The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-12
BREVITIES.

Among cattle received at the Montreal
abattoir from ranches in the Northwest
sixteen cases of lumpy jaw have been dis
covered.
Yesterdays ballot for United States sena-
tor in the Florida Legislature stood: Stock
ton 49,; ChiJpley' 81; Raney, 10; Hooker a;
Mrs. w. Gouldbrokaw, of New York,
niece of Frederic c.. Coudert, has brought
suit for divorce. Her husband is a wealthy
society and club man, prominent in yacht
ing circles.
Pouch, the murderer of the Harris family,
near, Waukesha, Wis, has not been cap
tured. A man arrested yesterday at
Franksville, Racine county, proved to be a
~well-know farmer.
The final decree of the Iowa Supreme
Court in the famous Modern Woodmen case
has been rendered in favor of locating the
headquarters of the order at Fulton, Ill.
That city is celebrating.
John Connors, of Springfield. ILL.,, has ac-
cepted the offer OF Jimmy Barry, the 105-
pound champion boxer, for an eight-round
contest at Tattersall's, Chicago, within the
next six weeks, the contestants to meet at
catch weights.
Mrs. David Oppenheim, of Vancouver, b.
c., who jumped from the Atlantic express
ranged, died yesterday. The remains will
be taken to Vancouver by her husband, a
former mayor of that city.
Two men were arrested at Chicago yes
terday who are supposed to be leaders of
{, gang who have been forging Cook county
warrants. Pending further developments
the prisoners are not allowed to be seen by
anyone, and their names are withheld.
The directors Of the national bank Of
Columbus, o., have authorized a statement
that the shortage of G. H. Damsel, late
general ~bookkeeper, was found to aggregate
about $4,000 and that the bank held good
collateral amounting to $50, 900 to secure it
against loss.
The Saco Me.) water power machine
shops, employing three hundred hands.
which have been practically shut down for
two months, will resume operations with a
full force of hands June 10. A large order
for cotton machinery has been received
from a Southern mill.
A number of experts in insanity and dis
ease of the brain are attending the annual
meeting of the American Medico-Physio-
logical Association at Baltimore, which be-
them are some of the prominent physicians
in every State in the Union.
The body of Anthony Konitskuski, swol-
len and disfigured, was fished from a thirty
%five-foot well in New Boston, Pa, yester-
day. The well is the main supply of six
hundred residents of New Boston and
KOnitSkuSki'S remains have in all proba-
biiity lain there at least two weeks.
abe grand jury of the criminal branch of
the United States Circuit Court at New
YORK yesterday indicted Captain Edward
liciously and without justifiable cause,
Withholding food from the crew of his
vessel on the voyage from Hong Kong to
New York.
Receiver John McNulta. of the Distilling
and Cattle Feeding Company, has sold the
Calumet distillery, of Chicago, as part of
the assets of the old whisky trust. The
price paid for the plant is $3.50, 900, for which
sum it was knocked down to Levy Mayer,
who represents, as attorney, the reorgani-
cation trust.
Workmen are putting in place in the mills
of the Rumford Falls CMe) Paper Company
the largest paper machine in the world. 1t
was made in Worcester. Mass, and will
produce paper $50 inches wide. This is tif-
teen inches wider than the best previous
American mark and two inches over the
worlds record.
The body of a woman found in the park
reserve in New York Monday. with a note
signed 'Titania' upon it, indicating that
the person was a suicide. has been identi-
fed as that of Ethel Marie Ries, of Brook
Ign. AT the house where the woman had
boarded little was known regarding her
antecedents, beyond the fact that she had
formerly lived in ST. Louis.
Two bills. each of them asking for a re-
ceiver for the California Transportation
Company, were flied in the Superior Court
at Chicago yesterday. The bills disclose
the fact that there is a quarrel between
the stockholders of the corporation, one
party accusing the other of mismanage-
ment. The company is engaged in the trans
portation of fruits and vegetables from
California to Chicago and other Eastern
markets.