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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1899
Page
11
Evansville Indiana June 8 Miss Lottie Sensmeier a dry goods clerk fainted in a store and was picked up for dead. A doctor said it was sunstroke but another said it was the aftermath of a poisonous spider bite from a year ago. She recovered.
Fairmount Indiana June 28 Mrs Harriet Dortson 57 colored cooked in the hospital during the war but never received the 15 dollars a month pay she was to be allowed Congressman Steele has the matter in hand and the old lady may get 34 0 back pay from the government
In Rushville Indiana on June 28 Ab and John Leonard admitted killing George Palmer but pleaded self defense. The state aims to prove their guilt while the defense argues Palmer threatened them, and the case may go to the jury on Thursday.
Evidence grows that corruption exists in Sullivan County Indiana with opposition pressing for an investigation. Charges include county officials not paying taxes and torn pages removed from county records, fueling allegations of manipulated public documents.
In Unprecedented case at La Porte Mrs James Platt Union Mills gives birth to four daughters all surviving except three who died earlier. The mother is 18 and frail weighing 110 pounds while the father, a laborer, is about 50 years old and similarly light. The unusual event appears unique in recorded history.
A local Peru baseball club defeated a regional team. The city council postponed Broadway paving to next year due to protests. Niely’s two story brick saloon building burned with no insurance. Bunker Hill fire leaves Peruvians to use coal and wood next winter rather than natural gas.
Evansville report describes an abortive blast at the Fifth Avenue mine engine house. A fuse to a keg of powder failed, frightening workers away. Conditions of the powder and fuse suggest the act was crude and no miner is implicated.
Jeffersonville Indiana reports Victor Marara drowned at Penn Grove on Tuesday afternoon while saving his companion Charles Thompson. The incident occurred in the local park area with observers noting Marara's brave actions and subsequent death. Thompson survived the ordeal with minor injuries.
A Spencer County post office will be named Schley. Capt Crawford of the Salvation Army hails Muncie as a moral town. Several Laporte families were poisoned after eating blackberries. Col Eli Ritter of Indianapolis has been ...
A collage of Indiana items reports Wabash county recording 1085 deeds and 921 mortgages in the past year, deaths of Fort Wayne dry goods dealer George Dwald and railroad veteran Capt James Waterhouse, wage shifts for Terre Haute workers, and a rash of violent incidents and legal cases across several towns.
A jumble notes Garden sprinkling scheme for Paris Breen, a fatal iron fragment at Republic mill injuring Terrence and O C Vanderanter, a sewer collapse hurting another brother, and five masked intruders binding Mrs Shaw near Os good while stealing money and a watch. Local mob vows action if suspects caught. Tipton baseball club fundraiser mishap ends with lost gate receipts and missed uniforms while Cicero wins crowd.
Jacksonville dispatch reports Jerry Delaney of Cincinnati police pursued Mose Robertson after Deputy Sheriff Sadler White was fatally shot and Deputy Dennis mortally wounded. Delaney fired buckshot, wounded Robertson in the shoulder, and captured him after a ten minute chase through thick brush.
Skilled laborers at Armour & Co. Swift & Co. Nelson Morris & Co. and Chicago Packing and Provision Co. facilities demand 50 cent raise from $4.50 per day. The request is refused. Wiles & Robinson packing house outside the stock yards joins the strike, closing the plant.
Cincinnati hosts the saengerfest with about four thousand voices in the chorus for opening night on Wednesday. Despite earlier reports, the building will be ready for the concert after overnight work by hundreds. The program features the cantata Consecration of the Arts by Dr. N. J. Elsenheimer.
London reports mechanic Charles Mansfield claims a salt covering method can revive drowning victims. He says moist salt draws water from the lungs and cites revivals after 20 minutes for a man and two hours for a dog, believing it could work for humans.
Jeffersonville Ind June 28 The American Car and Foundry Company would only agree to bi weekly pay for striking workers. The men refused the concession insisting on weekly payment. The company said paying weekly is nearly impossible.
