Old Company Blamed Coroner Returns Verdict on Park Collapse
Philadelphia August 1 coroner wraps up probe into the August 8 stands collapse at the Philadelphia National League park that killed twelve and injured about thirty. Verdict blames rotten timbers and says the Philadelphia Baseball Club Limited as former owner failed proper inspection. recommends field remains closed until all building inspector recommendations are followed and the stands are inspected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Baseball Club (Limited
Bureau of Building Inspection
National League Baseball Club
John Ad. Rodgers
Dohertys Win American Championship Doubles Again
In Newport on Aug 1 the British duo R F Doherty and Dr L Doherty won the American lawn tennis Championship doubles for a second time. They defeated Kreigh Collins and L H Waldner in straight sets 7 4 6 3 3, with misty commentary on form and strategy throughout the match.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
R. I
R. F
Dr. L. Doherty
Kreigh Collins
L. H. Waldner
Collins
Waldner
Dohertys
Spat Cepensate
Collins Waldner
Fenteray
Ward
Ware
Cevetie
R. F. Doher- Kreigh Collins
Doherty
Boston Pla
Kerry
Richmond to Host Postponed Muncie Tennis Match
Special to the Indianapolis Journal from Richmond Indiana reports the planned Muncie tennis team match here tomorrow has been postponed. The article notes a past Richmond victory at Muncie and expresses confidence of repeating it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Richmond
Ind
Muncie
Indianapolis Bowling League elects officers remains ten clubs
The Indianapolis Bowling League held its annual meeting and elected Col. Harry B. Smith as president, George Seidensticker as vice president, and Edward Talbert as secretary and treasurer. The plan to expand to twelve clubs was rejected. Season starts Sept. 2 with Marion, Turner, Washington and Pastime alleys, Friday bowling unchanged. A committee of Harry Olds, George Seidensticker and Robert Bryson will arrange for a fifth alley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Bowling League
Harry B. Smith
George Seidensticker
Edward Talbert
Marion
Turner
Washington
Harry Olds
Robert Bryson
Trot Exhibition Records and Purse Details
David Cook of Seffersburg Indiana took second, Jack M owned by Peter Lawes of Indianapotle third, Daisy Thomas owned by Clarence Tucker of Georgetown fourth. Time 2 04 2201 2 24. Purse was 3 dollars. Little Frances the guideless wonder owned by Louis Hippie trotted a half mile exhibition in 1 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Cook
Seffersburg
Ind
Jack M
Peter Lawes
Indianapotle
Daisy Thomas
Clarence Tucker
Georgetown
Little Frances
Louis Hippie
Dress torn to shreds as Ames man bound over in assault case
Jobn Ross was bound over to the grand jury on a $2 bond after his arrest for beating his wife and threatening her with a knife. The judge noted repeated abuse over the past year while the victim testified she left two weeks ago and stayed with her parents. The torn dress worn by the wife was shown as evidence. Ross admitted abuse at Ames and expressed regret.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jobn Ross
Whallon
Ross
Rose
Ames
Mob law condemned by David B Hill at Niagara picnic
At the Niagara County Pioneers Association picnic in Olcott Beach New York on August 1 David B Hill urged opposition to mob violence asserting it worsens crime, undermines due process and endangers civil rights. He argued the remedy lies in enforcing law through due process and public patriotism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olcott Beach
N. Y
Niagara County Pioneers’ Association
David B. Hill
Cuneen
Senator Hill
Sought to Warn Lover in Hungarian-Servian Clash at Whiting
In Whiting last night four injured in race war as Nora Harsok, a Hun, warns her Servian lover from a saloon. she is bashed with a beer bottle and may die. Police intervene as authorities delay action toward razing the townsite, now owned by Standard Oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Hammond
Ind
Whiting
Nora Harsok
Marsok
Standard Oll Company
DODE CARRINGTON CAPTURED NEAR NORTONVILLE KY
Danville reports Dode Carrington alias John Theodore Carrington wanted for the alleged murder of his sister in law at Grape Creek was captured at Nortonville Kentucky. A deputy will return the prisoner to Danville tonight at 1 o clock. Governor Yates offered a 200 dollar reward. Lynching threats exist but militia remains on site. Carrington arrives without a requisition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Danville
St. Aug
John Theodore Carrington
Dode Carrington
Grape Creek
Nortonville
Yates
Carrington
Stepmother Faces Cruelty Charge in Richmond
In Richmond Indiana on August nineteen Mrs Homer Blue a seventeen year old wife was accused by neighbors of cruelty to her two stepchildren ages six and seven. The police detained the children pending a thorough investigation after reports she refused to feed them and beat them when they sought food.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Richmond
Ind
Homer Blue
Dixon Case Evidence In Cannelton Trial
In Cannelton, Ind, Martha Dixon case opens with circumstantial testimony. Nancy Harris recalls Dixon saying doctors gave her husband three arsenic doses. Clara Comstock places Dixon at Miles’s drug store buying arsenic and notes Dixon’s flippant remark about her husband’s death. Emily Orange testifies Dixon spoke soon after Dixon’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Cannelton
Ind
Martha Dixon
Nancy Harris
Emily Orange
Dixon
Arson? No. Dixon case hinges on testimony and arsenic evidence
Witnesses describe Mrs. Dixon’s closeness to Douglass Um lake and say she did not see her husband for a day before his death. Doctors Eads and Bennett testify to arsenic traces in Dixon’s stomach and bladder after exhumation. The State rests at 5 p.m. Defense witnesses begin examination tomorrow.
