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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1902
Page
5
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A collage of 1900s era notes notes on China chances in Cuba annexation sentiment in Cuba grows while Brits absorb Persian Shah London arrival and US Germany trade rivalries. Indianapolis reputation touched by real estate syndicate bids. German consul Wever censured for criticizing German school teaching and urging changes.
The Spanish minister in Washington says Spain is eager for American organizers and promoters to start new enterprises in that country. He notes his countrymen have ample capital but lack American enterprise, and the invitation illustrates how quickly postwar wounds heal under twentieth century influences.
Ex Senator Werner Miller returning from Alaska tour expresses surprise at the territory’s resources with emphasis on mining and timber. He states that even after all large timber in Washington and Oregon is exhausted there will remain a vast supply in Alaska.
Reports of two more serious automobile crashes in France after a killing push popular for prohibiting fast driving. In Chicago seven arrests for speeding feed public concern. Lafayette street car strikers boycott patrons, drawing criticism as intimidation. Professor Gannett undertakes to trace nearly ten thousand U S county city town and river names, revealing Indian English and French roots. Charles Denby Jr of this state named chief foreign adviser to the viceroy of Chi Li China, signaling American influence. Street fair loses favor in Indiana towns as novelty fades.
The passage notes over time the fair attracted many visitors but gained objectionable features and undesired characters. After a second trial, most towns avoid it and Noblesville appears to have had its last fair.
The Boer generals Botha De la Rey and De Wet are praised for their fighting, later welcomed by King Edward and treated with honor in England. The piece notes Britain's conciliatory approach, aims to heal wartime wounds, and plans to fund families in South Africa, possibly via treaty provisions.
Professor Goss argues Germany offers more liberty in education and press with less license than the United States, but his conclusions are biased. The Berlin University operates under state control, with some lecturer freedom and government restraints. In the US, government supervision is minimal, with restraint mainly from public opinion and local boards.
A discussion challenges Professor Goss on German press liberty versus American freedoms. Citing Berlin trials for lese majesty, it notes imperial press control and weak caricaturing of officials, arguing U.S. institutions better suit Americans and foster liberty and progress.
Charles M. Schwab, after twenty years rising from grocer's clerk to steel trust president, is in poor health and will travel to Europe for a rest. The essay notes many grocers' clerks stay in their jobs, yet few take European cures. It recalls an Allen County boy who lost his barn and more to fire, a lasting memory. Yesterday felt like a gray day as described by writers.
The excerpt riffs on social foibles and political notes with quips about flirtation on the beach and consent. A witty sampler mixes light domestic lines with a nod to the wireless age and public life through brief exchanges. The tone mirrors a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper humor column.
A collection of humorous exchanges and quips from newspapers in Chicago Boston Washington and Atlanta. Jokes touch on eye wear political bosses back down and a mule story ending with an alligator joke.
Thomas Hawkins is arrested for complicity in the Black Prince murder case from nearly two years ago. The seizure targets fuel gas supplies in Muncie as part of new receivers for two companies.
Multiple Indiana cities report legal steps to curb traction line work. In Wabash the city seeks a court injunction to stop Fort Wayne and Southeastern Traction from building on Water street, after disputes over route changes and street rights of way. Public opinion favored the company’s proposed river bottom route despite council inaction.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal from Lafayette Ind August 18 street cars run on regular schedule with few passengers as a rigid boycott is enforced by the Central Labor Union planning a parade and demonstration tomorrow night. Unions warn business men to refrain from patronizing the street railway company or face extended boycott. No disturbances reported. Some conductors and motormen jeered but little ill will. Strikers operate back lines and cars run between the square and distant parts. Music contract with Villinger's Band broken as unionists refuse to play. Manager Emmons and Musicians' Union discuss next steps.
The Winona Bible Conference in Winona Lake Ind draws hundreds of ministers from across the country with an estimated 2500 in attendance, while a wage strike hits the Winona Hotel as waiters win a $1.50 weekly raise. The program includes talks by Rev Thomas M Chalmers Rev James Mursell and Rev George Jackson with sessions on Jews rescue missions and hillside services led by professors from the Congregational Theological Seminary.
Joseph Colbert aged about twenty, engineer for the Ohio OW Company on the Jones and Cloud lease three miles east of Warren, was found at noon today beside his locomotive with blood from his mouth and ears. He remained unconscious and no witnesses were present to give details of the accident.
