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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1902
Page
3
State statistician B F Johnson reports Indiana wheat will top 40 million bushels this season, well above last year’s 33 million and the ten year average of 32 million. The estimate covers 40 counties with minimal damage, mainly in the northwest. The corn outlook remains promising.
A 5 000 appropriation to finish Fall Creek Boulevard sparks plans for equal funding to South side projects. A delegation will meet Mayor Bookwalter to seek bridges over Pleasant Run and a Garfield Park drive, citing tax parity and long neglected needs. Local clubs have pressed officials with little success.
Mrs. John Henry Franz of Allegheny reports her husband Henry Franz a 48 year old soap boiler who has worn women’s clothing for twenty years. She says he beat her after demanding 99 cents to buy a bargain sale skirt priced 2.90 from 6.50 and plans to arrest him. police notified.
County commissioners defer selling the poor farm and skip new buildings hoping the next legislature funds a state asylum for the incurably insane. Marion County would move patients from Julietta to the new facility and convert Julietta into a poor asylum, touted as well suited.
It is reported that Armour and Company has absorbed the Hammond Packing Company and the G. H. Hammond Company in Chicago. The move consolidates meat packing operations under Armour with both firms joining the group. No further details on terms or dates were provided.
T W Robinson a justice of the peace in Loomis Michigan calls Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets the best stomach remedy he ever used. The tablets aid stomach disorders and regulate liver and bowels. Easy to take and pleasant in effect. Price two cents per box. Sold by all dealers.
Mother Jones told the central labor council in Cincinnati that she will campaign for betterment of factory girls and miners. She cited education as key and criticized company stores, promising changes by midcentury. She plans to return to Clarksburg for contempt of court proceedings if sentenced.
Senator Beveridge spoke on constitutional powers at Columbia Law School in Washington during its last commencement, with the address printed for distribution. A hail and rain storm in Sterling Illinois on July 23 caused canal overflow washing away houses and destroying crops in areas spared earlier by heavy rains.
New York July 23 coal operators deny any fixed date to resume anthracite mining. They expect a general reopening when miners return, plan to reopen with the best men, and deny raising prices beyond the schedule.
Muncie Indiana July 23 The order of Maccabees refused payment of a 1009 policy on John C Eddinger who died in Las Vegas New Mexico last March Authorities accuse W J Eddinger of trying to obtain life insurance by illegal means They allege he substituted his second son Carl C Eddinger 16 for the intended applicant or that false health statements were made during the John C Eddinger examination
In Cumberland Maryland two Feather children died in a fire that gutted their home early Wednesday. A third child was badly burned and Mrs Feather barely escaped as the blaze started by a gasoline stove wrecked the residence.
Alfred and Maggie Shiendel welcome a boy at 1901 W Michigan Street. Ed and Edna Jefferson have a daughter at 1262 Brookier Street. James Hurley and Josephine Hurley report a boy at 716 Maxwell Street. Al and Laura Wiley greet a girl at 1612 Ringgold Avenue. George and Jennie Smith announce a boy at 1025 Rhode Island Avenue. William and Winnie Kirk have a girl at 966 Bates Street. George and Mary Buchfink report a boy at 173 Quincy. Death notices list Arthur Walker aged 37 of 911 Rhode Island Avenue with tuberculosis. Grant Burbridge age 19 of 216 Puryear Street died of appendicitis. Nathaniel B Owings age 75 of 2021 College Avenue died of old age. Martha J Elliott age 26 of 245 Pennsylvania Avenue died of dysentery. Cadellia Kahn age 56 of 219 E St Joseph Street died of Brights disease. Anna McCauley age 50 of 522 Abbott Street died of arteriosclerosis. Terrance Dixon age 8 of 629 E New York Street died of dropsy. Also listed are couples: Elisha A Clark and Frances A List. Edward McCarty and Edith Z Merrill. Remy F Steinhelser and Eva Marie Woerner. Garfield Mason and May Banner. Aleisa Hayes and Mabel Taylor. Daniel W Kane and Margaret Frances O Neill. George E Stewart and Myrtie L Allen.
A compiled residential ledger lists numerous individuals and addresses for repairs and frame dwellings with amounts from 7 to 28 000 dollars. Notable entries include Central College of Physicians and Surgeons at Senate avenue between Ohio and New York streets with 28000 dollars and Maria Plaic on Fulton street with 1306 dollars.
An old advertisement touts Rouge on Tooraacus by Yostent relief. a $2 bottle of a wash cures spavin ringbone tendon issues and improves legs with ten gallons of solution. It promises to strengthen, cool, reduce tenderness and inflammation, banish blemishes and scratches, and cure cracked heels.
