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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1902
Page
4
The February Butterick Patterns shipment includes long coats capes and ladies skirts with the current short flounces. A visit to our Paper Pattern Department is urged for patrons.
Hal Reid's A Homespun Heart at the Park Theater features Andy Markoe and Senga Severald in a melodramatic tale of right versus wrong. The plot follows a farmhouse obsession, a mortgage scheme, a hidden romance, and a miserly squire as Marion fights to save her estate with help from Tom Lanson and a half witted helper. The production integrates a vivid stage history with confrontations across a farm home and urban settings, delivering a mix of romance and peril.
Richard Mansfield staged a Tuesday matinee at Herald Square Theater New York to benefit the Actors Home fund. Proceeds raised eight thousand fifty five dollars, with patrons from prima donnas to society leaders contributing. Hayman, a key Theatrical Syndicate figure, helped by donating ten thousand nine hundred dollars, plus two dollars for his matinee box. Joseph Jefferson also sent a four dollar box pledge for a family viewing that included Christie MacDonald.
Amelia Bingham John Drew and Denman Thompson skipped town yet paid ten dollars for standing room. The packed audience included W K Vanderbilt and many society figures as Mansfield staged a lengthy program starting at 18 with Beaucaire and continuing through multiple acts of Beau Brummell Parisian Romance and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Arthur Forrest as his lead assistant.
A cascade of society items from Detroit New York Asheville and Columbus details dances teas luncheons and receptions. Notables include Mrs Harry New Mrs Albert Lieber Mrs George Barrett Moxley Mrs Dwight Spencer and Mrs Mary Wiley hosting events for friends relatives and guests with dates near late January and early February. The White House hosts a formal reception for Tess and notable attendees from government and diplomacy. Two marriage announcements Shook Stockton in Knightstown and Owen Gree in Worthington conclude the column.
A & Johnson of Muncie discusses gas field pressures and looming shortages in the gas belt. He backs Cromer for Congress while noting factory shifts to coal may shield industry. Rockville editor A A Hargrave reports Parke county backing Maxwell for Congress. Other notables include McDonald, Baldwin, Kane, and Frazer staying at local hotels.
The Indiana Engineers Society holds its twenty second annual convention at the Statehouse January 29 30 and 31. Officers listed include President W D Pence Purdue University Vice President R L Sackett Earlham College Secretary Charles C Brown Indianapolis. The three day program covers executive meetings reports discussions on new constitution committees on nominations places of meeting press and resolutions with lectures on cement concrete arches steel concrete constructions and power topics. Field notes drainage sewerage waterworks stream pollution road maintenance and street lighting are planned with tours to waterworks and bridges.
The State Board of Finance met yesterday and ceded 3317.0% state bonds from Winslow Lanier & Co of New York, bonds refunded at year start. Chartestown in Clark county reports 150 graves of old soldiers at G A R lot including veterans from Revolutionary War to Civil War. Holmes, government inspector for the Treasury, visited the city with custodian of the federal building to discuss matters.
Mr Young proposes a high fence around the new office site and allows advertisements on the fence. It is also decided to add a new structure to house carriers, providing 1 080 square feet of space in the addition.
John Moriarity of North Hamilton Avenue, a flagman at Pine Street crossing Panhandle tracks, was assaulted yesterday afternoon by an unknown man who stopped the pedestrian, then a train neared. Moriarity suffered a deep head cut and a nose wound, was taken to the City Dispensary and home. assailant fled before police arrived.
The report details secret freight rates used by key rail lines east and west of Chicago, exposing cut rates on packing house products and export wheat and flour. It notes rebates, rate discrimination against small operators, and the push for a published, fair rate system. It also covers safety appliances and a drop in fatal coupling accidents, with emphasis on reporting standards.
The commission urges amending the safety act to require automatic couplers on locomotives and tenders and handholds on locomotives, tenders, and snow plows to cover all hauled vehicles. It stresses universal air brakes, standard drawbar height, and continued block signaling, noting railroads adopting safety improvements and positive feedback from company officers.
The Interstate Commerce Commission arrived in Chicago to prepare for hearings on the Northwestern Railway merger. J. J. Hill and E. H. Harriman are expected to testify despite absence in the East for the Northern Securities case. The commission plans to explore rate impacts, grain and packing-house rates, and avoid prejudicing the North ern Securities case. Subpoenas were issued for C. S. Mellen to appear in St. Paul, who says he will attend. The commission also set a fair basis for intercity rate relations from Cincinnati to Norfolk and Wilmington, adjusting for East St. Louis rates and maintaining similar Chicago to Wilmington practices.
Louisville case Central Stockyards Co vs Louisville and Nashville RR. Judge Evans holds under the Interstate Commerce Act a party must obtain ICC award before suing in equity. without an award, only a law action for damages. Suit for injunction to compel freight delivery dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. Plaintiff plans appeal with attorneys heading to Cincinnati to pursue the case in the U S Court of Appeals.
Tom Horn the scout and hunter was held without bond after a preliminary hearing in Cheyenne Wyoming on charges of first degree murder in the death of Willie Nickell near Iron Mountain. Prosecution witnesses testified Horn confessed to the killings including two earlier ranchmen murders.
London telegraph reports from Djourm Bala Salonica that Miss Stone the captive missionary and Mme Tsilka have crossed into Bulgaria eight hours from the frontier. Dragonisun Gargiulo of the American legation at Constantinople works for release but fears Turkish guardrestrictions bar clandestine entry and asks the Porte to direct relaxations.
In New York on January 23, Assistant District Attorney Osborne continued opening statements in the Albert T. Patrick murder trial. He reviewed Rice check transfers, Patrick's actions at Rice's death, and funeral plan changes while defense counsel objected to summing up. The court warned him to be more cautious. Court adjourned after a four hour twenty five minute session, with testimony to resume tomorrow morning.
Chicago trustees face a McCormick Harvesting Machine Co proposal to lease twenty acres on the north bank of the Chicago ship and drainage canal for up to fifty years at four percent annual rent based on land value. The aim is to move its dockage from the river to the canal, amid a sanitary district strip six hundred feet wide along the canal.
Four Pittsburg national banks with a total capital of 1 790 000 and surplus of 435 000 are reportedly to merge under a national charter. Citizens National Commercial National Third National and Fourth National would form the new institution. The banks are well established and their stocks have consolidating into a few hands to effect the union.
A Cleveland ore association set the price of bessemer old ore at 4.25 per ton. Non bessemer old range ore is expected at 1.25 per ton with a 0.05 rise. Bessemer Mesabe to 3.25, up 0.25, and non-bessemer Mesabe near 2.75. Details on Mecaba and other ores to be announced in coming days.
Union Traction Co of Indiana posts station routes from West Maryland Street to Anderson Muncie Marion Blwood Alexandria and intermediate stations with departures from 4:15 pm hourly until 7 pm and 11 pm limited trains to Anderson and Muncie at 8 am 11 am 2 pm and 6 pm. King Anderson in 1 hour 25 minutes and Muncie in 2 hours. 11 pm and 6:30 pm trains connect at Anderson with Elwood Indianapolis and Greenfield Rapid Transit. Passenger cars depart Georgia Meridian streets first car at 4 am then hourly until 7 pm. Freight cars arrive 4 am depart 4 pm and also arrive 2:20 pm depart 3:30 pm. Combination passenger press cars depart Georgia streets at 6 am 6:30 am 1:30 pm 3 pm and 6 pm.
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