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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1902
Page
7
A deal involving 1,500,000 tin boxes could shift employment as a trust sale to Standard Oil may cut wages yet increase hours. The potential arrangement draws attention to labor costs, production scales, and corporate consolidation within the industry.
A violent storm damaged Grant County areas including an oil derrick and tanks at a plant, while a man in Hammond attempted a river swim with clothes on and died. In Anderson a wage-cut proposal looms as the Amalgamated Association and Standard Oil affiliate consider lowering tin plate worker pay by 35 percent to win a 1.5 million box tin contract, with a referendum to follow next week and workers' stance undecided.
Pittsburg notes that the American Window Glass Company issued a circular urging manufacturers outside the independent group to join with American and Federation in shortening the fire length and maintaining window glass prices. The circular mirrors arguments from Cleveland where it was decided the blast for 142-3 should begin by Oct 15 and run no more than eight months.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal from Hammond Indiana reports that George Gunderson drowned while trying to swim the Calumet River in heavy clothes as a wager with his brother. Also a four year old granddaughter of ex Representative A D Palmer was scalded to death when a kettle of boiling fruit spilled on her.
Coroner Curtis held an inquest into the stabbing death of Samuel Fletcher by Peter Davis at Center Valley. The jury found the killing in self defense as Davis fled Fletcher who was beating him with a whip. Davis was released from jail and returned home near Center Valley.
In Kokomo Indiana on July 18 Sherman Olinger three year old son of Neil Olinger wandered into tall grass in a harvest field. The father unaware ran a mower over the boy causing probable fatal injuries. The boy’s mother is in critical condition from shock.
In ElNora Indiana on July 18 Ern est Bennett a young farmer died instantly after a horse kicked him while drinking. The blow was to the heart causing rupture of a blood vessel according to local reports.
A July 13 storm in Grant County Indiana brought heavy rain and a 1.35 inch reading in fifteen minutes. A barn owned by E R Winnedge near Swayzee burned with two horses and farm produce lost. An Ohio Oil Company derrick north of Marion was struck, igniting a large oil and gas blaze after a shot well had just begun flowing. Two oil tanks burned in a west field.
Rain disrupted the Lafayette Elks carnival delaying horse races planned for the afternoon. Purses totaling 1 000 were abandoned as downpours washed away decorations and booths. A rain shed near Harvey burned with stored wheat after a lightning strike. The Mardi Gras ball occurred tonight and the festival wraps up tomorrow.
A July storm drives thirteen threshers to Hartman barn west of Kokomo. Lightning strikes the barn, several men are stunned, all collapse, barn burns with a loss unspecified. Local responders tend the injured as fire crews battle the blaze.
Special to the Indianapolis meal Loganport Ind July 18 Benjamin EW Wallace the showman brought a carload of circus paraphernalia including a noness two cubs and wagons into town this afternoon to pursue action against the labor Carnival Company in a dispute over equipment and rights.
Defendants make the cars for shipment to Canada as an effort proceeds to move the goods. Sheriff Richason plans to seize the cars on their arrival tonight.
Marion E Beall of Fort Wayne has been promoted to chief of the compilation and translation division of the Bureau of Civil Affairs. He will oversee Spanish and Tagalog translators and clerks, supervising War Department publications on the Philippines. Beall cites Spanish as essential for insular civil service, urging broader teaching in schools.
In Goshen Indiana on July 18 Judge John H Baker heard arguments in the case brought by Edward L McKee vice president of the Indiana National Bank representing majority bondholders of Lake Cities Electric Company Michigan City seeking removal of receiver T T Spiro. Additional arguments set for July 28.
De Pauw University Greencastle Indiana announces formation of a new athletic association. It will have three bodies the board of control six members ex officio president and athletics director. the board of directors nine members from students alumni faculty. and a general body including all students alumni faculty trustees and friends who pay a 0.60 annual fee. The old association’s liabilities total 85 mortgage on McKeen Field plus assets around 1623.50 including 700 for fence grand stand and 525 for field. field transferred to the university with 33 liabilities. A $1 per term assessment for enrolled students funds the new body with a $1 yearly salary for an athletic director.
Wiley Williams, a major landowner and wealthy farmer in Salem, Indiana, was laid to rest at Friends' Cemetery after paralysis struck him a week earlier and he died Thursday morning. Eight nephews served as pallbearers. He had remained single under his parents’ agreement, his mother had died years before, and he had married a neighbor’s daughter. Adaline Boling, housekeeper of 13 years, won a $1.50 breach of promise suit after three trials. Williams died in his sixty-ninth year.
Elwood Michael Buhl aged seventy six died of heart failure at his daughter's home and will be interred in La Porte. Fred Lehr forty three died of lead colic from fumes while working with lead glass. Knightstown Mrs Philip Parker eighty died at her daughter’s home, a lifelong Society of Friends member, survived by three children. Rockville Mrs E H Owen widow and ex county auditor’s wife, died last night and to be buried in Indianapolis. Kokomo Mrs Dorcas Mote Small eighty two, survived by four children. Aurora Mrs Lucretia Kemple widow died of heart trouble at seventy eight.
