Opening of Garment Workers Convention in stormy session
The United Garment Workers of America met at the Claypool Hotel. Eleven delegates faced seating protests over nonmembers. Samuel Gompers urged upholding the constitution but allowed proxy representation. The day featured heated speeches, a Gompers-led rescue, and a city trolley tour for delegates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Garment Workers of America
Claypool
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Union of Garment Workers
Marietta
Columbus
Larger
White
Gompers
Edward P. Barry
Central Labor Union
Samuel Sexton
United Mine Workers’ Journal
John Mitchell
D. H. McAbee
Frank Duffy
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
James O'Neal
the Toiler
Terre Haute
John Feltman
Amalgamated Woodworkers
Parry
Association of Manufacturers
Broad Ripple
Blaze at Columbia Club Originated in Electric Fan
A small kitchen fire at the Columbia Club on the Circle occurred around 12:30 last evening. The blaze started from a hot box in an electric fan and was put out by the club’s employer before city fire fighters arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia Club
Saanes
Governor to attend trolley celebration at Richmond
Governor Durbin will join a Richmond ceremony marking the Indianapolis & Eastern trolley link between Indiana and Ohio. Ohio dignitaries and Richmond officials arranged the event with a parade, fireworks at Glen Miller Park, and a Wescott Hotel banquet. An Indianapolis special car leaves at 2 p.m. for attendees from the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durbin
Richmond
Indiana
Ohio
Indianapolis & Eastern
Leslie Myers
Wilfred Jessup
Nash
Columbus
Cincinnati
Dayton
Springfield
Glen Miller Park
Wescott Hotel
Indianapolis
Bookwalter
Fauvre
Coffin
Chipman
Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company
New Indiana incorporations and capital changes noted
The report lists multiple Indiana incorporations and changes: Masonic Temple Association of Kendallville with $10,000 capital. United States Quarries Company of Clear Creek with $120,000 capital and three directors. Tippecanoe Fence and Fuel Company of Buck Creek with three Indiana directors. Indiana Button Company of Evansville with $10,000 capital. Rustic Hickory Furniture Company of Laporte increasing to $25,000. White River Oil Company incorporated in Arizona but $20,000 of its capital used in Indiana. directors named for each entity and relevant towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masonic Temple Association
Kendallville
Henry J. Park
Bernard Pulman
Amos R. Otis
United States Quarries Company
Clear Creek
J. H. Keller
O. M. Fullenwider
J. Edgar Rhorer
Tippecanoe Fence and Fuel Company
Buck Creek
Robert Alexander
Francis M. White
William R. Lyon
Lafayette
Ind
Indiana Button Company
Evansville
Isaac Gans
Edward Jurgensmeier
Jacob Weir
Rustic Hickory Furniture Company
Laporte
White River Oil Company
Arizona
Indiana
Automobile hits cyclist at Virginia and Buchanan
Gottlieb Frick of 155 Barth avenue was seriously injured when a carelessly driven auto struck him at the Virginia avenue Buchanan street corner. Frick, thrown from his bicycle, was treated by a local doctor. a medicine case near the scene may help identify the vehicle owner. He plans to swear out a warrant if the owner is found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gottlieb Frick
Barth Avenue
Frick
Virginia Avenue
Buchanan Street
Pleaded in Tears Over Gambling Charge
Fifteen boys aged sixteen to nineteen pleaded guilty in Police Court to gambling. Each was fined five dollars plus costs after being arrested Saturday night for shooting craps in Harry Myers’s cigar store on Blake Street by Sergeant Sandman and Patrolmen Hostetler and Hoffbauer. Three men arrested at Harry Perk's saloon on Virginia Avenue and Maryland Street appeared with Perk for gambling resort offenses, with cases continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Myer
Blake Street
Sandman
Hostetler
Hoffbauer
Harry Perk
Virginia Avenue
Maryland Street
Craps
Perk
Reception Held for National Officers at Camp Hall
A reception in Camp No. 1 hall hosted by four city camps of the Patriotic Order of Sons of America, assisted by Patriotic Daughters of America, honored F. B. Stes of Philadelphia and Rev. D. E. Rupley of Lock Haven Pa. Address of welcome by Harry J. Hale and Rev. F. A. Reisner. About forty members to attend State Camp meets in Glenwood today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patriotic Order of Sons of America
Patriotic Daughters of America
F. BE. Stes
Philadelphia
D. E. Rupley
Lockhaven
Harry J. Hale
F. A. Reisner
F. E. Steel
M. E. Clocfester
H. E. Griffith
Rice
Glenwood
Victim of Wallace Circus Wreck Named
Indianap olis man among Wallace circus wreck victims at Durand Michigan reported by police. Details unclear but confirms fatality and local connection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Durand, Mich
Durand
Charles Hal
Plans for New Traction Line to Evansville
