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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1901
Page
3
From Pekin reports the empress dowager questions foreign demands for punishment of officials. She argues the original terms called for proportionate punishment and will carry out the agreement but not extend it. Diplomacy is tense as Li Hung Chang is asked for explanation before calm returns.
A preliminary committee meeting on the Southern Indiana reformitory investigation questioned the claim of no whitewash. Attorney general Taylor led the session while Deputy-state auditor Martin testified that no criminal accounts were found, though last year’s spending surpassed the appropriation by about $19,000. The panel expects Hert and the board of managers to testify, with opening focus on personal expenses and overall accounts. The committee plans to resume at 9 a m Saturday to pursue specific charges.
The Benevolent Order of White Mice, a new vaudeville actresses group, has secured the Grand Central Palace library as a meeting place. A reception runs 2 to 5 pm next Sunday for members in town and out of town applicants can enroll by writing to secretary Miss Frances Rockefeller King. Rita Dean serves as president. The group follows a model similar to the White Rats actors organization.
The Gen iphe signature of EB W Grove is described as appearing on every box of the genuine Laxative Bromo Seltine Laxative. The notice emphasizes authenticity and brand protection for consumers.
In Washington on February 12 Representative Sulzer of New York read an anonymous letter accusing Perry S. Heath and C. F. Neely of incidents tied to Boer war funds and government deposits. He compared Kitchener to Weyler and accused the United States of aiding England by allowing munitions sales. The exchange with Mahon and Steele led to a heated debate and the letter remaining in the Congressional Record.
Representative Neal pushes a bill requiring railroads to sell 500 mile books for 10 dollars. The package may be used by the purchaser or family, after a failed amendment to restrict use to the purchaser's wife. The bachelor members laugh as the amendment is defeated and the speaker notes the victory for the bachelors.
Paris report says a young man named Leroi, deserted by his wife, locked himself in a room and survived forty two days by starvation drinking only water. He was found Monday night nearly skeletonized and unable to speak.
Herman Cordes a wealthy brickmaker and farmer sues for divorce on grounds of alleged beatings and abandonment after their last remarriage following a prior split. The couple married in 1870 and had 14 previous court actions over ten years, 12 by the wife and two by Cordes.
Washington reports orders prepared to organize ten regiments under the new army law. The cavalry units are Eleventh at Fort Myer, Twelfth at Fort Sam Houston, Thirteenth at Fort Meade, Fourteenth at Fort Leavenworth, Fifteenth at President San Francisco. Infantry units Twenty-sixth at Fort McPherson, Twenty-seventh at Plattsburg, Twenty-eighth at Vancouver Barracks, Twenty-ninth at Fort Logan.
Chas W Dunn of 2009 Northwestern Ave and Stella Hayes of Plainfield were fined one dollar and costs for drunken driving after a wreck on Twenty first Street. The rig from Club stables struck an electric pole and was demolished. both occupants were intoxicated but unharmed, pulled from the wreck by Officer Conn. J D Veach has begun installing a new Benevolent Order lodge in Anderson, while John H Ostad plans one in Elwood. the Indianapolis lodge reportedly has about 600 members.
An old newspaper ad extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy that clears humors of spring season fatigue. It claims the tonic wards off danger and ensures good health through cleansing the system.
Store listing for Schuller's at 210 N Meridian Street offering fine California wines brandies and bottled goods.
Clark location at 116 North I Hinoliast claims the best photographs at the lowest price. The notice emphasizes inexpensive rates and quality imagery to attract customers.
Southern Pacific announces special weekly colonist fares to California on Ogden and Sunset routes from Chicago at 30 dollars and from St Louis Memphis and New Orleans at 27 50 with other eastern and northern points matching. Details available from W G Neimyer G W A S P Co 238 Clark St Chicago Ill and W H Connor C A P S Bldg Cincinnati Chamber Commerce.
An old nurse for children claims Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup calms teething pain and soothes gums. It allegedly cures wind colic and diarrhoea and is priced at twenty five cents a bottle.
The message advertises photos and picture framing services at reformatted prices. It promotes the latest photographic effects and frames to order, located at 229 Massachusetts Avenue.
Frank Ertle proprietor of the Eagle hotel in Muncie Ind is under arrest on arson charges tied to a two year old Massillon Ohio case. Deputy fire marshal H K Hollenbeck accuses Ertle of attempting to burn his wife and children by setting fire to a house in Massillon Ohio.
