Charles Mayer Died at 11 O'clock After Long Career as Merchant
Charles Mayer a veteran Indianapolis merchant died at his home at the corner of Illinois and North streets after an illness of two weeks. Born in 1820 in Württemberg he came to America in 1839 and built a vast wholesale and retail business, Charlen Mayer & Co., with sons Ferdinand and Charles and nephew Fred Berger. He left an estate valued at 400000 to 500000 dollars and was noted for philanthropy and严 meticulous management. Also mentioned is John Taylor Wright, another War era figure, who died of grippe at 275 N Delaware. Wright helped found the Wrights and Hadley firm, served as auditor, and was linked to Morton, Lincoln, and Bayard Taylor.
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Charles Mayer
Ilinois and
North Sts
Mr. Mayer
Martach
Wurtenburg
Germany
Great Schiller
Great West
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Washingtonst
Kierz & Platito
Meyer
Ma. Mayes
Stuttgart
Henry Ward Beecher
Charlen Mayer & Co
Ferdinand
Charles
Fred Berger
Louis Merz
United States
Marbach
Iren
G. A. Schnull
Harrison
John Taylor Wright
Delawaresi
Mr. Wright
Fayetts County
Wright
Gov. Morton
Morton
Henry Lane
Lincoln
Bayard Taylor
Huving
Clay County
Granville
Ben C
Anna Wright
Veteran Engineer John K. Case Dies in Vincennes
John K. Case, an aged engineer and master mechanic, died Monday morning in Vincennes Indiana. He was the first master mechanic on the Ohio and Mississippi road at Vincennes and the first man to run a locomotive west of the Allegheny Mountains. Now shelves at Wan Elder's.
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Vincennes
Ind
John K. Case
Allegheny Mountains
Woman Run Over and Killed by Freight Engine
An unknown woman likely named Harriet Bennett was fatally struck by a Big Four freight engine at Washington and Missourists on Monday afternoon. The victim, age between 25 and 49, was found near a bundle of dry goods with a pocket slate bearing the name Harriet Bennett, though identity remains uncertain. D Kregero & Son handled the remains.
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Washington and
Harriet Bennet
Gualionhier
Harriet Bennett
D. Kregero & Son
Remnaing
Tragedy at Gateshead Theatre Kills Ten in Stampede
Panic erupted at the Royal Theatre in Gateshead as a small fire sparked by a boy’s cigarette and match caused a mass exodus. Ten people, mostly children, died and many were injured in the stampede amid chaotic scenes and heroic rescues.
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Nise
Gateshead
Dog Eat Dog Harrisonites Battle for Committee Seats
A heated race for the Republican state central committee unfolds in Harrison and Allen counties as pro Harrison and anti Harrison factions vie to land their men. Dan Ransiull sits in for the Seventh district while factions claim secret meetings and look to secure a delegate majority for the convention.
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Jane
Dan Ransiull
Dan
Resaca
Allen County
Harrison
Indiana
City Life items note accidents and civic debates
Gossip and incidents fill a city page: workers injured in incidents, a court fine for an embezzler, a streetcar lawsuit, and city officials debating sidewalk paving rules. Officials discuss delays in a water contract while Supt Rail extols flywheel importance.
Mansfield Claims No Power To Remove City Engineer
Be Claims Engineer Mansfield Has No Power to Discharge Will Phipps From His Position The charter limits departmental authority to finance law public safety and health and charities Phipps says he will resist resignation unless Board of Public Works sanc tions action Mansfield says board told him he could select his own staff and be held responsible for the work
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Mansfield
Will Phipps
Phips
Board of Public Works
Mr. Phipps
Jetter
Finance
Law
Public Safety
Publc Health and Charities
Tom
Phipps
Wen
Acting Judge Cropsey Deils Out Fuse the Very Ereely
Acting Judge Cropsey presided Monday as several local drunk and disorderly cases were heard. Involving William Coy William Kamerauer Robert Taylor Edward Kersting four men mixed black and white fought at Christian's saloon on Illinois street Saturday night. Coy sustained the worst injuries and claimed robbery of $10 and a watch. Patrolman Cox contained the scene and aid arrived to restore order. All four pleaded guilty to drunkenness and other charges were dismissed. Joan Smith attacked a church minister on Seventh street Sunday evening and carried brass knuckles. He was fined five dollars and costs. Peter Rush known as a raven was charged with carrying a revolver and drunk. case adjourned to Wednesday. Patrolmen Hagermann and Thompson arrested Harvey Smith and Anna Washington at the Planter's Hotel Saturday night. Smith fined one hundred dollars and Washington released.
