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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1900
Page
8
York January reports a major featherweight bout set for Tuesday night at Broadway Athletic Club. Dixon and McGovern, both in peak condition, expect to outshine rivals as gate receipts split 75 percent to the winner and 25 percent to the loser.
In Wheeling West Virginia Eddie Ry defeated Fred Green of Cleveland in a hard fought nine round bout described as one of the toughest. The action took place Monday night with Ry gaining the decision after a close contest.
New York January 9 Matty Matthews defeated Isidore Strauss in twelve rounds at the Hercules Athletic Club. Strauss showed early rounds but a stiff left to the abdomen ended the fight in the twelfth.
A fragmented sports column reports on NY state efforts to secure pitcher Cy Swaim, Yale defeating Indiana Illinois league action, and NC A A racing denial. It mentions Pittsburgh club tax questions and six lap cycle tracks with dates and sums amid a scatter of unsigned notes about leagues and riders.
An international rowing regatta may be held in Paris next September. Secretary Fortmeyer of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen has written the officers of the French association and thinks dates can be arranged.
Indiana athletic association aims to secure Jim Jeffries as referee for the Blackwell Robertson prize fight in Cleveland club hall on Jan 17, promising the biggest Indianapolis crowd yet. Blackwell trains hard confident he can beat Robertson, with prior wins over heavier opponents under Carl Roloff.
After his bout in Peoria Illinois with Young Kenney the Montana kid prepares to fight any 18 or 120 pounder. Sherman Crosley seeks a private finish between Eugene Bezenah of Cincinnati and Jack Downey of Chicago near Muncie. Tom O Rourke doubts repeal of the Horton boxing law and pledges a grand arena bid for the Jeffries Corbett fight. Billy Connors eyeing six rounders with Fitzsimmons Ruhlin or McCoy awaits a 20600 purse in New York. The mysteri ous Billy Smith Rube Fern bout for the welterweight title set in Buffalo January 15 headlines the scene.
In Cincinnati at the People's theater Jim Jeffries discussed a possible bout with Bob Fitzsimmons. He said he would fight but not under winner take all terms. Jeffries proposed a sixty five percent share for himself, deeming Fitzsimmons' plan as inadequate.
Montrose Pennsylvania January 9 Cornelius W Shew and James J Egan were hanged for the murder of Jackson Pepper a farmer near Rush The crime was brutal and planned to rob Pepper They battered his brains out Oct 9 1897 in his barn and left without completing the robbery Egan and Shew were condemned after Susie Graham the common law wife of Egan testified against them
Wasco Blasco, who loved Hungarian Anna Sisicok, was hanged in the county jail after a 1899 rejection led to her four gunshots and his suicide attempt. He survived briefly, was tried and convicted, and was executed Tuesday morning.
London reports Louise Massett a young teacher who killed her two year old child by strangling it at a railroad station lavatory was hanged after a brief trial. Despite petitions from Paris and protests by French women in England, Massett faced no notable sympathy.
Readily orchestrated party slate wins in wards 2 4 9 and 14 as Taggart forces claim control of district delegates. Anti-Taggart factions clash with ex judge Cox accusing Barrett of fixing votes. disorder erupts in Ward 9 and improvised meeting spaces amid police intervention.
The document lists ward by ward city employees and allies of the administration as delegates to a convention. Names include John Lyendecker as evidence collector, Albert Lahm and Joe Fanning as public works commissioners, Henry Stacy as gas expert, and James Moriarity as councilman among others.
Leon Ray, 7, grabbed a receiver and fired a toy gun at Ruth Barnes, 7, as she cowered in a corner. The Barnes girl died instantly and Ray is jailed. Authorities say there was no clear motive beyond alleged childish jealousy.
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