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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1904
Page
3
In a chaotic Jan 3 feature, crowds attacked a cemetery desecrating graves and beheading corpses while protests over copper coinage and tax policy crippled business. A promise of temporary withdrawal followed a cotton shipment to Japan amid market fluctuations and city grain reports.
Fragmented OCR item from Indianapolis livestock market lists poultry eggs and meat prices. Mentions New York Produce and various firms with scattered figures for live poultry ducks turkeys and hams. Includes stray names and unclear quotes.
Cyrax Ryan faces arrest as a suspect in a deadly incident in Boston. Authorities say he forced Bing Sing Jedrasman’s head into a tub of water and covered it with a tire box, leading to suffocation. A China man’s safety item, a Sax, was found on Ryan along with his watch near a girl he planned to marry. The case involves a public safety inquiry and references to a murder attempt.
Ten people were killed and five seriously injured in a cetidene gas explosion at a cafe in the Ragnas area of Weat Avignon on Friday. Local authorities are investigating the incident and urging safety reviews.
Washington reports an epidemic of splenetic Texas fever spreading through southern cattle herds. Secretary Wilson declares a quarantine will extend from Pacific to Atlantic after February, restricting interstate cattle movement to protect industry.
Mrs. Marin Wie dies at City Hospital after a tram injury. In final illness of pneumonia she struggled as nurses tried to undress her. Bank notes and negotiable papers found about her waist revealed ownership of 6 acres of Kansas land. Her home was Independence, Kansas, as she visited her sister.
In Cambridge City engineers and professors discuss married instructors and religion in higher education. Tarper and Harper comment on the need for qualified teachers balancing work and family across Chicago University and local colleges. Engineer Foxworthy suffers fatal injuries after a yard engine accident near Indianapolis.
The CHIC WEG project outlines a proposed Minols tunnel with a 9.06 million dollar budget to span 100 miles beneath Chicago light limits. It would house telephone and telegraph lines, with plans for telecommunication cables to run through the tunnel as part of the transit and communications backbone. Jeremiah Farwell's family details appear as a separate, incomplete item from Detroit Michigan dated January 2, noting a despondent state and a death in a hospital.
In Mikado Michigan on Thursday fire consumed the Roberts home while Mr and Mrs Roberts were away. Their two young children died in the blaze.
A threat to wreck every train passing the San Joaquin valley was made to the Southern Pacific company through anonymous letters demanding payment of 10003 dollars. The incident prompted police and company security measures as authorities investigated the extortion attempt.
An Omaha woman was arrested on a petty charge and appeared before Judge Berke. The judge ordered a daily bath for 20 days, with the first bath administered by three attendants. The courtroom scene noted the defendant’s unashamed admission that her face had not been washed for months.
Assistant postmaster Shideler says some writeers print too many stamps to shift postage. Most cases stem from forgetfulness by the reader. When a mail lacks stamp the recipient is notified it is held for postage. If the required amount is paid the letter is delivered, else returned or sent to the dead letter office.
A man attacked Eva Wavantagh on the way from a local school to her home in Carbondale. Captured by Chief Robertson a week later, he was identified by Miss Kavanuugh. To prevent a lynching, authorities escorted him by overland to the county jail. Name given as Joh Vaughn, married, living in the city since May.
Jan 4 in Kokomo Indiana reports a land patent awarded decades ago to Daniel Rarey by President Zachary Taylor in 1839. The document lay unseen in a bureau drawer at Rarey’s home as his only stake in claiming a portion of land in Howard county formerly held by the Siami Indians. Rarey, 82, wishes to record the patent after many years of delay.
Amusements in English with Dorothy Vernon at Grand Vaudeville and Desperate Lord Barrington at Tark open to mixed reviews. Melodramas vary in quality, some poorly presented though others are decent. audience reaction unclear as the program notes caution against low expectations.
Report from Albany on June 2 describes a disturbance at the governor's reception where nonunion cab drivers and picketers clashed. A bystander was struck by a brick and injured while others faced disturbances linked to the ongoing cab drivers strike since January.
A letter from a Stockholm correspondent in Dagens Nyheter advises travelers to the World Fair to buy a revolver upon arrival at Union Station. The advice claims a need to carry the pistol in the right hand for immediate use, describing a strange warning about being armed for the event.
Echoes of a theater fire horror emerge as Ming Ackers seeks damages and punitive relief against the theater company and contractor in a case tied to a fatal blaze. The report also covers unrelated items from New York to Chicago, including labor disputes, weapons and health mentions, and scattered notices.
An advertisement touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a safe substitute for resting the stomach, claiming they digest like the stomach and restore health. It narrates a user's distress and testimonio of relief after taking the tablets, urging readers to try them.
Report from Chicago market shows mixed cattle and hog activity with prices listed for native and western stockers, fat cattle, and feeder cattle. Receipts and Friday estimates indicate steady demand for selections, with noted prices across categories such as native sheep and western lambs and market totals in the mid four to six dollar range per hundredweight.
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