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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1901
Page
2
In Chicago, May, Zionites from the religious community are told to leave the Zion home as city health authorities demand the institution obtain a hospital license. The health commissioner seeks outside boarding for inmates to avoid inspection, while surgeons and deacons influence the sick within the home.
Addie M McElroy sues for divorce against William claiming verbal abuse and insults. Senator Wolcott learns he will bear the title of major on the governor’s staff. Woodruff town finances show bonded debt of 10 400 with receipts 5 807 28 disbursements 5 478 56 and cash 333 72. Parole applications at state prison board meeting. machinist enlistment drive underway. O'Neal ill at Union station from pneumonia after leaving bed too soon. Consul Prickitt visits Rheims and notes champagne prices. Wreck injuries from a cart accident on S East street. Memorial Presbyterian organ recital begins with Donley guiding, Evans soprano. Moravian church cornerstone laid at College Ave and Twenty fifth St with multiple pastors presiding. Beveridge visits former governor Palmer. predicts Orient trade will strain transcontinental railways. Nipp and Tuck club to host banquet at Columbia Club after last year’s fundraiser. Indiana school for the blind closes its week with piano pupils recital. Je E Neff of South Bend tours Indianapolis. South Bend eyes annexing Mishawaka and a St Joe river boulevard. new cemetery opens amid healthful climate debates.
A vintage advertisement promoting Cascarets Candy Cathartic to treat constipation or diarrhoea. It claims the product will make bowels act naturally and lists prices 10c 25c and 50c available at all druggists.
Carl Habich Jr aged 76 died at his home on North California Street from apoplexy. A pioneer German citizen born in Germany he came to America in 1817, lived in Wisconsin, then Indianapolis. He served eight years as justice of the peace of Center township and was a deputy under County Clerk Brown. Survived by his widow and eight children including Mrs Antonio Frank Mrs Louis Schellhammer Mrs George Mode Cart Herman Frank and Gustave Habich. Funeral from the family home Friday at 2 pm and private.
Stephen Crawford, assistant-supt. of the workhouse, has been removed. Irving Medsker of Haughville is expected to take his place, amid reported disagreement with Supt. Shaw over how the institution should be run. Crawford says he did not resign. Medsker is believed chosen by Commissioner Spafford. Crawford was appointed on Commissioner McGregor’s recommendation. Crawford is a known Republican politician.
Newby Oval bicycle races scheduled for Thursday night are postponed a week due to cold and wet weather. Track manager Hay expects to secure riders for the opening races in Indianapolis replacing those tied to Louisville, Chicago and Cincinnati. Harry A. Gibson of Cincinnati has entered.
Henry and Warry Jarrel father and son were recommitted to the insane hospital. Dr. Hicks, attending physician, cites drink as the cause in each case. The father was locked up Wednesday morning and the son Tuesday night. they live at 725 S Capitol Ave. Mrs Jarrel, the wife and mother, visited them at the station.
Births list includes Harry and Goldie McLaughlin's boy at 1723 Hoyt avenue and several other couples with newborns at varied addresses. Deaths report Benjamin Wells Jr at 53 with tetanus and Mary Ferguson age 91 with old age among others. Marriages record William J. Ploeger with Maude Russell and three other couples.
A list of contracts and bids for home improvements and demolitions in Missouri includes Missouri Carothers on Capitol Ave near 33rd and 34th Sts for a frame house at 2000 dollars, W Webb on Broadway for barn raze and shed at 500, Amos Hulse on Noblest for raze building at 55, J Whitsett on Belmont Ave for a porch at 50, Robert S Poe on Chestnut St for kitchen at 25, Margaret Grote on Michigan St for brick veneer dwelling at 2000, Henry W Piel on Market St for remodeling at 1800, Central Trust Co on Meridian St for brick addition at 3760, Julius Pohlman on Chestnut St for frame house at 900, William C Lang on Temple Ave between North and Michigan Sts for frame house at 1500.
Rochester patent attorney Frank Keiper, representing U S Standard voting machine Co, is registered at the Denison. Monday night, patrolmen gathered in five bicycles found leaning against curbs.
A sickly crying infant in the arms of a tired mother figures in the defense of George Harrold charged with robbing Gelasamilth post office alongside Joseph Boude. The jurors hear Wednesday as defense attorney Knight cites other children at home. Witness Coons, wearing Sunday shoes, offers uncertain recollections aiding the defense.
Posters sent to state officials advertise Jerry Suddarth of English to speak in Cannelton on Memorial Day in a college boguse style. The bold claim hails him as a versatile lawyer and orator who will outshine courts and move juries. Suddarth, a well known lawyer and former Republican convention candidate, was the subject of the notice.
William Stokes, 65, and his wife Catherine, 21, were reunited at the Door of Hope shelter after she walked from Tennessee to meet him at Union Station but was delayed. The pair, tearful yet not kissing, discussed tobacco usage as she admitted chewing leaf tobacco. A separate police inquiry concerned Robert Zeiner’s dog, with neighbors and Rev. Taylor testifying, and Judge Daly weighing the case of a vicious animal.
