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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1902
Page
3
An Alma Michigan discovery offers a crystallized effervescent salt that captures the Alma-Bromo Water’s remedies for digestion nerves kidneys and blood. The salt sells at 50 cents a bottle with free literature and trial sample offered by The Michigan Drug Co. Detroit.
The Indiana Supreme Court affirmed a ruling relating to Cassius E. Reeves, once declared of unsound mind in Clay County. The 1882 circuit court decision appointed Cyrus Reeves as guardian. subsequent bond changes and petitions by James Soules culminated in the high court upholding the guardian arrangement and denying Soules title to challenge the judgment.
Laura Paulsen sues as administratrix for $1,575 claiming five and a half years of support from her husband while he lived on a farm and she resided in Indianapolis. The case questions whether a widow can recover from the husband’s estate for failure to provide for her. Separately a Brooklyn fire report notes Florence and adjoining apartment house losses of $50,000.
Nah-Tea-Wash-Tah of the Wyoming Ute tribe arrived in Omaha on Thursday to mark the completion of the world’s largest tepee crafted from 2000 coyote skins, all personally killed by him. Squaws labored 11 years sewing with buckskin thongs, then the chief hosted a hotel reception.
The annual reunion of the Forty-eighth Indiana regiment concluded in Goshen on Thursday. The next meeting is planned for Valparaiso. Tom Tobin, William Schubert, and Frank Ayres hosted a birthday stag party on Wednesday evening with a group of friends. Cards were played and an elaborate lunch served.
Incorporated firms listed: Greenwood telephone company with capital stock $5,000 and Fort Wayne organ company of Fort Wayne with $10,000 capital stock plan to conduct a retail music store business in the area.
Secretary Hay warns China against granting Russia exclusive rights to open mines build railroads or industrially develop Manchuria warning such concessions violate treaties with other powers and threaten American interests. He asserts concessions could invite franchises for other states in the Chinese empire.
Union carpenters grievances against Claypool hotel contractors are resolved as the general contractor Swift Co agrees to union scale and hours. Swift took over from cement contractors and the dispute ended promptly. Carpenters on the project plan to seek admission to the union.
Capt Taffe and Capt Hyland oversee the summer uniform review for patrolmen. A reporter’s worn overcoat was left on a chair near the coat stack and later tagged not fit for wear except buttons to be reused. The reporter accepted the tag without anger, expressing mild displeasure.
London reporters say at a Marconi Telegraph Co meeting on Thursday he plans a text system suitable for permanent use. He noted over 70 ships and 5 land stations were equipped to transmit 22 words a minute, a rate not far behind cables and the audience applauded loudly.
The coroner's jury reports Nora Fuller died at unknown hands and asks the governor to offer a $5,000 reward for the arrest of the criminal.
Two Italians were killed and three others badly injured when struck by a fast train at Beck's Run in Pittsburgh on Thursday. The tragedy occurred February 20 as workers were near the tracks.
Mrs. Margaret Clogan of Lafayette Indiana died at age eight after a three month illness. Physicians said death seemed imminent two months prior and noted she shrank to a height of a three year old. She could not take solid food and stimulants kept her alive.
In New York on February 20 Meyer & Kiser report Roosevelt's move to have Knox push antimerger action. They urge calm among securities holders and outline specific plays across Morgan, Rockefeller, Harriman interests. They note Reading shift to second preferred and Monon earnings growth and 6 percent yield.
In Greenfield Indiana on February 20 a 20 year old postal delivery clerk Miss Mamie Moore was found to have a well developed smallpox case the first in two years. She is at her mother’s home and will be quarantined local health officers have asked the state board of health for rapid action and mail at the office may be fumigated to prevent spread. Miss Moore is a popular local figure active in religious meetings and social events.
The Red Star liner Kroonland was launched in Philadelphia at Cramps ship yard. It is the largest ship built in the United States with a length of 577 feet 3 inches and a displacement of 21 700 tons. The vessel features a 60 foot beam and 30 foot draft, with horsepower of 19 600 and speed of 17 knots.
The Anglo-Swiss condensed milk company sold its American business to Gail Borden condensed milk company of New York for 2 million dollars. A shareholders meeting is set for March 20 to ratify the sale in Zurich.
Independent and trust whisky houses meet in Peoria to settle a common price. Basis set at 1.31 dollars per gallon with some trust stock sold at 1.28 dollars.
The Retail hardware dealers association wrapped a two day meeting on Thursday afternoon, the third and most successful session. Organizers announced a session in Indianapolis next year and outlined arrangements for the future gathering.
