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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1903
Page
5
An 1903 Indianapolis Journal page lists subscription terms, pricing with and without Sunday editions, carrier and mail rates, club discounts, and agent details. It notes mailing standards for different paper sizes and directs readers to submit communications for publication, with a list of newsstand locations in New York, St Louis, and Washington.
Offer to mail the Journal regularly to readers with flexible address updates. Instructions urge placing an order before starting and promise to change the address as often as desired to keep in touch with home.
A reflective column surveys the Ohio Democratic split, municipal politics, and party maneuvering. It notes Hitz's certainty, Odell and Lill exchanges, and Holtzman’s record, while urging sharper diplomacy, forestry concerns, and the need for civic education as the National Municipal League forms a committee with educators to improve local governance.
The Municipal League praises Miss Laura Donnan for years of civics teaching at the Indianapolis High School. Her class projects, including the schools Senate, have inspired pupil engagement in government principles. The Journal notes potential value in applying her approach to city government.
The Bryan Johnson faction loses Ohio, signaling a major blow to anti Bryan elements and shaping next year’s party contest. The old organization’s control tipped questions of contest, while Indiana reformers face a setback as they push for January reorganizations. Western Democrats still rally to Bryanism, but a sizable minority across East and West will not back the party’s dead issue platform.
A critique argues education may not guarantee success as wages rise across occupations. It contrasts clerks, correspondents, lawyers, doctors, hodcarriers, and stone setters with hourly and weekly pay, urging early trade training. It notes labor news, express delivery issues, and Danville riot trials as societal concerns.
A column reviews political reform ideas and electoral friction, lampoons Holtman, and critiques Democratic governance. It comments on lightning risks in Indiana, pardons for workhouse prisoners, Lilian Russell’s family elopement, Harry Thurston Peck and Pulitzer, summer vacations, and vegetable money claims amid weather effects on corn.
A collage of brief jokey exchanges and quips from various papers. The snippets include punny lines about melancholy, voices, luck and opals, a Weathered chat about Henry, and a bantering joke between Miss Folsworth and Inkaman. The page captures light humor and social chatter about authors and personalities.
The mail steamer Virginia Lake reports both the Hubbard explore expedition and the Willard Glazier expedition from Albany are active in Labrador interior with good prospects. On the voyage to St Johns she sighted an unusually high number of icebergs, reporting 287 in one sighting.
Sofia reports a Macedonian committee list of seventy villages pillaged in the Monastir Vilayet and outrages on women. A mass meeting urged Great Power action. Insurgents claimed a Turkish detachment defeated, a bridge blown, and a 4,000 franc ransom seized. Calls for Christian governor and European intervention rise amid rumors of massacres.
A Sofia Times report warns of barbaric Turkish measures in Macedonia including village burnings and massacres of women children and the elderly as the revolting Bulgarians face brutal suppression. Prisons are slain escorts and Turkish forces concentrate near the Bulgarian frontier amid fear of invasion.
Vienna reports say the Porte will declare Bulgaria directly responsible for the Vilayet of Adrianople rising and refuse liability for consequences. It notes Macedonian authorities ordered to protect Greeks and possible Turkish Greek cooperation against insurgents. Other dispatches mention a Turco Greek alliance and Austrian consul seeking punishment for an Albanian regiment. Turkish reserves called out.
IbrAhim Pasha, a young capable commander, leads a major Turkish buildup in Macedonia with seven battalions from Monastir sent to Florina as Turkey vows to repress the rebellion. Telegraph wires were cut between Salonica and Varvar.
London dispatch says King Peter vows to crush military malcontents with an iron hand. Three army colonels two captains and a newspaper editor were condemned to death for taking part in a thwarted plot. The monarch appears controlled by regicides fueling a reign of terror.
Chicago August report cites John Finnerty of the United Irish League of America praising the land purchase bill as a victory yet urging further reforms. He argues for an independent Irish Parliament, while noting the need for a native Dublin legislature, and cites Parnell on national progress.
VICTORIA B C Aug 26 The revenue cutter McCulloch anchored in Victoria harbor with a Senate committee on territories aboard reporting Alaska should have a congressional delegate though not yet elected They favor a national highway Valdez to Eagle and a wagon road interior to spur private railroad development They also support government hatcheries funded by fisheries taxes to preserve Balman fisheries The committee planned to proceed to Seattle and then home.
Washington notes increased American interests on the Pacific coast lead to re establishing a South Pacific station. A cruiser squadron of three to four protected cruisers will be based there under a rear admiral, with the Cleveland Denver Des Moines Galveston and Chattanooga to join after commissioning. The Pacific squadron will be renamed the North Pacific squadron with its southern bound at the isthmus.
