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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1899
Page
3
A sprawling Indiana roundup reports accidents, legal cases, and odd incidents. Subjects include a $500 damages suit over a cannon firecracker spooking a horse, a farmer pursuing a payback for a riding injury, jail contracts in Cass County, and a self defense murder acquittal in Paoli. Local mischiefs involve children, swindlers, and petty crime across Anderson, Muncie, Lebanon, and Goshen.
Daniel Huff, longtime ally of Levi Coffin in the underground railroad, died at his Fountain City home. Huff aided nearly 3000 slaves to reach Canada. He married Emily Nixon, sister of Wm. Penn Nixon and Oliver Nixon of the Chicago Inter-Ocean. his son is Dr. Huff of Chicago.
Noah Fort testified he heard Abner Brashears Colin Cox and James Lewis plotting the attack on the imported miners. Thomas Williams swore Brashears threatened him with lynching if he kept work as said in his affidavit.
Marion Indiana reports the green glass pressers of the United States and Canada donated 1000 dollars to aid strikers in New Jersey before adjournment Friday. The same wage scale was adopted, reinforcing labor action and solidarity across regions.
Philip Sullivan, Democrat, was chosen to succeed Coleman Henton as trustee of Peru township after Henton's death. William Hullstoneman, a son and cooper, died suddenly of paralysis. Mrs. Louisa Greenburg, 83, is dead.
Greensburg Indiana city council votes to take the Odd Fellows home into city limits by a two to one decision. The action transfers control and taxation, with residents awaiting further steps and possible municipal oversight.
In Clay City Indiana the appointment of Charles C. Fesler as postmaster was made official on Saturday. The action marks a routine federal staffing decision affecting local mail service and community operations.
A Muncie recruiting office opens while reports from Indiana detail deaths, accidents, and crimes. Notable items include 87 year old Samuel Lafeaver of Jonesboro dead, Will Shultz 17 of Valparaiso killed after a train fall, Rufus Jackson 5 of Lawrenceburg crushed on a traction engine, and Francis Monon brakeman killed at Putnamville. Also noted: a copperhead bite risk in New Albany, a $1,000 reward for Adam Hoffman’s murderer, and a lodge formation in New London with other civic notes across several towns.
The Cologne Gazette reports the French training ship visit at Bergen during the emperor's arrival shows improved Franco German cordiality. It notes the meeting was arranged with planning and links telegram exchanges between Kaiser and President Loubet and the Dreyfus affair to dispel claims of German selling French defense information.
In Charlottenberg near Berlin a woman Von Sulkowski killed her three children aged 86 and 5 years then died by suicide. The father is reported to be in Russia.
Druggist Charles Holzhauer of Newark New Jersey endorses Chamberlain's cough remedy as perfectly safe and reliable for coughs colds and hoarseness. The product is sold by all druggists.
San Francisco July 8 reports analyze a box of candied cherries sent through the mail to Miss Florence M. Campbell. One quarter of the fruit contained arsenic and both Campbell and Mrs. Elsie Scheib recovered. The handwriting on the address was traced to Mrs. John R. Rathom, wife of a newspaper man, but there is no evidence she sent the box or knew of it. Rathom and his wife had marital strains over Miss Campbell, who moved from West Virginia to witness the Wheeling gunboat christening and later worked in California journalism where she met Rathom.
After a successful session the State bar association held an elaborate banquet at the Bates. Ex Judge R S Taylor of Fort Wayne was elected president with Judge Timothy Howard South Bend as vice president Merrill Moores Indianapolis as secretary and Judge Davis Noblesville as treasurer. A proposed ethics measure against judges accepting railroad passes was referred to a committee. The law reform panel will report on corporate codification and a negotiated instrument bill. Amended constitution changes to reorganize the supreme court and bar admissions will be sought for the next general election.
Representative Henderson of Iowa and Pension Commissioner Evans have made up after a visit to Washington. A heated clash arose when Evans would not reinstate a soldier killed in the pension office controversy during former Secretary Hoke Smith’s tenure.
In New York a 70 year old woman, Mary Quinn, lies dying from starvation in a filthy garret while her husband, reported to have $16,000 in the bank, is arrested. He claimed the wife was “all right” as police retrieved over $100 in cash from rags and said he inherited $16,000 from his sister and had more in Greenwich Bank.
Ex Senator John J. Ingalls says he will re-enter Kansas politics and push a new deal in the state republicans. He expects McKinley to be renominated and says imperialism and military power will dominate the campaign, with the silver issue on the side and taxation as the answer to trusts.
New York reports a missing bath house patron at Coney Island after a man hired a bath house and vanished. His coat contains a letter to George R Fitch threatening immediate accounting, suggesting the missing bather may have killed himself rather than reveal money in trust.
Advertisement touts low railway fares for Michigan travelers. The copy promotes 7:10 sleeper departures via Pennsylvania lines, with bulk rates to Mackinac, Petoskey, Bay View and other lake resorts. Indianapolis departures are daily at 7:10 p.m. by W. W. Richardson D P A.
An emaciated man in Harlem hospital, watched by Dr Neafsey, is reported as a longtime addict of morphine cocaine and pilocarpine. Former druggist Thomas Frazer lost his fortune and family after seven years of drug use, culminating in a frantic collapse and police restraint.
Washington report says Canadians fear Erie canal and American railways control of the Welland canal and plan to deepen the waterway significantly, a project tied to more than 24 million dollars already invested.
In Chicago four people were bitten by kissing bugs and Ernest Beduhn died of blood poisoning believed linked to the insects. In Boston seven residents of South Boston were bitten on the upper lip, with Miss Kitty Fife and Thomas Riley in serious condition from facial swelling.
An invitation notes readers to explore The Sun's seventh page, highlighting liner features and page content. It signals forthcoming sections and encourages engagement with the newspaper's themed lineup.
Standard Oil expands into Canada by purchasing the Ontario Natural Gas and Oil Company for about 600000 dollars. The Ontario firm has long controlled Detroit area gas fields supplying local homes. Officials are tight lipped on details.
In St. Louis a husband John Brady fired a pistol at his wife Julia Brady, blasting out both eyes. Surgeons removed the eyes in a hospital operation, and doctors say Mrs Brady will recover. Brady expresses remorse and begs her to return.
Chas Downing of Greenfield was summoned as a Purdue University trustee by the governor on Friday. He was recommended by the State board of agriculture.
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