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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1901
Page
2
The speaker notes uncertainty about details of labor actions and dismisses any arrangements for a meeting with J. P. Morgan. A self constituted committee will not disclose plans until a definite programme is set, as Secretary Easley confirms no conference is planned.
Guthrie Aug 27 The Santa Fe Railroad Company won a charter to construct fourteen railroad lines totaling 815 miles in Eastern Oklahoma. Plans include routes from Guthrie to Creek nation lines, Pawnee to the Cimaron and Arkansas rivers, Stillwater to Bartlesville, and connections through Ralston Pawnee Perry and Owasso among others.
In Yokohama four Mormon missionaries led by Apostle Heber J Grant arrived aboard the Empress in mid August and began public work. They faced early hostilities at a boarding house but observers expect Japanese hospitality and the missionaries’ integrity and energy to win support. earthquakes near Aomori damaged rail lines and houses but caused no deaths.
Mexican Herald argues that Mexico's silver coin supply is inadequate as exports surge when silver prices rise. The piece criticizes the lack of a global silver standard, causing fluctuating values that frustrate importing merchants and bankers and destabilize finance amid Mexico's expanding industry and commerce.
The forecast calls for fair and warmer conditions on Wednesday and Thursday across Indiana and Illinois with southern portions drier and northern portions cooler and possibly showers. Ohio and Illinois show similar patterns with partly cloudy to potential showers in the north, light easterly winds. Am. Bar. Ther. RH Wind. Pre. Weather details follow with temperatures around 62 maximum and lower minimum, Richard H. Sullivan temporarily in charge.
Shipping notices list arrivals and sailings on various routes. Vessels from New York to destinations such as Naples Liverpool and Bremen are noted with ports including Cherbourg Southampton and Plymouth. Other entries mention arrivals from New York to Liverpool and Hamburg and passing Lahn from New York to Southampton Bremen.
Wabash Indiana August report says Henry Ullman posed as a German farmer to obtain a $7,700 loan secured by 154 acres. He forged deeds and a mortgage for $2,000 to Phoenix Mutual Insurance, and fled after a forged notarial seal was detected. Police alerted, Ullman previously used a check racket in Fort Wayne.
In Valparaiso Porter county a large crowd attended the funeral of Daniel Dailey killed at a railroad crossing. The local Foresters lodge escorted the coffin to the church but priest Rev L A Moench refused to permit their entry. After the lodge left the service proceeded. A long procession followed to the cemetery amid local criticism of the priest.
Fire in Monticello Indiana consumed the Congo Jenkins stable the old Christian Church and parsonage and the Conger feed stable. Two horses perished. Loss on the old church 2500 with 1500 insured. Parsonage and feed stable insured. Congo Jenkins loss 500 unpaid by insurance. Severe storm then struck Whitley County causing widespread damage including a barn fire and cattle fatalities.
Lebanon reports Henry Miller’s barn destroyed by lightning with six horses burned. Shera Campbell a man and two boys in the barn were stunned but escaped. R W Howard’s barn also burned. In Brazil Ashboro William Buyh’s general store destroyed by lightning with $2,000 loss, partly insured. Jacob Flora’s barn near Wabash burned with $1,200 loss, $20 insured.
Alexander Carringer aged 77 founder of the water works plant in Portland died at his Bluff Point home. He married fifty seven years ago and had no children. His wife survives him. Miss Mattle Patton 29 died of heart trouble at home after returning from Chicago. James R. Bunyan 64 died in Kendallville. longtime drug firm member, former postmaster and county auditor.
The Winona Bible Conference closed its ten day session with ministers affirming belief in future punishment. Speakers from Boston Scotland and New York urged vigorous preaching while criticizing current trends. Awards and improvements were announced including $30 000 in grounds work and new buildings as the Synod of Indiana plans to meet at Winona in 1902.
