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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1902
Page
7
The report notes tensions in Kokomo resolved while claims of theft by hypnotic thieves surface in Evansville. Authorities investigated alleged separate incidents where individuals were duped, with victims describing uncanny mind control.
At a Kokomo council meeting an ordinance to extend the street railway by four miles was voted down but later a revised measure satisfied Marott and the Lau-Stoneman Interurban. The plan will add six miles of track and bring the Logansport Kokomo interurban to town.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal reports coroner delay in a Kempf murder case in Washington with Mrs Kempf detained and questions about insurance. Other notes cover Henry Chrisie’s release in Elkhart over enticing a 15 year old, a near murder of Alonzo Graham’s son in Greentown, and Thomas Lambert shot by a tramp gang on a Big Four freight near Union City. Police pursue suspects as officials weigh legality and safety.
Joseph Morehead of Elgin Oregon recounts a rugged trek to a rumored Lost Lake in the Blue Mountains. He carried Grape-Nuts and Postum Coffee for nine days in harsh terrain, claiming the cereal and drink sustain even the hardest workers and a nursing infant.
Noon and lodged in the county hall as strong feeling against him grew to avert trouble. His wife deteriorated all day and a priest was summoned. Her deposition was taken with clear answers. A third wound was found, the bullet removed from Shepherd’s head behind the right eye severing the optic nerve.
Logansport lodge B P C E No 66 sets June 23 28 for Indiana State Elks meeting carnival and monument unveiling on Biddles Island near the late Judge Horace P Biddle home. Ninteen shows from Frank W Gaskill Carnival Co Canton Ohio to occupy space for merchants and visitors. Monument already placed at Mount Hope Cemetery to be unveiled with ceremonial events. rail excursions expected to bring about 100000 visitors.
South Bend on May 2 and 3 hosts the State convention of the Travelers Protective Association expected to draw the largest traveling men gathering in Indiana history. Delegates and visitors have all rooms booked at local hotels, with manufacturers jobbers and wholesale dealers from across the state attending. The event includes entertainment for wives and women friends, organized by the local Post K. Regular Saturday meetings at the Oliver Hotel will continue until the convention. Expects more than 2,000 visitors attendee.
Richmond Ind March members of the Richmond Post of the TPA plan to take a carload to the state convention at South Bend. Officers elected include President Marton E. Shreeve first vice president J R Palmer second vice president Frank A Coffin secretary treasurer H A Moore directors J E Smith J N Jenkins C W Morgan surgeon Dr G H Grant. The post supports Horace C Starr for national president and expects endorsement at the convention.
Carrie Be Holmes was granted a divorce from Arthur A. Holmes in Sullivan Indiana with allegations of cruelty and incompatibility. Alimony and attorney fees were denied. decree entered 2 hours after filing. Holmes, postmaster and Union College trustee, faced the suit amid Holmes' Spiritualist ties and public dispute over beliefs.
In Kokomo Indiana Elijah Vernon Effie Vernon William Harnes and Bertha Harnes divorced before Judge Mount. Ten minutes later Barnes and Mrs Vernon obtained a license and wed the same day. Infidelity cited in divorce suit. alienation action for 10000 settled. The bride had three legal names in half an hour.
A fire at 1 o'clock this Wednesday morning gutted the New Idea factory occupying the old Bronson Hotel property opposite the Union Depot. Losses include $4,000 for the building and possibly as much for stock. Canton lies four miles northeast of Salem. A keg of powder and cartridges saved goods. The office building of Sawtell burned. post office and several other structures caught fire but were extinguished.
In Vincennes, Mathew Kelly faced trial over money tied to Richard C. Davis a former Washington bank cashier. Judgment for 1.50 was entered, with Davis versus Kelly and bondsmen continued and Davis versus Addie Dillard set to begin. In Portland attorneys in the Bolds case eyed a motion for a new trial after a ruling requiring Bolds to repay Adams County about 4.30. In Rushville Michael Foley of New Castle sued Henry Wilkins for 3,000 damages after a shooting near Cambridge City.
Elwood Indiana March 23 within sixty days there will be a derrick on every vacant lot in the area said a well known Indiana oil man after inspecting the local field The Electric Light Company recently finished a well yielding about fifty barrels daily and tanks are being built to store the oil The company plans to drill additional wells immediately with derricks rising for Captain Lessons proposed well and others soon to follow The oil discovered is of notably fine quality
WABASH INd March 2. Superintendent Howe of the Logansport & Wabash Valley Gas Company predicts the current year will mark the end of natural gas as fuel in this Indiana gas field. He says meeting domestic demand will be difficult despite a large pumping plant and many new wells.
