The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-15
T%ELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES
NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS RUN
THROUGH THE CONDENSER.
Murders, Suicides, Items of Interest
to- Business Men and Brief Re-
ports OF Conventions.

The Southern Association of Hosiery
Manufacturers was organized in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, yesterday.
The Postoffice Department has authorized
the trial Of an mail collection
service in certain sections Of Cleveland.
Mary Burgess, wife of Neil Burgess, the
actor, has filed a petition in bankruptcy at
New York. Liabilities, s93,57S; no assets.
In a swimming tournament at San Fran
cisco II. w. Widemann made a new worlds
record, making the twenty-five-yard dash
in IL 25 seconds.
The Ohio Association of Furniture Man.
ufacturers has decided to advance all lines
of case furniture 10 per cent. on account OF
rising prices of materials.
The DUBUQUE Athletic Association has
signed Joe Choynski and Joe Walcott for a
twenty-round fight during the first week In
January for a purse of $500
Chicago's third jockey club has been or
ganized. and the mile track at Worth. Ill.
was purchased yesterday. The syndicate
will spend 100000 on the property.
The manufacturers of w~odenware. in ses-
sion at Cleveland, have decided to increase
prices, the exact extent to be determined
later. The reason they give is the increase
in wages.
Sidney Kingdom was thrown out of a
wagon near Ell Paso, ILL.,, breaking the
stock of the gun he was carrying. and
discharging both loads into his side. He
died instantly.
1t is announced that NJ. B. Chapman. vice
president and general manager of the Vir-
ginia Coal. Coke and Iron Company and
the Virginia e. Southwestern Railroad. will
| resign on Jan. l.
Two men were killed and three badly
injured by an explosion in a shaft of the
Mt. Carmel Coal Company's mine at From
| tenac. Kan. A sixth man of the party es-
capped with bruises.
Rev. DR.. John Reid, of Detroit, has &C
cepted a call to the Brooklyn Memorial
Presbyterian Church at a salary of $500
per year. He has had the offer under con-
sideration for some time.
Delegates representing two thousand
miners in the Massillon district of Ohio
yesterday reported they had been INSTRUCT
ed to stand for an increase OF 10 cents in
the price of mining this year.
Louis A. Goldsmith, the ~defaulting as
sistant cashier of the National Bank of
Port Jervis, N. Y, has disappeared. Gold
smiths defalcations were discovered Nov.
IA and will aggregate over S5,WO.
By the terms of a deed filed in the office
of the register of Hudson county, New
YORK, yesterday. the Standard OIL Com
| pany has practically absorbed the National
Storage Company, of New Jersey
The Union Reform party has decided not
to hold a national convention next year
to name candidates for President and Vice
President, but will select It's candidates by
a direct mail vote of party members.
Louis Gondrain, manipulation Of "get-rich-
quick" schemes, was sentenced to the New
York penitentiary for a year for conduct
| ing a banking business not under the SUI
pervision of the state superintendent OF
banks.
An anti-imperialist mass meeting of the
| American League of Philadelphia was held
in that city last night. Prominent among
| the speakers were Representatives John j.
| Lentz. of Ohio, and Charles A. Towne, OF
Minnesota.
Revised returns show that Thomas N.
| Hart, the Republican candidate for mayor
of Boston. was elected by a plurality Of
2,Os4, his total vote being 4O.67S, while that
of the Democratic nominee, Gen. p. A. Col
Inns, was 1854.
Grand Secretary of Elks Reynolds and
| Chairman of the Board of Trustees Fan
! posed national home for aged and INDECENT
rIlks at Hillsboro, o. Both approve OF the
location and believe it will be chosen.
After an extended conference yesterday
between Kid Mccoy, Peter Maher and their
managers, it was announced that they had
| determined to nave the Maher-McCoy fight
take place at the Coney Island Athletic
Club, New Years afternoon at 8 o'clock.
The officials of the Darktown Sulphur
Copper and Iron Company, Of Tennessee.
have reduced the hours of the working day
to eight and advanced the wages of miners
| from $3.50 per day to 81. Surface hands
have received a raise of 10 per cent. In
wages.
Betthor Lanish. aged twenty years. and
Miss Ella Wengel, aged eighteen, of Ia
| rentum, Pa, started Wednesday to do some
| Christmas shopping. To shorten the dis
tance down town they took the railroad
track and were caught at a sharp curve by
a train and killed.
| During the Dawson gold excitement,
while in camp for the winter near Anvil,
| ]. Hemen Bird murdered his companions.
Patterson and Hurl. A jury in the United
States Court at Juneau has Just convicted
Il him nf rn1rdar In tho fret dpQrQd the first
verdict of the kind in Alaska.
Nearly 3,250,00O bushels of coal started
down the Ohio yesterday from Pittsburg.
destined for Cincinnati, Louisville and
| New Orleans. The fleet consisted Of seven
| teen steamers. and further movement Of
coal will have to suspend until the re-
turn of some Of the empties.
A handsome pipestone gavel has been
| sent from Pipestone, Mimi, to Representa-
tive McCleary, to be presented TO Speaker
Henderson. The head is a solid piece of
pipestone and the handle Is decorated with
gold. The initial letters, ID. B. H." are
found on the gavel In solid gold.
Marie Robertson was unable to take the
stand in the Sanderson case at Marshall,
Mich. yesterday, being completely pros
trated. The trained nurse, Ladd. said his
knowledge of the glass poisoning was de-
rived altogether from the Robertson wo-
man. The State probably will rest to-day.
The New Richmond, Wis, tornado relief
committee has wound up operations. In all
| S12O, 600 was contributed in cash and 500 900
in supplies. OF this amount the largest
| share, So, 300 went to aid individuals in re-
| building homes and re-establishing bust
ness. The expense of administration was
| $1,000.
| In the Glass B amateur champion billiard
tournament in progress at New York w.
| w. w. kellogg, of Chicago. last night won
an easy victory over G.. E. Hevener, of
| Philadelphia, the scores being as follows:
Kellogg 800, average 2 20-40, high runs 10,
Al; Hevener 137. average 8 1888. high runs
20 and 16.
Colonel Wetmore, formerly president of
the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company.
which was absorbed by the American To-
bacco Company. yesterday filed articles
with the secretary of state at Jefferson
City. Mo-. for the Incorporation Of the Wet
more Tobacco Company, with a capital
stock of 81. 25O,OOO
| DR.. Oliver r. Osborne, professor Of ma-
teria medica and therapeutics In Yale Med
ical School, was arrested Wednesday morn
ing on a charge of disinterring the holy
of Bessie Van Lew, a thirteen-year-old
| colored girl. DR.. Osborne says he had per
mission from the mother Of the girl to per
form an autopsy.
| Jacob Siebold. aged fifty. OF Akron, G.
having within a short time squandered a
his W property, 5000 belonging to h.
wife. who is seventy years old. hanget
himself in the coalhouse, having previously
set fire TO the house in which his wife ano
children were asleep. They escaped death
by jumping from the windows.
Daniel A.. Weber, an Englishman. fifty
seven years of age. committed suicide at