Vital Statistics Aug. 11 List of Residents and Deaths
Vital statistics dated August 11 list numerous residents with ages and causes of death including cirrhosis of liver and pulmonary tuberculosis. It records hospital notices, obituaries, and funeral details for several individuals and families, with addresses across Indianapolis area and related cemetery notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Son
Wyoming Street
Broad Notice List Appears in Journal Directory
A fragmented business directory item lists notices for Joseph Gardn furnaces at 2 Tutky Avenue and Henry Taylor & Co at 8 N, Senie News. It mentions storage firms near East Street and Union track, packing and hauling services, a florists entry for Bertermann Bros at 34 Mase Avenue, and the Peerless Foundry at 701s Mary lend that makes stove repairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Gardn
Henry Taylor & CO
Senie
Bertermann Bros
Ss Circle
Peerless Foundry
Marylend
Indiana Crop Report Reflects Poor Yields But Some Crops Improve
Weekly crop conditions note cooler than normal nights and ample rainfall except for severe thunderstorms causing damage. Wheat and oats yields remain light, corn prospects better but late and vulnerable to early frost, clover improving, potatoes late but promising, tomatoes two weeks late yet fruiting well, onions maturing, cucumbers good, nutmeg melons abundant, watermelons moving south, apples light with knotty fruit, pastures revived, hog cholera present in some areas, fall plowing underway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. T. Blythe
Indiana
Climate and Crop Service
The
Weather Bureau
Randolph
Service Orders and Naval Promotions Extend Officers
Leaves of absence granted include extensions for Major J Estcourt Sawyer Captain Earle D A Pearce and others with periods from 20 days to three months. Promotions examination orders list Captains Hardin Leonhaeuser Penrose and others. transfers and duties follow for transport Thomas armory Springfield and various naval assignments and sick leave for Hough and Wells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel L. Woodward
Seventh Cavalry
J. Estcourt Sawyer
T. L. Sherburne
Eighth Cavalry
Earle D A. Pearce
Artillery Corps
Robert H. Silliman
Fifteenth Infantry
George G. Paddock
Fifth Cavalry
Charles H. Danforth
Seventeenth Infantry
W. G. Peace
David A. Lindsay
Infantry
Julian L. Dodge
Twenty-fifth Infantry
E. D. Sinks
Charles B. Hardin
Eighteenth Infantry
Harry A. Leonhaeuser
Charles W. Penrose
Twenty-eighth Infantry
Clarence R. Day
Fourteenth Cavalry
William W. Taylor, Jr
Twenty-second Infantry
Henry A. Bell
Philip J. Lauber
Conrad §. Babcock
Third Cavalry
W. K. Hart
Quartermaster’s Department
Thomas
Jesse M. Baker
O. N. Lissak
Ordnance Department
Armory
Springfield
Mass
John J. Toffey, Jr
Fourth Infantry
General Hospital
Washington Barracks
G. F. W. Holman
Saratoga
B. W. Wells, Jr
Olympia
H. H. Hough
Naval Hospital, Navy Yard
New York
R. N. Marble, Jr
Winslow
Morris
Roads Face A Car Famine In Prairie Freight Outlook
Amid rising traffic, railroads struggle with a car famine and insufficient terminal facilities. Kansas City faces slow grain movement, prompting Board of Trade action and potential court relief for fair distribution. Chicago Cincinnati Louisville orders seventeen new engines for February delivery, boosting motive power to about seventy engines nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Chicago
Kansas City
Missouri Pacific
Board of Trade At
The Tide of Lawlessness and Civic Power
A letter to the Indianapolis Journal criticizes Congress for failing to enforce the fourteenth amendment and curb lawlessness. It lauds Governor Durbin’s Evansville mob action, notes Citizens’ League aims and Roosevelt’s letter, and urges constitutional enforcement to root out the problem. Indianapolis, August 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgtor
Indianapolis Journal
Congress
Durbin
Evansville
Citizens’ League
Roosevelt
Theodore Inhi Mensane
W. F
Indianapolis
Troublesome Ticket Scalpers Rise From St Louis Merchants
Merchants and exposition officials in St Louis press for special excursion rates and broad railroad fare cuts during the exposition. Passenger officers warn reduced rates amid scalper activity could wreck pricing discipline. National Ticket Protective Bureau notes stiff resistance to eradicating scalpers, while roads urge legislation to curb forged tickets and convict forgeries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
National Ticket Protective Bureau
Ruling in the C G W case granted to Great Western
Judge Munger awarded a mandatory injunction against Union Pacific forcing use of the Missouri river bridge and Omahas terminals. The decision, under Congress open-bridge laws, holds terminal rights expand with Great Westerns property, with formal entry of decree set for Aug 13 and permission to move from Council Bluffs.
