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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1901
Page
4
The Empire Theater hosts Rice & Barton for the latter half of the week with the burlesque Brown Among the Daisies still popular after years. Charles Barton delivers comic roars and pratfalls, aided by J. K. Mullen, as George Rice is away with the Rose Hill English Folly Company.
A panorama of theater offerings amid vaudeville and burlesque scenes. Barton’s operatic parody features John Doe as a vice trust chief, while Dazzle Mec Glory’s poolroom protection is lampooned. Acts include the Kidders in Molly Pitcher, Sadie Martinet in The Marriage Game, and performers like Eckhoff, Gordon, Rice, Elmer, and the Esher Sisters.
The Indianapolis Basketball League discussed forming a state league including colleges Y M C A and high schools. A Butler top priority rule, Hersch eligibility at Shortridge studied, and a potential January 27 Kansas game with coach James Naismith were noted.
Longridge beat Bunco 16 to 8 at the YMCA with McKinney and Appel scoring for Longridge and Holloway adding Bunco’s only field goal. Yale plans a Christmas trip featuring Cincinnati and Western Reserve games in Cleveland on Jan 4.
At today’s noon meeting of the Athletic Association of MT High School the election of a football manager was held. E H Kemper McComb, English teacher, is expected to accept. Next year’s schedule is being arranged with an Oct 4 opener at Franklin against the college team and a possible game with Rose Polytechnic.
Committees of the M. T. H. S. and 8. H. S. will meet within a day or two to discuss athletic rules governing games between the two schools. A rigid rule on eligibility of mazers is expected, with diploma holders likely barred from participation in any contest.
A hay wagon party of eighteen youths was struck by a freight in Kokomo Indiana Panhandle yards. One man died and three girls were hurt with several others bruised. Driver Paul Weishaar and other party members were injured.
A unidentified young woman was found dead in a Paulding county Antwerp house used as a lying in resort. Keeper D R Shaffer his wife and two daughters and a young man were jailed on $1009 bonds. Two more young women ill were found there from Wapakoneta and Glandorf.
A 2 AM blaze in Mechanicsburg five miles southwest of Middletown caused $8,100 in damage with little insurance. The post office and several nearby businesses burned, hindering the bucket brigade and destroying post office records. The postmaster suffered $40 loss, while T A Goodwin of Indianapolis faced $7 in damage to his building. Others including Dr Elizabeth Weeks and J W Goodwin reported losses with little or no insurance.
Umit is 417 dollars. The school board debt of 55090 must be considered in setting the city liability. Challenges to condemnation, and a faulty bond issue ordinance, are cited with the injunction. John R. Jones appeals from county commissioners who awarded the contract for Fulton county books and stationery to Wilson Humphreys & Co and H A Barnhart. Jones claims his certified check equals a bond and seeks the contract. Two heavy damage suits are filed in Brazil circuit court: Watson v Stone & Webster for 600 over a streetcar collision, and Miller v Chicago and Indiana Black Coal for 10000 over injuries in a mine.
Purdue University plans a new four year school of telephonic engineering within the electrical engineering department to prepare graduates for all phases of telephone engineering. Prof. W. E. Goldsborough will head the department with J. C. Kelsey as instructor. A practical Bell exchange will operate for West Lafayette patrons to give students real experience.
After years of effort Russiaville in Howard county won a licensed saloon with George Kinder the successful applicant though the remonstrance of 174 names was challenged one signer not being a legal resident. In Elwood Ansiem Shafer paid a fine rather than remain jailed, then released after a brief time at the bars. In Brazil gamblers and publicans clash as slot machines are removed from saloons amid threats to close all poker joints.
An early evening blaze west of Elwood consumed the Gillespie family farm home and its contents. The total loss stood at about $2,000 with partial insurance coverage.
Operators faced heavy depletion and a coming dip in production as spring resumes work soon. In Pittsburg on December 12 Pennsylvania crude fell from 1.9 to 1.20 dollars per barrel amid speculation over the drop. The cause remains unspoken though weakness in refined markets and Texas oil displacement in the Southwest are cited.
President Van Horn of the United Mine Workers of Indiana returns from Gibson county where he studied the Frisco mine. He finds miners are paid on contract scale, share profits after payroll and rent deductions, and notes harmony. He concludes the Frisco men have done nothing to merit charter revocation.
A report from Wanatah Indiana states the Wanatah Bank in Laporte County owned by Julius Conitz suspended business after a failed vault robbery led to a depositors run. Conitz transferred real and personal property including three farms and railroad stock to trustees to satisfy creditors totaling about 29100 in liabilities.
At a meeting Raymond Longley was elected to represent Butler at the State Athletic Association meeting. The session is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at the Denison Hotel.
Terre Haute December 12 Ex florist John G Heinl filed and set for Dec 3 a suit seeking an injunction against the city over payment of the 60000 verdict to the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad for damages in opening Ohio street through railroad yards The case argues the bond issue to raise money would push total debt beyond constitutional tax valuation limits and beyond the city limit.
Lawrence county settled with the State yesterday paying 497.81 and receiving 655.59. Porter county received 8867.16 after paying 22688.28 in the latest accounts.
A planned demonstration in the laboratory of the M. T. H. 8 has been postponed until January due to demonstrators not being able to wet the liquid air.
In Montpelier Indiana today a six cent drop in Indiana and Lima crude prices along with a ten cent fall in Eastern oils unsettled operators who expected steadiness or a rise. The market move surprised the oil trade and left many scrambling to reassess shipments and prospects amid unclear statistics from Nyeeon to Onto fields.
MUNCIE Ind Dec 12 David Biglow aged fifty years for twenty five years employed by J Smith Co bent wood manufacturers died yesterday He came from Bluffton to Muncie with the Industry Anthony Tweedy aged eighty four years one of the pioneers of Delaware county dead He had been a Mason nearly sixty years and for years was a Muncie business man MARTINSVILLE Ind Dec 12 Samuel Paul resident here and age of ear nene pears
Three years. Mr. Pruitt was confined to his bed only five days. He left a widow and four children. GREENVILLE, D., Dec. 12.-William Mitchell, aged seventy-five, a well-to-do citizen, dropped dead this morning while repairing a sewing machine at his home.
Richmond sees M J Gleason plan a brass foundry as Robinson thresher plant invests 20000 in new buildings. City workers await 5 cent hourly raises backdated to the 20 cent law, due before Christmas. Muncie Royals beat Richmond Henneys 3 to 1 in a pole match.
The Manila police act reorganizes the force with a merged native American structure and merit based enlistment. Old lists are purged, 26 of 39 pass exams for new ranks. English language schooling will elevate a second class for patrol work with pay increases. attendance not required but merit rewarded.
The Plain Dealer reports that independent iron ore producers have contracted for over twenty million tons of raw material for multi year terms to counter possible steel trust supply control. Deals involve substantial money with Mesaba ore priced six cents above this year's level. Vice president Gagely of US Steel proposed the advance, guiding most long term sales for 192.
Three children of Tunis Pons, a steel maker at Pompton Lake, drowned when ice on Slater's pond cracked while they skated. The victims were Clara sixteen, Lizzie twelve, and Benjamin ten. The accident occurred near their home as they failed to reach safety.
W G Patten a traveling salesman for Stromberg Carlson in Chicago was found dead in his hotel room at the Plaza in Piqua Ohio. He reportedly took morphine before retiring last night and an overdose is suspected. Efforts are underway to locate his relatives.
New York Dec 1 The Times announces the marriage of United States Senator Chauncey M Depew to Oster to take place at Nice on Christmas Eve.
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