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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1902
Page
2
Grace Morris, 23, arrested Sunday night on a charge unspecified, was fined by Judge Stubbs after testimony that she roamed the streets and lacked a home. She threatened to “get even” with the judge, who raised her fine to 15 dollars and ordered confinement. Matron Gregoire advised caution.
B C Kern bricklayer was arrested after police found him on West Washing Street severely injured and intoxicated. He lay bleeding from the neck and ear, taken to the City Dispensary with others after a turnkey stated he might be dying. Kern claimed the injury came from falling on a curb.
Rev Horace Talbert of Wilberforce University tours to raise subscriptions for the maintenance fund in the Midwest. He aims to collect about 2400 dollars over thirty days as Ohio backs an industrial program at the school. The university has 400 pupils, largely American colored, with international students from Africa, Haiti, Indonesia, Cuba. State Normal School trustee Durbin appoints Jump of Terre Haute replacing the late L B Martin.
Fragmentary figures show American Central Life Insurance Company in 1) for each dollar of insurance in force costs were about 1488? and 4 38 cents per dollar of in force. These amounts are described as well below the averages of other life companies, indicating lower death losses per dollar of coverage.
The first public meeting of the Friends' Historical Society of America at First Friends' Church featured Isaac Sharpless of Haverford College delivering an address on Quaker influence. He traced Pennsylvanian policy and Quaker equality from Penn's ideals to early American liberty, noting nonresistance tempered by justice and the peaceful development of colonies and national policy.
Detective Colbert returned from Cleveland with Edward Arnold who is wanted locally on several charges. Arnold married a country girl, moved in with her, then sent her home to Franklin and sold the furniture before allegedly fleeing to Cleveland with another woman. Police report his wife notified them after he disappeared.
A transfer company employee with the city Street sprinkling contract was arrested in Cleveland after Indianapolis police notified local authorities. He had gone directly to the city after leaving his post and was detained while driving one of the sprinkling carts.
Mrs Harriet Newell Wishard widow of Dr William H Wishard died at her Indianapolis home after a long illness. Born December 9 1819 near Cynthiana Kentucky she moved with family to Paris Versailles and Indianapolis. She and Dr Wishard married December 17 1840 and lived in Greenwood Southport and Indianapolis. Nine children were born, five surviving including Dr William N Wishard Albert W Wishard George W Wishard Harriet Wishard and Mrs M H Rookey. She was active in the First and later Seventh Presbyterian churches and served as a Sunday school teacher and adviser to ministers and missionaries. The funeral is planned for Thursday afternoon with Rev R V Hunter presiding.
Police arrested Virgil Pollard at 42 West St Clair for stealing a harness set. The arrest followed a long tale of investigation sparked by Theodore Billeman’s vigil and inquiries at Moses Benjamin's Indian Avenue shop after Billeman’s family spotted the harness on display.
Theodore Myers of 24 West Minnesota street returned home drunk and chased his wife with a hatchet. The daughter Mamie intervened to protect her mother, then the wife and daughter escaped. Police found him walking on Meridian street two miles away. Three years earlier he was fined $500 and sent to the workhouse for attacking his wife with a hatchet.
The Indiana Dental College and University of Indianapolis department of dental surgery hold their twenty third annual commencement at English's Opera House tonight. President D M Fisher will speak on The Professional Man of Today, with music by Mrs. W E Neff Montani Edward Nell and a male quartet. Over 214 students attended last year, with seven hundred graduates practicing worldwide, and the list of 60 plus graduates includes Ashcraft Baldwin Beer Bell Bridge Bright Brimscombe Brookins Bush Byrne Carter Clayton Connett Deaner Erven France Freese Gabel Garrison Gillee Addison Gist Granberg Harris Hathaway Held Henwood Hocker Hubbard Hull Johnson Jones Kibler Kinder Knowles Lamboree Lemon Low Low Lucas McCoy McGrath Martin Mason Overmeyer Perkins Phillips Riddell Rogers Shawver Shepherd Shields Shockney Snideman Stowell Urban Voyles Walsh West White Will Wirt Wirt York.
The Indiana Dental College senior class annual banquet was held at the Denison Hotel with faculty and graduates awaiting diplomas later. Toasts were informal and friendly as professor student relations, strictly affectionate, allowed witty sallies and repartee.
Sunday May 4 schedule lists round trip fares and departure times from Indianapolis Union Station 7:30 a m return from Aurora 7 p m and 7:25 a m from Indianapolis returning from Terre Haute 7:30 p m fare 1 00. Dayton and return 1 25 via C H D fast train stops only at Rushville Connersville Hamilton leave Union Station 7 a m Dayton return 6 20 p m.
At the church pew sale Mrs. Snow paid the top price for a single seat with a premium of 115 dollars, making the seat worth 00. Several other seats drew high bids, four selling at 150 each including premiums, and most pews were snapped up. Remaining seats were expected to raise total receipts to about 1100, a church history high for trustees.
Owen McShea, seventy four, was arrested yesterday for peddling without a license. In the turnkey's office he refused Sergeant John Lowe's search, arguing over his watch and money for about half an hour. He finally consented to go to the cell after policemen promised to call a bondsman.
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