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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1902
Page
3
A notice promises a marvelous discovery that yields relief from rheumatism and is offered free to all who suffer. It notes widespread impact and deformity from the ailment and asks readers to send their name and address to obtain the remedy.
Letters from Mr ABRAM HEED and others praise Gloria Tonic as a cure for rheumatism after doctors failed. Testimonials from Emma Wallace Vincennes Indiana an old gentleman Fountain City Wisconsin and others claim relief or cure with free trial box offered by John A Smith Milwaukee.
President Blair of the Little Kanawha railroad states that within two months contracts totaling 10 million dollars for railroad construction will be let to connect the Western Maryland directly with the Wabash at Zanesville Ohio. The plan includes building two long links one short link and a one million dollar steel bridge across the Ohio River at Parkersburg West Virginia. Surveys for most proposed new sections are completed.
Sanitarian Buehler will tour city area dairies as the health department expands its milk safety crusade. The program will inspect every dairy selling milk locally and also review dairies that ship to local milk companies, creating substantial workload beyond city boundaries.
Hart, state auditor, said Thursday that the printing board will meet this week to decide whether to print geologist Blatch ley's report. Clerk and Censor Tom Carter said he has not begun to edit it and would need a month to prepare his report.
A nurse recounts experiences of individuals harmed by coffee including heart palpitations headaches and indigestion. She notes switching to Postum Food Coffee improved health for herself her husband and others including a telegraph operator and a woman with years of indigestion.
Milo Williamson alone with five children in a Michigan home during an electric storm sees a blazing figure enter through the door. He grabs the messenger from the cloud and hurls it into a nearby stream, causing a powerful explosion. Mud and water plunge him but he recovers. The riverbank area near the house is later found strewn with dead fish along the water’s edge.
The Bureau of Navigation named Admiral Dewey and Rear-admirals Watson Remey Higginson and Taylor as pallbearers for Rear-admiral Sampson. Brigadier General Heywood, marine corps commandant, captains Cook Clark Chadwick McCalla Folger and Wainwright also chosen. Secretary Moody urged all naval officers in Washington to attend in full dress with crepe on sword hilts.
Mrs Lucinda Polly died Wednesday at her grandson Cheries L Morris’s home in Indianapolis at age over 100 of old age. She credited her health to never using a physician and to tobacco. She leaves three children 15 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren. Burial moved to Union Chapel Thursday. Her birth date was lost when a cabin was burned in Iu12 and she recalled Indianapolis’s infancy with two cabins.
Julius Wobher paid $300 to the county on a lot transferred from ex Recorder William Shilling as part satisfaction of a $1,200 judgment for fees deemed illegal by the courts. Shilling claimed legal advice supported his action, but the judgment stood. Bondsmen face $2,000. Shilling and wife surrendered their home. The appraised lot value was $450. wife’s one third is to go to bondsmen.
Washington May 8 The senate committee on commerce by unanimous vote approved a favorable report on H. Clay Evans former pensions commissioner for the post of consul general at London England This sets up swift confirmation with no opposition expected.
Outbreak of Yaqui Indians reported near Guyamas Mexico. They slaughtered an entire family of six inside 12 miles of Guyamas and looted the place. Mexican soldiers in pursuit.
Irvington records its first smallpox case, Archibald M. Arebaugh, an employee of the L.BE.&W. railroad, contracted the disease outside the city and brought it home Wednesday night. authorities cautioned residents and traced contacts.
Governor Durbin plans a reception at the state house Wednesday night on the eve of the monument dedication. The event will be in the executive parlors and corridors, honoring the G.A.E. R. and the public general.
A promotional program offers a free trial package by mail for a Kellogg weight loss treatment. It claims rapid weight reduction without diet or medicine, asserts safety and natural science backing, and promises improved heart and lung function with testimonials and full usage directions.
Birth announcements name Birthe James J Sullivan Maggie Sullivan 1168 English Ave and others with addresses for boys and girls. Death notices include Charles L Mattox age 3 months and several others with ages and causes. Marriages feature multiple couple pairings. building permits show various properties and values across streets and owners.
