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Newspaper

The Indianapolis Journal

Location

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Mar 27, 1901

Page

3

Monks of Malabar Delights at English’s Opera House

The comic opera The Monks of Malabar impressed a large fashionable audience last night at English’s Opera House. Francis Wilson led a strong company with lavish scenery, Oriental costuming, and melodies by Ludwig Englaender, supported by a capable cast and a full chorus.

Malabar English Opera House Francis ‘Wilson India Hoyt Ludwig Englaender Signor Emerico Morealle J. Cheever Goodwin Francis Wilson Mr. Wison Messrs Nixon Zimmerman Mr. Wilson Francia ‘Wilson Senta Wilson Vanensselaer Wheeler Daru Marie Celeste Clea

Stage royal pages and songs thrill Indianapolis crowds

The report highlights performers Hallen Mostyn as the Maharajah and Grace Orr Myers as Dielma with strong singing by Miss Bradford and Miss Celeste. It notes exuberant finales, a lively dance, and curtain talks by Mr. Wilson, plus upcoming shows including Maude Adams and Barney Gilmore, with orchestral and violin performances and a mourning note on Mme Sembrich's retirement.

Hallen Mostyn Grace Orr Myers Dielma Louise Lawton Ninika Edith Hutchins Zoloe Mr. Wheelers Miss Bradford Miss Palmer Gay Paree Miss Celeste Wilson Indianapolis Charles Lamb Lfe

Hackett Overcomes Heart Trouble At Cincinnati Theatre

James K. Hackett fainted after the curtain fell on the second act of The Pride of Jennico at Walnut-street Theater Cincinnati. A physician diagnosed a mild heart trouble and he was expected to resume today. Mrs Fiske, a leading actress, also produces Becky Scarp under her direction at the Park Theater with high demand for seats next Friday and Saturday shows.

James K. Hackett Walnut-street Theater Cincinnati Jennico Hackett Wright Mr. Hackett Basil Jennico Park

Social notes of Cincinnati visitors and local entertainments

Miss Davis of Cincinnati visits Miss Sue Chipman and many others host luncheons and teas. Mrs. Leopold Burkhardt, of Avondale, stays with daughter Mrs. John M. Shaw. Mrs. Harry Griffith visits her parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bird in Lexington. Numerous trips to Chicago, Lexington, Bloomfield, Jeffersonville and Columbus noted along with a marriage announcement for Helen Desha Kirtland and Stuart Dean. Mrs. Hunt hosts a reception at The Colonial for Marie Celeste of the Francis Wilson Opera Company. An informal dance at Mr and Mrs A A Barnes features Miss Rena Clayton as a guest of honor. Many social calls and formal engagements listed with multiple families and organizations.

Miss Davis Cincinnati Sue Chipman Charles Paquette Leopold Burkhardt Avondale John M. Shaw Harry W. Griffith Lexington, Ky Frank Bird Emily Goldthwaite Marion Battler North Capitol Avenue H.S. Hume Greenfield N. G. Worth T. C. Day Chicago J. Ross Stevenson John Joss New Philadelphia E. E. Travis Marie Celeste George Edwin Hunt Rorcine Columus P. M. Dill Lexington Christian Church Congress William Kuechler Hidelgo Frank Wells Bloomfield Alvin T. Hert Jeffersonville Samuel Adam St. Louis Indianapolis Helen Williamson Greenwood Maud Cotter Arcola Ind Western College Oxford Bessie Brown North Meridian Street Upton J. Hammond Neice Helen Desha Kirtland Stuart Dean Christ Church Hammond J. D. Jones Walnut Hills William T. Brown College Avenue Jones National Board of Managers Women's Foreign Missionary Society M. E. Church Mayness Chapel Francis Wilson Monks Malabar English Opera House John T. Brush Carroll de Witt T. E. Griffith Henry Kahn Florence Coffin George N. Catterson Kate Perry Morris Mary Kahlo Harry Kahlo C. V. Griffith Barnikole P. M. Watson Charles Bidler Hunt The Colonial Francis Wilson Opera Company Kate Pe Morris Fred E. Matson Fred Barnikole Miss Hunt A. A. Barnes Irving Swan Brown Worchester Mass Rena Clayton Barnes Brown Miss Clayton

Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge Annual Report Summary

The Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias reports Indiana shows net membership growth of 2 274 with 466 active subordinate lodges. Total receipts were 624.95 with 111 084 47 paid in relief and 148 508 42 cash on hand. Indiana records the most active members in the Supreme Lodge including five supreme representatives and two officers.

Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias Supreme Lodge Frank Bowers Indiana

Scottish Rite Masons Hold Spring Convocation

The Scottish Rite bodies of the state opened their spring convocation in the Scottish Rite building with 64 candidates earning degrees from the fourth to the fourteenth yesterday afternoon. Afternoon sessions continued with fifteenth and sixteenth degrees and Rose Croix de rees seventeenth and eighteenth. A banquet is planned tonight. Tomorrow at 10 a m work resumes with the nineteenth to thirty-second degrees, finishing tomorrow night.

Scottish Rite Grand Lodge of Perfection

Florists' Association meeting plans carnation society event

The Florists' Association of Indiana will hold its regular meeting in Room 2 at the Denison Hotel next Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. The gathering aims to discuss plans for entertaining the National Carnation Society, which will meet in the city next year.

Marine Band Tomlinson Hall W. H. Santelmann Chopin Indiana The Florists’ Association of Denison Hotel National Carnation Society

Trust to Luck Not Safe, Insure Your Home

An insurance ad urges homeowners to insure against fire and other risks. It promotes Indian Title Guaranty and Loan Company located at 12 East Market Street with phone number 305 and underscores the importance of protection for the estate.

Indian Itle Guaranty and Loan Company East Market Street Tel

Curious Bribe Claim Surrounds Grand Jury Figure

Former Eureka Savings and Loan treasurer Whitcomb says grand jury member Schoppenhorst solicited bribe money to suppress embezzlement charges. Schoppenhorst denies the allegation, calling it preposterous. Prosecutor Ruckleshaus vows to investigate if any truth emerges at the next grand jury session.

T. C. Whitcomb Eureka Savings and Loan Association Grand Jury Emma Lutz Ruckelhaus Wm. A. Ketcham F. W. Cady William Schoppenhorst Schoppenhorst Whitcomb Washington Street Ruckleshaus

High Court Reverses Verdict in Perry Township Trustee Case

The Ohio Supreme Court reversed a lower ruling and awarded the Perry township trustee office to Benjamin P. Gregg after a tie and a lot drawing with George C. Tombaugh. It also upheld a decision denying Joseph Green a share of his deceased wife’s estate, clarifying that the surviving husband cannot inherit, but the wife’s children may receive all.

Benjamin P. Gregg Perry Township Fulton County George C. Tombaugh Supreme Court Election Board Gregg Tombaugh Joseph Green Hamilton County Green Evansville Etc R. C I Clay C. C Comstock Burns Moore Harrison Hamilton C. C Henley, C. J Austin DeKalb C.C Black J.—l Parol

Fighting Step by Step The case of William Lawson

William Lawson colored sues National Protective Society over an accident police policy. Originated in a justice court after a saloon incident on Virginia Avenue where a deliveryman fired a revolver by accident. Judgment for $22.50 upheld, appeal to Appellate Court continues.

William Lawson Sarah Boone National Protective Society Lawson Knelpe Virginia Avenue National Company Justice's Court Leathers Justice’s Court Vinson Carter Ellen Bowen Jennie L. Gilmore Thersa Benson Sadie O'Brien Justice of the Peace Court William R. Farry Amelia Sto

Use of a telephone leads to Hamrick rent verdict

Jesse D. Hamrick refused to use a new telephone installed before the company completed its plant. The firm kept the telephone in place. Hamrick declined to operate it and asked callers to use the old phone. The jury in Judge McMaster's court returned a verdict in Hamrick's favor for 48 dollars.