Winona Indiana executive committee of Winona Assembly and Summer School meets to set July opening for the assembly and summer school. Contracts awarded for Moody Memorial heating dormitory and administration building. offices may stay in Winona during the war. Directors meet April 10 in Indianapolis. agricultural and trade school board starts April 14 in Pittsburg to finalize September opening plans.
Mrs James Kingsberry a wealthy resident reports a Gypsy woman hypnotized her at home early today then robbed the house of valuables total amount unknown Grace Geart nineteen of Owensboro Ky says she fled with a telephone man who robbed her of several diamonds in Evansville also claiming hypnosis Police investigate the pair as possible suspects.
William Daly, reported dead, returns to his Marion home after a search aided by the Pension Department and a relative's letter. Daly refuses to reveal his disappearance or whereabouts during the last 37 years. Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
In New Albany Indiana Joseph Ethridge and George Fetz were arrested after a violent fight over the corpse of Mrs Sallie Hols, a tenant, and a boarder. Ethridge appeared intoxicated and was injured when floral designs were knocked from the casket. In Peru Indiana the steel casting works report about six hundred employees, tripling since start, with building capacity nearly doubled and a four month wait for liver orders.
VALPARAISO INDIANA March The town reports John Welsh died in Chesterton after two years in rebel prisons at Charles ton and Libby He weighed eighty seven pounds at release Seymour Indiana March 25 William K Marshall died at his Seymour home aged seventy seven A Lexington native he was a leading local lawyer and often served as special judge Dublin Indiana March 25 Mrs Allen Jenks formerly of Dublin buried in Cincinnati died of cevite debility aged seventy five Elkhart Indiana March 25 Rebecca Hart widow of long residence died aged eighty four Elwood Indiana March 5 Levi Arbuckle aged sixty three prominent Cass county native died leaving four children
Fort Wayne contractors, fined five dollars per day for delays in brick paving on Broadway, will resume work on Monday to finish the street. A separate project for a twelve thousand dollar YMCA addition is now with incorporation and site committees, with work planned soon.
New York agent John Lee confirms that British and continental lines have agreed on saloon passenger rates and states the increases will go into effect around April 1. The Beaver line declines to join the agreement while Cunard agreed only after Dominion promised to drop new Saturday Boston sailings, shifting those ships to Thursdays.
A morning fire on Main and Franklin streets in Brazil destroys the Charles A. Knight brick block and damages other shops. Losses total about 50000 with insured inventories including Brattin jeweler Little clothing Hawkins dry goods. Terre Haute sent aid and buildings on South Main were saved.
Goshen Indiana March 25 Mr and Mrs Louis H Noble aged eighty six and seventy eight will tomorrow celebrate their sixty third wedding anniversary They were married at Zanesville Ohio and moved to Goshen in 1865 In fifty four years in Goshen Mr Noble remained active in mercantile and industrial life retaining interest in Noble Manufacturing Company makers of school desks furniture and oval chairs Following the death of his two sons the couple’s four children include two daughters Mrs Frank A Hascall and Mrs Belle Jenkinson and they have eleven grandchildren and three great grandchildren all living in Goshen except two grandsons one of whom Herbert E Hascall is private secretary to Samuel E Morss editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel
Springfield business leaders pledged 15000 as a stock bonus on 8000 par value stock of Republic Iron and Steel Company to reopen the Springfield rolling mills. About 100 workers are preparing machinery for operation as buildings are remodeled and modernized with new appliances and perfected equipment for a renewed plant.
The Columbus Yaukkee Railroad extending from Columbus to Defiance was sold at Defiance under foreclosure to Cleveland representatives of John D Rockefeller for C. The line, initially planned to reach Saugatuck Michigan, may be completed if momentum and sale to Baltimore and Ohio proceed to create a Chicago Columbus shortcut.
Brazil Indiana March 5 Today a petition was started to reinstate Prof Muncie as teacher in school No 8 after he was discharged yesterday by the City School Board. Parents of pupils sign in support and it is likely he will be reinstated. Last night high school boys burned an effigy of Superintendent Farlich alleging he is against Mr Muncie, a charge he denies.
Detroit March 3 new warrants issued for the arrest of Frank C. Andrews vice president and Henry K. Andrews cashier of the wrecked City Savings Bank. Complaints signed by F W Hayes the expert accountant representing city and county officials in the bank investigation. Two complaints were made against the men.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal from Muncie Indiana March 3 37 years after William Daly a Grant county farmer near Marion vanished in Mugcle the missing man is located heirs believed him dead until now his estate was being settled revealing his fate and restoring closure to relatives today the case unravels after decades of silence
The Postal Telegraph and Cable Company has won its suit against the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company to secure the right of way for a pole and wire line from Butte to Nebraska and through Ogden Utah. Men will start stringing wires this week. right of way has already been secured through Idaho and Utah.
