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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1902
Page
8
Tom Sharkey has posted a 2500 forfeit for a bout with champion Jim Jeffries, to be paid by February 1. Funds from other principals will also be sent to Harry Corbett as proof of good faith with the Yosemite athletic club. Sharkey’s manager says he will skip a bout with Mah in Louisville until the Jeffries match occurs.
Ringside gossip notes Gardner and Root prepare on the coast for a January 31 bout to decide championship eligibility. Fitzsimmons survived a stair fall in New York with no serious injuries. John L. Sullivan denounces the Irish championship craze as two big duffers. Michigan Governor Bliss bans prize fighting in the state.
Top notchers win four favorites in New Orleans races despite a heavy rain at Charleston and a muddy Oakland track. A 105 acre land purchase near Buffalo will become a new racing course, with initial races set for June 5 and improvements costing 175600. John C. Carr, financier of the Guttenberg track, dies in Morris Plains New Jersey. Eddie Santry and Kid Goulette were slated for a ten round bout in Grand Rapids but Gov Bliss vetoed the bill as 500 spectators gathered.
Base ball briefs note Shortridge plans a near complete schedule including top state schools and college teams. Rumors mention four clubs behind Spalding in the war staying by their man, while managers eye stable rosters as teams seek new affiliations and players move between leagues.
Bowling scores show Marion 2509 to Cleveland 2668 as Knox led the Marion attack and Capt. Bryson praised the team. City club night action saw Pritchett top the scores. A bitter east west delegate clash threatens the organization. Exhibition games between Rabe and Cromer at Pastime alleys showed Rabe 182 172 158 157 168 212 199 184 222 212 and Cromer 163 150 164 179 183 181 152 174 198 202.
Chicago January 22 Prof Edmund Janes James of Chicago university has been chosen unanimously as president of Northwestern university. He will assume duties February 1 at an annual salary of 7500 dollars, up 2500 from predecessor Dr Henry Wade Rogers two years ago.
Miss Gertrude Haynes leaves vaudeville for two months to star in The Fatal Wedding in a church setting with her choir. The new St Charles Orpheum in New Orleans opens under Charles Bray with two top acts, William Guille and Katherine Bloodgood, while Katzenjammers depart Park after three days and melodrama A Homespun Heart opens. The Empire hosts a week of The Utopians locales.
Coroner Brayton lights a dark cigar whose smoke curls a paper placed nearby. The description notes the cigar’s intense appearance and the curling effect of the smoke on the sheet.
A committee will study charges raised by Miss Mollie Meredith during the United Mine Workers convention in Tomlinson hall after President John Mitchell defended his position. Delegates debated, officers' elections were deferred, and two more district members joined the inquiry amid a tense session.
W D Van Horn of Terre Haute serves as president of district 11 for the Indiana bituminous field and is a key figure at the miners national convention. A veteran coal miner for 24 years, he helped expand local unions from 37 to 107, organizing southern Indiana miners and pushing for a union wage scale.
Chicago report of Charles J Fran cois De Neufchatel a self described French count detained after failing to pay 8000 at a hotel He claims secret mission and asserts he has killed nine men and wounded seven with a sword during three years of travel in America His wife and two children stayed at the hotel until morning while authorities questioned him.
Chicago police seek an injunction to halt dissolution of the Policemen's Protective Association after Mayor Harrison and Chief O'Neill ordered its disbanding. A hearing before Judge Hancey was set for Thursday morning. The suit argues the chief exceeded his authority in banning the society which allegedly shifted from protection to oath bound secrecy and city coercion.
St. Louis report notes Mrs. Mary Phelps Montgomery of Portland Oregon has joined the World’s Fair national commission board of lady managers. She is Gen. John S. Phelps’s daughter a former Missouri governor and former congresswoman and a leading western women's movement worker.
Indianapolis will not have another in sanity trust as long as Dr Lowry is superintendent. He has adopted strict rules including Rule 6 every suspected case of insanity shall be reported to the superintendent. Since the trust was exposed the number of insanity cases tried by dispensary physicians has been reduced to a scattering few.
Evergreen Friends church five miles from Windfall Indiana was dedicated with Rev. Levi Cox of Illinois delivering the dedicatory sermon. The church is a gift from Techn Fellow a long time member and landowner who asked the pastor not to name him. The church grounds include a cemetery and cost several thousand dollars.
Samuel Valkenburg, an aged soldier, was found unconscious in the Monon yards Tuesday. He asserts he was given knockout drops in a roadhouse and robbed of $1,000. His story is being investigated.
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