Watson Tells His Story A Partnership Conflict
John Watson filed suit against William Lebo and Varney Electrical Supply Company seeking damages for being ousted from Ertmus Construction Company. He alleges Lebo mismanaged contract funds from a Richmond Indiana power house project and that the defendants appropriated the firm’s name and office, leaving him unable to find work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Watson
Wiliam
Lebo
Varney Electrical Supply Company
Ertmus Construction Company
Stevenson Building
Richmond
Ind
Plaintff
Electrical Supply Company
Cherce
Fourth Husband Wins In Will Contested Suit
Thomas H. Robinson, the fourth husband of Elizabeth Robinson, won a Circuit Court verdict in his suit against Theodore Bryan and others named as legatees by Elizabeth's will. Bryan, her son by a first husband, may have claim if he returns within ten years of her death. absent for twenty years, his whereabouts unknown. If he does not return, the estate goes to a niece Everitt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas H. Robinson
Elizabeth Robinson
Circuit Court
Theodore Bryan
Bryan
Robinson
Everitt
Saloon Brawl Echoes In Damages Case
Judge Allen heard demurrer in a damage suit arising from a saloon brawl in a building leased by Owen McAree to Jung Brewing Company and rented to Joseph Martin. Charles McAree stabbed Alexander Sams e in the saloon. Sample's father sues McAree Jung Brewing and Martin. Martin held a government license. McAree a county license. Martin operated the saloon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Circuit Court
Owen McAree
McAree
English Avenue
Jung Brewing Company
Brewing Company
Joseph Martin
Charles McAree
Alexander Samse
Sample
Ing Company
Martin
Martin Opera Saloon
Treser in a Bad Way Divorce Suit Filed
William L. Treser filed for divorce from Louise M. Treser alleging prior widower status with three sons and her admission of hatred toward his boys. He states their June 1892 marriage led to ongoing abuse and a clouded, unloved life for him and the children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William L. Treser
Louise M. Treser
Bradley Son Seeks To Null Will Of Father In Probate Fight
Marry Bradley filed a suit to invalidate James L. Bradley's will and set aside probate. He claims unequal shares among siblings and undue influence amid alleged unsound mind. The estate is valued at about $500,000 with sisters Marla A. Bradley Mary Belle Maugham Lulu M. Oliver and executors Robert F. and George M. Catterson named as defendants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradley
James L. Bradley
Marla A. Bradley
Mary Belle Maugham
Lulu M. Oliver
Robert F
George M. Catterson
Paroled Convict Husband Sued for Divorce
Rysha A Beach filed suit for divorce from Dennis Beach claiming marriage on Feb 24, 1912 and cohabitation until April 1913 with separations every two weeks. She says he is a paroled convict from Michigan City prison for subornation of perjury and alleges cruel treatment.
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Rysha A. Beach
Dennis Beach
Michigan City
Mrs Matilda Neff Sues for Policy Death Claim
Matilda Neff sues Metropolitan Life Insurance for 1000 dollars over a policy her husband James Neff applied for in November 1901 through a Bluffton agent. The policy allegedly went to New York for acceptance and return, and was not delivered before Neff fell ill and died the following day. She says the agent refused delivery and she has no proof the policy existed due to lack of delivery documents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matilda Neff
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
James Neff
Bluffton
New York
Neff
Grocer Gottfried Graf Fined For Sunday Closing Violation
A Criminal Court jury failed to agree on the case of Gottfried Graf a grocer charged with breaking the Sabbath after an eighteen hour trial The judge Justice Serkan fined Graf one dollar plus costs for the Sunday closing violation Graf appealed to the Criminal Court claiming it is necessary to keep his store open on Sundays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Criminal Court
Gottfried Graf
Justice Serkan
Jaf
Mary Schober Sues Husband for Divorce and Restraining Order
Mary Schober filed suit against her husband Christian Schober alleging cruelty and a revolver chase. She seeks a restraining order, alimony, and notes about 1.6 worth of property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Schober
Christian Schober
Cooper & Oddy Grain Dealers Verdict for Damages
Cooper and Oddy grain merchants yesterday received a verdict for 145.0 in a case against C. Pritchard and W. B. Huber due to failure to deliver 15 000 bushels of corn. The court found the defendants liable for breach of contract and ordered compensation.
