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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1908
Page
9
Mrs. Thomas Hohl refused an accordion, her husband taunted her with it, and when he taunted again he grabbed and threw the instrument onto streetcar tracks. He then allegedly beat his wife inside the house and was arrested by Bicycle Officers Wilson and Golinisch.
On the rolling deck of a great ocean liner a young bride asks Henry if he still loves her. He replies with fervent devotion. An eloquent silence follows as she confesses the hope for reassurance fades, leaving the moment haunted and unresolved.
A string of quirky local items from Indiana and nearby states. Reports from Maple Grove, Indiana describe sightings of “the woman in black” lurking in alleys this fall. In Hope, Carl Norman fell fifteen feet while roofing a woodshed, nearly severing his left ear and leaving him bruised. Marion, bees swarmed inside the statue of Madame Marion on the courthouse dome during gilding. Greenfield shows A J Banks’s freak peach carved with a heart-shaped pit. Topeka campaigns feature opposing electric signs for Bryan and Taft. Kansas City, Missouri endures a green bug invasion affecting ice cream and hospitality services.
About 200 mail clerks of the Indianapolis branch fifth division of the Railway Mail association and guests gathered at the Hotel English banquet board Friday night. Senator Hemenway and Congressman Overstreet headlined, pledging support before Congress. Other speakers included George C. Cole, Charles Rager, A J Bull, A L Behymer, John J. Stanley, S M Bushnell, J A Rohbach, P J Schardt, J T Canfield, E H Roberts, with Charles E. Mains acting as toastmaster.
Edward Boden a Brooklyn cartoonist killed his mother Mary E Boden and himself with chloroform after his sister Ella 32 died of hemorrhage. Police found the bodies at 258 Greene Avenue with Ella noted dead from hemorrhage. A letter by Boden explained the planned double murder suicide after the sister's death.
William Jennings Bryan and Gov. CC N Haskell left Chicago after a half hour conference at the Auditorium. Bryan said he was busy drafting a reply to President Roosevelt to be released tomorrow and avoided discussing Haskell’s resignation.
A compact reflection notes life as a dash between two periods. It ponders time's measure, suggesting meaning lies in actions and memory formed between beginnings and endings.
Harve Smith captured the area’s largest fresh water turtle in the Wabash River one mile southwest of Princeton. The 25 pound reptile had just swallowed a white perch about a foot long before being caught.
A carrier pigeon exhausted from flight was brought to Miss Lottie Monette in Bucyrus Ohio. The bird wore a brass leg band numbered 3448 and an aluminum band stamped U-22-8-2 on the other leg. After feeding and resting it was released and headed north.
In Gary Indiana John Konkovitz a boarding house boss used a “torture system” to collect a $40 debt on tenant John Rous. He tied Rous to a bed pulled a tooth from roots and lacerated his jaw after half an hour. Rous filed assault and battery charges.
An 1910 era balance sheet shows assets including loans and discounts notes of other national banks U S bonds and deposits from national and state banks. The cashier Fred N Smith attests the statement as true with directors Evans Woollen Bates Bachman and others.
Bank statements from The Capital National Bank of Indiana polis and The Columbian National Bank detail assets including loans, bonds, specie, and deposits. They show total resources around 6.29 million and 2.46 million respectively with capital stock, surplus, and various liabilities. Official attestations by bank officials accompany the figures.
The Merchants National Bank of Indianapolis presents its 1908 statement showing assets of 11.5 million dollars and detailed figures for loans, deposits, bonds, and currency. President S. A. Fletcher swears to the accuracy before Notary Calvert in Marion County Indiana.
Toledo lightweight wrestler Johnny Billiter will appear at the Empire theater next week meeting all comers. He is among several contenders claiming the championship and seeks fan interaction during the event.
William Calvin aged 40 was arrested Friday night by Bicycle Officers Kitz Miller and Trimpe on a complaint by Mrs. Lillian Yager of Pine and Stevens Streets. She reported Calvin prowling about her home and attempting to force his attentions, though she did not know him.
The Emerton Society will host its annual ball tonight at Wallhald Hall. Members are invited to attend and enjoy an evening of music and dancing.
Births list multiple couples with addresses and newborn genders including Dunn boy Isler girl Barnman girl Stroesser girl Williams boy Nicely girl Milner girl Carney Clark girl Hardacre unknown. Deaths note Cora Allen 36 sclerosis at Methodist hospital John Shewman 57 rail accidents Elizabeth Carey obstruction of bowels Ruth Hermine apoplexy Lucinda Vanney fracture of femur Chadwell pericarditis. Marriages include Hensley Starkey Schenck Partlow Klein Phillips McKlintock Watz Keller Williamson.
In a Tit-Bits column fragment a speaker consoles Dora with the idea that other and better men than the deceased have met the same fate. The brief dialogue brushes the theme of death and fatalism within a overheard exchange.
A terse dialogue appears—Sentinel challenges an approaching figure, shouting Halt and demanding a countersign. The exchange centers on a Colonel-Fool and a caller labeled Sentinel, with a brisk defiant reply implying a refused or unclear greeting and a fragmentary title Tit-Bits.
Taft will take cognizance of the Foraker muddle before sunset. After reading Foraker’s public statement accusing Roosevelt and Taft of accepting Hearst charges without investigation, Taft announced he would prepare a formal reply to be made public this afternoon.
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