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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1902
Page
5
Readable OCR fragment notes TM lags 4a in case details. Text shows limited identifiers and no clear verdict or dates. Summary relies on sparse names and numbers present, without speculative context or added facts.
Winona Lake Indiana July 3 Crowded cottages and hotels as the Assembly and Summer School near. Rev W A Sunday once a professional baseball center fielder will play in today’s game for a Warsaw club and address the evening service. A large turnout for the Young People Bible Con. delegates arrive from Cincinnati and nearby cities as ministers and families settle into cottages.
A man calling himself William Wright of Evansville was taken into custody in Sullivan Indiana after delivering an anarchist speech on the public square. He claimed to be about forty, with a light brown mustache and a slight limp, and he mentioned plans to kill President Roosevelt. Authorities regard him as deranged or dangerous.
An Oakland wife praises Grape-Nuts as the strongest nourishing food for a husband recovering from pneumonia and a sickly child. She notes the husband worked daily, the cough subsided, and the child grew healthier after starting Nut products.
The July 32 Omaha report notes machinists and boiler makers at Union Pacific oppose piece work, with car builders and blacksmiths possibly joining. Chicago reports over a thousand workers across the Baltimore & Ohio system on strike to block extension of piece-work. Local leaders anticipate broader action, while company officials seek a swift settlement.
In Winnipeg on July 3, three wires to the south were cut and a switch at Portage Junction opened. A freight engine derailed, leaving an engineer, a fireman, a brakeman, and linemen with narrow escapes. The line is blocked, passengers are relocated, and Superintendent Hanna accuses the strikers while offering a reward.
In San Francisco the Hackmen’s Union blocked a funeral to protest a nonunion driver. Francis Ceugno had been assigned as a driver from G Marini’s stable before receiving a driver’s card. The driver refused to proceed until the nonunion man was removed, and the procession resumed after the car owner mounted the vehicle.
Samuel Gompers met with United Brewery Workers at Cincinnati national headquarters to renew the fight for control across all brewery branches. He is en route to San Francisco for the AFL National Council meeting and will confer at multiple points toward the Pacific coast. In Burlington New Jersey, seven shoe plants faced a Monday strike after a holiday halt, with about 700 of 1,500 workers idle as plants adopt a nonunion hiring rule.
East Liverpool Ohio July 3 8000 pottery workers breathe easier as the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters announces no strike this year. Western Manufacturing Potters Association and the Brotherhood held all day conferences ending at 6 pm with concessions on both sides.
In Wapakoneta on July 3 all Star chain works employees, numbering over one hundred, walked off the job. The workers, members of the National Chain Workers' Union, are striking over the wage scale.
President Mitchell arrived in Wilkesbarre and said there was no change in the anthracite strike. He reported progress reconciling miners and operators in a bituminous district in Illinois and expected an early settlement. Strikers Joseph Wosko Joseph Howlosh and John Pitcher were brought for a hearing before Magistrate Pollock.
In Scranton, Pennsylvania, about 50 Erie-operated Pennsylvania Coal Company workers received a surprise 10 percent wage increase. Michigan miners delay local union votes on operator proposals until after the Indianapolis national convention, seeking a truce until July 17 to avoid breaking contracts. In Saginaw, prospects of a wage rise by Coxe Bros. at Dlifton were noted amid talks of a 10 percent voluntary increase by the employer. Catherine O'Brien and Mary Jones were arraigned before Magistrate Pollock for assault at Prospect colliery, fined $10 and held on $3 bail.
A July 3 riot at the Greenough colliery in Shamokin results in guards posted after workers and the mob clashed with stones and gunfire. Separate reports from Harrisburg and Hazleton note arrests of strikers at Williamstown and border clashes as nonunion men face intimidation. Hungarian picketers at the Drifton colliery are jailed for beating a nonunion worker amid claims of mistreatment by deputies.
Detroit area reports 2.25 inches of rain with widespread flooding across Flint and Detroit suburbs. Swartz and Thread creeks overflow, Lewis paper mill endangered, bridges along the Flint river at risk, and Port Huron cut off from transportation. Damages near $100,000 with heavy losses to western Michigan fruit crops and numerous railroad washouts. Several fatalities occur in southwestern Michigan as tornadolike wrecks destroy houses and barns.
Two men died instantly when a double header freight train ran into a washout near Rochester Michigan. Injured include two firemen and a tramp. The flood and washed track halted service between Rochester and Oxford and disrupted Detroit United Interurban and local mills were damaged.
In Oil City Pennsylvania heavy rains washed away two bridges and flooded two pumping stations, delaying Pennsylvanian rail lines and drowning a 14 year old boy named Will Anthony at Tionesta. In Des Moines Iowa a severe storm damaged tracks on multiple lines, with washouts near Parkersburg and a major flood impacting Waterloo and Webster City.
A severe wind storm at Momence destroyed barns and other property valued at zero. The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad holler house and landhouse were demolished. Five men were injured, Jeff Warren sustaining a broken leg, and three men at the tile and brickyards were lightly hurt. The storm swept a mile and a half wide path.
In Marion Indiana a walking delegate for the Amalgamated Building Trades Council was assaulted and ejected from the Carnegie library site by contractor Phillip Patton who struck him with a crowbar. Lutz may be seriously injured. Patton has employed nonunion workers on the project. Across Lafayette carpenters strike widens to plumbers and threatens 500 workers. National Painter Carrick warns merchants to support the union or face move of the head office.