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Munger
Chicago Great Western Railway
Union Pacific
Great Western
Missouri River Bridge
Omaha
South
Acts of Congress
Douglass County
Neb- Taska
Council Bluffs
Railway executive movements and corporate updates across midwest lines
Volney T. Malott returns from Michigan resorts as Hocking Valley reports August week earnings 121063 18, up 3661 54 from last year. Pittsburg & Lake Erie adds a locomotive per mile. Baltimore & Ohio awards 900000 in passenger equipment. J E Irwin’s jurisdiction expands over Little Kanawha line. Missouri Pacific VP Russell Harding resumes Colorado line inspection. Northwest lines chief A M Schreyer rests at Chautauqua and addresses YMCA. Peoria & Eastern GM J A Barnard vacationing at Harbor Springs. Cincinnati Indianapolis & Western mails 22 carloads of livestock on Montezuma to Indianapolis. Master mechanic J E Gould begins Panhandle service in 1881. General Manager Atterbury of Pennsylvania lines returns from Western trip. Rock Island Pacific weighs moving HQ from Chickasha to El Reno. Preparations are under way as Missouri lines plan upgrades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Volney T. Malott
Vandalia
Michigan
Hocking Valley
Pittsburg
Lake Erie
Baltimore & Ohio
J. E. Irwin
Marietta, Columbus & Cleveland
Little Kanawha
Russell Harding
Missouri Pacific
Colorado
A. M. Schreyer
Pennsylvania
Northwest Lines
Chautauqua
J. A. Barnard
Peoria & Eastern
Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western
Montezuma
Indianapolis
J. E. Gould
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Panhandle
Queen & Crescent
Atterbury
Pennsylvania Lines
Western Lines
Philadelphia
Fort Wayne Road
G. L. Peck
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Chickasha
Indian Territory
el Reno
O. T
Haryimem Lines
Missouri
Toyer Te
Railroads expand for St Louis expo and Niagara Falls runs
The Missouri Kansas and Texas orders twenty one passenger coaches and various cars for the St Louis exposition. Lake Erie and Western reports Niagara Falls excursions with fifty nine cars, while three hundred grain cars wait for power on Cincinnati Indiana and Western tracks. Terminal Association embargoes aim to ease congestion at St Louis yards as G A R encampment travel surges and Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul creates a Kansas City terminal superintendent position.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
H. J. Rhein
Lake Erie & Western
Chicago Great Western
Western
Alexander Robinson
Gould Lines
West Virgiinia
Maryland
Pittsburg Road
Decatur
Gould
Niagara Falls
Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western
Big Four
St. Louis
Terminal Association
McChesney
Fight Over Saloon Closings in Haughville Sparks Injunctions
Thompson and Ferrington filed suits in Superior Court seeking to close two nearby saloons and claim $3,000 in damages to Thompson property. They accuse police inaction on Sunday closing laws while residents say the action aims at gain, not enforcing law, amid local opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haughville
P. J. Ferrington
Robert Thompson
Thompson
Thee Superior Court
Ferrington
Taffe
Leonard Lange
Rs. Lange
Foregy charges pend in Police Court against Combs and Moore
Judge Wharton hears William Combs and Robert Moore in Police Court over a forged Mrs. Belle Davis check for 150 dollars drawn on Fletcher National Bank. State rests. case continued to August 21. Prosecution says Combs hired a messenger to cash and return the check to his Bird Street home. Defense to argue the check is genuine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Combs
Robert Moore
Belle Davis
Fletcher National Bank
Combs
Bird Street
Emma Deer Seeks Divorce and Name Change in Circuit Court
