The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-18
T%ELEGRAPHIC %BREVITIES.

The Connecticut Senate yesterday voted
Ia to 9-to reject the measure providing
for woman suffrage.
The United States assay office al New
York has shipped TO the Philadelphia mint
100000 in gold bars.
Marion Brown was hanged at London,
Ont. yesterday for the rnurder OF Constable
Michael Toohey on June "A, 1888.
Glacier passed out of New York quarantine
yesterday. bound for Manila with stores and
ammunition for Admiral Dewey's feet.
The date of the Bob FitzsimmonsiJim
Jeffries fight before the Coney Island
Athletic Club has been fixed as June 8 and
George Siler. of Chicago. viii be referee.
J The first annual reunion of the Rough
Elders VIII be held in Las Vegas, y; Nj,
June "a Governor Roosevelt and staff will
be present. Free entertainment will be
given all Rough Riders.
A county seat election in Grant county.
Oklahoma, Monday, resulted in favor Of
Pond Creek. the present county seat. Tues
day night an attempt was made to steal the
records, but guards prevented.
Gen; Joseph Wheeler will deliver a me-
mortal address before Edward w. Kingsley
Post NO. liz; g: A: r. ON Memorial day
Wheeler's first visit to Boston.
1t is stated that the case of Roland B..
Molineux. charged with assault with intent
to Kill Harry b. Cornish. will not be con-
sidered by the present New York grand jury.
but will be left for the June body.
On petition of Frederick P. Prince. of Bos-
ton, Judge Swan, in the United States Dis
trict Court at Detroit. yesterday appointed
Percival w. Clements. of Rutland, VT. re-
ceiver of the Ogdensburg Transit Company.
The diocesan convention of the Episcopal
liam Church. which Is to select a coadjutor
bishop, is in session in Omaha. The pros
poets are for a contest between the ritualists
and anti-ritualists. The election is sched-
uled for to-day.
The Third Engineers, Col. David ID. Gall
lard, was mustered out of the service at Fort
| Mcpherson, Ga, yesterday. The regiment
was made up of recruits from all parts OF
| the country. but most of them from St.
Louis and Washington.
The California Raisin Growers Associa-
ton, which controls all the grapes produced
in the five central counties of the State. has
hxed the price OF the second crop of mus
catel wine grapes at $40 a ton, which is 81
more a ton than they brought last year.
Patrick Furlong. charged with the murder
OF Edward c. Leach, was found guilty at
Chicago yesterday of manslaugbter and SEN
fenced to fourteen years in the penItentiary.
Furlong and Leach were policemen In a
political quarrel last February Furlong shot
Leach.
The Missouri Senate has passed and sent
to the Governor a bill placing a license tax
of SO on all foreign corporations which de-
sire to do business in the State in addition
TO the present tax. 1t does not affect COR
porations now authorized TO do business in
the State.
Governor Roosevelt has called an extraor.
binary session of the New York Legislature
- oAto hta1s al A~ot NAlllt At
VIII transmit a message calling attention -
such legislation as he desires passed. The
body thus can only act upon ques-
tons submitted to them by the Governor.
A certificate was filed with the New
Jersey secretary of state yesterday by the
American Tobacco Company stating that of
the $S,O0O,O0O additional capital stock au-
thorized in March last to he issued $33, SOC, 900
has been paid In, making the total issue
of capital stock Of the company SOS, 500. 600
The women of Boston, headed by Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe, have issued a call for a
meeting to be held May 20 to protest against
1.-The barbarism of lynching." Beside Mrs.
Howe, the call for the meeting is signed by
many women well known In connection with
the leading reform movements Of the day.
The Thirty-first Michigan Volunteers. Col.
Cornelius Gardner, was mustered out at Sa-
uannan, Ca; Yesterday. The officers were
the First Georgia, with whom they were
Drlgaded one year ago. IT Thirty-frst
was the last regiment at Savannah, and
Camp Onward is a thing of the past.
The jury in the Wallner murder trial re-
turned a verdict at Chicago yesterday. plac-
ing the punishment Of Simpson at life inn
prfsOnment, Peterson and Jones TO twenty
five years each and McFadden to four years.
Lally was acquitted. Policeman Wallner
was shot last January while chasing the
five young men, whom he caught in the act
OF robbing a dry goods store. "aI
The schooner Gauges was sunk in Lake
Erie Tuesday night by a collision with the
steamer Pressure Isle about eight miles off
M A1S sANC Wao SI4dCntu Al
and she went Town in ten minutes after be-
Ing struck. The crew of eight men was
taken OF by the Presque Isle and landed in
Detroit yesterday.
Tn steamship Moana, which sailed from
San Francisco for Australia and Samoa
late last night, carried important dispatches
from Washington to the American officials
now at Apia. A mail sack is addressed to
the american commissioner and Admiral
kautz and another sack was put on board
by the British consulate for delivery to the
British commissioner and Captain Sturdee,
commander of her Majesty's ships at Apia.
Representatives Of Irish societies at New
York formed an association called the
United Irish Societies. TIL Clan-na-Gael
ancient Order of Hibernians, Irish Nation
ahsts, county and social societies, and more
than one hundred other societies of Irishmer
are represented. Resolutions were adopted
~denouncing in the strongest language any
alliance as being agains,
the best interests of the country and the
spirit or the American Constitution"