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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1901
Page
3
The department is fully equipped with expert tailors and fitters and promises the latest styles and perfect fit for tailor gowns. Orders for Easter gowns should be placed without delay to ensure best results. Fifth Floor.
Advertises a complete salad making selection with olive oil and dressings. Highlights sole agency for Plagnid Olive Oil described as finest French oil imported. Mentions wide range of oils and dressings to attract buyers.
Manager Ben Stern signs Miss Blanche Walsh for Crockett novel rights and Jacob Litt engages Eric Hope for a Drury Lane melodrama role. Ed Rush and Eddie Foy headline Park engagements while the Three Musketeers, Nathan Hale, and The Power Behind the Throne headline touring plans. Sousa returns with high praise as Village Postmaster debuts at English’s Opera House.
Della Fox leads this week’s Grand Opera House vaudeville bill reviving her stage career after Wang. The program also features mandolin virtuoso Samuel Siegel with the Indianapolis Mandolin Orchestra, plus Lula Fisher soprano.
James K. Hackett announced in Chicago that he will appear as an independent star next season and has sold his interest in his venture to R L Griffin of Washington. He has a three year contract and will produce at least two plays, in addition to Victor Mapes's Don Caesar de Bazan.
A blaze at the Indian apolis Abattoir Company plant damaged the building, boilers, and refrigerating equipment last night. Firemen found the origin near a roof flue amid dry timber. Two thousand beeves in the refrigerating room face possible spoilage within twenty four hours if power cannot be restored.
Peoria visitor Mrs Grace Dronberger tours J H Dronberger area. Union Veteran Legion plans Appomattox day celebration. Judge and Mrs Wiley hosted at Columbia Club dinner with notable guests. Yough Zona McDade seeks locate mother Mrs Mary Williams formerly Spence. Two men arrested by bicycle police over stolen horse and buggy in Greenfield. Philomathean Club guest day hosted by Mrs G Q Bruce and committee. Fourth Presbyterian Church concert for Neighborhood House features Hansen Lewis Dockey and others.
Deputy City Attorney Bell said he has not prepared an opinion for the Board of Safety but will deliver one this morning. He believes the board may contract for two new fire engines without re bidding despite bids exceeding the appropriation, leaving the board unsure how to proceed.
A brief notice urges avoiding luck with fire insurance and stresses securing the title to TELE SURKANES AND LOAN SANA IT 3 WT Y SOME PANY located at 129 East Markets Street. The vague ad emphasizes avoiding uncertain title outcomes and prompts contact by telephone.
The Rev W A Quayle preached last night from Joshua vi 23 about Rahab and character. He contrasted open honest lives like Dickens and Wanamaker with tangled lives like Hamiltons, noting Rahab's faith and salvation amid her flaws. He argued God judges by faith, not deeds.
The Rev. C C Rowlison of Third Christian Church preached on The Anglo Saxon as a Christian. He likened the Anglo-Saxon race to the Jews as chosen people endowed with superior faculties and urged persistence in spreading his ideas of law government and Christianity through history including Charlemagne and modern empire building.
Rev. Lewis Brown of St. Pauls Church urged that decency and order guide worship in the Episcopal Church. He argued objections to form and uniformity misstate the aim, which is to educate worshippers and unite the congregation. The form book, he said, enables global and synchronized worship.
The First Baptist Church hosted the second illustrated sermon by Rev. T. J. Villers on Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. About twenty slides traced the traveler from wicket gate to the cross, with outlines, scripture comments, and congregational songs amplified by stereopticon. The four Sunday evening sessions will continue for four weeks.
The article notes China’s Manchuria figures and the likelihood of permanent Russian control. It cites population of 7,580,000 and low density, compares Manchuria with China proper, and gives Haikwan tael import values for 1899 including 6,279,185 from Haikwan and 16,506,413 from other ports, totaling 21,865.08 taels or $15,974.3.
John Grant Lyman tonight issued a detailed statement clarifying his ties to the International Zinc Company. He links the Joshua Brown & Co winding up to heavy investments and losses tied to the zinc firm, asserts earnings were audited as correct, notes all profits due to the International Zinc Company, and highlights a drop from a $40 to about a $32 per ton profit, endangering many operators.
A leading feature of the week was the number of neon loans announced for early subscription. Dresden's loan of 15,000,000 marks at 4 per cent is to be subscribed on March M, the subscription price being 11.00. Among foreign routes Turkish Portuguese and Mexicans were sold for realization, and Austrians and Argentines were in good demand. American railroad securities saw Canadians as the only buyers. There was lively speculation in Transvaal certificates due to reports of negotiations between Lord Kitchener and General Botha.
Last week on the London Stock Exchange was nearly stagnant awaiting budget proposals and war news. Money is tight, profits were booked, and sentiment turned cautious. South African mining shares rose on reports of talks between Lord Kitchener and General Botha. A Playgoers Club dinner offered a chance for new dramatists to have a work staged at the St James Theatre with George Alexander and Findon guiding the plan.
