Railroads Oppose Tax Hike As Real Estate Values Rise
State Tax Commissioners hear railroad attorneys arguing assessments should not rise this year. Robert J. Carey for Indiana Illinois and Iowa Railroad and others testify that railroad property has appreciated but general real estate measures delay any increase. Officials Lloyd and Norton among speakers urge carrying over present assessments until broader real estate action is taken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Robert J. Carey
Indiana, Illinois & Iowa Railroad
Charles J. Schleif
Bedford Stone Railway Company
Monon
W. H. McDoel
Frank B. Carpenter
Nickelplate
Rall Peenery
Fairview Park Hosts Carl Hagenbeck Bears and Weber Band
Today at Fairview Park the Carl Hagenbeck trained polar bears from Hamburg perform in an all-day engagement, marking their first U.S. appearance since Baltimore. The program features John C. Weber's Military Band with ragtime encores and a mixed bill of music across a 3:30 PM start and 8:00 PM finale, plus related park acts and a vaudeville lineup at Spring Lake Park. A funeral service for G. W. Hunter of Lawrence will be held tomorrow at 1st Church, with burial in Oaklandon. Hunter, a 41-yearOhio-born blacksmith, left six children and amassed a sizable estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Hagenbeck
Hamburg
Germany
Fairview Park
United States
Baltimore
John C. Weber
Cincinnati
Weber
Spring Lake Park
Greenfield Electric
Jerome
Frances Meredith
Ben Padricke
Miller Sisters
Harry Kent
G. W. Hunter
Lawrence
Oaklandon
Hunter
Wrence
Clermont County
Ohio
Mr. Hunter
Elwood Firms File Articles of Incorporation
The Frazier Packing Company of Elwood filed articles of incorporation. Capital stock is nine dollars. incorporators include Cr. Frasier Josie Frazier and The Detrick County City Land Company of Elwood with capital stock five thousand. Directors named B. C. De Conrad N. Suttner W. H. Jones Hive and H. Austill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frazier Packing Company
Elwood
Cies Cr
McGowan promises terminal work if city drops car tax
City boards consider omitting car tax from interurban franchises if terminal system advantages prove strong. McGowan vows to start terminal station within thirty days and provide architect plans next week. Freight rates proposed to be capped like other common carriers. cross-town lines uncertain amid negotiations with shippers and city officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Public Works
McGowan
Shelbyville
Lebanon
Shippers’ Committee
Robert Geddes
Board of Trade
Lew Diet
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
Inter
Joss
McCulloch
Councilman Withdraws Support on Merchants Heating Franchise
Councilman Meyer of the Fourteenth ward withdrew his signature from the contracts report approving the Merchants' Heat Light and Power Company franchise. He sought no reason, citing no motive. Opposition is expected at tomorrow's Council meeting amid signals the measure may fail. Chairman Negley reports strong administration backing, while Merchants' officials express surprise at the hostility over a cooperative heating plant that would supply heat and light with by products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meyer
Fourteenth Ward
Merchants’ Heat, Light and Power Company
Board of Works
Negley
Merchants’ Association
Merchants’ Company
Silver Jubilee for Rev Francis Haase Nears
One week from today on July 27 the silver jubilee of Rev Father Francis Haase pastor of the Church of the Sacred Heart will be celebrated. He will receive a silver chalice studded with rubies emeralds and other stones made in Dusseldorf by an artist who worked for the German Emperor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Haase
Church of the Sacred Heart
Dusseldorf
Germany
St. Francis
St. Bonaventura
St. Claire
St. Elizabeth
Hungary
Father Haase
Upper Silesia
America
Quincy, Hil
St. Louis
Donley Organ Recital At Memorial Presbyterian
W H Donley presents the second in a series of organ recitals at Memorial Presbyterian Church East Eleventh Street and Ashland Avenue at 430 PM assisted by soprano Miss Ida Sweenie. No admission fee. He features new organ works and will play Botting's Assyrian March on request. The programme includes Choral Fantasia Pastoral Scene and My Redeemer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Donley
