Power resigns as city parks engineer over Riverside ties
J Clyde Power quit his posts as engineer and superintendent of city parks, effective December 1, amid reports he held land and leases at Riverside Park and possible ties to Riverside Amusement. The board accepted the resignation after debate on legal restrictions and ongoing park improvements. Fred M McClellan also resigns as assistant engineer with no stated links to Power’s departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Clyde Power
Board of Park Commissioners
Park Board
Power Woul
Riveside Amusement Company
Power
Riverside Amusement Company
Frank B. Lock
Lock
Puble Parks
Riverside Park
Charles E. Coffin
Henry Jameson
Coffin
McClellan
Fred M. MccClellan
Rodman
Local Jottings Reflect City Happenings and Snippets
Indianapolis notes cover upgrades at the Conservatory of Music and a new building permit at 216 College Ave for a two story brick veneer flat costing 12000 dollars. Other items include revival meetings, petty crime notes, police remarks, and political chatter around Mayor Bookwalter and C W Fairbanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Ward
Thomas A. Winterrowd
College Ave
Judge Denies Bid to Cancel Receiver for Local Railway
Judge J. L. McMaster overruled a motion by Edward Fitzpatrick and C. W. Miller to set aside the order appointing a receiver for the Indianapolis Huntington Columbia City Northwestern railway. The plaintiff Frank M. Dell trustee seeks sale of nearly all tangible company property. The notice accompanies varied local advertisements for furniture and shop services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. McMaster
Superior Court
Edward Fitzpatrick
C. W. Miller
Indianapolis, Huntington, Columbia City & Northwestern Railway Company
Frank M. del
City graft fears pull at Indiana election race
Indianapolis politics tense as graft revelations threaten Republican hopes in county offices and judgeships. City Engineer Miller plans daily street patching checks, with both city and Western Construction inspectors signing dual ledgers to ensure accuracy.
Fontanet powder mill blast mystery lingers
State Factory Inspector William F Blakely says no evidence supports a hot box theory for the Fontanet explosion. Guards reported a box had been hot but cooled and ran cool for 15 hours before the blast. He notes the cause may never be learned with 2% dead and 49 hospitalized in Terre Haute, four in serious condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Blakely
Fontanet
Blakely
Terre Haute
Baby Dies at Home in Suspected Smothering
Joe Terrence and his wife, living at 53 West Sixteenth Street, awoke to discover their three month old baby dead. Officers reported the case to the coroner as authorities investigate possible suffocation while the parents slept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Terrence
Sixteenth St
Wilson and
Golnisch
Terrence
Everitt level charges against Equity society board
J. A. Everitt former head of the American Society of Equity has filed charges against four members of the society's executive board and says he is ready to substantiate them A meeting will be held Friday evening to hear him Charges were circulated in copies distributed Friday morning and afternoon naming two other persons involved
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asphgit
Pritchard
Criminal Court
Indianapolis
Grand Jury
Western Construction Company
Frank Able
J. A. Everitt
American Society of Equity
Five Boys Admit Stealing Automobiles In City
Detective Quigley and Patrolman Finney traced a gang of youths who admitted taking electric cars and a gasoline auto, parking them at distant spots. James Cole 16 and his two younger brothers plus Arthur Stevens and Louis Grohs 15 were linked to the spree, with one member’s father helping secure confessions. The youths face trespass charges in juvenile court, while several vehicles were recovered at various locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James F. Quigley Cross
Benjamin F. Bye
Pennsylvania St
Park Theater
Southeasternave
Trowbridge St
