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Newspaper

The Indianapolis Journal

Location

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Oct 28, 1902

Page

2

Rail road incorporations and light company filed

New traction line and interurban proposals emerge as several companies organize with capital to build lines from South Bend to Lakeville and toward Wabash with plans to connect Fort Wayne to Richmond. Directors named for each firm include DeWitt Van Buskirk, Hughes, Cozens, Watte, Schaffer, Manning, and Bordner.

New Jersey, Indiana & Illinois Railroad Company South Bend Lakeville Christian B. DeWitt van Buskirk Oscar Inn George M. Hughes Charles Alfred G. Cozens Charles R. Wattt Fort Wayne, Luton & Richmond Company Incorporated Wayne Richmond Ossian Bluffton Camden Portlac Ridge Winchester Lynn Edward Frank X. Schaffer Charles Durat Charles F. Manning William F. Din

Appraisers Begin Testimony on Arsenal Site Value

The board of appraisers hears testimony on the value of the arsenal site and improvements. Local real estate men testify while the hearing occurs in private. Several witnesses say valuation decisions were not finalized, with a report due by November 1, but the property may wait until after the election.

Arsenal Cnt

Death in Flames Claims Florist George Graham at Fort Wayne Ave

An elderly Indianapolis florist, George Graham aged 75, perished in a fire above J W Smith Son bakery on Fort Wayne Avenue. The blaze, likely fed by overheated bakery ovens, destroyed part of the frame building and damaged bakery stock valued around 300 dollars. Graham, longtime Blind Institute worker and neighborhood figure, occupied a second floor room for five years and left a daughter a public school teacher and a son living nearby. Firefighters recovered his charred body from the bed after forcing entry as smoke obscured the stair.

George Graham Fort Wayne Avenue Graham J. W. Smith & Son John Hunt Headquarters Captain Newman Salvage Corps Captain Hunt Whelan Newman Smith Bakery Blind Institute Fifty-eighth Street Indianapolis

Child Burned To Death In South Tlinois Street Home

Joseph Rosenzweig discovered his five year old daughter burned to death at 4 30 pm in their South Tlinois street residence. He had been away with his wife and returned to find the child’s dress burned off and the body on the kitchen floor. The incident occurred while parents were out and bystanders reported hearing children’s cries before the tragedy was realized.

Joseph Rosenzweig Tlinois Street Rosenzweig Dr. Durham Zellie Rutstein Rosengweigs Rutstein

Tragic Fire Death Shocks Family in Lower Manhattan

A Russian Jewish family endures a fatal blaze in a home near Eddy and Merritt streets. The mother allegedly ignited herself via charred newspaper wads near a gas stove, causing her dress to catch fire while a young girl burned to death. The coroner investigated, and a synagogue janitor was asked to perform ritual washing and dress. The father refused removal of the child until burial rites.

Eddy and Merritt Streets

Death of E A Caylor Ice Company president

Edward A. Caylor, president of the Coonse & Caylor Ice Company, died last night after a six month stomach illness. A longtime business figure, he led the ice firm for five years and previously worked in the dairy trades. Survived by widow Amanda E. Caylor and three children, Mary B. Coonse, Helen Purvis, and Ida Caylor. Funeral plans not yet announced.

Edward A. Caylor Coonse & Caylor Ice Company Caylor Mr. Sponse Ice Company

Friends End Five Year Meeting With Temperance Call

The Five-Year Meeting of Friends concluded in Richmond Indiana with sessions, committees to report next year, and a broad call to other denominations to unite against liquor. Delegates from eleven yearly meetings were named to attend a Washington conference beginning in March 1906 to seek practical cooperation and a plan to curb the liquor traffic.

Friends Richmond Ind Elwood O. Ellis London Yearly Meeting American Friends Brethren In Christ United Church United States Washington James Wood Mt. Kisco Rufus M. Jones Haverford Timothy Nicholson Benjamin F. Trueblood Boston Mass Edmund Stanley Wichita Kan Jesus Christ Edmund Hannah J. Bailey New England New England Yearly Meeting; Albert K. Smiley, New York; James Carey, Jr Baltimore Thomas Newlin North Carolina Ellwood O. Ellis Indiana Albert J. Brown Western Joseph Sopher Iowa Phoebe M. Barnard Kansas Francis K. Jones Oregon Emma

Central Association Meeting Opens at Trinity Church Indiana

The annual session of the Central Association of Congregational Churches and Ministers of Indiana begins at Trinity Congregational Church on Pleasant and Spruce. Rev W F McMillan of Chicago opens with How Successfully to Conduct Sunday Schools. Dr Loughhead of California to discuss Bible study and church growth topics.

