Rev Herman Alerding Becomes Bishop of Fort Wayne
Rev Herman Alerding of Indianapolis was consecrated bishop of the Fort Wayne diocese in the city’s cathedral. It marked the first such consecration in Fort Wayne with a gala turnout of clergy and 250 former parishioners arriving by special train from Indianapolis. Alerding previously served 26 years as pastor of St. Joseph’s Church, Indianapolis.
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Herman Alerding
Fort Wayne
Indianapolis
Father Alerding
Muncie
Alerding
Bishop Alerding
St. Joseph’s Church
Joseph Chartrand
God
Cambridge City
Terre Haute
Chatard
St. Joseph’s
Old Diocesan Seminary
Vermont
East Sts
Consecration of Bishop Alerding Marks Fort Wayne Rite
Hundreds witness the crowded cathedral ceremony as Bishop-elect Alerding is consecrated. Rev. J Tremmel and Rev. G Horstman lead the procession with bishops, pages, and clergy, followed by a sermon by Rev. Chartrand. Items from parish gifts and vestment details are described, including the cappa magna and miter.
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Thurifer
John Tremmel
Covington
George Horstman
Reynolds
Denis O’donaghue
Indianapolis
Henry Moeller
Columbus
Elder
Cincinnati
Alerding
O'Donaghue
J. Bathe
Fort Wayne
Father Alerding
City water franchise debate prompts arbitration readied
The Indianapolis Board of Works heard a report from the commercial club committee on the proposed city contract with the Indianapolis Water Co. They urged not granting the franchise as drawn, citing high rates and long term. Arbitration suggested, with disinterested residents chosen by both sides, and a limit of five years and 40 dollars per hydrant.
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Commercial Club
Frank E. Gavin
Thomas C. Day
Joseph C. Schaf
Indianapolis Water Company
Board of Works
Sahm
Gavin
Joseph Smith
Denver
Indianapolis
Vanity Fair at M T H S Draws Coins for School
Manual training high school seniors stage a Vanity Fair with fortune tellers musicians and merchants collecting coins from visitors. Guests paid a quarter admission while vendors offered tea coffee and trinkets amid rooms themed Jap Arabs and a forest wigwam. Proceeds fund school books and equipment.
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Jolly 13
Mandolin Club
Richardson
Clara
Maria Leonard
Edith Peele
Messrs
Steinhilber
Adam
Jose
Miller
Percy Pfaff
Earl Hunt
Leland Lowe
Irene Moses
Blanche Tullis
Anton Vonnegut
Sylvanus Kingsley
Pow-News
Leland Lowes
Squawshees
Nellie Wales
Hana-Batake
Elizabeth Barrett
Hy-Ka
Jo Miner
Shyklis
Glen Diddle
Andrew Wyle
Grace Hunter
The
Martin Quinn
F W Kassebaum Dies at 91 in Indianapolis
Frederick W. Kassebaum 91 died of old age Friday at his daughter Mrs W J Probst 212 Capitol Ave where he lived 15 years He had been bedridden six weeks Funeral Sunday at 1 pm at the house and 2 pm at St Pauls Lutheran He was born in Germany came to the U S in 1846 and Indianapolis in 1860 He helped found St Pauls Lutheran and was its oldest member Survived by two sons and two daughters
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Frederick W. Kassebaum
W. J. Probst
Capitolate
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Mr. Kassetaum
Germany
Indianapolis
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Ripening Bomb at Center of Labor Union Meet
Trouble of huge dimensions stirs the Central labor union executive committee. Chairman Feltman has held one or two meetings and calls another for Saturday afternoon. He refuses to divulge the nature of the issue.
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Central Labor Union Executive Committee
Feltman
Phonograph Concert At Kipp Bros Store
A phonograph concert will be held at Kipp Bros store on S Meridian Friday night. The Edison phonographs have been appointed as agents for the display. The store will be decorated and a full line of phonographs will be exhibited. The concert phonograph is a large machine with a very large sounding horn.
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Kipp Bros
S. Meridian St
Edison Phonographs
Receiver Sought for Indianapolis Fraternal Co operative
Charles B. Worth filed Friday for a receiver of the Fraternal Co operative Association of Indianapolis. Auditor Hart pursues the company contending the organization is illegal and that without a receiver the funds could be devoured by excessive salaries.
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Chas. BE. Worth
Fraternal Co-Operative Association of Indianapolis
Hart
Expensive Corrick: Baker Fined for Window Throwing
George Vaase a baker of 21 S Meridian Street was fined zero dollars plus frills in police court Friday for throwing a rock through a saloon window at Meridian and McCarthy streets Thursday night. Patrolman Samuels said he was drunk.
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George Vaase
Meridianst
Meridian and
McCarthy-sts
Samuels
Crescent Laundry Receiver Appointed by Judge Leathers
E S R Seguin was appointed receiver for the Crescent Laundry Friday by Judge Leathers. The action formalizes the appointment in the ongoing proceedings, with Seguin expected to oversee operations and asset disposition.
