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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1899
Page
3
MISHAWAKA Ind Dec 29 While Mrs John N Walker of Norwalk Ohio visiting a dry goods store was detected shoplifting goods valued at 45 dollars her husband John Walker came to surprise her but was taken to the police station The reunion proved painful and she will probably be released
Reports from Indiana detail wintered conditions with snow in the south and a new lighting advance in Pittsburg. Local items include a Franklin commercial club formation, a fatal electric-car accident in Muncie, throat illness among Wells county rabbits, and a land offer for a Knights of Pythias home. Additional notes reference Y M C A hall abandonment for lack of funds, county bids, and a tax-increase dispute in Richmond.
The Boone county courthouse dispute ends by agreement with Bell & Taylor getting 1523 of 7000 and attorneys cut from 3845 to 1700. Mrs Fannie Davidson of Peru secures 250 alimony and sues for larceny, recovery, and 1000 damages. Indiana Natural Gas and Oil starts a large pumping plant at Fairmount costing nearly a million with 36500 hp boilers to send gas to Chicago.
The Central labor union discussed the coopers strike at Thursday night meeting after the grievance committee report. Letters from Fred W Brandt and A Minter offered re employment at old scale, but the strikers refused. Delegates were asked to seek financial aid from local unions while a library fund concert committee said five concerts netted 147.65.
Florence Blythe Hinckley widow of about a year, daughter of Thomas H Blythe famed Blythe case figure, married Thursday evening in San Francisco to A A Moore Jr deputy attorney general of California. She had received over 3 million dollars from Blythe estate after a long bitter contest.
The body of Corporal Maneroto Hernandez of the native police force was found buried in a rice swamp near Tondo after two days missing. Isabelo Constanta confessed with others Antero Jesus Benancio and Garcez, detailing a brutal killing and subsequent burial. Hernandez had been investigating an embezzlement case when he disappeared.
In New York on a Friday, cabman John Sheridan’s horse bolted along high avenue. Two passengers, a man and a woman, barely avoided jumping. Sheridan was thrown with minor injuries as the horse toppled signs and collided with a wooden Indian statue whose outstretched arm halted the runaway.
Truman A. Taylor of Alton a Pullman stockholder has filed an injunction bill in Chicago alleging a $19,000,000 bonus offer to eliminate the sole rival in the sleeping car business. He claims the consolidation violates Illinois antitrust laws and seeks court action.
Auburn Indiana December 29 special. County commissioners awarded Charles Rugman a contract to build a bridge over the famous sink hole where three bridges vanished. Attempts to fill the hole failed as material vanished each morning, so a corduroy road was laid with heavy brush six feet deep and bound by logs, aiming to provide a strong foundation for the new bridge.
Lawyers for Charles N. Elliott have not yet met to decide whether to drop the suit. They are expected to convene Saturday. J. W. Noel, assisting the prosecution, has been out of the city for several days and returned Friday morning.
Walter H. Liginder, president of the Central association of the Amateur Athletic Union, has arranged the annual amateur billiard tournament to be held at the Chicago Athletic Association in March. All western billiard players properly registered will be eligible to compete. The item also notes the DeWitt's Little Liver Pills advertisement.
The Big Four announces holiday rates with a one and one third fare for round trips across Central Passenger Association territory. Tickets issued to students require proper certificates at term end and are valid for returns no later than January 10. General public tickets available December 23 24 25 30 31 and January 1 with return by January. HM Bronson AGP A
Attorney general Frank S. Monnett of Ohio was denied the right to speak on trusts at Cooper Union. A large audience gathered for his lecture but he did not appear as the talk was cancelled under pressure from Standard Oil backers who had pledged $500 000 to the People's Institute. Institute officials say donors demanded cancellation to uphold free speech rights and funding.
Havana interviews reveal Maj. Gen. Wood’s plan to withdraw Americans from Cuban departments and replace them with Cubans, plus a reform agenda including judiciary revisions and an American-inspired school system. Brooke’s cabinet choices and anti Americanism are cited as failures to avoid. Wood emphasizes public cooperation and self government within two years, aiming for a nonmilitary governance approach and broader legitimacy.
Deputy factory inspector D F Specs will travel to Jennings county on Tuesday to investigate charges against Schuh and Gannon, subcontractors handling improvements on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Chief inspector McAbee conferred with Attorney-general Taylor, who said the firm may face action for wage and labor violations including weekly pay, unlawful establishments, and paying workers with due bills.
A joint committee from the Commercial club and Board of trade forms the Lawton monument commission. It will send letters to the state for contributions and asks county clerks to form county committees to help raise funds. Evans Woolen serves as secretary and oversees correspondence, aiming to raise 25006 dollars.
President Donnelly of the typographical union received a telegram Friday morning announcing that AFL President Gompers First Vice President Kidd and Secretary Lennen will visit the Chicago Record and News publishers to request unionization on January 3.
Princeton Indiana December 29 loss from high school building fire will total 21000 dollars with 1000 in books. Only 8000 dollars insurance was carried. Trustees plan to start school on Tuesday in the courthouse and church basements. A new building will be erected in the spring.
Dr George Rowland secretary of Fountain county Board of Health reports to the state board that Dr McNeil of Veedersburg defiantly refused to make reports of births deaths and contagious diseases and has been fined with costs totaling 31 75
William T. Sebree aged 37 of 1405 Martindale avenue was declared insane on Friday. He believes people intend to steal his property. Each night he takes all his possessions to bed with him, including his old buck-saw.
Milwaukee December 29 Alvin Kraenzlein captain of the University of Pennsylvania track team says this will be his last season in athletics. The Quaker squad is set to compete at the Worlds Fair athletic meet in Paris next summer.
Incorporations listed include Alexandria athletic association and Laporte creamery company with capital stock of 7000 and 15000 respectively. Vories business college in Indianapolis and several individuals named as directors are connected to Indiana machinery and supply company with 10000 capital stock.
In New Haven Connecticut Yale professors test Milford Indiana student Griffiths a mathematical prodigy who correctly answered weekday dates including March 31 1857 Sunday. Profs Phillips and Wright report his methods rely on a vast store of data and accept him as a prodigy.
James Fielding, an American missionary, opened a prayer meeting in a remote New Hebrides village when natives with guns shot him dead. The village was later burned by blue-jackets. Rev. Andrew Gillies, in Australia, cites men clubbed to death and eaten in the Hebrides.
Cold weather slowed through trains into Indianapolis Friday morning and no accommodations were laid out. J. Elliott of the Illinois car service is in Indianapolis while D. Co. Bacon of the Indiana car service went to Elwood. A Friday evening train will carry a load of soldiers and naval recruits over the Big Four to the Pacific coast.
A boiler explosion at Waybright's saw mill in Jackson county killed Hiram Curry and Ben Rose and badly injured owner E L Waybright who was hurled over 100 feet. It is the second blast in the area in two years, causing five deaths and crippling ten men.
Schulmeyer of Lebanon was treated at City hospital after tumbling into the canal Thursday evening. Doctors diagnosed the case as plain drunkenness, though he claimed to have been given knock-out drops and that he had just returned from the Philippines.
Ottawa dispatch to the Times Herald says the South Africa war fuels latent hostility to British rule in Quebec. French Canadians grow to favor independence, not a newer France, with anti-British sentiment rising and the Conservative party using the crisis to advance aims.
T E McVeigh of Dublin Ireland states in Wheeling that a Fenian movement is on foot with about 200000 Irishmen ready to strike at England, signaling intensified Irish nationalist activity amid the Fenian era.
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