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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1901
Page
8
A jewelry seller claims specialization in the Solitaire Engagement Ring and the Plain Gold Wedding Ring. The ad asserts the engagement bond and the marriage tie are secured by their rings. It invites customers with the message If you have the girl we have the rings.
A conference among backers of two proposed electric lines from the city to Martinsville ended without agreement. Promoters Charles Finley Smith and J C Tarkington for one line and J C Lowes and R B Fields for the other hope to build separate routes. Talks to buy out the rival failed. both sides claim progress but proceed toward condemnation of private right of way.
State Factory Inspector McAbee reviewed a peculiar application for one of five assistant posts under a new law. The applicant boasted of surviving multiple calamities, including drowning twice and a near fatal shaft accident, asserting he is a “sound man” today. McAbee remarked he would like to see a man serving a second probation on earth.
Henry Brandt of 1007 East Washington street was arrested by Patrolman Ficklé for riding a gas propelled bicycle at speed. The offense may lack a governing ordinance. The State Board of Embalmers will meet in the Statehouse Monday to organize and plan. the old board will meet to settle affairs and dissolve. The Asso ciation trademark appears on brewing tools and products.
A Indianapolis bucket shop dealer earned 1000 dollars on L N stock after margins were set at seven. Other local winners and a broker profited while a legitimate trader reportedly lost 25000. Conservative businessmen fear losses while market excitement spreads through the city.
Last day of a three day sale at Union Stockyards focused on Aberdeen Anguses. Forty head sold totaling 5730 dollars, average 144 per head. Bulls 14 sold 1455 dollars average 108.4. cows 26 sold 4235 dollars average 174. Bidding lively on cows, bulls slower. Notable sales include Mina 170, Watson 275, Beauty of Garline 100, Rose of Ardrie 210, Auchlin Susie 15, Queen Mother 170, Greek Rosebud 170, Lilly of Meadow Brook 200, Castle Frazer Lilly 240, Mina 240.
E F Tibbott former private secretary to General Harrison becomes confidential secretary to John Wanamaker of Philadelphia. He will start immediately and cannot continue as secretary of the Harrison monument commission. Tibbott met Wanamaker during Harrison’s presidency as a White House confidential clerk and is now in Philadelphia not returning to Indianapolis before June 1. his family will stay here through the summer.
Frank Oldham of 1068 Oliver avenue was knocked down and a yearling heifer kicked him, breaking his leg and sending him to City Hospital. The prize winning heifer had been moving through cattle shows and drew attention for its behavior at the stockyards.
A Supreme Court decision received by Judge Baker of the Federal Court indicates that his Barrett lawsuit ruling dated March 2% 190 may be overturned. The report notes Baker’s earlier pronouncement and hints at potential reversal in the high court.
James A. Charles of Marion seeks an injunction against the city of Marion and Barber Asphalt Company to block construction of an asphalt boulevard. The injunction rests on a claim that the assessment method violates the Fourteenth Amendment. Judge Baker awaits US Supreme Court guidance that could overturn his ruling.
Trustees of the University of Indianapolis called on Senator Fairbanks after his return to the city to discuss the university’s bid to purchase the arsenal grounds. Fairbanks said he did not know War Department plans but would inquire. The trustees planned to see Senator Beveridge but found him away from the city.
Judge John James Hayden dies at 81 in Washington DC after a long career in Indiana and federal service. He will be interred in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, with his children Henry Hayden, Mrs. Dr Hays, and Miss Eugenie Hayden present. Born in Rising Sun, Indiana, he practiced law there before serving as judge from 1870 and later in the Treasury Department and the post office money order division. His wife Sarah Marshall Hayden, an author, died three years ago.
Fred C Wellman of 8% Madison avenue and owner of Jacob Metzger and Co died yesterday morning of heart disease at his home. Born in Germany in 18h he came to Indianapolis in 1873. He worked in a carpet house and later joined Metzger, becoming owner after Metzger’s retirement. He leaves a widow and five children. Funeral Sunday at 2:30 pm from his residence. Samuel Shaw sixty, of 310 Minerva street, died Wednesday night at home of rheumatic fever after his wife left for her mother's in New England. He was the oldest dyer at the cotton mills and famed for kindness, including elderly elder berry wine made each summer for the ill.
Amphion Club presents a large advance sale and two virtuosic performances. Miss Eva Jeffries, contralto, will sing Gilchrist's Legend of the Beaded Bow with the club, and Herr Joseph Baernstein, bass-baritone, will perform Toreador from Nevin and Stein songs with the male chorus. Baernstein also gives a solo recital.
