Sugar Duty Repeal Sparks Wide Price Cut and Hustle
Wholesale grocers prep for Wednesday as sugar duties end. Massive stock movement follows a five cent per pound drop, with Cuba production boosting supply. Indianapolis firms pledge mutual aid to shift stock, while refiners face losses and the sugar trust ships out 1,500 barrels. Inspectors and collectors plan night work to open bonded cars and verify contents for Wednesday launches.
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Cuba
Massachusetts Ave
Indianapolis
Sugar Trust
New York
Hilderbrand
Fred Smith
Ed Nolan
Police Reorganization Plans In Indianapolis Page
The Board of public safety schemes a police force overhaul with a published list of all officers showing name age politics and district while marking those to be fired as N G and similar codes. The new force should be on duty by April 1 with fire department changes following. A register of applicants is readied for examination and Holt hints at a costless city building inspector via a graduated permit fee scheme. The new force list is nearly complete except for six names as a caucus discusses vacancies.
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Board of Public Safety
Holt
Sen
Indianapolis
Thompson
Chicago
Craft
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Parrott & Taggart Reception Flakes Advise Try Now
A brief promotion urged readers to ask grocers for Parrott and Taggart Reception Flakes noting they are nice for tea, coffee or chocolate and suitable for luncheons.
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Parrott & Taggart
Sun Ballot Contest and Local Crime News
The Sun ballots show strong activity with many residents backing Sullivan Denny Hilgenberg Messenger Conduitt and newer candidates Franks Swift and Valentine Born for Indianapolis mayor. Walters jewelry store robbed of over 20000 worth valuables near police HQ as weather shifts to colder and rain.
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Sun
Sullivan
Denny
Hilgenberg
Messenger
Conduitt
G. J. Franks
Swift
Valentine Born
A. EB
City of
Indianapolis
Elias B. Swift
W. H. Messenger
Reeset
RB. Holt
INO
B.C. Trusier
J.T. Brust
S. E. Morss
Wm. Hicklin
W. G. Canfield
W.H. Messenger
A. M. Conduitt
CG Hilgenberg
KE. B. Swifte
Cces i Valentines Boris
Tax Sun
Seashy Crry
Walters’ Jewelry
Railway conductors to dance in Denison on April twenty second
Local items report a dance by the order of railway conductors scheduled for Denison on April 22. Other notes mention West Indianapolis trustees discussing the May election, district fixes, and salaries at Monday night meeting.
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Denison
West Indianapolis
Monon
Brice-Thomas Syndicate
Samuel Thomas
Breyfogle
Queen of Fame
Merchants Carnival
Tom Tinson Hall
Bata Ritter
Alteged National Bank
Evansville
C. M
Fannie Wortman
Oscar
Maggie Huey
Charles
Janie Clark
Charles Burkley
Alabama St
Martha Mason
S. Mississippi St
George Webster
N. Hast St
la Grippe
Ellis Duncan
Mary Partholomew
Carl Peterson
Karen Hanson
William Fells
Ida Alisch
Joseph Klotz
Amanda Tout
Louis Koehne
Anna Bargs
Marion Holden
Corda Miller
Francis Douglass
Anna Burgess
Walter Dilley
Fannie Arnold
Joseph Benchman
Virginia Ave
Dawson
Edwin Booth Retires From Stage Amid Grief and Ill Health
New York March 31 Edwin Booth announces withdrawal from the stage due to the death of Lawrences Barrett and his own ill health. He is hailed as the greatest living actor, with audiences and theatrical figures expressing deep regret. Booth, exhausted by recent engagements, believes his life now to be in the ebb tide.
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New York
Edwin Booth
Lawrences Barrett
Booth
America
Woodruff Place seeks admission to city limits
Special council session will debate adding Woodruff Place to Indianapolis city boundaries. Residents argue 40 homes and 80 acres would gain city protection, schools, gas, water and paves while paying no city taxes. Proponents urge broader suburban inclusion for city growth amid talk of reorganization.
