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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1901
Page
5
Open to close notice highlights autumn trade with spring pieces priced sixty cents to one fifty. Items include Mercerized Twills English Glorias Silk Twills bordered Taffetas and varied mantling notions. Mail orders especially solicited.
London report from Dorset Street in Whitechapel details the mutilation murder of Annie Austin, 28, caused in a low lodging house. The killer escaped, police lack description, and fear of further outrages sparks neighborhood panic.
The Boer General Schoeman and his daughter were killed and his wife and two others badly injured by a shell explosion. They were handling a 47 inch lyddite shell as a curiosity at home when it detonated. The general led Colesburg’s commando, was captured by Boers, released when British occupied Barbertown, and later resided in Pretoria.
The Lokal Anzeiger says a dead body with heavy chains was recovered from the River Danube near Budapest. Hungarian police believe it to be Romagnoli, the anarchist said to have been sent from America to kill the German Emperor. Notices have gone to police worldwide.
Paris reports that Morocco will compensate France for the murder of Paul Pouzet and his son in law by pirates during a shooting trip off the Riff coast in April. Moroccan authorities will also address pending Algeria questions. A minister heads for Tangier to ensure compliance.
The British cruiser Pegasus stranded off Graine Spit near Sheerness yesterday but re floated without serious damage. Vice Admiral Sir Edward Amour, British representative on the China station, has been promoted to admiral. The Marquis of Headfort resigns his post in the First Life Guards, likely due to marriage to actress Rosie Boote. Queen Ranayolana of Madagascar leaves Algiers for home, first government permission since exiling. Several fishing accidents off West Iceland coast kill many. a large boat near West Manna Islands loses twenty lives.
The Neus Werner Tageblatt argues Europe must ally to curb the United States as a European customs league rises in discussion. NY Chamber of Commerce delegates travel to London for June meetings with Westminster and a conference set for June 3 chaired by Morris K. Jessup. Meanwhile Sir Thomas Lipton plans to send Shamrock I to America for trial races costing about £4,000. Three candidates for rector at American College in Rome are named in secrecy as the congregation meets in June to choose with papal confirmation.
Booker T Washington presented to Alabama's constitutional convention an appeal for conservative action. He notes blacks were brought here against their will, have benefited and trained themselves, served in wars, and are largely peaceable taxpayers. The address warns against any law that unsettles race relations or reduces wealth or thrift, urging stability and continued trust in white leadership. Senator Morgan backs a white-only officeholding plan with registrars empowered to judge voter qualifications, a Mississippi-like scheme granting broad discretion to registrars.
The Democratic State central committee met in Columbus and decided the state convention will be held there in July. Charles Salem of Cleveland was chosen temporary chairman and N S Cochran of Toledo temporary secretary. About 50 delegates are expected with no delegate selection restrictions.
Shipping notices list arrivals from New York and Bremen into Mediterranean and Atlantic ports with several vessels departing for Hamburg Naples Liverpool Bremen Rotterdam Glasgow and New York. Entries include Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse Hohen zollern Penn sylvania Oceanic Lahn Rotter dam and Ethiopia among others.
Aggie Long, fourteen, shot herself in the pulpit of the Methodist Church in Sycamore Howard county after attending practice. She left a note directing funeral details and named the minister organist and choir. Her failure to pass two recent exams is suspected to weigh on the tragedy. She was active in the church choir and daughter of John Long of Sycamore.
In Logansport Indiana late today lawyers for Mrs Anna M M Biddle and Charles Peckham administrator of Horace P Biddle agreed to a settlement. The plaintiff gets the Biddle library valued at 5500 and pays costs, dropping claims on other property. Wabash causes and injunction case involving Susan Eagle and Cynthia Johnson against Wabash River Traction Company will be tried Friday.
Jasper Ind May 28 Yesterday after noon John Reeves under indictment for the murder of two deputy sheriffs filed an affidavit for a change of venue from Dubois county alleging prejudice in this county. Judge Ely overruled the change but appointed Thomas Duncan as special judge and jury selection began.
Salem Indiana May 28 The Salem High School held its twenty third annual commencement with a large graduating class of twenty one. Reverend J Cummin Smith of Indianapolis delivered the address on Optimism and Education. Diplomas were presented by Reverend H B Sutherland. The stage featured the school pennant and the banner won in recent athletic contests. The field team and orator will be banqueted at the Alvis Hotel Thursday. Alumni reception at J A Kemp home tomorrow evening followed by a banquet for the graduates.
Ames of Chicago University will address the class of thirteen at Mt Vernon courthouse on Friday evening May 31. Dr Robert J Ally of Bloomington and Rev Wilson Blackburn will present diplomas as Superintendent Edwin S Monroe is re elected for a seventh year. Terre Haute Rose Polytechnic also holds commencement with George B Leighton as speaker and a week of exams and alumni events.
