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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1902
Page
2
Fort Keogh received Forsyth’s plea for soldiers to quell unrest among Cheyennes at the Lame Deer Indian agency. An agency posse was fired upon. one Indian policeman was killed. A Cheyenne man named White killed his wife and daughter before killing himself.
In Rome New York on January 10, a high school strike erupted after Albert Adams reported rough handling by Principal H W Harrison. A three student committee requested an apology. Harrison refused. About 130 students walked out all day, with 25 girls among them. Offenders were suspended five days pending board action before exams.
Arctic explorer L L Ditche of Kansas University told the Stock Breeders Association that the Garden of Eden lies in polar regions. He cited evidence praised by David Starr Jordan and argued that ancient warm poles hosted oaks sycamores and giant sequoias, with Eskimo legends linking northern origins to Eden.
Maj J E Macklin and wife stay at the English hotel. He succeeds Col Noble as recruiting officer in Indianapolis and will soon leave for the Philippines to join his regiment the Sixteenth Infantry. Macklin formerly commanded a battalion of the Eleventh Infantry on Leyte Island P I and 100 native scouts. he previously lived in Richmond Indiana.
Edward Franklin of Spencer Indiana died in a New Orleans hospital after arriving from South Africa where he traveled with a British service muleteer unit. He became ill from the water he drank in Africa.
The January apportionment of school funds is completed by State Supt Jones. The total is 1 002 160 33 with 757 684 children of school age. Per capita apportionment is 1 28 Marion county pays into the treasury 88 123 49 and gets back 461 449. Sir Pettit, a star route mail carrier, was shot and killed in Balm near Gainesville Tenn as his brother is arrested on suspicion. Another brother is serving a life sentence for wife murder.
Mrs. Rosa Muntzer, 56, of Norwood, was driving on Shelby Street Thursday afternoon when her horse bolted after a street car, dashing in front of the vehicle. She suffered bruises but was not seriously injured, according to Dr. Gray of the City Dispensary.
In Sandringham on January 10 the health of Queen Alexandria remains unsatisfactory. She is likely to stay in retirement for an extended period to rest ahead of the coronation.
City life note reports a reception by College Avenue Baptist Church on Friday evening for 40 new members with musical solos by Mrs. Christian Julius Burkhardt Emerson Charlie and Miss Bonnie Summit and recitations by the Misses Baker. The pastor will give a short address and friends are invited. Also, Butler college dormitory young ladies present a play within a play from Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream on St Valentine’s Day at the college residence with many named participants.
The beet sugar men and Cuban sugar traders reached a compromise on a tariff bill affecting Cuba. The plan offers a 50 percent drawback on certain Cuban sugar imports and a 50 percent duty reduction for island products shipped in American vessels. Congress may reject it as Cuban leaders demand U.S. concessions first.
Rev. Edward W. Murray resigns Thursday night and will resume evangelist work. The church elected new officers including Deacons G. G. Summers and John Langredge, deaconesses Mrs. A. B. Sanborn Mrs. R. Bason and Mrs. G. Cuckoo, clerk Mrs. E. W. Murray, Sunday-school superintendent Claude Helm, auditor G. G. Summers, and treasurer Robert Patterson.
Art Schobengert went to the City dispensary with an injured eye after claiming a corn cob struck his eye. He said he did not blink as the object approached, leaving scratched areas on the eye ball.
William Richardson of 540 South Capitol Avenue stepped into a tub of broken glass at Salvation Army headquarters after a whisky bottle was tossed into the tub. He was taken to City Hospital with a severely lacerated foot.
The Indianapolis chapter of the League of American sportmen will meet at Joseph K Bell's office in the Stevenson building Saturday night to plan the National assembly meeting in Indianapolis. All persons interested in fish and game protection are invited.
Franklin J. Moses a former South Carolina governor was arraigned in Boston police court on larceny charges for stealing and pawning a $50 overcoat owned by tailor James A. Hawkes. He admitted morphine and opium addiction and was sentenced by Judge Brown to four months at Deer Island.
Joe Bernstein known as Lefty New York is held at Harrison street station. Nine boys ages 8 to 12 confess he taught them to steal stores under threat of death. A revolver found on Bernstein will figure in court. All boys live in the ghetto.
M De Witte presented to the czar a report detailing a collapsing metal sector, depressed textile industry, 27 percent drop in land productivity over 20 years, one fifth America yield per acre, a 48 percent decline in horses over 30 years, and 42 percent of taxpayers in arrears. Only Finland, Poland and the Caucasus show prosperity. report halts plans for aggression.