Hagerstown Indiana August 27 celebration at Rogerstown home for Mr and Mrs John Aaron Locke marking their 64th anniversary. Surviving children and about a hundred relatives attended. They own a wall sweep clock running ninety years and a trove of relics including stockings Mrs Locke knitted from cotton she planted and spun in North Carolina. The stockings feature a two story house likely symbolizing her future home.
W M Harrison, a wealthy farmer of Vincennes, was arrested on a charge of criminally assaulting the wife of Wills Hilderman at the Hilderman home. The trial date was set for September 6. Harrison claims he is the victim of a blackmailing scheme and is married with children.
Samuel Halley of Marion Indiana died today from heart disease. Born in Lancashire England in 189, he came to the United States as a youth with parents who settled in Chester Pennsylvania. He learned machinist trade in Richmond before an 1858 trek to California in search of gold. He was unsuccessful, and the notice ends abruptly.
At Winchester today Walter Driscoll is tried for murder. His attorney Ralph Ross accuses the judge and jury of prejudice against the boy. Judge Marsh reprimands the young lawyer. Will Driscoll, Walter’s brother, testifies he heard the fatal shots near New Burlington as the pair turned away.
The defense failed to suppress Coroner Poland's testimony about Driscoll's confession as Mahion Martin and his wife, who had been drinking, faced arrest and appeared at the trial after posting bail. The exchange quoted shows remorse from both sides about the killing.
J W Graves a box maker at Muncie flint glass works learned he inherited 16000 as half of an uncle named Graves who died in New York City. Two nephews were found in Wyoming and New York. no will was found. Money is invested in school bonds. Both nephews are poor and have families.
Alexandria Indiana August 27 Ray Nelson, son of James Nelson, found two cans filled with an unknown substance. He placed them against a tree and fired. A large hole and splintered wood followed. The blast was dynamite and left him painfully bruised.
Reports from Indiana detail Joseph Bernard, 40, of Redkey, crushed between a fly wheel spokes and left with broken thigh and back. medical prognosis is poor. Additional notes cover railroad incidents, bridges, and corporate moves in Peru and Richmond with varied personnel changes and proposed right of way projects.
In Hartford City Indiana August 27 a theory that oil follows gas is tested as Progress Oil Co plans to drill within fifty feet of the county's famous early gas well near the Wayne paper mill. The old gasser, drilled thirteen years ago, burned for days for crowds before dying and is now marked by a wooden plug near the L B and W station. The new drilling aims to prospect for oil beside the abandoned gas site.
In Paoli, Huntington, and Kokomo teachers institutes are in progress. Noted instructors include Prof. Stalker from Indiana State Normal, Prof. Miller of Indiana University, Prof. Ingalls of Utah, Miss Horton of Mitchell, and Purdue professor Lotta. Additional staff include Prof. Hen of Madison, Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith of Minnesota, and others from Bluffton, Terre Haute, Bloomington, and Plattsville Wisconsin.
TERRE HAUTE Aug 27 An innovation in Epworth League work opens at the Greencastle District convention spanning middle western Indiana. The event is an institute for Bible study and the art of cell work with notable Methodist leaders present including Dr J F Berry general secretary of the Epworth League and editor of the Epworth Herald Dr W F Oldham missionary secretary and Dr C H Morgan of Michigan.
In Lafayette Indiana the Weather signal service system proposed by Purdue Experiment Station’s W C Latta and endorsed by the postal service began today. Five rural mail route wagons will carry tin weather signals, making Tippecanoe County the first in the United States to adopt the plan, with expenses covered by the Purdue Experiment Station.
Hartford City Indiana August 27 The release of Mrs Eliza Sage from the Woman s Reformatory after serving eighteen years for the murder of her child meets general approval. She is at her attorney s home and will soon go to Grand Rapids Michigan to live with a sister. Her divorced parents who remarried reside at Marion.
The Elkhart Carnegie Library Board awarded the construction contract to W. M. Maxwell of Angola for 28,387, later reduced to 27,407 after shelf costs. He gave bond of 5,000 for completion by October 1, 1892. Andrew Varnegle offers 5,000 for the building.
