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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1901
Page
3
Several hundred workers and families attended a Retail Grocers Association picnic at the fairgrounds. Events included greased pig contests, foot races for grocers' clerks and children, horse and motorcycle races, and a slow horse race. Prizes were donated by wholesalers. over 6,000 tickets sold before gates.
In Brazil and Fortville Indiana on June 26 scaffold work toppled from a coal shaft tipple injuring Sylvester Hadley and William Whittington fatally, Walter and Newton Hadley seriously. Paul Hagan saved himself from a shaft accident by bracing and stopping the elevator engine. A large fuel fire was checked by company workers. Dudley Yocum, 42, was killed when struck by a Evansville and Indianapolis train, leaving a family.
In Anderson Indiana Judge H C Ryan held railroads lack power to sublet their right of way for non railroad uses. The Consumers gas trust company sued Vilate Glass of Alexandria over drilling oil wells on the Big Four right of way in Monroe township. The case touches also the I and W railroad suit to enjoin the Indianapolis and Martinsville rapid transit from condemning portions of its right of way for an electric line.
Forrest Jones aged 20 was arrested after he threw acid into his uncle Henry Kaiser’s face on Tuesday night in Columbus Indiana. He previously drifted through several roles from church worker to palmist and hypnotist then gypsy fortune teller before joining the Klondike den. The act followed Kaiser ordering him from town as revenge for past conflicts.
Jeffersonville Indiana June 26 Miss Minnie Printz daughter of Valentine Printz underwent an operation at Deaconess hospital Tuesday to free her four fingers from webbing. Surgeon Dr Webb cut the webs between the fingers on both hands and she should be able to use them in three weeks unless complications arise, enabling her to pursue her ambition to become a pianist.
A severe storm across southern Indiana damaged telephone service with 104 of 117 lines burned near Orleans. Hail near Crown Point caused great damage. In Jeffersonville, Miss Minnie Meyers fainted during her wedding due to heat but the ceremony finished. Heat also affected Ernest Lloyd of Elkhart, who died after a partial recovery from prostration and a jump from a boat.
A tank of oil at Preble owned by Standard Oil was struck by lightning on Tuesday night and caught fire. The tank held 45,000 barrels of oil and remained burning at noon Wednesday, with authorities working to contain the blaze.
Edinburg recalls John Webb age 74, among Johnson county’s oldest residents. Martinsville honors James K E Douglass age 17 as a noted contractor and bricklayer. Union City remembers Edward N Stone age 81 for early county history involvement. Sullivan notes Hugh Moore, pioneer resident who opened Sullivan county’s first coal mine.
A sequence of local notes reports a bear entering a wagon near Lisenier and a bear encounter at Yellowstone park. Story details include a birth of triplets in Indiana, theft from ex-County treasurer Steeding, gas meter ban in Wabash, a fatal accident on Lake Shore engine, and multiple small incidents across Indiana towns.
At Mohawk crossing a car blocking the main track threatened a fast train. Mr. Duncan leaped from his buggy and waved to warn the engineer, stopping the train 150 feet away. A peculiar post hailstorm condition ruined many cherries with rot and mold. Alent Kennedy reports trees buzzing with flies after the storm.
City health official Dr Clark reports unusually few infant deaths from intestinal diseases amid extreme heat. He credits absence of formaldehyde in milk after inspecting samples. Mothers urged to feed only rich sterilized milk or consult a physician for nursing babies. Health board pleased with battle against formaldehyde.
In Pittsburgh area town on June 26, locomotive engineer Wim Grant, recently discharged after twenty years with Cumberland Valley railroad, killed yardmaster Jacob Suher and policeman William Flora at Wauserstown after being challenged for negligence. Grant then wounded himself and was dying. Flora had shot him earlier as he fell.
Winds in recent days toppled wheat in several localities. Much of the crop lies flattened with reaping now impractical, and losses will come from grain loss rather than heads lying down.
