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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1900
Page
3
A Cheyenne Dispatch report states four bandits robbed a Union Pacific train near Tipton station on Wednesday night taking $100,000 in gold destined for the Philippines to pay soldiers.
The council passed the mayor's 54000 temporary loan ordinance 16 to 1 with Evans dissenting. Johnson claimed 16000 covers August salaries, while September bills and other August expenses would wait.
Auditor Smith’s 1900 assessment sent to Comptroller Johnson shows taxables totaling 123,774,495. Exemptions amount to about 2.96 million, with real estate and personal property up sharply from 1899, reflecting substantial wealth growth in the county and city.
A street car wreck in Akron at Silver Lake on Thursday night left one boy dead and four others injured when a fuse burned out and a shout of Jump caused panic. Ferdinand Barganit died after striking a telegraph pole. Sadie Metcalf Mrs Wm Metcalf and Miss Ada Hublinger were seriously injured.
Mrs. Mary Wineman aged 65 of West street suffered a serious accident Thursday night when she mis stepped on a stair landing and fell to the bottom. The injury fractured her left knee and broke bone above it. condition is serious but recovery expected given age.
In Bellaire Maryland on Friday Wm Black a Black man was hanged at 7 36 am for criminally assaulting Jennie Bradford granddaughter of the late G W Bradford the wartime governor of Maryland Black would have been lynched if captured by the mob and was taken to town under military guard with the crowd influenced by fear and anger.
In Jeffersonville Indiana Otto Marsh a seaport swimmer and Spanish American War veteran drowned after diving from a skiff just after completing a three mile night swim.
A sweeping local note reports Syracuse will install water works. Other items include a pair of Mormon elders expelled from Paoli and a Kosciusko county farmer growing a 45 pound melon.
Hickson says he signed the county clerk’s name on the license at the wife’s request to show it to her brother, while she denies complicity in the forgery.
Washington report describes Wm Jones a colored trader who bought a horse from Michael McQuade also colored. Jones found calf skin patches on the horse after rain revealing a deliberate skin graft to disguise wear and provenance. McQuade was arrested for remaking a horse with intent to defraud.
Lord Roberts reports Gen Buller reaching Helvetia near Machadodorp. British take Waterval Bowen and Waterval Onder while Bul ler overlooks Noeitgedacht. Native reports say President Kruger and all Boer commandos departed Thursday for Pilgrims Rest about 200 miles northeast of Lydenburg.
Chicago crowds thinning as 78 000 attend Thursday events. Friday delegates sail to Milwaukee. Commander-in-chief Rassieur names F M Sterritt of St Louis ad jutant general and Charles Burrows of Rutherford Pa quartermaster general during officer installation.
The Manufacturers' association agrees to a 10 percent wage reduction for 35,000 textile workers starting September 17. The move is linked to reduced cotton exports to China as the war there disrupts trade.
John B. Newman sues Katherine P. Newman for divorce alleging abandonment while Mrs. Newman, once seen in Indianapolis, now in Chicago. Effie Logue seeks separation from Francis M. Logue citing beating and curses amid family illness. Police decline to arrest for alleged kidnapping of 14 year old Cora. Grain dealers’ national association to hold a convention in Indianapolis November 20 and 21 with 300 to 500 dealers expected.
Reported items include Arthur Sewall shifting to McKinley, a Scottish rumor of a $60000 inheritance for Lizzie Berwick, 38 bodies found on Nome Beach from wrecks, steel trust earnings of 6300000 and 7 percent yields, a three inch lizard removed from a Mrs Saurborn, potential Kentucky legislative extra session to gerrymander, Beta Theta Pi pajama parade at Put in Bay with property damage, battles over Indian trade in Great Slave district, a fatal shooting at dinner and a pursuit of James Bennett, a Tacoma man horsewhipping his brother in law, Chauncey Depew abroad on Bryan support, and European manufacturers fearing Bryan’s election harming American factories.
city markets listing prices for smoked meats dried beef hams bacon sausage and lard with per pound and per barrel rates and vegetable fresh potatoes priced at 1 15 per barrel provides a snapshot of August market rates in Indianapolis readers see varied cuts brands and quantities across meat and pantry staples in a late 19th or early 20th century market column
Advertisement notes that Casca yets Candy Cathartic is praised by many buyers as the best laxative. It urges readers to try them and claims availability at druggists for 0c, 2c, and Ko.
A detailed price list covers fruits vegetables nuts canned goods and groceries. Home grown produce like onions tomatoes and cabbage plus prices for bananas lemons apples and peaches appear alongside nuts coffee cookies and canned fruits. Also listed are seeds livestock products and various oils and fuels with regional and unit prices.
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