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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1899
Page
3
An unearthed skeleton on Jacob Maynard’s farm near Anderson, Indiana, revealed the long missing peddler Smith who once sold goods in the county and possessed large sums of money. His skull showed it was crushed and the body pushed feet first into a filed hole. Nearby the remains, a note about an escaped convict or a Cenest Fired Out of School.
A stranger attacked Frank Kreiger near Hobart, fracturing his skull. the assailant fled. The next day the stranger’s body was found near Valparaiso on the Grand Peonle road, chopped and separated. Unclear if suicide or train strike. Peru Pickings notes a German Baptists meeting planned for next May in Peru attracting thousands.
Plainfield Keeley institute prepares for the eighth annual reunion of its graduates on September 19. The event gathers former patients and staff for a day of remembrance and updates on Keeley Institute activities in Plainfield Indiana.
A jumble of notices from Indiana towns reports typhoid cases crime and civic plans. Evansville will stop fast driving in paved streets while Marion boosts its tax levy to 1.15 dollars per hundred. A strike in Milwood’s lamp chimney factory spreads through the gas belt and a kangaroo court forms in Terre Haute jail. National Glass plans a 10000 plant at Montpelier. Hartford City hosts a glass industry push.
Reports recount a failed balloon ascent that left the flyer badly bruised and vowing to quit. Amid broader news, glass makers convene in Pittsburg amid trust collapse rumors while Monon railroad fights street closure and legal clashes over fences, fines, and injunctions persist in Indiana towns.
Luzon's Los Banos, praised for efficacious waters, is seized by Americans and set to open for soldiers and the public. The piece notes Los Banos was captured by Lt. Kopp and two privates after the Calamba campaign and mentions the boiling point nearby springs. It also recounts a tale of an insurgent officer Trias Jookings and Aguinaldo’s leadership shifts in Cavite.
Charles Perdue, an Indianapolis news boy, died in a Cincinnati hospital Monday night from typhoid fever. At 13, he stood six feet tall and was regarded by doctors as a physical wonder. He left Indianapolis two weeks earlier without notifying his mother, Kate Cartrider, though she had received several letters. He had worked as a district messenger and more recently sold papers.
George Francis Alexander Earl of Yarmouth will debut as an actor in New York under Charles Frohman. He will perform in Wheels within Wheels at the Madison Square Theater, with the engagement announced for an early date in September.
New York on September 13 reports the funeral held for Cornelius Vanderbilt with Rev Dr Greer and Bishop Potter officiating. Attendants include leaders and the elite as the Vanderbilt mausoleum on Staten Island receives the famed heir and his kin. The will's reading is anticipated with talk of a potential trust and equal division among heirs, amid reconciliation with his son.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Lady Laurier accepted invitations to visit Chicago on Chicago day. Lord and Lady Minto may join. Laurier said he hoped this event would strengthen fraternal government ties and the allied commercial interests between Canada and the United States.
President McKinley will trigger the exposition’s machinery at 8 am from the White House. Despite tight schedules, organizers promise a superior event with the gates opening on Thursday. The midway area will host amusement features and a 198-man Chinese company arrives for the native village.
George A H Shideler new warden of the Michigan City prison outlines a tour of major U S prisons starting with Elmira New York described as the ideal prison and continuing west to Leavenworth Xan He has been reading prison literature since taking the job.
James and David Moore, colored, of 31 Smith Street, are in the isolation hospital with small pox. Seven other persons in their home are under quarantine as city-sanitarian Clark investigates the origin of the new cases.
Birth notices list William and Jennie Price and many other couples welcoming girls and boys at various addresses. Death notices record Tobias Murphy Cora Coleman Lizzie Green and others by age, cause, and residence. A section of marriage licenses names numerous couples seeking unions with addresses and spouses.
Gov. Tanner, previously seriously ill, has relapsed and is now very sick. Doctors diagnose his ailment as malaria.
Last social of the Aquatic club for the season occurs at the houseboat in Broad Ripple on Wednesday night. A building site committee for the Art association has been appointed to report at the first meeting in October. Miss Nellie Baird entertained friends at her North Street home Tuesday evening including Misses Mary Ludorf Mattie and Nettie Forman Ruth Phares Laura Johnson and Nannie Jeskee and Messrs Joan Goode Carroll Rollin Qtho Springer Will Law Blaine Miller Harry Brown and Frank Phares. One Minute Cough Cure praised by Henry R Whitford of South Canaan Conn as best for coughs colds and bronchial troubles. available at all druggists.