Daniel Prime, a colored Easton resident and sergeant of Company H, 54th Massachusetts Colored Volunteers, is bequeathed $5,000 by Jonathan Moore of Jackson Michigan. Moore, a first lieutenant in the Eleventh Michigan Volunteers, saved Prime's life during Fort Sumter operations when Prime bound Moore's shattered leg and carried him to safety.
Morris Gros, an assistant in a New York English Avenue butcher shop, inherits $12,000 from Strassburg goose liver dealer Joseph Eberhardt. He recalls a 1888 dock rescue of an elderly man whose sailboat capsized, the event that led to the gift.
The National Fraternal Lanes committee on fraternal insurance at the national convention of insurance commissioners considered a proposed uniform law for all fraternal beneficiary associations. The measure aims to standardize regulations across the industry.
The article describes a proposed measure defining fraternal beneficiary associations and granting them exemptions from state insurance laws unless expressly designated. It covers how such associations may acquire hold and dispose of property, and outlines license revocation for overstepping powers or hazardous businesses. It also sets that associations authorized to issue disability benefits must adjust benefits to Manchester Unity tables after January 1 1908, and mentions a National Fraternal Congress uniform law bill with similar provisions and pending adoption.
New York Samuel Parks, business agent for the Housesmiths and Bridgemen Union, was sentenced today to two years six months to three years six months in Sing Sing for extortion. He took $200 from Josephus Plenty of Hoboken contractor to call off a strike. Three other indictments on similar charges are pending. He is also convicted for assaulting a rival labor leader, awaiting sentence.
About 200 lawyers attend the annual convention in Hot Springs Virginia with sessions through Friday. President Francia Rawle outlines national and state legal developments, reports show most states represented, and a standing committee on uniform state laws is proposed. The Association of American Law Schools also holds its session with papers from Yale and St Louis, drawing praise for Sir Frederick Pollock.
Documents from William D. Croke private chamberlain to Pope Pius X outline efforts by Polish Americans to obtain representation of their nationality in the American Catholic hierarchy. Rev Wenceslaus Kurszka travels to Rome to push for a Polish bishop or, at least, vicar generals, with eleven of fourteen cardinals reportedly favorable as the matter will be addressed by the new pope.
In Bismarck a political meeting ended with Judge Carrol L. Wood of the Arkansas Supreme Court knocking Governor Davis off a speaking stand four feet to the ground. Davis was uninjured. Wood was arrested on assault and battery charges but later appeared to be released as the matter was adjusted.
Frank Tankenbaugh a floorwalker was fatally shot by Mrs H E Flaley a stenographer in his Seattle lodging shortly after midnight The shooting occurred in the presence of Tankenbaughs wife and a six year old child who say the revolver menaced them for twenty minutes before the husband appeared Mrs Flaley fired twice in a jealous act the exact motive is believed to be jealousy
At Naples the Vesuvius eruption opened a wide mouth and belched lava and red hot stones, rising 700 feet in the air at times. The lava stream ran 15 feet wide and reached 2,700 feet from the cone before veering away from the observatory. Despite alarm, authorities reported no danger to residents as spectators watched the dramatic, largely harmless display from safe distance.
A New York boy, named Frank Trompe, aged eighteen, reportedly signed ship articles and was held aboard the Marechal De Gontant, which sailed for Yokohama. Police and revenue cutters investigated after a plea for rescue but the ship left Sandy Hook before aid could reach him.
Mail advisories from Shanghai report hundreds dead in Che-Foo after a thunderstorm and cloud burst caused floods. Torrents flooded seaward areas, wrecking stores, warehouses, and buildings while sweeping coal into the sea. Over three hundred Chinese reported dead. no foreigners identified among the dead.
Chicago police seek help from St. Louis authorities to catch a con artist who sends C O D packages to recently deceased individuals. Relatives pay express charges, only to find worthless items inside. The swindler has moved across multiple cities including Indianapolis Warsaw Texas New York and Montreal before his latest stop in St Louis.
Eleven men arrested for rioting at the Portoue tin plate works were heard by Mayor Falkenstein. Five received fines plus costs. others paid lesser amounts. William Gibson, vice president of the Amalgamated Association, paid the fines. The mayor warned the Amalgamated Association would be held liable for future conduct of the workers, noting weekly strike benefits encouraged unrest.
Justice Davis signed orders vacating the temporary injunction that barred the sale of the New York Daily News at auction and discontinuing Colonel Brown’s suit on Munsey’s acquisition of Brown’s interest. Attorney Charles E. Rassmore said Munsey now controls the Daily News stake, terms undisclosed.
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