Hello Girls Ride With Union Traction Bosses
President McCullogh of the Union Traction Company gave the telephone girls from Anderson Muncie Elwood and Alexandria a ride to Indianapolis for an outing. Miss Helen Strong and Miss Laura Leech of the Central Union Telephone Company met them with Hugh McGowan's former car. The group enjoyed a city ride and park visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCullogh
Union Traction Company
Anderson, Muncie
Elwood
Alexandria
Indianapolis
Helen Strong
Laura Leech
Central Union Telephone Company
Hugh McGowan
Personal and Society Notes Highlight Local Travel and Engagements
Mrs. Phelan travels to New York while Dr. Brill plans a Friday return from Michigan. Miss Toomey visits Cincinnati friends and Mrs. French returns from New York. Many couples and individuals plan or complete trips to New York Buffalo Mackinac Lake Maxinkuckee and Colorado with family updates and several engagements and weddings announced amid summer social rounds.
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C. D. Lasher
Colorado
Thomas Reid Kackley
Mackinac
Frederick E. Matson
Michigan
William Wallace, Jr
Lake Wawasee
Katherine Mueller
Lake Maxinkuckee
W. J. Spence
Putin Bay
Canada
Buffalo
L. C. Cline
Maine
William S. Beck
Figure Do a Thing Until You See Mrs Aus
In a partial OCR fragment a directive appears to perform an action until the appearance of a person titled Mrs Aus, suggesting a staged task or riddle. The note is fragmentary and lacks broader context or source details.
Pretty widow's ring recovered by Mrs Effie Doty in St Louis affair
Mrs Effie Doty a Indianapolis widow pursued Frank M Thomas for a $200 diamond ring after learning he was married. She traced him via trains and post offices from Hot Springs to St Louis and finally recovered the ring after meeting him at the Union Station. They parted with tears as Patrolman Murphy aided her across the reunion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Effie Doty
North
Delaware Street
Hot Springs
Thomas
Nashville
Memphis
Louisville
St. Joy
St. Louis
Station
Omas
Terminal Station Hotel
Murphy
Union Station
Frank M. Thomas
Jefferson Barracks
Mrs. Doty
Post Office
Jamas
Indianapolis
Trusty Murphy
Trouble at Noblesville delays electric railway start
The Townsend Reed Construction Company of Chicago began work on the Indianapolis Noblesville electric railway project but an arrest halted site activity. Fifteen workers faced obstruction charges. the case proceeds next Tuesday. The council moves to revoke the franchise and forfeit a $1,000 city bond if no substantial progress is shown by next month. The company claims readiness to start if allowed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Townsend-Reed Construction Company
Chicago
Indianapolis
Noblesville
Central Traction Company
Lst
Proposed electric line links Indianapolis to Peru via Kokomo
Kokomo hosts a five founder electric line company planning a one million dollar capital. Promoter Allen Shewman advances a route from Indianapolis through Noblesville Tipton and Kokomo to Peru. Knightstown interurban delays start due to steel strikes, with rails priced higher. Right of way purchases continue in Jefferson and Mill townships for a Hartford City to Muncie connector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kokomo
Indianapolis
Peru
Noblesville
Tipton
New York
Allen Shewman
Indianapolis Journal
Knightstown
Ind
A. BD. Osborn
New Castle
Ogborn
Indianapolise Journal
Marion
Farmers of
Jefferson and
Mill Townships
As City
Upland
Hartford City
Muncie
Amusements: Daly to star in The New Yorkers at Park Theater
The play Dan Daly stars in is The New Yorkers with Virginia Earl opposite. Uncle Tom and company depart Park Theater tonight and return next season. Valley Forge to host At the Theater later in the week. Frohman plans Eben Holden stage version with Edward E Rose as writer and E M Holland in title role. Fannie Trumbull to join Johnny and Emma Ray in A Hot Old Time at Cleveland on Sept 1. Trumbull family long resident of Centerville. Mae Trumbull connected with Joe Spears's company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan Daly
Virginia Earl
Uncle Tom
Park Theater
Valley Forge
Charles Frohman
Irving Bachellor
Eben Holden
New York
Edward E. Rose
E. M. Holland
City News Bits Highlight Local Events and Accidents
Dr C C Riley summoned to Denver due to a relative illness. James Whitcomb Riley returned from Atlanta. Local No 7 Knights of Fidelity to host first annual banquet tomorrow. Thirty workers at Atkins Co strike for 12 percent wage rise. company may replace them. Twenty seventh Indiana reunion planned in Statehouse on Sept C, with G W Woollen and J Balsley in charge. Edward Luedtke crushed between two trains on L E W tracks. hospitalized with non dangerous condition. A H Ellwood & Sons of Elkhart relocate general office to the city and occupy Central location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. C. Riley
Denver
James Whitcomb Riley
Atlanta
Knights of Fidelity
O. R. Co
E. (. Atkins & Co
Indiana
Statehouse
G. W. Woollen
Joseph Balsley
Edward Luedtke
South
Nobdte Street
Davidson
Ohio
Ford
A. H. Ellwood & Sona
Elkhart
Trust firm to open Richmond office overseeing Jefferson hotel project
The firm plans a Richmond Va office where its members now supervise the two million dollar Hotel Jefferson construction for which they prepared the plans.