Trinity Congregational Church Pleasant Spruce Streets Central Association of Congregational Churches and Ministers of Indiana W. F. McMillan Chicago Loughhead California O. C. Helming Church Building Society Levi White Emma Murray Devore H. H. Gilchrist

Woman's Home Missionary Society Convention Opens in Meridian Street Church

A convention of the Woman's Home Missionary Society begins at Meridian Street M E Church today and runs through tomorrow. Morning sessions cover routine work with afternoon reports by Mrs L H Sperry Mrs A V P Adams of Shelbyville and others. An address by Mrs B F Potter from Bloomington is planned this evening. Tomorrow features two sessions at 9 AM and 2 PM with Halstead of the Methodist Hospital speaking tomorrow afternoon.

Woman's Home Missionary Society Meridian Street M. E L. H. Sperry A. V. P. Adams Shelbyville S. Behymer Gilbert Brown B. F. Potter Bloomington Halstead The Methodist Hospital

Voting Places Selected by Democrats for City Election

County Chairman Elliott confirms the voting place list filed with the County Commissioners is complete with a few exceptions. Arrangements for rental of sites are pending and will be announced later, as Democrats push effects of the late publication. The list names ward by ward precincts and exact street addresses across the city, reflecting extensive accessibility planning for voters to locate their polling places.

Elliott Lst East Twenty-fifth Street Adams Street Cooper Street North Arsenal Avenue Bellefontaine Street Alvord Street Yandes Street Sheldon Street Ludlow Avenue Brookside Avenue Massachusetts Avenue Keystone Avenue Commerce Avenue Martindale Avenue Columbia Avenue Cornell Avenue Second Ward Twenty-seventh Street Central Avenue Twenty-fifth Street Twenty-first Street Nineteenth Street Park Avenue New Jersey Street College Avenue Sixteenth Street Ashland Avenue Fort Wayne Avenue East Eleventh Street North East Street Third Ward McLean Race North Meridian Street Twenty-second Street Seventeenth Street Senate Avenue Fifteenth Street Lafayette Street Fourteenth Street Tweilfth Twelfth Street Thirteenth Fourteenth Fifteenth Sixteenth Scioto Street Seventeenth West Tenth Street Eighteenth Missouri Street

Durbin to Attend Banquet for French Ambassador

Governor Durbin accepted an invitation from Chauncey Depew and James H. Hyde to join Jules Cambon at Sherry's New York on Nov 15. In court, James Troy and his wife faced fraud charges as she posed as a needy widow with three children. Troy sent to the workhouse.

Governor Durbin Chauncey M. Depew James H. Hyde Jules Cambon France United Stat Sherry’s Cafe New York Vernor Durbin James Troy Troy

Seaton the Hatter Sells Best Hats at Dunlaps

Pennsylvan ia short lines announce daily first class trains Indianapolis to Dayton with no car changes. Schedules show departures from Indianapolis at 8 10 a m arriving Pettes at 10 57 a m 3 05 p m to Dayton 5 57 p m and 7 15 p m to Dayton 10 10 p m. For tickets and information contact 48 West Washington Union and Hardson.

Pares Indianapolis Pettes BP Dps Ouve Dayton West Washingareet Union v. Hardson, Seien Pascctiane

$1.25 Cincinnati and Return Special Fast Train

Special fast train departs Cincinnati at 7:15 am and returns 6:20 pm on Sunday November 2 via C, H and D. The New York Limited on the Pennsylvania lines becomes an independent through train from St. Louis to New York with library, smoking, dining, sleeping and observation cars. An independent sleeping car runs from Indiana through to New York. Three fast trains daily to New York via the Pennsylvania short lines. W Richardson district passenger agent Indianapolis Ind.

New York Limited St. Louis Indianapolis Pittsburg Harrisburg Philadelphia New York Indiana Te Union Station de Mie P. Te Speral Ad W. Richardson Ind

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