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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1901
Page
2
May 7 Albany reports a strike by United Interurban Traction workers affecting Albany Troy Cohoes and Water Valley routes. About 1000 drivers and conductors protest for wage parity and union recognition while nonunion staff are targeted for dismissal. Services were disrupted as crews and spectators observed the walkout.
At Buffalo the National Convent ion of Street Railway Employes met with President W N of Detroit presiding. In St Louis brick and tile workers struck for a 2 percent wage advance, with partial or full acceptance expected. Boston bricklayers and masons sought higher rates and new rules, employers offering 16 cents hourly. An arbiter was chosen. Boston linemen prepared to strike if no settlement is reached. Machinists filed a formal request for wage cuts at Southern Railway shops in Louisville Knoxville Atlanta Selma Memphis. Carpenters in Louisville quit. contractors warned nonunion labor would be excluded, signaling a possible end to the strike in building trades. Milwaukee delegates heard railway conflict talks by K and Clark urging cooperation. Constitution amendments discussed, including a reserve fund of 000 in the Insurance department and a new fourth vice grand master office. Afternoon focused on contested insurance claims.
Warner Van Morden, banker, told the Presbyterian Union last night that ministers take too long vacations during the summer. He cited prominent city venues and called ministerial absences scandalous while merchants and bankers cannot take such breaks. He urged gospel outreach to tenement residents.
Five men were badly injured in a powder explosion at Henry colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company in Wilkes Barre. The blast occurred when a powder trip on cars broke loose, sending men down the slope and triggering a massive concussion. Injured are Pat Sharpe and brothers John and James Burke and David and Thomas Duffy.
Osceola Mo May 7 Deputy U S marshals arrest county judges Thomas D Nevitt and S R Peden in the courthouse on a contempt charge for not levying tax to pay interest on a bond aid to a railroad built in 1900 They will appear in Kansas City before a Federal Judge tomorrow The third judge Walker remained in his room during the arrests at the courthouse
Forecast for Wednesday and Thursday shows showers in Ohio and Indiana with southeasterly winds turning west. Illinois clearance Wednesday and warmer Thursday in the west with variable winds. Local observations include barometer temperature and precipitation, with a comparative May weather record since May 2.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal Hartford City Ind May 7 The Johnston Glass Company Hartford City opens at 4 PM as the largest cooperative window glass plant in the United States amid flags and band music It covers three acres in main rooms with 402 by 207 feet and 12 arc lights The plant will employ 200 workers with a 1500000 capital listing several prominent Indiana and Ohio backers and plans to operate a 48 pot tank and 16 00 boxes monthly capacity The site includes multiple departments and nearby cooperative plants are noted
In Muncie Indiana last night workers at the Hemingway glass factory walked out on strike. Twenty men are idle as the crew demands a raise of twenty cents per day and refuses a ten cent offer. Current pay has been seven to eight cents daily.
Flora Ind May 7 Wilbur Miller shot his sweetheart Bertha Timmons through the neck and breast then killed himself near Rockfield eight miles northwest of Flora. Miller and Timmons had dated two years and argued recently. Miss Timmons survived in critical condition. Miller died at midnight. Both families described as excellent.
May 7 Muncie Indiana reports a new park over 100 acres along the river near the courthouse. George F Mc Culloch and wife donate land to the city with a $2.40 improvement fund and a $2,500 goal, asking each family member to contribute up to $1. Community efforts begin immediately to raise the funds and begin park improvements.
Franklin Ind May 7 Commissioners refused James Gettaspy of Trafalgar a license to recail liquor after a remonstrance filed for April term remained valid for two years. He reapplied in May but no remonstrance was filed, saving county residents from alleged hardships. Loganport Ind May 7 Colonel Charles Blanchard, famed for first proofs of Uncle Tom's Cabin, is declared insane and to be committed to Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane in Fort Wayne. His literary work and influence on authors are noted as extensive though his name never appears on a book’s title page. Hartford City Ind May 7 Mayor A F Kinsley notified by Representative Cromer of a recommendation.