Wreck Delays Big Four Train at Union Station
A smoking car and a ladies coach left the track east of Meridian Street on a short curve as Big Four’s Cincinnati to St Louis passenger train No 35 halted at Union Station Track 3. No injuries reported though panic briefly rose. track cleared within three hours after wrecking crew responded and the train was reassembled for its journey.
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Union Station
Cincinnati
Meridian Street
St. Louis
Irish citizen binds Statehouse for books for his new bookcase
An Indianapolis Irish citizen visited Statehouse offices yesterday seeking any books to fill his new bookcase. He stated no preference, wanting a rich grain or black old volume. He left with many annual office records as his haul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Statehouse
Breach of Trust Concluded as Plant Resumes Work
The Amalgamated strike split opinions among workers as some see a real break while others expect a settlement. Fourteen nonunionists were taken to the Star tin plant for repairs, with twenty more cots moved in. The plant paused at 6 then reopened at 9, night shifts planned. A Wheeling dispatch reports mill No 1 dismantling ordered and moved to Vandergrift, a change Amalgamated leaders say was prearranged, causing business fears.
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Monongahela House
Wilson
Aetna Standard Mant
Andergrift
Vandergrift
Amalgamated
Strikers threaten landing near Demmler tin plant
In Pittsburg area McKeesport strikers numbering 20 to 30 parade at midnight over rumors of a 6 AM Demmler tin plant resume. A boat was seen near the mills and approached the river bank, but crew gave no answers as strikers fired questions. The boat then departed downstream amid fear it bore strikebreakers and a riverfront lookout remains active.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
McKeesport
Demmler
United Mine Workers Convene in Hazleton Anthracite Region
Representatives from all anthracite mines gather in Hazleton to discuss union card inspections on mine property and other questions raised by officials. President Mitchell and National Secretary Wilson join the session as it approves using only union label powder of equal quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazleton
United Mine Workers of America
United Mine Workers
Mitchell
Wilson
Chicago machinists seek state intervention to halt strikebreaker influx
The Machinists International Union executive board in Chicago plans to petition Governor Yates to stop imports of strike breakers from the East. They cite Governor Tanner's prior action excluding and deporting black strike breakers from Spring Valley during the coal miners’ strike as a precedent. Business Agent Arthur Ireland urged a letter to the governor on this issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Yates
Union
Tanners
Spring Valley
Illinois
Machinists’ Executive Board
The
Machinists’ International Union
Arthur Ireland
Miners Aim for Union-Only Jobs in Sept 1 Strike
President Richardson and Secretary Gilmour of the United Mine Workers report from Pittsburg Kansas that around the majority of roughly 4000 local miners in the Big Four districts will honor the September 1 strike. The Big Four comprise Central Coal and Coke, Western Coal and Mining, the fuel departments of Missouri Pacific and Missouri Kansas and Texas railroads. Miners seek an agreement to employ only union men, not an wage increase.
