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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1907
Page
6
Special to The Sun notes New York's 1906 year saw vast sums spent on intoxicants and securities, with $300,000 in saloon sales and 281,495,601 shares traded. It cites $61,0400 in bonds and $18,179,000 donated by Carnegie, highlighting a paradox of thirst for liquor and wealth.
Last year Manhattan and Bronx postal bills totaled 17.8 million with 2.46 million residents. Daily income topped ten percent of national postal receipts as 59 million holiday pieces caused service delays. Officials seek 8 million for a new post office near the Pennsylvania terminal, while harbor funding also looms. In Wall Street, excitement rose when the Trust Company of America topped its new building, a worker’s daring feat on a girder drew cheers, and nerves were tested among busy financiers.
Delaval Beresford's remains head to Ireland for burial signaling the end of a volatile life. Flora Well, a mixed-race woman called Lady Flo, claims a widow's share from Beresford's will, asserting common-law marriage after living on his Mexican ranch for 25 years. The will left $50,000 to Flo, with rest to two surviving brothers, the Marquis of Waterford and Lord Admiral Charles Beresford.
New York dispatch reports Harry Thaw, confined in the Tombs for ten years, has regained health and weight as he prepares to stand trial January 21 for the murder of architect Stanford White. Friends expect a startling improvement in his condition despite the long confinement and delays.
A Philadelphia Record item describes a young couple at a vaudeville show who never applauded during the performance. Spectators speculated they were country folk who did not know how to clap, but near the end the girl whispered to her companion Henry that she must applaud this turn.
Eugene Anderson, once a village figure known as a hopeless drunkard, has quit the Amityville sanitarium after 13 years and now enjoys a fortune of about $1,000,000 from a will conditioned on a full year of abstinence. He poured whisky into the gutter in Renard's saloon to prove his reform, then announced plans to travel to southern California and later around the world. His brother James M. Anderson manages his estate, and the Anderson family owns land beneath the Gilsey house and St. Dennis hotel.
Secretary Root and Mrs Root will depart Washington next Thursday for Ottawa Canada to be guests of Earl Grey the governor general of Canada. Root described the visit as purely social in nature.
After 76 hours of deliberation, the jury in Pittsburg finds Councilman William A. Martin guilty of soliciting a bribe from the Pittsburg and Tube City Railroad company. A motion for a new trial will follow.
Special to The Sum Miss Margaret Maillard admitted she is a fraud and revealed her real name Clara Bosse of Chicago. She previously used Miss Maillard of Muncie Indiana and said she was controlled by Herman Thiéler with partners in several robberies.
Fireman John J. Seufert survived 30 hours amid a ruined paper warehouse fire after being buried by collapsing debris and water-filled wreckage. Comrades sang to keep him calm while rescuers finally heard his tapping signal and pulled him to fresh air, his wife racing to greet him as he survived.
Buffalo mayor argues the crying need in 1907 is to preserve prosperity while eradicating moral and business abuses. He urges enduring conditions with safeguards, honest inquiry, and elimination of demagogues to secure sound methods and the common good for the nation.
Municipal authorities of Barmen Prussia advertise for a dentist to treat an elephant at the local zoo. The creature suffers toothache from sugar intake and becomes unmanageable during attacks. Local dentists decline to fill teeth. one brave attempt led to an enraged chase and a damages claim.
Indianapolis Board of Public Works announces approved assessment roll for Sheldon Street east side improvement from Nineteenth to Pike. Remonstrances hearing set for Wednesday January 2 1907. roll on file with owners and property descriptions subject to assessment. Joseph T. Elliott Preston C. Trusler Fred J. Mack board members.
The Board of Public Works invites bids on street improvements including MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE to THE FIRST ALLEY NORTH OF TENTH STREET with 24 foot roadways, brick gutters, cement sidewalks, gutters, and curb work as shown on plans. Improvements on HIAWATHA STREET, HIGHLAND AVENUE, RIVRAL STREET, and ADAMS STREET described with grading, paving, curbing, and inlets. Bids require certified checks of 2.5 percent of the engineer's estimate, minimum $100, within five days of acceptance, or forfeit to the city. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
The Sun will insert ten words under For Rent Rooms three days frea of.
The Department of Public Works invites sealed bids at Room 5 Court House in Indianapolis by 10 am Friday January 18 1907 for tunnel work at City Hospital. Project includes linking boiler houses eight inch steam line connecting blow off to sewer old water line to new boiler room and cold water for domestic use. Specifications on file. board may reject any or all bids.
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