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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1901
Page
3
Washington officials warn of over speculative mania in Wall Street. Treasury officials report to the president, urging New York banks to act conservatively as money diverted from legitimate business fuels a potential market correction and possible broader business impact.
Rewards totaling six thousand dollars are offered for the safe return of Willie McCormick who has been missing for nearly three weeks. Michael G. McCormick, his uncle, adds thirty five hundred dollars and neighbor Oscar Wilgerodt contributes one thousand dollars.
Chicago Mayor Harrison plans a cross east tour through New York Philadelphia Boston New Haven Washington and will visit Baltimore Pittsburgh Cincinnati Cleveland and Indianapolis. He seeks to inquire into municipal conditions and determine methods for Chicago.
Birth announcements list Thomas and Julia Hefferman a girl and others from multiple addresses. Death notes include Walter A. Roberts pneumonia and Mrs Mary Reich heart exhaustion. Marital pairings include James E. Manley with Mary R. Diggins and others.
A list of buyers and properties with locations and estimated costs. Includes William Phalen on Sixteenth street corner and Cornell avenue remodeling at 1550, Security Trust Co. at 4 N Pennsylvania street brick building 300, Henry L. Davis Sheffield avenue cottage 815, Mrs. M Munroe Fletcher avenue repairs 450, filen Cruse Illinois street addition 200, J E Pettecrew Richland street near New York frame house 800, E K Ostrander Keystone avenue addition 310, Harriet E Walker Church street frame house 50, Emma Darmody Alabama street barn 200, Julia Mendenhall Ludlow area cottage 3800, J L Spaulding Bloomington and Everett two cottages 500 each, George C Walters Ashland avenue veranda 3150, C Von Hake Delaware and Court streets repairs 100, Mary A Hinchman trustee rear 111-112 N New Jersey street prick warehouse 3200, H W Miller Sugar Grove avenue near Nineteenth street frame house 300, John C Shoemaker Caroline avenue cottage 500.
In Quincy Illinois on April 16 a hustler named William Williams wore a celluloid collar that caught fire while he was lighting a match. He tore the burning collar away and threw it down, igniting a gasoline can and triggering an explosion. Williams died from burns and the livery building suffered extensive damage.
Five year old Helen Patterson daughter of Robert E Patterson 1621 Hoyt avenue died early Tuesday after burns from a bonfire near her home compounded by pneumonia The burns followed by cold and pneumonia led to her death Doctors considered grafting skin from healthy volunteers but the child was too weak for the procedure The funeral is set for Thursday at 2 30 pm from the family home and 3 pm at St Patrick church with burial in the catholic cemetery.
The new state health board will hold its first meeting Friday. Three straw-board companies seek permits to dump refuse into streams including the Mississinewa at Albany and Kokomo’s Wildcat Creek and Yorktown’s White River under a law granting regulatory power to limit stream use and require prior permission during high water.
Superior Court Judge Carter recalls a misfiled suit in which a city directory listing led to confusion over defendants. The imagined firm Johnson Bros and individuals John L Johnson and Thomas D were found to be nonexistent in Piqua.
In New Haven on April 16 ten funerals were set for Tuesday but all public hacks were booked for the city election. Funeral processions were postponed as stable owners refused to break contracts with politicians, despite offers of money.
Elijah P. Brown known as Ram's Horn Brown was released from quarantine at home on Tuesday after recovering from smallpox that threatened blindness. He had fallen ill with the disease which affected his eyes but full recovery followed.
A collage of brief items: Mrs. L Buckner 110 Cairo NL dies. Wisconsin battleship reaches Frisco. a dynamite blast near Chihuahua Mex kills four. George Webb 15 Mount Vernon Ill confesses plan to wreck an L N train. Walter Dorman Cleveland Ohio charged in Officer Fitzgerald murder. Constable Farrell Arlington Tenn fires pistol that kills an officer. Mrs Ida E Lawrence Toledo writes commemorative poem for Ohio battleship launch. Perry Doubs New Castle Pa arrested over city treasurer murder. Seymour McLaughlin 21 Hamilton Ohio shoots his father. Solomon Tanner Columbus prison inmate unlocks cell without a key. Cuban five to visit McKinley over future Cuba US relations. Iron Mountain Mo residents sue railroad for 50000 after a February fire sparked by locomotive.
