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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1901
Page
6
A family prepares to sail to Europe aboard the Darm in January after years apart. A three year old, his sister, and their aunt are to travel with a Pacific railroad agent guiding them to 26 Beaver Street. Relatives express hopes for a safe journey and a future reunion as they await the voyage and lodging arrangements.
A. Larsson Holcombe of Hopewell New Jersey has posted armed guards around his residence after threat letters signed Anarchist offer a $400 ransom and warn of fire and dynamite. Constables traced a supposed ransom drop but found nothing and Holcombe rejected payment, preparing to defend his estate.
A lamp toppled in a bedroom started a small fire at the Alfred D. Nearly residence. A wallet with 835 dollars fell from the lamp stand and burned as the blaze was quickly controlled after discovery. The incident occurred after the occupant had dressed and prepared for barn work.
An Indianapolis reader reports relief from kidney and back pains after using Doan's Kidney Pills from local dealers. The testimonial describes years of distress, improved kidney secretions, and renewed comfort following a short course of the remedy supplied by Henry Huder’s drugstore and Chandler & Tay factory.
Chief Lenana of the Masai in British East Africa draws 32 dollars a month from the English government for keeping natives friendly to Edwardian authorities. He rules through superstition and a sleight of hand show, aided by royal medicine and espionage lore, with runners patrolling the land and reporting only to him under threat of death.
Four men led by Ashley Cocke killed J. M. Rhea, a Yazoo & Mississippi Valley train passenger near Leland Mississippi, then seized the northbound train and forced the engineer to uncouple. Cocke, a Cleveland Mississippi planter, faced arrest with A M Phipps Tom Lauderdale and a man named Blackman. Rhea was shot while asleep in the smoker after a quarrel arose. Phipps was later arrested at Leland. the other three were captured near Cleveland.
Richard Croker said on Monday that Tammany Hall will support Perry Belmont if courts declare him the regular Democratic nominee for Congress in District 7. He dispels rumors that Croker would back independent candidate Lindinger, ending the intra party dispute.
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