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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1900
Page
6
A Y M S hall program showcased telegraphers dancing to music themed around the telegraph. The piece explains common errors from spacing, cipher codes, and wire interference, noting how typewriters improved accuracy and reduced misreadings.
Suffolk Virginia reports Isabel Turner calls for the death penalty for Andrew Carter Giligan after the Supreme Court grants a writ of error for a new trial. She and an uncle assert Giligan should pay the extreme penalty, with witnesses saying the next jury would hang him if possible. Giligan was convicted of shooting C Beverly Turner on Isabel's birthday.
Philadelphia reports a strange wager between former State Senator Charles P. Devlin and George Washington Cash over Bryan and Stevenson votes. The loser must escort the winner in a 25 piece band led barouche procession, wear dark glasses in Washington, host a banquet, and fund champagne up to 1500 dollars, with James M. Fitzgerald as expedition major. The settlement follows McKinley’s inauguration.
Vancouver hunter W. J. Lamrick encountered a grizzly and two cubs while trekking in the Takush Harbor mountains. The bear maimed his knee as he backed away and fought the animal with his rifle, while a cub attacked his face. After hours he crawled to the coast ten miles away.
James M. Holmes, sole survivor of Mason's party of 17 prospectors, returns to Philadelphia after more than two years believed dead. He endured Edmonton trail hardships and Yukon crossing before striking gold and starting home October 13 to his father's house.
Philadelphia police capture Emma Neilson in her sister's home in a staged robbery alongside accomplice Thomas McCarthy still at large. The Brazilian victim Charles Guerin said to be prominent lost unset diamonds worth over $1,000 during a late night con in New York's Tenderloin.
Patrick Cullity faced a six foot black snake in Mount Olivet cemetery. Standing beside a grave he could not move as the reptile wound around his legs and aimed for his neck. He finally used a pocket knife to sever the snake’s head and escaped unharmed.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Reimann and her son hid $820 in a leather satchel over 18 years of saving from washing work. She was found battered at 578 Michigan Street with the satchel missing and memory loss after the assault.
In Bridgeton New Jersey on December 10, Charles Woodruff a painter killed a rooster with a single chop. The bird walked with no head, then the head lay by the chopping block. Two women watched as the fowl lunged and died. Burdock Blood Bitters is advertised after the tale.
In southern New Jersey Jamaica ginger drinks known as stone fences flood local saloons and clubs. The proposed law would ban manufacturing blends of Jamaica ginger and peppermint unless produced by a registered pharmacist or chemist and limit sales to one pint per dealer.
Secretary J I Byers reports two Athens state hospital patients, a 19 year old man with epilepsy and a woman admitted in 1898, married while away on vacation. The superintendent doubts the marriage legality and opposes discharge to claim the ward’s $500 guardian held funds.
In Joseph Michigan on December 10 clergy have abandoned opposition to marriage businesses here. Legislators plan a bill to end the Gretna Green practice while county clerks transport firms and hotels prepare for a record year of wedding activity, signaling strong local profits.
Charles Hollister of Mt Vernon sues his former wife Naomi Noyce Valentine for divorce damages claiming a void Dakota decree. Naomi, previously Naomi Voyce, married Edward Valentine after eloping with Hollister, then divorced in North Dakota on cruelty and non support grounds.
A health caution warns that soda should not be used as medicine for sour stomach. It explains risks from prolonged use and promotes Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a safe, effective after meal aid supported by doctors and marketed internationally.
Partial timetable lists Benton Harbor departures and arrivals, with feeder services to Lafayette Chicago Cincinnati Greensburg N Ver Louis Peoria Champaign and Bloomington. Entries show times like 6.46 am 2.50 pm and 11.15 am 8.35 pm among various express and accommodation trains.
A fragmented listing shows multiple Cincinnati routes with times for trains to Dayton Detroit and Toledo. Notable entries include Cincinnati fast mail and Cin and Dayton expresses with morning and evening departures and arrivals.
Fragmentary railway timetable items list trains and times among lines including Chicago, Tuscola, Lake Erie and Western, and Monon route services. Entries mention ticket office at 5% W. Washington st and various departure and arrival times across the day.
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