How much has life changed in 100 years? What was going on in Terre Haute one century ago? Here are a few Terre Haute newspaper stories from November 1902:

In St. Louis at the annual meeting of club presidents, the Terre Haute and Evansville professional baseball teams received leave to withdraw from the Three-I League in order to join the newly formed Central League. Grand Rapids, Dayton and Fort Wayne were other members in the new league and two more cities were being solicited. Terre Haute Baseball Association president Louis D. Smith sought compensation from the Western Association for the services of Mordecai "Miner" Brown, a star pitcher under contract with Terre Haute who "jumped" the team to play for Omaha in 1902.

Due to the unseasonably cold weather, it was decided that the great trotting sire Dan Patch will winter in California, rather than Terre Haute, as originally announced.

James Dillard, who allegedly assaulted two women in Sullivan County, was kidnapped by a mob of "40 to 50 farmers" from the Sullivan County Sheriff and taken to Oaktown on Nov. 20, where he was lynched.

"Notorious" May Cuddy, a resident of Taylorsville, battered Maggie Young while both were incarcerated at the female department of the Vigo County Jail. Reportedly acting in self-defense, Cuddy tore virtually every article of clothing off of the victim.

Max Ehrmann, Terre Haute's promising young author, returned home after spending five months in Denver, where he completed work on two books and several short stories and poetical sketches.

Eugene V. Debs, who has taken his lecture tour west of the Rockies, is expected to spend the holiday season in Terre Haute. An enthusiastic speaker in support of socialistic principles, Debs is among the most sought after lecturers handled by the Central Lyceum Bureau of Chicago.

Ollie Budd, keeper of a resort on the city's west side, died Nov. 13 from injuries sustained when she allegedly was kicked by Harley Mewhinney. According to witnesses, Budd was attempting to prevent Mewhinney from assaulting Myrtle Davore, one of her "inmates," at the time of her injuries.

Two runaway teenage girls from Charleston, Ill. ­ Eva Swalls and Eva Brown ­ were taken into custody from the resort at 210 N. Second St.

Anna Hulman, "one of the most promising young singers Terre Haute has produced," and Carrie B. Adams presented separate benefit recitals at Terre Haute High School on Nov. 21 and 28. Money received will be used to decorate the school building. Miss Hulman recently returned from Vienna where she studied two years under the acclaimed music teacher Theodor Leschetizky.

Broadway actress Alice Fischer, who vowed not to appear again on a stage in Terre Haute, her native city, until she was a "bona fide star," has been booked to perform at the Grand Opera House in December as "Mrs. Jack."

Terre Haute industrialist Crawford Fairbanks and Thomas Taggart of Indianapolis, co-owners of the French Lick Springs Hotel, announced the organization of New Albany, Paoli & French Lick Valley Traction Co. to lay an interurban line from New Albany to French Lick.

Raymond S. Archer of Pittsburgh, a freshman at Rose Polytechnic Institute, was killed by a Big Four train on Nov. 20, near St. Mary's Village. Archer enjoyed riding freight cars to and from Paris, Ill., and other nearby communities.

Notwithstanding the vigilance of the Terre Haute police department, a group of Rose Poly freshman kidnaped a sophomore who was attending the class banquet in the Terre Haute House.

The Terre Haute YMCA moved to new headquarters in the former mansion at 644 Ohio St., said to be one of the best facilities in the west. A new gymnasium, unobstructed by pillars or columns, will be constructed west of the building and will include a canvas-padded running track.

Physical director Fred A. Dubridge of the YMCA conducted a preliminary meeting in the old gymnasium for basketball enthusiasts on Nov. 13 to organize for the forthcoming season.

Gertrude Due swore out a warrant for the arrest of her husband, Edward, for desertion. Allegedly the couple was married on Sept. 2, 1901, and Edward abandoned his wife immediately after the ceremony. Mrs. Due also swore out a warrant against her sister-in-law, Grace Due, for "provoke."

Claude McGarr, a miner at the Alum Cave mine in Clay County, was brought to St. Anthony's Hospital in Terre Haute to receive treatment for a broken back he sustained when the ceiling of a room in the underground mine collapsed.

A series of revival meetings were being conducted in the Central Christian Church with the Rev. Luther E. Sellers presiding.

Attorney Carson Hamill filed five suits for personal injuries in one week. Two suits sought damages for personal injuries sustained in a collision between two local trolley cars operated by the Terre Haute Electric Co. Another suit was filed against Highland Iron and Steel by Charles Hazelrigg for injuries sustained when nearly eight tons of hot steel fell on him.

Mike McCormick is the Vigo County Historian. His column appears here each Sunday.