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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1904
Page
8
On Flower Mission Day, women visitors delivered bouquets to prisoners at the workhouse. Guards assisted as the gifts were pinned to coats and dresses during church services. The event, aimed at brightening inmates’ spirits, saw about a carload of blossoms distributed after services.
The article notes flowers and tears at chapel services held each Wednesday afternoon. Rev. W. Wheeler, head of the Rescue mission, Pennsylvania and South, leads the services and attends all meetings, described as a source of great good to the prisoners. Rev. Albert Hurlstone of Roberts Park M F church preached at the meetings.
Chicago mourns Levi Zeigler Leiter 30 of Chicago died suddenly in Bar Harbor Maine of heart disease. Once a leading Chicago dry goods magnate he retired to Washington in 1890s. His daughter Mary married Lord Curzon. son Joseph involved in wheat trading at Zebeler. Leiter fortune estimated near 80 to 98 million dollars.
In Cincinnati Ohio area a man named Minshock killed his sweetheart Mary Louisa Dowdnes 42 at her home in Newport Kentucky then wounded himself. He claimed love and plans to marry but she was alleged to be false. A German letter to a niece is cited. police charged him with murder after treatment at City hospital and police station. Local officials report mother and others deny abandonment of Minshock’s attentions.
A collage of tidbits reports a fire destroying Tes Machinery hall in Chicago with heavy losses, a St Louis convention set for Wes ter Bas ter Indiana, and Minnis University commencement speaker Sinatér Fairbanks in Ur bara. Other items mention Berlin arrivals, church schooling disputes, draft-raised funds in New York, a fatal apartment fight, a Jersey City laborer, a Berlin dispatch on Mrs May Wright Sewall, a bill for warship purchases in Brazil, and Anna Elzel seeking a brother's body retrieval in Denver.
In a court hearing lasting hours Judge Frank Groninger declared it looked like too much mother in law and sisters in law as Henry Solomon, a merchant tailor, sought support for eight years and his wife Serada argued over custody. Solomon had supported his in laws for years while his wife and her family lived off him. The judge granted the divorce and temporarily awarded custody to Mrs Solomon with Solomon ordered to pay per week, while the size of the settlement remained debated. The report notes the couple are Russian Jews who came to America about 18 years ago.
Unclear text reports Carman’s possible rise to speaker, with Thursday conference with the president. Pennsylvania Republicans discuss Francis LeBaron Robbing and the Quay Senate race. Frick and Pitreburg name Autor mey Sen Knox as candidate. Democrats in Washington note GOP may fund campaign literature. Ble Four railway chief Inealla may join Democratic committee leadership.
Annual meeting of the Street Car Company’s stockholders was held on a Wednesday. Directors and officers were re-elected. J. Appel was elected second vice president to succeed James M. Jones, recently resigned. Reports showed expenditures of nearly 43,000 in improvements during the line year, including the new terminal station and increased facilities at the powerhouse.
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