Charles Hawthorne 82 died Thursday at 1044 W Chrost. Funeral from home Sunday at 2 p.m. He helped found Indiana’s first wholesale queensware store after moving to Indianapolis in 1850. Survived by wife Harriet Jones Hawthorne formerly of Cincinnati married 1819. Walter Arbuckle 26 died Thursday of typhoid pneumonia at his father's home 1115 College Ave. He served four years as a city inspector. his widow and daughter survive.
In Lebanon Indiana on January 10 Judge Higgins overruled saloonkeeper defendants demurrer in the estate of John Couchman who died after falling from a buggy while intoxicated. The administrator sued for damages claiming liquor sale caused the death. The court rejected contributory negligence as a bar to recovery.
George H Edwards, a paroled patient at the insane hospital, fought officers from the city to the institution on Thursday. He had been released two months earlier but became so violent he was returned and carried to his cell after a struggle.
The estate of Thomas Holmes was awarded a $3600 verdict in superior court on Thursday. Holmes was killed near Kankakee NL while on his first run as fireman for the Big Four.
John Kimball, an elderly farmer in Westville, Ind., was gored by a bull Thursday and remains in critical condition.
H M Purviance of Huntington announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for joint senator representing Whitley and Huntington counties. He seeks support from party members ahead of the primary.
Richmond Indiana January 10 20 grand jury indictments returned against druggists in Cambridge City for illegally selling intoxicating liquors.
Obituary brief lists several deaths including Joseph C. Long 74 Richmond William Allen Republican politician Evansville George Sowers 55 East Germantown Wm M Haase 43 Mahalasville dropsy John Highbee 59 Sullivan Mrs Frank A Denslow bride of two weeks South Bend heart trouble
The Detroit report profiles John Ramsey a brittle Scotsman, ex British Army, who describes aiding in the 23 Burmese executions by hanging with vines. He recalls enlisting in the Nineteenth and the gruesome massacre, followed by years of wandering before arriving at the McGregor mission. Ramsey now faces a severe foot infection and hospital access hurdles due to his lack of citizenship.
Washington January 10 The house approved the Hepburn Nicaraguan canal bill by 308 to 2 with dissenters Fletcher of Minnesota and Lassiter of Virginia. An amendment granting the president authority to buy the Panama canal for 40 million dollars was adopted by 170 to 102.
Several thousand dollars worth of bronze statues flower vases urns and water pipes were stolen from the rear yard of Mrs Emmons Blaine's mansion in Chicago. The house site a brick wall ten feet high was awaiting occupancy by W B Leeds president of the Chicago and Rock Island railroad. Thieves used a key to drive up with a wagon loaded the statues onto the wagon and removed heavy concrete pedestals. They then took bronze urns and water pipes from the house exterior.
Evansville Indiana January 10. Frank Floyd a laborer struck Attorney Thos Lindsay several times with a hammer Thursday night. Lindsay is in critical condition. Floyd escaped after the attack, believed to stem from an old grudge.
A shoe sale Saturday at Brown's Court House Shoe Store located at 206 E Wrashington Street offers discounts on footwear. Shop hours and sale specifics are not provided in the accessible text.
In Goshen Albert Doolittle of Rochester attempted self harm by hanging but was cut down in time to be saved. In Elwood Fred Lamb, a young soldier, tried to end his life by morphine. doctors saved him amid rumors of an Anderson girl’s jilting. In Bluffton Webster Lish, 27, made a fourth attempt by cutting an artery with his penknife after prior poisonings. he will recover. Also partial notices advertise Dean's Ointment, Baldwin's Music Shop piano prices, and shoe sale events at Brown's Court House Store with various discounted items.
An old advertisement listing Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with Dr Edmund D Clark as the authorizing name and address in Newton Clayrool Building Rooms 407-409. It also promotes Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething children, claiming it soothes gums relieves wind colic and diarrhoea at twenty five cents per bottle.
Central Christian Church elected B. W. Cole F. C. Gardner and E. J. Robison as trustees for a year and J. S. Duncan M. E. Elstum Thomas McQuillan C F Whitsett James Hewitt William Phillips and Bert Self as deacons. Englewood Christian Church reports 349 members, up 17 percent. Plymouth Church pastor H C Meserve urges downtown site and temporary church as permanent plans delay due to federal building site.
S. W. Cor. Delaware and Chiosis receives patients from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for all kinds of dental work. Dr. W. B. Craig, veterinary surgeon, treats dogs. Office at Wood's Stable. Tel. 1097. Ladies' fine enamel shoes priced at 4.00 for 2.48 at Brown's Court House Shoe Store, 306 EB. Washington St.
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