All Stars to Bowl in Indianapolis Weekend
All star bowling team selected for Indianapolis appearances February 20 and 21 as Daddas, Marions, Independents, Calumets and Blue Lashes join forces. The All stars open January 26 in Chicago, then Columbus and Ohio Kentucky routes before reaching Indianapolis. Roster includes Thompson Chicago Kern Cincinnati Gravee Cleveland Gebhardt Detroit Reed Columbus Keane Chicago Kuppinger St. Louis. Games at Independent Turner alleys with three matches each afternoon and possible order yet undecided.
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Wphe
Marion
Eft
Alletars
Chicago
Columbus
Ohio
Kentucky
Indianapolis
W. W. Thompson
Chiccago
Martin Kern
Cincinnati
J._F. Gravee
John
Turner Flleys
Thompson
Willams
Fehrenbach
McCoy Declines Rematch With Choynski Over WTA Terms
New York January 22 Kid McCoy refuses to meet Joe Choynski again unless the winner takes all the purse. McCoy says it must be winner take all or no fight. He notes he has beaten Choynski twice and demands his terms for a third bout.
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New York
Kid McCoy
Joe Choynski
McCoy
Choynski
Baseball off season chatter hints at coaching moves and plans
Billy Earle and Bill Clark are tied to Princeton for next spring as the Boston catcher returns to coach. Heinie Peitz may ask Cincinnati to reduce salary monthly to live frugally. Clubs in Pittsburg Cincinnati and others adjust rosters while managers discuss training sites and farm arrangements for the next season.
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Billy Earle
Bill Clark
Princeton
Boston
Heinie Peitz
Cinneinnati Club
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Baltimore
Johnny McGraw
DeMontreville
McGraw
Cleve
Ban Johnson
Sty
Buffalo
Detroit
Speer
Joe Cantillon
Fredarnes
Buck Ebright
Cudahy
Cuba
Abner Powell
St. Louis
Hot Springs
Red J
Dinnett
Chicago Iun
Iburgs
Thomie
Philadelphias
Iarfette
Bostons
Durham
Brooklyns
Savannah
Galace
New York
Miller prepares for motor tandem races and European events
Miller, champion six day cyclist, has arranged a new French motor for use in races. He is ready to meet all comers with Joe Judge in a motor tandem race. He plans to travel to Europe in early summer for 72 and 100 hour events.
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Phates “Miller
Joe Judge
Cace Ein A& Motor
Europe
English motor cyclist challenges American riders in $5000 race series
Charles Jarrett, an English rider, enters the United States aiming to arrange track races for $5000 a side with American stars Miller Waller Henshaw Crooks or others after defeating top English riders on the Crystal Palace track. James Casey, Major Taylor’s teammate, retires from the track.
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Pittsburgh
Charles Jarrett
Crystal
Palace -Track
London
Miller, Waller
Henshaw
Crooks
James Casey
Taylor
Europe
Casey
California boxing law reshapes prize fights and licenses
Peter Maher refuses a six round bout with Frank Childs as California imposes a 1009 dollar annual club license. San Francisco clubs Columbia and National plan big fights under a route open to finish. Kid Parker versus Otto Sicloff set for January 29 before the Colorado Athletic Club. Eddie Lenny taunts Terry McGovern for a possible Canadian title clash. Jeffries and Corbett match eyed for March 15 though the champ may delay. Dixon benefit uncertain after McCoy Choynski outcome. Dixon, a popular ring figure, looms large in public sentiment.
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Peter Maher
Frank Childs
California
San Francisco
Columbia
National
Kid Parker
Otto Sicloff
Colorado Athletic Club
Eddie Lenny
Terry McGovern
Canada
McGovern
Lenny
Terry
Jeffries
Corbett
Sharkey
George Dixon
McCoy-Choynski
Dixon
YMCA Basketball Doubleheader Attracts Local Fans
Tuesday night the YMCA team faces Butler followed by a preliminary high school game against the second YMCA squad. First strong action since Yates era with both YMCA teams. Players have trained hard and organizers expect solid play.