Court records from Baltimore Superior and Circuit Courts
The Baltimore courts listed multiple actions with juries and div ors. Cases include dam ages for William Cooper et al v William Hub bard et al and James H Miles v Sig Four Railway. foreclosures and partitions. divorces dismissed or pending. probate defense. sales and deeds approved. new suits filed including divorces and insurance policy disputes. numerous room and judge references appear throughout.
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John L. McMaster
William Cooper
William Hubbard
James M. Leathers
James H. Miles
Sig Four Railway Company
Rusha A. Beach
Dennis Beach
Superior Court
John Watson
William C. Lebo
Matilda Neff
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Benjamin T. Harrison
Lucy Harrison
Ee Superior Court
Bradley
Luia M. Oliver
Louise M. Treser
Mary Schober
Christian Schober
Supreme Court Decisions and Appellate Court Notes
A dense list of Indiana appellate and supreme court decisions and notices. Cases include Thomas v Prudential Ins Co affirming demurrer for a discharged policy, Woolfington v Ritter dismissal, Allen v McGee rehearing overruled, and various other abbreviated entries with judges, counties, and docket numbers.
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Supreme Court
Thomas
Prudential Ins. Co. Clay C. C
Dowling
Pittsburg
Etc
Ry. Co
Gillespie
Kosciusko C
Jordan
Parke C. C
Demarsee
Legal opinions on runaway horse and related hazards
Recited cases cover liability for injuries when a runaway horse caused death after being frightened by elephants, will attestations, street excavation fencing duties, and wind adequate safeguards. Also notes Maryland bicycle speed enforcement and illegitimate child property distribution, with opinions from New York Appellate Division and Illinois Supreme Court.
Opponents of meters debate gas pricing and fairness
Indianapolis council committee hearing on gas meters features heated exchanges. Proponents argue meters ensure fair use and lower costs for the poor, with speakers citing price ranges from 4 to 20 cents per unit and contrasting contract versus meter systems. Critics accuse press and gas firms of manipulation while calling for public scrutiny and possible court action.
City Sanitarian seeks funds for special milk inspector
Sanitarian Dr. Buehler urged Controller Breunig to approve a $750 appropriation to hire a special milk inspector for hot weather. He proposed a daily salary of 2.25 and a horse for rounds. Dr. House, Health Board president, warned his statement might suggest inaction.
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Buehler
Breunig
G. H. F. House
The
Health Board
Indianapolis Milk Crusade Aims for Pure Supply
The city board, backed by the mayor, vows ongoing action to enforce the milk ordinance. Dr Buehler, sanitarian, says no sensationalism, but all dairies and milk sellers will be inspected for purity and diseased cattle. A higher milk test will be maintained and tuberculosis checks used only in suspected cases.
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Indianapolis
Buehler
Go Beard
Two Big Improvements Asphalt for Tenth Street
The Board of Public Works approved two major street projects. Tenth Street will gain an asphalt roadway with cement sidewalks and curb, estimated at 2119 dollars, using pitch lake asphalt. Vermont Street and North Street will be paved with wooden blocks at 7225 and 1500 dollars respectively. The mayor and Board of Works, with Davis of the Indianapolis Water Company, toured Irvington streets to discuss water mains and potential early action to require mains for suburb service.
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Board of Public Works
Tenth Street
Fort Wayne Avenue
Massachusetts Avenue
Ermont Street
East Street
Noble Street
North Street
Davis
Indianapolis Water Company
Board of Works
Irvington
Final Action Items From City Public Works Notes
A municipal record lists multiple final actions including asphalt and cement paving on Tenth Vermont and Osage streets with costs from 2,150 to 21,150 dollars, vacating alleys and streets, water main orders, petitions filed for cement walks and sewers, papers ordered, resolutions adopted, and bonds approved with contractors A D Bowen and C R Pease, sureties National Surety and Union Security.
