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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1909
Page
4
An advertisement lists boys' knee pants suits in Easter styles and checks for ages 9 to 17, priced from 3 to 5 dollars with a 0 percent value and coupon required. The coupon limitation is two per buyer noted as none without coupon.
March 30 New York Hearst News Service reports inventor Lewis Nixon, shipbuilder, warns the aerial war fleet is doomed before real start. He describes a new shrapnel shell for 10 000 to 15 000 feet, using a secret semi liquid filling and sticky flame to ignite balloon envelopes on impact.
Chicago March 30 J A Adams editor of the Advance urged stricter limits on clergymen at a Congregational ministers meeting. He argued public officials and teachers are bound by oath or board rules, hence ministers should follow fixed doctrine and be prohibited from preaching what they please.
Yusuf Mahmout the Turk will wrestle Joe Rogers and Sansel in Wayne Indiana on Wednesday night. It will be his last match here as part of the championship struggle.
Mary Grogan, 78, who has served the Price family at South River since 1859, will be guest of honor at a reception and dinner celebrating fifty years of service. Family members will wait on her. She began as a servant to support her three children.
The will of Mrs. Caroline T. Coburn probated before Judge Ross directs that her husband’s sword be given to the Indiana governor. She died March 4 leaving an estate around $6,000 with tombstone costs capped at $50 each and remaining property to lawful heirs. Schuyler A. Haas named administrator with will annexed.
Yale baseball players may smoke all season Capt. Fred Murphy ordered cigar use every night before retiring but forbade any more cigarette smoking once the season ends in New Haven Connecticut on March 30.
Fire sparked by embers damaged the roof of Pink Hall on N Hillinois street Tuesday morning. Firefighters battled the blaze but had it under control after flames caused about 100 dollars in damage.
Rosa Tritt was slain in 1877 near Sandford by Sylvanus Burnham, the hired man who then fled after setting the house ablaze. Detectives traced Burnham’s path from Indiana to the U S Navy, then Texas, where he built wealth on land. A requisition to return him to Indiana has been issued.
Indianapolis March 30 Receipts include steers good to choice 1300 lbs and up around 6.35 to 7.00. heifers fair to medium 600. cows good to choice 5.10. calves 20 to 30. hogs best heavies 210 lbs and up around 7.5. sheep yearlings 5.50 to 6.30. lambs 4.25 to 4.50. bulls 4.50 to 5.00. prices varied across weight ranges and classes.
Chicago market data for hogs cattle and sheep with receipts and price ranges. Hogs 18 000 head mixed and butcher trade 6.65 to 7.05 for good heavy. cattle 3 0600 head steady with beeves 4.50 to 7.35 and feeders 5.00 to 95.00. sheep 12 000 head steady with lambs 5.90 to 8.25.
At Pittsburg Union Stockyards on March 30 cattle receipts show market steady with prices for various grades from common through prime. Hogs receipts and details indicate higher market with heavy yorkers and prime heavy ranges. Cincinnati notes follow with hogs receipts at 1 901 rough trade, cattle receipts 500 and steady sheep and lambs.
The Hamburg brought Theodore Roosevelt ashore at 10 AM in Ponta Delgada on March 30. Rumors of an assault were denied as crowds gathered to greet the former president and his party headed to the town in an automobile with American consul Edward Creevey and vice consul William Nicholls.
New York trading opened with mixed momentum as many stocks declines amid early profit taking. Amalgamated Copper fell about five eight, while New York Central dipped then recovered from 131. Eries and Brooklyn Rapid Transit showed strength. London trading was mixed with admissions of higher purchases than sales.
Wheat steady with bid prices for No. 2 red at 1.26 per bushel and futures for March 1.26. Corn shows strength with No. 2 white around 67 cents and mixed and yellow variants listed through billing. Oats and rye noted with several grades quoted, hay remains strong with Timothy prices around 11.75 to 11.50. Inspections report 20 cars across multiple white, mixed, and yellow lots.
A Chicago State Street store reports selling 1,140 of these powder puffs in one day. The item features a lambswool puff in a press release lid, releasing by finger pressure and resealing the box. Advertising touts sanitary texture and a middle ground between down puffs and powder rags.
Miss Sellicks advanced art class at Shortridge High School shows strong interest in the Indianapolis Orphans Asylum Easter Flower sale to be held April 10 at Badger Furniture. Students decorated flower boxes to be filled with cut blooms and sold for 1.25 dollars.
Mrs. Sally Brown seeks separation from Charis W. Krown after he left on January 27 and has had no contact since. She alleges abuse at home during their marriage begun on Christmas Day 190, including throwing and breaking dishes and furniture, and requests restoration of her maiden name Sally Pottad.
City residents report births including many with full names and residences and a hospital birth at Methodist. Deaths list ages from infants to elderly with causes such as typhoid fever bronchopneumonia and hepatic carcinoma. Also includes marriage licenses and building permits with addresses and values.
Federal inspectors report the Prussian National Insurance Company with Home Office in Stettin and U S offices in Chicago and Indiana audited as of December 31 1908. Total assets 1575591 The liabilities include 16985 34 losses adjusted and not due 61500 20 unadjusted and other claims. Auditor J C Billheimer of Indiana certifies accuracy March 10 1909.
MUNCIE Ind March 30 Robert W Monroe former deputy auditor later auditor and once prosecuting attorney was arrested yesterday on grand jury warrants and is charged with grafting while in the auditor s office Thomas W Starr former sheriff now real estate dealer was also arrested on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses His indictment grows out of matters connected with deals Monroe pulled off in connection with the school fund.
Carter Temple Jr., son of a police officer, was fined in police court on a charge of cutting a dog’s throat in anger. The dog belonged to a woman at 48 Blake Street and the cost was $15.
Ignace Paderewski the pianist and his wife sailed today on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse bound for Europe to seek a cure for rheumatism and do not expect to return to the United States for two years.
Washington march 30 I D Huntington a retired member of the New York Stock Exchange died today while speeding homeward aboard an Atlantic Coast line train.
East Buffalo N Y March 3 cattle receipts 30 head quiet steady veals 50 head active steady call to choice 6.00 9.50 hogs receipts 850 head active firm Yorkers 6.90 7.30 pigs 6.40 7.60 heavies 7.30 7.40 roughs 6.00 8.50
Chicago cash grain values list wheat prices for No 2 red No 3 and higher grades with range around 1.50 to 1.60 dollars per bushel and spring and hard varieties noted. Corn cash figures appear garbled with several misread terms but indicate No 3 cash and related quotes.
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