Staunton denies smallpox existence. Laporte hunters kill three wolves. Bedford to erect big cement factory. Petersburg reports over 190 measles cases among children. Boonville’s Colton Wiggers charged with embezzlement. Rose Polytechnic Institute in Terre Haute reports smallpox case. Winona Industrial School in Warsaw to open in September. Bluffton’s Howard Dean sought perpetual motion, ended in asylum. Lafayette’s Hamilton Furniture in receivership. Cambridge City records eight typhoid cases from bad water. Congressman Landis allegedly earned thousands via steel stock. East of Noblesville, Estes barn burned. seven horses cremated loss $2,500. DePauw University president warns students against class rush. Elijah James house south of Russiaville burned. he saved his invalid wife. Bluffton’s Mrs Sora Hedges charged with obscene mail letters. Fort Wayne custody. Decatur doctor’s Peter Steiner charged with criminal neglect of son Noah, 13. Columbus man Clarence J. Smith sues Wright & Childers for $25,000 after stone crusher injury. Muncie fire damages Samuel Schwartz shoe store and Rohr & Bath dry goods. Deschamps alleged to have stolen $1,000 from Miller brewing company. Musselman brothers quarrel in Logansport. both now in bed. Indiana wool growers meet at Crawfordsville elect officers.
The widow Henrietta Schiller of 1181 Applestreet was declared insane on Thursday after her husband Fred Schiller, a Pennsylvania Railroad shop worker, was mangled in a crash. The family received $4,300 in damages from the railroad. she now fears for her children and often imagines another wreck.
James Witcomb Riley buys property at 115 E Ohio St from Dr. James Compton for 16000 dollars and plans a business block within a year. the move signals a shift toward a prosaic capitalist path for the famed Hoosier poet.
Astrology column excluded large list shows births and deaths at multiple addresses with a mix of names ages and causes such as uremic poisoning colangitis with hepatitis gastritis consumption cancer old age and a few marriages listed including Jacob Alexander Down with Lizzie Aley other couples George A Price with Rosa Kamp and William Reserend with Margaret Schumacher.
Roscoe Johnson of Addison near Ohio plans a frame house for 1400 dollars. Indiana wrecking and construction company at Senate and Vermont razes a building for 9200 dollars. W A and M A Rhodes at River Ave purchase a cottage for 1400 dollars.
Advertises Botanic Blood Balm as a permanent cure for blood poison and cancer with skin conditions and bone pains. Claims thousands cured, offers free sample and medical advice by mail from the Blood Balm Co. in Atlanta. Sold in Indianapolis by H. J. Huder at Washington and Pennsylvania streets.
A historical listing of Indianapolis securities including stocks and bonds across banks such as American National Bank Central Trust, Merchants National, Indiana Trust, Marion Trust, Union Trust, and utilities like Indianapolis Gas, Street Railway, and Indianapolis Light and Power. Includes bond quotes for bonds and preferred stock from firms like J. T. Polk, T. B. Laycock, and Indiana Hotel Company with price figures.
Receipts at Union Stockyards Indianapolis February 20 show cattle totaling 400 shipments with varied grades from good to prime export steers to light stockers and cows. Hogs receipts 2,500 shipments with quotations for heavy, medium, and light weights. Interstate Stockyards in Indianapolis reports hogs receipts 300 with price ranges for good to choice heavy and medium plus pigs and light pigs.
Senate action directs the library committee to provide quarters in the capitol for portraits of the first congress senators funded by states or individuals. The Philippines tariff bill is entered, with Patterson of Colorado discussing treason and sedition laws. the House begins Indian appropriation, Sherman then Curtis speak.
Great Northern preferred slips 5 percent and Southern Pacific down 2 to 3 percent at the open. Amalgamated copper fluctuates as markets rally then fall. By noon government bonds rise while copper and rail issues hold mixed strengths amid a feverish but orderly selloff.
New York market prices show Mess pork at 16.00 to 17.00 dollars, lard at 9.65, butter Western at 22 30c and Elgin at 30c. Cheese Large 7 1/2c, small 7 1/2c. Eggs Western 35 44 to 36 1/2c. Tallow 5s per cwt. Dressed poultry lists turkeys 8s 16c, chickens 10 25c, fowls 8 1/2c, ducks 9 1/2c, geese 7 10c.