The Indianapolis & Southwestern Traction Company will build an electric road from the city through Waverley to Martinsville and extend to Spencer Evansville via Worthington Linton Vincennes and Princeton totaling 167.49 miles with a branch to Sullivan and Washington. Major improvements at Waverley include a 9,000 park project and river damming plus a 1 400 horsepower generating station. The system may use electricity or liquid air, a precaution for the future. Directors include Templeton Pickens Fauvre Moore Lesley Barrett Woods Cunningham. Officers are Pickens president Templeton vice president Lesley treasurer Barrett secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis & Southwestern Traction Company
Waverley
Martinsville
Spencer
Evansville
Worthington
Linton
Vincennes
Princeton
Sullivan
Washington
F. C. Bakeman
Leroy Templeton
William A. Pickens
Frank M. Fauvre
Albert W. Moore
Daniel Lesley
Charles E. Barrett
Indianapolis
Frank W. Woods
C. 8. Cunningham
W. A. Pickens
Reforming Colored Boys Home Opens in Indianapolis
Rev J L Jackson of the A M E Church establishes a Christian home for colored boys on Trumbull Street in Indianapolis to teach trades. He owns a 28 by 26 foot one story building and plans to sustain the school from product sales with free meals to attract students. Assisting are Daniel Carter a veteran colored policeman and Sparkles Heizer a police character whom Jackson hopes to train as a preacher. The program aims to deter craps shooting and encourage a useful life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
J. L. Jackson
A. M. E. Church
Trumbull Street
Eleventh
Twelfth Streets
Jackson
Daniel Carter
Sparkles Heizer
Union Traction Faces College Avenue Residency Suit
President Megrew of the Board of Public Works says he has heard nothing about a reported compromise offer from Union Traction Co to College avenue residents suing in Marion County Circuit Court. The claim suggested freight cars would run only at night after midnight and no new College avenue entrance. John R. Allen, head of the residents group, denies knowledge of any such move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Megrew
Board of Public Works
Union Traction Company
College Avenue
Marion County
Indianapolis Street Railway
John R. Allen
College-avenue
Burglars Thrive In Indianapolis City Night Probes
Burglars conducted a thriving operation in Indianapolis on Sunday night with no arrests to date. At 1403 Woodlawn avenue Mr. Geis’s family woke to find $10 and a gold watch missing. A padded-booted thief took $5 from a 1438 Prospect street resident. At 208 Prospect street E. J. Hankemeier lost $17 and a new pair of trousers to a night prowler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
John Geis
Woodlawn Avenue
F. C. Moore
Prospect Street
E. J. Hankemeier
Hankemeier
Indianapolis Colored Sanitarium Project Advances
An option on the Miles property at 959 North Meridian Street held by Dr. 8 A Furniss and ten prominent Indianapolis colored citizens will be reviewed tomorrow. Dr. Furniss says construction work will start soon on a new colored sanitarium costing about 40 000. The goal is to create one of the nation’s leading colored institutions. the Miles property is valued at 16 500. The backers reportedly have ample capital to pursue an elaborate plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles
North
Meridian Street
8. A. Furniss
Indianapolis
Washington
Mother and Child Disappear in Chicago Search
Mrs Emma Wernburg of 713 Raymond Street vanished Sunday morning with her two year old child. Neither has been seen since amid a family dispute over a child's punishment last Saturday night. The woman, mother of thirteen, reportedly headed to a married daughter in Chicago with the youngest child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Wernburg
Raymond Street
Wernburg
James Wernburg
Panhandle Roundhouse
Weinburg
Chicago
G. A. R. National Encampment trip to San Francisco
Indiana will be well represented at the National Encampment of the G. A. R. in San Francisco. Yesterday at noon a special train left Vandalia road carrying more than 125 people. Included were Department Commander G. W. Grubbs and Mrs. Sarah White of one W. R. C. The Big Four
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
San Francisco
Vandalla Road
G. W. Grubbs
Sarah White
Gompers Attacks Parry at Central Labor Union Meeting
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor spoke at the Central Labor Union gathering in Indianapolis urging unity and denouncing D. M. Parry as a capitalist anarchist aiming to crush unions. The meeting also addressed delegates to the State Federation of Labor and noted Gompers planned talks in Owensboro Kentucky and Louisville with the union home base in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Labor Movement of America
Central Labor Union
Washington
Alabama
Gompers
D. M. Parry
America
Indianapolis
Parry
Parryism
Mr. Parry
Organized Labor
United Garment Workers
Owensboro
Louisville
Barry
Charles F. Richers
Brooklyn
N. Y
Lintsman
Chicago Women's League of the United Garment Workers
State Federation of Labor
South Bend
Wu Ewald
Henry Freeman
Michael Butler
E. c Collins
Machinists
Lillian Fredericks
M. P. Carrick
Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and
American Federationist
Saturda
Iegan
pAte
Joseph Taggart
Fredrie Galen Sivener Ies
Brother-in-law assault sparks police warrant
Bird allegedly beat his brother in law Elmer Cochran during a family row Sunday night. Cochran swore out a warrant for Bird’s arrest at the police station. The incident centers on 1911 Columbia Avenue and involves Patrolmen see and Alberts as stated at the station.
