Indianapolis School Relief Plan Urges Bond Issue and Levy Increase
The Commercial Club's investigative committee reports Indianapolis schools need major relief. It endorses issuing up to 4500000 in bonds for new buildings and improvements and a tax levy increase of 1 cent on the 100 to fund interest and 5 cents for building needs, with a plan to spread costs and avoid overburdening taxpayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Club
Indianapolis
H. A. Brown
T. C. Day
A. L. Mason
Vincent G. Clifford
John Appel
John L. Ketcham
Willam M. Taylor
William J. Scott
Ford Mayer
Hsposa
Com
Board of School Commissioners
Vene
Mascagni Party Leaves for Cincinnati Amid Shipment Delays
Siguor Pietro Mascagni Mme Mascagni and manager Richard Heard departed for Cincinnati yesterday afternoon at 2 45 o clock. The Mas cagni company left at 10 45 in the morning after some difficulty was overcome in securing the shipment of the band due to a slight question of rates then in control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siguor
Pietro Mascagni
Mme. Mascagni
Richard Heard
Mascagni
Cincinnati
Director delays leave on Union Station cornice train
The director lingered, delaying departure until the afternoon train and causing a baggage handling confusion at Union Station. Spectators suspected Mascagni and his company faced another obstacle in their American Cavalleria rusticana tour due to promptness issues and delayed shipping concerns.
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Union Station
Mascagni
Vorey
Comind
Mascagul
Unique Cecilian Recital Demonstrates New Piano Attachment
A cecilian recital at the German House showcased the device that replaces hands for piano tone. Miss Lillie Adam soprano and Mr. Frank Taylor baritone performed with cecilian accompaniment, including Adams and Tosti songs and Hoffmann duets. Instrumental pieces by the cecilian featured Moszkowski Opus 34 waltz among demanding works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillie Adam
Frank Taylor
Cecilian
Miss Adam
Verdure
Hayden
Tosti
Wright
Mr. Taylor
Hoffman
Moszkowski
Ground is Purchased for New Pesthouse in City Affair
The Board of Public Works bought six lots on Maxwell street for 5100 to house a pesthouse, with an eight room house a four room house and a shop. Buildings will be repaired for winter patient care and the eight room house kept. others burned in spring for a detention hospital. City Sanitarian Buehler endorses readiness to prevent epidemics this winter.
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Board of Public Works
Maxwell Street
City Hospital
A. G. Patterson
M. Wollenwebber
M. Tanksley
H. B
K. H. Root
Buehler
City Principal and Interest Due January 1
Controller Breunig prepares to pay the city’s principal and interest at Winslow Lanier & Co New York on January 1. Principal includes 10000 toward hospital and fire improvement bonds 1896 70000 total issue plus 14000 for hospital and fire department improvements 1901 and 10000 semiannual on emergency bonds 191 cost 195000 refunding temporary loans from Taggart era. Paid thus far 15000 5000 last July and 10000 due next July. Total interest charge 5 0000. Total due January 1 for principal and interest 79-
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Breunig
Winslow, Lanier & Co
New York
Bookwalter
Taggart
Fire officials order demolition of burned sheds at 23 East Washington
Building Inspector Bartel and Fire Chief Coots examined the rear frame sheds of 23 East Washington yesterday, ordered them torn down after a Wednesday night fire. Spann agency will obey. Inspector also checked Meridian flats, finding ample fire exits including two outside stairs, two in light shafts, one interior stair, and wide hallways.
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Bartel
Coots
East Washington Street
Spann
Meridian Flats
South Side Citizens' League Seeks Street Car Service Reform
A meeting at Wright and Downey streets tonight will discuss street car facilities and service on the South East line. Fire protection also tops the agenda as the group weighs safety and municipal needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Side Citizens’ League
Wright and Downey Streets
South East Street
City Fire and Police Departments Pay December on Monday
Fire and police department members will be paid for December on Monday. Pensioners of the fire department will be paid at the same time, but their warrants will be issued at fire headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fire and Police Departments
Fire Department
Marchall House Cases End In Police Court Dismissals
In Police Court Judge Stubbs dismissed charges against Mr and Mrs Henry Marchall and others connected to the North Alabama street hotel raid. Foster and Webb were reindicted for visiting the Marchall house and jailed after posting bail. The Marchalls also face grand jury indictment as prosecutors plan to move cases to Criminal Court for timely jury trials.
