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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1899
Page
3
In Noblesville Indiana two Mormon elders left the city after locals demanded they depart. The pair had aimed to form a colony and baptize a woman while her husband was away, but confrontation led to an order to leave by night.
Bloomfield Indiana May 8 James Simpson 19 shot and killed John Schaffer an elderly man near Marco Saturday afternoon after an old family feud. He surrendered to authorities after the crime.
A large dynamite blast at 2 45 a m Sunday rocked the Muller building in Portland Indiana housing Mrs Hannah Miller saloon keeper and her restaurant partner William Legectt The blast lifted floors tore ceilings and demolished interiors though Mrs Miller and Alice Hartzell escaped unharmed Investigators note the possibility of a staged ruse and a southbound train departure by the dynamiter.
In Alexandria the suspect Buck Williams was jailed in Hartford City after a Belgian glassworker Brevert was found dead with a bullet wound in a hen house behind Grace Masley's resort. Williams claimed the Belgian tried stealing his game chickens. Glory and release followed imprisonment credits. Navier Juaiten, who refused alimony, became town hero as Father Cice funded his payout and led a parade with brass band then banquet.
Loganport Indiana May 8 a flaw in an 18 inch gas main caused a break and explosion that shook buildings like an earthquake. Nearly 230 men were working at the scene but no injuries were reported.
The report lists a failed gas well at Kokomo after eight years as a test. It details a bruise to Blunk by Graves, a shooting by George Chamberland at Booher, a $5,000 cob pipe swindle case, a mob attack on patrolman Isiefer, the ghost of Mrs Storck haunting her former Evansville home, a wireless test by Prof Green near Notre Dame, a Logansport mention of a cataleptic youth, Gearhart’s attempted self harm after a death sentence, and a Hartford City kidnap case ending in tragedy for the Murphy family adolescents.
The civic federation prepares a call for a four day national conference on combinations and trusts to be held in Chicago or Indianapolis or another central point. One day will cover railroad combinations, labor organizations, industrial combinations and remedies with methods of procedure. Governors attorneys general lawyers and college leaders will be invited.
The Ohio Valley Trust Company of Evansville filed articles at the state house in Indianapolis. Capital is 260,000 with stockholders from Indianapolis and Evansville. Directors include Fitzgerald 2000 and 4000 subscibed by Scholz and Cockrum 4090, Parker 4000 from Danville, and Layman 65000 among others. The firm will start loan trust and safety deposit business May 15.
The Cook County Democratic marching club outlines a touring plan to boost Carter H. Harrison for president. They will visit the Duckworth club in Cincinnati and join the Ohio campaign, head to Milwaukee to aid Wisconsin Democrats in October, with Denver as the main objective. They will stress the youthful mayor’s fitness for the presidency to audiences along the way.
In Louisville Kentucky a quarrel over moving a street stand led to gunfire. Officer Murray ordered William Buckner to relocate his stand. Buckner refused and fired at least three shots, wounding Murray. Murray returned fire, killing Buckner with a head wound. Murray was wounded twice in the chest and once in the leg and severely cut.
A Los Angeles dispatch says Dr. Hans Hegelsburg, a New York stock broker, is under arrest on a $100000 defaulter charge. Police say he is wanted locally for larceny of $8100 with other complaints pending.
Vienna reports a German explorer Waldeman Felck has been captured by robbers in Armenia and a large ransom is demanded for his release.
Dr D B Lucas at Adolphus Rogers funeral in Central Christian Church said the starch company where Rogers worked continued paying his salary after illness. He argued trusts are not always soulless, contrasting common depictions. Burdock Blood Bitters advertised as a cure, claim it relieves indigestion.
Nearly 500 sailors who served under Dewey in Manila Bay are arriving in New York aboard the Buffalo after a 67 day steaming voyage. They celebrate the Star Spangled Banner played by a German warship at Port Said and bring home trophies including two 6.2 inch rifles from Reina Cristina, the Christina wheel, five torpedoes, and brass cannons. Commander Hemphill reports Dewey in good health.
Postmaster Hess announced Monday the stamp agencies in Indianapolis will be discontinued as part of a government economy move. Several stations were cut off when new stations opened and the policy is expected to extend to all cities. Most agencies are run by local druggists at street corners.
In Duluth Minnesota on a Sunday night strikers hurled stones at about twenty street cars, seriously injuring three people and injuring several others. Traffic on all lines was abandoned amid the violence.
A young girl's body was found on Chan deleur island, prompting notification to Mayor Taggart. Nearby the Paul Jones exploded with all aboard perishing, including the mayor's daughter. The mayor and Mrs. Taggart departed for New Orleans Monday afternoon after the burial.
Clara Rhoades 22 of Van Buren, a domestic for Thomas Mahaffey in Marion township, died after taking morphine. Doctors treated her through Sunday night but could not save her.