LAPORTE Ind Aug 18 The body found on Grand Trunk Railroad tracks at Mill Creek has been identified as Charles McDermott of Chicago He left Chicago on Aug T to take a Grand Trunk position and his family first learned of his fate from a notice received by Cor ory officials
In Bluffton Indiana eleven year old Forreat Riddle, son of Dora Riddle, fell from a hay mow and sustained fatal head injuries with skull crushed. In Laporte fragmentary notice mentions a man named McDermott, age thirty six, dead and buried in Chicago after death.
Walter Brown of Ghent Kentucky was killed at the Peru steel mills when a casting fell on him tonight. The accident occurred in Peru Indiana and the deceased was reportedly married.
Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends will be held in Pendleton starting Monday August 2 with 1500 to 2000 visitors expected. The meeting house has been enlarged to twice its former capacity and delegates from other meetings will attend. Noted preachers Mary Smith Elwood Trueblood Edward Cole William W Foulke and Wilson S Crane will speak.
The General Synod of Ohio and other states will meet at St. Pauls Church Michigan City from August 21 to 27. An executive committee will meet to finalize the program. Opening remarks by Rev Dr Schuett of Columbus. Rev Dr Mees of Woodville will speak on Friday. About two hundred delegates expected.
In Lafayette Indiana August 18 a heated tax dispute over the Moses Fowler estate centers on alleged omitted items. Tax ferret J B Workman seeks about 100000 added to the tax duplicate which would reduce the estate value by that amount. The annuity of Mrs Eliza Fowler rated at 9000 yearly is under review to decide if it is taxable.
In Evansville on August 18 a breach of promise suit of Mrs Martha Holtman against Stephen W Meade ended with a verdict for the defendant. Meade a wealthy 70 year old farmer testified he made visits but never promised marriage. Holtman 65, widow of Justice Holtman, has several children and grandchildren.
John McNaughton a wealthy Elkhart banker and county councilman aged sixty was sued in Elkhart Circuit Court for 5000 damages by his domestic Mary Mangold. She says he entered her sleeping apartment at midnight on May 19 and made improper proposals. She alleges the shock harmed her health and nerves.
Marion Indiana August 18 Thomas Hawkins, the avowed murderer of Irvin Dye, was arrested today at Winchester. The crime occurred November 2 190 in the rear of a dive known as the Black Prince. Hawkins had previously implicated himself while intoxicated. Will Williams, police sergeant, led the three week inquiry that yielded information expected to secure Hawkins’s conviction.
Jimmie Thornton a nineteen year old Black man from New Albany was killed at Mitchell after a church disturbance. Commodore Terrell, also Black, confronted Thornton and struck him with a ball bat during services. Thornton died shortly after.
At the Indiana district Turners convention in South Bend, August 18, officers for the Turn Bezirk were elected. President Herman Lieber, vice president George Vonnegut, corresponding secretary Theodore Stempfel, recording secretary Peter Shherer, and treasurer Albert Metzger, all residents of Indianapolis. A technical work committee was also named with Hennich Suders of Chicago, Hugo Fisher, and Curt Toll of Indianapolis.
Shelbyville Indiana reports a dry Sunday as the police committee of the new Council ordered officers to close saloons from 11 p.m. Saturday to 5 a.m. Monday. Special police who were hired will join the regular force.
In LaPorte Indiana on July the Ball families learned by letter from Raton New Mexico that Harry Ball, formerly of LaPorte, had been involved in an unspecified incident. The brief dispatch left residents anxious about his fate and status, with no further details available at the time.
MARION, Ind. Aug. 18. A long missing man, Harry Ball once of Laporte now in Pueblo, Cal, mails a letter revealing he is alive. the case was mistaken identity. MeIntire, missing eight years, reappears in Buffalo meeting a Marion traveler. he’s married to a former sweetheart and plans a visit to Indiana. Franklin, Ind. Aug. 13. Brown county couple elopes to wed. Clyde Childs eighteen and Etta Curry twenty seven. Bedford, Ind. Aug. 18. A horse owned by Howard McKinney is found drowned after being led into a cistern in a revenge act.
Bluffton Indiana on August 18 Mrs John White and Mrs Douglass White had four local saloon keepers arrested for selling liquor to their husbands after warnings that they were habitual drunkards. W I Nash and Jacob Masterson were charged with selling liquor on Sunday. Mayor Plessinger fined Nash and Masterson ten dollars and costs each. Gaon was acquitted and Lipinsky's trial set for tomorrow.