A Washington Special reports the president may cancel his Chicago engagement due to worker protests over the post office cornerstone. It outlines a wage dispute where Maine quarry workers were paid lower than Chicago union wages, prompting strikes by both sides. Italians in the quarry are said to be earning the eastern union rate. He'll Go. WASHINGTON Sept 13 President McKinley has announced he will go to Chicago despite contrary statements.
The bricklayers and stone masons union voted to grant honorary membership to Wm McKinley so he can lay the corner stone of the new government building on October 9 without being branded as unfair. If a stone cut by non union workers is handled by McKinley his card is withdrawn and he would be branded a scab under union rules.
New York dispatch reports Andrew Carnegie denying plans to sit in Parliament. He proclaims he remains American, citing his father’s 1855 naturalization and his own precautionary naturalization in New York City years ago.
Cincinnati Ohio September 15 congressman Shattuc refuses to retract criticizes rear-end sharpshooters and declares the war is the people's war. He says Congress, not the president, will determine what government is set up in the Philippines, with the public standing by the administration.
Mrs Julius F Pratt dies at 968 N Pennsylvanias. Widow of a Athos engine works officer she is a daughter of Samuel F Smith longtime Indianapolis resident. An invalid for years she belonged to several clubs. Survived by husband two daughters and four brothers. Funeral Friday morning.
Work soon to begin on a grade separation at the Ruralisi intersection with the Pennsylvania railroad tracks. The project will raise the tracks and lower the roadway to improve safety and traffic flow.
Twenty one foreclosure suits were filed in the federal circuit court on a Wednesday by Edward Barry as receiver of the Equitable Loan and Investment Company of Bloomington Illinois.
The Indiana weather bureau reports a large mature corn crop stacked in shocks and benefits from recent rains for late corn. Tobacco is largely cut and in good shape. Potatoes, pickles, and tomatoes yield well. Grapes, apples abundant. buckwheat promising. Pasturage is dry. farmers feeding cattle. Wheat sowing begun in northern counties. rye sown early may rot in ground.
Thomas objects as the street car company has not sought Board of Works consent for a route change. President Downing says the idea was suggested earlier but he was not informed until reading Grant's statement in THE SUN. Commissioner Montgomery fears complaints from residents along the current line.
The Matthews fishing and hunting club in Grant county along with the Weston-Barnaby lumber operation of Bloomington and the R. W. Furnas ice cream company of Indianapolis are noted as incorporating. Capital stock figures of 5000 and 1250000 are listed for these entities. The Dr. O C Fairhurst medical company of Vincennes is also referenced with its capital structure.
The first American bank of Hawaii opened today with $500,000 in gold on hand. Officers include President Cecil Brown, Vice President B F Dillingham, Secretary M Boyd, Cashier W E Cooper, and Paying Teller Maj W A Purdy.
Luella Lewis seeks a divorce from Harry claiming he whipped her. Maud Rambo requests separation after alleging abandonment by Thomas. Virgil Ferguson seeks separation alleging his wife Seabrook corresponded with other men.
Gold discovery near Afton and Williamsburg. Diaz birthday celebrations planned in Mexico. $2,000 automobile race set for October in Galesburg. Miss Alice Knott of Washington died by asphyxiation. Parrot overheated gas. American Car and Foundry to expand in Lansing with 360 million capital. $30,000 incorporation. Perot and granddaughter arrive in Halifax from London after surrender in court. Beckville elopement ends in violent tragedy. father shoots suitor, then kills himself and the suitor’s brother. A mob attack near Columbia, South Carolina leaves two whites dead and several African Americans injured.
The Board of Works approves plans for Fail Creek bridges at Thomas and Meridian streets with steel and concrete options and bids. contracts will be advertised. They also extend Caldwell street from Capitol Park to Michigan and Walnut to Tenth, plus gravel road and cement curbing on Twenty third from Martindale to the L B E W tracks. repairs on Morris street are directed to Indianapolis Street Railway Co.
The czar and Emperor William plan an early meeting while Australian colonies back a unified government. A Copenhagen monument marks the Schleswig wars. In Leipzig a man named Herman Bordasch, declared insane, threatens the Saxony king. A Kiel German cruiser Wacht boiler blast kills four and injures four. Spain proclaims martial law in Basque provinces amid separatist chatter. In Hungary four troops die from lightning with six injured near Also Kassmark, and Viscaya hosts Carlist plot discoveries with martial law declared in the province.
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