The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-19
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The tug owners of the great lakes are
about to form a trust.
The Bethlehem, Pa, Steel Company has
increased its capital stock to $l5.000O0.
Ex-Presdent Grover Cleveland failed to
attend the courthouse cornerstone laying
exercises held YESTERDAY at Port Cnnton'
o. The lake was too rough to venture out.
The New York encampment of the G. A.
r. has Endorsed the candidacy or Deputy
Commander Albert d. Shaw for commander
in-chief and instructed the delegates to vote
for him.
Jesse NJ. Lee, proprietor OF the Hotel Lin
coin, one of the most prominent obstetrics
in Pittsburg.. filed a petition in bankruptcy
yesterday placing his liabilities at $lOS. 126
and his assets at $5S.Sl5
The British armed sloop Buzzard has ar
rived at ST. Johns. n F.. to undertake fish-
cry protection service The French third.
class cruiser Clecheterie is expected next
week for the same purpose
The Maryland Steel Company has shipped
on the steamer Falls of Dee go tons or
steel rails for the :, australian australian goyernmsnt.
signment to that government.
Peixotto, by Brutus-lmp Kyrle DAILY, is
dead at the Oakland, CAL, race track of in
Torrance on the Pacific coast was seven
furlongs in 1:261z. carrying 107 pounds.
Her Majestys steamer Egeria will early
next week commence to survey route for
the Pacific cable from Vancouver, y. G.
She will go to Tanning island and thence TO
Australia. The survey Will require several
months.
The Massachusetts, savings bank COM
missioners have decided, after a ruling on
the question by the attorney general that
savings banks may invest in Chicago, Bur-
lington q Quincy bonds under the recent
act of the Legislature.
BY formal resolution the City Council Of
Pueblo, Col, has voted to extend to Presi-
dent Mckinley an invitation to visit that
city during his forthcoming Western trip
The resolutions will be engrossed and for
warded to Washington.
More than fifty young Cubans and Porto
Ricans haye been brought , TO TINS county ,aaidy
within the laststwo months and allotted to
educational institutions that nave agreed
20 give them thorough education.
1t is stated that the naval board of off,
GERS appointed to select site for a naval
magazine convenient to New York has
recommended the old Winans estate at
Tremley n. j., on Staten island sound The
property can be obtained for $4,000.
1t is announced at New York that the SUBJ
scriptions received yesterday by the various
repositories for the $4,5oo.0N FIRST mortgage
6 per cent gold bonds Of the United States
Flour and Milling Company were very
heavy, and it is expected the issue will be
overSubScribed.
Owing to the fact Of recent reports that
the Proctor & Gamble soap factory. OF Gin
cinnati. was negotiating to enter the trust
Mr.. w. c. Gamble desires the Associated
Press to say its company has not been ap-
preached by a promoter since last Decem-
Der, and then the refusal was uneQuivocal
and final.
Fred Burt. a farmer near Langdon n. Y.
yesterday shot and fatally wounded his four
year-old son Clinton with a revolver. after
which he made unsuccessful attempt
upon his own life with the same weapon
placing the muzzle of a shotgun at his head,
blew out his brains.
The Consolidated Street Car Company,
of New Jersey with a capitalize ton of s1s,>
10000, and which now embraces about a
dozen. street-car plants and several truck
ma Rr h eomnan9 Of 20
for the control of its plant.
The coroner's jury at Buffalo has declared
that Boss Scooper William H.. Kennedy.
who was fatally injured in an ARRAY on the
docks there recently, came to his death
through premeditated design at the hands
Sohn john an osern
The men named are under arrest.
James II. Brum. who murdered Mollie
Flagler at Dimondale, Mich. on Tuesday.
was captured yesterday at his mother s
home in Lansing He was exhausted, half
famished and in a state of complete mental
collapse. He had eaten nothing since the
night before the murder and had been on a
constant march through the woods ever
since.
Resolutions petitionng the peace confer
ence at The Hague TO take initial steps in
and asking the Senate to ratify an arbitra-
ton treaty with Great Britain, were adopt
cd at pubic meeting neio In Pniadslphia
gelical Alliance and the National Reform
League.
Gen. Wade Hampton has written q card
to the people of South Carolina, in which
he feelingly and gratefully declines TO ac-
cept the home 1t was proposed to build for
him, replacing his residence recently de-
stroyed by fire. He says the reward Of a
citizen who has done work for the State Is
well done. good and faithful servant" He
priced the peoples commentator more than
any other gift