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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1900
Page
3
A Hot Springs area family of six, Jeff Jones wife Maggie and four children aged 4 months to 6 years, were killed when their Solls home exploded with dynamite. Authorities suspect a land claim dispute sparked the attack.
Dispatches from St. Petersburg report two deadly accidents in Russia. The steamer Eugene, built in the United States, exploded on the Obi river killing or drowning 26 aboard and injuring four. At Dakhestan a drunken head engineer sparked a naphtha shaft explosion killing 14 others.
Franklin Hays of the Columbia club building committee says non union electricians must leave the site by 10 am Wednesday. Union workers threaten boycott unless union labor handles the contract, and a building trades council may form after a meeting scheduled for October 25.
Edna Allen charged with enticing a 13 year old girl into immoral life in police court. The girl, Ethel Reger of 46 Belmont Ave, was reported missing Sunday and found at Field's hotel Monday. Detected as having five marriages, the suspect was identified as Mrs Ed Howard, Mrs John Collet, Mrs Ed Benson, Mrs Charles Walters, and Mrs George O'Brien. Case continued to Oct 19.
In Rutland Vermont on October 14 Jerry Race and Gilbert Reynolds escaped from the house of correction after midnight by springing a window bar. They killed the prison bloodhounds in the woods and fled.
Li mock, principal Costa Rican port, reports Panama city was almost wiped out by fire. The blaze raged through the night as authorities assessed damage and the financial loss was tallied around 3 million dollars.
Fire broke out at 7 p m Monday in the Burton Bros department store basement from a toppled candle. The blaze destroyed the stock and building including the People's theater and several offices with a loss of 100000. Fire departments from Vincennes and Terre Haute aided as smoke filled the public square. clerk Harry Mayfield was rescued in critical condition.
Washington Oct 16 The first assistant postmaster general chief clerk M Allen remains in a precarious condition at Georgetown hospital The plan to move him to Terre Haute Indiana has been abandoned for now
Scalding death of 3 year old Della Scott of Peru. Counterfeit money found near Shelbyville. Anderson merchants plan a carnival. Pulaski county forms an independent citizens party. D. A. Hauk residence in Logansport tarred. John Schwaltier in Jeffersonville shows a daddy dollar aged 100. Sewer explosion in Huntington breaks glass. Muncie council fights gas-rate rise. Sarah Combs dies after hand scratch infection. Gas dividends rumored at Manufacturers’ gas company in Anderson. Interurban tensions hit small towns. Munice lines blamed. Three tramps missing after Purcell wreck. Runaway horse in Covington rescued by derrick. Gov Roosevelt meets Alf Purdue in Muncie parade. Jury in Fuller Torrence case disagreeing. Union Traction cuts two lines to one cent. Laborers’ wear at Logansport church. Noblesville pioneer James B. Patterson dies. Yorktown interurban car incident with a blind passenger. John Witt arrested for highway robbery and horse theft. Tipton farmer’s son shot, seriously wounded. Oyster shell fragment emerges from diaphragm. O Donnell murder trial near Portland may close. 2 year old in Green Castle breathes via silver tube. Judge Kirkpatrick to hear Shelby county fiung false claims case. John G. Woolley uses political slogans from trains. Bartholomew County rejects lowest bid for New Castle bridge due to a $12 envelope bill. Eaton expected to see 300 L A 300 members to block Baur factory. Password enforcement at window glass plant. W Swift Wright in New York on Santo Domingo loan mission.
Filipino forces again press activity in Luzon and Leyte. Near San Jose Nueva Ecija on Sept 19 a group of 200 attacked 20 men of the Twenty fourth infantry. seven escaped to San Jose, with others likely captured while repairing telegraph lines. In Leyte Takloban three American soldiers of the Forty third Infantry were killed and their bodies badly mutilated.
Gov Roosevelt issues a letter saying he never made the statements about shooting unionists or ending Bryanism and child labor troubles. He calls the quotes absolute lies spread by scoundrels. He wires Secretary Heath to consider a libel suit if responsible persons circulate the report.
Col W J Bryan left Cleveland for New York Monday night after a large mass meeting in Central armory. Thousands crowded the streets and gathered at Hollenden hotel and later at the armory where he spoke on imperialism militarism and trusts. He urged tariff abolition on products controlled by trusts and licensing of corporations entering states they target.
