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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1910
Page
2
Labor leaders and supporters speculate on Samuel Gompers planned address at Tomlinson hall in Indianapolis. It may outline labor political needs this fall without backing a specific candidate, with expectations Keegan could gain a boost if Gompers endorses him. Labor factions anticipate a tactful approach rather than opposing labor aims.
The Marion county council approved a four cent reduction on the tax rate, lowering the levy from twenty six to twenty two cents per $100. Auditor Albert Sahm reports a $200,000 cash balance will remain in the county treasury. The budget totals $693,617 with $160,000 in requested appropriations for projects including a Capitol avenue bridge and asylum additions. gravel road levy 3.65 cents and sinking fund levy five cents are proposed.
The Democratic state committee has until Thursday at 10 a.m. to nominate a candidate for the board of election commissioners so Governor Marshall can appoint. With Bernard Korbly declining, Jackson has no clear candidate. The board’s duties include printing about 2,000,000 ballots and organizing a 50-person watcher corps, plus a $1,500 clerkship that must await a Democratic member.
In police court Judge Collina fined James Henry, owner of a saloon at 461 West Washington street, fifty dollars and costs and sentenced him to ninety days in the workhouse for operating a blind tiger in an unlicensed room adjoining the saloon.
Northern Democrats revolt signaled as LaGrange county resolutions omit John W Kern while Gov. Marshall Congressman Cyrus Cline and Senator Shively receive praise. Anti Kern candidate J J Engledrum from St Joseph county gains traction. Proctor vows to bolt, liquor fight prompts county delegate power shift to Steuben and LaGrange chairmen. Brewers association head Steve Fleming leads party organization.
A string of four explosions Monday morning in buried conduits on Virginia avenue from the viaduct to New Jersey street blew manhole lids twelve to fifteen feet and damaged sidewalks. Police and utility crews rushed to secure the area as workers investigated a suspected gas buildup triggering the blasts.
John W. Monroe, 25, of Rising Sun Indiana, died after his sleeve was caught in a freight elevator control rope at Van Camp hardware company warehouse on Missouri and Maryland streets. He was raised to the ceiling, his head crushed, and his body hurled to the basement as he attempted to stop the machine. He had been employed there for some time.
The speech argues for national unity against provincialism tracing to states rights. It cites Washington Jackson Lincoln and Roosevelt, praises Pinchot, and urges cooperation among nation state and municipality to conserve forests coal water powers and other resources for the common good. It warns that waste and private wealth at the expense of the people must end and that young men should pursue the general welfare of the nation.
Two 12 year old boys Cleo Marshall of Richmond Indiana and Harry Davis of Mattoon Illinois were found riding an empty box car on the Big Four railroad. Train crews brought them to Brightwood yards and police headquarters. They claimed mothers sent them out to get work on the way to Indianapolis. They were detained at the detention home and their parents notified.
At the Columbia Club on Tuesday evening Mr. Davis, newly appointed manager of the local Remington typewriter company branch, entertained ten salesmen. The dinner was held to acquaint him with the sales force and discuss the general state of affairs.
Senator Albert J. Beveridge will address the Marion club at 7 30 p m on Sept 12 in a talk focused on veterans of the Mexican Civil and Spanish American wars. The event opens state fair week with ex soldiers from across the state invited. A special veterans room No 631 at the Pythian building is set aside by Harry Wallace for club headquarters. Campaign plans for Sept 27 in Tomlinson hall Indiana emphasize facts over display. A sixty day Marion county poll begins Thursday with Republicans using old maps and Democrats new boundaries sparking a possible legal challenge.
The state fair grounds will open to exhibitors Thursday with fifteen department superintendents to assist. All departments open to the public Monday, but grounds close Sunday. Indianapolis residents have crowded the park the Sunday before opening, but the board announced Wednesday there will be an exception.
City officials report all streets have been oiled and heavy rains anticipated to aid preparatory work for exhibitors this year with a dustless fall in prospect.
In the second act Grace Hopkins as Anna Moore shares a scene with Daniel Roach as Hi Holler. Hi reads from Pickin’s From Puck and composes stage business with a humorous picture drawing the actress laughing at the page.
Miss Hopkins and Mr Roach engage in nightly diverting fun by clipping comic supplements from daily papers and inserting them into Pfickin's From Pack with marginal notes. The play Way Down East opens at the Shubert Mural theater on Monday Sept 12 with seats at Huder's drug store and box office.
Ove Stevens a Homestead Pennsylvania constable arrived in Indianapolis on Wednesday. He carries a warrant for Frank Daugherty who was arrested days earlier by Detectives Ulery and Hull. The warrant accuses Daugherty of forging a $100 check by signing the name H Youngman.
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