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Woodruff Place
Martindale
Ons
Indianapolis
Washington Affairs Report Stresses Blaine Recovery and Appointments
Washington notes Secretary Blaine has recovered and is back at work after a harsh bout with influenza. It records about 250 circuit judge applications, equating to roughly 28 per seat for nine positions, and confirms officials Erhardt and Cooper will not be removed. It mentions a Pensacola shooting case plea and the death of Brigadier-general Hannibal Day at Morristown, marking the oldest army officer’s passing after 72 years in service or retired list.
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Hannibal Day
Morristown
N. J
Amusements notes on Julian family and local theater
Mr Geo W Julian once a congressman, Irvington resident, famed for abolition history. His son is county surveyor, another son Fred acts in The Midnight Alarm at the Park. Geraldine Ulmer marries a musical director after many engagements. James Whitcomb Riley to introduce Nye and Burbank on April 6.
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Geo. W. Julian
Congress
Irvington
Fred Julian
the Park
Mob Hangs Edward Benson in Haughville Attack
An incensed mob hangs Edward Benson after he wounds Marshal George Smith with a knife in Haughville. Benson is cut down, revived, and jailed as authorities investigate the assault and mob violence linked to a prior sheriff death. Funeral plans for John Plankinton in Milwaukee mark the day’s distant headline.
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Marshal Smith
Bon
Benson
Haughville
George Smith
Edward Benson
Smith
Denson
SUN
Sullivan
Andy Dillon
At the Union Station and a Captain Nelson tale
A quirky dispatch at Union Station describes passengers and a funny baby basket reveal. It recalls Capt. Nelson, ex-pardon clerk, who mistook a firecracker incident for a dynamite plot and feared a White Cap gang after a prank. Hood's Sarsaparilla is praised for vitality.
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Capt
Nelson
State House
Tim Griffin
Mt. Vernon
Indian Snow Sufferings Spur Urgent Aid Demand
Sixty four Ogallala and Brule Sioux tribesmen flee Pine Ridge and Fort Sheridan to join Buffalo Bill's circus in Strasburg Germany, reporting six foot snows, starving ponies, and widespread illness. Maj. Burke warns of looming Indian uprising if government aid stalls as blizzards kill animals and expose harsh conditions.
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Chicago
Pine Ridge Agency
Fort Sheridan
Strasburg
Germany
Buffalo Bill’s Circus
Maj
Burke
Pine Ridge
Crager
Secret Service Capture in Lawrence County Feud Spurred Kidnap Plot
Indianapolis agents H J Conway and Al Moore tracked down Douglass Burton in a rain soaked 14 mile pursuit. Burton surrendered after Conway pressed a pistol to his face. They seized Curtis Ross, Frank Tow, and a kidnaped boy tied to a family feud over shooters. The men faced jail on liquor warehouse theft charges with bail set at 1000. Trophies included shotguns and pistols found near the suspects beds. Al Moore, on his first trip, faced the peril with steady nerves.
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U.S
Secret Service
Indianapolis
Lawrence County
H. J. Conway
al Moore
Douglass Burton
Conway
Burton
Nebecker Rumored for Treasury Post in Washington
A Washington dispatch says E. H. Nebecker of Fountain County Indiana is under consideration for the treasury post. A separate Indiana accident report notes an eastbound Indiana Midland passenger train derailment near Lebanon injuring two foremen. News from San Francisco reports a Hawaii volcanic eruption with Halemaumau crater cone(s) missing and a 500 foot deep hole.
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Boston
New York
Washington
Treasury
E. H. Nebecker
Fountain County
Ind
Lebanon
Lxupaxon
Indiana Midland
San Francisco
Hawaii
Halemaumau
Various sports and events from The Sun
Harvard football and Cincinnati Reds activities in Hot Springs are noted alongside billiards challenger Ives versus Daly. Cleveland infield players Virtue Childs McKean and Tebeau listed. Trotting bets reach $800000 in Kentucky this year. Michael Dwyer to race on New Jersey tracks. Local amateur ball captains urged to use The Sun columns. A national cricket league proposal includes Philadelphia Baltimore Boston Pittsburgh Detroit Chicago. Alton the St Bernard dies in Washington of pneumonia at 4500 dollars cost. Fox chase in Cheat mountains W Va lasts 23 hours over 350 miles. Grand tournament results: Long defeats Wyatt 100 to 1, McGuire 100, Kessler 53. Brown and Rhinehart play Tuesday. Hettinger and Scheibel at night. McGuire leads.