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Pittsburg
Kan
Richardson
Gilmour
United Mine Workers
Central Coal and Coke Company
Western Coal and Mining Company
Fuel Department
Missouri Pacific Railway
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
Southwestern Mining Company
Judge Grants Injunction in Cincinnati Carriage Lockout
Judge Smith of the Court of Common Pleas issued a temporary injunction barring locked out workers from picketing and interfering with the business of Cincinnati carriage manufacturers. Perrin T. Hunter represented the Carriage Manufacturers' Association in the suit filed today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Sidewalk Collapse Hurts Crowd by Erie Street Fire in Chicago
A sidewalk crowded with bystanders watching an Erie Street fire collapsed in Chicago injuring about twenty people. Ole Rhode is in critical condition after a fall from over twenty feet, many victims trampled by bricks and stones. Sauer Dwyer & Co furniture warehouse burned, valued at 370.08 in losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Erie Street
Ole Rhode
Sauer, Dwyer & Co
Fires Ravage Arkansas Plant and Helena Mill Complex
In Huntington Arkansas a fire at the Kansas and Texas Coal Company ice plant spread to offices a department store a butcher shop and warehouses. Saloons owned by W A Curry Win Harper and M Hayes were damaged Ho rrors of heroic town defense kept the blaze from spreading further. Loss at the coal plant estimated at sixty thousand dollars fully insured. In Helena Montana Nelson Story and Company flour mill elevator and warehouse at Bozeman burned today with an estimated loss near one thousand dollars partly insured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
Ark
Kansas and Texas Coal Company
W. A. Curry
Harper's Saloon
M. Hayes
Helena
Mont
Nelson Story & Co
Bozeman
Emigration Proposed by Bishop Turner to Curb Crime
Atlanta August 27 Bishop Turner of the African Methodist Church urged African emigration as best for Black and white alike. He claimed a deadly white Black clash requires separation and suggested laws to banish criminals to Africa, offering a drastic vision of a white governed penal colony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Turner
African Methodist Church
Africa
Rome
Australia
Little Heiress Kidnaped In Chicago Theft
Margaret Lyler seven years old heiress to about $100000 was kidnapped today from Mrs. M F Green at 2345 Magnolia avenue where she had been living since her mother died a week ago The kidnapper fled at high speed pursued by police to Ravenswood two miles away where the horsemen were outrun and the trail ended Mrs Green had custody after the mother died and the father had been divorced years earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Margaret Lyler
M. F. Green
Magnolia Avenue
Ravenswood
Mistaken for a bear ends Red Lodge postmaster life
John Andrews, a Red Lodge postmaster under the Cleveland administration, was instantly killed by John Romers who mistook him for a bear during a ranch outing. Romers fired at dusk from close range after hearing a noise near the cabin at Lewis ranch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Lodge
Mont
John Andrews
John Romers
Lewis Ranch
Romers
Andrews
Cleveland
Lawson's Pretty Scheme Under Way in Maine Islands
Boston August 27 Thomas V Lawson buys a group of islands off Stonington along the Maine coast and plans a miniature Venice He intends spending 1,000,000 to build a castle on the largest island Bridges would connect nearby isles and the location is described as splendid signaling distance to Bar Harbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Thomas V. Lawson
Copper King
Stonington
Maine
Venice
Bar Haror
Baltimore
Various political and legal notes in brief items
United States Senator Mason of Illinois accepts campaign invite from Ohio Republicans opening Sept. 21. Prof. Charles H. Kernan elected superintendent of the National Orphans' Home in Tiffin Ohio. Schooner Ida E. Cowles sinks after collision near Sandy Point. five crew rescued. Prof. F W Hubbard injured by wheel scraper breaking his neck. Mrs Susan Field laid to rest in Oakland. interment in Washington. Daughters of Liberty convene in Boston with about 200 delegates from 27 states. Supreme Court of Foresters of America convenes in Baltimore with nearly 200 delegates from 20 states. Anadarko Oklahoma land sale nets over 186000 from 3126 lots. J B McQueen hosted to Anadarko banquet. Gale College in Wisconsin transfers property to Norwegian Lutheran synod. University of Maine president A W Harris resigns to pursue Jacob Tome Institute post. possible retention. Wardman Glennon and others plead before Judge Goff. case delayed to Friday. Shugrue romance rumor turns out unclear. Shugrue located in Cleveland. Carbondale Illinois forms a colored voters organization with officers J B McCreary presiding. Nome bar petitions President McKinley to remove Judge Noyes. Dudley Dubose seeks rehearing in Nome case.