Emma Deer files for divorce from Henry Deer in Circuit Court alleging repeated striking and choking. She also requests restoration of her maiden name Emma Wolf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Deer
Henry Deer
Emma Wolf
Supreme Court New Suit and Appellate Court Minutes
Summary of court docket entries includes new suits and appellate matters across Miami Orange Wayne Grant Counties. Cases listed name Sowers McCarrell Yeagley Kepler Lee and others with assignments of errors certiorari notices and supersedeas actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winfield S. Sowers
Miami C. C
Bond
Appellate Court
Southern Indiana Railway Company
Charles McCarrell
Orange C. C. Appellee
Appellee
Oliver M. Wallace
German-American Insurance Company of New York
Daniel W. Yeagley
Miami C. C. Appellee
Fire Association of Philadelphia
Ape W. Yeagley
George T. Kepler
Frank W. Rinehart
Wayne C. C. Appellee
The
Indiana Natural Gas Ana
James W. Lee
Grant C. Co
Madison County
Supersedeas
Court Actions Filed In Multiple Civil Cases
New suits filed include Robert Thompson versus Ernest L Lang et al seeking damages and injunction in Superior Court Room 2. Emma Dur versus Henry Dur pending divorce in Circuit Court. John Brill versus Indianapolis Traction & Terminal Company for damages in Superior Court Room 1. Robert Thompson versus Frank Peschat for damages and injunction in Superior Court Room 3. Sadie E Patterson versus Walter G Patterson for divorce in Superior Court Room 1. Alton M Upham versus Esa Upham seeking divorce in Superior Court Room 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Thompson
Ernest L. Lang
Superior Court
Emma Dur
Henry Dur
Circuit Court
John Brill
Indianapolis Traction & Terminal Company
Frank Peschat
Sadie E. Patterson
Walter G. Patterson
Alton M. Upham
Esa Upham
Legal Opinions on News Taping and Public Duty
A compilation notes that the National Telegraph News Company loses a copyright challenge yet gains equity protection for news from Western Union tapes. It cites State vs City of St. Louis on policeman liability indemnity. Nebraska and New York rulings approve compensation for pole rights and doctor fees for smallpox care. Pullman Co. v Adams supports a Mississippi sleeping car tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Telegraph News Company
Chicago
Western Union Telegraph Company
Illinois
State
City of
St. Louis
Southwestern Rep
Missouri
Supreme Court of Nebraska
Northwestern
Nebraska
Board of Health
Supreme Court of New York
Fourth Appellate Division
Eno
Pullman Company
Adams
Supreme Court of the United States
Justice Holmes
Miippi
Civil-Service Exams Set for Indianapolis August to October
Civil service examinations for fifty five government positions will be held in Indianapolis from August 26 to October 21 under Walton L. Dynes, secretary of the United States civil-service examiners. Posts cover civil and mechanical engineering, nursing, medicine, teaching, stenography, naval and coast survey roles in the United States and the Philippines.
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Indianapolis
Walton L. Dynes
Board of
United States Civil-Service Examiners
Board of Agriculture
Philippines
Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. Se
Naval Observatory
Navy Department
Dover
N. J
Internal Revenue
Government Printing Service
Philippine Service
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Patent Office
Nautical Almanac Office
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Land Office Service
Indian Service
Real estate transfers and building permits in Marion County
The record lists numerous real estate transfers in Marion County Indiana with total consideration and buyers such as Lucius B Swift, Nannie J, and Mary Little. It also notes building permits totaling $25,287 for various frame cottages and remodeling projects in Indianapolis.
