The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
BREVITIES.

The University of Wisconsin nine de-
feated the University of Michigan club Is
to 8 on the formers grounds yesterday.
Mrs, Della Stewart Parnell, mother of the
late Irish leader, and who is now in Ire
land, will sail for America next month.
George Schweickard, jr., of Milwaukee,
doing business under the name of the Cas-
Italia bottling works, made an assignment
yesterday to Paul G.. Biersach. Assets, $44,-
S17; liabilities, SAT, 119.
The committee in charge of the New York
Memorial day exercises yesterday received
cepting the invitation to go to New York
and take part in the ceremonies.
TIL Diamond Match Company has sold its
Liverpool plant. The sale was formally
closed in London yesterday, when the Dia-
mond Match Company, limited, was regis
tered under the laws of Great Britain,
Thomas H. Stout, who, while in the en-
ploy of Kenneth, Hopkins & Co. brokers,
of New York and Chicago, forged drafts
to the amount of SIG, 900, was yesterday SEN
fenced at New York to three years impris-
onment.
At Wilkesbarre Pa. yesterday the sealed
verdict of the jury in the case of ex-
Banker F. V. Rockafellow, who was charged
with embezZlement. was opened in court.
The jury found the defendant guilty, with
a recommendation to mercy.
Homer and Walter Fowler, ex-president
and vice president of the northwestern Ma
tional Bank of West Superior, Wis, were
arrested yesterday on a charge of misap-
plfcation of funds by overloaning to the
Russell & Miller Milling Company.
AT Redfield. S. d, yesterday, Frank Barr,
his two sons and a brother Chris Barr,
prosperous German farmers, were asphyx-
lated in Il well on their farm. Frank Barr
was overcome by gas while at work i'm the
we'll. The others descended one at a time
in an attempt to rescue him and all met the
same fate.
Captain Dunn, of the Canadian cruiser
Petrol, on Saturday between Dondeau and
Port Stanley, gave chase to three United
States vessels found fishing in Canadian
waters. The vessels succeeded in escaping,
but the captain of the Petrol seized seven
ty-seven nets and about two tons of fish
the Americans We're obliged to abandon.
A petition is now being circulated and
signed by New York bankers and business
men urging President Mckinley to dc all
in his power to effect a speedy settlement
of the Cuban insurrection. 1t is said that
the petition will be extended to every town
and city in the United States where bust
Chief Justice Bingham in the Criminal
Court at Washington yesterday denied the
application for a warrant of removal in the
case of MeSSrS. e. T. Gilman, of O. H.
Lumbar and G. II. Coons, officers of the
National Capital Life Insurance Company.
indicted at Chicago for alleged fraud. and
dismissed the case. He held that the in
dictment was fatally defective in failing to
substantially charge any crime.
1t is announced that the consolidation of
the Baltimore Traction and the City Sub
urban Street-railway Companies is practi-
cally settled. The agreement provides for
the issuance of 100000 of stock by the
consolidated companies, which will be eX-
changed for the outstanding stocks of the
Baltimore Traction Company and the City
and Suburban Railway Company. The par
value of the new stock Will be $50 a share.