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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1902
Page
9
Vital statistics note births listing multiple couples with addresses and child names, followed by deaths with ages and residence details. Also mentions funeral notices, monuments, and business directory items including florists and lodges. The fragment references John M Bohmie's funeral and a Masonic lodge meeting, with addresses in Indianapolis.
The article reports anxiety among passenger officials over a looming rate war among Western lines over immigrant traffic. Chairman McLeod seeks arbitration or greater Rock Island revenue from Kansas City to El Paso. Canadian Pacific threatens war if transcontinental lines persist, while others resist contributions to meet Rock Island demands. A committee is tasked to find a common basis and report to the advisory bureau. The piece also notes earnings comparisons for the Pennsylvania Company and related railroad franchise and staffing changes across multiple lines and cities.
Thomson notes annual freight trips valuable to officials and road business. Changes in dispatch discipline to start Jan 1 aim for compromise between record suspension and actual suspension. George Ingalls and Paul Rainer visit to discuss efficiency. Wabash line surveys into Indianapolis and a new route potential. Reading rooms for Pennsylvania Hines employees open in Pittsburgh Union Station. Discharged soldiers' return sparks rate discussions between St Paul to Chicago lines. Train time reductions announced for Indianapolis routes. foreclosure sale consolidates Port Jervis line with Hudson River connections shortening city to Albany distance. Freight traffic gains at Lake Erie Western and through-ticket prosecutions court outcomes. Automobile mail routes expand Indiana service between Portland and Pennville.
Florence Turner reports her husband George Turner has been missing since Saturday morning from 49 Holton place. Police inquiry at his place of employment sheds no light on his whereabouts. Army postings note Dr. Edward F. Geddings to move to Fort Brady Detroit and Francis M. McCallum to arrive soon from Fort Sheridan. A Minnesota reader praises Jayne's plant for a daughter's severe cough recovery.
Judge Carter hears testimony in the Indianapolis Drop Forging Company versus White River Lodge case as union witnesses, including Edward J. Collins, defend strike conduct as lawful. Pickets testify they urged workers to leave the plant and that the trial may conclude today with final arguments.
Judge Allen heard two divorce cases yesterday. Henry C. Miller claims mistreatment from Elvira Miller including battering with a pancake, beans, and a hot dishwater pan, plus threats with a red hot poker. Eugene S. Gate alleges neglect, meals, and finances spent by Esther, plus gifts to relatives, a returned wedding ring for Everett, and ongoing separation since their son’s birth.
Hiram Bacon sues Omer Boardman and wife and Washington township in a Broad Ripple site dispute claiming a 1868 deed for school use and later occupation by Boardman. He seeks reversion, $900 damages, yearly rental for twelve years, and $1 for attorney costs. Attorneys for the defendants filed a demurrer citing insufficient cause as to the policy case.
External means case centers on Fitzgeralds hand injury contracted while sleeping and four pending sults against casualty firms with Aetna arguing self injury. A Home Heating and Lighting Co alleges two inferior pumps from Dean Brothers Pump Works failed to meet city franchise specs and caused damages of 6.00 on April 14, 1901.
Robert S. Asche filed suit in the Circuit Court alleging he sold extensive property for the Allfree engine company in Indiana and Arkansas and elsewhere and has not been paid commissions or traveling expenses. He seeks 1500 1000 and 2000 dollars in separate paragraphs. Separately, two individuals were declared insane by commissions and recommended for commitment: Maggie Dammel 28 of 316 Beecher street with hallucinations and Wittendorfer 32 in weak mental condition due to illness.
W B Pullin filed suit against William L White for recovery of 200 dollars as surety on a note. White signed a November 1898 note to Bi metallic Bank of Cripple Creek Colorado which Pullin indorsed. He defaulted and Pullin paid both principal and interest. The Marion Trust Company as administrator had the Hamilton county estate sale of Mason J Osgood. circuit court approved the sale yesterday following probate commissioner authorization.
Courtroom notices show several jury trials and judgments across rooms 1 2 and 3 with damages and costs awarded or anticipated. Cases include Albert Clinger vs Shaw C Love Frederik Maschal vs Indianapolis Street Journey Company Bernice Justus vs City of Indianapolis Maggie Wilhelm vs George Wilhelm Pearl Holder vs Richard Holder Annie Bomer vs Robert Bomer and others. Higher court entries note Supreme Court and Appellate Court items with notices briefs and opinions.
Instruments for record in the Marion County Indiana recorder’s office cover a 24 hour period ending December 3 1902. Transactions include Savilla Gipe to Christian Murray Johnson Hogshire East Washington Street Lot 42 for 550 Elizabeth W. to Mary Troteky Lots 77 and part of 47 Parker Hanway Southwest add Lots 6 7 9 and 39 including Drake Mayhew Corner sale values ranging from 1 to 7500 dollars. Additional transfers involve William Walling Samuel W. ux Francis Bruce Place East End Lenkhardt Read Robbins North Indianapolis and other sub lots with prices listed as 225 550 725 and 4000 dollars.
J D Brosnan at 827 West Eleventh Street offers a frame double dwelling valued at 1600 dollars. Fred Buschert at McCarty and Missouri Streets reports a frame storeroom and a shed repairs job at South Meridian Street. William Gilgur at 224 Buckle Street quotes a frame shed for 40 dollars.
Sugar remains firm with New York advances spreading through the market. Lib eral buying of refined grades anticipated higher prices, while canned goods stay steady and demand for higher grade coffee rises as holidays near. Poultry remains tight, turkeys plentiful, butter up one cent, eggs firm, and other lines show no major changes.
The Omega odorless gas stove is noted amid a market report on grain and commodity prices. The text blends product mention with agricultural prices and daily market movements, yielding a compact snapshot of a newspaper page item.
The ledger lists prices for tea, coffee, sugar, molasses, rice, oil, and canned goods. It includes specific items such as Java blend coffee 9.75, Sugar City tableware lines, Eagle powdered sugar 5.62, and various dried spices. Also shown are prices for meat cuts, lard, bacon, fresh produce, and flourish goods, with units and per bag or per pound figures.
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