The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-22
TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTIES.

The Mercer (Ga.) University ball team was
defeated by the Baltimores yesterday by
score of Is to a. -.tt
The steamship Lain. sailing from New
York for Europe to-day will take out
100000 ounces of silver.
Coal diggers in Mercer, Lawrence and
Butler counties, Pennsylvania, threaten a
strike to commence April l.
The Governor of Kentucky has sent State
militia tents to Middlesboro and Richmond
to be used as houses by smallpox patients
and suspects.
Grand Chief w, ". Powell. of the Order
of Railway Photographers, is in Little Rock,
Ark. making arrangements to locate there.
The headquarters of the organization will
be removed from Peoria ILL.,, to Little Rock.
The family of Joel G. Tyler, the former
teller of the Safety Fund Bank of Fitch
burg, Mass, who has been missing since
March II, has announced that it is now
known where Mr.. Tyler is, and that he has
suffered no harm.
President Charles De Garmo, of Swarth-
more College, has resigned TO accept chair
in the pedagogical department of Cornell
merly an instructor in mathematics at the
Richmond High School, was chosen to fill
the vacancy.
Judge James Goggin, of the Cook County
Su3erior Court, who has made himself ia
me is for his decisions that eriticise police
methods, is dangerously i'll at his home,
in Chicago. Judge Goggin is suffering FROM
enlargement of the liver, and the doctor
say he will not recover.
Truman B. Welsch, superintendent of the
Duluth (Minn.) Gas and Water Company.
and the Commercial Light and Power Com
pany, committed suicide last night by
shooting himself through the head with a
revolver. Welsch was thirty-five years old
and leaves a widow and two children.
Edward Barrett, Of South Norwalk, Conn,
has resigned the presidency of the United
Hatters of North America, an Office which
and finishers unions were amalgamated.
By the constitution Vice President John A.
Moffatt, of Orange, N. j., becomes presi-
dent.
Taft, of the United States Court, sentenced
ex-Casher T. B. Youtsey, of the First Ma
tional Bank of Newport, KY, to six years
in the penitentiary. Youtsey was found
guilty on Saturday on the indictment which
charged violation Of the United States
banking laws.
The ]. b. Smith Mailing Company of
Cleveland, o., founded in 1915, was placed
in the hands of a receiver yesterday on
complaint of the Union National Bank,
which holds notes against the company for
500, 00G. The bank charges mismanagement.
G. H. Taylor was made receiver
At Geneva O.. last evening James Nc
Stockard shot and probably fatally wounded
his wife's sister Mrs. Gaines - Turnkey;
to rum but was pulled down by two large
hounds owned by Mrs. Turnkey. He sue
ceeded in releasing himself, however. and
escaped.
Two prisoners at the Dedham CIass)
House of Correction. having sawed their
way out of their cell yesterday. overpow-
cred a guard, and after binding him. seized
his keys opened the safe. from which they
took about 81 500 in money belonging TO the
officials and prisoners and three revolvers,
and then escaped
Peter z. Smith, a Philadelphia Republican
politician. who was charged by Councilman
Stevenson with having attempted to bride
him to vote for the Schuylkill Water Com
panys bill, then pending, in Common Coun-
Gil, yesterday surrendered himself to Dis
trict Attorney Graham and entered $4,000
bail for a hearing on Wednesday.
United States Marshal Bennett arrived
in Wagner. /. T., yesterday in charge of
six prisoners charged with numbering a
negro named Chandler and white woman
with whom he was living Saturday night
The parties arrested for the crime are
prominent at Gibson Station. W. A. Lamon,
merchant; Ed Burls and G.. W. Gaines are
among the six.