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Henry Marchall
North Alabama Street
Cora Foster
Thomas Webb
Stubbs
Grand
Foster
Webb
Marchall
Marchalls
Pope
Sandman
Ruckelshaus
Orton
Poster Woman
Substitute Clerks Named by Postmaster McGinniss
Postmaster McGinniss appointed substitute clerks yesterday to begin work at the Sites immediately. Names listed include Ivan D. Deputy, William C. Armand, Summers, Edwin R. Huse, Harry J. Stout, and Chas ing. The group will assist at once.
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McGinnis
Ivan D
William C. Armand
Amoness V. Summers
Edwin R. Huse
Harry J
Howard F. Stout
Ws Rie
Grand Jury Indicts Grave Robber and Other Crimes
The July term grand jury submitted its final report in Criminal Court. Indictments included a grave-robbing case against George Mason and several jail and larceny cases. No indictments were returned against Indianapolis Coal Exchange members after a thorough probe.
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Alford
Criminal
George Mason
Mason
Samuel White
Kate Hite
Daisy Lowe
George Young
William Peck
Navy
Pearl Rice
May Trusler
Indianapolis Coal Exchange
Coal Trust
Firemen's Test Suit Over City Deduction Wage Claim
James W. Taylor once a city fireman sues to recover 58.50 for 1898 services in a test case to decide if the city could deduct pay for days off. The suit, before Judge Vincent Clifford, involves 165 similar claims and questions the practice begun under Mayor Taggart to offset deficits by laying off firemen one day weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James W. Taylor
Vincent Clifford
Taylor
McBride
Taggart
Hay
Union Coal Company seeks receiver in insolvency case
The Union Coal Company filed for a receiver for R. A. O Neal Coal Company before Judge Allen in the Circuit Court. The petition alleges insolvency and dissipation of funds by R A O Neal, with assets including coal, furniture, horses and wagons. Judge Allen questioned whether insolvency alone justifies a receiver when filed by an interested creditor and took the matter under advisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Coal Company
R. A. O'Neal Coal Company
Allen
R. A. O'Neal
Mrs Mooney Wins Decree in Superior Court
Winifred Hunter Mooney was granted a divorce from William A Mooney by Judge pro tem Vincent Clifford. The court awarded custody of their four year old child Dora Berryman Mooney and set child and spousal support out of court. Mrs Mooney, formerly Miss Winifred Hunter, is from the city. her husband is a wealthy tanner from Columbus Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winifred Hunter Mooney
William A. Mooney
Vincent Clifford
Superior Court
Supreme Court Affirms Road Bond Limitation Ruling
The Supreme Court upholds Owen Circuit Court and voids county road bonds and taxes exceeding four percent of assessed value. It finds the 1901 act unconstitutional for attempting to validate a prior debt. Also, an Appellate Court ruling reduces damages to Mrs. Charles Shepherd in an Indianapolis street railway case from Johnson Circuit Court.
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Supreme Court
Owen Circuit Court
Board of County Commissioners
John Spangler
Marion
Charles Sheperd
Sherman Drive
Indianapolis
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
Johnson Circuit Court
Dewar Seeks Court Restraint Over Shared Fence on Central Avenue
Elizabeth M. Dewar filed for a temporary injunction in Superior Court to stop Northern Investment Company from removing an eight foot board fence dividing their properties on Central avenue. She says the fence was built by mutual agreement and cannot be removed without both owners consent, and that the company began destroying the fence as it platters its land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth M. Dewar
Northern Investment Company
Central Avenue
Morris Quinton Sentenced in Indiana Reformatory Case
Morris Quinton was sentenced to one to three years in the Indiana Reformatory, disfranchised for one year and fined one dollar by the court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Quinton
Indiana Reformatory
Criminal Court
Fremont Alford
Ted Court
Guilty Plea in Petit Larceny Case Involving $106 Theft
Quinton pleaded guilty to petit larceny after initially facing grand larceny charges for stealing $106 from Mrs. Amanda Gaines on November 3. Gaines had rented a room to Quinton at 64 Vil ia avenue, and he used the opportunity to loot her belongings. The Climax Coffee and Baking Powder Company sues Glucose Sugar Refining Company in Superior Court over an unpaid account claimed at $700 including fees, alleging goods worth $... were purchased in April and only $262.42 paid.