Theodore Marburg brother of a tobacco trust leader spoke to commercial travelers in Baltimore on trusts. He argued abolishing trusts is unlikely and urged national law for publicity and revenue, noting competition, tariffs, and the traveling man’s job prospects amid Bryan. Marburg rose in politics after Republicans won state offices.
Reports from Fort Worth Texas dated October 16 say several Creek Indians near Kilagee Oklahoma plan to resist government tax collection and restore old tribal customs as the government enforces tribal tax.
New York reports heavy Standard Oil trading as price rises to 583 amid dividend talk. Analysts predict 12 percent dividend, possibly 20 percent, adding up to 50 percent for the year and $50 million disbursed on a $100 million capital stock.
Jasper Riley, a Kingston waiter, was found unconscious at Hunter's restaurant on Washington street after leaving Big Four tracks. He had $25 and new shoes when he started home, but both were gone. He recalls meeting two unknown men who accompanied him before he lost consciousness. He received treatment at the City Dispensary and was later sent home. A colored man matching the description was seen with Riley, who suspects the two men of theft and poisoning, though no marks of violence were found.
Dallas and Della Walker are blessed with a girl and several couples welcome boys and girls at various city addresses. Notables include phthisis pulmonalis and diphtheria cases, with health concerns and infant ages listed alongside a list of unlinked names and partnerships.
Lord Roberts reports Gen. French is clearing the Heidelburg area south of Johannesburg. Col. Mahon's mounted infantry faced heavy engagement with the Boers. British losses total three officers and eight men killed and two officers and two men wounded. Boers retired. Gens. Lyttleton and Rundle fought skirmishes with several wounded.
Vancouver finds Mount Baker boundary settled with mines on the south side of the line and an extra mile of lands to Canada. The survey satisfies all, and a royal commission to Ottawa is unlikely. Geo Fate trades hotel for Putnam county land and plans farming after leaving the clerk’s office.
Rickie Morris 826 Maple frame house 0 dollars. W H Kersey Marlowe east of Oriental double frame house 2500 dollars. M B McClelland 326 Hamilton addition 300 dollars. J M Williamson Pearl between 24th and 25nd frame building 1600 dollars. Margaret Sullivan rear 1116 Harlan frame house 250 dollars. Adolph Hahn 513 Weghorst addition 680 dollars. Co EF Mann Alabama between 24th and 25th addition 1500 dollars. George F McGinnis 910 Bates repairs 150 dollars. Charles Mauser corner Illinois and 32nd barn 754 dollars. J W Harris 2322 Brookside addition 25 dollars.
Walter Carpenter treated his young son to Indianapolis views from the courthouse tower. The boy watched streetcars below and believed they were toy cars, and since then has begged his father for some of the little street cars.
Spokane judge upholds city county and state taxes on the Western Union franchise in a decision marking the first court review of the matter. The ruling confirms the tax authority applying to the utility at local and state levels.
Mrs J L Jones of Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania killed herself. M P Sayers and wife were killed by the cars. Edison C Monday. Roland Reed actor to undergo stomach operation in New York. Cotton growers to meet in convention at Macon Georgia on November 2. Mayor Jennings Council Bluffs Iowa will prohibit football games there if players become brutal. Retail price of milk in Chicago will be seven cents per two quarts after November 1. Milk price increased two cents.
Wayne township farmers clash in circuit court over a proposed three mile road west of Indianapolis running north and south. Chief objector is William Robertson. Commissioners ordered the road, triggering the court battle.
Frances Shafer is sentenced to two to 14 years in the reformatory for attempting to rob Mary Miller at 719 North Capitol Avenue of fifteen dollars.
Indianapolis market bulletin lists ham prices and provisions on October 16 with multiple entries including California goods and various block ham listings.
A sprawling price list from Reliable covers dried beef hams bacon pork sausages lard and pickled meats, with vegetables fruits nuts canned goods and dairy items. It lists per unit pricing for items like fresh pork loins, celery new potatoes apples and cranberries, plus staples such as sugar coffee tea and flour and includes seeds oats and coal prices.
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