22 Mar 1909
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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1909
Page
1
Bal Ramsay, Republican candidate, pushes extensive postcard adverts as a new campaign document. He receives daily favorable reports on his candidacy and originality praised by supporters.
In Sharon and Cleveland reports, attorney Whitla dismisses detectives and hints at immunity for abductors while a ransom plan unfolds. Police locate the Whitla father in Ashtabula as crime touts the boy Billie Whitla, with a $10,000 in currency placed on a cannon in Flatiron Park.
Washington March 22 The president sent to the senate the nomination of Charles W Miller to be United States district attorney for Indiana succeeding Joseph B Kealing who resigned The move follows Kealings departure and places Miller in the Indiana post pending senate confirmation
Washington March 22 Chairman Payne of the ways and means committee opened the tariff bill debate at 12 05 pm. Republicans loudly applauded as he argued for protection as an American policy and noted changes in tariff questions over the past 20 years. Democratic minority leader Clark said Democrats do not seek to delay passage.
Lavina Perrott donated a diamond ring to Charles Whitlock a colored man with whom she lived. Whitlock sues Judge Stubbs of Juvenile Court to recover the ring valued at 100 with 25 damages. Stubbs plans to keep the ring until rightful owner found noting a fraudulent deed cheated a child. The ring now rests in a safety deposit box.
New York report says John Considine a famed sporting figure, is dying in his Hotel Metropole rooms where she is manager and part owner. He was stricken Friday after long poor health and found unconscious in serious condition. The family doctor cites brain hemorrhage as the likely cause with no recovery expected.
Former Harvard president Eliot will become ambassador to Great Britain to succeed Whitelaw Reid. The appointment, announced in Washington on March 22, confirms a transition at the embassy as the United States names a new envoy to the United Kingdom.
State Statistician Peetz will issue licenses to employment agencies within days. New law requires private gain employment bureaus to be licensed with annual fees of 75 in large cities and 50 in smaller ones. Agencies must advertise licensure, post fees and business details, and bond is required. Revocation follows overcharge or violations. A free state employment agency will also operate.
R. J. Aley state superintendent of public instruction is moving his family from Bloomington Indiana to the capital. He has leased the old Gov Gray mansion on North Pennsylvania street and will be away from his statehouse office for several days during the household move and settling.
A building permit was issued to the Indiana Veterinary College on Monday for an addition to its quarters at Market and Davidson streets, costing 21,980 dollars.
Charles Ritter who deserted his wife and baby last year and was arrested at Mishawaka was sentenced by Judge Stubbs to the workhouse for six months starting Monday.
Ex president Theodore Roosevelt leaves Oyster Bay for Europe aboard the Hamburg liner. He visits a 32nd Street tenement, bids farewell to Mary Ledwith and Katherine Daly, kisses the sick nurse and wishfully reassures, then continues to Hoboken for ship boarding.
In St Louis on March 22 Joseph Larte was killed and four other workmen seriously injured when scaffolding at the Polar Wave Ice and Fuel company icehouse fell forty feet. The injured were rescued unconscious and rushed to City hospital in dangerous condition.
Leander W. Weesner 77 and a longtime contractor died Sunday at his home 120 N East Street after several weeks illness. Services will be at his residence Monday evening and the body will be taken to Hope Ind for burial. Survived by five children and an early member of the Carpenters union.
Former Vice President Fairbanks and family departed at 3 pm for California to spend several weeks on a ranch owned by son. A faulty flue caused a fire at 835 West Eleventh Street damaging a frame dwelling occupied by Mrs Nettie Hartley. Loss estimated at $175.
Reports note Lieut Semmes Read in hospital after a fall in Rock Creek park with condition unchanged. Anthracite miners prepare for a strike decision while Mauretania sets a new eastbound speed record. Paris postal strike widens, a Virginia case faces execution after a 14 year old girl attack, Vanderbilt divorce plans contradict rumors, Austro-Servian tensions rise, and a Boston government ship responds to a deputation amid unclear ‘sine’ issues.
Gen Hughes declined to interfere in the case of Mary Farmer sentenced to die in the electric chair next week at Auburn for the murder of Mrs. Sarah Brennan in Watertown. Her counsel had asked for a three-member commission to examine her mental condition.
Charles Schultz was released without a fine for drunkenness after his wife, morphine dependent, drank carbolic acid at their home on 1029 Coestrest. Schultz, 41, was intoxicated and unaware his wife was dead as he sought help, then called an undertaker.
Constantinople march 22 two hundred revolvers mutinied at Janina after demand to be dismissed. Troops fired on them killing and wounding fifteen mutineers.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Kansas in the Missouri versus Kansas boundary dispute north of Kansas City. The decision clarifies the boundary line for about two and a half miles near the two cities.
Cipriano Castro former Venezuelan president departs Dresden for Cologne en route to Bordeaux to board the steamer Guadeloupe bound for a Caribbean port on a March voyage with details confirmed by the dispatch.
Evansville mayor Jack Dolan and city controller William Madden pressed Governor Marshall on Monday to advocate for an appointment. The officials urged action in the Sed for ’thrgies Sate campaign, seeking support for the city’s governance needs.
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