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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1903
Page
12
Hawthorne hosts a sensational Bess display at the Elks Mardi Gras booth drawing large crowds nightly. The attraction, led by Barker Bill Quinn and others, boosts receipts as visitors flood in for 10 cent raffles and fancy work, with proceeds aiding Elk charity.
The Central W C T U meets today with Mrs Q L Morrow from Bellefontaine Street. A Walter Sprankle pupil recital at Memorial Church tomorrow evening features 24 performers starting promptly at o'clock. A Vassar Club rummage sale runs three days at 01 Roosevelt Avenue with different members directing each day. Judge James B Black talks on Greece and Her People Friday at the Girls Classical School at 10:2. A new All Souls Unitarian Church board includes Horace McKay as president and Charles C Brown as secretary among others. St Paul’s Church choir offers a doll carnival this week with 200 dolls and Mexican wares at reasonable prices. Central Avenue church women host their annual fair with booths and a candy, art, and doll sections, including a flag-laden booth and a dress booth. Supper details for tomorrow are pending.
Postponed meeting of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and Amalgamated Woodworkers to clarify AFL jurisdiction over millhands. President William Huber's absence from city delays plan to meet in Indianapolis with Thomas Kidd and Dennis Mulcahey. Contacts in Buffalo and Manchester reference broader union amalgamation.
Chairman Stevens of Indiana's agriculture committee predicts the state's corn exhibit will outshine other sections. Clare and Overstreet will arrange the display with 2,500 feet of corn exhibit space and 3,000 feet for general agriculture, centered by a corn figure called the Corn King. Monuments to governors will be built from corn at four corners.
John E Dunn of 164 Cornell avenue died after a Sunday stroke of paralysis at 10 20 am and never regained consciousness. Civil War bullet injuries linked as indirect cause. Survived by five children in New York and local family relatives. Longtime city resident formerly with Ayres & Co, retired for years due to ill health. Funeral at 1640 Cornell avenue today at 10.
E H Hinshaw of Nebraska writes to the Journal to deny any kinship with Rev William E Hinshaw as reported. He states the only two brothers he has live on his fathers farm near Greensboro Henry county Indiana.
John W. Williams sold a tract of 121 acres extending from the Big Four shops in Brightwood to Twenty-first street to the Topp Hygienic Milk Company for 28000. The property adjoins the company’s existing forty acres.
Friends of Mr and Mrs Lewis Shively are shocked by the death of Mrs Shively at the home of her daughter Mrs Edward J Fowler in San Francisco on November 26. The Shively family had long resided here.
Columbus Ohio December 2 The athletic board of Ohio State University decided not to reappoint Father T W Hal the former Yale player as coach next year after two seasons in charge.
Soot from Capitol chimneys damages state offices and threatens valuable records. Secretary Cook and staff report soot spills through rooms as flues fail, cloths stained and papers dirtied. Calls grow for fixing flues and replacing damaged chimneys to protect archives.
United Mine Workers officials deny Chicago reports claiming a 3 percent wage cut by operators in four states and a 10 percent raise elsewhere. They note totals and districts vary, a convention in Indianapolis will set next year’s wages, and exact demands remain undecided without delegates’ instructions. The piece stresses uncertainty and the union’s aim to protect miners’ interests.
Reports from Brazil Indiana indicate slack work in the black coal district with orders down over half in the past week. Several carloads sit unsold, and operators say conditions are similar at other mines. The Chicago market is glutted and wage reductions are expected next year, while miners seek higher prices, risking labor stoppages.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Muncie Ind December 2 Articles have been filed in the county recorder's office for about 1000 acres of coal land in Washington township. The leases are all in the name of J Earl Patterson and are fourteen in number. Patterson has conducted experiments and says the ground under lease shows promise of an immense coal body. A shaft is sunk and more will follow soon. It is believed enough coal will be mined to supply Muncie for homes and factories and several surrounding cities.
Bob Fitzsimmons arrives in Chicago seeking a business base while Young Griffo plans another boxing return. Ebony King is praised as the fastest 4 year old pacer of the year. Sister Collette, full sister to Charley Herr, will be campaigned again next year. Boston clubs avoid Twin Sulli van due to Irish money demands. Hart believes Buddy Ryan tougher than Fitzsimmons and wants a test with Grim. Canole notes a February rematch desire with Britt against the Californian. Britt to fight Hanlon. possibility of a world matchup if Hanlon falls. Hildebrand may join the Pirates, not the Washingtons, as Dreyfuss negotiates. West End Club hopes for Yanger vs McPadden on Dec 10 in St. Louis, with Yanger possibly canceling for the city bid. Ned Hanlon hints at lengthening base-to-pitcher distance to boost hitting. Jockey Fuller nets 500000 for employers this year, though Tim Sullivan often loses backing Fuller’s mounts. Western League’s KC withdrawal seen as closing, Sioux City and Lincoln named successors. Pueblo likely KC franchise. Art Adams and Jack Owens battle in Pa. ringside amid smallpox pesthouse rumors as authorities distant. fighters proceed.
Philadelphia Inquirer comments on modern youth, criticizing self analysis and pampered habits. It contrasts frugality with a desire for ready-made success and large ambitions, noting fear of public disappointment and a preference for capital and fame over plain work.
