The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-09
T%ELEGRAPHIC BREVlTIES.

The annual convention Of the American
Ethical Union is in session at Milwaukee.
The American Tobacco Company has
voted to sell it's plug tobacco business to
the Continental Tobacco Company.
Don Rafael Iglesias, president Of Costa
Rtca, and his party, visited West Point yes
terday and inspected the battalion of cadets.
The Nebraska Supreme Court has granted
a rehearing in the Broatch-Moore Omaha
mayoralty contest. The former decision was
adverse to Mayor Moore.
The North German Lloyd steamer Saale,
from Bremen and Southampton, brought
100000 francs in gold, consigned to the No
tional City Bank, New York.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
says: The Missouri Pacific Railroad Com
pany, it is announced, has paid it's floating
debt of 81 GOO to Russell Sage"
The stamer Hartford, of the Hartford and
New York Transportation Company, was
sold yesterday to the United States govern
ment. The steamer was built in 1892 and is a
fast double-screw iron boat.
The stockholders OF the Boston National
Bank have voted to liquidate. The bank was
organized in 1858 and has never passed a
dividend. It's affairs are so clean that the
to reimburse its stockholders.
Lieut.. William L. Murphy, Of the Twenty
fourth United States Infantry, and Miss
Pauline Whiting Lowe, of Omaha, were
married yesterday and later left Omaha for
Fort Douglass. The bride is the daughter
of the late Gen. William c.. Lowe.
The Supreme Court Of Illinois has denied
a motion for a rehearing in the case Of
Gundling VS.. Chicago. The ruling s~ustains
the validity of the Chicago cigarette ordi-
nance. Grundling was convicted of selling
cigarettes without paying $500 annual Ii
cense.
Governor Bushnell, of Ohio, has refused to
honor Governor Tanners requisition for
Madame Winlake, who is in the Toledo Jail,
charged with getting $4,000 worth of silks
and fine millinery from Edison, Keith G. Co.,
Gage Bros. and other Chicago firms under
false pretenSeS.
Cornells newly-elected football captain,
Dan A. Reed, resigned from the position yes
terday. Ii is probable he will not return to
the university next fall. His successor will
soon be chosen by the team, and E. r..
Sweetland, right tackle, is spoken of as the
most likely candidate.
Judge Ball, of the Superior Court, Chi
ceiVer for the Canadian-American Loan
and Building Association, with authority
to wind UP the affairs of the organization.
The association has been involved i'll litl-
cation for about a year.
The Baltimore e. Northern Electric Rail-
way Company, backed by a syndicate of
New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore
capitalists, yesterday purchased the Balti-
Twelve million six hundred thousand dollars
are involved in the transaction.
William A. L. Burden, class of 1900. who
has played left guard on this years eleven,
has been elected captain of the Har-
He is twenty-one years old. weighs $50
pounds, and is six feet one inch in height.
He is a son of I. T. Burden, of New York.
A letter from Honolulu to ex-Attorney
General L. =. Dawes, of Kansas, announces
the death of his SON., Private Raymond
Dawes. of Company g, Twentieth Kansas
Volunteers, of typhoid fever, in Honolulu
hospital Nov. q. Dawes had received a
discharge and was expected home for
Christmas.