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United States
Mason
Illinois
Ohio Republican State Executive Committee
Board of
Charles H. Kernan
Orient
Long Island
National Orphans’ Home
Tiffin
Order of American Mechanics
Ida E. Cowles
Baltimore
Fairport
Endeavor
Sandy Point
Queenstown
F. W. Hubbard
Redwing
Minn
Oakland
Cal
Susan Field
Stephen J. Field
Supreme Court
Anadarko
I. T
J. B. McQueen
Perry
Gale College
Galesville
Wis
Harris
Glennon
Shields
Dwyer
Corder Goff
New York
Frank Shugrue
Mobile
Ala
Buffalo Exposition
Shurue
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad
J. B. McCreary
Metropolis Gazette
James H. Patton
Carbondale
F. B. Allen
Mound City
T. H. King
Unionville
Nome Bar
McKinley
Arthur H. Noyes
United States District Court of Alaska
San Francisco
Dudley Dubose
Nome
Alameda County
Cape Nome
United States Circuit Court
Notes by Cable Sees Mixed UK and Spain Rumors
British government drops Earl Russell from Berkshire magistrates list while unverified reports claim King Alfonso and General Meyler travel to Rheims. Sagasta denies Russia seeking Minorca port authority. Lady Levin Smith found dead in River Spey with unclear drowning cause. Moscow dispatch notes Russian beet crop damage from caterpillars with losses uncertain. United Irishmen directory asks John Redmond to travel to the United States with Michael Davitt to advance Nationalist position.
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Earl Russell
Berkshire
Alfonso
Meyler
Rheims
Sagasta
Spain
Port Mahon
Minorca
Lady Smith
Archibald Levin Smith
Spey
London Standard
Moscow
The
United Irish Sen
John Redmond
United States
Michael Davitt
British MPs sail for New York in October
Mr Redmond will be accompanied by several MPs and sail for New York early in October. A London Times dispatch from Odessa reports the Japanese commerce minister sending a commission of Japanese merchants to Russia to open markets in large towns for Japanese goods. In Scotland five of ten miners entombed at Donibristle colliery, Perth shire, were rescued as a collapse rehappened, two rescuers remain missing along with eleven other rescuers whose fate is doubtful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redmond
New York
Russia
London Times
Odessa
Donibristle
Perthshire
England
Four Drown in North Carolina Stream Tragedy
In Rutherton North Carolina William Mills age fifty and his daughter in law thirty perished with her two young sons a four and three year old when a wagon overturned crossing a swift four foot deep stream Mills saved the younger children then returned for the others all drowning. Bodies of Mills and his daughter in law recovered today. The piece closes with a dated moral essay about a Constitution and a Humble Citizen and track toll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rutherton
N. C
William Mills
Inlaw
Mills
Roosevelt's Western Trip Schedule Unfolds
Vice President Roosevelt will start his Western journey Thursday forenoon arriving in Chicago Friday morning. He then departs for Springfield Illinois to dine with Governor Yates and review the militia at the state camp. He returns to Chicago Saturday morning and proceeds to Minneapolis for speeches on September 2 and 3. He will then go to Burlington Vermont to address veterans before returning to New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Roosevelt
Chicago
Springfield
Yates
Minneapolis
Burlington
Parnell Monument to Cost £46,000 Planned in London
John Redmond announces in a letter to Irish papers that a preliminary contract has been made with Augustus St Gaudens for the Parnell monument costing 46 000 pounds. The work should be completed within five years. Only 5 000 pounds have been subscribed so far. Redmond hopes to purchase Avondale, Parnell’s residence, in time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
John Redmond
Augustus St. Gaudens
Parnell
R. Redmond
Avondale
New English Pensions in War Times Shifts UK Policy
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Britain will grant pensions to widows and orphans of soldiers killed in battle. Despite earlier neglect of rank and file, pressure from Boer War lessons and public opinion led to the War Office approving an annuity system. The government will not match American pay rates but will provide pension support to survivors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake Tribune
Brodrick
War Office
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P. C. Truster
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