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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1899
Page
6
Olivia Matthews prepares for a grand party with her father Horace and Malvina Spilman overseeing details. Tom arrives from travel to join the celebration, bringing tension about past frictions as Miss Olivia seeks happiness and status with pearls from Lucetta Broxton and a lavish gown.
A newspaper snippet describes two users of a Monet Dyspepsia Cure claim to digest food and relieve sour stomach. The item notes the remedy’s touted effects and the strange medical lore surrounding it.
In Hartford Connecticut officers raided Rosa Wirtz and found vile liquor in artistic vessels. Seven men were in the kitchen. one beer bottle was emptied into a pot of soup. Police found women's clothing and concealed jugs. rear shed held 70 beer bottles. Rosa was fined and appealed.
Butler College girls organize two teams the Whites and Reds with Grace Gookin as Reds captain and Miss Coyner heading the Whites. They seek games with other colleges while boys lack a regular team but show strong interest. A mixed girls and boys lineup will play at the college gym Thursday evening.
Judge Baker spent Thursday in habeas corpus proceedings for Paul C Hill who was convicted in Evansville for violating a city ordinance. The ordinance imposed a $25 daily license fee for the first 30 days and $1 thereafter for operating a temporary branch of a Chicago business. Hill’s lawyers Posey and Chambers argued the ordinance is invalid, claiming interstate law equality and lack of police power over selling reproductions of famous paintings.
In Henry Ellen Alabama four black men were killed by white residents after a clash sparked by a racial threat. A white man knocked a black man down leading to escalating tensions, with armed black men later killed from ambush by unknown whites. Now both sides arm themselves amid threats of a broader uprising.
In Columbus Ohio volunteers for the Boer army are being recruited among Irish Americans. At a local Irish lodge meeting funds were raised and seventeen applications received for recruitment. A former sergeant of the Seventeenth United States Infantry, wounded at Santiago, leads the effort. Recruits go to Paris to form companies and join the Transvaal forces.
A representative from Wagner plow company of Vernon rebutted an anonymous labor commission letter alleging no regular pay days. He told the factory inspector that when work is slack and layoffs occur, the firm advances money to workers.
John P. Reese, jailed at Fort Scott for violating a federal court injunction and released on a writ of habeas corpus, received a rousing reception at Yale on his return. Reese delivered a speech amid the reception, with word of the event circulating among United Mine Workers locals.
iWIRE WHISPERS reports big snow in Chicago and cold in the northwest. Gen Brooke’s Havana talk and Bryan praising Allen’s Senate appointment. Ducktown miners return to work with higher wages. Roberts committee meets Monday while England plans new South Africa divisions. New York Health Board allows four quarantine ships to unload. Lucille Cohen of Boston found with throat cut from ear to ear. Queen Victoria mourns Transvaal war and fears collapse. Gage orders 5.5 million in government bond payments after a wreck in Gray Virginia. Engineer William Bishop killed in wreck. two mail cars burned. John Monroe and family travel from Toledo to Jacksonville. Kinsey claims Mo Lineux wrote the Cornish and Barnet letters. Denman Thompson at trial. Moonshine still murder near Shelby Gap Kentucky leaves David Graft and A.W. Bryant dead and Mullins mortally wounded.
The National League board met in private and discussed Wrigley’s status with Brooklyn. Brooklyn may be fined at least 1500 dollars and all games he played in could be stricken from official records. Officials signal possible moves against Brooklyn to drop Baltimore. court battles loom.
In Marshall Michigan on December 15 1945 the trial of Mrs Rudolphus Sanderson resumed. Witness Marie Robertson contradicted herself under cross examination admitting she had never seen ground glass and did not know if the material in a soap plate was glass. The defense seeks to show motive tied to property and suggests the case targets the defendant.
The house met at noon on Thursday. McAleer a Democrat from Pennsylvania was sworn in as a member. In a Hull motion a Republican from Iowa the first bill of the session was passed extending the time for examining monthly accounts in war department bureaus. The currency bill was resumed for consideration.
W. W. Spencer filed John Geckler's answer denying all allegations. He claims many votes were miscounted or mutilated, some ballots were stamped wrong, and by law and election board action he is entitled to the office of city clerk. The contest is brought by Charles N. Bennett.
Wm. Calvin of East St. Louis is considered the potential heir to the Jenny Jones estate in Minneapolis valued at over 100 000 dollars. The missing heir was formerly named Clark and Calvin is alleged to be the name of the adopting family.
Jeffersonville report says John W. Garritt and Mabel Fe Gibbs of Hancock county eloped to Jeffersonville and were wed on Wednesday. Neither party is of age and the girl wore short skirts.
Eight inches of snow lay on the ground at noon Thursday in Anderson Indiana. Railway and electric traffic were considerably disturbed as a result of the storm with service disrupted and travel slowed throughout the area.
Tom Farmer receives a letter from Lee Nixon now chief clerk of the department of posts in Porto Rico. Nixon describes living at 90 San Francisco street in San Juan with a view of the bay, servants who speak no English, a fine shower bath, electric lights, and groceries from the army commissary. He notes the roasted pig dish and summer plans if returning home. Also mentions hot days and pajama roof talks. Mrs. R. Churchill of Berlin Vermont reports DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve cures her baby’s sores.
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