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Lucius B. Swift
Nannie J
Kenwood Park
Charlies L. Draper
Mary Little
Armstrong Park
Recorder’s Office
Marion County
Indiana
Paint and Color Co
N. McCarty
City of
Indianapolis
Shelby
Moesch
Mary Ann McDonald
Newton Wood
Walter J. Hubbard
Wm. M. Keystone
North
Enbucher
J. W. Brown
James R. Tyre
Alvord
Fletcher
Charles H. Litverer
Kateson
Lot
Square
Edward N. Miller
George M. Geckie
Julian, Bradubry & Julian
Spring Garden
Katharine Jeremiah Creeden
George Kessler
George W. Shel
West Side
St. Clair
Armstrong's
Fletcher's
Otis
Roberts
George E. Bridhogany Co
St. Warren D. Shan
Louis Wamp- Car Cos
James N. Miller
Beeson
Notaries S Sub
George W. Stout
Ims Water Co
Stout
Indiana-av
Tuttle Culver
John B. Stewart
Culver Et al
Columbia Place
Earthquake Quips in Caribbean Patois Prose
A quirky dialect piece says the earthquake never hurts if you stay calm and true. It credits the law and the country while insisting the fire won’t burn those who keep steady.
Transportation fares and routes on Terre Haute line
Fragmentary fare table lists St. Louis limited and Western Express routes with prices like 3.30 and 5.20, Terre Haute connections to Bingham and Lac Louis, plus daily service notes. Some lines indicate Sunday or special days with limited counts and unclear times.
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St. Louis Limited
Terre Haute
St. Louis
Western Express
Bingham
Terre Haute Express
Gresacastie
Terre Haw
Lac Leuis
Younday
Passenger car schedule for Penivania and Washington streets
Passenger cars leave Penivania and Washington streets. First car at 6 a.m. and hourly thereafter until 7 p.m. inclusive. Last car leaves at 1:15 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays cars leave also at 1:30, 2:90, 3:00, 4:30 and 3:20 p.m. Combination passenger and express car leaves Meridian streets for Greenwood only at 9:00 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. Indianapolis Shelvyville Southeastern Traction Co.
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Franklin
Meridian
Georgia
Richmond
Page Senger
Gifield
Sps
Grrentieia Ned Ifarvediate
Indianapolis
Martiney
Csre
Martinsville
Mooresville
Penivania
Washington Streets
Meridian Streets
Greenwood
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Vital Statistics
William and Teresa Norton
North State Avenue
Pearl O'Donnell
Lowry Street
Ath
Mmet and Lilly Schultz
Shelby Street
Thomas and
Elieabeth Murray
New Jersey
Artemus
Tate Lite
Davis
Villa Avenue
Otte Urd Jesate Irwin
Deloss Street
Bite
Mary Schmbit
Wtirank
Blendie Knox
Lincoln Street
Rosetta Davis
Henry Street
Itar
Joy Littell
Cowell Avenue
Clarence Josie Bterena
Engtish Avenue
August
Matilda Schafey
South Summit Avenue
Arthur and
Jennie Austin
Randolph Street
Oan
Lou White
McClain Street
Jarces S. Malone
Cora Cart Vincent _P. Backiey
Myre
James Edward Morris
Isa Hil
Jesse Kirsch
Leota Maurer
Charles Giarrison
Mayme Kelley Winfield & Iray
Firace I. Froth
Johm J. m
Mary Loeidt
Adulph Ch
Aretta Prinzler
Ty Monahan
West
McCarty Street
M_ Seguer
Oliver Avenue
Wiltemee
Chicago Street
Emma J. Whirett
Bellefontaine Street
J Naan
