31 Oct 1890
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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1890
Page
1
The Indianapolis arsenal spans 76 acres with 10,000 small arms, including Springfield rifles. The dormitory houses soldiers with orderly routines, a hospital proposal stalled, and Major Conney pushing for improvements, while Sgt Carbary embodies long service and strict discipline at this historic U.S. post.
In a noisy county exchange, Deputy Hoffman and Coroner Wagner quarreled over a bet. Hoffman offered $100 to Wagner's $40, with Daniels the county clerk handling the stakes as the dispute escalated.
The piece reports on the expense of adopting the Australian ballot system, detailing costs for ballot booths 148 plus $4 per unit, $2 extra for accessories, $1 per trip for transporting booths, 325 ballot boxes at $1.60 each, deputy pay $1.50 per day, two clerks at $2 for two days, two judges, eight hours per day, totaling 1,886 personnel. Feeding costs for all workers, three meals per person on election day, and estimated printing and packing costs push Marion County’s local tally toward 11,000 dollars and statewide costs near 191,000 dollars.
Report outlines George Treisipzor leaving Cincinnati for Parta Unknown aboard a flight tied to an 81 degree Opt. case. Hammond, manager of Awali's jewelry store in Indianapolis, linked to alias Elisie Gray. A woman living with him allegedly has two to three wives and involvement in counterfeiting. authorities seek him in Minnesota and Georgia for related crimes.
Secretary Bisine denied Friday that he complimented Minister Mizoerco in connection with the Barrundia affair. He stated the report is fabrication and will take no action until Commander Reiter arrives with the steamship on which Barrundia was killed.
An 0ct 31 dispatch reports the Vizcago schooner collision near Barnegat sinking with 61 lives lost. Cincinnati notes abolishment of the city board of public improvements and a new city affairs board sworn in. Baltimore covers Gen Crook's remains moved to Washington. Paris reports grain exports down 85 percent. local clubs seek funds for a new building. Irvin court acquits Caleb B Shimer of arson. Lynch and Griffin jailed for theft at the Y M C A park. a watch recovered and linked to theft. A Despatch notes R Scott of a lumber firm vanishing and issuing checks from a nominal office. Also mentions Bow Bow candles at 63 N Pend.
Terreh Havre Oct 81 delegates of district No 21 United Mine Workers adjourned after a two hour debate over demanding 10 cents per ton for block and 6 cents for bituminous coal. Unorganized members urged the demand while organized leaders balked. John Kane urged restraint saying a strike would put 7 000 Indiana workers out within 24 hours.
An artist created a glass sign reading Whiskers dyed here and fixed it to a downtown barber shop late Thursday. During the night a passerby with green paint smeared the proprietor’s window, forming a beer stein shaped mark as he read the new Irish colored addition to the glass.
A funeral service is set for Friday at 2 P M for Whiskers Dyed Here. The brief notice follows prior, garbled local incident coverage mentioning a sign, a cigar store, and a barber, with surrounding chaotic street scene and a coin being shed.
Galveston reports a daring swindle unraveling as James B. Roweth, a young real estate agent, faces warrants charging forged signatures on vendor lien notes. The note totals may approach 100 000 dollars, tied to property verifications. Also noted are court dispositions and petty crimes including thefts, larcenies, and rough conduct in other proceedings.
An elderly man, Fred Syerup, was confined Thursday afternoon for blocking roadway and creating a disturbance at the Shelby station. He demanded a peach while held, and officials attempted to calm him as he paced the cell, repeatedly shouting for company. In Illinois, Francis Biskely accidentally shot himself while loading a revolver near the depot, the ball lodging in his thigh and a doctor failing to locate it before transporting him to hospital. Meanwhile, Centre Ost records report mail pouches cut open with a knife, exposing many registered letters.
The Park features Barlow Brothers minstrel show with mixed reviews and Louis Harrison joining Hendrick Hudson’s company. Next week James Wallick headlines the Park with The Cattle King and three gifted horses. Billy Bird and Sam Houston appearances noted. Grand Theatre hosts Ge! Smith Russell in A Poor Relation, then Jimmy Powers company for the rest of the week. concert by united theatre orchestras and Prof Kennedy lecture. Richard Malcolm Johnston to lecture at Piayigarh church. office desks at Wm. L. Elder's.