Charles White born 1820 in Boston, Harvard graduate, moved west to Madison Indiana. He fell in love with Miss Farnsworth, rivaled by Senator Joseph McDonald who won her. White faded into poverty, became an upholsterer, and ended in Clark county poor farm after years of hardship.
In Brazil Indiana on April 16 the block coal operators and miners national executive board signed an agreement permitting miners to buy powder in the open market. The move ends the black coal workers strike and is expected to influence bituminous miners to seek similar liberty.
Street car workers, watched by overseers, press to organize a union despite company pressure. A large turnout and speeches by labor leaders urge of a $80,000 estate dispute, worker discharges, and plans for a protective benefit association as 180 members join from 480 workers.
Carpenters and contractors reach a wage compromise ending the strike. The new eight hour day pays 32.5 cents minimum with time and a half for overtime and double time on Sundays and holidays. Union workers to be hired first. non union workers allowed if joined within two weeks. Signed by union and contractor representatives.
The Columbus development company organized to drill for gas and oil on the Columbus Brown county line with $2,000 capital among 150 local business and professional men. Joseph Palmer’s family was seriously poisoned by burning dry poison ivy fumes. Mrs. Palmer is very ill. The Columbus Gas Company reports a handsome profit last year despite rate cuts to 1.25 and new machinery purchases.
Vice-president Jarvis orders a special meeting of district 5 in Indiana and southern Illinois to debate the Republic Iron and Steel Company continuous wage scale and draft a report for the Milwaukee convention on May 21. The Ms Keesport strike draws close interest from the gas belt workers.
Sullivan notes Judge John C. Briggs died after paralysis, a former law partner of ex Senator Voorhees and a prominent Democrat and 1880 Democratic presidential elector. Thomas L. Roberts, 85, a long-time Sullivan resident born in England, came to America at age eight. In Terre Haute, Mrs. Nancy Hinkle, 91, is mentioned, while Mrs. James S. Barcus is noted as a granddaughter.
In Muncie Indiana on April 16 four hundred workers were laid off indefinitely when a furnace caved in at factory No 01 of the American Window Glass Company. Police recovered a badly mangled decomposed human hand from a nearby garbage dump and say it was amputated by a physician and discarded.
Delegates began arriving in Anderson for the annual Indiana spiritualists conference. National association president Harrison D. Barrett travels from Boston as F. W. Sprague of Jamestown and Willard Hull of Columbus join the program. The gathering runs all week.
Thomas E. Swain, 56, a prominent farmer living five miles east, was fatally injured when his horse ran away. He was thrown against a wire fence, the wire narrowly missing his jugular vein, and there was no hope of recovery.
In Kokomo Indiana on Monday April 16 a Pan Handle express train killed two year old Raymond Saul in the presence of his mother Mrs Joseph Saul who was trying to lift the boy from the tracks. The mother is reportedly prostrated by the shock and may die.
J W Mason a nurseryman was summoned from Redkey Ind and arrested by Constable Hicks of Troy Ohio on a charge of misrepresenting 18 acres of land as 33 to obtain $1000. The case involves alleged land deception and an arrest following the telephoned summons.
New York April 16. Mr and Mrs Fred M Nicholas divorced three years ago will marry again. He a Cleveland broker, she a Standard Oil founder's daughter. Their daughter Marjorie spent a day with him, rekindling old love and prompting a second wedding plan. Nicholas freed his fiancée Florence Murphy after the reunion.
Geneva Indiana reports Mrs. Lewis Powell filed an affidavit accusing Henry McKenna of assaulting her 5 year old daughter. Threats of lynching circulated as McKenna was arrested while preparing to leave town.
