Pugilists Spar in Broad Ripple Auditorium
About 200 spectators watched an Aquatic Club event at Broad Ripple auditorium where six bouts featured Joe Walker, Neil Hogan, Jack Cullen, Young Morrissey, and others. Cullen defeated Morrissey in a ten round main, while the Kardish bouts drew minimal violence and a draw between Walker and Hogan in early action.
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Fistiana
Broad Ripple
Swat‘tology
Aquatic Club
Cy Clark
Marion County
Joe Walker
Neil Hogan
Hogan
Walker
Dom Paul
John O’brien
Cuddy
Tom Hedian
Jim ‘Spriggs
Spriggs
Jack Cullen
Indianapolis
Morrissey
Chicago
Morriesey
Cullen
Ullen
Morissey
Carl Roloff
Elso
Bowlers maintain lead with 15 straight wins
The Bowler team keeps its advantage with a 15 game winning streak. Speculation swirls over a sharp score run including figures such as 684 708 and 836 as the club holds the top position.
Calumets Split Triangular Meet With Close Scores
In a two of three duel the Calumets beat the other team 776 to 765 and 691 to 696 while the Calu mets won the remaining race 774 to 75L.
DROPPED ON THE ALLEYS BOWLING NOTES AND SCORES
Capt Criss of the Standards notes Frank Bowman is not a new bowler. Charles Keeter, 16 Standard mascot, scored 233. Frank Fox of Standards claims city high score 268. The Lenox team drills spare bowling. Peterson of Meridians nicknamed the war horse. Cap Bal of Meridians says 50 cents buys a paper mention. Turner alleys see new fights and two simultaneous strikes. Kimmel of Blue labels bowls 4 7 10. First games by Miller and Good for Blue labels. Upcoming bowling matches listed by alley and league across Indianapolis establishments.
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Criss
Frank Bowman
Fahrenbech
Charles Keeter
Charles Yorger
Frank Fox
Standards
Lenox
Peterson
Meridians
War Horse
Bal
Turner
Kimmel
Miller
Good
Indianapolis
Volunteers and Crescents
Lyra
Turners
Washington
Marions
Capitol
North Side
Marion
WU. S
Prospects
Yale Ends Suffer Two More Injuries In Saturday Game
Two Yale ends Hoppin and Snitzer were injured in Saturday's game. Snitzer dislocated his arm and Hoppin wrenched a knee. Five ends have been injured this season: Cey Hoppin Schweppe Snitzer and Thomas.
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Yale
Hoppin
Snitzer
Cey
Schweppe
Thomas
University of Chicago Athletic Board
Northwestern University
Sheppard Field
Chicago
Eastern Indiana Normal School
Indianapolis
Royal Canadian Yacht Club
Chicago Yacht Club
Chicago Yachtsmen
Toronto
Mysterious Billy Smith Wins 20 Round Bout Over Charley McKee ver
Mysterious Billy Smith earned the decision in a 20 round bout against Charley McKee ver before the Broadway Athletic Club in New York. After the bout, John L Sullivan and Tom Sharkey gave brief remarks. Sharkey said the crowd should decide the winner and he’d fight Jeffries anytime, while Sullivan dismissed current fighters as a thing of the past.
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Billy Smith
Charley McKeever
Broadway Athletic Club
New York
John L.sullivan
Tom Sharkey
Sharkey
Jeffries
Sullivan
St. Louis
Brady
Corbett
Boxer bets big on title rematch after draw with Californian
A fighter claims confidence after a draw with a Californian opponent and proposes a winner take all bout. He offers to wager between 1000 and 5000 dollars on the result and expects a decisive contest to crown the champion.
Brother of Capt O Conner Fought at Majuba Hill
David O Connor of 525 Harding Street, a park department employee, preserves letters from his brother Captain Bernard O Conner of the Ninety second British Regiment. The men fought at Majuba Hill February 27, 1881, where Bernard earned a captaincy for bravery and a Queen Victoria medal. The battle with 8,000 Boers left heavy British losses. Bernard seized a fallen officer’s body and fought to the rear, killing 18 Boers before being killed.
