Legal battle halts Laporte pavement work in mayoral race
Special to the Indianapolis Journal reports conditional examinations in lawsuits by Simon Wise and James E. Bowell against Laporte city and contractors. A temporary restraining order stops pavement work, venue changes loom, and up to four hundred witnesses may testify. Spring politics hinge on Darrow versus Sound Money factions as campaigns heat up. Separate briefs from Brazil and Hartford City show Republican conventions nominating tickets ahead of 1902 races.
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Indianapolis Journal
Laporte
Ind
Simon Wise
James E. Bowell
G. &. van Deusen & Co
Richter
South Bend
Plymouth
State Supreme Court
Darrow
Kent M. Andrew
Laporte Carrie Company
Milo E. Christie
Lake Shore Railroad
Orrin G. Fox
W. E. Higgins
Lemuel Darrow
Philip Bongert
Marshal
Wise
Bowell
Citizens
E. H. Scott
Second District Fight Shapes Indiana Nomination Battle
Democratic dissensions sharpen the Second district contest as May 4 convention nears in Vincennes. Support for Representative Miers grows, with Knox county backing the incumbent and Owen and Martin counties split. Debate centers on control of eight votes, turf interests, and potential shifting coalitions. The bitter fight could realign who goes to Congress and who remains sidelined.
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Indianapolis
Bloomington
Ind
Congress
Friends of
Miers
Knox County
Cullop
Owen County
Martin
Davis
Wellman
Vincennes
Lawrence
Monroe
English Maligner Advocates Against United States Gentility
A Pall Mall Gazette letter from New York mocks Whitelaw Reid’s possible ambassadorship and criticizes American gentility. The writer argues Roosevelts’ re election pressures shape policy and calls Americans emboldened workers, while praising the U S for industry and education despite notions of aristocratic idle living.
Case of Jim Younger Ends in Legal Impasse
Philadelphia Inquirer reports James Younger, once a Western banking figure, cannot marry as he is legally dead. Minnesota law allows release on good behavior, but the Board of Pardons refuses immunity. The governor hesitates, leaving Younger in a comic opera like bind where marriage by proxy seems impossible.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
James Younger
Irl
Ead
Board of Pardons
Minnesota
Younger
Jim Younger
Board
Sleep After Meals Debated by German Physician
A German physician Dr Schule argues from stomach analyses that sleeping after meals slows stomach mobility and raises acidity, advising against post meal rest. The discussion notes individual habits and diet may influence whether rest or activity aids digestion, comparing meat eaters who sleep after meals to ruminants which lie awake to aid digestion.
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Dr. Schule
Indiana miners sign year wage contract in Terre Haute
Special to the Indianapolis Journal reports that after four weeks of talks Indiana miners and operators renewed last year’s contract with essential points unchanged. Key changes include powder price, vein thickness grades, eight hour hoisting engineer day, and a fixed outside labor rate north of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern road. Both sides aim for speedier future settlements and broader coal land activity follows.
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Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
Indiana
Hich
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Road
United Mine Workers
Sullivan
Greene Counties
Brazil
Smallpox Panic in Fort Wayne Sparks Health Clash
Fort Wayne doctors dispute whether cases are smallpox or chickenpox as 200 children may be affected. A local physician accuses the city bacteriologist of overreaching with diagnoses and quarantines. Police halt spread by arresting Oliver Elwell of Hawkins, Mich., then sending him to the pesthouse after he fell ill and broke out.
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Indianapolis Journal
Fort Wayne
Ind
McBeth
City Board of Health
Miner Street
Brayton
Indianapolis
Oliver E. Elwell
Hawkins, Mich
Iohad
Goshen
Independent distilleries loosen price pressure in new markets
The demoralization in prices stems from new independent houses entering the market. In two months Hammond opened a plant with 3,000 bushels daily capacity and Peoria added a 6,000 bushel facility to compete with the trust and other independents, more numerous now than since the trust’s formation.
