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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1901
Page
1
May 15 San Francisco reports Mrs McKinley, wife of the President, gravely ill with bowel trouble and extreme weakness. The President remains at her bedside as Cabinet members and doctors monitor her condition with cautious optimism and concern for a possible extended stay.
SAN FRANCISCO May 15 The President abandons his planned Northwestern tour due to Mrs McKinley’s serious illness and will return to Washington as soon as he can. A public bulletin note said her condition has improved in some respects but worsened in others prompting medical consultation with Dr Gibbons Hirschfelder and Rixey.
Secretary of the Navy Long may cut his presidential trip short to return to the East as his daughter in Colorado Springs is gravely ill. He travels with Mrs. Long and a young son, whose need for rest sent doctors to bed. Reports say Long is troubled and may not continue the tour.
Washington May 15 Representative Hemenway said the tariff reduction proposal favored by Babbock would likely be offset by trusts cutting wages to protect employer profits. Faris plans to return after Cabinet moves. Bond of Cayuga postmaster Conaway approved. Indianapolis bank assets rise. Indiana postmasters appointed. torpedo boat Barney trial a success with 2.1 knots speed. Mrs. Gage shows slight improvement. Grundy county illness investigated by Surgeon General Wyman as malarial fever case remains under review.
Albany May 15 crowd fights as 2,000 soldiers guard 16 nonunion workers moving to Troy. Nonunion men flee through a dangerous route past sabers and stones with women and children trampled. two companies deploy with bayonets to block the mob. Governor Odell returns to the mansion amid growing tension.
Crowds along the route to the barn hurled stones at nonunion men rushing through. Infantry charged with fixed bayonets replaced by butt steel as a passage opened for the cavalcade. Sixteen strike breakers were injured, one hospitalized with arm and head wounds. Deserters numbered eighteen, and fewer than fifty landed safely. Guards and pickets formed a hollow square around the barn while the traction tower wagon was moved. No large disorder occurred and negotiations stalled. The company plans to move cars tomorrow under guard. Gen Roe commands 2,200 troops. Marshall, injured neighbor, is gravely ill. Albany, May 15. Edward M. Hoffman, Elmira adjutant general, died suddenly while advising on troop disposition. He was about fifty.
Pittsburgh May 15. President Shafer and the wage committee of the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers head to Milwaukee for the annual convention to set a continuous scale based on a puddling rate tied to a one cent per pound bar iron price. Delegates favor inclusion for all mills, while some manufacturers deem the proposed rate too high. The Republic Iron and Steel Company advocates the plan to prevent work stoppages at year end, June 30, and will seek a hearing at the convention.
Havana May 15 A majority of the committee on relations led by Tamayo Villuendas and De Quesada favors an immediate report advising the constitutional convention to accept the Platt amendment as the basis for future treaties with the United States. Gomez and Silva oppose. Gomez to prepare a minority report within 24 hours.
Six miners died and five were fatally injured after an explosion at the George's Creek Coal and Iron Company mine in Farmington seven miles west of Fairmont. The blast followed a torch smuggled into the mine, despite safety lamps, amid shifts to meet output records.
Six thousand cigar makers in Tampa strike over a broken bridge slowing crossing. Workers from the western side march to central Tampa, mass meeting held, and factories evacuated as the mob expands through the city. Strikers also boycott streetcars over car shortages. International and esistencia unions back the action amid potential continued disruption until relief arrives.
Springfield reporting: a Wabash shops committee met Master of Motive Power J B Barnes and left with no reply. A mass strikers meeting created a plan to visit General Manager Ramsey in St Louis with Fort Wayne strikers, and Oberly Missouri machinists may quit before week end while Barnes kept the shops running.
Miss Marjorie Harmon daughter of Judson Harmon ex attorney general and George Heckle of Boston quietly wed Monday afternoon in Cincinnati near a rector with two friends present. The couple, who had planned a June wedding, chose to marry early due to Miss Harmon's youth. Heckle, a civil engineer, and the bride announced the marriage to her sister who wired Judson Harmon away, then he cabling his wife in Europe. They departed for Boston.
President O Connell of the National Association of Machinists reports that 300 firms nationwide have signed the nine hour day agreement. About 2 men accepted terms at American Smelting and Refining Company with the first furnace to be blown in East Helena Montana on Thursday. Strikes in Chicago over nine hour day and ten hours pay disrupted Nelson Kreuter laundry machinery plant. Union machinists seek nine hour day. management expects full capacity within a week.
The text lists elected officers including W. G. Lee of Kansas as second vice grand master, T. R. Dodge of Chicago as third vice grand master, Val Fitzpatrick as rated co. secretary-treasurer, and A. E. L. Case to be reappointed editor for the Journal.
John W Gates and Mrs Gates sailed to Southampton on the St Louis. Gates denied being short on Northern Pacific and rejected a Chicago dispatch about a steel combine with John Lambert and Isaac Ellwood to rival J P Morgan. Lambert also denied plans to unite Colorado Fuel and Iron with others, saying they are invested in United States Steel and Colorado Fuel only.
In May 15 New York, under hardship and despair over city misery especially among children, Edith Thomas a noted writer and advocate for the poor, shot herself in the West Side University settlement. Her works include Your Money or Your Life Cross Kriss and A Modern Rosalind. She spent nearly a decade aiding tenement children.
In Everett Washington May 15 John Fay a Seattle Bridge Company worker reprimanded his fifteen year old son who then left room, took a gun and shot himself. Hearing the report the father ran to the scene and killed himself with the same weapon.
Manila report details a volatile Cavite Marine HQ with Col Henry C Cochrane ordered home and Lieut Col Mancil C Goodrell to relieve him. An altercation led to Goodrell’s arrest on alleged intoxication, denied by Rear Admiral Kempff, and a court of inquiry pending. Also cited are disobedience findings for Maj Thomas C Prince and smuggling charges against machinists George Coleman and R F Nouresto for 30 000 smuggled rettes.
Adjutant General Corbin received a cable from General MacArthur reporting that the Logan forces arrived at Manila yesterday and the transport Kilpatrick arrived on the 12th. A portion of MacArthur's dispatch was withheld and there is a belief he mentioned alleged commissary frauds.
Shipping news from ports shows Oceanic and Hohenzollern arriving in New York and Naples respectively on May 15. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse sails from Bremen and Southampton toward New York, while Nomadic sails to New York from Liverpool and Siberian to St John’s and Halifax.
A busy day at the Indiana G A R encampment in Logansport includes sessions of the Grand Army of the Republic Woman's Relief Corps and Ladies of the G A R. Anderson chosen for next state meeting. Captain Guerrigus expected to be elected department commander. parade with 200 participants and schoolchildren. speeches by Senator Fairbanks and Representatives Watson Landis Steele.
Loganport Indiana May 15 Friends press for a motion to censure Russell Harrison from the army as supporters split. Major Harrison backers lure Ketcham and others while Gil Stormont loses re election to head the Lafayette Soldiers Home committee signaling possible future action.
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