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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1899
Page
3
Loganport Indiana July 24 The drowning of W C Pennock at Hudson lake is tied to a dream he had in England. He told a companion he dreamed he walked a cemetery in Delaware Ohio and saw his own name on a tombstone in the family lot. He hesitated about returning home before leaving for the lake.
Eli Mallett followed his wife and a young man named Charlie Duncan out the road from Salem Indiana and shot them with a double barreled shotgun wounding both Duncan near the heart and Mrs Mallott in the shoulder. Mallott is in jail.
Evansville reports sheriffs and police chose not to disarm or arrest strikers after talks with lawyers. Extra deputies sworn in as threats rise, planning to surround and capture non-union diggers when they leave the Ingle mine Monday afternoon. Destructive Trust. Green Town Glass Factory Closes After Ten Years in Trust
A wide collection of short items reports gas wells drilled in Indiana towns La Yootee South Bend and Elkhart trolley links Marion contractors quarreling Rev E B Widger resigning a new Hope Morning Sun paper birth deaths and accidents including suicides drownings runaways and fires with multiple named individuals and local events across the state.
A string of varied items from Indiana: a man found dying under a water tank on a train near Seymour, another insane barefoot wanderer near Wabash locked up, and an Fort Wayne worker threatening a sympathy strike over Scranton layoffs. Also reports of a Kokomo minister reading letters on Sundays, a balloon accident injuring Ira Wallace in Lawrenceburg, and a missing Robert Cunningham last seen in Lima, Ohio. Court actions include Allen county attorneys challenging a 15 percent tax hike amid mortgage exemptions. A Winchester farmer, Henry Mauris, committed suicide. Weatheralds plan to enter a major gas belt plant bid. Henry Englishman William Hammond’s throat condition worsens. Death notices list Wetcher Tevis, Mrs. Maria Bailey Cory, Jacob Lewis, Soranton Caplinger. An Anderson coffin tag dispute delays train, and a Marion home resident is attacked over relationship history. War veterans including Ed win Fitzgerald Goshen and George Bergner Terre Haute named captains in a new volunteer army. Charles C. Smith in Columbus promoted to first lieutenant for Fort Thomas assignment.
Mrs Cora L V Richmond spoke as Col Ingersoll at the Zoo Park spiritualist camp meeting attended by about 5000 people. She described dying as painless only a quickened sensation and claimed the living and dead could inter mingle. She delivered a message that what is sown here is reaped in the next life.
A copy of El Mundo reports Bridgeport resident Rollo Tarbart, a chief musician in the Fourth United States Immunes, connected to a sensational self-inflicted death in Bayamo Cuba. Teresa Santa, 18, from Barcelona, pursued opera in Cuba and left Spain with a company. pictures and farewell notes found in her room tie to Tarbart. Her father is a wealthy coffee planter in Porto Rico.
Scientists link Maunaloa eruption and southern California earthquakes to a possible underwater fire conduit between Hawaii and the western coast of America. Further news from Hawaii is awaited.
Pittsburg dispatch reports a Grindstone mine disaster in Pennsylvania killing eight men. Details on cause and victims were not immediately available. The blast occurred at Grindstone mine prompting inquiries by state authorities and company officials.
A Paris dispatch reports the impending marriage of M. Paul Deschanel, president of the chamber of deputies, to Miss Terry, an American heiress, with the union noted in London.
A wheelman relies on Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil to heal cuts bruises and sprains. The enduring remedy carries a bold claim of monarch over pain and practical use for rough road accidents and minor injuries.
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A Sunday athletic event in Charlottesburg under Polish societies ended in catastrophe when a lightning strike hit the flagstaff area during gymnastic and bicycle events. Three died and 16 were seriously hurt with about 100 prostrated. 25 more injured in the ensuing panic as flames burned bodies near the May-pole. The crowd of about 1,000 witnessed the deadly strike and ensuing chaos.