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Tendays
Quinton
Amanda Gaines
Gaines
Vilia Avenue
Climax Coffee and Baking Powder Company
Glucose Sugar Refining Company
Superior Court
Sugar Refining Company
Anna Webster
James Webster
Circuit Court
Amanda Hatler
Frederick Hatler
Gray & Gribben
Edgar Jackson
City Bond Company
Uriah R. Perigord
Com
Elizabeth M. Dewar
Northern Investment Compan
Will of Emily Snyder Probated After Death in December
The will of Emily Snyder who died in December was probated yesterday. She left her estate to her husband David E. Snyder and daughters Alice M. Snyder and Mrs. Anna A. Gibney. Thomas L. Sullivan was named administrator by Probate Commissioner Walker and filed a $1000 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emily Snyder
Estate executor sells seven shares of Consumers Gas stock
James 8 Cruse administrator sold seven shares of stock of the Consumers' Gas Trust Company for the estate of John J. Smith yesterday at 65 probably the highest price yet obtained for this stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James 8. Cruse
Consumers’ Gas Trust Company
John J. Smith
Judge Leathers Bench Temporarily Filled by Clifford
Judge James M. Leathers of the Superior Court is away from his seat in Room 2 and his place on the bench is temporarily filled by Vincent Clifford during the absence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James M. Leathers
Superior Court
Vincent Clifford
Court Dockets Show Multiple Trials And Judgments
Superior and criminal court entries list jury trials and verdicts including Emma Bernauer v Indianapolis Street Railway for $500, and George Walton case for $75.55 plus costs. Divorce decree in Meyer case. foreclosures, default judgments, and criminal plea changes noted along with new suits and injunction actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circuit Court
Henry Clay Allen
Mary Nacie
Robert J. Rochow
Burnet-Lewis Lumber Company
Geo. Walton
George Walton
Lewis Meyer
Charlotte Meyer
Frederick H. E. Meyer
Leon W. Meyer
Supreme Court docket items from Indiana and Owen counties
The record lists multiple appellate and circuit court actions. Key items include Greenfield Lumber and Ice Company v Parker et al affirming demurrers on surety bonds, Owen County Board of Commissioners v Spangler et al upholding bond and tax prohibitions, and several railroad streetcar and mortgage cases with affirmations and procedural notes. The compilation notes briefs and minutes across Tippecanoe, Huntington, Marion and Howard counties.
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Supreme Court
Greenfield Lumber and Ice Company
Parker Et al
Hancock C. C
Monks
Board of Commissioners of the County of Owen
Spangler
Owen C. C
Gillett
John Dean
Indiana Macadam and Construction Company
Tippecanoe C. C. Appellee
Willam E. Ewing
James Ewing
Huntington C. C. Appellant
Assignment of injuries and railroad contract validity
The division superintendent of a railroad agreed with a seriously injured employe to hire him for life as a flagman at a crossing for about half his prior wages in exchange for a release of damages. The company kept the release until the claim was barred by statutes. It cannot later claim the contract was invalid due to lack of express authority or that it was unreasonable.
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Frank M. Tomlinson
George W. Bainake
Marion
Appellee Makepeace
Evans Et al
Odern
Allen
Citizens’ Street Railroad
Comany
Shepherd Johnson C. Co
Comstock
Pinion
Roby
Burns
Horner
Railroad Comepany
N. Y
Judge Hirschberg
Front Door Decay by Dirt and Crowds at Entrances
Letter to the Editor from Indianapolis dated December 18 laments the deterioration of front doors due to a wide swarm of peddlers porters charitable workers and others crowding entrances. The author urges preserving architectural entrances as the main ornament of a house and notes the rear is spoiled by a rabble of dirty thumbed and dirty footed propriety.
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The
Indianapolis Journal
Salvation Army
Readers lament smoky gas in homes and call for change
A reader criticizes the dim smoky natural gas used indoors, saying it stains wallpaper and strains eyes. They compare it to pine torches for reading light and urge stopping payments until the gas is improved.
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The
Indianapolis Journal
Indianapolis
A Christmas List by Heow Edward Warner
A satirical holiday verse lists grand desires from savings banks to an airship and a land to fall upon. The speaker mocks wealth and power with fanciful items and ends noting there are also things missed that are not on the list.
