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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1900
Page
3
Three hundred Texas families from Austin San Antonio Fort Worth and Houston camps along the Llano Guadaloupe Nueces and Colorado rivers as waterspouts and floods sweep the region. Search efforts continue with few survivors heard from and families feared dead or missing.
The adjutant general’s annual report shows 106,339 organized militiamen in the United States and 10,343,152 unorganized men available for military duty. The data lists state by state organized and unorganized totals with the first figures as organized strength and the second as unorganized.
Shelbyville Indiana July 19. Mrs Lemaster widow of Otis Lemaster a wealthy farmer living five miles south reports a strange figure appearing in her sitting room and eerie noises overnight. Neighbors blamed a phantom or intruder and a bell trap was set to catch him with a $100 reward offered.
Logansport Ind July 19 City council in extra session notified E B Overshiner owner and manager of the Mutual telephone plant that after 30 days the city would confiscate the plant and declare the franchise void It is alleged Overshiner is wilfully allowing the plant to decline with intent to abandon it The New telephone company Indianapolis seeks a 15 year franchise
Col Adam Baker, president of the South Bend wagon company and a leading Northern Indiana politician, died suddenly Thursday morning in South Bend. He was among the region's wealthiest men and held notable political influence.
A severe storm struck this part of the state Thursday morning, blowing down wires and wrecking small buildings. The city faced three hours of darkness, floods, and bridge washouts, with many farmers losing their entire corn crop. Prominent Man Arrested follows in Kokomo with Isaac Murphy, a member of a prominent family in How.
Ard county justice records reveal the nephew of Isaac Murphy Jr. was arrested on charges he robbed post offices at Silver Lake and Pawpaw Michigan and stole a horse and buggy to flee. Etta Bowers, 13, of Elkhart, suffered serious burns on Wednesday when candy making dress caught fire.
SOUTH BEND Ind July 19 John W Nussbaum a longtime temperance advocate who helped drive saloons from four towns is arrested on a federal war warrant charged with selling liquor in his drug store without a license.
Reports include J A Kilgore suing three attorneys over a divorce deed, Jesse Davis’s fall at Mooney tannery but surviving, Hoosier immigration back to North Dakota amid failed crops, and testimony in Dr Casto’s Terre Haute case. Also Henry Fowler’s widow would have inherited 75000. a Philippines-bound Goshen soldier wrote home about a 15 day mountain hike. Aggie captured plan delayed by Maj Ashburn.
About 40 gold democrats from New York and a few other states met at the Plaza hotel to back a third national ticket. They denounced President McKinley’s imperialism and Bryan’s silver stance, urging genuine monetary reform, civil service reform, and abolition of special privilege. The group plans a July 25 Indianapolis gathering to advance the movement.
A scattered Indiana brief list reports a state spiritualist meeting by Chester on the Ohio near Aurora. farmer David Guinney dies near Peru from skull enlargement. two Muncie workhouse inmates escape. Mary Miller, 2, of Goshen, burned by boiling starch. many Muncie residents convert to Dowie. Other items cover heirs in Germany, a man found dead near Bedford, diphtheria in Manson, Dunkirk congress nomination, a female house-breaker in Terre Haute, vaccination rules in Frankfort schools, factory orders for flannel blouses in Jeffersonville, wage-law suits in North Kokomo, Charles X. Matthews to edit Lafayette News Democrat, hangs by Mrs. Cass, poison for Mrs. Meridith, a Miami county reunion, Alfred Paine deemed insane, repairs halted on Madison asylum, divorce suit grounds in Kokomo, Vandalia pays a death judgment, a Muncie woman bitten by a rat, booming melon crops in Knox county, and woolen goods found in a Logans tailor shop.
Chicago July 19 Twe telegraph companies and the Board of Trade are far apart in negotiations for a satisfactory basis on which market quotations may be distributed. It is practically certain that the service by Western Union and Postal telegraph will be discontinued August 1. After that, quotations sent will be private messages at regular telegraph rates. Both sides have drawn up contracts and rejected each other’s terms.
Two baking powder samples tested with cold water show different reactions. One boils up quickly as in champagne, the other foams slowly with a foam that rises high. The latter’s foam signals albumen adulteration from a slaughterhouse product, which lacks leavening value and only creates a deceptive foam.
Washington recorded extreme heat with 87 degrees at 8 am and 93 degrees at noon on Wednesday, rising to 92 in official reports by Thursday morning. The hottest period lies 3 to 4 pm daily, five heat prostrations occurred but no fatalities were reported.
Births list multiple couples announcing newborn girls and boys at various Washington and nearby addresses, followed by an obituaries section with several age and cause details. Deaths note infants and adults with causes such as convulsions and cholera infantum, then a marriages section listing engaged pairs and partners.
Building permits list several projects with owners and values: C Plogsterth 409 N Davidson est repairs 150. Charles Zahl Wyoming St near Shelby frame horse 1800. W H Walter 708 Fletcher Ave addition 500. M E Peters Highland Ave near Michigan St cottage 1000. C Kite N Alabama St near 25th St frame house 1506. W L Milner Ash St near 27th St frame house 2450. Lelia E Taylor 334 Davidson St repairs 200.
London July 19 delegates to the Christian Endeavor convention begin breaking camp and plan tours in England and on the continent. Many Americans depart Thursday for Oxford Cambridge Windsor and Stratford on Avon with continental trips starting Monday.
J. J. W. Billingsley, thrown from a street car on College avenue Wednesday, was slightly improved Thursday morning.
W F Heckner, foreman at a chair factory in Otsego Michigan, was grounding a lamp and touched its socket while standing barefoot in 18 inches of water on iron, causing immediate electrocution Wednesday night. He died on the scene.
An old remedy labeled Bromo and not Bromide promises to cure a cold in one day. The product is Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets sold at druggists, 250 units.
A dense listing of provisions and groceries with prices across meats, fruits, nuts, canned goods, dairy, vegetables, and household items. Includes smoked meats, lard, pickled products, fresh produce, canned fruits and vegetables, fish, game, dairy products, oils, oats, flour, tea, spices, and coal pricing from multiple vendors and regions. Specific items include ham varieties, bacon, sausage, lard, beans, corn syrup, coffee, teas, canned tomatoes and beans, peaches, apples, berries, pineapples, and prices per hundredweight, case, or bushel, plus leather, tallow, and drugstore goods. Named entities include Reliable, Indiana, Messina, Johnson’s, Georgia, California, and various product terms.
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