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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1903
Page
8
Richmond reports show about 5,000 African Americans disenfranchised as registration closes. Fewer than 1,000 remain qualified to vote, removing blacks as a local political factor. Statewide figures suggest at least five sixths of Virginia's Negroes lack suffrage, while Republicans warn the party benefits from Democratic ranks with no risk of Negro domination.
Since the Denison hotel banquet last May the Sen ator Beveridge has been flooded with requests to address Methodist gatherings across the country. He has refused most invites, though the latest asks include addressing Omaha’s general missionary committee in November and speaking in Kansas City on Christmas Day.
New York on September 4 reports the Empire State steel and iron company of Oxford and the Basic Iron company of Bullville have posted notices to their employes announcing a 10 percent wage reduction starting October 1. Workers plan a protest meeting while officials cite lower pig iron prices as the reason.
Governing committee of the board of trade has referred the municipal exhibit question to a subcommittee. A letter to Mayor Rockwalter asks inclusion in the council meeting call to consider a proposal for an 8,000 population exhibit and plans for a miniature representation of the city with spaces for Indianapolis at the St. Louis Exposition.
New York September 30 Ar Adams once known as a policy king now serves time in Sing Sing and reportedly refused 500000 for a notorious house west of Sixth Avenue to house a nun order serving poor working girls Sister Francis says Adams shows restitution in action by leasing the building to the Little Order of Nuns The nuns report shocked visitors but see the change as good Adams may feel inner gladness at his act and hope it spurs further good deeds
In South Kokomo Indiana on September 30 a plate of taffy found in a neighbor’s barn caused arsenical poisoning. William Gee died, while Robert Gee was near death. Victor Metzger and Ralph Metzger were seriously ill. The taffy, likely insecticide mixture, led to the tragedy involving four local boys.
John H Stein announces Indianapolis Grand Opera orchestra concert at Elgar Overture and Tchaikovsky commemorative pieces with conductor Duay Mme Lillian Nordica. Program includes Herodiade Parsifal Vorspiel Capellia ballet Deliice Mignon life’s voyage and more in a varied operatic recital.
A traveling man for a St. Louis hardware house claims Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets sustain his digestion amid irregular meals and poor hotel fare. He says he spends about fifty cents monthly on them, calling them the best investment for stomach health and insisting they deliver real results.
The Grand features vaudeville and a monologist with audience riffing while Empire presents Burlesque and a John H. Perry act. Uncle Tom's Cabin at Park draws crowds as Joe Welch debuts The Peddier, with Frank D. Bryan’s Mr. Dooley due next week.
Mrs. Harrison Spalding, a noted Milwaukee society figure, hosted a party for her servant Miss Helen Miller. Invitations went to three young men and women, with guests enjoying rooms full of music and food. Spalding praised Miller for three years of faithful service and highlighted the respectful company of church youths.
Four robbers attempted to hold up Theo Ray a private watchman in Chicago. Ray fired his revolver fatally wounding one robber named Thomas Roach who is known to police as a desperado. Physicians say Roach will die.
An advertisement touts Pyramid Pile Cure as a home suppository treatment for piles. It claims immediate relief, permanent cure, and no pain, with a Milwaukee testimonial and a price of six cents per package, offered by Pyramid Drug Co of Marshall, Michigan.
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