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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1901
Page
2
The Knightstown Home for orphans argues it provides ideal state care with structured families, trained governesses, and practical work. Graduates excel as printers, farmers, teachers, and professionals. few fail to thrive, contradicting critics who label the institution pampered.
Forecast for Thursday and Friday calls for warmer temperatures in northern portions. Friday will be fair with a variable wind shifting to southerly. Local observations note clear weather and light winds with consistent temperature readings, and present a comparative context to normal values.
The W R C convention met in the Masonic Hall Logansport with Mrs Laura Burr department president presiding She urged reduced expenditures abolishing inspection and petitions to Congress to curb desecration of the flag The year’s statistics show 183 corps 6753 members aided 3273 persons while 7738 17 was spent with a small treasury balance Mrs Mary E Swain was elected president and Mrs Lizzie Brown as senior vice president
The G A R ladies opened a business session at the First Presbyterian Church in Logansport Indiana led by state president Mrs Jennie Irvin. There are 21 circles and 1277 members plus four associate comrades with three candidates for department president Mrs Kate Ward Mrs Susan Beal and Mrs E Sawtelle. Tonight a reception at Hotel Murdock featured national president Mrs Etta Lee Toby with speeches by Mrs Catherine Hirst. Gold watch locket and souvenir spoon were presented to retiring officers.
Charles Lowry and Joseph Gallagher were each sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary by Judge Gilmore at Chardon Ohio for robbing the Smith & Fowler bank. In Munfordsville Kentucky the Hart County bank was robbed. vault blown with nitro glycerin, $000s stolen. Leonard Wells in St Paul Minnesota got certificates of deposit for 3400 stolen from his camp. $4 cash not returned. Fry and Everett in London were jailed five years for forging documents to defraud Barclay & Co. George W. Thatcher pleaded not guilty in Springfield Ohio to forged notes totaling 206000. bond set at 5000. Charles Foster received ten years for murder in Upper Sandusky Ohio. case tied to publication ban on testimony. Deputy Sheriff Hubbard identified Will Aiken in Omaha as the murder suspect near Munfordville. requisition papers sent to Kentucky. A gang clash in Rockhouse Kentucky left George Cook mortally wounded. others fled to the hills. New York District Court ordered removal of Captain Benjamin D Greene and others to Savannah for trial on conspiracy tied to Southern harbor improvements.
In Boston, Judge Loring appointed Henry C Bliss of Springfield as receiver of the Masons Fraternal Accident Association of America. The move follows a pending financial matter within the organization. The prospectus of the Russian loan was issued in Paris with subscription opening May 2 and payments scheduled through October.
New York May 15 Russell A Alger former secretary of war and Mrs Alger sailed today on the St Louis. He said he was going for his health and had not rested since the campaign of Iki. He plans to visit Carlsbad and return in August.
Boston May 5 President John Henry Barrows of Oberlin College reported that John D Rockefeller has offered to give 200000 dollars on the condition the college raises 300000 dollars within the year. He noted that 10000 dollars is already pledged.
A Presbyterian General Assembly allied conference on foreign missions was held in Philadelphia under the board of foreign missions. Leaders praised per capita gifts and noted rising contributions across New Jersey New York and Oregon. The 113th General Assembly meets in Calvary Church tomorrow with Rev Charles A Dickey presiding. In Frederick Maryland the United Brethren General Conference focused on church-building needs and Bible distribution with several bishops to be elected.
The National Conference of Charities and Correction opened with Rev Chariton Lewis’s report criticizing penal codes for inconsistency and ineffectiveness. It argues prisons are schools of criminality and urges reforms focused on inmate education and productive training. Separately in Cincinnati, rival Royal Arch factions met in brief sessions at the Grand Hotel and Robinson Opera House as they formed a new Knights of Fidelity.
National conventions across the United States report elected leaders and upcoming meetings. Peter Peterson of New York was named president of the National Association for the Study of Epilepsy in Washington. In Baltimore the American Order of Steam Engineers set a next year meeting in Milwaukee. The National Piano Manufacturers Association began its fifth annual New York convention with E S Conway of Chicago elected president. The Royal Arcanum met in Asheville with 94 delegates. the Royal Neighbors of America in Springfield debated proposed tax and auditing changes. The American Federation of Musicians in Denver announced officers and AFL delegates. Speakers from various states attended sessions.
Reports from Monmouth to Hot Springs show extensive church activity. Sect leaders announce conferences in Detroit Lax to Mississippian hosts while Financial officers in St Louis address salary raises and reserve funds for their orders.
In Denver on May 15, Mrs. Martha Ewart a widow and rooming house proprietor fired two shots at Joseph K. Choate manager of the Overland cotton mills and nephew of Ambassador Choate in Wolcott Vaile law offices during a conference. Neither bullet hit. An information charging attempted murder was filed. she was released on bond. Earlier a breach of promise suit had been settled for 4000 dollars. She has a daughter about twelve. Choate declined comment and attorney Joel F. Vaile provided background on the case.
F B Moore resigns as managing editor of the Montana Daily Record Helena to join the Commercial Advertizer in New York. A list of fatalities from recent steamer disasters includes five dead from the City of Paducah sinking and crew and passengers named by company officials.
Washington reports that transports used between New York and the West Indies will be auctioned around July 1. Colonel Kimball, quartermaster in New York, is to report on transportation operations including possible abandonment of the East River government dock. It is likely the dock or part of it will be abandoned by the government.
In Williamson West Virginia on May 15 the jury found St Stokes not guilty of the murder of Rev. J J Woll a Presbyterian minister killed after a sensational sermon that critiqued local society. The verdict ends the high profile case linked to Woll’s remarks.
New York editor William F Sherlock of the Unionist labor journal died at his Brooklyn home. Previously convicted of criminal libel against a newspaper employee, he was sentenced to three months in prison but pardoned after twenty days served.
Porto Rican exports from Jan 1 to May total 819 400 dollars with 5 284 311 sent to the United States. Sugar dominates shipments with 4 302 50 going to the U S and 319 sent to foreign countries. Governor Durbin granted an Iowa requisition to return C M Bates who faces a Polk county Iowa larceny charge. Bates is reportedly in jail in Hammond Indiana.
Twenty five men from the Bermudez Asphalt Company patrol near Guanaco Venezuela arrived in New York reporting a tense border mission. They wore khaki uniforms with rifles and ammunition, commanded by Captain Brackett, and described an armed guard role to deter locals while monitoring rivals. An incursion by a rival surveying party was repelled with prisoners taken and gear seized.
In Orsa Sweden a planned forestry program funded public needs and schools. Forest revenue funded local government and free services, with taxes nearly absent. The article contrasts Sweden's long term gains with American neglect of forest cultivation.
In Detroit Free Press anecdote a man recalls a string of stock misadventure. A barroom confidant pressed him into buying gilt edged shares of a bogus line, paying triple market price. After a year an old friend warned him not to sell. A lawyer appeared to redeem the stock and was kicked out, but the tale ends with the man netting $17,000 while the stock’s promoter went to the penitentiary instead of Congress.
The Nebraska State Journal notes a Philadelphia Inquirer proposal to quell the tramp nuisance by offering every wandering worker a road-job, with enforcement if refused. It argues universal labor would quickly solve both the tramp problem and support for good roads, portraying tramps as parasites and urging wages earned by labor.
A dainty white shirtwaist features a line of black lace butterflies appliqued along the front pleat on each side, creating a decorative and delicate detail.
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