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David O’conner
Harding St
Park Department
Bernard O’conner
O’conner
Majuba Hill
Queen Victoria
George Colley
Colley
Diamond match works to rebuild and expand at Vicksburg
The Vicksburg plant of the Diamond Match Works will be rebuilt and greatly enlarged. The Gould plant in Detroit and the Aurora plant in Indiana will be consolidated with it, bringing machinery from northern plants. About 100 men will be employed, replacing 80 previous workers to cover 820 laid off by the trust. The move aims to place operations in a more desirable timber region.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Diamond Match Works
Gould
Detroit
Aurora, Ind
Trust
Mrs. Marion O'Donnell Davey Dies in New York
Mrs. Marion O'Donnell Davey a 33 year old dress maker died suddenly at her New York home on Wednesday. Her husband a commercial traveler is in the west. She counted among her customers many fashionable families and often made gowns for the administrations circle in Washington.
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New York
Marion O’donnell Davey
Hazen
Admiral Dewey
West
Fatally Burned Prank in Chicago Mill
Charles Becker and Allie Chudyznski seized fellow worker John Shinder in a Chicago rolling mill and wrapped tar soaked rope around him. They lit it to stage a stake burn and fled, leaving Shinder to scream in pain. He was hospitalized as investigators detained the two assailants.
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Chicago
Charles Becker
Allie Chudyznski
John Shinder
Siinder
Bridge collapses as students fall into creek near Brush College
In Fort Madison Iowa on November 9 a suspension bridge near Brush College gave way while thirty school children played on it. Twelve feet into the creek below two youths died Beesh Sawyer aged 13 and seven others were injured with various cuts and bruises.
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Fort Madison
Brush College
Creek
Béssh Sawyer
Boys wool suits in new style pants for ages 7 to 19
Blue and black double or single breasted all wool chevist long pants suits offered in a new style. Pants priced at 7 dollars per set, suitable for ages seven to nineteen.
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Cassimere
Chevist
Rubens
Julia Arthur Scorns Riffraff Halts Broadway Curtain
Miss Julia Arthur stopped the Broadway theater show More than Queen in the third act to denounce loud talking by four patrons in box 3. After addressing the audience she asked the offenders to leave. the curtain fell briefly amid applause and hisses before the performance resumed.
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Arthur
New York
Julia ‘Arthur
Miss Arthur
Large Indiana Mortgage Filed by Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
One of the state’s largest mortgages was filed in Laporte County as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad recorded a $165,000,000 mortgage in favor of United States Trust Company. The loan bears 4 percent interest, covers 121 pages and 36,150 words, and requires $52,499.50 in revenue stamps purchased in New York.
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Indiana
Laporte County
Baltimore& Ohio Railroad
United States Trust Company
New York
Rubber Trust Gobbles Two More Indianapolis Firms
The Indianapolis rubber company plant passes to the Rubber goods manufacturing company, part of the Rubber trust linked to the bicycle trust. Harold O. Smith remains as general manager. The Indiana bicycle plant also joins the trust. Luther birthday events in Roberts Park Church feature Rev Bacon and a choral hymn service.
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Gobbles
Indianapolis
Indianapolis Rubber Company
Rubber Goods Manufacturing Company
The
Rubber Trust
Harold O. Smith
Bicycle Trust
Indiana Bicycle Company
Martin Luther
Luther
Roberts Park Church
Dc. E. Bacon
Roberts’ Park
Cronk Horse Company Plans Evening Displays at Stockyards
The Cronk horse company will open at the old stockyards on January 15 and host evening displays as the three new barns are completed. Electric lighting will illuminate the barns and driveways, with capacity for 2,800 horses.
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Cronk Horse Company
Organizing Pattern-Makers In Indianapolis
National president L. R. Thomas of the pattern-makers union, from Pittsburg, visits Indianapolis to boost local organizing. He claims the union already includes 50 percent of the area’s workers and notes there are no strikes at present.
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L. R. Thomas
Pattern-makers’ Union
Indianapolis
Pittsburg
State printing bids awarded with substantial savings
W. B. Burford, state printer, was the lowest bidder and won the general state printing contract for 113 264.08 dollars. Levey Bros. & Co. will print and bind the supreme and appellate court reports for 17 642.49 dollars. The state saves about 13 percent compared with prior contracts.
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W. B. Burford
Levey Bros. & Co
Supreme and Appellate Court
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Louis Feller
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Little Katie
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Katy
Mary Fidelia McCann
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Ring OF
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George J. Atkins
Indiana Electric Railways
Anderson
Muncie
Chas
T. Whitsett
Undertaker
Gal M. Meridian
Ibryce
Bryce’s Steam Bakery
Peter F. Bryce
Charles ‘Hosman
Farma
Tppecanoe
L. M. Combs
Julia A. Lyberger
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