The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-07
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITlES.


The board of review of the National Trot-
ting Association is. in session at New York.
The sixteenth annual council of the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations IS IN
session at Richmond, Va.
The controller of the currency has levied
an assessment of 100 per cent. on the stock
of tho recently failed First National Bank
of Emporia, Kan.
Another body, supposed to be that Of
Judge Carter, the Western racing Judge,
was found in the ruins of the Baldwin Hotel
at San Francisco yesterday.
The strike on the Dallas CTex.) Console
dated Street-railway has been amicably set
tied and officially declared off. The men are
TO be taken back to work and their union
fully recognized.
General Beacon, who is temporarily in
command of the troops at Santiago, tele~
graphed the adJutant general to-day that
Private Robert Williams, Company II, Third
United States Volunteers died yesterday OF
yellow fever.
Frank Brush murdered his wife at Fort
Madison, Ia, yesterday. and then committed
suicide. They had lived unhappily for Sev-
eral years and had just left lawyers Of
flee after preparing separation papers when
the tragedy occurred. They leave one child.
The Rev. DR.. John Henry Barrows, for
mer pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, Chicago. has accepted the presi-
dency of the Oberlin University, filling the
vacancy caused by the resignation of the
Rev, DR.. w. q. Banantyne seVeral months
ago.
1t is stated that the tin-plate trust will
buy outright for cash the Crescent and the
Britton tin-plate mills of Cleveland, and that
the present owners of these plants VIII re-
tire from the business. The trust viii, It -
understood. take charge of the two mills
named on Jan. !.
AT a meeting of the Grand Lodge of Vir-
ginia dasons at Richmond last night the
celebration of the Washington centennial
was taken up. 1t occurs on Dec. IA, 1899. lt
was decided to extend an invitation to be
present to the Prince of Wales, grand mas
ter of Masons of England.
At a meeting of the Seawanhaka-Cor-
nthian Yacht Club at New York last night
the challenge recently issued by the racing
committee for q match with the Royal St.
Lawrence Yacht Club, of Montreal, was
unanimously ratified. The date OF the con-
test will be arranged later.
Superintendent of Buildings Brady yes
terday pronounced the steel frame work OF
the Home Life Insurance building at New
York intact The Rogers, Peet g. Co build-
ing has been torn down. Broadway was re-
opened yesterday Insurance men now
place the total fire loss at 100000.
Malcolm Lee Mcbride, of Cleveland, o.
was last night unanimously elected captain
of the Yale football eleven TO succeed Capt.
Chamberlain. Mcbride has for two years
played fullback on the Yale eleven, ana tM
his freshman year played tackle on his class
eleven He is twenty years old and mem-
ber of the class of 1900.
Max A. Lasar, diamond dealer, who was
tried fortnight ago on the charge Of Snug-
Cling diamonds, has settled with the governs
ment by payment of $3S0O0 through tho
united states ulstIlcL attorney a. 1tSW
York. The indictments pending against
Lasar and his brother, Edmond A. Lasars
and the brothers wife. will be dismissed
The Ohio Supreme Court yesterday handed
down its decision in the contempt case
brought by the attorney general against the
officials of the Standard Oil Company for
refusing to produce their books at the re-
cent investigation of the alleged violation
of the orders of the Supreme Court by the
trust. The court orders books produced, but
says nothing about the contempt features-
v. X, & A. II. Jones. boot and shos
manufacturers, of Boston and Lynn, Mass.s
have made an assignment to j. #. Spinner.
The firm is one Of the Oldest shoe houses in
Lynn and manufactured goods for the
Southern and New England trade. The
cause of the failure is said to be inability
to collect outstanding accounts and a gen.
eral dullness in trade The liabilities are
about Sl30,000 with assets unknown