MUNCIE Ind May 28 President Leopold Mambourg of the Independent Cooperative Window Glass Company representing twenty plants says all his plants will stop work tomorrow leaving only two or three operations not affiliated. He notes a sale yesterday of 1 400 000 boxes of glass to a Pittsburgh company, promising resumed full nine month work season starting Sept 1, the longest in eight years.
Hartford City Ind May 28 The Johnston Glass Company cooperative window glass plant will cease operations at midnight after a month long blast. President Simon Burns ordered no operation this fire and refused a wage scale set by the company. Workers formed their own scale and chose to close until September 14.
The Coyle family from Toronto and nearby cities gather as James Coyle born in Ireland and wife born in Scotland marked their marriage in Coberg Ontario on May 2% 1541 and their twelve children include names in several states. In Loogootee Indiana petty thefts rattle residents with wool thefts and a $156 haul. in Muncie Indiana Hattie Harrington is jailed as a state witness in the James Harrington case.
Florence Sanders confessed to stealing items in Marion and sent for merchants to drop charges, offering to return goods. Several merchants agreed to drop prosecutions after her appeal. Union City votes 366 to 15 for a 4 cent tax to fund new industries, marking an industrial improvement push.
After over a month of wrangling the Carnegie library committee selected a central site at South and East Fourth streets. The street will be altered so the library sits at the center of Fourth Street facing Main. The building will cost 15000 dollars and work will not start until fall.
Marion Indiana May report notes a revival of contention between the local Carpenters Union and the Contractors Association after the union refused to recognize two carpenters from the Fort Wayne local as members. The outsiders had worked in Marion last week, prompting resistance from local carpenters to employing nonlocals.
Dayton Ohio May 28 The first step toward building an extension of the Dayton and Western traction line to Richmond Indiana occurred today President Valentine Winters and associates surveyed the route and secured farmer consent for the franchise The new extension will run about sixteen miles and cut six to seven miles off the Dayton to Eaton survey distance
In Blackford Circuit Court Hartford City today Miss Catharine Hall sues city attorney J A Kiemey as defendant claiming he acted as her attorney in a suit against Alonzo Brown and collected funds she says he refused to turn over. Remey says he can vindicate himself.
Fort Wayne Indiana reports striking machinists at Wabash Railroad have settled with management and will return to work Friday, ending a stoppage that affected operations in Fort Wayne and Springfield Illinois.
Bloomington May 2 Old soldiers of Jackson Post G A R gather at the Schooner cemetery in Brown county for a Decoration Day ceremony. Veterans laid wreaths on graves from Vicksburg Libby prison Chickamauga and other battles while a memorial address by Senator Falk honors the dead and a Manila transport carries Bam Reddick home.
Professor and Mrs. Dennis invite for senior class reception on May 30. Professor and Mrs. Hodgen plan entertainment for seniors and faculty on June 4. Grace Baker and Marie Glanton present a music recital Wednesday. State University ball team sought for June 1 game. Miami University to play here Thursday. Dr. Adolph Gerber to spend summer in Germany.
Forty five Columbus High School students were arrested in Columbus Indiana after a class fight on the street in front of the high school building. The arrests occurred this afternoon on warrants charging participation in the riot linked to the class day exercises held yesterday.
Kokomo High School will hold commencement exercises at the Sipe Theater on Wednesday evening. The cast is the largest in school history featuring Phoebe Bates Opha E. Dixon Edith Johnson Tessa Lemaster Alwira Reed Otis Brabey Louis Lee John Milton Robert Strayer Dell Haseltine Maude Jackson Frances Johnson Maude Sellers William Cooper Oscar Harvey Edward Penn Carl Bin Agnes Davis M. Lucile Eusterleig Karstedt Eva Musgrant Nida Morrison Arthur Cosier.
The Kokomo Dry Goods Company suffered a 6000 loss by fire tonight flames started from Jets in a front window igniting the draperies local fire department reported no injuries and investigations continue to determine the cause in Kokomo Indiana on May 28.
The funeral for Frank Deibert, former assistant master mechanic of the Baltimore & Ohio transit division at Newark, Ohio, will be held in Peru on Wednesday morning. Attendees include G. H. Brown, William Wratton, J. C. Commons, J. A. Kershaw, Morgan Harvey, and N. M. Maine, all from major railway divisions. Deibert leaves a widow and one son. Also reported: Rufus McPherson of Greensfork died aged seventy after a paralytic stroke, noted as one of Indiana’s famed twins with his brother Riley. He and Riley, born in North Carolina, lived near Greensfork since youth. Mrs. Stan B. Frazer, daughter of Gen. Reuben Williams, died at her father’s home in Warsaw of brain congestion.
A temporary agreement delays the Logansport and Wabash Valley Gas Company meter system from June 1 to August 1, with the City Council seeking a rate not exceeding 12 cents per thousand.
Emerson McMillen of New York announced at Columbus Art School’s commencement that he would donate a site on East Broad street valued at 20000 and up to 100 for museum construction if Columbus raises an equal amount. He requires the city funds be secured by popular subscription.