The Board of Safety and Building inspector Bedell discussed plans for a modern fire headquarters on the present site. They estimate a cost of about $50,000 and consider condemning the paint and oil lot on Massachusetts avenue, with Bedell suggesting a condemnation price not exceeding $5,000.
City engineer Jeup estimates the E Michigan street drainage project will cost Woodruff residents about 1800 dollars with 35 lots benefiting in a 200 foot strip. North of the strip drainage ties to the E Tenth street sewer and the Woodruff estimate was to go to the Board of Works the following Wednesday afternoon.
Chicago markets report June 26 shows wheat July at 64 4 c, September 644 b6 4 c, corn July 43 3 g 1554 c, September 44144 45 c, oats July 264% 27 K c, September 2674 20% c. Provisions trend lower with pork at 14.62144 14.05, lard 8.65 8.70, ribs 8.4244 8 1714. Butter and cheese prices listed for creamery extra, firsts, seconds, grass stock and packing stock. Live poultry prices given for chickens, hens, roosters, spring chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese per dozen.
Bricklayer William Pepperdine of Blarm mond Lake county filed a bankruptcy petition in federal court. Assets listed at 7 50. Frank O'Drea a messenger boy for J S Ayres Co fell from his wheel on W Washington street dislocating his thumb and injuring it badly with profuse bleeding.
Dr Harlandson endorses Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets for indigestion loss of appetite belching sour stomach headaches and nervous weariness. He claims daily use after meals aids digestion even when the stomach resists, noting the tablets contain harmless digestive agents and pepsin. A 50 cent package is widely available and safe for ongoing use.
Rome reports a final audience between the Pope and Cardinal Gibbons. Just before Cardinal Gibbons departed Rome His Holiness offered a relic as a keepsake and soberly remarked that they would not meet again.
Berlin reports the Leipsinger bank in Leipsic suspends payment temporarily due to Dresden credit collapse. Officials pledge dollar for dollar payments. The Lokal Anzeiger cites liabilities of 85 million marks against 48 million marks in assets. The failure is linked to its ties with Cassel Treber Trockning company, also in default.
A historically advertised remedy claims protection against cholera infantum dysentery diarrhoea and summer complaint through Dr Fowler’s Extract of Wild Strawberry kept in the amedicina chest.
Washington June 26 Mrs McKinley went out for a drive with the president for the first time since her trip west. The improvement in her condition was evident to onlookers. Payne Blackmore was jailed Wednesday on charges of stealing a lawn mower and a harness from R. T. W Demerly on G N Alabama Street.
A dense trade-item listing details prices for fruits vegetables and staples. It includes rice beans celery onions lemons coconuts oranges and many other items with per unit or per ton prices. Also lists coal coke and various chemical and nonfood goods with price quotes and packaging notes.
Hog receipts at Interstate Stock Yards Indianapolis totaled about 1 000 head with 800 shipments. Prices ranged from 5 95 to 6 20 for good to choice assorted lights and from 5 10 to 5 85 for common to good pigs. Medium and heavy mixed pigs traded around 6 15 to 6 60. Troughs priced near 5 70.
Market report lists wheat prices for several grades including No 2 red and No 3 red with milling freight and June notes. oats mixed and white prices. corn steady with multiple white and mixed grades and varying cents per bushel. hay timothy prices given. inspections show several cars for Wheat and Corn and miscellaneous oats and hay totals.
A dense price column lists items across categories such as poultry and dairy products, hides and tallow, candies and nuts, coffee, sugars, and flour. It includes per pound and per bag rates for turkey hens, spring chickens, cheese, butter, eggs, and various coffees, sugars, and spices, with specific grade labels and brand names typical of a historical market listing. Numerous entries cover green salted hides, tallow, candies, nuts, coffee varieties, sugars, salt, flour, rye flour, bran, meal, spices, and beans with precise unit prices.
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