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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1901
Page
2
Coroner Brayton investigated the sudden death of Herman Blandes in Norwood on Monday. At about 8 a.m. neighbors found him dead with a mangled head after a shotgun blast in his home above his grocery. A smoking gun lay nearby. He left a wife and one child. relatives suspect an accident while removing shells from the gun.
On July 16 at 11:00 a.m. bids will be received for a new city lighting contract. The Indianapolis Light and Power Company currently holds a contract expiring July 7, 1903. The Home Heating and Lighting Company also plans to bid, amid accusations of political influence tied to a recent franchise grant. The specs include 1,500 lights of 2000 candle power, private incandescent rate at 10 cents per 1,000 watts, a city revenue share, a ten year term with possible extension, a $25,000 bid guarantee, and city option to buy the plant at fair market value with three arbitrators if price cannot be agreed.
Gen. Fred Knefler was buried at Crown Hill in a plain wooden coffin, wrapped in a flag, as he requested. The ceremony occurred at 6:45 a.m. with only family present except pallbearers, and the monument to soldiers was draped and closed to visitors. Knefler had helped plan the monument and served as a monument regent.
John R Spencer 42 of Lafayette died at the Oneida hotel of brain congestion from morphine poisoning though no drug was found in the room. He recently lived in Indianapolis and left a wife and daughter abroad. investigators note his heart weakness and a possible domestic crisis. He was a state agent for New York Life Insurance and had worked for Royal Baking Powder and Mullen Blackledge in Indiana. The body is at Herman's undertaking rooms and his wife is en route from Oshkosh to Lafayette.
State geologist Blatchley and an entomologist advise delaying orchard planting until fall 1912 due to the expected return of 11 year locusts. The insects last swarmed in early June 188, emerging from eggs laid a year ago on tree limbs. Eggs trigger twig die-off, larvae hatch after fall, and remain underground for the year before emergence.
A crowd at Wallace and Westworth streets on a Sunday night tried to attack the trolley motorman and conductor after a five year old girl, Viola Saxonber, was crushed to death and a man injured while freeing her. Police arrived to protect the crew as the mob shouted Kill the murderers and surged around the car with a switch hook and brass lever in hand.
H A Adams spoke at the Grand Opera house for the Tlinois charitable relief corps. He predicted Chicago will be the biggest city, Milwaukee a suburb, and St. Louis a Southside. He said capitalists will be richer, poverty deeper, and children will learn the ABCs at birth before postgraduate study.
A June tornado 34 miles southeast of Huron, South Dakota injures 11 people. Three are fatally hurt, including members of John McCormick’s family whose house was demolished. McCormick family, Mrs Gardner, and the Palmers’ members sustain serious injuries as fields and buildings are swept away.
The street car company carried the largest crowd to the parks in its history with railroads estimating about 6,000 visitors to the city. Thousands viewed the diving horses at Fairview and the park’s lighting wowed guests with candlelit colored globes arranged in trees.
A physician recounts treating a man with years of dyspepsia and stomach distress. After trying nerve tonics with little effect, the patient found relief from Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, using four boxes and gaining weight. The doctor praises the remedy as harmless, safe for children and invalids, and effective for indigestion biliousness constipation and stomach disorders.
After ten ballots in the third murder trial of Dr S J Kennedy over the death of Dolly Reynolds the jury could not agree eight for acquittal four for conviction Kennedy wept as the foreman announced the deadlock His lawyers will move to quash the indictment Kennedy previously faced a death sentence at the first trial and a new trial followed a prior disagreement The third trial opened May 6 and Kennedy is back in prison
The pulse of sensational news swirls as Roland B. Molineux, Newark maker and New York club man, sits in Sing Sing death-house awaiting the New York court of appeals decision. His father attends as attorney J. G. Milburn and ex-Gov. David B. Hill argue for clemency or a new chance to prove innocence in the murder case.
The WM. H. BLOCK CO. report a bold theft of 2200 from Miss Rebecca Lloyd, a secretary at the Indians initiative, while at the Women’s Exchange on North Pennsylvania Street. The money was likely taken as she prepared to pay employees after withdrawing funds from a bank. Authorities suspect experienced pickpockets familiar with her routine. The exchange serves mainly women and a higher business clientele.
Manila dispatch reports Gen Cailles the insurgent leader with 500 men agreeing to surrender once his troops assemble at Santa Cruz Laguna province. He led insurgents after Aguinaldo's surrender and previously offered bounties of 19 and later 10 dollars for American heads, including Capt. E. N. Jones of the Eighth Infantry.
W Bourke Cockran dismissed Mayor Harrison as a presidential candidate saying booms are premature and coherence on issues has not formed. He favored Justice Harlan as a credible choice to command public confidence.
Mrs Mary McGrath living with son in law Thomas Driscoll 611 S Missouri St wandered half starved for days and was found near Maywood Sunday. Driscotts notified and brought her home. She said she had walked nearly all the time since leaving home.
Chicago June 17 Dr Dowie told his Zion followers a plot by unnamed physicians to kidnap him beat him into insanity and imprison him he urged male members to protect him He attacked Rockefeller the University of Chicago and Standard oil trusts saying Zion College would resist them while promising an upcoming address at Zion Tabernacle and college exercises.
Congressman Landis told Washington correspondents Saturday he believes Senator Fairbanks will be elected president in 1944.
Ex-Representative S R Peters has been offered the pension commissioner job to succeed H Clay Evans in Topeka Kansas. McKinley has summoned Peters to Washington for final arrangements.
South-side republican club will open its new home at South and IWast streets Wednesday night with music and refreshments. The Christian and Missionary Alliance convention closed Sunday night. Funeral of Thomas Swisher of W. W. Morris Sr. held at West Indianapolis M E church with interment at Crownhill. A conference between Mayo Taggart and Crawford airbanks on a new hotel at French Lick will lead to a general meeting next Wednesday to finalize plans.
An old advertisement extols inner cleanliness and a clean mind, praising Cas carets sold by druggists in prices 10c 20c and 50c. The copy uses period voice to link personal hygiene with mental clarity.
St John’s boys school will close with closing exercises at Masonic hall Wednesday night and Thursday morning with premium awards and the commencement of St John’s academy. Graduates include Theresa Loo Hill Helen Flynn and Grace Huntington. Nora Hayes to receive a gold medal for completing the music course. At St Patrick’s academy one graduate, Cecilia Hallinin, at closing exercises Monday night. In a separate police matter Charles Botts denied involvement in a Delaware street saloon robbery. Detective Hoitz’s inquiry led to a continued case on Monday.
Detectives arrested Lord Russell at Waterloo for bigamy alleged to have been committed in America in April 1900. He appeared in court smiling and unconcerned, remanded till Saturday with bail set at 5000 dollars. In Boston the Y M C A jubilee delegates are leaving after a farewell session, about 315000 raised, several individuals giving 1000 dollars each, while talks aim to consolidate General Electric Westinghouse and Sprague electrical firms.
An advertisement touts Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a cure for croup sore throat and pulmonary troubles claiming it relieves pain and bodily distress with a monarch’s endorsement style typical of era medical patent remedies.
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