Jesse D. Hamrick Hamrick MacGeath Starr. Wells Co. C Deitrich Board Commissioners Trike C. C Smith Co Williams Lawrence Co. C State Thomas M. Getzendanner Harrison C. C. Appellee Appellees Solomon Dorsey Mary K. Dorsey Floyd C. C. Appellants Superior Court John L. McMaster New Telephone Company Jesse Hamrick Mary Johnson John Sweveland William Ripley Thomas Kane James P. Baker Bank of Toronto Et al Vernon Insurance and Trust Company Bank of Toronto

Suit Over Damages From Lost Fingers At Cabinet Plant

Homer I. Foster sues Alexander M. Stewart and others, proprietors of a cabinet and musical instrument factory, for 5000 dollars for the loss of four fingers while operating a saw. It is charged that guards were ordered by a factory inspector but not installed. A defense motion to direct a verdict was argued. Judge Allen will rule on it morning.

Homer I. Foster Alexander M. Stewart Foster Allen

Appellate Court Organized Into Two Divisions

The Appellate Court, formed under the new law yesterday, has two divisions. The first division includes Judges Henley Black and Robinson with Henley as presiding chief justice. The southern division comprises Judges Comstock Wiley and Roby with Comstock chosen to preside.

Henley, Black and Robinson Henley Comstock Wiley and Roby

Local Court Hears Assault and Theft Charges In City

Ernest Royster of 34 West Tenth Street is held to the grand jury on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill malicious trespass and drunkenness. Ira Collins and William Hill are bound over on grand larceny charges for theft from a railway car. W. W. Thompson, receiver of the Sterling Accident Insurance Company, yesterday…

Ernest Royster West Tenth Street Ira Collins William Hill

Inventory and fines in old city court notes

Day filed an inventory showing 26.07 in outstanding notes and 112.58 in notes payable to the association. He received 32 cents in cash and office fixtures valued at 235. Judge Alford fined Charles Sanders for selling a lottery ticket, noting a barber on East Washington and a man who left tickets. Sanders claimed five motherless children. Samuel Baldwin and Edward McCarty were each fined 100 and costs and sentenced to 18 days in the workhouse for assault at Cox's drug store on Capital Avenue and Twenty-eighth Street.

Day Alford Criminal Court Charles Sanders East Washington Street Aman Sanders Samuel Baldwin Edward McCarty Joseph Reeves David Cox Capitol Avenue Twenty-eighth Street Fremont Alford Bury Agnes Zion Pete Larceny Fendant Mies

Jury Discharged in Lucas v Little Trial over Husband Loss

The jury in the case of Mary A. Lucas against John W. Little, a Cumberland saloon keeper, for $10,000 for her husband’s loss failed to agree and was discharged yesterday by Judge Allen.

Mary A. Lucas John W. Little Cumberland Allen

Supreme Court and railroad case notes from Indiana courts

A historical Indiana case digest item notes Supreme Court affirmations on B. & S. W. Ry Co vs Peterson and Forebaugh vs Gregg, outlining railroad regulations, employee safety duties, and negligence per se. The record lists numerous appellate dispositions, minutes, and civil filings across Hamilton and surrounding counties, culminating in a plan for a new Greenwood dairy firm under J. T. Polk Company with a Sixteenth and College avenue site.

