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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1901
Page
4
The segment touts our White Goods Department as highly qualified to handle the leafy month of June's preference for fine light-weight fabrics. It highlights India Linens, Nainsooks, Dimities, Lace Lenos, Swisses, Organdies, mercerized and fancy effects among others.
The article discusses small colleges as preparatory institutions to universities rather than rivals, urging liberal education for graduates. It surveys essays by Bullock and Horwill, reviews fiction and serials, and notes articles on college life, trust policy, and the Young Men's Christian Association.
Frontispiece portrait of George Barr McCutcheon of Lafayette Indiana author of Graystark. Autobiography by McCutcheon. M Clark Publishing reports Quincy Adams Sawyer circulation over 100000. Tilda Jane announced by L C Page Boston as best girls book of the year. The Manuscript miniature periodical edited by Marion Mills Miller at 1153 Broadway New York. Haymon Reyes Lala Everyday Life in the Philippines illustrated six photos in Ledger Monthly June. When the Gates Lift Up Their Heads a seventies story by Little, Brown & Co. Ching and the... by Henry Savage Landor to be published by Charles Scribner's Sons.
The piece surveys when authors produce their best work, noting many greats wrote maturely yet started late or early. It highlights Dickens as a counterexample, publishing Pickwick Papers at twenty four and retaining youthful traits, while others rise with experience and observation.
A publisher’s subscription agent tricks a moneyed reader craving thrills into buying Motley’s History of the Netherlands. The boastful Count Hootstraaten hurls a basin in a dispute, but the deal closes with the set priced at two dollars for four months.
In the Detroit Free Press a farm supervisor recounts hiring Jake for summer work. Despite wages and a horse, Jake mixed ripe red, yellow, and green fruit and mispicked tomatoes and cherries. The supervisor chastises him for carelessness, but Jake defends his effort and offers to resign. The tale ends with a tense confrontation and a claim of “Crazy 7 No, color biked.”
National officers of L. A. 30 press to close the Blackford Glass cooperative plant in Hartford City. President Simon Burns issues telegrams claiming authority to alter the wage scale. workers, mainly Belgians and French, reject his claim and vow firm resistance. The dispute centers on control of wages and plant operation timing.
Wabash School Board adopts a three year business course starting at first year level. aims to prepare students for commercial careers with instruction comparable to commercial colleges. A seasoned instructor will lead the department. Board also raises teacher pay by 2900 dollars and shortens the school year by one month.
Special report from Richmond Indiana notes Earlham College enjoyed a prosperous year. Endowment increased by nearly 500 through bequests and Indiana Yearly Meeting gifts, lifting total funds since fall term to about 5,000. Eight new books added to the general library and more to the biological collection. Student attendance in the college department rose, Reid Field opened, and campus improvements boosted welfare.
Terre Haute Ind June 2 In addition to a suit by the Southern Indiana line to force the American Express Company to take business on equal terms Prosecuting Attorney Beal will file suit for the State to recover a penalty from the American and the Adams for refusing to receive packages from the Southern under the new law.
Anderson Ind June 2 The Union Traction Company confessed judgment for 2.20 in favor of the estate of William Merida a lineman killed on the job after a live wire was turned on while he worked atop a pole. The widow will receive the money immediately. The tragedy occurred after a Fairmount hire.
A citizen committee of eight in Wabash Indiana will press for special elections in townships along the proposed Wabash and Rochester electric railroad line. The panel includes Judge H. Shively, Warren G. Sayre, D. R. Bufington, N. G. Hunter, James Lynn, W. B. Leewenberg, Aaron Simon, Alvah Taylor, and L. L. Daugherty. They aim to raise 110000 in subsidies across Paw Paw, Perry, Miami, Henry, Rochester townships and Fulton county and seek elections by August.
Ernest Boerel, about sixty, was struck and killed by Pennsylvania train No. 3 at Union Station Port Wayne on Calhoun street. He was warned to wait but stepped forward as gates lowered, receiving a fatal spinal injury. He left a family.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal reports the initiation of seventy candidates into the Knights of Columbus in Terre Haute Indiana. Catholics from many cities gathered as the group attended a 10 o'clock PAB session this morning and the exercises continued afterward.
Reports from Kokomo to Fort Wayne detail inquest on Aggie Long’s church pulpit suicide amid a family doom vision and a fatal dream. Damages suit by Mrs. Tash against Dr. Phillips for cocaine harm seeks 5000 dollars. Madison wedding announcements include James Reed and Mary Lawder, Kathryn Lar and Peter Zaami. Terre Haute knife attack on J W Allen aboard a Vandalia train prompts alarm among ladies. Fort Wayne Judge Ninde gravely ill, Bright’s disease and senile debility worsen his condition.
