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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1902
Page
9
Births listed with multiple couples and addresses, noting infant gender. Obituaries include ages and causes such as tubercular peritonitis. Funeral notices mention dates, residences, and burial arrangements. Also references to monuments, cemetery services, and local business notices for engraving and inscription work.
A period directory lists elevators passenger and freight repairs firms Reed y Co phones 3170 funeral directors Frank Blanchard 9% N Delaware St Tel 411 florists Bertemann Broe New No 241 Masc Ave 229 N Del St Tel 40 patent lawyers Thompson R Bell consulting engineer and patent attorney 55 Ingalls block Indianapolis sale and livery stables Horace Wood Circle Tel 1007 stove repair Berle Foundry Co 710 week st new stove stevens wall paper 90 N Senate Ave two phones 3674 old 3152 sealed proposals depot Q M Dept Jeffersonville Ind Sept 19 1882 bid for 20000 gallons mineral oil due Oct 18 1902 envelopes marked Proposals for Mineral Oil addressed to J M Marshall Asst Q M General
Projectors report strong right of way progress and plan to haul coal into Indianapolis in autumn 1903. Engineering crews are funded at $200 per day, with Brown and Morgan County work and opposition from the Big Four Monon and Pennsylvania noted. Officials cite robust demand, secure financing, and ongoing road improvements including ties, ballast, bridges, and new steel rails. An Oct 1 coal rate increase of 10 cents is announced by Union Pacific representative W F Holly.
The report covers locomotives orders for Pennsylvania, status updates on executives including J. J. Turner and B. R. White, and expansion plans from Lake Shore Lehigh Valley lines. It notes projected coal movements from Clay county mines, Illinois Central earnings, Pacific and Rock Island dispatches, and new service testing, plus a critique of the per diem freight system and a Lake Erie and Western excursion tally.
Henry L Harding and Frank Tomlinson face a costly partition fence case in Marion County Superior Court, over a few rods of fencing between their Wayne township farms. The suit, begun after nine years of delays and a contested fence law, ends with Judge Leathers awarding $28 to Harding, Tomlinson appealing claiming unconstitutionality. Other suits include divorces for Vera Startz and Lorense Horstman, a $1,000 claim by Annie McHugh against New Telephone Co for a head injury, Catherine Dippel's will, Gottlieb Dippel as executor, and a $5,000 personal injury suit by Margaret Catshall against a streetcar.
The Superior and Circuit Courts list numerous cases including divorces, foreclosures, and civil suits. Dismissals, cost payments, and judgments are noted for many dockets across Rooms 1 2 and 3, with several new suit filings in progress.
Superior Court damages. Demand Court, Room 2. Present held by Hame his next friend, va. the ea C.crae on L. Railway Company, damages. Seman $5,000. Bu perior Court, Room 3. Harry Hoop vs. C., C., C. & St. L. Railroad Company, damages. Demand 33,000. SUPREME COURT. Minute. 198%. The Union National Bank of Muncie vs. Franklin School Township, of Hendricks county. Hendricks C. C. Appellee's brief. APPELLATE COURT. New Cases. The German Bank of Evansville vs. Thomas P. Rose et al. Vanderburg S. C. Record. Joinder. Appellant's brief. Appellees' brief. The Long & Allstratter Co. vs. Edward Barnes et al. Boone C. C. Record. Assignment of errors. Minutes. Flora George et al. vs. Dennis Hurst. Sullivan C. C. Bond. Notice. Vigo county. Federal Oil Company vs. Robert W. Bradford. Grant S. C. Appellee's appearance. William T. Beahler vs. Barney Clark. Jasper C. C. Appellant's brief.
A prisoner confession obtained after an officer urged truth with the phrase you have been telling me a pack of lies is deemed involuntary and inadmissible. Court warns sweat-box methods and exhortations to confess are improper and can vitiate evidence. Other topics include marriage duties attorney client agreements and ship owners rights.
Delegates from the Photo-Engravers Union clash over representation at the Central Labor Union meeting in Evansville. The typographical union argues photo-engravers lack AFL recognition, while discussions also address a firemen pay ordinance and anti injunction actions. About forty Indianapolis and neighboring city delegates travel to the State Federation of Labor, backing William Ewald for secretary and signaling Edgar A. Perkins’s likely re election as president.
The Electrical Workers' Union voted to retain its business agent, a decision not driven by revenue concerns but by belief that a business agent is not currently needed, despite some members opposing the role.
Local wholesale notes a tendency to higher fruit and vegetable prices with heavy grain markets. Hog products and flour stay firm. produce demand remains active. Receipts reach multiweek highs. wagon market shows unsteady prices. Scaffolding collapse at Hope Company cotton mill injures nine workers, two possibly fatally.
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