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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1903
Page
12
Police Board summoned to this city to answer complaints of failure to perform duty as Durbin plans to assume governing authority over the Marion labor dispute. Local officials cite ongoing unrest and need for prompt intervention.
Governor Durbin summons Marion Police Board members D C Reardon W W McCleery and Alvin Gibson to discuss labor unrest and policing failures. Marion Manufacturers Association seeks removal of Gibson alleging pro union bias after his Gemmer plant appearance and lack of effort to curb trouble. Gibson edits the Marion Leader and is accused of not using his influence to quell the disputes.
Marion Indiana August 5 peace returns after demonstrations at Gemmer engine factory as State Commissioner McCormack and National Organizer Smith broker talks with owners and locked out machinists. Nonunion workers will remain in plant until settlement. Parry invitation postponed amid assurances of order.
Atlantic City Aug 5 No change will be made in the wages paid to the glassblowers and the last year’s scale will continue the coming season. The agreement ends a conference between the Glass Bottle Blowers Association and Bottle and Vial Manufacturers Association. The Saturday hours are reduced by one hour. apprentices remain at one to fifteen. The settlement is said to be highly favorable to the workers.
Local unions in Richmond Indiana prepare for Labor Day with a planned speech from an out of town guest, a dance and athletic contests. Charles V Leisure treasurer of the strike fund has left for Memphis to take a new job as planing mill workers await return in a few days after a three month halt.
New Castle Indiana August 5 Employees at the Krell French piano factory organized the Krell French Employees Benefit Association to aid sick or disabled workers in need of assistance and support from their colleagues.
President Roosevelt was storm bound at Sagamore Hill as a severe northeaster raged. Secretary Root arrived to discuss War Department matters including the Littauer Lyon glove contract and Knox opinion. A brass band of colored boys from Jenkins Crps Charleston marched to serenade the President but was turned back by the Secret Service.
Forty nine head of fine Berkshires sold at Jessup Parker stock farm in Rockville Indiana with buyers from six states. Auctioneers Col R R Bailey Aliie Powell H J Saylor A G Madden and clerk Col C F Mills. Purchasers included Noah Wilson Mexico Indiana J S Henderson Kenton Tennessee J J Blair Rockville and Nash Wilson Mexico Indiana among others. Prices ranged up to 180 with many animals selling for 60 to 70 dollars and others noted with specific names and numbers. A separate note reports Texas fever outbreak along the Oklahoma line in Kansas with quarantined pastures and five deaths in one area.
New York Aug 5 A former New York salesman and AR member Frank J Nullett denies he is dead despite a coroner s jury declaring drowning. He claims he is alive and plans to attend the Grand Army meeting in San Francisco on Aug 19. His wife and investigators had believed his body found near Staten Island.
IA Aug 5 Mrs Annie E Philadelphia arrested in New York Sharpless Lee charged with systematically issuing postal orders was brought here for hearing awaiting trial. Merraine has tear of main pontal can on.
Purdue University officers warn that the 1904 opening may exceed 1000 students with expectations of 1600. Crowded classrooms, dormitory repurposing, and limited permanent space drive plans for new physics building and increased equipment. Professor Van Norman to supervise Indiana exhibit at St Louis fair.
California woman chosen as librarian cataloguer at Indiana University and freshman class president named as psychology lab assistant. New three year civil and electrical engineering courses to start next year. Also reports faculty changes at Muncie High School and local public health candidacy in Normal City, with others from Earlham and Pike County Institute.
The International Team Drivers Union and the National Teamsters Union of America, after a two day joint session at Niagara Falls New York, decided on uniting the two bodies. Other items include a bankruptcy petition by Daniel H Livermore in New York with assets of 15912 and creditors of 131600, and a Cleveland convention focusing on uniform weights and national pure food law.
At Bethany Park Aug 5 stockholders of Bethany Assembly elected directors to three year terms during a packed session. D. R. Dungan and B. C. Deweese lectured on Hebrews and Holy Spirit themes. Donations included 100 from Samuel Harris and 50 from G L Reeves, with Reed Hutchins Howe and Clifford named directors.
Bethany Park buzzed with a drowning escape tale from Lake Jewel but Christian Assembly leaders denounced the morning paper as a pub dream with no truth. Rev. L L Carpenter called the story a colossal lie and the incident proved to be a joke as spectators watched boys enjoy the sport.
The assembly made its displeasure clear to the young actors in the Lake Jewel farce comedy, not withholding its feelings and expressing strong opinions about the production.
Rome City Indiana August 5 temperance program led by Lake Winona Anti Saloon League. Miss Eva Marshall Shantz presented Who Killed Joe s Baby a Young People s National Temperance Union sermon. W C T U events and Home department readings, contests won by Yager Walkerton and Nowels Rome City. Rev Anna Shaw spoke on Woman s Ballot Essential to a True Republic with Schumann quartet and moving pictures later. Baseball camps from cottagers and Allegheny City mechanics played 19 to 14. Easterners formed a parade and serenade.
In Bryant Indiana the saloon people claim at least eleven signatures were added to a blanket remonstrance against the will of the owners and without license. Temperance followers counter charge. A clubroom will be started here at once.
Violet Williams, a 17 year old Salt Lake City resident, serves as the county deputy sheriff and heads typographic duties at the sheriff’s office. Her badge, presented by Sheriff Emery and the County Commissioners, grants access to privileges and she may arrest if needed though she remains reticent about revealing her official role.
National Anti-saloon League leaders gathered at Winona Lake Indiana for a private convention running through August 12. W B Wheeler H H Spooner E C Dunwiddie and Rev B Lawrence spoke this afternoon on Sunday pulpit addresses and regular meetings to promote anti-saloon sentiment. Attendees include H H Russell national superintendent F E Nicholson state superintendent D D Edward G Saunderson W H Anderson Theodore Alvard and Rev P A Baker.
In Franklin Indiana August 5 temperance forces led by the Municipal 400 push to curb saloons. They have blocked most license applications, aiming to leave only one saloon amid eight previously. Court battles unfold against remonstrators while arrests for illegal selling and fines surge and rumors of blind tigers circulate.
In Anderson Indiana the Stony Creek farmers held a courthouse indignation meeting after a blanket remonstrance filed against Wesley Moore to operate a Lapel saloon. Critics say names on a withdrawal paper were forged and unauthorized, and the case will proceed in court.
Mother Jones, after marching from Philadelphia with textile workers to New York and visiting Oyster Bay to see President Roosevelt, received a letter from Secretary Barnes. The President supports prohibiting child labor in factories, but claims constitutional limits. states alone presently have the power to act on the subject.
KOKOMO Ind Aug 5 The Howard County Commissioners refused saloon licenses to all eight applicants in Kokomo’s Second and Third wards after remonstrances containing twenty names of legal voters were deemed effective. The day session yielded licenses to one. the rest were denied.
In Winchester Tennessee G Simon Booker and his wife were murdered in a cabin on the mountain and their home set afire. The killings are linked to a June raid on a nearby wild cat distillery and the couple’s alleged role in alerting revenue officers.
Robert J Kil Bates, an employee at the United Mints of Philadelphia, was arrested by Secret Service operatives on charges related to the theft of money from the mint. The case involves alleged misappropriation of thousands of dollars and connections to Kruse and Deventer.
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