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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1901
Page
8
The piece alleges a preconceived plan to put Spalding in the National League presidency, arguing legal challenges fail since the league is a voluntary body not incorporated. It warns of local leagues forming independently and hints at fan overzealousness triggering scrutiny by an insanity commission.
Ringside battles line up for the coming week with Wild Bill Hanrahan vs Marvin Hart in Louisville Tuesday. Black Demon eyes Welterweight champ Reud Feris in Fort Evie Wednesday. Gardner versus Carter set for San Francisco Friday. Terry McGovern trains, Young Corbett weighing options. forfeit posted for Berenah-Mackey contest.
In Chicago on a Monday night two lightweight contests are scheduled. Young Griffo fights Canadian champion Jim Popp before the American club, and Martin Duffy faces Martin Judge before Harry Gilmore's club.
Saturday night at the YMCA gymnasium drew 309 spectators for games pitting Butler and the Training School against Shortridge. Butler and the YMCA won by comfortable margins as the Training School fought hard early before the collegians surged ahead. Shortridge showed pluck and potential, but were outclassed as the night ended in praise of the sport.
Fragmentary notes mention teams Ashville New Orleans Atlanta and St Paul in the Southern league. A quote claims Chamberlains Stomach Tablets aid digestion better than any prior treatment, with a pharmacist sale note implied.
Tebeau outbid Jimmy Manning for Exposition Park in Kansas City and now holds the K C proposition. The American association and Western league face a calmer period as the president voices satisfaction with recent successes and expects little trouble ahead. Ernest Crabill works his way through theological school while pitching for a New York team and notes a revival in El mira where 100 converts were recorded. The uproar over vegetable tossing at umpires is called barbarous. Spalding’s election signals a peaceful settlement between National and American leagues.
Chicago mayoral candidate outlines a platform on extending traction franchises. He calls for state enabling acts, public votes on franchises, fair compensation and fare reductions, service improvements, underground trolley use downtown, compulsory transfers, elimination of ghost lines, and open company books to city comptroller.
Foreign houses expect to buy about many shares on balance as rate cuts widen in trans Missouri areas. November exports dip while imports rise. copper market rumors tie to cutbacks. U S steel expands in New Caledonia. market opens uncertain, closes firm aided by bank statements. Payne signals framing a general war tax reduction bill.
A dense list of stock bids and asks for Indianapolis banks utilities and street railways. Items include American National Bank 115, Central Trust 112, Columbia National 104, Indiana National Bank 165, Merchants' National 147.1, Union Trust 195, Indianapolis Gas Co 60-66, Light and Power 20, Home Brewing 168, Indiana Cold Storage 55.4-100, and various bonds such as Indianapolis Street Railway 4s 87 and others around 88-109.
Policemen, firemen and all salaried city government officers and clerks will receive their full December pay on December 23, per Mayor Bookwalter's suggestion to give them Christmas money.
A newspaper notice invites the public to spot a mystery man from the People's outfitting company. Between 2 and 4 pm on Tuesday a company representative will walk Meridian Street near Washington Street and hand $3 to the first person who asks the stated line in exact wording.
One of the Great Northern train robbers, believed to be Harvey Logan, was captured in Jefferson City Tennessee Sunday night with a companion named John Drees of Louisville. Logan had over $5,000 in stolen Montana National Bank bills on him. police say the arrested companion is likely George Parker. Prisoners’ baggage held $9,700 in Montana bent bills recovered.
Two Denver girls Mary and Marie McFarland twins will sing at King Edward's coronation next June. They arrived in London from Paris where they studied music. They presented letters from Parisian teachers to Henschel who will oversee vocal music at the ceremony. Both girls are beautiful and five years old.
Otto Harris struck down his intoxicated father Henry Harris with a hatchet on Sunday after threats to kill him and abuse toward Mrs Harris. The boy hopes his father recovers as Mrs Harris corroborates the story. the old man bears a ghastly head wound in Muncie Indiana.
Congressman Robinson of Indiana introduced a resolution to form a congressional committee to investigate governors who refuse to honor requisitions for persons charged with crime. The move targets Governor Durbin for not delivering Taylor and Finley to Kentucky authorities.
A Sunday morning blaze of incendiary origin gutted the H. D. Williams cooperage plant known as the Oxley factory in Poplar Bluff Missouri. The chewing gum factory also burned. About five hundred workers lost jobs. Loss estimated at 200000 dollars.
The schooner Gala tea with seven men aboard drifted off Racine Saturday night and tugs search Lake Michigan for it. In Cincinnati officials report rising streams from West Virginia tributaries feeding the Ohio River raising flood fears for Cincinnati.
Chicago dispatch reports the backbone of the December cold spell broken after a record low of 12 degrees below zero early Sunday. By 7 a.m. Monday temperatures were up to one degree above zero.
Lulu C. Harrison a 22 year old colored resident of 2334 Indianapolis Ave bade her alleged lover Noah Maggert good bye on a postal card and took an ounce of carbolic acid. Dr. Given of the City Dispensary saved her after five hours of effort. The note was addressed to Maggert a married man from West Indianapolis.
John B. Lavere a switchman was crushed to death in the Wabash yards at Peru Sunday. Warren Overpach of Portland a fire manufacturer was struck by a falling line shaft and perhaps fatally injured.
Hartford City commission man Warrison Burchard sues Tipton for 5000 after being fined 20 for grocery orders without a license. Isaac Schoock of LaGrange fined 313.60 for neglecting his daughter’s schooling. Terre Haute man William Kouxton fined 8 for striking Mrs Gott. her son shot Kouxton in the arm, with Judge Rawhey praising the boy’s act.
A family question solved with a simple Jell-O dessert. No baking needed. stir with hot water and chill. Flavors include Lemon Orange Rosy Perry and Strawberry. 16 cents per package.
Edward B. Chone wed Miss Victoria Cady at the Pere Marquette depot in St Joseph between train arrivals and departures. The ceremony occurred on a north-bound train shortly after the couple reached the station and the pair traveled on to Chicago aboard the same train. A line about Burdock Blood Bitters follows as an unrelated ad.
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