The city agrees to expend 500 each year in maintaining the institution. MARION IND Aug 27 State council of the Junior Order United American Mechanics meets in Marion with delegates from across the state to conduct lodge business and elect several officers. Soldiers Home Band to give a special concert for visitors tonight.
Leopold Falk and wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in their West End home with a dinner and reception. All Jewish society attended. They were married in Cincinnati and have lived in Fort Wayne since 1902. They received many beautiful presents.
Albert Kirtley seventeen at his home three miles east of Connersville Indiana was kicked in the face by a colt. His nose was severed and he suffered cuts above both eyes. Doctors fear he may die from the injuries.
Thomas Servis, a deserter from Troop G Fourteenth Cavalry at Fort Leavenworth, was captured in Kokomo and will be returned for court martial. He had been jailed for larceny when identified as a deserter, broke jail last week, and was recaptured.
In Bluffton Indiana Mrs Martha Myers aged eighty six is regaining youth like vigor and hair returning to jet black as it was at twenty. She remains as active as a woman of fifty despite her age.
Marion Indiana local union No 73 representing prescription bottle blowers voted 40 to 15 to withdraw from the American Flint Glass Workers Union and join the Green Glass Bottle Blowers Association in a notable labor realignment.
Special to the Indianapolis Journ al reports Philip Trout brother of State Representative Trout fell into a well dug on his farm near Asherville Brazil Indiana today and was unconscious upon removal with serious injuries.
Thomas Lacy aged sixty was found dead beneath willows on the Kentucky side of the river opposite Madison Indiana. He was last seen late Saturday night and authorities believe heart failure caused his death.
Seymour Ind Aug 27 The Rev J W Clevenger pastor of the A O E Baptist Church since January 1896 has resigned and will close his work on Oct 1 leaving the ministry to another.
The Rev. E. G. Walk of Kokomo Indiana resigns from the Harrison street Christian Church and will apply for a new charge within the United Brethren conference.
Butler Music Company plans a large organ factory at Lafontaine with 30,000 dollars in initial investment and 50 workers. Abundant cheap gas and local offers attracted the project, with operations expected this winter. The firm already has branches in Wabash Huntington and Marton.
An item notes Mrs. Austins new dress being praised for its fine silk quality and stylish appearance.
Judge Kohlsaat in Chicago appointed Max H. Whitney as temporary receiver for funds alleged stolen by former Army Captain Oberlin M. Carter while in charge of government work at Savannah Georgia. Carter serves five years at Fort Leavenworth. Proceedings target his uncle L. D. Carter of Oakland Illinois and brother L. S. Carter of Chicago.
The Salt Lake Tribune argues that naval power supports peace, noting Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Germany, the United States, and Japan possess varying fleets. It asserts the need for a strong navy to deter war, highlighting numbers of battleships and cruisers and the advantage of sailing ships across seas.
At the fifteenth annual AAAS convention in Denver Professor C O Van Hise argued against mining experts asserting that precious metals and base metals do not deepen richer with depth. Later Professor R B Woodward, retiring president, spoke on The Progress of Science at a general session.
Reports from Nome describe an armed mob of seventy masked men attacking a mining camp at Glacier Creek over disputed claims. Richard O'Conner was shot in the groin and regarded as near death as the St Paul departed Nome. Warrants were issued for the attackers and deputies awaited the outcome of O'Conner's wounds before arrests.
The eleventh annual convention of the colored Knights of Pythias opened in Chicago with delegates from across the United States South Central America Australia and Hawaii. Routine matters filled the day and an effort to suppress liquor within the order is planned for tomorrow. Officers will not be elected until Thursday but a drive to re elect Supreme Chancellor Starke and General Robert R Jackson has begun.
General Gas elee, commander of British forces in China, traveled aboard the Empress bound for London. Also on board was Lady Blake, wife of the Governor of Hong Kong, as the ship departed from Victoria, B. C. on August 27.
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