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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1909
Page
2
Solomon Gabla a junk dealer was arrested by City Sealer Albright on Church street after authorities observed alleged short weight scales. When asked for his scales he produced a pair of good weighing irons instead.
In a city hall hearing before Major Franks, a sealer found a junk dealer using short weight scales and convicted him of operating with short weight scales, fined eight dollars and fifty cents.
In Queens Surrogate Court an application for probate of Joseph Monaghan’s will is filed. The Monaghan siblings once shared earnings and planned to live together, later inheriting real estate and loans. a family rift split the fortune, now valued around $100,000, with the widow and 19 year old daughter possibly contesting.
Ida Lewis Wilson known as Ila Lewis, keeper of Lime Rock lighthouse at Newport R I, celebrates her seventy first birthday and 15 years of service. She saved ten lives from peril at sea in a frail rowboat, declining most honors yet receiving a Carnegie pension and a first class gold government medal. Generals Grant Sherman and Admiral Dewey honored her, and a Lifeboat and a Fisk banner mark her rescues as she maintains the lighthouse home and hosts visitors each Sunday.
Jas. Young alias William George, son of a Belfast brewer, is arrested at Pitcairn for entering the U.S. as a native-born American. Immiration Inspector Sibray says a larger offense involved robbing his bride of money and jewels, then deserting her. He faces deportation on immigration evasion and a later charge of larceny and desertion.
Mrs Lucy Brown collapsed from heat at a birthday celebration for Rev Jeff W Richardson in Petersburg Indiana and died within minutes. The report also notes an advertisement for Haag's Pills claiming relief for various ailments.
Rushville Ind July 5 Mrs. Sarah Ann McMichael 82 a blind woman living with her daughter Mrs John Gantner was seriously injured by a fall from the back porch of the Gantner residence She sprained one ankle dislocated and badly bruised one shoulder and her extreme age makes her condition serious
James Slack widow of a man murdered weeks ago in Seelyville was nearly dragged from her sleeping room by a man who cut the screen and grabbed her head through the window before others inside the house frightened him away. The killer of her husband had stood trial but the jury disagreed.
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