Mrs Sarah Wall Dead In Indianapolis
Mrs Sarah Wall widow of Dr John Wall died after several months illness at 1214 Tacoma avenue. Survived by one son Frederick Wall and three sisters and one brother in city. Funeral by Johnson Hassler Ige on Wednesday afternoon with Crown Hill interment. Miss Emma S Whitsett died yesterday at 1007 Bellefontaine from typhoid fever. She taught at No 29 College avenue after Shortridge graduation. William Tilford, noted coal man and founder of the colored Christian Church in Indianapolis, died at 817 Chicago street Sunday. Funeral today at Second Christian Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Wall
John Wall
Tacoma, Avenue
Emma S. Whitsitt
Jennie S
Jesse Whitsett
Bellefontaine Street
Miss Whitsitt
Indianapolis
Shortridge High School
College Avenue
William Tilford
Chicago Street
Colored Christian Church
Second Christian Church
Deadly Cigarette Sparks Burn Four-Year-Old Boy in Haughville
Four year old Fred Johnson of 916 King Avenue in Haughville was badly burned Sunday afternoon when a cigarette spark set his clothes ablaze in a barn. His mother and neighbors extinguished the flames before doctors could intervene. his condition remained serious with doubtful recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Johnson
Haughville
Charles Johnson
King Avenue
Girl's Narrow Escape From Fatal Runaway Horses
Edna Wildhack six, daughter of William A. Wildhack auditor for L. E. W. Railroad, narrowly escaped death when a driven team at Broadway and Twelfth street veered toward her. John J. Fox pulled the child to safety as the wheels threatened to crush her skull. she suffered severe bruises but was otherwise uninjured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna Wildhack
William A. Wildhack
Broadway
John J. Fox
Edna
Twelfth Street
Mr. Fox
Juvenile court hears case of Stella Rivers for wineroom visits
Stella Rivers sixteen was charged with frequenting a wineroom and given a Juvenile Court hearing. She testified to visiting winerooms with men and frequenting Metzler's saloon at Missouri and Pearl streets. Judge Stubbs took the case under advisement and sworn out a warrant for Metzler last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stella Rivers
Metzler
Missouri
Pearl Streets
Stubbs
Egg prices rise in Indianapolis market
Eggs are advancing as New York and Boston markets push values higher. Normal local price is twelve cents per dozen, but this week buyers in Indianapolis are seeing thirteen and fourteen cents. Eastern eggs are deemed inferior to western supplies and unfavorable eastern climate hampers large scale production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
New York
Boston
Reily Takes Charge of Pension Examinations in Indiana
G E Reily of Washington successor to W H Harnsberger arrived yesterday to oversee pension examinations in Henry and Hamilton counties and assist Special Examiner J A Winner in Marion county. Harnsberger was transferred to Concordia Kansas about a month ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. E. Reily
Washington
W. H. Harnsberger
Indianapolis
Mr. Reily
Henry
Hamilton
J. A. Winner
Marion County
Harnsberger
Concordia
Kan
Planning a Concert at Tomlinson Hall Organ
Frank E. Stevens in charge of the Plymouth Church pipe organ plans a concert in October at Tomlinson Hall. The organ remains in the hall under city contract and the city takes a share of receipts when the hall is rented for entertainments and concerts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank E. Stevens
Plymouth Church
Tomlinson Hall
Garbage crematory torn down near City Hospital site
The derelict crematory, long an eyesore to residents around City Hospital, has been demolished. A new building will rise at the rear of the esthouse several hundred yards from many homes, while the former site is eyed for a potential park area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Hospital
Riverside foursome match ends with Jameson Wynn victory
In a foursome at Riverside yesterday Augusta Jameson and Wynn defeated Mise Rawls and Mrs Jud son 6 up and 4 to play. The losers did not exert themselves in yesterday's contest while the winners appeared more prominent in other matches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside
Augusta Jameson
Wynn
Mise Rawls
Mrs. Judson
Ty Iaterday
Governor Durbin Attends 160th Engine Volunteers Reunion
Governor Durbin is invited to attend the fourth annual reunion of members of the one hundred sixtieth Engine Volunteers in a ceremonial gathering likely to honor long service and past missions. The event underscores continued recognition of volunteer firefighters and their heritage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durbin
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Traction Company
Diversified Enterprises Incorporate
Southwestern Contem
Plates
Big Pleasure Resort
Christian Home of Rescue
Rev
G. A. R. National
Central Labor
Federation
Charles F. Reichers
Badger H. Bird
Edgar H. Bird
Columbia Avenue
Long Ulness
Little Edna Wildhack
New Pension Examiner
Jameson
Pennsylvania Lines
North Michigan
Northland Limited
Petoskey
Harbor Point
Mack Enac
G. R. & 1. Railway
W. W. Richardson
Ellington
Hamilton Pianos
Paris
D. H. Baldwin & Co
Pennsylvania ST. Manufacturers
Havana
F. R. Rice Mercantile Cigar Co
St. Louis
Union Made
Excelsior
F. J. Mack & Co
Tenerabi
Devoe
F. W. Devoe & CO
Lilly & Stalnaker’s
C.aneshaensel &Co
Ohio Street
Kahn Tailoring Co
Fairbanks, Morse & CO
South Meridian Street
W. H. Messenger
Bac
Washington Street
the Carlsbad OF America
Bashes
Ali Mocera
Baden Springs
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