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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1903
Page
2
A polemical piece argues that dominant powers such as America, Britain, France, Russia, and Germany are meat eating nations driving progress while describing supposed inferior races. It criticizes digestion problems and promotes Stuart's Dyspepsin Tablets as a cure and health habit.
In Maysville Kentucky on a Sunday night three masked men forced entry into the Mount Gotead home of John B Farrow and his wife. After binding and gagging them the robbers discussed torture and attempted to burn the house before fatally shooting Farrow. The trio fled aboard a freight train toward Mayville after the crime.
Tuscarawa river bridge between Coshocton and Newcomeretown collapsed Monday after high waters formed whirlpools undermining piers. The unsafe span was closed to traffic causing concern for the area. Two men, John Lagner and Roland Harriman, were found asphyxiated in a Berlin lockup after drunkenness arrests.
A Fort Wayne woman thwarted a rejected suitor at her home Sunday night. Eugene Reynolds forced entry as Mrs Hostman was inside with another person. She ordered him out, retrieved a revolver, fired, and the man fled. The incident follows years of unwanted attention since her marriage to Mr Hostman.
In Anderson Indiana on February 2 a wave of complaints from saloons cites full trade yet many may close soon. Police report an unusual December with only 45 arrests in the city and surrounding county, most for minor offenses, with a small portion of Madison county’s 000 residents entering the jail register.
Miss Anni Adams of Marion married Charles H. Godfrey an Alaska based California mining company engineer in a hushed ceremony. Danbar Pittsboro civil engineer pursued Adams for two years after seeing her Neax, traveling half the world to Marion to ask for her hand. Godfrey works as an section engineer with a California firm active in Alaska, and the couple reside there.
A. B. Martindale sold the equarent ground at Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth streets in New Jersey to W. E. Stevenson for 25000 cash. Stevenson plans platting and immediate market release with a 400 downdown cost for hill cutting. The 32 lots, 40 feet by 147, will begin development after Tuesday. A second land sale between Meridian and Pennsylvania Heights moves forward with William Dawson selling to the Meridian Land Company for 1100 capital. the timbered tract is slated for future lot plans. The Meridian Land Company is formed by Ed Logsdon James B. Nelson A. B. Carter and Jesse J. Hamrick.
Richmond Indiana temperance committee of the Indians yearly meeting circulated circulars to Friends society members on Monday urging united effort to prevent any changes in the Richolson law.
A Danish coast incident reports a Norwegian steamer, which ran aground at Lemvig, Denmark. Initial word suggests about 24 crew members are believed to have drowned after the wreck. Local authorities and rescuers search the remains of the vessel and recover survivors as the incident is investigated.
Ministers in Meridian at Mechanic meeting unite in opposing two bills tied to a Sunday ball tax issue. The legislative committee of the ministerial association planned to petition the senate committee in charge Monday. In Vincennes, G Leba announced a contract for a new Christian church costing 40,000 dollars to be built by A H Elwood and Sons from Indianapolis. The site was donated by C H Kessinger, noted as one of the city’s most valuable plots.
The coal miners and operators remain divided over the coming year’s wage scale. A full joint conference met all day Saturday in Tomlinson hall but failed to reach action. President Mitchell warned that the old scale should not stay in force, with the scale committee of eight miners and four operators from four states meeting at the Hotel English to finalize recommendations.
A New York 1901 report describes the 13 year old Richard J Murphy nicknamed Laue Dick as a clever but disturbed child. Doctors say his brain has developed too fast causing unusual behavior and he faces charges after cashing a $20 check and false bank entries. His father calls him exceptionally bright but insane.
A fragment requests immediate shipment of fifteen volumes of My Lady's Library along with one year subscriptions to the Indianapolis Sun and Woman's Home Companion plus a Flemish Oak Bookcase. The buyer encloses one dollar toward the first month and promises twelve subsequent monthly payments of one dollar each. The text shows a signature line and stray letters.
A mass meeting in Ward township Clinton county adopts the referendum method to select a school building at Mulberry. Committees are named to gather views of all voters and taxpayers as the German dominated township weighs the proposal.
The report covers injuries in Muncie and Lafayette, church annex completion at Belford, grain elevator plans by Cincinnati rail line men near Richmond, Peoria, Okorane and Scotsdale, and Fort Wayne obituaries. It also notes a dramatic oil field accident at Geneva and mixed stock market figures in Cincinnati and Chicago markets.
Chicago grain prices show wheat and corn softening for May and July contracts. Oats slide for May and July. rye and wine futures not clearly stated. East Buffalo live stock receipts show cattle, hogs, and sheep trading with mixed prices. yearlings and ewes listed with gains and declines.
The report covers Americans in London rates and pennsylvania bonds, convertible notes, and expected leadership at BR T. It notes fluctuating stock activity in New York with Pennsylvanias, Nevada, and copper movements, pressure on casters due to miners wage talks, and mixed government bonds. Also provides noon prices for Reading, Erie, U P, Canadian Pacific, and other securities, plus commodity quotes in pork, lard, dairy, eggs, and live livestock markets at Indianapolis and Chicago.
A dense market listing from Indianapolis detailing prices for live stock groceries and goods. Includes oysters fish and game, wool, hides, various meats and sausages, flour and corn meal, fruits vegetables and canned goods, with specific unit prices and references to New York and local suppliers. Includes rail and stockyard notes from HAST LIBERTY Pa and various commodity price columns.
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