The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

TELEGRAPHlC BREVIIlES.
The steamship St. Paul. sailing from New
York for Europe to-day, will take out
L 01l,000 ounces of silver
At the Presbyterian Hospital New York.
last night, it was stated that Mrs. Balling-
ton Booths condition was much improved.
Former Vice President Levi p. Morton
has accepted the presidency of the newly
formed Fifth-avenue Trust Company OF
New York.
A mass meeting of spiritualists began at
Cleveland yesterday with an attendance of
about three hundred from various parts of
the country.
Veins of gilsonite in sufficient size to war
rant development are reported to have
Park, Colorado.
The Daily Dry Goods Record, of New
York. prints q revised estimate of the cot
ton crop of 1S97-1S9S, placing the estimate
of the crop at 10,257 030 bales
P. d. Armour, the Chicago pork packer,
has notified his representative at Youngs-
town, o., to subscribe 800 to the Reuben
Mcmillan Free Library fund of that city.
James II. Sheffield, president of the New
York Fire Board. yesterday announced his
engagement to Miss Edith Tod. of Cleve-
land. No date for the marriage has yet
been set.
August Wadel was fatally injured at
Niles, Mich, yesterday in a quarrel with
John Steen. The latter pounded Wadels
head in a horrible manner with club.
Secretary Gage, of the Treasury Depart
ment, yesterday inspected the new revenue
cutter McCulloch, which is soon to leave
Baltimore for the Pacific coast by the way
of the Suez canal.
A national fishing congress will be held at
Tampa, Fla, on Jan. 19: Information CON
cernlng the congress VIII be optllneI ny
addressing Fl. Cunningham, secretary,
Board of Trade, Tampa
Rev Henry e. Cooke son of the once IA
nous financer, Jay Cooke, of Ogontz, Pa,
and rector of Grace Church, Manchester, N.
H., has received a cali to the rectorship of
Trinity Church San Francisco.
Oscar Young and Gus Anderson, Swedish
fishermen, hired sailbOat at Ashtabula,
o., last Wednesday for q trip on the lake.
They have not yet returned, and it is be-
lieved both have been drowned.
The White Star line steamer Teutonic,
which sails from Liverpool for New York
to-day will take among her passengers
Rupert Guinness the weli-known oarsman,
and John f. Redmond, the Parnellite leader.
Adlai E. Stevenson former Vice President
of the United States, has accepted the posi-
ton of Western counsel Of the North
American Trust Company of New York,
with membership in the board OF direc-
tors.
The Missouri Electric and Power Com
pany and the Edison Electrical company,
two of the largest concerns OF their Kind
in st. Louis, have been consolidated. The
new concern WILL it is stated, issue $4OO0,OOO
of gold-bearing bonds.
Leroy 4akl6y, OF syracuse, N. broke
the American amateur standing broad jump
record, without weights, in d Y. NJ. c. A.
contest last night He jumped ten feet ten
inches, beating the record. held by A. q.
Schwaner, of 10 feet 97s inches.
Theodore Burtoch and Ernestine Burtoch
were arrested at Clinton, Ia, last night
charged with the murder OF Charles Sell
hansen, the womans former husband, in
September. The body of Selhausen was ex-
humed and the autopsy disclosed poison.
President c. H. Ryrne. of the Brooklyn
Baseball Club, is still in critical condi-
ton at his home in Brooklyn, although he
sat up yesterday for the first time il three
weeks His recovery is not by any means
certain, the attending physicians announce.
Robbers broke into the house of aged
Mrs. Kimball, at Mitchellville. ten miles
east of Des Moines, Ia, Sunday night.
She is unconscious and will probably die
The doors and walls are covered with blood,
showing that terrible struggle took
place.
The Ship Owners Dry Dock Company CT
Cleveland has passed into the hands of the
Globe Ship Building Company. The ship
owners company is capitalized at $3.50 900
with shares at 800. The Globe has secured
$3.50 coo worth of the stock, paying $l25 per
share for it,
The Minnesota Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution, at its annual meeting
Monday evening, voted unanimously to ac-
ccept the plans of union with the Society OF
the conventions of the two national bodies at
Cincinnati last fall.
1t is announced at Winsted Conn.,, that
T. PierpOnt Morgan and Thomas A. Edison
have purchased important water privileges
on the Housatonic river at Falls Village,
and will erect a number of the new Edison
ore SeparatOrS. They control valuable ore
beds, a canal and other equipments.
1t was announced at New York yesterday
that the consolidation of the Equitable and
East River gas companies, which mas been
pending for many weeks, has finally been
accomplished. The terms agreed on were
those suggested by J. Pierpont Morgan who
is credited with having engineered the deal.
The American Window-glass Company,
controlling the window-glass trade of the
country, met in Pittsburg yesterday to com
plete the organization, elect officers and fix
a price list for next year. All the window
glass concerns in the combination are rep
resented. The meeting will last several
days.
Governor Adams. of Colorado, has refused
to honor the requisition of Governor Black,
of New York, in the case of William II.
Griffith of Leadville. Col, proprietor Of the
Herald-Democrat and Evening Chronicle of
that place, who was indicted by the New
York city grand jury on charge of lar
ceny.
The Pensacola pilot boat Summers N.
Smith, a suspected hlibusterer, was seized
at Mobile Ala yesterday. by the Treasury
Department through Special Treasury
Agent Browder. She was not allowed TO
leave the marine ways till the crew from
the cutter Seward, in charge of a lieuten-
ant, was placed on board.
The appellate division of the New York
Supreme Court in Brooklyn yesterday hand
ed down a decision affirming that of the
lower court in granting an injunction
against the mayor and Board of Aldermen OF
Brooklyn to prevent them from granting a
franchise to the East River & Atlantic
Ocean Railroad Company. The franchise
covered about forty miles of Brooklyn
streets
Itzig Iapko, who sailed under the name
of Max Iapko and who is wanted in Russia
for the embezzlement of 1900 roubles
($1 600, was arrested in New York yester-
day as he landed from the steamer Etrur-
ia, from Liverpool. Iapko showed a written
former employer, authorizing him to collect
installmentS sewing machines. He de-
MED having absconded with any of his col
lectiOns.