Capt Hoyt L McClain of Company DL Second Infantry is detailed as acting regimental adjutant and sergeant at arms. Frank L Bridges is acting regimental quartermaster. Both appointments pertain to the state encampment set to begin Monday.
from the adjutant-general's office, officers of Company G Third regiment New Castle have been commissioned. D W Conwell is named captain and Harry Herliman is named second lieutenant.
Elizabethport N J May 8 The Swan Finch oil refining plant burned in the early hours causing an estimated 100000 dollars in losses About five acres were burned and about 26000 barrels of oil were consumed in the blaze
Vincennes Indiana May 8 Republican Dr J N McCoy was arrested Thursday for letting quarantined smallpox patients vote at Tuesday election. The arrest was ordered by secretary of health Baeckes a Democrat.
A number of Irvington and Tuxedo school teachers were notified they will not be required after this school year. A school board member said the action follows the Indianapolis standard of fitness in appointments and is not a reflection on the dismissed teachers who may reapply after exams. In Washington, Secretary Hay asked Italian authorities to detain Clara Taylor in Bordighera pending extradition papers for kidnapping 8 year old Margaret Taylor from Cincinnati.
A compact rail time card listing daily train markings in black face figures. Includes symbols for Sleeper Parlor Car Coach Dining Car Ex Sunday 5 p.m. Express Daily Ex Monday duties and notations.
A dense list of railroad lines and schedules appears with city ticket offices at 15 West Washington Street. It lists services to Cincinnati, Bloomington, Chicago, Detroit, Toledo, Muncie, Anderson, and Marion with departure times from early morning through night and limited trains to Anderson and Muncie.
New York May 8 reports Louisville & Nashville trading around 131 after a suggested buy at 145, with rail stocks Wabash Union Pacific and Southern Pacific showing strength. Notes on dividend forecasts, Gould property mergers, and Wabash management improvements. Strong London influence and brisk volume for American issues and agricultural staples.
Shamrocks look for a game with any state team next Sunday after last win 8 to 7 over K F M club last Sunday. Ad dress e Will Nye 327 W Seventeenth street.
Market table lists wheat prices for No. 2 red at 80c and milling freight at 8c, No. 3 red 76 78c, May 80c, corn steady with No. 1 white 65c and No. 4 white 63%c, oats steady No. 2 white 45% to 46c, hay steady No. 1 timothy at 12.75 to 18.25, plus inspection totals by grade and car counts for wheat corn and hay.
Chicago market report shows May wheat at 73 7/6, July at 7458, corn up 3 5 percent with May 5974 and July 60, oats up 1 2 percent. Provisions higher with pork 17.00 to 17.35, lard 10.15 to 10.22, ribs 9.57 to 9.67. Butter varied with extras 23, firsts 21 22, cheese prices on several varieties, poultry and eggs listed with per dozen and per unit prices.
CINCINNATI May 8 cattle receipts 378 shippers 5.60 to 6.50 good to choice 5.50 to 6.25 extra calves 7.00 hogs receipts 1968 good to choice 6.85 to 6.95 mixed 6.50 to 6.90 sheep receipts 402 extra 4.75 extra lambs 6.35
Prices paid by shippers for hens and spring chickens eight cents per pound for old turkey hens and toms six cents, choice young turkeys seven to eight cents, ducks and geese at market. Eggs fresh fourteen cents, New York full cream cheese twelve and one half cents, domestic Swiss sixteen and one fourth, brick eighteen and one half, lmburger thirteen and a quarter cents. Hides and tallow: green salted hides No 1 seven cents, No 2 six and four cents, No 1 calf nine cents, No 7 calf ten cents, calf miscellaneous two to three cents, tallow No 1 eight cents, No 2 seven cents. Flour and bran: patent winter four dollars twenty-five cents, straight winter five to five and a half, patent spring six dollars eighty-five cents, low grades two dollars seventy-five to three dollars ninety cents.
A dense price list covering fruits vegetables and groceries. Strawberries at 25c quart, California oranges $3.35 to $3.75, cabbage $2.75 per 100, lettuce 7c per lb, beans $1.55 per bushel, potatoes $1.00 per bushel, tomatoes Florida $2.00 to $2.75 per basket, and various meats seafood and canned goods with prices such as oysters 40-45c per can, white fish 9c per lb, clams 10c, lobsters 20c per lb, and coffee blends from 9.75c to 12c per unit. Also extensive grocery items and drugstore staples with dozens of price points.
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