Dr Bedford Ballard Ewald Over I W Furniss Dr Lucas and W D Allison of the Rookery Chess Club meet W H Blair W H Withela W H Ripley P C Tompkins A J Hammond and John Guyman of the Has Beens Chess Club at the Allison home Park Avenue and Lorette Hotel for a telephonic ratchet game where moves are relayed by telephone.
L W Pociechowski representing St. Anthony's Hospital in Chicago and Right Rev A Kozlowski solicits subscriptions to finish the hospital. He notes the building cost was 125 dollars, with a 5 dollar deficit to be covered by voluntary gifts. Mayor Carter H Harrison serves as a director.
The Indiana Physio-medical Association closed its thirty ninth annual session in the college at North and Alabama streets yesterday and elected Dr. George Smith of Greensboro as president and Dr. A W Fisher of this city as secretary. Nearly rememberment discussed the perfection next year to be held at the same convent and location and on the same date.
Story recalls Thomas D. Gregg and his brother D H Gregg with the Gregg fund benefiting Indianapolis public schools. Arrangements now finalize sale of Dallas County land in Iowa after title issues, preserving annual interest for teacher supplemental education and detailing a Virginia court compromise that split the estate among Indianapolis, Dallas County, and Gregg relatives.
The Alabama Supreme Court has affirmed the sentence for Frank Miller formerly of this city. He is scheduled to be hanged on June 2 in Birmingham for the killing of a patrolman. Miller maintained his innocence and claimed circumstances caused his actions. He previously ran a letters scheme drawing national attention.
A fragment lists individuals Ianthus Wilcox aged 33 of Massachusetts Avenue, Roscoe Gray of 07 East Market Street, and Willie Dotson described as three boys about nine, with no further context or charges provided.
Two youths ages unspecified were jailed at police headquarters after planning a raid on J. C. Perry druggist soda stand on East Washington street. They hid under counters and behind an ice box, securing 3 cents before discovery.
A group of fifty saloon proprietors from this city travels to the Knights of the Royal Arch national supreme meeting in Cincinnati for three days. The Rogers faction faces possible deposition. Top officers include Ben Schrader of Louisville, J E Edwards of Chicago, Dan Dalton of Cincinnati, Joseph Schaub of Indianapolis, James Hay of Chicago, and Charles Polster of Indianapolis. Indianapolis may host the 1903 gathering as about 4000 saloon keepers attend the national sittings.
Yesterday Mrs. Sedgwick visiting with Mrs. Fletcher rushed to the police seeking a detective after losing diamonds valued at $1000 worn in a chamois sack inside her waist. Captain Kinney suggested a search of her rooms and the jewelry was later found in her dressing room.
Miss Rose Beatty of 522 West Tenth street fell from a street car near the Illinois Ohio street corner last evening about 7 30 o clock. The fall injured her shoulder and left her shaken and bruised though not seriously hurt. She was taken to a nearby drug store for restoratives, then home in a carriage suffering nausea and weakness.
Advertisement urges readers to visit Dunlap’s Celebrated Hats at Seaton's Hat Store and urges travel via Big Four and Lehigh Valley or Lackawanna routes with a Buffalo stopover and Pan-American Exposition visit for an extra fare, via Big Four office.
Two special trains run Sunday May 12 via Big Four route to Aurora and Way Stations withAurora return. Fares listed as $1.00 or less, plus a Cincinnati and Return option at $1.25 via C H and D Ry. First fast train 6:30 am no locals, second at 7:15 am stops at Rushville Connersville and Hamilton. Returning Cincinnati 6:30 pm.
Stop over at Buffalo with ten days allowed to visit the Pan-American Exposition, plus $1 extra. First excursion to Louisville via Big Four at $1.50 round trip, with a 7 a.m. Indianapolis Union Station departure and 7 p.m. return. First coach excursion to Buffalo for the Exposition on May 15 at $9.35 round trip, with departures from 1 East Washington Street and Union Station, and return options via train No. 11. Also a high-back seat coach option on No. 18 at 6:20 p.m. from Indianapolis to Buffalo, returning May 17 to Indianapolis. Feed warning about JANES’S Dustless Oats from J. C. Hirschman Company. Warns against feather canvassers. firm has no solicitors and advertises telephone orders. New establishment at 220 Massachusetts Avenue.
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