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Hammond
Peoria
Aince the Trust
Malleable glass breakthrough reported from Indiana
MUNCIE Ind March 2 Louis Kauffeld a Matthews glass worker now sought as a manufacturer appears to have rediscovered malleable glass a craft once used by ancient Egyptians After five years of trials he produced tamper resistant hot resisting chimneys and bottles that tolerate boiling water The process could enable glass cooking vessels and stove components Kauffeld claims he can weld glass like metal Meanwhile in Pittsburgh the American Flint Bottle Manufacturers Association invites green and flint bottle branches to set a unified wage rate and summer shutdown both sides expect raises
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Indianapolis Journal
Muncie
Ind
Louis Kauffeld
Matthews Glass
Kauffeld
Kanfield
Matthews
Pittsburg
American Flint Bottle Manufacturers’ Association
American Flint Glass Workers’ Union
Bottle Blowers’ Association
Indiana court sentences and reformatories report
In Evansville nineteen year old Alva Rosenbarger was sent to Jeffersonville Reformatory for one to three years after pleading guilty to stealing gold watches and admitting a three year old perjury claim about his mother poisoning him for insurance. His mother, Mrs. Rosenbarger, was sentenced to the Woman's Reformatory for seven years but paroled and writing a memoir. In Portland Judge Smith ordered a special grand jury to probe Mrs. Maggie Shepherd murder and the death of Mrs. Ertle by suicide by razor. In Crawfordsville Albert Terrell received fourteen years at Michigan City Penitentiary for forged order. George W. Slater fourteen years for theft from John Pittman. Blanche Stoka sent to the Indianapolis Industrial School. Fred Johnson fourteen years for forging three checks. In Sullivan Fred Brooks found guilty of assault with intent to kill, awaiting indefinite reformatory term.
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Indianapolis Journal
Evansville
Ind
Alva Rosenbarger
Dubois County
Jasper
Jeffersonville
Rosenbarger
Princeton
Young Rosenbarger
Portland
Crawfordsville
Albert Terrell
Lafayette
Michigan City
George W. Slater
Darlington
Jeffersonville Reformatory
John Pittman
Blanche Stoka
Industrial School
Indianapolis
Fred Johnson
Sullivan
Fred Brooks
Henry Butler
Southern Reformatory
Indiana obituary notices span several Indiana towns
The Portland service for Dr. Robert P. Davis, past grand master of Indiana Odd Fellows, is set for Monday at 1:30 PM with Rev. L. M. Krider preaching and Grand Secretary W. H. Leedy visiting from Indianapolis. Bedford's Capt William Day, civil war veteran and former sheriff and mayor, dies at about 77 with funeral Monday. Solomon Kenton found dead on a farm near Topeka. Dr Wowen c Bowell, Laporte physician since 194, dies at 82. William T. Barr, Midland steel works employee, dies suddenly from pulmonary hemorrhage.
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Indianapolis Journal
Portland
Ind
Robert P. Davis
The
Odd Fellows of Indiana
First Christian Church
Odd Fellows
Knights of Pythias
Grand Army of the Republic
L. M. Krider
Auburn
W. H. Leedy
Indianapolis
Bedford
William Day
Lawrence County
Captain Day
Hovey
Lagrange
Solomon Kenton
William Latta
Topeka
Kenton
Laporte
Wowen c. Bowell
Laporte County
Indiana
Clark County
Muncie
William T. Barr
Midland Steel Works
Demoralized Spirits Market In Terre Haute
In Terre Haute Indiana March 29 the spirits market is demoralized as distillers outside the trust and the trust cut prices to capture trade. Selling prices hover around $1.70 to $1.80 instead of $1.90, with no expectation of price uniformity before fall. The trust issued statements blaming a recent market shakeup on a misunderstanding, while a leading independent firm denies the claim and asserts price instability persists.
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Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
Ami
Lively Telephone War Between Cumberland and Home
A dispute erupts in Rockport Indiana as the Cumberland and Home telephone companies clash over poles and wires. The Home Company expanded service after increasing capital, while Cumberland extended its lines, prompting an injunction to halt more poles inside city limits and a councilman’s inquiry into the affair.