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Tenth Street
Fort Wayne Avenue
Massachusetts Avenue
Vermont Street
East Street
Noble Street
North Street
Barth Avenue
Beecher Street
Raymond Street
Fifteenth Street
Delaware Street
First Alley
Buckle Street
Nineteenth Street
Ilinois Street
Merrill Street
Ray Street
Church Street
Wilkins Street
Greer Street
McCarty Street
Buchanan Street
Pine Street
Washington Street
Senate Avenue
Linden Street
Orange Street
Pleasant Run
Linden Arcs
Prospect Street
Hillside Avenue
A. D. Bowen
National Surety Company
Chesapeake Street
Missouri Street
C. R. Pease
The
Union Surety Company
New Orleans to Host Major Industrial Resource Show
Tom Richardson announces New Orleans plans to host a large industrial resources display for next year’s convention. A $200,000 building will showcase Southern resources with South American republics already invited to send representatives. Texas pledges strong participation and expects a key exhibit to attract delegates. The welcome home ovation spurred formation of a stock company to organize the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom” Richardson
New Orleans
Richardson
Texas
Meat prices blamed on modern women and fast meals
A Toronto butcher told a Star representative that rising meat prices stem from modern women preferring quick frying pan meals and canned foods. He claims butchers must convert whole beef into steaks as boiled dinners have vanished, blaming urban wives’ focus on stores over homes and housekeeping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Hotel lobby gleanings in Indiana politics
Dr. Flavius J. Van Vorhis, state Silver Republican chairman, says the Silver Republicans will be passive this campaign and unhappy with both Democrats and Bryan Democrats. He accuses the state committee of favoring national bank interests and predicts a Republican victory in Indiana with no fusion between Democrats and Populists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Flavius J. van Vorhis
van Vorhis
Democratic State Committee
Bryan
National Bank
East
No Clamor for Offices at Democratic Meet in Peru
Jerome Herff of Peru, a popular Democrat, talked privately with incumbent treasurer Leopold Levy at the Grand Hotel fueling questions about guidance for the state treasurer post. Adam Heimberger of New Albany may run again for secretary of state while John W. Miner contemplates a possible bid for state auditor. Democrats say they are too preoccupied with the Philippine situation to focus on nominations and have no candidate list yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome Herff
Peru
Grand Hotel
Herff
Leopold Levy
Adam Heimberger
New Albany
John W. Miner
Democratic Committee
J. R. Foraker in the City on Legal Mission
J. R. Foraker of Cincinnati and his daughter stay at Hotel English during a city visit. He is in the city to take depositions in a $10,000 damage suit filed by the administrator of John Helm who was killed while attempting to board a Cincinnati streetcar.
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J. R. Foraker
Cincinnati
Senator Foraker
English
Mr. Foraker
Miss Foraker
Forakers
Foraker, Outcals, Granger & Prior
Foraker
John Helm
Indianapolis
Superintendent Barker Resigns From Columbia Club
Charles W. Barker superintendent of the Columbia Club has tendered his resignation to the house committee to take effect June 1. He may go East after coming to the club last fall from Asheville. The entertainment committee plans a vaudeville show this month and the roof garden season will open around June 1 with plants and lights. Women may be invited one evening per week and music or vaudeville nights are considered for the roof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Barker
Columbia Club
House
Barker
Asheville
Popular San Juan figures praised by visiting officer
Lieutenant J. 8. Oakes of the US Army, on leave from San Juan Porto Rico, extols Postmaster Landis and clerk Lee Nixon in the English Hotel. He notes the island needs cleaning up and a strong boost from the States. Oakes, once from Dayton, has four tropical years behind him and left the island on April 16.
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Landis
San Juan
J. 8. Oakes
Artillery Corps
United States Army
English
Oakes
Porto Rico
Dayton
Lieutenant Oakes
Lee Nixon
Island
Death of Robert Greenman, longtime hotel clerk dies in California
Word arrives of the death of Robert Greenman an early longtime hotel clerk in this city He died Thursday in California at about sixty years of age He served about fifteen years as a clerk at the Spencer House and left town five years ago to seek health The cause was consumption He never married
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Robert Greenman
California
Greenman
Spencer House
Doctor Grubbs Visits Denison on Gulf Quarantine Mission
Dr S S B Grubbs son of ex mayor Grubbs formerly of Indianapolis is in Denison en route to lead a quarantine station in the Gulf of Mexico about forty miles from New Orleans. Ex mayor Grubbs now works in banking in Mexico.
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8. B. Grubbs
Grubbs
Indianapolis
Denison
Democrats of Indiana Discuss Platform Draft at Hotel
Dan W. Simms Democratic committeeman from the Tenth district says Indiana Democrats will draft the platform this year during a brief discussion at a hotel, outlining forthcoming party positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Dan W. Simms
Enetish
Simms
Platform stance outlined on tariffs and Philippine question
The platform will not address the financial question this time as nothing is to be said about it. It will reiterate the party stance on tariff for revenue only. The Philippine question is likely to be discussed with a pledge to follow the same lines as before.
