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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1893
Page
4
A long Indiana miscellany reports on Frederick Stucky’s death near Gosport with notes on his Kentucky birth, Indiana moves, and political ties. It covers Martinsville maniac David Griggs, Gosport figures, local fires, canning plans, and numerous small town events from Richmond to Warsaw.
Supt Ferguson announces the annual staff of 43 physicians at the city dispensary. The item notes multiple marriages including Grace Donough to Henry R. Martin at Meridian street home and Lucy Helen Jacobs to George In Seymour at N Delaware street residence. Also mentions lectures at Plymouth church, highway funding circulars, and society events at Columbia club with officers elected.
An inspector recounts a humorous yet telling postoffice robbery in a Wisconsin lumber town. The postmaster, a talkative German immigrant, explains how his son aided a break in by obtaining the safe combination he had written on a wall card, leading to a $1800 loss that the government refused to reimburse.
January 5 report from Ciarenco describes a major natural gas explosion at the Donohue printing plant in Dearborn Street. Firemen Russell and Gallagher were fatally burned, sixteen others injured, and a series of blasts followed as workers were pulled from debris. None of the injured are expected to die?
Sporting lite bout between J. C. Comstock and C. M. Neal set for Kalamazoo Michigan on January 10 with a $200 side. Wednesday speed results list winners Speedwest Black Maria No Remarks Lorenzo and J. B. Freed. Hawthorne track winners include Critic Santa Mega Billy Winkerton Bankrupt One Dime. New Orleans winners Wednesday Jong Brook The Judge Bret Harte Alpahouse Bonnie Bird. Jack Ashton in Bellevue Hospital New York with erysipelas in critical condition. Sullivan and Frank Moran split and severed friendship. Col North to ship foreign bred horses for spring training in Chicago and on eastern tracks. Tred Pritchard London accepts Olympic Club of New Orleans offer to fight Aleck Greg gains first week in April. Empire theater Wednesday night Kid Henderson against Charles Grim. Billy Teller and William Bamblett close, fighting started rough.
The report shows light cattle receipts and slow trading with steady to firm prices for shipping steers and cows. Hog receipts were light with strong demand and closing prices near day’s high, while sheep and lambs were scarce with limited demand and modest gains at best.
Efarketa oy Telegraph Chicago reports early market quotes for wheat oats and pork with May and Jan contracts. Prices listed include wheat May and Jan figures, oats at 4 esc, pork near 17.80 for January and 17.60 for May, lard around 10.75 for January and 10.25 for May, short ribs 35. January and May quotes show fluctuations.
Clarissa Foster of Riley Indiana had been totally blind in her right eye for over a year. Dr T W Farnsworth restored her sight after other physicians failed.
Paris declares fashion guidance on cold weather dress with bright red dominating trends. Diamond dye scarlet promises durable color for two pounds of goods. ten cent package sold at drugstores delivers stable color through soapsuds.
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