Boys Charged With Hobbery In Muncie Case
Edward Driscoll and Fred Cox, both sixteen, were captured in Columbus Ohio and held on charges of robbing the Wachtell department store in Muncie last Saturday night. Police recovered much of the stolen goods from that store and a Gibson grocery store burglary, with evidence tying the suspects to several other robberies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Muncie
Ind
Edward Driscoll
Fred Cox
Columbus
Wachtell Department
Peter Drury
Cox
Wachtell
Gibson Cery
West Jackson Street
Desperate Act of Hess Seized by Night Nurse
In Goshen Indiana on August 19 Fred Hess a Columbia City youth prone to insanity and blackmail plotted suicide. He drew a case knife on his nurse as sheriffs and doctors intervened. he is watched for safe return to jail by Whitley county officials. In Danville Illinois guards near the county jail faced gunfire from hoodlums. In Goshen a despondent man Joseph Spahr aged thirty five crippled swallowed five grains of strychnine but doctors expect to save him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Goshen
Ind
Fred Hess
Columbia City
Whitley County
Danville
Ill
Pickering
John Fifer
Joseph Spahr
Levi Spahr
George Ayers
Wall Crashes as Freight Car Smashed Pennsylvania Freight House
A flying switch at the Pennsylvania railroad Delaware Street freight house hurled a freight car through the two foot thick brick and steel wall, tearing out the wall and blocking the street. No injuries occurred though a man and woman narrowly escaped. The wall and imitation steel door were hurled across the road, forming a barrier while tracks outside were torn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railroad
Delaware Street
Left Children for Vice Two Women From Montezuma Guilty
Two Montezuma Indiana women Belle Bronson and Nellie Aghelton were arrested in Indianapolis after deserting their husbands with five children ages three to eleven. Police found them in a house of ill fame with two men. all four adults and five children were taken to the station for the night. The women claim husbands were habitual drunks and will be returned to Montezuma with their sentences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle Bronson
Nellie Aghelton
Montizuma
Ind
Leet
Hume and
Musgrove
Indianapolis
West Maryland Street
Montezuma Toay
Langley Airship Experiments Need Caution Until Results
Professor Langley of the Smithsonian, amid attention to his aerodrome on the Potomac, issues a statement explaining funding sources and boards’ approval. He notes these trials are early, essentially experimental, with heavier-than-air craft sustaining flight only briefly by mechanical means and urges restraint in publicizing results until they are certain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
8. P. Langley
Smithsonian Institution
Potomac River
Board of Ordnance and Fortifications
Board of Regents
Beat an Old Horse on Blackford Street
Frank Hurt of 429 Hiawatha Street was arrested by Humane Officer Wilson after whipping an old horse to exhaustion on Blackford Street. The horse, used to haul a gravel load, was severely injured and had to be killed by the humane officer. Hurt said the animal was too old to pull the load and claimed surprise at his arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Hurt
Hiawatha Street
Wilson
Blackford Street
Hurt
Hart
Coroner Mistaken for Mormon Elder on Indianapolis Street
Coroner H D Tutewiler, dressed in a frock coat and wide brimmed hat, walked to a funeral and drew stares from residents. Passersby mistook him for a Mormon elder, praising his appearance. he realized the neighborhood’s Mormon presence had grown nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion County
Harry Tutewiller
Tutewiler
Indianapolis
Clerks to March in Labor Day Parade
Retail Clerks Union members voted to participate in the Labor Day parade on September 7. All members failing to attend will be fined. Six new membership applications were considered, and stores were urged to close at 9:30 am to allow marching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Retail Clerks' Union
Morrison Hall
The Mob Spirit
A letter to the Indiana Journal argues mob violence endangers the state. It urges legal restraint and calls for a citizens oath to aid law enforcement, warning that mobs undermine order and safety and praising orderly justice over vigilantism.
Also Mentioned on This Page
OLD Company 1
Philadelphia Ball Park
Wis
Wardner
Grand Hotel
Edinburg
Willie Se Eet
Regal
Cutsinger
Ed Wilkes
Lewin
Eve Ie
Buskirk
George Guislager
Euresti
May Anderson
Anderson
Krourbon H. Rere
Tee Brioma
Shake Rene Trot
Ower
James B. Duke
fHook
Henky G
Onanibere
Iene Waster
Wilkes Telurkes
Halslett
M. Rey
Kinter
Hesuke
New Albany
Syrcial
Felr
Boreal Wilkes
Charlie Donely
Pittebur
Alma Baron
Williams Sloemer
This Eries
Frank
Whitson & Third
Cora
D. B. Hill
Niagara County
Hess
Cader Arres
Stepmother
Cannelton Trians
Yachht Reliance
Thomas Linton
S. P. Langley
Picket
Strychnine
Pennsylvania-St
Montezuma
Prof
Langley
Humane Oficer
H. D. Tutewiler
Dess of Justice
United States
Blank County
Indiana
Sander & Becker Furniture
East Washington Street
Marchants’ Association
Bosuikss' Totic EE
Indianapolis Conservatory of Music
Edgar M. Cawley
North
Ilinois Street
Cata UE
Principel
May Wright Sewall
M.L
Pennsylvania St
HOWE
Lima, Indiana
Cincinnati
J. i. McKenzie
Claypool
Knickerbocker Hall
Tr Gs
Mary Helen Yerkes
Central Avenue
Tudor Hall
Andianapolis
Meridian and
Sixteenth Sts
Fredonia Allen
J. Cumming Smith
Military Academy
Culver, Ind
Lake Maxinkuckee
Culver Military Academy
Vulcan
USA
The
Fas Co
Rck Atkins
Barry
Lockwyyood
Lemcke Building
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!