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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1899
Page
3
Hoosierisms from Kokomo and Richmond chronicle a string of small-town incidents. A farmer suffers a severe head injury from a threshing accident. a veteran horseman is celebrated. tales of elopement, theft, strikes, gas and water concerns, legal notices, and local mischief fill the column.
In Kokomo Indiana on September 9 Mrs Nellie Yeager of Dawson City Alaska tells Mr Cook a Klondike returning father to send his photo so she can mail a $1000 check. She is seeking Capt Matthew Chance once from this city who lost contact after 1866 when she went west for fortune and married in Montana ending in separation. She will obtain his picture.
In Richmond Indiana J F H Hiser formerly with the Richmond business college is now a bookkeeper for the Twenty third United States infantry in the Philippines. Rev C L Berry who left the Cambridge City Baptist church has accepted a call to Connersville. Cambridge City Citizens telephone company may build a line to Abington Philomath Waterloo and Brownsville. Wayne county council trimmed many county expense estimates.
A Porter county smallpox case in Noblesville prompts local concern while residents protest rising gas rates. An isolated family tragedy notes the death of John Niehaus Jr roused by lack of medical care amid scarce services.
The veterans of the Spanish American war elected national officers Friday night after a long day. Commander in chief Maj gen Joseph Warren Keifer of Ohio senior vice commander Col Lawrence J Logan of Massachusetts junior vice commander Col James R Tillman of South Carolina quartermaster Maj W F Cole of Florida surgeon general Lieut col L M Maus USV paymaster general Capt Astor Chandler of New York chaplain general Father F E Chadwick USN. The name adopted for the new organization was the Spanish war veterans. Delegates were welcomed at the White House by the president Saturday morning. Final adjournment was Saturday afternoon.
Edward Phillips admitted posing as Mary Bainbridge's husband in Washington Pa after her death near the Duane house. He claimed a wife and four children in Bridgeport DC and said she threatened suicide if not married. He was released as no link to the crime was found and a verdict of death by own action issued.
Chicago dispatch from John George Leigh Samoan correspondent of the London Times reports Leigh believes Chief Justice Chambers erred legally and morally in his ruling on the king. The high commission upheld the decision but urged resignation for dignity. Leigh suspects the case hinges on a chance for extra salary and notes natives favor a Mataafa party governor.
Baltimore reports the grand jury urged death punishment for criminal assaults on women whether judicial or extrajudicial, and proposed a surgical operation if that fails. They also called for raising the age of consent to 18 and the use of the whipping post for aggravated wife beating.
From New Orleans comes word that Gen Louis Mena, returning from Salvadora, led troops across Nicaragua’s frontier to attack a Pacific coast garrison. He aided the Reyes revolution, plans to muster a larger force in Salvadora, reach Leon, and move on the capital to claim the presidency.
In Pittsburg on September 9 a weekly coke industry review reports 18,098 ovens in active operation with 1,919 idle or under construction in the Connellsville region. Production reached 190,772 tons and shipments totaled 9,138 cars as prices remain strongly maintained.
In Hawaii a group dubbed the Olaa squatters has organized to defend lands they seized. They argue all public lands in Hawaii are U S public lands and should be disposed of by Congress as Hawaii opens to homesteaders under local land laws. The lands in question were recently surveyed on Olaa island to be opened to homesteaders.
In Vienna the prefect Angelitch, among 29 accused in a plot to murder ex King Milan, was found hanged in his Belgrade cell on Friday. His 28 colleagues continue trial as investigations proceed.
Mrs. W. M. Hunt of 1541 Bates st reports chronic kidney trouble with backache and weakness. After using Doan’s Kidney Pills she claims relief in the back pain and associated difficulties, with only a minor recurrence later. Sold by all dealers 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Doan’s.
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