A Vienna dispatch to the Morning Post states Russia is seeking allied backing to curb a sudden Balkan outbreak. It reports Serbia Bulgaria and Greece would greatly reduce armies if powers pledge to safeguard independence, and notes Britain and Austria may already consent.
London dispatch says no foundation for reports of composer Edvard Grieg's death. Copenhagen notes report his health as good, while Christiania sources claim he is ill, creating conflicting accounts of his condition.
MARSEILLES March 10 The dockers strike shows hopeful progress as several strikers voted yesterday to end the stoppage citing port damage. They reserve the right to renew demands at a future date.
Berlin reports in court circles that Earl Roberts returned the Order of the Black Eagle insignia to Emperor William after reading adverse comments in the German press about the honor. The badge was originally conferred during the Kaiser's visit to England.
Berliner Tageblatt reports a Berlin trial ending with the acquittal of Countess Von Schlicher who was accused of setting fire to her villa for insurance money. She was released immediately after the verdict reached at 2 30 this morning.
In Heule near Courtrai Belgium a passenger and freight train collision killed the engineer of the passenger train and two passengers. Several cars were splintered and many others were seriously wounded.
Moroccan tribes near French territory rise in full revolt as reinforcements move forward from Tlemcen Algeria on March 10. French forces confront rising unrest with added troops and warnings.
The Spanish gun boat Ponce de Leon is ashore near Huelva about fifty miles southwest of Seville. In Ireland the Duke and Duchess of Manchester arrived today at Tinderago Castle for unspecified engagements.
A severe storm swept Fulton and Hickman counties causing extensive property damage. In Paducah the storm toppled three houses with occupants, destroyed several barns, many horses killed, and leveled local churches including Catholic, Cumberland Presbyterian, and Baptist. Estimated losses exceed fifty thousand dollars. Three people were killed.
A Greene County storm last night killed three people near Paragould Arkansas. Mrs Millie Davis and a 13 year old boy Olmer Roberts died at Rock Hill when timbers fell. Charles Bowling a young businessman at Jackson Commissary twelve miles west of Paragould was killed as his house roof collapsed. Several others injured. Property damage includes small buildings fences and fruit trees.
A heavy rain and thunderstorm swept Arkansas with lightning strikes. In Van Buren James Morrell's house was hit, his wife rendered unconscious. A boy was knocked down in the street. Conway losses include fifteen houses unroofed and three blown down. Pine Prairie reports a tornado with widespread destruction and a boy named Turner killed.
A tornado last night near Forest City Arkansas killed Pinkey Watson and her infant, and killed J A Woolley with injuries to his wife and stepson Bob Allen. Sixteen houses and miles of fences were leveled, with many trees down. other property damage included lifted foundations and shattered structures in Johnson township ten miles northeast.
Reports from Ionia St Joseph Benton Harbor and other western Michigan towns show wind sleet and rain crippled state telephone service. Wires poles and switchboards damaged with losses running into thousands of dollars and repairs expected to take days.
A fierce snowstorm hit western Missouri and northern Kansas. A Missouri Pacific passenger train became stuck in a snow drift for six hours near Jamestown, Kansas.
A severe storm with high seas in the gulf forced the battleship Alabama to postpone its final trial trip, as crews weather the rough conditions and await calmer seas.
Berlin reports a continuation of frustration as officials note a milder attitude, sparking debate over policy direction and potential changes. Observers cite unclear signals from authorities and ongoing pressure from industry groups and public sentiment.
Birmingham report notes M W Howard once a Con member from the Seventh district of this state faced a dispute over a book titled If Christ Came. Howard’s actions and affiliations are described as part of a wider political context, with emphasis on his public role and the reaction within the local scene.
Ex-Congressman identified with industrial projects since retirement, filed a bankruptcy petition in Fort Payne. He lists liabilities at 10,827 and assets at 76, noting two-term service as a Populist.
A six days walking race begins at Industrial Hall in Philadelphia under the Penn Art Athletic Club. Twenty four pedestrians start with the aim of matching the world record of 3 miles in 142 hours, with the top eight earning a share of gate receipts if they exceed 475 miles. Notables include George Noremac Peter Hegelman Frank Hart Gus Guerrero and Peter Gold along with twenty other entrants.
Articles of agreement for a catch as catch can wrestling bout under Amateur Athletic Union rules have been filed between Henry Abeken of St Louis amateur middleweight champion of the Turners of America and Maxey Wiley of Rochester NY holder of two AAU titles and former middleweight champion. The match is set for the Fourteenth Street Theater in St Louis on March 2.
In Fresno on March 10 Gus Lawson of Buffalo and John Lake of New York rode ten miles on the Velodrome track. Lake’s motor broke in the second mile and Lawson continued in violation of the rules, finishing in 18 minutes 45 seconds. At the finish several riders quarreled and a free total light followed.
The New York Evening Sun notes Mrs May Wright Sewall claims there is a leisure class in the United States made up of club women who disdain domestic duties. The remark is presented with caution, questioning the depth of the discovery and its source.
In Niles Michigan March 10 the mystery of First National Bank cashier Charles A Johnson disappears as his wife returns from Chicago saying he is ill with his brother in law. Bank officers confirm no money is missing after reviewing the books.
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