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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1904
Page
3
Fragmented OCR text notes Byron M Gain injured by 20,000 volts of electricity at a station tender role in Chicago a street electric line incident. Mentions other local oblique items including marriage, death and a Carson family claim with vague quotes and Mother of multiple children.
Dispatch from London reports Japanese forces occupy Feng Huang Cheng hill in Manchuria without conflict. Other items note a deaf juror in Omaha facing trial, German minister Stochel resigns amid colonial campaign blunders, a druggist pleads guilty to selling to a minor, a woman drowns in the Ohio River, a Chicago hospital case of a 15 year old with whiskey poisoning, and local sale ads for nickel plated coffee pots.
In Washington a pension-commissioner reduced the salary of Jin Menolty, a special examiner, from 1300 to 1000 dollars a year after ten minutes of reading the newspaper before quitting work. The action, justified as a matter of efficiency, drops him to a plain clerk position.
May 6 Elmer Roberts 11 was found Friday morning in an out house at Waterford with his mail battered in. A bloody handkerchief was found near the body and two bloodstained areas noted. Authorities have no clue to the murderer.
Sity Life notes a box social by Camp 4 P C of A at its hall on Alabama and New York streets next Thursday evening. A Ladies of the G A R event is planned at the same hall Saturday night. A farmer, John Lubidaz near New Bethel, was knocked down by a runaway team on Tuesday in Fruntain Square, suffering a broken jaw. Only the lower floor is in use due to the incident.
In May a new fatal illness hits New York with seven child deaths and at least 20 hospital cases. Doctors suspect germs from walls of old tenements being rebuilt. Symptoms include headache, fatigue, nausea, and rapid decline leading to death within a day.
Richmond Indiana May 6 16 year old George Kelly vanished from home with a violin and was traced to a pony show traveling from town while a county bridge project in White River area prompts a county meeting. In Chicago Michael Trutchioe climbed a 180 foot tower and then fell breaking his neck, witnessed by companions.
Mra Hearst of California hospitalized at Johns Hopkins for treatment as W R Hearst’s mother. In Norfolk North Carolina claims a “white man’s town” status after last black resident leaves. Cincinnati man William Keitz, 45, hangs self after wife’s death. New York comedian Eugene Canfield dies of pneumonia.
Birth notices list numerous newborns with parents and addresses including Mickel and Mary Barley in Norwood Street and William and Margaret McWeehem in Muskingueet. Deaths include Gana Willonabby at 142 Sample Street from pneumonia and Edmonia Terry at 22 Chicago Avenue from heart failure among others. Marriages record John H. Gercke and Jenife Davin and George H. Tapage and Mary Ann Skits. Building permits show multiple residents filing for additions porches alterations and cottage builds with stated costs.
A reader list shows George Alig in Kentucky Eve area with Merrill and Benry-sti framing details. William BR Burford at 13 N. Meridian St. schedules remodel work for 150 dollars. Alfred Croll at 394 W. Washington-st addresses a home addition with costs not stated.
In New York May reports say about fifteen thousand laborers may flock to the funeral of Samuel J. Parke, former business agent of the Housesmuths and Bridgeman unions, who died in prison on Wednesday. Philadelphia notes that a liberty bell exhibit will head to the St. Louis exposition, with start set for early June.
A dense slice of 5 May market text covers butter creamers and cheese brands in Chicago, live poultry prices, and East Buffalo stock receipts. It details cattle, sheep, and hog receipts, with prices and grades for Prime steers, Merit steers, heifers, and pigs, plus grain quotes for Wheat and Corn and a City Grain Market snapshot.
Live stock receipts at Indianapolis show softer cattle and hog markets with varying loads. Steers and cows range from common to choice, with feeders and veal mixed. hogs steady to higher on strong demand, while sheep and lambs face active trading but mixed prices. Cincinnati and Pittsburgh results mirror mixed cattle, hog, and sheep movements with regional price shifts.
May 6 New York stocks were dull with narrow fluctuations. Metropolitan street railway was active on the sale side, steel preferred steady, Amalgamated copper up slightly, Missouri Pacific and others mixed. Interest centered on gold export uncertainty and the Japanese loan, with government bonds unchanged and steel declines modest.
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