Danville reports the death of Dr. Bradley Bartholomew a pioneer physician aged ninety seven at his son’s home in Chariton Iowa. Other items note Dr. W C Robbins at Phoenix Arizona, Judge William A Peelle funeral in Centerville, Mrs George Hubbard of Martinsville, Mrs Sarah Props of Delaware county and Mrs William Carpenter of Brazil.
Marion Inde pendents advertise for men and announce a September 1 restart in window glass plants. The Independent Window Glass Workers Union will meet in Cleveland to frame the next fire wage scale. Industry expects higher pay due to rivalry among three combinations.
Will L. Moyer ex Citizens' Bank assistant cashier and former Western National Bank of New York vice president has helped purchase a controlling stake in the National Shoe and Leather Bank of New York and was named president. The bank carries 1 million capital, 300000 surplus, 6000000 deposits. Moyer is 46.
Everett Alexander age seventeen is killed and his brother Jesse sixteen is grievously injured when a loose box car following a Baltimore and Ohio switch engine runs them down at a grade crossing near Bedford. The engine crew are not held responsible for the tragedy.
Corruption charges surface as Logansport City Council revokes segments of the Logansport Rochester and Northern Traction Company franchise on Miami avenue North Sixth street Hanna street Clifton avenue and Fulton street where tracks lay and cars run. Mayor George P McKee and Councilman Joseph Reitemeier condemn earlier officials and a newspaper amid the move. Company shows no sign of honoring the annulment.
Danville July 3. Lawrence Long fourteen built a dam across a small ditch forming a pool a foot deep and five feet wide. While playing he fell face down and drowned in the pool, authorities said.
Connersville Indiana July 3 City Attorney Broaddus and Patrolman Hamilton were fined one dollar plus costs for fast driving. Hamilton had recently arrested two young men for going over six miles per hour. Two women witnesses saw the episode and, just before the trial, were shown by the officials what a horse and buggy speeding looked like.
Jeannette Spryer, 22, office worker for a Grand Rapids real estate agent, learned from an Amsterdam attorney that her grandmother Catharine Spryer Aled recently left an estate worth 0 to Jeannette and her sister Mary Crawford of Manistee. Jeannette moved to Grand Rapids three months ago as a picture canvasser and will travel there Monday to prove her identity.
Peru Indiana July 3 The funeral of Rev Henry Meiesner pastor of St Charles Borromeo for 27 years will be held tomorrow at 9 am with pontifical Requiem High Mass. Bishop Herman Alerding will celebrant. Clergy from Indiana and neighboring states attend as presbytery assistants deacons and masters of ceremonies are named from several parishes.
Albert Melton a colored boxer of Kokomo was shot and fatally wounded by his stepdaughter Myrtle Smith aged twenty five after Melton forced entry into his former wife Mrs Winburn s home. He beat women with a revolver and was shot twice with one bullet in the left lung and another in the groin and abdomen. The stepdaughter is jailed. In Muncie the Y M C A has organized after weeks of effort with lease on Shirk block for reading rooms and gymnasium attracting over three hundred members.
Spencer Ind July 3 Considerable interest attaches to the Republican congressional convention to be held at Linton July 10. Republicans of the district believe conditions are favorable for electing the nominee of that convention. The Republicans of Owen county have decided to pre-
Joseph W. Williams a prominent lawyer and speaker stands with John C. Chaney of Sullivan as opponent for the nomination in Marion Indiana. Chicago Builders and Manufacturers Company begins a seventy five ton ice plant project costing 25000 to be run by a cooperative of local business men, disrupting the current monopolized ice production by Consolidated Ice and Cold Storage Company.
Early this morning Harry Ferguson Andrew Withers and Henry Starr escaped from the county jail by sawing through three tiers of iron gratings. Sheriff and marshal pursued them and captured them in a nearby woods about ten miles from New Castle. They face robbery charges. Madison report notes a piano contest results with Red Men defeating Elks by about 40,000 votes and Rebekah degree of Odd Fellows close behind.
Jasper Indiana July 3 Mrs Rose Erne wife of a farmer died suddenly last night causing distress as family and friends search for an explanation.
Judge West in Terre Haute ruled the Langford will invalid, cutting out about 30,000 in bequests to charity. The will left residue to the Home for Aged Women and a Day Nursery, after giving a $12,000 piece of city real estate to niece Sarah Warner who cared for Mrs Langford. the estate totaled about 60,000 with multiple bequests and no close kin. Other items report various local notices from Richmond to Decatur and beyond.
An aged advertisement touts Mrs Winslows Soothing Syrup for teething colic and diarrhoea, claiming it soothes, softens skin, relieves pain, regulates bowels, and cures various ailments. It recommends doctors and pharmacists sell the product worldwide at 2½ cents per bottle and markets Glenn’s complexion products as facial remedies.
A long OCR fragment lists numerous individuals with varied spellings and titles, including Andrews Miss Dona Anderson, Adams Miss Hasie Ayres Mrs Mary E Allen Mrs Harry Karnes Lena Bright Misa Dora Beath Mrs D Ballinger Mrs F M Blake Mre Ethel and many others. It appears as a directory-like roster of people and associated titles, with stray surnames and partial first names, plus scattered company names and organizations.
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