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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1892
Page
4
Scattered items from Evansville Petersville news detail a murder by Charles Johnson of Jacob App, drunken brawls, and multiple injuries across towns. Reports note deaths, disappearances, and marital revelations amid a volatile sequence of incidents, with various names, places, and dates spanning Indiana towns.
A report describes young men aged twenty to twenty five living on the streets, begging for dimes after arriving by boxcar routes toward Chicago for the world’s fair. A newspaper office encounter with a panhandling writer is detailed, alongside a Sanitary officer’s tale of poisonous tarantulas found in Indianapolis fruit shipments and a few bites reported among workers.
Judge Tayior issued a two year prohibition on remarriage for Joan Barth and her estranged husband Jennie following a separation. The case cited abandonment as the cause. A Sunday accident left Dr Franklin Hays's 3 year old son injured but stable after a fall at 193 Ohio to. The Big Pour locomotive firemen’s Protective board met at the Occidental hotel electing W. Tripper as chairman T. W. Bain as secretary and L. A. Briner as treasurer. News arrived of Mrs LizA Kercheval’s death in Jeannette Iowa, with ties to Greencastle and city figures including Capt W J Kercheval and Mrs Agnes Hitt.
A broad call invites readers to submit estimates by plain envelope to the content editor in Indianapolis with full sender name address and the date. The process uses arrival time at the office to designate victors, while sample estimates may be published without sender names.
The general cattle market remains steady with no strong demand for anything but fine steers. Shipping cattle and vealers show price ranges, with feeders and cows priced by weight, while hogs sold steady from Saturday’s close and sheep and lambs show modest activity with limited quotable changes. Local milling and grain prices and futures quotes accompany the market snapshot for Monday.
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