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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1901
Page
2
An advert promises Dr Shoop s Restorative with a trial by mail order. The offer includes six bottles through the druggist with a month test at the seller s risk and a $5 50 price if satisfied. Books No 3 to 6 cover kidneys women men and rheumatism seeking postal orders Box 585 Racine Wis.
In Greenfield Indiana Robert Glascock 70 is dying after son Don 17 shot him Saturday night Don claims self defense saying his father intoxicated abused sister Ruby 15 and struck him with a broom. Ruby corroborates the self defense account. The suspect is jailed and the sister witness is in custody.
Rev. O A Skinner of Cambridge argues the legitimate stage can align with church, calling prejudice against actors a mistake and saying stage arts can aid moral aims. He visited Indianapolis for Thanksgiving with Otis Skinner, then the father and son departed to Philadelphia. Mrs. Otis Skinner returned to Chicago.
Ex County commissioner John Ww Wilson of Kokomo was hurled into a telegraph pole in a runaway and perhaps fatally injured. Rolley Mosher, 15, of Columbia City, accidentally shot off an arm. Moses Stinson and his wife of Nashville were badly injured when their horse ran away, though their baby remained unhurt. A culprit reportedly placed cockle burrs under the horse’s harness while the family attended church.
Ras Wilson urges new reporters to write honestly and kindly, letting ideas flow for understanding. M W Porter from Topeka endorses Grape-Nuts Breakfast Food after digestion issues, noting renewed strength and productivity from personal use.
Noblesville residents gathered Friday to debate interurban rail lines. The Union Traction franchise was rejected over speed, crossing, and street-paving concerns. Local leaders including Judge Neal Mayor Baker and banker William Fertig voiced support while Linn County lines from Elwood to Indianapolis and a third from New Castle to Noblesville were discussed. Noblesville Ledger proprietor Will H. Craig urged backing to connect the city to peers and spur growth.
A Washington report notes the new House of Representatives begins with Acheson of Pennsylvania and ends with Zenor of Indiana. It details many surnames including multiple Smiths, Ball, Allen, Burke, Cooper, Cramer, Foss, Gardiner, Gillett, Green, Hill, Jackson, Kitchens, Lewises, Moodys, Pattersons, Powers, Randall, Ransdell, Shea, Richardson, Robb, Roberts, Robertson, Robinson, Stewarts, Taylors, Thomases, Tompkins, and others.
Union miners at Nortonville, Kentucky prepare for a long siege replacing tents with a hotel 60 by 20 feet. Carpenters work on the hotel as more buildings cluster around it and officials discuss incorporating as a village with elected officers. Mattresses for 100 men arrived to furnish the site.
The 8 month old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Stanton of 718 Virginia Ave died Sunday from diphtheria and capillary bronchitis. Marie, 10, died two weeks earlier of acute tonsillitis and a 6 year old daughter died last Monday of virulent diphtheria. A second child died within two weeks and another child is ill with diphtheria.
The report outlines Roosevelt’s forthcoming message as conservative and reassuring, Gage’s Wednesday report as a bull card, and persistent copper market weakness. It notes extensive short interest in Amalcopper, steady American stocks in London with Union Pacific strength, and doubts about copper price relief from exports or consolidation rumors.
James Johnson will start a life sentence in Michigan City after pleading no new trial. He killed Joel Combs in Haughville on October 26 and 37 days later begins serving his term. Ex Judge McCray, Johnson's attorney, did not seek a new trial. Johnson reportedly believed the jury would impose death.
Everett Bright 12, son of Chester W Bright a Big Four car weigher, died when a passenger train No 19 struck him as he and friend Forrest Bixler crossed near the Brightwood yards. Everett had just visited his father. the incident adds to a year of family losses.
The Twenty third regiment arrived Sunday on the Buford after three years in the Philippines. It is the only regiment of United States regulars to have circled the globe.
The week ending November 30 saw 28 276 received and forwarded cars in Indianapolis, with 22 220 loaded. Compared with 1900 and 1899, loading totals rose. Livestock receipts and deliveries were strong while building materials remained a key item. Belt road moved 8 784 cars in November and belt engines handled 7 602 livestock cars at stockyards and 6 089 for private switches, the heaviest month in 23 years of operation.
