The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-03
T~ELEGRAPHIC BREVlTlES.

The sixth annual convention IF ,he In
ternational Kindergarten Union is III ses-
sion at Cincinnati.
Gibson & Sons flour mill at Wakefield,
o., was burned early yesterday morning.
The body of Will Gibson has been found in
the ruins.
Burglars blew open the safe in the East
Syracuse IN. " postoffice Wednesday night
and obtained nearly 1000 in postage stamps
and money.
A Jury to try Mrs. Margaret Cody for at
tempting to blackmail George j. Gould and
Helen NJ. Gould was secured at Albany, N.
Y, yesterday.
George Leoffert & Sons, lumber dealers,
of Sharpsburg, Pa. have filed a petition in
bankruptcy. Liabilities, $l26,OU; assets, go
Geo., principally open accounts.
An apparent shortage of $5O,O coo has been
found in the accounts or ex-County Treas
urer John c. Lammerts, OF Lockport, n. Y.
The grand jury is considering the matter.
The Arkansas House yesterday passed the
Yaden anti-cigarette bill. making the sale
or giving away of cigarettes to minors
under any circumstances a misdemeanor,
Unable at from 500 TO $3.50.
Congressman-elect Joseph g. Sibley, of
Franklin, Pa, who went to Harrisburg on
Tuesday to take part In the senatorial con-
test, is seriously i'll. His physician says he
is threatened with pneumonia.
Mrs. Eliza A. Stevenson, of Bloomington,
ILL.,, mother of former Vice President Adlai
| Stevenson, is dangerously i'll with the grip.
On account of her advanced age apprehen-
sions are felt as to the outcome.
The Southern Afternoon Press Associa-
ton has asked President Mckinley TO exef-
else clemency and leniency for volunteers
who are being disciplined for minor infrac-
ton Of army regulations during the war.
The Nebraska Republican senatorial eau
Gus has developed into a deadlock seeming
ly as tight as the legislative contest. The
twelfth ballot taken last night, being the
thirty-sixth in all, showed no material
change.
The Hooking Coal Company has been
formally dissolved. The company was a
selling agency. through which all the coal
mined in the Hooking valley was marketed,
the object being TO prevent the ruinous cut
ting of prices.
The residence of John Haines, 1T West
Salisbury, Pa, was burned Wednesday and
two children, aged two months and two
years, were cremated. Mrs. Haines was
also dangerously burned, and Mr.. Haiues
was slightly injured.
Christian Greves and Frederick Weide-
man. laborers in the stone yard of the
Browneil Improvement Company in the vii,
| yesterday by the collapse Of d pile of stone
on which they were working.
BY an explosion of gas in the No. l shaft
OF the Kingston Coal Company. near
! Wilkesbarre. Pa, David A. Thomas and
| Harry Evans were fatally burned and Was
sill Sharrack was probably killed, as his
body has not yet been found.
Henry Wick, who is first vice president
and chairman of the executive committee
of the National Steel Company. denies the
existence OF any combination between the
American Tin Plate Company and the Ma
tional Steel Company, as has been reported.
The smallpox scare at Princeton. y. j..
has abated considerably and yesterday but
few of the students left for their homes.
The single case OF varioloid has been found
to be a very light one, and scarcely any
further anxiety is felt by the townspeople
or students.
The Missouri Senate has passed a bin pro-
hibiting the sale. transfer or assignment of
usurious notes, contracts. etc, without Civ
ing the purchaser or assigns notice of
the usurious character Of the same. The
bill grew out Of the agitation among teleg-
raphers in ST. Louis against usurers.
William Rose has been appointed perma-
nent receiver for Brentanos. publishers of
New York. Washington and Chicago. in a
suit brought by Simon Brentano against
August Brentano and Arthur BrentanO, his
partners, for a dissolution of the firm. The
bond of the receiver Is fixed at $500.
During the month of February there were
coined at the United States mint In Phila-
de,phia so, $50 double eagles. The silver
coined consisted of 5000 dollars and IL. 900
half dollars. There were 446.0Oo scent
pieces and ,l5I.o pennies coined. The total
number of pieces coined was 2.oe1 100 and
their total value SO, Ice. 6so.
Sheriff Billings has shot and killed John
Cronin at Olympia, Wash. Cronin Taur-
dered Antonio Ferari "a year ago last Christ
mas, and for this crime he was about 10
be transported to the pe~nitentiary. When
: the sheri6 went to the cell the prisoner be-