marine proceeding rapidly.
The Elks staged a lively event before a crowd of 1,200 spectators delivering light entertainment that drew laughs and kept the arena buzzing. The evening showcased camaraderie and sportsmanship among attendees.
About 5 000 spectators packed Newby Oval Friday night to see Indianapolis cycle club races. The event featured costumed players and a lively crowd, with notable performances by Mulbut Likens Butler Gordon Holloway Holden Pul Nam Parsons and others. Attendance neared 1 200 for the baseball scorecard portion, but the bike races dominated the evening.
Rain spoiled the Winchester races with results from New Albany and Rockport events. Berton won the 2:20 pace at New Albany and Satin Onward placed in the 2:30 trot while Cumber land Gan led a free-for-all trot at Rockport. Elwood featured a 2:27 pace by Orphan Girl and Forbearance in the mile run. Boralma captured the 22 500 2 68 trot at Rendville tying its 2 07 record. Lebanon closed Friday with 6 000 attendance and Anna Russell won the 2:17 pace defender in a mile run rep eat.
Wallace A. Erganbright files for bankruptcy listing assets of 12548 and liabilities of 10999. A separate report notes Macey Williamson aged 8 fell from a wagon fracturing his arm. Also mentions a planned Germania park event and a divorce petition filed by Abram Pollard against his wife Lillie. A new Indianapolis colored gun club is formed with officers named. An usher turns down world travel for 50 cents a day. A baby found on a doorstep is cared for by the orphan asylum and given the name George Albert Waif. Patrol officers name the baby.
Spontaneous combustion set the cause of a $25 fire in Charles Kennedy’s room in the block at 1295 Hillis street about 7 p.m. Friday. Fire of unknown origin also scorched Hugh Reynolds’ barn at 1202 Hoyt avenue, valued at $100, early Saturday morning.
Fragmentary OCR lists battery pairs and partner names with city references such as Ft. Wayne Wheeling Dayton Toeldo Marion Boston Philadelphia New York Brooklyn and names like Matthews Zalusky Frick en Fuller Nichols Kittridge Townsend Duggelby Mc Farland Bowerman Kennedy Farrell and others in a scattered ledger format.
Visual fragment lists battery pairings for teams Boston Cleveland Baltimore Chicago Detroit Philadelphia with names such as Young Criger McNeal OConnor Naps Bresnahan Griffith Patterson Sullivan Yeager Shaw Frazer Powers and notes on fielding combinations amid scattered score-like numbers.
Evansville and Rockford played a hockey game with Evansville scoring 3 and Rockford 2. The match featured defensive plays and key saves, ending in a one goal difference.
Shortstop Shugart is expelled from the American League for striking umpire Haskell in Washington. A St. Joseph item reports a plan next year to enlarge the Western League to ten clubs and add Indianapolis and Louisville. The Indianapolis Reserves host a double header at Brighton Beach Sunday, first game at 1 45 with the Northwesterns and second at 3 30 with the Athletics.
Buffalo reports Ruben Ferns welterweight champion will fight Frank Erne in a 20 round bout Friday night for the new International athletic club at Faerie Ont. The club is run by manager Jack Sherman and sits across from the noted venue.
The Works Board rescinded all action on the proposed electric lighting contract. It cites that Republican councilmen would not ratify the contract and accuses others of political manipulation of the specifications. The Indianapolis Lighting and Power Company alleges the terms were unfair and favored Home Heating and Lighting, with several Taggart Democrat interests involved.
In Susquehanna County a farmhand named Jenkins reports a dramatic duel where a wildcat attacked an eagle defending a rabbit. After a vicious fight, the cat pinned the eagle and carried off the rabbit despite multiple wounds, then withdrew under a rock to eat.
Vice President Roosevelt and his wife visited Roosevelt hospital where four year old Quentin underwent an operation and has apparently recovered. The nature of the illness remains undisclosed. Their daughter Alice is nearly well after a jaw abscess operation performed to relieve the infection.
The Huntington will contest is abandoned in San Francisco with a compromise granting Princess Clara Von Hatzfeldt six million dollars. Four million is to be paid by Mrs C P Huntington the widow and H E Huntington pays the balance. A recipe for French pickle accompanies the notice describing ingredients and steps.
Marvin Hart’s health is in a bad way. Sir Thomas Lipton planned to visit the Columbia-Constitution race on Saturday. Constitution work continues. The Oxford Cambridge athletes were welcomed in Boston on Friday.
New Orleans dispatch reports a surge in violent crime in Mississippi with 37 killings in 30 days, five assassinations, six lynchings, and a church fight in Tunica. The note mentions 45 projected murders and a separate legal brief about Fort Wayne safety board appointments and constitutional questions.
The Rev and Mrs T J Villers plan to return home next week. The Debonair club danced at the Canoe club Friday night. Miss Helen Bowman of Terre Haute will visit Miss Elizabeth Peck next week. Miss Anna Ross of Louisville visits Miss Jessie McGrath of Highland Place. Misses Gertrude and Ella Smith of Spannage returned Friday night from a trip east. Assumption church lawn fete in West Indianapolis closes Saturday night after three successful nights. Mr and Mrs B J Muller have gone east and Mr Muller will visit New York before returning. Mrs Robert McGrathy and her children, visiting her mother Mrs Mary Ward, will return to Lafayette Sunday.
The McCormick family reunion drew about 100 attendees at Broad Ripple on Friday. Descendants of John Samuel and James McCormick, early Marion County settlers, gathered to recall their ancestors who cleared land along the White River near the old covered bridge.
The latest report states the Pennsylvania and Lake Shore will jointly operate the Eel River road. The Monon will soon place two Atlantic type engines in service between Indianapolis and Chicago, and the express trains each way may cut 30 minutes from running time. Charles M. Wheeler, new city passenger agent for the Pennsylvania in Indianapolis, will be succeeded by J. C. Millspaugh as traveling passenger agent, with Terre Haute as headquarters.
A Baltimore woman was fined for thrusting a red hot poker into her 7 year old son's mouth to break a habit. In Michigan two boys drove a farmer’s sheep into a barn and burned the flock alive. In Georgia a milking woman survived a lightning strike that killed the cow. Racine Wisconsin families tried Japanese male cooks to solve the servant problem, but the experiment failed.
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