A Hartford City oil well on the Joseph Bird farm reportedly flows 7,000 barrels daily with earnings around 1,020 dollars. It is described as a crevice freak and a world record breaker though the flow is uncontrolled and the surrounding five acres flooded. The Standard owns the well, said to outvalue the Beaufort Texas gusher, with tanks being built to handle the output.
Mrs Maybrick the famed prisoner in England on trial for poisoning her husband once lived in Columbus. Her mother obtained a divorce and lived here with the future Mrs Maybrick when she was ten. The divorce was granted in 1868.
A Panhandle train from Chicago struck and killed an unidentified man a few miles outside Richmond Indiana. Police and railroad officials investigated the incident and identified no witnesses or victim details at the scene.
Frank Russell of Centerville defeated a gallon of oysters in 35 minutes proving a bold pace in a local eating contest held in Richmond Indiana.
Noblesville widow Mrs. Aaron Kelly dies at 78, a pioneer. Centerville couple John and Mrs. Roberts celebrate 68 years of marriage. Peru man Absalom Burnett keeps a 18 month old yellow hen that laid 178 eggs. Numerous reports from Union City, Wabash, Huntington and Logansport cover trials, missing persons, fires, transport disruptions, library funding, obituaries, road work, divorces, and civic notes across Indiana.
The column records births for William J Hicks Katie Hicks Ysaac Hulse Jennie Hulse A C Moore Crissie Moore Leo Risch Lizzie Risch Edward Harris Mamie Harris J W Prichutt Lizzie Prichutt George Whitney Anna Whitney Edward Walker Cora Walker Silas Jackson Addie Jackson M D Harbitt Emma Harbitt Albert Jones Mabel Jones CJ Mohr Althea Mohr Mary FE Hinds Meridian Washington tuberculosis Michael Kastelle railway injury Elizabeth Frees meningitis James Bradley cerebral hemorrhage Ambrose Rollison Bertha Moore Clarence Haynes Lulu Sissin George Walker Katie Pierce Homer Wiegand Esther Van Arsdal John Utterback Moriarty Smith De Lancey Mozingo Holman Koell.
Theresa Price on Isabell Street near Twenty eighth frames house valued at 1200 dollars. E R Ganed at 1120 West twenty ninth Street adds a frame structure valued at 300 dollars. Lizzie Moon on Dewey Avenue between Twenty fourth and Fifty ninth Streets constructs a frame building.
The Commercial Club shows assets of 218746.09 with 96003.84 excess over indebtedness. Secretary Evans Woollen notes the club advised against a ten year water contract and supported street, sewer, and law changes. It promoted Fall Creek Boulevard, merchant excursions, a philanthropic pawn shop bill, and law revisions including primary elections and fire department improvements.
Elam Huddleston and wife Ida, formerly of Indianapolis, are jailed in Springfield Illinois on forgery charges. They allegedly forged Mrs Hoffmans name on a Texas land deed after Huddleston sold his share to his sister Mrs Hoffman. The swindle emerged when Mrs Huddleston wrote to her husbands uncle in Texas offering the land. Police traced the couple through Kentucky and Mississippi and other states. a money order to Mrs Huddleston tied to their arrest. They will be brought to Indiana for trial where the crime was committed.
Edward Samuels, 39, colored, of 932 Superfor street, died in City hospital from injuries from a gas explosion in the Fitzgerald building where he worked as an engineer two weeks earlier. He was a member of a colored lodge of Knights of Pythias which will conduct his funeral.
A New York report says a collar and cuff trust will form in coming weeks led by Troy manufacturers with interests totaling about 20 million dollars. The venture will be named the American collar and shirt company.
The president approved a private pension bill for Thomas L. Turnipseed a veteran of the Florida Indian War. Federal action recognizes his military service and grants retirement benefits.
A naval board report to Secretary Long proposes four new medals the republic Paul Jones Farragut and a campaign medal with raises in pay and pensions. It specifies eligibility for different actions and notes Admiral Schley is not to receive the republic medal, a point likely to rekindle the Sampson Schley controversy.
Citizens' committee reports progress on art museum site purchase north of Talbot property and alley closings. Coram Street closure petitions face objection from Frank Wood who owns nearby property and seeks an east west alley if Coram Street closes.
The Navy Department released Commander Wainwrights report from Annapolis on Private Hobart Greens death aboard the Santee. The inquiry finds officers were not at fault and that Green received proper care.
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