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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1902
Page
24
E. M. Campbell and associates confront Columbia National Bank in a dispute over financial dealings. The case centers on loan terms, collateral, and alleged accounting discrepancies. Court filings indicate ongoing negotiations and potential settlement discussions.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal. In Denver on December 10 the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company directors election draws attention as Gates Mitchell Blair seek control from the Osgood faction. Judge Caldwell orders a stockholders meeting and appoints Seymour Thompson master in chancery, a move seen as extraordinary and raising concerns about minority holders and director accountability.
Longstanding Colorado Fuel and Iron Company governance dispute centers on minority protection and court power. Proponents defend Osgoood leadership, noting vast coal and iron assets, vast mining workforce, and strong worker relations, while opponents seek a master in chancery to oversee stockholders meetings without proven misconduct.
Three stowaways Johnson Jensen and Hansen reached New York aboard the Oscar II after hiding Johnson in a coffin for hours. Immigrant officials intended to send them back to Norway and Sweden following discovery on the voyage from Christiansand. Johnson’s daring concealment began when a steerage passenger died and his body was placed in a pine box bound for port.
A peculiar shooting affray on Geneseo river leaves Egbert Chatfield fatally wounded and Edward Lloyd badly hurt. Lloyd and his father, out at dawn to hunt geese, were fired on by Chatfield from underbrush, who says he mistook a moving boat for geese. Lloyd fired back, hitting Chatfield. Chatfield fled a third of a mile then collapsed at home. Lloyd formerly worked as foreman in the nearby icehouse, where Chatfield had displaced him recently.
Autopsy on Mrs. Annie Kingsley after Bellevue surgery shows the heart wound healed and that her death days later stemmed from poisoning by a knife blade. Her husband accuses the assailant. Doctors found the left ventricle cavity tightly closed, walls united by the operation, preventing immediate fatal bleeding.
A concert at Tomlinson Hall Sunday evening features the Haruari Baengerchor and Social 8. Admission is 2 percent cents with a fine for entry. all invited to attend the event.
London reports the British government warns arms and ammunition makers not to ship to proclaimed Irish districts and to mark shipments clearly. Amid Ireland tensions, three Joyces freed from Maryborough jail for the Maamtrasna massacre. House of Commons friction rises as Premier Balfour vows a stronger closure and electoral mood grows tense.
London dispatch reports Mrs. Dickinson sister of Charles Stewart Parnell published bitter exchanges with John Redmond chair of the United Irish League and Irish Parliamentary Party. She seeks a full accounting of funds raised in America to buy Avondale estate. Redmond says funds aided a Dublin monument and Avondale purchase, but Boyland won a bid and the project shifted to a statue. Avondale later sold at auction to Boyland.
London dispatch says Emperor William arrives November 4 with King Carlos of Portugal to meet King Edward. Aimed at Anglo Portuguese South Africa talks, Delagoa Bay control, and possible territorial understandings. Germany opposes British trade advantages unless Portugal offers concessions. A Vienna report notes Archduke Franz Ferdinand as heir apparent to the throne.
Paris and London notes report a favorable reception for Booth Tarkington and Evelyn Sutherland in Monsieur Beaucaire at the Comedy Theatre. Lewis Waller stars as Beaucaire with Grace Lane as Lady Mary Carlyle, while a Bristol Channel collision sinks the Penzance with crew saved. Lord Salisbury's recovery progress noted as favorable. Danish West Indian Company formed to link Baltic, West Indies, and Central America with Copenhagen and St Thomas as hubs.
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw spoke in Wayne Nebraska on October 25 urging nonpartisan handling of big issues. He cited rail subsidies, river and harbor needs, an isthmian canal plan, arid plains development, and calls for public disclosure of corporate affairs to expose unfair practices and protect American commerce.
Charlotte report notes, under the constitutional amendment, the registration targets illiterate negroes. The historic vote in North Carolina appears limited. early returns suggest the total statewide vote may stay under 5,000 at the next election. In Chicago, Lockwood Honore was nominated by the Democratic committee for Congress in the Piedmont district to replace G Darden.
A telegraph from Springfield reports the Duneen Court sustained the apportionment districts drawn by the legislature. The message confirms the court upheld the redrawn lines affecting Illinois representation. The tone reflects a formal legal decision impacting governance in Bloomington and the state.
Knox concludes United States would receive a valid unincumbered title if it accepts New Panama Canal Company offer of 40 million dollars. The 300 page opinion examines French liquidation, stockholder and creditor obligations, and power of the liquidator to consent to sale. It affirms the purchaser would own the canal and related railroad assets with no French court invalidating the sale.
In Washington today a message from the Mexican government announced Leopoldo Batres would be recalled as a member of Mexico's five person commission. The recall followed a scene during an address when Alfredo Chavero praised American savant M. H. Saville of the Museum of Natural History for his work on excavations at Monte Alban and related buried cities.
President Harrison issued pardons and commutations in five cases, including Joe Martin in Arkansas for murder, whose death sentence was commuted to life and later to a term expiring today. Dora Martinich, his daughter, travels to the West with the release warrant. Charls Newbury in Virginia for resisting officers faces a commutation proposed to two and a half years. he would be released April 1, 1903. Other denials include Lewis E. Goksmith of Port Jervis embezzling about 200,000 and Fred E. Harr of Detroit embezzling from a bank. Also notes rulings on Civil Service reforms and removals.
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