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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1902
Page
8
At the Grand hotel in Indianapolis a Tuesday banquet celebrated the Hoosier ball sluggers who won the American association pennant. Ex Mayor Sullivan led speakers praising the team while many prominent rooters and guests from journalism and business attended, including Ben Mulford Jr and a long list of local dignitaries.
The record notes that he has led the Worcester team in the Eastern League for several seasons, highlighting sustained management and team leadership within the circuit.
Under electric lights at Marion the Marion Orioles defeated Wabash 11 to 0 Tuesday night. Marion will play other games at night.
The Cincinnati Reds are set to play the champion Hoosiers at Washington Park on Wednesday afternoon, unless rain intervenes. Rain washed out the game with the St. Louis Nationals Tuesday. Emil Fertig was named grand high marshal of the rooters parade on Wednesday afternoon, with all rooters told to fall in line.
A Tuesday afternoon rainstorm drenched Indianapolis with 1.1 inches of rain in 11 minutes, flooding downtown streets and damaging skylights. Sewers endured but residents demanded better emergency capacity while Rink's cloak house suffered nearly $1,000 in flood damage. No lightning struck within city limits.
In Oswego New York Walter M Jermyn and Lena Kehoe wed secretly on June 2 1899 to claim a $2 000 000 inheritance left by Walters father coal operator John Jermyn The elder man threatened disinheritance unless the couple broke their engagement The will later revealed Walter inherits one fifth of a $10 000 000 estate after a family feud and secret marriage lasting over three years
Fifty five girls nationwide profess love for F. L. Uppman a sailor aboard the Minneapolis at League Island navy yard after he dropped a bottle with his photo and a wife appeal into the Delaware. Newspapers carried the stunt and he faced a flood of replies.
Elizabeth Wall files for legal separation and maintenance from James Wall on cruelty grounds in Watertown New York. She alleges she was forced to shave him and was struck when the operation failed. She had him arrested for assault after she refused to fetch tobacco. Wall is described as an invalid with substantial property.
ST LOUIS MO Oct 1 the allotment of state sites at the world’s fair grounds continued with South Carolina Kansas Montana Colorado New Jersey Maine West Virginia Oklahoma Iowa Wyoming Indiana Mississippi Washington and Michigan expected to receive their locations during the day indicating the pace of assignment for the exposition.
London reports Mr and Mrs Brown of New York said to be millionaires have adopted Jack Cooke the boy preacher who has toured Great Britain. His youth preacher work has stirred Scotch churches more than any since Dwight L Moody days.
Charles R. Babcock a Memphis journeyman painter died penniless in hospital after alcohol abuse. He left an estate valued at 20000 in cash, and a life insurance policy which he paid on faithfully. His mother in Cincinnati is asked to claim burial as a pauper while a friend holds the policy awaiting her arrival.
The Eighty first session of the Indiana yearly meeting of Friends is under way in Richmond amid claims the Indiana body is the world’s most important yearly meeting. It is described as the mother of western yearly meetings and central to Quakerism in the middle west.
In Muncie Indiana on October 1 a wage scale agreement was reached between glass bottle and fruit jar manufacturers and the Glass Bottle Blowers' Association. The settlement covers all bottle factories in the United States and Canada, setting wages for about 6 000 journeymen and 1 500 apprentices.
Madison Indiana reports burglars entered the Milton Kentucky post office at 2 am on Wednesday by ladder. They chipped an upper window, used nitroglycerine on the safe door damaging it but did not enter the safe. A desk drawer in a nearby room was pried open and a small amount of stamps and money taken.
Senator Beveridge reports delegates arrive in Chicago for the national Republican League convention at the First Regiment Armory. Sixty five Pennsylvania representatives set up at Auditorium Hotel to back Philadelphia treasurer J Hampton Moore for president. Speakers include Grosvenor Dolitvar Hopkins Madden Beveridge and Yates with a mass meeting planned Thursday night.
KEWANEE NL Oct 1 Robbers secured 2000 in cash from the Bank of Miner al a small town near here early Tuesday morning and made their escape.
Gilbert L. Lyall a wealthy Chicagoan died by self inflicted poison acts Tuesday swallowing prussic acid citing no reason beyond personal despair. Police reported no foul play suspected and the death shocked the social circle and high society in Chicago.
County Commissioner John McGregor vows action within days against the White River Sand and Gravel Company for removing sand from the riverbed near the new Washington Street bridge. He questions government permission and warns a large hole below the bridge could threaten the bridge and the mine site under construction.
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