Millionaire Clapp Helped Steal Major Northampton Bank Loot
Robert J. Clapp, once wealthy and connected, confesses he aided a famous 1876 bank robbery by the Dunlap Scatt Leary and Draper gang. The seven masked men bound the Whittlesey family and forced the cashier to reveal the safe's combination, yielding nearly $2,000,000. The gang distributed shares and fled.
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Robert J. Clapp
Jas. Dunlap
Bob Scatt
Red” Leary
Shang” Draper
Clapp
Scott
Leary
Draper
Dunlap
John Whittlesey
Northampton National Bank
Whittlesey
Worcester
New York
Governor Mount Positioned for Plainfield Reform School Role
Indiana public figures discuss Governor Mount as a potential head of the reform school for boys. Board of Control members note Mount would be leaving his run for office soon, while Charlton plans to stay until April 1. Mount says his life has been strenuous and he eyes his country home, praising Charlton’s 21 years of service. The piece also mentions chaplain duties, parolee correspondence, andsalary concerns under a new scheme.
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Gov. Mount
Reform School For Boys
Gen. McGinnis
Board of Control
Mount
the Sun
Prof. Charlton
Col Harrison Out After War Span Service
Lieut colonel Russell B. Harrison will be discharged from the army Saturday despite appeals to the president and secretary of war. Gen Miles reportedly favored retention, but a high war department official said the president acted for reasons of long service and the abolition of the Porto Rico department leaves no role for him.
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Russell B. Harrison
Miles
War Department
Spain
Porto Rico
Wife seeks stolen money after Windsor marriage robbery
Mrs Charles R Holmes tells Indianapolis police she was robbed of 700 by her husband after their Windsor Ontario wedding. She says 200 to 300 dollars remained with the husband and wants it returned while he resists extradition. she says he drugged her at a Windsor hotel.
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Charles R. Holmes
Windsor
Ont
Indianapolis
Quigley
Holmes
Detroit
Two Kinsmen of Bailiff Mendenhall Implicate Partiality Denial
The official denies bias in a criminal court case and says he called his kinsmen from the special venire after delays. Higgins plans a Saturday retrial arguing all evidence was not presented. He mentions two councilmen and a traveling salesman named Frank Bailey in connection with potential factory land benefits.
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Harry
Joan Maedenhall
Criminal Court
Higgins
Mendenhall
George A. Moore
Denhall
Ben
Duncan
Spaan
Frank Bailey
L. W. Ott Manufacturing Company
Bailey
Parry
State Attorney General Hints at Gas Pressure Limits
Attorney general Taylor says if Gas-Inspector Leach finds pressure above 16 pounds in Chicago pipelines the state may act. The supreme court considers whether gas may be compressed beyond natural rock pressure, possibly keeping mains to 304 pounds or rock pressure. Leach tapped three lines northwest of Fairmount Tuesday with no report yet.
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Taylor
Leach
Chicago
Supreme Court
Fairmount
One Cent Verdict In Park Versus Thompson Eviction Suit
The jury in Judge McMaster's court returned a verdict of one cent damages for Charles A. Park in the eviction case against Wm. S. Thompson after spending Thanksgiving in the jury room. Baili Eppert also endured the holiday at the court as jurors ate ham and eggs breakfast turkey dinner and fried oysters for supper and drew $2 for the day.
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Charles A. Park
Wm. S. Thompson
Park
Baili Eppert
Kirschbaum plans four story building on Washington street
R Kirschbaum will erect a four story building on the south side of Washington st opposite the state house. It will provide 48 000 square feet of floor space with the two upper floors to house Kirschbaums shirtwaist factory. The structure will be completed by June at a cost of 45000 dollars.
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R. Kirschbaum
Washingtonst
State House
Durbin Inauguration Arrangements Sought From Citizens
Charles E. Coffin sent letters to about 100 citizens asking them to meet at the governor's office at 4 p m Monday to discuss arrangements for Gov Durbin's inauguration.
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Charles E. Coffin
Durbin
City Life Highlights and Local Notes
Roscoe York of North Indianapolis loses a thumb in an accidental hunting discharge near Greenfield. S. W. Crawford of Springfield, head of Ohio Southern railroad, spends Thanksgiving in Indianapolis. Soldiers aid society plans China relief literature drives. Marion club to decide on Washington inauguration trip for McKinley. Round trip rate cited at 16 dollars. Alonzo Harrod of Crothersville donates an 1807 wildcat skin notebook to the state geological museum. Daisy Smith marries William Smith at the Matern’s office after arrest for cohabitation. judge offers dismissal if they wed.