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Simins
Kokomo guests at Hotel English and Grand Hotel
Mr and Mrs H L Ashley of Kokomo entertained a Kokomo party at the Hotel English and hosted guests including Dc A Styer and wife H M Cooper and Mrs J D Kennedy. Lincoln Dixon of the Fourth district Democratic state committee was at the Grand Hotel. Lafayette's James Murdock Hartford City's H B Smith and New Castle's A G Ogborn visited to promote an eastern state electric line. Crawfordsville's George S Harney, a young Democrat, dined at the Grand. Harney was once linked to a Congressional nomination against Charles B Landis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L. Ashley
Kokomo
English
Dc. A. Styer
H. M. Cooper
J. D. Kennedy
Lincoln Dixon
Democratic State Committee
Grand Hotel
James Murdock
Lafayette
H. B. Smith
Hartford City
A. G. Ogborn
New Castle
George S. Harney
Crawfordsville
Grand
Mr. Harney
Charles B. Landis
Nominating by Primary Debated in Indianapolis Letter
J H Claypool argues in support of direct primary, contending all nomination systems have flaws and that primaries better align government with voters. He criticizes party rings, notes independent voters deserve access, and asserts primaries reduce political evils when properly managed. Indianapolis, May 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Commercial Club Committee
Governor Down
J. H. Claypool
Washington Letter to Captain Clark on coronation honor
Secretary Long writes to Captain Charles E. Clark explaining the president’s knowledge of his declination to serve as naval representative at King Edward’s coronation. He expresses pity that a meritorious officer cannot accept the honor and notes virtue beyond wealth in the republic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Long
Charles E. Clark
Edward
Aly
Old Republic
Fackler Dies in Back Yard From Heart Trouble
Franz X. Fackler aged forty, of 701 Sanders street, collapsed and died last night in his back yard from heart disease. He had worked in Schmidt's brewery cellar for twelve years and was seen cheerful before retiring to garden duties. His young wife, holding an infant, witnessed the death from the kitchen lamp light as neighbors and a doctor were summoned. Surviving are the widow and two small children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franz X. Fackler
Sanders Street
Fackler
Schmidt
Rebuff to Funston Stirring Philippine Debate
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph comments on a surge of criticism toward army officers over Philippine policy. It notes General Funston’s rebuke by President Roosevelt for indiscreet remarks and praises the president’s decisive reprimand as proper and timely amid heated national discussion.
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Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph
Miles
Funston
George Frisbie Hoar
Thesachusetts
Kansan
Philippines
Roosevelt
Bequest and Cost of Living at Oxford University
The dean of New College notes the average living cost at the university and suggests two hundred a year suffices for an undergraduate given six month terms. He argues benefactors overlook education’s need for endowment to expand facilities and calls Oxford University notably poor with students paying one pound annually for advantages.
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London Mail
New College
Rhodes
Oxford University
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Treser
Harry Bradley
Dary
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McMaster
the Court Record
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Louisa Hill
Henry Clay Allen
Ay E. Weston
Charles N. B. Weston
Eliza Laycock
Alice J. Denny
Hester A. Davidson
William A. Davidson
Y. Sale
Theodore J. Bryan
Wallis B. Wheeler
State of Indiana
English Lake Land Company
Starke C. C
Pritchett
Sheridan
Fountain C. c
Black
Asphalt Co
Marion
Roby. J.—l
Ne. Boyd
Scott
Wells C. C
Henley
Es Malott
Board of Commissioners
Clay C. C
Citizens’ Street Railroad Company
Heath
Hendricks C. C
Walker
Webking
Marion S. C
Trentman
Woohrenburg
Allen Ss, Co
Hettie K. Thompson
Louisa H. Crane Jackson
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Edwin B. Bentley
Clark C. C. Appellee
Southern Indiana Railway Company
John R. Davis
Martin C. C. Appellant
Manby
Justice Carter
Edward Tobin
Supreme Court of Illinois
Atlantic Rep
Hendrikson
Massachusetts
Sourbier
Oscar F. Sherman
Toledo
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Counciman Meyer
Sherman
Charles B. Stiltz
Negley
R. W. Cathcart
Emer
Zanesville
Lecket
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Patterson
William Patterson
Tomlinson Hall
T. N. Bunnell
Charles Remster
George J. Caddie
Wheeling
W. Vs
Will
Dr. House and
Sanitarian Buehler
Vermont
Manufacturers’ Association
Toronto Star
Dr. S&s. B. Grubbs
BRUT
Urbana Wine CO
Urbana, N. Y
Avene
Party of
Kokomo People
Captain Clark
Franzx
Oxford
Wilson
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