Memorial Presbyterian Church
East Eleventh Street
Ashland Avenue
Ida Sweenie
Smart “Pastora
Creamery milk sample shows butter fat above standard
The Board of Health tested a sample from the Indianapolis creamery and found cream contained 2.8 percent butter fat, above the 2.6 percent standard. Judgment was deferred as proprietor Joseph Flack argues he has contracts to supply skimmed milk to certain parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Health
Joseph Flack
Indianapolis Creamery
Wesley Lewis Lived in a Shanty on Ashland Avenue Thirty-Three Years
Wesley Lewis aged eighty died Thursday in a shanty at 116 Ashland avenue where he had lived with his wife for thirty-three years. No medical attention was given and Coroner Brayton ruled death by old age. A former slave from Maysville Kentucky, Lewis moved to the city after the Civil War and long served as janitor at Allen Chapel on Broadway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Lewis
Ashland Avenue
Willis
Brayton
Lewis
Maysville
Allen Chapel
Broadway
Pesthouse escape by two smallpox patients shocks city
Sanitarian Buchler says Mrs Retta Reinking and Miss Grace Stephens, isolated with smallpox at 124 East Maryland street, escaped after their pustules developed. Authorities hunt them as possible accomplices are sought for aiding flight. potential prosecutions await if found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Retta Reinking
Grace Stephene
Mrs. Reinking
Miss Stephens
Indianapolis
East Maryland Street
Neighborhood House Plans and Playground Energy Shine
Indianapolis community notes progress of the Indiana avenue Neighborhood House at 905 Indiana Avenue. The summer playground features croquet tennis and vaulting, with about fifty daily visitors and orderly, family friendly activities guided by Miss Sherrard. A July 23 lawn fete at Dr. and Mrs. Runnels aims to raise funds with music, pantomime, impersonations, and a palm reader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth
Indiana Avenue
Sherrard
Ruskin
Free Kindergarten Society
Marion Club
Runnels
North Meridian Street
Emma Messing
Sam Messing
Robert Wildhack
Unfortunate Humanity Statistics From Indiana Charities Bulletin
Secretary Amos W Butler summarizes Indiana’s state care for the unfortunate. The six months ending April 30, 1902 saw 8,633.69 daily residents in 13 institutions, with total expenditure of 791 228 dollars including 143 724.55 for new buildings and repairs. Per capita costs varied by institution from 14.10 to 132.71 dollars, with total salaries 244 621.34 dollars for 1,278 staff. Population changes show gains in several hospitals and the Soldiers’ Home, with Feeble-minded School up 73.5 and Reform School for Boys down 43.67. A table lists gross maintenance per capita by institution.
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Amos W. Butler
Board of State Charities
Butler
Indiana
Bulletin of Charities and Correction
Lafayette
School For the
School For the Deaf
Eastern Hospital For the Insane
Soldiers’ and Sailors
Reform School For Boys
Central Hospital
Northern Hospital
Eastern Hospital
Southern Hospital
Reformatory
Ee Industrial School For Girls and Woman’s Prison
Reform School For
Bey
Sedeees
Mrs Owen of Rockville Buried at Crown Hill Cemetery
The wife of E. H. Owen of Rockville was buried yesterday afternoon at Crown Hill Cemetery. She died last Thursday afternoon in Rockville. Her husband served Parke county in the Legislature two years ago. The funeral party included many Parke county officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. H. Owen
Rockville
Crown Hill Cemetery
Goitre Haunts a West Side Hold Up Suspect
Bud Stockton, described by his goitre, was arrested by Detectives Colbert and Hauser after aiding James Andrews and Jessie Miller in recent robberies on the West Side. Nichols, who seized the woman during a hold up, Ot Stockton threatened to shoot. The suspect fled with the woman, later seen in a saloon where she gave him £2.50 from a changed five. Nichols’s description aided detectives in tracing Stockton.
