Supt Quigley Prefers Baseball To Sunday Bicycle Racing
Police Superintendent Quigley declares Sunday bicycle racing off limits, placing it with Sunday horse racing and baseball, and will seek the mayor’s view before Prince’s first races next week. National League standings show Brooklyn, Pittsburg, Philadelphia leading. ten innings of loose play noted in several games with varied scores.
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Local Baseball Notes and League Movements
Minneapolis team clears expenses as Frank Quimby leaves Yale. Catcher Robinson of St Louis faces a fine for striking umpire Gaffney. Indianapolis All professionals to play Reserves at Brighton Beach on Sunday. Seybold to start at first base and Summer to pitch for the pros. Anderson club to become a stock company next season. Pittsburg club to give half receipts from exhibition games to players. Irvington Stars seek a game with Modern Imperials next Saturday.
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Gust Ruhlin Title Fight Hangs On Jeffries Decision
Billy Madden declares Gus Ruhlin world champion as Jeffries refuses a match. Also notes Princeton football odds, Culver clash on Oct. 27, and local sports items including billiards challenge between Schaefer and Slosson and Indianapolis golf club plans for Cincinnati.
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Billy Madden
Gus
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Pussey Willow and Sidney Pointer win in Fort Wayne heats
Fort Wayne Thursday saw Pussey Willow win the 2 13 pace and Sidney Pointer take the 2 98 pace in straight heats. The American turf congress adjourned in Chicago after electing Robert Aull as president and other officers.
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Sidney Pointer
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Chicago
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Detroit
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Sloane
Paris
Columbus
Postal telegraph workers subscription drive begins in Galveston
The employer of the Postal Telegraph Company starts a subscription for postal men in Galveston. Secretary W. H. Leedy of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows will forward a subscription totaling 795.12 dollars to stricken brothers in Texas.
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Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
Texas
Former Chicago police chief Kennedy found dead
Chicago September 21 Former Chicago police chief William W. Kennedy was found dead in his bed Wednesday evening at the 4 West Side temperance hotel where he had resided for 18 years. He died of heart disease.
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Lease Renounces Bryan Supports McKinley in Pivot
Mary Elizabeth Lease, formerly of Kansas now in New York, publicly switches from the Democratic Party and Bryan to back McKinley and Roosevelt. She praises the Republican stance against copperheadism, denounces state rights as obsolescent, and criticizes Bryan as a demagogue for his current campaign. Lease plans to campaign in Kansas and Nebraska, citing duty to country and party.
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New York
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Massive Trust Forming In National Telephone Telegraph
Reported in New York that a $500 million consolidation of Bell Telephone Postal Telegraph Western Union and Telephone Telegraph and Cable into a single National Telephone and Telegraph Company is expected to close before year end. The Electrical Review cites insiders predicting a unified entity uniting major communications interests.
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Hoyt Rebounds With New Comedy On Road To Health
Hartford dispatch reports Charles H. Hoyt near full recovery after a month in care. He has started a new play titled A bunch of blue ribbons and weighs 165 pounds with restored color and appetite. Dr. Harry Mc Manus notes Hoyt’s faculties are intact, attributing illness to drugs and neglect by attendants who even drugged him to get relief for evenings.
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Strike Leader Shot in Cotton Picking Row at Hastover
In Hastover, Maryland, on September 21, a strike by cotton hands demanding a ten cent rise led to W. S. Hodge, a planter spokesman, firing on the ringleader after being besieged by about 400 Black workers. Hodge used a shotgun to hold them at bay for four hours as his wife watched with a revolver. Three mounted planters later arrived to help, and the crowd scattered, with ongoing threats reported in a region where Black to white population ratio is four to one.
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Kruger Plans Trip to Europe for Arbitration Appeal
A St Petersburg dispatch reports Paul Kruger intends to travel to Europe to appeal to the tribunal of international arbitration proposed by the peace conference. The move signals Kruger seeking a formal hearing over tensions in the region.
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Free State appoints acting president as Steyn sails to Europe
President Steyn of the Free State names Judge Hertzog acting president, signaling his likely travel with Kruger to Europe. In Winburg, Park Theater jewelry shop advertised watches and jewelry for sale with payments noted.
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Nebeker’s governorship ends as Wells returns to Utah
In Salt Lake City on September 21 Senator Nebeker’s term as acting governor ends when Governor Wells returns. Nebeker’s brief tenure sees several officeholders unemployed. He orders Attorney General Bishop to act against the American Smelting and Refining Company under antitrust laws. Warden Dow of the state penitentiary is removed. Judge Powers, named senator in the governor’s absence, plans to resign from the Democratic electoral ticket and pursue a senate seat.
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Bryan and Labor: Grosvenor Warns on Bryan Vote
Gen Gro svenor of Ohio, in a Republican pamphlet published by the Republican national committee, argues Bryan’s election would end protective tariffs and usher free trade. He cites the Wilson bill’s passage as ruinous and accuses Bryan of extreme free trade positions, especially on wool and foreign materials. He claims Bryan would lead to legislation harming labor interests.
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Grosvenor
United States
Wm. J. Bryan
Nebraska
Child dies from head wound in Cartwright home
Albany Kentucky report says a 12 year old girl, daughter of Nisby Jones, was shot in the head at her Cartwright residence Wednesday night and killed. No suspect identified. The piece ends with an advert for Hood's Sarsaparilla claiming it purifies blood and enhances vitality.
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Cartwright
Nisby Jones
Insane man kills two horses by overwork in Broad Ripple
Dr. R C Light of Broad Ripple is named guardian for Robert Jones, an insane man. Jones, driven by a mania for work, drove two fine horses to death in two weeks, forcing them to plow without food or water. He chased neighbors with a butcher knife and was bound hand and foot and jailed at his own request.
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R. C. Light
Broad Ripple
Jones
Husband seeks custody as affidavits cite barred window contact
In a Thursday counter affidavit Henry Bullock seeks possession of his daughter from Jessie R. Bullock and her parents William and Roxanna Robertson. He states he once tried to talk through a window but his wife pushed the sash down and held his fingers. He says the child amused herself by sticking fingers and toes into the gap between sash and screen. He attaches photos as exhibits showing a chair the child outgrew, a tangled trocha of wires to keep her from kissing him, and a bare carpetless room used for meetings on court-designated days.
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Jessie R. Bullock
William and
Roxanna Robertson
Bullock
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