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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1902
Page
6
Miss Conklin, expert corset fitter, demonstrates the Nemo Corset in the Corset Department. The design adapts to both slim and fleshy figures with adjustable straps that do not bind. Visit the Second Floor for a fitting and a promising effect.
A six act Park Theater version of Quo Vadis draws large crowds with bright scenery and strong acting. James A. Young as Vinicius Miss Lillian Lancaster as Lygia Harry Morton as Nero and C. H. Farnham as Petronius portray key roles while the plot follows Nero’s Rome, Lygia’s fate, and the Christian rise amid revelry and conflict.
The Bowery Burrsquers revisit the Empire Theater bringing changes since their prior visit. Gilbert replaces a former performer in a Hebrew impersonation while Vinnie Henshaw remains a centerpiece with Franciola. A backstage dressing room moment and a box incident with Tom Carter are noted, the act lineup includes the Nacirema twins, Lizzie Freligh, Ben Jansen, Gilbert and Goldie, the Taylor trio, Willis and Josie Barrow, and the familiar closing burlesque Slumming.
A mortgage for 1,200 is filed in New York by the American Hominy Company in favor of the American Trust and Savings Bank. It secures 2,500 gold bearing bonds of 1,200 denomination, bearing 5 percent interest, maturing in 147, with 6 percent redemption. The trust covers mills in St Joseph Missouri Mt Vernon Indiana Hamburg Iowa Danville Illinois Decatur Alabama Toledo Ohio Terre Haute Indiana and Indianapolis. Hervey Bates Jr R A Pratt and William L Shellabarger named officers. Transfers of Indianapolis Hominy Mills and Cerealine Manufacturing to the American Hominy Company noted.
Mrs. Larzeler Whitsey of Toledo visits Mrs. D. M. Bye while Miss Anna Stanton stays with relatives in Richmond. The Conversation Club meets at Mrs. Alice Moore’s home. Several social events unfold across city households with guests from Detroit Buffalo Honolulu and Chicago, including weddings, receptions, and musicales. The Central Avenue M E Church Ladies plan a world tour fundraiser from Union Station with stops at homes of Mrs. Cuylor Bacon Vanarsdale Houser and others, with refreshments and a Sunday-school building fund drive.
A fair sized crowd attended a concert by Roneys Boys Band from Chicago in a gymnasium for the Junior department fundraiser. Five boys aged eleven to nineteen performed in five costumes including military attire and silk Maus with crepe. They opened with Remember Now Thy Creator in the Days of Thy Youth and honored the late President McKinley with a memorial performance of Lead Kindly Light.
A large crowd attended the Colonial Carnival last night at Mo 1 Hall on East North Street, hosted by the young ladies’ societies of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. The notable “curiosity” booth, restricted to men, is attracting strong interest.
Attendees are asked to keep the show’s purpose secret until Saturday night. The colonial parade that opened the event on Wednesday will likely be repeated tonight and again tomorrow night.
Miss Catherine Austin and Miss Mabel Quilies, residents of Merkel street and Chadwick street, escaped an attack by an unknown negro on a alley shortcut near McCarty and Illinois streets at 7% clock last night. Their screams drew rescuers and a pursuit followed, but the assailant fled.
Lakeville Conn dispatch reports eighteen year old J E W Dissette student at Hotchkiss School fatally injured when a twelve pound shot slipped from Hubert Williams of Lakeville and struck him on the head fracturing the skull. Parents reside at 1210 Park Avenue. Father is secretary treasurer of Indianapolis stove foundry.
City notes report an overheated stove at 117 West Twenty seventh street caused minor fire damage. Also, The Physio Medical State Association schedules its fortieth annual session in Indianapolis May 6 to 8, beginning May 6 at 2 p.m. Nearby, smallpox cases close Plainfield State Reform School to visitors amid possible transmission by a Marion Cannon. Detectives arrest two men for grand larceny, one in Columbus and one in Dayton, with suspects returning to Ohio. A Hancock Life Insurance office clerk, John Wagner, fined for assault after a quarrel with a debt collector. G A R monument dedication planning meets next Tuesday. petal to be held in Room 8 of the State casa. Home Heating and Lighting owners Rauh and Wild now sole owners, with plans to continue service. Irvington water supply questioned as board orders 7,000 feet of mains this year. Carl J. Carlson of Muncie, claiming inheritance against William M. Rice estate, visited city. St Johns Social Club hosts a program at Riester’s Hall No 8 South Meridian Street this evening.
Tomorrow evening at 7 30 the Rev Austin W Mann general missionary in charge of deaf mute mission work will lecture in Christ Church chapel on The Apostolic Rite of Confirmation The Sunday service at 10 30 a m will be holy communion with the confirmation office interpreted for silent candidates At 239 p m Mr Mann will administer infant baptism in the church
J B Moore, living at 122 West Eleventh Street, told police he was attacked by two white men about 25 years old in an alley on Senate Avenue south of Eleventh as he passed at midnight. He managed to throw off his assailants after a struggle.
