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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1901
Page
6
Rev G R Robbins announces a midsummer revival at Lincoln Park Institutional Baptist Church. The notice promises electric fans two choirs inspiring singing and tireless soul-saving despite weather, claiming the church makes it hard to go to hell and easy to heaven.
Supt of police Quigley has a sore stiff neck and back after a dive from a boat launch. He kept the cause private this week. Last Sunday he bathed with Aquatic club friends. the boathouse was removed and he dived into five foot deep water. He fears neck injury from striking the bottom.
John Butts of 801 California street and George Turner of 106 East Chi o street clashed Saturday afternoon in front of W McLaughlin’s barber shop. Turner struck Butts with a blocking brush, causing a profusely bleeding head wound before both were taken to the police station. The altercation stemmed from a drunken dispute as Butts mocked Turner's color and ancestry, leading to a bout that escalated until police intervened.
Pittsfield July 20 James Fosburg the defendant's brother will be called by the state as the Fosburg trial nears its expected close Beatrice 14 a sister may testify as the girl who witnessed the sister fall The state has presented only circumstantial testimony and can rest Monday jeopardizing a Tuesday jury verdict
Washington reports the army quartermaster department has succeeded in producing a khaki dye for shirt material that endures heavy perspiration. The khaki shirt is expected to replace the blue channel soon. In Buffalo, Mrs. Lillie Midaugh, 24, killed herself by carbolic acid on Saturday after visiting the New York City exposition with her husband William Midaugh and his parents. illness is cited as the cause.
Lulu Kennedy, jailed for ten years for murdering her husband, filed an appeal on a Saturday. Bond was set at $19,000. Her two brothers and father await trial for alleged complicity, a factor said to influence the appeal.
Atkins saw works filers and setters met at the Central labor union hall on Saturday to organize a union. About 50 employees are at the plant and are expected to join. Organizer Blue states no wage or hour changes are demanded.
Secretary of War Foot arrived in Chicago on his army post inspection tour. Other items note drownings in Philadelphia and a fatality on a Missouri bridge, plus a work train wreck in Texarkana Arkansas and various local misfortunes.
P Morgan spoke 38 words about the steel strike and each word cost Wall Street bulls 1 292 613 dollars. Before his statement stocks fell as rumor of settlement faded. Liquidation caused 18 principal stocks to lose 48 592 295 dollars.
A platoon from the Highth Ohio regiment forced entry after being refused free admission to Pan-American Exposition grounds at Lincoln parkway gate Buffalo New York. They broke the wagon gate vaulted the fence and dispersed within the grounds as exposition guards moved to intervene.
Oil futures surged over the weekend with a 20 cent gain in three days. Quotations listed include Pennsylvania 125, Corning 108, New Castle 10, Tennessee 55, North Lima 91, South Lima 86, Indiana 86, Kentucky 86, signaling expectations of further rises.
Four Pan German students attacked Herr Sassman as he left Vienna City Hall on Saturday. They were seized by bystanders and disarmed before harming him. Police took the students to prison.
Covert of the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers union and Lafayette Bridge Company agent held a conference Saturday on employing union men for a Broad Ripple house. Organizer Blue and Covert met the company’s representative Friday with near agreement to hire union labor. The local union will likely supply the workers.
In Akron on Saturday morning Mayor Doyle fined Samuel Kennedy’s assailants. H. Kohler was ordered to pay 50 dollars and costs, while George Kohler and Bert Work were fined 109 and 150 dollars respectively, plus costs.
In Elwood Indiana 903 tin plate factory workers are on strike. About half have left the city with families for Pittsburgh and other cities, and a week or more will pass before the men can be brought together again after a settlement.
About 150 trainmen from the Merchants' bridge and terminal association in St. Louis quit work after a grievance committee of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen said demands from the associations were ignored.
In New Orleans, eight breweries operate with only two remaining open after a Saturday general strike. The union reports 130 workers out, citing refusal to recognize the union as the cause of the stoppage.
New York July 20 report says steeplechase jockey Harry Burgess was killed at Gravesend when thrown over hurdles on a green horse. His neck was broken in the morning incident.
Mrs. A. H. Harding, an elderly white woman, was assaulted by Berry Lindsey, a Black man, near Ellisville Mississippi. A posse hunts the suspect and threatens lynching if captured. the victim is reported to be in a precarious condition.
Wilkes Barre Pa July 20 An injunction was issued restraining the striking firemen at the Maltby collieries of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company from interfering with working firemen.
In St. Louis on a Saturday John Ellebracht surrendered his four youngest sons to the humane society and deeded his only daughter Lulu Josephine, 16, for $1. He released all parental rights and vowed not to exert them again, after the humane society reported the children living in miserable quarters and subjected to cruel treatment.
Niagara Falls reports Cora Beckwith plans to swim the whirlpool rapids on September 25. In Chicago John Hoop, a stonecutter from St. Cloud, Minn., challenges Dowie in the prophet business. Elwyn Philips loses $20 while a baker’s horse coughs up a bank roll. Joe McCann recovers $850 after a bicycle crash and delivers it to a grateful coal dealer.
Telegram from Nashville reports Deputy-marshal Price killed and posse members Corder and Mackey wounded after an ambush near Montgomery Tennessee. Two moonshiners were seriously wounded. Price's body left on the ground as the posse prepared to return with a buoy.
Matthew Mc Grann a watchman was arrested Saturday charged with the murder of his wife. A 3 year old son ran to a neighbor's house Friday afternoon crying that Papa was pulling her hair and she was all covered with blood. The woman was found dead in the kitchen.
Francis Schlatter known as the divine healer was sentenced in police court on vagrancy charges. He faced 50 days in the workhouse or a $10 fine and, unable to pay $16, will serve time in the District of Columbia jail. He admitted to a drunken spell starting July 2.
A vintage health ad claims Dr. A W Chase's Nerve Pills restore nerve force and energy during summer fatigue. It cites overstressed nerves from heat and overwork, praises improved digestion and general strength, and includes a testimonial from W P Smith of Indianapolis. Pills priced 50 cents, available at Hyder's Drug Store and Dr A W Chase Medicine Co Buffalo NY.
Earl Russell, jailed for bigamy, enjoys luxury as a van delivers fine furniture to his cell. He refuses prison fare, has meals from a restaurant, and is allowed mail and heavy correspondence with friends amid the Baldwin piano ad.
Five dollar Chicago return fare offered via Monon Route with trains from Indianapolis at 7:00 a.m. and multiple daily departures reaching Chicago by late afternoon or after midnight. Tickets valid July 25 and 26 and final limit August 24. Agent R P Algoe signs as D P A.
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