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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1902
Page
1
Crumpacker wins after months of strenuous effort. Special committee to investigate election methods in the South likely to be appointed and chair announced. Crumpacker remains opposed to the Ways and Means Committee Cuba relief proposition as Congress weighs next moves.
Washington reports that the House rules committee moves to create a 13 member special committee to investigate Southern elections and representation in the House. Crumpacker guides the plan, with subpoena power and oath testimony, aiming for a report this session.
Beaumont reports another river floater, six this year, identified as W. R. McNamara a Shreveport painter. Coroner calls foul play. officials tie him to the Mattie Bennett gang. Hood’s arrest quiets public anger as sheriff notes progress in gang roundup. Mattie Bennett named Hood as a gang member. Hood denies involvement.
A fragment notes plans to work Monday under old road rules while trusting Governor Crane’s offices to push for later change. The sentence hints at regulatory shifts and government support but provides limited context or specifics.
Secretary Root endorses an official order ending the agitation by Grand Master O Connell of the Machinists Union and Agent Berry of the Tri City Labor Congress to remove Maj 8 E Blunt from Rock Island arsenal. The charges are not sustained and Blunt is praised as an efficient officer. The order favors rehiring former workers with good records and counts their past strike conduct as not against them. The strike has been notable in labor history and politics.
At a Fall River Manufacturers' Association meeting the group voted to raise wages in all Fall River mills by 1 percent starting Monday morning. Nearly all signatories to the earlier 6 percent wage cap attended, as a crowd gathered outside the association rooms awaiting the decision.
Savannah Mo March 15 The trial of Stewart Fife for the murder of Frank W Richardson nears its end as the state seeks to call Lydia Fuson while defense rests on alibis. Mrs Addie B Richardson testified about her presence with Fife and the night of the homicide. The defense argues Richardson prompted the trip to the square and that the revolver was planted after the crime.
Precinct returns in the Republican primary lag, delaying county canvass and official counts. The canvassing board meets tomorrow to finalize tallies. unofficial tallies show Coroner Harry Tutewiler and Surveyor Henry Klausmann leading, with several representatives including Booth Tarkington and Joseph Morgan atop the ticket. The board warns results may shift as incomplete returns arrive and errors are corrected.
At Elmwood Farm near Metuchen New Jersey Miss Margaret Evelyn Herron sister of Professor George D Herron and Dr Henri Verner Berghall of Manistee Michigan were married in a private ceremony attended by family and a few friends. The couple plan St Louis Maryland as their future home and used a conventional ceremony with Rev J S Mason announcing them as husband and wife rather than pronouncing.
Dr Emanuel Pfeffier of Bedford Massachusetts is officially declared well by the State Board of Health after ten weeks of smallpox illness. Four guards who guarded him during his illness are removed. He contracted the disease at Boston hospital while on a voluntary inspection tour to argue against vaccination.
A dispatch from Canso reports the Dominion Coal Company steamer Tiber wrecked off White Point ledges five miles west of Canso. No crew survivors found. likely all perished. Vessel commanded by Capt. Henry Boulanger of Quebec, crew of twenty.
Gen. Benjaror F. Tracy III, former secretary of the navy under President Harrison, collapsed while arguing in the Kings county sherialty case in Brooklyn. He was attended by a clinician and driven to his home in Manhattan for care.
Review of Moscow disturbances reports 500 remonstrating students arrested after a university meeting. About 15 slated for exile to Siberia, others banished to interior villages. Demands include habeas corpus, press freedom, conscience, assembly, judicial accountability, universal education, and nationalities equality. Police and military arrested participants. a student died by self-inflicted action prior to the meeting.
The article details widespread university suspensions and expulsions amid protests in Russia. It reports on espionage allegations against a Technological Institute senior named Berghtmann, court actions on four hundred students, and a Moscow matter where only fifteen of five hundred arrested students face Siberian deportation while others are banished locally.
In Boston the week of labor agitation eased as freight handlers teamsters and expressmen returned to work. Governor Crane announced progress toward settlements with firms reinstating many workers while mills in Fall River avoided a strike. Railroads including Boston and Maine and Boston and Albany prepared to rehire old staff at prior wages amid a general resumption of business.
A switch engine with two freight cars struck a trolley car carrying Minnesota excursionists in Houston Texas injuring four men. Byron Sperry Winnebago Minn badly hurt internal injuries likely fatal William Waldron Winnebago Minn compound fracture of leg head injuries F L Hart Winnebago Minn injured head and chest C L Sullbardeo Houston Tex seriously injured head. Blame not yet determined.
Mrs. Joseph Phillips and her daughter Florence were killed when they were struck by a Big Four train while crossing a trestle west of Springfield Ohio at when they were thrown into Mad River. Margaret, seven, was only slightly injured. the father witnessed the accident as he returned from work to meet them.
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