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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1901
Page
5
The notice advertises cold weather and low prices with suits as low as $3 and French designs at $8.50. It invites customers to visit to see how the amount can outfit a boy's suit, prompting action and shopper interest.
Indianapolis magnate asserts territorial rights remain valid as Interstate League meets in Fort Wayne to decide the new circuit. Secretary Ruschaupt travels from Indianapolis. Watkins plans to attend and complete preparations for Indianapolis to join the league through a franchise or metropolitan investiture.
A Urbana dispatch reports Illinois and Chicago coaches opposing new National League rules. Coach Huff cites Rule 4 strikes count as altering college baseball. Chicago’s Coach Stags criticizes the 20 second delivery limit and the foul ball rule as impractical for college play. The University of Illinois plans to coordinate with Western schools on rule adoption.
President Robison of the St. Louis National Regen Club states first baseman D L McGann has signed to play this season with St. Louis. Bob Wood, ex Cincinnati NL and last year with Manager Comiskey, signed to catch for Cleveland this season. The Columbus Baseball Company, with capital stock of $5000, half paid, is led by A B Cohen. They plan a strong Interstate League team and will open negotiations with Walter Wilmot to manage.
New York dispatch reports arrest of Admiral Custodio Jose Mello and others over a monarchist plot linked to Karol Bagel’s death. Government imposes extraordinary precautions to curb unrest as fear spreads through Rio de Janeiro.
Report details a plan to assassinate President Campos Salles to trigger an uprising. Monarchist factions in the army and navy would seize the city and government offices, entrusting affairs to a triumvirate of Admiral Melle, Marshal Cantoria, and Counsellor Lafayette Pereira. Admiral Melle was moved to Coblas for custody under Admiral Proenca.
Bridgeport authorities report the Bridgeport Trust Company failed to uncover any documents at George F. Gilman estate in Black Rock. Directors said the search was limited to inventorying property for appraisers, with no statements given on the result. A long-time caretaker mentions a past quarrel involving Helen Hall but notes Gilman and Hall’s relations appeared friendly.
Labor and industry items report the Laughlin Iron and Nail Company starting foundations for a large sheet steel works at Martins Ferry Ohio. The mill is described as one of the nation’s largest, independent of United States Steel, and will employ about one thousand workers.
Unknown vandals blew up the historic medicinal spring site in Berkeley Springs West Virginia early Sunday morning authorities report the spring, set aside by Lord Fairfax for the Me, has sustained damage and is under investigation with the motive unclear and no arrests announced.
Bedford report: John Sprout's 17 year old fired a self acting revolver at his 10 year old brother while playing. The bullet entered the nose and exited the neck and breast, lodging behind the ribs. The injured boy remains in precarious condition despite medical aid.
Judge A O Marsh sided with the city of Muncie in its suit against Muncie Natural Gas Co. over gas pricing. The injunction limits rates to defined baselines tied to wood coal and anthracite prices. The company must refund overcharges since last November and set a new rate immediately. The ruling may be appealed.
Terre Haute Ind March 25 The Indiana miners convention resumes after a Sunday recess with dispute over a proposed wage clause forcing miners to buy powder from operators at 1 75 a keg Both sides expect a suspension of mining at the new scale year start April 1 Operators meet tomorrow to test ranks Pittsburg March ½ Patrick Dolan says United Mine Workers district leaders have won concessions in the new wage scale a likely ratification follows and Beaver Irwin districts will be reviewed this week
Indianapolis transfers report John A. Carvin the eldest dry goods merchant in Johnson county dies at his Edinburg home aged nearly seventy. Born May 4 1831 he ran a store there for fifty years and was active in the Christian Church. Widow and six children survive with funeral planned for Wednesday afternoon. Another Indiana obituaries brief notes John W Caskey Vandalia conductor dies of pneumonia at fifty three after rain North Terre Haute. Harry M Braffett forty six to thirty six died in Richmond. Joel A Coffey ex postmaster dies Spencer. William Dunkle Linden resident dies aged sixty five.
