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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1901
Page
4
Cincinnati report notes William C. Whitmey paid $60,000 for Hamburg at the Daly horse sale. Veteran jockey Pines is barred from the track amid other sports updates. The piece also chronicles Champion Jim Jeffries training for the Kublin fight with a rigorous daily regimen including long runs, boxing, weight work and strict diet.
Baltimore dispatch reports plans at the Players' Protective Association meeting in Cleveland to bar players from joining the National League unless they secure American League terms. If the plan fails, Cincinnati ticket refunds are promised. Other notes include Jeffries mocking Ruhlin, jockey Tully may die, Hamburg sold for 60,000, and local racing results with Paday Donovan and Neal leads in Indiana.
New Orleans report states jockey T. Pines was ruled off after steering Don Clarencio in the steeplechase. The veteran rider, oldest in the business, rode a strange, laid out race and finished carelessly, ending his career prospects for good.
Twenty five baseball promoters from 133 cities convened in Peoria to organize a new Indiana-Ili pois-Iowa league. Cities named include Peoria, Decatur, Bloomington, Terre Haute, Cedar Rapids, Rock Island, Davenport, and Rockford.
The Commercial club outlines excursion rates for spring buyers from Feb 23 to March 8 return March 23 for listed firms Levey Bros Griffith Bros Muir millinery J H O'Boyle Havens Geddes Fahnley McCrea Mayer Efroymson Wolf and invites other firms to apply for the rates through the club.
Delegates from the recent mine workers convention travel to Columbus Ohio by special train to meet operators in joint conference. Indications point to a lively fight if the Indianapolis wage demands are pressed. Pittsburg district operators reportedly seek a ten cent per ton reduction.
Rev Joseph A Milburn of Indianapolis attends a prayer meeting at Plymouth Congregational Church in Chicago on January 31 where about 300 members heard his address and welcomed him with a reception.
Washington January 31 Admiral Dewey answered a question about hazing at Annapolis describing fraternity tricks like eating dough chewing a hawser wearing a shingle on his back drinking vinegar without his nose in the glass and other trifles as possible hazing.
In Daggett, California, a strange fatal illness has struck eight people in the past week. Affected bodies turn black within 24 hours of death, leaving no recognizable features, and recovery remains unlikely.
Franz Buddicker of 452 North Senate Avenue slipped on ice while alighting a North Indianapolis streetcar on Illinois Street Tuesday evening. He sustained a concussion and died at City Hospital at 1 a.m. Thursday with his family at his side.
Emma seeks divorce from Oliver M Boyd citing abandonment and cruelty. Indiana National G A R encampment base to move to Hollenden hotel. Gray club renamed Indiana club with John W Kern as president. a new clubhouse planned. Bona Thompson memorial library planned by Butler college directors with Irvington donors funding. Stock yards report notes best horse sale price and midrange averages. Dr Shadrach L Ferree funeral set for Saturday at 2 pm. he served Roberts Park church and Masonic lodge 398. Gov Durbin seeks John and George Reeves in murder case. suspects held in Kentucky and located at Mount Vernon. Mayor Taggart seeks delay of smoke consumer ordinance trials. Building inspector told no practicable consumers yet. Runaway incident on Capitol Ave ends after collision with milk wagon. Fort Wayne school for feeble-minded head to address Audubon society on birds and forests. David J Leathers sues Henry W Lawrence and Patrick A White for 10000 for false arrest.
A published remedy promotes Stuart's Catarrh Tablets as a cure for headaches caused by catarrh. It cites miseries from frontal headaches behind the eyes and states catarrh in stomach or liver triggers back head pain. Miss Cora Ainsley testifies the tablets relieved her chronic catarrh and headaches after using fifty cent boxes.
Fort Worth Texas January 31 A general lockout of all labor unions in this city prevails. Not a union man is working. It is feared the strike will be serious.
Fire broke out about 7 p m Wednesday on the fifth floor of Ww. B. Burford's block at 17 W. Pearl Street. An employee extinguished it with a hand extinguisher before firemen arrived. The Gem garment company occupied the building. Smoke and water from automatic sprinklers caused about 800 dollars in loss. Salvage corps protected the clothing.
Mrs. J Voorhees horsewhipped Sketle Rough keeper of a gambling joint in Buchanan Michigan on Wednesday. The flogging was witnessed by many men and women who cheered the lash and a Mrs Nation wave has hit the town.
Cyrus F. Blanke, a prominent St. Louis businessman, has presented each of his 20 employees with a bank book that credit them with one dollar as a token to foster thrift.
Paddy Donavan, a pugilist from Belvidere New Jersey, was acquitted of responsibility for the death of Frank Welch. Neely arrived at Havana and was locked up on Wednesday. The New York Stock Exchange will close Saturday for the queen's funeral in London. Jokers in Boston set a live skunk in a pie for A W Gleason, president of a fishing club. the stunt was tame and harmless. Senate finance committee adopted an amendment to war revenue to tax bucke.
David Wyant, a 73 year old farmer known for long hair and odd beliefs, deeded his property to the Lord before burial. The transfer has been ruled invalid, and his children will inherit the estate. Wyant believed he could rise to heaven in the flesh and not die like others.
In Little Rock on Wednesday January 31, the Arkansas House argued for five hours over a resolution expressing sympathy for Filipinos. The motion to expunge failed 46 to 37, and a separate expression of sympathy for Arkansas soldiers in the Philippines was also rejected by the same 46 to 37 vote.
Milling and wagon wheat prices vary with No 2 red at 7 cents and No 3 red around 71 to 73 cents. Corn shows steady with multiple white and yellow grades around 27 to 39 cents, oats steady at 26 to 27 cents, and assorted car counts for inspections.
Cleaning dyeing and repairing of garments with pants pressing ten cents. Work done while you wait. Satisfaction guaranteed. Will call for and deliver goods promptly. Prompt attention to ladies work. 141 N. Delaware Street.
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