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S. W. Crawford
Ohio Southern Railroad
Springfield
Indianapolis
Soldiers’ Aid Society
Indiana Trust Building
China
Marion Club
Washington
McKinley
Alonzo Harrod
Crothersville
State Geological Museum
Wm. Harrod
Scott County
Daisy Smith
Police Station
Wheeler
William Smith
Murdered by a Footpad in Burlington Night HoldUp
Mr and Mrs W H Linter of Cedar Rapids were held up by a Jane footpad in Burlington on Thursday night. The assailant killed Winter and wounded Mrs Linter in the lung. She may die. Linter struck the robber with a valise. the shot followed. Mrs Linter knocked away the pistol but the man regained it and shot her in the back as she ran. He escaped.
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Burlington
W. H. Linter
Cedar Rapids
Jane
Winter
Linter
Thanksgiving entertainment delays street cars at Riverside Park
Residents attending the Indianapolis canoe club house near Riverside park on Thursday night did not reach home Friday morning. Street car service failed to run after 1 PM as promised by the street car company, causing travel delays for attendees.
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Indianapolis Canoe Club
Riverside Park
Holmes Released Under Habeas Corpus by Judge Alford
Holmes was freed on habeas corpus Friday afternoon by Judge Alford and promptly arrested by a U S officer. He argued the state had no right to detain him as a foreign citizen. The judge ruled the point correct but the United States was notified before Holmes could breathe free air.
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Holmes
Alford
United States
Laborers in Battle Ends in Fatal San Antonio Clash
In a melee between union and non union workers of Southwestern Telephone Co in San Antonio Texas on Thursday Wm Lacey a policeman was killed O B Blanton a striker will die Martin Wright president of the electrical workers union shot in left arm Sandy Smith wounded on head Smith did the shooting He was attacked at work and sought refuge in a barn and was followed by the crowd before firing the fatal shot
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San Antonio
Tex
Southwestern Telephone Company
Wm. Lacey
O. BD. Blanton
Martin Wright
Electrical Workers’ Union
Sandy Smith
Smith
Pittsburgh to New York Chicago Passenger Trains Feasible
Pennsylvania railroad officials study running regular passenger trains between Chicago and New York in seventeen hours. G. K. Kempf, chief money order clerk at station P New York, faces embezzlement charges.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Chicago
New York
G. K. Kempf
Station P
Pleasant Palatable Cascarets Candy Ad
An old advertisement touts Cascarets Candy as an ideal liver regulator and intestinal tonic. It claims the product is easy to buy and use and promises simple, effective results with druggists offering 10c 2c and 50c sizes.
Bill Malady Talks in Sleep Before Murder Trial
Prisoner Bill Malady, charged with killing Mrs. John Wilhelm, requests a change of venue for a December trial date of December 17. He disputes reports he talks in his sleep about not revealing secrets, and focuses on obtaining matches to light his pipe. Co defendant Frank Hedges will not be tried alongside him.
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Bill Malady
John Wilhelm
Mallady
Frank Hendricks
Amos
Frank Hedges
Gas Meter Fight to Reappear in Spring Council Campaign
Several city council members expect a 2 natural gas meter ordinance to be reintroduced next spring. The issue is seen as central to the municipal campaign with gas companies likely to back candidates who favor meters.
Plucky Woman Stops Runaway Horse On Street
Mrs Fred Howe of 1730 North Senate Avenue chased a runaway horse that thundered toward her, snatched the reins, and held on until the horse halted. The rider, formerly Miss Mayme Schieketanz daughter of Andy Schieketanz, drew public praise for her nerve during the incident.
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Fred Howe
Senate-ave
Mayme Schieketanz
Andy Schieketanz
Dr Fletcher Bound Over In Assault Case
Dr Calvin I. Fletcher waived examination in police court on Friday and was bound over to the grand jury on charges of assaulting Emma Hamlin of 616 Spring Street. Bond set at 5000 dollars, furnished by Henry Severin.
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Emma Hamlin
Fridday
Henry Severin
Indianapolis Weather and Local Hearing Update
Weather outlook for Indianapolis and vicinity covers the next 36 hours ending 8 p m Friday warmer Friday night fair Saturday with temperatures rising from 41 at 7 am to 47 by 2 pm The Board of Works planned to hear more on Kentucky avenue opening but will likely rest after previous hearing A decision expected Monday Henry Spaan for Patrick Harmon cites the stink farm as blocking lot sales Indianapolis Gas Company blamed for sewer contamination near Pratt street station and was asked to address alleged violations with City Attorney Kern seeking ordinance if any to compel action
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Indianapolis
Board of Works
Kentucky Ave
Henry Spaan
Patrick Harmon
Harmon
Indianapolis ‘Gas Company
Oil and Gas
Pratt St
Kern
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Ted
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Vanity Fair
Manual Training High School
F. W. Kassebaum
Mr. Feltman
Corrick
Crescent Laundry
Northampton
Mass
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Plainfield
Indiana
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Washington St
City Life
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Greenfield
Wuladhner’s
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Hynes
DR. Fletcher
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