The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-26
TELEGRAPHlC BREVITIES.

William Cato, who killed Charles ,Askew
on Sept Is. 1897, was hanged at EddyVille,
KY. yesterday.
The North Chicago Bowling League has
decided not to accept the proposition of the
Greater New York bowling team for series
Of games in Chicago.
The United States naval recruiting station
at Chicago has received orders from WASH
ington TO enlist sixty apprentice boys,
twenty landsmen and fifteen seamen at once.
The Sixth Illinois Infantry, volunteers.
the only Illinois troops, with the exception
of the Third to serve i'm Porto Rico were
paid yesterday and mustered out of service.
Former Grain Inspector Dwight w. AM
drews and former Chief Cashier y, f. Jenk-
ms, of the State Railroad and Warehouse
Commission. have been acquitted at Chicago
of the charge of embeZzlement of state
funds.
The firm of Colburn, Fuller & Co., boot
and shoe manufacturers, of Boston and Dor
ry, n. H., one of the oldest and most prom
inent shoe firms in New England, made a
voluntary assignment yesterday. The liza
bilities are estimated at 100000, largely in
notes.
Governor Hastings has announced the APP
pointment of Henry j. Mccarthy, Democrat,
of Philadelphia, to succeed James Gay Cor
don, Judge OF the Common Pleas Court or
Philadelphia, whose resignation on WedneS-
day created sensation throug,ss%ut Penn
sylvania.
The torpedo boat Davis, constructed at
the Wolff q Swicker Iron Company, Port
land Ore, has been given her official trial
trip on the Columbia river She made an
average speed of twenty-three and one-half
knots per hour, full knot in excess of the
requirements.
George H. Studwell, formerly Of the firm
of Studwell & Sanger, leather merchants in
New York, was arrested in Elizabeth, N.
j., yesterday on a charge of converting to
his own use $4,000 which he held in trust
for his sister-in-law, Harriet Studwell, and
annie Atwater, her daughter.
John B. Shaw was hanged at Cleburne,
Tex. YESTERDAY for killing Thomas (Tai16
a year ago. Shaw, who claimed to be an in
fidel, had refused all along to have any talk
with or visits from preachers, but at the
last moment he relented and permitted q
preacher to be with him on the scaffold
A jury in the United States District Court
at Kansas City, Mo-, which has been trying
ID. v. Rieger, ex-president, and Robert u.
Covington ex-caShier of the failed Missouri
National Bank, on indictments charging en-
bezzlement and transportation OF that In
Stitut1onS FUNDS, yesterday disagreed and
was discharged.
The Standard Distillery Company of Gin
cinnau, which is not in the trust has sued
the newly-organized Whisky Trust to en-
join the latter from the use of the name
standard" The plaintiff alleges the use OF
that name for fourteen years, and that its
adoption by the trust is injuring the BUSH
ness Of the ole firm
Harry ]. Myers was found dead in his
room at Chicago yesterday. The gas jet
had been removed and death was caused by
the escaping fumes Mr. Myers was form
erly connected with thedters in Cleveland
and Cincinnati. He left a note asking that
Miss Laura Thomas, of SummitVille, Ia, be
notified of his death.
San Francisco highbinders show contempt
for the proclamation of the Chinese consul
general bidding them desist In the MUIR
derous feud The cOnsuls proclamation has
been torn from the bulletin board in front
of the consulate. and in its place a placard
referring to the consul In uncomplimentary
terms, was posted, but quickly removed by
the attaches of the consulate.
The statement of the San Francisco police
that Amadeo Horace. the alleged confidence
operator, has been identified as DR.. J. NJ.
Weigand, a Chicago dentist, is an error.
The police discovered among Horac e's ef-
fects some linen marked with DR.. Wiegand' 8
name but the latter is in Chicago. How
Horace managed to get possession Of the
clothing DR.. Weigand does not know.