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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1901
Page
6
New York February 1 Patrolman Otto Raphael encounters Owen Deving a diminutive Longford immigrant eager to join the force He boasts he can fight with teeth and claws and through quarrel with Dick Medall at Richmond Hill seeks a police position Deving is sent to police headquarters for further handling.
In Napa California robins have become a major pest to olive orchards. Orchardists are compelled to slaughter them in large numbers with reports of 500 birds killed in a single day and 200 in another. Children use air guns for shooting. Birds damage both small and large olives by swallowing and pecking.
James ONeill of Plainfield was mistaken for a train victim and buried in Philadelphia after his death was identified by coworkers and former sweethearts. He had been in Mount Carmel Pennsylvania Moldering while the body lay in the ground. He later reached Philadelphia and returned to Plainfield shocking his friends.
Annie C Harper aged 11, who believed Europe and America were better, caused a chaos scene at the Hoboken Hamburg American line pier. After screaming and appealing to a detective and a policeman, her father decided she should stay home with her sisters. She is the daughter of John Harper, former Harper & Bros. member, who remarried last October to Ethel M Taintor of this city.
Cendymakers from six states met in Sioux City drawing twenty three cities. They considered buying a $3600 chocolate drop machine capable of producing 8509 pounds daily, enough to replace 30 to 40 workers. They decided against the purchase, preserving jobs for over 10 000 women in the Midland confectioners club regions.
Samuel Herriwitz was arrested for selling a ham sandwich containing a dead mouse to J. J. Coyle in Scranton on February 1. Coyle briefly bit into the sandwich before noticing the mouse, which Herriwitz claimed was placed by an enemy perhaps in the pay of a rival line wagon and he was discharged.
The Indiana legislature considers a whipping post bill favorably among lawmakers. It proposes lashings for woman beaters, profanity offenders, minor thieves, family deserters, and chronic drinkers, while noting victims of the cat are all to be men. The piece notes lynchers are not addressed.
Havana February 1 F W Neely awaiting trial will initiate habeas corpus proceedings and it is understood he can post any bail demanded. Neely desires an immediate trial.
Charles Day loses 420 dollars to Clyde Wynger's saloon safe while Wynger skips town. Ed Cline, 36, is jailed on insanity charges. Samuel Hinkle, jockey, is arrested for seduction after a complaint by Alla Good who also claims 350 dollars given him. James Sears and Alonzo Smith accused of smashing windows on Michigan Street. Receiver Clark involved.
Foster F Harrower of Swarthmore recalls skating with Lynne Merritt when a girl cried for help. He saved Merritt, who drowned, and the girl perished killed by broken ice. Hen Hannum and a crowd aided by a shinny stick saved him. He reflects I couldn’t save both as guilt and shock linger.
New York physicians recount a striking case of aphasia and related disorders in Robert I. Murray of Yonkers. The middle aged mechanic lost most identity and speech, yet gradually showed fragments of recognition, while doctors pursue speech and language exercises to restore faculties.
Springfield reports the kidnapped girl Fannie Campbell from San Jose remains at large after her guardians and her father accuse Dr. John Wright of seizing custody. W. H. Campbell returns from Clinton, Illinois, seeking arrest warrants and a habeas corpus ruling as tensions threaten a confrontation.
A sensational 10 point jump in the Chicago Indianapolis and Louisville stock on Thursday sparked by a report that J P Morgan has acquired it and plans assimilation by the Southern railway. Morgan aims to use Monon facilities to gain a stronger entry into Chicago and western markets. Monon president has been in New York in talks with Morgan.
A vandalized Buckeye home on Main Street reports a music box in the parlor playing the “Mockingbird” at about 3 a.m. without signs of entry. The locked side door stood open amid a gale, Major the Saint Bernard present, and family insisted no human hand touched the box. theories of burglary or lunacy proved implausible.
In Philadelphia a foundling baby left on a doorstep was brought to the Philadelphia Hospital. Officer Caldwell tried to quiet the infant without success. Nurses took over and christened the child Victoria, the first visitor since the queen’s death, with the name entered on the hospital books.
Chicago records February 1 report on library trustees moving to sterilize all books amid small pox fears. Dr W A Kusiewski cites bacteria on volumes and coughing readers spreading tuberculosis. sterilization by dry heat in six hours could cover a roomful. A committee will study costs. burned volumes from small pox cases are deemed unsalvageable.
A black eyed young man employed at a local business in Niles is the center of a social tale where two rival girls quarrel over a kiss he gave to one. He calms the hurt feelings by kissing the slighted girl, prompting debates among guests about whether kissing is sinful.
Wiley Harris, mayor of Hell Top, Fayette county, formerly deputy sheriff, was found guilty of robbery after abusing power by arresting peddlers Solomion and Jacob Ihrig, fining them without docket entries, detaining them in an open field, tying them, tying hands to stakes, and torturing them with molasses and heat to extract payment.
In La Crosse Wisconsin a Minnesota woman Minnie Anderson marries prisoner Ludwig Scanlan serving six months for forged checks. The ceremony led by Justice John Costley occurs at the courthouse and the couple then returns to the jail for a brief honeymoon. The groom’s term ends early February.
A 42 year old woman Alla Adams of 232% Ralston St attempted to jump from Callowhill Street Bridge into the Schuylkill River. Laura Godfrey stopped her, the bridge watchman detained her until police. bail set at 500 dollars. The child was placed with the Children’s Society.
In New York on February 1, heirs continue a bid to overturn William Ivison’s will. The case, before Justice O Gorman and a jury, seeks more than a million dollars, while the estate contends the value is under six hundred sixty thousand. Witnesses describe long years of alleged instability and testator behavior, including kissing bonds and securities as a troubled sign.
Philadelphia February 1 1902 members of the Medico Chirurgical college class of 1902 mourn the loss of mustaches and whiskers after hazing. About sixty younger students trapped them in a classroom and clipped hair from their faces amid pleas for mercy.
J H Coleman a Canonsburg druggist known for eccentricities collapsed in the street from heart failure. He seldom left his shop and had not ventured far from home in years, rarely traveling beyond the adjacent building near his depot. His death occurred in Washington Pennsylvania on February 1.
Henry Hengels, chief draughtsman for R T Newberry Architect in Chicago, credits Grape Nuts with restoring his digestion and energy after nine months of design work on the Post Tavern and Post Building projects at Battle Creek. He reports steady weight gain and renewed vigor for demanding tasks.
Chicago gamblers led by Jim O'Leary and Tom McGinnis quit the city canceling leases totaling 330,000 yearly. They plan to relocate to Hot Springs Arkansas with Ed Smith's gambling house, seeking to turn the resort into a continental Monte Carlo with larger operations on the square.
In New York on February 1 a young fashionable woman complains to a salesman at Bleischman's about flowers she ordered and asks why they were not delivered to her suite. The clerk claims ignorance while she tries to recount a prior order placed for 1000 dollars.
A Beverly mayor’s cow caused a fogbound commute when the passenger steamer Columbia anchored to touch at the Beverly wharf. The ship’s foghorns boomed and the riverbank keeper signaled back with moo notes causing the Columbia to strike ground. Port warden Champion located the cow on the edge and the incident ended without further detail.
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