In Kansas City Missouri tonight Katy Cragg thirty of Erie Kansas died instantly and Lydia Behaeffer eighteen of Paola Kansas was injured while waiting for a car. They were struck by a bicycle ridden by Charles Johnson who with another cyclist Misa Clugg raced nearby. Behaeffer suffered internal injuries and Clugg sustained a broken neck.
The House voted 187 to 127 to depose Mr. Rhea of Kentucky and seat J. McKenzie Moss, once a Democrat but aligned with Republicans on key issues. The debate featured sharp charges about Moss’s party allegiance and Rhea’s defense of his electoral right. The army appropriation bill followed, totaling $90,890,934.
Senator Money of Mississippi assailed the measure as unconstitutional and unjust saying it taxs out of existence one industry for another and would not pass under secret ballot. He charged hidden money behind the butter interests while Hansbrough defended the bill as mere labeling oleomargarine for what it is. Also approved were forty four pension measures and a Dc code amendm ent bill.
Frankfort Kentucky March report states the Farris bill on certificates of registration for city voters cannot become law as the enrolled copy is missing or stolen. Governor Beckham found the enrolled copy absent from the executive files after it was signed in the lower house and sent to the Senate enrolment committee. Commonwealth's Attorney Franklin will prosecute in this judicial district.
The text notes that mutilation or destruction of an official enrolled bill carries a penalty of confinement in the state penitentiary, tied to an investigation before the grand jury.
The Trust Company of the Republic, with capital of 1 million and a 500 thousand surplus, elected D. Leroy Dresser as president and named Alexander Greig, Frederick F. Robertson, and James L. Livingston as vice presidents. It partners with Unity Warehousing to develop a warehouse network across the cotton belt and to finance investment certificates backed by guaranteed warehouse certificates. The Security Warehousing Company will expand with about 10 fireproof warehouses in the South and connect with Southern banks, aiming to lower insurance and interest costs for producers and later extend the system to mining, lumber, and grain growing.
Detroit March report says Pacific Express and United States Express have ended a twenty year traffic arrangement. Pacific will seek an Atlantic outlet via the Wabash system and challenge American Express and Adams in New York. Change stems from Pacific policy shift, altering reliance on United States for eastern links.
Minneapolis Journal discusses the rift between President Roosevelt, Secretary of War Root, and General Miles. It weighs both sides, noting Miles allied with merit over seniority and the need for a wartime command that selects the best officers, even from lower ranks, to lead the army.
Washington Star reports Anarchists in New York and Washington downplay the assassination as a social act rather than a personal crime. They argue persecuting anarchists strengthens ideas, while Czolgocz is labeled a lover of mankind by some. The piece contrasts their views with supporters of the Senate bill.
A speech argues for social and common hangings for assassins and for the law to extend severe punishment. It praises the killer of Kent McKinley and urges public figures to be protected by law while condemning those who glorify violence against the state.
William Buschmann of William Buschmann and Co. is not the man arrested last Sunday. Miss Lester's Harmonic Fraternity students will give a musicale at 7 East North Street Tuesday evening April 1. Manning Allen, colored, wanted for bicycle thefts, was arrested yesterday by a patrolman and four detectives. Litigation continues between the Indianapolis and Plainfield Electric Railway and the Indianapolis and Westerte Traction Company over rights of way, with promoter figures Albert Lieber and Charles Figley Smith involved. Smith has a franchise over the National road and encroaching farmland fences challenge title while Lieber's private right of way runs along the road’s south side, leading to a legal dispute.
James Keefe twenty four lives at 319 East South street. He left his home Monday night for the residence of Bishop O Donaghue SO Prospect street dressed only in nature s garb and said he sought the Holy Ghost. Bicycle Policeman Simon A Morgan sent Keefe to police where he was detained and examined by an insanity commission. His mental condition is said to be due to serious illness. He was employed at the Atkins saw works.
Police were asked to investigate an alleged elopement from a gypsy camp near Fisher Station. A 28 year old woman reportedly ran away with a 16 year old. The father filed the complaint while authorities suspect the camp is stirring sensational tales to lure visitors for fortune telling and trinket sales.
Testimonies from Modjeska and Ida Mallory highlight Paine's Celery Compound as a strength-maker and life-giver for nervous exhaustion and related ailments. The advertisement claims wide use among women and girls, including schoolgirls and homemakers, and cites a dramatic cure for nervous disease and neuralgia. It also mentions a family using multiple bottles and calls for Easter frogs to be colored with dyes.
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