The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
Benton McMillin was inaugurated as Go

Benton McMillin was inaugurated as Gov
.ernor of Tennessee yesterday.
In the pool tournament at Chicago last
night Eby defeated Horgan by a score of
125 to ll5 But one game was played.
A. F. Copeland, of New York, the prorni-
nent Manhattan Athletic Club athlete, has
been engaged as trainer of the Yale track
team.
Santiago Murphy was arrested at New
Orleans last night. He is charged with hav-
ing obtained $4,000 from the Mexican Ma
tional Bank on forged securities and drafts
in April last.
The conservation of the Rev Samuel Cook
Edsall, d. D., as missionary bishop of North
Dakota, will take place Wednesday, Jan. Is,
at St. Peters Church, Chicago, of which DR..
Edsall has been rector for considerable
time.
Frank Wallach. salesman, has filed a pc
tition in bankruptcy at New York, with Ii
abilities of S59, ,256 and assets of $35 in cash.
All but $25 600 of the liabilities was as a part
ner in the firm of Daters & Co., at Chey-
enne. Wyo.
The Ohio centennial commissions special
committee started from Columbus for
Washington yesterday, accompanied by
about eighty prominent Ohio citizens, to
urge Congress to make an appropriation for
the centennial.
uty state superintendent of public instruc-
tion, has been appointed director of the de-
partment of EDUCATION ana SOCIAL economy
for the United States at the Paris eXposl-
tiOn in 1900.
Joe Bates, a farmer. living near the
Washita river, in Arkansas, started to
church with his family in a wagon. In at
tempting to ford the river the wagon was
swept away and his wife, child and a young
woman were drowned.
At a meeting of the Church Congress of
the United States at New York Rev Dr.
Cornelius B. Smith, of New York was elect
ed to take the place of corresponding sec
retary lately made vacant by the death of
the Rev. Dr. John w. Kramer.
mt of
the noted border outlaw, under indictment
at Kansas City, Mo, for completely in the
robbery of a Missouri Pacific train at Leeds,
Mo. in September last, has been postponed
at the request of the prosecution till Feb.
16 next.
On last Friday Prof. W. T. Sedgwick,, Of
the Boston Institute of Technology delV-
cred an address IN which he was said 10
have cast reflections upon the moral char
acter of the students of the University or
Virginia. Professor Sedgwick denies nav
ing slandered the students.
w. c. Gates. a Yukon miner who is in
Ottawa on business with the Canadian gov
ernment, says that Commissioner Ogilvie
has made a recommendation to the Cana
dian government that the 10 per cent. royal
ty now collected on the gold output of the
Yukon be reduced to 212 per cent.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has
affirmed the decision of the Court of Oyer
and Terminer of Allegheny county in the
case of William Hillman, who was con-
victed in October last of numbering Bertha
Spiegel q hfteen-year-old girl, in Pitts
burs. Hillman had been sentenced to death.
Detective ]. s. Billings, of the Pinkerton
Agency, has recognized James Gilmore,
John Allen and Harry Howard as the three
men who robbed the Great Northern train
in Minnesota last November. They are held
at St. Joseph, Mo-, on the charge of rob-
bing James c. Davis, lawyer, last No
vembcf.
1t is announced that the board of trustees
of Cornell University will appoint 7. f.
Crane present dean of the faculty of arts
and science. to perform the duties of Presi-
dent j. G.. Schurman during the latters alb
scence in the Philippine islands. President
Schurmans leave of absence will extend to
JAM l, 1900.
All doubt as to the identity and manner
of death of Herman T.. Black, clerk to
army Paymaster Bulls, who was found
dead at Savannah Ga, last Saturday, was
removed yesterday by the discovery of proof
that Black was Charles II. Johnson of
Waltham, Mass, and that he committed sui
eide with cyanide of potassium.
A resolution has been introduced in the
North Carolina Legislature protesting
against the seating of Congressman-elect
B. II. Roberts, of Utah. The resolution
calls on the senators and representatives
in Congress from North Carolina not only
to oppose the seating of Mr.. Roberts, but
10 pass law covering all such cases in the
future.