B. C. Atkins
Meridian-st
Tenth and
Meridian-sts
W. Twenty-seventh-st
E. J. Fisher
N. Meridian Sr
Twenty-eighth St
Talbottane
Quigley
Finney
James Cole
Pratt St
Ilinois
Cole
Edward
Arthur Stevens
Pasadena
Louis Grohs
N. Capitol Ave
Dr. Bye
Mr. Foster
Fisher
Robbers Hit Subtreasury for Nine Thousand In Philadelphia
Two men entered the subtreasury and seized $9,000 then fled. Clerks pursued and the thieves dropped the loot under a street car where it was recovered intact. Police arrested two suspects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Proposes Laws for Bad Trusts in Chicago
The National Civic Federation urged Congress to appoint a non partisan commission to curb trust abuses and protect public interests. It called for regulation of trusts, modification of the Sherman act, rail and carrier rate reforms, and public disclosure of capitalization, accounts, and prices of monopolistic firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Congress of the
National Civic Federation
Congress
Byron T. Holt
William F. Wakeman
Franken Pierce
Thomas
R. Preece
Preece
Bricklayers’ Union
Europe
Gentry
New York
National Assembly
Guard member misses clothes. suspect arrested in Chicago
Walter Shaffer of 103 N Senate Ave reported missing suit from the armory on College Ave during National Guard drill. He suspected William Beaming, an insurance company employee. Beaming was arrested in Chicago Friday and will be returned to Indianapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Shaffer
N. Senate Ave
National Guard
Collegeave
William Beaming
Beaming
Chicago
Indianapolis
Wreck on the Erie Kills Huntington Man
Michael Mast of Huntington Indiana was killed and several passengers injured when Erie train No 21 rear ended a freight train at Leiter's crossing fifteen miles west of Rochester at nine this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
My United Prensa
Rochester
Ind
Michael Mast
Huntington
Erie
Leiter's Crossing
Here
Men Startled the People by Insane Acts Citywide
Two men described as insane frightened residents in separate incidents Friday morning. P Metz, at John Mann livery on E Wabash, fought with Jack Lewis and fled unclothed after Lewis repelled him. Metz later caused a panic at a N Pennsylvania eating house. Albert O Hara, found atop a West and Washington building by Bicycle Officers Hall and Simon, believed he had been robbed, his cries alerting a nearby neighborhood.
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P. Metz
John Mann
E. Wabash Sr
Jack Lewis
Lewis
Metz
N. Pennsylvania
Albert O'Hara
Hall
Simon
West
Washington Sts
Hood
Noblest Ancestor of Rockefeller Found in France
John D Rockefeller learns his line’s oldest ancestor came from southern France, a baron with arms dating to 1500. Dr Aaron R Lewis traced the lineage for John D and William Rockefeller, revealing a motto and French cousins 200 years older than the German branch. Claudius Rockefeller of Hudson was elected president at the family meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cestor
Aaron R. Lewis
John D. and
William
Lewis
Rockefeller
John D
George
Sleepwalker Tim Donohue Falls to Death in Home
Timothy Donohue, while asleep, wandered from his bedroom to the first floor and, after waking, fell down basement stairs breaking his neck. He died before his wife could reach him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Cleveland
Timothy Donohue
City Hall Site Picked At Ohio and Alabama Streets
M H Camden for owners says they will accept the mayor and Board of Works offer of 115000 for the Ohio and Alabama streets property. City to pay 1907 taxes, mortgage of 15000 to be cleared, title to be examined, sale to close promptly once title is clear. Property owned by Sterling R Hold George W Brown and the Urbana Building Co with 135 ft on Ohlo and 202 ft on Alabama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. H. Camden
Ohio and
Alabame-sts
Board of Works
Corporation Council
Urbana Building Company
Union Trust Company
Camden
Board of Public Works
Bookwalker
City Hall
Sterling R. Hold
George W. Brown
Ohlo St
Alabama-st