Fragmentary note mentions bodily pain and a bottle of Dr Thomas Eclectic medicine. No clear event or persons beyond generic references. Summary relies on unclear OCR text with limited context.
The Indianapolis bar association debated limiting bar admissions to bona fide state residents for six months and will seek statewide rule adoption. A committee including Austin Denny W W Woollen and Merrill Moores was formed. Officers elected: A C Ayres president Nathan Morris first vice president Vincent Clifford second vice president Ernest Keith secretary Lafayette Perkins treasurer.
In Toledo Wilbert H. Clark telegraph editor of the Times died after taking poison, reportedly driven by matrimonial strife. he left a separated wife in Detroit. Rochester saw Martha A. Damm drown herself in a cistern over an undesirable surname. Chicago attributed two suicides to nervous strain after recent elevated railroad collisions, Lola Manion and Ella Winter among the deceased.
The Martha M society hosts a supper fair at English Lutheran Church Tuesday 5 to 9 pm. Knights of Honor lodges report $172590 in three months and 366 new members. Principals club at Harrison school hears papers on Dr Stanley Hall and Harvard summer school. Service Club raises 700 for charities with a long list of officers. Two large revivals continue at South Street Baptist Church through the week.
An advertisement urges use of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup for coughs and chest or lung colds. It claims remarkable cures and notes a price of 25 cents.
Dec 2 5 and 4 tickets for the National Live Stock Show are listed with final return limit Dec 8. Monon trains stop at Forty-seventh Street Chicago within a five minute ride of Union stock yard. Dre W Craig veterinary surgeon treats dogs at Wood's Stable and can be reached at telephone 1007.
An old nurse for children Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup for teething is advertised as a universal remedy. It claims to soothe the child soften the gums ease wind colic and cure diarrhoea. Price is twenty five cents per bottle.
Splendid opportunities are offered on pages six and seven of The Sun for readers seeking to purchase homes. The notice highlights available properties and financing options to facilitate ownership.
A Sun advertisement explains that running a Wanted or For Sale misc ad costs ten words for three days at 15 cents. It promotes affordable local classified exposure across many towns for small listings.
An ad item from The Sun portrays a promotional line aimed at a female reader, reflecting a minimalist storefront message and sales pitch.
The Schafer license dispute before the county commissioners extends into a second week as attorneys seek to remove remonstrance signers and defeat the remonstrator majority in the fourth ward. A witness testified he did not sign the remonstrance but did so after a likeness of his handwriting was shown. Another claimed he signed under the belief the remonstrance aimed to bar further saloons in the ward. Civic Alliance plans rebuttal by presenting 25 to 30 men who circulated the remonstrance.
Charleston South Carolina December 2 The interstate and West Indian exposition opened with a monster parade of military and civic groups about 10000 in line Gov McSweeney and staff led the column Admiral Higginsons squadron failed to arrive in time President Wagoner opened the assembly and introduced Gov McSweeney Mayor Smyth gave welcome addresses Senator Chauncey M Depew of New York delivered an oration
Union Stock Yards Illinois reports a lively turnout for the international live stock exposition despite threatening weather. Attendance from out of town was large and city residents mingled with experts in natural history as preparations were completed for the formal opening on Monday night on a much more elaborate scale.
Oriental reports indicate officials consider a broad head tax on all Chinese in the empire and abroad. Prince Ching backs sending commissioners to collect from non citizens, with relatives in China held responsible for those overseas who refuse payment.
Mr Sanger of the war department outlines a plan to organize a federal military reserve. The plan would draw from the present state militia under direct War Department control. An advisory board of regular army officers and state militia representatives will be appointed by the president to oversee the reserve.
In Rome on December 2 the pope held a private audience with Fathers Thomas O’Keefe and T H Malone from the Denver diocese. They presented to the pope the grievances of the Irish clergy in their diocese against Bishop Matz.
A Crescent printing firm in Evanaville sustained fifty thousand dollars in fire damage and insurance coverage of twenty thousand dollars. Merchants Distillery in Terre Haute reported a twenty thousand dollar loss also covered by insurance. A tenant for your house advertised in WHI notices.
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