West Washington Street
Mary Burgess
Massachusetts Avenue
St. Vincent's Hospital
Tutewiler & Son
Market St
Hassler & Grorgh
Tohnson
Michusetts
Frank A. Blanchard
N. Delaware St
A. Diener
Washington
Crown Hill
M. M. Farrell
Weat
Washington St
W. D. Allison CO
Alabama
George F. Cram
United States
the Journal
Ind
Moore, Pike & CO
Baldwin Block
Raler
Baker-Wawter CO
Atchison, Kan
United States Marine Corps
Naval Stations
Sentinel Building
Stevenson
Pike
Reasonable. & CO
Journal
W. H. Burke
Clifton Springs
N. Y
Cee Financial
Frank Sawyer
SAYLES @ CO
East Market Street
Union Trust Co
East Market
Board of Commissioners of
Gecounty
Courty
North West Township
West Baien
Huron Reed
French Lick Township
Orangeville
West Baden
Hayesville
Orange County
Board of Commissioners
George W. Tegarden
Paoil
John
Seth Strattad Oeorge
Orange
Columbus Barracks
Pullman
Act of Columbus
Columbus
Ohio
Jine
Collins- Dus Barracks
Univ Couniet and Storage Storage Company
East St
Union Track
W. EL Karts
Crossland
Penn
Mer
Indiana Crop Report
Army and Navy
Army
J. R. Brady
Naval Torpedo Station
Narrangansett Bay
R. L
Naval Academy
Annapolis
H. F. Marker
St. Louia
Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Peru
San Francisco
California
Central Passenger Association
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
C. P. Hart
Wisconsin Valley Division
Southampton
Europe
Republic
North America
United Kingdom
Great Britain and Ireland
Germany
Eduardo Higginson
England
Hobson
Dobson
Wharton
Supreme Court
the Court Record
Amus
Texas
Fair Bank
Dorf's Fair Bank
Pananee of
Aamtaah
A M. Spahr
West King Street
Fia Sgoubie
Walffen
Northame Street
Geckler
A. F. Schreiber
North Rural Street
Wilkesbarre
Reblican Counseavention
Souavemiene Ft N Palmer
Aubert Cc
Songzeetonal
Cog
Rot Atkins
Dally
Sheeper
Dinine
Dupday
BIG Foux & City Dicket
Cleveland Express
Fort Wayne Express
Union City
Boston
Fimi
Union City Accommodation
N.Y
Bos
Krickerbe Renton
Benton Harbor
Tenton Harbor
Bikhart Secomms
T. Lo Ont World
Accommodation
T. Louis South Western
T. Louis Limited
Matte
Veruat Kankakee
Lafayette
Chicago Fast Mail
White City
Cincinnati Express
S. Cincinnati Express
Pbs - Vernon
Louisvil - Vernon
Louisville
Peoria
Bloomington
Peoris
Champaign
Lynn
CIN
HAM
City Ticket Office
Claypool
Cincinnati Fast Mail
Dayton
Toledo
Detroit Express
Cincinnati Limited
Nnati
Dayton Express
Ledo
Detroit Expres
Springfield Division
Springfield Express
Culeage Fapreas
Tuscola Accommoda
Scienes
Lake Erie & West
Aeege
Sonn Pratton
Oleda, Roit Chicago Lim
Muncie, Lafayte and
Miche Y Sp
Phil Battimore
Louisvil
Piqua
Colum Vincennes
North Vernon
Madison
Xenia
East
Phi
Logansport
Baltimore
Vincennes
Louieville
Spencer
French Licktisburg
Ken
Ueen
Artiva
Wis
IA Louis RY
Indiana Union Traction CO
Magnolia
Vallding
Corner Kentucky
Marion
Alexandria
Elwood
Tifton
Anderson
Mucte
Indianapahe
Muncie
Alockey Moraine
Anderesom
Tipton
Marton
Indianapolis & Eastern R. R. Co
Indianapolis & Martinsville Rapid Transit Co
Indianapolis, Greenwood
Indianapolis, Shelvyville
Southeastern Traction CO
Shelbyville
Huder’s Drug Store
E. B. Ensley Pharmacy
Stubbins Hotel
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