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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1909
Page
2
Washington reports Speaker Cannon will appoint Representative Vreeland of New York to chair the committee on banking and currency next fall replacing Representative Fowler of New Jersey.
John W. Brown former manager of the People's Outfitting company was killed Thursday in a street car accident in Los Angeles. The body will be brought here for burial. Pennsylvania travelers will receive transfer tickets after July 20 to ride to New York via the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad tunnels and tunnels to the Hudson Terminal Building. Tickets are to be presented at the Tunnel Elevators in Jersey City sheds for passage to New York City and connections to the Interborough Subway. Inquiries should be made at the Pennsylvania Ticket Office.
The Moose Lodge band concert at Capitol City Garden was postponed from last evening to Monday due to rain. The treble group is among the citys strongest organizations and may draw a large crowd, so supporters are urged to attend Monday evening and help the band.
July 16 report notes western Republicans in the senate denouncing Speaker Cannon for shaping conferees. They call his actions a gold brick and say Hill's push for free materials would outvote high duty supporters. They argue Cannon’s picks tip the balance toward protectionist votes in close issues.
Brightwood church officials say the St Frances de Salas lawn festival will proceed Friday night after rain interrupted Thursday events. Organizers expect attendance from parishioners and local residents with activities and refreshments planned.
The First Unsted Presbyterian church installed a new pastor, the Rev George L Brown, in a ceremony described as a formal installation. Brown is noted as having 12 years of service in the ministry and assumes duties as the church’s spiritual leader.
A sensational claim describes possum as an instant solution to pimples rash eczema and facial blemishes with rapid relief and full cures in many cases. It promotes 50 cent packages and 6 cent or 8 jar sizes sold in Indianapolis by local druggists with free samples via Emergency Laboratories New York.
Summary of short items across Indiana. Mrs Oliver Gray survived an attempted carbolic acid overdose in Noblesville. At Collins mine two hundred miners strike over wages in Brazil. S F Scotts automobile fuel tank exploded in LaPorte destroying a $4000 car. Beach and Fuller basket factory in Evansville burned, about 200 workers jobless, losses $40000, insurance $30090. W W Pfrimmer, poet, joins auto company audit department in Anderson. George B Hughes of Trinidad, Col. and Miss Ethel Coffin of Bloomington wed after two week courtship and moved to Colorado. Tony Whisker sustained possible fatal injuries from a load of hay in Prescott. Work on a new $200000 high school in Anderson starts next Monday. Cosby Mvory barn fire in Washington caused $8000 loss. Miss Mary Shively and Harry N Holmes of Earlham faculty wed in Richmond.
Gov Marshall proposes changes to the Jeffersonville reformatory to prevent the superintendent from dominating the board of trustees. The plan would appoint the board treasurer from the reformatory staff, replacing the superintendent in that role.
Otto Flecht Tyrolean Quintet of Alpine Yodlers brings its native-costumed act to Wonderland for eight days starting Friday. The group features two male leaders and four women, with performances twice nightly at 6 15 and 9 15. The season also highlights The Girl From Childs with Elsie Williams and Arthur Nelson in the air dome drawing good patronage.
Martin Griner, former Windsor Hotel porter in Winchester Ind, is hospitalized in Pittsburg in serious condition after a camel bite. He was with John Robinson's circus along with Arthur Taylor. Marc cared for the camels while Taylor tended the sacred cattle. A camel bit Griner on the left leg just before an evening performance in a Pennsylvania town.
In Huntington Indiana on July 16 Dr. O G Whitestine was bitten on the right ring finger by a pony owned by Charles Schultz. The pony, previously bitten by a mad dog weeks earlier, may carry rabies. A brain sample was sent to Fort Wayne for analysis and if rabies is confirmed the doctor will seek Pasteur Institute treatment in Chicago.
Thomas W. Dowd, chairman of Boston delegation, says the 1917 grand lodge session of the Elks will be held in Boston. Boston boosters pressed strong for the event during their California visit, as part of the campaign.
In New York a former St. Paul’s curate Rev. Robert Morris Kemp clashed with William Derschel over a baby’s christening. Kemp nakedly baptized the infant during a struggle at Derschel’s Greenwich Street home, leading to police intervention and a court appearance.
Mrs. Eudora Landers Harbison, wife of William Harbison and daughter of Jackson Landers, died at Methodist hospital after an operation. She was 42 years old. The funeral will be held at 14299 North Tennessee Street at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
FAIRMOUNT Ind July 16 At age 91 William Woolen joined the Friends church at the monthly meeting. He remains nimble tending garden and woodwork. Born in Maryland in 181, he walked 300 miles over mountains from Baltimore to Wheeling and traveled by boat to Cincinnati before settling on a Grant county farm.
John Schultz a former local student returned to Gas City Indiana after a wander in the glass trade and the west. He found success in theater turning professional with the Cowboy Girl company, finishing a season in Chicago after touring widely in the past year.
Miss Frances Sears a 17 year old of Anderson Indiana ran away to Chicago and wed Ancil Harvey 18 of Newcastle The bride daughter of Mr and Mrs John P Sears was popular in society and they had planned Vassar as a future option
Parisian Lucio Dreyfus, a relative of Captain Dreyfus, killed himself after drinking poison in a city street. He staggered to the Chicago avenue police station where he died en route to Passavant hospital. He had arrived from New York on July 13 and bore a French army discharge.
The appeal from Hancock circuit court to the supreme court challenges the decision setting aside Elma Dare Rhodius marriage to George Rhodius. Filed by Ryan and Ruckels haus, the appeal presses for reversal and reinstatement of the union.
Fourteen thousand miners with Pittsburg Coal Company end a strike and resume work this morning awaiting International President Thomas L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America to arrive.
M N Parr livestock commission salesman died Thursday at his home 2406 Ashland Ave after a five year illness. He belonged to Broadway M E Church. The funeral is scheduled for Saturday afternoon at the church.
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