The Miners district received a $50,000 strike fund at United Mine Workers headquarters on Wednesday morning. Funds will be distributed to anthracite districts immediately. President Mitchell plans a Chicago stopover en route to the field after leaving Indianapolis Wednesday afternoon.
Secretary Whittaker of the Republican state committee said Indiana will host many outside speakers for the campaign. He named Moody, Foraker, Cummins, Alden Smith, Clapp, Cannon, Frye, and Foss as possible participants with Hanna and Landis in talks. Clapp is an Indiana veteran. Cummins once lived in Fort Wayne.
William Alexander bought four large whoppers from White River and paid $86. He was jailed for 36 days after deputy fish warden Constable John Newhouse seized his seine and the catch near the Kentucky Ave bridge. Justice Stout set a lineament of $5 and costs. The judge noted the fish were huge though unnamed.
President Roosevelt commutes Private Guy Stevenson of Troop M Ninth Cavalry to 15 years in prison for rape, after a court martial at Cubalogan Philippines. Stevenson will serve at Fort Leavenworth.
The July 2 chatter across poolrooms centers on the Jeffries Fitzsimmons bout with most predicting Fitzsimmons has little chance. Bets run 2 to 1 for Jeffries, though few serious wagers cover that amount, with notable wagers around 10 to 4.
The State tax board abruptly fired lawyers visitors and newspapermen and went into executive session to review road arguments and set property valuations. Chicago visitors included R C McMannus for Swift Armour and Pullman reps. A week or more remains before any report. Governor Durbin then adjourned the public meeting to a private session.
Senator Fairbanks came back from the east on Wednesday noon and will stay in Indianapolis for a few days before going to his Illinois farm. He and Senator Tom Platt spent some days together recently at Manhattan Beach.
The state records show Irene Hurst of Centerville and John H Duncan aged 51 of Greenfield among the listed deaths. Other entries include tabitha Oler of Alexandria age 0, David Hough 72 Windfall, Timothy Elliott a glass worker from Elwood, Mrs George Wright 60 Warrick county who collapsed in her yard, and Harry Barnum 15 of Connersville who died from heart trouble in West Superior Wisconsin.
Indiana cattle and hog markets report receipts at Indianapolis Union Stockyards with varied prices for steers heifers and cows. New York Stocks rise on strong London cues with gains in Atchison Canadian Pacific Rock Island and U P bonds amid rumors of dividend hikes.
Cattle receipts reach 13 000 with ranges from good to prime at 8.00 to 8.75 and low quality from 4.50 to 7.60. Hogs receipts total 20 000 with prices in the 6.75 to 7.85 band. Sheep receipts 12 000 show native and western sheep at 4.00 to 4.75 and native lambs 4.00 to 7.15. western lambs 4.00 to 6.50.
East Buffalo New York cattle no sales hogs receipts twelve cars higher prices for Yorkers and lights eight dollars seven and a half to six dollars ten cents mixed and heavy eight dollars zero to eight dollars five cents roughs six seventy five to seven ten stags five fifty to six fifty sheep and lambs receipts six hundred top spring lambs six twenty five to six fifty yearlings four seventy five to four twenty five western four twenty five to four seventy five
Chicago July 2 futures mixed with corn mostly steady to lower while oats rise. July wheat at 77 7/8 cents, September 72 1/2. corn fractions down or unchanged, July 661/4 cents, September 611/4. Oats advance with July 66 1/2 and September 34 3/4 cents. Provisions higher with September pork at 17.25 to 17.45, lard 10.60 to 10.67, ribs 10.25 to 10.37. Butter quotes steady, creamery 21, best country 18 1/2. Cheese Twins 0, Young America 10, Swiss 13 1/4 to 14. Eggs weak. no clear price shown.
New York July 23 market report lists pork at 19.23 20.00 per unit lard at 10.97 to 10.34 butter at 21 2 4 cents creamery and imitation creamery 18 to 21 cents eggs at 19 cents per dozen tallow at 6s 17c dressed poultry prices for turkeys 12 4 to 13 5 cents for chickens and other fowl with ducks geese and spring varieties also priced.
Market report shows Wheat steady values with No 2 red at 72 cents and 68 70 cents for No 3 red, Corn steady with various white and mixed lots ranging 60 to 64 cents, Oats steady with No 2 white 52 54 cents, Hay steady with No 1 timothy at 13.50 to 14.00, plus detailed car inspections by grade and type for wheat corn and hay. accompanying contact line from The Sun offering services with office address and phones.
An extensive price list outlines groceries and provisions from coffee to sugars, oats, canned fruits, meats, and drugs. Named brands and regional items with unit prices are listed, including coffee blends, sugars by type, molasses, rice, canned peaches, lard, bacon, hams, sausages, and various drugs and chemicals with per unit or per pound costs.
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