James F. Rothwell of St. Louis and chief engineer James Lynch met Fort Wayne capitalists to plan an electric railroad from Fort Wayne to Goshen. The route would pass through a populous wealthy area with no direct road. They inspected the proposed line after the conference.
Thomas Guy aged seventy five a veteran of the civil war in the sixtieth ohio infantry regiment died of paralysis last night at his home near gaston muncie ind may 7 with funeral arrangements to be announced by relatives
The Richmond Dramatic Club is reorganized with William Dudley Foulke as president. The Richmond City Council grants Worner T. Yaryen a franchise for a hot water heating plant. John M. Westcott to loan 0,000 for a Richmond electric light plant. The Shelbyville council grants the Streets for a June carnival. Local notices report deaths, trials, and civic developments across Indiana communities.
Lewis May & Co. stock brokers in New York assigned for creditors. Firm comprises Orin S. Barnum and Lewis May. Liabilities range from 3,000 to 10,000 dollars with assets from 15,000 to 900,000. Collapse linked to heavy paper burdens borne by senior partner Lewis A. May after a December failure near 100,000. Creditors settled largely in notes. future dealings limited to three-fifths notes and two-fifths consolidated exchange.
A five story building at 7 Lexington Avenue in New York caught fire just before midnight. The blaze forced over twenty families to flee into the street and spread to four nearby houses. Two people were injured and several are missing as firefighters and police rescue others. Lifelines and nets saved some, but several incidents and injuries were reported among residents and onlookers.
New York May 7 claims totaling over 6 million dollars will be presented for surviving seamen of the battleship Maine and kin of those who died in Havana harbor on Feb 15 1898. Attorney Harwood of Butler Harwood says the case challenges the Spain US treaty and seeks to prove prior valid claims against the Spanish crown for injuries in Havana harbor.
Gustave Baare a 50 year old bailiff for the St Louis School Board and former state legislator was shot and killed at his home by his daughter Ida N age 20 who then shot herself both dying within minutes. A letter left by Ida explained that frequent insults to her mother by Baare drove her to kill him and then herself. Baare was napping when the shooting occurred.
S. E. Hill, former county surveyor, died instantly after falling from a riding plow near Centralia Illinois. A boiler explosion at the old Dennis distillery near Uniontown Pennsylvania killed workman Frank Fear and Ezra J. Thomas, the distillery owner. A Kiel Observatory cablegram reports the Cape Comet will appear on the northern hemisphere soon. Mrs. Marcus Daly announces the engagement of Miss Mary Daly to James Watson Gerard, with wedding planned for the fourth. Ho Yow, San Francisco consul general, estimates about 3,000 Chinese in California, 15,000 in San Francisco. Sister Simeon of Sacred Heart Hospital dies in Spokane after a runaway accident. Sister Gregory injured. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and family depart Omaha for Virginia. Lieutenant Lee mustered out at San Francisco. James ONeill and Joseph Leonate crushed to death in a Fifth Avenue excavation for the Frick building. a ton of timbers fell. The gunboat Scorpion, en route to the Mississippi for the Confederate Veterans’ reunion, cannot pass Memphis bridge due to high water and will anchor below it. Lily Langtry sells ten acres below Liberty Park in Salt Lake City. the plot was bought during her 1887 U.S. tour. A Cramp shipbuilding denial states no demand for 0.0 from Turkey. Charles H. Cramp says the report is baseless. Sebastian Martinelli will receive a berretta from Cardinal Gibbons in Baltimore. Archbishops Corrigan and Bishop Murray attend. A mayor’s office conference in New York discusses apportioning under a city scheme.
A British era style roundup notes a Ontario house fire at Hurdville where five people died including eight year old indeterminate. Joseph Parton, aged seventy, is arrested in Parry Sound on suspicions of cremating the children. In Denver Thomas J Shelton publisher of The Christian pleads guilty to improper mails, fined five dollars. Chicago Anti saloon League plans action to curb Highwood liquor sales and enforce dramshop law. In Kansas City Missouri President Holmes of Metropolitan Street Railway refuses grand jury order to produce road papers, held in contempt awaiting higher court ruling.
