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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1901
Page
2
Senator Hanna, bedridden with rheumatism and lumbago, vows to attend the Senate’s night session to consider the ship subsidy bill. His doctor advises rest, but he insists on being carried in a stretcher if needed. Democrats plan to press for repeated quorum counts.
Secretary Hurty of the State health board warns of microbes in the lower house and proposes reforms. He suggests replacing stained glass with prism glass to increase light and reduce electricity use, and placing large fans in fireplace flues to ventilate the room, with Speaker Artman agreeing on lighter ventilation.
A student clash over alleged discrimination halts state oratorical honors. Coburn Allen and Edwin Friend were barred from the primary. a mass meeting aired complaints about judges and constitution adherence. Professor Hufford denied rule violations as pupils form a committee to meet him.
The State board of commerce met Wednesday at the Commercial club with Mayor McHenry of Wabash presiding. Fortune, president, opened the meeting and praised the county and township laws. Arthur Brady, ex-mayor of Muncie, urged city governments for small cities to adopt Indianapolis style governance. The program featured talks on interurban railways, poor relief laws, and legal aspects of the trust question along with a discussion of the primary election.
Louis Houseman sporting editor of the Inter Ocean and prize fight manager was arrested after attempting to shoot his wife. He threatened bystanders before being restrained. Officers beat him, and he was fined five dollars and thirty three cents in costs for disorderly conduct and related charges.
Havana February 6 United States transport McPherson ran on a reef to Matanzas Tuesday and is being pounded to pieces by a rough sea. Her fires are out and there is no hope of saving the vessel if she cannot be pulled off.
A brief note on a HaXative Bromo-Quinine treatment promising to cure grip in two days. The excerpt cites a quick remedy claim and mentions an easily secured product form.
Mrs William Baker sues for divorce alleging her husband a prominent Frankfort business man beat her with their pet dog until she fainted and the dog had to be shot. She has been dangerously ill for a week, she says, from the attack. The couple are socially prominent and the complaint has caused a sensation.
Four masked robbers stormed the Rossford post office at 3:30 am on Wednesday, binding and gagging Postmaster Teller and his eight family members. They torched his feet with matches to extract the location of funds but yielded only $10 in stamps and $4 in cash, plus a stolen horse. Mrs Teller freed the others by cutting their ropes in the kitchen.
In Huntington West Virginia on February 6 seven inmates escaped Cabell county jail after battering iron bars on the third floor while others on the second floor fiddled and danced to mask the noise. A murderer named Wirt Morrison from Logan county refused to leave and said the escapees were well armed with outside help via a string lowered to ground for revolvers.
In Ashtabula Ohio on February 6 Rev E Whiteaker of the First Methodist Church runs ads inviting saints sinners and everybody to attend. A second advertisement boosted Sunday evening attendance from 150 to 400, filling the church. He uses bold black faced type in his notices.
Eight year old Demarie of 2012 Columbia avenue was seriously injured Wednesday noon when struck by a passing automobile at College avenue and Twenty seconds. He was transported home by the car.
The report covers various local matters in Indiana towns. It notes Joseph Smith of the Board of Works ill at Martinsville with rheumatism, the Presbyterian Christian Endeavor anniversary in Indianapolis with speakers and music, and Dr. McGaughey tending to Matilda Hunter after a sun stroke’s after effects. It records John Grant’s retirement from Indianapolis Street Railway and James K. Jones assuming duties, plus arrests of six chronic letterers and a separate theft case involving James Lynch and an old soldier in saloons.
The Board of Works passed a set of bills including Indianapolis light and power for January 8699.65, Sun Vapor Light street lights 91, Indianapolis Gas street lights 201.07, Hoosier Construction Fall Creek Bridge 2883.70, Charles H. Stuckmeyer sweeping 493.46, Consolidated Coal and Lime 143.17, and final action favored a local sewer on Michigan Street from Noble Street to first alley east of Liberty Street.
