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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1902
Page
6
Swarthmore College nears final funding to hire Professor Joseph Swain of Indiana University as president. A $400,000 endowment plan would expand facilities. a $15 shortfall was pledged at a graduates meeting, with Swain signaling willingness if funds secured.
Greencastle Ind June 10 The De Pauw trustees hold a busy meeting with Chancellor Hickman reporting year end improvements including Minshall laboratory nearly 300000 remodeling of the heating plant sewerage system and a new endowment of 15000. Mrs Frances M De Pauw and Miss Florence De Pauw contributed 13000 toward the endowment with gifts also pledged by W H Adams N T De Pauw and others to aid debt payments from the money panic.
The Senior farewell meeting of the Indiana University YMCA featured talks by seniors and undergraduates. Charles Hurry departs for Michigan. D L Grover takes over at Wisconsin. the summer school session will open in 182 with record attendance anticipated. Prof M R Sampson and Prof F M Shinn expect to return by Sept 1. Brice elected track captain for next year.
A large Lindley Hall audience at Earlham College Richmond witnessed the senior class day exercises. The Princess by Tennyson was well staged with costumes, pantomimes, orchestra, and a strong cast led by Ida and Prince roles. Alumni met for a luncheon and the trustees closed an Allen G Mills address as the Earlham Boy was honored. Prof Trueblood read Life's Symphony and the first Earlham annual was issued.
Franklin Indiana June reports the final chapel exercises of the year at Franklin College led by Dr C H Hall. Alumni shared talks praising the faculty and student body with remarks by Rev Charles Phillips and Rev Bailey. Prof A R Hatton of Chicago also praised the college community and its standards.
Resignation of a long-time faculty member accepted and moves to Shurtliff College in the same post. Moore's Hill hosts field day events with Webb and Branigan leading multiple races. Musicales draw packed house at First Baptist Church. Commencement week launches June 10 with baccalaureate by President Lewis and lectures. Alumni events, trustee meetings, field days, and society events fill the schedule through June 19.
Hanover Ind June 10 commencement week begins with a Madison Commercial Club baseball win 19 to 17 in the morning session. Afternoon tennis titles go to Phi Gamma Delta after finals. Class day night featured Much Ado About Something on girls admission to Hanover. Rushville Ind no graduation this year as graduates refuse to recite their compositions.
Fort Wayne city council re elected Allen Hamilton to the School Board amid a bitter bid to defeat him in the dispute with Superintendent J N Study.
Richmond Ind June 10 Professor W S Hiser superintendent of manual training in the local schools announces he will not accept the proposal recently extended by the Manual Training High School of Indianapolis.
Princeton University held alumni day exercises featuring a Casino luncheon for about 1500 alumni. The Phi Beta Kappa Society met and a tablet honoring George H Yardly Taylor and Cormand Van Rensselaer Hodge was unveiled in Mar Quand Chapel. President Patton's retirement drew regret while Woodrow Wilson received praise from attendees. Samuel Hepburn spoke as the oldest living graduate and funds were announced for athletic field debts. In Topeka Washburn College trustees chose Norman D Plass as president.
Cambridge England June 10 Whitelaw Reid special US ambassador to the King Edward coronation receives the doctor of laws degree from Cambridge University. Also honored: Duke of Argyl Maharajas of Gwalior and Kolapoor Baron Harahal Japanese minister Sir Richard Collins Sir Joseph Ridgeway and Lieut Col Sir Albert Hime with other distinctions noted.
In Poughkeepsie on June 10 the Vassar College alumni association held its annual luncheon led by Mrs. MacCoy of Bryn Mawr. The class day exercises featured an outdoor welcome by President Theodora Hadley of Indianapolis, with class history read by Caroline Sperry of North Adams and Nine Eldred of Coronado Beach. The day closed with a glee club concert and a president's reception.
West Point exercises focused on sports with Yale beating the cadet nine 15 to 4 as Lieutenant General Miles and General Longstreet watched. President Roosevelt arrives tomorrow for diploma ceremony on Thursday and attends the graduation hop tonight.
Theodore A Ross longtime grand secretary of the Sovereign Grand Lodge I O O F is found dead in his East Orange home from heart disease. He was born in Newark and lived in Indianapolis Cincinnati and Columbus before Newark. He served as grand representative for New Jersey fifteen years and wrote a standard history of the organization. Mr Ross retired five years ago due to health and eyesight. Dr George W Woods retired medical director US Navy dies in San Francisco born 1838 in New Bedford.
Commodore Albert G. Clary U S N senior on the naval retired list died at his Springfield home. Retired for age on Aug 7 1876 he entered service in 1832 from Massachusetts and became commodore on April 5 1874 after twenty years and eight months at sea and seven years ashore. He would have been eighty eight on Aug 7 next.
New York June 10 A Havana dispatch reports that about a dozen people will benefit from the recently signed amnesty act including two Cuban naturalized Americans. Estes G Rathbone and F W Neely, convicted of post office frauds, are among those to receive pardons. Neely has served about twenty five months of an eight year term. Rathbone awaits a Supreme Court decision on appeal while free on bail. Neely says he plans to leave Havana soon for the United States and may pursue business ventures he was interested in before his conviction.