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Harvard
Cincinnati Reds
Hot Springs
Ives
Daly
Virtue
Childs
McKean
Tebeau
Cleveland
Kentucky
Michael Dwyer
New Jersey
Sun
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Boston
Pittsburg
Detroit
Chicago
Alton
Washington
Sir Bedivere
Phace
Cheat Mountains
W. Va
Long
Wyatt
McGuire
Kessler
Richard Brown
Harry Rhinehart
Hettinger
Scheibel
Broad Ripple council discusses boundary and rail rights
In Broad Ripple council you have a busy session with 22 desks filled and a mayoral communication empowering the city attorney to hire a deputy for ordinance revision. The board of public works grants right of way to the Broad Ripple electric railway, to be sent to the railroads committee, as dispute over suburb boundaries and city limits fuels debate.
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Broad Ripple
Sullivan
Leon Bailey
Board of Public Works
Broad Ripple Electric Railway
Committee On Railroads
Rassman
Martindale
Simeon Coy
Parrott
Pearson
MacGill
Nolan
Board of Health
Lhnois St
Western Paving Company
Messrs. Cooper, Murphy and
Markey
Judiciary
Messia
McGill
Coy
Messrs
Rossman
Woodruff
Haughville
Lawrence mine on ice and other midwestern notes
A scattered 1920s style column reports the Lawrence mine near Ashland Pennsylvania frozen over, a 30000 dollar grant abroad, numerous funerals in Pittsburg, protests in Brazil against U S reciprocity, and odd local incidents including a Brooklyn death, an unknown man found near Carondelet Illinois, and a dynamiting in Sycamore Ohio.
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Lawrence
Ashland
Arkansas
Pittsburg
Uncle Sam
Stanley
Texas
Lawrence Gardiner
Aaron Buri
Brooklyn
Carondelet
John Ankeny
Sycamore
Eva Lynch-Blosse
Cavendish Square
London
South Dakota
Caught in the Act 4 Sleek Piece of Work by Chief Splan
Chief Splan and Detectives Crane and Boylan arrested a suspected horse thief, John Wilson, after a chase on Delaware Street near the market. Wilson, possibly Epstein, appeared drunk or feeble but resisted capture until he was secured. The case ties to recent horse thefts at Adolph Brackmeier, Dr Jas Massman, and Dr O S Runnels, with officers believing Wilson responsible.
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Chief Splan
Crane
Boylan
Bugsy
Crane and Boylan
Delaware St
R. E. McKeown
Alabama St
SUN
Splan
Io’elock A.m
Adolph Brackmeier
N. Ilinois St
Man Behind New Orleans Lynching Forces Revealed
The article profiles Parkerson a 34 year old lawyer six feet tall who led vigilante lynching actions against Italians in New Orleans. It notes his past leadership in overthrowing the ring democracy in 1888, his denial of personally killing, his claim of arming lynchers with about 150 guns, and his belief the initial plan was to hang Italians rather than shoot prisoners. It also mentions the Fuller-Brown wedding in Washington and its prominence among officials and the White House crowd.
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Judge Lynch
New Orleans
Gru- WM
Italy
Parkerson
Fuller-Brown
Washington
St. Dain’s
White House
Dip Corps
Inence
Fuller
Cabinet crisis under Wolseley and War News Fragment
Disjointed clipping notes a cabinet crisis tied to Gen. Wolseley and Gen. Sherman with references to Queen Victoria observing Grasse, Italy, and an Italian government stance on exhibitions. Mentions German Minister Boetticher and Willie, Anna Parnell, Kilmainham jail, and Gen. Roca with a 14 year old boy amid financial unease.
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Wolseley
Sherman
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Rome
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Mich
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Miller
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Fla
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James Whitcomb Riler
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Milwaukee
Wis
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Calvary Presbyterian Church
Old Settlers’ Club
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Hood
Nebecker
West
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