Twenty five Muncie windowglass workers formerly employed in the American plants here deserted the trust and left for Stockton California this evening. They will join workers from Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana and other states in an independent company's plant in which J. Hurrrie who sold his Hartford City and Dunkirk plants to the trust is interested.
Valparaiso Indiana August 18 Kittle Hart employed by Dr Stone burner at the time of a sensational robbery at his home last Monday was arrested this afternoon. She faces charges of committing the robbery. She was found gagged and bound in a bath tub and would have drowned if not discovered in time. The court will hear her case tomorrow.
Winchester Ind Aug 18 Opening day of the Randolph county fair shows a satisfactory list of entries especially in the speed ring with between thirty and forty fast step pers already registered Livestock exhibits are very fine along with other departments across the fairgrounds this year
Wabash Church and School Furniture Company began a $2.0% order for church furniture for churches in Porto Rico. This marks the first U S shipment of this kind to the island, with more orders expected.
Franklin Ind Aug 18 The large modern farm residence of Isaac Grimes four miles south of this place was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The family had just returned from Indianapolis and found their home on fire. The insurance was 1900 dollars.
A Cracow Galician paper reports the Russian czar found on his desk a letter from a revolutionary committee threatening his life unless he grants constitutional government to Russia. The czar was said to be greatly alarmed by the notice.
London report from the Geneva daily Express correspondent says a Swiss lieutenant Ramud was found on the Trient Glacier and the Swiss mountaineer Marcus Zimmerman was recovered from a crevasse on Mt Glarnische.
Richmond Indiana August 18 Marion Devers and Glen Enham two young men who broke jail here weeks ago are now under arrest at Fostoria Ohio Sheriff Untank left for that place today and will return with them Devers is held for horse stealing.
Miss Edith Eider of Alden Michigan a telegraphy student in Valparaiso vanished after departing for Chicago on July 10. No word has been heard since and authorities await clues in the ongoing missing person case.
Evansville City Council voted to terminate the Cumberland Telephone Company franchise, giving the firm ninety days to cease operations in the city after the July expiration.
In Shelbyville William Clark a 58 year old retired farmer collapsed and died from apoplexy in a city business house. Elizabeth Richardson an 81 year old widow of C Richardson died in Tipton at her son's home. Marion Phumphrey 60 a farmer died at his home northeast of Tipton from dropsy. John R Aydelott formerly of Marion and Muncie, a public works contractor, was found dead in Woodlawn Park Chicago after living in Muncie. John Mofason a Franklin area farmer and notable citizen also died today.
Best known of the old residents died at home on West Franklin after a paralysis illness. A Johnson County native for seventy three years he was a member of Hopewill Presbyterian Church and served as a director of the county full. He left five children.
Elwood Company No 4 U R Knights of Pythias reorganizes under Captain J N Nazum after withdrawal from San Francisco drills. The unit plans winter drills at Apollo rink and aims to attend the Louisville conclave next year after winning 81 04 prize in chase.
Senator James McMillan’s will, filed for probate in Detroit, leaves his widow the Jefferson Avenue home with life interest in the Manchester by the Sea property and divides the rest of his estate among children, trusted heirs, and several public and family gifts. Public bequests include one dollar to multiple charitable bodies and substantial gifts to Grace Hospital, Home of the Friendless, Women’s Hospital and Foundlings’ Home, and other institutions.
Vienna mourns Prof. Leopold Schenck author of Determination of Sex after thirty five years as a University of Vienna professor. A tireless researcher he spent little time on leisure with his wife and several sons, eldest twenty seven. He was short stout dark bearded and cordial.
Benjamin F. Dats longtime Toledo chief of police died at his home from diabetes at age fifty seven. A Civil War veteran he leaves a daughter Mia 0 B Law of Mobile Alabama who was present at his death and his wife who died about a year ago.
LITCHFIELD IL Aug 14 Hon George L Zink a prominent central Illinois lawyer died at his home today from Pright's disease at sixty four He had lived in Litchfield since the Civil War where he served as sergeant major in the Fifty second OBO Infantry
The Rev Dr Edward C Benson, senior Kenyon College Latin professor, died last midnight at age seventy nine. The alumni endowed the chair in his name. Many will attend his funeral here on Wednesday afternoon.
A Detroit food company manager explains rapid demand creation by advertising only in city dailies. He says sampling is overdone and that newspapers reach the intended audience better than billboards or other methods. The daily newspaper circulates widely among shoppers.
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