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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1901
Page
4
The June 7 1901 issue lists subscription and advertising rates for The Daily Journal Indianapolis and related offices with mail and club rates. It also reports on political commentary by Henry Watterson and updates on West Point hazing, the New York Central presidency, Dred Scott citizenship, Cuba, beef prices, and international relations including Britain and Europe.
The passage argues decades of effort have passed without a project for Great Britain, noting continental governments lack real desire to crush Britain and that even if they held it they would disagree on what to do.
The article contends that post panics, railroad and other stocks rose steadily due to strong national prosperity, safer rail properties, and immense traffic. It notes speculative interest and financial backing driving prices, while mills run at full capacity and harvests promise steadier demand, with 4 percent money boosting stock yields. The piece asserts no signs of obstruction to continued industrial growth.
The piece condemns ungrateful critics of the regular army and its officers. It recalls valor at Santiago and in the Philippines and notes American troops in China fought bravely without looting. It argues demoralization claims and calls out forgetfulness regarding past achievements.
A strange Indiana post office dispatch reveals a switch sent to Wash ington deputy auditor. The piece explores a feminine hair switch used as adornment and public curiosity about private wardrobe choices. The story notes the mismatch between private domestic habits and public scrutiny.
A Columbus article notes a woman wearing a switch not as a constant feature but often removed in office hours and left among documents and mail. The piece mocks the habit, warns of public discomfort, and urges switches stay attached outside the home. It also reports army medical authorities fear few graduates seek medical corps captain ranks, risking staff shortages.
The former Johns Hopkins president advised graduates to value thinking over reading. Readers wonder how to find time for thought amid new novels each season. The Commercial Club honors Col Eli Lilly with a building tablet for his role in Indianapolis' growth, while some lament long speeches about England and its costs.
A fragmentary excerpt from the era features quips about milk cocoanuts and a joke about water in milk. A punchy exchange contrasts a skeptical tailor with a pensive milkman and his son, cited alongside a Catholic Standard remark. The brief items evoke a serialized social page tone.
Detroit Free Press notes Newby Nobbs says he is afraid to marry because, in his view, girls today all look so emart. The item presents a humorous take on Courtship norms and Nobbs personal attitude.
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette notes locals discuss a women’s baseball team touring West Virginia towns. Mr Brushton says he would like to see it. Mr Wilkinsburg objects, arguing women players would make the game soprano or alto. The exchange reveals local skepticism about female athletes.
In New Orleans area parish of St Bernard the electorate, restricted to property taxpayers, votes nearly unanimously to levy a 4 mill road tax. The election followed the good roads convention, with The Times-Democrat noting the move may inspire similar parishes and accelerate road improvements across Louisiana.
The New York Voice cites Sheriff Pearson claiming the United States has the highest drunkenness rate with one in eleven men drinkers, estimating about 75 000 nationwide and 70 000 in Maine with Portland figure near 5 00. The speaker defends against misrepresentation allegations.
San Francisco Chronicle notes Russia imposes a heavy duty on raw cotton, shielding domestic production. The policy reduces imports while boosting local output, with central Siberia producing 77,521,000 pounds of cotton in 1900. Russia foresees eventual self sufficiency for all empire cotton.
An Iowa man claims to have invented a device that can measure a man’s mind though he refuses to guarantee it can read a woman’s mind before she changes it.
A fragment from the Boston Advertiser notes an odd sliding motion beneath Butte Montana described as caused by overweight of two superfluous letters in the city name. The item hints at a quirky typographical anomaly linked to local geography.
Lulu Prince Kennedy faces trial for murdering her husband Phil H Kennedy in a case shaped by defense claims of insanity from brooding over alleged wrongs. Prosecutors outline motive tied to a forced marriage and prior improprieties, with witnesses detailing the shooting at Kennedy’s office and the cool demeanor of the defendant during the killing.
Chicago June 6 Hearing in the Unger insurance case included rebuttal testimony by Dr Frank Webster Jay Rush Medical College associate professor of surgery who testified Marie Defenbach could not have died of dysentery The court refused to allow defense expert testimony to counter Jay and defense announced its testimony was now in
Horace Pell twenty two of New York, member of a Cleveland stock company, attempted suicide by shooting today in his hotel. Insomnia blamed. Pell, from a well to do family, faced parental opposition to acting but revived stage ambition after early success in France. He remains in critical condition.
In Uhrichs ville Ohio on June 6 J P Carey a leading local businessman tried to shoot Mayor G W Reed and Health Officer Dr J A McCollum after being fined for violating a health ordinance. He fled the mayor's office then died by suicide using a revolver.
June 5 in Napoleon area LeRoy Grove sixteen stabbed his sister twenty four to death. He then strangled his thirteen year old brother, set fire to the barn and killed himself with a shot through the temple. The tragedy occurred just after dawn.
After midnight his charred body was recovered today. It is supposed he was insane from reading dime novels. Dr Thomas Bond, late Mr Gladstone's physician, committed suicide by leaping from a third story window. He had suffered melancholia and was linked with sensational crime investigations. In Aurora Missouri a telegraph says Mrs John Stallion and her two sons confessed to murdering Alice Stallion by skull fracture with a poker and discarding her body in the James River. In St Joseph Missouri two hundred farmers pursue an unknown black man who abducted sixteen year old girl from a farmer George Dixon. lynching feared if captured.
Albuquerque reports the death by self harm of John E. Ryan, former Rough Rider wounded at San Juan, following a horse injury. Chicago notes Elmer E. Plane, heir to a large Independence, Iowa estate, also died by own action tonight.
