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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1908
Page
4
A candle toppled from a dining room table at Waufman Kroll’s house in Pennsylvania just before 8 this morning starting a fire. Mrs Kroll and her four children, all under ten, were asleep on the third floor. The mother tossed the children to safety from the window then leaped out herself. Mrs Kroll is hospitalized in serious condition and the children were treated for bruises at the hospital.
Augustus Thomas the playwright will address the audience at the Auditorium on Virginia Avenue in Indianapolis. He travels with secretary E S Jones and Harry W Walker of the Democratic national committee and plans a tour across Ohio Illinois Michigan West Virginia Massachusetts Connecticut and New York. John T Dye will preside. Thomas’s talk centers on William J Bryan's presidential qualifications. Marching clubs from First Ward and Eleventh Ward will escort him from Democratic headquarters and Germania hall respectively.
Telepost announces the inauguration of commercial service between Boston and Portland after taking over the Atlantic Telegraph lines. The system is demonstrated in the Lemcke building with Charles F. Newsom supervising, promising rapid automatic telegraphy and lower rates under the Delany system.
James M. Zion, nominee for governor on the Independence ticket, spoke Saturday night in Lebanon. He urged restoring government to the people to share national wealth more fairly and criticized Wall Street speculation. He praised Hearst and Hisgen for Independence party efforts.
New York Oct 5 Six Brooklyn athletes including Harvey Cohn were arraigned in Flatbush court on a complaint from a young woman over costumes worn in a recent England marathon. Magistrate Speers discharged the group with training. Cohn called the outcome a sad blow for Brooklyn athletes. The complainant did not appear and police said they do not know her name.
City births include Franz and Henrietta Stedler of 1871 Orleans Street a girl and Harry and Pearl Mulbarger of 1258 Na om Street a boy. Other entries name infant and parental details with ailments at City Hospital and private addresses. Marriages listed include Clyde C Line Mona Brulb and several other couples. A fruit set advertisement from National Furniture Co at 336 843 W Washington Street advertises a green blue or pink decor dish set for 49 cents Tuesday only.
Receipts total about 2,000 hogs and 100 cattle with a weekly decline in cattle prices and little competing demand. Hogs show pockets of price strength in top types but overall sales run below the week-ago top, with quotes around 6.25 to 6.95 for good hogs and lows near 5.30 for common. Cattle and calves trade quietly with bulls steady, while sheep and lambs appear in small numbers and mixed grades.
Receipts total 29 900 hogs and 32 000 cattle with mixed prices across categories. Hog prices range from 3 60 to 7 15 for heavy and yorkers up to 6 89 for heavy. Cattle receipts show Beeves 3 90 to 7 55, Texas steers 3 40 to 4 90, western steers 3 25 to 5 90, stockers 2 00 to 4 75, cows and heifers 1 70 to 6 ? calves 3 60 to 8 50. Sheep receipts 24 00 10 higher, natives 2 80 to 4 40, western 2 40 to 4 40, lambs natives 5 00 to 6 10, western 4 90 to 6 11, yearlings 2 40 to 4 00.
Pittsburg Pa October 5 cattle receipts eighty loads mixtra prices range from prime five sixty five to five eighty nine nine and food and other categories. Heifers fetch three to four seventy five, fresh cows and springers around sixteen. Hog receipts higher with heavy seven ten, medium weights six ninety to seven sixteen, pigs five to six. Sheep receipts light with prime wethers four forty, good mixed four to four twenty, ewes and wethers three twenty five to three seventy five, spring lambs four to six seventy five.
Miss Kate Quinn was found dead in bed at 232 Blake street on Monday morning. Relatives who tried to wake her found she had died several hours earlier. The coroner was put in charge of the case.
National Furniture Co announces Tuesday bargain day with 25 percent off all furniture. Baseburner price 23.50 scaled down, kitchen range 21.50, Brussels Rugs 9x12 at 10.50, Santa Claus Soap bars 2c. Sale limited to Tuesday and not for children.
In Hickman Kentucky on October 5 four Black residents are dead and four more wounded after night riders attacked the home of David Walker. Walker fired at the mob wounding one rider, then the assailants set the house ablaze and shot occupants as they fled. Walker and his five year old daughter died, Mrs Walker and three other children were killed, the eldest son is missing. About 50 riders took white helper Joe Williams to hold horses. A later report says Mrs Walker and a baby in her arms were shot.
In New York on Oct 5, American securities opened lower due to weakness in London with St Paul Great Northern Reading Union Pacific and National Lead posting the biggest losses. By mid-morning, a broad recovery lifted prices, led by Northern Pacific amid market chatter of a cash dividend and a bullish mood on active issues.
New Albany Ind Oct 5 James Tuell 22 was the victim of a peculiar poisoning case. He was found in a dazed condition on the street and taken home where he was left in a yard swing while the family was away. An hour later he was found unconscious in the swing. Physicians were summoned but there was no chance for recovery.
Claude Stelling, 20, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and jailed by Criminal Judge Pritchard for two to 14 years in the Jeffersonville reformatory. Evidence showed a dance fight with Charles Bowe, who was shot in the leg as he beat Stelling. Bowe died from a secondary hemorrhage after hospital treatment.
Dr. J N Hurty secretary of the State Board of Health reports from Washington after attending the international congress on tuberculosis. He says the war on tuberculosis is general and spirited and believed to be only a matter of time before the disease is brought under sanitary control.
Portrait of Evelyn N. Thaw sold at auction for $16 to settle a milliner's claim. The image depicts the rotunda of the New York county courthouse during the sale.
County commissioners held their monthly catechism for saloon men granting many licenses while denying Henry A. Kalker a renewal due to prior arrests under the Nicholson law. Party politics and Ruckelshaus influence are cited as driving the system aimed at enforcing sobriety and loyalty to the Republican ticket. Judge Leather hears Alfred Foster’s divorce suit amid a familiar domestic tangle with Foster’s parents and the woman, Mrs. Foster, in Indianapolis after past unions and a lingering first husband living in a boarding house.
A thief who knew the combination opened a safe in Ed ward Becker's saloon at 41 Monument Place and took 170 dollars Sunday night. Becker says entry was via a rear entrance crawl hole, though detectives doubt the breach. Only Becker knows the safe combination. he cannot identify other possible holders.
In a brief exchange the speakers joke about a cheap cigar named after a bum actor. Towne remarks on the scarce supply and Browne notes it lacks draw, as quoted by the Philadelphia Press.
Washington reports the president will not immediately name a replacement for Hamilton Fish, the assistant treasurer who resigned after being nominated for Congress. The notice notes no immediate action on successor.
Ruth Dalton secured a divorce from Jesse S. Dalton in circuit court and was granted custody of their two children with a weekly allowance of $2. The judge warned that failure to meet the allowance could bring penalties, noting the sum was small but necessary to avoid further court action.
Earl Wright of Bloomington Indiana pleads he did not intend to defraud Republican politicians by sending 68 prospectus packages with a collect 2.50 charge. He claims a scheme for a correspondence school and that the payments were returnable if not accepted. He says his actions were part of legitimate mathematical studies.
Majestic theater starts a program of young women ushers beginning with the matinee Monday. Management expects success and notes strong patronage from women in Indianapolis. The change aims to give women patrons greater attention and follows other theaters where female ushers succeeded. The Majestic reports growing popularity and large crowds for its high class plays this year.
Joy Change was awarded a decree of divorce from Merton W. Chance, the attorney once well known in Indianapolis, by Judge Harvey on Monday. The woman will care for the two children.
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