Supreme Court, Isc. B. & S. W. Ry, Co Peterson Daviess C. C Jordan Burns Forebaugh Gregg Fulton C Hadley Morris Wills Boone C. C Wolf Vs. Line Kosciusko C Grebd Porter C Hollingsworth McCarly Newton c. C Guethler Allman Huntington C. c Rogers Showmaker Vigo C. C. Ee Link Deering Spitzmesser Madison C. C Kinsey Co Boyce Marion C. C Covert Brag Vanderburg St. L. Ry. Co Noftsker Citizens’ St. R. R. Co Heath Hendricks C. C Baldwin Rich Hamilton C Saji Pulseva Osborn Decatur C Dougan Sipe Randolph C. C. Same Gee Me I. S&s M. S. Ry. Co Butts Whitley C. C Bonham McGrath Blackford C. C Jack J. T. Polk Company Greenwood F. J. Dawson M. H. McCready , Son John C. McWilliams Sixteenth and College Avenue Mr. Polk

Man from South Boston Burns In Sleep Accident

William Peters twenty seven of South Boston Virginia was treated for severe burns and transported from Sims Indiana to City Hospital after sleeping beside a lambeau and rolling into a fire while intoxicated. He was cared for in Sims before arriving at the City Dispensary and hospital.

William Peters Boston Sims Ind

Losses Adjusted and Unadjusted in Insurance Claims

An unclear note discusses losses adjusted and not due, losses unadjusted, and mentions figures such as 35 percent legal reserve and a deceetae term, indicating a fragmentary insurance accounting or legal reserve entry with illegible terms and no clear event or entities.

Egalnet Legal Reserve

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New York Sele Eale Ates Siney Pettis Dry Goods Co Colorado N. A. Moore CO Ancy Grocers North Illinois St Tro Diamond Merchant North Illinois St Bates House the Empire Grand Opera House Maude Adams English’'s Barney Gilmore Gilmore Park Theater Christian Oelschlagel Gounod Oberammergau Edmond Rostand L’aiglon Englsh Atom K Xea Vanderbilt Southampton Teexhouse Jules Keene Buffalo Bill F. A. Vanderioo de Wet Baden-Powell Mildred Holland Bridgeport Harry Lacey Jack Manley Joseph Arthur Bucephalus Pegasus Byrne Fred C. Dickson Zoo Big Frank Bostock Chiquita Girls’ Industrial School Madame Morelli Mme. Sembrich Dresden San Francisco Europe Graft Mme. Bembrich Balt Lake Personal and P. Grand Lodge Meeting of Indiana Florists the Appellate Court Jesse D. Hamrick New Appellate Court the Police Court W. W. Thompson Sterling Accident Insurance Company Yester William K. Windle Huntington C. C. Appellees Huntington County Loan and Savings Association Mary E. Falk Edward Bogue Claude M. Bennett Grant C. C. Appellee Frank E. Williams Madison C Yeoman Davies C. C Wiley St. John Stafford Delaware C. Co Robinson American Credit Indemnity Company Ellis No. Een Circuit Court Henry Clay Allen Gilbert H. Blaker Oscar Ensley Justice of the Peace Hancock County John T. Askren Sarah J. Fouts William B. Flick Oliver W. Voorhis William Rice Agnes Pickett Joseph van Horn Homer J. Foster Pliny W. Bartholomew Isaac M. Sedam Zermy Griffey John Manahan Arminda C. Moore William M. Redman Henry Leire Minnie M. Leire Lillian Gordon Frank Gordon William P. Cummins G. Enetta Cummins Maroe Blackman Earl Blackman Marthe McGinnis Charles I. McGinnis Elsie Wehmeyer John H. Wehmeyer J. T. Polk Omega Oil Omega OS Omega Chemten Co Siro Pennsylvania St I.argest Walschner Susic CO Wiliam Peters Uneeda Biscuit Coppock Bros Pembroke Arcade J. B. Kirkpatrick East Ohio DPR Co. Td Fletcher Pennsylvania Street South Meridian Street OmMce Carlin Lennox Manhattan Broadway New York City H. B. Staker J. H. Glffin United States State of Indiana Loucal Stevenson Baildine
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