Local wire items report Medrick Lanctot of Chicago killed himself. Morocco may settle France claims. Body found in a Scranton barrel placed there by med students. Chas R Johnson of Toledo seeks divorce over his wife’s alleged hatred of children. John Jackson, 168, Carbondale ill, held on assault with deadly weapons. Fred Bridenstine, German, Jacksonville ill, burned to death during a money theft attempt. The Baring-Gould boys, kidnapped from Oshkosh, Wis., are in England with their father. Cherry sisters lose libel suit against a Des Moines paper copying a roast. WwW H Newman offered NY Central presidency to replace S R Calloway. Cincinnati public safety bans religious services in Eden Park Sundays. Mayor Fleischmann concurs. Venice cablegram: Annie Godwin DeCastro died May 27. daughter of Parke Godwin and granddaughter of William Cullen Bryant. Mrs John O'Brien of Chicago tried to kill her baby in a prison cell. mother deemed insane. FE. W. Brinkham of Wheeling, W VA drowned. Metuchen and Pompton N J oppose Herron socialistic colony on his bride’s 20-acre farm. fear of defying New Jersey marriage laws.
It often causes headache and dizziness, impairs taste and smell, affects hearing and vocal organs, disturbs the stomach. It is always radically cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla. This medicine achieves wonderful cures of diseases depending on scrofula or the scrofulous habit. Hood's Pills are the most cathartic.
The grand lodge of Indiana F and A M closed its session with routine business and installations. Grand-master Orlando W. Brownback named officers including Rev Marion Crosley grand chaplain and George H. Gay grand marshal. The plan for a home for aged and invalid members was postponed again. Earlier, officers were elected: James W Dunbar deputy, William E English senior warden, Geo E Grimes junior warden, Martin H Rice treasurer, Calvin W Prather secretary, and trustees Isaac P Leydon and Frank E Gavin.
A puzzling case unfolds as Joe Carr of the Big Four railroad appears to vanish after sending for his wife from Fairland. The pair meet then part, with Carr returning home while his wife vanishes, leaving a stunned statement that they are both lost. Police investigate odd movements and addresses as the Door of Hope assists Mrs. Carr with a new job.
SWIFT AS A TRAIN, PARIS, May 29. The international automobile race began shortly after 1 a m on Wednesday. Fourier finished first in 8 hours 44 minutes after covering 345 miles. Votzhht second in 8 hours 45 minutes, Farman third. Edge, the sole English entrant, trailed by eight miles.
Lieut colonel Francis Michler, military secretary to Lieut general Miles, died Wednesday after weeks of illness from heart and lung trouble. A 1870 West Point graduate, he served in the Arizona Indian campaign from 1871 to 1875 and is survived by two widows.
Frank Baldridge, 45, assessor of Jefferson township in Richmond Indiana, was found dead in Hagers Town on Wednesday morning. Authorities suspect death by his own action as morphine evidences were found. Baldridge was a prominent Odd Fellow.
Harry Hubbard is mentioned as candidate for vice-chairman of the Republican city committee after F. E. Matson declined. Oran Muir and M. L. Clawson are running for secretary roles.
Wholesale and Retail Department lists multiple branch offices at 151 N Delaware near Ohio, 38 Indiana Ave near Senate, and 631 E St Clair near Mess Ave with new phone 2230 private exchange. Special Notice promises prompt delivery guaranteed.
In Chicago a secret session of six arbiters to settle the dispute between the International Machinists' Association and Metal Trades manufacturers discussed wages. The machinists demand 12 and a quarter percent, while manufacturers resist as excessive and propose 10 percent, with no clear path to a settlement. Indications point to a potential strike, with forty large firms ready to abide by the outcome.
The Board of Works reviewed bids for three new engine houses and related paving projects. Lowest bids ranged from 5,482 to 6,368 dollars per house, with pressed brick options. Total appropriation stands at 18,000 dollars. lowest combined bid without pressed brick is 16,982 dollars. Action postponed. other bids for curb and paving noted. Public protest over Northwestern avenue trees prompts petition against street narrowing. Sahm pledges resignation to protect trees.
Samuel Holt publicly claimed Caroline wished he would join the Cuban war and die. He described her as spending much time “raising hell” with him. The judge found Holt obstreperous and refused a divorce, ordering Holt to pay $10 toward his wife’s attorney fees.
Commercial club directors began balloting for a secretary on Wednesday afternoon with a salary not to exceed 1500 dollars. Evans Woollen received 2400. Five candidates remain, and each director appears to back a personal choice, delaying a decision. B F M ball club seeks a game with The Sun Liners via Johnnie Gallagher at 1015 Meek St. Fire department responded to Lizzie Ayers dressmaker at 426 N East St for a gas pressure caused fire, loss about nine cents.
An old advertisement extols the healing balsamic virtues of the Norway pine, promoting Dr Wood's Norway Fine Syrup as nature s own remedy for coughs and colds with soothing medicinal claims.
City grain bids show wheat firm with No. 3 red near 70 to 72 cents May futures. Corn weak with multiple white and yellow grades quoted from 29 to 54 cents, oats steady around 30 to 31 cents. Inspections list scattered car counts for wheat corn and mixed grades. Cattle receipts total about 850 with varied steer and heifer quotations, hogs 5,500 head with mixed price ranges. Sheep and lambs follow similar ranges. horses sale noted with 225 head offered and good demand.
Indianapolis May 29 cattle receipts light with small shipments. Quotes show Good to choice steers 1.40 per pound, calves and heifers in mid ranges, and feeders from 4.50 to 5.50 per 100 pounds. Hogs receipts about 1,000 with good to choice prices around 5.00 to 5.50. sheep and lambs light receipts with Good to choice lambs around 6.50 to 7.3 per head and ewes trailing. Stockers and feeders listed at several per head figures. cattle, calves, and sheep markets reflect mixed tonnage and varied weights.
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