The text notes Ada M Carey’s residence leased by Hugh Sle Gowan opposite I I Smith and D D M Parry nearby. It asks if longtime residents will visit the new neighbor and if Mrs McGowan and President Wasson will join for social functions, hinting at changing local social ties.
Judge William Lawrence aged 80 of Bellefontaine Ohio died Monday from a paralysis stroke suffered Saturday He led the Oliowoul growers association and served as president of the Natigrel wool growers association He was Ohio Wesleyan University trustee first comptroller under Garfield and Arthur a five year common pleas judge and Ohio legislator His body was taken to Bellefontaine for burial.
Cleveland lawyer William Safford, a lifelong Shakespeare student in England, declares proof of the Baconian theory. He expects to obtain not only known plays but ten unpublished manuscripts said to be in the British Museum tied to the old Lord Bacon estate in Germany. An iron box in masonry guards the manuscript, with ownership at stake.
Two Indianapolis couples Sidney Morris and Maud Rose Richard Mason and Etta Morgan were arrested in Peoria Saturday night. All are of age and declined involvement after police found no crime. The group traveled by spring wagon saying they sought work and planned marriage once employed.
A scaffold collapse Monday morning in Kentucky ave left two colored hod carriers, John Glenn of 92 Rhode Island st and George Dixon of 1030 N Canal st, falling about 85 feet. Dr. F A Furniss attended them. Glenn suffered a badly sprained shoulder while Dixon was severely bruised about the chest.
Nora Winter nine year old musical prodigy in vaudeville was mauled by a vicious dog in Huntington West Virginia early Monday morning. The bite is severe and may force cancellation of her eastern engagement plans.
Robert Hilyard, the star in Sporting life, fractured a bone in his hand Sunday night during a prize fighting scene. His understudy replaced him for the rest of the performance. The Sun advertises its Popular Liners on page 7 with a labor sale theme.
WALLINGTON May 8 Friends say the president is becoming an inveterate smoker like Gen Grant. His nervous condition is blamed on over indulgence and he notes smoking helps relieve neuralgia. Officers returning from Cuba Porto Rico or the Philippines bring him fine cigars.
May 8 report shows most congressmen oppose an extra session citing financial and Nicaraguan canal questions and colonial policy as reasons. Proponents urge action for Reed’s successor but the president and leading lawmakers favor avoiding a call.
Dave Stewart known to police received two strokes from William and Clark Conover at 553 W Washington St after being fired from their barn. He was also fined for drunkenness by Judge Cox amid Sunday morning disorder.
Military circles report the theft by a foreigner of a key secret in the construction of Austria’s latest quick firing gun. The main piece containing the secret details was taken, heightening security concerns.
Charles Loftin who had his right leg amputated for cancer at the Protestant Deaconesses Hospital spent a restful night Friday and is out of danger.
The body of H. Frank Valentine a C and A postal clerk was found in Carlinville Lake. Joseph Bowman a famed Kentucky duelist is dead at Wilmore after killing four men. Mary Vinch an 18 year old Beemer Nebraska girl despondent over a soldier’s death at Caloocan took her own life with a shotgun.
WIRE WHISPERS. Parkman Ohio business section burned Saturday with $20,000 loss. An Oshkosh engineer E Dubers lost wife and baby in a saw mill boiler explosion. Italian bark Michele to Gloucester after a 92 day voyage from Italy. Charles Reid released after murder conviction in Macon 1897. Milwaukee mayor to probe park commission books amid expected scandal. Rear admiral Sampson’s squadron to attend Rhode Island governor inauguration ceremonies May 20.
Edith Gorman, 33, of 2508 N Delaware, was fined $1 in police court for shoplifting and given a suspended workhouse sentence on good behavior. Arrested Saturday with four pairs of rayon hose, a necktie, and a belt, she later confessed to another theft. Her husband appeared in court. the pair were neatly dressed and noted as first-time offenders.
Montreal May 8 Kipling will receive the degree LLD from McGill University at the convocation Rudyard Kipling writes to Principal Petersen that the honor is a matter of pride since the proposal came from Canada the elder sister of the new nation within the empire This will be the first degree Kipling has accepted
A reported cargo of snakes from Para Brazil is set to arrive at New Orleans via the Atlantico. Two snake charmers guard 100 chests said to include large specimens from Amazon war zones. The item is presented as the largest snake shipment ever to reach the city.
Short OCR reads a dining notice for a business lunch labeled full meal for 106 cet Ts our Business Lunch. Service times listed as from 1 a.m. to 2 p.m., with Sadie on the second floor at Ormonde, 16 Wi.
Bicycle sale listing mentions White and Featherstone with a full out guaranteed wheel for 35 dollars. Jom 332 EB is noted along Washington Street.
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