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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1908
Page
12
A government sale from Army departments offering goods at reduced prices due to a change in color. Items sold at $3.50 previously, now offered at $1.00 per unit. Sale details reflect department clearance and price reductions.
In Birmingham Alabama on November seventeenth two bodies of four men have been recovered and seven others are missing after a fire in mine No. 3 of the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railway Company. Officials believe the fire was set to aid a general escape and the workers were confined as convicts. Rescue efforts continued to battle flames and locate the missing men declared dead.
In a state statistician dispute, Peetz claims the office by next Sunday while Moore withdraws her request for an opinion. Peetz suggests interim staffing with Moore as chief deputy until she earns a sum equal to her current salary. Moore declines to discuss the controversy.
Grain prices list wheat and corn with multiple grades and billing terms. No. 2 red wheat ranges near 1.16 to 1.34 per unit through billing while No 2 white corn and white mixed grades vary from about 0.34 to 0.68 per unit. various through-billing figures noted across dates like November December January.
Daniel White, 49, is charged with contributing to Dora Balz’s delinquency, 13, as authorities debate whether to try him in juvenile court or move the case to Terre Haute for a harsher charge. Dora ran away from a Board of Children's Guardians home, stayed with White, then returned to Urbana, Illinois with her mother. White used a fictitious name to lure the child, leading to the warrant and subsequent arrest.
Pittsburg Pennsylvania November 17 cattle receipts light and steady with prices for extras and fresh cows to 15 dollars. Hogs receipts ten loads down with heavy at 6.00 to 6.60 and mediums around 6.70 to 6.78. Sheep receipts light steady with prime wethers near 4.00 to 4.35 and spring lambs 4.00 to 5.90.
Live turkeys and ducks offered by Rouse Bros at 18 Kentucky Ave. Market features old corn at 76 to 80 cents, shelled oats 52 to 54 cents, oats sheaf at 14.00 15.0, Timothy hay 12.00 to 13.50, clover 9.00 to 11.00, mixed pasture straw 9.00 6.00, hay No 1 12.50 to 13.50, No 2 11.00 to 12.00.
A compiled marriage notice lists couples by name and residence, including Andrew O Fuller and Mary Wrenick, Forrest W Hollingsworth and Addaline Vee, William A Nesemann and Ada M Jacobs, James A Colter and Ethel M Bassett, Mark Kestler and Nora Giblin, James Suggs and Hattie Woodfork, Lafayette Millis and Eliza Campbell, Constant Burress and Rosa Ferguson, William B Clemons and Nora Johnson, Milford Hastings, and Alice M Huston. The item reads like a local society notice with multiple pairs and their origins.
Twenty two headstones for Union soldiers killed in the Lafayette and Indianapolis railroad wreck of 1864 have been received and placed at Greenbush cemetery. Capt J R Shaw ordered them and expects 28 Confederate markers soon for graves in Greenbush cemetery at the old military prison site near the Lafayette Packing plant.
London, Nov 17 The House of Commons ruled that Lord Fairfax an American member of the Fairfax family of Virginia has established his claim to a seat among the peers. Albert Kirby Fairfax who won the title remains an American Wall Street broker in New York.
Thomas R. Marshall will address the Scottish Rite banquet in Fort Wayne Indiana on Wednesday evening. The event concludes a conviction cycle for the Fort Wayne valley and marks the largest Masonic class in local history with 58 applicants.
Brooklyn Life notes Barker discovered his wife and chauffeur planned to elope in his car. He oiled it thoroughly and put it in flawless shape. The quirky anecdote portrays his swift, practical response to a domestic intrigue.
Indianapolis news item reports Nov 17 hog receipts at 13 500 with price cuts from 10 to 2 1 2 cents, buyers gaining control amid quiet trading. Cattle receipts align with normal demand, prices mostly steady. lambs and sheep scarce, prices unchanged. Grain markets open with Chicago prices noted for wheat and corn futures.
Professional traders saw Union Pacific open with 4500 shares at 182 percent, a yearly high, with an overnight jump of 13 points. Southern Pacific, Rock Island, Northern Pacific, and other rail stocks climbed. New York Air Brake and General Electric led industrials. bonds steady. other rail and mining issues also rose.
East Buffalo New York November 17 cattle receipts 1623 lower prime steers 6.25 to 6.50 heifers 4.50 to 5.50 cows 3.50 to 4.50 bulls 3.00 to 4.50 feeders 2.00 to 4.50 milch cows and springers 2.00 to 8.00 veals 4.75 to 8.25. sheep receipts .09 10c lower lambs 4.00 to 6.15 yearlings 4.00 to 4.75 sheep 2.00 to 4.45. hogs receipts 15300 slow and steady Yorkers 5.00 to 5.80 sows 4.75 to 4.90 mixed 3.75 to 5.80 heavies 5.85 to 6.00 roughs 5.25 to 5.50.
Chicago market notes show hog receipts at 35.00 with varied bid ranges from 3.77 to 6.90 for different grades, cattle receipts at 7,000 with Reeves and Texas and western steers priced from 1.50 to 7.40, stockers and feeders 2.50 to 4.60, cows and heifers 1.59 to 6.10, calves 5.50 to 7.25, and sheep receipts 20,000 with native lambs at 2.40 to 4.40 and yearlings 4.00 to 4.75 and lambs 6.00 to 8.75.
In LaPorte Indiana November 17 letters from Mrs Bella Gunness to Asle K Helgelein from Mansfield South Dakota are used in the Ray Lamphere murder trial. Prosecutor Smith seeks to prove Lamphere bought poison to kill Helgelein and helped dispose of the body. Only three of about 75 letters were offered as evidence and translated from Norwegian.
Lela L. Etchison, who wed Grover Etchison on April 14, 1906, and lost him to desertion on April 27 after 13 days as a bride, seeks a divorce decree claiming he was a drunkard and intoxicated during the brief marriage.
City records list numerous births with parents and addresses including Brickert Roeckel Marshall Demott Browning Weerman Regner Borders Gurney Hutchinson Lyles Durflinger Horner Moore Hughes Grooms Ryker Smith Thompson Baumann Hayden Chandler Reed Cheatem Martin Schmidt Crompton Reaves and others. Public health entries note brain hemorrhage tuberculosis arteriosclerosis cancer of liver and angina pectoris while building permits cover repairs remodels and relocations with several addresses and estimated costs.
Albert Hooker files for divorce alleging Emma Hooker cursed him and ordered him to leave and never return before abandoning him in ten years of marriage. He says she is now at Terre Haute and asks the court to grant a dissolution of marriage.
Judge Comstock affirmed a Marion court decision that death from high altitude due to low to high air change is not an accident. Matilda Schmid sued Indiana Travelers Accident Association after B Frank Schmid died in Colorado Springs following an Indianapolis accident policy.
Matilda E Haley petitions for divorce from James Haley and restoration of her maiden name Ella Cunningham. She requests $500 alimony, claims he struck her and abandoned her in 196 after three years of marriage.
New York November 11 Broughton Brandenburg the magazine writer who sold to the New York Times an article claimed to be by the late Grover Cleveland appears arraigned before Judge Rosalsky and pleads not guilty to the larceny charges. An odd travel note about a Kansas City trip follows.
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