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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1902
Page
4
A local jeweler promotes a 10 percent discount on graduating presents featuring a Pearl Brooch with Diamond center. The store highlights over one hundred dainty pearl pieces and claims fine quality pearls, superb workmanship, and finish to attract buyers.
Marion county schools outside of Indianapolis plan joint commencement at Broad Ripple Park next Thursday. County Superintendent Landis and township trustees push a unified graduation program with a 10 a.m. start. Invocations and orations spot many named graduates and speakers from Franklin, Lawrence, Pike, Washington townships and common schools.
Coroner Brayton questions homicide vs accident in the death of Merchant Policeman Harry A. Rosengarten. He cites bullet weight and rifling discrepancies, notes no motive, autopsy findings, and suggests the possibility the shooting occurred at some distance. A gunsmith compares the revolver and bullet as part of the inquiry while awaiting a key assistant’s return.
The Indiana Society Sons of the Revolution held an event at St Pauls parish house to award two school essay medals on the revolutionary period. Gilbert Bainbridge Marion won the silver medal, tracing lineal descent from Captain Bainbridge, and Olive Shrader New Albany won bronze. R C Minton Martinsville delivered the main address on the flag and its meaning, urging readiness to defend the nation against internal wrongdoing and external invasion.
Alumni of Manual Training and Shortridge high schools plan annual gatherings with class reunions, dances, and officer elections. Shortridge, older by 38 years, has given 2,500 diplomas. Officers to be elected include president nominees Ethel McMullen Claude Bowers Albert Coffin and others. A picnic for 1903 Manual Training graduates preceded the events at Broad Ripple Park.
Frank Binkhurst, operatic baritone, sings today and tonight at Broad Ripple Park with two jubilee musicians adding evening entertainment. The program mirrors Fairview’s success with outdoor vocal numbers and includes selections from popular operas. At Fairview the fountain and King and Queen diving horses are featured for two weeks, ending with two performances today. Free band concerts are also schedule for Brookside and Riverside parks at 3 p.m.
Irvington High School faces final commencement as annexation transfers control to Indianapolis authorities. Five graduates include valedictorian Mary Ward. address by Rev Archibald Hall of Springfield. Program features solos by Mazie Branham and Clayton Pierce, and Dr A M Hall speaks on Robert Burns.
Mrs Barbara Fremer known as Grandma Frohlinger died Friday night at her daughter Mrs Mary Frohlinger’s home on East Louisiana Street. Funeral set for tomorrow at St Mary’s Church at 8:30. Born in Lorraine France in 17 She came to the United States in 1837 living first in Cincinnati before moving to this city. Survived by daughters Mrs Frohlinger and Mrs John Helimberger of Guilford and Sister Marcelline a nun at St Mary of the Woods. husband predeceased her.
Excitement rose after a tramp assaulted Margaret Drummond six, living at 1708 Ashland avenue, while she walked with Florence Dickey near Bellefontaine. Neighbors alerted police, but officers failed to locate the alleged offender despite hours of search with Bicorte corps.
A Greek man Pietro Kokover assaulted fellow Greek Peter Parlaska with a wooden club near Cap itol and Washington. Parlaska suffered a deep head wound and was treated at City Dispensary. Four Greeks were jailed as tensions rise between Sicilian candy sellers and Greek shoe shiners, threatening further clashes in the street trade battle.
William H. Compton was fined by Judge Stubbs for assault and battery on Mrs. Jennie Durand and paying her 6 cents to stay away from the trial. He received ninety days in the workhouse for the assault and battery and a further thirty days for intimidating the witness plus additional fines and costs.
The John C. Weber Military Band of Cincinnati closed its first week of concerts at Fair Bank with large, pleased audiences. The band stays through the week giving nightly programs including selections from recent comic operas. A "classic evening" features Tschaikowsky's 1812 overture, repeated after last Thursday.
Roberts Park Church board fears Ellen M. Stone, the missionary freed from Bulgarian brigands, may be kidnapped again. Stone cannot visit Indianapolis before October. no reason given, leaving officials unsure of her captivity status.
A promotional piece extols Dr. Sparnhurst osteopathic treatment for asthma hay fever and catarrh of the stomach and bowels. It quotes Prof Ayres recounting dramatic improvements after five treatments and notes weight gain energy restoration and lasting relief. The Sparnhurst Institute on the fifth floor Stevenson Building advertises free examination and personalized care by experienced osteopaths.
A fragment indicates aid will be extended to Messrs Wernecke Braun and Feyerabend to accomplish the purpose of their journey. No further context or details are available in the readable text.
Oliver M. Stewart meat merchant of Mancie filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition. Liabilities amount to 2157 dollars while assets total 490 dollars.
Beginning June 15 16 new schedules take effect across lines. Fast train 46 departs Indianapolis at 5:00 am reaching New York 7:50 am and Boston 10:30 am next day. Various outlets modify departure times and numbers on Cincinnati Columbus St Louis and Michigan divisions. A separate note announces fast mail no longer carries passengers with Terre Haute express starting 7:00 pm and arriving 9:00 pm.
Central Christian Church hosts mixed and male quartets with Mrs Goetz Mrs Howland Hugh McGibeny H Laut and H Van Wie H Talbot Ed Nell. Mary Jean Dunlap piano recital at Metropolitan School of Music with Henry Laut. Ruby Bell Lane post graduate recital with quartet and pupils of Nell. Propylaeum hosts test concerts and duation exercises. Indianapolis Conservatory hires Ward Taylor to lead vocal department. Geiger pupils Geiger studio Schellschmidt hosts weekly recitals with Springsteen Mills Watters Tucker Feller and Brown.
The German Postal Administration sent officials to visit the United States in July to study telegraph telephone and pneumatic tube systems and canceling machines. They will tour major offices factories and pneumatic tube stations in New York Boston Philadelphia Baltimore Washington Pittsburgh Cleveland Columbus Indianapolis St Louis Chicago New Orleans and San Francisco, visiting a list of cities to observe equipment and operations.
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