The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24
TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTIES.

Ohio school children contributed $4,397.H Al
to the Lafayette monument fund.
The fire at Mechanicsburg, o.. which
threatened to burn the town early yesterday
morning, was eXtinguiShed with loss OF
S5,Co0.
John Rgo, a Chicagoan, was burned to
death in a boarding house at Loran, O..
Murder is suspected and three men are un-
der arrest.
Governor Bradley. of Kentucky, has final
ly refused to extend clemency in the case
of Bob Blanks, of Mayteld, sentenced to be
hanged on Feb .3 next.
The will of Mrs Harriet c. Doane of
Springfield Mass, was filed for probate yes
terday. Among other bequests, $1,000 is left
to the Dcane College at Crete, Neb.
The jury has returned a verdict of not
guilty in the case of w. f. Brehel, eX-aud1-
tor of the Pacific Express Company, of
Omaha, charged with embeZzlement
Senator George F. Hoar was yesterday
entertained by the bar association OF OF
Fort Sumter and a trip to the Isle of Palms
Riley Grammar was reinstated by the stew
ards of the New York Jockey Club at a
meeting held yesterday. Doc street, VINO
at st. Asap, in 1896, was also reinstated.
Private John Cheritte, Company X,
Fourth Wisconsin, is dead of typhoid fever
at Camp shipp, Admission, ala. The body
of the dead man is confined in the typhoid
ward
John Johnson, who was TO nave been
hanged at Danville, ILL.,, next Tuesday, was
granted another respite yesterday until Feb.
"a. A petition with two thousand signers
has been presented to the Governor asking
for life Imprisonment.
Robert Howard colored, has been SEN
fenced to death at Chicago for the murder
of Frank G. Metcalf on the night of Nov.
8. Metcalf was enticed into an alley and
murdered for his money. Howard was con-
V1cted as an accessory.
Treasury officials at New York state that
the offer of the government to discount pay
ment of the currency skies OF 1899 issue
have not been very extensively accepted. 1t
is understood there are $12, ,672, coo outstapd-
ing to be paid off after JAM / next.
A call has been extended by the Second
Presbyterian Church, of Columbus, o., to
Rev. Lucia Lucock, pastor of the Metro
politan Presbyterian Church at Washing
ton. DIR. Lucock was born in Ohio and has
been located in Washington since 1894.
DIR. John B. Hamilton, former surgeon
general of the Marine Hospital Service, who
underwent Il surgical operation several days
ago, is still in a critical condition at Elgin
Ill. Nicholas Sem, who is attending him, is,
however, hopeful, as present symptoms are
encouraging.
Sunny Slope farm, near Topeka, Kan,
famous as a breeding establishment for
Heresford cattle, was sold yesterday for
$40, COO, the purchaser being G. A. Stannard. !.
of Hope Kan. The sale was effected by the
executors of the estate of G. S. Cross who
recently committed suicide when the First
National Bank, of which he was president,
was closed as a result Of the heavy defalca-
ton of Cross
The Canadian customs authorities at Vic
toria, b. c.. have begun a war of extermi-
nation on the fleet of sloops and schooners,
the majority of which are American veS-
sells hailing from Puget Sound. which have
made considerable money and defrauded the
customs of considerable revenue by the sale
of their contraband goods to the Indians
and other settlers along British Columbia S
northern