Cattle receipts 3235 with shipments 85 and varied quotations from good to prime steer weights 1100 to 1250 pounds. Prices range 4.20 to 4.80 for prime pitches, 3.76 to 4.25 for fair to medium, and 2.25 to 3.25 for cows and calves. Hog receipts 1500, shipments 1450 with prices 5.00 to 5.30 for various heavies and mixes. Sheep receipts light with lambs and sheep pricing from 2.25 to 5.40. Stockers and feeders 2.00 to 3.00.
Union Stockyards Indianapolis February 6 reports 400 cattle shipments with varied prices for steers heifers cows calves and bulls. Notable ranges include good to prime steers around 5.00 to 5.25 per 100 pounds and sheep and hogs listings with multiple weight classes and price bands.
In the Senate between Nelson and Brook a minor clash between Matson and Brooks occurred on Wednesday. Brooks authored a bill forcing express firms to publish rates and ban discrimination, allegedly benefiting John Walsh's Indiana Southern Railroad company. Matson accused Brooks of representing the firm, but the bill passed unanimously. The chamber also approved a bill allowing soldiers pensions to stay at the Lafayette home to fund its development.
In Columbus on February 6 leaders of the joint conference between coal miners and operators work with grim determination to reach a settlement as long hours pass in floor debate.
An American government interpreter, E. Percival Baker, suffered coffee poisoning and health decline, weighing 99 pounds. After abandoning coffee for Postum Food Coffee, he reports better sleep, no stomach distress, and a gain to 148 pounds in weeks with ongoing improvement. He claims coffee worsened his neuralgia and headaches, and credits Postum with his recovery.
A defense of Paine's celery compound as the sole effective remedy for diseases from impure blood and a weakened nervous system. It asserts the product is not a patent medicine or ad driven, but relies on its record of preventing and curing illness without substitutes.
Charles A Hinckley alias Charles S Morris, once a New York West side bank teller who vanished with 97000 in 1881, was captured in Concondly Washington. Described as 59, he previously mined near Lake of the Woods and was reputedly wealthy. He reportedly returned to New York in disguise for his wife’s funeral.
The list catalogs wholesale prices across Candy and Nut items, Corn and Peaches, various fruits, oysters, beans and vegetables, coal and coke, chemicals, candles, sheetings, coffee and sugars, salt, flour, spices, beans, molasses, rice, shot, lead, wood and other commodities with per unit or per ton rates. Named items include almonds walnuts Brazil nuts peanuts strawberries peaches and many branded sheetings.
Market bulletin shows No 2 red wheat at 72 78 cents for milling freight in January. New corn prices range No 1 white 39, No 2 white 39, No 3 white 38, No 4 white 35 37 cents. Oats steady with No 2 mixed 26 cents. Timothy bids: No 1 $12.50 13, No 2 $11 12. Inspections list various consignments by wheat corn oats and mixed cars with totals.
Advertising copy lists a wide range of fabric products with low prices. Crepe cloths all wool 38 inches wide seven cents quality, serges sheeting canvases and Velentians in multiple colors, fo ords, and blankets with various qualities. Includes Silk foulards and satin varieties.
A historical note identifies the founders of The Standard Tea and Grocery Co. as premier originators in early trade, highlighting their role in establishing a regional retail network. The text marks their standards, growth, and community impact in the era.
Wheat closed firm and unchanged May at 74 3 4 cents corn down 4 cents May 39 4 8 cents. Pork May price 13 95 to 14, lard 7 46 to 7 50 ribs 6 95 to 7 02. Butter varied with creameries and dairies reporting prices for creamery and dairy grades. Cheese quotes include full cream twin 10 to 10 1 2, young Americas 11 1 2, Swiss 12 to 18, limburger 9 1 2 to 10. Turkeys 9 cents, chickens 8 1 2, ducks 9 to 10, geese 8 1 2 to 9. Live poultry chickens 7 1 4 to 8, turkeys 12 site.
Prices paid by shippers list Burkey hens at 74 cents per pound and young stock with terms like hens at six and a half cents, ducks at 46, geese at full feather, and assorted meats such as brick cheese at 4 cents per pound and imburger at 13 cents in a compact, fragmentary catalog of market quotes.
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