In Crawfordsville Indiana May celebration marks the sixtieth wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs James Coyle observed today with family friends and a quiet ceremony at home indicating a long marriage and deep local ties.
DAYTON TENN May 28 The total dead from the Rich land mine explosion stands at twenty. Harry Pope, earlier reported dead, was not injured having left the mine minutes before the blast. Andy Medley and Will Rose were brought out in terrible shape. At least five of the wounded were fatally injured, none has died yet and recovery remains possible.
Berlin reports Emperor William orders Count Von Waldersee and German troops home as talks of a joint allied commander for China troops surface. Hamburg America line plans large Shanghai investments after peace in Peking, with 3000 feet of harbor frontage, docks, and warehousing projects. US State Department welcomes recall and notes high regard for Waldersee and goodwill shown to him.
A Shanghai Standard dispatch reports Boxers fighting Catholic converts near Tu-Lu on the Grand Canal and heavy crossfire. It notes 4000 insurgents from Kwai-Chau invading Sze-Chuan, sparking widespread panic, with about 3000 Yunnanese expected to join.
A dispatch from General Voyron near Tien-Tsin reports a reconnoitering party found a walled town fifteen kilometers northeast of Ting-Chau. Gates refused, French artillery breached walls and captured the town. One French infantryman wounded as General Baillaud leads troops aiding Chinese regulars.
Peking reports that the Chinese plenipotentiaries informed the foreign ministers the court is willing to pay indemnity totaling 450,000,000 taels but objects to paying interest at 4 percent.
Cincinnati May 23 Col James G Miner assistant secretary of the Confederate navy during the Civil War died in poverty at Milford Ohio aged 82 A native New Englander and Texan resident he studied at Edinburg University and served in the Mexican War He one time co owned the Tredegar iron works in Richmond His fortune was wiped out by the Civil War He kept Confederate bonds worth a million in a trunk His wife died three weeks earlier A Milford resident Mrs Spencer took him in and local manufacturers will fund his burial in the cemetery
Hewitt Green of Louisville who was named secretary of the United States legation at Guatemala last March died in Louisville at age thirty four. A native of Louisville he studied art and music abroad and was famed as a concert singer. His sister Iosa Green is a noted European singer. The wealthy Kentucky family once owned local newspapers and he left journalism two years ago for health reasons before taking the Guatemala post.
Rev Frederick Von Schembach, a leading German Evangelical minister in Cleveland, died tonight at Lakeside Hospital from blood poisoning. He founded the YMCA in Germany and was fifty nine.
In Carrollton Missouri on May 2 Charles McKinney son of Policeman McKinney was killed at 2 AM while helping arrest a group of tramps. Three gang members were arrested. six escaped and were chased by the sheriff and posse three miles south of town. A gunfight followed near the roundup. two more tramps were captured, the sheriff’s horse was shot, and the others fled into the woods.
The Supreme Court president acting as examining judge in the Bermudez asphalt case has ruled the court has jurisdiction and ordered Quinlan and Warner of Syracuse to post a $20,000 guarantee to await the final decision. The jurisdiction question was decided under a process begun by President Castro. The court is expected to be asked to render the final ruling.
An advertisement claims bicod's Sarsaparilla purifies blood and cures pimples, eruptions, tiredness, poor appetite, scrofula, and nervous prostration. It urges readers to begin taking it today.
About 258 members from 1531 Confederate Veterans camps gathered in Memphis Confederate Hall for the eleventh annual reunion. Generals Fitzhugh Lee Joseph Wheeles and John Gordon attended. Memorial events for Jefferson Davis were held at Calvary Church, led by Bishop Thomas F. Gailor. Committees on resolutions and credentials were formed, with a plan to bar deserters from joining. The hall featured national colors and portraits of Stonewall Jackson Robert E Lee and Nathan Bedford Forrest.
A New York Telegraph report notes a stock exchange membership sold at a price $10,000 below the prior bid and $11 below the last sale as panic recedes. Officials refuse to name buyers amid blame games between veteran and new members over market turmoil and enforcement disputes.
Detroit Free Press reports a 100 mile steam boat race early next month between the Tashmoo of the White Star line and City of Erie of the Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Company with $2000 stakes. Supervising interest comes from Superintendent Mercereau of Pere Marquette, who supports wireless telegraphy trials for the contest and future fleet use.
The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune recalls thirteen years of John Dowie’s alleged frauds and urges action to suppress his schemes. It warns credulous believers and weak-minded followers, questions medical neglect urged by Dowie, and appeals to public opinion to end the preacher's influence and protect vulnerable families.
The Indianapolis Single Tax Club grows as Tom L. Johnson is urged for doncy. President Johnson and a single tax movement are set to arrive around the same time.
A vintage testimonial touts Mrs Winslow's Syrup as a century old remedy used by mothers for teething and upset stomachs. It claims soothing effects on the child and easing wind colic, urging caregivers to buy at two cents per bottle and spare the expense of other baths or remedies.
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