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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1902
Page
5
NY May immigration hits record high with an estimated 8 500 expected aboard ships. Among arrivals the majority come from south and southeastern Europe while Irish German Norwegian Swedish and Danish numbers have fallen sharply.
McFetridge’s friends plan celebration, then on a street encounter with John and Robert Warke ends when Walter Nolan strikes Robert Warke and a club blow proves fatal. Nolan and party are arrested as investigators sort motive and timing surrounding the midnight death.
The Hardin county treasurer’s safe in Kountze was blown open and all county money taken. A dawn clash with burglars occurred at Silsbee ten miles east. one burglar wounded, others fled into a thicket. Sheriff with bloodhounds to the scene.
El Correo de Sonora reports Yaqui Indians once more on the warpath in Sonora. A band visited the La Carmen hacienda near Hermosillo, killed the ranch governor and a servant, and seized the hacienda’s power and best stock during the raid.
Patriotic ceremonies marked Decoration Day in New York with a grand parade of G A R posts National Guard units and navy personnel. The soldiers and sailors monument in Riverside Park was unveiled amid speeches by Judge Thomas G. Jones and other dignitaries. President Roosevelt sent a wreath and Wu Ting Fang sent roses as evening services followed at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Muskegon Michigan observed Memorial Day with the unveiling of a heroic bronze statue of President McKinley. A massive granite monument and the bronze figure were donated to Muskegon Public Schools by lumberman Charles H Hackley at the ceremony.
Evansville hosts the fourth annual convention of Indiana letter carriers ending with a steamer banquet. About forty carriers attend. Officers named include A. K. Mehl Fort Wayne as president and W. A. Williams Evansville as vice president. Indianapolis delegates dominate the decision making. Indianapolis chosen for next meeting. National by law amendments proposed but kept secret. Banquet speeches delivered by Schmedel Alldredge Ricks and locals.
Across Detroit Gettysburg Milwaukee Kansas City Philadelphia Bangor St Paul Cincinnati Baltimore Chicago Columbus St Louis Schenectady Saratoga many communities marked Memorial Day with parades graveside decorations and ceremonies The events featured veterans schoolchildren and civic groups honoring Civil War Spanish American War and World War II memories with speeches poems and dedications including a McKinley bust in Philadelphia and a Grant cottage decoration in Saratoga.
Springfield May 30 All business halted as flowers adorned graves and the Sangamon river. Governor Yates funded wreaths and palms for the tribute. A veterans parade led to a memorial ceremony under the Lincoln monument at Oak Ridge Cemetery with Rev Frank C Bruner as orator. Speakers included Gen Alfred Orendorf Prof Joseph H Freeman Col Frank Reid and Capt Stuart Brown. Camp Butler Post decorated 1200 Federal and 700 Confederate graves at Camp Butler National Cemetery.
Newport Rhode Island May 30 French mission pays tribute to Chevalier De Ternay, commander of Rochambeau’s fleet. A Laurel wreath from President Loubet rests on De Ternay’s tomb in Trinity Churchyard as 2,500 sailors marines and soldiers march past the old Statehouse and Rochambeau’s 1780 residence. General Brugere places wreath. parade proceeds to Casino for review and luncheon.
Floral tributes arrive from White House and cities like Chicago Cleveland and Pittsburgh as Mrs McKinley places flowers at Westlawn tomb. G A R hosts a 1 pm ceremony with a special design on the tomb while the Spanish American War veterans add a flag and mixed flowers. Fort Leavenworth honors General Henry Leavenworth with a grand reinterment ceremony and large parade led by Col. C C Carr and Capt George Cambon.
Tipton and Clinton counties brace for a joint representative contest between two newspaper editors Ed T. Staley of Tipton Advocate and Bayard Gray of Frankfort Crescent. Gray seeks Democratic nomination, while Staley denies candidacy though urged by friends. Republican incumbent H. H. Thomas opts not to run again. Conventions set for June 5 and June 11. Plymouth Democrats in Forty-first district adjourn without nomination after long session. Marshall split between E. C. Martindale and Charles Kellison, Fulton backs Harry Bernetha consistently.
In Winamac Indiana on Friday June 6 Democrats of Pulaski county will meet in township precincts to select delegates for the county convention. On Saturday June 7 delegates will meet in Winamac to nominate a county ticket and to choose delegates to the forty fourth judicial district convention and joint senatorial and representative convention.
