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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1904
Page
2
Senator Hanna shows a rise in temperature and irritability of the stomach as doctors in Washington report his condition improving yet delicate. The secretary orders street landmarking and public hotel music continues as Medi McCormick travels to Chicago.
Births list many families with multiple couples and addresses including Oral and Bertha Miter 07 Villa-ave boy and Harriet and Addie Jones 326 War-Man-ave boy, plus numerous others. Deaths note Judson Burton cerebral hemorrhage and Frank Leppert m itral insufficiency among several. Marriages include George F Warwick and Florence Thompson and others. Building Permits list John Wenning 25 Webb st shed valued at $20.
New York analysis on the Russo Japanese war impact notes that a probable short conflict would likely not force heavy external borrowing by Russia or Japan. It suggests domestic tax pressures may trigger loans, while European market disruptions could echo here but expect only limited, temporary effects on U S money values.
Special grand jury convened to investigate theater horror as testimonies began on Monday. In Princeton Indiana two small girls plus family tragedy followed a cloudburst on Parola river. father saved one child, another found on a stump half frozen. Across the globe, Tokyo readies a declaration of war with plans for the Isendo fleet to Korea.
In New York on a February morning two elevated trains collided on Flatbush Avenue near Tring Brook Avenue. At least one person is injured and three others are reported wounded. The two trains telescoped but stayed on the tracks.
The comptroller of the currency reports that the Citizens' National Bank of Methego Texas has failed.
Chicago jury selection complete after days in securing a panel and $12,000 in expenses. Trial opens amid high security for the alleged car-barn bandits, as prosecutors outline charges and courtroom readiness.
Washington February 2 Cameron Forbes of Boston has been offered the Philippine commission seat vacated by Taft's promotion to secretary of war. Forbes will come to Washington and may meet the President later this week to indicate willingness to accept.
The Baltimore gun issue from Washington reports a major blaze that burned the Star and neighboring papers Sunday night. The entire Baltimore Sun News and Herald plant was destroyed while the Star’s printing plant was also damaged. The Herald and News have shifted production to the Washington Post facility.
In Baltimore on a Sunday blaze reduced grand office blocks like the Equitable Calvert Herald Union Bank and Continental buildings to rubble. Dozens of firms including Roxbury Rye, Allen & Sons, Sugar & Shear, Mullins Hotel, American Cigar Co and many wholesalers and manufacturers were destroyed or severely damaged, with the National Exchange Bank and Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association building among the ruin. The scale of loss touched banks, dry goods houses, clothing firms, hardware and granary concerns as physicians and officials assessed the wreckage.
A collage of historic fires cites Chicago 1871 with 17,450 buildings lost and 250 dead, and other cities. It notes Portland, London, Moscow, Constantinople, Canton, Shanghai, Yedo, San Francisco, Seattle and Spokane damages, insurance disruptions, and casualties across centuries.
Duncan C. Pell, a wealthy New York figure, married twice before a Florida divorce, then wed Helen Louise Gardner in 1902. Anne Ogden Pendleton, now Mrs Pelti, sues for divorce claiming bigamy as Justice Bicoff halts Pell’s intermentary decree. Florida divorce voided, dispute unsettled.
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