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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1899
Page
3
Police intervened as strikers and non union workers clashed near the John Ingle mine in Evansville. Armed groups, including a bloc of armed African American workers, were separated and escorted away by a tugboat on the riverfront under police protection.
Rising Sun hosts a September street fair while Goshen sewer work shifts crews. Hart ford City loses to Muncie tennis. Terre Haute sells bonds and city lights. A man confesses to stealing seven horses. multiple deaths and scandals thread through towns from Rushville to Anderson.
July 22 reports the Hague peace conference near completion with only arbitration scheme articles left. German delegate Born shocks by favoring arbitration, while Dr Zorn notes Germany opposed the plan citing insufficient societal readiness for international law constraints.
Mrs Meyers of 607 W St Clair St reports swelling on her lip after a bug seen on the doorstep is blamed for a kissing bug bite. Dr Pendleton confirms a scabies like bite and says the creature matches described kissing bugs. The attack occurred Friday night while she sat with her sister at the doorway.
Big Four fireman Larry Cavender of Fifteenth Street suffers a fractured ankle and dislocated arm after a mid evening runaway coupling incident. While engine and box car collided near Priest curve, Cavender leaped from the tender to safety as the cab crew escaped through the engineer’s window. Cavender blames the Lake Erie crew for being on the wrong track.
Col John Hayes of the Fourth United States Cavalry, recently back from Havana, was freed from quarantine and departed for Washington. He will join the upcoming Manila campaign in the cavalry division and has long been a plains era associate of Buffalo Bill. Hayes told friends his main aim in the Philippines is the capture of Aguinaldo.
In Fritchton, Indiana, on Friday night Guy Davis, 18, was fatally stabbed by George Smith, 15, colored. Smith was arrested and jailed.
Rev E P Brown editor of Ram s Horn and Bishop McCabe reflect on Ingersoll s character and position. Brown calls him sincere honest in opposing Christianity and not seeking money while McCabe suggests he might have joined the church and worked to build up what he sought to tear down if he had lived longer.
Charles Maves and Frank Cody were arrested in Evansville and jailed in Marion county on counterfeiting charges alongside Samuel Graham Frank Lawrence Charles Voelker and Charles Behmer. All are on bond except Cody and Maves. The coins were of such poor quality that they were not passed but used in slot machines.
Roberts Park Choral Union presents songs Sunday with services at 10 15 a m and 7 30 p m The welcome song to the Monorth league led by Mrs Wulschner J O Excell conducts choruses Soloists include Ida Sweeney Frank Taylor Miss Hosmer and Mrs C B Linnax Rev A B Leonard and S L Baldwin of New York will speak Farewell consecration service by Rev G J Bond Halifax Director Emil Wulschner
Marion county democracy plans a special train to carry W. J. Bryan to Greenfield next Thursday for a public gathering. Children’s day at Bethany Park failed to materialize but kids enjoyed Friday’s activities on the grass under shade trees. The Juanita glee club from Englagwood provided music.
Conductor John Pinder 27 N Temple Ave and brakeman Charles Wingate 38 Statest Indianapolis were seriously injured when a Panhandle freight caboose jumped the track between Fair field and Sharpsville. Wingate escaped through a door. Pinder remained in the caboose as it tumbled. They were taken to Sharpsville and then home.
The school board rejected Supt Goss request to allocate 1000 for supplemental readers before his European trip and halted natural gas service in school buildings due to poor quality. Mrs Templeton offered small stones from school yards urging removal to prevent injuries while students play. The civil service board was allowed to hold exams in school buildings. Kirkhoff Bros secured a $1547 contract for heating apparatus in school 14.
Senator Foraker returns from the east and defends Secretary Alger, calling him unfairly attacked and a buffer for the administration. He predicts Alger will be viewed in a better light and notes the president shared responsibility for policies. He also supports war correspondents round robin as accurate and timely.
Six Belmont ward patients in Bellevue Hospital narrowly escaped death from phosphorus poisoning after tea made by a convalescent without nurses present left them ill. Doctors found phosphorus in stomachs and many match sticks in the tea pot, with half a bundle missing. Authorities believe the accident occurred when the tea was prepared.
Twenty two carriers will receive a Saturday half holiday as the 4 p m delivery is suspended in the business district during July and August. Postmaster Hess again secures this concession after last year’s approval, with business men agreeing to drop the 40 oclock delivery to aid the relief.
A list of speakers including Rev. W R Proctor of Portsmouth Va Rev Herman W Knickerbocker of Los Angeles Cal Rev T C Ragsdale of Nashville Tenn Col William F P Wallis Americus Ga Rev J H Werlein of Kansas Rev U V W Darlington of Washington Ky attended the league convention and led devotional exercises at English's opera house Friday.
The steamer Diana departed Halifax on Friday afternoon to seek Lieut Peary with hundreds cheering on the Sidney wharf as the ship left.
The credentials committee on Friday night and into Saturday morning reviewed 23 contests. Harry New narrowly won his spot with 36 to 34 after a contested vote with John Parker. Floyd Woods was unopposed, while Billy Schmidt beat W. O. McKinney 17 to 10 amid anti movement claims. The committee overturned several contests and set outcomes for wards and precincts, with anti leaders vowing opposition if antis gain control. A Saturday resolution condemned Congressman Overstreet’s federal building location as detrimental to the South side.
The Caroline Scott Harrison chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will host a lawn fete on Tuesday evening July 25 at the Atkins home 1313 North Meridian Street. Proceeds support the Continental Hall fund in Washington. The When band will play and Mrs Carr with S L Morrisons quartet will sing.
In Salvation Army hall at 39 E Ohio St Ensign Dawson of Canada will preside. With 15 years in the army and experience in prison gate work he will deliver a talk titled A trip through Kingston penitentiary at 8 p m.
The Indianapolis gas company and the water company filed complaints with the Board of Safety about electrolysis affecting their pipes and have been ordered to submit formal complaints, after which action will be considered.
Warren oil well driller James T. Clark filed a bankruptcy petition on Saturday. His liabilities total 13,233 dollars and his assets amount to 22 percent, reflecting a troubling financial position.
A. N. Noell of Assherville reports a chronic diarrhoea case with no relief until he used Berlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He states he was permanently cured and the product is sold by all druggists.
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