The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-06
TELEGRHPHlC BREVITIES.

The South and West Grain and Trade
Congress, with over one hundred delegates
from the States in those sections present
convened at Kansas City, Mo, yesterday.
The Illinois House bill to enable trust
companies in Illinois cities of less than
100000 inhabitants to do business on a de-
post of $4,000 was passed By the Senate
.-tozday.-
The Florida Joint Assembly took two bal
lots for United States senator yesterday.
The first resulted: Call So Chipley 80:
Raney, p; scattering, 3. In the second Call
lost one vote.
William j. Bryan is gradually recovering
from the injuries he received at st. Angus
tine, Fla. The bruises were more serious
than at first thought and have been slow
in healing. He is at his home in Lincoln
Neb "
Henry B. Hutchins. dean of the law de-
partment of Michigan University, has ac-
cepted the presidency of the university. in
the absence of President Angel the newly
appointed minister. Dean Hutchns will re-
tain supervision of the law school.
Albert ]. Frantz, now at the Columbus (O.)
penitentiary. sentenced to death by cleo
tricity on May 81, has had an Indefinite re-
prieve granted by the Second Judicial Cir
cult Court, pending hearing on the part
OF the condemned mans attorneys.
At Pittsburg yesterday suit was entered
against the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany of New York to recover on the $3.50
policy issued to Charles Pfeiffer the
wealthy Iaundryman of Allegheny. Who met met
his death while hunting last November
In addition to his shortage of about $780,
600 II IS found that Clerk George Hobson
of Hamilton county, Ohio, is also guilty
of forgery. The examirers to-day discov-
cred the name of Robert West on his paw
roll at $500 per year. West left the office
The report of the expert accountant who
has been examining the books of the Surety
Building and Loan Association. of Philadei-
phia. shows a shortage of 500 600 instead IF
$4,000, as was at first supposed. The secre-
tary of the association. George c. Thomp-
son, has mysteriously disappeared.
a. G, Fontari, who went to Pittsburg
from New York six months ago and opened
an Italian savings bank on Penn avenue
has disappeared. The bank did a large
business =, the he deposits. it is claimed, ex-
for embezzlement have been sworn out for
his arrest.
James H, Aldrich, the ,defaulting ex-
cashier and paymaster of the Kansas CITY
Fort Scott & Memphis Railway and its
branches, appeared in the Criminal Court
at Kansas City yesterday, pleaded guilty
10 the charge of ENFORCEMENT and was
sentenced to two years in the penitentiary
Aldrich stole $4,000.
Jacob S. Johnson, colored, an ex-
preacher, was hanged at Somervile yes
terday. He died protesting his innocence.
The conviction was case of circumstan-
tial evidence, Johnson being charged with
numbering Annie Beekman, a woman who
had lived at his house and whose body was
found on Sept. II, 1895, bearing evidences
of strangulation.
private cable dispatch from Bonn Ger
many brings news of the birth of a son
to Frau Won Rottenburg, wife of DR.. Franz
Johannes Won Rottenberg, who is well
known as member of the Kaiser's official
family. Frau Won Rottenberg is the daugh-
ter of the. late VIM. Walter Phelps. She
first met her husband while her father was
United States minister at Berlin.
Dentist Joseph s. Goodmanson, of Ponca,
New, has been found guilty of murder in
the first degree and his punishment fixed
ut Imprisonment for life. Goodmanson was
charged with the murder of his wife by
administering poison last summer in his
office at Fender The body was exhumed
and post-mortem held. 1t resulted in
Goodmanson's arrest and conviction.