The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-13
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Smallpox is epidemic at Nebraska City,
Neb. Two hundred cases have developed
since the beginning of the outbreak.
At Chattanooga, Tenn, yesterday d. W.
Hughes filed a petition in bankruptcy giving
liabilities of 100000 and assets of $1,000.
James H. Southall. convicted for grand
larceny in the government time-check sWin-s
die, will probably be taken TO Saltwater.
Mimi to-day or tomorrow to begin his
teD-year term.
Ice extends from st. Clair cut down
through the Detroit river and for about for
ty miles out into Lake Erie in such depth
as to badly block the progress of and en-
danger vessels
Shooters island, in Newark BAY, for the
last len years leased to the Tidewater OIL
Company, Las been sold to a company OF
New York snip builders for a sum of money
said to be In excess of $4,000.
Only four persons lost their lives in Sum
day nights fire In the fat house in Pros
peet place, Brooklyn. They were: Joseph
Noblit. Mrs Joseph Nobit Mrs Stothorn
Mrs. Noblit's sister, and Thomas Wine
Cubans residing in Lima Peru are pre-
pairing to give enthusiastic reception to
the United States battle ships Oregon and
Iowa on their arrival in the Northern pas
sage along the coast en- route to join Adj
miral Dewey's squadron at Manila.
Ernest l.. Hospes, of Saltwater, Mimi, has
filed a petition in bankruptcy with the clerk
of the Federal District Court The total
debts given In the petition amount to $179,50O.
while the assets are nominal, amounting to
no more than 1915 claimed as exempt.
The directors Of the Nashua N. H.. Boot
and Shoe Manufacturing Company have
voted to make an assignment to S. F. Eaton.
The capital of the company Is $4,000, but
no statement has yet been made of the
assets and liabilities. The company is ten
Gears old.
NCaptain Corning and nine shipwrecked
seamen of the American bark Genda were
passengers on the British steamer Ornoco,
which, arrived al New York yesterday from
Bermuda The Glenda sailed from New
York on Nov. % for Buenos Ayres with
general cargo When two days out she en-
counteTed terrific hurricane, which CONF
PEELED her abandonment.
Frederick Won Hartman who was arrested
at Kalamazoo. Mich, on a charge of burg
larry saws he belongs to the German nobility.
his father being Baron Won Hartman, of
peror William a fool and was threatened
with arrest, and that he fled to America
year ago and held a position in Chicago until
he commenced a career of crime,
Ex-Mayor Frank Mcgowan and his wife
did not appear in the Criminal Court Mt
Cleveland yesterday when their case was
called upon the charge of child stealing. At
torney w. L. hackney, representing the
Magowans. read a telegram from Mrs. Ma
was too i'll to travel. and that Mcgowan
was unable to come owing to his wife's ill
ness.
Carl Mcbride and his wife were instantly
killed by an express train at Raccoon sta
ton Pa, on the Panhandle road. They
were driving In a sleigh from their home
near North Star. to BurgettstoWn I'D
were crossing the track when the II in
crashed into them. both being terribly
mangled and almost instantly killed. Nc
Bride and his wife had been married but a
few weeks.