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Mars
Edward Warner
Miss Addams Lecture on The Social Results of New Education
Miss Jane Addams of Hull House Chicago addresses teachers at Benjamin Harrison school on the social results of modern education. She argues education should feed the mind and adapt to community needs while praising manual work in schools and foreigners’ skill, and notes Hull House activities like a weekly labor museum. A separate police report notes a break in at 2238 Talbot Avenue with rings and pins taken after a man entered in the afternoon.
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Benjamin Harrison
Delaware
Walnut Streets
Jane Addams
Hull House
Chicago
Miss Addams
Europe
George Lenoux
Talbott Aveenue
Tee
Dickens Lecture Set For Monday At Shortridge Hall
Hector Fuller will give a lecture on Charles Dickens Monday evening at 8 30 in the assembly hall of Shortridge High School. The talk, directed by the night high school, is open to students and their friends.
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Shortridge High School
Charles Dickens
Hector Fuller
Night High School
Dickens Christmas Carol to be staged by 8B class
A dramatization of Dickens's Christmas Carol will be presented this evening in the assembly hall of school No 8 at Vermont and Davidson streets. The production is by the 8B class with assistance from the school orchestra.
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Assembly Hall
School No
Vermont
Davidson Streets
City News Notes and Local Incidents
The Indianapolis Business University held a reception and dance for students. A smoke incident in the Waverley building brought fire apparatus. Sidney Conger appointed T. H. Johnson deputy state oil inspector for the district. Saks & Co. plans coat and shoe gifts for 100 needy boys to be distributed Christmas morning. J. J. Schaffer fatally injured as a Big Four brakeman near Anderson. Mrs. French died of heart disease at 2114 Yandes St. Coal dealers decry high prices and railcar shortages affecting fuel supply statewide.
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Indianapolis Business University
Henry D. Pierce
Waverley
Sidney Conger
Shelbyville
T. H. Johnson
Johnson
Jay
Randolph
Senate
Saks & Co
Pennsylvania
Washington Streets
J. J. Schaffer
Big Four Railroad
Anderson
Schaffer
French
Yandes Street
Christmas Tree Celebration at Masonite Hall
The pupils of St. John's Boys' School and the Girls' Academy will hold a Christmas tree celebration Monday at 1:80 PM in Masonic Hall. Brothers of the Sacred Heart and Sisters of Providence arranged the annual treat. Music and recitations by pupils from both schools. Prizes and candy packages to be distributed.
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St. John’s Boys’ School
Girls’ Academy
Masonic Hall
Brothers of the Sacred Heart
Sisters of Providence
A Jewel Box Stolen From Edward Buchannan Home
Burglars entered the residence of Edward Buchanan at 59 North East Street yesterday morning and stole a jewel box valued at twenty dollars. Police are investigating the break in and following up on leads.
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Edward Buchanan
North East Street
Gentleman’s game at Newport poker table
Digby Bell recounts a friend who witnessed two men playing poker at a Newport table. One yells a $2,000 bet, the other raises, cards are not looked at, and the winner’s hand is ignored as prizes are moved. The friend buys chips in disbelief.
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Detroit
Digby Bell
Newport
Bell
Distorted Dwarf Siblings Attract Indian Exhibition
London Express reports arousal of interest in Madras over two dwarfs alleged to be brother and sister aged over any year. They are described as small and deformed, claimed to be manufactured in India. Punjab practice of elongating infants heads is noted, causing brain compression and idiocy. They tour Madras and Bombay presidencies begging, tied to a temple trade called Shah Shuja's mice.
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London Express
Madras
Beth
India
Punjab
Shah Shuja
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Clifford
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Adolph Schleicher Company
George Freak
James Taylor
City of Indianapolis
Vinson Carter
Emma G. Bernauer
Arthur Hoffman
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
Huling
Mitchell Vs. Miller
Miami C. C
Appellee
Anna E. Hancock
Diamond Plate Glass Company
Howard
C. Appellants
Sarah J. Carr
William Hancock
Plate Glass Company Et al. Howard
Regina
Wulschner Music Co
Pennsylvania Street
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Plumbers’ Material Protective Association
Goodrich
Grubb
Atlantic Reporter
Board of Education
Jones Vs. Cody
Supreme Court of Michigan
Atlantic Rep
N. J
Judge Pitney
Russell Sa
Dickens
City News Notes
Masonite Hall
E. B. Bradshaw
Guthrie
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Lydia E. Pinkham
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C. I. Fletcher
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