Havana June 10 President Palma signed a bill fixing salaries for Cuban Senate and House of Representatives members at 3600 dollars per year.
In Manila on Monday June 9 strikes swell across crafts including printers, butchers, tobacconists, hemp workers and carriage makers, totaling over 7,000. Isabelle De Los Reyes resigns amid fear, a dummy leader takes charge, yet orders still flow from the former organizer. Workers report wages three times higher since American arrival but threaten to follow commands or fear lethal consequences.
Myriam L Medley, who sought to see President Roosevelt, has been committed to the State Hospital for the Insane at Norristown on petition by two sisters. Authorities say she is homicidal and had a loaded revolver when taken in Washington. She allegedly chased a police officer with a revolver and threatened to shoot.
Investigation cites negligence by Chicago sanatorium and city officials including health department and boiler inspector. Coroner's jury to determine blame after deaths and injuries from the St Luke's Society blaze. Prominent victim Alderman Kent died in straitjacket. others injured include T T Mears Enosburg Falls and A W Wattles of Chicago.
Secretary Root said he has not yet reviewed the Gen J H Smith case arising from the Samar campaign. The Smith matter hinges on actions tied to Maj L W T Waller, whose case for unlawful killings of Filipino prisoners may influence Smith review. Waller’s case won’t reach Washington for weeks, and Smith could stay open until the President acts.
A mindanao court martial records Sergeant Martin Guillipus and three Filipinos attacking a native family member after being served food. Guillipus nearly severed the man’s head with a bolo over suspicions of Manila origin. General Chaffee confirmed death by hanging but commuted to life hard labor. In Manila a typhoon damaged telegraph lines across Luzon.
A mob seized Harris and James Gillespie from Salisbury jail at about 1 am and hanged them to a tree, riddling bodies with bullets after an earlier alert from Sheriff Julian. Governor Aycock ordered militia to protect the prisoners as crowds gathered around the jail. A separate report from Newport News notes a dead unknown black man found hung by a tree on Brierfield road.
In Mexico City on June 10 a New York life company fraud case is proven by exhuming a Spanish cemetery grave. A stuffed figure filled with brick and lead bars appears to have concealed the deceased, likely Bernardo Sotovenia, injured to benefit his brother, now jailed in the city.
Government dispatch ship Dolphin carrying Mrs Roosevelt and the President’s youngest children arrived from Washington to join the First Family at their Oyster Bay, Long Island residence for the summer season.
On the Bernardino extension trestle of the Canadian Pacific Railway a section collapsed while forty to fifty men were working. No deaths reported. six men seriously injured though details remain scarce.
Allegan Michigan report notes McGarry of Grand Rapids remains involved as the jury in the circuit court case concerning a water supply scandal continues. The article provides minimal details on charges or participants beyond McGarry’s presence.
The bin car ferry St Ignace turned turtle in Mackinaw City on June 10, trapping vehicles and triggering rescue operations as crews battled rising water and debris to locate and assist passengers amid a dangerous waterway incident.
Loading cars at St. Ignace the vessel went to the bottom of the slip in twenty four feet of water. The entire crew escaped uninjured. The sinking leaves Michigan railroads without a means to transfer trains across the Straits of Mackinaw.
A mob hanged a Chinese man twice from a tree and threatened him with death to force him from town due to an alleged attempt to abduct a white girl named Nellie Mervhen. He was only lightly cut around the neck and knocked down twice, with no serious injuries reported.
Official report shows 74,000 tons of sugar manufactured in Cuba from January to June 1. Of this, 238,000 tons were shipped off the island while the remainder is held pending reciprocity movement with the United States.
Late yesterday afternoon a high grade oil strike occurred within four hundred feet of Bob's Bar well. The Bob's Bar bore is 225 feet deep and oil rose about two hundred feet into the air for two hours before subsiding.
ANNAPOLIS Md June 10 Star men who received a percentage of percent or more of the first second and third classes of naval cadets have been announced In the third class Royal E Ingersoll of Indiana is listed The battleship Indiana and the practice ship Chesapeake carried the first second and third classes on their way from here
SANTA FE N M June 10 The United States geological survey was notified by Capt J P Conner that sulphur springs in Bernalillo county are unusually active There are twenty eight geysers pulsing every thirty seconds The largest geyser previously quiet is now reported to emit a five foot high stream
Guthrie C T J and Cannon Kansas Crees and C N Brooks Vernon subcontractors died instantly when a premature blast at a railway camp on the Frisco extension to Vernon exploded. Several others were seriously injured but survived.
The ten days annual session of the Knights of Honor body began in Cleveland. The fraternal insurance order reports delegates alternates and visitors from every state totaling about one hundred fifty.
The trial of Jessie Morrison, charged with killing Olin Castile at his Eldorado home in June, opened today. Judge Aikman denied a request for a change of venue.
Manila reports 1,042 deaths and 5,25 cases from cholera with ongoing infections. The tally reflects current virulent spread in the capital as health officials monitor rising mortality.
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