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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1901
Page
2
The Union has signed contracts with the Interstate company to build two barns each 100 by 400 feet with 400 stalls. The union claims the firm has not kept its promise to make improvements for the work companies.
August reports from Pittsburgh and Columbus describe tensions as the steel strike persists with producers gaining ground while union officials resist. An import plan is blocked by union efforts led by Jack Whitehead, and a Columbus assembly condemns ex Congressman Lentz for aiding injunctions against strikers.
Chicago report details a new labor dispute action where a former employer sues for 25000 damages alleging he caused a strike by spreading affection among workers. The case centers on W B Conikey Printing Company of Hammond Indiana and a foreman who left after about a month of employment and is accused of wounding trust among the workforce.
Central labor leaders denounce Federal Judge Bakers action for issuing an injunction against the striking pressmen at the W B Conkey plant in Hammond. A committee led by Harry Slough Thaddeus Gurley John Koch Roscoe Barnett and William F Ewald will draft condemnation resolutions while ex President Perkins of the state federation of labor urges strikers to ignore the injunction saying the judge cannot jail all workers.
In Jonesboro Illinois a heavy wind storm toppled a tree onto a wagon where Mrs. Mary Beavers and her son slept, killing them instantly. Their bodies were found mangled with the woman's heart located about 30 feet away, and the disaster followed a line of other sensational incidents reported from New York and Connecticut.
George W. Coon 22 Eden Place is in serious condition at city hospital from four rifle wounds suffered in a conflict at the C F Hunt company gravel pit near Noblesville. The shooter Charles Quackenbush of Lebanon is jailed in Noblesville. another fireman Lee Finehout aided Coon and Quackenbush exchanged gunfire after an argument over meal times.
Li I for the summer may lose sight of an eye after a contest among friends. Miss Huxford challenged the group to gaze at the sun with one eye and felt no ill effects until Friday when the eye began failing. By Saturday vision was blocked and a specialist warned the optic nerve was nearly ruined with uncertain recovery. BRIDGEPORT Conn Aug 27 electric lighting trouble hit Stratford Congregational Church Sunday night leaving the building dark. Fred Beach of Scientific American fixed it by using his electric car to power the church through a window in two minutes.
Amos W Butler of the Indiana state board on feeble-mindedness reports 1924 people across 511 families known to be feeble-minded with 889 men and 1 5 women in public institutions. He urges custodial care for feeble-minded women to stop new cases and notes 970 feeble-minded in county poor asylums.
The report details alleged irregularities in a primary election count. Officers and officials debated proper receipt of returns as precincts failed to complete required forms. Maguire's supporters praised early results while Moore faced skepticism as precincts were read.
Hendricks county figures describe Charley Maguire as a friendly shopkeeper who greets many newcomers to Indianapolis. He befriended diverse customers, praised by locals as a cheerful presence who wins support across party lines. A county man notes Charley’s store once served as a hub for residents who moved from western Marion county.
A cyclone passing over Fiume caused heavy shipping damage and loss of life. Eighteen coasting vessels were sunk in the harbor and 26 persons drowned. Also reports Andover election results with a small Conservative loss and a San Antonio accident during artillery drill fatal to two men.
Aug births include James M. and Ida Jones girl. W M and Alice Shepp boy. Martin and Katie Murphy girl. Charley and Ida Mack girl. William and Lizzie Potter boy. George and Louise Yagerliner boy. Kaward and Nettie Edelman girl. Bertis A and Minnie Cutser boy. William and Lucinda Longmeier girl. Allison B and Clara Mun dell girl. J W and Jose Welch boy. Patrick Welch with TB. Thomas Ward suicide. Mary Morrison cancer. Jennie Ware valvular insufficiency. Vera Gibson cholera infantum. James Williamson acute jaundice. Marriages Jefferson Sammons and Alice Staley. Harvey Schmoyer and Burdella Lowry. William H Cleveland and Bertha Beale. Lee Horace Goodwine and Julia Nichet. Charles Welty and Dorothy Youart. Albert Enos and Nellie Smith. Property notices: Phoenix Life Insurance brick house $135. Bishop Smith frame shop $100. Buchanan three frame houses $500 each. Mrs Ed Merrill frame barn $58. Christian Lentz cottage $600. Mrs Catherine Thomas frame barn $275. Co F Hamlin repairs $50. Ed G Hereth frame house $3,000. L W Louis Meridian cottage $4,800. Lena Gehring frame kitchen $75. Charles Spotts addition $325.
John Marshall a colored porter at Woolf's barrel-house died in the city dispensary after being helped there by a patrolman and Dr. France. Heart trouble believed to be the cause. Marshall, passing toward the city prison, showed no protest as he weakened and died.
The city health board reports formaldehyde in several milk samples from citizens but cannot use them in prosecutions. Additional samples from dairymen were not found to contain the preservative. The law requires three samples: one by the board, one by the dairyman, and one by the milk inspector.
County commissioners direct County Attorney Hugg J to contact the Chicago contractor and determine what holds up the first-story elevator project. The delay has stretched for about two weeks since the initial work, with little progress noted.
Tuesday announcements list John Jenkins of Nebraska named consul-general at San Salvador. Fred Douglas Fischer of Oregon appointed to Madagascar. William Hunt of New York named consul to Tamatava with other postings in the region.
A London dispatch reports Mrs James Brown Potter and Lady Valeri Meux have publicly quarrelled and renounced each other's acquaintance. Meux accuses Potter of authorship of NY papers casting Meux as a circus rider. Potter denies it. The exchange of letters follows. A note adds a local social meeting planned for Wednesday at Mrs J A Parker 1207 E Nineteenth St.
An advertisement touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a cheap health aid experiment. It claims the remedy offers merit with minimal cost and urges readers to try it, with prices listed as 1c 25c and 50c at all druggists.
The Sun offers ten words free of charge for three days under the heading Do You Want Two Rooms. This promotional snippet announces a short term trial with potential readers invited to respond for details.
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