Otis reports two steamers reaching Manila with fresh forces for the U S Army. Zealandia carried Twenty fourth Infantry companies C H G J and 406 enlisted men, 7 officers, total 540. Sheridan brought Fourteenth Infantry companies I and H and Fourth Cavalry A and F plus recruits, total 1 666 men.
General Otis reports additional casualties to the war department from the Philippines. Killed: First California Infantry at Bu long Negros, Company E Walter P. Sweenie. Ninth Infantry near San Luis, Company 4x Edward B. Webster. Wounded: First California Infantry at Bulong Negros, Company E Claud W Hull. Twenty first Infantry near Morong. Seventeenth Infantry, Company C Francis Clancy Knee. Ninth Infantry near San Luis, Company KX Sergeant Herbert L Hartwick.
Several school commissioners oppose last Friday's approval of Kirkhoff Brothers bid 1525 for wiring steam heat to connect the old part of School No. 14. Bids had run to 1700, with iron and steel price rises blamed. Early spring bids were about 1100, and officials say work can now be done at lower cost. The project connects the old building to the new boiler and adds radiators.
Mr and Mrs Simms Hall of Teays Winfield West Virginia welcome a newborn girl with two heads one normal one undeveloped both healthy the larger head lacks eyes mouth and ears while the other appears handsome and bright for its age
The war department set aside another gun for Indiana. The governor will present it to the Lafayette soldiers, and the weapon is currently at Watervliet Arsenal.
Norfolk, July 24. The torpedo boat Talbot is being fitted for a test to prove the practicality of using oil instead of coal for fuel. F. E. Magee of New York believes oil can cut fuel costs by about 50 percent compared with coal.
A Rennes cable reports a telegram stamped by the colonies minister claiming Mme Dreyfus bore a child while Alfred Dreyfus had been absent two and a half years. The dispatch allegedly proved the birth and was shown in Paris to deter sympathy for Mme Dreyfus and her husband’s case.
Lieut Walter Bowman of the Thirty first volunteers is in Indianapolis seeking to recruit four hundred Indiana men. Local officer Lieut Rowell doubts a need for extra help. Bowman hopes to recruit in-state troops while eleven more men arrived from Logansport and Rowell travels to Richmond.
J A Rappe, an octogenarian bicyclist and Grand Army veteran from Marionette Wisconsin, has arrived in Chicago during his cross country ride to Philadelphia. Albert V Roe, a one armed New York messenger, began a bid to beat the New York to San Francisco bicycle record on a bicycle.
Eli Barber, 24, an engineer for Geo. J. Marott, lost his left hand Monday noon while working with a large ventilating fan set in the basement wall. The hand was severed just above the wrist and Barber was taken to City hospital. He came from North Salem to Indianapolis last July and was employed by Marett since Monday morning.
The drowned man found Saturday morning near the Belt railroad bridge over the White River has been identified as Wm. H. Rebmann of 412 Morriss Street. A baker by trade, his eyesight failed and after costly treatments he grew despondent and believed total darkness would be his fate. He left home Friday morning and is survived by a wife and six children.
A Sunday night blaze consumed the Co. H. & D. elevator in Toledo causing an estimated loss near 1.6 million dollars. The structure carried 6000 bushels of grain and insurance coverage values were not fully known after a cupola fire sparked a massive explosion.
J. Vance Lewis, a colored lawyer charged with conspiring to obtain a fraudulent divorce for Tobin, who is jailed on the same charge, refuses to flee Indianapolis. He says he will return to the jail Tuesday at 6 o'clock and be ready to stand trial, insisting on his innocence and ability to prove it.
Harry Crawford reported to a state official that a new track will be laid between Muncie and Anderson and a three mile extension built at Brazil. The road is expected to repay $25,009 in back taxes and avoid state suit. It sits well for gas belt factory fuel needs.
In Newark New Jersey on Sunday a 500 ton drawbridge replacement for a Pennsylvania railroad crossing over the Passaic river was completed. The actual bridge swap occurred in 1814 minutes.
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