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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1902
Page
8
A five year old girl at 901 Prospect street earns city notice for elocution and violin talent. Alma Noland debuted at age three and impressed with long, well delivered verses and refined gestures. She studies under her instructor, plans more elocution work through December, then resumes lessons.
A spree of burglaries is concentrated in daytime entries as 18 year old William Morgan confesses to stealing from multiple homes across North-side districts. Police recovered $3000 worth clothing and jewelry from Charles Medias pawn shop and linked Morgan to at least 12 recent burglaries.
The rear of the house housed the occupants as burglaries rise in fall. Police say the fall season brings tougher work to prevent thefts and robberies, with Morgan named as a suspected key thief in cases they've investigated.
Snow fell for two hours in the Texas Panhandle Sunday evening while a light frost covered many northern Texas areas. Dangers to cotton crops are feared due to the wintry weather.
Fanny J. Clary is nominated by district 1 prohibitionists for the Massachusetts legislature. They argue the constitution forbids voting by women but not holding office, making her the first female candidate for state office in the Massachusetts ballot.
Lucky Horseshoes defeated the Horuft Indians 18 to 17 Sunday morning at the waterworks diamond.
Macy Murphy, named as the alleged strong-arm hold-up woman from Louisville, is under arrest after terrorizing pedestrians on E Washington Street. Police say she used the sympathy ploy then gathered accomplices, with John Green also arrested. Detectives expect six accomplices, two possibly in Muncie and two more to be arrested in Indianapolis.
A Great Dane from a nearby farm saved a 3 year old child during a forest fire. Farmer Rogers and his wife raced to rescue a neighbor when flames closed in. The dog leapt through a kitchen window with the child, dropped it briefly, then carried it to safety amid severe burns.
The New York stock exchange opened amid demoralization from Saturday's weakness and London volatility. Reading plunged while others showed mixed moves. St Paul rose on stock issue optimism and L N blue chip strength. Manhattan slipped, New York air brake fell sharply, and government bonds held steady as noon quotes cited Canadian Pacific 184 1 2, Missouri Pacific 111, Manhattan 134 3 4, Reading 68 1 2, Erie 38. Total sales reached 429,700.
East Liberty Pennsylvania October 6 cattle 108 cars on sale with price ranges for choice prime good tidy and common cattle bulls and stags hogs receipts 30 double decks with price bands for prime heavy mediums workers pigs roughs and sheep listings 18 loads with prices for wethers mixed culls and lambs across varieties
Chicago dated Oct 6 lists dairy butter creamers at 22% to 24 cents, daisies at 19 to 20 cents, eggs at 18 1/2 cents, cheese brands Twins 10 to 10 1/2 cents, daisies 11 1/2 to 12 cents, young Americas 11 1/2 cents, Swiss 11 1/4 to 12 cents. Live poultry shows chickens 8 cents, springs 10 cents, turkeys 11 cents, geese 5 cents, ducks 10 to 10 1/2 cents.
Births record multiple families with listed addresses and infant gender. Names include Henry Salge Theresa Salge Kentzer Scholl Evans Way Murphy Barriner Geffen Efroymsen Eichhorn Cash Richardson. Deaths list Patrick Foley Ollie Bryan August Obergfell Rufus Hailman Caroline Knuth Joseph Sebern Truman Powell. Marriages show Roy Hubbard and Myrtle Bez Elmer Carter and Bertha Dell Walter Wilson and Doris Holleran.
WILL COUNT PINOS WASHINGTON October 6 Gen Joseph P Sanger U S Army named director of the Philippines census with Victor M Olmstead Bureau of Labor and Henry Gennett Geological Survey as probable assistants About 12 subordinates to be appointed New York October 6 Col Alex Piper sworn in as second deputy police commissioner in place of Thurston resigned Piper a West Pointer and former army officer lost an arm in 1899 in the line of duty
Gen Fred Grant is due in San Francisco next Saturday aboard the transport Logan. The transport Sherman with discharged and sick soldiers on board is set to arrive on Thursday.
Wheat and corn price notes show steady bids with various grades and mixings. Oats and hay prices listed, followed by inspection tallies for wheat and corn and a small note on total cars and rejected lots.
Toledo Grain lists wheat with cash 73 4, December 73 4, May 74 54. Corn December 45 4, May 42 4. Oats December 31 4, May 33 4. Rye No 2 51, No 3 48. Cloverseed October 5.12 ½, January 6.02 ¼, alsyke prime 5.00.
Prices paid by shippers for a wide range of items including fowls, turkeys, ducks, geese, eggs, butter, cheeses, hides, tallow, wool, and fresh produce. Also lists per bushel and per barrel rates for cabbage onions lemons oranges apples pears and more with assorted coffee sugars flour and packaged goods in city prices.
W I Ripley and W E Blackwell undertake repairs and shed work for sums around £200 and $2,000. Additions planned for S E Berry and Indiana School for Girls. Multiple cottages and stone dwellings listed with costs from $200 to $1,500 along Meridian and Frink streets and near Meridian. J M Richardson and Engel Borman designated for additions and cottages.
New York prices list mess pork at 18.00 to 18.75 per hundredweight and butter at 22 1/2 to 21 1/2 cents, creamery and imitation creamery butter varying. Eggs at 21 cents. Dressed poultry ranges turkeys 8 to 16 cents, chickens 10 to 20 cents, fowls 11 to 18 cents, ducks 10 to 11 cents, geese 16 cents, springs 20 to 22 cents. Tallow 6 7 cents.
Wheat futures slipped with December at 69 3 4 cents and May at 70 cents. Oats traded down about a half cent with December near 32 1 2 cents. Provisions showed January pork around 15.70 to 15.95, lard from 8.87 to 9.00, and ribs at 8.25 to 8.35 per hundredweight.
Battle receipts reach 25000 with prime beef at 7.25 to 8.0 and cows and heifers 2.50 to 4.70. Hoge receipts 20000 show light cattle at 6.85 to 7.92 and mixed at 7.20 to 7.90. Sheep receipts 44000 list native sheep 2.00 to 3.75 and native lambs 3.25 to 3.60 with western equivalents 2.25 to 3.70 and 3.75 to 5.25.
Cincinnati market reports show cattle receipts at 1036 with shippers paying 5.50 to 6.50 and various grades from good to choice. Hog receipts 2401 with packers paying 7.60 to 7.70, mixed packers 7.35 to 7.65. Sheep and lamb figures appear incomplete, with an extra sale noted at 3,253.00.
East Buffalo NY stock market notes cattle receipts 185 cars prime steers 6.50 to 7.50 fair light to good butchers 4.65 to 6.15 best fat heifers 4.75 to 6.25 vears 5.50 to 8.75 hogs receipts 100 cars Yorkers 6.90 to 7.40 mixed packers 7.40 to 7.50 choice 7.00 to 7.75 grassers 6.75 to 7.15 pigs 6.00 to 6.65 skips 5.00 to 6.00 roughs 6.25 to 6.75 stags 5.20? On sheep tops sheep 1.00? jambe receipts 9 cars culls to good 4.00 to 5.50 ed 3.75 to 4.00 culls to good others 4.00 to 6.25 yearlings
A dense price list details oats beans brosis syrups and canned goods with numerous per unit prices. Items include oysters fish and game, fresh meats, lard lard substitutes and a variety of spices and chemicals with specific weights and costs. Midwest and regional items appear with prices for belts of oysters and bulk products.
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