The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-26
T%ELEGRAPHIC BREVITlES.

The annual meeting of the National Chiefs
Of Police will be held In Chattanooga,
Tenn, May g.
Chairman Gerlach. OF the L. A. ". racing
board, announces that the Illinois College.
OF Jacksonville. Ill, has been restored TO
sanction privileges.
An offer made by Governor Jones to arbi-
trate the differences existing between the
mine owners and miners in Arkansas has
been refused by the operators.
James L. C"Texas'l Stewart. a stockman.
while resisting arrest. Stewards mother Is
wealthy and resides in ST. Louis.
The estimates for the financial years. 1892
1900. have been presented to the Canadian
Parliament. The total amount asked for Is
crease of 81 ,6l3.936
James and Joseph Caldwell. brothers, liv-
ing near Williamsport, Nd, quarreled Mon
day night. James shot his brother to death
with a rifle and then suicide by
drinking carbolic acid.
The last of a right-of-Eay for an electric
line to extend from Toledo to Norwalk. a
distance Of sixty miles, has been secured:
The road is backed by Eastern capital and
may be extended to Cleveland.
The San Francisco Call says that f. J..
Baldwin is trying to form a company to
erect a hotel TO cost S2,5oo.0o on the site 81
the old Baldwin. If he fails In this he IN
tends to put up a temporary two-story
structure.
The ninth International fourteenth a
tionaD Sunday school convention will meet
III <1llduld lO-udJ. VIC lOQSdtlu dIu lWtn
ty delegates have already registered and no.
tification has been received that SS more are
on the way.
The John Featherstone's Sons large foun-
dry machinery mandatory, OF Chicago,
have made a voluntary assignment. No rea-
sons were specified for the action and no
estimate is made OF the assets and the la
bilities Of the concern.
Charles Harris, who has numerous aliases
and who was convicted OF pension swind-
ling, was on Monday sentenced at Whining
m nal 20 trA - nnn% md
1000 fine. Harris carried on his operations
In all parts Of the country.
John r. Wood has filed a suit I'm the Com
q aec srSas be Sou app OF S.e' fo anq the esk Ameri tnaa
Honduras Company. Woods claims amount
to s203. He bases IT on his services in Sc
duras government for the company.
Rather than stand trial on the charge OF
incendiarism, Rev. Reuben Frantz, a young
farmer. shot himself just before the opening
will probably die. Reuben and his brother
o were arrested on the charge or barn.
burning and were under bail for court.
Five OF the wealthiest citizens OF Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, have subscribed and paid up
$4,000 stock for the erection OF a lO.Oco-
spindle cotton mill in that city. A charter
has been applied for and the work Is to be
commenced on the building within thirty
days. the plant to be in operation by Jan. i.
1900.
Major Genral J. Warren KeIfer, who Is
at Springfield, o., has almost completely re-
covered from a recent attack OF fever con-
sequent on his services In Cuba. DR.. Seys.
fever was i'm the nature of typhoid and that
General Keifer rallied remarkably well
from 1t.
The decomposed body OF Otto Goette has
been found on his ranch near Byers, Col,
with a bullet hole in the skull. Goette disap-
peared six months ago. Two thousand sheep
on his ranch were shipped to Omaha and a
TO have been cashed by r. II Beeler, or
whom no trace can be found.
Edward Scott stabbed his son, EDWARD
Scott, jr., of Oil City. at the fathers home
in jamestown, Pa The father had been
drinking and abusing the young mans
mother, which resulted In a quarrel. The
having entered his breast just above the
heart. The father is under arrest.
Governor Tanner has vetoed the sugar
bounty bill passed by the Illinois Legisla-
ture Just before adjournment. The Gov
ernor refused to sign the bill. which provid-
ed for a bounty of ! cent a pound on beet
sugar, because IL had not been read on three
days of the session. He also vetoed the bill
providing for the use OF the Blocher voting
machine.
found on Monday in Cedar river. almost In
tie neart OF Waterloo, la. The woman
disappeared about six weeks ago. The body
over which hundreds of people passed daily.
1t was supposed TO be a bundle OF old rags.
and small boys had amused themselves
The body was thus dislodged. The police
believe the woman was murdered.
Governor Thomas. of Colorado, has vetoed
a bill to regulate the practice OF medicine:
The bill practically limited the practice OF
medicine TO three schools-allopathic.
homeopathic and eclectic. IL provided for a
board to control the licensing OF physicians.
Governor Thomas declares the tendency or
the bill would be TO form a physicians trust
and would interfere with experimenting.
which has given all the knowledge We have
of medicine.