Poetess Ida Eckert Lawrence Plans November Wedding
Ida Eckert Lawrence the poetess who travelled to the Pacific coast in a box car with Red Cloud is to wed James K. Connor a western railroad man on her return to Los Angeles in November. They were childhood sweethearts and faced parental objection to an early wedding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Cleveland, CO
Ida Eckert Lawrence
Pacific Coast
Red Cloud
James K. Connor
Los Angeles
Topeka
Kas
Lawrence
Connor
Fresidert McKinley
Ohio
Narrow escape as student crushed by moving streetcar
Herbert Schmidt a 19 year old Butler College student narrowly avoided being mangled when a streetcar stopped by a quick minded motorman. Schmidt was dragged under the car at Hamilton avenue and his right foot was crushed with minor body bruises. He was taken to 872 Woodruff Place in a dispensary ambulance under Dr Mayer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Schmidt
E. Washington St
Hamilttonave
Schmidt
Butler College
Hamilton Ave
Woodruff Place
Mayer
Razor prices and stores listed in city ad
The fragment shows Habich's Majontic razors priced at $1.50 and Enders safety razors at $1.00 with a Gus Habich reference at 121 West Washington. The readable text suggests a local advertisement for shaving implements and shop location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Habich
Enders
Gus- Habich
Washington
Financiers Say Worst Is Over In Wall Street
After a Morgan conference financiers said the worst of the financial flurry is past. Cortelyou and Stillman expressed cautious optimism while depositors continued runs on several New York banks. Banks with heavy withdrawals suspended payments and some Brooklyn and Williamsburg institutions closed. Morgan urged people to keep calm and keep money in banks.
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Ing
J. P. Morgan's
Morgen
Stillman
National City Bank
Cortelyou
Hotel Manhattan
Clark Williams
Wall St
Lincoln Trust Company
Trust Company of North America
United States Exchange Bank
Capital
Borough Bank of Brooklyn
Williamsburg Company
Williamsburg Trust Company
Williamsburg
Brooklyn
Frank Jenkins
First National Bank of
J. P. Morgan
New York
End in Sight for Financial Turmoil in New York
Financial New York shows cautious recovery after a day of bank suspensions led by Providence Union Trust with over 25 million in deposits. Depositors are promised full payment and a return to normalcy, while several small banks close or suspend.
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New York
Financial
J. P. Morgan
Cortelyou
Stock Exchange
Providence
R. IL
Th Union Trust Company
Studley
C. S. Sweetland
Standard Securities
Clearing House
United States Exchange Bank
United States Exchange Bank, A Small Bank At 3 W. 125Th Int
State Banking Department
J. J. Gibbons
International Trust Company
Broadway
Brooklyn
Borough Bank
Court-st
Third-ave
Fifty-first-st
Brooklyn Bank
Fulton-st
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MR. Lock
Mr. Power
Indianapolis Conservatory of Music
Eighteenth
Hardingsts
F. E. Kingsbury
City Engineer's Department
Meridian-st. M. E
John B. Wood
Mr. Wood
Bookwalter
P. S. Parish
Park Ave
Robert Metzger
Bobby” O'Neill
Gregorie
Police Court
Micheal Raftery
Jemons
Newton Harding
All Right
John McGregor
George Rhodius
Joe Clay
Harry Brunaugh
State Charities Conference
William Berner
C. W. Fairbanks
Hal Shideler
Marion
Bankers Convention
Branaugh
C.W. Fairbanks
The
Methodist Church
Baltimore
Wulschner
Denison
Best
People's Outfitting Co
Washington St
Kentucky-ave
Weber & Zimmer's
People’s
Sehmy
Harrod’s
Virginia
Miller
Charles A. Bookwalter
Blaine Miller
C Works
Republican Party
Hooton
Frank Baker
Blaine H. Miller
Weber & Zimmers
United States
Bunset
Ccceeeerence Neeteanceees
Everitt
My United Press
Paya
Sun
Indianepolis
Ite
Sun Aloa
NON
Commission
U. S
Capi
Tal
Labor
Eral Public
Germany
Non-Partisan Commission
New York, Oct. S
John D. Rocke
Feller
France
Sleep Walker
Alabama
Herbert Schmidt Narrow
LY Escapes
Serious
Wall-St
Peo
York
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