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Cropsey
Judge Buskirk
Kingdom Come
M. Cropsey
William Coy
William Kamerauer
Robert Taylor
Edward Kersting
Christian
S.ninois St
Coy
Cox
Colbert
Wheeler
Joan Smith
Smith
Peter Rush
Raven
Uigjey
Hagermann
Thompson
Harvey Smith
Anna Washington
Planter’e Hotel
Anna
Christmas at the Pen: Convicts enjoy holiday at Michigan City
Deputy Sheriff Hamilton escorted Wiley Hinders to the Michigan City penitentiary for Christmas where inmates shared a lavish lunch and a two hour chapel program. An orchestra performed as prisoners socialized, laughed, and recited dialect pieces before returning to their cells.
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Hamilton
Wiley Hinders
Michigan City Penitentiary
The
Sun
Tts
Hortons
Otto Smith
Martins
Reinholder
Bisson
Col Roberts and the pardons from the governor
Col Roberts private secretary to the governor recovers from grippe while granting pardons and facing emotional appeals. A Christmas Day pardon story follows Shuler’s release after appeal and a desperate mother seeking her son’s freedom in a tale of mercy and resistance.
Constables at War Stirring Indiana Camp
Grim conflict roils Indianapolis police posts as Hutton Cook Sorters and Sloan face charges of favoritism and corruption. Accusations claim Hutton controls most business and appoints deputies. rival factions threaten new denouments as clashes loom amid political maneuvering and resignations.
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Jake Hutton
Cook
Sorters
Hutton
Sloan
Indianapolis
Whitehall
Bfulton
Moore
Marer
Riey
Seibleman
Habriet
Controversy Over Miller Farm vs Voss Farm In State Race Site
Rumors swirl as Friends of the Miller Farm oppose the Agricultural Board purchase of land for a new race course at the Voss Farm. Officials say no transfer papers exist yet and conditions include rail lines and streetcar promises. A power shift after Jan 15 could aim to substitute the Miller site, with racing plans tied to a new association and pools.
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The
Agricultural Board
Voss Farm
Voss
State Board
Stree Car Company
Brenzel
Citizens’ Company
Miller Farm
Tany
Board of Agriculture
Baxley
Tndianapolie
Haue
Pew Fair
Tariff Bill Focus Wool Free List in Early Moves
Washington expects the Ways and Means Committee to push tariff bills with wool likely to be the first on the free list. Rep Andrew of Massachusetts and others plan multiple measures, as naval officials deny warlike rumors and report orders for 42000 pounds of powder and 11000 six inch shells to the San Francisco.
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Tarif Billa
Washington
Springer
Ways and Means Comunities
Fortress Monroe
Ways and Means Committee
Andrew
Massachusetts
Hills
Naval
Tracy
Department
Chili
Phillips
New York
Lieut
Meson
Chadwick
Vary Department
League Island Navy Yard
San Francisco
Wharton
State Department
Valparaiso
Eagan
President Montt
New City Council to Meet After January 7 Schedule
The article clarifies that the first meeting of the new council must occur on the first Thursday in January 189% at 7 30 p.m. and not the following Monday. It notes the old council rules do not apply to the incoming body and the new council must adopt its own rules.
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Hansons
None Well Dit Men Injured by the Falling Bridge
All the men injured in the tall creek bridge wreck were doing well on Monday and there is reason to believe they will recover. Mr Cummings the contractor estimates losses at 1000 dollars unless the iron girders need straightening, which would raise costs to about 300 dollars.
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Tall Creek
Cummings
Pedestrian crime wave hits town with street assaults
Reports to the police describe multiple robberies by a footpad. Edward Maxwell of Van Camp hardware was assaulted on Nieth Street, robbed of $10, and left unconscious until five in the morning. Dr. Buchanan faced a threat at Blind asylum park, producing a revolver instead of money.
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Edward Maxwell
van Camp Hardywire Company
Nieth-st
Arcieves
Buchanan
Pennsylvania St
Blind Asylum Park
Miacrean
Anna Harvey
New York St
B. Ohio
Wright
New York
Illinois-sts
Illinois-st
Ohio
Sunday Church Talks and Christmas Observances
A Sunday in multiple churches features Rev J I Brown on forgiving others, Rev C Edwards urging labor protections, and Rev N A Hyde recounting the Magi tale. Christmas services and entertainments are noted at several halls, with reports from St Pauls and Christchurch.
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Sixth Presbyterian Church
J. I. Brown
C. (. Edwards
Pletcher Place
M. EH
Congress
N. A. Hyde
Second Presbyterian Church
Jesus
Cologne
Turnverein
Turner Hall
Sogial Turners
Waennerchor Hall
Deutsche Broeder Haraquari Lodge
Altman’s Hall
Concordia Society
Reichwein’s Hall
Burial of Mrs. Laura Reap After Hospital Dispute
Mrs. Laura Reap was buried at Crown Hill after a week at a dental college. She had fallen from a window two weeks earlier and used the name Sallie Anderson at City hospital. A dispute over unclaimed bodies led to college possession until a court-like demand altered the case.