The Indiana Clay Company sued B. A. & O. 3 S. W. for five dollars damages alleging its pottery plant burned from a spark from a defective engine spark arrester. Tried at Vincennes on change of venue, the verdict favored the defendant after a hung jury on the first trial. The case centered on responsibility for the fire at the plant. The decision ends the suit with the defendant cleared of liability.
The Chicago Federation of Labor urged prayer from the Presbyterian Assembly and all denominations for the success of the eight hour day. A telegram to the Pittsburg Synod was ordered, presenting a rebuke for criticisms of union labor and inviting a nationwide prayer campaign.
A New York Evening Sun tale recounts an Italian immigrant aboard a steamship who feigned illness and hid a family in steerage. Customs officers quickly flagged him for a contagious eye disease and sent him back to Italy, underscoring strict U S immigration enforcement at port.
An old advertisement touts Mrs Vision’s Soothing Syrup as the long used teething remedy for babies claiming soothing effects on gums easing wind colic and diarrhoea with a price of two and a half cents per bottle. The copy also promotes Glenn’s Sulphur Soap as a cure for skin diseases and a hair dye product offering black or brown shades and claims for whitening and healing abrasions.
James A. Herne famed actor and playwright died in New York City at home of acute bronchitis and pneumonia after eight weeks illness. He was in Chicago performing Sag Harbor when illness worsened, survived by Mrs Herne and five children. Cremation planned, funeral date pending. Born Troy New York February 1 1838, Herne rose from a traveling company to a star and wrote Shore Acres Hearts of Oak and other plays, with Shore Acres his best known work. The report also notes the death in Cincinnati of Rev Thomas K Pearne at eighty one, a long Methodist minister and former US consul.
Richard C McCormick died at his Jamaica New York home. Born in 1832 in New York City he served as territorial Governor of Arizona from 1866 to 1869 and held posts including assistant secretary of the treasury in 1877 78. He was elected to Congress for one term and represented the United States at the Paris Exposition in 1889. He married the daughter of the late Senator Thurman of Ohio. she survives him.
New York on June 2 held the funeral for William A Willyms, a widely known Black New Yorker and longtime sacristan of St Benedict the Moor Church. He studied in Rome and counted Archbishop Corrigan, Dr McGlynn, Dr Birdsall and other dignitaries among his fellow pupils.
Knoxville report announces the sudden death of Rev. J. M. P. Otts D D of Greensboro Alabama former pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church and a noted Bible and Holy Land writer who tutored Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson for several years.
Five large earth cracks appear around Butte Montana with the largest on West Galena Street. Gas water lines and city elevations shift as engineers report marks moving up to a foot, prompting growing citizen alarm over ongoing subsidence.
Washington Times considers West Point mutiny and the anti-canteen law as forces that weaken military discipline. It argues leniency and political influence undermine authority, warning that officers may fail to enforce discipline if politics dominate army life and mutiny is deemed justifiable.
Arguments targeted the general population and politicians while army officers and soldiers faced discipline concerns. Veterans protested, warning abolition harms military life. The move, driven by political pressure, ignored the judgments of seasoned army men and risks undermining discipline.
Cleveland June 2 The Leader quotes L D Hazard financial secretary of the Salvation Army department stating that talks are under way for reconciliation between General William Booth and his son Ballington after five years of estrangement Ballington formed the Volunteers of America over a transfer dispute If reconciliation occurs Ballington would return to the Salvation Army and the Volunteers of America would dissolve and affiliate with the Salvation Army
The Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research will begin work in pathology labs at several universities including Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, McGill, and a New York City health department lab. With a $20,000 initial gift, directors will supervise and the work will be done by independent physicians. Initial focus is bacteriological study of the milk supply, over one to two years as plans for a permanent institute are developed.
In a year Armour Institute of Technology will expand its leadership structure with Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulas returning as president. Two new buildings will rise groundward near the existing campus, including a shop building and a memorial for P D Armour Sr. Coeducation will end, with the academy shifting to prepare students for engineering studies. Financial management shifts to a trustees committee.
New York Evening Post reports slot machine season opens with counterfeit fractional coins flooding the sub treasury. Daily pennies worth 3 to 5 thousand dollars arrive, many false, causing losses to users and machines. Counterfeit halves and quarters confound detectives, some forged with high precision. Department stores sometimes receive ten dollars in pennies, recipients redeem at the subtreasury with receipts usable for larger notes. Secret service keeps pace with counterfeiters through these seizures.
The New York Christian Advocate argues future Presbyterian creed changes must preserve substantial Calvinistic truth. It warns that any addition or alteration touching core doctrine risks transforming the standards into a weaker, unstable form akin to Nebuchadnezzar's dream image. A new creed repeating old points in new words without meaning change offers little value.
An advertisement claims 2400 disorders stem from impure blood and promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a universal cure. It asserts the medicine purifies blood and has cured severe conditions like salt rheum boils pimples dyspepsia and bilious symptoms with millions reportedly saved by its effects.
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