Indiana Horticultural Society hosts its forty third annual meeting at the Statehouse with a fine fruit exhibit featuring large winter apples and pears across the state. Purdue's Prof James Troop shows a one and a half pound lemon and urges uniform inspection and packaging laws to curb pests.
In Chicago Journal account a decades long mute patient at the asylum spoke after watching a football match between St Vincent College and Oak Park High School. The dramatic turnaround, credited to the spirited game, surprised attendants and led Superintendent Podstata to support occasional games or dances for patients. Since the event the woman has become talkative and gains in color and alertness.
The journal previews next Sunday's color supplement with five Andes views led by Black Lake and Aconcagua. Captions include The Gateway Between Chile and Argentina The Lake of the Incas and A Telegraph Office In the Heart of the Andes. The issue notes four color fashions and feature articles on Old Field Schools and Pupville dog cartoons with a Noah-like puzzle solution and practical notes for women readers.
Judge Carter reviewed the Stanley Osgood estate case after both sides filed briefs. The dispute questions the legality of an 1877 adoption and whether Mrs Stanley gained county residence, affecting the inheritance of Mason J. Osgood’s $750000 estate and potential split between Charles W. Osgood and Roxanna O. Nims.
Bertha Garshwiler, a thirteen year old traveling with her family from Portland to Chicago, sues the Pullman Company for 15000 damages alleging negligence after she fell from an unprotected window on a moving sleeping car. Her father aided by colleagues pursued the train on a hand car to recover her, found her in night attire along the tracks, and she later suffered serious internal injuries and weeks of bed confinement.
Probate Judge Walker yesterday sustained the report of John Buehler and Albert E Metager as executors of John F Mayer. He accepted the executors report and dismissed exceptions by Tillie Arnold and George Arnold alleging mismanagement. The court praised the executors for their management of the estate.
After twenty eight hours of deliberation the jury in Judge Leathers court reported it could not reach a verdict in the $6000 damage suit by Rose Busick against the city. Busick slipped on a water box at her home two years ago and broke her knee cap. One juror condemned the others as the most contrary he had seen.
In Criminal Court yesterday morning Roxy Burdette was allowed to go on his personal recognizance afterMamie Davis, his stepdaughter, had him arrested on a charge he threatened to kill her for receiving attention from young men. The case was bound over to the Criminal Court. The court released Burdette after Mamie Davis left for Nebraska to join her father. Judge Carter will hear today the injunction suit by Indianapolis Foundry Company against three local unions to restrain interference with the plant.
Viola Chambers petitions Superior Court Judge McMaster for a divorce from Jesse Chambers claiming three years of alleged abuse and battering. The filing describes the husband as abusive and asserts grounds for dissolution of marriage.
Summary of superior and circuit court entries including dismissals with costs paid Rose Busick versus City of Indianapolis damages jury disagreement quiet title actions under advisement and suits to quiet title. Criminal court notes Blake and Munden grand larceny banter and recognizance details new suits filed including She Pullman Company Bertha Garshwiler Marion County cases and others.
Instruments filed for record in Marion County Indiana for the twenty four hours ending 5 p m Dec 2 1903 list deeds totaling 290113 09. Entries include Coffin et al to The Indica tes Corn 1850 2000 3900 78000 1400 and Brown et al to Ernest Arbuckle Lot 66 Rosemont add tr sub 8a near Indianapolis. Names of properties and owners appear with street addresses and values for multiple cottages sheds and frames in districts including Nevada Street Villa Avenue Arsenal and Sheldon Street.
The United States navy is developing wireless telephone tech to allow officers on distant ships to converse via air, two miles apart, with trials on battleships planned. If successful, all warships will receive the apparatus to issue vocal orders, enabling coordinated fleet actions as a single unit.
A food expert unveils Dextro Candies from Post as a fruit group candy that won’t tax the liver. It offers quick assimilation and helps avoid liver and kidney distress caused by cane and beet sugar candy, appealing to both children and adults.
Mediate points leave Indianapolis at 4 15 PM and continue until 9 15 PM then hourly until 1 30. Trains arrive in Anderson in one hour and continue in bundles for three hours. Anderson trains limited for Sin 6 PM with direct connections to Marion. Local services run from Roviesvile to Tipton with departures to Indiana. Express department notes consignments received by 2 PM for same day delivery to Indiana including Muncie Elwood Tipton and surrounding areas.
Fragmentary timetable shows Indianapolis and Northwestern Traction Company routes with stops at Maryland Street block Room 6 and Frankfort and Apolia times. Partial notes indicate departures around early morning and deliveries to points by 9 o'clock next day, but details are incomplete.
Historic timetable shows departure times from Indianapolis to Shelbyville and intermediate stops, with round trip tickets at Huder's Drug Store. Includes Greenfield Line connections, Meridian streets, and departures toward Richmond New Castle Knightstown Greenfield and points south.
Fragmentary OCR of transit timetable shows departures from Indianapolis and Martinsville with connections to Mooresville and intermediate stations. Text references first car from 47 First Avenue to Martinsville at 5:29 and multiple hourly departures. partial notes include times 1:10 pm and 6:30 am to 6:48 am with last cars to Mooresville and onward to Indianapolis.
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