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Laura Reap
Crown Hill Cemetery
Indiana Dental College
City Hospital
Sallie Anderson
New Jersey
Marketsts
Edenharter
Minor
Pr. Edenharter
Medical College
Prince Bismarck Narrowly Escapes Train Incident
The report details a Darrow escape from a train incident on Friday involving Prince Bismarck. It notes Fred Spinden of Detroit found murdered on Friday, with $14 reportedly involved. An insane asylum in Pontiac, Michigan, burned on Saturday with several inmates dying. Murderer Sawtelle of Concord, New Hampshire, died of apoplexy on Saturday. A well dressed stranger shot himself in a hardware store in Cincinnati on Saturday. Half of Waverly, Iowa, burned Friday night with loess losses of $75,000. New Year candy boxes advertise French chewing candy with warnings about imitators.
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Prince Bismarck
Fred? Spinden
Detroit
Insane Asylum
Pontiac
Mich
Sawtelle
Concord
N. H
Cincinnati
Waverly
Guilty in Nancy forgery case nets 15 years
Paris December 24 A clerk Guggenheim is found guilty of forgeries and embezzlement totaling 780000 francs from Nancy manufacturers. He is sentenced to 15 years in prison and loss of civil rights amid fears his thefts harmed his employers and lowered salaries.
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Paris
Guggenheim
Nancy
Reveca
New US Coin Designs to Begin Soon at Mints
Washington December 28 The new half dollars quarters and dimes bearing the head of liberty will be issued from the mints soon after the new year. Mint director Leech paused subsidiary coinage of old designs to control the transition and will use remaining funds to cover abrasion losses while preparing trade dollar bullion coinage.
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Leech
Congress
Treasury
Jamlin
San Francisco
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Fire destroys stable and prized stallion at Pressly farm
A Sunday fire at John Pressly's Easter location destroyed a stable and killed a stallion valued at $30 for the animal and $400 for the stable. Fire officials arrived late, and cause remains unknown while Pressly lay ill with grippe.
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John Presasly
John Pressly
Pressly
Pope's Defiance and Fire Ravage New York Block
The Dirito notes the pope may award the Grand Cross of Christ to Archbishop of Aix in sympathy after a controversial trial. Separately, a fire gutted three Lorena apartment stories on Third Avenue and Twenty-seventh Street, damaging the building and displacing twenty six families with no fatalities reported. Charles Fish, a noted animal painter, was slightly burned in his room.
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Rone
Paps
Aix
M. Fallieres
Diritto
New York
Lorena
Third-ave
Twenty-seventh-st
Charles Fish
Global unrest and political shifts ripple across continents
Reports cite revolts in Brazil and China indemnities in Europe while Chili and Germany face political turmoil. Violence near Brussels injures ten. France debates free trade as Tirard advocates reforms. US indemnity offers loom over lynching cases in New Orleans. English officers warn of possible war with Chile.
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Brazil
Mexico
Pavitt
George Montt
Chili
Tha la Grippe
Germany
Brussels
Bulgaria
France
China
United States
Rome
New Oreang
MM. Tirard
England
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Bezun
Jacob Tsyler Wright
Parker
P. W
Bart
Conduitt
Oards
L. Elder
Desf
City Life
Gresh
N. 5. Long
Fairbury
Neb
Young Men’s Republican Club
Tippecanoe Club
Hammond Water Works Company
Hammond
Willie Steinecker
Browning
Powers & Blackwell
West St
Lebanon
Edgar Cheauvis
Cabinet Works
Gibson Evans
Squire Feibleman
Charley Bashong
Kubas
Jant
Jerome A. Oblinger
St. Paul
Minn
Peru
U. S
Conway
Arlington
Joseph Hartman
Hartman
St. Wayne
Mascachusetts Ave
Delaware St
Schener
Water Company
John Rail
Water Works
Mercy
Col. Roberts
Big Heart
iPardons
Col
Will Brooks Roberts
Gripps
Statehouse
Papa
Wm. Shuler
Gov. Chase
Crawfordsville
Ben
Aga
Shuler
Aye
Ecahn
Rube
Roberts
Wasutxeron
Crisp
la Grippe
Warner, Fair
Vicinity
Graane
Julia Marlowe
Oliver Doud Wilson
Oliver Doud Byron
Jefferson
Heir At
Charles Gardner
Agnes Huntington
Therese
Vost
MR. Springer
Bowman
McCalla
Moxtus
McCoy
New York Central
Albert Herrick
Asisex of Herrick
Alert
Dental College
Grown Hill
Titchey
Aera
Juse van Same
Atesandar Greger
Ngsian
Atvaiza
Couni Nance
Grezer
Ali
Grieger
Berne
Gemine Pass
Uncle Sam
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