The Indianapolis journal., 1899-02-02

is said to be over 100000. and it is only
partially secured by fruit warehouse re-
ceipts.
The press mill of the Ohio Powder Com
pany's works, located about four miles north
OF Youngstown exploded yesterday, killing
two employees, Evan Evans and Henry
Davis. and demolishing the building and
machinery.
The Nutwood Driving Club. of Dubuque
has been awarded the great Horse Review
combination futurity race for three-year-old
trotters, valued at 1000, the biggest stake
ana largest sum of money ever raced for by
harness horses This brings the total value
OF the purses for the Dubuque meeting to
sheet and tin mills have favorably consid-
cred an offer of $3,2S1 600 from the Ameri-
can I1n-plate Company for their plants at
martin S Ferry O., and at Mingo Junction
Ihe question of the sale will be submitted
70 the stockholders, who are understood to
favor the DEAL
The three turf poolrooms that have been
operating in Kansas City, No. were raided
simultaneously by the police last evening
Just as the results of the last races were
coming in. Several hundred men and bows
We're captured, including many wel-known
business men, The poolroom proprietors
furnished bail.
Ex-Secretary of State William NJ. Evarts
who will be eighty-one years of age next
month, has recovered from his recent ill
ness He is no longer confined to his room
at New York, and the natural infirmities
of his advanced age do not prevent him
from taking his usual interest in the public
happenings Of the day.
Seven convicts, awaiting transfer to the
penitentiary, sawed their way through four
steel-barred doors at Wichita, Kan. and
gained their liberty. Among them was Ed
Stewart sentenced TO fifty years for mur-
grand larceny convict returned Yesterday
because of the cold weather.
The Methodist conference just concluded
at the City of Mexico shows missionary
work bV that dpnQminq fiOn tn he
ing well. There are over 1900 communi-
cants ard llOO adherents with four hum
McCabe IS IN the City of Mexico visiting
various missions of the church
Leonard B. Imboden and S. f. Hancock
arrested at Kansas City. Mo, last week on
concern, the Planters Bank, was closed by
the State, requested that their preliminary
nearing ne rI set Tor Yesterday be postponed un-
III Monday. and the request was granEad.
Both men were held in 5000 bail each.
Capt. Gray Carlton, Of the Tenth United
States cavalry, passed through Austin.
Tex yesterday with his regiment for San
Antonio He stated that the reports from
Tex9Tkana that his regiment was Drunk
and disorderly is absolutely false. He
says that there was no disturbance or any
kind at Texarkana.
The charred remains of Rancher w. A.
Faddaugh were found in the ruins Of his
The officers sent to investigate the matter
found the trunk Of the dead mans body in
the ashes of his cabin, but the head and
limbs were missing, having been completely
severed. William Taylor, young man near
by, has been arrested on suspicion
The United States refrigerator supply ship
Celtic, which left New York for San Fran
cisco on Oct y. has arrived at San Fran
cisco The Celtic was in company with the
Oregon and Iowa on the trip from the At
lantic TO the Pacific, supplying those vessels
with fresh meat on the journey. The Oregon
is en- route to Honolulu and the Iowa is
steaming slowly 70 San Francisco
Chris Won der Ahe's attorneys have filed
an intervening petition in the case of the
Mississippi Valley Trust Company VS.. the
st. Louis Sportsman's Park and Club Won
der Abe asks that $1,000 advanced to the
against the Sportsmans Park and Club
property TO be considered before the claims
of the Mississippi Valley Trust Company
Mayor r. f. McKisson of Cleveland, who
came into national prominence as the cam
didate selected for the United States Sen
ate by the boiling Republicans and the
Democrats of the Ohio Legislature in op-
position 10 Hon. NJ a. Hanna, announced
formally last night that he Is a candidate
for recollection for q third term. A bitter
fight Will be made against him
Mexico has accented the invitation to par
ticipate in the military congress at Tampa,
Fla. Feb. s. and the republics two dele
gates have left for The north, The Mexican
representatives are Rrigadier General Jose
Maria de IN Vera. chief Of the Mafine Bu-
reau and president of the committee on
military regulation and COL Felix r. Es-
trada. professor in the Chapultepec Military
Academy.