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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1907
Page
1
The trial of Chief Metzger features defenses seeking to introduce testimony on his state of mind and preaffray orders. Judges restrict testimony while witnesses testify to Metzger’s good reputation and past conduct as prosecutors clash over admissible evidence.
Special Judge J W Kealing restricts to 25 character witnesses as Chief Metzger case resumes Fridley. Defense witness Wharton testifies Metzger’s reputation for peace and quietude is good, excused without cross. Senator Cox affirms the same, recalled indictments and acquittals. Koons cross-exam brought out his penitentiary sentence for confessing to raping a 6 year old girl. Koons’ story was used by state previously.
The New Fountain rink will open Saturday night January 19 at Shelby street intersection with Virginia avenue and Prospect street. W. H. Ryan, a veteran skater, will be in charge. The rink offers a floor of the best material and finish for skaters.
Rome, Jan. 18. The pope prepares an address to Catholics worldwide appealing for support during the church crisis and the French laws. The message aims to rally aid and unity amid mounting tensions.
Havana reports Kingston Jamaica suffered massive destruction from an earthquake and tidal wave. Port Royal lighthouse ruined and the harbor wiped out with about four hundred killed and five hundred in hospitals.
The Sun offers $500 to The Indianapolis News or a charity named by it if the News proves The Sun's city circulation estimate correct via open examination. The Sun, failing that, asks the News to publish the truth. A new offer repeats the incentive and invites bold face publication on the first page.
Idaho and Colorado governors addressed charges of fraud in the Moyer case. Extradition of Western Federation men denounced as a fraud and a disgrace to a liberty loving people.
The United Mine Workers convention endorses direct primary voting for county and state officers and a popular expression for U S senators. They condemn Idaho extradition of Moyer Haywood Pettibone and criticize Idaho Colorado governor and Sherrick ruling while backing Indiana Supreme Court and public school board allowance bills.
The Indiana House Judiciary Committee backed a measure to establish a medical school in Indianapolis as part of Indiana University. Purdue supporters urged sending the bill to the education committee, but the move failed. Key figures included S C Dwyer, John H Edwards, Thomas M Andrew, and Speaker Branch.
Scripps-McRae prose notes from London report the Kingston disaster with Henneker Heaton MP describing a morning quake scene. He describes buildings collapsing blocking streets, darkness, dust, and panic as people seek loved ones. He reports 80 percent of Kingston houses ruined or badly damaged.
Light rain and little temperature change expected Friday night into Saturday. Sunrise 7 04, sunset 4 48. TOG notes limited detail with scattered periods and unclear timing.
The senate passed the appropriation for general assembly expenses returning from the house for final action Friday and was signed by the president of the senate. Eleven new bills were introduced and committees reported favorably on eleven bills.
A report from interior says an old volcano near Kingston in the Blue Mountains, several miles from Somerset, has become active again. Rumblings are heard in Somerset and smoke is said to be issuing from the crater.
Representative Thomas A. Daily of Indianapolis drafted a bill aimed at preventing price-cutting wars among public service firms. If a rival drops prices to drive another out of business, the reduced rate would be fixed and further increases prohibited. The proposal would cover gas and telephone firms and other public utilities.
Senator Will R. Wood’s Sunday barbering ban wins senate approval by 36 to 6 and moves to the house. Union barbers express satisfaction as debate notes the law already covers Sunday work. Representative Hay of Terre Haute, a barber, will push the measure in the house.
The report of the constitution committee on United Mine Workers reform is reviewed by delegates. Indiana miners push for improved mine inspection laws and efficiency. Testimony about Clinton mine No. 7 sparks debate over Inspector Epperson and department capabilities. Delegates from district law confer with coal field legislators.
A Kingston message from Avon Croeder manager of the Hamburg American Line reports tourists escaped injury during the quake. The dispatch confirms no serious damage to travelers or facilities in Kingston.
Representative Jesse McKinney of Jay County introduced a bill in the house to abolish the state supervisor of natural gas. He argues the office was created during Indiana's gas boom to curb waste and plugging dry wells, and that the need has passed as producers now avoid waste. Bryce A. Kinney serves as gas inspector with one deputy.
The president nominated R. L. Ballinger of Seattle Washington to be commissioner of the general land office. The announcement came from the Scripps McRae Press Association in Washington on January 18.
A Kingston Jamaica schoolhouse collapsed after an earthquake shock killing nine children. The wireless message from Guantanamo via Cape Henry reports the Colon steamer relayed the disaster and notes Kingston harbor channel conditions have shifted.
MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S COATS at your own price at Rink's tomorrow. ICE CREAM CONES are proper for banquets receptions and parties. ORIENTAL AND DOMESTIC rugs and carpets cleaned altered repaired dyed. Ashjian Bros. & Co. Both phones.
Mrs. Harry Ross of Indianapolis has obtained temporary custody of Lionel M. Erwin, age 10, after sneaking the boy from Casstown Ohio and driving toward Indiana. Elsa Erwin, grandmother of the boy’s father, previously cared for him. Mrs. Ross seeks permanent custody and claims neglect by Lionel’s paternal grandmother while Elsa Erwin travels from Ohio to respond.
Former Judge James D. Ermston of Anderson moves to Indianapolis to practice before the Marion county bar. A slice of city life mentions lawyers, legislators, grand jury questions, market stalls, a social club meeting, a trial witness, a manicure hall remark, streetcar conductors, and a farmer noting unusually wet weather benefiting crops and coal stocks.
The Sun lists rooms for rent with ten words under Vor Rent Rooms. Three days free on last page. Note reads New pianos priced at 165 dollars. Wulsehuer’s
Special to The Gun Evansville Indiana reports the Ohio River rising to record breadth with floods spreading 10 to 39 miles wide. People flee to hills as farms and buildings submerge. Authorities seek volunteers to locate and aid victims amid fears of greater damage.
The Ohio River at Tell City Indiana is out of its banks and rising about an inch per hour. The flood has moved the wharfboat to the depot yards and pushed the Moreweck hotel to the foot of Seventh Street.
White and Patoka rivers rise flooding Gibson county bottoms. Many homes inundated with only a few families staying in attics. Water threatens the southern trucks toward Mt. Carmel as Watchmen guard the area.
The Ohio River rose two inches per hour causing flood conditions in Madison Indiana. The Louisville and Carrollton packet Helen Gould tied up at Louisville due to high water. Pennsylvania railroad tracks on Front Street flooded and a freight depot was inundated preventing goods handling.
The Ohio river rose above danger levels in Jeffersonville and Albany with homes flooded in lowlands. In Louisville area, residents were evacuated as the river flooded shorelines and thousands gathered to view the rising waters.
Aurora Indiana buries streets under floodwaters as families evacuate to higher ground. Rescue teams transport people and belongings from flooded homes while up to a thousand residents face displacement amid rising water.
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