Wheatfield farmers pass resolutions calling the Threshers Union arbitrary and selfish and vow to use nonunion machines. They set prices for oats at 14 cents per bushel rye at 3 cents buckwheat bound at 5 cents and loose at 6 cents. A large huckleberry crop in White and Jasper counties faces high prices due to scarce pickers as rains flood fields and women refuse to pick in water.
The new Library of Valparaiso College and Northern Indiana Normal School houses over 12 000 top reference books. It is classified and indexed, with a capable librarian, and access is free to students who may borrow most books to their rooms. The institution emphasizes strong department facilities, such as laboratories and extensive equipment across nineteen departments, plus a large array of daily papers and magazines for study. The school aims to provide practical education for all, with one tuition of 10 per term for all departments. For more information contact H. B. Brown or O. P. Kinsey, Valparaiso, Ind.
Country mills are filling as thousands of bushels are sold to wheat buyers. Corn reports show no serious damage from the recent storms. The fruit crop will be the heaviest in years, though the peach crop will be scarce.
Frank Misener of Wakarusa, Indiana, received a letter signed Whitecaps threatening punishment if he does not square a horse deal with George Livengood. The letter accuses Misener of cheating Livengood out of 40 dollars, though Livengood says he is satisfied with the trade.
BRAZIL Ind July 195-W H Kullfire an engineer was killed in a Big Four freight wreck one and a half miles east of Carbon at 2 am East bound freight No 49 crashed into a coal car backed off the switch The engine overturned and Kullfire buried under wreckage He was 26 and survived by a widow and two children at Paris Ill Five cars were smashed and the engine ruined Six hours were needed to recover the body All Big Four trains ran over the Vandalia line today.
Thomas Ford of Marion county and George Moore of Vanderburgh county, both colored, serving terms for grand larceny, escaped the State prison in Michigan City at 5 AM by scaling the wall with a self made ladder. A score of guards scour the hills west of the city seeking them, with no capture yet. Authorities believe they remain near the city and may flee if they attempt to move across the countryside.
The men named are Lieut Job Hale of the Kentucky militia Matthew English and Privates Joseph Clinton John Williams Isaac Jelt and Robert Bowling.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Church General Assembly's board of missions meeting with the Woman's Board of Missions in Evansville elected J. Stephens of Lebanon Tennessee to prepare manuscripts for a forthcoming church history. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hereford of Gadsden Alabama were consecrated as foreign missionaries.
Artie Pierce, fourteen, who accompanied Tacie Many when she was killed by Noah Johnson two years ago, walked twelve miles through a storm from near Upland to Marion. She now believes the spirit of Tacie Mang haunts her and has been taken into custody for asylum at Richmond.
Edward O'Neill, about sixty, drank poison in a saloon this afternoon around 2 o clock. He is alive but believed certain to die, following a quarrel or alleged conduct by his wife. O'Neill has been married about twelve years and is now unconscious after ingesting poison.
Marion Indiana July 18 the police commissioners pursue disposal of the bloodhounds currently in charge of the department. Bought by popular subscription the dogs failed to prove their value and the plan is to sell them and refund the contributors who raised the funds.
In Terre Haute on July 18, opponents of Internal Revenue Collector Bonnell allege civil service violations. They argue a deputy was moved from an office post to a storekeeper gauger, a classified position, though the deputy had been kept on an eligible list. The transfer, they say, was authorized and within the law, matching a prior action by Bonnell’s predecessor.
In Valparaiso Porter Lake county the Democratic senatorial and judicial convention is set for Ham mond on Saturday, July 2. Ex Congress man Wood of Crown Point is a candidate for senator while ex Mayor Bartholomew of this city seeks the judgeship. In Muncie the Delaware county clerk’s report to the Indiana Bureau of Statistics notes 636 marriage licenses issued while 143 divorces were granted, mostly to wives.
The plant transfers to Moses Cohen Samuel Schwartz Samuel Ringold and Maurice Schwartz. A new continuous tank will be built boosting staff over a hundred, and it will reopen August first under Maurice Schwartz management. In Marion Central Union Telephone Co faces mandamus action over wiring nonunion carpentry houses. Mary Chase leaves for Honolulu teaching post. Memorial services honor Moses Dixon founder of the pr er. Dublin post office postmistress commission to Flora Brown with office move to Hoffman block. Mrs Watts petitions favor. Red Men of New Lisbon buy Nation & Son block. Eliz beth Grames of Warren county dies at 98, survived by three children, 31 grandchildren, 47 great grandchildren, one great great grandchild. Dora Brosius housed and clothed after years of loafing, new clothes funded by subscription. Elwood Lodge Knights of Pythias leases second floor with armory and facilities. Kokomo Health reports three more smallpox cases bringing county total to twelve. Crawfordsville Lawrence Murphy killed by Monon train. brother killed in same place a year ago. Bedford buys Democrat for 4000 by Charles P Butler former North Vernon Sun editor.
