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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1901
Page
4
The record notes that calling the commissioners in session would cost six dollars to select a single name, so a substitution was made. The sheriff often cannot locate chosen individuals from the tax duplicates as many are dead moved away or are out of the city or county.
The Bostonians presented Maid Marian at English's Opera House with Reginald De Koven and Harry Smith scores in a bright revival. Performers Miss Van Studdiford, Belle Harper, Adele Rafter, Allen C. Hinckley, and a full eighteen instrument orchestra delivered tuneful songs and polished singing amid classic opera staging and humor.
The seven Arabs including a slender man balance four others to form pyramids and perform flips while the sixth leaps over them. Sallie Stembler and Laura Bennett star in Sapho and Lula, with Devere dropping obscene jokes and drawing bigger laughs from refined acts. Phasey troupe and Ascot girls perform military sketches and negro melodies, while Mildred Howard De Gray debuts Naughty Anthony with a barefoot dance amid gallery shouts.
Omer Rodibaugh sold his three story house at 310 North Delaware Street through W. E. Mick agency to W. L. Higgins for 20000 dollars. Herman E. Martens bought a residence at College Avenue and Pratt Street from George E. Sickel for 4000 dollars. Emma Schumacher sold to Clarence T. Baker a property on East Washington Street near Southeastern Avenue for 5000 dollars. Susie Howell bought a property on North Illinois Street near Eighteenth Street from Leopold Strauss for 6000 dollars. William H. Robinson sold Massachusetts Avenue near Jupiter Street to William A. Dorman for an amount listed as 300.
A notice lists a Women’s Label League delegation visiting Muncie. burglaries claim $2 in cash and a pair of shoes from Ernest Scott. Gov Durbin may have Indiana day, but no date set. Company B Indiana National Guard at Rochester is mustered out for inefficiency. Reform School Advocate first issue at Plainfield school. Kreitenstein inspects Kokomo camp and to install Fort Wayne camp. Elwood meeting next. Sandy Tober arrested for petit larceny. Drs Kyle Ford fail to dislodge peanut from Adkins throat. boy improves after near-critical condition. John R King to take Indianapolis agency for Mutual Benefit Life Insurance, supervises 66 counties. J L Norris covers 26 counties. Russell Harrison hints at four-company U S troops battalion for Indianapolis. Tom B Waters killed in Lafayette. renowned traveling salesman. Postal Telegraph cuts rates to Australia and Africa effective Jan 1 198. Mahan denied admission to poor farm despite pass. inspector cites overstay and drunkenness.
1 600 sterling silver thimbles priced 15 cents each to be sold next Friday and Saturday, December 6 and 7, at three locations in Maine and Boston area. P Mullally, Diamonds and Jewelry, 28 Monument Place.
A box car with forty men overturned down an embankment and caught fire on a trestle south of Peru. Seven men were seriously injured including Martin Cooney and Charles Pattison. other workers sustained burns, fractures, or bruises. The train had been pushed in front of the engine. Nearby incidents include Nicholas Cramer’s near death at Alexandria and a streetcar wreck in Elwood injuring two crew members.
Nine brick structures in Knox's old business area were burned to the ground last night after a rear area blaze near A R Kueniiger's saloon. Losses total about 25000 with brick replacements planned. It marks the town's second major fire in a month. In Cambridge City, Panhandle depot burned in early Sunday blaze originating upstairs. Depot considered old and of little value. valuable papers saved. insurance covers the loss.
Indiana obituary notice from multiple towns reports deaths of James Bigwood 79 in Rockville Byron Thomas Lane 84 in Winamac Ada Smith physician in Greenfield and sister of Cheatera W. Smith William Chamberlain near Columbia City James J. Maxwell Martinsville Charles F. Peelle Richmond Thomas J. Harkins Portland noting ages causes and immediate survivors across towns with brief burial or funeral plans where stated
The Rev Henry Mehl aged about thirty five years pastor of the German Evangelical Church died tonight after several months illness. He came here a few months ago from Cincinnati. The body will be sent to Boonville for interment.