Sullivan Indiana May 30 The Second district Republican congressional convention will be held at Linton on July 10. Hon John Chaney of Sullivan, likely the sole candidate before the convention, will return home from Washington in a few days.
Purdue University in Lafayette Indiana sends its track squad to Chicago for the Intercollegiate Athletic Association meet. Captain Corns Miller Rice and Hearn lead in events with strong practice and state record near marks. Other items note Eliza Fowler Memorial Hall cornerstone, Hagio lingering in graduation, and faculty changes from McBroom to Garman.
In Chattanooga Nashville Louisville Memphis Knoxville Marietta and Marietta memorials decorated 14 000 federal graves and about two hundred Spanish American war graves. Grand Army of the Republic posts and Spanish American veterans led ceremonies with local officials and speakers including A E Willson of Louisville.
Leopoldo Batres, national monuments conservator, reports discoveries at Monte Alban in Oaxaca state. The site shows signs of ancient submersion perhaps 300 years and includes an Egyptian style obelisk at a tomb entrance. Batres will prepare a detailed government report. Monte Alban was previously examined by Professor Colmes of the Smithsonian.
Greencastle High School held commencement in Meharry Hall with 1,200 attendees. Graduates include Russell H. Allen and Hazel M. Bridges among others under Principal Miss Martha Ridpath. Greensburg High School concluded its 31st annual exercises with 18 graduates and Purdue’s Emma Mont McRae as speaker.
Miss Anna Moore accepts an instructor post at Westtown Boarding School near Philadelphia. Rev. E. O. Ellis to lead Earlham church service next Sunday. W. C. Trueblood elected principal of Vermilion Academy, Vermilion Illinois. Dean Kelley set for baccalaureate at Bloomingdale Academy. to speak at Central Academy Plainfield and Vermilion Grove Illinois commencements and alumni events in coming weeks.
Lebanon is reporting the arrest of Thorntown attorney Joseph D Cunningham on forgery charges after a May 9 note forged for 1.06 dollars. Bond set at 2.00 dollars. Cunningham jailed after waiving preliminary hearing. A grand jury will convene next Monday. In Valparaiso district Epworth League plans its June convention with speakers Switzer Oldham Morgan Berry. Elwood field day highlights glass workers events with bicycle races led by Hutton Gardner and others.
Elkhart Indiana May state Representative W W Van Fleet Republican candidate for re election has returned from Alaska where he and Cleveland investors studied Roberts mine claims The investors say a secret meeting revealed gold in quantity enough to justify working the claims, though details are not for publication
In Winamac Indiana D M Lytte hid money in an old overcoat for safekeeping. During cold weather he moved the overcoat money to a wash-stand drawer. His wife later removed the coat money was left near a stove and coal bed. A fire at a neighbor’s house caused the drawer to catch fire and the money burned to ashes.
May day report from Anderson Indiana describes a major oil strike on the Bowers farm ten miles north of the city. Lease held by Jesse L Vermilion J B Van Deventer and Marx Carroll all of Anderson. Veteran driller J K Johnson says strike is among the best in the gas belt with good grade well producing around one hundred barrels daily. In Sullivan United States Steel Corporation plans to mine coal land east of the city and organize a mining company. In Vincennes Lee Carter a wealthy Knox county farmer was kicked by a mule and killed this morning.
William Allie Son, among Wabash county's oldest residents, died this morning at seventy eight after two years of illness and a second stroke on Tuesday. He leaves six children.
HAGERSTOWN reports heavy crop damage from this cold spell with hundreds of acres of corn nearly eight inches tall killed and needing replanting. Beans cucumbers tomatoes melons ruined though fruit spared. To the west in BRAZIL sheriff and detective arrest Harry Kelly alias Kelly O Donald for robbery. BEDFORD case awards $60 in schoolhouse related dispute. RICHMOND Dr Rosa L Oxer returning from India mission with Miss Elsie Gordon. PORTLAND Isaac Armentrout wins $2 verdict against William S Manor after fall from bicycle. CRAWFORDSVILLE local Threshers' National Protective Association forms with thirty members. SULLIVAN several new smallpox cases reported at Debcarbo and Jackson Hill.
Residents in the southern part of East Hampton felt tremors at about 8 30 last night awakening many, rattling buildings and dishes. The tremor lasted roughly thirty seconds and caused no reported injuries or major damage.
Mrs Bee sie P Ware was acquitted in Hot Springs Arkansas of murdering her divorced husband Dol Wise. The killing occurred in a hotel room in June last.
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