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Butler
Yates
Grand Central Handicap Tournament and Penn Olympic Prep
The Grand Central Handicap Tournament of the Limited Gun Club runs Feb 6 7 and 8. A planned large shooting park near Chicago aims to host international meets. Notre Dame and Wisconsin indoor meet is set for early March in the new gym. Cornell is not scheduled against Chicago University next fall due to a hard schedule. University of Pennsylvania prepares for the Paris Olympic Games. A 56 pound weight and a discus appear at Franklin Field sparking interest. McCracken, Penns star heavy man, first day lifts the 56 pound weight to over 30 feet and the discus 110 feet. World records are 38 feet and 127 feet 11 inches respectively. McCracken looks strong to rise to form.
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Chicago
Notre Dame
Wisconsin
Chicago University
Cornell
University of Pennsylvania
Paris
Franklin Field
McCracken
Penn
Eavy
Hypocrisy Debate Leads to Clergy Resignation and Topeka Editorship
In Oakland Rev James C MacInnes resigns over hypocrisy within the church saying ministers should enjoy personal liberty and slating churchgoers. In Topeka Rev thas M Sheldon will take full charge of the Topeka Daily News the week of March 123 to edit a Christian daily.
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Oakland
Cal
James C. MacInnes
Congregational Chapel
Lushers
Topeka
Kas
Thas, M. Sheldon
Topeka Daily News
Hen’s egg bears Bryan monogram mystery
William J. Bryan boarded with Cotler Bride in Washington. A hen laid an egg showing his initials W J B on the shell, seen from different angles, then shipped to Mrs. Bryan in Texas. Also promotes Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil and Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup with prices listed.
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Washington
William ‘J. Bryan
Cotler T. Bride
Congress
Bride
Bryan
Capital
Texas
Ladies' Shoes at Slashed Prices in Wee Car Sale
Readable fragments indicate a sale offering ladies shoes marked down to $1.35 from $2.00 with emphasis on low rates and a promotional event described as a “wee car” sale. Details are limited and pricing is the key takeaway.
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Seaedehn
Female muslin skirt with embroidery and trims
Classified item describes a ladies' muslin skirt in fine cambric with a knee flounce, ruffie, one row embroidery, six tucks, deep hem, and dust ruffle. Priced at one dollar twenty five cents, with a discount of ninety eight cents.
Kansas Lynchings at Fort Scott End Friends in Mob Rule
George Silbee and Ea Meeks, half brothers, were taken from jail and hanged to trees by a mob after being convicted of murdering Leopold Exitinger. Amos Phillips was also convicted, while Silbee claimed his brother’s innocence. Deputy sheriff Behmer was attacked as a motive, and the mob later fled, concealing Phillips.
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Fort Scott
Kas
Jam
George Silbee
Ea Meeks
Leopold Exitinger
Amos Philips
Bates Coounty
Wile
Phillips
Silbee
Meeks
Behmer
Yaqui Indians' Last Stand Reported in Sonora Conflict
Telegrams from Nogales confirm heavy losses in a battle with Mexican forces led by Lorenzo Torres. Fifty Mexican troops were killed or wounded, and Yaqui chief Tetobiate along with 200 fighters were reported killed. Five hundred Yaqui prisoners, Father Beltran, and the Josephine sisters were to be moved to Ortiz.
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Nogales
Ariz
Ortiz
Sonora
Macoyate
Lorenzo Torres
Tetobiate
Father Beltran
Josephine
Den of Iniquity Report From Cuban Women’s Prison
Havana reports Maj Runcie decries the women’s prison as filthy and iniquitous with no blankets or cots and hundreds confined. Sanitary conditions are described as described as worse than Spanish mis management. Wood cites a leper prison as filthy as a hog pen.
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Havana
Maj
Runcie
Sener Lanuza
Gen. Brooke
Gen. Wood
Dowie Uses Phonograph to Speak at Chicago Service
In Chicago on Sunday two talking phonograph machines carried the voice of John Alexander Dowie from White Lake Michigan where he rested. The Zion tabernacle audience heard the healer conduct a service proving he had not lost his voice.
