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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1901
Page
6
JOCERNAL'S BUSINESS DIRECTORY lists agents, funeral directors, churches, and services in Indianapolis with addresses and telephones. It includes entries for several firms, religious congregations, and ads for a Persian youth renewer and various goods, highlighting local commerce and community institutions.
Classified notices include wanted items for cheap typewriters and fifty hench molders. Also public sale notices from Marion County Indiana decree enforcement listing multiple defendants and properties with dates, times, and locations at the Marion County courthouse, including real estate rents and profits and fee simple interests with Sheriff Eugene Saulcy.
W H Truesdale of the Lackawanna earns high marks for reforms and expanded capacity amid coal strikes. The piece notes improvements in locomotives and equipment, and discusses railway baggage storage charges as excessive, proposing stricter enforcement and reforms to curb free storage abuse by Eastern jobbers.
Certified decree copy directs Eugene Saulcy sheriff to sell the Marion County property of Thomas Johnson versus Walter Oder. On March 9 1911 at 10 a.m. at the Marion County courthouse door Indianapolis lot 246 in Martins addition, to raise nineteen dollars forty cents plus interest and costs to discharge the decree. W B Schwartz attorney for plaintiff.
Execution sale by Rush Circuit Court directs public auction of Lot 148 Park Addition in Indianapolis on March 6 1901 from 10 am to 4 pm. Sale can include fee simple title if proceeds cover debt and costs. no relief from valuation or homestead laws. Sheriff Eugene Saulcy Marion County with attorney Lucius B Swift for plaintiff Neerman trusteecitations.
Major road work costs two million dollars for grading and double-tracking Creston to Ottumwa, leaving seventy miles of single track between Chicago and Omaha upon completion. New pay boosts for New York Central employees take effect after recent negotiations, while Union leaders and executives reexamine rate practices. Henry Shepard leaves Unadilla for Lackawanna positions, and H. P. Bronson probes irregular rate activity. Pittsburgh, Bessemer & Lake Erie eyed for bulk freight to Carnegie works, potentially diverting coke shipments via Pennsylvania lines to Chicago. Pennsylvania's assets rise with stakes in Chesapeake & Ohio and multiple rail interests. Chicago to Eastern access shifts accompany Matthews Land Company shop contracts at Matthews, as natural gas favors Matthews for new shops in the region.
A sheriff sale in Marion County Indiana proceeds from a decree in Superior Court case number 606. Union Trust Company of Indiana trustee sues Charles J W Shearer et al for rents and profits of real estate in Fletcher Juniors northeast addition to Indianapolis. The sale, to the highest bidder, occurs March 16 between 9 AM and 4 PM at the courthouse door with the fee simple interest offered if rents fail to cover the decree plus costs. H J Milligan represents the plaintiff.
Rail industry updates from Indianapolis and surrounding lines detail retirements and new appointments. Col J H Best retires as general agent for Kansas City Southern at Quincy Illinois, with the post abolished. Widespread traffic remains strong on Baltimore & Ohio lines. Monon, Big Four, and Pennsylvania systems report busy operations and schedule changes. Authorities discuss track changes at Hagerstown Indiana to ease grades, and railroad unions adjust to new insurance and pension rules. A movement seeks Great Northern Railway funding for Y M C A branches. George W Ristine becomes Consolidated Western Freight Association chair. Train 12 carries prisoners from Indian Territory to Columbus aboard Missouri Kansas Texas rolling stock.
Sheriff Eugene Saulcy will sell at public auction on the specified date at the door of the magistrate for Marion County Indiana the real estate described as lot 212 in Jackson Park Addition Indianapolis. The sale seeks to satisfy a decree of 156.07 with interest and costs and may include the fee simple of the property if needed. Attorney John Berryhill represents the plaintiff William H. Vickers against Tra H Jordan et al. The sale is without valuation or appraisal relief.
Indianapolis manufacturers react to a new Russian tariff raising duties on goods sent to Moscow. Nordyke Marmon and Atlas engine works fear lost orders as the duty rises from cents to percent, jeopardizing shipments valued near $100,000 annually. A local maker seeks guidance from Senator Beveridge on how to proceed with a $20,000 order.
Articles of incorporation were filed yesterday for three Indiana firms. The Co operative Torpedo Company of Montpelier lists capital stock with directors Andrew Urban Henry R Beackin Edward Fiver Andrew Foust and David A Tre Okey Vault Company of Indianapolis has 10000 dollars capital and directors George B Okey Nathan B Groff Edmund Dwyer and Albert Guildard. The Shelburn Coal Corporation of Shelburn with 5000 dollars capital and directors George W Gein Ernest F Helser and Joseph R.
Yesterday Herman E. Vance sold property on North Meridian Street between Twenty-eighth and Thirtieth streets to Louis H. Levey for 2107 dollars. Catherine C forge rs 24 Gaiek py henre at the corner of Li ware street James E Roberts for 80.
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In probate court Judge Walker appoints Mrs Hathaway guardian for Robert Hathaway aged 71 to pursue possible pension increase. Hathaway, Civil War veteran, lost son aboard the Maine and has suffered mental decline. The hearing explored their Missouri marriage and the wife’s motives as guardian. Also Norbert Landgraf sues Harry Overman over a tailor’s jacket and overcoat price. the court awards $3 to Landgraf with costs taxed to Landgraf.
Gerald Thomas of Brown Ketcham Ironworks was wounded in a groin shot in the Lane. An unknown young man confronted Thomas after a brief exchange with Frank Kennedy of Patterson Street and fled toward a northbound Big Four train. Thomas was taken to City Hospital. police seek the shooter while Kennedy denies knowledge of him.
The appeal of John Banks, a colored Democratic politician imprisoned in Michigan City Penitentiary for attempting to bribe election official J Wesley Bridges, reached the Supreme Court yesterday. Banks contends his defense for the trial before Judge Alford was that he sought to buy Bridges election ballot to trap him and have him arrested, a defense rejected as a justification for criminal acts. The court’s question is whether Banks was entitled to this defense.
In McMaster court a large Brussels carpet damaged by carpet cleaner Melancthon Plunkett was shown to a jury. Owner John McFarland testified he allowed cleaning but the carpet ruined. Plunkett refused payment. McFarland lost a prior justice court suit and appealed to the Superior Court, where the jury sustained the lower court. Costs amount to about $60. A separate verdict favored the Big Four Renew Company in a separate James W. suit after a 36 hour jury deliberation.
County Commissioners awarded the White River at Raymond Street superstructure to the American Bridge Company for 17770 and masonry to William Fife for 790. Germantown Pike bridge over Hall Creek substructure to Samuel Robins for 288 and Speerace for the substructure. Fan Creek at Emory's Ford bridge substructure to Thomas Fraaier for 725.
Superior Court and Circuit Court entries report verdicts and judgments across multiple cases. Damages awarded in some civil suits, dismissals for want of prosecution, appeals with costs, and criminal case updates including a seduction charge with jury deliberation. Multiple named plaintiffs, defendants, and venues referenced throughout the docket.
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