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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1901
Page
2
A SUN interview reveals mayoral hesitation over redistricting ordinances. Officials discuss costs for printed copies and the potential duplication of council proceedings. The clerk has 50 engrossed copies printed, with more to follow if approved.
Paris reports the senate has passed a government bill aimed at controlling religious orders, now law. The Vatican and Rome are stirred, risking a rupture in relations. The government cites alleged funding by the Assumptionist fathers as the motive for the measure.
Daniel Eberly, a Christian scientist, refused to call a physician for 72 hours of labor, leading to a dying mother and infant born alive only 15 minutes. He allegedly placed the newborn in a dry goods box and buried it, and then refused to disclose the burial location as he faces possible grand jury action.
Three men attacked the Terre Haute brewing company station at 3% S West street on Sunday afternoon armed with boulders and brickbats. Thomas O Connor fired several times when missiles flew. Police found no assailants and O Connor could not identify them.
Sam Kerchval with blackened eye and housekeeper Alice Wright appeared in police court on Monday. A blind boy and Kerchval's daughter were involved as fear and dispute escalated when Mrs Wright allegedly threw hot gravy and both parties suffered minor injuries from a kitchen altercation.
Police seek Cris Madditt, 40, and Margaret McDonald, 35, reported to have eloped from Central avenue near Eighteenth Street. Mrs. McDonald strongly opposes the marriage. The girl left a note telling her mother she was married.
Washington June 24 the president announced several diplomatic postings Chandler Hale of Maine is named secretary of the United States legation at Vienna James B E Bailey of Kentucky is named secretary of the legation to Guatemala and Honduras.
In Danville New Jersey Robert Couplinger sues William P Jungclaus company for 15000 alleging injury from a falling derrick while employed on a building. William B King 25 of 423 East Washington street is arrested for stabbing a street car conductor a year ago and police seek the conductor. A special train run by I D W Ry departs Indianapolis at 7 am June 30 with return at 6 30 pm to Decatur offering a one dollar fare.
Adelbert S. Hay dies after plunging from a third story window at the New Haven house, the same hotel where John Hay, secretary of state, stays. Investigators deem the death accidental with a possible brain concussion or base skull fracture. Hay had returned to Washington in March after serving as consul at Pretoria and was in New Haven for Yale commencement.
Amsterdam reports an order for a handsome wreath to be sent to Adel bert S. Hay ex consul to Pretoria who died on Sunday. The wreath is a tribute from the Boers who valued him as a friend and ally during his service in Pretoria.
Secretary Hay in New Haven reported much improved on Monday after being summoned by the sudden death of his son Adelbert.
Local papers express the highest praise for Adelbert Hay and extend heartfelt sympathy to his bereaved parents amid memorial notices from Washington dated June 24.
George Lock aged 23 of 217 Douglass street and Harry Cole aged 20 of 140 Arizona street drowned in White river Sunday. Lock went under near the Washington street bridge while swimming with brothers in law Charles and James Wilson after stepping into a dredged hole. Wilson failed to hold him and he sank twice more before vanishing. Cole drowned near the White river bridge ten miles south of Indianapolis when a fishing trip capsized their leaky boat. he could not swim. Lock worked for Mullen Blackledge Co and Cole for E F Shideler & Co. Both bodies were recovered by local undertakers and police, with search efforts ongoing until Monday.
Ernest Claypool of 210 West Pratt Street was struck on the head with a beer glass Sunday at Hammond's Park. The blow deprived him of speech briefly and numbed his right hand, but he did not lose consciousness and retained all mental faculties. He believes the assailant confused him with someone else as there had been no quarrel.
W N Wallace, formerly of Lafayette, registered at a Denison hotel in Indianapolis to exhibit Navajo jewelry and silverwork. He left Lafayette 30 years ago seeking health, travels with Navajo blankets, and plans to return west within a week after meeting Ired Ritter and Tiffany’s gem expert.
William F. Crouch, a Marion county patient, died after a June admission and June 19 discovery in a stupor. Post mortem found a skull one sixteenth of an inch thick. Autopsy showed brain congestion and concussion. Roommate claimed assault but officials doubt the account. Superintendent Edenharter notes frequent untruthfulness among insane patients and that two patients share a room for mental well being.
William Vansomne Cassady 20, a well known Muncie youth and former Purdue student, died Monday morning from appendicitis after physicians gave ether to induce sleep and he never woke. He was a Muncie High School graduate and a fraternity member.
Mrs. Eliza Gilmore aged 82 died from apoplexy Monday morning at her daughter Mrs. Charles McGuire’s home 480 N Pennsylvania St Indianapolis She came from Cincinnati 35 years ago widow of Thomas Gilmore Funeral is set for 2 p m Tuesday at the residence Mrs McGuire is seriously ill and not yet informed of the death.
June records list multiple births with parents and addresses across the city, followed by a series of deaths with ages, causes, and home addresses. Marriages and real estate remodeling notes appear at the end, naming couples and properties with values. Local doctors noted for each death.
June Jefferson died as city events unfold with a mass meeting in criminal court, a mentally ill woman believing the world ends, and a Dispensary report. Nora Burnam survived a cocaine incident, while Ulysses Johnston fights a divorce suit. Poolroom charges, a juror deadlock, knee injury notes, and a boy sent to reform school accompany local life. A city hospital notes a laborer bitten ear in a sewer fight.
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