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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1901
Page
3
A parade of social updates shows residents visiting Buffalo New York Michigan City and Mackinac Island with trips to Denver Charlevoix and Wisconsin. Engagements weddings and teas mark summer leisure as Miss Esther Heaughey and others head to Bay View and Greenfield while Harmonic Fraternity plans a theater party at 2122 Shelby Street.
He was raised in Seymour and has many relatives there. A Indiana University graduate, he lives in Warsaw, Indiana, taught there last year and will teach in Marion in September. The bride is a Bedford young woman, daughter of County Commissioner A. K Sears.
The Bethany Park Sunday crowd attends home missionary services and a Palestine and Syria lecture while enjoying a day of camp meeting. Families and visitors arrive by train, dine, converse, and watch lake and park activities. A Swing mishap prompts a lighthearted collection. evening prayers end the day as folks return home.
Irwin Dwigsins and Clodfelter Fine of Crawfordsville filed a reply to Deputy Attorney General Hadley's brief in the Baum vote selling case with the Supreme Court clerk. Baum, among 35 voters disfranchised for 12 to 20 years, challenges the Caraway law claiming it unconstitutionally uses disfranchisement for vote selling.
Attorney General Taylor left for Walcotville Indiana to visit his father. William Foerty of Capital Council No 27 M 1 ill at home. Dr M Albrecht attends dentist meeting in Milwaukee. Overheated stove causes fire and $100 loss at John Tilford home. J S Lambert of Union Central Life Insurance to Buffalo lake Ontario and St Lawrence with wife and daughters. Timothy C Murray filed bankruptcy petition in Bloomfield debts 3996.49 assets 3662.15. Henry Levy leaves for the East on vacation visiting New York and Buffalo then Thousand Islands. Postmaster McGinnis advanced in cues after streetcar ride two weeks ago. Central Union Telephone Company adds subscribers agent in each city Frank Wampler to act in Indianapolis. Marion County Horticultural Society August meeting at Negley’s farm picnic lunch 12 program 1 30 pm. Funeral of J A Eddy of Peoria Ala from 1013 South State Ave today 2 pm appendicitis. John B Powell returns to Indianapolis after 20 years Milwaukee novelist of The Minister’s Lode Surrendered What Sayest Thou. Telephone firms say young man soliciting ads for a “combination” directory misrepresents it as only official. companies deny ties. Mrs Hale 1010 West Morris street reports uncle William Heaney missing since Tuesday. search aided. Police seek Jerome Carson Michigantown missing since Sunday. reward $0.
President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers returned from Spring Valley Illinois and attended an executive board meeting. The board focused on the Hopkins county Kentucky strike and accepted the resignations of Fred Ditcher Ohio and Benjamin James Pennsylvania, with no steps to fill the vacancies.
Death of George Hodell alters regular worship at Camp Acton Shelbyville and Indianapolis. A child meeting by Miss Anna Downey was held in the grove near the hotel, with another postponed until after Hodell’s burial. Cottages decorate the Tabernacle in white and black cloth and green boughs as Winona Lake hosts daily features and a recital.
James McIntosh, national bank examiner for the district, has spent the week in Connersville assessing local banks. He praised Indianapolis national banks yesterday and noted the city’s financial growth as remarkable.
A woman identified by friends as Lottie Harrison of 220 Adelaide Street fell ill late last night. Dr Gray of City Dispensary treated her, and it was thought she had taken cocaine after a quarrel with her husband. She is expected to recover.
John Parris of 216 Hovey street was arrested last night after his wife followed him downtown and found him talking with another woman said to be of bad repute. The woman identified herself as Minnie Williams.
Mrs Nation is freed after temperance supporters pay her fine in Topeka. She plans to travel to Atlantic City next week for further temperance activities and speaking engagements.
Trust not to luck with fire and tithe on real estate. Indiana Title Guaranty and Loan Company at 129 East Market Street offers insurance services and loans. Contact telephone information appears in the line.
A blaze swept the western end of the Emery Arcade from Vine to Race streets this afternoon. The Homes steam laundry burned, while the Emery Hotel connected to the arcade escaped damage. About thirty girls from the laundry escaped onto the arcade roof as several small shops suffered water and smoke damage.
London reports an all-night Commons session ending at 6 a.m. with Balfour’s new voting closure applied to estimates totaling over 47 million pounds. Irish opposition persisted, Chamberlain repeatedly moved closure, and the chamber adjourned after series of divisions amid a tense but orderly scene.
Remains placed in a coffin at Friedrichshof as Emperor William and the royal household attend a simple service conducted without music. Attendees include Prince and Princess Christian and other dignitaries. guards patrol the castle as the court observes a somber, closely guarded day.
The Pittsburgh area anchors a broad mobilization with special trains from New Brighton Sharon and other towns for a daylong picnic and speeches by President Shaffer and AFL leader Samuel Gompers. Additional rallies planned at McKee’s Rocks Monessen and McKeesport. Gompers plans further talks in Pittsburgh. Painter mill reopening rumored. Raney H Rosella furnaces shut at New Castle leaving 60 unemployed. Shaffer criticizes capital, defends labor and institutions. IL A 900 contributes 5000 to strikers. Iron Workers pledge 1000 and member levy. In Cleveland carpenters build a boarding house for mill workers. merchants urged to withhold supplies from nonunionists. Archbishop Lorelin denies mediating in the steel strike.
