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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1901
Page
6
Controller Dunn explains funds flow as he withholds $26,336 in bills until a $55,000 loan is authorized. Tuesday items include Riverside park work 5202, sprinkling 5669, street sweeping 6713, lights 8752. He says all will be paid Saturday and August bills total about $72,000 with half paid so far.
The socialists base activities in room 21 of the Union building at 119 W. Mary Jand. George Mills, their mayoral nominee, is a well known musician. Meetings occur on street corners and a pamphlet outlines conditions and calls for joining a movement to improve city life. Rev. R. V. Hunter of the Anti saloon league will address Marion county on municipal duty. The Civic alliance may meet to endorse candidates. Bookwalter is favored for mayor with some council split. Maguire and Sahm urged Gauss to drop independent bid. Gauss undecided and petitions circulate.
Dr. X Wietka, physician to the Immaculate Conception convent, says reports of a convent epidemic are exaggerated. Seven serious cases and several light ones are currently reported.
An advertisement request invites readers to mail suggestions to Wilhite and Holloway Photographers at 237 N. Pennsylvania St. The Sun offers ten words free of charge for three days under the heading Do You Want a Girl. Also promotes fine California wines, Bradies Bottled goods, and Schuller’s at 210 N Meridian St with small liner ads on page seven. A note mentions Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children priced at twenty five cents.
An assortment of 8 Indiana Dental College details and local ads run, including patient hours, a photo studio address, a Worth cigar note, classified rooms for rent, Mackinac Island and Michigan rail tickets, square pianos priced 25 to 75 dollars, a Lake Erie and Western Railway fare, Pennsylvania Lines excursion sales, and street fair trips to Seymour with dates and official stations.
A Chicago bound mail carload from Australia to Europe carried drafts orders and communications for London Paris and Berlin firms linked to the Spreckels sugar syndicate. Railroads ran special trains to regain five hours lost crossing the Pacific. The mail goes to the Saturday New York steamer. The train averaged around 40 mph since San Francisco, breaking previous continental speed records.
Washington reports that Ecuador has not opened war with Colombia. New Ecuadorian president Plaza seeks friendship with Colombia. Filibuster activity is blamed on disgruntled Colombians in Ecuador, with Gen Uribe Uribe said to back them as they travel by vessel.
A colored committee led by Dr. S S A Furniss Rev BE L Gilliam and W W Christy appeared before the Board of Safety on Friday asking for improved police protection in city parks. Gilliam said they want protection not only at Fairview but throughout against white gangs as the situation worsens.
Loganport Ind Sept 6 Jerry Parsons a Galveston sign painter was arrested on charges of complicity in the robbery and murder of farmer Benjamin Dotterer. Dotterer was shot during the Wednesday night raid and died from his wounds. Parsons denied the accusations and was jailed at Kekomo.
At Mill Creek mine in the Flat Top coal fields, the superintendent and bosses are church members along with most miners. Daily at noon, religious services are held underground and every miner attends as a regular parishioner.
London report that Justice Murphy of the Irish supreme court has died. He gained world wide fame in the early eighties as crown prosecutor at the Phoenix Park murder trials.
Births on Sept 1 to Sept 5 include Feltz Welch Aukenbrook Sherer Sweetland Lefforge Duncan OConner Terry Copen Woodrum Newby Daggett Grimes Lovelace Daggett illness heart trouble infant cholera infantum inanition and cancer. Marriages include Blackwell Alexander Shinemeyer Behman Kennedy Blackenship Branch.
Listings show Mrs M A Dudley and B D Brooks to build frame houses and cottages at central avenues with costs from 200 to 2600 dollars. Sarah A Gilbert undertakes frame additions and repairs at Talbott avenue for 600 dollars. Fires involve Forester lumber mills at Munising Michigan with 50 009 and Lehigh coal company docks at West Superior Wisconsin reported by Sel Northwestern hotel Buffalo NY with 40 000 dollars.
An article extols Alma-Bromo Salt as a natural laxative from a deep underground spring. It claims the product is pleasant tasting, nonirritating to the digestive system, and helps the stomach and bowels digest and absorb food while removing toxins through natural channels, contrasting with harsher medicines.
Prof. M. M. Barker, president of the University of Arizona in Tucson and nephew of Gen. Nelson A. Miles, was ousted by the board of regents. Charges were preferred against him concerning his character.
President and Mrs. McKinley with a diplomatic party left the Buffalo exposition grounds at 9 a m by special train for Niagara Falls. Crowds gathered at each Lewiston station to glimpse the presidential party. They dined at the fairs at 1 and 2 p.m. before returning to Buffalo.
Brazilian aeronaut M. Santos Dumont made another bid for the Deutsche prize. Friday afternoon the wind drove the airship into the Suresne bridge coping. The balloon descended onto the bridge and was later taken by boat to the park for the restart. Dumont asserts no damage to his ship occurred.
Jacob Miller of Franklin county appeared before U S commissioner Reeves in Richmond and pleaded not guilty to violating revenue laws. He was held on a $1000 bond. A similar charge faces Joseph Boehmer, who is reported sick.
In San Francisco on September 6 Gus Ruhlin fears a delayed forfeit from Jeffries for their scheduled bout. Despite a mill permit approval by the supervisors the champion has not yet submitted his payment.
S. E. D. Stratton of 473 Blake Street, an iron worker, explains years of kidney trouble were cured by using Dean's Kidney Pills. He reports relief from back pain, improved secretions, and better sleep after taking the remedy bought at Henry J. Huder's drug store. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N.Y., sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Roan's.
A mixed listing shows multiple train departures and arrivals across lines including St Louis, Big Four, and Chicago routes with assorted times. Real estate ads offer multiple residences and lots for sale by Robbins Bros., 531 Lemcke Bldg, and Cross & Brown, 1914 N. Meridian St, with prices ranging from a few hundred to several thousand dollars.
Ticket Office 26 W Wash Chicago routes listed with times and fares including night express fast mail ves dily and Sunday only services. Fares cited 93.45 111.50 110.00 with various departures from Chicago to Indianapolis Louisville and beyond.
Fragmentary OCR lists trains and times for multiple routes including Cincinnati to Dayton, Toledo to Detroit, and Chicago to Michigan lines. Mentions connections, arrival and departure times, and limited service details with unclear formatting.
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