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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1902
Page
6
As news broke that President McKinley had been shot, General Brugere ordered the banquet to proceed without music and forgo toasts to foreign heads. The event underscored the warmth of Franco American ties, recalling prior American gratitude to the French commander.
The International Typographical Union held its biennial election. James M. Lynch appears re elected president by a large majority. W Bramwood re elected secretary treasurer with no contest. Full results for vice presidents and other officers come after votes are counted. Delegates to the International convention elected Frank J. De Wart and Fred H. Eirhard amid a busy polling day.
An endless relief chain for miners widows and orphans began in the Stevenson building with Eli Hirshfield. Secretary Wilson of the United Mine Workers received the first response within an hour, and letters multiplied across offices and beyond city lines. The plan asks each recipient to write three new letters and send one with ten cents to Wilson. Hirshfield predicts swift mail flow and soon a tidy sum for sufferers.
Chris Evans statistician for United Mine Workers and veteran member called the Coal Creek mine wrecking one of the greatest mine disasters in U. S. history, reflecting on its impact and significance.
The Musikverein’s public concert at the German House drew a large crowd and boosted the St. Louis fund. The program featured Gounod’s By Babylon’s Wave with the St. Louis Liederkranz, a Massenet Neapolitan suite, and Schumann Traumeire with Gillet Sounds from the Ball. Mrs. Fremont Swain sang a Weber scene, and the mixed and women's choruses performed Buck Annie Laurie. The orchestra also played Herbert American Fantasy and Mendelssohn Ruy Blas, arranged well and praised as excellent. Indianapolis institutions and future concert plans under Ernestinoff were noted as a model for cities.
Arrangements completed for four Miss Neuhaus piano recitals during the first two weeks of June. Each Monday at 4 PM, performances hosted at Mrs. Line-Elder, Mrs. McGowan, and Mrs. Beveridge feature the Classical School, Romantic School, Wagner and His Works, and Modern Composers Russian School with works by Bach to Tschaikovsky.
Miss Georgia Galvin resigns as soprano soloist at the First Presbyterian Church. She will stay in New York to pursue further study in music.
Governor Durbin tours French Lick with E H Tripp and Col Mur dock for a week while Captain Hart visits New York City. Union B Hunt returns to Winchester for a few days and Amos W Butler visits southern state institutions. Dr Harty hunts smallpox in Ohio river towns as the State Board of Medical Registration attends a Chicago conference.
C D Shover secured the contract for the federal building excavation and work started yesterday afternoon. The plan includes a six foot cellar and an eleven foot foundation excavation with cement bases for the foundation. The Manufacturers' and Carters' Union holds the contract to erect the site fence.
Animal trainer J W Gentry praises wild animals as naturally musical after a big tent performance at Sixteenth Street and Capitol Avenue. He notes Cudge the leader plays the violin, Pinto and Diamond mimic instruments, and Satan blows a trumpet, with the elephants clearly enjoying the music. The show drew large crowds yesterday.
Miles K. Moffatt a Republican state committee member resigns as Fayette county clerk. William F. Downs of Connersville is named as successor. papers filed yesterday at the secretary of state's office. Moffatt’s term would have dated November of this year.
Reports from Anderson Fairmount Montpelier and Martinsville detail a teen boy shot by a friend amid a warned joke a businessman dies from a runaway accident a farmer suffers carbolic acid burns and a seventeen month old girl overdoses on morphine pills later saved by swift medical care.
A Grand Trunk Western passenger train bound west to South Bend derailed four miles east of the city after the tender left the track. Seven cars left the rails. passengers were shaken but only one person was hurt, and not seriously.
About six weeks after Addah Brown four year old daughter of W R Brown a tailor fell from a rear stairway eighteen feet injuring a thigh and bruises she again fell this evening in the same stair breaking her thigh in the same place in Tipton Indiana May 21.
At a Commercial Club meeting on May 21 Terre Haute business leaders moved toward forming the Citizens Protective League to oppose a boycott tied to a street railway strike. The league declares the boycott ill advised and harmful to local business, and members pledge to ignore it.
In Muncie Indiana a damage suit over the death of William Driscoll and his wife at a railroad crossing raises the question which spouse died first. If Mrs Driscoll died first the estate goes to her heirs. if he died first it reverts to her heirs. The Driscoll heirs’ lawyers seek to prove she died first. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Summitville Indiana May 21. Martha Bookout sues her mother Mary Thurston for accounting and division of estate. Thurston administers estate of late Joseph Welsh of Union Itis estate county valued at 200000. Plaintiff claims she has received only 2390 while others have 11000 each.
R M Johnson division chief in the auditing office of the Post Office Department died suddenly last night of apoplexy in Washington. Born in Indiana in 1546, he enlisted at age fifteen during the Civil War and served in an Indiana regiment before his father secured a legal renunciation of his service.
