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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1902
Page
6
W J Allen of Logansport and representative of the American Order of Plowmen is wanted in Lebanon Indiana to answer forgery charges. He allegedly cashed two $25 checks at local banks bearing the names J W Cash and F G Hartel of Logansport. Word says the checks were forged.
Philip Logan narrowly escaped death when gasoline used to thaw water pipes exploded at Logan Bros laundry in Rensselaer Indiana. The blaze destroyed the building with a loss of 1500 dollars, Logan severely injured but alive. In Jeffersonville James Mastison, 23, pleaded guilty to wife murder and received a life sentence for killing his wife last August in New Albany.
A head on collision of two freight trains in the Pennsylvania yards at Kokomo Indiana injures brakeman A C Mendenhall. Both locomotives were destroyed in the wreck.
Summitville Indiana on December 9 reports E. E. Leach a deaf mute was robbed of a purse in a street crime. Police investigation underway with few further details available.
A deaf mute man found his purse and $30 on his steps after burglars entered his home a few nights earlier. A note blamed the theft on the belief that he could not be robbed because of his condition, reflecting the attackers read of his news coverage.
Local notes list Elwood city plans for a new hotel costing sixty five thousand dollars. Other items include Hartford City school closures over a gas shortage and Wabash reporting gas abundance despite extreme cold. Marion and Muncie see burglaries, lynchpin incidents and farm sales as region towns update daily news.
A collage of short notices across Indiana towns reports resignations and civic acts, fires, illnesses, deaths, road contracts, criminal incidents, and local council actions. Notable items include waterworks head resigning for Vandalla, Jamison’s restaurant fire, rabies losses near Clark’s Hill, a Stone River survivors reunion, and franchise actions for transit and heating plants.
Cape Hatteras life-saving crews rush to aid a large steamer with a black funnel and white band ashore six miles south of Hatteras Inlet after a dispatch from the station at Cape Hatteras. The Bla Washington dispatch notes the incident as received by the life-saving service.
Clerk Robert Brown wins a bet with State Auditor Hart as Anderson nears a federal bench appointment. Brown bets a dollar necktie while Hart vows to buy a bright headlight necktie if he loses. The wager reflects colorful street parlance about political forecasts.
Adelaide F Allen was divorced on Monday afternoon by Superior judge Carter from her husband Horace R Allen. She is the daughter of Senator Fairbanks. The complaint alleged failure to provide. The couple were married about three years ago.
New York hosts the first annual Civic Federation convention with figures like Senator Hanna Harvard President Eliot and Archbishop Ireland on hand. The discussions focus on voluntary and compulsory arbitration and the balance between labor and capital, with leaders stressing careful consideration of the labor and capital problem.
Ira G. Rawn general superintendent of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern railway will depart Cincinnati Monday to assume the Ohio Pittsburgh post succeeding L G Haas who becomes assistant to General Manager Potter Haas takes over from Arthur Hale who is named general superintendent of transportation of the Baltimore & Ohio J C Stuart has resigned No successor named for Rawn at Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
Joseph H. Kalm and Morris H. Kalm of the Imperial Canina tea company filed bankruptcy petitions in federal court Monday. Each shows liabilities of 379.07 and assets of 373 and 3373.50 respectively. The creditors include Indianapolis business houses with claims ranging from 1400 to 2000.
The Mosha Bera epicurean club led by Lawyer Tommy Dinnean will host its annual beefsteak eating contest on Wednesday evening. Last year winner was Hon. P. Driver with Al Kramer second. this year Hon. Tom Foley enters to best Driver both gastronomically and politically.
News from the region reports a mother left her home in Asheville and the house burned down. Firefighters found two children aged 4 and 6 inside, both died from the blaze before rescue could occur.
Henry L Gatchett, claimed as New York's first newsboy, has died. He reportedly built a substantial fortune from his early work in the city.
An advertisement touts a powder named Hearne reacts for eczema itch salt rheum and ivy poison. It claims to heal ulcers boils burns eruptions and other skin conditions and mentions felons and ocards.
New York December 9 Cornelius Van derbilt is seriously ill with typhoid fever at his home 22 Park avenue He has been bed bound for a week Mrs Vanderbilt stays at his side He is in his twenty ninth year His marriage to Miss Wilson drew public sympathy and he is noted as a practical railroad man and mechanical engineer
Photographs advertise a $2.00 special from Clark at 16 N. Tlust with a glance over the Real Estate column and For Sale Miscellaneous columns on pages six and seven, promising bargains readers may find.
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