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Indianapolis Journal
Rockport
Ind
Cumberland
Home Companies
Home Company
Cumberland Company
Wits Wass
Delaware Madison County Tel ephone Company Formed In Indiana
The Delaware Madison County Telephone Company is organized with $500,000 stock, plans underground wires and a 140,000 line network including 75,000 in Ohio. Groundwork starts in Muncie with a rail of 20 acres west of Fort Wayne to be developed by a new corporation of $800 capital to fund lots and industrial growth.
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Indianapolis Journal
Muncire
Ind
Delaware-Madison County Telephone Company
Indiana
Ohio
Fort Wayne
Commercial Club
Rockhill
Decatur
Adams County
Dayton, Fort
Torrey Coal abandons Geneva mine for Glendora lands
Special to the Indianapolis Journal from Clinton Indiana reports that the Torrey Coal Company led by president A Bogle has abandoned the Geneva mine. Equipment is being moved to Glendora a new mining camp three miles north of Sullivan where 1500 acres of coal land have been secured. In Hammond Indiana the G H Hammond Company faces a strike by its 2500 workers unless superintendent John Palm is discharged. officials refuse to concede.
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Indianapolis Journal
Clinton
Ind
Torrey Coal Company
A. 8
Bogle
Geneva
Glendora
Sulivan
Hammond
G. H. Hammond Company
John Palm
Bedford Woman Dies by Strynchine in Family Troubles
Bedford Ind March 2 Mrs Robert Overton died this morning by taking strychnine. Family trouble is given by her parents as the cause. Mrs Overton was daughter of James Teague of this city. Hagerstown Rev F Thornburg to preach last sermon this conference year. Congregations want his return. conference in Marion second week April with 280 ministers to be appointed. Thorntown G W Taylor returns from army service in US, Porto Rico, Cuba, Philippines. once sent to China. was in Second Infantry, Company K. Portland New trial denied in Benjamin Curtis case. indeterminate sentence one to twenty one years in Indiana Reformatory. Hammond Clinton N Taylor, wealthy farmer, disappeared with money. fear foul play. last seen toward Momence. Sullivan W G Eaton to organize state bank at Robinson Ill. Madison Prof Milo J Bowman resigns as principal of Madison High School effective June.
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Hagerstown
F. Thornburg
M. E. Church
Economy
Franklin
Marion
Thorntown
G. W. Taylor
United States Army
Porto Rico
Cuba
Philippines
China
Portland
Benjamin Curtis
Minnie Myers
Curtis
Indiana
Robinson
Ill
Madison
Milo J. Bowman
Madison High School
Monument Place Cigar Store Advertisement Listed
Co. W. Kriel promotes a cigar store at 105 Monument Place in the English Block, detailing location and business presence for local readers.
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U. S. Govt
E. M. Campbell & Co
Brasil
Opera House
H. M. Johnson
Frank Crawford
K. S&s. Holliday
R. L. Shattuck
W. W. Moore
Benjamin Schrefferman
D. H. Catshall
Ralph de Arme
Washington
Board of Trustees
Hartford City
Lincoln League Hall
Dowell
Fred Landis
Logansport
Chas. H. Good
Warren
C. BE. Cowgill
Wabash
John H. Lochary
Portsmouth
United States
Astor
New York
William Waldorf Astor
Pall Mall Gazette
London
Herald
Whitelaw Reid
America
Frison
Wayne
Reformatory
Home and
Cumberland Companies
Indiana Agricultural Society
New Albany
Wabash River
Nent
Gilbert
Indiana Club of Chicago
Devel Uring
Isadore Mautner
Homer van Meter
Carl Ypple
Vessey & Heaton
Mautner
Wabash, Ind
Christian Conference
Eastern Indiana Christian Church Quarterly Conference
North Elm Street
Nettle Seiler
Bremen
Walter Neufer
Robert Overton
Overton
James ‘Teague
Indiana Notes
Clean
N. Y
Wilson Sash and Blind Company
Sahes
Hanan
SAKS
Washington and Pennsylvania Sts
Thomas
Reath
Detroit Traveler's Club
Warner
Bright
Warner’s
Propelle Street
Detroit
Michigan
Detroit Travelers’ Club
Ike Mr. Reath
Warner Safe Cure Co
Rochester
Hoh
Reed
West
Washington Street
Cwwrrs
D. B. Sullivan
East
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