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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1904
Page
1
Vague reports claim Smith or Metzger control credentials committee with supposed 169 and 113 votes respectively and a late Friday gathering of the committee may decide. Precinct meetings Saturday will reveal support patterns among named ward members, with unpledged blocs and ongoing factional pressure influencing the outcome.
Thirteen men died at 1 p.m. Friday when a scaffold at a new Chicago post office building collapsed. The workers were plasterers and laborers. Walter Anderson narrowly escaped being killed. The scaffold ran interior and up a 16 foot high dome. walls holding planks pulled away as plastering continued.
Unsettled conditions expected with rain or snow. Temperatures hold around 30s to 32 by noon. forecasts point to possible precipitation across Indiana and nearby states with variable winds. A stray line of weather notes appears amid ad-like text referencing medicines and local business lines.
Reported from a Japanese source, Japanese forces at Port Arthur inflicted ship losses while destroyers and cruisers navigated the channel with limited hindrance. The dispatch notes the Japanese attack as a cover for transport movements and signals a broader plan for Vladivostok and railway disruptions.
Reports from St Petersburg claim Japanese forces landed near Polisht Bay and march on Hunenhin and Kirin. Vladivostok potential target as Russian rail line reportedly cut. Berlin notes German gunmakers exploring circumvention of neutrality laws to ship munitions to Russia via neutral port for reloading at sea.
Russians boarded the British India liner Mobessa in the Red Sea on Monday night and examined her papers. The ship was en route from London to Calcutta.
The Board of workers signed the lighting contract Friday morning and sent it to Mayer Holtzman for review. the contract is closed. The company filed a petition to switch from open to closed lamps, which was granted. The city will pay the old rate until bids opened and the new rate until the new contract begins.
James Edgy was arraigned on murder charges in Rochester Felon case tied to Patrick Corcoran death on Thursday. The hearing set for March fourth. Fire department aid arrived from Buffalo and Syracuse to fight a blaze in the business district damaging multiple buildings including Rochester dry goods at 156 East Main Street and the Sibley, Lindsay & Carr structure.
In Indianapolis a lawyer, Beary L. Schwartz of Schwartz and Baker, was fatally wounded by Hugh C Knowles in the Marine Bank Building. Knowles then shot himself. Attor ney Lyman M. Baker avoided harm. Schwartz died at Riviera hospital after four bullet wounds, three to the lungs.
No. 2 red wheat traded at $1.10 on the Indianapolis Board of Trade on Friday. This marks the highest price seen in Indianapolis since Joe Leiter’s noted corner on the market, when wheat sold for $1.35.
A new city directory arrives from the reeson on Friday and will be distributed Monday. It lists 1,528 names, up 366 from the last directory, yielding an estimated city population increase of 7,665. The directory projects overall city population estimates.
Baron Martin Von Schlosser, once a German army officer and longtime Port Angeles resident, was found dead on the range south of Hot Springs beside a bear’s body. Officials believe the baron was killed by the bear during a hunt.
An outbreak of measles spreads among about 1000 apprentice sailors on the receiving ship Franklin at Norfolk navy yard. Twelve patients have been moved to the naval hospital with no deaths reported. a general quarantine is in effect.
A state house elevator accident in Des Moines resulted in the instant death of two women, causing a 45 minute adjournment of both legislative chambers. Reports say Mrs. A Hogue of an unspecified location and Mrs. C B Fountain of Valley Junction were crushed in the fall as visitors crowded the car.
Rosa P Colcord tied to a wealthy St Louis family took her life by hanging on a night in Cimurgo Two messages were found in her room with lines about learning the great secret and mercy. Officers investigate the death noting a paraphrase of Shakespeare and a life of wealth spent.
Capt. George C. Broome of the Porto Rican regiment sues in Washington for 250000 dollars against James F. Barbour and his wife May Broome, alleging they alienated his wife’s affections. All parties are prominent in local society.
Hugh McGowan, head of the street car firm and a big stockholder in paving interests, told the Board of Works on Friday he would organize a creosoted wood block paving company if the board ordered brick paving between tracks on Michigan Street. The board deferred final action pending further consideration.
Report says 40 year old William Darnell was accused of striking his mother after she asked him to work. Police say he struck her with an ax handle during a dispute at their home. He faced a charge linked to intoxication.
Reagan, clerk of the last House of Representatives, emerges as a candidate for secretary of the Republican county committee. No other candidates are known. Judge W. Lindsell is reported dead. The Philadelphia Red Cross Society will send ten nurses to Japan. J. T. Grayson, 64, of Portland, Oregon, died in Cincinnati. Capt. Avery Henderson killed by a snowslide near Roosevelt Idaho. A Virginia Republican district official urged Roosevelt for president. Several cases of diphtheria aboard the training ship Monongahela at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Johnstown residents Eisla and Robert Shonafelt burned to death while mother was away. Pennsylvania commission to the Saint Louis World’s Fair asked Philadelphia to send the Moerty boil to the fair.
City sanitarian Dr. M J Spencer asserted Indianapolis has the best water of any city and backed it with figures. He noted the city shows fewer typhoid deaths than similarly sized cities and explained the spring advisory favors not freezing.
Davis gains backing as Ward 5 supports him for Republican chairman. Friends of Smith and Metzger, who had stayed out, now back Davis and push to present his name at the convention. If Davis is named, observers expect no first ballot selection and a convention stampede. Davis is said to be friendly to both Smith and Metzger.
Herman Martens, a well known bust repairman and world traveler, died at 3 a m Friday from injuries after a fall sustained the previous Wednesday. Born in Prussia in 1820, he was a general decorator by trade and later engaged in wallpaper and carpet business here until his death. He lived in Kerman for many years.
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