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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1907
Page
2
Special to The Sun John W Gates declares he is finished with Wall Street and will focus on managing connected business interests. He discusses dissolution of Charles G Gates & Co, shifts in US finance, currency issues, and predicts Roosevelt's third term while opposing Taft's bid.
Cleveland authorities pursue a still unsolved murder of 3 year old Alexander Hoenig. Autopsy by Drs Schultz and Jewett finds sawdust in the boy’s mouth and windpipe, suggesting strangulation. Police question the father David Hoenig and hunt for suspects after the body was found near a meat market shed.
The Board of Public Parks opposes hiring women policemen or chaperones at city parks to protect girls. President Charles E. Coffin says uniformed women are impractical over the parks' vast area and that increased lighting is the real need. Park Superintendent J. Clyde Power notes Riverside park uses about 2400 dollars yearly for lighting and patrols exist with matrons in each park.
Plans near completion for the 101 ranch show at the Jamestown tercentennial exposition. A Chicago exhibit is currently on display before the big reproduction of wild west life moves to Jamestown. The display aims to recreate life on the ranch in its former days.
Petersburg Indiana May 4 Joshua Evans escaped death in a daring act when a lamp exploded as he tried to move it outdoors. Flames engulfed his clothes and head. He leaped into a large mud puddle in front of his fence and rolled to smother the flames. He was badly burned on hands and face.
GOSHEN New York May 4 Charles H Rogers is said to have confessed to brutally murdering Frederick and Willis Ores and young Alice Ingerick in October 19 percent He shows no concern over a potential death sentence and is indifferent to the crime.
Two brake men discovered a crushed body this morning in St Louis. Letters in the victim's pockets identify him as John O Mara, 4, of Buffalo New York.
Judge Wood plans to keep the Tay Wood case testimony tight to the Steunenberg murder and may finish by July 4. The government expects four to six months for the full labor troubles story, with Adams possibly excluded and the jury housed under constant guard in Boise.
Snow fell in Chicago yesterday marking a rare May cold snap, with the thermometer at 4 degrees. Reports list low readings across towns including Topeka 30, Duluth 22, Kansas City 34, Lincoln 27, Des Moines 31, Milwaukee 36, and Davenport 33.
An old advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure for spring fatigue and blood impurities. It claims the tonic cleanses blood, improves complexion, and restores energy, urging buyers to avoid substitutes and offering 100 doses for $1.
Federal Judge A B Anderson refused to block the Indiana Railroad Commission order reducing Vandalia freight rates following Schall and Co complaint that rates were excessive. The commission redacted all freight classes after its investigation and final hearing.
Judge Vinson Carter of Marion Superior Court declares city ordinance requiring steam railroads entering the city to maintain street lights at every railroad street crossing invalid due to lack of specifications on light quality. The suit by Indianapolis Union Railway seeks permanent injunction. temporary restraining order granted. hearing for permanent injunction pending. The ruling portends a potential city loss on the broader case.
Neouetion in latest coliseum suit postponed to next Saturday with petitioners led by William T. Cook seeking restraining order on city from building Coliseum on market grounds. City contests right to erect such structure for renter uses and to enter contract with the Weebis company. Jacob Metager joined the bond to guarantee costs and damages.
Eugene Huffeut, described as Gov. Hughes' private secretary, killed himself aboard the People's Line steamer C W Morse en route to New York. A revolver lay beside him and a bullet wound was found in his temple. He left two letters addressed to the coroner and to Miss Lilian Huffecur, who is named as his sister.
Victor Roland McShea, on trial three times for killing his young wife, failed to secure a verdict as a jury of seven for acquittal and five for conviction reported early this morning that they could not agree and were discharged.
Henry Lines was arraigned under the juvenile law for neglecting his child. He pled guilty to Judge George W. Stubbs Friday, was fined 500 dollars plus costs, and sentenced to six months in county jail. If a surety bond of 500 dollars is posted, he may be released on probation to care for his wife and child.
Maurice Farman and a companion rose from St Cloud on Wednesday evening and landed at Cutsted on Thursday after a 780 mile balloon journey spanning the Paris region.
General Kuroki and a party of Japanese officials departed Seattle this morning en route to St. Paul Chicago Washington and Jamestown in a planned eastward tour.
Archangelo Rossi a famed tenor died after severing his tongue with scissors during a breakfast gathering in Milan Nineteenth Century reports say he blackout and bled to death the act followed a performance of the Lohengrin Swan Song amid melancholia over his voice loss by own action Rossi collapsed and died hours later doctors could not stop the bleeding from the tongue procedure.
Mark Twain quips that reports of his death are exaggerated while aboard H H Rogers yacht Kana-wha off Hampton Roads. A published tale claimed he and the crew vanished in a fog and storm, but Twain reads the disaster story at his New York home and jokes about paddling his own canoe.
The Soctaler Turnverein held a spring exhibition at the German House on Friday evening. Carl B. South directed a varied program of drills, including a grand march with over 150 participants. The event featured flag, dumbbell, and club swinging displays and closed with a Spanish dance followed by dancing and an informal banquet for senior members.
Betting on the Jack O'Brien Tommy Burns 20 round match shifted to 10 to 8 in O'Brien's favor and could move to 10 to 7 as the fight nears. The auditorium expansion increases seating to 6 500 with tickets from 5 to 50 cents. O'Brien's manager Billy Nolan says postfight matches with Hill Squires are unlikely for now. Jimmy Coffreth sought O'Brien's signature but was blocked by Nolan.
May 4 report from New Castle says Jet Goar formerly with Cincinnati and Indianapolis league teams was hunting when his revolver fired striking his hip. The injury is described as not serious.
Chicago May 4 Buck Freeman the White Sox pitcher was sold to Minneapolis yesterday. The Millers now have three Freemans on the team each receiving the nickname Buck.
The Cinchani encnre party will be hosted by Court White River No. 113 U. O. F. at the Saks building Saturday evening. Prizes will be distributed.
The Staatsverband and German Catholic Centralverein plan the Indiana convention in Fort Wayne on May 12 and 13. Bishops and many citizens are expected to attend with a pontifical mass by Bishop Aterding. A grand parade will feature visiting and Fort Wayne Catholics. delegates travel by special trains from Indianapolis and Logansport, 6 am departure and 7 pm return.
Arthur Clarke, a deaf mute, was attacked at his sister's home and subjected to water torture by burglars seeking valuables. They tied his hands and feet, beat him, forcibly poured water down his throat, gagged him with a rag, and twisted strings around his neck before fleeing with a small sum of money. Clarke lies in a hospital in failing condition.
The Fourteenth ward saloon remonstrance case ended Saturday with withdrawal of the remonstrance as petitioners lacked enough names. Attorneys for the saloon interests had been removing names from the petition, but only a few were withdrawn.
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