The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-20
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Thirteen smugglers were captured on
San Juan island, near Port Townsend,
Wash. Sunday. by the revenue cutter Wal
colt.
Steamers arriving at New York from
81, $50, OOG gold, making the total received
from Europe to date Sl7.046.OOO.
The statue of Admiral Farragut by II.
I'll. Kitson, for the city of Boston. has been
completed at a cost of S22,5OO and is said
by critics to be a master piece In compost
ton and modelling.
In the will of the late Judge Edwin
Flint, of Mason City. Ia, among other lib
eral educational requests. is one for $50
600 to the State University of Vermont.
from which he graduated.
The American Public Health Association
Will begin its annual convention in Kansas
City to-day. The associations membership
includes physicians and scientists in all
parts of the North American continent.
George w. Wicks, capitalist and lumber
dealer, was found dead yesterday In his
room at the Pacific Union Club. San Fran
cisco He had shot himself through the
head with a revolver. The suicide is at
tributed to i'll health.
III. A. z. Carter, Hawaiian minister to the
United States. who Is lying ill IN New
York. was no better yesterday. He has q
complication of kidney, lung and heart
troubles combined with dropsy. There is
lltVl6 nope HIS IcCONtTt.
dispatch from Amesbury. Mass. says
there is no truth in the report that the poet
Whittier is seriously ILL., Judge Cate, with
whom Mr.. Whittier lives says that his
health is as good usual. Mr.. Whittier
called on several of his neighbOrs Saturday.
1t is said that the Sultan has signified to
Russia his disapprOval of the proposed
passage of a shiD-of-war carrying the Rus
sian Grand Duke George through the OAR
daneles and that the Porte Is preparing to
fortify the entrance to the Bosphorus from
the Black sea.
The two thousand foreigners whom the
coal operators threatened to bring TO Pitts
burg to take the places of the striking coal
miners. did not arrive yesterday. The
strikers are in better spirits, but are still
apprehensive that the operators will carry
out their threats.
VIM. Huyler and his wife. an aged couple.
were killed at the West Shore crossing,
Huyler was driving across the track. and
did not see an approaching train. which
struck his vehicle. smashed il to atoms and
killed its occupants.
The noted telescope makers. Alvah q.
and George Ii. Clarke of Cambridge Mass
are to dissolve partnership. This step is
taken for the sole reason that Mr.. George
b.. the senior member. is physically unable
to continue in active business. and desires
to be relieved of all res possibility.
Mr. Gustav stem. the musical critic OF
the New York Stats Zeitung, who was re-
Gently bitten by a spider. died yesterday
Death is said to be the result of pneumonia
and heart failure as the doctors say the
plood poisoning resulting from the spiders
bite had nothing TO do with Mr.. STEMS
death.
The United States revenue cutter Rich
ard Rush left San Francisco yesterday for
Cnalaska. The vessel is ordered back to
the sealing grounds. as il is reported {. num-
Der of sealers who. not satisfied with their
small catch. are.waitlng To make descent on
the rookeres when revenue vessels shall
have left Behring sea.
Col. Elliott +. Shepard. proprietor OF the
New York Mail and Express. announces
that Jonn A. Sleicher has assumed the
chief editorship of that paper, made va
can't by the death of the late Maj. j. NJ.
Bundy. M. Sleicher, who retires from the
editorship Of Frank Leslies Weekly 10 ac-
eept his new place. still retains his proprie-
tary interest In the latter publication.