The Millinary Trade Review notes color becomes the Paris milliners chief focus for autumn. Bright color schemes and tartan color blends emerge with green and blue dominant, accented by black, white, red, or yellow. Descriptions include dark blue straw hats with empire green trim, velvet bands, and plumes sweeping around the hat, plus plaid straw with blue green and yellow interweaving and velvet details.
In Lafayette Indiana the international Pentecost camp meeting opens tomorrow and runs to August 2. Workers from the United States Canada Europe and Asia assemble with a large audience tent at Barb e's grove and hundreds of smaller tents around it. More than 300 workers and preachers are expected led by Thomas H Nelson of Indianapolis with missionaries from Denmark Sweden and India present.
About forty Indiana Republican editors with wives and families arrived at Put-In-Bay for a ten days' vacation. The editors, publishers of daily and weekly papers across the state, will also attend a business convention in the fall.
A freight train on the Findlay Fort Wayne and Western railroad crossed a bridge near Haviland, Fort Wayne district today when the bridge dropped five feet. The train cleared the span but six cars were derailed and damaged. Local crews helped secure the scene as investigators checked the structure.
Edinburg Courier notes unprecedented wheat yield in Brown county despite losses along the creek. Farmers report wagon after wagon of wheat arriving daily from nearby farms, underscoring a remarkable harvest overall.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal reports near Eaton Ohio south of Richmond Indiana a marble marker was erected this week at six graves buried near the Fort St. Clair mounds. The site recalls General St. Clairs pre march camp before his defeat by Indians and an inclosure will be built around the mounds.
Springfield Mo July 18 Prof Herman B Dormer of Lafayette Ind telegrams trustees to decline the biology chair he had just been elected to at Monmouth College. He visited the campus yesterday and found the work not as he expected.
Rev. B A Kemp, presiding elder of Goshen district, North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Church, will depart soon for an indefinite stay in northern Michigan to regain his health. During his absence Rev. F T Simpson, formerly presiding elder of Fort Wayne, will perform his duties. In Muncie a deal was closed involving Matthews cooperative chimney fac.
A detailed description of fashionable millinery features including blue and green ribbons, white taffeta bows, pearl cabochons, and feathered wings. Plateau hats with white chips and poppy braids are praised, with veils matching hat colors and new wearing styles described.
A South of Ireland tale links an eviction protest by a widow to a curse on the Egmont earls. The present earl has no male heir, his wife, an American, faced social ostracism, and the story speculates heirs and fortunes may pass to Alfred Brisco or return to the earldom.
A New York Sun report outlines a growing industry of chemistry driven treatment and setting of quartz and minerals to imitate precious stones and create ornamental objects. Techniques include boiling chalcedony in honey and chromate lead, baking in acid, and color altering sections to mimic opals, agates, and cameos, enabling affordable imitations for the masses.
In a Paris garret Maurice Senior, near despair, saves a starving yellow kitten. He nourishes it, finds renewed purpose, and his art turns to painting cats in various postures, selling them to sustain life and hope rather than pursuing a grand classic canvas.
The document lists No 623 Chestnut street PBtra- Griphia Pa with Alfred 8 Gillett as President and Edwin F Merrill as Secretary. It shows capital amounts: paid up capital 300,000.00 and total capital 20,000.08 dollars.
The company reports total assets of 22,882.00 with cash, real estate, railroad and electric stocks, bonds, and other securities. Loans on bonds and mortgages total 611,450. Debts for premiums 5,272.06 and other securities 0.0065. Losses unadjusted 640.87 and reserves to reinsure 1,081.00. Total liabilities 114,34.98. Greatest single risk 960,000.00.
State of Indiana Office of Auditor certifies that the copied statement reflects the condition of the named company on June 7 192 and that the original statement is on file. W H Hart Auditor signs and seals the document on July 11 1902.
Hall & Hill at 147 East Market Street Thorpe Block B W Cole 25 Catrai Trust Building Schneider Agency 49 South Delaware Street Jess Summer brief directory style notices for shop and agency locations listed for reference
A fragment describes colors yellow black white gray and a tabby. The yellow kitten saved his life and then made his fortune. M. Senior is grateful as the yellow cat becomes patriarch of a tribe, keeps a cushion and cap in the atelier, and wears a golden collar inscribed "So My Benefactor."
A New York Evening Post piece extols the cucumber praising its culinary harmony with lettuce radishes onions and tomatoes. It defends the vegetable against detractors noting its appeal to refined palates and warns of the perils of peeling failure.
The piece notes a “new” philosophy of fatigue with speculation that human consciousness arose from exhaustion slowing intuition. It cites dreamers who ascribe cosmic gas and nebulae origins to progressive fatigue of the ether, joking that some rewrite of the Old Testament would read that “the beginning was fatigue.”
The yacht owner learns his cook and deck hand Finn has a wife and two sons in Finland. Finn boasts he bought a $900 house there from his sailor earnings, and explains his wife won’t join him because she “don’t agree with the climate.”
A San Diego woman recounts a friend’s health turnaround after stopping coffee for Postum. Within a month nervousness faded and within three months she was markedly healthier, later marrying soon after returning home. The account credits Postum with the remarkable improvement and thanks the narrator for teaching its preparation. Battle Creek, home of Postum Company, is named.
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