The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-23
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

John A. severns, superintendent Of the p.
NJ Ferry Seed Company, Detroit, COM
mitted suicide yesterday.
Losses on the lakes during the season OF
1873 were much greater than during any
previous seasons. general IGd o6 average places
the aggregate loss at $26cO,OO0
w. S. Allen, one of the largest furniture
dealers in Los Angeles, Cal. has made an as
signment to j, J. Fay. president of the Cit
00e
The condition of DR. Horatio Stebbins. OF
San Francisco. who suffered a severe att
tack or heart failure several days ago, is so
greatly improved that his friends do not fear
fatal result.
Charles Christian Beury. wealthy coal
operator of Charleston, W. Va, and Miss
Bessie Kate, the oldest daughter of Governor
Atkinson, were married last night at the
executive mansion.
Alexander w. NUT, a. resident of Phila-
delphfa, who went to Los Angeles. Cal, on
a pleasure visit committed suicide there
Wednesday by shooting himself. He was
about sixty-fye years old.
Captain Murtaugh. of the Cornell varsity
baseball team, announces that he has en-
ployed Hugh Jennings, short stop of the
Baltimore National League team, to coach
the college players this season.
Frederick Won Hartmann, aged twenty
seven. son of Baron Won Hartmann. OF
Cologne, Germany, has been sentenced to
flve years in state prison by Judge Buck,
of Kalamazoo county, Michigan, for burg
larry.
The Cincinnati Consumers Brewing Com
pany assigned yesterday to Walter T..
Granger. The company was organized a
year ago and was operating the old Banner
$4,000.
DR.. Howard Agnew Johnson, formerly of
iowa ana now pastor of the Fcrty-first-
street Presbyterian Church, of Chicago has
been formally called to the pastorate of the
Madison-avenue Presbyterian Church in
New York.
Frank Erne, of Buffalo and Dial Hawkins.
Of San Francisco, have been matched to
iight twenty-five rounds at the lightweight
limit, 133 pounds, before the club Offering
the best inducements and also for a side
bet of $2.OOO.
Speaker Thomas B. Reed was a guest at
q private dinner last night to Clement A.
Navigation Company, by William l.. Elkins
the street-car magnate, at his home in
Philadelphia.
Radford, Va, reports the return to that
place of posse of revenue officers from a
raid on moonshiners on the North Carolina
BORDER be Seven stills were cut up, thousands
OF gallons of whisky destroyed and three
moonshiners captured.
DR.. e. Y. Baker, an old resident of Kan
sas City, has committed suicide at the st.
Charles Hotel in that city. Dr., Baker had
relatives in Ohio. He had been dissipating
and was temporarily insane
Seventeen of the brewing companies OF
Baltimore have consolidated under the name
of the Maryland Brewing Company and
negotiations are pending for the absorption
Of the remaining four: The consolidation
Will go into effect next month.
The jury in the case of w. S. levitt, form
erly president Of the Lake National Bank,
of Wolfboro, n. H., charged with the en-
bezzlement of $25 900. said to have been COM
mitted while settling the affairs of the bank,
DaS brought in verdict of guilty.
Contracts have been signed for the con-
solidation on Jan. of the Syracuse IN. W
Standard and the Syracuse Post James J.
Baldwin will be president and Francis Hem
bricks vice president of the company The
paper will be called the Post-Standard
Fred Smith, of Victoria, b. c., just re-
turned from Alaska, brings news of two
more rich collaborating creeks discovered
rear Allen. The new find has been chris
tened Moose and Goose creeks. He had
both hands frozen and nearly lost his life
on the way out.
John F. Miller Post G.. A. r.. of Seattle,
Wash, has unanimously ordered that tel
egram be sent to President Mckinley con-
graduating him his loyal reception in
the South, and indorsing his acts and
speeches especially in reference to the care
of the Confederate dead.
The Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer
Blake left Baltimore yesterday for Porto
ginning of work by this government in the
new possessions, this being the first expedi-
ton sent to any OF these Islands Tor the
purpose or making surveys.
DR.. John B. Hamilton, the former SUPER
vsing surgeon general of the United States
Marine Hospital Service, who is i'll of peri
holding his own. Physicians say that If he
lives few days. longer he will have q
chance of recovering He is cheerful and
does not give up.
Private Turner. of the Sixth Virginia
Regiment, was shot and almost instantly
killed by o. A. Thrower, a street-car con-
very drunk, boarded Thrower's car and
used vile language in the presence of ladies.
He was threatening to cut Thrower, when
the latter shot him.
lack Schmidt hunter and proSpactor.
who started from Skaguay, Alaska, on Nov.
q for Juneau, in a fishing boat, was wrecked
managed to exist on raw birds and the flesh
of land otter which he shot. He was res
cued when half dead by the little steamer
Olympia, and has been restored to health.
A call was issued yesterday by Bishop
Alexander Walters, president of the National
Afro-Amercan Council, for a convention OF
council at Washington on Dec. %. All or
ganizations having for their object the
amelioration of the condition of the Afro
American race are invited TO send delegates.
Latest reports from Dawson City, Col,
the new mining camp in the Green Horn
mountains near Canon City, indicate that's
the rich gold ore found in the Copper King
claim by the Dawson brothers came from
a small pocket. Experts are of the opinion
that a copper mine may be opened on the
claim, but do not expect that gold bonanza
will be found there.
William G.. Spaulding, cashier Of the
German-American Bank. at Port Clinton,
and Mrs. Martina r.. Jameson, OF Toieuo,
have been arrested on the charge OF caus-
ing the death of Miss Amy Meeker by per-
forming a criminal operation upon her. 1t
is said that Spaulding has made a confess
sion. The dead woman was a daughter or
Captain Meeker, a well-known farmer or
Ottawa county.
Prof. Frederick Starr. head of the am
thropological department of the University
of Chicago, has left for trip among the
semi-civiZed tribes of Mexico. He will
spend nearly four months studying these
people, and expects to return with photo
graphs and plaster casts that will represent
races never before studied. The expedition
will take Professor Starr among the Mixes,
tribe that thirty years ago were cannt-
balls.
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