The Daily Chronicle reports Lady Curzon wife of the viceroy of India has strict rules at all functions requiring everyone to stand until she is seated and reportedly she expects the same deference from her sister in private rooms.
Canton Ohio June 28 The George murder case will be appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court. The appeal does not affect Mrs George who was acquitted of killing George Suxton. Prosecutor Pomerene seeks legal points, chiefly whether evidence of hand scrapings may be admitted. Judge Taylor barred the deposition claiming it was testimony wrung from the defendant and not admissible as powder evidence.
Loftus owner and manager of the Columbus ball club declares the Chicago report about moving to Cleveland is false. He says the National League cannot draw paying crowds in Cleveland and a Western league team would fare no better there.
Henriette Elkins a colored girl of 417 West Court Street bought the regulation dimes on Tuesday and at 4 PM began showing signs of the drug. Her mother summoned a doctor from the Bobbs dispensary of the Medical College of Indiana. The girl showed symptoms but had not taken enough to require active treatment. She denied taking the drug.
The Logansport Rochester and Northern traction company plans to connect with the Marott line at Logansport and serve Kendallville Metea Fulton Rochester Bloomsburg Mentone Warsaw North Webster Albion and Brimfield with capital stock of 100000. The Muncie Anderson and Indianapolis road merges with the Union traction company of Anderson creating Union traction company of Indiana with capital 4,000,000.
Fred Kissel, penalized by Judge Christian in Hamilton County, ordered to appear for contempt for continuing a beer garden on North Capitol Avenue. The resort, run by Frank Ward, kin to Kissel, is alleged to have involved Kissel in conniving and co med with the operation.
Henry Stewart a Black man who robbed and shot Gail Hamilton and robbed foreman Choate of 85 dollars was seized from jail Sunday and lynched on Tuesday in Fulton Kentucky. The mob ordered the nearby Murphy row to vacate and they departed. A posse pursues Squad Bolin, an alleged accomplice, with risk of hanging if captured.
Rebecca Adams executrix of George F. Adams asks probate court to compel Francis W Williamson Otis L Williamson and Dwight W Williamson to consent to an investigation of the veneer manufacturing firm Adams Williamson so she can wind up her husband’s business affairs.
Mrs Ann J Canaan sues Wesley A Stout manager of Stouts trained animal show to recover trained horses she leased to him. She claims entitlement to half gross receipts while he bore all expenses but paid nothing. He asserts daily costs of one dollar yet earns about forty dollars daily. Stout owns a beer garden on W Market St.
William Worrell was acquitted in criminal court after a robbery accusation involving Mrs. Anna Gillette. A letter discovered outside the window and a burglar’s knife found on Worrell’s person were cited in the investigation.
A fire of unknown origin broke out at 9 p m Tuesday in the Japan room of the T B Laycock manufacturing plant at Tenth street and the Canal. The blaze caused a 3500 loss but was confined to that department and did not delay work.
In a boiler blast near Alton Illinois on Tuesday night the steamer St Paul scalded four black men and one white man. Two victims died after reaching St Louis. The identified deceased are Jack Mack white and Melvin Johnson colored.
Cris Barnell, formerly trusted clerk for John O Neil Wholesale Flour, indicted for embezzling 1900 dollars. He disappeared from the city after mishandling funds, with a $300 shortfall identified by a baking firm. Barnell’s wife had fled to Redkey. bond backed by United States Fidelity and Guarantee Company.
Herr Lewis Wilkins of Kentucky, billed as the biggest American giant, arrived in New York aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse from Germany. He stands about 11 feet long, weighs around a quarter of a ton gross, and travels with his wife and two children. He is slated to perform in a museum exhibit.
James W Dailey of Binghamton New York a prominent society figure shot himself in his apartments likely alone after preparations for his marriage to Mrs Josie Carey were completed at St Marys church. Local authorities report the deed and motive remain unclear.
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