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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1903
Page
10
Chicago endures widespread disruption as multiple strikes curb business and services. Laundry workers’ walkout boosts washer demand and prices, while butcher strikes tighten meat supply. Dressmakers flee to better pay, bakeries falter, and lunchrooms scramble for bread and pastries as service gaps appear citywide.
A preliminary agreement merges the Cleveland electric railway and the Cleveland city railway into a new corporation valued at 23.5 million dollars. The electric railway owns 13 miles of track with 30 cent tickets. the city railway has 86 miles of track and 8 thousand dollars in authorized capital. The merger assigns stock values of 100 for electric and 240 for city railway, with Hanna as chairman and Andrews as president of the new firm.
Indiana funeral directors association members gathered at the German house Wednesday for a three day convention with over 100 delegates. They joked about work and joked about a casket tax while stating they would not turn away business during the session. A roaming group from outside the city arrived Tuesday night wearing clothes pins on their hats to show they had washed them dry.
Madrid dispatch reports ten people killed and 14 injured by a powder explosion at Reus in Catalonia on Wednesday. Officials say the blast caused extensive damage to the area as investigators begin examining the site and relief efforts continue.
The Employers union of New York reports the Building Trades Association has renamed itself and will withhold information on future actions. An emergency committee has been appointed to handle ongoing strikes and lockouts that have paralyzed the building industry for two weeks.
In Washington Indiana Mrs Mayfield Care saved her child by stepping in front of a Baltimore and Ohio Southwest train on Tuesday night. A railroad worker William Cooper aided, pulling mother and child clear as the locomotive passed. Mrs Care, recently divorced, was reportedly despondent and had threatened self harm. She will be guarded for three days.
Chairman Logsdon urges aspirants to file notices with him before May 20 to appear on ballots. Listed candidates include ward 1 A E Cotty ward 2 J H Billingsley ward 3 J H Crell ward 4 F W Eppett ward 6 W A Rhodes ward 7 Dan Li ward 6 Charles F Hurst ward WW HC Rarf lenberger. Additional courters seen in wards 1 8 Joe Gasper Ford Smock W J Hogan. Social events and local notices fill the rest of the page with obituaries, lectures, weddings, and church announcements.
Eunice J. Cobbler sues the Manon railroad in Cobbler vs Manon over 10000 dollars in damages after Bow Cobbler was killed in the Monon yards in Indianapolis. Executor Platouff argues the federal statute requires brakes be operable from the side of the car and that failure caused the death. In another note, Mrs Elmina Burgert, facing a false pretenses charge, is released with the petit larceny charge substituted and a $10 fine with costs and suspended judgment conditioned on repayment.
Funeral services for Mrs Elizabeth King Newlin were held on Wednesday in New London Indiana. She was mother of C Newlin of Indienap Elle Mrs J Johnson of Mount Carmel Indiana Rev A Newlin a Friends missionary in Mexico and Thomas Newlin vice president of a college in Ilford North Carolina. She was years old.
Zelia Lawrence of Lanett Alabama leaped into the Chattahoochee river in West Point Georgia on Monday while in her bridal gown. Guests and a minister waited for the 9 am ceremony but the groom failed to appear. A note found on shore read I am miserable. My heart is broken. Fare well dear mamma.
Lexington May 20 Gen D O Howard retired plans to end Kentucky feuds by appealing directly to residents. He cites Breathitt County and the ongoing feud linked to Curtis Jett arrest in Winchester. He proposes abolishing county offices and dividing the area among adjacently governed counties while urging vows to not harbor ill will and to discourage firearms use.
Sugar Creek township in Clay county may owe for road repairs after a contract dispute. Plaintiffs Moss and Witty sued the township seeking payment for work performed by trustee Lemuel Butts and others. The appellate court reversed a demurrer ruling and ordered a new trial to determine liability.
Meeting No 1 of Gov Durbin appointed commission to select site for the Yodlana Industrial School for girls. Governor acts as president, secretary and treasurer to be named. Next meeting set for Tuesday June 4. Proposals for land tracts to finance the site will be received. Commission linked to a congress unit to adjust world financial relations, with $25 appropriated and led by Hugh H Hanna and Prof J W Jenks, both prominent Hoosiers.
Ten years hard labor in state prison was imposed by Judge Yerkes on Rev George Allen a colored minister of Marrinville Pa convicted on five counts of stealing chickens Allen sold many of the fowl at two a.m. causing suspicion and he confessed.
In Reading Pennsylvania a G A R resolution condemns the 110,000 Bickinley Memorial for omitting Bickinley as a soldier. The May 2 note reports little miner turnout at the event and cites broader labor tensions. Charleston West Virginia reports limited strike activity on Loup Creek and New River coal fields with most workers not in the miner workers union.
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