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Chicago
Zion Tabernacle
John Alexander Dowie
White Lake
Mich
Man attempts hanging of Pieta as wife’s lover attacked
John Staetch in Chicago on Sunday tried to hang B. Pieta, but Pieta fought back and escaped with the noose around his neck. Doctors fear possible death from strangulation while the attacker fled. Burdock Blood Bitters advertised as a health tonic in same note.
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Chicago
John Staetch
B. Pieta
Sunday
Pieta
Fire Department Budget and Equipment Plans
The fire chief’s annual report details a department cost of $177 007.44 with $144 530.69 for salaries. It records 957 alarms averaging $174.50 each, 22 engine houses, 28 companies, 169 firemen, 21 088 feet of hose, and 219 fire alarm boxes. The chief urges an additional aerial ladder for a downtown house and two hook and ladders for outlying districts.
Mount and M Kinley Temperance Meeting at Fourth Presbyterian
At a Fourth Presbyterian Church gathering Rev. W C Helt of the Anti saloon league reports progress but laments lack of enthusiasm. He says the league has pressed Gov Mount to resign the Elwood police board and warns against support for officials who fail to curb the canteen system.
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Fourth Presbyterian Church
W. C. Helt
Anti-saloon League
Mount
Elwood
McKinley
Contagious Disease Move For Burnham Family
Health authorities remove A C Burnham and his wife who have small pox to the city hospital pavilion. Their home at 330 Beville Ave is disinfected after the move on Monday.
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A C. Burnham
Beville Ave
Record rail activity in Indianapolis surpasses 29 year high
Last week in Indianapolis 27 698 cars were handled and 91 172 loaded, the highest weekly figures in 29 years. Loaded cars rose 1 392 from the prior week and exceed 1899 by 526 1898 by 1 099 1897 by 1 262 1896 by 4 473 1895 by 4 130 1894 by 5 333. The belt road moved 20 57 cars up 1 208 from last week and 3 804 from the week before. At stockyards 1 447 cars were handled and on private switches 1 053.
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Indianapolis
Belt Road
Ncting
Crops of 1899 U S Department of Agriculture Estimate
The final 1899 crop estimates list wheat 343,303,846 bushels valued at 319,545,259 dollars corn 2,078,143,933 bushels valued at 629,210,110 dollars oats 796,177,113 bushels valued at 198,167,975 dollars potatoes 228,783,232 bushels shay 86,655,756 tons barley 72,783,943 bushels buckwheat 21, etc.
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Department of Agriculture
United States
Kipling Sails to Cape Town for Lung Health
London Jan 22 Rudyard Kipling traveled to Cape Town after doctors warned that remaining in England through the winter risked consumption. The illness prompted the move to seek warmer climate and better air for his lungs.
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London
Rudyard Kipling
Cape Town
England
Free to the ruptured cure at home without operation
Public notice offers a free trial of Dr. W. W. Rice method for ruptures. The letter claims self care at home without pain or time off work and cites a testimonial from M. K. Lyman of Delray, Iowa. Address provided as 438 Main St Adams New York for the free trial.
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WW. S. Rice
Main St
Adams
N. Y
M. IX. Lyman
M. K. Lyman
Delray
Pia
Dr. Rice
Rice
Mainat
Adama
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H. H. Lee
Washington St
Ates
Daddas
Marions
D Vers
Calumets
Blue Lashes
General Sporting Notes
Sheldon
W. J
Wasson
Colossal Clearing
H. P. Wasson & Co
H.P. Wasson & Co
Kansas
DOWIE
When Clothing CO
Mentzer
Herman Gerold
Weber
J. P. Hale
Upright Piano
Harvard
Fust the New
Pennsylvania St
Opera House
Carlin & Lennox
East Market Street
M’kinley
Helt
STOUT
Aya
Danbury Hat Co
East
Bign
Big Glass Het
Garland Stoves
C. Koehring & Bro
Penn St
Virginia Ave
Bryce
Homestead
Bryce’s
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