Lieutenant D L Hart man and sixty three men of Troops K First Cavalry repelled three insurgent stands near Balayan in Batangas province Luzon with no American casualties. Concurrently a navy inquiry probes Lieutenant Richard H Townley in Captain Reed misconduct case. General MacArthur defends Manila social order and proposes a tropical climate study before any investigation.
CHICAGO May 7 Col William P Hall adjutant general of the Department of the Lakes in Chicago has been ordered by the War Department to succeed Gen Thomas H Barry as adjutant general of the Department of the Philippines He will sail for Manila on the next transport after departing for San Francisco He has thirty three years of Army service.
A Wichita jail holds Frank Clark for alleged sexual assault on his sister amid lynching threats. A Buffalo harbor corpse, Harry Hoch, shows throat-cut wounds with heavy bindings and a weight, while Massachusetts upholds electric chair for Luigi Storti. Other items include a Mansfield stenographer charged with forging a ten dollar order, court rulings on testimony publication, and schedules for retrials of Caleb Powers and Jim Howard. A Puebla Mexico case reports a paralytic’s hired killers beating a man to death in a straw mat.
Obituaries report the deaths of Clarence M. Foster in New York a Dartmouth and Columbia Law School graduate who practiced in San Francisco then New York. Raphael Straus a Cincinnati artist and vice president of the Cincinnati Art Club. Donald A. Latshaw an editorial writer for the Star and former Chicago Tribune sporting editor. the Rev Henry Scadding a Toronto historian and antiquarian aged eighty eight. and Gerhard Dyssen Sweden's minister of marine who resigned after a long tenure starting Oct 21 1805.
Kiel area ships report Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and Barbarossa arriving from New York via Cherbourg and Southampton. Empress of India sails from Hong Kong Shanghai and Nagasaki toward Vancouver. Statendam arrives from Antwerp and Southampton. Cevic sails to Liverpool. Staten Dam arrives from New York for Rotterdam. Anchoria travels to Glasgow then proceeds. Pretoria sails from Hamburg and Boulogne to New York. Nomadic passes to Liverpool. Buffalo hosts Pan American exposition and officials announce plans.
The piece contrasts President Benja min Harrison and President McKinley on tour routes and speeches. It praises Harrison’s impromptu oratory and sees McKinley as equally dignified, outlining two themes: opposition to class division and the push for a strong navy and merchant marine, with insistence on national unity and future prosperity under a rising republic.
W G Nicholas reports E H Harriman pleads indiscreet not guilty to charges of bigamy through alliances with George Gould and John D Rockefeller after long ties with the Vanderbilt interests. Harriman defends past closeness with Poll and asserts no serious issue, citing rail expansion with the Gould Rockefeller group and Missouri system.
James Hamilton Lewis of Washington state, a one term congressman, visits Seattle and says Puget Sound immigrants are shifting political balance. He notes nine hundred of a thousand newcomers are Republicans from the Midwest and Northeast and predicts Democrats face poor prospects in Washington. He does not plan another term in Congress and doubts cabinet prospects in a future Democratic administration.
The Kasson treatise is noted as still shaping McKinley’s approach to reciprocity and foreign markets. The president maintains his stance and continues to emphasize opening markets for American products as a key element of the program.
The residence of Mrs Olivia Starring at 16 Massachusetts Avenue was robbed today of diamonds and jewels worth over $000. Her husband was away. Investor Lewis Mortimer Monroe, who visited the house, was arrested on suspicion.
St Louis May 7 Hope Mutual Fire Insurance Company sold its business and renewed policies in the Nat Company Hartford Conn The deal is announced as a strategic restructuring with risk coverage transferring to the Nat Company and policyholders being notified of changes
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