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Bud” Stockton
Colbert
Hauser
James Andrews
Jessie Miller
West Side
George Nichols
Blake Street
Nichols
Stockton
Why They Left the Home Veteran and Wife Leave State Home Over Burial Funds
George J. Lacy and his wife, now living with a niece at 518 Wilkins Street, left Lafayette State Soldiers' Home after a request by Adjutant Kehler's wife to turn over $12 of quarterly pension toward burial expenses. Gen. James R. Carnahan, a home trustee, says part of inmates' pensions funds funeral costs as a board rule, and he disputes Lacy's claim of a $50 state funeral right, noting the law refers to township residents, not inmates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George J. Lacy
Wilkins Street
Lafayette
Lacy
Kehler
James R. Carnahan
Carnahan
Civil service exams announced for varied positions
The local civil service board will hold examinations for multiple United States classified positions on Aug 11 12 and 13 including Teacher in Indian service agriculture teacher nautical expert hydrographic surveyor clerk male interpreter Arabic Turkish Persian Greek Levant and French and various miscellaneous posts across state department naval observatory and Philippine service
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civil-Service Board
United States
Indian Service
Philippine Service
Hydrographic Office
State Department
Naval Observatory
Indiana sends million dollar check for state debt repayments
The state treasurer issued a one million dollar check yesterday to settle accounts against Indiana. Banks named include German Savings Bank New York for 765 dollars Monroe County Savings Bank Rochester for 100000 dollars East Brook lyn Bank New York for 50000 dollars and Farson Leach Co. The payments will be processed through the state’s New York agent Winslow Lanier Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
German Savings Bank
New York
Monroe County Savings Bank
Rochester
East Brooklyn Bank
Farson, Leach & Co
Winslow, Lanier & Co
Man Stabbed in a West Indianapolis Saloon
In a late night altercation at Zoffman’s saloon in West Indianapolis Charles Lloyd aged sixty was stabbed in the thigh. Lloyd accused Charles Hermann of the stabbing before Bicyclemen Morgan and Simon. Hermann, who lives on Reisner street, could not be found. Dr. Foreman treated the wound at the City Dispensary. Lloyd resides at 1191 Harding street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zoffman
Indianapolis
Charles Lloyd
Morgan
Simon
Charles Hermann
Hermann
Foreman
Loyd
Harding Street
Reisner Street
Sign painter’s wife declared insane and sent to hospital
Ralph Minnich of 219 South New Jersey street learned at the police station yesterday that his wife, who lived at 219 North Senate avenue, had been found insane and committed to the Insane Hospital. He had suspected her mind was failing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Minnich
New Jersey Street
Senate Avenue
Minnich
Robison and Zook Give Up Ohio Street Contract
The Robison & Zook firm halted a building contract at 207-234 East Ohio Street for John E. Wood after failing to hire union carpenters amid Carpenters' Union hostility. Wood will proceed with the project using union labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robinson & Zook
East
Ohio Street
John 8. Wood
Carpenters’ Union
Wood
Visit to the Hawaiian Islands Described in Letter
Richard S Johnston, son of Dr John F Johnston of 726 North Illinois street, writes from the steamship Ventura on July 1 describing Hawaii. He praises native hospitality, describes fashions, notes prices in Honolulu, and recounts a grand ball hosted by Governor Dole. He details a native hupla u dinner, Japanese theater, and gifts to a violinist, plus customs of sailors diving for coins and wearing leis.
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Richard S. Johnston
Wang
Johnston
North
Illinois Street
Hawaiian Islands
Ventura
Mr. Johnston
Honolulu
Dole
Holokus
Special through train routes and summer mail options
Special through routes via Monon and Chicago & Northwestern list Denver, Colorado Springs, Manitou Springs, Salt Lake City among stops. A vestibuled Pullman train will zone Indianapolis August 14 for Yellowstone. For details contact Northern Pacific District Passenger Agent John E Turner. Also offers home-to-mail subscription service for the Journal during summer travel. Local adverts for stoves, railing, insurance, real estate, and rentals follow with addresses in Indianapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monon
Chicago & Northwestern
Denver
Colorado Springs
Manitou Springs
Salt Lake City
R. P. AL
Indianapolis
Ind
Yellowstone Ark
John E. Turner
Northern Pacific By
Jackson Place
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Fairview
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Weber's Band
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Sanitarian Buchler
Bulletin of the State Board
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Civil-Service Examinations
Chicago
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