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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1903
Page
8
Veterinarians specializing in canine care warn of a rabies epidemic in Chicago with three dog deaths reported last year. An art exhibit at the John Herron Art Institute opens Tuesday evening by the Society of Western Artists, inviting members and press for the first view followed by public viewing through February.
Prospects point to a large house cleaning at the Big Bowling Congress in late February as Cleveland officials push to oust current executives amid ties to bowling supply firms. Chicago and Detroit enter with two teams each, Cincinnati and Akron with one. About $4,000 in prizes to bowlers is announced.
The report covers Polo Clubs in Elwood Indianapolis Racine and Muncie with a 9 to 1 score loss for Anderson. Way star halfback of Indianapolis sidelined for weeks after a nose tumor requiring surgery. Harry Wolfe to replace him. attendance and interral play noted as a factor in rink plans for next season. Also includes a brief note on Christopher Matthewson joining a church in Lewisburg and a forthcoming marriage to Miss Jennie Stroughton.
In Columbia Missouri on February 5 Sam Chan Cler Allen Crear Owen Woolfolk Gil ber Turner and Wm McLean youths are to stand before a jury charged with murdering A Chapman station agent for the Wabank railroad at Brown. Detective Stokies traced a Brown gang that formed after the leader was expelled from a railway station for boisterous conduct. The gang then menaced Chapman prompting him to seek a revolver and he was shot at his door the following day.
The Indianapolis fans are set to receive the pennant won by the Indians last season. The award was the first business transaction at the Chicago meeting of the American Baseball Association, which began Saturday. No actions yet on league rearrangements.
The Cincinnati Enquirer sports editor, famed for arranging top showdowns, claims another $1.00 is at stake to bind a match between Kid Broad and either Corbett or McGovern. The bet was posted by Parson Davies in New Orleans sport coverage.
Trev Blarion Crosley, an Indianapolis minister, condemned the lobbying of city ministers against Sunday baseball from his pulpit. He argued laws cannot compel Sabbath observance as the Bible dictates, asserting it is impossible to legislate holiness.
Washington Feb 9 All the members of the third class at the naval academy are confined to quarters until they pledge to the superintendent that they will cease hazing. They have shown willingness to stop brutal hazing but the discipline extends beyond mere promises. Captain Bronson intends the third class men not to act as judges of their own conduct.
Amid a hazing crisis the academy ends middigs recreation hours and substitutes drills. Third-class cadets, long the chief hazers, press the newest class in a brutal test of endurance, with the superintendent facing an uphill odds margin.
Columbia University in New York has started a new course on traction engines and automobile carriages to be taught by Port Frederick Remsen Hutton. The program will cover rolling stock road engines street railway engines cars and automobiles. Also reported is the arrest of Fletcher Bahrin a Merchants Heat and Light lineman on theft charges and Bundey accused of stealing a purse containing 19 dollars from a fellow worker at the plant.
A heavy snow on Saturday night likely prevented greater fire damage in Frankfort Indiana as fire destroyed the Columbia Theater on Sunday. The blaze is suspected incendiary with losses totaling about 12 000 dollars including insured properties.
Chicago February 9 William J Bryan notified the Iroquois club he will not dine at the same table as Grover Cleveland. The club plans a Jackson day banquet on March 11 and intended to invite Bryan and Cleveland. Bryan declined and asked his name be removed from the guest list.
Nat U Hill, the new state treasurer, takes over from former treasurer Levy who hands over books papers money and duties. They count money and sort figures as Levy departs with best wishes and a coat and bat.
Chinese New Year celebration ends with a lavish banquet hosted by Chin Gum Sing known as E Lung. Over 100 guests attend with fireworks and imported Chinese pyrotechnics as friends gather, including Dr. W. B. Fletcher, Mr. and Mrs. Wiltsie, Hovey family, Kregelo siblings, Woollen, Martin, Darling, Harding, and others.
In Washington and New York legal circles it is stated David B. Henderson, speaker of the house, plans to join Simpson Thatcher and Burnham, the firm once with Thomas Reed as a partner. Henderson will live mainly in Dubuque while spending three to four years in New York and Washington. He will remain senior at his Dubuque office. The call for bank condition statements was issued by the national bank comptroller, covering banks nationwide as of Feb. 6. In Madrid the duke of Tetuan died after a brief illness, having served as foreign minister before the Cuban conflict.
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