Greensburg Indiana March S The evidence in the case of Dr Conde Beck for the murder of William Barton closed with the evening adjournment The defendant testified in his own defense detailing the incident leading to the shooting He said Barton fired first and he fired only to defend his life He claimed he fired three times while Barton advanced and he retreated The State attacked the evidence noting Bartons moral character and other factors
Evidence closed in Dr. Leach trial in Muncie as rebuttal letters and nurse McCluskey testimony are presented. The case will be sent to jurors after four hours of closing arguments. Separately, ten damage suits seek restraining orders against Muncie pulp and paper mills over alleged pollution of White river and Buck Creek.
In Muncie Indiana a double wedding anniversary was held at Samuel Bradys home. Mr and Mrs Brady marked their fiftieth anniversary while Rev and Mrs E F Hasty celebrated their fortieth. Both couples long time residents and Brady is a Lake Erie Railroad route agent. A large gathering attended. In Goshen Indiana Louis H Noble and wife will observe their sixty second anniversary. Noble, eighty five, and wife seventy eight, married in Ohio and moved to Goshen fifty two years ago. He organized Oval Churn Company fifteen years ago and remains its president. They have four children eleven grandchildren and a great grandchild. Noble has long loved fine horses and bred them locally.
Fire in Goshen wipes out the Nash Knox Hubbell furniture plant killing 80 workers' jobs. Finishing and storerooms hold 1,400 fine tables. building and furniture likely exceed 30,000 in loss. Fire chief injured, several firemen burned. cause undetermined with hints of incendiarism amid labor troubles.
Albany reports state insurance approval for Continental Casualty Company of Hammond Indiana to transact health and accident insurance with a 300000 capital stock. The item notes smallpox cases and closures in Patriot, Richmond, and other local incidents including a fatal train strike, a baby death, a Portland barn fire, and a manslaughter guilty plea in the Blackford Circuit Court.
A man confessed to his bargain and asked the Clay county Sheriff to be sent to prison. He and the woman were to be returned to Effingham, Michigan. The Bell Telephone district manager in Terre Haute reduced rates to counter competition from a new company set to begin operations next Monday.
Assistant United States Attorney James M. Beck reports in Philadelphia that William N. Singerly was sane when assigning the Philadelphia Record to George H. Earle Jr and Richard Y. Cook. The court decrees the Record shall be sold at public auction and fixes disputed claims totaling over four thousand dollars.
Columbus paper staff walked out at dawn after owner refused to sign the new scale. Reporters returned to work at noon pending final settlement of the dispute with leadership of the News Writers' Association.
In Chicago on March 25 the Appellate Court under Judge Adams ruled defendants in gambling loss suits may be compelled in Chancery Court to answer questions about alleged illegal speculations. The Doyle versus Robson case seeks three times the lost amount and cites Geddes and Dutch as having each lost 100000 in grain put and call deals with Robson, a Board of Trade member.
Snow drenched Lincoln and Little Rock as flat racing and spring meetings began. Yale topped Columbia in fencing 5 4 while Kentucky Derbies favorite Garry Herrman changed hands for 1000. The Harlem Jockey Club outlaw warning followed Little Rock racing. Military League opened at Madison Square Garden with Roosevelt in attendance. Cambridge tracks seek July track games with Harvard Yale and plans for a fall date.
A gas engine explosion at a Janesville barbed wire works killed James Horne and Daniel Preller. In Chicago a kerosene stove misfire endangered Mrs Albert Fredley and her ten month old infant. The steamboat Leader sank after collision with a bridge pier in Pittsburgh, with Captain Thomas Flaherty and twelve crew rescued. A Wisconsin Central train derailment near Chippewa Falls injured several passengers but none seriously.
A man in a right coat pocket holds a loaded revolver as he threatens to kill if provoked while Mrs Nation, eating at a lunch counter, vows she would smash nothing if she could vote. She shakes hands with boys and says they will take up her work when done and that the vote is the best hatchet.
Carrie Nation reaches Cincinnati from St. Louis under a local bureau, plans visits to ragtime joints and Lexington lectures, then Music Hall in Cincinnati. She tells crowds to rise against vice and jokes about feathered headgear as she travels via Seymour and Aurora, Indiana.
In Fulton Kentucky the Bank of Columbus was robbed early this morning of seven to ten thousand dollars. The robbers escaped but four men suspected of the crime have been arrested at Union City Tennessee.
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