In New York near Trinity Church a crowd watches a digger in the churchyard. A bystander jokes the hole is for planting a young tree rather than burying someone, dismissing rumor as he explains the purpose with a wry remark. An Albany paper notes the scene as a curious urban echo.
Forest fires raged across central Pennsylvania and Missouri causing extensive property destruction and several deaths. In Sinnemahoning two men perished as a rail line detached and a lumber engine overturned. Agnes Felding, six, drowned fleeing fire in Clintondale. In Lycoming and Clinton counties multiple houses, a church, a schoolhouse, and stables burned, with thousands of feet of lumber destroyed and riverside escapes. Sarcoxie, Missouri, saw $100,000 of damage as fifteen business houses burned and two people injured.
A Marienville blaze wiped out about half the town last night, causing losses near 300000 with only 75000 insured. About 500 residents were left homeless. Editor S L Pickens and Kendell of A Nell were badly burned. several others injured. John Johnson is missing, believed burned in his tailor shop.
A morning blaze in the village of CrogHan near Lowville, N Y, caused losses estimated at 250 000 to 300 000 dollars. Twenty one structures were destroyed including St Stephen's Catholic Society church monastery convent and college. Turk's Hotel was the origin. Twenty families were left homeless.
Fire in Havre causes 15000 francs damage to the new French line steamer La Lorraine just arrived on her trial run from St Nazaire. The blaze started from overheating of a dynamo during the test.
Des Moines April 24 Fire at Red Oak burned an entire business block from street to street causing a $225000 loss. Only one third of the amount is covered by insurance.
The author and humorist Frank R Stockton was buried today at St. Philip's Church in Philadelphia after a public funeral from his sister's home. A sorrowful procession included judges, financiers and writers with honorary pallbearers such as Samuel Clemens and Richard Gilder.
Nashville dispatch says Edwin H. Ewing former Webster colleague in the national House of Representatives died in Murfreesboro Tennessee tonight at age ninety two.
Henry Hill a Northwest railroad pioneer died at his Minneapolis home aged seventy four. He built the Toledo Peoria Western now part of Wabash and the Midland Pacific now Burlington, leaving a large unincumbered estate to seven children. Also in brief deaths: Dr George E Harrison of Harrison Granite Company died in New York City at forty four after a several weeks illness. Prof M L Hemberlin of Vanderbilt University died in Richmond Virginia after a lingering nervous illness.
Dr. Theodore Walser of Newton Staten Island an expert on contagious diseases died in New York at age seventy seven. County Judge H J Harrington of Green Bay age sixty died suddenly from angina pectoris. he was a prominent leader of the G A R. Professor Hamberlin aged forty one born Clinton Mississippi noted in dispatches.
Francis M. Harrison a 52 year old attorney was killed in Kansas City when boys who had wrapped a wire around a tree connected it to an electric light cable causing a live current to shock him as he attempted to remove the wire from his front yard.
The London Express describes Finnish bathhouses as windowless, fifteen by twelve feet, with an oven of hot stones in the center. On Saturdays men gather, heat the stones, pour water, tan the body with steam, and then briskly strike with birch switches before a snow roll home.
The Department of Agriculture plans a half acre cranberry bog at Arlington farm to study cranberry scald, a fungus spreading from New Jersey to New England. Researcher Dr. C. L. Shear will seek cranberry spores and test how the disease spreads via soil water and air, aiming to find resistant plant strains.
Alexandria Herald argues a tariff revision is overdue and necessary. It contends protection faces a rising consensus in Congress, warning against clinging to the old schedule when change is justified and potentially dangerous to retain outdated items.
An excerpt recalls a joke about Prince Henry and visit to Niagara Falls. Pat Kane and his brother Mike from Cork are described as sharing a tale on the trip, with Mike smoking a pipe and reacting immovably as the falls are mentioned. The dialogue captures a light, regional humor about travel and wonder.
A Brooklyn physician argued that distilled water is the only safe drinking water, citing a Fairbury farmer who abstained from water for decades. The Kentucky Col. Grass and a local proponent of distillation discuss the benefits, with playful quips about whisky as water of life and the Irish origins of aqua vitae.
Helen Gray describes the Miller Manual Labor School in Albemarle county Virginia as the South’s grandest charitable institution with a $1.5 million endowment. It honors Samuel Miller born to a mountaineer and built from humble beginnings, funded by his estate after 1860 to educate poor white children.
A New York optician says he had no retail trade when he began advertising and now, as the result of advertisement, it amounts to many times the cost of his newspaper space. He uses only one inch in each newspaper, in morning and evening papers, with mornings deemed better as they are read on the way to business. He notes quick returns and that the morning after an ad the store is thronged with customers drawn by that force alone.
In Minneapolis Journal notes, Missourians show attachment to mules over the Boers, cheering briefly when neutrality costs nothing but souring once strict enforcement could hinder British mule purchases. The piece suggests public sentiment was never strong for the Boers overall.
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