Preliminary examination of James Callahan for perjury linked to the Cudahy kidnapping began before Judge Vinsonhaler in Omaha County Court. In Wyandot Ohio, thirty farmers pursued three horse thieves named George Cliff and Mell Geiser for about twenty five miles until capture. In Flint Michigan Mrs Jennie Parish a widow aged thirty four was shot and killed by Lewis Weeks who forced entry and said he came to kill her. In Atlanta Georgia yard conductor G B Dunton was bound over without bail for murder after a switch engine collision with a Macon passenger train killing three. William F Davis alias Bloomington Red was convicted of burglary in Quincy Illinois and faces indeterminate sentencing for a silk theft rack. In Toronto Ontario Chicago burglars Jones Rice and Rutledge were found guilty of robbing the Aurora post office and face murder arraignment after Constable Boyd was killed and Rice may have fired the fatal shot. Rice died yesterday afternoon.
In St Paul on June 6 the American Medical Association opened as a delegation from the American Equal Suffrage Association attended the session. Reports were heard, including the executive committee report urging Congress to reorganize the army medical corps. Ethics reform was postponed for a year. Saratoga was tapped for the next meeting, H. H. Grant of Louisville chosen to the executive council. The day featured surgical and medical addresses as sectional meetings continued, and a ball in Minneapolis hosted by the physicians later tonight.
Rear Admiral W. S. Schley visited the Maritime Exchange to meet Lt. Cmdr. James A. Sears, his flag lieutenant at Santiago. Brokers cheered him, asked for a speech, and he declined but offered handshakes to all amid a riot scare, praising Sampson as a gallant officer and good man.
In Havana, officials insist the secretary of war upheld the President and Congress cannot alter an act of Congress. Reports claim misquoting and misrepresentation surrounded Root and Cuban constitutional talks. Washington meanwhile lists appointments including Stoddard, Fisher, Woodson and Groesbeck among others.
Dr Rixey left the White House after attending Mrs McKinley. He said no material change in her condition and no perceptible improvement during the day. Morning bulletin noted a comfortable night with slight improvement and the President remained hopeful.
Secretary Long resumes duties at the Navy Department after weeks away on the Pacific coast and in Colorado. He finds minor matters pending and notes no major changes. He has yet to take half of the Naval Board on the Sentre medals and the wireless telegraphy panel. He says fleet reduction in the Philippines will continue with no material change to the existing plan.
Patents issued to Indiana residents include Harry F. Cleveland of Vincennes for a filter press plate Sutton Cooper and W. Felker of Evansville for indiron James N. Crabb of Indianapolis for a fountain moistener Louis E. Francis T. E. York and L. Kennedy of Indianapolis for a check blank Henry B. Miller of Hamilton for a gate Marshall L. Smith of Cambridge City for a folding rocking chair and Herbert E. Westervelt of South Bend for a paper bag machine.
The President acted on fourteen pardon applications. He commuted four sentences and granted five pardons. Harry H. Smith of Indiana was convicted of counterfeiting and sentenced to two years. the sentence was commuted to one year in the Ohio Penitentiary.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal from Washington reports rural free delivery will expand July 1 to Claypool Indiana with a five mile route serving 71 square miles and 1402 people. Also listed are discontinued post offices Macy and Martinsville and new postmasters named for Lone Tree Oolitic Spiceland and Wawaka. Military promotions include Hazzard brothers first and second lieutenants and George B Comley. Mayflower sails from Seg Juan to Carupano to monitor Venezuela asphalt troubles.
A Baltimore address to Woman's College graduates by former Johns Hopkins president Gilman criticizes an era of Carnegie reading. He calls reading a craze and a stimulant, warns publishers and reviewers fuel appetites, and urges graduates to balance reading with thinking and hands on work.
The court is asked to enjoin Secre Hitch cock and Commissioners from enforcing the land opening law in Oklahoma Territory arguing the cession by alleged tribal representatives was unauthorized. The Chilean claims commission adjourns sine die on the 18th leaving no unadjudicated claims. The House attends Representative Burke funeral in Dallas with Miers of Indiana among attendees. Col Chambers McKibben is relieved from command in Texas. Col James N Wheelan to assume Texas Department command as Col seeks service in the Philippines.
In London the House of Commons voted 139 to against a request to probe remount and transport spending for war horses. Sir Brindell Naple accused officers of buying broken horses at inflated prices and sharing profits. War Office officials defended abroad purchases as necessary.
London June 1 The Dawkins committee reports for War Office reform advocating abolition of minute regulations and large scale decentralization. It calls for shifting routine work away from top officials, expanding district commander powers, and establishing a permanent War Office board under the secretary of state to oversee War Office business while preserving commander-in-chief and department heads’ responsibilities.
In a surprise near Warm Baths Colonel Wilson with 249 Kitchener scouts routed 49 Boers under Beyer. Thirty-seven Boers died, with prisoners and wagons and 400 cattle seized. British losses were 3 killed and 15 wounded. Beyer’s main force arrived too late to recapture the supplies, leaving Beyer short of transport and supplies.
Reports from Sydney, The Hague, and Constantinople cover a wide range of events. The Ophir sailed from Sydney to Auckland with dignitaries aboard while a Hague dispatch notes an arbitration court posession on the South Iica war. The U S legation protested Ottoman decrees restricting Armenian entry under American protection. Antwerp fire losses are estimated between 1.3 and 3 million francs, with American tobacco among the items lost. The Canadian arrived at Liverpool with American sharpshooters en route to a five day match near London. Australia’s Commons Wealth committee considers decimal coinage. the empire seeks coinage reforms. Italy and Turkey settle the Prevesa dispute with indemnity and apologies. Germany denies talks over Farsag islands beyond a coaling station grant for China transport service. London grants Milner honorary city freedom after criticism. Oceanic repairs its propeller after docking at Queenstown. A Barcelona crowd applauds the anti clerical Electra drama amid cries of liberty and reaction.
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