A sequence of brief Indiana obituaries notes deaths across multiple towns. Richard Johnson, once a clerk for the Post Office Department, dies after a political and legal career in Franklin. George W. Rich, former Elkhart County treasurer, served in the Civil War and later held local finance roles. Mrs. McClain of Wabash dies in Kokomo aged seventy. Charles Bader, Panhandle fireman and Spanish-American War enlisté, dies in Chicago en route home. Miss Etta Winter dies at Oldenburg after seminary study. Mrs. Nettie Vance dies in Ridgeville while visiting relatives. Dr. J. B. Wilson dies in Denver. Miss Reevia Blair dies in Seymour at twenty-two. Mrs. Rebecca Gump passes in Muncie at eighty-six.
Hanover Indiana May 21 The Hanover College commencement schedule lists speakers for the baccalaureate and literary society addresses. Events include senior preparatory class exhibition June 6, diploma ceremonies June 10, and six commencement speakers led by valedictorian Miss D Dell Gossard and salutatorian T H Masoh. The class totals fifteen graduates.
In Elwood Indiana on May 21 the annual commencement of St Josephs Catholic School is set for Thursday evening after a class reception. Three graduates are Anna Haas Margaret Renshaw and P Bell. The school enrolls over 40 pupils and is a key part of the citys education scene.
Chicago Chronicle reports an Indiana coal consolidation engineering by John Bays to merge 117 mines owned by 75 firms into a single corporation with headquarters in Chicago within a month. The plan transfers most mines to Bays and expands capital control, potentially raising coal prices across grades.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal from Martinsville Indiana May 21 reports the State of Indiana bringing a case against Andrew in a whitecapping matter. The article outlines charges and anticipated courtroom actions as prosecutors seek to uphold law and order.
Scott Williams of this county formerly of Morgantown filed an affidavit May 2 accusing Andrew Williams Robert Williams John Williams Ernest Hamilton Coz Haase and Henry Haase of white pepping. He says on March 6 at midnight the men entered his home after a knock with a rail then dragged him away and whipped him with switches stamping his feet. Williams and his mother identified three defendants. Defendants offered no defense. all bound over for Circuit Court trial.
The Indiana State Barbers Association formed in Muncie with twenty six delegates from sixteen locals. Officers named include Alfred Fletcher president and Henry Walker first vice president. Indianapolis to host the October meeting and a sanitary licensing bill to be drafted.
Grand Rapids, May 21. E L McDonald of Muskegon died before his wedding to Miss Virginia Platt of Cincinnati. His will left 60 000 for a home for indigent old women at Fairmount Ind but the word indigent was misspelled as indignant possibly voiding the instrument. He had torn Flora Newton Syracuse from the will and substituted Platt after engagement changes. Miss Newton and relatives may challenge the original will.
Greenfield Indiana May 21 The Methodist Episcopal Church will lay the cornerstone of its new Bedford stone church Thursday at 2 pm. The service will feature a historical sketch by John H Binford and addresses by E W Felt and J Frank Hanly. The stone will be laid by Rev G H Hill. The church costs 30000 with city business paused 2 to 4 pm. The old church was dedicated May 19 1867.
The Muncie district Christian Endeavor Union will meet in Winchester June 12 and 13, with delegates from Jay Delaware Blackford and Randolph counties. Expected speakers include Rev. J Webster Bailey from Fort Wayne Rev. John W Parker of Indianapolis and Miss Anna Louise Minnick. In Evansville Mt Vernon fire department members resigned leaving the city without fire protection while Mayor Owen seeks new recruits.
Fort Wayne Indiana May 21 President Cc F Dieterich of the Fort Wayne Gas company is cited in a report outlining leadership notes and upcoming developments in the municipal energy sector. The brief item spotlights Dieterich and the gas office.
Tipton city officials accepted a $10 offer by Andrew Carnegie for a panel library, and bought a site for the building. Construction starts soon and a portion of the land will become a park.
The Elwood board initiates steps to secure Andrew Carnegie's $35,000 library gift by forming a committee to accept plans and supervise construction. Site acquisition completed. council adhered to maintenance terms. Work to start after first payment arrives, with contracts to be let.
After a secret two hour session the Tammany Hall executive committee voted to replace a single leader with a triumvirate. Charles F Murphy Daniel F MacMahon and Louis F Haffen were chosen to run the organization with Murphy as de facto head following Lewis Nixon’s resignation.
William M. Jones, formerly of Lincoln Nebraska, stood trial in Recorder's Court for the murder of George H. Heywood. Heywood's battered body was found on a sidewalk near his home in April. Jones roomed in Heywood's house and was arrested the morning the body was found. Evidence is entirely circumstantial.
In Edmondton Metcalf county Kentucky wealthy bachelor W H Wrenn was murdered at his home. He was found in his yard about forty yards from the house after more than 100 shots were fired into his body. Robbery is suspected as the motive with no clue to the killer.
A period of bereavement is described as many families suffer, urging use of Paine's Celery Compound over standard medicines. The ad claims past cures and warns of medical neglect, presenting the product as a hopeful life saver in desperate cases.
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