The report lists grain bids for Wheat, Corn, and Oats with multiple grades and futures indicators, noting steady prices for Oats and Hay and fluctuations for Wheat and Corn. It also records inspection totals for Corn, Hay, and Cars by grade and car count, with no established grade in some lines.
Cattle receipts reach 2000 with 1700 Texas cattle. native steers fetch 6.00 to 6.50, Texans 4.25 to 5.50, cows 3.00 to 5.25, stockers 8.00 to 15.00, bulls 5.00 to 4.50, calves 4.50 to 6.50. Hogs total 10000 with bulk 5.80 to 6.30, heavies 6.20 to 6.35, packers 5.90 to 6.20, medium 5.20 to 6.20, sows 4.50 to 5.80. Sheep receipts 2000, market firm. muttons 4.50 to 9.75, lambs 6.25 to 6.75, wethers 4.75 to 5.50, ewes 4.75 to 5.40.
Buffalo live stock market notes February 20 report cattle receipts light with veal prices listed. Hogs receipts 36 cars show stronger demand with heavy and mixed ranges and feeder bids. Sheep and lambs slow and lower with lamb top at 6.40 and sheep at 3.00 to 5.90.
Cattle receipts 264 quiet market with shippers paying 5.00 to 6.00 for good to choice cattle and 4.85 to 5.60 for heifers. Extra calves 7.00 to 7.25. Hog receipts 1,458 with selects 6.50 and choice packers 6.40 to 6.50. Light shippers 5.40 to 6.00. pigs 4.15 to 5.40. Sheep receipts 72 with extra wethers 5.15 to 5.50 and extra lambs 6.25.
Cattle receipts around 9.00 with prices from 4.40 to 7.00 for various grades. hog receipts near 30,000 with top at 6.40 and typical ranges 5.60 to 6.40. sheep receipts 12,000 with native lambs 4.75 to 6.60 and western lambs 5.00 to 6.65. For Friday, hogs estimated at 27,000.
Chicago markets show wheat and corn mixed notes with May and July positions. Grain prices list wheat at May 84 3 4 cents. corn up modestly at May 61 4 and July around 61 4 to 60 5. oats mostly higher with May around 43 1 4 and July near 36 4. provisions quotes include pork at 15.60 to 15.80, yardage 9.35 to 9.46, ribs 8 4 0 to 8 4 5, eggs and dairy prices across varieties, and live poultry values for hens geese turkeys chickens ducks.
A three quarters of an hour strike occurred at the Century building when nonunion workers were assigned to decorate a storeroom. All carpenters walked out and the nonunion crew were promptly laid off.
The Ashland avenue and Twenty fourth street hose house was commissioned at 5 p m on Wednesday. At 7 08 p m the company made its first run a 300 dollar blaze at 1534 East Seventeenth street.
This notice itemizes current shippers prices across poultry, dairy, meats, hides, tallow, and produce. Hens and spring chickens eight to ten cents per pound, fresh eggs thirty cents, various cheeses and butter, hides and tallow quoted, flour and bran prices listed, fruits and vegetables with per ton, per bushel, or per box rates, and cured meats priced by cut and weight. Includes Kingan & Co. price list mentions.
Oysters New York counts a can four cents I S FL Co selects a can thirty five cents best Baltimore standards per gallon 1 25 best Baltimore selects per gallon 1 50 New York counts per one hundred dollars 1 00 White fish eight and one half cents per pound trout eight cents per pound No 1 pickerel eight cents cat ten cents per pound boneless herring eight cents per pound dressed herring sixty four cents per pound Clams little necks ten cents per hundred Lobsters twenty five cents per pound Frog legs 1 50 to 2 00 per dozen Shrimp s a gallon 1 25
A list shows varied drug and chemical products with quoted prices per unit or quantity. Items include morphine, opium, quinine, cocaine muriate, licorice, balsam copavia, and castile soap, with prices ranging from fractions of a dollar to several dollars per ounce, gallon, or pound.
A compact early 20th century price listing shows varied coffee brands and roasted offerings, assorted sugars, salts, beans, molasses and syrups, and rice. Items include City brand coffees, Sugars Dominoes, and multiple A grade sugar cubes with per unit costs. Local bulk prices fluctuate by weight and package size, reflecting market options of the era.
A catalog style listing shows canned goods prices for corn peaches raspberries pineapples and other items with varying weights and prices. The text also includes dense fragments of coal and coke prices across counties and towns such as Green county Indiana Blossburg Slack Hocking Valley Connellsville and Jackson with assorted bag and ton pricing.
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