Lindley Ninde of Fort Wayne lies dangerously ill while Joseph Johnson of Floyd County oversees 14000 strawberry plants. Brazil plans 33000 for a glass plant to employ 200 men. Martin Snyder of Grant City is missing since Thursday with no known cause. The Masonic temple cornerstone is laid in Seymour. Royal Center faces split votes over temperance with three tickets in the field. A maniac escaped Michigan City by tearing bars from his cell. Milford to organize a company to develop nearby mail beds. Ed Richardson of Bedford burned in a gasoline bakery explosion. William Shafer files a mechanics lien against Anderson Methodist Church for 33 dollars. The will of Mrs Mary Langtora Terre.
The Tinners union on Tuesday evening initiated the thirteen tinners employed by Joseph Gardner and lifted the boycott on the shop. The long battle against the shop ends as the city becomes practically unionized.
Tailors union officials announced a boycott on non union merchant tailors and customers unless a settlement is reached. After Wednesday night journeymen must pay 27.50 to join the union plus 25. Some firms are exempt. German tailors plan to join the union. Martin Metzger of the American Federation of Labor aids the tailors. A Central labor union supports the boycott. A conference attempt occurred and four men joined the union Monday. A Tuesday night meeting was planned at Morrison hall on the circle.
The civil-service examiners announced the results for interns at City hospital and dispensary. Nine candidates from Indiana Medical College and Central Medical College were listed as successful. Five will go to the dispensary and four to the hospital, with choices pending.
The Supreme Court holds that divorces granted after establishing legal residence in a state are valid nationwide. If no legal residence exists in the granting state, the decree is invalid. The ruling impacts North Dakota’s divorce law and its residents seeking dissolution elsewhere.
Silas Bartholomew a second hand dealer disputes police claim that boy Harvey Butler was asked to steal coal for board. Bartholomew, uncle of the stepfather Albert Sedenburg, says he has helped the boy who now awaits sentence to the reform school.
Funeral services for ex Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hanna were conducted at 317 East Vermont Street at 10 30 a m with Rev C E Bacon officiating. The procession led by the Persimmon brigade and other G A R units went to Union Station and the body was then taken to Greencastle for burial in Forest Hill cemetery at Forest Hill cemetery.
In Cape Town on Tuesday the plague took another victim as the hospital matron died from the illness amid ongoing fatalities. The report notes a continuing toll as health authorities respond to the outbreak.
Corry Pennsylvania reports four of five youths drank crude wood alcohol at Sheffield on Monday. John Sworski died, others hospitalized as authorities investigate the fatal incident and warn against consuming suspected toxin.
The Ladies Auxiliary of Capital Council 276 Y M I invite members to a progressive Cox party and reception at St Patrick's Hall on Tuesday evening April 30.
Morgan remarks about the McKeesport steel strike downplays the trouble and suggests it will not spread to other mills of the steel trust. He speaks on the Tuesday incident, saying he does not expect wider disruption.
The article notes that the genuine Laxative Brome product bears the signature of E. W. Grove on every box, highlighting this mark as the assurance of authenticity. It warns buyers to check for Grove’s signature to avoid counterfeit imitations.
The Indiana Weekly company is incorporated with five thousand dollars capital by M. A. West D. T. West and Frank Tarkington Baker.
Dr A L Blue a 66 year old physician of Indiana Avenue is declared insane and removed to an asylum after weeks of solitude hunger and paralysis neighbors found him in a squalid office room calling on God to curse him and letting him die despite a long medical career among colored patients local authorities say he has been mentally afflicted for months and will be moved to an insane hospital once sheriff arranged transfer.
At M'Keesport Pennsylvania the Wood mill shows a total work stoppage amid the longest plant tie-up in its history. John J. Jarrett of the sheet steel workers bureau plans to return from New York with possible developments to follow Tuesday night. Officials vow they will never yield and Mayor Black keeps police on constant duty to avert disorder.
A blizzard hits northern Colorado with 24 hours of continuous snow. Stock losses are expected as snow drifts worsen and railroad traffic is delayed. The Denver area reports the storm as the worst in years.
Report says President Steyn of the Orange Free State summoned a congress of burghers near Boshof in Kimberley district and secured his own re election, despite his term having expired.
Brussels reports say Prince Louis Napoleon, brother of the imperial pretender and a Russian major general, wed Duchess Helene, cousin of the czar, in a privileged ceremony. The notice notes the union amid ongoing European dynastic interest.
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