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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1901
Page
12
Indianapolis Journal reports Hanover College commencement events with eight speakers including D Clark Hill and J Doyle, honors to D Clark Hill, and a crowded audience. Recommencement exercises set for June 12. fifteen graduates.
TERRE HAUTE State Normal begins commencement Sunday June 2 with a baccalaureate by Dr. H A Gobin of Den University final exams follow next three days Wednesday trustees meet and night senior class presents The Merchant of Venice Alumni association business meeting and reception on Friday graduation address by President Paon of the University of Ohio. BEENCASTLE De Pauw School of Music commencement held Saturday night in Meharry Hall graduates include Wilhemina S Lank Jin Pitts Grace Stucky Cleopatra Pitts PORTLAND Sixty seven county common school graduates receive diplomas at Saturday opera house exercises Judge John M Smith Jay Circuit Court delivers class address by Dr Robert J Aley MONON Monon township commencement Saturday eight graduates include Arthur Gilmore Lloyd L Thrasher Charles H Murray Roy Maple Susie Noland Effie Vandervoort John H Montz Roy Tucker HARTFORD CITY City Council Friday night selected A Grant Lupton on Governor Durbin's staff as school trustee Republican in a Democratic council.
Fort Wayne reports show the Hicks extraction process at Bass foundry yielded only cents per ton from tailings, less than one-fifth of one percent gold. Miners note tailings remain for potential further reduction as demonstration continues.
Washington forecast shows warmer weather with Sunday and Monday showers for Ohio and Indiana Illinois, variable winds turning fresh easterly. Indiana Illinois sections expect warmer with fair weather in north and showers in south, Sunday showers Monday with fresh easterly winds. Also notes temperatures and precipitation totals. WAPPENHANS, Local Forecast Official.
Demonstration using 1000 pounds of Dahlonega Georgia ore shows ore can yield gold without heat or chemicals via a rotating copper-lined cylinder and quicksilver contact. Tailings show negligible gold, prompting excitement among mining experts about a world-wide shift, with Hicks machine patents and Fort Wayne Columbus Toledo investors backing a $3 million venture.
A derailment and collision on the Big Four Michigan division at Jonesboro, Indiana, at 6 10 p m injured several passengers and crew. No 26 struck the retreating No 25 causing air brake failure and a high speed crash. Passenger A W Snyder suffered back injuries, others bruised but survive with varying harm.
William Waggoner of Albany is sentenced to an indeterminate term of one to three years after a twenty eight hour jury verdict in Hartford City Indiana. He was charged with stealing a harness found in Sheriff Tom Starrs possession and linked to a livery barn arson case in Muncie. The case featured witnesses arrested on related charges and alleged official collusion with Waggoner.
In New Castle Henry A Johnson ex congressman and Richmond attorney John Robbins fought in court over a damages case Dobbins vs C R M R Er Judge Barnard had them cease and fined $3 each before adjournment to next week The day also featured bands and visits by volunteers and local businessmen in separate items from Muncie and New Castle secured by telegraphic briefs.
A Louisville era style dispatch notes a grand New York Cincinnati Indianapolis gathering with a Huntington style toastmaster Hernly and a manufacturing delegation led by Thomas M Randle from Erie to assess ground for plants. In Seymour a safe at Seymour Furniture Co was blown, about 154 dollars and a 150 dollar diamond pin stolen. In Union City an eight year old John Maher from Greenville is captured while heading to Texas oil fields. In Terre Haute liquor and gambling interests confront a strict new police board policy aimed at permanent enforcement.
In Sycamore Indiana the local Methodist church may be abandoned after Miss Aggie Long killed herself at the altar. The doors have remained closed since the tragedy and the funeral was held in Greentown. Pastor Rev E Disbro and the congregation fear reopening and have canceled all services. In Muncie Indiana a jury awarded Charles Earnhardt 600 damages in a suit against Fred Ruppert over a drinking-house dispute after a fight left Earnhardt with a broken leg.
GREENSBURG The City Council passed an ordinance fixing the maximum natural gas rate at 12 cents per thousand, down from 15 cents. Also, Robert Naegel was chosen as school trustee, noted for long association with the I O O F and K of P, and as a Republican with Democratic origins. TERRE HAUTE John and Mrs. Pearce plan a golden wedding reunion on Sunday at their South Fifteenth Street home, recalling emigration from Monmouthshire, England in 1867. They have ten children, eight living, with successors in Rockport Evansville and Terre Haute. ALEXANDRIA Alexandria’s free street fair gains momentum as Bostock shows open on Monday, with a large day ahead and a military parade featuring Pythian Uniform Bank units. LEBANON The daughter of editor A H Felker nearly drowned after falling twelve feet into a water-filled well near the Baptist Church. she was rescued uninjured by passerby Louis Shannon. FRANKFORT Samuel Michael’s home burned with contents. Mrs Michael escaped from an upper room after embers fell on her bed. THORNTOWN Charles Stewart, a young farmer, died after a sawmill accident when a fly wheel burst, a steel fragment injuring his hips. coworkers unharmed. UNION CITY Fraternal orders in Union City plan union memorial services for deceased brethren, with Knights of the Golden Eagle initiating the movement. PORTLAND Wright family home reports a genuine smallpox case. quarantine imposed. HORTON Charles Roberts’ barn burned, with a horse lost and significant hay and grain damage. loss over 1000 dollars and insured.
Cleveland judge voids part of the Little Consolidated Street Railway consolidation and holds the company responsible for distributing 18 250 shares to cable stockholders, including Horace Fulier. The ruling states the stock must be issued and applied faithfully to beneficiaries and not diverted by J J Shipherd and Frank de Haas Robison.
Judge Burnham of the District Court held the Iowa cigarette law constitutional and allowed attachment and sale of the property of cigarette dealers and of buildings where they are sold to satisfy the tax. Similar actions were awaiting in other counties and the American Tobacco Company plans an appeal.
The essay challenges the historic claim of the Battle of Bunker Hill, arguing no burning of Charlestown occurred and urging proof beyond hearsay. It cites witnesses, local experience, and Hume style reasoning while questioning monuments and public memory and suggests a Yankee misdirection in advancing the tale.
The ad announces room for a rocker or center table and a carload placed on sale. Prices start at $1400 and up. Shoppers are invited to price goods at the store.
The piece argues the monument’s erection is unlikely and that witnesses and local sentiment shape belief. It questions historical accounts of the Battle of Bunker Hill, entertaining whether childhood stories are fabrications or if Hume’s reasoning misleads.
New York judge B Edgar Luehr reports Ames O Lyford as committee of the late Charles H Hoyt estate. He assesses estate value at 161,352 with 5,000 due to the committee plus expenses. After deductions the property is valued at 122,106 to be transferred to executors Frank McKee and Thomas E Clark per Hoyt will probate.
In Baltimore Maryland the jury returned a verdict finding attorney Joseph H. Ching of St. Marys County guilty on the fourth count of the indictment for conspiracy with Guyther who pleaded not guilty. On all other counts Ching was found not guilty Bowles and Abell were acquitted on the same charge.
Dr A J Bloch 34 died in Denver from a cyanide potassium dose taken during a personal crisis He was formerly a leading physician surgeon in New Orleans and for years demonstrator at Tulane Medical College in that city.
In Chicago on June 5 Bert McMahon a twenty year old man died after a single cigarette overdose attempt. He reportedly used a five day supply to end his life. Local authorities reported the incident as a suicide attempt with fatal outcome.
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