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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1892
Page
1
Delegates and factions convene at Denison to map strategy for the 1896 campaign. Talks focus on tariff, party line unity, and reelect Gowdy and Milliken, with statewide candidate speculation and potential splits ahead of the convention.
The item cites J L McKish losing his mind in Africa and Carson’s fatal self-inflicted gunshot after a pawn shop visit in St Joseph. It notes Capt Baldwin receiving a bronze medal from Gen Miles for Indian War actions. Pittsburg streetcars remain under police protection and workers show willingness to return. A white enamel factory is planned in Dubuque la next spring by a German. Two painters Woods and Weuck were injured by a scaffolding collapse at Pillsburg. The Grand presents Bill Nyes The cabi and Howard athaneum three nights plus Saturday matinee, with Uncle Tom’s Cabin at the Park rest of the week. Friday features Prof G E Bailey on Through Central America at Plymouth Church. Margret Mathers repertory at the Grand promises variety next week with The Honeymoon and Nance Oldfield dramas and a Lesh revival on Wednesday.
The old entrance to the Hole in the Wall Surgical Institute on Tilinois street was closed about 16 years ago and converted to a small business room. Albert Lewis, the current occupant, has sold spectacles there for five years. In cold weather he alternates between his shop and a neighbor’s store due to no chimney or gas. The room yields Dr. Allen’s coffers $10 monthly in rent.
Judge Shepard of Chicago ruled for the Esher faction in a dispute over church pulpit appointment. The case centered on Bishop Dubs and the Noblest church in Chicago and whether an Indianapolis conference was the legal meeting. The decision said Dubs had no right to the pulpit and his appointees were not entitled to German evangelical pulpits.
Reports from Bupa PEST dated January 28 describe the start of Hungary's diet elections amid feverish disorder. The government has deployed police and military to rural districts as dissolves of the diet trigger clashes and polling place tensions.
In Mexico City an El Tiempo editorial attacking the United States provokes indignation as cowards and aggressors are alleged in relation to Chile. The item appears in a compact, period-voiced local notice page featuring a mix of accidents, readings, marriages, and oddities.
A Chilean note to the United States over the Baltimore incident is presented as a conciliatory reply. Pereira argues Chile condemned Oct 16 violence, offers arbitration, and seeks cordial ties with the United States. Public mood in Santiago favors swift apology but some youths push for conflict.
The report lists several prominent deaths: Pierre, a French journalist and agriculturist, died in Vienna at 83 along with Baron Louis von Haber, founder of multiple banks. Dr. Alfred Carpenter, English medical author and peer, died Wednesday at age 92. Additional details are garbled.
Testimony in the coroner investigation details how patients were advised on exits or left to find them. Witnesses describe rope and iron escapes, improvised routes, and staff actions during the fire at the Illinois Street institute, with officials noting multiple exits but limited usable stairs.
The testimony names Son, Mia, I. D. Purdy, and Mrs. Alice Chandler. Miss McMicken recalls seeing patients smoking in the fourth floor rooms known as the roost. Miss Donovan says fire escapes were not discussed at art room meetings. A speaker laments the current hardship of fetching water.
Sun reporter probes complaints of medicine like taste in city water. Vice-president Davis notes many mains flushed, dead mains cause lingering taste, and old rotten boards in basins blamed for the odor. No chlorine detected. no sewage danger, but possible stomach upset.
In police court Judge Buskirk dismissed the cloak theft case after witnesses tied the garment to Isaac Hawkins who had pawned it to Agnes Barker. Hawkins faces adultery charges as he lived with Barker for eight years. Other cases included a continued assault and battery dispute between Wm Shaw and Jon Foppiano and Ben Thomas’s removal of his brother’s family from a home after an alleged assault. Thomas was released.
BlomornaTon Ind January 28. At 6 30 o clock Thursday morning fire destroyed the engine and boiler house connected with the Indiana university buildings. The loss is 1200 with no insurance. Janitor Campbell who lived in the residence part of the house lost everything. The university buildings were not injured.
Page and Duncas staged a long 55 round draw in Frisco with an entertaining walk around the arena. The event drew attention as a drawn out contest highlighted by endurance and crowd reaction.
Officer Sanborn discovers a severed human leg part in damp paper at Coburn's lumber yard in W. Georgirst, with the knee cap intact and signs of blunt instrument cutting. He suspects foul play and a possible murder, while the origin remains unknown and no staff claim knowledge of the limb.
Ezra Parkfoot sues for divorce over fraud alleging Florence Blood Parkfoot borrowed a New York child, claimed it as her own, and induced marriage. Parkfoot, son of a prominent citizen, says he separated after discovering the ruse in this Red Wing Minnesota filing that recalls the Robert Ray Hamilton affair.
W C Long the horse drawn hearse driver was knocked from his seat by Special Officer Bartholomew Murphy. The carriage crashed into a gate post, throwing passengers into a driveway and injuring Mrs J L Hudson and her child and Mrs Saunders. The dispute over driveway rules sparked the clash.
Wells and Son of Appleton Wisconsin assignable liabilities 61000 assets 18000. A A Peabody Co New York wholesale diamonds fails liabilities 75000 assets 70000. Hopkins place savings bank Baltimore run bank pledges prompt support. W P Robinson cashier Farmers bank Hobe Kansas departs leaving creditors to manage.
Addison Hindman's Calliery Junction home in Pennsylvania burned on Wednesday, killing Mrs. Pine and her young child. In Cincinnati a six story commercial building fire caused about 335000 in losses. A Chicago child three years old died from burns after catching fire from a grate while trying to extinguish the flames.
Ragged collection of foreign news items notes gout in Rav Spurgeon and grippe for Whitelaw Reid and Li Hong Chang. Reports confirm Grandduke Constantine’s death shocks the czarina while Austria and the US discuss a reciprocity treaty after February 1. World fair finances and famine tensions are also cited.
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