The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-30
TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTIES.

1t is reported that Frank G. Newlands
will be candidate for United states SEN
ator to succeed William Stewart, of Ne
Vada.
The opening session of the annual meet
ing Of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers took place at New York last
night.
The bodies of Russell Haskn and Ernest
Raymond of Plymouth, Mass, who went
hunting last Saturday. have been found.
They were lost in a storm and persisted
Subscriptions to the fund for the benefit
of the widow Of Col. j. +. Warning, jr., for
merly chief of the STRENGTHENING depart
ment of New York city. amounts to $52,3ZS
Ex-Mayor f. A. Mcgowan and his wife,
Mrs. Barnes Mcgowan are now at Cleve-
land awaiting trial Tor kidnapping Edith
Barnes. They were eXtradited from Erie, Pa.
Edward Mcleod, aged eghty-tive, died at
Decatur yesterday. He was one of the old
est residents of Adams county. He passed
away at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
James N Fristae
GoVernor-elect Stanley, of Kansas, and
Charles G.. Cohn, president of the wichita
the exhibit of maize and its cooked products
at the Paris exposition. The State will be
asked for an appropriation.
Thomas Wilson. cashier of the First Ma
appear before the United States Clrcult
Court for contempt for refusing to answer
a question put to him by ,orney General
Monnett in a banlI-,aX hearing.
George Jenkins, who prior to March last
was a builder in New York city, yesterday
filed a voluntary petition In DankrupIcy, IN
which he places his liabilities at $7l039S. OF
this sum $645, 422 is secured and $6l976 unse-
cured. The petitioners assets amount 70
$685. $50.
The body of Mabel Davidson, the famous
skater who died in st. Paul few days
ago from consumption, resulting from
heavy cold contracted while. on profess
sional tour of England, has been crenated
and the ashes will be placed in the grave
with her mother.
Tax Collector Samuel L. Findley. of San
Luis Obispo county, California, is de-
amount of his elnbezzlement is not definite
" known. A hasty examination of the rec
ords by the county clerk indicates that he
NAV have taken as much as $4,000.
The New York sinking fund commission
opened bids yesterday for 81 .22500O thirty
year 3iA per cent: bonds and 100000 ten
YEAR 80 per cent. bonds of the city of New
York principal and interest payable in
gold The bonds ranged from 1O6,25 to 1881.
The issue was subscribed fifteen times over.
Lieut.. A. P. Haine, an instructor in the
agricultural department of the University
of California, now stationed with one of the
California regiments at Manila. has been
detailed to conduct an investigation into the
agricultural resources of the Philippines and
TO make a report of the results at Wash
ington.
When Colonel w A. Stone was elected
Governor of Pennsylvania at the recent eiec-
ton he resigned his seat as representative
OF the Twenty-third district in Congress-
Yesterday W. n. Graham, who had been
elected to succeed Colonel Stone, was with
out opposition elected to fill in the unex-
pired term.
The muster roll of Roosevelt's Rough
Riders Association has been formally
opened in Prescott A. r., and has met with
a response from every member present, as
well as the receipt Of numerous kilograms
from every place. Col. A. o. Brodie is the
president and Lieut.. j. ID. Carter secretary
of the organization.
The jury i'm the case of Walter Rosser,
the Tennessee soldier. who at San Francisco
on Sept 13 shot and killed a civilian, Henry
Hildebrand while under the influence Of
liquor, which had been dfugged. was IN
able to agree, six jurymen being for convie-
ton i'm the second degree and the other six
faVoring absolute acquittal The young
man viii have his second trial next week.