CHICAGO August 8 Angry because August Dowling had discharged him from a position he held eighteen years Orrin Lawrence shot and probably fatally wounded Dowling at Pullman Illinois Lawrence is seventy years old Dowling foreman of the shop in which Lawrence was a cabinet maker discharged the former five weeks ago The old workman grieved deeply over his dismissal Lawrence met the foreman on the street today and demanded reinstatement Upon Dowling’s refusal he fired two shots He was arrested.
The National Association of Dentists passed a resolution to appoint a Ways and Means committee to fight bogus diploma mills, aligning with guidance from the National Association of Dental Examiners and the National Association of Dental Faculties. The Aug session focused on clinics and featured papers by Dr. T. L. Gilbert on Odontomes and Dr. W. V. B. on Splints for Retention of Loose Teeth.
United States Steel Corp announces control of Shelby Tube Company with mills at Greenville Pennsylvania Elwood City New Castle Hartford Albany Auburn Beaver Falls Garwood and Cuyahoga Falls. Weekly tube output about 5 000 tons. Mills run by nonunion workers. Also reports at Cleveland headquarters confirm transfer of Shelby Tube into US Steel with capital stock details. Twelve more brief items cover Ohio loan company insolvency and banking news, British and German trade notes, and various business troubles.
Louisville planning open hearth steel plant with $5 million capital. Backed by Louisville and Pittsburgh interests, the project aims to employ about 2,000 workers. Thomas W. Fitch, a noted Pittsburgh steelman, is prominent in the new company.
A Delaware certificate filed by Producers of Gas and Refining Co of Richmond Kentucky. Kansas City Stockyards Co increases capital to 8 25 million. Judge Lindsay fines W L Dickey $20 for a trust issue, appeals to District Court. Toledo line seeks electric link between Toledo Columbus and Cincinnati with five incorporators. Jamaica talks fruit steamer venture. Cologne Manufacturers Association laments German tariff impact. Pittsburg Coal Co gains control of Pioneer Fuel and Youghiogheny and Lehigh Coal, dominates Northwest coal scene, eyeing Northwestern and Ohio coal firms.
Trenton New Jersey August 8 ex governor William A Newell died at noon today at his Allentown home. He was eighty five and had been in poor health. A physician and former congressman from New Jersey 1847 to 1851 he helped establish the federal life saving system. He served as New Jersey governor elected 1856 and ran again against McClellan but lost. During Hayes era he was governor of Washington Territory living there about three years. An inauguration story notes he walked to Trenton after snowdrifts blocked his sleigh. In Boulder Colorado landscape painter Charles H Cox died suddenly at the state university failure of health amid Chautauqua duties.
Mr Cox from Thousand Islands Canada now living in Waco Texas has served as a Chautauqua teacher and died suddenly likely due to heart trouble at seventy three. Dr Martin B Cleveland ex president cousin died in South Jacksonville aged sixty six after losses from poor investments. Matthew P Seattle a Seattle namesake Indian from Lawrence Kansas died of consumption while pursuing law at the University of Kansas and slated for Masonic burial.
Dr Hiram O Bolles a prominent Springfield physician died today at his home from complications of diseases He served with the federal army as a Civil War surgeon at the Savannah Ga military hospital and was noted for his medical and public service in the community.
London Aug Farndale the Birmingham constable during the Fenian movement died this morning. He was alleged to have hatched the conspiracy alongside Egan Daly and Gallagher, who were involved in the affair.
News from Saltillo confirms the death of Charles Bull Towle United States consular agent. The remains will be shipped to Boston for interment.
New Orleans grand secretary David R. Searcy died tonight aged 49 after long association with the Knights of Honor. In Victoria British Columbia Peter Jackson, famed Black pugilist, passed away July 3 at a Santa Roma sanatorium near Sydney, W. from consumption.
A Tageblatt dispatch from Starzing Tyrol reports the death of General Baratieri the former Governor of Eritrea.
Two eighteen year olds Jesse Harless and John B. Rust drowned near Bristol Tennessee while canoeing. Gen George S Batcheller of Sarato who was aboard the Kaiserin Maria Theresa now in New York serves as a judge in Cairo Egypt international court and will visit Saratoga before meeting President McKinley. Delegates to the Catholic Total Abstinence Union toured Hartford by trolley with Archbishop Treland speaking. The St Beromita Society of Boston won a prize banner for membership gain. Roosevelt plans Aug m4 Camp Lincoln visit to Illinois with many veterans invited. Erie announces 1 cent per mile coach excursions to Pan-American exposition from Mansfield and Greenville. Rousing wrestling match in Atlantic City won by Jenkins over Maher. Mayor Hinchliffe blocks Bresolini play in Paterson. Illinois Photographers' Association names officers. Buffalo to host next meeting. In Leavenworth a prize fight proceeds despite governor's warning. US marshal serves Carter with suits in New Jersey and New York.
Cash on hand and in hands of agents or other persons. Bonds owned by the hearing interest at 3 to 7 percent as per schedule. Loans on bonds and mortgages of real estate, not double the mortgaged amount and free from prior incumbrance. Debts for premiums. All other securities. Total liabilities greatest amount in any one risk.
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