Sheriff McCord brought twenty one prisoners from Washington charged with riot over the Prospect Hill attack on Superintendent Scott near Vincennes. Mayfield Carr and Robert Brush were fined five dollars each for assault, paid by the Miners' Union of Washington.
Bloomington Ind Dec 9 The Woman's League carnival and fair raised about 400 for Indiana University's woman building project. Mrs Joseph Swain in charge of finances says over 9000 of the 30000 goal is secured and she expects the full amount within two years.
Marion Indiana voters prepare for a city primary with Harry Stover, 27, leading as Owl Club candidate. Other contenders include Attorney Gus S. Condo, George M. Elliott, Councilman J. A. Genung, and Stephen Golding, brother of the late mayor. Stover’s strength in the business district straw vote boosts excitement as party factionalism mounts.
John Homerig hous a prominent dentist of Mattoon Newfoundland died tonight from a gas and chloroform suicide following a crisis over marriage to his cousin Emma Homerighous of Ohio. He had saved $8,000 and feared he was unfit for matrimony despite her letters of hope. He left a will leaving $3,000 to his sweetheart.
In Winamac Indiana confidence men used a misrepresented game permit scheme to defraud farmers. James Mortimer, a local farmer, paid for a three day hunting permit that later resurfaced as a bogus promissory note. Ten nearby farmers near North Judson suffered similar losses.
Evansville Indiana December 9 Tonight John Raney slashed teen Jessie Mitchell across the arms and abdomen repeatedly Her sister Lillian Mitchell 29 intervened and Raney struck her with a chair Both victims are in bad condition Raney is under arrest.
Oscar Anderson aged twenty four hanged himself in a jail cell at Alexandria using suspenders. He looped one end around his neck and attached the other to the door top, dropping with knees about two inches from the floor. The incident occurred around 11:20 p.m. as he was awaiting arrest this afternoon in Anderson’s city.
A man from Jamestown New York said he came West seeking work and stopped in Gilman Indiana where he robbed a general store of groceries tobacco and ten dollars in small change. In Rochester Indiana a State Grange meeting at the Academy of Music is planned with about 40 Grange members expected from across the state. The Kane Valley Medical Association session will also be held at the courthouse to discuss medical topics with district physicians.
In Marion Indiana twelve burglaries over Saturday and Sunday left minor loot. Targets include Ed McKee Hugh Young John Stevens Brubaker Dick Beck Daniel Overman W Mann Kress drug and Whittaker saloon. Entries by window cuts. Also reports of Bishop John F Funk gravely ill in Elkhart and Elwood merchant R L Leeson to drill own gas well to test supply claims.
In Hartford City Johnston Glass Co halted operations for days due to a mixer error that dumped an excess soda ash into a tank, making the glass black and forcing removal of the entire batch. Losses run into thousands of dollars. In Sullivan County officials plan to straighten Bussum creek at a cost above 99000, benefiting 3.1 acres of bottom land and lifting values, with farmers voicing support. Kokomo plate glass works sets a world record finishing a plate 1504 by 21's inches, weighing about 2900 pounds rough, 1450 pounds after finishing, carried by twenty workers.
GREENSBURG reports a robust religious revival at Centenary Church led by Evangelist F. B. Smiley of Denver. Union meetings draw huge crowds at the opera house with broad church participation. the nonsectarian movement intensifies daily. MARION police arrest Woodle alias Goldie Smith, wanted for murder in Evansville, after a telegram tip from Evansville’s police superintendent. LAFAYETTE Y M C A buys Avery property for 8500. Max property to be sold to fund a new $80000 four story building on the new site with five yearly payments. BLOOMINGTON heavy rain ends drought, snow follows, farmers face feed shortages and potential winter crop risk for wheat unless conditions improve.
A boy on the way to church was thrown over a high embankment when his horse frightened and bolted. He was found by local youths, taken home in foul condition, and later cared for by his family. The incident drew Saturday night concern in Crawfordsville.
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