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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1903
Page
3
Public attention hangs on a blackmail plot in Wolcott Indiana where R Fobbing received a 700 dollar demand to be placed under a brick. He responded by leaving the note. guards were posted but no call was made. A schoolteacher later took a fragment of the missing letter from a pupil and burned it, leaving the case unsettled.
Mrs A N Cooper, alone at night, fired a revolver through her door when a man demanded entry and forced his way and shouted that he had been shot. He cried out and fled. authorities think the intruder intended robbery knowing Mr Cooper was away.
Muncie Ind Nov 30 Mayor Sherritt ruled a saloon keeper not guilty of violating the Nicholson law after horace A Fogle admitted instructing the bartender not to admit patrons on Sundays the bartender ignored orders and John Shutey was the worker seen on duty Also in Washington Ind a exhausted girl Lizzie Mitchall told of walking from Iowa toward Hamilton Ohio after being stranded with no money she was helped by locals and sent on her way
Multiple brief items report in Indiana: Hurley Davis confesses to robbing Kee sen's drug store and stealing his sister's watch, with sentencing to the reformatory. a Noblesville superintendent is ejected from a football game amid a near-scuffle. Union Traction plans a large coal mine in Sullivan county. Wabash railroad eyes telephone service to replace telegraph. Nelson Hunter bids on a defunct plant. Wallace reaches winter quarters. a heart disease death in New Albany. Joseph Morris seeks damages from a sewer backup. Rev D A Cooper invited to lead a church in South Bend.
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