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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1899
Page
6
Trains listed include Cairo Vincennes Indianapolis and Chicago services with daily departures and arrivals. Notations indicate car types such as chair sleeper dining parlor and special services by Zion Superintendent.
Aaron Palmer, once a Jamés and Marketsts produce merchant, now ages 41 in Fordham Hospital, is rapidly ossifying from hips to feet. Doctors note the progress defies current medical understanding while Palmer endures little pain and meets daily visitors as researchers study his rigid, fossilized limbs.
John McCormack aged man disappeared last August seeking work in the country. He hanged himself in East St Louis and was embalmed with a new fluid for display. On Wednesday his wife, unaware of his death, found the fully dressed body in an undertaking establishment and clasped him in a desperate, grief filled embrace.
The federal court of appeals sustained the prior ruling in the Cloverleaf case. It upheld the validity of a $9,000,000 issue of bonds with defaulted interest pushing the total to $15,000,000. The Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City railroad company faced Continental Trust Company as trustee in foreclosure.
A veteran Henry Wagner of the Fourth United States Cavalry retires amid wartime era reports. In Charleston Missouri prisoners fled a jail cell. Sir Alexander Armstrong of London, formerly in the British navy medical department, is dead. Louis Dittmore’s river death in Renwood West Virginia is claimed murder by physicians. Jefferson Vanderpool and his niece Miss Morey, Little Falls New York, drowned while bathing. Vanderpool died aiding her. Consul Pratt at Singapore denies an interview alleging Aguinaldo independence promises. City notes reference Cleveland and Pittsburg lines and others with an unnamed detective testimony.
Capt. Nathaniel Tarbox boated a near ten foot creature off Wood Island two miles east southeast from Biddeford Pool. The animal has a bone‑less body, black head, muddy gray tail, and jaws like a snake with small teeth. Experts remain puzzled by the mysterious catch.
Two female inmates Margaret Marlborough and Martha Brinkmann escaped the Hudson reformatory on Monday night by opening the unbroken safe and stealing 250 dollars plus clothing and jewelry worth about 500 dollars. They visited the superintendent and supervisor before fleeing to a railroad station and buying tickets to New York City. police search is underway.
Roger Davis, acclaimed local photographer, has reportedly developed a method to photograph multiple colors without machinery. He claims color images are created by developing the transferred image on paper, enabling six colors at once. Davis, touring the Grand Canyon, plans a return and possible local company formation to exploit the discovery.
A Sylvan Valley News editorial recommends Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a trusted preventive. The editors claim twenty years of reliable use in their family and urge keeping a bottle on hand to avoid suffering until a physician is available.
In Bloomsburg Pennsylvania on July 6 a four year old boy, son of Jacob Kapp, encountered a racer snake in a field. He ran about 200 yards before a workman arrived, killed the three foot ten inch reptile, and saved him.
The Nuester Nachrichten published correspondence between Admiral Diedrichs and Admiral Dewey from Manila in 1899. Diedrichs congratulated Dewey on his promotion and Dewey replied that their differences had been only in newspaper terms.
Boston July 5 the New England cotton yarn trust with capital of 15 700 000 begins operations. It comprises companies operating about 683 400 spindles across the region.
Profs. Woodruff and Benton announce a personally conducted West Coast excursion from Indianapolis June 8 via Big Four, Missouri Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande, and Southern Pacific routes to Los Angeles with through Pullman cars. Berth rates are 13 for Pullman Palace and 6 for tourist car. sleeping berths may accommodate two. Optional return via Portland and Northern Pacific for 12.50 extra. Stops include major western cities and resorts. sleeping car reservations are being taken.
The Wabash Railroad will run through tourist sleeping cars to Los Angeles via Kansas City leaving St. Louis on June 21 July 3 and 6. Reservations can be made by writing Geo. Maxfield D P A Indianapolis Indiana.
A Sunday schedule offers $1 Cincinnati and return via C H D. Two special fast trains leave Union Station at 7:15 a m. and stop only at Rushville Connersville and Hamilton.
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