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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1907
Page
10
A burglar confronted Miss Miller in a dormitory corridor claiming an excuse and attempted to escape through crowded stairways. He forcibly pushed aside several students, seizing about 30 in cash and assorted trinkets before vanishing into the throng.
George Zwyer aged 52 died at City Hospital on a Sunday afternoon while under federal counterfeiting charges. Arrested with his brother Hayden by Capt. Tom Malls and Deputy Bom Martin after resisting with shotguns, the pair were jailed in Marion County before George’s consumption worsened and his removal to the hospital on April 25.
OER nER victory for South-Side School with Manual leading and Monticello close behind. Stockton of Monticello scored 12 to claim all round champion, as numerous events from 100 yard dash to mile relay show Manual, Monticello, and Darlington top contenders across a large field.
Special to The Sun from Wilmington Delaware May 2 Gov J Frank Hanly of Indiana says his state is solid for Fairbanks for the presidency He expects the vice president to be the Republican nominee next year if conditions favor it He and Mrs Hanly visited Grace M E church parsonage with Rev Dr Kellogg noting Indiana Republicans share his enthusiasm for Fairbanks and his nomination.
Daniel Crisman nicknamed Bricks is the sole student in bricklaying at Andrew Carnegie’s $6,000,000 technical schools in Pittsburg Virginia. Each morning he enters construction hall, selects a brick from 200, and, under the professor’s guidance, erects a wall two to three feet high while a running lecture explains the craft.
Lew Fields and a company near 100 perform About Town at Englishs on Friday May 2. The cast includes Blanche Ring Peter Dailey George Bebuan and many stars trained by Julian Mitchell, with two acts of elaborate settings. Also featured are Park stock and Western Military Play at Park and Oscar Eagle as Park stock director with a revival of The Girl I Left Behind Me all week at Park theater.
Walter N. Lawrence presents The Three of Us a four act drama seen in New York for 227 nights hailed as the greatest American play Every member of the original company will perform in this engagement in one of three cities outside New York Boston and Chicago including English’s run May 31 and June 1
The State Board of Tax Commissioners boosted corporate property assessments by 12 million dollars, marking an unprecedented rise. Railroads telegraph sleeping car lines pipelines and interurbans bore large increases while interurbans stayed near last year. The board will reconvene July 2 to hear appeals and set final figures.
A.R. Michel Irene Stewart, once a Pacific coast choir singer and Broadway chorus girl, received a million dollars in alimony in a quiet divorce from John Love Elliott. The split, revealed after seven years of marriage, included $1,000,000 for the support of a child and ex-wife.
In Washington owners of horses with mixed or twisted gaits formed the Horse Owners' Mutual Protective Association to counter Humane Society actions. The group claims fines on drug owners and department store proprietors are excessive and that many nonlame horses have mixed gaits.
Corporal Knowles of Company A Twentieth Infantry was found guilty by a court martial at Ft Reno for murdering Captain Macklin after a violent assault. He will lose his name and be known by a number until further order. The findings go to General McCaskey for sentence. reported locations suggest Leavenworth or Alcatraz Island as possible destinations.
June 12 to fill a preparator position marking and cataloging human crania and skeletons at the National Museum for $50 a month. June 19-20 to fill an inspector of hulls of steam vessels in the steam boat inspection service Seattle to be detailed in San Francisco at $1,400 a year. June 2 to fill vacancies as observer in the weather bureau at $720 a year. June 19 to fill a machinist position in the bureau of standards at $900. June 23 to fill two vacancies as surveyor of mineral deposits in the land office service at varying daily rates.
L. G. Rothschild, custodian of the Federal building, in Washington for days consulting Treasury officials about changes to courtrooms. Poor acoustics have forced Judge A. B. Anderson to hold court in the library. Ceilings are believed too high.
The body of T. John Watson known as Ian Maclaren arrived in Liverpool. Funeral arrangements were completed and the ceremony will be held Thursday as the lord mayor issued a proclamation making it a public affair.
New York on May 2 reports that the Tokio government has placed in the United States through New York agencies an orders totaling 12,000,600 for equipment for the South Manchuria railway. The line covers 1.5% miles of sparsely settled terrain and more than 32,000,000 has been spent on American locomotives.
Seattle May 20 Rev C M Barnes head of the Barnes company publishers of search books died here yesterday of heart failure. Funeral plans have not yet been announced. Barnes was a prominent figure in the local publishing scene and headed the family business.
A historic item describing drawers crafted with umbrella filounce and trimmed with torchen lace. The text outlines decorative fabricwork and delicate edging highlighting period fashion details. No further context or dates accompany the description.
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