Samuel B. Shearer deputy city civil engineer says plans for the Virginia avenue viaduct are paused awaiting ordinance decisions. He notes Union Railway Co consented to a four foot grade and broad approaches, favors skeleton or masonry methods, and expects the project to extend about 1200 feet if constructed. Alderman Reinecke questions south approach width and possible injunctions while asserting the company remains inclined to build. Local forecast calls for fair Friday and warmer Saturday.
A physician urges full public reporting and isolation of contagious cases while condemning private concealment. He cites a recent fatal diphtheria, notes danger from children with whooping cough in public spaces, and condemns transporting dirty clothing on streetcars as a contagion risk in the city.
George W Wright hired Reniban Long and Hedges to hold his late daughter’s body. The vault held two bodies after a telegram caused a swap. The rightful child’s body was found in Ohio and returned after court actions. The supreme court sustained no decision of the lower court on appeal.
Crawfordsville Ost 81. Judge Snyder barred admitting the confession of criminal intimacy and engagement with Pettit prior to his wife's death as testified by Liza Whitehead to Rev Switzer. Walter Peters, Purdue and Ohio medical college alum, aided by Prosecutor Reywood, exhumed the remains and found over half a grain of strychnine in the stomach. Brent Arnold of the L N road reports Independents Kentucky wreck left two injured and five cars damaged with a long delay. street rumors claim a death occurred though officials say otherwise.
The supreme court issued a few routine decisions on Friday and adjourned until Nov 11. One case, Western paving company v street-car company, concerning pavement between tracks, appears to have been set aside amid the shuffle. The rest of the brief note mentions a hoax about a Dutch figure and a misreported illness.
The text notes Teddy Roosevelt asserts government employees may contribute to campaign funds but cannot be compelled to do so. It mentions Immy Blaing withdrawing from a Pennsylvania speaking engagement for Delamater. Two war vessels Atlantic and Yorktown aim to display naval protection to the Brazilian fleet en route to New York. The State Department reports Cuba tobacco growers and cigar manufacturers seek reciprocity with the United States via Spain.
The Pearl of Pekin arrived in the city to supplant Casey's Troubles that left town unmolested. Mary Donegan, pantry girl at the Grand Hotel in Cincinnati, mistook a tarantula for a hotel insect and was bitten in the arm. Old Mother Sender, who had murdered nobody knows how many people and married twelve times, passed through the city in the charge of an officer en route to Kaneac. Rumors spread Cleveland would have no ball club, but residents avoided alarm among baseball fans. It was warm and a rare rainstorm began. At Frank Hein's 62 East Wasb st a base burner ad offers Radiant Home for coal, coke or gas.
In Richmond on October 31 the superintendent backs claims that Attendant Wood caused Blount’s fatal injuries, while calls for Wood’s trial grow. Records show vulnerable patients were mistreated, and another woman, Miss Johnson, reports brutal whipping. Grand jury losses widen as doctors and attendants are questioned.
Dalton Ga dispatch reports two Black men followed fifty miles then seized by a mob in Cincinnati. They were hanged by a tree limb, as authorities fear discovery of a tied, mutilated body of Misa Baker found near her home.
Ed Scott and a colored worker from Warren-Scherff paving company fought on Mississippi near Orie Thursday afternoon. Scott struck the man, who then drew a pistol and fired, the bullet piercing Scott's arm and nearly his chest. The assailant fled. the wound is not dangerous.
A garbled OCT text notes events from Knoxville heavy snowfall to strikes by freestone cutters in Boston and a Los Angeles trainmen convention electing officers. Detroit hosts a retail clerks convention slated for December 8 to seek church reconciliation, while Chattanooga hosts railroad conductor sessions. A new foundation for Chicago government building with a $2,500 cost is mentioned amid other unclear items. The piece also references a fatal shooting in Memphis after a suspect resisted arrest, and an Annapolis naval academy monument unveiled for victims of a prior expedition.
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